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VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 27
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1951
RAEFORD. N. C.
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Corn Contiest
Winners To Be
Awarded Prizes
The winners in the 18S1 Hoke
County Corn Growing Contest will
be awarded prizes at a meeting
on Friday night, December 7 at
7:30, in the Hoke County High
School Auditorium, according to
E. M. Stallings, County Agent.
The checking of contestants fields
and the making of yield estimates
have been completed and the win
ners determined. Tjie winners
are those contestants growing the
largest number of bushels of com
per acre on a 2-acre plot, states
the Farm Agent.
There were 53 entoies in the
contest, representing all town
ships in the county. The four men
with highest yields will be a^
warded prizes as follows:/ First
prize: $7i5jOO, Second prize $50.00,
third prize $25.00 and fourth prize
$15.00. This ’ contest is being
sponsored for the first time this
year "by the followifig local busi
ness concerns; Upchurch Milling
Company, The Bank of Raeford,
The Johnson Company, MdLauch-
lin Company, T. B. Upchurch Inc.
(Seed Department), Dundarrach
Trading Company, and Johnson
Cotton Company.
The' liurpose of this contest is
to encourage the use of better
methods of growing corn to gain
a higher yield per acre at a lower
cost per bushel. With the large
s(ereage of corn planted in Hoke
County eyen a sniall increase in
, bushels yield per acre, would a-
mount to a . large increase in the
value of.iKe ''o.rn, crop"',ln the
countyi
Dr. E. R. Collins, in charge of
Agronomy Extension at S^tate Col
lege, will speak at the meeting on,
/‘^How to Improve Our Crop Pro
duction.”
All farmers of the county are
urged to attend this meeting.
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State 4-H Winners
Attending Congress
Twenty-eight of 'North Caro
lina’s 4-H Club propect champ
ions for 1951 are in Chicago this
week attending National 4-iH Club
Congress, November 2j4-30.
■Representing some 130,CO0 club
members in the iState, the Tar
Heel delegates are part o approx
imately 1,600 boys and girls from
all. over the country who are at
tending the Congress. All are
staying at the world’s largest
hotel the Conrad Hilton.
'Special bi'eakfasts, luncheons,;
and dinners are scheduled for the
delegates all during the week.
Parties and tours also are includ
ed on the program. Several spon
sors of 4-'H pro-jects have planned
special events for State winners
in' their particular activities.
The North Carolinians are be
ing honored for their achievements
and are competing for national
honors which, in most cases, mean
college scholarships. Each year
North Carolina has several na
tional winners.
Accompanying the group to
Chicago are L. R. .'Harrill, State
4-H Club leader for the State Col
lege Extension Service: Dan F.
Holler and Mary Sue Moser, as
sistant leaders; L. S. Bennett,
visual aids-specials,, who,will make
colored slides for the National
Committee on Boys and Girls
Club Work, Inc.; George R. Cpble,
assistant farm agent in Alamance
County; and William S. Hum-
pheries, associate Extension edi
tor, who will assist with State
and national press coverage.
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Miss Elsie Gschwind of Duke
Hospital spent the Thanksgiving
holidays with her aunt, Mrs. F.
A. Keith.
Herman K, Morgan
Dies On Monday;
Funeral Wednesday
Herman Keiffer Morgan, 52,
died at his home Monday after
noon at about four o’clock after
having a heart attack. He had
been hunting in the morning and,
had returned at about one-thirty.
He was a antive of Johnston
County an'd moved here from
Smithfield about ten years ago.
He was for several years a 'but
cher and at the time of his death
was an employee of Robbins Mills.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Raeford Methodist
church, of which he was a mem
ber at three o’clock yesterday
afternoon. The Rev. P. O. Lee,
pastor, conducted the funeral and
burial was in the Raeford' ceme
tery.* Pallbearers were Clyde Up
church, Jr., James Stephens, Wil
lie Jones, Irvin Currie, Heriry
Maxwell and Thomas Cameron.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Grace Dixon of Benson; two
daughters, Mrs. W. C. Sellars of
Raeford, and Linda Carroll Mor
gan of the home; a sister, Mrs.
Everette Cobb of Benson, RED.;
two brothers, Eugene Morgan of
Benson,^ RFD, and N. M. Morgan
of Bell, California; and two grand
children. ,
Toys Tonight
The Raeford Lions club has
again asked all resident of Rae
ford to remember that they will
pick up used toys to repair for
use at Christmas. This pick-up
will start at 7:30 o’clock tonight
and members of the club will
tour the town and will stop
and pick up toys from from
porches. The public is asked
Ib give old toys to this cause
and to have them on the front
porch with light on at 7:30 to
night.
