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N sJo ill ew lima voici or MIIDOM GUAMM or nsLim voici or y$ cumdia MIIDOM XL. OrilBIMY The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLVIII; NUMBER 51 THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1931 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c TER COPY $3.00 PFR YEAR e II ii ftJ I to By The Editor There has been a great deal of talk, here and all over the county, since this time last year, about the need for a principal at the J. W. McLaurhlin Elementary School in Raeford. This school, with an enrollment of about seven hundred children, has what is called a "building principal", who teaches one sec tion of the seventh grade in ad dition to looking after the prob lems arising through the day with that many children and their par ents and around twenty teachers. The building principal Is undL' the supervision of the district principal, who is also the princi pal of the county's consolidated high school. The district principal spends several hours each day at uie iuciaucuun scnoui 10 lane the administrative load off the building principal, who has a fair ly full-time job teaching the sev enth grade. During this time the county high school is without a principal. Both these schools can have principals whose primary duty is being principal, under the regular State teacher authorization. To do this, and still have every State allotted teacher teaching except the district principal, would cost this county less than $3000 per year, according to figures from the State Department of Educa tion printed here before. For this money the district principal, who would still be in charge of both schools, would get the same pay he now gets and more when there are more teachers. The principal at McLauchlin school would be paid as a principal instead of as a teacher and would not have to teach. People of this county who have an opinion that the county should spend this $3000 a year' for this principal at the McLauchlin School can express themselves quite clearly to the members of the county board of education and the county commissioners in the Democratic primary to be held a week from Saturday. Four of the seven men running for the five seats on the board of educa tion have expressed themselves as being in favor of this principal. By voting for these men, and for these men only, the people can unmistakably speak their will. The four to vote for are David Lindsay of the present board, W. L. Smith, Walter L. Gibson and William Lamont, Jr. It seems a shame to say it like this when the other men running are fine men too, but it's the only way the peo ple can make themselves heard. The work of this column on this issue is about done, now. It' Is strictly up to the people from here on. Congressman C. B. Deane was here Monday night and most of Tuesday in a campaign tour of the eighth district. He seems to think things are in pretty good shape from his point of view and that voters will siick to him in the primary. People in this coifnty seem to intend to do that, from all I can tell, remembering the invaluable advice and help that he gave us when the Army tried to take the Hoke County land. He did all he could, and we shouldn't forget it. Police Chief Harry Dees, whose resignation was accepted by the town board last week effective the last of this month, told me how he happened to resign. He said that he was on duty in front of the McLauchlin school on Main street one day when he noticed a taxicab, owned by Julian Wright and operated by Milford Robe son, colored, pass and go north on Main Street with Raymond A. Moore, a previously convicted li quor law violator, as passenger. Dees said his school duty ended a few minutes later and that he got in the police car and went west on Donaldson avenue, and (Continued On Pag 4) J. L. McNeill, Jr. Receives High Honor At Tennessee School Lawrence McNeill, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawrence McNeill of Rncford, was elected last week to be president of the student governing body for the next se mester at the McCallie School Chattanooga, Tennessee. Young McNeill, who enrolled in the mil itary school last September, is the first student to be president in so short a time in two and a half years. He was elected junior repre sentative to the student senate last January and received a varsity letter in football last fall. At the winter sports banquet in March he was named captain of the school's basketball team for next vear. Last week it was announced that he had been the leading hit ter on the baseball team this spring, with an average