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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUl -S XLIX; NUMBER 42
THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955
RAEFORD, N. C.
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By The Editor
This county has had two of Its
citizens on television in the past
week, although one of them was
appearing too far away to be seen
here. On Monday night, though,
our representative, Harry Greene,
could be seen plainly in a tele
cast of the legislature in session.
Haven't talked to Greene, but
know that what must have made
that occasion a real pleasure for
him was the fact that he got to
escort General Kenneth C. Hoyall
to the speaker's stand when the
General paid the lawmakers a
visit. Greene well knows just how
much Royall did do in saving this
county's land from the Army year
before last, and the chance to pay
him any tribute, however small,
must have been welcome. . .The
other telecast, the one we could
n't see, was yesterday afternoon
when Lewis Upchurch, inventor
and manufacturer of the Soak-O-Ho,
eight-purpose garden tool,
appeared from the studio of a
TV station in Richmond, Virginia,
for a fifteen minute demonstra
tion and explanation of the tool.
Today is the 84th birthday of
George W. Cox, who was post
master here during the adminis
tration of Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover. Mr. Cox was born in what
is now Lee County before Lee
was formed, when it was still
Moore County. He moved from
there about 1895 and has lived
here since December, 1900, hav
ing been a carpenter when he was
not postmaster. He is also the old
est member of the Raeford Meth
odist Church.
W. M. Layton tells us that he
is the operator of the Wayside
farm of Mrs. J. C. Lindsay, in
stead of W. M. Brock, as we stat
ed when we wrote up the picture
of the home there some weeks ago
after it had been identified as the
"Mystery" picture of the week
before.
Speaking of the "Mystery" pic
ture, which we by the way had
to leave out again last week due
to lack of space. . .the longest
range identification we have had
yet on one of these pictures came
in this week on the last one that
appeared. It came from Mrs. L. J.
Sharp of 20555 Whelton Avenue,
Castro Valley, California, and she
correctly identified the home in
the picture as that of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Maxwell. Mrs. Sharp is
the former Hazel Caddell, of this
county.
The two historical markers
which were unveiled and erected
in the last week were authorized
largely because of the efforts of
members of the local U.D.C. chap
ter, and this was not mentioned
by the speaker at the unveiling.
!t was unfortunate that W. S.
Tarlton, present researcher of the
Dept. of Archives and History,
hac1 to make that talk, because the
man who had the job before him,
Fd Miles, did the research on it
and of course would have been
aware of the part the UDC played.
Many people here are of the o
pinion also that the battlefield
marker is wrong, as you would
expect them to be when it states
that the "Union cavalry repulsed"
the Confederates. They were
r.iore of this opinion after hear
ing Mr. Tarlton. read an pecount
of the battle written by a Union
najor in which he said they
were surprised in their beds and
outnumbered ten to one by the
Confederates, but still beat them.
Bonnie Blue thinks we ought to
send the thing back, and I don't
know but what he isn't right.
As to the spelling "Eden'
borough" on the medical school
marker, I got a letter from Tarl
ton this week on that. He said
that it had been taken up before,
I i d that he supposed Miles
f ought he had it settled. He said
he checked Miles' research notes
and found that it was spelled with
an E in the second syllable, as
the marker has it, in the school's
charter and in a sketch of the
school that appears In the Trans
actions of the Medical Society of
North Carolina, 1928. . . .1 ver
ified this latter from a copy be
longing to Dr. R. L. Murray.
Mr. Tarlton went on to say that
in cases of doubt like this it was
the policy of the department to
use the spoiling forms that ap
pears In coatemporary documents
rather than traditional usage. That
seems logical to me.
Former Resident Dies
In Danville Tuesday;
Funeral Here Today
Mrs. Margaret Janes Robinson,
86, died at the home of her dau
ghter, Mrs. C. B. Conway in Dan
ville, Va., Tuesday morning. She
was the wife of the late M. J.
Robinson of Dundarrach.
