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VOLUME XLVi; NUMBER 12
THURSDAY,‘AUGUST 16,1051
RAEFORD, N. C.
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Federal employes, have
bosses than other workers.
Their sSUi)eriors include the 435
members of the House and 96
members of the Senate. Aware-
ness of this branch of manage
ment increases when a federal pay
day is drawing near and Congress
has not approved new money for
salaries.
That has happened twice so far
this Summer.
The federal government’s busi
ness year begins^ July 1. When
the. old 1951 fiscal year ended
June 30, stopping expenditures
under 1951 appropriations, Con
gress had not approved any major
appropriations for the new 1952
fiscal year—and still hasn’t.
Normally, while this may induce
a certain degree of nervousness
amon| federal wage earners,
does not cause any major dis
turbance. Because Congress as it
has done,* twice since June 30,
simply pwmits the federal agen
cies temporarily to draw advances
on their 1952“appropriations until
the latter finally are fixed.
This, summer,'however, has not
been tjonnal in -that reject. A
new fixture has been added.
Final 'Congressional action bh
about $88 billion worth of appro
priations (bills is being delayed by
a fight between the House and
Senate Wer an issue dose to the
. hearts of federal employes—how
payrolls should be cut.
i’' The^'Ms Hpu?e-?enate agree-
cause federal employment rolls
are too large and payrolls too ex
pensive. There are about 2,487,
000 federai workers and their an
nual total payroll funs appfoxi-
mately $8.5 billion, according to
one Congressional committee.
Conflicting plans are offered by
the House and Senate respectively
for reducing federal employment
The House champions the Jen
sen Plan. Rep. Ben Jensen (R-Ia.)
would cut the ■ employment rolls
by prohibiting .federal agencies
from filling more than three out
. of. each four employment vacan
cies. He says this would save $500
million a year in salaries'alone
' The Senate is backiitg the Fer
guson Plan. Sen. Romer Ferguson
(R-iMich.) would reduce employ
ment by simply cutting by 10 per
cent the amounts sought by most
federal agencies for payroll pur
poses during fiscal 1952.
Certain exceptions are madC:
such as for the Atomic Energy
Commission, under both plans.
iBy custom, appropriations bills
are . launched in the House. There
are a dozen bills all told, covering
various federal operations. Re
quests for'feach of these operations'
are contained in the President’s
budget message to Congress.
This year the House, along with
doing some trimming, tacked the
Jensen amendment onto each of
six of the appropriations bills ibe
fore sending them along to the
Senate. But as it considered each
of the first three of those bills,
he Senate substituted th^ergu-
•son Plan for the Jensen, Plan.
That meant that each of the
three bills bad to be sent to con
ferences of House and Senate Ap
propriations committees members
for compromise agreement.
They are still there.
In each case, the conference
r, agreed to replace the Jensen Plan
with the Ferguson Plan hut when
- the House itself was asked to vote
approval ^f that switch, it refused
and sqhi bills back to confer-
. ence.
Backers of the Jensen Plan
argue that the Ferguson Plan
would penalize the more efficient
• government departments, which
try to hold down wasteful labor
turnover, by subjecting them to
“meat axe” cuts. the Jensen
Plan, this argumem^rims, more
departments would try to hold
. down turnover in order to avoid
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Physical Exams
Ui^ed For Children
B^ore School Starts
K. A. MdDonald, County Super
intendent of Schools, and Doctor
j. W. Willcox, Health Clfficer,
urge that all children who will
be entering school for the first
time this year be given a phy
sical examination by a physician
before school begins. The record of
this examination is an important
part of the child’s permanent
school record.
The Raeford Doctore have spe
cial cards for this purpose, and
cards may 'be obtained from the
local Health Department for those
who live nearer other doctors.
Also, Doctor Wilcox will do ex
aminations in the Health Depart
ment on Friday from 9:30 a.m. to
11:00 a.m. and 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
These authorities urge that this
be taken care of immediately as
the White Schools begin Septem
ber 6, 1951, and the Colored and
Indian Schools September 24, 1951.
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Guardsmen Will
Go To Alabama
For Traming
About 100 Local Men To
Go To Fort McClellan For
Two Wec^s Encampment
Hoke Boy, Girl
To Attend Wildlife
Conference at Camp
Peggy Parks and Hugh Wright,
members tof the Hoke High School
4-H Club, will receive free trips
to the State Wildlife Conference
to be held at Camp Millstone in
Richmond County from Monday,
August 20 to Friday, August 24.
Seventy live 4-H memibers in
North Carolina, who have submit
ted good records in the Wildlife
Conservation project, are award
ed the free trips. Peggy has made
a study of insects and game an
imals on their farm and Hugh sub
mitted a ..repord In tree study,
w be placed
on exhibit during the week.
