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W\W Iv'* ' "^' voici or WIDOM »*^l GUMUMAtt OFUBEKTV The -Journal w‘‘'*#i m j - VMCf or IMIOOM oriMtif The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal / rr^m HUL 'VOLUME XLVH; NUMBER 28 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1952 RAEFORD, N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY $3.00 PER TEAS m ^’0 There seems to be .quite a few itenis to be commented on this week ... Crawford Wright’s pub licity, The Army’s land acquisi tion plans, the significance of the highway, route through, or around, Raeford, the dreamed of Raeford . Graded school addition, -the post master situation, and the increase in highway fatalities in the coim- ty. Guess I’ll have to take first things first and go as ‘far as I have room for,- Taking Crawford Wright and the things that were said about him m Federal court last week . . . what the officers said about his reputation is undoubtedly true, as i ^ha^ heard these things said myself, and a member of the pres ent board of county commissioners "told me this week that members W the board had heard these things when they discontinued the office of rural policeman several years ago, and that they had dis continued the office as the easiest way to get rid of an officer with that reputation, if, as it appears to me on reading the Greensboro “News” item, Crawford wrote in his letter that Brantley Allen was a man of gmd reputation, ^e did not tell the truth, unless yoii can say that a man with reputation for being a bootlegger has a good re putation. I can’t believe that Crawford Wright has beeh asleep enough not to know that Brantley Allen had such -a reputation. Three people got arrested for traffic violations in connection with the fire on Magnofia street lastiT.}£irsday has been an ordinance about motorists interfering with the Fire Depart ment on the town books for some time, and after last Thursday Fire ■Chief Lewis said the fire and po lice departments will try to get it enforced. It requires motor ists to pull to the side of the street and remain stopped until the fire trucks have passed or gone the other way, and not-to. drive in the block where there is a fire. Firemen and policemen, he said, will report all violators in the fu ture. Well, that seems right to me, only the law should Jj^ve 'been enforced ever since it was passed. Legionnaires Oppose Bohus Referendum At their monthly meeting last Friday night members of the Ellis Williamson post of the American Legion passed a resoluti^on oppos- a State referendum mi the pay ment of a bonus by the State to veterans of the last two wars and the Korean War. After consider able discussion the vote against the referendum was imanimous. Post Commander R. B. Lewis, du^pussing'the matter, said “The local American Legion post imges all ex-service men to thoroughly study the proposed referendum be fore signing any petitions. Ask yourself if the State can afford to pay this money, and if so, can you afford to pay more taxes? Also, who is pushing this matter and why? We can always remem __ McPhaul who sank 17 points with As He~saicr,~T;ft€~firenieiirarerv&li2ii-t^iawreiiee-M^eill-gettiiig-13_^nd Kf- teers Who serve the community, and they have to get from, their jobs to the fire house and from there to the fire when the alarm soimds, and they shouldn’t have to risk getting run down by oth ers going just for curiosity . . An other one they ought to start en forcing is the^^one about turning around in the middle of blocks on l Main street. We all ought to stop it—even the policemen and patrol men except when they are in a legitimate hurry. rumor thgt Charles Morrison is a Republican, for the benefit of whoever started it. I went to the registration books for Precinct No. 1 in Raeford and saw that he is registered as a Democrat. .. As best I can~tell, the article printed this week about the Army wanting land is the truth, and just about the whole truth. 'There are a lot of indefinite statements in it, and from all I could .get out of the engineers and Congressman Deane the situation itself is just • that mdefinite. The Army Wants some land, for sure, and what is described is what they are consid ering. When they make up their mindi, what land they want, it will still have to approved by the Defense Department and the conj*- gressional committees before they "can get it. I wish more information was available; but I don’t believe there is any more definite infor- p mation at this time. . . I wonder. where Congressman C. B JJeane I ^ was when the $49,000,000 appro- priation bill was passed. 