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tai ii w VOICI OF MKDOM GUMCiAJ .9s. rxa voici or V, . tu'sf "i of nBcm n if , V I The Hoke County News The Ho'-;o County Journal 0 VOLUME XL1X; NUMBER 22 T.'I KSPAY, OCTOEER 28, Viol RAEEOU1), X. C. 1 ic PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR w v.i iv" Vitus i JUL iiiJLw I! 11 ft J t b V ft 1 f J I czrftLlsnda - - J Br The Editor j Sometimes, I guess, everyone gets behind, and this is one of them for me. This is going to have to be short, sweet or not, if you get your paper on time, for I should have been through long ago. An explanation scorns to be in order as to why Hoke High school is not being considered in the standings of the South eastern Athletic association foot hall teams. The impression left the daily papers was that we -cre thrown out or otherwise dismissed, but such is not the case. It just worked out that Lumberton and Rockingham have won the same number of games in the conference, except that Rockingham has played Hoke High and Lumberton has not and will not. This would give Rock ingham a higher percentage in the standings, and as all teams play each other but Raeford, it was not thought fair to Lumber ton. So, with the agreement of of ficials here, it was decided not to count us this year. The sched uling was unavoidable, due to contracts, but ' Hoke High will play them all next year and be counted. News from the courthouse in cludes an item to the effect that Superintendent MacDonald and the board of education are plan ning a Iced for the wildlife pro tector.;, or game wardens, or if they are not, then they ought to be planning it. Idea is that the schools get fines from hunters .ho violate same laws, and four of these paid in $250 each this week. One Official thinks if the school people do have such a feed maybe the game wardens will catch a hundred or so night hun ters for them. At $250 a head, that wouldn't be bad . . . . might even lower taxes a little. John McGoogan represented this county at what was to be a four-county meeting in Lumber- ton Monday an the subject of employing a rainmaking outfit for this area . . . "water re sources development," McGoogan says the people call it. The com pany is the same one which has been under consideration in other parts of the State,, notably Greens boro, and comes from Denver, Colorado. He said they had the facts to show that they had re ally produced in South Dakota and other states in the north west, but are able to produce better on a larger scale than four counties. The people at the meet ing got to thinking about the legal tangles which could pos sibly arise from such a venture, and decided to let it wait a while, They considered what the sit uation would be if, say, a man's crop of hay were ruined by rain the county hired these people to get to fall. They took the pos sibilities from there, I gather, and so can you if you will let your imagination run a bit. If somebody tried to tell you you couldn't vote next Tuesday, you'd vote or bust, wouldn't you? It is definitely a privilege that more people in this world don't have than do. The best way to keep it is to use it, in addition to the tangible advantages to this county from getting a fair sized vote out which I mentioned a week or so ago. Let's- take he week or so ago. Let's take the joy this privilege we have. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Senter had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Sexton and Miss Janie Sex ton of Kipling and Miss Janie Brown Sexton of Varina. Major David Scott Currie of Boiling Field, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D Scott Currie. First United Fund Campaign Gets Started 55 At Meeting Monday; 2 Firms Report 100 Fifty-five officers, chairmen and workers of the 1954 United Fund drive in Hoke County met at the Hoke High school cafeteria on Monday night and made final plans for conducting the one week drive, which started all over the county on Tuesday. President H. L. Gatlin, Jr., pre sided over the meeting and Craw ford Thomas reported for the budget committee on the budget (or the fund in the county this year. The budget, he said, is $5460, which is to be divided among the following items: American Red Cross, $1800; United Defense Fund, $500; Boy Scouts, $1100; Girl Scouts, $200, Blind (White Cane), $150; Township Relief Fund, $1000; Boys Recreation Fund, $150; Reserve, -$160; Ex pense, $150; Shrinkage, $250. Following the review of the budget J. L. McNeill, campaign chairman for the drive, conduct ed a session in which plans for the drive were discussed and materials for use by the workers distributed. All communities and the San atorium were represented at the meeting. Since the start of the drive, two firms in Raeford have re ported 100 percent participation by their employees. These are Hoke Oil and Fertilizer Company with a total. contribution of $551, and The Bank of Raeford with a total of $207 by its employees. Chairman McNeill said response so far was gratifying, and that he expected to bring the drive to a successful conclusion the first of next week. Dean Whites Lose Home In Fire Wed. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Dean White on Harris Avenue, formerly the Bruce Morris home, was almost completely destroy ed by fire between 9:30 and 10:00 o'clock Wednesday morning. None of the family were at home at the time, although Mr. White was in Raeford and got there soon after the fire department. Mrs. White was working and Paul and John ny were in school. Jimmy, their oldest son, is in school at Caro lina. It was thought that the fire started from the floor furnace, which White said he had left burning low. However, he says that examination of the floor furnace since the fire leads him to believe that it was not what started the fire. The house, built of longleaf pine, burned rapidly, and although the fire department was able to save a large part of the exterior, the furniture and personal effects were practically all destroyed. Both the house and the furniture were partially cov ered by insurance. Alarm was turned in by Jim Lentz, who saw the fire and called in from the home of Mrs. Ryan McBryde. The Whites have been with the J. W. McPhaul family since the fire, and are moving into the residence of Mrs. Paul Dickson Sr., on Donaldson Avenue. 0 DRAFT OFFICE HOLIDAY The office of the Hoke County draft board in the courthouse will be closed all next week. Mrs. J. T. Ross left Saturday for Washington where she will visit before leaving for Long Beach, California the last of the month. In California she will visit her daughter, Mrs. Sam Riddle and family. Mrs. J. C. Blythe, Sr. and Mr and Mrs. J. C. Blythe, Jr. of Hun- tersville were week end guests In the home of Mr. and Mrs. Halley Blythe. Cooper's Is Robbed Early Last Friday Cooper's Super Market here was entered from Main Street some time after midnight last Friday morning and $958 was taken from a metal cabinet. The thief or thieves entered by knock ing out a small piece of glass in the right side of the store en trance. J. E. Byrd, store manager, says he knows it was after midnichi because he checked the store when he came down town to the fire at Home Furniture Company, shortly before midnight. This was a small blaze starting from de fective wiring, and was noticed by Night Policeman C. J. Mc Neill when on his rounds. McNeill was relieved by Po liceman Lee Shopard at around midnight, but the break-in at Cooper's was discovered at a round seven Friday morning by Bernard Bray of Raeford Auto Company, who notified Byrd. Shenard, who was working out a notice after having been "al lowed to resign" by the town board, knew nothing of it. Shep ard was allowed to resign because members of the board and the mayor said they had found him undependable generally and drinking on one or two occasions. His badge was taken up and he has not worked since last Friday morning when Chief W. J. Mc Quage went to his home and in terviewed him. Snead Is District Boy Scout Official Younger F. Snead of Raeford was chosen vice-chairman of the VXi-rn District of the Cape Fear Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America at the annual busi ness meeting of district scout of ticials in Laruinburg recently. Jimmy Morgan of Laurel Hill and Donald McCoy of Laurinburg were also named to district of fices. The district, including Hoke, Scotland and part of Rob eson counties, is one of six in the council. Sam Chambers, district execu tive, states that the new officers will start to serve on November 1. Other business at the meeting included planning the western district "Scouters Night" to be held November 15 at the Raeford Methodist Church. W. M. Thomas returned from Moore County Hospital on Mon day where he has been a patient. Hoke Student Heads ROTC At State -mr? T ft,' 1 f t - 4- Col. Richard R. Middlebrooks, professor of military science and tactics at North Carolina State College, congra tulates James D. Tapp of Raeford on his appointment as colonel in command of the College Army ROTC Regiment. Also pictured at right is the new regimental executive offi cer. Tapp, a senior in the School of Civil Engineering at State, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Tapp of Raeford. Four Men Pay $250 Each For Night Hunting Recorder Hears Other Cases Four white men were found guilty -of hunting at night before Judge T. O. Moses in Hoke Coun ty recorder's court Tuesday and had lo pay lines of $250 each plus court costs. They were Ralph Davis of Gastonia, Jay Lunsford of Fayetteville RFD 3, B. R. Stroup and D. L. Kaiser of Bes semer City. Thiir rifle, spot lights and ammunition were confiscated, but the car they were using was found to be the property of Ed ward Lindsay and was returned to him after the court learned that he knew nothing of the use to which it was being put. Jesse Farmer, Willie Lee Wil son and Ed Davis, colored, all pled guilty of assault. Farmer and Wilson got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 each and costs and Davis got off with the costs. Cleo and June McDuffie, col ored, pled guilty of assaulting George Morrison and got 30 days each suspended on payment of $10 and costs and a $3 doctor bill. Herman Mason, white, pled guilty of stealing a sheet of cotton from Pink Simmons and got 60 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs and two years gootl be havior. Roy Lee Powell did the same but