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The Hoke County News
The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLIX; NUMBER 35
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1955
RAEFORD, N. C.
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By The Editor
Named by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce of Charlotte last
week among the 10 most out
standing young men of the year
was Thomas Earl Yarborough,
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yar
borough of Raeford. He was born
here in 1922 and attended Hoke
County High School. During the
war he worked for the Glenn
Martin aircraft company in Bal
timore, being physically disqual
ified for military service, due to
an asthmatic condition.
After the war he went to Char
lotte in 1945 and joined the firm
of Harrry & Bryant, among the
oldest and best known funeral
directors there. He has been vice
president of this company since
1950. In the Charlotte Optimist
club he has been chairman of the
Boy Scout committee, Boys Work
chairman, district chairman of
boys oratorical training, vice pre
sident and president. He has also
worked in Red Cross drives, Mercy
Hospital building fund campaign,
YMCA campaign, United Fund,
and has held various posts In the
Presbyterian Church.
Earl is really making good, and
it Is a pleasure to extend congrat
ulations to him and his family.
Getting picked among 10 in a city
the size of Charlotte is some ac
hievement. Here's hoping he will
be named the one in the near fu
ture. Of considerable interest to
younger natives of Raeford and
also interesting to newcomers was
Kiwanian John McGoogan's pro
gram at the regular weekly meet
ing of the Raeford Kiwanis Club
last Thursday night. McGoogan,
who became county superintend
ent of schools when the county
was formed in 1911, took as his
subject the existence of Raeford
Institute.
With Mr. McGoogan as guest,
and to keep him telling the truth,
was Edwin McKeithcn, Moore
County man who attended Raeford
Institute 'ivm 1898 -to 1901 and
who has been administrator of
Moore County Hospital for many
years. His son is the Superior
Court judge, W. A. Leland Mc
Keithen. Also along was Landon
Tyson, department store opera
tor of Aberdeen who was a resi
dent of Raeford about the time
McGoogan was attending Raeford
Institute and who was, McGoo
gan says, a great handicap to the
courting of teachers on the cam
pus. Mr. McGoogan told of how the
school was well-known in its day
and that it had many students
who went on to the best colleges
in the country. He said it had a
bout 300 or more students at one
time. It was put here before
Raeford was here, the town com
ing to the school instead of the
other way around.
There were a good many inter
esting facts recounted by McGoo
gan, and then Mr. McKeithcn
added a few things he remember
ed. When they got through Pres
ident J. H. Blue of the Kiwanis
Club added his bit from what he
could remember, all adding up to
a pretty good picture of this com
munity about 45 to 60 years ago.
I am going to try to get Mr. Mc
Googan to write it down or help
me write it down so I can print
it. Some day a written record of
events about the birth of this
town will be the only place to
find It, and on its 100th birthday
maybe our grandchildren would
find it interesting.
Understand from Sheriff D. H.
Hodgin that Raeford Night Po
liceman Jesse Lee did some good
work about three o'clock this
morning when he called Officers
Jones and Mceks to help him sur
round Johnson Cotton Company.
They caught one man in the place
and were able to recover all the
stolen goods and all but $2 of the
money in making two more ar
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Lucas Farm Is
Photo Of Week
The farm of Mr. and Mrs. Dal
las Howard Lucas in Quewhiffle
Township was correctly named
by only two readers after it was
pictured as the mystery farm in
last week's paper. Furman Clark
of Raeford and Mrs. Crowell Al
mond of Route One Aberdeen,
guessed right on its identity, and
it was also picked as the home of
Mrs. J. F. McDowell near Rock
fish and the home of J. A. Jor
dan near Arabia.
The Lucas home is on a farm
of 110 acres, located about six
miles from Aberdeen between the
Buchan farm and Henry Blue's
farm. Mr. Lucas is a son of J. R.
and Loretta Graves Lucas, and
was born in Randolph County, al
though he has lived in Hoke since
1920. Mrs. Lucas is the former
Margie Jones of Southport, and
they were marrictT In February,
1943, having met while he was
on the coast with the Navy. They
have one daughter, Frances Lo
retta, aged 11 and in the fifth
grade at Asliemont School.
Mr. Lucas attended Ashemont
and' was in the Navy from 1941
to 1945, being separated as a chief
petty officer. He served in the
Atlantic near the coast, and for
the last 18 months in the Pacific.
He served approximately three
months during the war with the
the British Navy, as an instruc
tor on U. S. equipment. He finish
ed high school in the Navy and
attended the University of Hous
ton, Texas, for six months.
A disabled veteran, he is pay
ing for the farm which he bought
from P. D. Hawks, who had own-
It for the' previous five ytJIs.
