Newspapers / The News-Journal (Raeford, N.C.) / Oct. 16, 1952, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The News-Journal (Raeford, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
¥OICI Of miPOM VMM* GUMDIAM Of I'BtRTV -Journal The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLVU; NUMBER 20 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16,1952 RAEFORD, N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR c^dcUnda By the Editor Hearing high-ranki]ig officers of the Regular Army and Air Force speak to the conference of the National Guard Association in Denver, Colorado, last week, I was impressed ^with their use of “when” instead of “if” in refer ring to the next world-wide con flict. I guess that attitude is some what habitual with people whose full time profession is that of arms, but they were certainly dead serious. i It made me feel better to hear that men of the high class I heard there are worrying and planning about our protection. They are doing their job. I resolved to come back here and do what little I am able to get more of us to do our jobs in run ning this grteat country in these times which certainly “try men’s souls.” We all have a part in this country’s destiny, in that our Aucltion 3ale8—Some' Sold, Some Didn’t Property on the outskirts gf town and some in town itself has been placed on the auction block in the last couple of weeks and while some of it sold well the rest of it either didn’t sell at all or else went rather cheap. One sale that attracted more attention than the others was the Mattie Bethime Estate which was held last Saturday. Both the farm on 15-A south 4nd the town pro perty at the Aberdeen highway corner were sold. Both properties were bought by the same party, A. L. Palmer of Raleigh, husband of one of the heirs. The farm brought $18,900.00 and the.house in town brought $7,800.00. These sales are subject to a raised bid within ten days of teh auction date. Teh house furnishings were sold to individuals at the sale. The Neill Graham farm, the Brantley Allen residence, a single lot and the A. D. Peterson pro petty which were offered all on the sam^ day failed to sell with the exception of the Peterson land The Peterson property was sub votes, every one of them cast one at a time, will determine our lead- j divided into residential lots and ership for the next four uncertain most of these sold although some Reorganize Local i;“p“JrS«S"Gone Boy Scout Troop years. It seems such a small duty that none of us would shirk it, but many do. Those of us who have not registered to vote may do so at our voting places next Sat urday and the one following! Without doing so we will not have the privilege of doing this part of our duty to our country on November 4. The Democrats and the Republicans both think they can run the coimtry best for the next four years and it’s up to us to decide which shall do it. The decision should be made by all of .us,. too, ndt just a few, for thsi>re- sult will certainly amct us all. We can see arguments for both sides in the daily papers and mag azines every day and we should read them to reach an honest de cision. For those who don’t see these publications a letter from Dewitt Tapp in this paper gives one side, and I’ll be glad to give anyone the other on any street corner any time. One of the major speakers at the National Guard conference was Major General Bernard W. McFadyen, G-1, or chief of the personnel division of the Depa^ —naent-iof-theT^nnyrileTntere^^ me because he is a native of Fay etteville and kin to many of the McFadyens in Hoke and Cum berland Counties. He went into the A%my with the National Guard at the beginning of World War I, was commissioned in the Regular Army and stayed in. I was able to chat with him a few minute's ^bout J;his neck of^^^^yo^d^^^^^^^ who had'^eard of Longstreet church and Rockfish creek. opinions are that they went rather cheap. — O First Concert Of Fall FMC Artist Series Next Monday Night The Reginald Kell Players, famous chamb^jr ensemble, will open the 1952-58 artist series at Flora Macdonald college with a concert on Monday evening, Oc tober 20, at 8:15. Tall, Britishrbora Regin|[j|)d:Kell,. fdf ;Whbm the group Was named, is unanimously acclafmed both here and abroad, as. the world’s greatest Uving clarinetist, an^ is reckoned one of the great Mozart interpreters of our time on any instrument. He always sticks strictly to the classics, but counts many a jazz player among those who come to admire his xmpar- alleled technique, including Ben- •ny Goodman, to whom he has given lessons in classical techni que. I think the Jaycees and the Chamber of Commerce should get -together and buy a couple of cows. Then they should take some of these unpainted