PERSONALS
Mrs. Woody Hendrick and chilr
dren returned to their home in
Kannapolis Sunday, after having
spent Thanksgiving with Mrs.
Hendrick’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Monroe. Mrs. Hendrick
went with friends to Diirham Sat-
'I urday to see the*football game..
Mrs. Martha Harris Sinclair
h&s aocpeted a position as recep
tionist at the Main Officer’s Club,
Fort Bragg. She entered on her
new duties last week.
Miss Agnes Mae Johnsop an'd
Peggy Bethune went to Salisbury
Sunday to be with 'Miss Alice
Purcell, vihose father, Samuel C.
Purcell, died suddenly Sunday
morning. Miss Purcell, who is a
granddaughter of the late Rev.
Dr. David Craig, has often viist-
ed Miss Johnson. '
Mrs. W. E. Blue and Miss
Louise Blue entertained the out-
of-town members of their fam
ily . at dinner Sunday. Com
ing from Dillin, S. C. were Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Bethea; Mr. and
Mrs. G. M. Moon and daughter,
Sandra, from Graham, and Mr.
i and Mrs. Bill Moore and infant
son of Burlington. ,
Mr. and Mrs. George Wood of
Vanceboro spent the week end
with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
^Ulli
’Sgt. and Mrs. Bill Cairnes, who
have an apartment in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Blue, returned
home the first , of the week after
a month's visit with relatives in
Hendersonville, N. C. and Colum
bus. Georgia. . -
Dr. and Mrs. Clyde Krug and
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Johnson left
for their home in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Saturday after spending Friday
night with Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Gatlin, Jr.
Mrs. Jo Parker Coble of Li
berty spent the week end with
her sister, Mrs. W. L. Poole.
*i$elf-Employed Are
Now Covered By
Social Security
Most self-employed people are
now working under social security
and are afforded the same bene
fits and protection that have long
been enjoyed by employees in
commerce and industry, accordi^
to Vernon D. Herbert, manager
of the Fayetteville social secur
ity office.
•Recent changes in the social se
curity law provided for coverage
of most of the self-employed be
ginning January 1, 1951. Not in
cluded are farm operators, doc
tors, lawyers, and certain other
professional groups. These per-
sons may be covered by other
provisions of the "law, however, if
they are employees, or if, in ad
dition to their regular’ occupation
they are in self-employment work
covered by law. For example — a.
lawyer who is also in the insur
ance business.
Social Security field offices
thrjpj'^out USB.cdimtry/aiV'fiibw
receiving matjy inquiries concern
ing the reporting of self-employ
ment income and the payment of
tax. I
A self-employed person will
report income for social security
credit on a detachable portion of
his final individual income tax
return. The collector of internal
revenue will forward this detach-
portion to the Social Security Ad
ministration where the income
will be credited to ttte individual’s
account.. Social security tax of
21/4% of the self-employment in
come will be paid in full to the
collector of -internal revenue at
the time! of making the final in
come tax report. Only $3,600 of
self-employment income is tax
able for any one year.
Persons having net ' earnings
from self-employment of less than
$400 in a taxable year are not
considered as self-employed for
social security purposes and are
not covered by the new law.
The' self-employed person will
make his first contribution in
1952 when he files his-income tax
return for 1951., Each person not
having a social security account
number will need one at that time.
Field offices are now issuing ac
count numbers to the self-employ
ed and a last minute delay may
be avoided by obtaining account
numbers now. Application forms
may be obtained at local post of
fices or your social security field
office.
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SCOUTS WANT GAMES
Mrs. George V/. Hanna, mother
of Mrs. T. N. McLauchlin, enter
ed Moore County hospital Mon
day for observation. Mrs. Mc
Lauchlin had been in Gastonia
for the past several weeks' with
her mother and returned to her
home when Mrs. Hanna entered
the hospital. . .. -
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Baucom^
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harrison, Jr.
and son, David, spent Thanks
giving in Goldsboro in the home
of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Baucom
and family.
Ed Brooks of Burgaw was a
guest in the home of, his sister,
Mrs. I. Mann and family, Thanks
giving.
. Mr. and Mrs. Younger Snead
spent Friday in High Point.
Antioch Boy Scouts have organ
ized a basketball team and will
be coached 'by Willie Hodgin, a
former coach of some renown.
They would like to play any teams
from other scout troops or in their
age groups.
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David Sessoms of the U. S., Navy
at Norfolk, Va., visited his sister,
Mrs. Howard Pope, during the
holidays. .
