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i i The Ne ws - Joiania, cumouui vQtci or MUDOM lIBtHV The Hoke County Newt The Hoke County Journal VOLUME L; NUMBER 4 THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1955 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY 3.00 PER YEAR vwcior NUIDOM LJn Of JUVi OHISIMT r5j ( aWj I ImY I By The Editor A little activity on the pay-your-bills front has been reported in the past few days since it was definitely announced that a cre dit bureau would be activated at a meeting at the High School cafeteria Monday night. Following this meeting facts from the books of firm joining the credit bureau will be made available to the bu reau for reporting on the paying habits of all customers. Some people have taken this informa tion as a word to the wise and are getting their accounts in good shape. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I'm paving away, intending to keep anybody from saying I won't pay 'em. . .another apt proverb is that you can't get blood out of a turnip, though. It's sure a good idea, though, to start this thing with as clean a slate as you can, and maybe if some of my slow ones would come in, I could take the stuff and get myself off the hook somewhere else, and round and round it would go. It has no home, they say. Belated comment is certainly due on the fact that Johnny Bob bitt, shortstop on the somewhat ill-fated Hoke County High School baseball team this spring, was named for honorable mention or the 1955 All-State squad by the Greensboro Daily News. Nineteen other players in the Southeastern AA association also received hon orable mention and one, Gilbert Watts of Laurinburg, was one of five pitchers named to the first team. The Laurinburg team, how ever, played in the final for the State Championship. Back in the drawer where I throw things I might mention here sometime, and which got shuffled in the moving, was a little note on a renewal slip from Dr. Watson Fairley, who preached here from the time I was nine years old until the year I left for the war. Dr. Fairley was some sort of an umpteenth cousin of my father's, and they were great friends as well, and I was proud to think he was my friend also, as he was. I remember about the year Dr. Fairley got here he car ried me and my younger brother over to Manchester to his brother, Murchison Fairley's house where there was a litter of more or less collie puppies. We brought one home, and named him "Murk," as Dr. Fairley called his brother, now dead too. The dog was part of our family for the next 10 years, getting run over in the yard the day after my father died. Dr. Fairley used to say you could tell when my father had a note due at the bank, that it was the only time he came down town with a shave and a clean shirt. Now the note I got from Dr. Fair ley a month or so ago was in re ply to one of my form letters after a $3.00 subscription, and it reads as follows, "You must have a note coming. You must have this little check, so promptly, now, today, right away, at once, poco pronto. We enjoy every paper. Hope you are all well" Watson." Like the first' word I ever heard from him, the last was full of affectionate good humor and be comes now a memory to cherish. Local Boy Scouts At Tom Upchurch . Camp Tom Upchurch, council camp of the Cape Fear Area Council opened its second period Sunday with a full camp of 110 campers and staff. Of these 16 are scouts from the Raeford troops. Camp Director A. L. Atkinson reported a most successful first period with 63 campers remain ing for the 10 days. Feature of the camp program is the stressing of advancement in Scouting by the camp staff. This period will close on Wednesday, June 29, and will end the regular operat ing season of the camp for this summer. O Miss Grace Atkinson of Ches ter, S. C. and Bennett Atkinson, Jr. of Holly Hill, S. C. are visit ing Mrs. L. B. Brandon and family. Baumgartner Attends C. Of C. Institute Martin Baumgarnter of Rae ford, representing the Raeford Chamber of Commerce, is at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill attending the 12th an nual Southeastern Institute foi Chamber of Commerce executives and staff. The meeting started Sunday and will continue through Saturday, June 25. .About 300 chamber of com merce executives from through out the southeastern United States are attending the institute at which Dwight Havens of Wash ington, D. C, manager of the ser vice department of the U. S Chamber will be one of 30 speak ers. 0- PERSONALS Mrs. James Warner and chil dren and Mrs. James Williamson and children are spending this week at White Lake. Their hus bands joined them on Wednesday. Misses Betsy Ross and Anne Gatlin left last Thursday for a visit with relatives in Augusta, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brooks, III and son of Durham spent tlv week end with Mrs. Brooks' par ents. Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Matheson Mrs. Grace Shortstein and son, Stewart, of Newark, N. J. spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Is rael Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Patterson Broeden of Bennettsvillc, S. C. were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cameron Tuesday. Susan Gibson left last week for a visit with her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs.' W. T. Gibson, In Batesburg, S. C. Mrs. J. B. Thomas entered Highsmith Hospital on Tuesday where she will be a patient for several weeks Ted Clark of Emory Riddle Aviation School, Miami, Florida is spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dixon. Mr. and Mrs. Ebb Barringto.i oi d children of Fun.ua" Springs isited Mrs. Helen S. Barrington during the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Teal and daughter of Fayetteville spent the week end with Mr. Teal's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Teal. Miss Josephine Hall and her neice, Anne Byrne, spent several days last week in Washington, D. C. Anne is spending this week in Wingate with her aunt, Mrs. J. P. Eubanks. Buddy Blue, Jimmy Sinclair, Neill Blue Sinclair, Bobby Mc Neill and Johnny Sinclair re ceived their discharges from the Army last week. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Laton and children, Helen and Marie, of Aberdeen spent several days this week with Mrs. Ruth Willis and family. On Tuesday they went to Carolina Beach. The Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Ellis and daughters of Wilson and Mrs. Ellis' mother and sister, Mrs. C. A. Eller and Donna of Richwood, Ohio, spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ellis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Riddle and daughters of Anderson, S. C. were week end guests of Mrs. Riddle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Warner. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Durham and son of Norfolk, Va. will arrive to morrow for a visit with Mrs. Dur ham's mother, Mrs. L. B. Brandon. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gulledge and Joe, Jr. were Sunday guests of Mrs. C. J. Williamson in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yarborougr and children of Charlotte visited Mr. Yarborough's parents, Mr and Mrs. Dave Yaroborugh, dur ing the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Crawley attended the funeral of E. W. Harden, in Plymouth on Tuesday. Mr. Harden was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Crawley. Local Girls Get High Scout Ranks In Ceremony At an investiture following the daily flag ceremony at the Girl Scout Area Day Camp at Pine bluff yesterday afternoon 2 Rae ford girls were the recipients of the Curved Bar, the highest rank in Girl Scouts. Following a talk by Miss Catherine Creasman, professional Girl Scout worker of Pinehurst, the badges were pin ned on the girls by their mothers. Receiving the badges were Jeanie Teal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Teal, and Gerry Guy er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Guyer. Also awarded at the ceremony were first class scout badges to Linda Little, Linda Hiser, Linda Andrews, Connie Culbreth, Kath erine Epstein, Ann Maxwell, Jan ice Melnnis and Glenda Clippard. Second class badges were pre sented to Carol Gardner, A Livingston and Kay Brady. All grils are members of troop two. of which Mrs. Leo Little is leader. ' About 40 local Girl Scouts, Brownies and their adult leaders are attending the day camp this week at the Pinebluff municipal lake, conducted by the Centra' Carolina Council. Social Security In County Is Almost $6000 Each Month The Social Security Administra tion has released figures regard ing the number of beneficiaries and the amounts of their benefits as of December 31, 1954, in this county. Malcolm George, manager of the Fayetteville District Off'ce stated that in Hoke county there were 156 beneficiaries receiving $5,777 each month. Of these, George said, 67 Acre getting Old-Age Retirement bene fits, in the amount of $3,142 each month. Also, wives of these bene ficiaries numbered 12, and re ceived $228. An important group were the children of insured workers. In Hoke county 55 children rece.v ed $1,570 each month, while 9 mothers received $330. Also, aged widows and parents numbered 13 and draw $507 each month. "With the extension of protec tion to the groups recently brought into the program, that is, farm ers, clergymen, many professional people, and additional farm and household workers, these amounts Will increase materially in the future," George said. o New Heating Co. Announces Opening Clyde Teal and Malcolm Ses soms announce the opening of a new company to be known as "Raeford Plumbing and Heatinr Company" in an advertisement in this issue. The new company is located in a recently completed building on the south side of the Aberdeen road just outside town, next door to Teal Oil Company. They will sell the Delco line of hot aid heating systems, and will also have available the Carr "Weathermaker" all