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The News urea, voici or ttlCDOM CUWHA OF MU MY The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal c VOLUME XLIX; NUMBER 44 THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR WOICI 5 V -3 o 0 By The Editor Looks of the center of town were considerably improved this week when the lot of T. B. Up church, Inc., on the corner of Main Street and West Elwood Avenue was cleared of the old red wagon. This wagon was op erated for the sale of candy and chewing gum, tobacco and cold drinks for what seems to me to have been over 25 years at least, and probably longer, by a succes sion of owners, some of whom sold hot dogs and hamburgers also in the days before the health people got so strict on food sell ers. It was really a landmark, but not one that will be missed. Seems like when I was a youngs ter it was known as "King's Wa gon," and that we used to run around there from the movie when Willie Walters ran it to get peanuts and drinks. Chief Warrant Officer Roger W. Dixon tells me that for the first time In several months there is a vacancy in the local National Guard unit. Company A, 130th Tank Battalion, of which he is unit administrator. He is at the armory every day, Monday through Friday as well as Mon day nights, and says that the first man to apply will be enlisted in the vacancy. Others will be put on a waiting list with good pros pects of being enlisted before the company goes to Camp Stewart, Ga., the last two weeks in August for its summer field training. I, incidentally, am really looking forward to learning to drive one of those big M-48 tanks with the t 90 millimetre gun on it while we wre there. That is, if they have one with a turret big enough for me to get through. . . I doubt they do, though, sorta like my wife's garden hoe won't fit my hand. The weather has been talked about almost as much in the past few days as it was last fall when Hazel the Hurricane came through. Like Hazel, but on a smaller scale, its damage has been tremendous. Sad sight in my end of town, and many others that I didn't know about no doubt, was my neighbor Marion Gatlin, who always spends Wed nesday afternoons hard at work in his beautiful flower garden. He didn't even have "the heart to come out of the house this Wed nesday after the cold had killed everything he had started, and I believe it's the first one he has missed. Another rather toughing note on the cold snap comes from my old friend Henry Bost of Wil mington, who was with several Hoke County boys in Trinidad before the war, later lived here while working as a civilian at Fort Bragg and finally wound up as a Navy lieutenant at Wilming ton. He is there now, running an advertising agency, and places the advertising with us for the Orton Plantation every spring. In his note he says that after the "tragic freeze" there will be no more advertising this spring, as "the gardens were hurt." In what is doubtless something of an un derstatement he says the azaleas will "not be nearly so colorful" for the rest of the season, al though he says a visit to Orton for the natural beauty of the place and its historic background is worthwhile at any time. He said that last week's advertise ment that the azaleas would be in beautiful color until after Eas ter was made in good faith, and invited all who would to come anyway. In the drawings held Friday and Saturday afternoons at the Grand Opening of the new Shoe Department at Israel Mann's store Mrs. Alvin Seaford of Route three won the week-end bag on Friday afternoon, and Billy Dalton won the three-piece luggjge set given away on Sat urday afternoon. Flgurei on State sales and use tax collection! for February this year are over $300,000 higher than for February of last year. Indicating that much more busi ness being done in the State. Big increases were shown in Harnett, Moore, Scotland, Robeson and Cumberland Counties. . .(ill the (Continued on Back Pafe) Recorders Court; 25 Speeders Pay In Last 2 Weeks The docket in Hoke County re corder's court before Judge T. O. Moses Tuesday was not as large as would be expected for the two weeks accumulation of cases caused by no court being held last week during the civil term of Superior Court. About 20 cases were heard, including two speeders, and 23 other persons forfeited bonds on charges of speeding. William L. Bolton, white, was found guilty of driving drunk. Sentence was 90 days to be su spended on payment of $100 and costs. He appealed and posted $300 bond. David C. Bean, white soldier, also appealed a convic tion of driving drunk with the same sentence. He had to post bond of $250. Charles R. Barfield, white, was found guilty of driving after his license had been revoked. Sen tence was 90 days to be suspend ed on payment of $200 and costs. He appealed and posted bond. John E. Townsend, white sold ier, pled guilty of driving with improper license plates and with no driver's license. He paid $10 and costs. Emerson E. Johnson, Indian, pled guilty of driving without driver's license and paid $25 and