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The Hoke County News
VOLUME XLVU; NUMBER 50
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1953
The Hoke County Journal
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By the Editor
The story over the radio and
in some of the State papers last
week-end about the Army’s plans
for taking Hoke County land be
ing stalled for this year may or
may not have been true, as I see
it. It was somebody’s opinion, for
sure, but the writer’s name was
not given in the paper I read it
in, nor was any public official in
Washington quoted by name. That
puts it just about in the class with
ordinary gossip, to me, and I feel
that we should save our rejoicing
for something a little more defi
nite. Even if it is true, and due
to the press of other business the
Armed Services committees of
Congress can’t get to the latter
befo>e they adjourn sometime in
July, I don’t see that improves,
our position greatly, except that
there may be something to the
saying that while there’s life
Crop Argmneiit
Takes Several
Hours In Court
Recorder’s court before Judge
T. O. Moses came back after din
ner Tuesday with just about
everything cleared from the doc
ket except the case in which Mrs.
Lottie Thomasson of Durham had
charged G. W. Layton and Harold
Layton, both white of this county,
with violating the landlord-ten
ant act on two counts. This case,
however, kept court in session
until past seven o’clock when it
was finally settled.
The Laytons were charged with
removing crops without notice to
the landlord, and both were found
not guilty. The second charge a-
gainst both was that of dispos
ing of cotton with a landlord’s
lien on it. G. W. Layton was found
not guilty as to this, and Harold
Layton was found gpilty as char
ged. He was ordered to pay court
costs in the case and to pay Mrs.
there’s hope. I know that theThomasson $194.40 with interest
Army is a formidable opponent, for the cotton.
Legion Port Picks i GoveiTior Numes
Officers For Year !_ - -
The Ellis Williamson American rOriCSl LiUvIVCj
Legion Post held its regular mon- HT _
; thly meeting at the Hoke High 1 0 ^OUlIlllSSlUll
School cafeteria Monday night
and enjoyed a fish supper prepar
ed by Israel Mann and committee.
Main business of the meeting
was the election of officers for
the new year which begins July
1. These included Younger Snead
commander, Israel Mann and
Charles Morrison vice-command
ers, Angus Currie adjutant, Jake
Austin finance officer, R. B.
Lewis, chaplain, Dr. Julius Jor
dan service officer, J. D. McNeill,
sergeant-at-arms.
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and that they still intend to get
this land. Maybe they will and
maybe they won’t is about all I
believe anyone can truthfully say
at the moment.
Robert Gatlin and myself were
in Washington last Thursday and
Friday trying to do a little check
ing up on the situation. We knew
that flying home would get us
here pretty fast, but we almost
jtell over when the lady at the air
line desk told w the plade left
Washington at 5:10 and got. to the
Raleigh-Du^a^^^B^jljl^t^tf^^Z^
to Standard time was of course
the answer. Still pretty fast get
ting around, I’d say.
Had intentions all spring to say
something about how much An
nie Dezeme’s little flower garden
down at the depot has helped the
looks of the street. Now that real
hot weather is beginning to get
them, I get around to it. The
flowers there are still mighty
pretty, though.
Speaking of hot weather, it’s
been over 90 for three straight
days now, and 1 found on Wed
nesday afternoon that old Rock-
fish creek felt just as good as I
got to thinking it would sitting
here in this hot office. Don’Lknow
what we’d do without it, unless
we had a lake like Aberdeen or jggg Dunlap, colored, and Lula
David Allen Ivey, white, paid
$10 and costs for speeding, and
Louis L. Hall, white, left a $25
bond for the same offense.
David Lee Dupree, colored, paid
$10 and costs for driving at night
without lights.
Leon Sasser, _ white, paid $25
and costs for careless and reck
less driving and $20 and costs for
having no driver’s license.
State dropped its charge of as
sault against Kermit Parsons,
white.
Thomas j’efferson Roberts,
white, pled i^ilty of refusing to
surrender bls'^NSwSked driver’s'
license to a patrolman, He had to
give up the license arid pay cpsts.
He also pled guilty of interfer
ing with an officer in the perform
ance of his duty. For this he got
30 days suspended on payment of
$25 and costs and two years good
behavior.
Rosetta Rogers, colored, got 30
days suspended on payment of $25
and costs for violating the prohi
bition laws.
' Charlie Gales, white, was found
guilty of assaulting his wife and
sent to the roads for from Six to
18 months. Judge also ordered
that he be given mental exami
nation.
