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The Hoke County News
The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLIX; NUMBER 51
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1955
RAEFORD, N. C.
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By The Editor
Some of the directors of he
Chamber of Commerce hated to
get up Tuesday morning at seven
o'clock, I believe, but just about
all of them did. We were having
trouble finding a time to have our
monthly meeting that would suit
them all, so I invited them all to
have breakfast with me at seven
a. m. on the next meeting day,
saying I would cook it myself,
and that all should have time at
that time of day. Well I cooked
it, mostly, but I expect my wife
was more tired than I ... just
worrying.
Younger Snead tells me that
the Kiwanis Club is seeking the
cooperation of the community in
the statewide "Youth Apprecia
tion Day" in North Carolina next
Sunday, and that the ministers
have promised the cooperation of
the churches. The idea was con
ceived and is being handled over
the State by Earl Yarborough
Raeford native now of Charlotte.
The plan has the endorsement of
Governor Hodges, and its stated
purpose is "to afford the adults
of North Carolina an opportunity
to rededication in the responsibil
ities of parenthood." Qovernor
Hodges said It seems that we
have learned to give our youth
everything but ourselves. Youth
Appreciation Day affords an op
portunity to give of yourself to
the youth of your community.
Please don't miss this wonderful
opportunity.". . . Most of us par
ents could sure stand to give a
little time to this line of thinking.
Tommy Mncko is trying to get
up a Softball league for late af
ternoon play and wants anyone
who cares to play to call him at
home after six.
There was a fellow John Muse,
of St. Pauls, came through town
this morning with what most peo
ple say is the prettiest string of
fisn they ever saw. They were
bass, and he caught them this
morning in the Hodgin pond at
Antioch using a jigger on a reed
pole. He had eight there that
would each weigh seven pounds
or better, each having a mouth
big enough to put your fist into.
Mary McLean of Raeford,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R.
McLean, played an important
part in the dedication ceremony
of the new Prayer Chapel at Flora
Macdonald College Sunday after
noon. Mary, as president of the
student Christian Association,
presented the keys to the chapel
to Dr. - Marshall Scott Woodson,
president of the college, as the
three presidents of the association
Immediately preceding her looked
on. The idea of the chapel was
conceived in the school year 1952
53 and the money for it was raised
by the association under the four
presidents present.
Had an interesting conversation
with Dwight Niven, of Dunedin,
Florida, some time ago. He was
telling me that he graduated from
Raeford High School in the class
of 1917, and that there were 13 in
his class. He had a picture of
them too, and named them for
me. In addition to himself there
were Bennie Lee Upchurch, Helen
Dickson, Mary Poole, Emma and
Lana Hinshaw, Katie Barnard,
Mary Blue, Daniel Jones, Mur
doch McLeod, Anna McDonald
and Octavia Privette.
Dwight, who is a bank exami
ner in Florida, said that B. F.
Hassell was principal and C. D.
Oxner teacher, and that they
graduated in the old Raeford In
stitute building.
He also said they played foot
ball in Rockingham in 1915, with
the late H. W. B. Whitley as coach,
and that Love Heins, quarterback,
was the only man on the team
who had ever seen a game. Dur
ing the game, he says, an airplane
passed over, and the game stop
ped completely while everyone
watched it out of sight.
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MRS. CRAWLEY'S RECITAL
Mrs. Stanley Crawley will pre
sent her piano pupils In recital
next Tuesday evening at :00 o'
clock in the Rockfish School The
public is cordially invited.
CLEAN-UP WEEK STARTS HON.,
EVERYONE EXPECTED TO HELP
Scull Home On
Farm Almost 100
Years In Family
The farm home of Mrs. John
Scull, Sr., northeast of Raeford,
about six miles out 15-A and a
mile north, was pictured in last
week's paper as the mystery farm,
and the farm has been in the
ScUll family since Mrs. Scull's
husband's father bought it before
the Civil War.
