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Journal ews voici or M or uqiiw MIIDOM I HOMt The Hoke County New The Hoke County Journal VOLUME L; NUMB) THURSDAY, JL NE 9, 1955 RAEFORD,. N. C. l')c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR r 1,5., 6UAW nuiDOM rh I SI By The Editor Jake Austin was telling me this week that now is about the best time he ever saw to take a look at the cemetery He says you can just about do it without being ashamed of it. Reason is that the town street and sanitation crew went out the latter part of Iqst week and finished the job that had been started and carried a long by volunteers. The whole place has now been mowed and raked, Jake says, and looks good, although some of the lots which were cut first are beginning to need it again. I remarked to Jake, and he agreed, that we will never find a better time to pet some sort of organization formed to give the place a little regular care. The cost of regular upkeep there would be small, I would think, compar ed to what it would have cost to hire the place cleaned up. We'll have to form some sort of asso ciation, so that there will be a place to put it, and then I believe there will be many people who would like to help financially with the cemetery's upkeep who could not otherwise help. Maintenance Supervisor Luke Powell, along with Engineer Rob ert Gatlin and Town Commis sioner Truman Austin were up on Green Street and Fifth and Sixth Avenues staking out the streets for paving this week, and the streets were being prepared for it right after being staked. These are not all, as I understand there will be more during the summer. They tell me the streets have to be prepared for paving about two months before it is done, so that looks like August when the pav ing should start. A mistake was made in the list ing last week of the recipient of the Kiwanis award for the best all around student in the primary grades when Stanley Koonce, Jr., was named. It was his brother Donald who won the prize, his mother tells me. I disclaim re sponsibility, though, as the school made us up the list. In reference to the Ford Motor Company's agreement with the United Auto Workers, I cannot see how any company can guar antee its employees an annual wage unless there is some way to have guaranteed annual sales for the company, and there isn't. There is a precedent in this oc casion by the Ford company which does not look good for the future of this country's free enterprise economy to me. Hope I'm just seeing the dark side. John Gillis "Chops" McLeod, native of Raeford who has been a resident of Florence, S. C. for a good many years, sent me a clip ping a week or two ago from a Florence newspaper with the re mark that we here in Raeford and Hoke County should be proud of the North Carolina traffic laws. Although the article does not quote the laws there, it does ap pear that there is no speed limit or at least an indefinite one. There have been 18 traffic deaths this year in Florence County. The article follows. Only a few minutes was neces sary to acquit a Florence man yesterday in Magistrate's Court on a charge of "driving too fast for conditions" after a State Highway Patrolman testified that the vehi cle "was doing at least 80 m. p. h. in heavy traffic." Elting L. Chapman Jr., 809 Santee Dr., was freed by Magis trate Peter D. Hyman in the non jury trial which lasted less than 15 minutes. Chapman is a director of a local bank. Patrolman James Weeks was the arresting officer and stated that he overtook Chapman at 8:35 p. m. Monday after noticing the automobile traveling at an exces sive rate of speed on the out skirts of Darlington on U.S. 52. The patrolman said that he es timated Chapman's speed to be "at least 80" and added that he was forced to "go 90 to 95 in heavy traffic" to overtake the de fendant. He said he was only able to stop Chapman after he slowed down for the city limits. Chapman denied the 80 m. p. h. speed, but said that his dash lights were dimmed and he didn't know (Continued on Back Page) Dr. W. M. Fairley Is Buried Wed. In Fayetteville Dr. Watson Mumford Fairley, pastor of the Raeford Presbyter ian Church for the fifteen years from 1925 to 1940 and again for several months in 1946, died Monday in an Asheville hospital of injuries suffered when he fell down some steps at his home in Montreat on Sunday. He was 82 yt'ars of age. . Dr. Fairley was born Jan. 24, 1873, in Cumberland County, a son of the late Rev. David and Janie Mclver Fairley. After gra duating from Davidson College and completing the course at Un ion Theological Seminary, Rich mond, Va., in 1900, Dr. Fairley was licensed to preach by Fay etteville Presbytery on July 10, !900, and was ordained on July ?fi of the same year by Fort Worth Presbytery, Texas. He received a doctor of divinity degree from Austin College, Sherman, Texas, in 1922. Dr. Fairley served as pastor of churches in Carlsbad, N. M., Pecos and El Paso, Texas, and was pas tor of First Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville from 1905 to 1916, during which time Highland and Comfort Presbyterian Churches were organized in Fayetteville. The funeral was conducted at three o'clock Wednesday after noon at the First Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville by Dr. Walker B. Healy, pastor, assist ed by the Rev. A. D. Carswell of Spring Lake, the Rev. W. B. Hey ward of Raeford, and the Rev. James Pinckney of Tarboro. Since his retirement Dr. and Mrs. Fair- ley had lived