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a N t. r m ews mail voict or MIIDOM CUAUNAH of nsfxrv CUAJUIAM or (ibtxrv ) The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLVIII; NUMBER 46 THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1934 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR -Jon WW ' crfcLUnda - - By The Editor A balance sheet for Hoke Coun ty, as of June 30, 1953, appears on page 8. When he brought it in, Fulford McMillan, chairman of the board of commissioners, said it had been left out by oversight. What appears is still not the com plete statement of position re quired at the end of each fiscal year, but should be enough to give the citizens an idea of their county's position. The full state ment will be published after the end of this year on June 30, he said. The full statement required must contain (a) the assessed valuation for the year, or the preceding year if current year not finally ascertained; (b) itemized statement of the debt of the cou nty; (c) the amount and rate of taxation levied for the preceding year, whether collected or not; (d) amount of uncollected taxes for each of three preceding fiscal years and the average of these; (e) miscellaneous revenues other than taxation for the preceding fiscal year; (f) deficits, if any, in all county funds in the pre ceding fiscal year; (h) surplus revenues of the county for pre ceding year; (i) unencumbered balances of the county for the preceding year; (j) the tax rate the county accountant estimates will be necessary for the current fiscal year. The reasons for in cluding each of these will be come apparent to anyone who studies them a little. Take (d) above, for example. This would give a good idea, I should say, of what should be allowed as a reserve for uncollected taxes for the current year. While my reference a week or so ago to "idle" money may have been somewhat misleading, it can be seen from this balance sheet that the county certainly is in sound financial condition. Shown as "Reserves" on the balance sheet, other than for Social Se curity and School Building is $120,515.11 for land sale losses, deferred collections and contin gencies. Shown as "Surplus" in funds other than capital is $26,- 223.35. These figures added give $146,738.46. Now perhaps this is not idle money, but it is a nice financial cushion for the county, and would certainly indicate good management in years past. It is not even money in the bank, but it is backed up by some right healthy looking assets. Look at the U. S. bonds - at cost - there's $68,000, and those bonds are worth some $15,000 more than that now, I understand. So this financial situation does' n't look so bad. Well, it's going to need to be pretty good to take care of the debt service on that big school bond issue which will push close to $20,000 a year. Then it is costing more every year to run the schools anyway, and the county general fund cannot stand to sacrifice any more of its part of the tax levy to the schools. It should be costing more, shouldn't it? Do you figure what was good enough for you is good enough for your children? Of course you don't. You want them to have it a little better. Politics might pick up a little between now and the time filing closes Saturday night at six o' clock. It usually does toward the last, I believe. There are memb ers of the board of commissioners and the school board who have not filed for another term, and I expect some of them will file. Chairman Fulford McMillan and Commissioner Douglas McPhaul of the county board have filed. John Cameron, Harry Greene and T. O. Moses are all still un opposed for clerk, representative, and recorder, respectively. T. J. Garvin, Jr., auto-mechanics instructor at Upchurch School, is getting some fine re sults in another field. He Is org ( Continued on back paf) Recorder Fines 4 Defendants For Drunken Driving Tuesday's session of Hoke County recorder's court before Judge T. O. Moses was about as usual except for the fact that only one case of speeding was handled. Other cases dealt with driving drunk, being drunk, fighting and the like. William Lee llollingsworth, co lored, was found guilty of driving drunk. Sentence was 60 days, su spended on payment of $100 and costs. Kcrmit Rogers, Indian, for driving drunk and having no driver's license, got three to four months suspended on payment of $125 and costs. Charlie Lee, white, and Leo Frank Campbell, colored, each pled guilty of driving drunk and got 60 days suspended on pay- j ment o $100 and costs Joe Scott, white, was found guilty of violating the prohibition laws by possessing liquor making apparatus. He was sentenced to 30 days on the roads to be su- pended on payment of $25 and costs, and