of .302. The team won ten games and lost six. McNeill played first base. I YOUR SCHOOL NEWS By K. A. MacDonald Due to the death of the grand father of one of the principal characters in the Mildouson sixth and seventh grade play, the play had to be postponed. It will be given just as early as possible next week. The picnic and music recital went off as scheduled. Plenty of delicious food was on hand and everybody enjoyed the supper and good time. The music pupils did excellently with their recital. JUNIOR CLASS TO SING FOR PTA MEETING FRIDAY The Hoke-Raeford PTA will hold their last regular meeting Friday night at 7:30 at the J. W. McLauchlin School. Immediately after this meeting the Junior Chorus will give their Spring Re cital. This production is built a round the music of Stephen Fos ter. Judging from the hard work done by pupils and teacher, this should be an excellent entertain ment. Hoke High commencement e vents are scheduled as follows: Class night Friday, May 28 at 8:15 p. m.; Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday, May 30, 11:00 a. m. (We appreciate the churches giving way for this service); Gradua tion Exercises will be held Mon day, May 31, at 8:15 p. m. School will close Tuesday, June 1. Monday, May 31, will be skip day in the white schools of the county. Forty-two students from the Rockfish and Mildouson Schools enjoyed the trip to Raleigh and Chapel Hill last week and derived quite an educational benefit from it. Mrs. Crawley's music pupils at Rockfish will give their recital on Friday evening, May 21 at 8:00 o'clock. The sixth and seventh grades will present a play "Pump kin Hill Griduntion" immediate ly following the recital. The first five grades will present opening and closing numbers in song. The public is cordially invited. On Sunday, May 23 at 8:00 p. m. The Hoke County Indian School will have its Baccalaure ate Exercise. The sermon will be given by Rev. Venus Brooks. The school play will be given on Tuesday evening, May 25 at 8:00 o'clock. Commencement will be held on Thursday, May 27 at 10:00 a. m. Rev. Johnnie Bullard will be the speakc. W. T. Gibson and K. A. Mac Donald went to Greensboro Wed nesday to interview teachers for next year. We regret that Neill McFadyen, (Continued oo tack pace) Recorder Fines Liquor Maker In Court Tuesday William Jr. Breedcn, his wife, Mildred Lambert Breedcn, and Guy Lambert were charged with violating the prohibition laws by possessing and manufacturing non-tax-paid whiskey in Hoke County recorders court before Judge T. O. Moses Tuesday. They were charged with the operation of three stills by the sheriff and county officers. Guy Lambert was found not guilty and Mildred Lambert Bree dcn was found guilty of aiding and abetting. She got 30 days to be suspended on payment of $25 and costs. Breedcn, who got a suspend ed sentence of 18 months for a similar offense at last term of Superior court and who is on pro bation, pled guilty. Sentence was 12 months on the roads, to be su spended on payment of $50 and costs, including still fee for one still, and on condition of two years good behavior to begin at the end of his Superior Court probation or sentence. He was still in jail this morning, facing both sentences. Frank Scott, Indian, was found not guilty of operating a still. Ernest Campbell and Walter Boddie, colored inmates of the Sanatorium prison ward, and Hubert Creighton, Wake County white holdup man of the same ward, each pled guilty of escap ing. Campbell and Boddie got three to four months each at the end of their present sentences, and Creighton got four months to start at the end of his. James Murchison, colored, pled guilty of careless and reckless driving and got 30 days to be su spended on payment of costs and $35 repair bill. He went to the roads. Willie Lee Wilson, colored, was found not guilty of assaulting Wal ter Faircloth, white, with an ax. He went to the roads, however, for 60 days for no: paying off on a case last week of careless and reckless driving and having no driver's license. Charlie Tew, col ored, pled guilty of public drunk enness and transporting non-tax-paid liquor. He got 60 days to be suspended on payment of $25 and costs and Faircloth's doctor bill from being hit with the ax, the judge feeling that the liquor was probably more responsible for the assault than anything else. Herbert Jr. McKoy, colored, was found guilty of driving drunk. Sentence of 60 days was suspend ed on payment of $100 and costs. James R. Ramsey, white, left a $25 bond for careless and reck less driving. Lloyd E. Parker and George F. Blanchard, both white, each left $25 for speeding. POLICE CHIEF QUITS; J. S. POOLE WORKS Police Chief H. E. Dees tender ed his resignation to the town board through Commissioner A. V. Sanders last week, and it was accepted, effective May 31. A re placement for him as chief has not been employed John S. Poole is presently and temporarily serv ing the town as policeman on the night shift until L. F. Hester, who also resigned recently, can be replaced. 