Hoke HiRh Getting
Ready ‘For Another
Basketball Season
Coaches Haywood Faircloth for
the girls and Bob; Rockholz for the
boys are working hard with
their charges in preparation fo;
the basketball season which the
teams will open with two games
in Rowland on Friday night of
next week. First games here will
■will be played on Tuesday, De
cember 11.
The girls are paced by their
two high-scorers of last year’s
team, Lydia Williams and Sarah
Cole. They are working hard to
better their record of 24 won and
four lost of last year. Others out
standing in practice are Ellen
Kate Koonce, Mary Guin and
Eloise Davis at guards and Betty
Jane Ashburn at forward, ^ along
with Claudine Hodgin, Pat Ritter,
Faye Dark and Betty Jo Lovette
Others on the girls squad are
Ina ' Scull, Lydia Boahn. Sylvia
Benfield, Jenelle Snead, Marilyn
Tapp, Hazel McLean, June Floyd,
Catherine MacDonald, Betty Max
well, Joan McLeod and Helen Mc-
Dougald.
Coach Rockholz is also working
the boys hard in preparation for
their 18-game schedule which be
gins next week, and he hopes to
have a fhst and deceptive team
for the opening game next week.
, Boys out for the team include
John MoLaUchlin, LawrencesMc-
NeiH, Sidney Lovette, Bobby Wil
liams, Charles Sessoms, Jim White,
Bruce Phillips, Joe Culbreth, C.
J. Benner, Johnny McPbaul, Dick
Baggett, Roger Dixon and ’Tom
Clark.
The teams are entered in the
Cumlberland County conference
\^£pn and .-tlii^^AefdtMlo is- w , fol-i
lows: December 7, Rowland there;
11, Hope Mills here; 18, 7'lst here;
January 1, Tar Heel here; 3, Sted-
man at Massey Hill; 8, Rowland
here; 11 7'lst here; 15, Hope Mills
there; 18, Laurel Hill there; 2i2i,
Massey Hill there; 25, Gray’s
Creek here; 29, Red Springs here;
February 1, Gray’s Creek here;'
5, Central there; 8, Massey Hill
here; 12, Central here;'15, Red
Springs there.
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New Tag Sales
Begin Dec. 1st
'Raleigh — The Department of
Motor Vehicles bean mailing out
more than 1,200,00 -license re
newal applications today. The
huge bulk of cards, which are
necessary for purchasing hew li
cense tags, will be distributed to
their owners by December 1, the
Department ..estimated. On the date
the bright new ’52 tags will go on
sale at branch offices throughout
the state. The main office in
Raleigh is closed on Saturday, the
Department reminded, therefore
tag sales here will not start until
Monday, December 3. Motorists
who fail to receive a renewal ap
plication should request one from
the Department of Motor Vehicles
supplying their vehicle’s make and
engine number.
Current plates are valid up to
January 31 but owners are urged
■to buy early and avoid expected
last minute congestion.
'Color scheme for the 1952 tags
is a deep red background with
white numerals and letters. Of
ficials at State Prison, where the
license plates are made, assured
the Department that the new tags
would not fade.
Guard Unit Gets
High Rating On
Inspection Mon.
Next Thursdry iFigUTe U1 All'
H. L. Gatlin, Jr., p'csicient of
the Raef ;rd Chamber of Corn-
Battery A, 130th Antiaircraft
artillery automatic weapons bat
talion, North Carolina National
Guard, located in Raeford, had
its annual Federal inspection, by
a Regular Army Inspector general
at the armory here Monday af«»
ternoon and night. The battery
received a rating of excellent, as
well as words of praise on t’n.
side from the inspector.
Inspecting was Colonel John D.
Salmon, inspector general , at
Headquarters, Third Army, Fort
McPherson, Ga. He spent the ai-
temoon inspecting the armory and
its premises, the weapons, vehicles
and all administrative records of
the unit. He was high in his
praise of the condition in which
he found all these items. In the
evening he inspected the officers
and men of the battery in ranks
and talked with each, learning
how well they were trained,
ter this he observed the unit as
it went about its regular armory
training.
At the conclusion of his in
spection Colonel Salmon com
mended Lt. Edwin D. Newton,
commanding officer, on having a
fine unit and informed him that
he was receiving the rating of
Excellent.
Also present for the inspection
and observing the whole proceed
ing was Colonel Lee Bizzell, of
Raleigh, Senior Regular Army
Instructor for North Carolina. He
was also highly pleased with the
showing of the' local battery and
said that it was one of the best
in the statel He 'commended Lt.
