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^1, N ?fi,* 7 VOICE MEEOOM MAKOiAM OF riBERTT The News-Journal HOMI ( VOICE OF fOEEOORI MOWt , «VtU> I fjEr OFUNtfV The H^e County Journal The Hoke County News VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 39 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952 RAEFORD. N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY 13.00 PER YEAR YOUR SCHOOL NEWS By K. A., MacDonald l^eeders,‘Others Are Tried In Court Tuesday Enrollment and memibership in the various schools of the county at the end of the fifth month is as follows: Total white 1429 and 1250; Total Indian 224 and 206; Total Colored 2445 and 2304. This 5ives a total enrollment for the county of 4098 and a total mem bership of 3762. Enrollment, memibership, and percentage in attendance by school follows; White: Ashemont 120, ‘ 106, 95. Hoke High 8th grade 119, 113, 93; Hoke High 0-12 282, 256, 93; Mildouson 97, 80, 93; Raeford Graded 676, 579, 91; Hockfish 126, 114, 95. Indian: Antioch 151, 145, 84; Macedonia 73, 63, 85. Colored: Burlington 389, 362, 95; Upchurch 8th grade 140, 139, 95; Upchurch 9-12 359/348, 95; Freedom 93, 76, 94; Bowmore 182, 178, 90; Friend ship 4^7, 47, 97; Peachmont 38, 34, 97;, Shady Grove 70, 57, 96; Tim- berland^l, 43, 95; New Hope 63 62, 95; Buffalo 75, 67, 87; Rock- fish Col. 37, 36, 85; White Oak 110, 99, 97; Fryes Mission 57, 57, 96; Laurel Hill 154, 143, 98; Mc Farland 33, 27, 85. The above shows a net loss of pupils since' school started. This does not show a true picture ex actly as some of these pupils have moved from one school in the county to another. We estimate that about one-half of these pu pils are still in some other school in the county. , The percentage in attendance is gratifying this month as it shows that attendance is equally good ^vith the ^urt^i ^Sflfenth. iVe hope that the sixth and seventh jnonths will do as well. The Board of Education met last Friday night and canvassed the building situation. The Board found that the Indian school and Upchurch addition were, at last, under way. They found also that progress was being made in get ting the snarled Raeford Graded situation straightened out. The situation at present looks better than it has for some time now. We hope that we are not overly aptomistic in predicting that i will not be too long before con- Quite a variety of cases came up'^r trial in Hoke County re corder’s court Tuesday morning. These included speeding, careless and reckless driving, making whiskey, wife-beating and others. Gordon Williams, Colored, pleaded guilty of having a whis key still and whiskey in process. He got four months su^nded on payment of the costs, including still fee to the officers. 'D. W. Maness, white, and Henry J. Easterling, colored, were char ged with careless and reckless driving as the result of a wreck they had. Each having consider- aible damages to his car, the judge allowed the state to drop the case on payment of the costs. •Douglas Stevens, white, was charged with assaulting his wife. The case was compromised and he was charged the costs. Curtis Warren, colored, got one year for failure to support his child. Sentence was to ibe suspend ed on payment of $5 weekly and court costs. Carl Babto, white, and Jeffer son McNeill, colored, each paid costs for being drunk and dispr- derly. John Henry Baker, colored, paid the costs for parking on the highway at night. John Thomas Davis, white, paid the costs for failing to stop at a stop sign. Harvey Lee McGregor and Will Morris, both colored, were charg ed by C. J. Benner with disposing of mortgaged property. EJach had to pay the costs and pay Benner what he owed him. Junior Oalahan, Indian, was charged with trading a mule which he had not paid for. He set tled it by giving a mortgage on the horse for which he traded and paid the costs. Joe Cook, colored, 15 years of age, was sent to juvenile court on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. At hearing before Clerk J. B. Cameron yesterday Cook was found guilty of general delinquency and released in the custody of his mother under the supervision of the probation of ficer. Cook was i>romised a trip Parents, Teachers Have Interesting Meeting Monday The Raeford Parent-Teacher association met Monday night and celebrated the 55th birthday of the Congress of Parents and Teac hers. The president, Mrs. Robert Gatlin, presided. Mrs. Harvey Warlick, Mrs. J. W. Oanaday and Mrs. Raymond Makiwell were se lected to serve as nominating committee for next year. W. T. Gibson, Jr., who was in