on condition of two years good behavior. Scott was found guilty on December 15, 1953, with Carson Locklear, of running a still and both were sentenced to serve eight months on the roads. This was later changed to one year each on th roads suspended on payment of $100 and costs and five years good behavior by each and, Lock lear was given until February 1, 1954 to be out of Hoke County. The .judge considsred it within his discretion not to make Scott serve this sentence, and he did not. James Murchlson, colored, pled guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. Sentence was 60 days, to be suspended on payment of $25 medical expenses, $25 fine, costs and two years good behavior. Alfred Brown, colored, was found guilty of failing to support his two minor children. Sentence of eight months on the roads was suspended on condition that he pay the welfare department $2.50 weekly for each child, $25 within 60 days for his unborn child, and $2.50 more per week after its birth. John Welton Harris, colored, was found guilty of assault. Sen tence of from three to four mon ths was suspended on payment of costs and on condition that he be of good behavior for two years and stay off the premises of Hal lard McLean. Marion Roscoe Cooper, white, got 30 days suspended on pay ment of $25 and costs for being drunk and disorderly. J. M. Mc Ginnis, white, got the same for being drunk and having some more liquor with him. For simply being drunk, Doc Jones, colored, got 30 days suspended on pay ment of $10 and costs. Ruiz R. Emilio, white, left a $40 bond for having no driver's li cense. Henry Mclntyre, colored, paid $25 and costs for the same offense. Jerry C. Holland, white, paid $20 and costs for careless and reckless driving. Bennie Bandy, colored, paid $10 and costs for having no brakes. Marvin R. English, white, paid $10 and costs for failing to stop at a stop sign. Jessie David Winston, colored, paid $10 and costs for speeding. SUNRISE SERVICE IS PLANNED FOR EASTER The young people of Raeford are planning an Easter Sunrise Service to be held in front of the John W. McLauchlin Elementary School at 6:00 A. M., Sunday morning. The service will be In the form of a play, "For Me He Died," written by Paul White. The cast will include young peo ple from the three Raeford churches. The public Is Invited. 0 SQUARE DANCE FRIDAY The Raedecn Home Demonstra tion club is sponsoring a square dance Friday night, April 18, at Bethel school house, starting at 8:30. The public is invited. Elections Board Meets And Names Registrars, Judges The Hoke County Board of Elections held a meeting Monday and named registrars and judges of election to officiate at the pri mary and general election this year as provided by the election laws. W. L. Pople is chairman of the county board and G. W. Cox and F. F. McPhaul are members. Named below are the registrars and judges of election for the ten precincts of the county as ap pointed by the board, with the registrar being first in each pre cinct and the last named in each precinct being the alternate. Allendale: George Watson, M. A. Singleton, Douglas Currie and David Liles. Antioch: M. B. McBryde, Wm. H. McNeill, Everette McNeill and W. R. Womack. Ashemont: Margaret Clark Sin clair, R. A. Smoak, Martin A. Robertson, O. B. Obster. Blue Springs: C. J. McNeill, J. N. Hendrix, R. J. Hasty, Julian Love. Little River: N. B. Blue, C. H. Marks, J. W. Smith and Hinson Walters. Mildouson: N. A. Mclnnis, J. Leonard McFadyen, W. J. Mc Bryde, Edgar McGougan. Puppy Creek: R. D. Parker, O. H. Scull, Hugh Hair, and Paul Johnson. Rockfish: W. F. Townsend, Clarence M. Koonce, J. P. Bar bour, Donald Wood. Raeford, No. 1: L. J. Campbell, Madison D. Shaw, M. M. Cul breth, J. B. McLeod. Raeford, No. 2: Kate Blue Cov ington, A. L. Sexton, Mrs. Alfred Cole, A. D. Austin. 0 Jaycees Name New Officers Tuesday At their regular meeting Tues day night the Raeford Junior Chamber of Commerce elected Peter McLean president for the coming year, 1954-55. He will succeed Jim Tillman. McLean has previously served the organ ization as vice-president, secre tary, and State director. Other officers elected were Luke McNeill, vice-president, J, D. McMillan, secretary, Angus Currie, treasurer, Frank McNeill, Bion Brewer, Bud Dibler, Jimmy Plummer and Whiteford Jones, directors. The new officers will be install ed at a banquet to be held at the High school cafeteria on the night of Tuesday, April 27. Guest of the club on that occasicn will be Gene Ochsenreiter, president of the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce. o Chairmen Appeal For Cancer Funds "The Cancer Crusade ends its month halfway mark today, and we would like to urge the people of Hoke County to add their con