year condi tioner. Service on all types heating systems will be available. Both the men are natives of this community. Teal has been here in the oil business for the past eight years. Sessoms has been with the Charles Overbeck healing company in Fayetteville since 1946, and has worked here at various times. He has also at tended the General Electric heat ing school in Bloomfield, N. J. Local Lady's Sister Is Dead In Benson Mrs. V. C. Jackson of Route I, Benson, died Wednesday morning in a Smithfield hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered on Tuesday. Mrs. Jackson was th"? only sister of Mrs W. L. Alex ander of Rceford, and in addi tion to Mrs. Alexander is sur vived by hex husband, three sons. one daughter and one brother. Funeral services are being con ducted at 3.00 o'clock this after noon in Benson. Guard Officers Here Of World War II Get Higher Ranks Governor Hodges has raised the military titles of 15 retired North Carolina National Guard officers, including two who live in Rae ford and several who were mem bers of the old 252nd Coast Ar tillery. Colonel Robert B. Lewis, war time commander of the 252nd regiment, was appointed a brevet brigadier general of the line, ef fective November 30, 1953. Lieu tenant Colonel William L. Poole, former commander of the Third Battalion of the 252nd, was ap pointed brevet colonel, effective August 31, 1951. Col. Eugene Alexander of Man chester, Chaplain's Corps, was also appointed a brevet brigadier general, as was Col. Roycc S. McClelland of Wilmington, com mander of the 232nd when it went to active service in l!4n. Maj. McCulloch B. Wilson of Wilming ton, who commanded the Third Battalion of the 252nd until it was called to active service in 1940, was appointed a brevet It colonel. Maj. Gen. John Hall Manning, now adjutant general of North Carolina and former commander of the 30th Ir fantry Division, v." appointed a b evet lieutenant gen eral. The appoirtments were made under an act of the 1955 General Assembly which authorized ar pointments for officers on the re tired list, and are retroactive to the dates on which the officers re tired from active service. Moses McDonald Killed In Moore Moses McDonald, a leading citizen of West End and cousin of V. A., W:me and Paul McDon ald of this county, was killed in a wreck Monday morning two miles from West End. He was a landowner, merchant and industrialist, connected with the McDonald Brothers Building Supply Co. and the Carolina Handkerchief Co. A graduate o' Davidson College, he was an elder of the Presbyterian Church and was to have been installed next wee", as president of the West End Lions Club. He was a direc tor of the Moore County Hospital and a member of the West End Masonic Lodge. He is survived by his wife, a brother, and his mother. Funeral was conducted at West End Presbyterian Church at 5:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and burial followed in the church yard cemetery. 0 Farmers To Attend Tobacco Field Day At Whiteville Tues. Farmers of 11 counties have been invited to attend a Tobacco Field Day at the Border Belt Ex periment Station, Whiteville, Tuesday, June 28. R. R. Bennett, extension tobac co specialist at N. C. State College, said farmers from six counties had been asked to attend the morning program and from five the afternoon program. The half day programs oifer identical in formation. Farmers from Columbus, Hoke, Brunswick, New Hanover, Pen der and Sampson Counties are invited to the morning event, be ginning at 9 a. m. Thoes from Robeson, Bladen, Scotland, Lee, Cumberland and other counties are invited to the program begin ning at 2 p. m. Tuesday. Wallace Dickens, superintend ent of the station, will welcome guests to the Field day, and John L. Reitzel, assistant commissionor of agriculture; and W. E. Colwell, assistant director, in charge of tobacco, N. C. Experiment Sta tion, will also speak. The major portion of the pro gram will be devoted to tours, demonstrations and explanations of experimental and demonstra tion plots dealing with old and new varieties, high annalysis fer tilizer, chemical sucker control, effect of quality of transplant on field performance, handling hail- damaged tobacco, and Insect con trol. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Keith and children of Wadesboro spent Sun day with Mr. Keith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Keith. Recorders Court: 33 Bonds Left For Speeding There were 35 speeding cases on docket in Hoke County re corder's court before Judge T. O Moses Tuesday, and defendants in 33 of them failed to appear and forfeited their bonds of from $15 to $150. Two defendants pled guilty and paid costs. $150 bond was forfeited by Roy B. Moore, Indiana white man who thought he could outrun the patrolmen and who was charged with driv ing 100 miles an hour. One left a $40 bond, 10 left S25 each and 21 left $15 each. Robert J. Dotson, white soldier, was found not guilty on a charge of careless and reckless