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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLVII; NUMBER 3
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1952
RAEFORD, N. C.
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By the Editor
A hot fight appears to be in the
making in the Seventh Congress
ional district. Congressman F. Ertel
Carlyle, well known to Hoke citi
zens, Was pushed mighty close in
the primary by 31-year-old Mayor
J. O, Tally of Fayetteville, and a
knock-down, drag-out battle is to
be expected from now until the
second primary June 28. Only
state-wide tontest is between Sup
erior Court Judges R. Hunt Parker
and William H. Bobbitt for the.
Supreme Court.
With the weather staying up
around a hundred like !t has been
for the past few days I find it
mighty easy to quit doing any
thing and start wishing I were
somewhere else—somewhere cool
er, that is, doing something else.
Bet I’m not so different from a
few others—But it sure is fim to
Tiit old ice-cold Rockfish, and when
a cooling shower with its breeze
slips in of an evening you know
it’s something no amount qf money
could buy.
Jaycess Have 10
Beauties Entered
In June 27 Contest
Mrs. Ernest Campbell, of the
County health department, an
nounced this week that Dr. J. W.
Willcox, Moore-Hoke Health of
ficer, had indefinitely' postponed
the series of immunization clinics
which had been scheduled all over
the county for children for diph
theria, whooping cough, etc. This
action was taken due to the fact
that so many children are already
sick 'With one thing, or another
if it: 3 Clinics were i wid- The heat’s
enough to make anyone sick, they
say, but then that’s what they say
every year—^not the health de-
partnient people, just “they” in
general.
I’ve thought of* the something
else I’d like to be doing. I’d like
"to go with Crawford Wright and
Ben Ray on their dog vaccinating
trip for the next couple of weeks.
They are going to spend each day
at" a different country store or fill
ing station. They’ll undoubtedly
tell a lot of lies and hear even
more and see a lot of people, and
do mighty little along with it. I
believe I could stand it pretty well
for that long, and I know my lying
ability would improve consider-
abl.v.
Ten local girls have entered the
“Miss Hoke County” beauty pag
eant to be held at the armory on
Friday, June 27, by the Raeford
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
All girls entered so far are being
sponsored by local business houses,
but the Jaycees will accept un
sponsored entrants until noon Sat
urday, June 14.
Those entered are Annie Blue
Cameron sponsored by Raeford
Auto Co., Ann Gore by The News-
Journal, Fannette Gore by Bau-
com Appliance Co., Mary McLean
by Graham’s Gift Shop, Louise
Harris by Home Furniture Co.,
Belle Smith by Raeford Hardware
Co., Alice Sutton Matheson by
Raeford Furniture Co. and Blue-
mont Beauty Shop, Mary Sue Up
church by Israel Mann, Raye King
by Hoke Drug Co., and Sara Jane
Cole by Belk-Hensdale Co.
The Jaycees placed tickets for
the affair on sale this week and
these may be bought for the din
ner and pageant, the dance and
pageant, or for all three. The
Raeford Woman’s club will serve
the meal and Hal Gore and his
orchestra will furnish the music.
j YOUR
ISCHOOL NEWS!
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By K. A. MacDonald j
The Board of Education met in
called session Tuesday night for
the purpose of aclopting a local
school budget for the school year
19S2-63.''After discussing and go
ing over it section by section and
individuail items, a budget calling
for $107,781.62 was adopted and
ordered presented to the County
Board of Commissioners with their
recommendation and request for
approval. This budget is $1011.08
less than the 1951-52 budget of
$108,792.70 approved for the past
school year.
At this meeting a report was
made to the board that the Inter
state Construction Company of
Charlotte has promised to have the
Upchurch addition and the Indian
School ready for the opening of
school in the fall,
The superintendent reported
that the fence around the new
school garage was under construc
tion.
My lying for the next couple of
weeks will probably be done in
Georgia, where I expect to be with
the 100-odd members of the local
National Guard. Not all of them
are odd, but Jesse Gulledge and
Tommie Macko of the Post Office
Department will be along, and
they can stay right in there with
Wright and Ray, I believe, so may
be my ability will improve some,
even if I will not exactly be loaf
ing ai'ound a country store.
The old swimmin hole is just
about inadequate for the people
we have here now. A great many
Raeford people are taking advant
age of the Aberdeen Lake, even
if it is 17 miles away. We ought
to start planning something now
for another summer, when we’ll
probably have even more people.
