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T9ie Hoke County Journal
The Hoke County Newt
VOLUME XLVI; NUMBER 40
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1952
RAEFORD, N. C.
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Aimual Red Cross Negro FoimdDead
SCHOOL news! Fond Campaign Is Here Yesterday
YOUR
By K. A. MacDonald
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News froin all over the state
indicates a great deal of mild
influenza. Several units have
closed for the -week, so prevalent
is the disease, but a quick survey
of several of the schools in the
county sho'ws that at present we
have been spared anything like
an epidemic.
There will be a county-wide
teachers meeting at the Hoke
High school next Monday night
at 7r30 p. m. There will Ibe a
county-wide meeting of colored
teachers at 2 p. m. the same day
at Upchurch school. Dr. R. M.
Finch of the School Health Co
ordinating Service will be the
speaker' at 'both meetings. Dr.
Finch' will address each group
on “iMental Health.”
The School Health program is
progressing nicely. Corrections
found necessary to be made dur
ing the screening by the teachers
last fall and by nurses of tiie
Health Department since then,
are being made all the time. In
addition to individual correction,
clinics have been held and an ad
ditional eye clinic is planned for
the second week in March. Dr.
Timmons from Duke Hospital will
be the specialist in charge.
The Dental program is progress
ing nicely. At present IhJ. Cherry
is working in the colored schools.
Dr. Kbonce is expected within
the next few weeks to ibegin work
in the white and Indian school.
Plans are now underway for the
pre-school clinics held each
spring. We expect to be able to
release a schedule of these clinics
with the names of the Doctors
who will hold them within a
short time.
We offer our hearty congratu
lations to Coach Faircloth and
his Hoke High Sextet on their
most successful season. We were
delighted with their winning the
Cumberland County Champion
ship Tuesday night. This win and
their participation in the Coli
seum Invitation Tournament- we
think highlighted a most success
ful season.
Not only this season but for
the past several seasons Coach
Faircloth and his girls have 'been
doing well. Any time a team can
win 69 out of 79 games they are
playing good ball, we don’t care
what kind of ball it is.
Jimtnie Claus, sports writer for
The Fayetteville Observer, we
thmk paid the team and the coach
k nice compliment, one that we
are proud of. Mr. Claus says “The
coaches throughout the tourney
have given me 100 percent coop
eration. This goes too, for the
officials. I believe the calibre of
basketball displayed by the Rae-
ford girls and Central boys teams
is generally higher than that
played in Cumberland County.
The teams have shown fine sports
manship and I attribute that to
the coaches.”
Set For March
County Chmrmen Named
Charles A. Hostetler, chairman
of the Hoke County Red Cross
chapter, this week announced
chairmen in the town and county
for the annual fund drive to be
conducted all over the coimty
during March. Quota for Hoke
County to raise this year is $22&5,
a lower quota than that last year
in spite of the extra services ren
dered by the Red Cross in the
Korean war and the middle west
ern disaster areas. .
Neill Senter has been named
drive chairman for Raeford, with
Mrs. Colon" Scarborough serving
as chairman of the residential
areas of the town. ’
Horace B. Walters will serve
as county chairman of the fund
campaign, and the committee
joined this week in making an
appeal to the public to give gen
erously to this cause .in view of
’the great and •widespread service
of relief it offers.
Walters named community
chairmen in the dbunty and these
will contact committees selected
in each community to help with
the drive. The community chair
men are, according to townships;
Allendale L. A. McGougan; Anti
och, Ira Newton; Blue Springs
Edwin Hasty; Idttle River Archi-
'bald McGill, Laurie Brooks; Mc-
Lauchlin, John Parker, Rev. D. E.
Miller; Quewhiffle, Mrs. D. H.
Johnson, Ufa iMatthews; Mr.
lind Mrs. Ken M'C!N‘^1, 'Mr. and
Mrs. Pete Sawyer, R. H. Webb;
Stonewall, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Jones, Mrs. J. A. Jiones.
Support for the Red Cross comes
from different indivduals for dif
ferent reasons, it . has been
pointed out.. A veteran may re
member that Red Cross blood
saved his life or a friend’s, a mo
ther may recall that the Red Cross
helped with some problem involv
ing a son or relative serving in
Korea or elsewhere; many have
seen the work of the Red Cross
in disaster—^stricken areas.