driving. Bo Murchison, colored, was found guilty of stealing a radi" Ho was given a sentence of P' days to be susnended on payment of $25 and costs and return of the radio. He went to the roads. Percy Covington, colored, pled guilty to a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Sentence of 30 days was suspended on payment of $25 and costs and two years good behavior. Jettie H. Smith, colored, pled cuilty of violating the prohibition laws and got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs. John M. Linthicum, Jr., white, plod guilty of violating the prohi bition laws and got 30 days sus nended on payment of $10 and costs. For careless and reckless driv ing J. W. Watkins. Jr., paid $20 and costs, Billy McVicker paid S!0 and. costs and E. R. Warren paid costs. All are white. n Mrs. Lockamv Buried Near Wade Friday Funeral services were held for Mrs. Emma Melissa House Lock amv, 79, of Wade, at Center Bap tist Church near Wade at 3:00 o'clock last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Lockamy was the mother of Du prce Lockamy of Raeford. and died at her home on Wednesday night. Burial was in the McMil lan Church cemetery. In addition to her son here she is survived by her husband, an other son, two daughters, a sister. 13 grandchildren and one fro grandchild. n Presbyterian Men Told Of Camp At their regular monthly meet ing and supper at the church on Tuesday night the Men of the Raeford Presbyterian Church heard and saw an interesting pro gram on Camp Monroe, the camp owned by Fayetteville Presbytery and located 15 or 20 miles from Raeford and seven miles west of Wagram in Scotland County. Graham Monroe was program chairman .for the evening, and presented A. B. Hafer, of Laurin burg, member of the Camp Mon roe Board of Trustees and camp director. Mr. Hafer described the growth of the camp after Mr. and Mrs. Peter Monroe gave 100 acres of land and the lake to the Pres bytery to where the property is now appraised at $118,000 with about $25,000 worth of equip ment in addition. He also describ ed the layout and design of the camp, and this was then illustrat ed by several reels of color movies taken from both air and ground by June Johnson. Following the program the men's organization made plans and took initial steps to raise the local church's proportional part of the funds needed for the camp Committee appointed to plan and supervise this task consisted of I. H. Blue, chairman, and Clar ence Lytch, J. W. McPhaul, D. B. McFadyen and Harry Greene. 0 BAPTIST BROTHERHOOD The Baptist Brotherhood, men's organization of the Raeford Bap tist Church, held its regular monthly meeting and supper Tues day night at the church, with a committee of the men preparing the meal. A. W. Wood, Jr., pre side 1, and program consisted of talks by Charles Hostetler, C. P. K'nlaw, M. G. Henry and Robert Weaver. Losses Over $40,000; More Hail Reported Approximate figures from The Johnson Company, the W. L. Poole Agency, Jake Austin and the Canaday-Lancaster Insurance agency here this week on the hail storm in the county on June 11 indicates that over $40,000 in in surance adjustments will be forthcoming to about 70 farmers who suffered losses on that date. Many other farmers were not covered by insurance. In talking to these agents this morning it was learned that they were receiving reports of losses late yesterday afternoon and last n'ght from several sections of the southern and eastern parts of the county from hailstorms at both times. The severity of these losses had not been determined, but only about eight had been reported, .ind the insurance agencies said I he reports indicated the storms yesterday were nothing like a severe as on June 11. Jimmie L. Parker, 43, Former Resident, Dies In Laurinburg Jimmie Lilly Parker, age 43 years, a resident of Laurinburg for the past few years and a for mer resident of Raeford, died Fri day night at Scotland County Me morial Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Montgomery County Nov. 30, 1911, Mr. Parker was : lumberman and sawmill man by trade. He was associated with A V. Sanders here and for some years had been with Sinclair Lumber Co. in Laurinburg. He was married to the former Bertha Currie of this county. Funeral service was at the home in Laurinburg at 3:30 o' clock Sunday with the Rev. Henry G. Ruark of the First Methodist ChuTh conducting. Burial was at the Eilerbe cemetery in Rich mond County. Among the pall bearers was Carson Clippard of Raeford. In addition to his wife he is survived by three daughters. Louise. Joyce and Diane Parker, Ml of the home: three sons, H. A. and Benton of Eilerbe and R. R. of Rockingham; and two sisters. Lumbee Electric To Expand Facilities With New Loan The Board of Directors of the Lumbee River Electric Member ship Corporation recently applied to the North Carolina Rural Elec trification Authority and to the Rural Electrification Administra ton for a loan in the amount of $110,000. The application has just been approved by