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a" n News e joumai CUAJUMAB ;1 griiuiiui 4A -1 Of UK ten iWi I The Hoke County New The Hoke County Journal VOLUME XLlXj NUMBER 49 THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1955 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR voici or "i'-,,' M. j i si.V J o By The Editor With reference to our Rockfish correspondent's comment this week about the people not being able to see notice of the chicken supper, fiddler's convention, etc., at Mildouson last Wednesday, this is to. state that the only reasons they couldn't have seen this no tice that I can think of is that they couldn't see or didn't t look. It was there, big as life and bright as a dollar, right in the center of the front page and at the top, in the issue immediately preceding the Mildouson to-do. Clcan-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Week has been set for the week of May 16 by the Chamber of Commerce, I understand, and Angus Currie, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and teller at the Bank of Raeford, is to be chairman. Marion Gatlin and Kermit Wood are to be on the committee with him. If the results achieved are anything like those of last year it will be well worth the trouble. Just about all the business houses got busy and cleaned their premises last year, and a great many residents did a lot of work on the cemetery dur ing the day of the week set up for that. Individuals will likely be hearing from members of the committee soon about what is planned, and we'll try to get the whole scheme in print some time before the week starts. . .say our issue of next week. We have been offering two six months subscriptions for the guessers of the identity of the farm home pictures each week. For the last two weeks we have n't had to give but one away each week. We give one to the first person to identify the farm, whet her they be subscribers or not, rural or urban, or whatever. The other can be won only by a pres ent subscriber who does not re ceive mail in the post office or on one of the city carriers. This is the one we haven't had to give away for two weeks. I guess many of the folks living on the RFD routes figure they are late when they get the paper on Friday, but there has certainly been plenty of time lately. Can't resist this, although I may have to set it myself. . .1 don't reckon Sam Morris would have been any worse off if he had had me pulling for him for the town board, a miss being as good as a mile. Of course, I consider it no re flection on any of the three los ing that they didn't win. General opinion, which I share, is that we have had mighty good town administration for the past few years, and there was no issue of any importance involved, as far as I could tell. There was the matter of which side of town the members live on, but that's not of much interest to people if you're satisfied with the job that is be ing done. On the other hand, if you are not satisfied any little issue can become big and decisive in an election. Sam says he is satisfied, that he had a lot of fun for a dollar and thinks maybe he was the cause of some folks going to the polls who wouldn't otherwise have gone. Thought strikes me just now when I can't do any thing about It that Frank Cul breth would probably have some after-election comment that would be interesting. "To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards of men." Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Pattie Hendricks Buried Here Wed. Mrs. Pattie McCormick Hend ricks, widow of John S. Hendricks of Raeford, was buried here Wed nesday afternoon following fun eral service In the Middleton Heights Presbyterian Church in Laurinburg. Dr. S. H. Fulton conducted the service. Mrs. Hendricks, 57, died Tues day afternoon at Scotland Me morial hospital. She Is survived by two brothers, D. J. and Neill D. McCormick, both of Laurinburg. PTA, Ruritans At Rockfish Plan Show, Supper Next Thurs. The Rockfish Parent-Teacher Association and Ruritan Club will jointly sponsor a chicken stew and chicken salad supper, follow ed by a womanless wedding, on next Thursday night, May 12, at the Rockfish School. Supper will be served from 6:30 to 7:45, and the womanless wedding will follow at 8:00 o' clock. Proceeds will be used for the school and civic improve ments of the two organizations, and the public is cordially invit ed to attend. YOUR SCHOOL NEWS By K. A. MacDons'd The Hoke High Band and Glee Clubs will give their annual Spring Concert Friday night, May 6, at 8:15 o'clock in the high school auditorium. Mrs. Jean Wood directs the Glee Clubs and J. B. Renn the band. Rockfish is working hard on their operetta "Upon Old Smok ey", for presentation on the even ing of May 19. The Tabernacle Baptist Church entertained the teachers at a pic nic supper last Monday night. We think this is a nice courtesy to the teachers. The PTA is practicing for a Womanless Wedding to be given in the