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i»s' ? ‘ri;! {">i' -yj • v, • , v:.,.-^• ’V. '■,r4' . V,v* SK' '. ■ ■'Rv vwcEor MUEDOM V WAROIAN OFUBERtt The - Journal VOKE Of IICfOOM Imum fiUHl The Hoke County News .V The Hoke County Journal OfMEin ■m ■y %-■ VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 11 Hoke Tax Rate Same, Board Decides Monday Sheriff Urged To Get Back Taxes;- Rural Police Job Discontinued September 1 At their regular monthly meet ing on Monday the Board of Coih- mssioners of Hoke County ruled that the same tax rate of $1.10 per $100 valuation would be enoug to run the county on for another year. This was done in spite of the fact that the schools got anotb er three cents of the levy, this three cents being absorbed or com ing off of the county general levy The board also asked the sheriff to make a diligent effort to col lect delinquent taxes that are on the county books. It was voted, to discontinue the office of cour^y rural policeman, effective the mst of next month. J. C. Wright, who came to the job from the sheriffs office, is expected to return to his job as fee deputy with the sheriffs of fice at that time, The commissioners imanimously approved the request made by the Raeford Kiwanis club not to sched ule any meltings on Wednesday nights It was vpted to put all county employees on Social Swurtty. The board agreed to lease the old county gara^ lot to the State Highway Commission for ujpe as a road machinery shop. The sjihpor superintendent was authorized, to remove l&e old' building. A deleg^tiof^; from township iimpeared THURSDAY, AUGUST 9,1951 } RAEFORD, N. C. ten cents per copy SIM PER YEAB Telephone Hearing n Raleigh Today and’ from the Philippi road at jwaver creek to ’15-A at Parker’a church be paved. The board advised tHe delegation that no paving was presently available but asked the highway commission to re-work the road and get it in good shape, 0 PERSONALS Mrs. Carlton Niven is pending several days in Roxboro with her mother, Mrs. M. D. Gentry. Members of the rural telephone committee of Hoke county will go to Raleigh today to attend a hear ing with the Utilities commission and the Rural Electrification Au thority on the rural telephone sit uation in Hoke county. The meet ings will be in the hearing room of the Utilites Commission at 2:30 o’clock and the committee will be happy to have anyone from this county who is able to attend. /Some time ago a survey of the rural telephone situation in the county was made at the direction of the Utilities commision. This survey was plotted on the map and showed the rural * families not having telephone service and their locations. It was given to the Caro, lina Telephone & Telegarph com pany for study, and the company was to report back after a reason able time on what it could do about tile situation. This was done in compliance with the -REA directive requiring that existing utilities be given oppor !unity to provide service to a ter ritory before it can bfe served by a cooperative under REA. At the meeting today the telephone com pany is expected to make ai re port on its capacity for providing rural telephone service in this county, as well as its intentions. —^ 0 - — Hoke Woman To Attend Meeting In Michigan N. At Honle Friday Mrs. McLauchlin Takes Field Job With College LIBRARY NEWS Hoke County Public Library Annual Report, for. year ending June 30, 1951. Number volumes added during year 852; Hum'^r volumes in li brary Jxine 30 8386; Number per iodicals received 25; Number Mrs. John Baker of Rt. 1, Cam eron, a member of the Little River Home Demonstration Club in Hoke County and President of the 16th, District Federation composed of Hoke, Scotland, Cumberland and Robeson Counties, will attend the National Home Demonstration Council Meeting in Lansing, Mich. Mrs. Baker will leave Raleigh Saturday morning, August 11th. with a group of twenty six dele gates from North Carolina. The meeting is to be held at Michigan State College. A number of out standing speakers will appear on the program. The group will leave Lansing on Friday afternoon for Detroit where they will spend the night and do some sightseeing in the city and over in Canada. They will also stop in Steubenville, Ohio on Saturday to visit the large pottery plant. Saturday night will be spent in Cumberland, Md. They plan to arrive in Raleigh late Sun day afternoon, coming by way of Skyline Drive. Mrs. Baker attended the Na tional Council Meeting in Biloxi, Miss., last year when she was serv ing as vice chairman of the District and the Hoke County Home Dem onstration Club women are proud to have her present at two Na tional meetings. / ■ 0 — High Cotton Yield Expected Thi» Year Pistol For ^own Only To Uses Sms Reasons Himself; Funeral Sunday 14,1T8;> r The Agricaltme Jo Parker , and Mrs. Tom Rogers of Liberty spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Poole. Mrs. Harvey Cole was a patient at Highsmith hospital during the week end and the first of the week. Mrs. Ed Baicy and five children of Aberdeen, Maryland, and Mrs. James iMcDiarmid and three chil dren of Jackson, Mississippi, are spending some time, here with Mrs. 