Principal G. A. Page of Up
church High school is chairman
for the Negro di-yision *of the
.drive. All chairmen listed will
select workers in their assigned
territories for the campaign.
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Mr. Allen of the Raeford Grad
ed Faculty, who has 'been in the
hospital, returned to work today.
Mrs. Lorenna Upchurch substi
tuted for him.
Mrs. Warren is now out with
influenza. Mts. Coates is subs
tituting for her. Mrs. J. W. Mc-
T.aiiirbbn recently made a most
interesting talk to the fifth grade
on China.
War Dept. Sends
Purple Heart Award
To Mrs. McFadyen
Mr. and Mrs; W. M. McFqdyen
this week received The Order of
the Purple Heart award from the
Department of the Army for their
son, Lt. William McFadyen, who
has been listed as missing in ac
tion since November 27, 1942.
At the same time the Depart
ment informed Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Fadyen that after having been
missing for this length of time
their son was officially presumed
to be dead.
Lt. McFadyen was a graduate
of Raeford High School and of the
University of North Carolina and
had worked as a writer on news
papers in Baltimore and elsewhere
before his entry into the Army
Air Corps. He was a member of
the crew of a B-25 bomber which
was lost in action over the South
Pacific.
Dave Miller, well known color
ed painter around Raeford, about
45 years of age, was found dead
near the colored village north of
town at about eight o’clock yes
terday morning by a school child.
Miller was near the run of s
branch beyond the crossroad and
was lying face-down in the mud.
There were no obvious injuries
which could have caused his
death, although due to rain, blood
and bruises may not have been
apparent. His cap was found by
investigating officers of the sher
iffs department about 100 yards
from his body, and it still had
blood on it in spite of the rain,
and there were still traces of »lood
on the gro'und near it.
After investigation yesterday
officers had not decided just what
may have caused his death, and
Coroner James C. Lentz had not
announced when an iquest would
be held. Miller was last seen
passing Jess Dunlap’s store and
filling station at about nine o’
clock Monday night.
He leaves a wife and children.
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Funeral Service For
Capt. A. B. Chason
At Lumber Bridge
Final rites were held Friday
afternoon at 4 o’clock at Lumber
Bridge Baptist church for Captain
Arthur B. Chason, Jr. who died
in New York February 17.
The service. was conducted 'by
Rev. J. M. Gibbs, a former, pastor,
assisted by Rev. Judson Lennon,
pastor of the Baptist church of
Raeford. Burial was in the Lumber
Bridge cemetery.
■Captain Chason was the elder
son of the late Arthur B, and
Lula Lovett Chason of ' Lumber
Bridge. He attended the Lumlber
Bridge school and George Wash
ington University. He was gradu
ated from the law school of Na
tional ^University and licensed to
practice law in North Carolina,
the District of Columbia, and else
where. While still in college he
was chosen for duty as a Reserve
office of the Marine Corps and
he wa.s called to active duty in
19)39, serving overseas and in the
West Indies and being discharged
with the rank of captain. ,
After the war he attended the
Merchant Marine Institute and
obtained captain’s papers. He had
l^n active as a member of the
Merchant -Marine for the past
several years.
Captain Chason was stricken
with pneumonia in New York
several .days prior to his death.
He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. George B. Weaver of Albe
marle, and Mrs. T. B. Forbis of
Lumber Bridge.
Observe World
Day (M Prayer
Here Tomorrow
" TueBd.ay Mrs. Campbell of the
Health Department, showed a film
to adolescent girls and their mo
thers. A discussion period follow
ed the showing of the film.
'PTA Founders’ Day programs
have been and are being held in
various schools In the county. Last
week programs were held at
Friendship and Burlington. This
we^ was was held at Updhurch
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Legion To Meet
Next Friday Night
Commander R. B. I^wis of the
local American Legion post this
week reminded members of the'
post of the monthly meeting to be
held on Friday night of next
week in the High school cafeteria
at six o’clock.
He said that the supper meet
ing was being held at six o’clock
in order not to interfere with the
Legion’s basketball tournament
and he utged members to.be pres
ent and to be on time. Those plan
ning to attend are a^ed to notify
Israel Mann or Wilton Wood.
