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4 EfV he ournal A" voice or ftllPOM 6UMUHAB .sVoici or Of 1IBERTY The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal v VOLUME XL VIII; NUMBER 24 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1953 RAEFORD, N. C. TEN CENTS PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR News - J By The Editor Seems to me there ought to be some way to fix the stop light on the corner at tlW bank so it would stay green longer for the Main Street traffic than it does for that on Elwood Avenue. It really piles it up on Main Street on Saturday. There has been talk since we have been without a county farm agent that the people of the coun ty don't really use the agent when we do have one. We're go ing to (lave 9 new one come Monday, and from all I can hear he ought to be well qualified as well as the sort of fellow farm ers and the rest of us will like. Now I'm no farmer, but I do know that on; thing that will make a fellow like a place and want to stay In it is for people to make him feci that he is doing some good and that he is appre ciated If a man's any good and doesn't feel that way it's my opin ion he won't stay. I think the farmers of the county, and back yard gardeners as well, ought to call on the farm agent for best methods frequently and use the facilities of his office. We are so close to State College and the Ex tension Service that we probably don't realize just how good they are at their business. Well, the place is getting a reputation for being one of the best technical schools not only In this county but in the whole world. That's how good it is, and seems we would be like the ostrich if we, this close, don't take advantage of what they are finding out there. As I said before, I'm no farmer, but keeping my mouth shut is not one of my virtues, if any, nor is it expected to be. The new Methodist preacher shoots birds, too. You know, strangers come here frequently to find out where peo ple live. Lately it's getting to be a oleasure to tell them. Don't know if you've noticed it or not but the corner' markers have the street names on them just about all over town. Bet a lot of people didn't know what street they liv ed on. If you live on a marked street and have a number on your house you are entitled to have your mail delivered to your front door. If you don't know what number to put up, you can find out from Robert Weaver or Mrs. Roberts at the Town hall. Judging by the talk I hear, people are right much Interested in having their junior United States senator here for a feed and speech. I can't for the life of me see how the Young Demo crats are going to do it this year, though, what with the festival, and Thanksgiving this month. Seems to me the closer to Christ mas you get with something like that the more other things there would be for people to do. I ex pi.ct more people would get to hear him if it were postponed until January. Cot a letter yesterday from Jesse Helms, former administra tive assistant to Senators Willis Smith and Alton Lennon. He said about the "No Corridor" headline in The News-Journal two weeks ago, "That headline gave me as much pleasure as it did the folks in Hoke County." Jesse dropped whatever he was doing and did all he could for members of the Hoke County committee every time they were in Washington on that matter, and did a great deal between times as well. He was loud in his denunciation of the Army's plan from the very beginning. Helms is now executive secretary of the North Carolina Bankers Association. We were mighty sorry to have to leave our Rockfish and Arabia , ( Continued on page 4 ) Lumbee REA Has 2000 At Meeting William T. Crisp, executive manager and general manager of Tar Heel Electric Membership Association in Raleigh told some 2,000 Lumbee Cooperative mem bers. "That the greatest battle going on in the world today is for men's minds." He further stated, "The entire world is en gaged in this batle, but it is a battle which goes on daily here in our own national economic life." Gwyn Price, Chairman of the North Carolina Rural Electrifica tion Association, Raleigh, was present and recognized at the meeting. In the business session of the meeting, members heard reports from the president, C. L. Bal lance of St. Pauls, and the trea surer, J. R. Caddell of Maxton. The Cooperative now has 1,773 miles of line, serving 