Fred Yarborough, white, got 30
days suspended on payment of $25
and costs and damages for care
less and reckless driving.
For having no driver’s licenses
a swimming pool. And then some
of us would find it hard to stay
away from “the creek.'
Fellow- brought a full grown
cocklebur plant with fully deve
loped burrs on it in here this
week, saying he didn’t believe
he’s ever seen such quite this
early. I wouldn’t know.
I Understand the county board
of education talked about the
question of having a full time
principal at the Raeford Graded
School at their meeting this
month, but didn’t get around to
doing anything about it. Tjhese
men try to do- what they think
will be best fm: the county and
what they think the people want,
so if you think this school, with
23 teachers and over ,700 pupils,
needs a principal who doesn’t
have to teach aU day too, speak to
the members of the board about
it. I understand many have done
so already,
Jones, Indian, each paid $10 arid
costs? C. W. Schade, white, Noah
Locklear, Indian, and William
Luther Brown, colored, each paid
costs.
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COOKING SCHOOL
IS VERY SUCCESSFUL
The cot
, commissioners de-
^jount^,
cided some mne^go to take the
ball park back from the American
Legion and give it to the county
board of education. It seems to me
that if they are going to give it
to the board of education to be
used by the schools, they should
give the schools enough money
to get it in first class shape when
they do, or before. It is riot much
credit to the schools, the county,
the town or anybody else at the
present time.
Merchants and business people
here will rmdoubtedly be glad to
see the poultry processing plant
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The cooking school held at the
Raeford Theatre Tuesday was
well attended and highly success
ful, according to Baucom Appli
ance Company, sponsors of the
event. It was attended by over
200 women who ^aw five complete
meals, one for 2t) persons, cooked
and then given as prizes ,i to five
of the audience. Other prizes
were also given, including glass
ware, mixing. - bowls,, oven ware
and the like. The company ex
pressed themselves as highly
pleased with the success of the
event, and wished to thank all
who attended to make it so suc
cessful.
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HOKE COUNTY STUDENT
Balfour Head Of
Farm Loan Group
N. H. G. Balfour of Hoke
County was elected chairman of
the directors of the National Farm
Loan Association of North Caro
lina as the organization wound up
its annual conference Tuesday in
Raleigh.
George D. Richardson of Ral
eigh was elected a member of the
stockholder’s committee, succeed
ing S. C. Alexander of Scotland
Neck. G. T. Underwood of Mur-
fressboro was elected alternate,
succeeding Richardson.
Columbia, S. C., home of the
Federal Land Bank, was selected
as next year’s conference city and
the annual meeting will be held
there in February, 1954.
The directors went on record
as unanimously approving the
Farm Credit Act of 1953 pending
in Congress which would increase
farmer participatioj\ ui ownership
and control F^eral Farm
Credit System.
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Government To Move
Grain Storage Bins
One.hundred government-own
ed grain storage bins in North
Carolina are now being disman
tled and transferred to Kansas.
They will be used there for
storage of 1952-crop wheat held
under price support loan. Far
mers are forced to clear their
own bins to take care of the big
1953 harvest in the next few
weeks.
The move , will reduce North
Carolina’s pitifuUy-small grain
storage capacity by about 300,000
bushels. Each of the bins hold
3,000 bushels of grain.
The Tar Heel State’s annual
grain harvest, .including com, is
in, the neighborhood of 100,000,000
bushels. Storage capacity is only
a small fraction of that amount.
Ten of the bins are located at
Tarboro, 15 each at Statesville,
Raeford, Smithfield, and Washing
ton, N. C.. and 30 at Elizabeth
City.
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PRESBYTERIANS TO MEET
WITH BAPTIST SUNDAY
Main Street Wreck
Saturday Afternoon
A wreck late Saturday after
noon on Main Street resulted in
considerable damage to cars driv
en by Mrs. Talmadge English of
Raeford and Miss Delore Charle-
ton of Dunn.
The wreck occurred in front
of the Bank of Raeford building
where the car driven by Mrs.
English was backing out of a
parking space and it collided
with Miss Chadleton’s car which
was headed up street. The impact
hurled Mrs. English’s car up on
the sidewalk and against the bank
building. Damage to the Chevrolet
driven by Mrs. English was esti
mated at $200 and to the other'
car, $350.