Funeral services are being held
this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock at
the Raeford Methodist Church
with the Rev. N. P. Edens of
Parkton and the Rev. J. Herbert
Miller, pastor, conducting. Burial
is to follow in Raeford cemetery.
Surviving in addition to Mrs.
Conway are a son, John Robin
son of California; one brother, L.
B. Smith of this county; one sis
ter, Miss Belle Smith, also of
here.
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Town Board Meets
To Plan Election,
Talk Other Items
The Raeford board of commis
sioners held a called meeting in
the town hall on Monday night
with all members present and
Mayor Alfred Cole presiding.
Following the meeting it was
announced that registration . books
for voters in the town would be
open at the town hall starting
Saturday, April 16, and being
open daily except Sunday through
Saturday, April 23. Books are to
be open from 9:00 to 5:00 daily
and until 9:00 p. m. Satur
days. Time for filing of candidates
for mayor and commisisoners was
set the same dates as time for
registration.
The board approved the ex
tension of water line to proper
ties on Maxwell Avenue in the
south end of town, but again de
ferred action on the extension of
West Elwood Avenue west from
Magnolia Street.
The board voted to leave the
number of taxi franchises at the
present number, and not to grant
fruther franchises unless some
present holders should discon
tinue operation.
YOUTH SERIOUSLY HURT
Franklin Honeycutt, 14-year-
old son of Mrs. Mary Honeycutt
of Route three, sustained a ser
ious and painful injury Monday
afternoon when he cut the main
arteries and bones. in his left leg
with an axe. He was rushed to
the Laurinburg hospital, where
his condition is serious. Reports
are that permanent impairment
of facilities is likely, if his lower
leg can be saved. He was chop
ping wood when the accident
happened.
CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS HOKE
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:
Salk Vaccine For
Polio May Be
Made Available
County Health Officer Dr. J. W.
Willcox and County School Sup
erintendent K. A. MacDonald have
been notified that if the Salk po
lio vaccine is licensed by the Na
tlonal Health Institute it will be
available free to all first and
second grade school children
whose parents request it.
MacDonald said request blanks
are being sent home by first and
second grade children this week,
and he urged parents of these
children to sign them and send
them back next day. He said the
vaccine, if licensed, cannot be ofr
talned for a child for whom no
request signed by parent or guar
dian is not on hand.
He said that the superintendent
of schools in Guilford County,
where the vaccine was given on
a test basis last year, reported
that results were good, that there
were no bad reactions, and that
no child contracted infantile pa
ralysis who had been given the
vaccine. MacDonald said this
number was too small to say the
vaccine would prevent the disease,
but that he had also understood
that no child in the United States
had contracted it after vaccina
tion, This, too, was a small rela
tive number, but was at least an
indication that the vaccine would
prevent it.
He said parents who signed the
requests would of course be free
to chanjte their minds later, but
that those who failed to sign
them would not be able to get the
vaccine on the free basis, where
it is being paid for by the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
If the vaccine is licensed, and
the whole thing apparently de
pends on this, it is expected to
be available through physicians
for other children but will, of
course, have to be paid for.
MacDonald and Dr. Willcox
were urgent in their requests to
parents to sign the requests and
to try to get their neighbors to
do so.
MYF CHICKEN SUPPER
A chicken supper will be ser
ved in the assembly room of the
Raeford Methodist Church on
Friday night from six to eight o'
clock. The public is invited and
tickets are being sold by the Sen
ior Youth Fellowship.
GETS SEWING MACHINE
Mrs. Richard Neeley was the
winner of the Universal sewing
machine given away by Collins
Department Store Saturday.
"V.
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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
Civil Court Set
For Next Monday
The special term of Superior
Court for the trial of civil cases
which was erroneously announc
ed in the paper three weeks ago
will convene in the Hoke County
courthouse next Monday, March
21, with Judge Susie Sharp, of
Reidsville, presiding. Calendar
of cases for,ihe term includes 14
cases, one of which has already
been continued. Two are divorces,
and two more are said to be in
process of settlement. The calen
dar schedules trial of all cases
for Monday and Tuesday, al
though it may take longer.
