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VOLUME XLV^ NUMBER 42
BAEFOBD. N. C
The Hoke County Journal
TEN CENTS WEB COPY
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SCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald
The area supervisor 5f school
lunchroonna was here again for a
county-wide meeting with prin
cipals and lunchroom managers.
The topics for discussion were
tnenu planning and cost control.
The supervisor will be back for
a third meeting on Tuesday after
noon, March 20 at 3:30 O’clock.
^ Hold Short Session
Of Recorder’s Court
Leon Meade of the American
Crayon Company will be here
Monday, March 19 for an art
workshop. This workshop will be
in two sections: at 3:3Q p. m. at
Upchurch for the colored teach
ers and at 7:30 p. m. at Hoke High
for the white teachers. Hoke couu'
ty is fortunate in securing the ser
vices of Mr. Meade, as he is an
outstanding authority in the field
of art.
Tuesday evening, March 20, at
*7 o’clock the Hoke County unit
of the NCEA wiU hold a dinner
meeting at the Rockfish school.-It
is hoped that all teachers and
pitnicpals will be able to attend.
President T. C. Jones of the unit
attended a district NCEA meeting
in Elizabethtown last Thursday
evening. He will make a report on
this meeting at the meeting at
Hock'fish Tuesday.
On next Wednesday and Thurs
day, March 21 and 22, there will
be an eye clinic held at the Health
Department. On Wednesday ai, the
parents of the White and Indian
I '^pupiki/ar^'1^ to have their
; ^cgiiD)^ea' there ; at ;JJiOO
a.'m. On Thursday thel22nd, par
ents of the colored children are
asked to do the same thing,
Thirty-five children are scheduled
for each day. It is hoped that an
additional clinic may be secured
in May. The 35 scheduled for each
day will not nearly take care of
all pupils who should see an
oculist. The most serious cases
were the ones scheduled for this
first clinic. The Health Depart
ment, Welfare Department and
. State Commission for the blind
are cooperating with tfie school
Health Program in making this
clinic possible. Dr. Dan Currie of
Fayetteville and Miss Trexler, of
the Blind Commission, Raleigh,
will be in charge and will be as
sisted by the local agencies.
Some 15 cases involving a var
iety of offenses were disposed of
in fairly short order before Judge
Henry McDiarmid in Hoke County
recorder’s court Tuesday morning.
Troy Johnson and Jeff Davis,
white, each pleaded guilty of be
ing drunk and disorderly and paid
the costs. Trial of Bethune Maults-
by, white, on the same charge was
postponed for one week.
Charlie McLeod, Jr., colored,
pleaded guilty to the charge that
he stole some clothing from Leroy
Horsely. He was sent to the roads
for six months.
Arte Rollins and Clifton Carson
Jones, both colored, were charged
in' separate cases with driving
without driver’s licenses. Both
were found not guilty. Ed Purcell,
colored, pleaded guilty and paid
$25 and the costs.
Hazel Ester McNeill, colored
girl, pleaded guilty of driving a
school bus without a driver’s li
cense. She paid $25 and the costs
Alvester McNeill, Jr., colored, the
regular dirver, was also charged
$65 and the costs for allowing her
to drive the bus.
Wilford Helly, colored, paid $125
and 'the costs for driving drunk
without a driver’s license. James
Irvin McIntyre, white man who
was brought to trial on a capias
after having previously failed to
appear, was also given six months
for the same offense, to be su
spended on payment of $125 and
the costs. He was still in jail yes
terday, figuring on getting hold
of the money.
Curtis Little, colored, paid $25
and the costs for careless and
, reqkle® driving.
* .paries Jackson Gray,,, white,
f⁢ $2ir'bond ^or speeding and
Clarence Archie Edens, colored
paid $10 and the costs for having
improper brakes and lights on his
car.
J. B. Hicks, white, had to make
good a bad check and pay the
costs.
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Baptist Church
Plans Revival
Mar.26-Aprill
DR. E. E. POSTON
We hope to be able to give the
schedule for the pre-school clinics
in next week’s news.
All schools in the county are
cooperating with the Red Cros.s
Chapter in the Red Cross Drive,
now in progress. We hope the
schools will make the same good
showing with Red Cross that they
made in the polio drive.