1'^ Last word bn the Graded school I- building here is good. They tell I me the architect and the Raleigh people are getting along well, and complete, approve plans ior the building should not be too tar off. Let’s hope so. thing . . . someone has to pay back. A meeting will be held in this coimty on December l6 to give veterans the favorable side of this proposition. Let’s not be fooled.” He also called attention of vete rans to the Legion’s annual mem bership drive now going on and to the fact that all who have not joined since August should do so. “Let’s make the Legion strong,” he said, “look at its record. Vete- ing State referendum on the pay- it is doing and what it is trymg to do.” • Hoke Higb Wins Three Out Of Four The Hoke High Bucks and Does won three games last week and lost only one as they advanced furtt^ into their basketball ^sche dule: For the Bucks it was a matter of splitting two as they^jiefeated Maxton 52-47 Tuesday night after dropping a 49-38 affair in Laur- mburg Saturday night. Against Laurihburg they faced the same team that went to the state Class AA finals last spring. Leading the scoring for the Bucks was Joe Cul- breth with 15 and runner-up was Lawrence McNeill with 11. Tuesday night they played in Maxton and scored 20 points in the final quarter to come from behind and defeat Maxton 52-47. High scorer for the Bucks was Johnny Witness Gives Hoke Deputy Bad Name In Court From The Greensboro Daily News Gyeensboro, Dec. 6—A Hoke County deputy sheriff was accus' ed of being in league with boot leggers by government, agents testifying yesterday in ^Middle District Court here. Qne witness termed the charac ter of j. Crawford Wright as “very bad” and added that the officer had a reputation for protecting Hoke County bootleggers. Another witness said narcotics agents had received complaints against the deputy. , „ ^ X X,.. ^ Touched Off By Letter her that we get notomg for no- K ^he testimony was touched off thmg . . . someone has to pay it Joe Culbreth and Palmer Willcox ^ach scoring 8. The Does won both their games as they outscored the Laurinburg Scotties in the ,last half and pull ed away to win 37-25. A tight de fense'set up by the guards of the Does kept the Scotties from scor ing* a single point in the final quarter. Claudine Hodgin pacgd the local forwards as she accoimt- ed for 17 points followed by Jane Guin with 131 Tuesday night it was virtually no contest for them as they won handily from the Maxton sexter 35-11. A case of excellent guard ing on the part of Raeford and no defense on the part of Maxton led the way for plenty of rescues seeing action for Raeford during the second half. Hodgin was again high scorer for the Does with 16 points. Jane Guin had 9 points and Ina Scull scored 8. Friday night the local teams journey to Rowland for the sec ond meeting of the two clubs this year nnd Tuesday night they meet a strong Class AA Lumberton tedm in Lmnberton. The pre-hol iday schedule will close but on Dec. .19 as they engage Laurinburg on the local court. fc— —■ BANks OF STATE TO BE CLOSED DEC. 25 AND 26 bootleggmg in Hoke County, that ^4-fae^a&Jim stills, himself, a. big letter from Wright vouching e character of two Raeford trial for failing to possess stamps on whiskey they sold. In defending Brantley Allen and Daniel A. Peterson on the charge. Attorney Herbert Seawell, Jr., of Carthage, was cross-examining John L. West, Fayetteville ATTD agent. Producing the deputy’s letter, Seawell asked, “Do you know Mr. Wright?” “Yes,” West replied. “He is a man of high character-” Seawell continued. Bombshell Reply West’s reply to the routine ques tion was like a bombshell, “No sir, he is not,” the ATTD man an swered. Taken aback, Seawell pressed, “You testify that Mr. J. Crawford Wright, who has been the chi^ -deputy in Hoke County fbf* 20 ■years, has a bad reputation.” “He does,” West replied. Seawell dropped the line of questioning, but Judge Johnson J. Hayes recalled West and another ATTD agent, Boyd L. Tickih, be fore giving Allen a year and a day suspended sentence and placing Peterson on probation ^ for two years. It was Ticktm who said Wright’s character was “very bad.” “I wish you would elaborate,” T. C. Bethea, assistant district at torney, stated. Credit AMociation Holds Antiual Meet ■The annual meeting of the Laur inburg Production Credit Associa tion was held here yesterday and was attended by about 160 persons. The meeting was held in the court house and was a short and' infor mative one. N. H. G. Balfour, president of the association, gave a report and Reid Childress gave a report on the sale of stock. H. L. Morgan made a short talk on the operations of the Credit Association and stated that