street comer posts- which the Chamber of Commerce was going to paint and hitch the cows in the hay fields in the middle of Main street which the Jaycees were go ing to keep beautiful. Mrs. J. M. Baker, clerk of the local draft board,'says that calls for induction of two men this month and 20 next month will take “all men in the county who have been examined and accept ed and who have passed their 20th birthday.” Of course, these men still have the privilege of enlist ing in the service of their choice up until they are ordered to re port for induction. Reason the Army is needing more and more men is the fact that about two- thirds of the men it has are com ing and going and being trained. This is necessary so that men can be rotated from combat, that their replacements may be properly trained, and so that every man entitled to sep aration may reach his 'separation point before the date he is due to get out. As the expiration of the terms of service for "more selectees and National Guardsmen nm out the Army’s demands for men will get even gi^ater. Mr. Kell made his Town Hall debut in 1948 as guest artist with the Busch Quartet, scoring one more success in a long line of Kell triumphs. He was first clarinetist with Sir Thomas Beechan’s Lon don Philharmonic in 1932, and in 1939 played under Toscanini at the famous Lucerne Festival. Dur ing the war, the British govern ment deemed Kell’s music so es sential to. morale thkt it prevented his volunteering, keeping him at work before t^^British micro- Mr. Kell will be accompanied on this, his 4th tour in the United States, by the three other mem bers of his famous group, each an artist of major stature. They are, Joel Rosen, pianist, youngest male member of the group, who has ,been playing with Reginald I^ell since 1948; Melvin Ritter, violin ist, student of the late great Kous- sevitsky, who made his debut at New York’s Town Hall in 1947; and Aurora Natola, Argentine cellist, who made her United States debut two years ago in Boston. A graduate of the National Musical Conservatory of Buenos Aires, she has studied with such musical greats as Pable Casals, Robert Casadesus, and Nadia Boulanger. Both the Boy Scout troop and the Cub Scout pack have been virtually reorganized under a new setup which vvas finally complet ed last week. Ernest Daniels of Laurinburg, chairman of Organization and Ex tension of the Western District of the Cape Fear Area, was present at a meeting of local scouting of ficials last week and he explained how the new system will be bet ter than the old one. The troop was registered at this meeting and under the new setup of zoning was ^ assigned a new troop number. Since the bay scouts were or ganized in Raeford over a quar ter of a cetnijry ago they have al ways had and been proud of their troop number-"Which was 1. Now it has been redesignated as Troop 401, which means that it is the first troop in the 4th‘district of the Cape Fear Coimcil. All scout troops will receive new troop numbers. 400-450 will designate white troops in this district and 450-500 will signify colored troops. Heading the troop committee as chairman is Yoimger Snead. Other members are Tom Cameron, Dr. R. Lj Murray, J. B. Talbert and Dr. Marcus Smith. The in stitutional representative for both boy scouts and ■ the cub scouts is Israel Mann. Scoutmatser of the boy scouts is Jimmy Woodhouse; assistants are Carson Davis and G6ne Smith. ^ On the cub scout committee ere HarveyGobeiUe, who is the pack chairman, Marion Gatlin, Clyde Upchurc!^, Wi L. Hf)WeR, Jr« ihd John- W". Iia&Phauf. Cubriiaster is C. L. Thomas and his assistant is Ray Griffin. At the present time they are contempalting or ganizing “dens” in each section of the town. Each den should have from 5 to 8 boys in it. The ages for cub scouts are 8 to 11. The boy scouts meet each Thursday evening in the scout hut opposite the high school gym. Any boy who is over 11 years old is welcome to join and is urged to attend the meetings. —o— With both State Highway pa trolmen out of town on business Tuesday morning all the traffic cases set to be tried before Judge Harry Greene Tuesday morming in which they were involved had to be postponed, and not much was left. William E. Taylor, white, en tered a plea of guilty of driving drunk. Sentence was six to nine months on the roads to be sus pended on payment of $150 and costs and good behavior for two years. In another case he was found guilty of damaging the jail. He got three to«six months for this, to be suspended on condition that he repair the jail and pay the costs. Carl Babbs, white, on a plea of guilty of driving dnmk, got from six to nine months to be suspended on pasnnent of $150 and the costs, on condition that he surrender his driver’s