tributions in the drive to help eradicate this disease," Mrs. Ric hard Neeley and Miss Caroline Parker, Cancer Crusade chairmen, said this week. "The Cancer so ciety depends almost entirely on the funds contributed by the pub lic for financing its program of research, education and service for the next year. The funds will help prevent the taking of 23, 000,000 now alive, if present trends continue," the chairmen said. If persons in the county are in terested in free examinations at Detection and Diagnostic Cancer clinics, they may write, inclosing self addressed, stamped envelopes, to either American Cancer Soci ety, 308 Health Building, Dur ham, N. C, or Cancer Information Center, James Walker Memorial Hospital, Wilmington, N. C. Sev eral groups of Home Demonstra tion club women have gone to these clinics for examinations since the Crusade began. "Give to Conquer Cancer" can isters have been placed In a num ber of stores and volunteer work ers have started toward their goal of contacting every family in the county for a contribution to help rid the county of this disease. Extensive Road Work Is Planned For Hoke County State Highway Commissioner Forrest Lockey, in an interview with The News-Journal this week, said that Hoke County was going to get its full share of highway money while he is commissioner. and he pointed to contracts to be let this month in which the coun ty will receive work from divi sion funds. Lockey said that projects in- vojving this county were among 23 which the highway commission expects to contract at a meeting at Nags Head on April 29. Bids are to be opened on April 27 and the low bids wiil be reviewed with highway engineers at the meeting two days later. The 24 projects are in 23 counties and involve 244.96 miles cf road improve ments, Lockey said. In Hoke and Scotland Counties, U. S. Highway 15-A will be wid ened two feet to make it a stand ard 24-foot two-lane highway and it is to be resurfaced with sand asphalt from the Laurinburg by pass this side of Laurinburg to the beginning of the by-pass just south of the Raeford city limits. This by-pass through the western part of Raeford over N. C. 211 1.8 miles to the cutoff of Raeford is also to be paved. The cutoff from where the bypass enters it east 3 miles to 15-A is to be resur faced with sand asphalt. Lockey said that three roads in Hoke County, all of which were in the land the Aimy unsuccess fully tried to take last year, would be contracted for paving at the same time. These three roads come to a total of 6.8 miles of paving and are from Rockfish creek north to Fort Bragg line on the Raeford-Vass road, a distance of 2.4 miles; from the Turnpike road at Buffalo creek north 1.5 miles to the Montrose road; from the Turnpike road north to N. C. 211, 0.5 miles west of Timber land, a distance of 2.7 miles. The commissioner said that if bids received for this and other paving were satisfactory it was possible that an extended con tract would be let at the same time to include paving of all streets in Raeford where curb and gutter had been installed, as there would be a sizable advantage in cost of the paving by getting it all in one contract. He said it was probable that in this way the town would be able to get sand asphalt paving for these streets for near the same price as surface treatment. He said that it was expected that the work would be done be ginning immediately after the con tract letting on April 29. 0 OVER 800 ATTEND BAUCOM'S OPEN HOUSE J. A. Baucom and Carlton E. Niven, operators of Baucom Ap pliance Co. here, said that their open house in their newly re modeled and enlarged store last Friday and Saturday was success ful, beyond their expectations. They said that over 800 persons visited the store and registered for the free prizes, saw the ap pliance displays and demonstra tions. The grand prize of a Frigidaire Electric range was won by D. J. Livingston, young bachelor of the Arabia vicinity who presented it to his mother. Next prize, a 64- piece set of Rogers Bros, silver ware, was won by E. L. McNeill, and third prize, a Zenith radio, went to Miss June Hall. The drawing for these prizes was held in the store at 8:00 p. m. Saturday, with Mayor Alfred Cole officiat ing. SUNRISE SERVICE ON EASTER AT PHILIPPI An Easter sunrise service will be held at Philippl Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning, start ing at 5:30 o'clock. Choirs from Parker's Methodist Church, Gala tia Presbyterian Church and Phil ippi will take part in the service. Legion Meets With Ladies Monday Night Officers Are Elected A joint supper meeting of the American Legion and the auxili ary was enjoyed Monday night in the cafeteria of Hoke High school by about 50 members of the two