A full program of recreation,
f^ild trips, demonstrations and
movies has been planned for the
Wildlife Camp.
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Proposed Excise
Tax Will Force
Price Of* Cars Up
About 100 Raeford and Hoke
County men will join some 9,000
other North Carolina and Ten
nessee National Guards men of
the 30th “Old Hickory” Division
Saturday in a 500-male trip to
Fort McClellan, Alabama for the
regular two weeks of summer
training that the Guard gets every
year.
While the bulk of the Division
will go to Alabama by train, the
local battery,®att®ryA, 130th An
tiaircraft battalion, is completely
motorized arid will go entirely in
its own vehicle®. The local unit
will leave here at approximately
5:00 a. m Saturday after having
breeikfast at the armory at 3:30
They will leave here with a large
motor column from other units
of the Division which will bivouac
about one mile east of here on
Friday night.
The local battery expects to
have a strength of 81 enlisted men
five officers and one warrant of
ficer for the encampment. The
Commanding officer is First Lt.
Edwin D. Newton, Executive of
ficer is First Lt. Luther W. Clark
and officers are First Lts. Tal-
madge English and William L.
Poole Jr., and Second Lieut.
Thomas M, Macko. Warrant Of
ficer Roger W. Dixon is unit ad
ministrator. First Sergeant is
Jesse N. GuUede, platoon sergeants
are Master Serge^ts Clarke M.
Willi®' ahd' Ohi^les -Ai'’“ Monrtrt^;
supply is Sgt. First Class Daniel
E. Baker, Mess is Sergeant First
Class Virgil Dedas and Motor is
Sergeant First Class William E,
Kennedy. ,
Advance detartiment in com
mand of Sgt. First Class Arthur
Ashbum left for Camp early to
day and included Cpl. Edmund-
Prevatte and Pfc. Floyd M. Davis.
Advance mess detail left Tuesday
and consisted of Sgt. James T.
Wilkes and Cpl.' Oharles B.
Ashley.
The units will prepare their
own meals on the way and will
spend the first night in the fair
grounds at Athens, Ga., and pull
into Fort McClellan (near Annis
ton) on Sunday.
Others from here wbo will at
tend the encampment are Lt. Col.
William Lamont, Jr., commander
Kindergarten To
Be Operated At
Presbyterian Church
:he Rev. W. B. Heywfird,
pastor of the Raeford Presby
terian church, announced this
week that a non-sectarian kinder
garten would be operated at the
church this winter and that it
would open on October 1 under
the direction of Mrs. John Scull.
Mrs. Scull is a native of Jack
sonville, Fla., and was Miss El
eanor Edwards before marriage.
She attended Bessie Tift College
1*1 Forsyth, Ga., and New York
University. She has had consider
able kindergarten experience, hav
ing taught kindergarten in Jack
sonville and having operated her
own school in Southern Pines for
three years.
The kindergarten, while under
the sponsorship of the church, is
to be non-sectarian and open to
all white children in the commun.
Various subjects will be taught
the childreh, including music, col
oring, handwork, painting, mod
eling, pasting, etc., and classes
will be in the newly remodeled
second floor of the church. New
outdoor play equipment is also to
be provided.
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Recorder Holds
Willie English
Without ^nd
Other Cases Include Hogs
Out, Assault, Liquor,
Traffic Offenses
25th Reunion Of
McKenzie Clan Is
Held At Centre
If Congress enacts into law the
proposed increase in excise taxes
on new automobiles, passed by*
the House last month, the price oJ;
automobiles will rise about $50
Mr. Younger Sneaid, local Area
Chairman for the National Au-
tomdbile Dealers Association, said
today.
“The ppresent discrimiiifition
is made far greater by the House
bill which would raise manufac
tures’ excise taxes on new automo. i of the 130th, and Majors T. B.
biles from 7 to 10 per cent. The Lester and Paul Dickson of his
bill loers non- automotive tax
levies and raises automobile lev
ies.” he pointed out.
“In order to raise treasury rev
enues by $412 million car and
truck owners would be taxed an
additional $502 ^million more an
nually than un^er current rates.
Automobile dealers do not ob
ject to increasing the obviously
discriminatory excises which will
be paid by car buyers and owners.”
he added.
Mr. Snead estimated that taxes
take from 2!4 to 28 cents of every
automobile dollar and, in the case
of gasoline, amount to about one-
third of the retail price. If this
dangerous trend is carried to ex
cess, he emphasized, the purpose
of automotive taxation will be
defeated, production crippled, and
the • automobile returned to its
early status as a product only for
the wealthy.”
