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pour. voici MUIDC V0! Of Of IIBt The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XL1X; NUMBER 10 THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1934 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR 11 Jllillt By The Editor Members of the town board estimate that Highway Commis sioner Forrest Lockey saved the town about $8,000 when he man aged to get the town's paving done on the same contract with the State contract for the repay ing of 15-A and the paving of by passes on it. Lockey keeps doing things for this town and county, both in his official capacity and personally, and we are grateful. He's a Raeford boy, you know and he certainly hasn't forgotten it. D. Scott Poole, former turpen tine slasher, farmer, school tea cher, printer, editor and publish er, legislator and for many years a ruling elder of the Raeford Presbyterian Church, passed his 96th birthday quietly at his home here on Tuesday of this week. There was to have been a family gathering at the home of his son, W. L. Poole, but Mr. Poole didn't feel like going, although he is generally getting along fine and feeling well for his age. An elder of the Presbyterian Church since 1915, Mr. Poole is the oldest one in service and age. Prior to 1915 he was an eider in other Presby terian Churches. In his church he has been a Sunday School teach er and most interested in church music. While he is feeling well, he doesn't heai or see well, and getting around oo many people excites him somewhat. To Mr. Poolo on this occasion go our be.it i wishes and admiration. Unofficial report is that if North Carolina decides definitely to accept the entire 30th Infantry Division of the National Guard the 130th AAA Battalion will be come the 130th Tank Baatalion of the Division. We'll be armed with medium tanlts, although big ger than any that saw much ac tion in Worid War II, with 90 mm guns. If I had known this I would have watched my waistline a little closer, as I don't know if I can even get in a tank. I'm willing to try, though, and general atti tude througnout the battalion is that it's going to be fun. If the 130th does get tanks, it will cer tainly be a compliment to the ef ficiency of the battalion, as that will without doubt be the hardest conversion to be made by any unit in the State. Made a note on my pad Mon day to put something in the pa Der' about the paving getting started in town. Didn't consider it much, but just tfiought it would take several weeks. I was quite surprised to hear this morning when I started to write about it tlfcat they expected to get through today. It sure takes a long time to get them started paving your street, as compared to the time it takes them to do it when they do get started. Jackson Street and Stewart Street will be long straight streets, now that they are paved, and there ' we a lot of families with children living on both. Ste wart Street has a break back of the McLauchlin School to slow traffic some, but there will be a four-block stretch of Jackson Street without a stop. It has been suggested tnat Jackson Street as well as the streets crossing it be stop streets. There will be little through traffic and no one is in too big a hurry to stop at a corner if he might keep from hitting a child by so doing. That is some thing the town officials can be thinking about. . . Notice they are using stop signs on Main Street at Prospect Avenue now instead of the traffic light. This may work as well, although a left turn from Main into Prospect is more difficult. The swimming hole "Rock fish Park" has been suggested as (Continued on back pg) Defendant Pays Two Fines For No Driving License Jake Ellis, white, was charged some time ago with driving with out driver's license, and for some reason or other his case was not tried until Tuesday of this week when it came up before Judge T O. Moses in Hoke County record er's court. He pled guilty and got 30 days suspended on pay ment of $25 and costs. While waiting for trial on the first charge, however, he got caught again, so a charge of the same offense came up Tuesday against Jacob Jackson Ellis, the same man. He made the same plea and had to pay the same amount. Fidel J. Archuleta, white sold ier, pled guilty of violating the prohibition laws and got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs. Hubert Harris, colored, pled guilty of driving drunk, a second offense, and got three to four months suspended on payment of $200 and costs. He also pled guil ty of driving after his license had been