Newton and also commended Lt.
Col. William Lamont, Jr., on the
ratings received by all the units
of the 130th battalion which he
commands. All five units of the
battalion received excellent rat
ings on inspections this month.
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Raeford Scouts
Are Also Active
merce, Inc., announced this week
that the board of directors at their
last meetir.5 had set the a.nnual
meeting 0: the chamber for next
Thursday night, December 6, at
the courthouse at eight o’clock.
He 9aid th"* the approximately
ir.Tis .'d individuals making
up the ■ '.ra ization’s membership
.vof'.r duly notified o.' the
mee'ir.j i.r v.-riting by the secre
tary, an'i h: urged all to attend !
Cases Tuesday
Some 25 cases went through the
mill in Hoke County recorder's
court oefore Judge Henry Mc-
Diarmid Thesday, and all of them
involved either liquor or auto
mobiles. In one case which had
been tried the week before the
j'jdge reversed himself and chan
ged a ILtdlng of guilty to one ft
not guilty. This was in case in
which Harry B^stein had been
Rcpor s on the chamber’s actiwi- [ ^o^nd guilty of careless and reek-
ties of the year will be presented driving and fined $25 and
at the meeting and other matters ' costs, and had given notice of
pertaining to present activities ■ The judge directed the
will be discussed and acted upon ciiange the verdict to one
bj' the membership. guilty in the case.
Four new members of the 12- I There were two cases char^g
man 'ooard of directors will be prohibition law violations. WiUie
Mrs. ‘Jimmy Warner spent Fri
day and Saturday of last week
in Lakeview, S. C. She went to
attend the weddij^g of Miss Jean
R'ozier of Lakeview to Billy
Smith of Lumberton, at the Lake-
view Methodist Church on Fri
day evening. Miss Rozier and Mrs.
Warner were roommates at Cok
er College several years ago.
SHRINEBS HAVE PARTY
The Raeford Shriners went to
the 'Village Inn in Southern Pines
Monday night ■with their ladies
and enjoyed a-steak supper and
a dance. Israel Mann was in
charge of arrangements and about
40 were present for the iccasion.
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Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Cameron
had as their guests Simday Mrs.
Cameron’s father, H. P. Speed of
Louisburg. and her twin sister,
Mrs. James Hi^t and Mr. Hight
of Henderson.
elected for three-year terms. Fol
lowing the election the new board
will meet and elect officers of
the Chamber of Commerce for
1952.
At their last meeting the cham
ber’s board also decided to spon
sor the coming of Santa Claus to
Raeford as they have done i
years past. Date for this party
has been set for Wednesday after
noon, December 12, and more de
tails of St. Nick’s arrival will
appear in next week’s paper.
It was also decided to get the
Christmas lights up and on by
December 10, and it was also de
cided to add to these and cover
more of the street with them.
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Forestry Field Day
Is Well Attended
Scoutmaster 'Tom McLauchlin
this week called attenfio'n to the
fact that his Raeford troop also
attended the qourt of honor in
Laurel Hill on November 13, and
that there were a total of 26 pres
ent, counting parents. The local
troop for the second straight time
received the -award for . the best
performance at the camporee at
Camp Tom Upchurch earlier in
the fall and reeived several merit
badges also.
Joe McLeod and Roger Dixon
of the troop spent the week end
with about 50 Explorer Scouts at
Pope Air Force Base last week enci
where they were ^ntertoined by
the Air Force, which started re
cruiting them about as young as
Notre Dame does football players.
Lawrence McNeill, Jr. attended
a dinner in Goldsboro last Friday
night. It was a reunion of the boys
in this section who attended the
summer assembly at the Philmont
ranch in New Mexico last summer.
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To Pick Conservation
District Supervisors
This week of December 3-8 is
election week for soil conserva
tion district supervisors.
Present board for the county
consists of W. J. Coates, N. H. G.
Balfour and R. E. Neeley and un
der the system whereby one mem
ber’s term expires yearly, only
one will be voted for.
Neeley has been nominated to
succeed himself, although other
nominations may be written in.'
Ballot boxes will be at Jones
Grocery in Little River, County
office building, Hodgin’s store at
Anticoh, Duffie Trading company,
Hoke Trading coiripany, A. W.
Wood’s store at Rocfcfish and
Parks station in Quewhille.
