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e News -Journal. fey I VOICE Of IUIDOM void or KUUOM Of HBUnr The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME L; NUMBER 5 THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1955 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR VJn on ' r (Mr iI v zfddzncla By The Editor "If wishes were horses, beg gars would ride," and if generals had their wishes our land would all be reservation and we would all be soldiers, like as not. Gen eral Joseph Clcland is not the first general that has talked when he ought to have been listening. If that's what he's thinking, though, maybe he served us well by letting us know it. From pleas ing Fayetteville merchants with dreams of a gigantic Fort Bragg at the expense of Hoke County homes he goes this month to do his day dreaming in retirement on a Pennsylvania farm. He has doubtless served his country well in the best way he knows, but I would say we in this section cir spare him now. County commissioners are to meet tonight to discuss the school budget with the county school board and to talk over the county general fund budget for the fis cal year beginning tomorrow Presumably they will adopt a budget fo rthe year and set the tax fate for 1956. Business will be done at the re sorts on Monday, no doubt, but there will be none here that I can think of. We ought to get to gether and make a special effort not to do ourselves in in any way between now and Tuesday. The sad truth is, though, that some of us will. Chester Williford, the county farm agent, was In here bragging about the interest Hoke County tobacco farmers take in new practices and methods. He said that at the tobacco field day Tues day at the experiment station at Whitcville for 11 counties there were 250 to 300 farmers present. He said Hoke County was the smallest county represented and the farthest away, but that the 40 Hoke County farmers were the largest group from any county. Farmers attending report that the day was most interesting and beneficial. They viewed experi mental and demonstration -plots drai ns with new and old varie ties and heard and saw about fertilizer-;, chemical sucker control, handling hail-damnee,' tobacco and n'her phases of tobacco pro duction. - n REA Adds Engineer To Administer Its Appliance Financing The Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation has an nounced a new addition to its staff, Joe N. Sinclair, Jr. of Row land, a 1951 graduate from N. C. State College in Agricultural En gineering. Sinclair has just com pleted his two years in the Arm ed Services and comes to the lo cal cooperative well recommend ed. Formerly employed by John F. McNair, Inc., of Laurinburg, he was married this year to the former Ruth Smith of Rowland, music teacher in the Fairmont High School. According to D. J. Dalton, Man ager, Mr. Sinclair will head up their Loan Program for financing the purchase of electric equip ment through about 100 dealers in the service area. He will be a vailable for consultation and ad vice to members of the coopera tive and hopes to work with coun ty agents, agricultural teachers, vocational and veteran training teachers, as well as with high school principals, 4-H Clubs, and other civic organizations in pro moting the most practical usages of electrcity. 0 Mrs. E. C. Crawford and daugh ter of Rockingham spent several days this week with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cole. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Neill McFadyen this week were Mrs. McFadyen's sisiter-in-law, Mrs. Malcolm McLean and children o Mobile, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Braha and small son of Royal Oak, Michigan were guests last week of Mrs. Braha's uncle, Fred Culbreth and family. Western Auto Asso. Store To Open Sat. Homer McGuinn, owner of the new Western Auto Associate Store being installed in the build ing on Main Street occupied for many years by The News-Journal, said this week that the store would open for business at 9:00 a. m. on Saturday. He invited the pub lic to come in and see the store, and to register for free gifts to be given away in connection with his opening. Since the renovation of the place by Speros Construction Co. was completed almost two weeks ago McGuinn, along with W. T. Walters, who will help him run the store, and Lew Copenhaver and Pug Bason, wholesale mer chandise and installations spec ialists from Greensboro, have been working long hours getting fixtures installed and merchan dise unpacked and displayed. In opening the store here Mc Gi.inn becomes one of about 3300 owners of Western Auto Asso ciate Stores over Ihe country. Formerly of Hendersonville, he lives with his family at 605 North Stewart Street. They are mem bers of the Racford Presbyterian Church. McLean Home Is Pictured Last Week The home of Maggie McLean, cast of