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'vvK'.;v. WMCI OF miPOM CUMtOlAM OF UBERTV The -Journal 1 ^ VDfCI OF iUIOOM mi l«uai sistt iSS The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal OFIlMin VOLUME XLVII; NUMBER 15 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1952 RAEFORD, N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR cz:^clcUncla By the Editor Recorder Hears Various Cases In Court Tuesday County Board Has Active Meeting; 0. K. 6 New Roads Hostetler Takes Insurance Job; Leaves October 1 Raeford merchants and busi nessmen are cooking up a year- round trade promotion scheme which really should go over. Just about all the firms expect to take part and they will give away a valuable prize Jn trade here to someone every- week. They plan' to get all the details ironed out and start it in the next week or two. The merchant’s committee of the Chamber of Commerce is making the arrangements. Gene Smith and I had lunch with the Carolina Power & Light company last .^riday on the oc casion of 'the opening of their $15,000,000 steam electric plant near Lumberton. I heard that Rotjeson County would gain a- bout $100,000 annually in taxes by having the plant located there, in addition to the benefits to bus iness from the payroll. Had an excellent lunch along with rep resentatives from a dozen or more towns the Carolina serves in this area, and I really learned some thing about the production of electricity. As an indication of its size, the plant in Lumberton will bum 3,000,000 pounds of coal a day when operating at full load. Something we’ve got to feel good about here is the $3000 or $4000 weekly payroll Turkalina Farms, Inc., is bringing to Rae ford. They’ll get in high gear soon, and we’ll carry a complete story of the operation. The labor force thereto ,be primarily iihave lost^fcjr cook or cotton yoiraiould realize that the etjnomy of the community will benefit greatly. They are going to be a nation-wide organization if things go right, and one we will all be proud to have here. I have heard several people express their gratitude to Robbins Mills for the playgrounds they have set up, one in Robbins Heights and the other on Stewart Street behind the graded school. On the hope that Bill Saunders ^hga4^pi^pf.tl:x' this cd^E® 'ity to express the heartfelt thanks of the whole community to him and the company for these play- _grounds which will mean much to our youngsters. Judge Harry Greene heard the usual run of traffic' and liquor cases in Hoke Coimty recorder’s court Tuesday morning with a couple of immoral conduct cases thrown in. Some home disagree ments and other altercations were also handled by the judge. Roscoe Cook, colored man who wgs under a six-month suspended sentence on condition of good be havior, came up with a plea of guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. He went away for the old sentence and a year besides. ■ A. D. Dammons, colored, got si:-: months suspended on payment of costs and two years good be havior for assaulting his wife. He paid $25 and costs for violating the prohibition laws. ■Walter Bronson and Emma Mil ler, both colored, got six months each to be suspended on payment of $10 and costs for immoral conduct. Buddy Bronson and Ger trude Swan, also colored, got the same for the same offense. Sen tences in case of all four were suspended on further, condition of 12 months of good behavior. Martin Coggins, colored, was found guilty of violating the pro hibition laiws. Sentence of . six months was suspended on pay ment of $10 and costs and two years good behavior. Willie Van Smith, colored, was found guilty of driving drunk and paid $100 and costs. Edward yTilkerson, colored, had to pay costs and $11.70 to C. J Benner for'disposing of mortgaged J. D. White, white, paid costs and had his license suspended for six-*months for careless and reck less driving. Lester Jr. Harris, colored mr who had previously failed to r pear for trial for having no driv er’s license, appeared this time and got six months suspended on payment of $50 and costs. Earl Robinson, white, was char ged with breaking and entering and assault. Plea was not guilty and judgment was deferred for one week. Wants SHC Office In Moore The Hoke County board ofj commissioners in their regular monthly ' meeting Monday took action pn several matters, of inter est. -The meeting had been post poned from the first Monday due to Labor Day. Malcolm McKeithan w'as