Locker Plant Here
Changes Hands
The Colonal Frozen Foods loc
ker plant here, which has been
owned by the Pilot Life Insur
ance company since last Septem
ber, is now the property of Turk-
aline Farms, Inc., it was recently
announced. The new owners plan
to mak€ major alterations immed
iately, and locker holders have
been asked to clear out their
lockers by March 1.
The Pilot company acquired the
plant by foreclosure on Septem
ber 20, and since that time have
kept it in operation, enabling
locker holders to keep their foods
frozen there. The new company,
it is understood, will convert the
plant into a turkey processing
pliant.
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ATTENDS MEETING
Clyde Upchurch, Jr., of the
Hoke Oil and Fertilizer Co., at
tended a meeting of ttie Carolinas
Ginners association in Bennetts-
ville, S. C., on Monday and Tues
day of this week. Clyde was in
charge of the goU tournament
which was on the program for
-Tuesday afternoon.
Tomorrow siftOTnoon, February
29, this community will join with
millions through out the world
in observing World Day of Prayer
Businesses of the community are
expected to close their doors from
2:00 until 3:00' o’clock tomorrow
afternoon and a joint service will
be held by the churches of the
community in the Raeford Presby
terian church. The service will
begin at approximately 2:10 p.
m. and all will be welcome to at
tend in their work clothes. The
service will bte conducted by the
Women of the Raeford Baptist
church.
The local committee represents
the Raeford churches and is a
means wehreby local people will
join with millions in 92 differ
ent countries in observing this
day. ,
In addition to the women’s or
ganizations of ihe churches, the
observance of the . day is being
sponsored and endorsed by the
Raeford Chamber oi Commerce
which has urged its tnembeis to
close during ^the hour from 2:00
until 3:00. Mayor W. L. Poole has
also urged people of the com
munity to cooperate with the
churches.
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Farm Bureau To Meet
Tomorrow Ni^t At
Hoke High Gym
Presideaat of the
Hoke C5ounty Farm Bureau an
nounced last week that the an
nual dinner meeting of the mem-
ber^ip would be held at the Hoke
High school gymasium on Friday
night, February 29 at seven o’-
clook.'
Main part of the program at
the annual meeting is the elec
tion of officers of the county Farm
Bureau for the following year.
Following the dinner and the
election of officers the group will
hear a talk by Walter Lowrey,
Field Representative of the North
Carolina Farm Bureau. Cole urg
ed members of the Hoke bureau
to attend the meeting,
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Jaycees Organize
Chapter In Raeford
A Junior CShamber of Com
merce was organized in Raeford
when a gi-oup met at the High
school on Tuesday night. Present
other than local men were five
members of the Fayetteville chap
ter including M. J. Weeks, pres
ident.
Officers elected for the Rae
ford Jaycees were James Lentz,
president, Ray Muench, and Tom
Poole, vice presidents, Peter Mo*-
Lean, secretary, and Jim Tillman,
treasurer.
Next meeting is to be held in
the high school library on 'Rmrs-
day, March d, at 8:00 p.-^m.
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YOUNGS TO LEAVE
Jafl 2 Men On
Capital Charge
. Two young white men, James
Edwards and Rufus Edwards,
aged 19 and 17 respectively, are
in the Raeford jaU on charges of
raping a 13-year-old white girl
and being accessory to the fact.
They are charged with picking
up tlte girl on South Prospect
avenue on Saturday afternoon at
about two o’clock and drmng her
to the vicinity of Timberland
where the assault is alleged to
have been perpetrated by James
Edwards. It is alleged that Rufus
Ed'wards was driver of the car
and th«^ he let his brother and
the girl out.
Warrant for the arrest of James
Edwards was signed late Satur
day by the girl’s mo’ther and he
was put in jaiLthat night. War
rant was issued for Rufus Edwards
on Monday, and he was put in
then. Both are being held with
out privilege of bond i)ending
preliminary hearing at recorder’s
court next Tuesday.
The brothers live with their
parents on the Scott Currie farm.
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GIRLS' TEAM WINS TOURNEY Hi
CUMBERLAND TUESDAY NIGHT
■OWO Homer D. Yoimg, 'has
'been relieved from assignment
and duty Army Field Forces
Board No. ,1, Fort iBragg, N. C. and
aligned to European Command
for duty with the Army in Paris,
France.