revoked and got three to four months to be suspended on payment of $200 and costs for this. Alfred E. Steele, colored, pled guilty of driving drunk and got 60 days suspended on payment of $100 and costs. Lillie Jane Brigman, white, was found not guilty on a charge of having improper brakes. For having no driver's license she got 60 days suspended on payment of $50 and costs, after pleading guilty. State dropped the case in which Chancy Wright, colored, was charged with violating the pro hibition laws. Mack Shields, colored, was found not guilty on a charge of violating the game laws. Tom W.'itson, colored, was found not guilty on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and carryin a shotgun off his premises on Sunday. Peter Patmore Perry, white, had to pay $10 and costs for hav ing improper brakes. Freddie Fisher, cok n d, paid the same for failing to stop at a stop sign. Haywood Brown, colored, pled guilty of driving without a li cense and got 30 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs. Atwell C. Russell, white, and Walter N. Willis, colored, each pled guilty of being drunk in a public place and each got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs. James D. Craig, white, left a $40 bond on a charge of allowing an unlicensed driver to operate his car. Elwood Newman, colored, paid $10 and costs and Douglas Burke, white, paid costs for exceeding the speed limit by different a mounts. o School Official Is Speaker At Kiwanis J. E. Miller, assistant State superintendent of public instruc tion, was guest speaker at the regular weekly supper meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis Club at the Hoke High school cafeteria last Thursday night. He was pre sented to the club by Hoke School Superintendent K. A. Mac Donald. Miller talked generally about public education in North Caro lina, and brought the club mem bers many interesting facts. He spoke of the need for more teach ers as the most critical shortage, but said that there was also a growing shcrtage of classrooms. He said there would be more than a million children in North Carolina's schools this year, more than ecr before. The Increase, he said Is due to more beginners than ever before and a consist, ently growing number of chll dren transferring to North Caro lina schools from other states. Officers Destroy 23 Stills During Four-Month Period The Hoke County sheriff and rural police officers this week released figures on liquor stills destroyed in the county in the past four months by townships, and the total is 23 stills with a total manufacturing capacity of 11,000 gallons. In April four stills were taken in Antioch Township, one in Stonewall, two in Blue Springs and one in Raeford Township, for a total of eight. In May one was destroyed in Antioch and three in Stonewall for a total of four. In June one was taken in Blue Springs, two in Antioch, two in Rockfish, one in Quewhiffle and one in Stonewall, for a total of seven. In July they took one in Blue Springs, two in Stonewall, and one in McLauchlin, for a total of four. County Board Has Routine Meeting The Hoke County board of commissioners held its regular monthly meeting Monday with all members present. Routine items of business wee disposed of and a jury for the August term of Superior Court was drawn. A delegation of citizens of Little River Township appeared before the board and asked that H. J. Denny be employed as a deputy sheriff for that township. The board approved the employ ment of Denny for a period of three months at a salary of $50 a month plus fees and mileage on necessary trips to Raeford in cases where the county is liable for costs. The board stated "It is distinctly understood that Mr. Denny is to work under the su pervision of the sheriff, who is to approve all bills for mileage." The board unanimously voted to name Mayor Alfred Cole of Raeford civil defense director for Hoke County, and directed the county accountant to advise the State director of civil defense of the appointment. Set Emergency March Of Dimes For Aunust 16-31 Despite vast sums of money contributed to the fight against infantile paralysis. North Caro lina polio chapters are still on the "receiving end ' of the March of Dimes organization, Sheriff D. H. Hodgin, director of the Emer gency March of Dimes in Hoke County, declared today. In an appeal to all people of the county to help their National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis pull out of its present critical financial plight, Hodgin pointed out that North Carolina has ben efitted