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i Hi' v V -Sc vr-vr " ews voter Will Of V, &&rUn OF UPltn ISM "he Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLIX; NUMBER 31 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 19.:t RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY 3.00 PER YEAR -Jounjai 3 czfJcLncLi - By The Editor Well, in the middle of tomor row night when some of us are sleeping and some are not we will all get another year from our be ginnings, and I wonder how many of us have come to achieving that personal satisfaction with our ef forts which is the only measure of true success. How many things have we done in 1954 that we can be proud of? and how many that 1 we must be ashamed of, and try to keep our minds off of? 1955 is another year, and it's clean now, and each day's activities are all that will determine wheth er we remember it with pride or shame. Old 1954 was a right rough one around here, most farmers and businessmen will tell you. Could have been a lot worse, though. None of us that I know of had any sons or brothers or husbands or fathers killed or captured in any war this year. For the first year in a while there is no war now. Things went wrong because "of the dry weather, but not io wrong by a long shot as they went some 20 or 22 years ago. Looking at another year, we know we can sell it if we can make it, for bus iness is good and people are buy ing over most of the country. The people and companies with money are spending in expanding, bet ting on the future prosperity, and you ca"n see quite a few brand .' spanking new cars around here, even if people do talk poor, and there's no telling how many tele vision antennas you could count. The Robbins Mill has been un certain employment during much of the year just passing, but prospects are that it's going to get humming now, and keep it up. That will help us all, I expect, and I understand the future looks good for the Para Thread Comp any, too. The Army hasn't been after any land around here late ly, and the general feeling among businessmen is that prospects are good. The town has changed face a little in 1954. Improvements on Main Street include the new mercury vapor street lights the town installed, and the nice new building John K. McNeill put up for his Home Food Super Market and Macks 5 and 10. The town also got a good many streets pav ed during the year, and are ex pecting more. About the lowest down trick I have heard of recently was the stealing of the large home-made Christmas star from the front door on Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mc Lauchlin's home on West Cen tral Avenue on the Wednesday before Christmas while the fam ily were all at prayer meeting. That, I would say, is in the class with the stealing of flowers from graves in the cemetery, which continues. When John McGoogan and Fulford McMillan of th.e board of commissioners handed me the county financial statement which appears in the paper this week I told them it looked like I was losing a good subject from this column. I am glad to see it ap pear during 1954, and I know the people of the county will be. t Comment from both Raeford and rural residents seems to be favorable on the opening of the AAA branch office by the Cham ber of Commerce for the sale of auto tags. Business there is al ready picking up since Christmas, according to Martin Baumgart ner, manager, and is expected to continue until It reaches its peak during the last week in January. There is no rush now, he says, so why wait until you have to stand in line? It may turn cold by then, too. Well, as other columnists say and as they probably say in Texas, Happy New Year! CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS HOKE . .fT Vi IV. ..'i'J ' 4. '. .TV . '4... i " ' - ' JT , . . it;--.. - . . . i h - .... a Above is another in the series of "mystery farm" pictures be ing published in The News Journal. Nobody knows whose farm it is not even the photo graphers and the paper is re lying on the readers for identi fication. Two six-months sub scriptions are offered for first identifications and the rules are as follows: Census Figures 'Aid In Program Plans Agricultural statistics are es sential in planning agricultural education programs intelligently according to A. L. Teachcy, state supervisor of vocational agricul ture education. By using statistics gathered in the 1955 State Farm Census, it is easier to analyze the agricul tural situation in the state and to set up teaching objectives which will help bring about desired changes in North Carolina's ag riculture, he said. Teachey listed the following uses of agricultural statistics in vocational agriculture programs on the community and county levels: 1. To analyze the present situa tion and potentialities of farming in the county and communities as a basic for setting up long- range teaching objectives and goals. 2. To determine what enter prises to emphasize In the teach ing program. 3. To evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching program by check ing the year to year changes and the trends in acreage of crops and heads of livestock. 