The only one injured was lit
tle Carol English who suffered
a cut over her right eye.
Both drivers were charged with
reckless driving and the case
is to be heard at next week’s re
corders court.
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POULTRY PLANT HERE PLANS TO
PROCESS 50,000 BIRDS WEEKLY
Little League Is
Ready For Season;
First Game 20tii
Opener Here May 27
To Start Operating Soon
With About 80 Employees
Dean White, treasurer of the
Aberdeen-Raeford Little League
and business manager of the Rae
ford Indians and Tigers, said this
PJC Professor Talks
To Head New 8th District /Po Presbyterian Men
William L. Moses, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. O. Moses, first year
law student at Wake Forest Col
lege, was elected to the student
government for the next school
year in campus elections at Wake
Forest last week. A graduate of
Hoke High School, Moses took
his bachelor of science degree last
year. He is a member of the Sig
ma Phi Epsilon imdergraduate
fraternity and the Phi Delta Phi
legal fraternity.
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Miss Betty Taylor of Fayette
ville spent the week-end vdth
her mother, Mrs. S. B. Taylor.
There will be no service at the
Raeford Presbyterian Church
Sunday night, the Rev. W. B.
Heyward apnoimced this week
Instead the congregation will at
tend services at the Raeford Bap
tist Church. Mr. Heyward said
that this would be an opportunity
for the members of the Presby
terian Church to hear Rev. Judson
Lennon again before he leaves the
Raeford Baptist Church next
month.
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INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
TO ADDRESS KIWANIANS.
'Richard D.^ Arndt, who will
manage the ” chicken processing
plant here for the Priebe-Pietrus
Company, who have leased the
property from Turkalina Farms,
Inc., said this week that opera
tions are expected to begin at
the plant by June 1 or a few
days before. Arndt said that
about 80 persons would be em
ployed in the operation intitially.
week that the league’s organiza-1 and that an output of about 50,
Governor William B. Umstead
this week announced the reor
ganization of the North Carolina
Highway Commission and named
Forrest Lockey, former Raeford
resident who has been mayor of
Aberdeen for the past 12 years,
to be commissi^er of the new
Eighth Division, of which Hoke
County is to be $ part.
Lockey will succeed George
Coble of Lexington as commis
sioner, as far asAlhis county is
concerned, as' was com
missioner of thp^M^ Sixth Divi
sion- with ..'Offic^ -r A&ebOro,
which includecF Hokp .County.
Lockey, long a leading citizen
and mayor of Aberdeen, was
born in iShelby 51 years ago,
oldest of eight children of Mr.
^nd Mrs. J. F. Lockey of Red
Springs, He attended high school
here and was later^ for about a
year, Raeford agent for the Aber
deen and Rockfish Railroad of
which he is now vice-president.
An outstanding civic leader, he
has been instrumental in helping
bring Robbins Mills to Aberdeen
and Raeford with their large new
plants since the war, as well as
in other activities for the general
improvement of his community
and the entire section.
Commissioii Reorganized
In announcing the new com
mission, Governor Umstead re
turned to the post of chairman of
the state highway commission A.
H. “Sandy” Graham, Hillsboro
attorney who was a former chairr
man, speaker of the North Caro
lina House of Representatives,
lieutenant governor and candi
date for governor. No mOT(ibers
of the highway commission dur
ing Kerr Scott’s term as gover
nor were reappointed.
' Groundwork for the creating
of 14 highway divisions in the
state was laid by the legislative
measure which allowed the gov
ernor and a special five-man ad
visory committee to specify whe
ther and how the highway com
mission should be changed. 'Wil
liam P. Saunders of Aberdeen I and burial is to follow in the
was a member of this committee I djurch cemetery.
At their regular monthly meet
ing and supper at the church
Tuesday night the Men of the
Raeford Presbyterian Church had
as their speaker Raymond H.
Dawson, professor of social science
at Presbyterian Junior College in
Maxton.
Mr. Dawson’s subject was “Com
munism’s Challenge to Christian
ity,” and his handling of it was
considered outstanding by all who
heard him. Beginning with Kon
rad Hegel and Karl Marx, Mr.
Dawson traced the history of the
"dbmmunist doctfirie throu^ its
entire development to the present,'
at the same time clearly explain
ing the appeal of the philosphy
and why it is so easily accepted
by the one-half the world’s people
who can neither read nor write
and by the more than one billion
hungry people in the world. He
showed how it answers their
questions on their future and the
world’s, and how to its believers
it is a religion as well as a poli
tical belief.