Raeford on the road from Oakdale Gin northeast to the old Fayetteville road was pictured as the farm mystery picture last week. Mrs. Charlie Baker of Rae ford was first to correctly iden tify the picture, with Mrs. Floyd Monroe of Route two being the first rural subscriber to get it right. Roscoe Bratcher and Charles Baker of Route two also named the home correctly, and there were several wrong guesses. Maggie has lived on the seven- acre place for 11 years and her husband, T. McLean, died in Jan uary of this year. They were mar ried on December 24, 1902. She has a daughter, Emma Lee Hol lingsworth, at home with her and farms her seven acres and share crops some more land belonging to John Baker and Arnold Mc Kay. Her place was formerly part of the McDiarmid place. Phe has three other children, Willie, Mary Singletary and Bella McDonald, all living in Hoke County. n "A Trip To Saturn" At Planetarium The greatest show OFF earth opens Tuesday night at the More head Planetarium in Chapel Hill. It's the Planetarium's annual summer excursion out of this world, this year "A Trip to Sa turn," an all-new and exciting production which will run from June 28 through September. In the comfort of the Planetar ium's air-conditioned chamber, patrons will take a simulated trip in a nuclear powered space ship through millions of miles off earth. So realistic are the im proved sound effects this year that one has the sensation he is ac tually moving through space at a phenomenal rate of speed. This summer the base of oper ations world will be the moon from which the Space ship will explore the outer world, buzz Mars, pass through the asteroid belt, and land on Titan and En celadus which are satellites of Sa turn. Passengers will be thrilled over their explorations of a whole new world and excited by the full rich colors of the heavenly bodies. Tal ented artists have contributed new settings and the able Plane tarium technicians have done their usual excellent job to provide a show chock full of exciting real ism. An expanded schedule of pre sentations will go into effect when "A Trip To Saturn" opens. Shows will be presented nightly at 8:30 p. m. with matinees Saturdays at 11 a. m. 3 and 4 p. m. and Sun days at 2, 3 and 4p. m. Additional performances will be presented on request of large groups. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Covington spent Sunday with Mrs. Coving ton's mother, Mrs. J. R. Gordon. They attended the morning church service at the First Presbyterian Church where the Rev. James L. Doom is the new pastor. Flora Macdonald, PJC, Peace Union To Be Discussed The 142nd meeting of the Pres byterian Synod of North Caro lina, convening July 12-14 at Bar ium Springs, promises to be one of the most important in the his- tory of the Court. Several matters of major interest will be before the nearly 500 representatives of Presbyteries and churches, com posed nearly equally of ministers and laymen, will hear Dr. James A. Jones, President-elect of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., preach the retiring Modera tor's sermon on the first evening of the meeting. At this meeting probably the most important item of business will be the proposed merger of the three Presbyterian schools of higher learning located in this .general area Flora Macdonald College, Presbyterian Junior Col lege and Peace College. The ad visibility of combining the three schools into a 4-year co-educational institution was brought out in the repent two year Higher Education Institutions Study car ried on under a $50,000 Ford Foundation Grant. A Commission of nearly 30 leading ministers and laymen of the Synod received the completed study in April, and have analyzed and edited it for presentation with recommendations to the Synod at the July meeting. The Commis sion was headed by Dr. Warner L. Hall, pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, and contained representatives from the Boards of Trustees of all the instituitons included in the study and members at-large. Al ready the Boards of Trustees of each of the institutions referred to have been officially contacted by the Commission, and the ac tions of the Commission in gen eral have been favorably received. Recommendations going to the Synod will include an appeal to the Synod to join in the General Assembly Program on Christian Higher Education in 1956; for a campaign to raise a large sum of money for the support of its in stitutions; and the consideration of the merger of some of its in stitutions. To effect the merger, it will be recommended that a Board of Trustees, composed o' representatives of the colleges en tering the merger and members at large, engage in a study of a place to locate the consolidated, 4-year co-educational institution, and that the most expert assist ance available be obtained to guide the planning group in es tablishing as nearly