4. To present to classes as basic subject matter, material of a lo cal nature. Students should un derstand the local situation with respect to land use, acres planted in the major and minor crops, fertilizer used, and livestock pro duced. 5. To guide groups of agricul tural teachers and other agricul tural workers in planning county agricultural programs as a part of the "North Carolina accepts the Challenge" program. u Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howard and family returned to their home in Arlington, Va. after spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. John McGoogan. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cameron and children spent Christmas day in Bcnnettsville, S. C. with Mrs. Cameron's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Breeden. Eugene Maxwell returned from Moore County Hospital on Tues day after having been a patient there since last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Adams and daughter of Lumberton and Miss Grace Maxwell of Pinehurst spent Christmas holidays with their father, H. C. Maxwell. f r; 1. You may win but once in the year the series runs. 2. One winner will be the first person to Come to or Call The News-Journal Office, 2121. Staff of the paper cannot accept iden tification anywhere else. 3. The other winner will be the present subscriber who now re ceives the paper on Raeford route one, two or three, or an address Tobacco Violations Costly To Farmers Tar Heel tobacco farmers have shelled out over $1,872,000 in penalties for failure to comply with ASC's Production Adjust ment Program. H. D. Godfrey . of the State PSC Office, in reporting these penalty collections on the 1954 tobacco crop, explained that the rate of penalty for this year was 21 cents per pound for flue-cured and 2 cents per pound for Bur ley. This represents a penalty on flue-cured tobacco of 40 per cent of last year's average market price. On Burley the penalty Was 50 per cent of last year's average price. When congress amended the law with respect to the rate of penalty it was too late to put the increased rate into effect on flue-cured. The penalty rate for flue-cured will be increased for 1955. Godfrey reported that this pen alty money collected totaled nearly three times the amount requred for administering the program in the State. These pen alty collections afe deposited to the general fund of the federal treasury and used to supplement tax collections. This year, 122,418 North Car olina farmers harvested 674,236 acres of flue-cured tobacco. Of this amount 9,829 acres were in excess of allotment. On Burley 18,185 farmers harvested 11,422 acres. The number of acres plant ed in excess of allotment for bur ley was 432. This gives a total of 10,261 acres of both types of to bacco planted in this state either without an allotment or in excess of allotment. At the same time, Godfrey reports, there were 5,- 683 tobacco farmers who did not plant any tobacco and they had 6,640 acres of allotment. Godfrey says that the program about evens itself out with just as many farmers underplanting At the same time he reminds of the nearly two million dollars added to the federal treasury. Holiday guests of Mrs. J. M. Norton and Alex were: the Rev. and Mrs. Zane G. Norton and Eddie, of Shelby, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Midgette, Manley Mecia and Myra, of Sneads Ferry, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Lowman and Misses Lynette and Donnis Carr of Shelby and Jimmy Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Nlven and son visited relatives in Rox boro during Christmas. COUNTY FARM? r 1 i outside Raefor , who first identi fies the picture at The News Journal office in person or by telephone. Owners or operators of the farms pictured are not offered the prize, but we do have a beau tiful mounted enlargement of the original photo, free for each of them and Invite them to call at the office for it each week. Dan McCougan Home Is Modern On Very Old Farm The home of E. Daniel Mc Cougan some eight miles from Raeford and three miles north west of Lumber Bridge, pictured as the mystery farm in last week's paper, was the first modern style home to appear in the series. It is not quite two years old, but is on a farm that has been in the same family for five generations, since before the United States came into being. The home was first identified by Linda Andrews, daughter of Mr. and Mis. Bill Andrews, and first rural subscriber to correctly name it was Pat Russell, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown Hen- drix of Arabia. Others correctly guessing its identity were H. R. McLean, Mrs. R. J. Morman of Lumber Bridge, and Smith Mc- Innis. Several others guessed it belonged to other McGougans. Dan is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Duvan McGougan of Lumber Bridge, and has one sis ter, Mary McGougan, who is a teacher in Wilmington. He fin ished high school in Savannah, Ga., while his father was station ed at Fort Screven during the war. He married the former Miss Mae Watkins, daughter of the