charge of the program, spoke to the group on “Psychological Bal ance, The Normal Child.” His dis cussion tied in the home, the school and the church as the three most important cycles on which the normal child’s life rotates. PTA officers regretted that ev ery parent who has a child in school could not be present since the speaker made every mother feel t^at her child was an indivi dual complete in himself. Mrs. Dwight Brown told some of the objectives of PTA and an- nounted that a contribution would be taken and sent to State head quarters for extension work. Dur Hoke Boj^s Win, Girls Lose Last Regular Game By'Bruce; Phillips Hoke High’s basketball teams finished their regular season’s play Friday at Red Springs. The local aggregations took two of the three games and in doing so, added to theif already impressive record. The Hoke jayvees wasted no time in disposing of the home team’s “B” boys. With Garrett and Gerald Sappenfield pumping in 10 and seven points apiece, the locals won going away, 37-18. Roger Dixon and L. S. Brock per formed well on our defensive ledger. McManus stood out for Red Springs along with McRac- ken. In the feminine contest, the Hoke girls dropped their second regular game of the season, 64- 60. The game matched two of the finest high school girl sextets in the state and the game was nip- and-tuok right down to the final Washington—Out of the “cham ber of horrors” in Room 313 of the House Office Building is com ing information enough to sustain hours of heated debate when Con gress begins discussing military spending. For example, the armed serv ices, for. purposes of inventory and purchasing, have 20,000 different description of Venetian blinds and roller blinds, 200,000 different de scriptions of lumber. Room 313 is the House Armed Services Committee meeting room. Here a subcommittee is holding and will continue to hold hearings as part of its investigation of waste in military spending. Around the hearing room walls are displays of shoes, pillows, blankets and many other items, with price tags, which illustrate i Halbert J. Blue Dies In Aberdeen; Buried Wednesday Halbert Johnston Blue, 56, vice president of the Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad, died in Aber deen Monday of a heart attack. Born in Aberdeen April 19, 1895, he resided in the Sandhills throughout his life. A son of the late John Blue, who founded the A. & R. Railroad in 1892, and Frances Owen Blue, he had served in an official capa city with the railroad throughout his adult life. He is survived by a sister. Miss Louise Blue, and- two brothers. W. A. Blue, president of the railroad, and Henry McCoy Blue, vice president, and two sons, Richard F. Blue, student at the University of Virginia, and Wil liam F. Blue, student at Gilman school in Baltimore. Funeral services were conduct ed at three o’clock yesterday af ternoon at Bethesda Presbyter ian church in Aberdeen by the pastor, the Rev. W. C. Worth. Burial was in the Blue lot in Old Bethesda cemetery. 7 Schook Enter Cage Tourney Here March 1 Local American L^on Post Sponsoring 7th Annual High School Event Here ins the social hour Miss HefnerHigh’s chances became^^j^g subject the subcommittee is ® dubious in the fourth, period when j probing. The display show's, for and her class served punch and cakes. , Kiwanians Hear Boys During Scout Week struction will begin on this pro- to a reformatory by Cameron if ,. ject. This year the Board of Educa tion is operating 26 school buses that transport a total of 1419 pu pils daily. These buses cover cover 1598.7 miles per day or an average of 61.5 miles per bus per day. So far the record of the driv ers, both as to safety and prompt ness, has been excellent. We hope that we will ibe able to keep it that way. The Future Homemakers Chap ter at Hoke High has a picture and a write of its Future Home makers corner in the clothing lab in The February issue of the “Fu ture Homemakers of North Car oline”. Parents and friends will be especially interested in see ing this edition of “Future Home makers.” : Friendship, Peachmont, and ■White Oak are celebrating PTA Founders Day at White Oak with a program this afternoon at White Oak. This program is well work ed out and should be interesting. he didn’t mend his ways, and he was told several specific ways in which he must do this. Willie C. Graham and James Eddie Robinson, both colored, each paid $10 and the costs for overloading in separate cases. Dannie Dupree, colored, paid $10 and the costs for driving with improper brakes. Columbus Thomas, colored, was