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The Hoke County Newt
The Hoke County Journal
yOLUMB XLV; NUMBER 45
THURSDAY, AFRO. 5,1951
RAEFORD. N. C
TEN CENTS PER COPY
92.00 PER YEAS
YOUR V
iSCHOOL NEWS!
By K. A. MacDonald
Next Monday afternoon from 2
until 3 o’clock the county-wide
Spelling contest will be held at
the Raeford C^aded School. ^The
best spellers from each school will
compete for the prilivege of going
to WFNO in Fayetteville on Tues
day, April 10 for a contest over
the radio. The winner at WFNC
will go to Winston-Salem for the
district contest. There our best
speller will be in competition with
-other county winners. The win
ners of the-Winston-Salem contest
will go to Washington for the
^‘National Spelling Bee”. Whether
our speller wins or loses, the im
petus given to spelling in the
county is most worthwhile.
i
“Polio Pointers of 1951”' have
been received in the office of the
County Superintendent of Schools
and will be distributed to the pu
pils in all* schools of the county at
an early date with the request that
they be takeh home, studied, and
kept for reference during the epi
demic season. It is hoped that par
ents will study carefully the “Do’s”
ancf ‘.aSon’t” to^reference to Polio
that are gi^en. Knowing how to
protect the children might mean
the difference between having po
lio and not having it.
Nurse Dies In
Road Accident
Saturday A. M.
Miss Mary Edna Cronise, 46, a
nurse at the N. C. Sanatorium at
McCain, was killed instantly at
about 9:30 o’clock last Saturday
morning about IVi miles from Mc
Cain when the car in which she
was going to Aberdeen ran off
the road into a deep ravine. Driv
er of the car was Mrs. Carrie Allen
also a nurse at the Sanatorium.
Miss Allen is a patient at Moore
county hospital where last re
ports gave her condition as “fair”.
Inquest was conducted Monday
at 7:30 p. m. at the courthouse by
Coroner James C. Lentz. The jury
heard that Mrs. Allen was driving
about 40 miles an hour at the timi
of the Wreck and that 'She lost
control of the car when she drove
too close to the edge of the road.
Funeral semdces were held for
Miss Cronise in Roanoke, Va., on
Tuesday.
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County Corn Growing
Coiitest Sponsored By
Liocal Business Places
CO-OP MANAGER
All schools are at work prepar
ing a resume of work done under
the School-Health Program since
July 1, 1950 up to date. This will
g^;,to Jlal^h next week in a «m-
|»lere repOTT,' wrtfi% feqil^st ro the
State Board of Education and
State Board of Health for addi
tional funds for the correction of
defects.
The white schools of the county
completed their seventh month
yesterday. Just as soon as the col
ored and Indian schools finish
their seventh month the county
organization report will be made
.Mo the State with the request for
teachers for the 1951-52 school
year.
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$275,00aB(nid
Election May 7
Ask Highway Commission
•For Further Survey On
Certain Raeford Streets
NEW TOWN COMMISSIONERS
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The first shipment of next year’s
text books arrived yesterday.
There are new titles that will not
be available until school opens
next fall. However, we are fortu
nate in getting them now as the
paper shortage might affect the
publishers later on and the schools
might be left with the oid books
that would then have to be used
another year.
The Board of Education will
meet at 2:00 o’clock on Monday,
April 9, to receive bids on the
multi-purpose room at the new
Burlington school building.
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Draft Board Tells
About Tests To
Defer College Men
Mrs. J. M. Baker, clerk of the
local draft board, this week re
leased information which she has
received regarding examinations
which may be taken by college
students who are under 26 and
who are registered for the draft.
The persons interested may ap
ply at the draft board office for
application blanks and the tests
will be given during May and
June at more than 1000 examina
tion cetners over the country. Re
sults will be sent to the local board
and will determine whether or
not a registrant may be consider
ed for deferment as a college stu
dent.