0 Guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Younger Snead Sunday were: Sam Snead and Mrs. Jewel Klouse of Myrtle Beach, Mr. and Mrs. John McKinnon of Laurinburg, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Chapman and Lucy of Aberdeen, Mrs. Mary Halperin of Natick, Mass. and Mrs. Alex Snead and son, Sandy, of Rockingham. Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Haire and daughter, Peggy, visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Jackson in Tolarville, Sunday. Mrs. Arah Stuart is leaving for Long Island, N. Y. for an extend ed visit in the home of her daugh ter, Major and Mrs. Lewis Hart and son. Mrs. Inglis Fletcher To Speak At FMC Alumnae Day May 29 HHWJ K&jl liM; r H. a INGLIS FLETCHER Red Springs, May 20, 1954 At the Alumnae Day luncheon to be held here Saturday, May 29 Mrs. Inglis Clark Fletcher will be the guest speaker. In North Caro lina Mrs. Fletcher is noted for her historical novels about the colon ial days on Albemarle Sound. By a very casual interest in her North Carolina ancestors, one day, Mrs. Fletcher went into the Huntington Library in California to study colonial records of North Carolina. She became so Interested in what she found that after six years of research and study her first novel, Raleigh's Eden was published. Three other's were written with the most popular of the four be ing Lusty Wind for Carolina. These four books have become so popular they have been trans lated into six languages. These novels are Mstor'-villy correct by the use of original documents such as old manuscripts, court re cords, letters, diaries and wills. Inglis Fletcher is not a native of North Carolina, but was born in Alton, Illinois in 1888. She was educated in the Alton public schools and then at Washington University School of Fine Arts. Her ambition was to be a sculp tor, but this she gave up to marry John George Fletcher a mining engineer. With him, she traveled in Alaska, Washington, and Cali fornia. She also made a trip to Africa to study native customs and witchcraft and returned to the United States to lecture and write of Africa. While she was traveling during her lectures she began to study North Carolina colonial records and later she moved to North Carolina and bought Bandon Plantation on the Chowan River in Chowan County near Edenton, N. C. where she writes and works about her plant ation trying to restore it to its former glory. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Roland Covington returned Sunday night from Franklinton, where they attended the Davis-Kearney wedding and reception Saturday evening. Mrs. Davis is the former Miss Rachel Gordon Kearney, daughter of for mer Representative and Mrs. Henry Crawford Kearney and niece of Mrs. Covington. Mrs. Hurd Grier Bradford of Hunters ville was soloist. Mrs. Joe Gulledge spent last Wednesday in Greensboro with Mr. and Mrs. Dick Patterson. Mr. and Mrs. Angus Sinclair and children of Maxton spent Sunday with Mrs. Wilmer Mc Bryde. Dr. Julius F. Jordan attended the Dental Convention in South ern Pines on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker of Winston-Salem spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Wood and family. Mrs. Mary Fuller of Liberty left Wednesday after spending several days with her brother, John McKay Blue. Hoke Convention Names Thomas To State Committee Breaking away from their usual custom of making their members to state and district committees in Raleigh on the night before the State Democratic convention, Hoke County Democrats in their convention at the courthouse Sat urday named these party officers. Most important of these since the death of Senator Clyde R. Hoey last week, was the post of county member of the State Democratic Executive committee, which has been held by State Senator J. Benton Thomas. Thomas was named to this post again Saturday, and thus will be on the committee which names he Democratic nominee to run Hoey's Senate seat in the general election next November. About 25 prsons, mostly county officials of some sort, or precinct and county officials of the Demo cratic Party, attended the conven tion. This group, however, did pass two resolutions. The first resolution