'Baicy’s and Mrs. McDiarmid’s parents, Mr. -and Mrs. G. W. Wil liamson. 'Mrs Williamson’s mother, Mrs. John A. McCormick of Row land, is also spending this week in the Williamson home. Mrs. Williamson’s sister, Mrs. Thelbert Apple,and Mr. Apple of Garner were here for the day Sunday. Number volumes lent on tooolp-r moibile, white 15,976, colored 11,- 141, Total 27,117; Grand Total 41,290. Receipts: Balance on hand from previous year $1221.35; Appro priations from city and county $11'50.00; Other sources, gifts, rentals, fees, etc. $554.59; State aid $3415.89; Total receipts $6,- 341.83. Expenditures: Salaries $2382.92; Books and periodicals $1674.76; Bookmobile operation (including buying bookmobile) $945.22; Oth er operating expenses $393.18; Balance on hand June 30 $995.73; Total expenditures and balance $6431.83. Ina P. Bethune, Librarian, Mar garet C. Sinclair, Bookmobile Li brarian, Murdoch McDuffie, Trea. surer, Hoke County Public Li brary Board of Trustees. _o Boys To Attend Forestry Camp Miss Donnie Lytle spent several days the first of the week with friends at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. Johnnie King under an operation at 'Highsmith hospital Tuesday. D^artment, in its first forecast of the current cotton crop, estimated it at 17, 266,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight yesterday. This near-record crop is 7,214,-|j Nathaniel :»McNair Smith, 48, well-known wwyer of this county, was found dead at his home near Timberland Friday afternoon by Mrs. Smith and his stepson, Jim my Woodhouse, when they went home at about five o’clock. He apparently died by his own hand useing a small caliber automatic pistol. Although he had been in ill health recently, his family re ported that he was in good spirits when they left him Friday -morn ing. He had later that day attended a funeral in Lumberton and then returned to his home where his family found him. Coroner James C. Lentz ruled that no inquest was necessary that he had'died by his hand for reasons not known. No reason for the act was Mvanced by his fam ily or frieq^s. He was .a native of Harnett county but had lived here for most of his life , and practiced law here as his fattier did before him. He was solicitor of the recorder’s court for several terms and was formerly a National Guard of ficer. He was the son of. the late Edwin and Mary McNair Smith and was a graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Funeral was at the Raeford Presbyterian church at thifee o’clock Spi&d^y afternoon With B- Hex- ward, cbnducjting. Burial .was in Raeford cemetery. Pallbearers were W. E. Yow, J. C. Wright, D. H. Hodgin, J. B. Cameron, Lloyd Crowley, J. McKay Blue, D. McNeill and Howard Me- TOWN BOARD ASKS VOTE ON $30,000 WATER BOND ISSUE Recorder Hears More Liquor Gases Tuesday BEATRICE HALL McLAUCHLIN Money Already Spent Most Be Raised By Taxes If Not Bonds; Some Rise Anjrwsy ' Sgt. and Mrs. R. B. Wadley and two children of Gamp Chaffee, Arkansas, arrived Sunday for visit with Mrs. Wadley’s -brother. Jack Pope, and family. They were accompanied here by Mrs. How ard Pope and son, who have been with Sgt. Pope at Yuma, Arizona for the past several months. Sgt. Pope is testing equipment for the army in Yuma. Mr. and -Mrs. Herbert McLean, Herbert McLean, Jr., Marion Gat lin, Lindo and F. 