Mrs. Baker also announced that
five more Hoke county men had
been inducted into the Army on
April 3. -These men, all colored,
w'ere Daniel Melvin, Samuel
James Malloy, Alvesta McGregor,
Elvert Junior Leslie, and James
Roosevelt McNeill.
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Lonnie Lambert of Charlotte
was a week end guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Muench.
A county Corn Growing Con
test for 1951 is being sponsored
and financed by local business
concerns according to E. M. .Stall
ings, Comity Farm Agent.
Any person in Hoke County
may participate in the contest by
planting at least two acres of corn
in one plot. To enter the contest
all that Is necessary is to, fill out
an eritry blank at the County
Agents office *10 Raeford .fc(jSfore,
May 15- When the yield is check
ed contestants will be asked to
furnish information as to pre
paration of' land, variety used,
kind and amount of fertilizer, and
how the corn was cultivated. The
persons making the highest yields
per acre will be adjudged the win
ners.
Mr. Stallings states the follow
ing facts as the reasons for start
ing this contest:
Twenty-five to thirty per cent
of the cultivated land in Hoke
County is planted in corn each
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0
HDC Club Women
Hold District Meet
In Fayetteville
Annual meeting of the 16th Dis
trict,_ North Carolina Federation
of Home Demonstration Clubs,
was held in Fayetteville, Tuesday,
at Hay Street Methodist Churcl>.
Among the state home demon
stration club leaders who were
in Fayetteville for the meeting
were Mrs. P. P. Gregory, state
president of the Federation; Mrs.
Mary L. McAllister. Southeastern
District agent; Mrs. D. A. McCor
mick, past state president and a
delegate last year to the conven
tion of Country Women of the
World at Copenhagen, Denmark;
and Miss Ruth Current, state home
demonstration agent.
Mr?. James A. Gillis of Cumber
land County, district chairman,
presided. An excellent program
with music by Cumberland coun
ty 4-H club girls was presented.
This was -followed by reports of
committees and county reports.
Mrs. McAllister introduced the
speaker, Mrs. McCormick, who is
well versed in State and National
affairs and made a real contribu
tion to the World Conference.
The report of work done in the
four counties of Scotland, Hoke,
Cumberland and Robeson was giv
en in a panel discussion led by
Mrs. John Baker, Hoke County
Council president, of Little River
township.
Invitation to Raeford for the
1952 meeting was given and ac
cepted. Lunch was served, follov/-
D. J. DALTON
Lumbee Riv«r
REA Celebrates Its
10th Anniversary
On April 5, 1941 Reamer Ran
som with account number 1-5 was
the first member to receive electric
service from the Lumbee River
Electric Membership Corporation,
according to D. J. Dalton, manager.
Mr. Dalton points (^ut that on
this date the sub-station and the
first section of line was made hot
on the above mentioned date.
Since that time the local REA has
continued to grow in size and fur
nish electric service to more and
more .jnenibers. Today it is serv
ing more than 6,000 members
with something over 1,600 miles
of wire and poles scattered over
Hoke, Robeson, Scotland and Cum
berland Coupes. , =
♦tJTie fact that' the local people
are taking advantage of the cheap
est ways of getting work done is
well proved in the fact that the
average number of KWH hours
has increased from some 38 KWH
to more than 220. Last year the
local Cooperative sold through its
distribution meters more than 1,-
034,000 KWH hours.
Mr. Dalton further pointed out
that the locally owned coopera
tive was operating on a sound fin
ancial basis at present, taking in
more than $23,000 per month,
working some 40 employees and
operating 12 mobile units equip
ped with two-way. radios for fur
nishing the members the best pos
sible service. The Cooperative
has met all its obligations to date
and has a sizable amount invest
ed in defense bonds and advance
payments to the government.
The officers of the Corporation
are C. L. Ballance, St. Pauls,
president; J. McN. Gillis, Faj^ette-
ville, vice-president; J. R. Caddell,
Maxton, treasurer; and Mrs. Lucy
Smith, Raeford, secretary.