He will proceed to Fort Hamil
ton Personnel Center, Brooklyn
on or after lApril 2,1952 for trans
portation overseas. His wile and
son will accompany him. The
Youngs have lived bn Jackson
Street for some time.
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C. J. Benner has been ill since
Saturday with a rather severe
case of influenza. He is improving
Wilson McBxyde, also of the
Western Auto Store, has been at
home with the flu, for several
days.
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Miss Ina Mae Benner, who is
a student at W^e Forest CoUege,
•visits her home over the
week end.
State Has Bad
Spell Of Weather
The Carolinas yesterday dug out
from a heavy snowfall that snarl
ed traffic, closed schools and sent
dozens to hospitals after falls.
The imexpected storm which
lashed the states Tuesday and
sulasided before daybreak Wed
nesday, came on top of an influ
enza outbreak that' had already
closed some schools in North Car
olina.
There were only a few flurries
of snow in Hoke County Tuesday
and sleet fell intermittently with
rain during the day, turning to
rain by nightfall.
Some snow and much sleet feU
in the upper end of the county
and there was considerable snow
in Moore County.
The sun broke through yester
day and gave a hand to house
holders and city crews clearing
the snow which was eight inches
and more in some central sections
of the states. Fair and clearing
weather was forecast, but tem
peratures were expected to get
down to freezing again last night.
Long distance bus, rail and air
traffic was near normal Wednes
day.
North Carolina schools were
closed in Mecklenburg, Yadk’n,
Stokes and Guilford Counties, and
the cities of Madison, Elkin, Lex
ington and Morganton.
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FIRE WEDNESDAY A. M.
Plans Complete
For Cage Tourney
Here Next Week
Final plans have t>een made and
schedules announced for the Sev-
eth annual American Legion Bas
ketball tournament to be held in
the Hoke High g>Tn from next
Monday, March 3, through Mon
day, March 10. Eight schools have
entered both boys and girls teams,
and two games will be played each
night except Sunday.
Schools which will send teams
to the tournament are Vass-iLake-
view, Parkton, Wagram, Hoke
High, Laurel Hill, 71st, Tar Heel
and West End.
The Hoke High boys will play
their first game Monday night
against Wagram, and the girls
will open Tuesday night against
Laurel Hill.
The tournment is being spo:r-
sored by the EUis Williamson
American Legion post. The pist
will furnish the officials and will
Local Teams Place Two
Girls, One Boy On AU-
Toumament Elections
(Reported by John McPhaol)
The Hoke County High schod
gins basketball team performed
as expected to win the Cumber
land County to'arnament which
•was completed in .Massey Hill gym
Tuesday night and came home
with first prize. ■ Tne boys team
from Hoke High was eliminated
on Wednesday of last week by
Tist, 38 to 36.
The girls came from behind in
the fourth quarter to take their
final game from the Gray’s Creek
girls, 39 to 33 before approximate
ly 2000 spectators. Gray’s Creek
stayed in front for three Tluarters
but saw their lead vanish in the,
final one. «>•
At the end 0* the first qoar^
ter Gray’s Creek was ahead 10
to- 5, and they cointin’j.ed to set
tl^e Mce in the second, holdini;
a lea^of 17-13 at half-time. Dot-
tie Daviai their shaip-ahootinS
forward, was mainly responsible
for this lead being maintained.
The Hoke girls came back strong
have a comhaittee on hand to se- . „ , , , „ . ,
lect aU-tournament teams of boys 1
and girls. Girls games start at
Fire alarm was sounded at a-
bout 1 o’clock yesterday morning
cold and rain or sleet notwith
standing, and the fire department,
nine strong, turned out to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pope
in Sunset Hills. Floor tfumace
there had aipparently e^loded
and set the house on fire. The
fire was extinguished after some
$300 worth of danaage had been
done by the blaze.
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Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Ray have
returned from Wilmington where
they visited their two graadsons.
Bill and Bob Collins. The chil
dren’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. CJollins spent a week’s vacation
in Florida at this time.
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Mrs. L. B. Brandon, who was
quite sick last week, is now very
much better. .
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Mrs. C. J. Benner was in Ra
leigh for several days last week
were she ■visited her brother, B.