ap pointed cotton weigher. The request of Judge Henry Mc- Diarmid for a leave of absence for the remainder of his term was approved and Harry Greene was reappointed' to serve as judge of the county recorder’s court until the -first Monday in December when T. O. Moses will take office. The board approved requests for six new public roads. These were one mile from Robbins Mill to Alex Baker place; one-half mile from Cary. Stevens sawmill to Lacy McGregor store on 211 cutoff; one-half mile from Rae- ford-Maxton road near Hector Currie place to Frank Everleigh place; “Bob Currie” road in Blue Springs township-one mile; one- half mile “McCall road” in Mc- Lauchlin township from June Johnson farm to Galatia road at the county line; three-quarters of a mile from Major Evans place north of Raeford to turnpike road. The last two are improbable in spite of board approval be cause of objection of property owners S. N. McCall and James Quick, respectively. The board passed a resolution to take action to get the perman ent Sixth District Highway com mission office located in Moore County instead of in Asheboro in Randolph County. This office is about to get a permanent build ing and the board feels that-^it should be located nearer the cen ter of the district. In this connection John Mc- Googan and N. H. G. Balfour at tended a meeting in Carthage Tuesday to discuss action to get the office located there. Robeson, Hoke, Harnett and Chatham coun ties were represented along with Moore and indications were that CHARLES A HOSTETLER Commissioner p? Insurance 'i Waldo C. CheeR this week an- noimced the resignation of Rich ard S. Brantley as Chief Deputy Commissioner of Insurance and the appointnaent of Charles A. Hostetler as his successor effec tive October 1, 1952. Mr. Brant ley has accepted a position as As sistant to S. G. Otstot, Executive Secretary of the North Carolina Association of Insurance Agents. Hostetler, whb is 28 years old, was born in Raleigh and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hostet ler of that city. 'He attended Ra leigh public TChools and Wake Forest College where he gradu ated with the LLB degree in 1949. ■While at Wfitke forest he was a member of J£appa Alpha soc ial ■fraterl^y'^'Sfc^’ 'the Phi-^Delta legal fraternity, being a charter member of the latter. Since his graduation he has been actively engaged in the practice of law in Raeford. A veteran of three years serv ice in World War II and an ac tive Democratic Party worker, Hostetler is unmarried. Active in church and civic work, he is a deacon and Sunday School teach er in the Raeford Baptist church, member of the Raeford Kiwanis Club, director of the Raeford Chamber of Commerce, and a di- rfector of the Junior Chamber of National Guard Unit Federal Inspection Is Set For Sept 29 Lt. Edwin D. Newton, com manding officer of Battery A, 130th AAA battalion, local unit of the National Guard, announced this week that the annual Fed eral inspection of the battery would be made in the armory on Monday, September 29, by Lt. Col. C. B. Irwin. Col. Irwin is assistant inspector general of the seven-state Third Army area which has headquarters at Fort McPherson, Ga. .» The inspection will be the sixth for the unit, which received its first inspection and was officially activated on March 10, 1947, car ing the distinction of being the first company size unit in the state after the war with an infantry company in Shelby. At the first inspection there were three of ficers and 41 enlisted men, while for the one this month the bat tery will have a strength of five officers, one warrant officer and almost 100 enlisted men. The re cord of the battery on these in spections in the past has been good, and members have expec tations of doing as well or better this time. FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICERS GET ALLEN & McNEILL THURS. Thomas A. Gray New Mill Supt.; Bell Resigns Two Others Charged; All Cases Set For Trial In Greensboro In December Col. Irwin will make two trips to North Carolina to inspect units of the 130th, which Lt. Col Wil liam Lamont, Jr., of Raeford commands. On September 22 he will inspect the Battalion Head- (^uarters and Headquarters bat tery in Red Springs and on Sept. 23 Battery B, in St. Pauls, will be inspected. On the 30th he will visit the Sanford unit, BatteryC, and Wednesday, October 1, Bat tery D will be inspected im.. Sou thern Pines. . . u •... The inspections will be conduct ed in two parts, with the inspect ing officer viewing the armories, equipment and records in the af ternoon, and then inspecting the officers and men and their train ing activities in the evening. c Attendance Small At Legion Meeting The Chamber of Commerce di rectors were talking the other day about the housing situation here, and ju^t wondering if the mer chants and businessmen of the county are really aware of how bad it is. 