7,120 mem bers in Robeson, Scotland, Hoke and Cumberland counties. The Cooperative added 83 miles to its system in the last 12 months, and serves some 346 additional con sumer members The following directors were re-elected for the coming year: C. L. Ballance; C. A. Alford, J. R. Caddell, J. E. Morrison and Wade H. Powell, all of Robeson County; Mrs. Lucy Smith and J. M. Andrews of Hoke County; E. L. Cook of Cumberland and J. R. Lassiter of Scotland. D. J. Dalton, manager of the corporation, and J. D. McLean, its attorney, were in attendance. Immediately following ad journment of the members' meet ing, the Board of Directors met and elected the following officers for the coming year: Ballance, president; Alfoid, vice-president; Mrs. Lucy Smith, secretary; and Caddell, treasurer. Lucky members winning at tendance prizes are as follows: Kaley Bryant, electric stove; James Alton Jacobs, hot water heater; C. F. Boahn, electric ra dio; John W. Revels, electric clock; C. J. Posey, electric per colator; Jack Smith, deep fryer; Sandy Chavis, pet of pots; Archie Jackson, electric iron; Huey Gra ham, electric iron; Tommie Cha vis, waffle iron; Harrington Locklear, heating pad; Belton Jones, electric iron; and Odell Jones, Christmas bulbs. YOUR SCHOOL NEWS By K. A. MacDonald All schools in the county are taking note of American Educa tion Week this week. Special lessons are being taught, special programs being given, and open house for all parents is being held. If you have not visited your childs school and Toom be sure and do so. Don't wait for a spec ial program but go to school at your convenience and see your child in his room and meet his teacher if you haven't already done so. Help celebrate Education Week by visiting your child in his room. Plans are underway for the new lunchroom at Ashemont since the "Corridor" is definite ly out. Mr. Mills, county sani tarian will supervise the installa tion and Mr. Davis, county main tenance foreman will do the job. Automatic dishwashers are go ing in this week at Hoke High and the J. W. McLauchlin Elem entary School. The one at the elementary school is equipment for the new lunchroom. Hoke High is purchasing its washer from lunchroom funds. These washers are required by the State Health Department after a lunchroom participation reaches 300 per day. The J. W. McLauch lin lunchroom is now serving up to 465 per day. Revival Services To Be Conducted At Antioch Next Week -- ':..T V ... v l- leL REV. ALBERT G. EDWARDS The Rev. Albert G. Edwards, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Harrisonburg, Va., will be the preacher at a meeting next week at Antioch Presbyterain Church. A native of Scotland, Mr. Ed wards came to America at the age of 16, making Atlanta, Ga. his home. After graduating from Georgia Tech, he attended Pres byterian College, Clinton, S. C. for one year, then entered Union Theological Seninary . in Rich mond, Va., graduating from this institution in 1943. He held a pastorate at Orange, Va. before going to Harrisonburg. Mr. Ed wards has consistently been a very popular, much sought after, and highly affective preacher. Mr. Edwards will preach each evening at 7:30, beginning Mon day, and concluding with the re gular service on Sunday. There will be morning services on Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Covington and small son of Charlotte spent the week end with Mrs. W. T. Covington. Lt. and Mrs. E. C. Brooks of Cherry Point spent the week end with Mrs. Brooks' parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Matheson. Mrs. Hattie Werner of Durham is spending this week with Mrs. Mary McBryde. Mrs. W. B. Gulledge and Mrs. M. S. McDiarmid left Sunday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Long in Charlotte. Eugene Smith of Havelock spent the week end with his mo ther, Mrs. Lucy Smith. Mrs. J. L. Conoly and Miss Joyce Conoly spent the week end in High Point with Mrs. J. D. Stacey. Mrs. Mayme McAulay of Bis coe was the week end guest of her sister, Miss Annie McKeithan. Mrs. Albert Berry of Dillon, S. C. spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Epstein and Mrs. Epstein. u : PTA Plans Special Program For Mon. Ray Griffin, president of the Hoke - Raeford Parent - Teachers Association, announced this week that an unusually good program was in store for the parents and teachers attending the monthly meeting of the association