charged with eyeless and reck less driving and having no brakes as the result of a wreck. He bad already paid the damages and he was ordered to pay the costs. James McCall, colored, paid $10 and the costs for going 55 in a 35-mile zone. Billy L. Amette, white, left a $25 bond for speed ing. Johnnie Richardson, colored, got 90 days su^nded on pay ment of $50 and the costs for speeding 85 miles an hour. O—— Meefting To Talk Of Baseball League Guests at the regular meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis club last Thursday ni^t were members of of the Raeford Boy Scout troop, who made a brief appearance on the program in observance of Boy Scout Week. The local troop has b^en sponsored since about 16S0 by the Kiwanis club. First Scout presented by Scout master Tom McLauchlin was Senior Patrol Leader Jimmy Phil lips, Star scout, who related the origin and basic principles of the Boy Scouts of America and who recited the Scout laws. Second Class Scout Bobby Davis then gave the Boy Scout Oath and led the club in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Program chairman for the eveni- ing was Peter McLean, who pre sented Miss Doris Bradley, accom panying her High school mixed quartet. The quartet, consisting of John McLauchlin j Joan Sinclair, Betty Jane Ashbum and Law-*- rence McNeill, Jr., sang several favorite and novelty . nur^ers which were greatly enjoyed.*^ 0 jPresbyterian Men Hear Missionary Ellen Kate Koonce and May Guin, outstanding guards, left the game by the foul route. Lyda Williams and Sarah Cole, performing val iantly for the losers, dumped in 30 and 19 points respectively. The entire team played terrific bas ketball, but couldn’t quite com pete successfully with the mas sive point-metkmg of the Red Springs crew. The boys varsity game high lighted the evening’s program; the visiting Buc^ took an. im pressive and ■’’^^^-earned 53-52 victory, over the Red Springs home folks. John McLauchlin, stellar for ward, turned in his best perfor mance of the year. He whipped in a total of 24 ipoints and was a demon on defense. His inspired play spread to his teammates and in unison they played one of their finest games of the season. Joe Culbreth, Johimy McPhaul, and Jimmy White all turned in spark ling play for the winners. iCecil Dunn was the Red Springs standout pouring in 15 points and doing fine work on defense. 0 Dr. Cherry reported on last week’s dental clinic at White Oak ■where he treated children from Peachmont, Rockfish Colored, and ^ Friendship in addition to those at White Oak. He inspected 106 children, treated 58 of them doing 23 fillings, 38 silver nitrate treat- / ments, 57 extractions, 40 cleanings I, and 20 miscellaneous treatments. Dr. Cherry is working this week at Laurel Hill where he will see the pupils from Shad^ Grove and will go to Burlington, From Bur lington he will go next week to •Bowmore and at Bowmore will also see the pupils from Edinburg, ■Freedom and Buffalo. * (Continued on Page 8) There will be a meeting in Red Springs, N. C., Wednesday, Feb ruary 27, 1952, at 8:00 p. m. at the American Legion Hall for the purpose of discussing the forma tion of a Baseball League for the 1952 season. Waverly Mills of Laurinburg, Bladenboro Mills of Blalenboro, Plymouth Mfg. Company of Mc- CbU, S. C., Safie Mills of Rock ingham, Robbins Mills of Red Springs and The Dillon Indepen dents of Dillon, S. C., have signi fied their intentions of fielding teams this coming season and will be represented af the meeting. Representatives from Rowland, Raeford, Hamlet and Lakedale are expected to be present and have expressed an interest in the League. About 75 Men of the Raeford Presbyterian church met and had supper in the church basement Tuesday night ‘ in the regular monthly meeting of the men’s or ganization. Speaker for the meeting was Dr. Sandy Barks, a native of Wil mington who has been a medical missionary to the Belgian Congo 'for the past three years. He talked about his work in the Congo and his plans and acr tivities to establish a dental pro gram there. His talk was well il lustrated with films of the mission stations, natives and African scenery. His station in Africa is near that, of Miss Alice Longe- neefcer, missionary to the Belgian Congo from the Raeford Presby terian church. His lecture was highly interesting and greatly en joyed by the men. 0 Native Visiting Here, To Preach At Bethel The Rev. D. A. McNeill of Hous ton, Texas, (Dan’l Archie to old timers) is visiting his brother, W. J. McNeill and family near Rae ford, and preached an able ser