school auditorium the ev ening of May 12. Jack H. Robertson, of the State Division of Purchase and Con tract, spent the afternoon here Tuesday helping get the contract book brought up to date and checking on products bought for the schools on State Contract. The Mildouson PTA will hold its last regular monthly meeting of the year next Wednesday ev ening, May 11, at 7:30 o'clock. The seventh grades of the various schools of the county visited Hoke High Thursday, May 5. They were entertained by the student council. They were shown over the school plant, given lunch in the school cafeteria and oriented in general for their en trance into the 8th grade next September. The J. W. McLauchlin School is hard at work preparing for their May Day exercises which will be held on May 17. The seventh grade civics class has been studying government in all its aspects including elections. The class recently held an elec tion with registrar, judges, bal lots, etc. Pat McPhaul and Ken neth Waddell were elected Queen and King, respectively. The Rev. J. Herbert Miller of the Methodist Church conducted Chapel last Thursday. The Ashley Heights Home De monstration Club gave the pupils in Mrs. Turner's Special Educa tion class a picnic Thursday after noon. We think this was a won derful thing for this club to do. All schools have started on the linth month. We hope that all parents will realize what little time is left in the school year and see to it that every child stays in school every day possible. We hope to be able within the next few days to announce the dates for the giving of the second polio inoculation. The concensus of the doctors is that the children should have this second and the third inoculation. They feel that the cases of polio that have de veloped among those given the first inoculation had their incipi ence before the inoculation and that those chldren would have had it any way. Consequently, the health officials are recom mending the giving of the second and third inoculation. The third will not be given until fall. Last Thursday the Health Eva (Contlnued.on Back Page) MAKES NEW YORK TRIES Miss Gwen Gore's picture and the announcement of her engage ment appeared in last Sunday's New York Times." Still Conviction Is Appealed. In Court Tuesday A colored man appealed a con viction on a charge of running a liquor still and posted a $1000 bond in Hoke County recorder's court before Judge T. O. Moses Tuesday in" a Slow session that saw only 20 cases cleared from the docket and which lasted until past 7:00 o'clock. Several cases were not reached. The defendant in the liquor case was George Fletcher McRae, and after being found guilty of being connected with the still he was given a road sentence of eight months, and the judge set bond at $1000 when he appealed. Ray J. Frame, white, and Peter Jackson, colored, both soldiers, each pled guilty of driving drunk, and each had to pay $100 and court costs. Bill Sellars, colored man char7 ged with assaulting W. M. Ridge, white, was found not guilty. Lacy Smith, colored man char ged with careless and reckless driving and failing to remain at the scene of a wreck, was found not guilty, as was B. F.- Wilkins, white, also on a charge of careless and reckless driving. Louise Smith Jones, colored, was found not guilty on a charge of violating the prohibition laws. John W. McNeill, Jr., pled guilty of non-support. Sentence was one year on the reads, to be suspended on payment of court costs and $15 weekly for his family. Dick Williams, white, pled guilty of escaping from the prison division at the Sanatorium and was given six months on the roads to run concurrently with his present sentence. Case in which - Mrs. Fulton Scott, white, was charged with assaulting a Mrs. Pleasants, also white, was continued until May 17. Two speeders paid $20 and costs each, one paid costs and one left a $15 bond. Another driver paid costs for having improper lights on his car. George F. Grun, colored, paid $10 and costs for careless and reckless driving. E. L. Holler, Sr., white, paid $10 and costs for public drunk enness and violating the prohibi tion laws. Junior McMillan and Lena Stubbs, both colored, each pled guilty of violating the prohibition laws, and each got three months, suspended on payment of $25 and costs and two years good behav ior by each. Theodore Harrington, colored, paid $10 and costs for public drunkenness and Douglas Dunn, white, forfeited a $25 bond on the same charge. n Teal To Enter Heating Business Teal Oil Company, local Gulf fuel oil dealers, are constructing a new building on their premises just west of the overpass on High way 211 and will add the instal lation and service of warm air and warm water heating systems to their business, Clyde Teal, manager, said this week. The new building is to be 21 by 40 feet, and is to be used as a warehouse for the new equip ment and service materials. It is of slag block and is expected to be completed in the next week or