M. Corbitt, and her sister, OMfs.
C. M. Gattis, Both were in Rex
Hospital.
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Jim Warner dropped something
on his foot last we^ and •went
around for a day or two on it be-
ftwe going to the doctor. "Wh n
he did go he found he had hro) a
bones in it.
7:30 each night and boys game.=i
at 8:45.
In past years the tournament
has been weU-run and well at
tended and has become one that
schools in this section are glad to
take part in. -
N. C. Guardsmen
To Train In Georgia
Some 1,000 officers and enlist
ed men of the North “Carolina Na
tional guard and Organized Re
serve Corps win take part in the
annual 2-week training program
for reserve units at Camp Ste
wart this, summer, according to
tentative plans.-
More than 6,000 National
Guard land ,ORC personnel from
seven southern states will train
there, at the Third Army Anti
aircraft Artillery Training Center.
Eighteen anti-aircraft artillery
battalions from Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee, South Carolina, Miss
issippi, and Florida are expected
to participate in the summer en
campment which begins June 15
and ends August 31.
The tentative schedule for North
Carolina Units includes: June 15-
29, National Guard, 252nd Group
Headquarters Battery and ISOith
and 725 'AAA Automatic
Weapons Battalions. The 130th
Battalion is composed of units
from RAEFORD, Red Springs,
St. Pauls, Sanford, and Southern
Pines.
within one pci>mt of their oppon
ents before the end of the third
quarter, with some fine play fa|y
Guards Ellen Kate Koonce, Mary
Guin and Ina SculL
In the final quarter daodine
Hodgin and Lydia WUliamB be
gan hittiQg
built A teas 'Of
with about a minute to go began
to freeze the balL At the final
gun, however, Gray’s Creek had
the ball but the Hoke girls still
had the score and came out on
top.
Claudine Hodgin scored 21
points for the local girls, and Ly
dia Williams was runnerup wilh
14. The guards played what was
probably their best game of the
season. Ellen Kate Koonce was
named on the allftoumey team
and Lydia Williams was placed
on the second team.
John McLauchlin, forward on
the boys team, was placed on the
all-toumey team as a result of
his outstanding play.
Robbins Mills Fluid
To Sponsor Baseball
League For Boys
Robbins Mills announced tVii.i
week that they would sponsor an
official “Little League” of 'base
ball teams for boys eight to 12,
years of age in Raeford and Aber
deen this spring and summer. Two
teams •will be organized, in Rae
ford and two in Aberdeen and
team membership will be open to
CJamp Stewart, the nation’s sec- boys in the age group in the
two towns (not just those con
nected .with the mills);
Dean White personnel manager
at the Raeford null, said this we^
that all expenses of the league,
equiianent, transportation, etc.,
wdU be borne by the but that
Robbins officials hope local peo
ple in the two towns will supply
the interest necessary to make the
league a success.
He said the league would be
registered with the national litde
league aind would play according
to published rules. The Little
Leagues hold playoffs and go on
up to a “Little World Series” eacA
year.
Mr. White announced that a
meeting -would be held in the
High school library here at seven
o’clock tomorrow night to 'whldi
all interested parents -anc^ others
are invited. He said aU details
of the league would be explainedL
Primary purpose of the leagos M
to teach sportmanship to boys iat;.
the years when their charsetaM :
are being formed.
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ond largest military reservation,
consists of 186,000 acres stretch
ing over five Georgia counties.
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Honor Local Girl At
High Point College
At the assembly period Febru
ary 20 seven High Point College
seniors and three juniors ware
tapped for membership in the
college honorary society known
as “The Order of the Lighted
Lamp.” Being admitted to mem
bership in this society is consid
ered one of the highest scholastic
honors that can come to a stud
ent at High Point College.
Newly inducted members in
cluded Senior Joyce Ray Layton
of Raeford.
NO COURT DUE TO
ILLNESS OF JUDGE
:W:
No recorder’s court was hdd
Tuesday due to the inability of
Judge Henry W. McDiarmid to be
present. The judge fell coming out
of the courthouse last Tuesday
and hurt his arm and Moulder.
He expects to be out in ttane for
court next Tuesday.
Crawford Wright Wtand
smith hospital yesterday ftir tieaih-
meat for abdominal
nty colic.