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At their regular monthly meet
ing on Monday the Hoke county
commissioners approved the order
of the board of education for the
issue of $275,000 worth of bonds
for the construction of certain
school buildings in the county sub
ject to an election on the issuance
of these bonds. Date for the elec^
tion was set as May 7, 1951, offi
cial notice of which appears in
this issue of The News’Journal.
The . proposed bonds are to be
used for three school construction
projects as follows; $150,000 for
Raeford Graded school, $80,000
for Upchurch colored school, and
$45,000 for the construction of a
consolidated Indian school.
The board approved the estab
lishment of a public road by Rock-
fish school, a dne-quarter mile
stretch betweei^. the Raeford-
Rockfish road afid the Rockfish-
Arabia road.
The board also asked the State
Highway commi^ion to make a
survey of a proposed extension of
Dickson street^ (now from Super
market to Raeford Oil Co. Tanks)
from Highway 211 northward to
Sixth avenue and northward from
sixth a venue, to thfe turnpike road
at Upchurch school. This request
was made with tl|e concurrence
of the Robbins Mil|i|.
Former Hdke Woman
Passes In Texas
News of the death of Mrs. M.
L. Harrell in Dallas, Texas, has
been received by her sister, Mrs.
W. B. McLauchlin. Mrs. Harrell
was the former Mary Scott La-
'mont, and was born at the Lament
Homestead, on Puppy Creek in
the house in which Mrs. Adelyne
Roberts Johnson noyv, lives. She
was educated in Statesville and
at Charlotte Female College, now
Queens. After being married to Dr.
M. L. Harrell, they lived in Hot
Springs, Arkansas, and later Dal
las, Texas.
She died Sunday In Dallas, af
ter an illness of several months.
She Was 84 years old at the time
of her death. She is survived by
four children: Mrs. Hubert Eld-
red of Bath, Maine, Mrs. Mary
Weatherby of St. Louis, Mo., Miss
'Virginia Harrell and Lamont Har
rell of Dallas; one sister, Mrs. W.
B. McLauchlin of Raeford and
one brother, William Lamont o
Raeford. Funeral services and in
terment were in Dallas.
Mrs. Weatherby will be remem
bered as Mary Harrell and Mrs.
Eldred as Hazel, both of whom
went to Flora MacDonald and
spent their vacations in Raeford
with relatives.
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COURTHOUSE CLOSED
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
^ :
R. B. LEWIS
J. H. BLUE
Ivey s Evidence
Sends Law After
BdlWii^
Recorder Holds Sentence
Pending Wright's Trial;
Hears Variety- Of Cases
J. W. MePHAUL
M. H.
GATLDr
Rev. F. M. Bain
Will Be Buried
In Raeford Today
The Rev. Franklin M. Bain, 60,
Presbyterian minister of Rose Hill,
died of a heart attack at the manse
there Tuesday afternoon. Funeral
rites will be conducted from the
Mount Zion Presbyterian church
at Rose Hill Thursday at 11 a. m.
with burial in Raeford Cemetery
at 3:30 p. m.
340 RAEFORD VOTERS APPEAR
TO PICK COMMISSIONERS MON.
Lions Conducting
Sale Of Brooms
Made By Blind
“Let’s make a clean sweep” is
what members of the Raeford
Lions club will be saying in Rae
ford today, tomorrow and Satur
day as they conduct their annual
sale of brooms to firms and indir
viduals in and around Raeford.
The sale will run for these three
days only and is becoming fami
liar to people here, ‘having beau
conducted several times before.
The brooms are also known to be
of the finest quality, whether
household or commercial type is
bought.
The brooms are manufactured
by Guilford Industries for the
Blind, of Greensboro. The co:n-
pany was founded 16 years ago
■for the express purpose of giving
employment to the blind and the
^ product they produce will compete
V, ith any. The Lions club' asks the
cooperation of all in this sale, local
proceeds from which will g j to
work with the blind here.