as possible the ideal institution of Christian Higher Education. One of the essentials for ac complishing the goals which have been set by the Commission is the procurement of large initial support for the proposed new col lege and according to authorita tive sources substantial funds are already in prospect. Several towns in the area of Fayetteville Presbytery are al ready asking that the proposed college be located within their borders. These towns include, of course. Red Springs, along with Fayetteville, Lumberton, Laurin burg and Southern Pines. According to some estimates, a 5 million dollar program would be necessary to effect the propos ed consolidation, and it is report ed that Fayettevile, one of the towns bidding for the school has already organized a group of 100 men who have pledged to raise $10,000 each. In Southern Pines Mrs. James Boyd is reported to have offered a 150-acre tract of wooded pro perty near the business section as a site for the college. BOARD MEETS TUESDAY The county board of commis sioners will hold their regular monthly meeting for July on Tuesday, July 5, because of the holiday on their regular meeting day. All county offices will be closed on Monday for Independ ence Day. O Mrs. John Nicholson of Raeford and Miss Bernadine Winstead en tertained Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock honoring Miss Anne Car ver of Roxboro in the Ladies Par lor at the Roxboro Hotel. Tobacco Markets To Open August 3 The membership of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association, clos ing its convention at Virginia Beach yesterday approved a sche dule of opening dates for the flue cured markets. At the same time they adopted a bluntly-worded statement declaring that the dates set fall far short of being satisfy ing to the organization or equit able to the farmers. This state ment referred to the fact that dates are later due to lack of a vailability of buyers to work the markets. The organization called on the tobacco companies to enlarge their buying staff so that at least by 1957 all belts can have buyers ar soon as they are ready to sell to bacco. The North Onrolina-South Carolina Border Belt will open on Wednesday, August 3. Association President Fred S. Royster of Hen derson previously had told the convention that the thorny prob lem of setting opening dates could not be solved satisfactorily until the companies employ additional buying personnel. Other opening dates set are Georgia-Florida Belt, July 21; Eastern North Carolina, August 23; Middle, September 6; Old Belt, September 23 A ray of hope for an earlier opening-was held out to the East ern Belt and the Old Belt. It was specified that the Bright Belt board of governor, or a committee appointed by the board, will meet later in the season to review mar keting conditions and determine whether buyers can be obtained so that these belts may open ear lier. Some Eastern Belt delegates were so dissatisfied with the date recommended for their area that they packed up and went home on Tuesday night. The 1955 dates are generally lower than in 1954, when the mejor companies failed to send buySrs for the scheduled openings in some areas. The statement adopted declar ed: "The farmer should have the opportunity to sell his tobacco in the belt in which he lives as soon as the tobacco is ready for mar ket. On the above schedule, sev eral belts will open a considerable time after the tobacco is ready. . . We regret this situation, but we must live with it this year." Greyhounds Running After 84 Days Off Greyhound buses were seen a gain today at the bus station at the Raeford Hotel and over the 10-state area served by Atlantic Greyhound Lines after drivers had been on strike for almost three months. The drivers ended their 84-day strike yesterday by vot ing to accept a two year contract with the corporation providing a daily minimum pay boost of $2.50, plus other benefits. Those here today were also conspicuous for their lack of passengers, as be fore the strike they were carry ing almost capacity loads and on this day the public hasn't got back to them. Atlantic Greyhound had begun reopening bus stations and mak ing other preparations to resume service even before the outcome of the voting by the drivers was announced yesterday afternoon. The first "through" bus to oper ate since the strike began at mid night April 6, left Cleveland at 7:00 o'clock last night on a run to Florida. Approximately 725 drivers in the 10 Eastern and Southern states served by Atlantic Greyhound have been on strike. Some 1,800 other Atlantic Greyhound em ployees also were idled by the strike. Operations were halted in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virgin ia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and District of Columbia. TOWN BOARD JULY 11 The Town board will hold its regular monthly meeting, and first