tremendously from the generosity of this organization. "Up to July 15 this year", he said, fourteen ol our polio chapters have asked for and received from the Foundation's Emergency Fund $110,650.00 for the care of our own children and young men and women stricken by polio. Un doubtedly, much more would have come to us but for the fact that this source of emergency aid has run dry," said Hodgin. This distressing situation is why the special drive has been set in Hoke County and the nation for August 16-31. The Emergency March of Dimes director pointed out that the total raised in last January's March of Dimes was not enough to continue payment of patient aid bills thu year, in addition to meeting the costs of the vaccine field trials and purchase of in creased quantities of gamma glo bulin. "To North Carolina $441, 445.00 worth of gamma globulin, the temporary preventive against paralytic poiio, has been allotted this year," Hodgin said. (Continued On Page 4) Opening Dales For School Year Set Bv Board The Hoke County Board of Education met Monday night and set the opening dates for the white, colored and Indian schools of the county for the 1954-55 term, among ether things. The white schools of the coun ty will open for the term at 9:00 a. m. on Thursday, September 2. All teachers but one have been employed for the white schools. The colored schools will open on Monday, September 13, at 9:00. This is the first time the colored schools have opened so early, and is in the nature of an experiment by the board in view of their fine attendance last year. AH teachers have been employed for the colored schools with the exception of two at Upchurch. The Hoke County Indian School 'will open on Monday, September 27 at 9:00 a. m. All teachers have been employed for this school, which is losing one because of low attendance. All schools in the county will close on Tuesday, December 21, for Christmas, and will reopen on Monday, January 3, 1955. County Superintendent K. A. MacDonald said he expected to see an increase in the enrollments at all schools, particularly in the lower grades. Last year of5230 school age children in the county there were 4331 enrolled in the schools during the year. Last day enrollment was 3874. Average daily attendance in the county was 3502 for a percentage in at tendance of 90.9. There were 1520 enrolled ' in r;e white schools, 2600 in the colored and 219 in the Indian School. At the meeting the board also approved preliminary nrawings for the auditorium at Upchurch School. 0 Holland To Preach To Presbyterians Dr. Harry K. Holland, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Marietta, Ga., and former pastor of the Raeford Prcsbvterian Church, will preach at the local! church at the morning worship service on Sunday, August 8. While in Raeford Dr. and Mrs. Holland vill be guests of Dr. and Mrs. Marcus Smi'h and family. Dr. Holland was pastor of the, Presbyterian Church from 1941 until 1947, leaving here to go to the Marietta church. He succeed ed Dr. Watson M. Fairley as pas tor here and was succeeded by the Rev. W. B. Heyward, present pastor. 50 MERCHANTS START GIVING TICKETS ON CAR AND PRIZES Fall Festival November 3 Almost 50 merchants of all de scriptions in and around Raeford started this week giving tickets with purchases on the impressive $3,000 worth of prizes to be drawn for at the second Fall Fes tival here to be held on Wednes day, NovcmLcr 2. Enrollment in the affair readied almost 100 per cent of the town's firms this week and the others are expected. Headline att-action on the gift list is the new 1954 Chevrolet two-door t,Teon and tan sedan which was placed on display on the street in front of Hoke Auto Co. this week. This, however, is to be only one of many prizes which will be given at the fes tival. There will be several other prizes from the gioup, operating as the Merchants Division of the Raeford Chamber of Commerce, Inc., and there will be many prizes drawn for which will be offered by the individual mer chants participating. Merchants listed as participat Over Two Miles Of Streets Are Paved Here This Week Town Board Member Truman Austin reported to the board on Monday night at its regular monthly meeting that the paving of the streets set up for it had started. By today this paving is almost completed. The paving being done this week is on 11 different streets in town and takes 12,220 feet off the approximately lxk miles of unpaved streets which remained in the town. Other paving to be done this summer will reduce the unpaved streets to about four miles. Streets