It was first identified last week
by M. A. Maxwell of Raeford, and
first rural subscriber to name it
correctly was Bobby Parker, son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Parker of
Route two. Ralph Plummer of
Route one also named it right,
and there were several guesses
that it was another place.
Consisting of about 750 acres
with about 90 cleared the place
was bought by Joe Scull from a
Rev. McQueen who preached at
Sandy Grovo and Galatia Pres
byterian Churches before 1860.
The late Mr. Scull, who died in
1950, was born in 1861, and he
and Mrs. Scull, the former Annie
Hall of the same section, were
married in 1899. Joe Scull went
off to the war while his son was
a baby.
Mrs. Scull lives in the third
home there, the first having burn
ed before her marriage, and the
second 17 years ago, after which
the present home was built. Joe
Scull's father, James Scull, came
from England and settled in
Brunswick County rear Acme.
The place belongs to Mrs. Scull
and her children, some of whom
live on the Jjjje. There are ele
ven children: Mrs. Lela Hair, Mrs.
Gertrude Hair, Oscar, John W.,
Mrs. Margaret Slagle, and Mrs.
Ruth McDougald, all of whom live
in the vicinity and Mrs. Mary Lee
Patterson and Mrs. Ida Warner
of Fayetteville, Mrs. Elvin Miller
and Marvin Scull of Durham and
Mrs. Gladys Nickerson of Bel Air,
Md.
Oscar, who farms the home
place, is fond of deer hunting anJ
has to do so to raise anything,
as they are plentiful there near
the Fort Bragg reservation and
are bad to eat up crops. He is a
member of Parker's Methodist
Church, and Mrs. Scull is a mem
ber of Galatia and others of Rae
ford Presbyterian Church.
They raise cotton, corn and to
bacco and cultivate mechanically.
The place was all in woods with
turpentine being the income until
the war, after which the 90 acres
was cleared.
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IN MILITARY GROUP
The 1955 Scabbard and Blade
tapping ceremony was held at
Davidson College during a drill
last week, and among the 16 out
standing cadets and one faculty
member who were tapped into
membership was John McLauch
lin, son of Mrs. H. C. McLauchlin
of Raeford. Scabbard and Blade
is an honorary military fraternity
recognizing those men who have
shown a particular interest in the
field of military science and tac
tics.
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GRAIN DEMONSTRATION
W. C. Williford, county farm
agent, announces- that there will
be a small grain demonstration
on the farm of J. M. (Sam) Mc
Gougan at three o'clock next
Monday afternoon. The demon
stration field is located at the
apple orchard about a half mile
in front of the McGougan home.
Fourteen varieties of small grain
are being grown there and will
be discussed. All farmers are in
vited. C
CAKE SALE SATURDAY
The Wayside Home Demonstra
tion club will have a cake sale at
Cooper's Super Market on Sat
urday. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Free
man and children of Ft Lee, Va.
visited in West Palm Beach and
Miami Beach, Fla. last week. Mr.
Freeman is on leave prior to re
porting to a new station in Germany.
Wednesday Cemetery Day
Angus J. Currie, chairman of
the community "Clean-Up Week"
this year, said today that his
committee had completed plans
for really cleaning the old town
up and that the drive would start
Monday and run through the
week. On the Chamber of Com
merce Committee with him are
Marion Gatlin and Kermit Wood,
and also serving will be R. M.
Mills, county sanitarian, and
Vance Wiggins, superintendent of
the town street and sanitation de
partments. The committee has completed a
survey of the town's needs in the
way of cleaning and clearing, and
arrangements have been made for
members of the committee to con
tact individual property owners
concerned. Wiggins states that
the town's garbage collection fa
cilities will be made available on
a call basis during next week,
and that persons or firms having
trash to be moved may have it
done by calling the town hall. He
also said there would be two col
lections of garbage made from the
entire residental area of the town
next week in spite of the extra
effort needed to make the special
calls.
