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VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 18
YOUR
SCHOOL NEWS
By K; A. MacDonald
The Hofcei County Board met on
Monday night and spent the time
canvassing, the various possibili
ties for getting the plans for the
Raeford Graded School addition
approved.
It was finally decided to ask
Chairman Robert Gatlin and Re
presentative H. A. Greene to con
tact Eh. Clyde A. Erwin, State
Superintendent of Pulblic Instruc
tion and ask -his good offices in
trying to break the deadlock re
garding. the site.'
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 195P
RAEFORD, N. C.
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, The colored and Indian schools
of the county opened their doors
for the 1951-52' session on Monday.
Good enrollments were the gen
eral rule. A few of the schools
were short. Good attendance is
not expected for the first month
due to the extraordinary lot of
cotton and tobacco '^et to be
handled.
The Rbokfish PTA held its first
meeting of the year last night. A
good numiber of parents were
present.
Mrs. Fred Culbreth has be^
soured as the second additio^l
teacher at the Raeford Grai
l^hool. A change has been m|
in .the assignment of work.
Ci^breth Ls taking the sixth gi^e
..that Mrs. Younger Snead hadr^^
Mrs. Snead is taking the cort^-
nation second and third. Ac
tional pupils are cpntinuing
cpme :^ and it sshould-npt
. loT-g
be secured.
Harvey Winslow of thei Division
of Insurance was here last Thurs
day and Friday and checked all
school buildings in the county.
The head of the division, J. S.
Winlbourne, plans to meet with
the Board of Education in the near
future to help the Board set its
insurance schedule.
There will be a meeting of the
Mildouson PTA at the school
building next Tuesday night, Oc
tober 2, at 7:30 o’clock. All par
ents and friends are cordially in-
. vited to attend.
A meeting for all principals and
lunchroom managers for schools
having lunchrooms is being held
at the courthouse this afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock. This meeting was
called by the State Supervisor of
lunchrooms.
The Health Department has been
making appointments at the Sen-
atorium for the teachers to have
their yearly chest x-rays This
joib should be completed by next
Tuesday. We appreciate. this ser
vice by the Health Department
and the Sanatorium.
Wounded Soldier At
Michigan Hospital
Battle Creek, Michigan, Sept.
18—Pfc Daniel Ellerbe, whose
grandmother Mrs. Maggie Mc
Clain lives at Rt. 2, Raeford, N.
C., arrived by air evacuation from
California at Percy Jones Army
Hospital on 17 Sept.
He will be treated for wounds
received near Chorwon, Korea,
inflicted by an enemy grenade.
He served with the 15th Infantry
Regiment of the Third Division
in Korea.
Percy. Jones Army Hospital is
one of the Army’s newest and
finest hospitals. ■ During the past
Winter, the' Hospital served as
the Army’s “Frostbite Center.”
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HEYWARD RELEASED
Deane Attends
Conference In
San Francisco
Wa^ington, D. C.—September
20—Congressman C. B. E>eane, of
the 8th North Carolina Congres
sional District, returned to his
Washington office September 6
after attending the Japanese Peace
Treaty Conference held in San
Francisco which took place while
the House was in three weeks re
cess. Mr. Deane flew to Los An
geles with General Lawrence
Kuter, Commanding General of the
Military Air Transport Service on
August 25, and from Los Angeles
he went by train to San Francisco.
The Congressman stated on his
return that the paper plans for
peace appear to be perfect. In
his contacts with the Japanese del
egates, several of whom he met
while on a Congressional Mission
to the Far East in 1949, he found
them expressing humble apologies
for the acts of aggression that be
gan at Pearl Harbor. It is the
Reeling of Congressman Deane
that if Americans will, along with
the paper plans, export the basic
ideals of democracy upon which
this country was foun^€d, Japan
and all Asia will respond.
The Asiatic mind is staggered
by American gadgets and our
great emphasis upon materialism.
It is the belief of Deane that if
the Peace Treaty fails in the Far
East It^will be because Americans
place t&e dollar mark before mo
ral and spiritual values. Further
more, the Congressman stated that
if we deal with the Japanese and
the meditative and deeply re-
the basis ,6f
wiat’s right instead of whb's
right, peace will be the inheritance
coming to our children
iMr. Deane went to the Confer
ence as a delegated Congressional
observer by the State Etepartment
to which he is submitting a full
report of his findings. Six other
Members of the House attended
Congressman Deane stated'on his
departure for the West Coast that
he was going at his own expense
and did not know until he was
about to return frdm San Fran
cisco that in addition to the mil
itary air transportation, the ex
penses during the Conference
were provided for by the State
Department.