Clerk J. B. Cameron did not
expect yesterday that the county
grand jury would meet at this
term unless of its own accord, in
that H is a special term and there
will be no criminal bills of indic
ments to be passed on.
Petit jury list for the term is
as follows: Claude N. Baker, L.
M. Huggins, Jr., Stephens Wil
liams, D. L. Moss, W. M. McNeill,
Hilton Clark, Mrs. Floyd Johnson,
Lloyd Crowley, , Arthur Ashburn,
Travis E. Fields, C. T. Crouch, Jr.,
A. D. Wooten, T. B. Austin, C. R.
Suddreth, Mrs. Carson Davis, J.
B. Marks, Floyd E. Ferguson,
John W. Chavis, Mrs. W. A. Mc
Neill, Frank McMillian, Mrs. R.
A. Jones, Mrs. Kate McPhaul, J.
B. Womble, Talmadge Melton, G.
W. Hardy, L. W. Ellis, Mrs. J. C.
Wright, Johnnie Batten, Everette
F. McBryde, Mrs. J. D. Tapp.
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MRS. W. E. PELL DEAD
Mrs. W. E. Pell, of Raleigh,
whose late husband was principal
of the school here around 1930,
died in a Durham hospital Tues
day. Funeral was held in Chapel
Hill yesterday and she was bur
ied in Southern Pines. She is
survived by three daughters, one
brother and" five grandchildren.
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HOME FROM SANATORIUM
Mr. and Mrs. Cary L. Stephens,
who have been patients at the
Sanatorium at McCain for six
and seven months, respectively,
returned home last week, and are
said to be feeling fine.
Mrs. Aganora Andrews, who
has been a patient at the Sana
torium for almost a year, return
ed to her home here on Tuesday.
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Pvt. Wilbert Stanton has com
pleted his basic training at Ft.
Jackson, S. C. He will leave to
day for Ft. Eustis, Virginia, after
spending a fourteen-day four-
lough with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. W. Stanton.
Mrs. Jewel Klouse of Myrtle
Beach visited relatives here for
fpveral days last week.
COUNTY FARM?
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outside Raeford, wno 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 beau
tiful mounted enlargement of the
original photo, tree for each of
them and invite them to call at
the office for it each week.
Revival To Start
At Presbyterian
Church Sunday
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Rev. Chas. J. Hollands-worth, D.D.
Evangelist
In unison with the Presbyterian
Churches of the synods of Vir
ginia and North Carolina the Rae
ford Presbyterian Church will
hold a series of revival services
at the church on Sunday through
Friday, March 20-25, with serv
ices at 7:30 each evening and one
at 11:00 o'clock Sunday morning
as well. Dr. Charles J. Hollands
worth, pastor of Lafayette Pres
byterian Church of Norfolk, Va.,
will bring the messages.
Under the revival plan worked
out by the two synods, ministers
are assigned to half the churches
for revivals at one period and
then the others will be assigned
for another series of services at
the other half. Members of the
local church are holding a series
of prayer meetings, cottage pray
er services and visitation, periods
this week in preparation for the
services next week.
Dr. Hollandsworth is consider
ed one of the outstanding minis
ters in Virginia, and is at present
chairman of evangelism for the
Synod of Virginia. A native of
Calloway, Virginia, Vie graduated
from Rocky Mount High School
in North Carolina, Davidson Col
lege and Union Theological Sem
inary in Richmond. He has held
pastorates at Buchanan, Va., Ra
leigh, the Lafayette church in
Norfolk, Covington, Va., and is
now back at the Norfolk church
for his second pastorate there.
He served two years in the Ma
rine Corps in World War I. He
was a member of the General
Council of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S., for five years, and
was vice-moderator of the Gen
eral Assembly in 1953. He is now
also chairman of Church Exten
sion for Norfolk Presbytery.
He is married to the former
Miss Florence Poole of Mocks
ville, N. C, and they have three
sons, two of whom are ministers,
and one daughter, whose husband
is the Rev. Charles Darnell of
Maxton.