the State Auth ority and submitted to the Rural Electrification Administration, in Washington, D. C. According to D. J. Dalton, Man ager, the electric cooperative ex pects to use these funds for the expansion and furnishing of an addition to the present office and warehouse space. He said that since 1948, when the present of fice building was constructed, the cooperative has approximately doubled its operation. At present more than 8,01)0 member-owners located in Cumberland, Hoke, Robeson and Scotland counties are receiving electric service over some 1,850 pole miles of electric distribution system. This is in comparison to around 4,000 mem bers who were receiving electric service in 1948 on about 1,110 miles of rural line. Dalton also said that the distri bution system is continually be ing improved in order to furnish the members the best of electric service. The cooperative is now operating three substations and three metering points where they purchase more than sixteen mil lion KWH of electric power from Carolina Power & Light Company at a cost of more than $121,000 in the past year. He said that the average member consumption of electric KWH had increased from about 950 KWH to more than 2,000 KWH per year. Within the next ninety days the coop expects to build another 22,000 volt sub station with a capacity of 2,500 KW located four miles northeast of Lumberton which is to im prove the present electric serv and at the same time, meet fu ture requirements. Fire Water, Pond Water; Indians In Jail & Hospital The mill dam at Antioch Pond was the scene of a small Indian war about mid-afternoon Monday when two Locklears, Carson and Sanford, known as "Chief," work ed on each other for some time with knives. Both had apparently been work ing on the fire water, jar type, for quite a while before they be gan on each other, but they went at it vigorously when they start ed, with the result that "Chief" seems to have lost his title. The way Sheriff D. H. Hodgin understands the matter from Gu thrie Long, who manages the pop'' as a commercial fishing place, is that after preliminaries Carson, being the most agressive, pushed Chief into the pond and jumped in after him. In the water, both armed with knives, they went at it, with Chief getting the worse by a good margin. Out on the hank they kept at it and Long finally had to get his 410 guage shotgun to stop the battle. Chief was cut severely up and down the back and front and Is In serious condition at Scotland Me morial Hospital. Carson is pre sently in the county jail. He was in the county in defiance of a condition given him in recorder's court some time ago. Convicted of operating a still in the county he got a suspended sentence, on condition of which was that he return to Robeson County from whence he came and stay out of this county for two years. He does five in Robeson County now, but was operating up here Monday, for sure. Sheriff Hodgin says that, other than the liquor, the cause of the fight could not be determined. An Indian was cut to death at the dam there some years ago. Methodist Men Name New Officers Friday, Hear About Korea At their regular monthly meet ing and supper at the church Fri day night the men of the Raeford Methodist Church were presented an interesting program by War rant Officer James Hall of 202 W. Fifth Avenue, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division who has returned from duty in Korea in the past few months. Mr. Hall talked ajiout Korea and had a film to illustrate his talk. Clyde Upchurch, Jr., was elect ed new president of the organi zation to succeed T. B. Lester. Everett Ferrell was elected vice president and John Haire was named secretary-treasurer for the coming year. Wayside Grange Has Monthly Meeting Wayside Grange had a supper meeting at the community house the first Tuesday night in June The Grange women were hostesses for the occasion. The meeting was informal, and Mrs. Marshall New ton, lecturer, led a series of dis cussions on projects for the sum mer. When the meeting adjourned the following commitments had been made: 1, to enter the 1955 Grange community improvement contest; 2, to add 50 percent to the floor space of the community building by September 1; 3, dou ble the membership by that time; 4, to begin work on improving the grounds at the community building; 5, to survey the needs of the community in order to plan other projects. The Grange voted to continue meeting during the summer months. A special feature of the July meeting Is to be a debate on tv resolution, "That the United States should take the initiative in the establishment of a Work' Food bank." Chester Williford and Mrs. Melnnis will take the affirmative, and Paul Johson, wirh a colleague to be selected, will take the negative. o Miss Lilrnar Sue Gatlin is spending this week in Anderson, 5. C. with Mr. and Mrs. Charlei Riddle and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mc Neill and family spent Wednesday and Thursday at Myrtle Beach.