'B. Sexton at tended the funeral of Mr. McLean’s brother, E. D. McLean in Laurin- burg Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. Mrs. Mary McBryde is on va cation this week from Mann’s De partment Store. Lacy H. Koonce, Jr., of Route 2, Raeford, and Philip E. Edge, Route, 1, Raeford have been sel ected to attend the 5th Annual Forestry Camp for Farm Boys scheduled for Singletary Lake Group Camp on Bladen Lakes State Forest in Bladen County August 5 to August 12. The camp is sponsored by N. C. Pulp Company of Plymouth, N. C., Riegel Paper Corporation of Bol ton, N.'C., International Paper Company of Georgetown, South Carolina, and the Champion Paper and Fibre Company of Cantem, N. C. All memiber mills of the Sou thern Pulpwood Conservation As sociation. The N. C. Department of Con servation and Development’s Di-, vision of Forestry in cooperation with North Carolina Intention Service and the Department of Public Instructions’ Division of Vo_ cational Agriculture Education conduct the camp program which is designed to give North Carolina farm boys instructon in practical and economical forestry and as sociated practices that wiU pro mote the basic concepts of con servation for North Carolina’s vi tal natural resources. State Forester W. K. Beichler of Raleigh will greet the group of 100 boys in a special opening pro gram on Sunlay evening and clas ses will commence Monday morn ing. 000 bales more than the 10,012,000 bale short crop produced last year It also is much larger than the ten-year (1940-49 average of 12,- 030,000 bales. The government had appealed for a crop of at least 16,000,000 ■bales to- replenish supplies which bad been cut to a low level imder defense program demands. Ex ports have been restricted be cause of the supply situation. The largest crop ever prouced was 18,946,000 bales in 1037. A big boost in the crop .had been expected- by the cotton -markets, as evidenced by the fact that prices have dipped rather sharply from a ceiling of 45.76 cents a pound. In an accompanying report, the Census Bureau said 223,886 nm- ning bales of cotton from this year’s crop had been‘ginned prior to Aug. 1. This compares with 283,- 243 ginned to the same date last year and 296,843 two years ago. The average yield to the acre to be harvested was estimated at 286.7 pounds, compared with 269.2 pounds last year and 237.5 for the ten-year average. The condition of the cotton crop as of Aug. 1 was reported at 76 percent of normal compared with 75 percent a year ago and 77 per cent for the ten-year Aug. 1 av erage. The condition of the. crop, the in dicated yield per acre and the pro. duction, respectively, by states in cluded: Virginia 90 per cent of normal, 415 pounds per acre and produc tion 19,000 bales; North Carolina 86, 383, and 860,000; Georgia 75,- 303 and 920,000;Tennessee 75,- 342 and 590,000; Texas 67, 137 and 5,000,000 and California 90,630 and 1,750,000. The production of American- Egyptian cotton was estimated at 45,200 bales compared with 64,- 200 last year and 25,400 for the ten-year average. Anulty. Survivors include his wife, the former Rena Wood Woodhouse; two stepchildren, Mrs. C. A. Wor ley of Raeford and Jimmy Wood- house of the home; his stepmother, Mrs. Edwin Smith of Raeford; three sisters, Mrs. J. T. McNeill, Red Springs, Mrs. E. H. Morton of Kinston and Mrs. J. R. Peace of Chapel Hill; one brother, Curtis Smith of Miami, Fla. Youth Week Held By Local Churches The Baptist, Methodist and Pres, byterian churches will sponsor their third annual “Youth Activi ties Week” beginning next Mon day evening and running through Friday night, August 12. The meetings will be held at the Raeford Methodist church and all young people aged 15 to 23 from the surrounding section are in vited to attend. The theme of the week is “Christ, The Supreme Pattern.” Miss 'Florence Cameron is gen eral chairman and has divided the responsibitities. The Presbyterians will be responsible for the study Mrs. Beatrice Hall McLauchlin of Raeford has accepted the posi tion as field secretary at Flora Macdonald college, succeeding Miss Peggy Harris, who has held this office for the past two years and resigned recently to enter the University of Texas in.'-Austqj,/ where she will begin work on her master’s d.egree. Mrs McLauchlin is a native of Mooresville, daughter of the late Thomas Newberry Hall and Lucy Rankin Asbernathey Hall, whose Scotch-Irish ancestors came to America iprior to the Revolution ary War. She is an alumna of Flora Macdonald, having raceiyecL her B. M. degree with major in piano, under the late Mrs. Linda Rumple Vardell. She taught piano at Flora Macdonald and in the public schools of Raeford, and has directed school and community choral clubs and church choirs with great success. For the past several years she has had a lim ited class of private piano pupils at her home in Raeford. Active in the civic and religious life of her community, she^ is, a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of