lqte Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Watkins of Wake County, in February, 1953. Dan attended the University of North Carolina and N. C. State College, and served two years in the Army. The farm, about 1000 acres is thought to have been acquired as a land grant from the king of England or the Lord Proprietors in the early seventeen hundreds when the family came from Argyllshire, Scotland. An old family burying ground has dates mi- birthplaces indicating this and has not had a burial in it for 140 years. Farmed in the past with as many as 15 families of sharecroppers, the farm is now operated by Ernest McGougan and Dan mechanically and with day labor. They have 680 cleared acres and raise 76 acres of cotton, 17 of tobacco and about 300 of small grain. They plant cover crops on the open acreage In the conservation program, and have two farm ponds for irrigation and fish. The Dan McGougans are mem bers of the Lumber Bridge Bap- (Contlnutd on Paf I) Recorder Has Christmas Rush In Ccurt Tuesday Before a courtroom full of spectators most of the day the trial of some 23 defendants, most for misdemeanors over the Christ mas holiday, took place in Hoke Cnunty recorder's court before Jud-e T. O. Moses Tuesday. In addition to the 23 cases which were heard there were 14 for feitures of bonds, most for speed ini;, six or eiht capiases issued for the arrest and jailing of de fendants who failed to appear for trial, and several postponements of trial. Most notable of the latter was the case in which C. F. Mc Bryde, Jr., local white man, was charged with driving drunk, re sisting arrest, and violating the prohibition laws. McBryde was convicted of similar charges and damage to the jail as well several months ago, and has an appeal to Superior Court pending now, it not being tried at the last session due to the crowded docket and the illness of the judge. Me- Bryde's trial on the latest charges was set for Tuesday, January 11. Defendants who were tried for driving drunk included Jerrold C.Boswell, white, pleading guilty and getting 90 days suspended on payment of $100 and costs. Len- non A. Walters, also white, pled guilty of driving drunk and hav ing no driver's license. He got 90 days suspended on payment of $125 and costs. Glenn Fulk, white. was found guilty of driving drunk and got 90 days, to be susDended on payment of $100 and costs. Charged with violating the prohibition laws in connection with three stills found near the Jones home in Quewhiffle Town ship were Fairley .Jones and Thorance Allsbrook, both color ed. Allsbrook was found not guil ty and Jones was found guilty. He was sent to the roads for from eight to 12 months. Talmage Melton, white, pled guilty of public drunkenness and violating the prohibition laws. Sixty days was suspended on payment of $25 and costs. Betty Thomas, white, failed to appear for trial on a charge of being drunk on a public highway, and forfeited a $25 bond. Officers state she was with McBryde when he was arrested for driving drunk. Curtis Cole, white, was charged with escaping from the prison division at McCain. He pled guilty and was sent back, sen tence being 90 days to be served along with the sentence he was already serving. Carl Patterson, colored, was charged with careless and reck less driving and a '.mage after he ran into a fire hydrant in Rae ford Sunday morning. Ho pled guilty and got 60 days suspended on payment of ensts and $137.50 to the town for the hydrant. George S. West, white, pled guilty of careless and reckless driving, and judgment was con tinued until January 11. James Rufus Quick, white, pled guilty of careless and reckless driving and paid $10 and costs. Richard McLaughlin, colored, was found guilty of using pro fane and indecent language in public. He got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs and on condition of two years good behavior. Sidney Blanton, white, was charut-d with stealing a lady's purse at a dance. Case was drop ped when the lady failed to ap pear. Martin Locklear, Indian, paid $25 and costs for having no driv er's license. Tony Buie, colored, and Elizabeth B. Gibson, white, each paid $10 and costs for using recently expired driver's licenses. Johnny Jamison, colored, pled guilty of non-support of an ille gitimate child. Judgment was continued on payment of costs and on condition that he pay hospital bill and $7 weekly to ward child'i support (Continued n kck yafa) J. H. Blue Is Kivanis Club's few President ' 1 1 J. II. "Bl'CK" BLUE Julian H. "Buck" Blue, local farmer and civil engineer, is to be installed as president of the Raeford Kiwanis Club at the re gular weekly meeting and supper at the high school cafeteria to night. He will succeed Israel Mann, and will be installed by J. Benton Thomas, also of the local club, lieutenant governor of the fourth division of the Carolinas Kiwanis district for the coming year. Other officers to be installed by the local service club, entering its 30th year of activity here, are Crawford Thomas as vice-president and A. Hinton McPhaul for his seventh term as secretary treasurer. Blue has been vice president during 1954, and Israel Mann as immediate past