the organization had loaned approx imately $10,000,000 since it had been organized 19 years ago. Members of the board of direc tors are N. H. G. Balfour, pres.; F. C. McCormick, vice-president; Ed Wooley, Reid Childress and Arch McEachern, directors and H. L. Morgan, Secretary. Two K9led,Two hjured h Wreck —i-ip— Two Negroes ; died and two more were carrIM to the hospital as a result of an automobile wreck early Monday morning on the Fay- ville highway, three miles within the county line^’ Elder McRae tlied within a few minutes after the car in which he was riding swe^ed off the road and" glanced off a .pine tree. His small daughter, Eunice, died in a Fayetteville hospital Monday night from a sbvere head injury received. His i^ife, Mallie Mae, who was driving, and, another passrager of ;^e ''auto, Connie K^ynor* were .«aTi^do the hos- and at Reports were stiU in serious condition. The accident, which was inves tigated by State Highway Patrol man W. T. Herbin, was said to have been caused when a tire blew out and due to the speed of the car it went out of control. The McRae’s address was listed as Route 3, Fayetteville while Maynor’s address is Raeford, Route 1. These 2 deaths bring the number of highway fatalities to eight for the year in Hoke County. ^0 Congressman Says Army Does Want Bragg-Mackall Corridor Morrison Backed “I’ve heard through some verylp^^ Postmastcr Job reliable officers that he protects: . ■ . n- steam still that was cut up there a few months ago, and I heard that he had half ownership in a big still.” Never Saw 'Wright ^ Under cross-examination, Tick- tin admitted that he had never seen 'Wright and that he was re peating what he had been told. In calling West back to the stand Judge Hayes remarked, “You said that the officer’s character was bad. Do you desire to make any explanation in what respect it was bad?” Members of the North Carolina Bankers Association will*'observe banking holidays on. December 25 and 26, it was announced today. A proclamation by Governor Kerr Scott directs that all banks, state and national, in the state, must be closed on Friday, Decem ber 26, under the banking laws of North Carolina. The holiday was designated by the governor upon request by rep resentatives of banking interests of the state. I would also like to point out that 1 answered that question as a re sult of a question by Mr. Seawell. I did not intend to bring it out in court. Mr. Seawell asked if he had a good reputation and I could not answer yes. I’ve kno'wn Mr. Wright for 12 years and kno'wn him per sonally for the past three or four years. Crawford has gained the reputation of covering up for boot leggers and as a matter of fact for both of these defendants. 'When I was with the Bureau of Narcotics, we received several letters con cerning Crawford’s drmking and use of narcotics.” Attorney Shocked At this point, Seawell inter rupted. “'Whenever a man has been prosecuting people for 20 years and a federal officer comes and says he is a man of bad char acter, it shocks my sensibilities.” Judge Hayes answered, “I just wanted to find what was the oc casion for this.” Earlier in the trial. West had testified that “numerous letters” had been received concerning the alleged liquor sales of Allen and his employee, Peterson. Allen is proprietor of the Allen Truck Ter- minaL “The majority of these letters (OoSktbiMd on Pif* 10) The Hoke Democratic Execu- / tive Committee met last week for oT the vacancy as the purpose someone to fill Raeford postmaster caused by the recent death of Lacy Clark. The committee voted to recommend Charles E. Morrison to Congress man C. B. Dean^r'lbr teh tempo rary appointment. Up to this time no action has been taken by the post office de partment and Miss Lona Graham is still in charge of the post of- fic)?, although Morrison’s appoint ment as acting postmaster is ex pected shortly New Judge Has Full Day Tuesday i Judge T. O. Moses was sworn in Tuesday morning as j'udge of Hoke County recorder’s court and went to work on a docket that kept him on the job until six that night. R. E. Hilton and F. A. Younst, white men of Thomasville, were charged with hunting at night and killing a doe. They were found not guilty. In a case that took most of the afternoon to hear, Archie Thomas Ferguson, white, was found guilty of non support. Judgment was postponed one week. Luther E. Brock, white, offer ed no defense on a charge of driv ing drunk. He was sentenced to four months on the roads, sus pended on payment of $100 and the costs. Edwin McPhatter, colored, got 60 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs for carrying a con cealed weapon. Bud