license and that it be revoked for 18 months, and on two years good behavior. He was also found guilty of driving with improper driveris license and li cense plates. He got three to six more months for this to be sus pended on payment of $25 and costs. He is still in the county jail. Farm Bureau Acts To Help Cotton Prices Miss Smoak Chosen May^Quees Massey Hill High Romps To Easy 20-0 Win Friday Hope Mills Here Tomorrow The powerhouse eleven from Massey Hill proved to be too much for the local Bucks as they easily won, 20-0, last Friday night in Armory Park. It was the Bucks second loss of the season as against only one win and one tie. Bench strategy backfired for the locals twice ^nd each time it directly or indirectly led to a touchdown for the Pirates. Raeford received the kickoff and returned it to the 25. Three line plays gained but 4 yards and the locals kicked to the visitors on the 47. The Massey Hill receiver fum bled the punt and Koonce pounced on it for the Bucks. Three more plvmges at the Massey Hill line failed to dent it and with fourth down on their own 45 and eight lo go a pass play was attempted. The passer failed in his attenipt , and he was trapped behind the 1 affect the market some whUe the line for an eight yard loss before Hally Blythe, president of the Hoke County Farm Bureau, and W. J. Coates, secretary, last Fri day wired Secretary of Aricul- ture Charles F. Brannan in the name of the coimty bureau asking that immediate steps be taken to stabilize cotton prices so that ihe farmers may get the cost of pro duction and a reasonable prof.t from their cotton crop this year. The action was taken in viev/ of the market break in the past few weeks an dthe secretary was asked to do anything he could to get export movement of the crop under way at once and to take any other measures possible to stabilize the price. The raise in the 1952 estimate last week was the last thing to add to the falling price. The action was taken by State and County units of the Fairm Bu reau over the cotton growing belt and while too early yet for le- sults to be seen, it is hoped and expected by local leaders that whatever action taken may still Capacity Crowds Attend Union Revival Services Lettie Robertson, colored, en tered a plea of not guilty of being drunk and disorderly and Judge Greene suspended judgment until he could get a ruling from a doc tor as her sanity. John JBuster Townsend, colored, offered no defense on two charges of violating the ptohibition laws, Judge Greepe put a six months sentence suspencted last, May on behavior into etiket and gave him a total of from nine to 12 months more. He appealed and posted $300 bond. ' , Burnett Held For Grand Jury Action A coroi/er’s jury, in an inquest last Wednesday night, decided to hold H. H. Burnett for action by the grand jury. Burnett out on bond, for being involved in the al leged hit-and-run accident and death of Pearl Shipman, colored woman of Raeford, on Sept. 24. (From Montr^at News Bureau) Montreat, Oct. 15—Miss Mary Ann Smoak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smoak of Ashley Heights, has been chosen by the student body at Montreat College to. reign as May Queen in the 1953 May Day festivities. The newly-elected queen vs^^lso, ^»8f the,,^Shid«iLL ChristiarTAssoci^ion, secretary o: the senior class, and a member of the college chorus. A student of piano and voice, she has been president of the college music club for two years. Other members of the May Court will be chosen later from the Montreal College and Pre paratory School student bodies. His bond of $2500 was continued pending the meeting of the grand jury at the November term of court. 1 -0 Former Raeford Man Dies Suddenly Tues. he could throw the ball. Massey Hill took over and be gan a march down the field pick ing up yardage on almost everj' play. It ended on the Bucks 9 yard liiie where they fumbled on a line buck and the locals took oyer. They gained 3 yards, in two plays arid then attempted to kick on the 3rd down. The kick was blocked by the hard charging Pirates line and they took over on the 6. Three plays latter their large fullback went over from the 1. The placement attempt was good and Massey Hill led 7-0. The remeiinder of the second quarter saw both teams beginning drives that seemed to be unstop pable only to bog down or lose the slippery ball on fumbles. The half ended and Massey Hill still led 7-0. Raeford penetrated as far as the 37 yard line of Massey Hill during the 2nd quarter. The third quarter was almo.st a repetition of the second as neith er team was able to score. In the fourth quarter the Massey Hill backs began to find their footing on the slippery field and reeled off gains of 25, 15, and 35 yards ■ThP Bucks