went to the roads in stead of paying out. Fletcher Pic-ce, Indian, pled guilty of driving drunk and got 60 days suspended on payment of $100 and 'cost:;. Mary Brainier, colored, plod guilty of being drunk and disor derly and got four months in pri son, suspended on payment of $10 and costs. James Poe, colored, had to pay costs for being drunk. Jim Davis, colored, paid $10 and costs for being drunk in public, j C. Q. Carson, white, was found 1 guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and prayer for judgment was continued on payment of $10 and costs. Dave McNeill, colored, had to pay $10 and costs for having im proper equipment on his car. Speeders included Edward P. King, white, 30 days suspended on payment of $15 and costs; Frank Hester and Samuel J. Britton, costs each; M. L. Cannon and Elijah L. Smith, Jr., $25 bond each; Jim K. Pappas, white, $15 and costs. T'1' ' . 1 .0 -as. - i. 1 i 1 . v I - A - i-', - I John D. Oirrie, MiJlctl At Gin, Is Duried Sunday Funeral services were held Sunday for John Daniel Currie, 25-year-old native of this county and resident of Wagram who died Friday from injuries received when he was pulled into the gin machinery at the Lumber River Gin Co. between Wagram and Maxton. It is thought that Mr. Currie was attempting to cut off the machinery when a ring he was wearing caught on some part of the equipment and he was pulled into the cotton gin and thrown aaainst a concrete block. W. L. Roper and other employees of the company witnessed the acci dent and rushed Currie to the Scotland County hospital shortly after 10:00 a. m., and he died at about two o'clock from severe cuts about the body and head in juries. "J. D.", as he was known here, was the eldest sun of Pearlie nrmnds Cunie and Sherwood Currie of this county, and was born April 19, 1929. He was a graduate of Wagram High School and Presbyterian College, Clin ton, S. C. He was a devoted sports fan and, along with several other Hoke County boys, was a mem ber of the 1948 American Legion baseball team in Red Springs which won the Eastern North Carolina championship. He married the former Mamie Elizabeth Coughenour of Laur inburg, and they were- the parents of a thrce-mon'hs old son, John Daniel Currie. Jr. lie had made his home in Wntirnm and worked at the Lumber River Gin Co. Tie funeral was conducted at Antioeh Presbyterian Church, nf which he was a member, at 3:30 Sunday afternoon by the pastor, the Rev. Cower Crosswell, assist ed by the Rev. Joseph Amory, pator of Pethel and Shiloh Pres byterian Churches, Dr. Paul Early of Red Springs, and the Rev. G. B. Vaughn of Mississippi. Pall Irarers were Harlee Johnston, Frank McNeill, Douglas Clark, Jack Roper, Buddy Smith and Beverly Mclnfyrc. Survivors include his wife and son, his parents, and one brother, Charles Thomas Currie, of Red Springs. H. C. Maxwell Home Pictured Last Week A record number of readers of The News-Journal identified last week's mystery picture as the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Maxwell about a mile south- cast of Raeford on the Lumber Bridge road. First to make identi cal ion and win the subscription was Mrs. Harry Epstein, with Mrs. Cornelia Russell of Lumber Bridge, RFD, winning the rural prize. Others among the first to nt,me the house included Angus Wilkes, Linda Andrews, Angus Currie, Mrs. Furman Clark, Mrs. Mary Shewbridge, Dewey Howell, Mrs. Bill Jones, C. D. Bostic, Ca mellia Guin, and J. H. Blythe. About 20 others also called in the correct identification. Henry Maxwell, along with D. H. Yarborough is gin manager and farm superintendent for the Oakdale farm of the Johnson Company, and his home is on an acre of land purchased from Mrs. John Campbell in 1952, when the Maxwells built their home there. It was a part of the Oakdale farm, formerly owned by the late J. S. Johnson and his father, the late J. W. Johnson. A full history about this farm will appear when Mr. Ya borough's house turns up in a picture, as it undoubtedly will before the series ends. Mr. Maxwell is a son of Henry C. Maxwell and the late Ellen Kate McKcnzic Maxwell, and has been with the Johnson Company since 1942. In September. 1938 he was married to Miss Sarah Mc- Fadven, daughter of the late Leonard and Estella Chason Mc- Fadyen of this -ounty. They have one daughter, Patricia Ann, aged (Continued en back pafe) MERCMAIITS EXPECT FOR FESTIVAL NEXT WEDNESDAY Hoke High Will Meet Tabor City For Homecoming Dance Planned Also The Hoke High Bucks, who continued their unfortunate ways against a strong Wadesboro ele- ven last Friday night by getting beat, 23-0, will meet Tabor City High at Armory Park here to morrow night at eight o'clock. Report around the high school is that the team intends to win this one, as this is the homecoming week-end at the high school. The school band will march and play at the half. The candi dates for Homecoming Queen will be introduced before the kick-off, and fans are asked to come a little early for this. The Homecoming dance is Sat urday night, October 30. It will start at 8:30 in the gym, with music being furnished by Tom Gibson and his orchestra. The voting for queens will be con tinued until 9:30, and the Home coming Queen will be crowned