Jones, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs for disorderly conduct. The State dropped its charge of having no driver’s license against Leslie Lee McMillan. Delous Adon Graham, colored, got 30 days sus pended oh payment of $10 and the costs and C. D. Kuezendorfer, white, forfeited a $50 bond, both for the same offense, For cafeless and reddest driv ing King Blue, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs; Levont Mack, colored, 60 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs; John Wesley Oxen- dine, Indian, four to six months suspended on payment of $100 and costs; James T. Barefoot, white, 60 days suspended on pay ment of $25 and costs., For being drunk and disorderly Edmund Johnson, colored, paid costs and Saul Dupree, colored, paid $10 and costs. Each had a 30-day sentence suspended. For having improper brakes John Archie McNeill and Leander Blackman, both colored, each paid $10 and costs. For having Gordon Gray Will Address Church Men PRESIDENT GORDON GRAY Engineers Als« Expect Te Survey Land NerA Aad East Of Raefotd, U. S. I5-A Congressman C. B. Deane in formed The News-Journal and the Hoke County commissioners last week that the Army does have money to buy more land, that they are making surveys preparatory to buying more land and that they want to own a corridor between Fort Bragg and Camp MackalL The exact land they want cuad whether or not they will get what they want 'will not be finally de termined until after the sxurveys are completed and other steps am taken in Washington. His letter follows, in part. “During the last session of Con gress, an* appropriation of $40,- 000,000 was authorized to be used at Fort Bragg in connection wiflt Maintenance, operation facQitieib housing, training tacUities and „ , _ x. x „ X,. acquisitiM. Under the same Congresdon^ct, varioUB army posts and canips throughout the continental United States wem included in the same program. “The Defense Establishmmit imder Congressional Directive is now making surveys throughout the country adjoining varioui army posts that are involved. The surveys adjoining Fort Bragg axe under the direction of tie U. ^ Corps of Engineers out of the Sa- j vannah District office. “In my contact 'with the Defense Establishment t was advi^j^ it was the d The Hoke County board of com missioners held a special session recommenamig|'sjveraH±iings-:wreng-withr4iis-Gar.^-^^eji^y.^to_^^^^,;yi^^^^^ Thomas, colored, got 30 Consolidated University of North Carolina, will be the speaker at the annual joint meeting and sup per of the men’s clubs of the Rae ford, Baptist, Methodist and Pres byterian churches, 'which will be held at the Methodist church at seven o’clock next Tuesday night. The Presbyterian men are to be hosts at the meeting and are finishing the program as well as the supper, as the clubs take turn doing this at their annual joint meetings. The meeting is being held at the MethocMst church due to the better facilities there for handling the large group of men expected to attend. Mr. Gray is former publisher of the Winston-Salem Sentinel and Journal, and is a former Secretary of the Army. This will be his first public appearance here. 0 — County Board Gives 0. K. To 15-A Alternate Clyde Thomas, colored, got days suspended on payment of $20 and costs. Loffie Hardy, colored man charged with having no driv er’s license and improper brakes, failed, to appear and capias was issued. BONUS DAY WINNERS also “'^enSmse^ Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen for membership on the State High way Commission' from the Sixth Division. (I Milton Mann Initiated Into Phi Beta Kappa Milton Bernard Mann of Rae- fird was one of 38 students at the University of North Carolina who were initiated into Phi Beta Kap pa, honorary scholastic fraternity, at ceremonies in the ‘Dialectic Senate hall at Chapel Hill last week. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Israel Mann of Raeford, and is a student in the medical school at the university. He completed the regulcir course for his" bachelor of science degree last year, his third. Undergraduate membership in Phi Beta Kappa is limited to stu dents attaining an acadmeic aver age of at least 92.5 in all their courses. —1_ 0 CHAMBER MEET TONIGHT The annual meeting of the members of the Raeford Chamber of Commerce will be held in the coiurthouse at 8:00 o’clock tonight. New directors 'will be elected and several matters of importance to the community wiU be discussed. Mrs. M. L. Maxwell of Route 1 and R. F. Clark were the winners of the Bonus Day money last Sat urday and they each wen $20, as Clark. It was wrongly reported last week that Mrs. Ruby Conoly was one of the winners when in real ity it was Mrs. Ruby Clark. 