two. They expect to enter the new field around the first of June. Raeford Cleaners Complete New Front With the Installation of their sign on it and completion of some inside painting, the Raeford Dry Cleaners Sc Laundry Service have completed the installation of the new front on their building on Main Street, W. A. McDonald, owner, said this week. Completely new inside and out, the new front is of modernistic perma-stone and has an aluminum-trim marquee. From the marquee up it is green stucco with the sign mounted about mid way up. The interior reception and dis play area is also completely rede corated and painted. Mrs. Clarence Brown is a pat ient at Moore County Hospital. Large Crowd Attends Day Of Dedication At Parker's Church (By Mrs. A. A. Mclnnis)' Last Sunday, May 1, was a memorable day for the people of Parker's Methodist Church. At this time they held the Dedication Service for their church building and furnishings. The program consisted of ins trumental music with Thomas McFadyen as organist, responsive reading, congregational singing and prayer. Bishop Walter W. Peele of Laurinburg preached the sermon and led the dedication ceremonies. Presenting the church was Hugh Haire, naming the church by Ralph Plummer, pre senting the organ by Thomas Mc Fadyen. The prayer of dedication was led by the Rev. J. W. Bradley, who organized the church in 1911. The crowd was estimated to be around 200. A long picnic table had been erected on the church lawn and at the conclusion of ser vices in the church that bare table was transformed into a dressed up board laden with all kinds of good things to eat. There was much food left after every one was satisfied and had gone their second round for something they especially liked and just to be sure they were not missing anything. Sandy Grove Methodist Church was well represented and there were people there from Raeford, Parkton and other churches a round. A spirit of Christian fel lowship prevaded the whole as sembly and the guests were made to feel as welcome as the mem bers of the church. One of the highlights of the de dication program was a solo by Miss Alma Lee Lovette, who sang, "Open the Gates of the Temple", which was enjoyed very much by all who were privileged to be present. '.' , n Matthew Graham Farm Is Named After Running Twice The farm home of Matthew Graham, colored farmer of Blue Springs Township, was finally identified this week after appear ing for the second time in last week's paper as the mystery farm picture. It was Identified by Mrs. John McEachern of Route one, Stella McEachern of Route one, by O. G. Williams of Rae ford, and by Retha Mae Graham of Route one. Located on 15-A at Bowmore, five miles south of Raeford, the place had been in the Graham family off and on since the Re construction days, around 1870, when Matthew's grandfather, Richard Graham, bought it from Charles Purcell. About eight acres of the place which belonged to Richard Graham many years ago have changed hands several times before getting back in the family when Matthew bought it from C. W. Childress. Other parts of the 30-acre place were acquired by Matthew in 1918 from his father John Ed Graham, who bought the land from Jim Williams, who had bought it from Richard Graham. Matthew has owned the place and lived on it since that time raising cotton, tobacco, corn and small grain, and cultivating with trac tor and mules. He was married in 1915 to Katie Belle McKeithan of Moore County and they had six children, four of whom are alive. One son, Ardis E. Graham, was killed in France as a corporal in the Arm ored Force on November 25, 1944. Of those living, three are in Bos ton, where Howard is a shipyard welder, Samuel is with Hood Rubber Co. and Katie Belle is a nursery teacher. The other son, Lincoln, works for Bell Aircraft Corporation in Buffalo, N. Y. They are members of Wall's Chapel Methodist Church, and are Mason and Eastern Star member, respectively. JOHN McLAUCHLIN IS OFFICER AT DAVIDSON Elections for class officers and student council members at Dav idson College have been recently completed, and John McLauchlin of Raeford, son of Mrs. H. C. Mc Lauchlin, was elected vice-president of the 1956 Senior class and student council member of the Senior class for next year. 0 Mist Nola Dalton visited fri ends in Wilmington Sunday. Town Board Ends Fee Collection By Mayor, Police At its regular monthly meet ing at the Town hall on Monday night the Raeford Town com missioners voted unanimously to stop the payment of fees to the mayor for cases tried and to town policemen for their arrests. There had been some criticism which allowed the mayor to judge a case and to be paid for so doing only when he found the defendant guilty. The board took this action to end the criticism, and approved payment of the mayor and officers to be effective at once. Representative Harry A Greene appeared before the meeting, at which Mayor Alfred Cole presid ed and at which all members