at the J. W. McLauchlin school next Monday night at 8:00 o'clock. Speaker for the occasion will be Dr. K. D. Holmes of the de partment of education at East Carolina College at Greenville. His subject will be "The Prob lem of Teen-Agers." Griffin asked all parents who can use a little more knowledge of this subject to attend the meeting Monday. Plans Complete For Christmas Seal Sale Mrs. Clyde Upchurch, Jr., gen eral chairman of the annual sale of Christmas Seals for funds to fight tuberculosis, said this week that plans for conducting the drive were about complete, with chairmen of various phases hav ing been appointed. She said that all who have been asked to help had been glad to do so, and ex pressed the hope that the public would be as generous with their funds as these people are with their time and energy. Mrs. Upchurch represents the Raeford Woman's Club in the drive. Bond chairmen will be J. B. Thomas of the Kiwanis Club and Charles Morrison of the Lions club. Colored Chairman will be Mrs. Lucille Muniford and chairman of the colored di vision of the bond sale will be Ivery McNair. The sale of seals will be con ducted by rnnil as usual, and Mrs. Upchurch asked the public to make a prompt response to the letters containing seals. Sale of bonds will be handled person ally by the chairmen. In announcing the drive Mrs, Upchurch invited the attention of all to the singing child on this year's seal, saying that he is a symbol of hope and faith in the future and a pledge to the pres ent. "The hope," she said, "is the eventual eradication of tubercu losis. . .the faith is in the prov ed methods of your national, state and local tuberculosis as sociations. The pledge is your joining with 13,009,000 of your fellow Americans who this year will buy' Christmas Seals." 0 27 Cases Are Cleared From Docket Tuesday Judge T. O. Moses presided over a routine session of Hoke County recorder's court Tuesday, with a total of 27 cases being dis posed of. These included 10 cases of speeding in which the defend ants did not appear but forfeited bonds they had posted. These defendants were Joseph Martin, Jr., J. A. Wessells, V. M. Adams, W. E. Page and "Abraham Lemberg, all white, and Charles A. Kirk, G. F. Madkins and J. W. Meares, all colored, all leaving bonds of $35 each. Sammy Sha piro, white, left a $28 bond, and William H. NoTis, white, left a $25 bond. Morrell Flowers, colored, paid $10 and costs for careless and reckless driving. Richard C. Mur ray, white, paid $20 and costs for careless and reckless driving. Bonnie James Kelly, colored, was found not guilty on the same charge. For failing to give pro per hand signal Henry J. Jones, colored, paid $10 and costs. For passing on a hill Theodore Mit chell, colored, paid $20 and costs. For having no driver's licenses John Will Roper and Rosa Lee Barber, both colored, each had to pay $25 and court costs. Earl A. Collins, colored, and E. A. Sadillo, white, were each char ged with driving without opera tor's licenses and with driving drunk, in sepe;ate cases, Each pled guilty of having no license and had to pay $25 and costs. Collins was found guilty and Sadillo pled guilty of driving drunk. Each got 60 days for this, to be suspended on payment of $100 and court costs. C. H. Faircloth, white, got 30 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs for violating the prohibition law.'', and he and his wife had to pay $10 each for public drunkenness. Paul H. Ford and James O. Watts, both white, each got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs for being drunk in public. Noble V. Miller, colored, pled guilty of giving two bad checks amounting to rbout $40. He got 30 days ssupended on payment of costs and the checks. Rev. J. H. Miller Arrives To Be Methcdist Pastor '7:? f: 4 ; i. , , ' SI '- - - -1 REV. J. H. MILLER The Rev. James Herbert Miller, accompanied by Mrs. Miller, moved into the Methodist par sonage on Bethel Road on Wed nesday. Mr. Miller is the new pastor of the Raeford Methodist Church and will preach his first sermon there at the morning worship service on Sunday. He and Mrs. Miller moved here from Laurinburg, where he has been pastor of the First Methodist Church for several years. About the Millers leaving Laurinburg the Laurinburg "Ex change" said "Mr. and Mrs. Mil ler have made a warm place for themselves in the life of Laurin burg and the hearts of its