The land was cleared by M. C.
Brown in the early nineteen
twenties.
Lucas is an all around farmer,
raising four acres of tobacco, five
acres of cotton, corn, and doing
some truck farming. He is also in
the poultry business, raising 28,-
000 chickens last year and 9,000
this. He says he was about the
third farmer in this county to
start commercial chicken raising.
He also raised 20 hogs last year.
The family attends the Pine
Hill Baptist Church.
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Leadership School
At Flora Macdonald
Starting Monday
Dr. Price H. Gwynn, Jr., Ad
ministrative Dean of Flora Mac
donald College, has announced
that the fourth consecutive School
of Leadership Education, sponsor
ed jointly by Flora Macdonald
and Fayetteville Presbytery, will
be held at the college, beginning
Monday evening, January 31.
These meetings will be held
thereafter each Monday evening,
through February 28, from 7:30
to 9:30, with a half-hour inter
mission. This school is a concerted ef
fort on the part of the church to
improve the work done in Sunday
Schools and in the Church as a
whole. Its personnel will consist
of interested workers who will
share with each other ways and
means in achieving better results
in teaching Christianity. The
schedule will include a series of
classes or seminars of brief in
tensive periods of study, whose,
purpose is the preparation and
equipment of adult leaders and
potential leads to fill the many
positions of service and responsi
bility in churches and church
schools.
Dr. R. F. Sloop, p'astor of the
First Presbyterian Church In
Lumberton, will be dean of the
school, and the curriculum com
mittee will include Dr. Sloop, Dr.
Gwynn and Dr. Leslie Bullock.
The class on "Study of the Book
of Romans Methods for Teach
ing this Book", will be conduct
ed by Dr. Gwynn.
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Mrs. Harold Stone returned to
her home in Falls Church, Vir
ginia (last week after spending
some time with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. B. Warren.
CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS HOKE
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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:
Upchurches Attend
Cotton Council
Meeting In Texas
Mr. and 4i'S. Lewis LVinurvh
and Clyde Upchurch, Jr., are to
leave by air from Charlotte to
morrow for Houston, Texas, where
they will represent this area at
the 17th Annual meeting of the
National Cotton Council. Lewis
Upchurch, a director of the na
tional council, represents crush
ers at the meeting, and Clyde, Jr.,
represents ginners.
Council delegates representing
the six basic segments of the in
dustry, producers, ginners ware
housemen, merchants, cottonseed
crushers and spinners, will meet
in Houston Monday and Tuesday
to formulate the policies and pro
grams to be executed during 1955
for increasing the consumption of
cotton.
Fred P. Johnson of Raleigh and
Hoke County will attend as a re
presentative of the producers. T.
B. Upchurch, Jr., of Raeford, was
also named a producers delegate,
but will be unable to attend the
meeting. The group from here
expects to return next Wednes
day. Farm On Thomas
Place Finally Named
The picture of two weeks ago
which was run again last week
in addition to the regular mystery
farm picture, was finally named
last week, and a little investiga
tion disclosed why it was so hard
to identify. The picture was of
a house on the C. L. Thomas farm
about two miles west of Raeford,
on the south side of the Aber
deen road. It was correctly nam
ed by A. E. Baker of Raeford and
Tommy Scaford of Aberdeen,
Route one.
The home, occupied in recent
years by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Pickler, and more recently by
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Parks, is
vacant at the present time. What
made it difficult to identify is
that Hurricane Hazel blew away
all the trees that were in the pic
ture, and Mr. Thomas had had
the barn moved since the picture
was taken back in the summer.
It was on the farm formerly
owned by the late J. P. Smith,
and was built by Mr. Smith about
30 years ago, being first occupied
by the late Jack Dixon and fam
ily.
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Mrs. C. J. Benner spent several
days last week touring points of
interest in Florida.
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' ,You may win but once in
th,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
! Chamber Merchants
Name Six Directors
Members of tl,e Merchants Di
vision, of the ord Chamber of
Commerce this week named six of
their number to be a board of di
rectors of the division. Those
elected were A. H. McPhaul, John
Draughon, Israel Mann, Luke
McNeill, Younger Snead, and W.
L. Howell.
The group met on Wednesday
morning and elected W. L. Howell
chairman for the year. There was
discussion of closirg hours and
holidays during 1955, and plans
were made for another meeting
in the near future to work out a
complete program for the divi
sion. Department and Jewelry stores,
dime stores, gave notice of clos
ing on Wednesday afternoons
starting next week, and others in
cluding furniture and appliance
stores are already closing on Wed
nesday afternoons.