had a kickeeb blocked cotton is gtill in hte hands of the producers, who have been urged to hold their cotton where possi ble. t The secretary of agriculture- made a statement on Tuesday of this week to the effect that the crop would still be insufficient for domestic and foreign needs, and ttiis is expected to have a fav orable effect on demand in a few days. The crop is still expected to be over a million bales short. Home Demonstration County Council Meets The Hoke County Council of Home Demonstration -Clubs met in the Lions Club room of the County Office Building on Friday afternoon, Mrs. Tom C. Sinclair, Coimty Council President, presid ed. After the reading of the min utes of the previous meeting, the roll was called by Mrs. B. L. Wil liamson, Secretary- Several items of business were acted upon. The State Rural Health Meeting to be held in Ra leigh on October 15th was discuss- .ed. l^iss HaU, Home Agent, an- noupced that a bus had been Dr. Julian Lake preached to capacity congr^ations in the Raeford Methodist Church on the first three nights of the Union Revival services being conducted there this week. The services, which started Sunday night, are being jointly sponsored by the Raeford Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches and by tb? Peoples Methodist church. The church was filled to over flowing on Sunday and Tuesday nights and on Monday night quire a sizable group had to sit in the chapel and listen to the service over the public address system. Dr. Lake subject on Sunday night was “The Art of Forgetting.” On Monday night he spoke on “The Glory of Christian JJarri- age,” and on Tuesday night on “What Prayer Means to Me.” To night Dr. Lake’s sermon will be on “Worry”. Tomorrow night he will use “On Being Saved” as his subject. Sunday morning he will preach on “I Build My Church,” and Sunday evening on “What Is In Thine Hand!” His delivery is considered high ly effective by all who have heard him. He is an earnest and direct preacher whose approach is so personal that most feel that he is talking directly to them as indi viduals, drawing on his broad per sonal experience as a pastor and counselor. The Rev. Charles Burchette, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Kemersville, has rendered solos at each service which have been well received, and has led the congregational singing. The choir is made up of singers from the four churches participatin,g in the revival series. The services will continue through Firday night, with no service being held Saturday night. There will be both morning and evening services on Sunday, with, the one Sunday night being tne last of the revival. » 0 and after making two first downs the quarterback went 38 yards through the cetner of the line for the visitors second score. The placement was again good and the Pirates led 14-0. A few minutes later a bad pass from center which traveled higher than it did hor izontally was recoi^ered "by Mas- Char les Brown, formerly of sey Hill on the Bucks 18 yard eford but ig^ifeJiow makes his, ,lme- On the first play the quar- lome in RdcKirigham, ctroppe dead suddenly Tuesday night in the biis station. Brown, who was waiting for a bus was reported to have been to a doctor in town earlier and had received some rtiedicine for his heart. The coro ner ruled that he was a victim of a heart attack and no inquest was held. EDITORIAL The Scouts’ “Get-Out-the-Vote” Drive REGISTER ■ at Your Voting Place Saturday So You Can VOTE November 4 Since its inception in this coun try in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has had participating citizenship based on good charac ter as one of its principal goals. Therefore, it is not surprising to find this organized and patriotic group, qualified to render effec tive servij^r~actively engaged in another “goodtum” to the nation. It is the ^ “Get-Out-The-Vote” Campaign which the Boy Scouts are now undertaking in coopera tion with the Freedoms Founda tion. The program is non-parti san, without reference to any to any candidate or parties. Sim ply, it will urge citizens to exer cise their franchise, and go to the polls and vote. In the first phase, the Scouts will place more than one million posters in public places urging- citizens to register so that they can vote in November. Then just before Election Day, Nov. 4, most of the nation’s 2,950,000 Scouts and Leaders will visit 30 million homes, hanging on each door knob a Liberty Bell card which will call to the attention of citi zens the importance of voting. The job needs to be done. Citi zenship is our active membership in the United States of America. It is the relationship between one person and all other persons in the community and the nation. Yet in 1948 when 94,092,000 