Lots of us are enjoying the Little
League games each Monday and
Wednesday afternoon, too.
I hope everybody that does, any
thing or hears anything about any
body else will call The News-
Journal with the information in
the next two weeks and I hope the
advertisers will cooperate with us
by getting the ads in early. Reason
Is that Gene Smith and myself
are both going to Camp Stewart
with this National Guard unit and
the others will have a little extra
work to do getting the paper out
those two weeks.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Carter and
family had as their guests Simday,
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Ca^on and
Mr. and Mrs. Young Brown of
Mooresville.
Summer repair work 0n the
school' buses has started in earnest.
The mechanics are finding that
the hardsurface roads have cut
their work considerably. On the
average, the buses ai'e. in better
shape than they have been when
school closed. Tires are the only
things that suffer from the new
roads.
R. A. Smoak, principal, of the
Ashemont school, is working with
the PMA office again this year
checking tobacco acreage.
W. P. Phillips, head of the Vo
cational Agriculture Depairtment
at Hoke High, has returned from
the yearly conference of Voca
tional Agriculture teachers that
was held at Carolina Beach.
W. T. Gibson, principal of Hoke
High and family will spend a week
or ten days at his old home in
South Carolina and in Florida be
fore beginning the usual summer
repair program.
James M. Street, principal of
the Mildouson School, plans to
work in Baltimore this summer.
The county commissioners al
lowed the school board to tear
down the old garage. The materi
als salvaged from this building
will be used for building pur-^
poses by the school board.
We are glad that G. A Page,
principal of the Upchurch School,
has been able to secure a suitable
home. It is located mldwpy he-
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Second Challenge
Meetmg Held
Friday Night
Representatives of various agri
cultural agencies and civic or
ganizations met in the Lions’.
Club room of the County office
building last Friday evening. The
purpose of the meeting was to
discuss further the “North Caro
lina Accepts the Challenge” pro
gram and to make plans for car
rying out the program in the coun
ty. The Challenge is a program for
better farming and better family
living and' should be of interest
to everyone in the county.
Various situations and problems
existing in the coimty were dis
cussed. It was pointed out that
Hoke County ranks 69th according
to the number of milk cows on
farms in the coimty. Many people
are not producing as much food as
is practical. Health conditions
need to be improved. Less than
15% of all the children under 6
years of age in the county are not
immunized against diphtheria and
other contagious diseases. It was
mentioned that the Raeford Cham
ber of Commerce and other civic
organizations have done a noble
job of helping to bring industry
to Raeford. The suggestion was
made that they develop and carry
out a comprehensive program for
the entire county.
The following committees were
set up; (1) Soil Conservation, (2)
Crops and Livestock, (3) Market
ing and Farm Credit, (4) Health,
Welfare, and Medical Service, (5)
Youth Work, (6) Housing, (7)
Pood Production, Nutrition, and
Preseravtion, and (8) Recreation
and Community Activities. Various
leaders from all over the county
were selected to serve on the com
mittees. They were chosen be
cause of their ability, because they
are farm and home leaders or are
business or professional represen
tatives and should be interested in
farm problems. It was pointed out
that since a county can be no more
progressive than its citizens, pro
gress depends upon the interest,
ingenuity, and combined effort
of professional and business lead
ers in stimulating the people. The
hope was voiced that every per
son placed on a committee will see
fit to. serve in helning to mobilize
the forces in the county to make
it a better nlace in which to live
^nd. in turn, help make North
Carolina the foremost agricultural
state in the nation.
The following people were pre
sent at the meeting; K. A. Mac
Donald. Sunt, of Schools, Mrs.
Ernest Camnbell ahd kt. R. Mills
-^f the Count'r Health Department,
Furman Clark and George Mc-
Tntvre of fli® Soil Conservation
s^ervipe. W. P. Phillips. Stenhen
Pnd Helen Williams of the Voca
tional Denartmentg of the High
Schools. .Tohn R. Potter and Jose-
"I'ine Hall of the Extension Serv
ice. F. N. Cra-\mn.’ District Forester.
■Mcip A,. McDonald of the Raeford
Chamber of Commerce. Harry
Harrison of the Lions Club. Ken
McNeill and L. E. Mcl.aucnlin. Jr.,
cf the Veteran’s Classes, and G.
A. Page, Upchurch school princi-
nal.
Legion Has Regular
Monthly Meeting
The Ellis Williamson American
Legion post had its regular mon-
'thly meeting at the higii school
cafeteria last Friday night and en
joyed a steak supper prepared by
W. L. Poole.
Officers for the coming year
were elected as follows; R. B.