He closed by giving some of his
own ideas about what Christian
nations in the world should and
must do to meet the threat of
communism to their religion and
their way of life, stating that edu
cation and practical help to the
unfortunates of the world was and
would be the most effective an
swer to this threat.
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Local Man’s Father
Passes Wedensday
H. D. Harrison, 72-year-old
farmer of Martin County, died
■Wednesday morning in a Wil-
liamston hospital after an illness
of several months with cancer. He
had been in critical condition
since Saturday, and his son H. D.
Harrison, Jr., of Raeford, had
been with him since that time.
Funeral service is being con
ducted at Macedonia Christian
Chiuch in Martin County near
Wililamston at 2:30 this afternoon
in
_.^Speaker. at the regular weekly
meeting of the Baefofd' KJwariis
Club at the high school cafeteria
tonight will be Major C. K. Mc
Carthy, instructor in the intelli
gence division of the Air-Grmmd
school at Southern Pines. Major
McCarthy is reported to be an ex-'
cellent and humorous speaker
who has been well received at
many clubs in this section.
William Niven "of the Air Cad
ets is spending this week here
with homefolks. He has finished
his primary teaming at Good-
fellow AFB, Texas and will
leave here for Williams APB,
Arizona to begin basic training.
which decided to raise the num
ber of divisions from ten."
The eighth division includes
the counties of Hoke, Scotland,
Richmond, Moore, Montgomery,
Lee, Chatham and Randolph.
Robeson and Cumberland coun
ties, along with Bladen, Harnett
and Columbus, are in the new
sixth division, with C. A. Hasty
of Maxton as commissiofier, Has-_
ty‘ is“ alsb Weir'k;n6wn “ in this
county as he attended school
here also, and has been for a
number of years a member of the
Robeson County board of com
missioners.
Other members of the 14-man
board are Harry Buchanan of
Hendersonville, J. Emmett Win
slow of Hertford, H. Maynard of
Snow Hill, C. Heide Trask of
Wilmington, M. E. Robinson of
Goldsborb, Dennie A. Sorrell of
Durham, Jack Van Lindley of
Greensboro, James A. Gray, Jr.,
of Winston-Salem, James Hardi
son of Wadesboro, W. Ralph
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Mr. Harrison is surrlred by hia
widow, several sons and daugh
ters and grandchidren.
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Joe Maxwell Gets
Air Force Promotion
John J. Maxwell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. Maxwell of Rae-
the grade of staff sergeant from
airman first class in air defense
command headquarters at Ent
Air Force Base, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, a news release from
the Air Force said this week.
Sergeant Maxwell graduated
from Hoke County High School
and attended East Carolina Col
lege at Greenville_ before enter
ing the Air Force on October 17,
1950.
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tion for the 1953 season was just
about complete and that play
would begin with the opening
game in Aberdeen ,May 20 be
tween the Aberdeen Cubs and the
Raeford Tigers. The first game
in Raeford is scheduled for the
following Wednesday, May 27,
between the Raeford Indians and
the Aberdeen Cards. The league is
sponsored by Robbins Mills, and
its first season last year was
highly successful, the all-star
team advancing to the State play
offs before losing to Greensboro.
Frank Powers, superintendent
of the Aberdeen mill, is league
president, and Tom Gray, Rae
ford superintendent, is vice-pres
ident. John Sloan of Aberdeen is.
secretary, and Dean White of
Raeford is league treasurer.
Rowe Chapman is manager of
the Raeford Indians and J. Bien
Brower is assistant. George Will-
cox is manager of the Raeford
Tigera^and.Caurl^W-^uttz; is
assistant.
Raeford lunpires are J. B. Tal
bert, chief, and Dr. Julius Jordan,
J. L. McNeill, Herman Vinson,
Edward Hester, and Willard Shell.
Scorekeepers are Paul Dickson,
Younger Snead and Jake Austin.
Sam Hiser is grounds keeper,
Jake Austin is chairman of the
rules committee. Local managers
will request transportation when
needed and there will be no trans
portation as there was last year.
Tom Ripley and Neill Ross
will conduct practice session for
younger boys and those who do
not make the regular squads, and
games will be arranged for those
boys also.
Games will be played each.