being paved and the distance on each in feet are as follows: Campbell 400, Jackson 1440, Highland 720, E. Edinboro 800, Elwood 640, N. Stewart 1700, S. Stewart 1560, Wilmuth 540, E. 5th Ave. 400, W. 5th 1220. West Edinboro Avenue is also being paved for a distance of 2800 feet by the State as a connecting road not at the town's expense. The board voted Monday night to investigate the needs of the street department for recondi tioning or replacement of its old est truck. It was also voted to investi gate the possibility of purchasing gasoline in bulk at wholesale prices for the town's trucks, trac tors and car. All board members were pres ent at the meeling and Mayor Alfred Cole presided. Mrs. McLauchlin To Teach Bible Again T. B. Upchurch, chairman of the Hoke County committee for the teaching of Bible in the schools, a committee with mem bers from many of the county's churches, this week said that j Mrs. 1 . im. JUeLaucMin, wno nas; been teacher of Bible for several j years and who had resigned atjgnmcs wiu bc pillyPd at 8:00 p. the end of the last term to takem at Armi,ly park and will be a regular teach. ng job, had been employed to teach Bible again. Upchurch expressed the pleas ure of the committee that Mrs. McLauchlin had again accepted the work and said that she would teach at Hoke High two days a week, two days at Seventy-First and one at HoPe Mills -o- LEGION TO MEET MON. Commander Truman Austin of the local Ellis Williamson Amer ican Legion post, this week re- minded membcis of the regular monthly meeting and supper of the post which is to be held at the High school cafeteria on Monday night at 6:30. He urged all legionnaires to attend and said that a film would not be shown. ing in the promotion up to this time are Auto In.i, Baucom Ap pliance Co., Belk-Hensdale Co., Bon Mart, Cole's Feed Store, City Market, Council Oil Co., Collins Dept. Store, Elk Restaurant, Gra ham's Service Station, Howell Drug Co., Hoke Auto Co., Home Food Market, Hoke Drug Co., Harry's 5 & 10 Store, Hotel Bar ber Shop, Long's Grocery, John sun Cotton Co., The Johnson Co., Raeford Hardware Co., Upchurch Milling Co., Jane's Gift Shop, C. P. Kinlaw, Jeweler, McDon ald's Esso Servicenter, Raeford TV Co., Raeford Dry Cleaners, McNair. Dry Cleaners, Teal Oil Co., Wood's Fumiiure Store, Mc Neill Cleaners, Niven's Esso Ser vice, Israel Mann, Progressive Store, Wocd's Grocery, Home Furinlure Co., iaeford Super Market, Sunset Grocery, Jess Dunlap Store, Koke Electrical Co., Raeford Ilote.. W. M. Ridge, Jeweler, McNeill and Willis Mo tor Co., Raefo-d Furniture Co., Mack's 5 & 10, Byrne's Fish Mar ket, Davis Sinclair Station. MILL HERE WILL BECOME PART OF HUGE TEXTILE COMBINATION Booster Club To Start Membership Drive Next Week Jake Austin, president of the newly-organized Hoke High Boos tors Club, this week announced plans for the club's first member ship drive, and said that it would start next week under the lead ership of the Raeford Junior Chamber if Commerce. He pointed out that while the Jaycees will lead the drive, everyone that can is expected to help by joining and getting other members. A goal of 300 members for the first year has been set. The arrangements for the con duct of the drive were made at a meeting of the directors of the club on Monday and it was de cided that members of the Boos ters Club who pay dues for a year in advance will be given season tickets to the five foot ball games the Hoke High Bucks play in Raeford this fall. Dues will be $1 per month, or $12 per year, and according to Austin may be paid any way the mem ber desires, so long as a payment is made upon joining and a pledge card is signed for the unpaid ba lance. Funds raised are to be used in promotion of the entire athletic program at Hoke High, and members of the club wil help put the contests over in any way that they are able. Season Tickets will also be placed on sale throush the High Sd:ool very soon. These I will be issued to Booster Club members qualified for them on the njlt o the first game. Home on Friday nights as follows: Sep tember 10, Clinton; Sept. 17, Elizabethtown; October 8, Ro hanen (Richmond County); Oc tober 29, Tabor City; November 12, Laurinburg. The schedule also includes five games away from home as follows: Sept. 24, Chad bourn; Oct. 1, Hamlet; Oct. 22, Wadesboro; Nov. 5, Fairmont; No. 19, Lumberton. Southeastern Schools Organize A group of priicipals of 10 Southeaster.! North Carolina schools met recently and organiz ed an athletic association. The 10 schools in the group are White ville, Taboi Citv, Lumberton, i