The National Automobile Deal
ers Assiociation has urged the
Senate Finance Committee, which
has just concluded public hear
ings on the proposed law, to con
sider other types of taxation, to
curtail needless Federal Cxpendi-
ures, and to close loopholes in the
present tax structure rather than
discriminate against the motor
ist who is already over burdwned
with heawy taxaxation.
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(Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pope and
children and Sgt. and Mrs. R. B.
IWadley and children spent the
week end in Burlin^bn with Mrs
I Pope’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Byrd
staff.
Football Men
Asked to Report
Coach Robert Rockholz has is
sued a call for all candidates for
the 1951 Hoke High school foot
ball squad to report to him Mon
day, August 20, at the Hoke
High gymnasium.
Coach Rockholz has asked all
the candidates to report to him
at 5:45 to draw equipment. Can
didates should bring shoes with
them. All orders for new shoes
will be taken Monday at the
practice field. Practice session®
will be from 6:00-8:00 every eve
ning except Sundays.
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JACKSON WITH JOHNSON
L. W. Turner, manager of John
son Cotton Company, said this
week that the omission of C. E.
Jackson’s name from the list of
the company’s employees at the
bottom of their page ad in last
week’s paper was an oversight
and that Jackson was still very
much there. It seems that a good
many of Jackson’s friends missed
his name and inquired if he had
left the company. At any rate his
name appears with the rest at
the bottom of the ad on page 3
this week.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Eubanks of
Wingate spent Sunday in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hall.
The annual reunion of the
McKen^^ clan was held at Centre
Preabsrterian Church on August 5,
1951, with 142 of the 310 mem
bers, df^niendents of the late
Murdoch and Catherine MbBryfle
MdCenzie, present for the event.
There wei»''9lso '59 visitors.
,/iA p in
the church with Mrs. Lucille Mc
Kenzie of Laurinburg, president
of the clan, presiding over the
business session. Numbers on the
program were announced by Mrs.
Catherine Campbell Regan of
South Hill, Virginia. Glenn Crof-
ton, Jr., was pianist and played
a special number. Then, “Faith of
our Fathers” opened the pro
gram. Rev. J, (Ray Dickens, pastor
of Centre church, led the de
votional period. The welcome was
extended by Arch Cam'pbell and
the response was made by Dan
O. Campbell of Lauriniburg. The
history was presented by Mrs.
LaVelle A. Campbell, who read
a brief sketch of the pioneer life
of Murdock and Catherine Mc
Kenzie, founders of the clan. The
six,"living branches, who are des
cendants of John Calvin McKenzie
and Katherine McPhaul, Mary
Jane McKenzie and Edward Camp
bell, Hugh 'McKenzie and Rachel
McArthur, Margaret McKenzie
and Neill Smith, Daniel McKen
zie and Molly McBryde and Mag
gie Walker, and Penelope Mc
Kenzie and John A. Campbell
were recognized and new mar
riages, births and deaths reported.
A Basket of flowers were given
as a memorial to the one mem
ber of the clan who had died
since the last reunion,* John L.
Conoly, of Red Springs, son of
the late Catherine Campbell and
James H. Conoly. John attended
all 24 of the reunions held dur
ing his life tinae.
The oldest member of the clan
is Angus McKenzie, 75, of Rae-
Iprd; the youngest memlber is
Rebecca Winters, infant daughter
of Mary Campbell and Earl (Win
ters, Jr.
The nine surviving granxichil-
dren of the 37, were recognized:
Mrs. Sallie MaCenzie McBryde,
of Shannon, E. K. Campbell of
Parkton and D. J. Campibell of
Maxton, who are twins, Neill D.
Smith of Maxton, Angus McKen
zie McKenzie of Laurinburg, and
D. B. Campbell of Maxton and
sister Mrs. Mary Campbell Mc
Duffie of Laurinburg, and bro*
ther Arch L. Campbell of Maxto,n
R. F. D.
The program closed with the
singios of “Blest Be the Tie”
and the Mizpeh benediction.
The (bountiful picnic dinner was
then served in the grove and an
afternoon of fellowship with re
latives and friends was enjoyed.
Willie Jr. English, 36-year-old
white man* was given preliminary
hearing before Judge Henry Mc-
Diarmid in Hoke County record
er’s court Tuesday morning on a
charge of haying 'carnal, know
ledge of a 13-year -old girl.*I*rob-
able cause was found and English
was sent to the county jail with
out priviledge of bond to await
trial in Superior court next, week.
Hamp McPherson, white, was
found guilty of giving Guthrie
Long a bad check for costs. He
appealed and posted $200 bond.