Monday and Wednesday after
noon after May 27. The games
on May 20 and 27 will start at
5:00 p. m., and all others will
start at 5:30 p. m. Monday games
rained out will be played the
following Saturday, and Wed
nesday games rained out will be
played the following Thursday.
The season will run through Mon
day, August 3, with games in
Raeford and Alserdeen each Mon
day and Wedrie^ay, except for
the weeks between June 24 and
July 6 when there will be no
games, as the mills will be clos
ed for vacations.
Official Little Baseball League
rules will apply at all contests.
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Bucks Have Easy
Time With Gibson
The Hoke High baseball team
had little trouble winning their
first night ball game of the sea
son last Thursday night in
L'auriQjmrg as they defeated
Gibso^22-0.
In- an abbreviated contest that
went only five-inningg. Jim Bracey
pitched one-hit ball to win his
Benny McLeod and Gerald Sap-
penfield supplying the batting
punch the locals scored ope , in
the first, five in the 'third,
twelve in the fourth and five in the
fifth.
The locals were to play their
last game of the season Wednes
day afternoon.
o_
000 processed birds weekly was
expected within two or three
weeks after starting.
The Priebe-Pietrus Company is
a new corporation with this its
first and only operation. It is
owned by Priebe & Sons, Inc., and
the A. J. Pietrus Co. Priebe &
Sons, Inc., of Chicago, are large
producers, processors and mark
eters of poultry and who have
plants in several tnidwestem
states, in Concord, North Caro
lina, and in Clarksville, Arkansas.
The A. J. Pietrus Co., of Sleepy
Eye, Minnesota, are processers of
poultry for whom the Priebe
company have been marketers.
Arndt said that he would in
terview applicants for jobs in the
plant next week. May 18 through
20, and that of the 80 persons
needed, about half would be wo
men. He said that a state health
certificate would be required of
all perscMis. employed. Weekly
PWToU pf ruaifUja.
$^0 lo '$S5§r'i#eekly. “
The entire output of the plant
expected to be about 50,000 week
ly or 21 a minute, will be for the
Army Quartermaster Corps. These
birds, representing a cash out
lay to chicken growers of over
$40,000 weekly at present mar
ket prices, will be purchased ini
tially from sources north and
west of here, but Arndt said he
hoped eventually Hoke County
farmers would see fit to produce
many of them in this county. The
manager expects the plant to be
operated 12 months a year.
Arndt is a native of TWsconsin,
and a graduate of the University
of Wisconsin. He worked for
Priebe & ^ns at their Dixori,,
Illinois, plant for five years. He
is married and lives in a home
on Reaves Street, near the plant.
James Barnes of Fayetteville,
who was here for some time with
Turkalina Farms, Inc., will be
plant superintendent.
New construction, adding about
5000 square feet to the plant,
will be comnpleted before pro
cessing begins.
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Former Resident Dies
In Charleston Sat.
Miss Nell Myers of WCUNC
and A/2C C. G. Bennett of Fair-
child AFB, Wfishlngton were
visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Webb this week.
PIANO recital wed.
Mrs. Kathleen Blue Wilson will
present her piano students in re
cital at the Hoke High School
auditbriiun next Wednesday at
8:15 o’clock. The public is cor
dially invited.
Mrs. T. E. Bowers, the former
Miss Eliza McEachern of Rae
ford, died suddenly of a heart
attack'at her home in Charleston,
S. C., Saturday night. She was
55 years of age.
Mrs. Bowers was a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. F.
McEachern of Raeford, amd 'was
born in Marlow, Ga. She had li'V-
ed in Charleston since her mar
riage to Dr. Bowers in 1926.
Fdneral service was conducted
at 11;00 o’clock Tuesday in
Charleston by Dr. B. Lilly,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church, fo which she belonged,
ana -'ounaxT^s m Magriblia" wm-
etery in Charleston.
^ She is survived by her husband*
two daughters, Mrs. Archie Bos
well of Norfolk, Va., and MrSl
W. T. Hendricks of Amarillo*
Texas; five brothers,. John Mc
Eachern of Columbia, S. XX, A.
A. McEachern of this county,
Walter of Jacksonville, Fla., Gra
ham of Norfolk, Va., and Laurie
of Raleigh; two sisters,, Mrs. Sa
rah McNeill of Raeford and
Cyrus Thompson of Ralei^; one
granddaughter.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. McBeehenw
Mrs. McNeill, and Mrs. PittI
Dickson, a niece, atteoded Vb»
services from this county.