shortly after this time. There will also be a short program at intermission. Candidates for queen are Sara Gulledge, 12th grade; Dayne Capps, 11th grade; Jimmie Wal ters, 11th grade; Ruby Wilkinson, 9th grade; Sadie Chambers, 8th grade. Local Lady's Father Is Buried In Durham Charles J. Williamson of Fay etteville, father of Mrs. Joe E. Gulledge of Raeford, died in his sleep Monday night at Duke Hos pital in Durham. He was 70 years of age. Mr. Williamson was Fayette ville branch manager of Standard Supply Company and was a vice president of the company. He was highly regarded as a business man, was a past president of the Fayetteville Kiwanis club and was a deacon of the First Baptist Church.' Funeral service was conducted from the church at 11:00 a. m. today by the pastor, the Rev. Louis Gaines, assisted by Dr. Walker B. Healy. Burial was to follow in Maplewood cemetery in Durham. In addition to Mrs. f!ullcdc he is survived by his wife, an other daughter, two step daugh ters, a stepson, two brothers, two sisters, three grandchildren and one great-grandson. PTA Sets Festival Thursday, Nov. 11 J. W. Canaday, president of the Hoke - Raeford Parent - Teachers Association, announced this week that the association would have a "Fall Festival Night" at the High school on Thursday, No vember 11, in place of the regular Halloween carnival which was not held this year due to a con flict in dates. Canaday said supper would be served in the cafeteria from 5:30 to 8:30, with barbecue and chick en salad plates being the menu. He also said there would be lower priced plates for children. In the high school building the affair will be built around a free talent show at 8:30 in the audi torium, followed by the crowning of the king and queen of the fes tival. He said there would be plenty of cake and soft drinks of all kinds, and seven fun booths in the building, and urged people of the community to attend to help the PTA with its annual money-raising activity. 0 Tommy Bradley of Kipling spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Austin. Four Bands; Several Floats; Starts At 2:0)1; To Give Car And Many Other Prizes Members of the Festival day committee of the merchants divi sion of the Raeford Chamber of Commerce said this week that all was in readiness for the big Fall Festival on Main Street next Wednesday afternoon, November 3. Interest has been high in the festival ths year, in view of the fact that the division is giving away a new 1954 Crevrolet and some 30 other prizes, all of which are listed in an advertisement in this paper. The parade will start on North Main Street at, 2:00 o'clock and will include four, and probably more bands, school children, floats from schools, civic clubs and business houses, and other enter taining features. The stand containing the prizes will be located on Main Street near the Bank of Raeford, and after the parade the program will open with a welcome by Mayor Alfred Cole to all who have come to Raeford for the occasion. The committee said this week that any wishing to enter floats could still do so by contacting El more Stanton at Home Furniture Co. The last chance at the car will be given away on Tuesday, as all the member stores will deliver their stubs in containers to the fire station at the close of busi r.rjs on Tuesday, v.'icre they will remain locked up until taken to the stand near the Bank for the drawing on Wednesday afternoon. Deane Expects Large Vote In Election Tuesday Rep. Charles B. Deane of the Eighth N. C. Congressional Dis trict said this week that fdr the past month he has intensively canvassed the political situation in each of the twelve counties of the District. From the interest shown in all counties, he expects tho Democratic majority for Sen atorial and Congressional candi dates in the November 2 election in the Eighth District to go beyond 18,000. The Congressman reported that Democratic leaders in each of the twelve counties are aroused and hard at work on getting out a large Democratic vote on Novem ber 2. Usually, in an off-year election when there is no Presidential campaign the size of the Democratic majority on a local basis is smaller because of a lack of interest on the part of voters in taking part in the elec tion. During the last off-year elec tion of 1950 the Democratic ma jority for Congressman in the Eighth District was 13,146; how ever, Mr. Deane feels that this majority will be pushed over the 18,000 mark this year. In analyzing previous election returns in Hoke County, Mr. Deane indicates that in order for the Eighth District to attain its Democratic majority of 18,000 in Senatorial and Congressional races on November 2, it will be necessary for the Democrats of this county to roll up a majority of 1,100. Hoke County leaders J have accepted this goal and ex pects to go beyond. Mr. Deane feels that the voters throughout the District, State and Nation are thoroughly aroused, and he is confident that the Dem ocrats will organize both the House and Senate in the next Congress. The Congressman expressed not only to the senior Democra tic Party leaders but also to the women and Young Democratic (Continued a bek !)
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