Former Catholic To
Speak To Baptists
The Rev. Frank J. Shierski,
former member of the Catholic
church who converted to the Bap
tist faith and who is now pastor
of Calvary Baptist church of Fay
etteville, will give his ‘^Testimony
of Christian Experience” at the re
gular Wednesday prayer service
at the -Raeford Baptist church
next week, March 21, at 7:30 a. m.
The public is invited to attend
the service and hear Mr. Skierski.
This is to be a special prayer ser
vice in preparation for the week
of.revival, March 26-ApriT 1.
A five county basketball tourna
ment is now in progress at the
Upchurch school. HokCj Robeson,
Bladen, Richmond and Moore are
competing. Attendance has been
good at the games and some good
basketball is being played.
RHODA’S FORMAL
OPENING TUESDAY
The Baptists of Raeford consid
er themselves fortunate to have as
the guest preacher for the evan
gelistic crusade Dr. E. Eugene
Poston, pastor of the Wallace Bap
tist Church, Wallace, North Car
olina. Dr. Poston is a native of
Shelby, a graduate of Wake Forest
College and Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary. He receiv
ed his Th. D. degree in 1950 from
the seminary. He has held pas
torates in North Carolina and
Kentucky and has recently been
called t« be. pastor of the Wallace
Church which is making .fine pro
gress under his leadership. Dr.
Poston is a young but mature
pastor-evangelist. He is dedply
spiritual and an earnest soul-win
ner. The ideal pastor'drid' fhe vis
iting minister have worked to
gether in several revivals.
The local Baptist Church is co
operating with thousands of other
Baptist Churches qast of the Miss
issippi River in the Southern Bap
tist Convention during the “Sim
ultaneous Evangelistic Crusade
March 2 5-April 8.
The special week of evangelis
tic services in the local church will
be preceded by cottage prayer
services in different sections of
Raeford on Monday, Tuesday, and
Friday nights of next week and
there will be a special service at
the church on Wednesday night.
All are invited to hear Dr. Pos
ton beginning Monday night,
March 26 at 7:30 and for the morn
ing services at 11:00 beginning
Tuesday, March 27. The reviv.al
services will continue through
Sunday night, April 1. Everyone
is welcome.
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Sgt. H. W. Huggins
Memorial Service
Held At Hope Mills
Guard Unit Plant
Feed, Dance Tues.
Lt. Edwin D. Newton, command
ing officer of Battery A, 130th
AAA Battalion, local National
Guard unit, announced this week
that the unit would have its an
nual anniversary party at the
armory next Tuesday night. Sup
per will be served to members of
the battery and guests and will be
followed by a dance. The dance
will begin at nine and will be
opqn to the public. All friends of
the unit are invited. Music will
be furnished by Hal Gore and his
“Highlighters.”
The unit received its postwar
Federal recognition as a National
Guard unit on March 10, 1947
with a strength of three officers
and 40 enlisted men. After com
pleting four years of service it
now has about 105 men and four
officers. The local battery, along
with an infantry company in
Shelby which was recognized the
same day, was the first line unit
in North Carolina to be organized
after World War II.
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Easter Seal Drive
Helps Many Youths
The State Negro Teachers As
sociation will convene at Shaw
University, Raleigh, Thursday
evening of this week. The meeting-
will last through Saturday morn
ing. Hoke County will be repre
sented by several teachers, prin
cipals and the supervisor.
Last week the county-wide ora
torical and spelling contests were
held at the Millside school before
an over-flow audience. First prize
in the oratorical contest was won
by the Timberland school with
Catherine Jones reciting, “No
body’s Child”. Second prize was
won by the Shady Grow school
with Inintella Hough reciting
“Look Ahead”. The prize for the
best speller went to the Frye’s
Mission school, the winning spell
er being Jessie Louise McCrim-
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Formal opening of Rhoda’s
Flower Shop on Stewart street to
the rear of Dr. Matheson’s office
will be held on Friday afternoon
and evening from 2:00 to 4:00 and
from 4:00 until 9:00. The public
is invited and there will be free
flowers for the ladies.
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Final Concert
Of FMC Season
Next Monday P. M.
The world famous Vienna Choir
Boys will be presented in a concert
at Flora Macdonald college on
Monday evening, March 19, at
8:15, as the fourth and last of the
season’s concert series.
One of the oldest and most ap
pealing musical organizations in
the world, this delightful group
dates back 450 years, to July 7.