in Tarboro, spend ing their summers in Montreat. Burial was in Cross Creek Ceme tery in Fayetteville. Officers of the First Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville and of the Raeford Presbyterian Church were honor ary pallbearers. , Dr. Fairley is survived by his wife, the former Miss Alice Roll- wage of Arkansas; and three sis ters, Mrs. A. G. Carter, Mrs. S. N. Harrell and Mrs. Edward Robin son, all of Tarboro and Montreat. o Cotton, Tobacco Land Being Measured For Acreage Compliance Measurement of tobacco and cotton acreage has begun through out Hoke County, it was stated by Louise V. Blue, manager of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation office. Reporters employed by the ASC are visiting farms for the purpose of determ ining compliance with allotments. She said every effort has been made to have these reporters thoroughly trained so that accur acy may be had in all measure ments. The farm operator has respon sibilities in this job, Miss Blue said. He or his representative should assist the reporter in mak ing measurements and showing him all the fields and areas plant ed in the allotted crops on the farm, and ASC officials hope that proper assistance will remove any necessity for a second visit to the farm. Accuracy will be of great help in completing performance work in the short time allowed. Production Credit Men At Conference N. H. G. Balfour and H. L. Morgan, president and secretary treasurer, respectively, of the Laurinburg Production Credit As sociation, have returned from Co lumbia, S. C, where they attend ed the Twenty-First Anniversary Conference of Production Credit Association. 5531 people attended. Reports submitted showed that the 87 associations in the Colum bia district have retired all gov ernment capital. Farmer capital and reserves amount to $22,971, 674 an increase of $1,301,370 during the year. The associations had 87,508 stockholders and made loans of approximately $111,000,- 000 an increase of nearly $1, 000,000 over the previous year. Forty-one association own lots and buildings with an investment of $652,927. At the State meetings, represen tatives from the North Carolina associations voted to hold their 1956 conference at Nags Head. 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: Roy Jones Home Is Farm Photo Mrs. Melvin Ashburn of 204 North Jackson Street was first to correctly guess the identity of the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jones which was pictured in last week's paper as the farm mystery picture. First rural subscriber to name it right was Mrs. N. A. Mc Keithan of Route two. Others guessing right but too late to win a subscription were Mrs. Lee Cameron of West Pmaldson Ave nue and Susan McPhail of Route two. The Jones home is on a 50-acre farm in McLauchlin Township, owned by Roy's father, T, C. Jones, principal of the Mildouson School who lives in the Mildouson teacherage. The Jones family are natives of Pinnacle, in Stokes County, and have been in Hoke County since 1937, buying the farm from Dundarrach Trading Company in 1944. When it was bought there were no buildings on it at all, and since that time the home has been built along with a feed barn, tobacco pack house and two tobacco barns. Of the 50 acres about 23 are in cultivation, with tobacco, corn, wheat and garden crops being raised. Roy, who works with the Raeford Auto Company, does his farming with a Ford tractor. Roy, who saw service in Europe with the Army infantry in World War II, was married in 1942 to Miss Irma Dalrymple of Sanford and they have one daughter. Dale, aged four. Roy's father, T. C. Jones, has been a school teach er for 24 years and a farmer most of his life. They are members of the Raeford Methodist Church. - IS GOLF TOURNEY Sandy Snead of Rockingham, 14-year-f?ld son of the late Alex Snead who grew up here and Mrs. Snead was beaten in a tie playoff for first place in the first annual junior golf tournament held at Pine Lakes Internaitonal Country Club at Myrtle Beach on June 1. The tourney was part of the Myr tle Beach Sun-Fun Festival, and the boy that won the tournament was 16. Sandy's aunt, Mrs. Jewel Snead Klouse, is assistant man ager of the golf shop at the coun try club. n CATAWBA GRADUATE At commencement exercises held May 30, Clifford J. McNeill, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. McNeill of Hoke County, graduated from Ca tawba College, Salisbury, N. C, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While at Catawba he was active in the Advertising Club. s. I'' J 1. You may win but once m 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 Wheat Referendum To Be Held June 25 On Marketing Quotas Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has set June 25 as the date for a National Referen dum among growers on market ing quotas for the 1956 wheat crop, R. J. Hasty, Chairman of the Hoke County Agricultural Stabi lization and Conservation Com mittee, reminded farmers this week. At least two-thirds of the growers voting must approve quotas before they may be put into effect. "Under present supply condi tions," the Chairman stated, "Sec retary Benson had no choice but to proclaim wheat quotas and call for a vote. Legislation directs the Secretary to proclaim wheat quo tas whenever the supply exceeds 20 percent of 'normal'. The 'nor mal supply', as calculated under provisions of the controlling legis lation, is a year's domestic and export requirements plus 20 per cent as a reserve. Acutally, the