>^While in California, Deane re
ports having met many North
Carolinians. The population there
continues to mushroom. The re
cent census revealed such a growth
that California gains seyen Con
gressional seats in the House. The
Congressman states there is much
sadness among the .pemocrats in
California because of the way the
new districts have been mapped
out by a Republican ^tate Legis
lature. Because of that ^act most
of the new memibers ^ could be
Republicans. “We Democrats do
the same in North Carolina,”
Deane goes on to say.
Mr. Deane in commenting on
Western scenery said it could not
compare with the “hills” >of
Western I^ortb Carolina.
iMr. Deane reports, that the
legislative schedule in the House
indicates a possible* adjournment
of this session of Congress by
October 15. Thereafter, he will be
in each of the twelve counties of
the District to counsel and advise
with any person having Con
gressional matters that need at
tention. A schedule indicating
when Congressman Deane will'-be
at each County Court House will
be Released as soon as Congress
adjournes.
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J. McKAY BLUE H^L
Hoke Hi|^ Winft
Season s First
Football Game
Board^Sets
Bond Eketion
Octoba* 30th
Old Knife Hand
Gets OH With
Fine Tuesday
Bucks Play Elizabethtown
High School In Armory
Park At 3:00 Friday
(Reported by ^Bruce Phillips)
Coach Bob Rockholz’s gridiron
charges journeyed to Mount Olive
last Friday night and came home
with a victory over their favored
Class AA opponents, 7-6. The
game was just -as tough as the
score indicates with the line
smashes of Hoke’s Fred Holland
at fullback, keeping them in the
game. McLauchlin and McLeod
also performed creditably in the
backfield.
The Mount Olive team started
the game fast with a touchdown
in the first few minutes, failing to
make what was a vital point af
ter touchdown. Hoke High got
deep into Mount Olive territory,
but didn’t come up with the win
ning punch, and the half ended
with Mount Olive leading, 6-0.
The Hoke boys meant business
the first time they got the ball in
the second half. They advanced
on passes by McLiauchlin and line
plunges by Holland to the home
team’s 30 yard line. McLeod took
it around end from there to the
five and Holland stepped over
through the middle. C. J. Benner
then came through in the clutch
and kicked the winning point.
In the final quarter Mount
Olive tried desparately to regain
the lead in the game but the
Bucks dug in and held them off.
They were unable to threaten.
Adams,' Ltindy„ McCormick, But
ler, Culbreth, Clark and Benner
were . outstanding defensively in
accomplishing this.
The first home game of the
season will be against Elizabeth
town in Armory Park at three
o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
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Funeral Held For
Miss Mary E. Norton
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 2:30 o’clock last Thursday
afternoon at the Raeford Metho
dist church for Miss Mary Hiza
Norton. The service was conduct
ed by the pastor, the Rev. P. O.
L,ee, assisted by tow former pas
tors, the Rev. W. L. Maness and
the Rievi B. P. Robinson. Miss
Norton died unexpectedly in the
yard of her home at 4:30 Tues
day afternoon.
She as born in Scotland County,
daughter of the late Hiram and
Martha Norton, and they moved
to the part of Robeson that is
now Hoke in 1904. She was 73
years of age.
She is survived by one brother,
E. W. Norton; one sister,. Miss
Carrie Norton, both of the home;
two nephews, Zane Grey Norton
of Ringgold, Va., and Alex S.
Norton of Raeford and one niece,
Mrs. L. W. Midgette of Snead’s
Ferry, N. C.
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Bill Niven attended the State-
Carolina game at Chapel Hill
Saturday and went on to Greens
boro where he spent the week
end. '
The Rev. W. B. Heyward, who
was a; patient at a Fayetteville
hospital last week for- a day or
two, was released on Thursday.
He said that they showed him
the bill and this cured him quick
ly.
John, McKay Blue suffered a
severe nose bleed early yester
day and again at MdLauchlin
Company later in the day. He was
bout to go to a hospital yester-
afternoon at last report.
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and Mra A. J. Ramsey of
arshall visited in the homes of
Mrs. Ramsey’s sisters, Mrs. J. A.
Baucom, Mrs. Preston Kelly and
Mr. Herbert McKeithan, last week.