passed was that the convention go on record as being in favor of a State-wide referendum on alcoholic beverage control. The second resolution, introduc ed by H. D. Harrison and revised by Harrison, J. M. Andrews and Dewitt Tapp, dealt with several items including an expression of regret at the passing of Senator Hoey, an approval of the record of N. C. Congressmen during the past two years, and blanket com mendations of State and county officials. Following the convention the county executive committee met and re-elected Chairman Walter P. Baker to another two-year term. Other officers elected were Mrs. A. D. Gore and J. M. An drews, vice-chairmen and Mrs. W. C. Hodgin, secretary. Mem bers of the committee, who are all the county precinct chairmen, are J. M. Andrews of Antioch, Archie Watson of Allendale, T. O. Moses of Ashcmont, C. J. McNeill of Blue Springs, E. B. Blue of Little River, N. A. Mclnnis of Mildouson, John Parker of Pup py Creek, Neill L McFadyen of Raeford No. 1, J. B. Thomas of Raeford No. 2 and T. A. Mclnnis of Rockfish. 0 Guard Unit Plans To Close Enlistments Captain Edwin D Newton, com manding officer of Battery A, 130th AAA Batalion, Hoke coun ty's unit of the North Carolina National Guard, said this week enlistments in the unit would be closed during the entire month of June, as the unit will be in Camp Stewart, Georgia, from June 13 through June 27 and enlistments cannot be processed in less than two weeks before camp. In making the announcement for Captain Newton, Chief War rant Officer Roger W. Dixon, ad ministrator of the unit, said that there were at present only 13 vacancies in the battery and that he expected these to possibly be filled by the last of this month when enlistments close. The bat tery has a strength of 107 enlisted men of an authorized strength of 120. On this week enc1 and next, May 22-23 and May 29-30, the battery will make its annual week end trips to Fort Bragg for small arms firing before going to Camp Ste wart to fire their anti-aircraft weapons. At Fort Bragg they will fire carbines and 45 calibre sub machine guns. Rations will be drawn from the quartermaster at Bragg and the men will bivouac on the range each of the two Sat urday nights and be fed in their own mess. 0 Dan Cox of Wildwood, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Bob Williamson of Olympia, Washington and Mrs Bob Myler of Van Nuys, Califor nia are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. D C. Cox. Mrs. Cameron Heads T. B. Association At the anuu;,l meeting of the Hoke County Tuberculosis Asso ciation, held recently, Mrs. Hu bert Cameron was elected presi dent for the coming fiscal year Harvey Warlick was elected vice- president and Mrs. T. B. Lester was elected secretary and treas urer. A financial statement of the as sociation was released at the meeting. It showed disbursements during the past year for schol arships, x-ray clinics, mass x-ray survey, lunches, pajamas, Christ mas seal sale supplies and postage and seal sale health education. Total of these expenditures was $1472.75, which deducted from the balance of $4008.09 at the be ginning of the year left $2535.34. A net of $1007.25 was received from the 1953 Christmas Seal sale, after $335.75 had gone to the State and National programs, and this brought the balance up to $3541.59 for the local chapter. The budget for the coming yepr as approved calls for total expenditures of $1030, which will leave a reserve of $2511.59. The report on the mass x-ray survey for the county showed that there were 5232 x-rays given in Raeford and Hoke County during the survey, with 2646 being given in Raeford outside Hoke High and Upchurch schools. From these x rays three persons have been ad mitted to the Sanatorium with active TB, 43 hrd other conditions such as heart disease and tumors and 18 were placed under obser vation until TB is ruled out. There have been seven deaths in Hoke County since 1950 from tubercu losis, all colored, and three color ed and no white persons are at present awaiting admission to a sanatorium. Hoke Lady's Husband In English Hospital Mrs. Sam Ingebrightsen of De troit, Mich., is spending the sum mer with her mother, Mrs. Nora McBryde, while her husband visits his parents in Bergen, Nor way. That was the plan of Mr. and Mrs. Ingebrightsen, and he sailed on the Queen Elizabeth, while she came to Antioch. But on Saturday she received a cable informing her that he is in the Royal Hospital, Southhamp ton, England, with two broken ankles. The message contained no particulars except that he incur red his injuries in an attempt to save a life aboard