a vailable supply for 1954-55 is a bout 66 percent above normal. If quotas are approved, Mr. Hasty explained, producers who comply with their farm wheat acreage allotments may market all the wheat they produce in any way they choose. They will also be eligible for the full level of price support which is authorized for the 1956 crop. Producers who are subject to the marketing quo tas those with more than 15 acres of wheat will lose their price support eligibility if they do not comply with their acreage allotments. They will also be sub ject to a marketing quota penalty on their excess wheat. If quotas are disapproved, there will be no marketing quotas and no marketing penalties. Price sup ports would be at 50 percent of parity for those who comply with their acreage allotments which will continue in effect even if quotas should be voted down. n GETS DEGREE AT WCUNC Jane Gertrude McKeithan. Hau- KUWI Ul 1VU. dtlU 1VJI3. JlQUlIl .. U , t Tl T n .1 , XT McKeithan of Raeford, was a- mong those receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mathe matics at the 63rd commencement of Woman's College of the Uni versity of North Carolina in Greensboro last week end. Jane's activities at Woman's College in cluded making the Dean's List, the Daisy Chain, the YWCA Cab inet, the Square Circle (honorary mathematics club), the Future Teachers of America and the Young Democratic Club. Mrs. Vemon Brown and daugh ter, Evelyn Marie, of Bluefield, W. Va. are visiting her mother, Mrs. H. A. Cameron. COUNTY FARM? -1 it 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. Hoke High Coach Goes To Ahoskie Archie Brigman, head athletic coach at Hoke County High School during the past school year, has submitted his resigna tion to accept a position as assist ant coach at Ahoskie High School, Prinicpal W. T. Gibson, Jr. an nounced last week. Brigman's football and baseball teams were not too successful, but he had been offered a contract for an other year and was generally liked. Brigman came here from two years of successful coaching at the Class A consolidated school at Soneville. A graduate of Elon College, he was an outstanding athlete. He was married, a Bap tist, and had two children and lived on North Magnolia Street. Principal Gibson said today that efforts to find a successor had up to now been unsuccessful. He said he had talked to two pros pects, either of whom would have been highly satisfactory, but that he was not able to offer enough money to get either of them. Gib son said that about half or more of the schools in North Carolina were offering supplements to the State salary schedule for teachers now, and that other states, such as Maryland, were offering seven to eight hundred dollars more for the school year than he could offer. This situation, he said, is making the employment of needed teachers very difficult except where there is some family or other sort of tie to this section. Amerotron Names New Vice Presidents Robert T,. Hufflnes, Jr.., Pres ident of Amerotron Corporation, announced in Aberdeen Monday that Messrs. Ronald R. Boyd, Al fred H. Grant, E. H. Hines, and George L. Staff were elected Vice Presidents. Ronald R. Boyd, Manager of the Central Production Planning Department, has also been elect ed a member of the Board of Di rectors. Alfred H. Grant is Manager of Area "C plants, which are the former Textron Southern proper tics, and the Tifton, Ga., plant. E. H. Hines recently joined the organization as Group Manager of the Worsted and Worsted Blend Manufacturing and Finishing op erations. George L. Staff is Sales Man ager of the Department 41-1, Worsted and Worsted Blend Di vision of Amerotron Corporation. Hal Gore of Presbyterian Col lege is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mn. A. D. Gore. County General Fund Budget Tentatively Estimated $103,000 The board of commissioners of Hoke County held their regular monthly meeting at the court house Monday with Chairman Fulford McMillan presiding and all members present. County Ac countant J. A. McGoojian was not present, however, as he entered a Fayetteville hospital Saturday and expects to be a patient for about two weeks. The board tentatively approved a county general fund budget es timate for $103,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, as corn Dared with a budget of $95,534 for this year. The budset esti mates for the farm demonstration and forest fire warden depart ments were presented, but appro val was deferred until the board can meet later in the month and consider the budget estimates of all county departments at once. Mrs. Neill McFadyen and Mrs. H. C. Roberts appeared before the board in the interest of the newly organized Teen-Age club, and af ter hearing them the board ap proved an appropriation of $100 for the club. Recorder's Court Solicitor G. B. Rowland was granted a vacation from two Tuesday sessions of the court. Mrs. Louise Beck appeared be fore the board to inquire if the county would sell the Blue Springs Community house, formerly a school. The board deferred action until the July meeting. The firm of Williams and Wall was empoyed to audit the county books for the fiscal year to end this month, and a bond of $1000 was ordered for the superintend ent of public welfare. Plans Made By Town Board To Open Elvood Ave. At the regular monthly meeting of the board of commissioners of the Town of Raeford at the town hall Monday night plans were made to open West Elwood Ave nue from Magnolia Street two