Starting next Wednesday after
noon the offices in the courthouse
will be closed at 12:30 on Wednes
day afternoons throughout the
A graduate of Davidson College summer months. This does not
in 1916, he was also a graduate of
Union Theological Seminary of
Richmond, Va., and he had held
pastorates at Accomac, Va., Lill-
ington, Galatia and Rose Hill. He
served ihe .Mount Zion, Oak Plain
and Teacher Presbyterian church
es in the Rose Hill group. He was
a native oi' Wade.
Surviving nre his wife, the for
mer T,ola Leach of Ra-?ford; three
daughters. Mr.^. £. 3. Johnson,
Greensboro, Mrs. R. E. Shadwell,
Jr., St. Loui.':. Mo., and Gladys
Bain of Greensboro; a son, Frank-
apply to the Board of Education
office, which will not start the
pi;actice until after school is out.
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RED CROSS BENEFIT
DANCE IN BLUE SPRINGS
Large Number Running
Brings Near-Record
Number To Polls
lin M. Jr., Pope Air Force Base,
I Fort Bragg;, five grandchildren; a
ing the morning meeting, at the , brother, L. P. Bain, Fayetteville;
curb market building.
Miss Josephine Hail and 57
members of the Hoke County De-
mohstration clubs attended.
three sisters, Mrs. B. W. Williams
of Autryville, Mrs. T. S. Melvin,
Aberdeen, Mrs. Claude Dudley,
Fayetteville.
The Blue Springs community
will hold a square dance' for the
benefit of the Red Cross in the
community house'mext Wednes
day night, April . 11. Music will be
furnished by Tom Cameron and
his string band.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Davis of High
Point were week end guests of
Miss Louise Blue.
Miss Maude Poole and Mrs. W.
B. Crumpton spent. Saturday night
and Sunday in Raeford.
1951 Fund Drive
For Cancer Control
To Start Monday
April has again been proclaimed
National Cancer Control month,
and the annual Cancer Crusade
for funds will start Monday in
the county,* Mrs. J. L. McNeill,
county chairman, announced this
week.
The Hoke county unit is seek
ing at least $500 as its share of the
$15,000,000 national goal, Mrs. Mc
Neill said.
She announced -that the follow
ing had been asked to serve as
community chairmen for the crit-
sade: Allendale, Miss Willie Mae
Liles; Antioch, Mrs. Sherwood
Baldwin; Blue Springs, Mrs. D. J.
Dalton; Arabia, Mrs. Brown Hen
drix: Raedeen, Mrs. W. J. McNeill:
Dundarrach, ' Mrs. Jesse Gibson;
Rockfish. Mrs. A. A. Mclnnis;
Wayside, Mrs. R. D. Parker; Ashe-
mont, Mrs. Tom Sinclair; :_Pine
Forest, Mrs. J. F. Jordan; Mrs.
McNeill will handle the RaeCord
drive herself with a group of 16
ladies who have been asked^ to
help.
What was probably a record
turnout of Raeford voters in a
town primary and certainly the
largest number in recent years
went to the polls Monday and
chose' five town commissioners
from a slate of 14 in the town’s
bi-annual primary. The 14 candi
dates also were the highest num-
I er recently and were probably
the cause of the large vote, as
there was little if any pre-elec-
tioh argument of issues or per
sonalities.
This primary presented quite a
contrast in every way to the one
two years ago when there were
three candidates for the town
board and when only 30 votes
were cast in all.
Pictures above are of four of the
elected commissioner.', a picture
of A. V. Sanders, the fifth one,
not being available in time to ap
pear.
Votes cast for each candidate
are as follows: R. B. Lewis—245,
J. H. Blue—199, J. W. McPhaul—
154, A. V. Sanders—154. Marion
Gatlin—138. These are the five
high and will be the commission
ers. While technically a run-off
could be called on the last three,
who do not have majorities, this
is not expected.