Cemetery Plans
After the successful scheme of
having a day during the week for
cleaning the cemetery last year,
the committee decided to try this
again. Residents of the town who
can do so are asked to go to the
cemetery on Wednesday and work
on their lots and help with others,
as there are many with no owners
living here. People who cannot
go may hire a man and send him,
and Marion Gatlin and M. K.
Mills will divide the day staying
at the cemetery and supervising
the work for those who wish it.
Tools and lawn mowers will be
needed, they pointed out.
Vance Wiggins also said that if
any property owners had prob
lems of moving unsightly things
that looked too big for them they
could call him and maybe the
town would have facilities to do
the job. These would be available
he said.
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Philippi Members
Enjoy Homecoming
At Church Sunday
(By Mrs. A. A. Mclnnis)
The annual homecoming at Phi
lippi Presbyterian Church last
Sunday was as always a very en
joyable occasion. A large crowd
attended the worship service at
midday, conducted by the Rev.
W. B. Heyward of Raeford. The
sacrament of the Lord's supper
was observed at this time. Spe
cial music was rendered by Mrs.
Cyrus Autry, Mrs. R. W. Posey
and Miss Charlotte Posey.
The homecoming was held ear
lier than usual this year on ac
count of the heat later on, so it
was a beautiful day and just cool
enough to have everyone in the
mood to enjoy all that wonderful
food that was spread on the out
door picnic tables after the
church service. '
None of the original Johnson
family of Philippi were present
except Ben Johnson, who still
lives near the church. There were
many new faces there that we
were glad to see and hope that
they along with all the others can
be back next year.
GUARD ENDS FIRING
The 105 enlisted men and six
officers of Company A, 130th
Tank Battalion, local National
Guard unit, returned Sunday
from their second week end of
small arms firing on the ranges at
Fort Bragg. Each week end they
fired Saturday and Sunday, and
most men fired the carbine, pis
tol and sub-machine gun.
MASON'S LADIES NIGHT
The Raeford Masonic lodge will
have their annual ladies night on
Tuesday, May 24, at 7:00 o'clock
in the cafeteria of the J. W. Mc
Lauchlin School, J. E. Byrd, mas
ter, has announced. Masons are
invited, he said, and can get tic
kets from other Masons.
United Fund To Meet
At Courthouse Mon.
H. L. Gatlin, Jr., president of
the United Fund of Hoke County
which was organized last year and
which had a highly successful
fund drive, announced this week
that the annual meeting of the
Fund would be held at the court
house on Monday night, May 23,
at 8:00 o'clock.
At this time new officers for
the organization, which provides
people of the county an oppor
tunity to give to chartiable organ
izations on a systematic, once-a-ycar
basis, will be elected.
Through the United Fund a per
son may give to a particular
charity or funds will be alloted on
basis of need by the local direc
tors to the several charitable or
ganizations participating.
Officers in addition to Gatlin
are Mrs. W. C. Hodgin and R. B.
Lewis, vice-presidents, Charles
Morrison, treasurer, and Angus J.
Currie, secretary.
There are 24 directors of the
organization and they come from
all parts of the county. They were
elected for one year each last
year, and at the meeting Monday
night they will be elected for one,
two and three year terms, eight
for each.
Gatlin urged citizens and parti
cipants to attend the meeting.
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Presbyterian Men
Entertain Families
The men of the Raeford Pres
byterian Church entertained the
families of the church at a sup
per and program on Wednesday
night. About 425 were present
and enjoyed a supper of barbecue
and fried chicken.
Following the meal the congre
gation gathered upstairs in the
sanctuary v' sre they enjoyed
some hymns by a quartet consist
ing of W. L. Poole, M. L. and
Martin McKeithan and Glenn
Clark. This was followed by a
series of films on the older Pres
byterian churches in this section
and the program concluded with
a film showing members and
families of this church leaving
after services this spring.
Duncan McFadyen was chair
man of the committee which ar
ranged the supper and program,
and June Johnson made and
showed the pictures.