Lewis commander, Charles Hos
tetler and John D. McNeill vice
commanders, A. W. Wood, Jr. ad
jutant, W. L. Poole service officer.
Younger Snead chaplain and W.
T. Gibson, Jr. sergeant-at-arms.
A short business meeting was
held and the matter of ball park
lights financing was discussed and
a committee appointed to work
out a program. The post is to meet
the first Friday night in each
month, but will not have supper at
the meetings in July and August.
Commander Lewis reported that
the post had 80 members now and
hopes to sign up every eligible
white veteran in the county. He
said any officer would take a
membership fee.
WWte Accounts For
Little League Gifts
Dean White, treasurer of the
Aberdeen-Raeford Little League
this week expressed the apprecia
tion of the boys plajffcg and the
league officials for the contribu
tions made several 'vtreeks ago to
buy several additional items need
ed to run the league here.
He said that pembers of the Ki-
wanis club gave Slj the Lions club
30, Upchurch Milling Co. 25 and
the other interested individuals
enough to make. $144.25.
To d^te he has 'l^nt $22.32 for
3 dozen polo shirts, $79.02 for ad
ditional Uniforms and equipment,
$2,40 for buckets and dippers and
$18.17 for caps. This leaves a bal
ance of 22.34.
He also wished to express the
appreciation of the league offi
cials, the boys and the fans to
the high school for the continued
use of the bleacher seats at the
Robbins Heights playground.
Recorder Hears
Same Old Stuff
With just about everything deal
ing with cars or liquor, recorder’s
court Tuesday before Judge Harry
Greene was about what it usually
is with a somewhat lighter docket
than usual.
Howard Rogers, colored, pleaded
guilty of non support of his ille
gitimate child. He got six months
suspended on pa3Tnent of $5 week
ly toward the child’s support and
the costs.
The case in which James Mur
phy, colored, was charged with
disposing of mortgaged property
was dismissed for lack of evidence.
Pete Alphonso McLauchlin, col
ored, got six months suspended
on payment of $100 and the costs
and 18 months good behavior for
driving drunk.
For having no driver’s licenses
Felton Bullard and James Earl
Locklear, Indians, and Buster
Currie, colored, each paid $25 and
the costs.
For improper brakes Fahone
Hasty and James Dempsey Mc
Neill, both colored, each paid $10
and the costs. Roy Smith, white
paid $5 and the costs for failing
to stop at a stop sign.
For speeding Walter Thomas
Gilmore, colored, paid $25 and the
costs; William L. Poole, Jr., white,
$10 and the costs; John T. Revelas
and Earl Hinson, both whit^, each
forfeited a $25 bond.
Henry Lorenze Edwards, color
ed, paid $10 and the costs for im
properly parking on the highway.
Mrs. O. C. Johnson paid costs
and made good a bad check.
■\^lliam Gales, colored, was
found not guilty of having impro
per liecni^ plates.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ledbetter Nichol
son left Raeford Friday. Mr. Ni
cholson, who has accepted the po
sition of district representative
for Rexall products in West Vir
ginia, left for Nashville, Tenn. to
take a training course, and Mrs
Nicholson went to Hamlet where
she will remain with her sister.
Mrs. Ruby Smart, until they can
get settled in West Virginia.
Hoke County Has
10 Miles New Paving
Raleigh, June 10—The State
Highway Commission completed
10.20 miles of new paving in Hoke
County during the month of May,
Commissioner George S. Coble of
Lexington reported today.
The newly-hardsurfaced roads
and their lengths are;
Road from NC 20, ,two miles
south pf Raeford to Dundarrach-
Antioch Road 2.9 miles; County
road from US 15-A via Johnson’s
Mill and back to US 15-A, 3.7
miles; and Coimty road from Phil
ippi Church to Rockfish-Raeford
Road, 3.6.
The Sixth Highway Division
brought a total of 109.9 miles of
road work to completion during
May, Commissioner Coble reveal
ed.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McLean,
Miss Louise Blue and Mrs. McNair
Smith spent the week end at
Myrtle Beach.
Malcolm Glisson left Monday
for Lackland AFB, San Antonio,
Texas, for basic training. Mrs.
Glisson and children are staying
with Malcolm’s mother, Mrs.
Claude Glisson.