the American Revolution; was teacher of the Women’s Bible class in the Raeford Presbyterian church for a numiber of years, has contri buted a number of articles to church papers and magazines; and held various offices in the Wo men of the Church organization of Fayetteville Presbytery and of the Synod of North Carolina— is immediate past president of Fayette vile Presbyterial. She is now a member of the Executive Board of Fayetteville Presbyter ial and the North Carolina Synodi cal, of North Carolina Synod’s Council, and is a member of the Advisory Boards of both Flora Macdorjald and Presbyterian Jr. Colleges. Mrs. McLauchlin’s husband, the late H. Currie McLauchlin of Raer ford, died in 1946. She has four children, Thomas Neill and John William McLauchlin, both of Rae- Judge Henry McDiarmid had a few more liquor law violators, to take care of Tuesday morning in Recorder’s court, along with the traffic violators, thieves and other assorted offenders. Clarence R. Wilson, white, was found guilty of violating the pro hibition laws by having liquor for the purpose of sale. He got two years on the roads suspended on payment of $150 and the costs and good behavior for two years. Ike McKoy and Charles Cain, colored, entered pleas of guilty of violating the prohibition laws and Charles Henry Ford, also colored, pleaded not guilty. Each got a sentence of six memths suspended on payment of $50 and the costs. Clifton McDougald, colored, was found/guUty of assault and larceny in^parate cases and was sent to tpe roads for six months. Alton L. iMcCrimmon, colored, paid the costs for careless and reckless driving when he ran his car off the road and damaged it. W. W. Vanderford, white truck driver of Alabama, was found guil ty of careless and reckless driving and fined $25 and the cost. Elihu Allen Weaver, Jr., white, was found guilty of driving on the wrong side of the road and had4o pay the costs. James W. Evans, white, got 90 days suspended on payment of $100 and costs for driving drunk. Jim Edwards, white, pleaded guilty of careless and reckless driving. He got one year to be suspended on payment of the costs and $300 to Jesse Tew for money he advanced as a result of the wreck. 'The judge also recommend, ed that his license be revoked for one year. Jesse James McNeill, colored, got 30 days suspended on pay ment of the costs for being drunk and disorderly. Billie West, white, pleaded guil ty of driving after his license had been revoked. He got six months suspended on payment of $200 and the costs. Noble V. Miller, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment df $10 and the costs for driving with no brakes. Kelly McMilUn, Of California Dies ■News of the death of Kelly A. McMillan of Arbuckle, California, was received here this week by his brother, Starr McMillan. Death occured on Sunday, August 5, following an emergency opera tion in Spokane, Washington, where Mr. and Mrs. McMillan were vacationing. Funeral serv- .■\.t their regular monthly meet ing on Monday night the town board moved to the courthouse and invited citizens of the town to sit with th^ and help thresh in and fellowship singing ford, Hugh Charles McLauchlin of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Holtzclaw left Tuesday for Southern pines where they will make their home. They will manage the Jefferson Inn at Southern Pines. The Holtz- claws operated Hotel 'Raeford very successfully for a number of years. They sold out this Spring. course the Methodists will handle reg istration, publicity, recreation and refreshments and the Baptists will have charge of the worship serv ices which will close the activities each evening. Registration will begin at 7:00^ p.m. Monday. John K. McNeill, Jr., and Charles Hostetler will teach the Bible courses and Mrs. W. L. Howell, Jr., and Mrs. W. B. Hey ward will be leaders of the “Home, builder’s course.” There will be recreation and refreshments each evening. =-0 Mr. and ' Mrs. I. Mann and daughters, and their week-end guests, Mrs. Abe Brooks of War saw, Ed Brooks of Burgaw visited Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Soloman in Greensboro Sunday.' Mrs. Andy Wood and son. Drew, of Myrtle Beach, S. C., are spend ing a few lays with Mrs, Wood’s mother. Mrs. Jewel Snead. Greensboro, and Mrs. Henry Far- rior Crenshaw, the former Jose phine McLauchlin, now of Fort Deposit, Alabama. , Mrs. McLauchlin’s delightful personality, vivacity and enthus iasm, combined with her loyalty for and intimate