costs. V. A. Winbrow, white, left a $50 bond for speed ing and having no driver's li cense. For having improper brakes L. D. Faircloth, -white, Willie J. Smith and Nick Easterling, color ed, each paid $10 and costs. Willie Nickson, colored, paid costs for the same offense. Charles A. Pittman, white, and John Wise, colored, each pled guilty of violating the prohibition laws, and each had to pay $10 and court costs. Robert Rogers, colored, pled guilty of non-support. Sentence was six months, to be suspended on condition that he pay $20 every two weeks to his wife. Albert Kirk, colored, went to the roads for 90 days for public drunkenness, and Charlie Lee left a $25 bond for the same offense. State dropped the case in which Eugene "Dock" Campbell, color ed, was charged with violating the prohibition laws. The case in which Alfred Cha vis, Indian, was charged with driving drunk was dropped when it appeared that he was the wrong man. A case in which Mrs. Gerald ine Martin was charged with fol lowing too close, resulting in an accident was also dropped by the State for lack of evidence. Harry Fein, white, left a $60 bond for speeding 80 miles an hour. One speeder paid $20 and costs, one paid $10 and costs, eight left $15 bonds and ten left $25 bonds.' , u PERSONALS G. C. Lytle, Jr. returned home Tuesday from Scotland Memorial Hospital after undergoing an op eration on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lester C. Kinlaw, Jr. of Gastonia spent the week end with Mrs. George W. Hanna and Mr. and Mrs. Pat Jenet. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams of Tabor City visited Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Scarborough on Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Walters and family and Mr. and Mrs. Archie L. Walters and family visited relatives in Marion, S. C. on Sunday. Mrs. Gene Brooks III and son, Gene IV, of Durham are spend ing several days with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Matheson. Mrs. Bryan Eubanks of Wln gate and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hall visited Miss Josephine Hall dur ing the week end. Mrs. Mary B. Fuller returned to her home in Liberty last Friday after a visit with her brother, John McKay Blue. Mrs. C. R. Suddreth left Tues day for Marietta, Georgia where she will spend two week with Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Suddreth. Patrolman Surratt Leaves Patrol For Farm Near Denton Patrolman Dolan G. Surratt, who has spent his entire career with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol in Raeford and Hoke County, went to Raleigh to day to turn in his equipment and be separated from the patrol. He I'lnns to move with his family to his farm in Randolph County near Denton, where their new home has just been completed. Surratt is a native of Route three, Denton, where he is re turning, and was a farmer there before entering the State High way Patrol in 1947. He was as signed to this county immediate ly after he successfully completed the course at the patrol school in Chapel Hill, and took up his duty here on November 1 of that year. He was married in 1946 to the former Miss Lurene Talbert of Denton, and they have one son, Allen, aged six months. During World War II he was in the Army Infantry, and served in combat with the 35th Division in Europe. At his home Surratt plans to operate his own farm as well as that of his father, adjoining, as his father's health is not good. During his seven years here Patrolman Surratt has built a re putation ofr honesty and fairness which any officer could envy, and his performance of his duty has been at all times in the highest traditions of the HiRhway Patrol, reflecting much credit on him self, the Patrol and the State which he served. He and his family take with them the best wishes and affection of the peo ple of this county, and their com mendations for a job well done. a Local Student Tours With Davidson Band David McFadyen, Davidson Collepe sophomore and son of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan G. McFadyen of Raeford, is on the annual spring tour with the Davidson College Concert Band. McFadyen plays the saxaphone. The band left Monday, and the tour included concerts in Cedar town and Fort Benning, in Geor gia, Pensacola, Florida, Mont gomery, Ala., and New Orleans, La. They will return to the Dav idson campus on Sunday. The concert band is composed of 50 selected musician and has gained a wide reputation for be ing one of the finest organiza tions of its kind. Its director is Professor Kenneth Moore. Mrs. D. F. Truelove returned from Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill Sunday where she has been a patient. CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS HOKE ijssf 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: r, ,.. -,t , . , .7f-J- ' '' L. . Angus Currie Is New Jaycee Head At the annual election meeting of the Raeford Junior Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night An gus -J. Currie, popular young Bank of Raeford teller, was elect ed president for the organization's new year, succeeding Peter Mc Lean. Other officers elected were vice-president, Dave McMillan; recording secretary, Eugene "Bud" Deibler; Treasurer, Char les Hostetler; corresponding sec retary, Everett Ferrell; director at large, Bion Brewer. The new president is 27 years of ae and was born in Blue Springs Township, this county. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Currie, and graduated from Hoke High School in 1946. He served two years in the U. S. Air Force with duty in Japan. Married to the former Miss Margaret Duncan of Laurinburg, he is a deacon of the Raeford Presbyterian Church and has even employed by the bank for about four and one-half years. He lives at 207 Adams Street, and has shown much interest in church and civic activities. u Cotton Allotment Release Date Is Moved To April 8 Miss Louise Blue, office man ager for the Hoke County office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation administration, announced yesterday that she had been instructed by telegram to extend the time for turning in cotton acreage not to be planted from March 25 to April 8. Miss Blue asked farmers who may decide within that time that they have acreage allotments which they will not plant to please turn them in to the county com mittee so they may be allotted to other farms in the county. She again pointed out that the farm er really protects himself and his farm for the future by releasing acres not to be planted, as such acres will be entered in his farm history as if they had been plant ed, and that this would not be done where they were not re leased. n JAYCEES PLAN DANCE The Raeford Jaycees have an nounced that they will hold a dance at the National Guard Ar mory on Saturday night, April 9, from 8:00 until midnight for the benefit of their civic activities. David Puch and hs orchestra will furnish the music, and the pub lic is invited. Tin : ,: .. t., 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 TO SING IN "CRUCIFIXION" SUNDAY i ( 1 -s XHf I 17 X Vrl ' v. I r 27 1 THOMAS HOWERTON Thomas Howerton of Southern Pines is to be featured as tenor soloist and Lawrence Skinner of Red Springs is to be featured as bass soloist in the community presentation of Sir John Stainer's cantata, "The Crucifixion," at the Raeford Presbyterian Church at 4:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 3. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mr. Howerton is administrator of Moore County Hospital and has done much solo work in that vi cinity. He studied voice at Duke University and sang with the Duke Glee Club. He was also soloist with the Duke Chapel Choir and at the First Methodist Church in Durham. At present he is soloist at the Village Chapel in Tinehurst. Mr. Skinner is head of the voice department at Flora Macdonald College and director of the col BAPTIST CRURCH PLAN REVIVAL APRIL 11-17 The Rev. James E. Baker, pas tor of the Raeford Baptist Church, announced this week that a series of revival services was being planned for the church during the week of April 11-14, with the preaching being done by the Rev. James P. Carroll of Bamburg, S. C, and with morning and ev ening services being conducted. Further details will be given later. MUSIC MEMBERSHIPS Mrs. Clyde ' Upchurch, Jr., said this week that she was" handling memberships in the Fayetteville Civic Music Association for this year. The association sponsors a series of at least four concerts each year, with admissions for members only. Mrs. Upchurch said that the memberships would not be available after Friday af ternoon. COUNTY FARM? ' warn "'""'''""S 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. LAWRENCE SKINNER lege choral club. He received his B. S. in education, his B. M. in choral and church music, and his M. A. in vocal pedagogy from the University of Ohio. He has done much solo and oratorio work throughout the midwestern states. The 52-voiced chorus is com posed of local choir members and interested singers. Assisting the soloists will be Robert Gatlin, baritone, and Douglas Dixon, tenor. Mrs. Thomas A. Wood, local music instructor, is director for the cantata, and Mrs. Kerr Stevens, choir director and or ganist at the Raeford Presbyter ian Church, is organist. "The Crucifixion," a cantata de picting in a moving fashion the final events of the Master's life, is widely known as one of the most significant religious musical works and has a great popular appeal. A. B. Tapp Home In Farm Photo Is Quickly Named The home of Arch B. Tapp and his stepmother, Mrs. C. H. Tapp, on Highway 211, six miles west of Raeford was quickly named as the farm mystery picture after it apepared in last week's paper. First correct identification was by James Currie, but as James is an employee of the post office and has some advantage over oth er readers in seeing his paper, the free subscription for being first was also awarded to Mrs. M. L. McKeithan, who was next to call in. Dr. Julius Jordan was next, followed by Neill A. Mc Donald, George Mclntyre, David Smith and