INGATHERINGS
Sajidy Grove Methodist,
Thursday, September 27.
Lumber Bridge Presbyterian
c'hureh, Wednesday, October 3
Ephesus Baptist church, Fri
day, October 5.
Raeford Methodist, Thursday,
October 11.
Galatia Presbyterian, Thurs
day, October 18.
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Thursday, October 18, Noon
only. ^
Parker’s Chapel Methodisit
crurch, Thursday, October 25.
Philippi Presbyterian'church,
Friday, November 2.
Shiloh Presbyterian Church,
Thursday, Novemiber 8, Supper ^ i • **
———* School Cafeteria.
The board of commissioners of
the town of Raeford this week
authorized the. issuance of $30,000
in bonds for'the purpose of pro
viding funds for enlarging and
extending the waterworks of the
town. The ordinance is to take
effect when and if the voters of
the town approve it and the board
set. October. 30 as the day for the
special electfon for the voters to
act on the question.
The ordinance states that taxes
sufficient to pay the principal and
interest on the bonds shall be
issued and states that a statement
of the debt of the town is on file
with the clerk and is open to
public inspection.
Citizens of Raeford will remem
ber the public meeting and dis-
cussioQ which the board held in
public on the question of water
financing some weeks ago. At
this time it became apparent that
the town must either raise the
taxes considerably or get money
already obligated through the is
suance of more bonds. Therefore,
although it appears to be a con
tradiction, the voters will, prob
ably be voting for lower taxes if
they vote for the bonds issue.
Taxes will have to be raised and
right away if the voters do not
approve the bond issue. If they do
approve it the raise will probably
not be so drastic and will come
later.
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Memberslup Really
JEluns FjWPiili^ Bureai;^
The North Carolina Farm Bu
reau operates under a representa
tive form of government from the
community group through the
county, state and national organi
zations, says Alfred Cole, presi
dent of the Hbke County Farm
Bureau
This plan, said Mr. Cole, in
sures the establishment of Farm
Bureau policies by the member
ship and the election of directors
to whom the administration and
employees of the Farm Bureau
are responsible. Mr. Cole explain
ed how members control the or
ganization:
“The family was established as
the membership unit in the Farm
Bureau in 1919 and has continued
so since that time. The family
membership includes membership
in the Farm Bureau at the com
munity discussion group level, in
the County Farm Bureau, the
North Carolina Farm Bureau, and
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
6rtion.
“The Community Farm Bureau
is formed by a number of families
within a small area for the pur
pose of meeting and discussing
topics of interest.
“The county, state, and nation
al Farm Bureau organizations hold
annual meetings, at which, reso
lutions of policy are adopted. Di
rectors and officers are elected to
carry put the policies with what
ever employees are deemed necea*
sary for administrative work.
“All Farm Bureau members
vote in the county convention.
They send delegates to the state
convention, one for each 100 mem
bers in the county. The state or
ganization is represented at the
national convention by a voting
delegate for each 10,000 mem
bers.”
The follovvig Hoke County Farm
Bureau officers were elected for
the new year at a county meeting
held February 16, 1951: President,
Alfred Cole, Vice-Resident, G. C.
Lytle, Secretary and Treasurer,
Archie Howard, Board of Direc
tors, T. B. Upchurch, John Par
ker, H. B. Walters, David Lyles,
Ira’Newton, N. H. G. Balfour, and
Robert Gatlin.
Township chairmen and com
munity leaders who have recent
ly been contacted are reminded
to attend the kick-off dinner
meeting on Friday night Septem
ber 28 at 7 p. m. in the High
Claude Tyler Held Under
$5000 Bond; Also Fined
For Driving Tractor Drunk
Delmore Jacobs, Indian who has
quite a record with a knife, was
found guilty in Recorder’s court
before Judge Henry McDiarmid
Tuesday morning of using it again.
Victim this time was Vander
Locklear, Indian. Jacobs got six
months to be suspended on pay
ment of $100 and the costs and
on condition of two years good
behavior. Locklear .was also in
dicted for assaulting Jacobs but
was found not guilty.
Claude Tyler, white, was foilhd
guilty of driving a tractor on the
public highway while drunk. Sen
tence was six months to be su
spended on payment of $100 and
the costs. He appealed. Tyler was
also given preliminary hearing
on indictment by his wife for as
sault and committing a crime
against nature. Probaible cause
was found and Judge McDiarmid
ordered him held for Superior
court under a $5900 bond. He
posted bond yerterday and was
released.