mon in the? Raeford Presbyterian church Sunday morning. He is a native of these parts and has been a regular subscriber to The Ne'ws- Journal for many years. Next Sunday morning Mr. Mc Neill will preach at Bethel Pres byterian church, his old home church. At this time the newly- elected elders and deacons will be installed. ■ 0 Eugene Smith Joins News-Jouirnal Staff example, that each of the services buys practically the same type shoes for its men but at varying prices. The intended moral is that if. they got together in their buy ing of such items, millions of tax payers’ dollars would be saved. The subcommittee says the dis plays show “horrible examples” of waste in military spending. Thus, as the hearings opened. Chairman Hebert (D^La.), a former news paper editor who knows the va lue of publicity, dubbed the oddly decorated hearing room the “chamber of horrors.” The hearings so far have pro duced one faci that promises to be discussed a( length when Congress gets around to debating new ap propriations fot the Defense De partment. A serious matter any time, that becomes more serious than ever before in peacetime—ibecause the Defense Department is slated to spend more money than ever 'be fore in peacetime. The President’s 1953 budget calls for military spending of over $51 billion (com pared to $40 billion this year and $20 billion in 1951). In short, the ^Defense Department is to spend more money than any other single organization in the country and, as a matter of fact, in the world. Another fact which promises to heat up Congressional deibate is that while Congress ordered arm ed services unification in 1947, there has been virtually no uni fication of military buying. In fact, as Rep. Cole (R-N.Y.) notes there appears to be a trend toward “triplification” rather than unifi cation. The Air Force wants to, establish its own procurement service, like the Army’s and Navy’s. Raeford Rated ‘Good’ By Look Magazine In an article entitled “Battle Against Sin”, appearing in the magazine “Look” last week, Rae ford was given a rating of “good” in a survey of vice conditions. Hamlet, Sanford and Southern Pines were also rated good, •while Fayetteville, Charlotte and Wil mington were given ratings of “fair.” Greensboro and Dunn were giving ratings of “poor” in the article, and survey ,of the daily press indicates that they don’t like it a bit. Wilmington’s mayor also had some strong words to say about the article, whidi does appear to have been hastily thrown together with insufficient facts in an attempt at sensation alism. Raeford’s seventh annual invi tational high school ba^etfaall tournament will be played in the local hi^ school gymnasium from March 3 through March 10, W. L. Poole, announced. Poole, chair man of the toumaement commit tee of the local American Legion post, annual ^)onsors of the af fair said that 16 teams would par- ticipate as usual, and that seven of these schools were tentatively scheduled already. The seven schools presently ex pected to enter both boys and girls teams are Parkton, 7l3t, Wagram, Vass, Hope Mills, West End and Hoke County High school. The final official list will ' be published next week, i Two games wiH be played each j night starting on Monday March _3, one game by boys teams and one by girls. Games will start at 7:30 nightly. Final games will be played on Monday night, March 10, the chairman said. The tournament was started in 1946, the first postwar basketball season, by the local Legion post and has been held ead^ear since. Lafayette High school of Hame4t County won both boys and giris championships at last year’s tour nament. Officials for the affair 'WiH be furnidied by 'liie Legion post, as well as a committee to sdlect an all-tourhament team, aid other wise to manage the event. Suit able trophies are presented to the winning teams. 0 Philippi H.D. Club Has Monthly Meeting The regular monthly meeting of the Philippi Home Demonstration Club was held at 2:00 p. m., Fri day, February 8th at the Com munity Building. Fourteen mem bers and two children were pres ent. There were discussions on the Associated Country Women of the World Essay Contest, recipes for the Colonial Southern Cook Book to be compiled by the North Carolina Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, Improving Rural mail boxes, and the organi zation of a county music' chorus. The women wer^ urged to parti cipate in these activities. After these discussiqns the meeting was turned over to Miss Munitions Board officials were Josephine Hall, Home Agent, who summoned to explain the delay