J. W. Canaday. First rural subscriber to name it right was J. C. Miller of Route two, followed by Mrs. Crawford Wright, Mrs. Earl Walters and W. L. McFadyen. The late C. H. Tapp and his family, five sons, four daughters and their stepmother, Mrs. Susan Rogers Tapp, moved to the place in 1915, and on December 1, 1916 Mr. Tapp and his sons bought the ii03-acre farm from Jacob H. Sloop of Chcraw. Mr. Sloop ha4 acquired the farm from John Blue in 1911, and when the Tapps came into possession of it only a few acres around the house were cleared. The family were special ists in tobacco farming and came to Hoke County from Person County. In the 40 years since they mov ed there all the sons and daugh ters have married and moved off the farm but Arch and his step mother. In 1939 the seven-room house burned, and the present nine-room home was also built that year. It was also in 1939 that Mr. C. H. Tapp passed away. Living in Raeford are four of the boys, W. H., J. DeWitt, C. Frank and Luther J. Tapp. Mrs. H. E. Stinchcomb lives in Black Mountain, Mrs. D. H. Walters in Vass,vMrs. Mary Helton in Rae ford and Mrs. J. Crawford Wright on Raeford, Route three. Arch Tapp is a member of the Raeford Baptist Church, as is his stepmother, Mrs. Tapp. He raises tobacco, cotton, and grain on the 803-acre place and also has four other farms of 70, 97, 26 and 55 acres. He uses tractors for culti vation, and does some share-cropping. Hunting used to be his main hobby, but lately he has become mostly a fisherman. e Jimm Tilte of UNC, Chapel Hill spe. Jie week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dean White. 15-A Truck Stop Women Charged In Immorality Case Two women were arrested by Sheriff D. H. Hodgin and State Highway Patrolman J. T. Harris on Tuesday of this week on char ges of operating a house for im moral purposes and soliciting for same. Both have been released under bond and trial has been set for the county recorder's court on April 12. The women were arrested at "Jean's Truck Stop," a former filling station presently boasting no gas pumps and a few groceries and located just north of the Drowning Creek bridge at the Scotland County line some eight miles south of Raeford. The place has been talked about for some time by residents of the section and other parts of the county as probably being operated for im moral purposes, but this is the first legal action to be taken. Jean Ellis, white, was charged with leasing and operating a house of prostitution, and her sister, Katherine Styron, is charged with aiding and abetting in this and with soliciting the illicit trade. Each of the women posted a $200 cash bond for her appear ance at recorder's court on Tues day, April 12. 0 Hoke High Loses To Rockingham Tues. The Hoke High baseball team. coached by Archie Brigman, went to Rockingham Tuesday afternoon and lost to Coach Bill Eutsler's Rockingham High team by a score of five to nothing. Hoke High got only three hits off Rockingham Pitcher Malcolm Goodman. Bowling, McLeod and Thornburg each got a single, Thornburg in the first, McLeod in the fourth and Bowling in the sixth inning. Rockingham got their five runs on six hits, one a triple by Pinch- hitter Dawkins in the sixth in ning. Robert Lisenby pitched the whole game for Hoke, striking out five and walking seven in the seven inning game. Deane Announces Disaster Help For Peach Growers Rep. Charles B. Deane of the Eighth Congressional District an nounced Tuesday that the Farmers Home Administration has autho rized production emergency loans to peach growers in each of the peach growing counties of this District. These loans may cover purchase of seed and fertilizer for new crops, prunning, spray ing and replacement of fruit trees, and other farming operations. The Farmers Home Administra- . tion has taken this action to grant this emergency financial assist ance on the basis of strong re commendations from state offi cials in Raleigh and the North Carolina Congressional Delega tion in Washington. Both state and Congressional officials mov ed in quickly to assist the peach Rrowers to recoup some of their losses suffered during the recent severe cold wave. It is believed that this FHA assistance will do much to help cold-stricken peach growers get a start in other crops during 1955 and will serve to tide them over in their farming operations. Peach growers who are inter ested in making application for FHA production emergency loans should present their requests to the County FHA office. o Mrs. Paul Whittington of Greensboro was a week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Mc Lauchlin. Mr. and Mrs. David Falls of Raleigh visited Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Upchurch, Jr. on Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Mc Lauchlin of Greensboro spent the week end with Mr. McLauchlin's mother, Mrs. H. C. McLauchlin. L. S. Brock, Jr. of State Col lege spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Brock. He had as his guest, Bonnie Crow of Lexington.
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