groups. Commander Younger Snead welcomed members and guests and America was sung, af ter which the blessing was asked by Chaplain R. B. Lewis. A delicious barbecue chicken dinner, prepared by Israel Mann, was then served with homemade cakes for dessert. Commander Snead made some timely remarks after which Mrs. Chandler Roberts, president of the auxiliary, did the same, fol lowing which the groups separ ated for their business meeting. Officers elected for the auxili ary were Mrs. R. L. Murray, pres ident, Mrs. Alfred Cole, vice president, Mrs. Herbert McKeith an, secretary, and Mrs. W. L. Poole, treasurer. Legion officers elected were T. B. Austin commander, Tom Mc Bryde and James A. Williamson, vice commanders, Kenneth W. Mc Neill, adjustant, Stanley Koonce, service officer, Walter Parks, ser geant at arms, Joe Upchurch, fin ance officer, W. L. Howell, his torian and W. T. Gibson, Jr., chaplain. A committee consisting of W. T. Gibson, Jr., chairman, John M. Campbell and Clyde Upchurch, Jr., was appointed to select two boys from the rising senior class at Hoke High to attend the Amer ican Legion Boys State at Chapel Hill June 13-20. T. B. Austin and Tom McBryde were elected delegates to attend the Department convention in Asheville, May 20-23. J. A. Wil liamson and K. W. McNeill were chosen alternates. Youthful Burglar Is Sent Away For 10 Burglaries Police Chief H. E. Dees and Po lice L. F. Hester of the Raeford Police Department picked up a 14-year-old Indian boy one morn ing last week on the suspicion that he had been breaking into stores in Raeford. Before long he confessed that he had been doing just that, ten times in the preced ing 10 days. He admitted that money found in his pockets and shoes at the time of his arrest had been taken from Hoke Exchange Co. the night before. The places entered included Connell Oil Co., T. B. Upchurch, Inc., Wood's Furniture Store, Hoke Exchange Co., Byrne Fish Market and Johnson Cotton Co., some more than once for a total of ten times. Total of money taken was estimated by officers at over $75 but could not be figured ex actly. The lad, Samuel Locklear, lived with his folks on the Ina T. Lentz farm west of Raeford being oper ated by T. B. Upchurch, Inc., one of the places entered. On Wednes day he was given a trial before Juvenile Judge J. B. Cameron and sent to Eastern Training School at Rocky Mount. He first impli cated his brother in the break-Ins and also admitted the Bowmore break-ins, but later denied these. PEOPLES CHURCH PLANS REVIVAL STARTING MON. Revival services will begin at The Peoples' Methodist Church on Monday night, April 19, at 7:30 with Rev. Lester Allman of Kan napolis as the evangelist. The public is cordially invited to at tend. The annual Homecoming of the church planned for Sunday, April 18, has been postponed until a later date. o BETHEL PREACHING The Rev. Gower Crosswell, pastor of Antioch Presbyterian Church, will preach at Bethel Presbyterian Church at 10:00 o' clock Sunday morning. PLANS MADE FOR TOWN -WIDE CLEAN-UP WEEK HERE MAY 3-10 Judge Moore To Convene Superior Court Tuesday Judge Clifton L. Moore of Bur gaw will be back in Raeford to hold court for the second time since he was appo;ntcd last De cember when he opens the regular April term of Hoke County Super ior court next Tuesday morning. Court will not be held on Easter Monday. Next week's session does not promise to be as exciting as Judge Moore's first court here in Jan uary when he had to sentence Charlie Gales to death for mur dering his wife. The docket is filled mainly with misdemeanors on appeal from recorder's court, two cases of assault, since last term, and several cases not reach ed for trial last term. There are three divorces and six other civil cases on the calendar, and these are set for trial on Thursday. Elmo Love and Harvey McCoy, Jr., were both bound over in sep arate cases in recorder's court on charges of assault with deadly weapon. Both are colored. The grand jury is to hear more about the case in which Clarence King was killed In Little River Township on the night of Janu ary 9. Eddie McCrimmon and Rob ert Rogers have been held in con nection with this case, which the grand jury postponed in order to hear more evidence. Cases against John David Wil liams and James L. Phillips, both white, on charges of manslaughter arising from two separate wrecks, are still to be tried. Cases result ing from the wreck in which Hen ry E. Gordon was killed are still on docket, but have not been sent to the grand jury by the solicitor. Jury list for the term is as fol lows: Ed Moser, Peggy Bethune, John Leach, Woodrow Blue, Paul Tay lor, Luther A. Douglas, C. J. Posey, John W. Goodman, C. M. Gainey, Will Frank Wright, R. S. Almond, Israel