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W" " 1 ' " " - - - ,T, - - ' ! r ir l.e WICI Of "V.v W voni of v y wimp'.v The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal L3M VOLUME XLIX; NUMBER 39 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1955 RAEFORD, N. C. l)c PER COPY J3.00 PER YEAR WW oumal WMm i By The Editor Went to some trouble today talking to Harry Cooper in New York and V. S. Rubber people here to get the story on their getting the Para plant here early enough to get In the paper this afternoon. Then we ran into enough of one and another kind of the difficulty little plants run into to keep us from getting the paper out with it this afternoon. Once in a lifetime in a weekly will a story break so that we can get to run it before our friends of the radio and daily press have it. This was it, and we dropped the ball That's just the way it goes. Here it's five o clock and I'm just around to this, when the readers ought to have it in hand by now. There'll not be many "addenda" this time. . .it's beer too long a day. About the meeting tomorrow . . . and I trust you'll have your paper by then. . .The printers of the Carolinas have an active and effective association which brings experts on some phase of the business to the region every now and then. The News-Journal has been represented at every one of these for the past several years, and not once have we come home without learning something about our own business that we felt we could convert to dollars and cents. 1 believe every one of these meetings has made us money, and we are going to keep attending them. Now we in North Carolina have one of the greatest arrays of ag ricultural talent in the Nation at State College in Raleigh, finding new, money-making facts about rming every day. This array of mt is being well represented . ' the meeting at the High School iday, and it seems to me that any man who makes his living farming and doesn't go there to hear what is said is missing r wonderful chance to improve his money-making ability in his bus iness. Farming is a business, and like any other businessman a far mer that isn't going forward is going backward. Afraid of being bored, some will say. Well, no man that knows what he is talk ing about can bore me talking printing. It might bore me some, but you can never convince me that any expert talking farming can ever bore a farmer with any sense. Letter from Houston, Texas, this week will be of interest to re latives of the Rev. D. A. McNeill and to some of the oldertimers (Continued on page 4) o Variety Show Of Woman's Club Is Given Thursday The variety and talent show sponsored by the Raeford Wom an's Club for its building fund and given at the high school last Thursday night was attended by a large and appreciative audience. Jane Bennett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bennett, Jr., was crowned queen and Eugene Mon roe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Monroe, was crowned king in the baby contest. In the tiny tot con test Emily Jane Parks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Parks, was crowned queen, and Garland Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Har vie Young, was crowned king. Mrs. Clyde Upchurch, Jr., Woman's Club president, present ed first prize in the talent show to Virginia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McNeill for her piano Bolo, and second prize to Helen Rose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rose, for her vocal solo. A feature of the show was the sword dance and bagpipe playing of Miss Vivian Morrison, of Bad deck, Nova Scotia, a student at Flora Macdonald College. Miss -ison appeared in 'her full. a nd regalia with the 79 me le has won in sword dance yagpipe competition. n fashion show was presented by a group of girls from the J. W. McLauchlin School, and the clos ing number was a hagpipe min strel with W. E. Willis as inter locutor. Committee arranging the af fair consisted of Thomas Ripley, Bill Lancaster, Mrs. Thomas Wood and Mrs. Retha Ash. Chamber Of Commerce Sponsors 2nd Spring Farm Program Here Friday l a 4 P:: is .M-M! 3 Upf ; ( ;' !,!p: 1 Ps; JOHN L. REITZEL Chamber Plans Big Meet Next Tuesday With the theme "Building a Better Community," President Jake Austin and the directors of the Raeford Chamber of Com merce this week made plans for a supper meeting at the Raeford Presbyterian Church next Tues day night to which every person with any interest in improving Raeford is invited. Directors of the Chamber will have tickets for the meeting on sale Friday through Monday to pay for the food. In a letter being mailed to bus iness people of the community today Austin wonders how many times most people have said or heard "Somebody