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1955 New Grower
Tobacco Allotments
Eligible producers interested in
applying for a NEW GROWER
tobacco allotment should file an
application at the Hoke County
ASC Office prior to February 1,
1955. In order to be eligible for
a new grower tobacco allotment,
all of the fallowing conditions
must be met:
(1) The farm operator shall
have had experience in growing
the kind of tobacco for which an
allotment is requested either as
a share cropper, tenant, or as a
farm operator during two of the
past five years: Provided, That a
farm operator who was In the
armed services after September
16, 1940, shall be deemed t9 have
met the requirements of this
subparagraph if he has had such
experience during one year either
within the five years immediate
ly prior to his entry into the
armed services or within the five
years immediately following his
discharge from the armed serv
ices and if he files an applica
tion for an allotment within five
crop years from date of discharge.
(2) The farm operator shall
live on and be largely dependent
for his livelihood on the farm
covered by the application.
(3) The farm covered by the
application shall be the only
farm owned or operated by the
owner or farm operator for which
a Burley or flue-cured tobacco
allotment is established for the
1955-56 marketing year.
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outside Raeford, 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.
Girls Win Another
Here Friday; Tabor
City Beats Boys
With All-State Claudine Hod
gin accounting for 34 points and
Janet Guin for 20, the Hoke
County High School girls basket
ball team added another victory
to their unbroken string when
they beat Tabor City girls here
last Friday night, 58-54.
The local girls took the lead
in the first period and stayed out
in front all the way. Home and
Norris were outstanding for the
visitors wiih 25 and 26 points,
respectively, accounting for 51 of
their team's 54 points.
In the boys game Tabor City
won, 45-34, behind the spirited
play of Fields, who scored 22
points. Bowling led for Hoke
High with 12 points, followed by
Bobbitt with 10.
Games scheduled for Tuesday
night against Lumberton .here
were not played, due to changes
in examination schedules caused
by snow. The Hoke teams go to
Clinton on Friday night.
Youth To Conduct
Service At Bethel
The Youth Fellowship of Bethel
Presbyterian Church will have
complete charge of the morning
worship service at the church
next Sunday, which has been de
signated as Assembly's Youth
Sunday and is being so observed
in many Presbyterian churches.
Homer Tuttle will preside.
At the Sunday evening service
Youth Fellowship officers will be
installed. The officers are Homer
Tuttle, president; Betty Jean Au
try, vice-president; Elizabeth Pol
ston, secretary-treasurer. Program
chairman is Ruby Mae Clarke
and adult advisors are Miss Dixie
Linthicum and Miss Betty Jean
Clark.
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II CHURCHES PLAN
RELIGIOUS CENSUS
The Raeford Baptist, Methodist
and Presbyterian Churches will
band together Sunday afternoon
to survey the religious life and
connections of the people of the
town.
The entire community will be
covered in the canvass in which
members of the three churches
will take part, and the ministers
ask that residents remain at home
if possible on next Sunday after
noon until they have been contacted.
SUPERIOR COURT IS ADJOURNED
TUESDAY; CIVIL IS POSTPONED
Polio Drive Lags;
Plan Mothers March
Here Monday Night
Roger W. Dixon, county chair
man of the 1955 March of Dimes,
said this week that response to the
appeal for funds to fight infantile
paralysis had thus far been very
slight in Hoke County. Up to
Wednesday only $246 had been
contributed, of a goal in the
county of $5,000.
Dixon said that due to the
great need for funds and in view
of the great good done with money
from previous drives in the coun
ty and over the nation, he felt
certain that people of this county
wanted to take part in the drive
this year. He said the campaign
had been extended to February
15, and that complete organiza
tion would be made of the com
munities in the county. He urged
the public to cooperate.
The Mother's March on Polio
will be held throughout North
Carolina Monday night, and In
Raeford a Woman's Club commit
tee headed by Miss Ellen Currie
will canvass the town. At 7:00 o'
clock, preceding the canvass, a
motorcade with patrol cars and
other cars will tour the town
blowing sirens and horns. Those
wishing to contribute to the drive
may take this as a signal to turn
on their front lights, and the
canvassers will stop during the
next hour at homes with front
lights on.
2 Buildings Broken
Into Here This Week
Auto Inn and Johnson Cotton
Company were both broken into
by thieves this week. They are
both in the south end of the main
business section of town, and total
loot from both did not amount to
a groat deal.
On Monday night Auto Inn was
entered by way of a window
which they broke in the side of
the building. R. L. Carter, pro
prietor, says they used his wheel
barrow to haul his safe over to
the cotton gin, where they used
his tire tools to get it open. There
was not a cent in it, and the pa
pers were all left unhurt with
the safe. Carter says there was
a little money In the cash regis
ter, which was open, but they
didn't bother It, nor anything else.