Archie C. Davis, colored, plead
ed guilty of allowing his hogs
to run out and damage crops. He
had to pay the costs and $25
damages.
John Davis, colored, was foimd
guilty of having liquor for the
purpose of sale. He got one year
on the roads. He is to leave on
November 1 and posted $200
bond for his appearance at that
time.
James T. Blue, white, was
charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon, but the ebse was
dropped by the state.
Roy Lee Murchison and Walter
Graham, colored, were found guil
ty of assaulting Lacy Flowers with
a deadly weapon with intent to
kill. They got six months each to
be suspended on payment of the
costs and his hospital and doctor
bills.
Dock Powell^' Jr., colored sol
dier, got 90 days suspended on
payment of $50 and the costs for
careless and reckless driving with_
out a driver’s license.
Town To Get Houses
Numbered For Postal
Delivery Service
At the continuation of their
monthly meeting; on Monday
night the town fathers hired Rob
ert Gatlin to survey or lay out
the town of Raeford and set house
numbers for each house and lot
in town and furnish this infor
mation to the Post Office so that
it may have the information in
order to begin mail delivery ser
vice in town when the street
marking equipment is to be furn
ished the town by the Chamber
of Commerce and is expected in
the next few days. Postal delivery
service has been authorized for
some time but cannot begin uh
til streets are marked and houses
numbered.
Other business taken up at the
meeting dealt largely with taxi
drivers in the town. The board set
up rul^s for the operation of
taxicabs in town requiring town
permits ,and setting forth uj some
detail the various ways a driver
could lose this permit, mostly by
traffi^iolations. These also said
that the drivers must comply
with State laws and keep their
cabs in good repair at all times.
Most of the town’s taxi drivers
were present and had the rules
and regulations read and explained
to them.
Ja^e Pai^o’
To Opm SiqNrkN’
Court Monday
Average Size Docket; Abeot
A Dozen Each, Cghninal ft
Civil, Manltsby Padlockiag
Arlie Crisco Dies
In Paper Office
Wednesday A. M.
Warwick, white, had to pay $25
and the costs and damages for
careless and reckless driving. John
jA. Baldwin, colored, paid the
costs for careless and reckless
driving."
For driving improperly equip
ped cars Henry McLean, white,
and William Chavis, Indian, each
paid $10 and the costs. Howard
Hicks, white, paid $10 and the
costs for speeding.
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Robbins Continues
Personnel Buildup;
Now Working 500
Dean C. White, personnel man
ager of the Raeford Division of
Robbins Mills, (N. C.) Inc., said
this week that the mill is now
employing over 500 workers. This
represents a gain of something like
200 in the past four or five weeks
since the paper reported that
there were about 300 working
there. J. P. Bell, superintendent,
said at that time that he expected
the personnel of the plant to con
tinue to increase until the maxi
mum of around 1100 employees
was reached early in 1952.
Mr. White listed more new
families which have moved to
town in the past few weeks to
work at the plant. These family
heads are Millard S. Singletary,
Eugene C. Deibler, Harvey Young,
Floyd V. Clifford, Elbert F. Jones,
Malcolm N. Clark and Robert E.
Russ.
The paper and the community
welcome these families to Rae
ford and hope that they will like
the town, participate in its ac
tivities and liye many happy
years here.
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Ralph Underwood has been a
patient at Baker’s Sanatorium in
Lumberton since Monday when
he cut his arm severely on a win
dow pane. Mr .Underwood is sum
mer assistant, at the Dundarrach
and Philippi Presbyterian churches
diuring this summer.
Arlie Crisco, about 52, Cabar
rus County native who was living
with his brother, A. L. Crisco,
near Five Points in Quewhiffk
town^ip, died suddenly in the
front of The News-Journal office
at about 10:30 yesterday morning.
He had come in a few minutes
before and was in the procees of
W. H. I buying some envelops when he
collapsed. He was dead by the
time a doctor arrived some 10
minutes later. He was .carrying
a fairly heavy suitcase and is
said to have told some a few min
utes before that he had just walked
nine miles, presumably from Five
Points.
In addition to his brother A.
L. Crisco of this county, he is
survived by two half brothers,
Lacy and Elmer Crisco; two sisters,
Mrs. Beulah Wilkinson and Mrs.
Lizzie Calloway; two half sisters,
Mrs. Elsie Motley and Mrs. Ida
Brumley. All are of Concord ex
cept Mrs. Wilkinson who lives in
Kannapolis. His parents, the late
A. D. and Mary Whitley Crisco,
were residents of Cabarrus County.