ought to do so and so." He asks all who are in terested in the community to get together with him and the Cham ber directors Tuesday night and discuss all these things "Mr. Somebody" IS expected to do, and to find out who this somebody is. The discussion is to be infor mal and on the subject of com munity needs, patterned after a highly successful similar discus sion the local delegation heard at the Chamber workshop in Rocky Mount recently. If the turnout is as good as Chamber leaders hope it will be, they expect the meeting to result in a real program of new ideas for community improve ment for all the civic clubs and the individuals as well as the Chamber of Commerce. In his letter Austin suggests that those who are unable to get to the meeting keep quiet in the future about what "Somebody" ought to do. n Hoke High Beaten Two Games Tuesday; Play Here Friday The Hoke High boys and girls basketball teams lost two games to Red Springs High School here Tuesday night, while the junior varsity won their encounter with the visitors. The Hoke girls seem ed to be without their usual ac curacy, and this was the differ ence as they lost by one point, 52-51. Claudine Hodgin scored 24 points, Janet Guin 22, and Faye Dark five. The boys lost by nine points, 64-55. The Hoke teams will play the teams from Hamlet in the local gym Friday night in the last games of the regular schedule. Next Thursday the Hoke girls will play Sanford in the first round of the Fayetteville Invitational Tour nament. The game will be at 7:30. Local. Man's Father Dies In Dunn Sunday i Norfleet F. Martin, 79, died Sunday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. W. Taylor, in Dunn. He was also the father of Eldon A. Martin, manager of the Johnson Cotton Company of Rae ford. He was a antive of Nort hampton County and a member of Bethany Methodist Church. In addition to his son here he is survived by his wife, three daughters, one brother, two sis ters, eight grandchildren and five reatrgrandchildren. WAGRAM PTA DANCE The Wagram PTA will sponsor a square dance Friday night of this wc-k in the Wagram school cvmnnnum. Proceeds will go to the frnd to provide a first aid mum at the school. Reitzcl Heads Experts List; $35 In Door Prizes; Expect Many At Hoke High At 2:00 John L. Reitzcl, assistant com missioner of agriculture of North Carolina, will be the feature speaker in the second annual Farm Day program at Hoke Coun ty Ilii-h School nt 2:00 o'clock Friday afternoon, to which all farmers and farm families in the county ore invited. The program is being sponsored this year by the Raeford Chamber of Com merce in recognition of the bene fits derived by local farmers from the meeting last year at which a team of experts in several phases of farming appeared, and in the belief that the things farmers learn from these experts is con verted directly into better me thods and more money in the ec onomy of the whole county. The meeting was well attended last year, and business and farm leaders of the county hope for and expect. an even larger turn out tomorrow, as farmers realize more and more the financial ad vantages to them from a greater knowledge of the facts learned at State College and in its farrr research centers.' The program will be opened with a devotiona service in recognition of the World Day of Prayer being ob served tomorrow. Reitzel, who will discuss the general farm outlook in North Carolina, is considered an out standing man in his field and is in demand over the State as a speaker. He has wide experience in his business. A native of Ca tawba County, he graduated at State in 1934, following which he was a teacher of vocational ag riculture for a year. He served as assistant farm agent in Cleve land County for three years and was for five years assistant in Haywood County. In Europe as a major in the Army he served as agricultural officer for First and Third Armies in France, Belgium and Germany. He has been farm management specialist at State College, and Wake County Farm Agent. He returned to Germany in 1950 as special agricultural consultant for the State Depart ment. He studied agricultural economics at Harvard University and has been in his present posi tion since September, 1953. Dr. Collins Returning Popular member of the team on last year's program who is re turning for tomorrow's session is Dr. E. R. Collins, generally rec ognized as the leading authority in this section of the United States on fertilizer. Head of the State College Extension Agron omy Department, he will discuss fertilizer problems in general and how farmers will get th maximum benefit from their fer tilizer dollars. He will also an swer questions on fertilizer r its use. Weed Control Specialist In response to many inquirie: by