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Mrs. Julian Johnson was quite
sick last week, having had an
attack of influenza.*
One hundred and ten (110) 4-H
Club and PFA members attended
the Forestry Field Day held on
the D. H. Hodgin Farm on Friday
a. m. Novenaber 16, according to
E. M. Stallings, County Agent.
They were shown ■ the proper
son .Cotton Company. i
The afterr.orn meeting for far
mers'was' p'""''.v rained out. b'u't j
part of the program was carried ^
out after the ram stopped. A fence
post peeler was shown in opera
tion and the treatment of posts
discussed.' ' The group was also
shown how to calculate the arhount
of lumber;dn trees and logs. Jim
Williamson of Raeford was the
winner in the Scaling Contest and
received an axe donated by Mc
Lauchlin Company. The Raeford
Hardware and Wright and Currie
also donated axes as prizes for
chopping and sawing contests but
due to rain these contests were not
held.
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Funeral In Dunn For
Edgar Hall’s Sister
Funeral services^ were held in
Dunn yesterday for Mrs. Janie
Andrews Bell, T9, who'died Mon
day at the hohfie of her son. J. C^
Andrews. Services were at the
Andrews home at 3:30 o|cIock.
Burial was in Greenwood ceme
tery.
Mrs. Bell is survived by two
sons, J. C. Andrews and Rory
Andrews, bofh of Dunn; one bro
ther, Edgar Hall of Raeford; one
sister, Mrs. Doimie Currie of
Shannon; one grandson and one
granddaughter.
Little, colored, pleaded guilty and
got 30 days suspended on paymeit
of 910 and the costs. Lou Mattie
Hollingsworth, colored, got one
year in jail to be suspended on
payment of $100 and the costs
and two years good behavior.
Paying the costs for being drunk
and disorderly were Neill James
McMillan, James Robert Monroe
and Billie Joe Gardner, all white,
and Lacy Murchison, Floyd Gal-
breth. and Albert Galbreth, all
colored. ,
James Hollingsworth and Sam
Swan, both colored, were each
charged with careless and reckless
driving and charges were drop
ped by the State for lack of evi
dence. Jack Foster, white of the
Navy, was found guilty of careless
and reckless driving and taxed
with the costs and damages to the
! other car. LesMe Hinsm, owner of
the car damaged by Poster, was
found not guilty of careless and
reckless driving.
Paying $10 and the costs for
driving imporperly equipped cars
■were K’.ng David Leslie, Bennie
Edwards and Porter Wade, all
' colored.
methods of planting pine seedlings
and how to properly manage and | Paying $23 and the costs for nav-
thih growing timber, Following j ^ng no driver’s license w^ere tvillie
the period of instruction, the boys j Locklear, Indian, and Kessie Lee
were, given a chance to try their j Baker, colored,
hand at planting ond thinning j Samuel All®n Parker, and R.
The thinnin.g'.vas done in the form I Beynold, both white, paid $25
of a contest with Bobby Parker of j costs for speeding over
Hoke High School winning the miles an hour. Other speeders
prize. Bobby received a knife do- i®3''''ing $2o or paying $10^ and
nated by Dundarrach Trading Co. costs were Helen Wood, Arlie
Two other contests were conduct- Hancock, .Walter Himmelreich,
ed: Fred Holland of Hoke High ^jihite, and Mack Goodman,
School was the winner in the 1 colored. Jiuuor Wilson, colored,
Chopping Contest b.v chopping' costs for speeding in
through a log in 23 seconds, and !
received a knife donated by the j Bratcher,, colored, was
Raeford Hardware Company. ■ guilty of allowing an
Jerome Pickier of Hoke High , !^iiljc®used driver to operate his
School.won top honors in sawing .
with a time of- 37 -e:onds. .and i
won a knife donated by the J'3hn- Oance At Armory
Tomorrow Night
The Raeford Dance club, some
thing of a successor to the old.
Terpsihorean 'club which flour
ished here briefly after the war,
has announced that they will hold
a public dance' at the Raeford
armory tomorrow (Friday) night
from nine until one o’clock.
Bob Smith and his orchestra
of Fayetteville, the same who
were recently engaged to play for
a dance here which was called off,
will furnish' the music for the
occasion. Smith’s orchestra is -well
spoken of in Fayetteville and a
pleasant evening is assured those
who attend by the club. The pub
lic is cordially invited.
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Plan Supper At
MildMison Friday
There will be a fish and fried
chick^t supper at Mildouson scho^
tomorrow night with Supper be
ing served from 5:00 until 7:90
p. m. The suK>®r will be given
by Ephseus Baptist church for the
purpose of raising money to build
Sunday school rooms.
Following the supper the Rev.
T. J. Pulk, pastor of Trinity Bap
tist church in Fayetteville, will
preach. Evervene is cordially in
vited.
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