Mrs. Snipes Buried
In Robeson Sunday
Mrs. Alatha Snipes, 98; who had
made her home here for the last
two years, died Friday in a Lum-
berton hospital after undergoing
an operation in a Fayetteville hos
pital.
She is survived by her husband,
Albert C. Snipes, a Robbins Mills
employee; three childreni Wilbur
William 'and Nelda Grace, all of
the home here; three sisters and
’’our brothers.
Fimeral service was conducted
aVthe Pleasant Hope Baptist
church near Fairmont at 3;00 p.
m. Sunday by the Rev. Judson
Lennon of Raeford and the Rev.
Alford Stephens of Lumberton.
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Charlie Morrison is on vacation
this week from the post office.
Little Paula Adams of Lumber-
ton was the week end guest of
her aunt, Mrs. Graham Clark and
Mr. Clark, while her parents, Mr.
and IVbs. Paul Adams were at
Myrtle Beach.
Rel)els Schedule
Night Game Here
Next Wednesday
The Rebefs, local baseball as
pirants, have a home game sche
duled for next Wednesday night
with the visiting team to be the
Red Springs Robins. They played
Red Springs there last night (no
score available).
They have received a total of
$298.00 of their goal of approxi
mately $500.00. New contributors
include $25.00 from C. E. Up
church, Sr. and $10.00 from Mor
gan Motor Co. A correction of last
week’s list is J. K. McNeill, Sr.
contributing $25.00 instead of the
$10.00 erronously stated.
Reports indicate that the lights
will be ready by Saturday provid
ed that the money is raised by
then.
Revival Services And
Bible School Are
Planned At Parker’s
Revival Services will begin at
Parker’s Chapel Methodist church
with the service at 12:15 p. m. Sun
day, June 15. Service will be held
each night during the week start
ing at 7:45 with the Rev. W. N.
Vaughn of Mt.'Gilead doing the
preaching.
The Daily Vacation Bible school
will begin on Monday, June 16, at
Parker’s and will be held each
day through Friday, June 20, at
nine a. m.
Cumberland Cops
Get Raeford Man
Fayetteville paper Monday told
of a Raeford man, James Allen,
36, being released under $800
bond on charges of stealing his
wife’s car,' beating up his wife
and shooting at her with a pistol.
The article said Mrs. Allen was
in a hospital for treatment for In
juries received.
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CHORUS PRACTICE
The Home Demonstration Club
members are reminded to meet in
the Education Building of the An
tioch Presbyterain Church on Fri
day evening, June 13, at 8 o’clock
for their regular practice.
County Agent Gives
Results Of Checks
On Weevil Situation
Cotton farmers throughout Hoke
County are probably interested in
the results of the weekly insect
survey now being conducted each
week on four farms in different
sections of the county. On Mon
day, June 9, these four fields were
checked for weevils in addition to
four other fields. There was some
increase in weevil activity in all
fields checked over last week. One
field in the Wayside community
had a 12 per cent infestation; a
field in the Bethel community
showed a 3 per cent infestation;
one in the Dundarrach vicinity
had a 12 per cent infestation; and
a field in the Duffie vicinity show
ed 3 per cent infestation. Square
counts were made in three of these
fields. Four other fields checked
showed the following infestations:
1, 2 ,8, and 34%. The field checked
that showed 34% punctured
squares was some of the largest
cotton in the county observed so
far and is squaring heavily for
this'time of year.
With weeidl infestations run
ning this high early in the season,
it is time to start dusting or
spraying. Fields should be check
ed preferably twice a week by
examining at least 100 plants cho
sen at random from several loca
tions in each field. At least a por
tion of the sample should be taken
from areas near woods, buildings,
or other places where weevils may
have hibernated.
In areas where weevils are a
consistent problem each year, it
is suggested that fields with in
festations of; 1 or more weevils
per 100 plants should receive ap
plications at weekly intervals be
ginning no later than squaring.
After three applications, fields
should be checked^ regularly a'nd
additional applications made when
infestations build up to 10% punc
tured squares. In periods of pro-
loriged hot dry weather, as last
yedr, additional applications may
be-withheld until infestations of
15 to 25% occur. We would like to
encourage cotton growers to keep
a dose check on their fields and
treat as often and as soon as need
ed.
Reports indicate that insecti- ^
cides are moving at a faster rate
and temporary shortages may pos
sibly occur. Growers are urged to
obtain at least a portion of their
season’s supply immediately.
John R. Potter.