Mann, Alex Baker, James B. Riggsbee, Graham Clark, B. B. Bostic, Ed McNeill, G. G. Faircloth, W. D. McLeod, J. K. Riley, Ray Davis, T. W. Jones, M. M. ' Culbreth, W. C. Boahn, Joseph M. Pickler, Jessie Bright Ferguson, John McKay Blue, R. A. Jones, Lacy Parks E. C. Smith, Jr., J. A. McFadyen, W. T. Hol land, W. T. Walters, David Han non. J. E. Townsend, George Baker, C. J. Connell, R. M. Hoop er, Harry Epstein, Pride P. Webs ter, Mrs. D. J. Campbell, Hilton Clark, Frank Pate, Lonnie Fields, Harry Thornburg. The following grand jurors will serve six more months and nine more are to be named this term: A. A. Ray, L. W. Stanton, Lacy McNeill, Jack Pope, H. M. Jdillis, R. L. Hales, Odell Ashburn, John Frank Chisholm, Eugene B. Max well. TO PRESENT CANTATA AT METHODIST CHURCH "The First Easter", a cantata for mixed voices will be presented Easter Sunday morning at Rae ford Methodist Church as part of the morning service. Those having solo parts are Mrs. Carson Davis, Jr., Mrs. Helen Barrington, Miss Mary Rave Freeman and John Davis. The Chance) Choir of 20 voices, assisted by the Young People's Choir will portray the story of the risen Lord in song. Joe Gulledge, Jr., who is sta tioned on the USS Kearsarge and Romalus Hardin of Naval Air Station. Key West, Florida are spending their furloughs in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gull edge. Mr. and Mrs. C J. Benner and Janice visited Miss Ina Mae Ben ner at Rex Hospital Sunday. The Raeford Chamber of Com merce directors, with several Chamber members as guests, held their regular monthly luncheon meeting at the Raeford Hotel on Tuesday and made plans for ask ing th help of the whole com munity in a "Clean-Up, Fix-Up, Paint-Up" week in Raeford during the week starting May 3. Jake Austin, chairman of the town's alley and back lot beautification committee for the "Finer Caro lina" contest, is to be Clean-Up week chairman for the commun ity. Members cf the committee helping him get organized will be announced next week, as will de tailed plans for carrying out the project. Austin said that several clubs had been contacted, and that from the whole-hearted acceptance the plan was getting so far, he figures it will be the biggest drive of this sort ever held here. He feels that If all clubs and citizens cooper ate as the Mayor and board, of commissioners have already pro mised the city government will do, that the project will be a big success and will be another sig nificant step In the drive to make Raeford "Carolina's Finest Town" in 1954. Plans are also being made to follow the Clean-Up week with a cemetery clean-up drive the following week, and these will be announced later also. The Chamber directors heard reports from Marion Gatlin on the new street lights and the pole clean-up and passed a resolution of appreciation to Raeford Power and Manufacturing Co. and Caro lina Power and Light Co., for their help in getting this job done. Tom McBryde reported on plans his committee has for getting the swimming hole on Rockfish creek improved and enlarged in the near future, and said that the road to it would probably be pav ed very soon also. Before adjournment the board discussed several other Chamber projects for the year, including the organization of a Credit Bu reau here and the establishment of a State Auto license sales a gency here. 0 Farmers Urged To Plant Allotments Raleigh Underplanting cotton acreage allotments can be a cost ly mistake this year, according to M. G. Mann, general manager of the N. C. Cotton Growers Asso ciation. The farmer who underplants, even though he thought he was planting his full allotment, will lose in two ways, Mann said. First he will lose the income from the unplanted portion. Second, his future allotments will be affected if his underplant ed acreage is more than 10 per cent of his allotment or one acre, which ever is the larger. This would also mean a loss in total allotment to the county and state, Mann said. Having the land measured ac curately can prevent much of this unintentional underplanting, the cotton leader explained. For a fee, the county ASC of fice will pre-measure the allot ment and allow this as the offi cial measurement for compliance. Mann also pointed out that most communities have residents who know how to measure land and that the services of these men could be obtained to stake out the prescribed limits. "Guessing acreage can be dangerous practice when so much is involved," Mann said. "It seems reasonbale to assume that our cot ton acreage will be cut again next year, and if we lose valuable acres through underplanting this year, our problem of maintaining farm income will become even more serious." i
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