On Wednesday night Johnson
Cotton Co., was entered from a
second story window on the back
side. About $40 was reported
stolen, along with a set of
wrenches and four tires.
The thefts are being investigat
ed by Chief W. J. McQuage and
Rural Policemen Jones and
Meeks. The tires and WTenches
have been recovered and one ar
rest has been made.
Forest Ranger Gives
Statistics On Fires
Hoke County Forest Ranger C.
F. McBryde this week released
figures on the damage done by
forest fires in Hoke County dur
ing the period of the six months
from July 1 through December
31, 1954. There were 9 fires by
the following causes: Incendiary
2, Lumbering 2, Smoker 4, and
Miscellaneous 1.
These fires burned upon 250
acres, all of which were forest
land. Damage was totaled at
$1009.80, all of which was for
forest land. These damage figures
were based on a State-wide
damage appraisal system used by
the North Carolina Forest Serv
forest fires were found by County
Ranger McBryde on 22 percent
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Mrs. Willie Seward of Southern
Pines was a week end guest of
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Benner.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lewis spent
Sunday and Monday in Charlotte.
MiUr.vdc Tound Not Guilty
What last week promised to be
a full week of criminal and civil
court at the regular January
term of Hoke County Superior
Court turned out to be only two
full days when Judge Henry Ste
vens of Warsaw adjourned the
term late Tuesday. Solicitor Mal
colm Scawcll was absent Tuesday
on other business, and the civil
calendar, which had been set for
Thursday, was postponed.
In the case in which four Ne
gro youths were charged with
rape, the State accepted a plea of
guilty of assaulting a female from
two of them and charges against
the other two were dismissed.
Will Hollingsworth and John
Clifton Morrison submitted the
pleas and went to the roads for
12 months, and Raphew J. Shaw
and (Robert McMillan were freed.
Alvis Faulk, colored, 17, of Lit
tle River Township, entered a
plea of guilty of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill.
Faulk shot R. L. Brooks, white
storekeeper, in the back with a
.22 rifle two times on November
30. Faulk was sent to prison for
10 years, and charges of being an
accessory against Edwin McLeod,
colored, were dismissed.
Case in which C. F. McBryde,
Jr., was charged with driving
drunk, being drunk and disorderly
and damaging the county jail was
postponed due to the illness of
former Raeford Policeman C. J.
McNeill, a witness for the State.
Another, case in which McBryde
was charged with driving drunk,
resisting arrest and violating the
prohibition laws by possessing
non-tax-paid liquor, came to
trial. Charge of resisting arrest
was dismissed and a jury found
McBryde not guilty of driving
drunk. He pled guilty of violating
the prohibition laws, and was
fined $25 and court costs.
Driving drunk charge against
Martin Scarboro, white, was also
continued due to McNeill's illness.
Charles M. Welch, Robbins white
man, failed to appear on a charge
of driving drunk, and capias was
ordered. Eugene A. Wood, white
man of Wilson, was tried for
driving drunk and a mistrial was
ordered when the jury could not
agree on his guilt or innocence
John Smith, colored, pled guilty of
driving drunk and paid $100 and
costs. Case against Paul H. Star
nes, white man charged with driv
ing drunk, was continued.
In the case of James A. Glover,
colored man who was charged
with attempted breaking and en
tering at the home of Wilbert
Stanton here, Glover has been In a
State mental institution since last
term. The State dropped the case
this week, when Glover's people
agreed to take him back to South
Carolina.
Oscar Lee Stark, colored, pled
guilty of breaking and larceny at
Hoke Trading Company and was
sent to the roads for one year.
Wilson McPhatter, colored, pled
guilty of assault with a deadly
weapon and was sent to the roads
for two years.
In the case in which Ulysses
McCall, colored, was charged with
non-support, McCall seemed to
have things worked out with his
wife, and prayer for judgment
was continued for two years on
payment of costs.
After hearing State's evidence
the court directed a verdict of not
guilty in the case in which Bennle
Bandy, colored, was charged with
a deadly weapon. West Bullard,
Indian, was found not guilty by
a jury on a charge of violating
the prohibition laws.
Thomas L. Lloyd, white, pled
guilty of speeding 70 and paid
$25 and costs.
Other cases continued were
Joseph E. Santa, speeding; Theo
dore M. Carrington, careless and
reckless driving; Marshall Wil
liams, assault with a deadly wea
pon with intent to kill; Ozefl
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