E. L. Strawbridge, white, plead
ed guilty of driving drunk and
over 90 miles an hour and paid
$150 and the costs.
William Lacy McIntyre, colored
taxi driver, was found guilty of
speeding and careless and reckless
driving when he came down Main
street last Saturday afternoon. He
got 90 (ktys to be su^ended on
payment of $50 and the costs and
ihe^ judge-.recommended that his
license be suspended for a year
in view of previous speeding
conviction. ^
Jack Morrison, colored, was
charged with larceny and damage
to a truck belonging to I. W. Kin-
law and driving without a license.
He and Kinlaw settled the first
part of the charge and he had
to pay $25 and the costs for hav
ing no license.
Sam MoRae and John Jr. L,eslie,
'both colored, each paid $10 and
the costs for failing to stop at a
stop sign.
Dock Griffin Peterkin and
Stanley McK'innon, both colored,
and Thomas Earl Milligan, white,
each paid $25 and the costs for
driving without licenses.
Murphy Thomas, colored, paid
$5 and the costs for being drimk
and disorderly.
David Thomas, colored, got 60
days suspended on payment of
$25 and the costs for stealing $5
from J. L. Leach.
Ran Manning, Jr., and Liconard
MoLarrtb, both white, nad Need
ham .MoBryde and John Bratcher,
both colored, each paid $10 and
the costs for driving improperly
equipped cars.
Annie Belle Marshall, colored,
was found not guilty of violating
the prohibition laws.
Speeders paying $10 and the
costs were Tommie Lee Roper
and Fred Lawrence, Jr., both
colored. John S. Cameron, white,
left a $25 .bond on the same charge.
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REVIVAL AT SHILOH
Lions Club Plans
White Cane Drive
October 1-6, 1951
The Lions Club of Raeford will
this Week join the other 281
Lions Clubs of North Carolina in
the Fifth Annual White Cane
Drive. The North Carolina State
Association for the Blind, a non
profit, lay organization, was cre
ated in 1934 through the efforts of
Lions and other interested in
dividuals. The Association renders
services to the blind .in all areas
of the State where there are no
other resources to aid the blind.
Once each year every citizen
of North Carolina is given the
opportunity to join this Associa
tion, help the blind and express
thanks to God for his own good
fortune of seeing. The White Cane
Drive and Membership Enroll
ment Campaign of the North Caro
lina State Association is a State-
Wide project of North Carolina
Lions. During the week of Octo
ber .1-6, 12,500 Lions all over
the State will be joining in the
sale of tiny White Caties and As
sociation Memberships.
The white cane walking stick
with a red tip is used by the blind
in traveling on busy streets and
highways. The blind and ONLY
THE BLIND may, by law, use
such a cane. There is also a White
Cane Law in North Carolina
which is mandatory and compels
a motorist to stop at into'sections
and street crossings when a blind
person extends such a white cane
and signals that he wishes to cross
the street. Because the white cane
is used exclusively by our blind
citizens, the fund raising drive of
the Association is termed “The
White Cane Drive.”
Carlton Niven, President of the
local Lions Club, stated that one
third of all funds raised here will
be spent for the blind in this com
munity, the other two thirds will
be sent to the Association for its
Stat^-Wide work with the blind.
Last year the Association aided
3,285 persons in securing such
items as medical, dental and hos
pital care, ftrnished 809 white
cane walking sticks, bought ra
dios for shut-in blind, paid all
transportation charges on 510
Ta;lking ' Book Mochines, gave,
clothes, food fuel and stock for
small stores, sponsored jointly with
the North Carolina State School
for Blind and the North Caro
lina State Commision fog the
Blind, the first Institute for Pre-
School Blind Baibies and Their
Mothers, bought 811 pairs of glas
ses and many other services too
varied to itemize.
Town To Get
Post Office On
Local Capital
Mail Delivery Now Set Few
October 16, Due To Slow
Numbering Of Houses
Postmaster Lacy Clark said
this week that a lease had been
signed with C. L. Thomas, J. “L.