'What is boils down to is that we have all worked to gether for several years and now have a good gross payroll in the community, but we are failing to take advantage of it. People spend money where they live, in, large part, and a great many people take pay checks home—away from Raeford—to spend them. Another thing is that the payroll would be larger if there were any place for people to live, for there are plenty of good jobs in Raeford right now. We have all got to get to figuring out spme way to get some more houses here. My gUess is 150 more houses would add at least a third to the “feel” we now get of our industrial expansion. And at least that many are need ed right now. Charles Hostetler is a nice clean young man, a credit to his pro fession and a credit to the com munity. I know a lot of us hate to see him leave, but wish him success. With his character and ability he will have it. —0— — REV. WALLACE ELLIS PLANS REVIVAL SERIES paid $25 and costs for having no driver’s license. Dunk McGoogan, colorei^, did the same but,had a three to six months suspended sentence along with it. ' Richard Inman, white, paid costs for temporary larceny of a car. H. L. Kiser, white, was charged with assaulting his wife. She “took up the papers” and paip the costs. James Roper, colored, got three to six months for carelpss and reckless driving, sentence to be suspended on payment of cost license suspended for six months, and 12 months good behavior. Robert Henderson, colored, paid $10 and costs for no brakes and Daniel Pat McNeill, colored, paid some for no lights. Louis A. Stutz, white left a $25 bond for speeding, and Leonard Badalament, white, paid $10 and costs for the same offense. James Everette Enloe, white, paid costs for careless and reck less driving. Oscar Leslie, colored, got days suspended on payment $10 and costs for assault. . - P Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Cothran, Mr. and Mrs. TalttaadS® Bobbitt and two children, Jimmy and Brenda, spent the past ten days in Detroit, Michigan, and Canada. They went especially to see Mr. and ‘Mrs. R. O. Cothran, Jr. and family who live in Detroit. ^The Rev. Wallace M. Ellis, pas tor of the Union Baptist Church * of Richwood, Ohio, will begin re vival serivees under a Gospel tent located at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ellis on the Turnpike for a week and the public is cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sutton and children, Mrs. Ray Muench and Sallie Boyd, and friends from Fayetteville left Sunday for a week at Holden’s Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Joe GuUedge and Ethel Sue, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse GuUedge and Sara spent Sunday in Charlotte with Mr. anr' Mrs. Harold Long. favor of Carthage as the site. Randolph and Davidson counties were not represented nor were they heard from. County Superintendent K. A. MacDonald appeared before the board to ask that a number of school bus routes be Jmproved by the highway commission and ask ed the board to express his ap preciation for their cooperation in getting the school and garage drives paved. The roads be asked for .improvement on are by Will McNeill, Ernest Hair and Cliff Conoly; from Dundarrach to Ar chie Howard; from Gold &ill to Archie Howard; Timberland to turnpike road; through Poole’s peach orchard; from Pickler’s yard by Almond; by J. C. Wright pond; through Covington place; west from Bethel; by Luther Hug gins and Culbreth; through Thomas farm in Antioch township; loop by J. S. Johnson place. 