people. Mr. Miller's work at the Metho dist Church here has been out standing and he is recognized as an -able preacher, administrator and leader." Mr. Miller is a native of Hert ford, N. C, and attended Trinity College, now Duke University. After graduating there he attend ed the Southern Baptist Seminary at Vanderbilt. Prior to coming to Laurinburg three years ago he was for six years distict super intendent of the Elizabeth City Methodist district. He is married to the former Miss Elsie McOlaughon of Wil mington and they have three sons. James H. Jr., is a minister and is pastor of the Westminister Methodist Church in Kinston. David E. is a tecond year medi cal student at Duke University and the third, Kenneth Mc Glaughon, is a sophomore at Duke. , 0 Lions Club To Hold White Cane Drive During Week Nov. 16 The Raeford Lions club will join with the more than 300 oth er Lions clubs in North Carolina in conducting its "White Cane Drive" for the benefit of the blind this year, H. D. Harrison, drive chairman for the club, said this week. The drive will be con ducted here next week, starting November 16, Harrison said, and the goal for the club is $500. Stating that Lions clubs in North Carolina are noted for their work with the blind, Harrison said that funds raised will be us ed to supplement the inadequate funds appropriated by the State for the care of these unfortunate people. He pointed to the fact that there wer 14 prsons receiv ing benefit of this type last year, and said that there would be at least 13 this year. Chairman Harrison said that all members of the local club would help with the drive and expressed the hope that the pub lie would contribute to the worth while project. He said that the N. C. State Assoication for the Blind is part and parcel of the Lions Clubs of North Carolina, having been organized by the Lions to provide better care for the blind of the State, and that it wps a responsibility and an op portunity for the people of the State to take part in the work. Upchurch President Of Cotton Co-op For Fifteenth Time T. B. Upchurch, Jr., Raeford, was re-elected president of the N. C. Cotton Growers Association at a meeting of the organization's board of directors in Raleigh Tuesday. This marked the 15th consecu tive one-year term in the office for Upchurch. He was first elect ed in 1938. Other officers elected included W. W. Andrews, Goldsboro, vice president; M. G. Mann, Raleigh, secretary and general manager; G. D. Arndt, Raleigh, treasurer and assistant general manager; R. H. Broome, Jr., Raleigh, as sistant secretary, and W. F. Ram seur, Raleigh, assistant secretary. Both Upchurch and Andrews have received important appoint ments in Washington recently. Upchurch has been named a member of the secretary of ag riculture's cotton advisory com mittee, and Andrews was ap pointed to serve on President Eisenhower's 18-man National Agricultural Advisory Commis. sion. u Still Destroyed Last Week !s 34th By Sheriff In Year Sheriff D. H. Hodgin and Rural Policeman H. M. Meeks went into Allendale Township one day last week and four.d a 1000-gallon submarine - type whiskey still fired up and making liquor. Two persons were operating it, accord ing to the sheriff, but one of them made his get-away into the swamp. The other, S. M. Jacobs, 23-year-old Indian, was caught and put in jail by the officers. Destroyed along with the still were about six cases of liquor ready to go, a pump, some tools and other miscellaneous equip ment. Sheriff Hodgin estimated that the still represented an in vestment of about $400 in addi tion to the labor in its construc tion. It was located near the road from Duffy's Station to Lil ly's Chapel school. The sheriff's records show that the capture of this still brought to 34 the number he and his as sistants have destroyed during 1953. In most cases he figures they were operated by Indians from elsewhere, as only six ar rest were made with the stills. The problem, when a still is lo cated, the sheriff says, is to fi gure from the condition of the mash just when the operators will return to it. Usually the op erators get some miles from their homes to set the things up, so there is not much to lead to them when a still is found, he said. He estimates that a total of 20 cases of liquor -have been de stroyed with the stills and about 3000 gallons of still-beer, or li quor in process. Ten of the stills were found in Allendale Township, seven in Antioch, six each in Blue Springs, and Stonewall and four in Mc Lauchlin. The making of illegal liquor in the county seems to be on the in crease in the county in spite of the efforts of the officers, Sheriff Hodgin thinks. 