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Mrs. Morgan's Father
Passes Near Benson
Walter Patrick Dixon, 82, of
Benson, Route 3, died at his home
Monday morning. Funeral was
held at the Pleasant Hill Christ
ian Church Tuesday afternoon
and burial was in the Dixon
cemetery.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Ardelia Dixon, six daugh
ters including Mrs. H. K. Morgan
of Raeford, four sons, 32 grand
children and 23 great-grandchildren.
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Hazel McLean Gets
Camp Scholarship
Hazel McLean, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. R. McLean of Rae
ford, and a rising sophomore at
Flora Macdonald College, has re
cently received a Danforth scho
larship to attend the Leadership
Training School at Camp Mini-
wanca on Lake Michigan for two
weeks this summer. Two students,
upper classmen, now in college,
have received this scholarship at
the end of their freshman year.
They are Sallie Ann Munroe, and
Norma Pittard.
Qualifications stressed for this
very desirable scholarship are the
physical characteristics, religious
and social development, and in
tellectual ability.
A popular member of the stu
dent body the third popular
Flora Macdonald girl from the
same family Hazel is new treas
urer of the student body, which
makes her a council member, and
is president of Senior High Fel-'
lowship for Fayetteville Presby
tery.
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CLASS NIGHT EXERCISES
The Class of 1955 of Hoke
County High School will present
their class night exercises Friday
night at 8:15 o'clock in the audi
torium of the schooL The theme
will be "One Foot On Earth," and
the public is cordially invited to
attend.
Recorder Hears
32 Cases In
Full Session
In a fairly productive day of
Hoke County recorder's court
Tuesday, 32 cases were heard be
fore JudRe T. O. Moses and two
more were disposed of by bond
forfeitures. Quite a few cases in
volved prohibition law violations
and one of these was sent up to
Superior Court.
Lcroy Locklvar, Indian, was
charged in two cases with oper
ating a liquor still. He pleaded
guilty in one case, but as he was
an old offender, Judge Moses sent
the case up to Superior Court and
set bond at $500.
Kermit Rogers, Indian, was
found guilty of violating the pro
hibition laws, and got 60 days
suspended on payment of $50 and
costs and two years good behav
ior. Gladys Rogers Chavis, also
Indian, was found guilty of help
ing him, and she got 30 days su
spended on payment of $25 and
costs.
Sherman Jackson, Indian, was
found guilty of violating the pro
hibition laws, and got 30 days
suspended on payment of $50 and
costs and two years good behav
ior. State dropped a charge of vio
lating the prohibition laws against
Cyrus Peterkin, colored.
Oscar Lomax and Tom Watson,
colored, were each found guilty
of violating the prohibition laws,
and each got 30 days suspended
on payment of $10 and costs.
John LeGrand, colored, pled guil
ty and got the same.
For- driving drunk and having
no driver's license, Hugh L. Mor.
rison, colored, got four months
suspended on payment of $125 and
costs. Lawrence McCollum, color.
ed, was found not guilty on a
charge of driving drunk.
Mrs. Fulton Scott, white, who
was found guilty last week of as
saulting Mrs. M. B. Pleasants,
was sentenced to 30 days in jail,
to be suspended on payment of
$25 and costs and eight months
good behavior. She appealed and
posted $300 bond.
Laura B. Harrison Wharton and
Patient Harrison, both white,
were charged with assault and
damage to personal property by
Ruth Harrison, who failed to ap
pear. Case was continued and
capias was to issue for prosecut
ing witness.
Major Bud Brown, colored, was
found guilty of assaulting J. T.
Baker and sentenced to three
months on the roads. He appeal
ed and bond was set at $300.
Roy Lee Murchison, colored.
was found guilty of being drunk
and disorderly and assault. Sen
tence was 30 days to be suspend
ed on payment of $25 and costs.
Emil W. Stephenson and Gil
bert Everstz, both colored sold
iers, left a $65 bond for allowing
an unlicensed driver to drice and
driving without a license, respec
tively.