McNeill and Younger F. Snead
for a building to be constructed
on their lot on Main street just
south of the town hall for use as
a post office. Thomas said yester
day that the building would af
ford 2550 square feet of space and
would be of brick. He said that
work would start on the stnic-
ture next week. ,
The post, office department’s
lease on the property presently
in use is with the Bank of Rae
ford and expires in January. The
Bank needs the property and all
local efforts to get a government
building having failed., the con
struction of one with local capi
tal for the purpose seems to be
the next best thing. The new
building, while not being planned
exclusively for use as a post of
fice, will afford almost one-third
more working space than the
present building, which has 1800
square feet.
Clark said arrangements were
made last week in Washington
whereby house to house mail de
livery would definitely start in
Raeford on October 16. Carriers
for this service are expected to be
Malcolm McNeill and Thomas
Macko, he said.
The Rev. Thomas A. Guiton of
Lillington will 'begin' a meeting at
Shiloh Pre^yterian church on
Monday night, October 1. Ser
vices will continue through the
week at 7:30 each evening. The
public is cordially invited. ^
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SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
W. Lament Brown, Southern
Pines attorney and former Raeford Force,
resident, suffered a heart attack
last Saturday. He is recuperating
at his home.
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Business Women Hold
Monthly Meet Tues.
Members of the Raeford Bus
iness and Professional Women’s
Club held their regular monthly
meeting Tuesday night at 7:00
o’clock at the Farmers Restaurant,
Mns. Bill Marlar, president, pre
sided over the meeting.
Mrs. Irvin Currie was elected
Corresponding Secretary, in lieu
of Mrs. Martha Miller, who has
moved to Fort Meade, Md.
International Relations Chair
man, Mrs. B. B. Cole, gave a most
interesting and informative talk
on the current events in parts of
Europe and Asia. She brought out
the fact that Russia and the other
countries of the world do not
know what we mean when we
speak of The Democracy that is
so familiar to Americans.
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Miss Connie M. Fulk, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Fulk of
Route 3, Raeford, left for San
Antonio, Texas, Monday after en
listing in the United States Air
PERSONALS
At their summer home on Til-
ghman beach Mr. and Mrs. Colon
Scarborough had as their guests
for the week-end Mr. and Mrs.
V. P. Scarborough, Mrs. Robert
McGeachy and daughter, Sherry,
Mr. and Mrs. Benton Scarborough,
aU of M.t. Gilead.
For the past several days Mr.
and Mrs. H. B. Terrell have had
their daughter, Mrs. J. E. Sessoms
and little granddaughter, Eienita,
of Laurinburg visiting them art:
their home on Route 2.
PITTMAN GROVE REVIVAL
Revival services will be held-
at 'Pittman Grove Missionary
Baptist church beginning at 7:30
p. m. on Sunday, September 30,
and ending October 6. The pufo-
I lie is invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Augus Currie,
who have occupied the apartment
of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Campbell
for the past some time, have
moved into one of the apartments
in the McNeiU Apartment House
on South Main Street. Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Currie have rented the
apartment vacated by Mr. and
Mrs. Angus Currie. •
Zane Grey Norton left Saturday
to return to Ehike University, af
ter coming to Raeford the first of
the week to attend the fimerai of
his aunt. Miss Liza Norton, on
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs Tommie Upchurch’s father,
J. B. Hoyl, tmderwent an opera
tion the latter part of last week at
a Fort Ijauderdale, Florida, hos
pital. He is reported to be recover
ing satisfactorily.
Mrs. Jack Durham and son,
Johnnie, of Norfolk, Virginia ar
rived Saturday night for a visit
with Mrs. IXtrham’s mother, Mrs.
L. B. Brandon, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Muench and dau^ter.
Mrs. A. J. Lunday spent
week-end in Richmond, Virginia,
where she visited relatives.
Mrs. A. K. Currie entered Moore
County hospital Sunday for ob
servation and treatment.
'Miss Bettie Little, who teaches
in Monroe this year, visited Miss
Hilda Priest and other friends in
Raeford Sunday. She was accom
panied to Raeford by two girl
friends.
M5ss Lydia McKeithan, who
teachers in Winston-Salem, spent
the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McKeithan.
iMr. and Mrs. M. L. McKeithan,
Mrs. Jim Poole, Mi;s. Herbert Mc
Keithan and Mrs. Kate King at
tended the funeral of Mrs. M. L.
McKeithan’s brother-in-law. Dr,
Otis Heriry Purvis, Friday^afteri*
noon at the Cheraw mptist
Church, Cheraw, S. C. Dr. Pur^
vis died Thursday morning at his
home in Cheraw. He had been in
ill health for several years.