farmers of Hoke County the subject of weed and grass control, W. G. Westmoreland, ex tension weed control specialist, has been invited to discuss this subject of great interest to all farmers at tomorrow's meeting. He is generally considered to be the best qualified man in the State on the subject, and will tell of the results of many recent tests of chemicals and other me thods. He will also answer ques tions on the subject. Social Security Man Since farmers have onlv been under the coverage and effect of the Social Security law since the first of this year, the explana tion of the details of this law as it affects farmers by Malcolm George, manager of the Fayette ville Social Security branch of fice, is exDected to be of consider able interest. His remarks will have a direct and immediate ef fect on the finances of all farm families. To Present Cotton Growers Final event on the program, will be the recognition of the out standing cotton producers in Hoke County in 1954. The program has been arrang ed by W. C. Williforrt, county farm agent, with the cooperation and promotion of the Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee under the leadership of Graham Monroe. 1954 Jayces DSA Is Presented To James E. Tillman J JIM TILLMAN The first annual "Distinguished Service Award" was made by the Raeford Junior Chamber of Com merce at the J. W. McLauchlin School Tuesday night to James E. Tillman for the year 1954. The award is made to the young man, between the ages of 21 and 36, inclusive, for outstanding service to community, State and Nation, The award was made to Tillman by M. J. Weeks of Fayetteville, State DSA chairman, who was presented by Jim McDonald of Red Springs, district chairman. The occasion of the presentation was the annual Jaycees "Bosses Night," at which Jaycees have as their guests the men under whom they work. The meeting was pre sided over by President Peter McLean, and a Preacher Bethea i t " " j - ; recognized, including pastors of the Raeford Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, bosses and others. Angus Currie presented Prin cipal G. A. Page of Upchurch School, who brought with him a male quartet and accompanying pianist. This group entertained the gathering with several well arranged and sung numbers. In presenting the award to Tillman Weeks cited his service to his community in several fields. He pointed to his work in the Jaycees as charter member, past president, and now as State director, to his activity in the Methodist Church, where he ha? been a Sunday School teacher and is a member of the junior board of stewards and Sunday School Superintendent. Tillman is a di rector and charter member of the Hoke High Boosters club, and is a member of the State College Alumni club and the Raeford Vo lunteer Fire Department. He was severely injured last year in giv ing his services at a fire. Born in Wadesboro, Tillman at tended grammar and high school there and was graduated from N. C. State College in 1940 with r degree in textiles and dying. II served . in the Army in Europe, entering as a second lieutenant and being separated a major. He was employed by West Knitting Mill in Wadesboro be fore coming here as production nanager of Para Thread Company in September, 1948. Since 1950 he has been superintendent of the Para Thread plant here. He is to continue this connection with the United States Rubber company a: foreman. He is married to the former Heien Marie Rock of Pennsyl vania, and they have three chil dren, Helen Jean, 9, Jim, seven, and .Rosemary, five. They live in the home they built last year on Fulton Street. O Mrs. Laura L. Ray Buried At Parker's Mrs. Laura Lunsford Ray, 4.1, died Friday after a long illness. She was the daughter of the late Harris Lunsford and Bessie Price Lunsford of Hoke County. Funeral services were conduct ed at Parkers Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. N. P. Ellens. Burial was in the church cemetery. She is survived by her husband. Claudie Ray; four sisters, Mrs. George Hales and Mrs. Archie Clark. Route 2, Raeford, Thelma Lunsford and Mrs. Blnckmnn Cook of Fayetteville; four broth ers. Jack, Wilson, Brown and Marshall Lunsford, all of this county. U. S. Rubber Company Buys Para Thread Co. Plant Here Recorder Severe With Admitted Liquor Maker In a session of Hoke County Recorder's court that was about average except for the fact that there were only four or five cases involving speeding. Judge T. O. Moses gave a somewhat discour aging notice to those who might be considering entering the liquor manufacturing business in Hoke County. At the regular weekly session of the court Tuesday Jack Mc Girt, Indian, entered a plea of guilty of owning and operating a still. McGirt has a record of several