0 New Finance Co. To Open Here Today Citizen Finance Company open ed their doors for business today for the first time in Raeford. A new company that has recently been formed, Citizens Finance wiU deal in financing and refinancing auto loans and used autos. L. "V. Heame, who for the past six years has been credit and of-: fice maneiger for Fleishman’s Big Store in FayetteviUe, wiU be the manager of the new concern. Prior to his position Heame was connected with the FayetteviUe Housing Authority, for six years. He is married to the former Miss Edna Odom of McCoU, S. C. and they have six chUdren. The Heames intend to make their home in Raeford as soon as a- vailable quarters can be found. the American Legion, Gnanr of the Hoke County Chapter ( the American Red Cross, and im mediate past president of the Hoke Coimty Chapter of the Young Democratic Club. He is a member of the local, district and State Bar Associations and is currently "Vice-President of the 9th District Bar. In making the announcement Commissioner Cheek stated that although he regrets losing Mr. Brantley, he feels that he will continue to be an asset to the North Carolina insurance indus try and the insuring public. “It is not like he was leaving the State”, he said. “I believe we are fortun ate in securing as his successor a young man of the character and high intelligence possessed by Mr.' Hostetler.’.’ O— : County Schools Show Increase Of 6 Percent Some 20 American Legion mem bers enjoyed a supper prepared and served by Mrs. Lucy Smith and her assistants at the Hoke Thomas Alexander Gray, Jr., native of Basic, Virginia, is sup erintendent of the Robbins Mills (N. C.) Inc., plant in Raeford, | succeeding J. P. Bell, who resign ed recently and who is a patient at Moore County hospital where he^ underwent an operation last week. Gray came to the Robbins firm several months ago after having been a superintendent for the Botany Woolen Mills in Passaic, New Jersey from 1946 to 1952. He had served as a consultant in the local plant until he became superintendent. He is married and has one daughter. He and his family are now living at a hotel in'Southern Pines. Assistant superintendent of the plant here is J. B. Talt)ot. He cae here from Frank and Sons Mills in Cornelius, N. C., and has been here about six months as technical superintendent. His ex perience includes service with Mooresville Mills and Burlington Mills. He is married and has three sons and lives on Wright street Sunset Hills, Raeford. Mr. ^ell, superintendent of the plant here since it began opera tion about the first, of the year, came here from Judson Mills in Greqnvillg,'''S. (f:.,"and has been active in civic affairs^ since com ing here. He is at present pres ident of the Raeford Lions club and is a 32nd degree Mason. , He has not announced his plans for the future but will probably re main in Raeford for several weeks recuperating from his op eration. J. D. Sheppard, plant manager at the mill, recently returned to work after an illness of about two months. 0 Federal ATU agents, assisted by State ABC officers last Thurs day struck simultaneo'jsiy in two sections of the county and made two arrests in each section. In dications were that officers had been working on the cases for some time and it is reported that they had been buyi>:g liquor from both places. Near Raeford they arrested Brantley Allen, 38, and Daniel A. Peterson, 25, at Allen’s Truck terminal, filling station on the Fayetteville road. During the raid officers seized a 1950 automoErile and a small quantity of tax-paid whiskey. Allen and Peterson were given a hearing before Mrs. Helen S. Barrington, U. S. Deputy Com missioner, and bound over, to U. S. District court in Rockingham under bonds of S500 each. Near Antioch they arrested John Henry McNeill. 52, and Tink A. Watson, 66, colored. They were also given a hearing before Mrs. Barrington and held under bonds . of $500 eadn ^ « They appeared in FeJfral in Rockingham Tuiiiay, wha* , the cases were contmued to^'flift December term of Greensboro. They are to be tried there on They were represenjM night. V Commander R. B. Lewis pre sided over the business meeting which followed the supper. This consisted mainly of a lengthy-dis-- cussion of the financial situation of the post and ways and means of raising the $260a needed to pay off the indebtedness on the baU park lights. Several plans were suggested, but nothing was de finitely decided on. The appointment of the follow ing committees '-wias announced first named being chairman: Membership, Alfred Cole, Angus Currie, A. T. Ashburn, Eppy W. Human and C. M. Koonce; House, Israel Mann, Clyde Upchurch, Jr., J. D. McKeithan, Daniel E. Baker, Charles Morrison, W. L. Poole; H0I4 Funeral Service Scully*. _ Victim Of Wreck Funeral services for Mrs. Jane Ferguson Scully, 22, who received fatal injuries in an automobile accident near Rowland the night, of September 1, were held Sunday atfernoon at Raeford Baptist Church. Mrs. Scully had been a patient at Scotland Memorial hos pital since the accident and died Thursday afternoon. The services were conducted by the pastor. Rev. Judson Lennon, Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Burial services, to be held at Old Be- ingham by Atiomey’'H. w^ll of Carthage.. .. ""At Antioch the officers a garage with a “trap” capable of holding 250 cases of liquor. They discovered two cases of liquor before arrestifag McNeill and Watson. Deputy Marshall John Steven son of Southern Pines assisted ABC and ATU officers in the raid. No Hoke County officers were involved. 