0 M. Y. F. PAGEANT SUNDAY The Intermediate Methodist Youth Fellowship will present a Christmas pageant, “The Day spring From on High,” Sunday night, December 14, at 7:30 in the Methodist Church basement. The group will be assisted by the choirs of the church. The public is cordi2illy invited to attend. 0 PRESBYTERIAN PAGEANT The nativity i pageant, “There Was One Who Gave a Lamb”, will be given at the Presbyterism Chiurch Sunday night at 7:30. 'The Carol, Chapel, Boys, emd Pioneer choirs win participate in this pro gram, which is being directed by Miss Martha Davenport. Mrs. Fred Culbreth and the Women of the Churdi ^ assisting with the di rection, and Mrs. A. K. Stevens, Jr., accompanying at the organ. The “Joy Gita Offoing” lor xetized ministers will be taken. 'Die pub lic is cordially invited. lives of the State Highway com mission about a proposed “con necting coimty "road”' to make it easier for heavy traffic on U: S. Highway 15-A to get through Raeford. Before meeting with the high way men the board voted to raise the salaries of the judge and soli citor of the Recorder’s court from $75 to $100 per month. T. O. Moses, who was sworn in as judge and held his first court on Tues day, appeared ^jpfly before the. bbar9!T^ bodfd'^also set aside an office in the courthouse for the use of judges of the recorder’s and superior court, the key to be kept by the clerk. ' After 'viewing the map and hearing it explained by the hi^- way men, certain changes were made and the board voted unani mously to approve the construc- tioh of the road, together with an overpass over the A & R railroad and State Highway 211 in the 'west edge of Raeford. Town of Raeford mayor .and commissipners were invited to the meeting to hear the discussion and make .any com ments they desired before the county board took action, but only A. -V. Sanders and Marion Gatlin were able to attend. The route of the proposed road changes starts where the “211 cutoff’ now leaves 15-A about foiur miles east of Raeford. The highway there will be straightened into the cutoff. From there it 'will follow the cutoff to the Jess Dun lap comer' at the Raeford-ITass road north of town. The new route will leave the cutoff a lew taet west of this comer and will curve just east of Ardi Sanders sawdust pile, crossing 211 and the A & R just a tew feet from where cross eadi other near the Raefecd (OwttBMd OR rm m tive' of 'ftte'^riay Department to establish a COTridw between Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall in order to connect up these two reservations for the ad ditional training and maneuvering facilities. “After these surveys have be^ reduced to the blue print stage; they^will be submitted to the Army Department, who will eith er approve or disapprove. If the x-\rmy Department approves of the acquisition of land in this corri dor, the Army must submit its recommendation to the House and Senate Armed Services Conunit- tees and these committees, without any further action of Congress; will make recommendation to the efense Establishment as to whether the x\rmy l5eparffiCTS“^ would purchase the property out of the above described appropria- |ion. “I have requested the officials of the Army Department to ad'vise with County officials who are in volved in this prog3ram to the end that the rights of al citizens. be protected and safe guarded. “So far as I have been able to determine, the land within thi* corridor is located in Hoke, Scot- Engineers from the Savannah District Engineer office are now working' in Ciunberland Coun^T and expect to start working in this county withia the next 60 days. 'When the Army will take land it decides to take is not ex actly known, but engineers are leaving the general impresston that they expect to be workhag the project for firom one to &ree years. Land the engineers eaqpect to survey as under consideratim lor Army acquisition includes tiiat ia Cumberland County west of the A & R railroad and the road from 15-A, beyond the fish hatchery to Fort Bragg and north of Hi^waqr 15-xA to the Hoke County lino; north of a line west along 15-A to the N. C. 211 cutoff aboita four miles from Raeford; thence along this cutoff to N. C. 211, 'witil churdies, schools and p9Ulated sections such as die coHond x«ai* dential section north of Raetetd being eliminated; thence akmg tta road known as “Tumpike road” gen^»lly southwest to tite CamR Mackall boundary. On the wart side pnp^tr mqpected to ha veyed fur coortdintiaat doai aak include the RMA SaBahartBMi ad McCain hut south of a
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