1498, when Emperor Maximilian
I ordered the organization of a
boy’s choir to participate in the
performance of religious music in
the Court Chapel in, Vienna. As
boys, Josef Haydn and Franz
Schubert were members until
their voices changed'.
Today, the standards of the
Choir are firmly upheld by 4he
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Memorial services for Sgt. Ho
race Waklon Huggins of Fayette
ville, who was killed in action in
Korea last November, were held
Sunday afternoon at Hope Mills
Baptist church with Chaplain
Richard R. Bell officiating.
Sgt. Huggins was a graduate of
Hope Mills high school and was
a Navy veteran of World War II..
He was 28 years old at the time
of his death.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Deane Matheson of
Raeford; a daughter, Bobbie
Deane, and a son, Waklon, both cf
the home; his parents, Mr. ai>d
Mrs. 'W’. G. Huggins of Hope Mills;
three sisters and four brothers.
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RECEIVES CITATION
Hundreds of North Carolina!s
250,000 handicapped children will
receive benefits under a three-
oint program of ..the North Caro
lina League for Crippled Children
this year, but the extent of this
aid will depend on the generosity
of citizens ill the Easter Seal cam
paign, now underway in this and
most other counties throughout
the state. ^
This statement , was made by
John W. Harden, Greensboro, vice
president of the Blirlington Mills
Corporation; whoi ilJ”St8ite' Cltair-"
man this year for the Easter Seol
appeal.
The three-point program, Chair
man Harden said, “calls for in
creased facilities and trained per
sonnel for the care, treatment and
training of the cerebral palsied;
an expansion of the Special Edu
cation program for the handicap
ped child being directed by fba
State Department of Public In
struction. and direct financial or
other assistance for individual
cases, needing help and for the
promotion of local projects.
“During the past year individual
services were given to 3,200 of the
State’s handicapped children
through the state-wide program of
the League, , which is supported
entirely by the Easter Seal con
tributions, ond there is a despe
rate need for the expansion of
these services.’’ Chairman Hardin
said.
“The League works closely with
the existing agencies both public
and private in its effort to meet
the unmet needs of the handicap
ped children,” he pointed out. “We
have approximately 25,000 ortho-
pedically crippled, 34,000 in each
of the sight and mentally retard
ed-groups, 25,000 hearing defects,
119,000 with speech defects, 3,400
with epilespsy, and 42,000 with
emotional or behavior problems
School Board
Wants $275,000
The Board of Education met
with the County Board of Com
missioners last Friday night at
which time the Board of Educa
tion asked the commissioners to
call an election in the county
for a bond issue in the amount
of $275,000 to.be used qn three
units of the county school sys
tem. 
The Board of Education
wants to use the money as fol
lows: $125,000 .for additional
classroom space - at the Raeford
Graded school; $45,000 for com
pletion of the consolidated In
dian school; $80,000 for addi
tional classrooms at Upchurch
school.
This last item would provide
for the consolidation of at least
Peachmont and Timberland
schools and would thereby do
away with two buildings that
are almost beyond use and re
pair, according to the county
superintendent.
The commissioners tentative
ly approved the request sub
ject to a public hearing on the
matter at a later date.
Raeford Graded school, they
say, is like the old woman who
lived in the shoe.
Commission Says
15-A Should Be
Four-Lane Highway
/ A recent estimate of highway
needs published by the State High
way Commission would have a
four-lane highway from Fayette
ville to Raeford and from Rae
ford to Laurinburg on U. S. Route
15-A.
The estimate calls for “four-
lanes divided’’ with reconstruc
tion of nine miles in Hoke county
south of Raeford and eight miles
in Scotland county. The cost of
this is estimated to be around
$931,000.
The survey and estiniate.s are
all tentative and do not mean that
the work will be done, but that it
is needed. It also calls for recon
struction to provide “four - lanes
divided” from Fayetteville to Rae
ford.
These roads were included in a
general survey and estimate of
highway needs in the St.3t2 which
the commission recently released.
Plan Garden Talks
At Flora Macdonald
Mayor and Mrs. Robert A. Col
lier of Statesville have received
word that their son, Bobby Collier,
now stationed at Lackland Air
Base, San Antonio, Texas, has
won the American Spirit Medal in
competition with 1,800 other basic
trainees. Mrs. Collier is the form
er Margaret Adams, daughter of
the late Mrs. W. C. Brown, and
lived here while Mr. Brown was
pastor of the .Raeford Presbyterian
church.