0 LEGION MEETS MON. Younger Snead, commander of the . Ellis Williamson American Legion post, this week reminded all legionnaires of the regular monthly meeting and supper, which is to be held next Monday night at the high school cafeteria at 6:30 o'clock. O Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sutton and sons, Charles Jr. and Mich ael of Wrightsville Beach were week end geusts of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dezerne. Eldred Helton, James McCon nell and Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Onley, all of Modest Town, Va. are spending a few days with Mrs. Mary Helton Smith. Judge Nimocks To Preside At SuperiorCourt Murder Trial Scheduled Judge Q. K. Nimocks of Fay etteville, resident judge of this judical district, will preside at the regular November torn cl Hoke County superior court which is scheduled to convene here Monday morning, November 16, at 10:00 o'clock. Only case involving a capital charge is that in which Charlie Gales, white, is charged with murdering his wife with a gun barrel in a cotton field near here on the afternoon of Thursday, October 1. Galos has been held in the county jail without privilege of bond since that time at the order of the coroner's jury. Other cases of interest are those in which four colored per sons of the vicinity of Raeford are charged with violating the prohibition laws by having non tax-paid liquor for sale. All are previously convicted offenders and all were sentenced in re corder's court in the past few months. All appealed these sen tences and are out on bonds. They are Margaret Willis, Bertha Leslie, Ed HolUngsworth and his wife, Lou Mattie Hollingsworth. Lou Mattie Hollingsworth is to be tried on two charges. John McDiarmid McNeill, white, is to face trial on three charges of driv'ng drunk. All are appeals from recorder's court convictions, one being continued from last term of court and two being since that time. Two white soldiers, Jack Of fenhauser and Fred Evans, have appealed their 30-day road sen tences in recorder's court for driving 90 miles an hour or fast er on the public highways. Albert Graham, colored, was bound over . on a charge of as saulting Lacy Wall, also colored, with a deadly weapon. Annie Lee Blue, colored, appealed her con viction in recorder's court on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Other cases left over from the last term for various reasons in clude Johnnie Thompson, color ed, false pretense, still at large; Alton Odom and R. P. Lambert, white, larceny; Johnnie Barber, colored, driving drunk; William McDonald, colored, assault; Ed ward C. Bridges, colored, violat ing the landlord-tenant act; Ro bie Calloway, white, driving af ter license revoked. The coroner's direction that Robie Calloway, Eugene Gordon and Talmadge Melton, all white, be investigat ed by the grand jury in connec tion with the death of Elmer Gordon in a wreck is still on the docket also. Civil cases are set for trial on Wedensday. New Grand Jurors Nine new grand jurors will take office at this term, with nine of the old members contin uing to serve. The old jurors are Younger Snead, Robert M. Cox, N. A. McNeill, O. B. Max well, Isaac Davis, David Baker, J. L. Teal, M. H. Cameron and W. I. Strider. Jury list for the term is as follows: R. B. Ellis, Ervin Thomp son, Murdock Cameron, Lee Max well, J. A. Tew, I. L. Newton, Archie McGougan, M. F. Liv ingston, J. T. Davis, L. W. Stan ton, Riley Willis, J. B. Mai's, Eugene B. Maxwell, W. C. Ray, Odell Ashburn, William M. Clark, Ervin Beasley, Robert Currie, W. B. Beckwith, Albert Currie, J. A. Livingston, Lacy McNeill, C. W. Ray, Sarah E. McLean, R. L. Hales, Roy Goodman, Alton Cam eron, H. S. Carroll, James Mc Millan, I. E. Tsrael, A. H. Mc kenzie, John Frank Chisholm, H. M. Gillis, Jack Pope, C. W. Phillips, A. R. Walters, Martin L. Webb, A. A. Ray, R. W. Posey, W. T. McQuage, Daniel Conoly, Lacy Scarboro, L. E. English, E. M. Simpson, Edgar Pittman. 0 Dave Barrington of Baltimore, Md. spent the week end with hla mother, Mrs. W. R. Barrington.
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