Rosa Mae McPhaul, colored,
was found not guilty of violating
the prohibition laws.
Sam Scriven, colored, pled guil
ty of assault and got 30 days su
spended on payment of costs and
12 months good behavior.
Jerry Walker, colored, was
charged with assaulting William
Demps with a deadly weapon.
Probable cause was found and
bond was set at $1000 for Wal
ker's appearance in Superior
Court.
Glenn C. Gibson, colored, pled
guilty of public drunkenness.
Judgment was suspended on pay
ment of $10 and costs and two
years good behavior.
State dropped a charge of care
less and reckless driving against
Lawrence E. Wilkes, white.
Other traffic violators includ
ed Lonnie W. Little and Nicholas
Rogers, improper brakes, costs by
each; Mitchell Melvin, improper
brakes and license, $20 and costs;
R. W. Warmbold, passing on a
hill, $15 bond; Irene Elliott, im
proper brakes and following too
close, costs and $92 93 damages
already paid; John W. Gilchrist,
improper brakes, $10 and costs;
Willie Jr. Guy, improper license
plates, $10 and costs; Edward
BurrouRhs, $10 and costs for no
driver's license. Two speeders
paid $10 and costs and one left
a $15 bond.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Draughon
attended the funeral of Mrs.
Draughon's sister, Mrs. Dan Wa
ters, of Asheville on Sunday.
TOWN BOARD TO ASK VOTE ON
$60,000 WATER, SEWER BONDS
Chamber To Ask
For Labor Survey
At a breakfast meeting of the
board of directors of the Raeford
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
morning several activities in pro
gress were discussed and plans
for others were made.
In discussing the feeling by
many merchants and others that
there is a need for smaller indus
tries such as sewing rooms or gar
ment factories in the community,
the board decided to ask the North
Carolina Employment Service for
a survey of available labor for use
in inducing such an employer to
locate here. Director John Morgan
of the Amerotron plant remarked
in this connection that his plant
had recently empolyed 86 ladies
of the community as menders in
the mill. He also said there were
over 1100 persons employed there
now.
It was reported that a commit
tee of which J. Benton Thomas is
chairman was making progress in
toward its objective of getting a
public toilet for colored people
located in or near the business
section of town.
The need for a credit reporting
bureau was voiced by almost
every member of the board, and
Lawrence McNeill and Paul Dick
son were authorized to get up a
committee to help and to proceed
with the establishment of this
bureau If the business houses of
the community will support it. It
was pointed out that the bureau
would work two ways. If a man
had such a record that he did not
deserve credit the store would be
protected from him. On the other
hand a man moving here with a
good credit record would have
credit immediately available and
the stores would thus get his bus
iness. Elimination of annual write
off of unpaid accounts is accom
plished in communities where a
credit bureau operates.
The board voted to send Martin
Baumgartner, manager, to the
Southeastern School for Chamber
of Commerce Workers, to be con
ducted in Chapel Hill In June by
the United States Chamber of
Commerce.
Angus Currie met with the
board and outlined plans for the
Clean-Up week next week.
Percy D. Niven,
Native Of Raeford
Passes In Florida
Percy D. Niven, 87-year-old
resident of Dunedin, Florida, died
early last Friday morning in a
Clearwater hospital after an ill
ness of seven years.
He was a native of Raeford,
having been the son of the late
John A. and Mittie Williams
Niven, and had been in Dunedin
since 1910. In Dunedin he was
city clerk for nine years, and a
member of the city commission
for several years. He was a mem
ber of the Dunedin Presbyterian
Church and of the Dunedin lodge
F & AM. He also belonged to the
Southern Salesman's Candy Club
and the Southern Wholesale Con
fectionary association, and was
chairman of the board of Caro
lina Manufacturing Company of
Greenville, S. C.
He was married to the former
Miss Janie McLean of this coun
ty, who survives him along with
two sons, Raymond of Dunedin
and Mack P. of Greenville, S. C;
a daughter, Mrs. William W.