0 Buck Gridders Open Season Here Friday The Hoke High Bucks begin their 1952 season tomorrow night at 8:00 at .\rmory Park wfees they tackle the strong Chadboum eleven. The game was originally scheduled to be played at Chad- bourn but was changed last week and will be the Buck's home game. Both the Bucks and the Panthers started the season off with small squads and few lettermen. At the first of the practice sessions the Bucks had but 24 men out while the Panthers had only 18. Each band’s arrival from Korea. Mrs. Scully was born in Moore unaries ... bounty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Finance, Younger Snead, N. H. G. Balfour, Tom McBryde; Legal, Arthur D. Gore; Public relations. thesda Cemetery at Aberdeen, are , several good lettermen being delayed pending her hus- I graduation and will field teams composed largely of new- Enrollment figures on the white schools in the county were re leased by the board of education - Js week and showed that Hoke iligh and McLauchlin Elemen tary schools gained pupils while Ashemont, Mildouson and Rock- fish each had fewer than last year. Ashemont dropped from 106 to 100, Mildouson from 79 to 73 and Rockfish from 91 to 82, making a net loss outside Raeford of 21. The eighth grade in Raeford drop ped from 101 to 94, raisiiig the total loss to 28. Hoke High gained 14, rising from 261 to 275 and the biggest gain of all was shown at the Mc Lauchlin school, where there are 587 as compart with 506 last year, a gain of 81. Total enroll ment in all schools this year is 1211 and last year’s was 1141. Paul Dickson and Jake Austin; Americanism, Dr. Julius Jordan, R. L. Murray, W. L. Howell, Jr., Athletic, Robert Gatlin, T. B. Les ter, J. D. McNeill and J. H. Blue; Child Welfare, L. Sr-McMillan. 0 HD CHORUS TO MEET The Home Demonstration Cho rus will meet Friday night, Sep tember 12, at 7:45, in the Ladies’ Parlor of the Raeford Presbyter- Church. AU members and interested is invited to lan anyone attend. HKATHERHaS Sandy Grove Methodist, on Thursday, September 25, noon. Slifldi Presbyterian, Urals'^ day, October 9, 5:00 o’dodk. Aniioeh Presbyterian, Thurs day, October 16, noon. Archie Ferguson of Raeford. She is survived by her husband, Thomas F. ScuUy, U. S. Army in Korea, her parents; a daughter, Katherine; four sisters, Mrs. J. D. Fly, Raeford, Mrs. C. L. Glisson, My^e Beach, S. C., Mrs. J. D. Ruth, Angola, Indiana; three bro thers, Marvin Ferguson, TJUing- ton, Clarence Ferguson, Durham, and A. T. Ferguson of Raeford. O Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Hubbard spent the week end at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. B^inett Cox is visiting her dau^ter, Mrs. Archie Barnes in Carthage this week. Mrs. G. P. Wynd had as guests Sunday, Mrs. Wynd’s father, A. J. Crawford, wd Mr. and Mrs. Denver DUworth of Greenville, South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Potter and diildren and Mr. and Mrs. Furman daric and their duldra spent the we^ aid at Mntle Beadi. comers. Both teams will run from the T formation and it promises to be a wide open game with the fav orite a toss-up. The Bucks will outweigh their opponents in the line an average of 176 to 168 pounds and will also have a weight advantage in the badtfield of 150 to 145 pounds. The probable starting line-up for the Bucks as announced by Coaches Bob Rockholz and Bait Huggins are UB., 'White; L.T.* Culbreth; L.G., Brown; C., Ban ner; R.G., Clark; R.T., WillCQiA Co-Capt.; R. E., Baggett; QJB.,' McNeill; UEL, McLeod; R.H.* Lo- vette and Fjk, SappoJfifiM, CS»- Capt. CSUKCH OF GOD RkVIVAIi The Rev. C. G. Carter, peetOK of the Raeford C9iureh of announced this we^ that services would begin OD Sunday night and coatkme with the preadiint Iw H* A. B. AUoL He extended a cmne to aU and •“ awMalidar.^:. to attend.