previous violations of the liquor laws and is at present on' Federal parole. Judge Moses sen tenced McGirt to 18 months on the roads, to be suspended on payment of $1000 fine and court costs. McGirt appealed to Superior Court and was released under a $1000 bond. He was apprehended at the still by County Officers Jones and Meeks, accompanied by. Raeford officers Wiggins and Pittman. Another man at the still in Allendale township was able to get away as the officers ap proached. McGirt's home is in Robeson County. Sim Ratley, white, was charged with having two liquor stills and was found guilty. It was his first such offense and sentence was six months, suspended on pay ment of $200 and court costs 'and two years good behavior. He was taken by Sheriff Hodgin, with Officers Jones and Meeks. John D. Graham, colored, and Harold Baker, 15-year-old color ed boy, were charged in three cases with breaking and entering and larceny. They were charged with entering Bethel Presbyterian Church recently and stealing a gas heater, and with entering the Bray and Riley cabin on two oc casions. Defendant Graham waiv ed preliminary hearing and was held for Superior Court under $1000 bond. Baker was released in the custody of an adult to re port at Superior Court. Richard A. Bolton, white sold ier, pled guilty of speeding and driving after his license had been revoked. Sentence of 60 days was suspended on payment of $200 and costs. Duck McGougan, colored, was charged with assaulting Roy Les ter Leak with a deadly weapon with intent to kill him, inflicting serious and painful injury, shoot ing him. Probably cause was found and McGougan posted $1000 bond for his appearance in Superior (Continued on Page 4) 0 PTA Has Monthly Meeting Monday The Hoke-Raeford Parent-Teacher Association held its regular monthly meeting Monday night at the McLauchlin school with Pres ident J. W. Canaday presiding. A larger-than-usual crowd was pre sent. Mrs. Gower Crosswell made an interesting talk to the group on "What Music Means In The Home." A group of boys and girls from the McLauchlin school un der the direction of Mrs. Jean Wood, music teacher, presented a musical program. The rhythm band played two selections, two folk dances were presented. Mrs. John Flannery's sixth grade won the prize for having the most parents present at the meeting for the third consecutive time. Home Furniture Co. Has New Manager Elmer Parncll of Maxton has recently assumed his duties as manager of the Home Furniture Company here, replacing Elmore Stanton, who has been moved to Red Springs to manage the Home Furniture Company there. Living in Maxton now, Mr. Pnrnell is married to the former Vir 'inia Livingston of this coun ty, and they have one daughter. They plan to move here at the end of the school year. Judge Susie Sharp To Be Here Mon. Judge Susie Sharp of Reids ville, North Carolina's first and only woman Superior Court judge, will be in Raeford next week for a special term of civil Court which is to start Monday and continue through as much of the week as is necessary. This will be Judge Sharp's first appearance on the bench in Hoke County. The term was requested to clear the docket of many civil cases which have been continu ed from mixed terms of court. At mixed criminal and civil terms the court has been un able to determine in advance just when it would finish crim inal cases and get to civil ones which has resulted in inability of lawyers to get principals and witnesses in court at the right time. n Miss Lizzie Niven Passes Saturday, Is Buried Monday Miss Sarah Elizabeth Niven, widely and affectionately known as "Miss Lizzie," died in Pine hurst Convalescent Home at 10:18 o'clock last Saturday morning. Miss Niven had been ill for sev eral years. A native of Anson County, she was the daughter of the late J. A. and Mittie Williams Niven, with whom she moved to this community in 1906. She was a member of the Raeford Metho dist Church and the United Dau ghters of the Confederacy. She owned and operated the Ladies Shop here for 25 years, being the only woman to actively head a business for most of that time. The funeral service was con ducted on Monday afternoon at three o'clock at the Methodist Church by the Rev. J. Herbert Miller, pastor, and the Rev. P. O. Lee of Weldon, former pastor. Burial followed in the Raeford Cemetery. Pallbearers were Mar tin Webb, J. A. Niven, Carlton E. Niven, Chester Wade, Robert Weaver and Jesse N. Gulledge. Miss Niven is survived by four brothers, L. A. Niven of Mem phis, Tenn., T. Reese Niven, St. Petersburg, Fla., Percy D. Niven and W. Dwight Niven of Dunedin, Fla., and numerous nieces and nephews. Attending the funeral from out of town were SSgt. and Mrs. D. M. Baker of Camp