president is also considered an officer dur ing the coming year. Directors of the club for 1955 to be installed tonight are J. W. Flannery, D. G. McFadyen, E. B. Satterwhitc, Younger Snead, J. H. Austin, Neill Ross and Marion Gatlin. The new president is a native of this sandhill section, having been born at Old Endon, near Lumberdale, in what is now the Fort Bragg reservation, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Blue. He finished high school here and graduated from N. C. State Col lege in civil engineering. He ser ved in the Army and Air Force for five years during World War U, being separated with the rank of major in 1945. He is a member and deacon of the Raeford Pres byterian Church. He is married to the former Miss Catherine Floyd of Fair mont, and they have two daugh ters, one son and one grandson. He farms extensively and is con nected with a tobacco warehouse in Fairmont. They live at 216 West Prospect Avenue. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Ebb Barrington and family of Fuquay Springs spent Christmas day with Mr. Barrington's mother, Mrs. Helen Barrington. Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Howell of Ellerbe visited Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Howell, Jr. and family during Christmas. Jimmy Bracey of UNC, Chapel Hill spent several days here last week visiting friends. William Lentz, Mitchell Ep stein and L. E. Reaves left Sun day for Miami, Florida. They will attend the Orange Bowl game while there. Mrs. John Davis returned from Highsmith Hospital last Friday where she has been a patient for two weeks. Jimmy Weaver of Macon, Ga. is a guest of Miss Florence Cam eron during the holiday season. Miss Gwynn Gore of Char lottesville, Virginia spent the hol iday season with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Gore. Chamber Plans Annual Meeting; Speaker, Supper The Raeford Chamber of Com merce directors, meeting this week, made plans for the annual meeting of the members and set the onto as Tuesday, January 11, 1055. It was explained that the meeting was being held in Jan uary instead of in December as usual in order to obtain a man the board feels will prove to be an outstanding speaker on Cham ber operations in general and particularly on operation of a credit bureau, which many mem bers are interested in organizing" in Raeford. The meeting, which is to be a supper affair, will be held in the high school cafeteria at 7:00 o' clock. The speaker is to be Ed Lewis, manager of the Chamber of Commerce at Roajioke Rapids. He is a man with extensive ex perience in Chamber work, hav ing served the Burlington Cham ber of Commerce, on the most active in the State, before going to Roanoke Rapids. In Roanoke Rapids he has supervised the or ganization and operation of a Credit Bureau, and his remarks are expected to be of particular interest to local firms who do business on credit. At the meeting four members of the 12-man board of directors will be elected for three years under the system which retires four each year. The four retiring directors who" have been nomi nated again are J. I. Hubbard, J. L. McNeill, W. C. Phillips and Harvey Gobeille. Also nominated by the nominating committee are Younger Snead, John Morgan, John Nicholson and Graham Monroe. Members at the meet ing will vote on four of the eight men and any others who may be nominated from the floor at the meeting. Tickets for the meeting and dinner will be carried to members personally by members of the board of directors in the next week. o Adam Lee Crisco Dies On Street Day Before Christmas Adam Lee Crisco, 70-year-old farmer of the Five Points section of Quewhiffle Township, died of a heart attack on the sidewalk on Elwood Avenue next to Collins Department Store here at about 10:00 a. m. on December 24. His brother, Arlie Crisco, suffered a heart attack and died in the front of The News-Journal office sev eral years ago, just across the street. Mr. Crisco was a native of Cabarrus County, son of the late Adam and Mary Whitley Crisco, and had been a resident of this county for about 15 years. He had owned his farm in Quewhiffle Township for nine years. Funeral was in the Raeford Methodist Church on Sunday af ternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Conduct ing were the Rev. James Hamil ton, pastor of the Five Points Community Methodist Church of which Mr. Crisco was a member, and the Rev. Eugene Dees, pas tor of the Aberdeen Baptist Church. Burial was In the Five Points church cemetery. He is survived by his wife, the former Rosa Suggs; four daugh ters, Mrs. E. L. Hollar of the home, Mrs. r--l Hollar of Route three, Mrs. li. L. Blanton of Ab erdeen and Mrs. E. E. Lea of Spring Lake; four sons, L. A. and Edward of Rockingham, Luther of Leland and Curtis of Asheboro; two sisters and two brothers, all of Cabarrus County; two stepsons, several grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Garland Moon and daughter, Sandra of Graham and Mr. and Mrs. Hanrey Bethel and Harvey, Jr. of Dillon, S. C visited Mrs. William Blue during the holidays. r i
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