Clinton, Hoke High, Sanford, I Laurinburg, Hamlet, Rocking ham and Wadesboro. W. H. Coble, principal of Laur inburg High School, has been chosen temporary president of the SEAAAA. The association has six main objectives in organizing. These include the promotion of athletic relations in a high plane, to up hold the regulations of the N. C. High School Athletic Association and the State Department of Ed ucation, the enactment of policies that will make for general under standing in regard to athletic contests, the furthering of a spirit of fellowship among the admini strators of the athletic programs in the member schools, the correct and adequate publicizing of con tests and standings in the major sports, and the broadening of the athletic programs in the mem ber schools. Directors of the Hoke High Boosters Club have expressed the opinion that tl.is organization will fit right in with the aims of the club as to Hoke High School. Mr. and Mrs. Harold McDiar mid of Jackson, Miss, are visit ing Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Hatcher at their White Lake cottage. Miss Betty Lou McDiarmid of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. is also a guest of the Hatchers. Mr. and Mrs. D. Newton of Faison were week end guests of Miss Lona Graham. American Woolen Co. To Buy Robbins Mills Fast-moving developments in the textile business this week in dicated that the Raeford plant of Robbins Mills, Inc., would prob ably become part of a gigantic textile empire to be made up of plants of the American Woolen Company and Textron, Inc., a long with the five Robbins plants. First announcement of the move was on Monday when Robert L. Huffines, Jr., president of Tex tron, Inc., announced that his company had purchased 370,733 shares of Robbins stock from the J. P. Stevens Co. The Stevens Co. had purchased the stock, amount ing to about 42 per cent, from the family of Karl Robbins, founder and one-time chairman, in May. Textron, Inc., controlling 45 per cent of the American Woolen Company's common stock, is its largest stockholder also. On Wednesday the board of di rectors of American Woolen Co., meeting in New York, voted to refer to American Woolen stock holders proposals which would: 1. Authorize the purchase of the 42 per cent stock Interest in Robbins Mids recently acquired by Textron, Inc., from J. P. Ste vens & Co. 2. Authorize the acquisition by American Woolen Co. of Textron's various textile properties. Textron's manufacturing facili ties outside the textile field would not be included. It was pointed out that the move will give American badly needed production facilities in the South. Robbins has several up-to-date Southern plants, with mills at Raeford, Aberdeen, Red Springs and Robbins in North Carolina and Clarksville, Va. The three-way merger will af ford Textron new diversification possibilities, with American pro vding wollen and worsted goods and iiobbins synthetic fabrics. Selling Company Joseph B. Ely, president of deficit-ridden American Woolen, reported that the directors also approved plans to form a new sales organization which will merchandise fabrics produced by American Woolen Co., Robbins Mills and Textron. Also approved was formation ot a wholly-owned textile factor mg organization which would have a capitalization of 10 mil lion dollars. Robert L. Huffines, Jr., presi dent of Textron, Inc., would head the new American Woolen sell ing organization. These moves were seen as de signed to strengthen American's competitive position with the ad dition of the synthetic fibre and cotton fabric lines of Robbins Mills and Textron. The entire plan is reported to have been sanctioned oy Textron Chairman Royal Little before his recent departure for a European vaca tion. Textron as of March 1 had an annual textile plant capacity for production of 72 million linear yards of cotton goods, 102 million linear yards of synthetic filament fabrics, 24 million linear yards of synthetic spun woven goods and 16 million square yards of syn thetic knit goods. Plants are located in Anderson, S. C; Belton, S. C; Charlotte, N. C; Garnorville, N Y.; Williams town, S. C-; and Puerto Rico. They are equipped with 226,000 spindles, 8,136 looms, 48 tricot knitting machines and dyeing and finishing equipment. 0 McINXlS REUNION The Mclnnis Clan will hold its annual reunion at the Dundar rach Presbyterian Church on Sunday, August 15. The program will begin at 11:00 a. m. All members and their friends are invited to attend and bring a basket lunch.
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