“I want to appeal to every per
son in North Carolina to give, and
give generously to the Easter Seal
appeal. Your gifts will bring you
ten-fold satisfaction in the know
ledge you have made some child’s
chance for happiness 100 percent
greater. Handicapped people, chil
dren and adults, don’t want pity.
All they want is a chance,” Chair
man Harden said.
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TO CUT OFF POWER
SUNDAY, 1:30 - 4:00
Ben Hurley, local represent.a-
tive of the Carolina Power and
Light Company, said this week
that the company plans to cut off
the power next Sunday afternoon
from 1:30 until 4:00 o’clock in the
part of Raeford south of Donald
son avenue and west of Stewart
street. He says this is to allow
them to move some polco to im
prove service. If the weather is
bad it will not be done.
Tractor Maintenance
School Next Monday
A one-day Tractor Maintenance
School will be held in the new'
Agriculture Building adjoining
the Hoke County High.School on
Monday, March 19, according to
E. M. Stallings, County Agent. ■
'‘■The plltpose bf the school 15 to
show the things a farm tractor
operator can do in the routine
care and maintenance of his trac
tor to improve its efficiency and
prolong its life.
J. C. Ferguson, Extension Agri
cultural Engineer, will give the
instruction and will cover the fol
lowing topics:
1. Goieral prindpali of ttM in
ternal cHnbustton englno.
2. Tractor fuels and carburetor
adustment.
3. Air cleaners and importance
of service.
4. Lubricants and lubrication.
5. Oil filters, their importance
and function.
6. Cooling systems, care and'
cleaning. i
7. Ignition systems, spark plugs
and correct timing.
8. Tire care, w'heel weighting,
and hitching.
9. Tractor safety.
10. Operation and storage.
Several makes of tractors will
be on display at the meeting, so
the group attending may see them.
All farmers of Hoke County are
encouraged to attend this school.
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Mrs. Lillian Conoly
Buried At Antioch
Mrs. Lillian Mable Conoly died
at her home Friday night after a
lingering illness, and funeral ser
vice wos conducted by the Rev.
W. B. Heyward at Antioch Pres
byterian church at 4:00 o’clock
Sunday afternoon. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
Dorothy Biddle, nationally
know.n lecturer on “Flowers and
their Arrangement”, who has for
years delighted garden club audi
ences with her simple and per
sonal approach to the subject on
which she is an expert, will be
presented at Flora Macdonald col
lege on Monday, March 19. She
will give illustrated and descrip
tive talks both morning and after
noon, sponsored by the Flora Mac
donald Garden committee of the
Red Springs alumnae group.
Garden Club editor of Popular
Gardening, magafine,. Miss Biddle,
is no stickler for rules, and urges
her audience to do what is es
sentially pleasing to them, to ex
press their own taste and moo^s
through flowers and to relax and
enjoy a creative experience. In the
course of her eight months of lec
ture touring, she has reached
many thousands of lovers of the
artistic in home making and ar
rangements, people whose homes
are more attractive and inviti
throughout from having listened
to her suggestions on the use o
flowers in the home.
She has written a number -of
books. “Flower Arrangement for
Everyone”, and “Table Setting
for Everyone”, are the two lates*.
Miss Biddle, who in private
life is Mrs. Walter Johnson, lives
in Pleasantville, New York, where
her home is built on a large tract
of ground on a rolling hillsid.e
planted with thousands of ever
green trees. This tract was later
divided into home sites, and many
of the lovely homes of Plansant-
ville owe their attractiveness in
large part to the foresight and
landscaping art of Dorothy Biddle.
She is in constant demand for
lecturing on her favorite subject,
and with charm and skill she
spread^ the ideals of better flow
er arrangement literally from
ocean to ocean.
On “Dorothy Biddle-Day”, at
Flora Macdonald, luncheon will
be served in the college Gym at
a nomihal' price, and Miss Biddle
will be available for questions,
bath bn and off the stage.
She was born in Lumber Bridge,
daughter of the / late J. A. and
Ella Elizabeth Jones Chason. She
was 51 years of age.
She is survi . ed by her husband
John Ed Conoly; two sons, Edwin
Conoly of Red Springs and Jim
mie Conoly of San Antonio, Texa.s;
three daughters, Mrs. Hazel Black
and Mr.=: Sarah Mae Davis of Rae
ford ana l\Irs. Aileen Williford of
Lumber Bridge; two brothers,
Harold J. Chason and David Cha-
son of Lumber Bridge; six sister':,
Mrs. Ben McBryde of Red. Springs.