blocks west to Bethel Road. Ma yor Alfred Cole presided at the meeting, and all members of the board were present. Discussion disclosed that satisfactory ar rangements could be made with property owners involved in open ing the street through the two blocks, and the board voted to buy a 30-foot strip through J. W. Canaday's property at Magnolia and West Elwood. The board voted to purchase new "Stop" signs for street inter sections in town; to sell three va cant lots owned by the town in Robbins Heights; and to contri bute $150 to the newly-organized Teen-Age club. The board decided to start us ing the sanitary fill system at the town dump, in place of the old practice of burning rubbish, and instructions were given to have "No Trespassing" signs erected at the property, located north of town. The new system is widelv used and highly recommended, and consists of systematical1- burying the garbage and raising the level of the land at the same time. The board voted to employ the auditing firm of Williams and Wall to audit the town's books and prepare the budget for the new fiscal year. n GETS DEGREE AT DUKE Mrs. Alice Matheson Brooks, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Matheson of Raeford, was one of 920 members of the class of 1955 at Duke University who receiv ed their degrees at the 103rd commencement on Monday. The graduates each received one or more of the 21 degrees offered by the University, and heard an address by Hodding Carter, Puli zer Prize winning editor and pub lisher of the "Delta Democrat Times" of Greenville, Miss., and Governor Luther H. Hodges. r Mr. and Mrs. Hinton McPhaul and son. Dan, left Sunday for a visit with relatives in Sarasota, Florida and West Palm Beach. The Rev. and Mrs. J. Herbert Miller are attending the Christian Convocation and Pastors School at Duke University this week. Recorder Holds 2 In Old Robbery; Hear Other Cases Two colored men appeared be fore Judye T. O. Moses in Hoke County recorder's court Tuesday on charges of breaking and enter ing and larceny in connection with the bnru'larizing of Johnson Cot ton Company here several months aco. They were Alexander "Chuck" Dnwd and Eugene "Duck" Molvin. Probable cause was found as to each for receiv ing stolen goods, and each is be ing held for trial in Superior Court in default of a $300 bond. Woslov Williams, colored, was charged with assault with a dead ly weannn, inflicting serious and nninful Iniury to Roland Roper. Prnbnhle cause was found and Williams is being held for trial in Sunerior Court under a bond of $wo. James Kemn, colored, was found euilty of stealing five gal lons of gas from Hubert Cameron. Sentence was 30 days, suspended on condition that he pay for the pas, pay $10 and court costs and be of good behavior for two years. Betty Lee Trut, white, pled suiltv of using nrofane and inde cent language in a public place and was fined $10 and costs. .Tames Allen, white, pled guilty of being drunk and disorderly and using profane and indecent lan guage. He got 30 days suspended on Davment of $10 and costs. Poy Lee Brown, alias Monroe, "led gulltv of selling non-tax-paid linuor and eot 90 davs. suspended on navment of $100 and costs and two years good behavior. Fred Horton. white, was found otiiltv of being drunk and disor derly and assaulting an officer. He went to the roads for from three to four months. Roosevelt Malloy, colored, pled guiltv of public drunkenness and eot 30 days suspended on payment of costs. K. C. McNair, colored, pled guilty of assault and got 60 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs and two vears good behav ior. Melvin Higgins, white, pled euilty of violating the prohibition laws, and judgment was suspend el on pavment of $25 and costs. Bob Elks, white truck driver. pled guilty of driving drunk, and sentence was 30 days to be su spended on payment of $100 and costs. Hubert H. Carey, white, got 30 davs suspended on payment of $10 and costs for careless and reckless driving. For having no driver's license William M. Tay lor, colored, paid the same, as did Frank McCuller, colored, for hav ing no brakes on his car. For hav ing improper brakes. John Thomas Hurst, colored, paid costs. Two speeders left bonds of $15 each. New Patrolman Begins Duties Here Patrolman W. T. Herbin, who had been the sole representative of the State Highway Patrol In Hoke County since Patrolman D. G. Surratt and J. T. Harris left it several weeks ago, was joined by a colleague last week. The new patrolman is J. E. Dupree, a native of Smithfield, who has served on the patrol a bout four years at Taylorsville. He left the patrol about the last of last year, and when he came back June 1 he was assigned to Hoke County. Patrolman Herbin expects another officer to be as signed to the county soon to bring its strength back up to three. Patrolman and Mrs. Dupree and their two daughters and one son have moved to Raeford and have a home in Sunset Hills. 0 LEGION IS PLANNING FISH SUPPER MONDAY Truman Austin, commander of the local Ellis Williamson Ameri can Legion post, this week re minded a legionnaires of the re gular monthly meeting and sup per of the post next Monday night, June 13. He said the meet ing would be at Clyde Unchurch pond at Timberland at 7:00 p. m. and that a fish supper would be served. He said the speaker for the meeting would be CoL Troy W. Crawford, wing and base com mander at Pope Air Force Base, and urged all members to attend.
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