were present. Greene reported to the board that two bills affecting Raeford and introduced by him in the Legislature had been rati fied. One of these bills extended the jurisdiction of town policemen to one mile beyond the city limits end the other placed the town on the same basis as towns of 5000 population and over in regard to enforcement of ordinances con cerning sanitation and safety of buildings. The board voted to have a sur vey run on the proposed extension of West Elwood Avenue. Police Officer L. W. Stanton submitted his resignation, stating that he had accepted a position with Hoke County as rural po liceman. The board accepted his resignation and voted to employ J. R. Harris, until recently a member of the State Highway Patrol here, on the regular 34 day trial basis, to be made perm anent if his service is satisfactory. The board voted to install street lights near the Presbyterian Church on West Edenborough Avenue, and on Fulton Street at about where Seventh Avenue would intersect. E. C. Smith Home Pictured Last Week In Mystery Series The home of Mr. and Mrs. Em- mett Cornelius Smith, Jr., just north of Bowmore and about five miles south of Raeford on 15-A, was identified by several readers as the mystery farm photo in last week's paper. First correct iden tification was by Mrs. Luther Clark, a previous winner,, and winner of the subscription was Mrs. J. M. Baker, who was next to name it correctly. It was not identified by a rural subscriber. Others naming the picture right were Joe English, Mrs. Wilmer McBryde, Mrs. W. F. Wright, Audrey Huggins, Stella McEach ern and Georgia Mae Gilchrist. Mr. and Mrs. Smith own their home and lot around it, but it is located on his father's farm which they rent and farm. They have lived there about nine years, building the home in 1946. The land formerly belonged to the Currie family, of which Mrs. Smith's grandmother, Mrs. Cal vin B. McBryde, was a member, and General Sherman is said to have spent the night on the place, presumably on the same trip through when he wrote in the Bible at Bethel Church. It has been the property of E. C. Smith of Wagram for over 20 years. Emmett Smith graduated from Spring Hill High School in Wa gram and attended State College for one year. He is a farmer and is manager of Hoke Trading Co. at Bowmore. In 1942 he and Miss Kathleen McBryde, daughter of Mrs. James Wilmer McBryde and the late Mr. McBryde, were mar ried. Mrs. Smith attended Hoke County High School and gradu ated from the Woman's College of the University in Greensboro. They have four children, Pam ela aged nine, Mac aged six, Cin dy aged three and Natt, who is seven months old. They are mem b e r s of Bethel Presbyterian Church and he is a Mason and a member of the American Legion and V. F. W. o MRS. STUART'S RECITAL NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT Mrs. Arah Gatlin Stuart has announced that she will present her piano pupils in recital in the auditorium at Hoke High School next Tuesday night at 8:00 o' clock. The public is Invited. Annual Concert Of Hoke High Chorus, Band Friday Night On Friday night. May 6, at 8:00 p. m. the annual spring concert by the Hoke County High School Mixed Chorus and Band will be presented in the high school auditorium. Also included in the program will be the Eighth Grade Chorus, accompanied by Margaret Mc Leod, and the Girls' Ensemble, composed of eight girls Alma Lee Lovette, Helen Rose, Jean Willis, Janice Benner, Suzanne Cameron, Faye Dark, Ava Gos nell and Claudine Hodgin, with Joan McLeod, accompanying. The Mixed Chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Thomas A. Wood, will use as their theme, "I Hear America Singing" with Virginia McNeill, serving as ac companist. The Band, directed by J. B. Ronn, will present a group rang ing from overtures and marches to a mambo. The public is cordially invited to attend. No admission will be charged. o Speed Is Fatal To Negro Sunday Lester Scriven, 26-year-old col ored man of Lumber Bridge, Route one, was apparently the victim of his own fast driving when he lost control of a car on a county road in Stonewall Town ship near the Balfour farm be tween noon and one o'clock Sun day and was instantly killed. The car, a 1953 Chevrolet, was the property of Edward Watkins and was a total loss. Robert Smith, who was with Scriven at the time of the accident, report ed to State Highway Patrolman W. T. Herbin, investigating offi cer, that the car was going 85 or 90 miles an hour when Scriven lost control of it on a sharp curve. Scriven suffered head and neck injuries and died instantly. Smith suffered only minor cuts and bruises. The dead man was a tenant farmer on the J. M. McGougan place. o Lions Club Plans Its Annual Broom Sale Friday & Saturday H. D. Harrison, president of the Raeford Lions Club, announced this week that the club would conduct its annual sale of brooms, mops and rubber mats made by the Guilford Industries for the Blind on Friday and Saturday