but said they didn’t know the answer. They thought someone among the high military brass was to blame but weren’t sure who. The Munition ^ard, however, has-now decided ' that unified clothing buying is a" good idea and will get going on it. , 0 Eugene P. Smith, son of Mrs. Lucy Wilkes Smith and the late W, Li Smith of this coirnty, last iotaed tta sta« of Tte Organ Teacher News-Journal. His duties will be * ® the editorial and business Mann To Head Legion Fund Drive Israel Mann, Legionnaire of Raeford, has been named chair man for the Legion Rehabilitation Fund campaign of Hoke County, it has been anounced by Louis Parker of Elizabethtown, Depart ment Commander and Chairman for the fund drive. The Legion Rehabilitation Fimd is appealing for funds in Hoke County to support the activity of the American Lean’s rdiabil- itation and service work in North Carolina. m phases of the paper’s operation. Smith is a native of this coun ty, and is a graduate of Hoke County High school. He is a grad uate of East Carolina College, receiving his A3, degree in busi ness administration with the class of 1951. Since leaving school he has been employed by the Hoke Cotton Warehouse and Storage Company. , -ft WATSON OPERATED ON F. Knox Watson, chairman of the Hoke County board of com missioners, underwent an appen dectomy at Scotland County hos pital Tuesday morning. He is re- . .cuperating normally« To Play In Pinehurst John E. Williams, organist of the Village Chapel in pinehurst, and assistant professor of organ and theory at Flora Macdonald college, Red Springs, will be pre sented in an organ recital at the Chapel on Sunday afternoon, Feb ruary 24, at 3:45. This recital will be sponsored by the Pinehurst Religious Association, Inc. — 0 —— TO REPEAT MINSTREL gave a very intereting and infor mative lesson on “The Best or Sunday Dress , using illustrations along with her talk. For the social hour, the hos-j7; tesses directed several bridal games and contests honoring one of Ihe membet^, Mrs; James At- taway, a recent bride. At the con clusion of the games the bride was asked to empty the garbage can and upon removing the. lid lound it filled with attractive gift packages, which she opened and displayed. Just as Mrs. Attaway finished her “chore” a box, con taining gifts of linen from those present to einother memiber, Mrs. j R. W. Posey, who has recently j moved into her home at the old Black Place. Refreshments, consisting of sandwiches, cakes, nuts and hot coffee were served from a pretty table covered with a linen cloth and centered with an arrange ment of early ■white and yellow Spring flowers. The Raeford Lions and Business Hostesses lor the afternoon and Professional Women’s clubs ;^were Mrs. R. H. Edge, Mrs. D. P. Hoke Teams PlajrinR In Cumberland Co. Cage Tournament The Cumiberland County con ference basketball toumamait was set to start last night in Mas sey Hnii gymnasium "with Hoke High’s varsity and junior boys teams playing on the opening night. They were set to meet teams from 71st High school. 'The Hoke girls are picked top ^Is team in the tournament and mus did not have to play in the first round. Their first game will be played Saturday night and ■ their opponents will be the team winning the first-round cmitest between the girl’s of Stedman and 71st. Seven schools are participating ip the tournament and three games are being played nightly in d»e gymnasium at Massey BUI schobL Finals will be played next Wed nesday night. The local girls did well in the tournament last year, losing by t^wo points to Hope DlOlls in the finals. — 0 World Day Of Prayer Observance Planned Plans are being made locals to observe the “World Day of Pray- er” . in .this community on Friday of next we^ at the saune trine with most of the Christian ■world. Business houses will be asked to close for an hoiur and a joint prayer service will be held at ttre Raeford Pre^yterian church at two o’clock. Last year it was hdd at the Methodist churrii and the •whole community joined in the observance. CJompete plans and details be given next we^ 0 -- LOSE A MONKEY? will present their ministrel show for the-benefit of blind and under, privileged child en at Ashemont sdkool on Satu*' -ry oi^t, March 1. Gillis and Mrs. R. B. Shockley. M) American farmers now own more than 4'^ollliQa traeton. A monkey was running ai loose at Bowmore colored s Tuesday afternoon (rf this and Principal W. C. reported it to the slwctft last seen by the dkaritt j up a pine tree In tte i woods. This- seems to hb in view of the toel fltot monkeys are these parts;