Mrs. Floyd Havwood of Candor.
Mrs. John Delaney of Washing
ton, N. C., Mrs.. Algan Britt of
Fairmont, Mrs. Bill Crawley of
Raeford and Sarah Margaret Cha
son of Raleigh.
Presbyterian Boys
And Girls To Meet
Hoke Teams Are
Eliminated Frmn
CageTommey .
Girls Lose Monday; Boys
Tuesday; LaFayette And
Candor Fight For Title
The Sixth Anuual American
Legion Invitational Basketball
tournament was set to wind op
last night without a Hoke County
team in the finals for the first
time in the six years of the affair.
The Hoke girls dropped out Mon
day night when they lost a close
one to Candor, 59 to 53, and the
boys were put out Tuesday night
by LaFayette, 65 to 36.
Wednesday the Laurel Hill boys
met the LaFayette boys and the
Tar Heel girls played the favored
Raeford girls. In the girls game
the Raeford girls beat the Bladen
County team by a score of 50 to
45. Williams with her push shot
under the basket led the winners
in high scoring honors with 35
points. The strong LaFayette boys
team swamped the Laurel Hill
boys by a score of 71 to 13.
Coach Steven’s girls team of
Laurel Hill lost to Candor girls
Thursday by a score of 30 to 42.
Lester with his set and hook
shots led the Raeford boys to vic
tory with 15 points. At half-time
Raeford was leading Central by
2 points. The hard earned victory
for Raeford finally came with a
score of 36 to 36. Faircloth led the
losers with 15 points. Best de
fensive players were McLauchlin
for Raeford and Williams for Cen
tral.
Massey Hill girls walked all
over West End girls Friday night
by defeating them 65 to 50, and in
the boys game Candor met Wa-
gram to test their strength and
ability. Candor outshone Wagram
bv scoring 55 points to their 34.
LaFayette girls and Wagram
girls battled it out Saturday night.
LaFayette’s Lewis came up with .
a score of 25 points out of a total
of 49 scored by the whole team.
Wagram scored a total of 37 points.
In the boys game West End came
through, the last half to defeat Tar
Heel 36 to-27.
The second part of the tourna
ment to weed the weak teams out
got under \vay Monday night with
Raeford girls playing Candor. At
half time Raeford was leading by
10 points, but Candor ca.me up in
the last half to defeat the favor
ed team 59 to 58. Williams lead
the losers with 34 points. Cole, j
with her excellent ball handling
and defensive playing scored 16
points. The fast Morgan scored 40
points to help Candor along vic
tory road. Candor stepped on the
West End boys to defeat them 60
to 41, Monday night.
The game Tuesday between
Massey Hill girls, and LaFayette
girls was a scrap smd a scramble
from the first whistle to the last.
Massey Hill was leading at the
end of the first half, but slowed
up the second half to be beaten
by LaFayette 51 to 52.
Boys champions of last years
tournament, LaFayette, went to
the finals by defeating the Rae
ford boys, 65 to 36. Culbreth wi^
13 and Lester with 12 were'tiie
leading scorers for Raeford. Bar*
her made 15 fqr LaFayette epth
Baker following close behind with
14.
Fayetteville Presbytery’s annual
spring rally of young people will
be held ’at Red Springs Presby
terian church next Sunday, start
ing at 2:45 p. m. Don Shriver,
student at Davidson college and
Youth moderator of" the Presby
terian General Assembly, will lead
the devotions and Dr. Price Gwyn,
dean at Flora Macdonald college,
will deliver the inspirational ad
dress. ,
All Presbyterian Young People
and interested persons are invited
to attend. Those attending will
bring box lunches which will he
served in the church. The evening
devotional service will start at
6:30.
TO ENTER MED. SCHOOL
Murray Carroll, eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Carroll of
St. Pauls, who is now a student at
Wake Forest college, has been ac
cepted as a student at Bowman
Gray School of Medicine, Wins
ton-Salem, to enter there next
faU.
Mr. Carroll is a World War II
veteran with service in both the
European and Pacific areas. His
wife is the former Miss Hannah
Frances Quick of Raeford. They
have one child, Jimmy. Mr. and
Mrs. Carroll are residing at WSke
Forest while he is studyuyf thAce.