of this week. The club has conduct ed this activity for several years now, helping the blind who make the items and retaining about one fourth of the proceeds for use with their own work for blind persons. In conducting the brooms sales annually the Lions Club is unit ing with non-profit workshops, employing skilled blind persons, in a joint venture to assist each other, Harrison said. The Lions are helping to keep the blind employed and the blind are helping the Lions members raise funds for their community service projects. Hoke High Beats Tabor City Tuesday The Hoke High school baseball team won their second game of a somewhat unfortunate season here Tuesday afternoon when they beat Tabor City, 7-3, behind the two-hit pitching of Lacy Koonce. The Hoke team got their seven runs on nine hits, with Johnny Bobbitt, shortstop, leading with a double and two singles in three trips to the' plate. He also scored three runs. In pitching his two-hit game Koonce allowed the visitors to hit only one ball to the outfield during the entire game. He struck out 12 and was big man at the plate as well, getting a triple and a single and driving in three runs. Losing pitcher was Anderson. The three Tabor City runs were the result of Hoke errors. The Hoke team plays Clinton in Raeford Friday afternoon at three-thirty o clock. Jim Warner underwent a ton sillectomy at Highsmith Hospital last Thursday and is doing nicely. 285 Of 875 Vote In Town Election Held Monday The present administration of the Town of Raeford received what can be considered a vote of confidence and approval from the citizens in the town election Mon day, as Mayor Alfred Cole and the entire incumbent board of commissioners were returned for another two-year term at the helm of the town's affairs. Mayor Cole was unopposed, but there were eight candidates for the five seats on the board of commissioners. Challenge was offered to the board by three residents of the East side of town, but Sam Morris, the highest of these, only came within 39 votes of Arch Sanders, low man of the five old board members reelected. There were 284 votes cast out of a registra tion of 875. Mayor Cole, without opposition on the ticket, received 230, votes to one each for S. C. Thomas and Paul Dickson, who were written in. Tom Cameron was high man with 253 votes, followed by Tru man B. Austin with 242, John K. McNeill, Jr., with 214, Marion Gatlin with 197 and A. V. Sanders with 194. The also rans were Sam C. Morris with 155 votes, Frank Culbreth with 52 and Julian B. McKeithan with 39. No issue appeared in the cam paign, nor was any particular dis satisfaction with the way the town is being run ever expressed very widely, so the vote can be considered a heavy one. Mc Keithan did express some criti cism of the fee system last week, and the board took steps to elimi nate this at their Monday night meeting after the election. n County Board Has Routine Meeting The Hoke County board of commissioners held their regular monthly meeting at the court house on Monday with all mem bers present. State Highway Com missioner Forrest Lockey and Highway Division Engineer T. G. Poindexter also met with the board to discuss highway and road problems and plans affecting this county. Resignation of H. M. Meeks as rural policeman was accepted and Lawrence W. Stanton was em ployed to replace him. ' The board went on record as opposing an increased tax on auto licensing by the State, and to the transfer of any road funds to the general fund. A joint meeting with the coun ty board of public welfare was set for Friday, May 6, at 7:30 p. m. to take action on public as sistance for the year starting; July 1. T. B. Association Financial Report Mrs. Hubert Cameron, president of the Hoke County Tuberculosis association, this week released a report of expenditures and re ceipts by the association during the past year, and the budget for the next year. In the past year $1202.73 was spent, with $13.43 going to re search, $67.15 to the National Tuberculosis program, $241.74 to the N.C.T.B. program, $96.39 for the Christmas Seal sale, $210.05 for health education, $493.76 for case finding and $80.21 for other activities. The budget for the next year includes $37 for State and Na tional Tuberculosis research, $60 for the National association, $230.31 for the State association, $426.25 for health education, $500 for case finding (x-rays, etc), $20 for rehabilitation, $25 for the 25th Anniversary of the National TB association, and $123.75 for the seal sale. PHILIPPI HOMECOMING SUNDAY, MAY 15 The annual homecoming day of Philippi Presbyterian Church will be held on Sunday, May 15, it was announced this week by the Rev. W. B. Heyward, pastor. Sunday School will be at 11:00 o'clock, and morning worship service at 12:15, followed by a picnic dinner on the grounds. AH former members and friends of the church are issued a cordial invitation to attend. 1
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