knowledge of her Alma Matbr, will be major fact ors in the success of her interest-' ing new work. 0 P. P. C. Franklin Niven, who has just completed an eight months course in the Aircraft and Engine IMwhanic school at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, is home on furlough. He has been transfer red from Texas to 'Donaldson Air Force Base, Greenville, S. C. ices will be in Arbuckle on SatuT' day. , He will be remembered by the older residents of Rarford, hav ing lived here as a young man in the early part of the century and having been a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John McMillan. He and Mrs. ftKMillan visited here last fall. Surviving are his wife, three sons and one daughter, all of Cal ifornia; two sisters, Mrs. .Arthur McNeill and Mrs. R. P. Brown of Southern Pines; one brother, Starr McMillan of Raeford. » MRS. O’BRIANrS MOTHER DIES IN NEW JERSEY out some of the financial difficult- ies the town is facing. Some 40 or 50 of the taxpayers accepted the invitation. The situation was explained by James M. Williams, certified pul)- lic accountant of Raleigh, who ^ad just completed an audit of the town’s books. He said that the town had to get up the $30J)00 ftr water to supplement the last $130,- 000 issue for a deficit which al ready exists. He said that to do this and operate on a current basis a tax rate of $2.75 per $100 val uation would be necessary. Doing it other than by taxes seemed wisest to all present, that is, by issuing bonds for the $30,000 and paying them off out of futxire revenues. All angles of the situation were discussed, with several of the , guests offering suggestions and with a full explanation of the water financial situation being presented to the meeting by R. H. Moore, town water engineer. EEe explained where the water bond money had gone and was going. There 'were suggestions from the floor that taxpayers who would should advance taxes to the town, ttet tiiena should he a thoroHtft . ■ check to see that all valuations were equitable and others. Mr. Williams estimated that the tax rate could be $1.50 if the $30,- 000 is raised some other way. ’This is only 16 and 2-thirds cents over the present rate, and he pointed out that costs of everything rise have ris«i and that here is no rea son to exx>ect that a town can get the things it needs and must supply its citizens any cheaper than any one else can. The board therefore voj:ed to ask the appproval of the locri govern ment commission of a water bond issue of $30,009. This approval forthcoming, the matter will be put to a vote of the citizens of the town. The tax rate was not set, but the board continued the meeting until next Monday. The board also voted to survey and stride the following streets for paving so that curb and gutter and sidewalks will fit in the prop er place if added later. Prospect Avenue east from Main street to the town line; Fulton street north from Prospect avenue to the town line; Dickson street from Highway 15-A north to Prospect .Avenue. These streets are expected to be paved by the State imder the Powell bill. It is to be assumed that the board would tike to wait until af ter a bond election to set the tax rate, if tiiis is possible, for if the 'Mrs. Dave Kunffler left Sunday for Valdese for a visit with her parents, ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Long. Angus Currie is on vacation from the Bank of Raeford this week. A message came here on Monday that Mrs. A. L. 0’'Briant’s mother had died in New Jersey. Ihr. and Mrs. 03riant left here last Fri day for a vacation in the mount ains of western North Carolina Md it was not known yesterday whether Mrs. cyBriant had ever received the message or not. bond issue does not pass, the money will have to come from tax_ — 0— Herbert McLean’s Brother Buried Funeral services for E. D. Mc Lean, 78, who died Friday at Guilford County sanatorium, were conducted Saturday at 11:00 aun. at the hotme of his son, F. C. Mc Lean of Laurinburg. Dr. S. H. Fulton officiated, and burial was in Hillside cemetery. Surviving are two sons, F. C. McLeem of Laurinburg and W. 'B. McLean of Shriby; two daui^ters, Mrs. H. T. McPhaul of Yancey- vilie and Annie Mae McLean of Washington, D. C.; one brother, Herbert S. McLean of Raetord. Miss Ethel Sue GulWege accom- paneid -hdiss Peggy Thomas to her home in Hi^ P'oint Sunday ftwr several days. Miss Thomas had spent the past two we^s with Miss Gnlledge.
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