The church has extended a cor
dial invitation to the public to
attend the services.
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Mrs. Mary Turner
Dies In Fayetteville
Mrs. Mary Turner, 88, former
resident of Raeford, died Satur
day night, March 5th, at the Con
federate Woman's Home in Fay
etteville. She was the widow of
J. T. Turner.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. J. W. Baxley of Raeford;
nine grandchildren and a number
of great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday morning March 8 at
1 1 o'clock at the Raeford Baptist
Church by the Rev. J. E. Baker,
pnstor, assisted by the Rev. Ben
jamin Robertson. Burial followed
in the Raeford cemetery.
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WAGRAM SQUARE DANCE
The Wagram Garden Club will
sponsor a square dance in the
Wagram gymnasium Friday night,
starting at 8:00 o'clock. The pub
lic is invited.
Mrs. J. S. Johnson and Mrs.
Clyde Upchurch returned Tuesday
after a visit with Mr. and Mrs.
T. A. Caulk in Aldie, Virginia.
K. D. Lowe entered Moore
County Hospital last Thursday
where he is a patient
Farmers Should Free
Unused Allotments
By March 25th
In a letter last week to ASC
committeemen and others in the
county Miss Louise Blue, office
manager for the Agricultural Sta
bilization and Conservation ad
ministration in Hoke County, re
minded cotton farmers that March
25 had been set as the date by
which cotton acreage allotments
not to used must be released so
they can be made available to
other farmers.
She asked them to remind their
neighbors of this date so that
they might come by the ASC of
fice and release this acreage for
reappointment to other farms
which will want to plant it. She
said that farmers who do release
acres not to be .used to the com
mittee will help other farmers in
the county and help the county
to keep higher allotments in the
future. Farmers who release their
allotments are given credit in
their farm histories for future al
lotments the same as if they had
planted the acres they turned in.
Liquor Makers,
Handlers, Fined
In Court Tuesday
In the 15 cases heard in Hoke
County recorder's court before
Judge T. O. Moses Tuesday de
fendants paid for making liquor,
having it for sale, carrying it a
round open, and driving with too
much in them. Fifteen motorists
lef: bonds for speeding also.
John W. Allsbrook, colored,
pled guilty of being involved in
the making of liquor, and got 90
days suspended on payment of
$25 and costs. For ownership and
operation of the three stills Alls
brook was Involved in, James
Earl Love, colored, was found
guilty of violating the prohibition
laws and given a sentence of 90
days to be suspended on payment
of a fine of $75 and court costs,
plus officers fee of $20 per still.
William McVickers, white, pled
guilty of driving drunk and hav
ing no drivers license and got
four months, suspended on pay
ment of $125 and costs. Melvin C.
Hickman, white, pled guilty of
driving -80 miles an hour, drunk
and without a driver's license.
He got six months, suspended on
payment of $150 and costs and
two years good behavior.
Albert Jones, colored, was
found guilty of having non-tax-paid
liquor for sale. He got four
months, suspended on payment of
$200 and costs and two years good
behavior.
Wade S. Fields, white, got 30
days suspended on payment of
$25 and the costs for a violation
of the prohibition laws, and Wal
ter McRae, colored, got 30 su
spended on payment of $10 and
costs for the same.
Herbert Bryant and Bradford
Little, white inmates of the pri
son division at the Sanatorium,
pled guilty of escaping and each
got two years to be suspended on
two years good behavior.
Lester Amnions, white, pled
guilty of giving L. L. Faircloth a
bad check for $22.50. He got 30
days suspended on payment of
costs and the check.
Horace Morisey, colored, pled
R.iilty of driving after his license
h&d been revoked and was sen
tenced to work around the county
jail for six months.
Robert H. Gordon, white, pled
guilty of driving on the left, and
piayer for judgment was continu
ed until May on payment of costs,
pending settlement of damages.
George Davis, colored, was
found guilty of careless and reck
less driving. Sentence was 60
days, suspended on payment of
$10 and costs and $100 damages.