Drummond of Dunedin; three
brothers, L. A. of Memphis, Tenn.,
Reese of St. Petersburg, Fla., and
Dwight of Dunedin; and . seven
grandchildren.
Funeral service was held Sat
urday at the Moss Chapel at 4:00
p. m., and burial was in Sylvan
Abbey Memorial Park.
ATTEND CONFERENCE
As members of the Star Club
of the New York Life Insurance
Company, Neill J. Blue of Eden
borough Avenue and William
Lamont, Jr. of 112 W. Donaldson
Avenue, In Raeford attended an
educational conference at Wil
mington Island, near Savannah,
Georgia, from Sunday through
Wednesday of this week.
Following a trip to Raleigh and
conversations with the local gov
ernment commission by Mayor
Alfred Cole and Town Commis
sioner Tom Cameron this week
the town board is expected to de
cide at a meeting tonight to ask
the voters of Raeford to approve
a $60,000 bond issue by the town
for the purpose of increasing the
water and sewer facilities of the
town.
The entire plan was explained
to the board of directors of the
Raeford Chamber of Commerce
at a meeting Friday, and this
group voted unanimously to en
dorse the planned action of the
town board as being the best
thing for the progress of the town.
The plan is for a new 12-inch
sewer line to run from the Amer
otron Plant northwest of town a
long a zig-zag bourse through
town to the sewage disposal plant
east of town and then to a point
on Rockfish creek southeast of
town and south of the old 15-A
bridge. This new sewer line would
serve two purposes. The first of
these and the reason it came up
is that the Amerotron Corporation
wants to put in a dye plant here
which would use upwards of
200,000 gallons of water a day.
The second purpose is that the
new sewer line, of the size and
route planned would greatly ease
the strain on present residental
sewer facilities in the east part of
town and give the system more
capacity. The water released by
the corporation's dye plant would
be purified before entering the
jewer system and would afford
enough flushing for the present
disposal plant to the point down
the creek to completely eliminate
the unpleasant odors which have
been noticeable in east Raeford
in recent summers, engineers es
timate. As to the water supply, the pre- .
sent system would be increased
under the plan by another pump
and well at a cost of about
$15,000. Water Superintendent
Starr McMillan says that the pre
sent system can furnish Amero
tron the additional water they
need, but the additional pump is
needed to afford the extra water
necessary for safety.
The net profit on the amount of .
water to be furnished the dye
plant has been calculated as
enough by itself to more than
equal the amount of the bond is
sue. In spending the $60,000 the
town will be paying about two
thirds of the total cost of the pro
jected improvements, if approved
by the voters, and Amerotron has
offered to contribute about one-
third in cash.
In announcing the town's plans
Mayor Cole asserted that there
would be no necessity now or later
to raise the town's tax rate to take
care of this improvement or its
bonds, if the people approve them.
He said that the income from wat
er quoted above was a minimum
one, and that the mill would in
all probability use more water
than this, and the town's profit
on water would probably be
greater when the volume is in
creased so greatly.
The Chamber of Commerce di
rectors discussed the potential
the Amerotron plant offers the
economy of the community and
the offer of the company to pay
such a large part of the installa
tion expense. The increase in fa
cilities, it was pointed out, will
make the town's utilities able to
handle more industrial and resi
dential expansion in the next few
years, and the dye plant at Amer
otron may lead to these.
An alternative plan was coa-
sidered whereby the Amerotron
Corporation would run their own
line north to the creek and release
their two to three hundred thou
sand gallons of water there each
day. While pure, however, this
water would have a tint which
would be apparent in Rockfish
Creek for about two miles accord
ing to engineers. As this would
include the swimming hole, the
company offered to construct an
other up the creek from where
the water went in. It was felt by
the town board that the other
plan, with its large increase in
the town's utility system and
with the company giving the town
the money jt would spend on this
alternative, was much to be de
sired. The swimming hole, If lo
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