Mayor W. L. Poole was unop
posed and was declared the no
minee.
Votes cast for the also-rans were
as follows: Younger Snead—111,
F. B. Sexton—UO. W. L. Howell,
Jr.—100, Frank Culbreth—92, A.
D. Austin—88, Paul Dickson—86,
Carlton Niven—74, H. D. Harri
son—57, N. B. Blue—50.
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RED CROSS DRIVE LAGS
It began to appear in Recorder’s
court before Judge Henry Mc-
Diarmid Tuesday that George
Ivey possibly had been serving as
a front for Bill Wright in the
operation of Bill’s club and that
he w'as about ready to talk about
it.
Ivey entered a plea of no de
fense on a charge of violating the
prohibition laws. He said that the
liquor profits were to be split
fifty - fifty between him and
Wright, On the gambling charge
wheifc Ivey had been charged with
what amounted to operating a
gambling house, he was found
guilty of aiding and abetting in
the operation of such a place.
Ivey said in effect, and partially
through his attorney, that he had
worked in part of the place and
that the room where the gambling
went on was in another part and
that it was in Wright’s charge and
that he had nothing to do with it.
The sheriff has a warrant for
Wright’s arrest and Judge Mc-
Diarmid suspended judgment as
to Ivey on both charges until the
case against Wright is heard.
Bethune Maultsby, white, was
fpunH guilty of being drunk and
disorderly and sentenced to 30
days on the roads to be suspended
on payment of $25 £ind the costs.
He appealed to Superior court and .
posted a $100 bond.
WiUiam Robert Jones, Indian,
was found guilty of assaulting
James Chavis and got 30 days su
spended on payment of $25 and
the costs and on condition of two
years good behavior. Probable
.cause was found against him on
a charge of stealing Chavis’ car
and he is in jail in default of a
$400 bond waiting trial in Super
ior court.
Jesse Pate, Indian, got 30 days
suspended on payment of the costs
and on two years good behavior
for assaulting his wife. Johnnie
Eason, colored, was also charged
w'i'th assaulting his vyife but she
relented and didn’t w'ant to pro
secute, so they had to pay the
costs.
Dewey Lee James, white, was
charged by Cliff Brown with as
sault with a deadly weapon. He
was found not guilty.
Howard Baxley, white, pleaded
guilty of driving drunk and care
less and reckless driving. He got
99 days suspended on payment of
$100 - and the costs and paid tl
damages to the other car.
Louie Rudd, white, forfeited a
$50 bond for careless and
driving. John R. Mills, white, paid
the costs and Arthur Dockery,
colored, paid $10 and the rosts for
careless and reckless driving.
James Maynor, colored, paid
$10 and the costs for speeding;
Warren Hu^es, white, paid $25
and the costs for speeding 70
miles an hour; and William Bris
coe, white, forfeited a $25 bond
for speeding.
Marion Gatlin, one of the Red
Cross fund drive chairmen, said
yesterday that all the money col
lected, promised or heard of for
the drive added up to only $1300,
when the quota for rhe county is
$2600. He urged all workers in
the county to make another des
perate effort to raise their quotas
and asked all who had not done so
to turn in funds collected. He also
made a plea to the public to co
operate in this final attempt to
raise the quota.
Little River Folks
Feed Road People
The people of Little River took
a notion to celebrate the coming
of paved roads and did so last
Friday night when they got to
gether and had a barbecue supper
at the community house for the
Hoke county commissioners and
several of the county officials, and
officials of the State Highway
Commission. Commissioner George
Coble of Lexington was pres«it(
along with District Engine^ar T,
G. Poindexter of Asheboro.
County officials say it was as
fine a spread as they ever stuck
a tooth in. In addition to the
guests, just about everyone in the
township was present and parti
cipated in the aiffair.