For hit and run he got 60 su
spended on payment of $10 and
costs.
J. G. Bennett, white, paid $10
and costs for careless and reck
less driving, and Buster Fellows,
colored, paid the same for failing
to stop at a stop sign. Paul J.
Denton, white, paid costs for fol
lowing a truck too close. One
speeder paid $10 and costs.
Speeders leaving bonds includ
ed one leaving $80 for going 85
miles an hour. Eight left $25
bonds and five left $15. '
A2C Bobby Lundy, stationed
in Korea, has been promoted to
A1C. He is expected home soon.
Hodgin Receives
All Votes For All
Conference Team
Guin, Linthicum Also
Named; McNeill And
Koonce On 2nd Teams
Claudine Hodgin, All-State for
ward, Janet Guin and Jean Lin
thicum of the Hoke County High
School basketball team were
named to the first AU-Southeast-e
r n AA Athletic Association
Coaches basketball teams an
nounced this week. Since the
SEAAAA was divided into two
districts for basketball, coaches
voted only on players within their
districts. They voted first and
second team performers, and the
three Hoke girls were named to
the District Two first team, with
Claudine Hodgin getting the vote
of every coach.
Virginia McNeill, Hoke High
guard, was named to the District
Two second team, and Lacy
Koonce of the Hoke High boys
team was named to the second
boys team in district two.
In addition to the Hoke girls,
Whiteville, Clinton and Lumber
ton girls won spots on the Dis
trict Two sextet. Claudine Hod
gin, is 18 years old and a senior.
She was named to the All-State
team last year. Janet Guin, a jun
ior, is 16 years of age, while Jean
Linthicum, 15, is a sophomore.
On the second team in addition
to Virginia McNeill of Hoke High
are girls from Lumberton, Tabor
City, Clinton and Whiteville.
The boys team included two
from Clinton and one each from
Lumberton, Whiteville and Tabor
City. On the second team in ad
dition to Lacy Koonce from Hoke
High were two from Lumberton
and two from Clinton.
Also receiving votes were Bowl
ing and Bobbitt of the Hoke boys
team, and Faye Dark of the Hoke
girls team.
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Kinlaw's Father
Dies Late Monday;
Is Buried Tuesday
Isham Kinlaw, 77 - year - old
Robeson County man and father
of Clarence P. Kinlaw, Raeford
jeweler, died late Monday at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Jeff
Carroll, Route one, Tar Heel.
A native of Robeson County, he
was a farmer there all his active
!'fe, living on Route five, Lum
berton.
Funeral service was held Tues
day afternoon at Zion Tabernacle
Church on Route five at 4:00 o'
clock, and burial was in Kinlaw
cemetery.
He is survived bv two other
sons, L. E. kinlaw of Route five,
and Justin Kinlaw of Wilming
ton; four daughters, Mrs. Car
roll, Mrs. Hester King, also of
Route one, Tar Heel, Mrs. Nealer
Mercer of Chicago, and Mrs.
Frank Powers of Daytona Beach,
Fla.; one brother, John Kinlaw of
Route five.
Phone Strike Effect
Slight This Area
There will be no delays in the
completion of long distance tele
phone calls within the operating
territory of Carolina Telephone
and Telegraph Co., although work
stoppages in the nine-state area
of Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Co. may cause slight
delays on calls to and beyond
that company's territory.
J. F. Havens, Vice-President of
the local Company, said Monday
that since the majority of long
distance calls originating in the
Carolina Company's territory are
handled all the way to their des
tination by Carolina Company
operators, the number of calls de
layed would be minimized.
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MASONS TO ATTEND
CHURCH IN GROUP
J. E. Byrd, master of the Rae
ford Masonic lodge, said this
week that, following a custom of
many years, the lodge would call
off its regular meeting next Tues
day night during the revival at
the Presbyterian Church. He said
said that instead of their meet
ing, the members would meet at
their hall at 7:15 and attend the
service that night In body.
Miss Flora McQueen entered
the Red Springs Nursing born
Saturday.