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Mother, Uncle, Aunt
Of Mrs. O’Briant Are
Buried In N. J.
JiiagesR. Hunt Parker of Roan
oke Rapi^, known over the State
as a fair judge but hard oq the
guilty and \ well-known here for
having held court here many
times, will come to Raeford again
next Monday to hold the regular
August term of Hoke Counfty
Superior court for the trial of
criminal and civil cases.
One capital case is presently on
the docket for trial on a lighter
charge This is the case in which
Willie Jr. English, 36-year old
married man of the county is
charged with raping a 13-year-old
girl. Both are white. English is
in jail without being allowed
bond.
Other criminal cases include the
trial of BiU Gordon, John L.
Maultsby, Leona and Elizabeth,
Mcurlow, all white, for immoral
conduct. This resulted in a mis
trial at the last term of court.
H. L. and Mattie Haidrix,
white, are still to be tried cm a
charge of attempted fraud in a
land transfer and the case of
W. H. Jones, Indian, charged with
asslault and larceny, was also
left over from last term.
James Jasper Bullock, Jr., col
ored, is to be tried on a charge of
arson.
Appeals include W. S. Rogers,
careless and reckless driving; Rob
ert Bolton and W. C. Lewis, violat
ing the prohibition laws; Hamp
MoPheraon, giving Guthrie Long
a bad check for $115.
The case in which Solicitor Mal_
colm Seawell is trying to get the
Maultsby house here permanently
padlocked will also be heard.
Other civil cases include five
divorce actions and several dam
age suits.
Grand Jury for the term will be
the same as last term. Petit
jurors for the term are as follows:
R. H. Gibson, N. A. McKeithan,
L. R. Cothran, Talmadge Bobbitt,
E. M. Priest, N. A. McNeill, John
F. Chisholm, E. L. Peele, Sr.,
B. F. Overton, T. C. Jones, Archie
McDiarmid, M. H. Cameron, Ei A.
Gordon, T. C. Sinclair, W. C.
Townsend, W. T. Holland, W. D.
McLeod, Ernest B. Hair, R. O.
Cothran, Henry McBryde, John
Buoyer, John Dunk McNeill,
Julian McLeod, Henry Gmrdon,
A. D. Austin, John McKay Blue,
Mrs. C. L. Wood, Watson Mc
Neill, J. A. Williams, K. D. Lowe.
In last week’s paper it was stat
ed that word- h^d come of the
death of Mrs. A. L. O’Briant’s
mother in New Jersey and that it
was not known whether she had
received the message or not, as
she and Dr. O’Briant were in
Western North Carolina on va
cation.
Dr. CyBriant got home Satur
day and Mrs. O’Briant was ex
pected yesterday. He said that
on Thursday of last week he and
Mrs. D'Briant went to Camp Lee,
Va., to see. their son Lee O’Briant
and found him gone on emergency
leave to New Jersey. It was when
they called him there that she
learned of her mother’s death
the Monday before, of her uncle’s
death and of her aunt’s death.
Mrs. O’Briant’s mother was Mrs.
Mary Hagen of Blackwood, N. J.
Her uncle and aunt were Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew McHugh of Glou
cester, N. J.
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E. M. Smith visited in Lumiber-
ton and Evergreen during the
week-end.
Car Hits Train
Backward^ Thursday
No Serious Injury
A 1950 Mercury from Michigan
almost got its occupeints seriously
injured at the crossing at Harley,
Adams’ home near Mildoiiwn at\—,
about 11:15 yesterday morning.
The car apparently was about to
meet the A&iR engine at the cross
ing when the driver applied his
brakes. This skidded him all the
way around and the back of his
car did meet the second car of the
train at the Crossing . Damage
to the car was considerable, but
none of the four occupants suf
fered more than a bruise. State
Highway Patrol investigated and
no charges were preterred.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dickson,
Petey^ and Ann spent the week
end in Charleston and at the
Isle of Palms with Dr. and Mrs.
A. B. Dickson and sons.
Mrs. Johnnie King returned
home Tuesday from Higbsmith
hospital. She was a pati^t thejre
for about nine days and oinder-
went an operation.
MEEKS NEW JAILOR
H. M. Meeks, for several years
Town of Raeford police chief
until recently succeeded by Hatty
Dees, has be^ employed by the
jdieriff s de$>artmait as deputy
sheriff and jailor. Prior to be
coming a town policeman Decs
was jailor and deputy sheriff.
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Mr.,and Mrs. Ben Bnutett have
returned from a trip to Virginia
Beach and Hanqiton, ViifiDia.
WhUe away they visited Witttoms-
burg, Va. and saw toe dcam^
“The Common Glory.”