Lejuene, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wenzel of St. Pauls, Miss Hannah Covington and Frank Covington of Rennert, Mrs. Wil liam Shellem of Townsend's Inlet, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Niven of Charlotte, T. Reese Niven of St. Petersburg, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Niven of Dunedin, Fla., J. G. Webb of St. Pauls, Mrs. Milton Capps and Miss Dayne Capps of Fayetteville, Miss Margie Camp bell of Laurinburg, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Odom and Joyce of Lum licrton, and Mrs. Lacy Johns of Ktd Springs. CANTATA PRACTICE Mrs. Kerr Stevens, director, has announced that practice for the "Crucifixion," Easter Cantata, will be held each Sunday in March at 4:00 p. m. She said there was still time for any who wished to sing in the cantata to join the community chorus this week. 0 MOORE HOSPITAL GETS GIFT FROM ROBBIXS The Moore County Hospital fund will receive a gift of $1000 from Robbins Mills, Inc., accord ing to an announcement this week by Mrs. John E. Dixon, di rector, and Frank Roberts, vice president of Robbins Mills. CI B PACK TO MEET There will be a Cuh Smut rarV nwtin: at the McLauchlin school caf:eria on Fridav nicht at 7:3(1 Parents and cubs are urged to attend. Control Assumed Today; Plan Increased Payroll The Footwear and General Pro ducts Division of the United States Rubber Company today acquired the production facilities here of the Para Thread Company of N. C, Inc., according to an an nouncement released this after noon by H. E. Cooper, manager of Lastex yarns and rubber thread of the Footwear and Gen eral Products Division. Mr. Cooper said United States Rubber Company would immedi ately take over operation of the plant occupied here by Para Thread Co. He said the additional productive facilities Were needed to meet the expanded demand for Lastex yarns. The plant's new superintendent will be John C. Markham, Jr., manager of the Burlington, N. C. factory of the United States Rub ber Company. Mr. Markham ex pects to divide his time between the two locations. A Navy lieu tenant during World War II, he is a graduate of Wake Forest Col lege and the University of North Carolina. Assistant superintendent of the plant will be Robert L. Cheatham, Jr. He is a graduate of Clemson College and saw war service as an Army lieutenant. Mr. Cheat ham expects to make his home in Raeford. James E. Tillman will continue as foreman. In his announcement Mr. Coo per said the present work force of 80 will be increased as the plant capacity is fully utilized. The plant is a' single story structure with 23,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space. It was built in 1948 when American Wringer Company, of Woonsocket, R. I., after negotia tions with the Raeford Chamber of Commerce decided to form he Para Thread Company and lo cate it here. The building was constructed and is still owned by the Hoke County Development Corporation, a corporation spon sored by the Chamber of Com merce and financed by local people to build the building. It is situated on an eight-acre tract of land on the north side of Bethel Road, along the main line of the Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad. Maintenance facilities are housed in a service annex. It has been unofficially known here tor some time that United States Rubber Co. was looking oor the local property, and that the acquisition which was con sumated today and announced by Mr. Cooper was a possibility. In Raeford several months ago Mr. Cooper expressed himself as pleased at what he saw of the community and what he was abie to hear of the reputation of iim labor and community relations of the Para company. Widespread public approval has been expressed here in xhe past few days since unofficial word of the imminent transfer was heard. Businessmen know of the record of the new owners of the plant and feel that in their coming here the community is gaining a permanent industrial employer of the highest type. 0 Community Plans To Join With World In Day Of Prayer Tomorrow afternoon, February 25, people of this community, a long with millions of people all over the world, wil observe World Day of Prayer. The observance here will be at the Raeford Pres byterian Church at 2:00 o'clock, and business houses have been asked to close for one hour start ing at that time. The service here will be con ducted this year by members of the Raoord Baptist Church, and men and women of the commun ity are asked to come straight from their occupations to the ser vice in their work clothing. The Raeford churches sponsor this service each year as a means whereby local people Join with millions of other people in the 92 countries observing this day.
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