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Guard Unit To
Leave Sunday For
Camp Stewart
Sunday morning the local guard
unit will depart for their- annual
two-weeks training at Camp Ste
wart, Ga. Taking approximately
82 men and 6 officers the outfit
will assemble at Elk Restaurant at
3:00 a. m. for breakfast and then
reassemble at the armory (hall)
for issuance of individual weapons
and other equipment. Departure
time is scheduled for 4:15. The
trip to Stewart will be accomp
lished in only one day whereas
it has heretofore been done in
two days, camping overnight en
route.
During the two-weeks encamp
ment time will be spent training
upon the 40 mm. guns and firing
at towed targets The second week
a field problem will take up most
of the time with the unit spend
ing several days in the field.
, The unit will join other units
of the 130th battalion at Camp
Stewart. These units, from Red
Springs* St. Pauls, Southern Pines
and Sanford, will make the trip
by train on Sunday. The battalion
will be under the command of
Lt. Col. 'William Lamont, Jr., and
the local battery is commanded
by First Lt. Edwin D. Newton.
The battery will return on June
29. Camp address is Batry A 130&
AAA AW Bn., North Carolina Na
tional Guard, Camp Stewart, Ga.
^.00 PER YEAR
Hail Severely
Damages Hoke
Tobacco Crops
Quewhiffle Hit Thursday
The heat wave that moved into
Hoke county on Wednesday of last
week also brought with it destruc
tion in the form of a hail storm
that in some cases caused over a
50 % loss of crops. The area that
was hit was the Quewhiffle town
ship near, the Scotland County
line, particularly that area this
side of the “Turnpike” bridge.
Farmers that were hardest hit
according to County Agent John
Potter were H. B. “Pat’^ Nixon,
Horace and R. L. Walters. Parts-of
Horace Walters and Bobby Walters
tobacco was over 60% damaged
and rfixon’s loss ran well over
50%.
It seems as though the center
part of the storm was in the area
! of Nixon and the Walters brothers
, farms with their com shredded
rather badly an dtheir cotton suf
fering extensive loss, althcagh it
. is believed that the cotton will
not be affected too much in the
final outcome. The storm hit be
tween 5:00 and 6:00 p. m. last
Thursday and skipped about ra-.
ther than making a regular path
through the section.
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According to the local insur
ance agencies the losses reported
to them averaged anjnvhere from
20 to 60%. Farmers who carried
in.^urance and suffered losses in-
I eluded J. L. McNeill, John Lock-
i lear„ Clarenqf' Webb. George Ma
son (two losses oa t-'''’ crops) C.
1^.' Gainey, CharUe Pendergrass,
Ruben Webb', H. McC. Blue, Matt
hew McLauchlin, Carl Riley, D.
P. Troutman and also the others
aforementioned. There were prob
ably more farmers vrho had hail
to damage their crops '.mt a list is
not available.
There w'ere some reports of hail
damaging crops in the Rockfish
area Monday afternoon but ac
curate infromation was not avail
able.
Hoke County wasn’t the only
area W by hailstorms Thursday
according to the daUy papers.
Robeson County was hit by one
which covered more than 1,000
acres and had a total of 175 dif
ferent tobacco crops declared a
total loss. 'The worst area -was
between Rowland and Fairmont
and according to estimates the
damage will exceed one million
dollars, much of which was unin
sured.
Wreck Occurs At
Unmarked Street-
Highway Crossing
Last Thursday afternoon a-
round 5:30 during the rainstorm
a wreck occurred at the junction
of West Prospect Avenue and
North MagnoKa St. better known
as the R. B. Lewis comer and high
school corner. The vehicles in
volved were a pick-up' delivery
truck ovmed by Johnson Cotton
Co. and a automobile. John Davis,
driver of the truck, -was proceeding
west on N. C. 211 toward Aberdeen
and Mrs. Elizabeth McMahon,
driver of the passenger car, was
headed south on Magnolia. The
cause of the wreck wa slaid to the
fact that visibility was poor due
to the rain and the slick condition,
of the streets.
None of the occupants was in-,
jured and damages were estimated
for the truck at '$500:00 and the
passenger car around $400.00.
PROGRESSIVE STORE IS
NOW SELF-SERVICE
Progressive Store will have il3
grand reopening of their new s^-
service store Saturday moming at
8:30. New shelves, new prodUxe
racks, and also new frozen foods
equipment have been added te en*
able the store to cony n
complete line of nrnriirteg |p|
produce. FNe tesdo eetl|||i|ii8
wffl be given away Saturdif