ship. The relatives and friends here are eagerly waiting for further particulars. They especially won-! der how long he will be detained in England. And they do not yet know whether his life-saving ef fort was successful. Dog Warden Urges Prompt Vaccination R. D. Parker, H ike County dog warden, this week reminded res idents and dog owners of the county of the coming hot weather and the increasing danger from mad dogs. He said that there had been several incidents of rabid dogs in areas Li surrounding counties close to this county and that the only way to avoid having them here was to get the dogs vaccinated. Vaccinations are to be paid for when administered, but these fees are credited on the taxes of the owner. Parker said owners would be liable to prosecution for not having dogs vaccinated after July 1. . 0 Mr. and Mrs. Tnomas McFad yen, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Veascy and Horace spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Veascy in South Boston, Va. Mrs. Gladys Long has been ill with mumps for the past week, and her little daughter, Nancy, has measles. Sgt. and Mrs. Leonard E. Dunn have returned to El Paso, Texas after visiting their parents. Charles Gales To Die June 4 As Appeal Denied Unless Governor Umstead steps in, a Hoke County tenant farmer who beat his wife to death in a cotton patch will die in Central Prison's gns chamber on June 4. The State Supreme Court set the date yesterday as it upheld the death sentence pissed out to Charles Gales in Hoke Superior Court last January. Gales beat his wife, Lucille, to death with a gun barrel on Octo ber 1, 1953. Death came in a cot ton field beside their farm house as two of their children looked on in horror, and the Hoke jury had little trouole in reaching a verdict of first degree murder with no recommendation of mercy. Gales had beaten his wife twice during the year preceding the murder. Twice he was arrested and tried on warrants she had signed. Once he went to the roads; again he was released as his wife retracted her charge on the wit ness stand. While in jail awaiting his second tria he made the threat that "if his wife put him in jail anymore he was going to kill her." He apparently had planned to do it after the noon meal on Oc tober 1, 1953. It was then that he laid hands on his wife and threat ened "to kill her and the oldest boy." She left the house, sent a neighbor to inform the judge of the Recorder's Court, and headed for the cotton field. Soon he followed her to accuse her of having "sent for the law." She denied it, and he said he was "leaving" and asked her to go to the home with him and help pack his clothes. She said she wasn't going because he wanted to "take her up there and fight her." Later Gales confessed that he was plan ning murder at that moment and hoped to lure her to the home and kill her out of sight of the children. He returned to the house alone, got a detached barrel from an old double-barrel shotgun and re turned. She trkd to flee, but he outran her, struck her down with the barrel and beat her brains out. He then left the scene, only to surrender later to officers search ing for him. Gales' lawyer a.-gued that he was mentally deficient, that he "always was slow in his learn ing" and had gone only to the fourth grade in school, that "he didn't play with other children." His mother, the court was told, had taken her own life in a fit of mental depression; an uncle suffered at times from insanity. Gales himself was not "in his right mind at times." The Supreme Court looked over the records of the Raeford trial, was not impressed. "The State's evidence," wrote Associate Justice Sam J. Edwin, "was sufficient to show that the prisoner committed a wilful, delibeiate and premedi tated murder . . . The excep tions point out no error of com mission or omission warranting a new trial." Bill Moses Heads Wake Forest Bar William Luther Moses, Wake Forest College law student from Qucwhiffle Township, has been elected president of the Student Bar Association at the college. This is the highest honor a law student can achieve at the col lege. He is the son of Judge and Mrs. T. O. Moses of this county. He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and became a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity when an under graduate. He was also a member of the student council. o Mr. and Mrs. Thelbert Apple of Garner visitd Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Williamson during the week end. They attended Home coming at Ashpo'e Church In Rowland on Sunday.
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