per sons in the nation were eligible to vote, only 52 per cent went to the polls to cast a total of 48,836,- 579 votes. ’ We have a long way to go to bring the percentage up to a more creohtable figure. May the Scouts succeed in their efforts. Their participation in the worthy enter prise will be a lesson td them in the meaning of participating citi zenship. An important outcome of this project is that probably lew Scouts taking part will ever for get it back agSlS Si^the ball ran 18 yards for the third and final touchdown of the game. Misty weather could be in part blamed for the Bucks loss and it made their passing attack almost zero. The backfield could not gain much against the bigger and tougher visiting Une.^ Performing well for the Bucks were Baggett, McLeod, Culbreth and Brown, "rhe last home game for Raeford this season, barring the scheduling of additional games, will be played tomorrow night when they entertain the eleven from Hope Mills. Their last win was on Sept. 19 and they think they are about due for an other one. 0- Presbyterian Men Set Father-Son Night The Men of the Raeford Pres byterian Church will have their regular monthly supper meeting at the church next Tuesday night, October 21, at 7:00 p.m. This is to be the annual ‘Tather-Son” night of the men’s organization, to which each man is expected to bring his son or sons or some boy. Speaker for the occasion will be Dr. Floyd L. Knight, surgeon of Sanford. Dr. Knight is a native of Moore County, an elder in the Sanford Presbyterian chnrch and was very active in the recently completed “Program of Progress” chartered to carry a group of women from Hoke County to Ra leigh to attend the National Home Demonstration Council Meeting. The meeting is to be held from October 25-29, and the Hoke County women plan to be present on Tuesday, October 28. They will carry their lunch and supper and stay over for the party at the Coli seum. Mrs. Tom Sinclair was official -sS meeting. of the Presbyterian North Carolina. The Farm Bureau membership drive was discussed and it was found that the Pine Forest club was leading in the number of membership# written. Miss Hall announced that the Chaminade Music Club had con tracted to sponsor the Grass Roots Opera at the Hoke High School auditorium on the evening of March 26. The Home Demonstra tion Club women agreed to ad vertise the opera in the various sections of the county. It was announced that applica tions for around twenty-eight reading certificates had been sent to the State Library Commission. Mrs. Bernice Williamson, of the Pine Forest Club, was county reading champion wito one hun dred and eleven books to her cre dit since last November. « The enriched Commeal Program was discussed. BuUetins on this subject were distributed and Foods and Nutrition leaders were asked to report on the bulletins at their club meetings at an early date. Committees for Achievement Day were appointed. The Mildou- son and Arabia Clubs were asked to serve refreshments. Mrs. R. H. Williamson, Mrs. Cliff Conoly, smd Mrs. Horace Walters were asked to serve on the Place Ccan- mittee, and Mrs. Joe Lovette, Mrs. J. M. Norton, and Mrs. Percy Synod uf GiUis were asked to serve oa a committee to secure a spealmr. Escaped Prisoner Caught In County John Bethea, Harnett County Negro,“'serving^n—ie-moa-tfe-t^si- at the Scotland county prison camp for breaking, entering and larceny, escaped from the camp Friday, stole an automobile be longing to Rush Wooley in Wa- gram and took off into Hoke county. The escapee didn’t get too far in his flight before he wrecked the car and was appre hended by'Several officers of the the highway patrol and L. W. Frye, Wagram poliefe cheif.^ Bethea was booked on five counts, two in Scotland county an dthree in Hoke, which were for hit and run, no operator’s li cense and reckless driving. Scot land warrants charged him with escaping from prison and larceny of a car. A hearing was held Saturdav morning in Judge J. B. McKin non’s office and the Negro was sentenced to serve six months for escaping and bound over to Su perior court in the larceny count. He was taken back to the prison camp wehre Weirden A. D. Thames stood his bond for his appearance at the November term of Super ior court in Laurinburg. 0- — CHORUS TO MEET IN WAYSIDE NEXT MONTH At the October meeting of the County Home Demonstration Cou ncil it was decided to hold next month’s chorus meeting in Way side, probably at Parker’s churdu MGATHERMt Aatledi Presbyteriaii, Hum- day, October 18, Mon. • GaHtia Presbyterian. Hum- day, Octobw 18, 5:00 o^dodc. day, Octobsr Mi /fl
The News-Journal (Raeford, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 16, 1952, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75