of the new fiscal year on Monday, July 11. since Independence Day falls on their regular meeting night. At this time the budget for fiscal 1956 will be acted upon. 0 Mrs. Warren Childress returned from Moore County Hospital or Monday where she has been a patient for the past week. Indian To Roads Following Knife Scrape Last Week Four Indian men were brought before Judge T. O. Moses in Hoke County recorder's court Tuesday on charges resulting from or con nected with the cutting scrape at the Hodgin pond at Antioch on Monday afternoon of last week. Two were sent to the roads and a third is under bond for trial in Superior Court. Carson Locklear was found not gui'ty on charges of driving drunk wiih no driver's license and im proper brakes. On a charge of as sault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, probably cause was found and bond was set at $1500 for his appearance for trial in Superior Court. He was not given much chance to post it, however, as he was sent to the roads for 12 months on a sentence previously suspended on condition of two years r.ocd behavior and staying out of this county. Sanfrrd "Chief" Jacobs, report ed last week as a Locklear also and the only one in the crowd not a Locklear, was the one getting the worst of the knife fight in the w;,ter and on the dam. He was out of the hospital by Tuesday, though, and also faced a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Probable cause was found as to him also, and he was freed under bond of $750. State dropped a charge of pub lic drunkenness against Junior Locklear, and accepted his plea of guilty of driving drunk without a driver's license. He went to the roads for 90 days when he could n't pay $100 and costs. The fourth member of the par ty, James Lee Locklear, pled guil ty of public drunkenness and got 30 days suspended on payment of $50 and costs and two years good behavior. So much for the battje of AntiGcn'. Henry Junior "Peter" Oxendine, also an Indian, pled guilty of op erating a whiskey still. Sentence was one year on the roads, sus pended on payment of $250 and cosif and two years good behavior. Sherman Jackson, Indian, pled guilty of driving without a license and James Maynor, Indian, pled guilty of careless and reckless driving. Judgment was suspended in each case on payment of court costs. Person destined to get the most experience working the highways of the State as a result of the ses sion was a white man, Richard Boyd Bailey, who left for a total of three and a half years from two cases. Far assaulting Mrs. H. M. Bedsole with a deadly weapon he got two years after being found guilty. He was also found guilty of assaulting Mrs. R. B. Bailey and got another 18 months for this, sentences to run consecu tively. Leaner Graham, colored wom an, pled guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon. Sentence was 60 days in jail, suspended on pay ment of costs, $20 fine, $10 doctor bill and two years good behavior. Giles P. Burke and Welford W. Wiltshire, both white, each left a $50 licnd for being drunk and violating the prohibition laws. Garfield Watkins, colored, paid $10 and costs for having impro per brakes on his car. Speeders included one who left a $50 bond, four leaving $25 bonds, one a $15 bond and one paying court costs. HURLEY GETS VACATION Ben Hurley, local representa tive and service man for the Car olina Power and Light Company, said this week that he would be on vacation for two weeks begin ning Saturday, July 2. Persons desiring to do business of any sort with the company during this time should call 485, the B,aefo Television Company, where bills are paid, and where the service man working in his place may be contacted. 1 Mrs. N. F. Martin and Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Taylor and son. Earl, all of Dunn, spent the week end with Mr and Mrs. Eldon A. Mar tin. Mrs. Taylor is Mr. Martin's sister and Mrs. Martin Is his mo ther. Dan Ray is a patient at Moore County Hospital. Braswell, Seawell To Be Sworn In As Solicitor, Judge Maurice Braswell, recently ap pointed solicitor of the Ninth so licitorial district, wll take the oath of office at swearing-in cer emonies set for Friday, July 1, at 6:00 p. m. in the superior court room of the Cumberland County courthouse. The Honorable Malcolm B. Sea well of Lumberton, scheduled to be sworn in as resident superior court judge of the new sixteenth judicial district at ceremonies in Governor Luther H. Hodges' of fice in Raleigh a few hours ear lier, will preside over the affair in Fayetteville. The public is inivitcd to attend. Braswell, who had served as assistant solicitor to Seawell for Cumberland County in the present solicitorial district, will assume his new duties after July 1. Coun ties in the district arc Hoke, Cum berland, Bladen and Robeson. Counties in the new sixteenth ju dicial district are Robeson and Scoltand. See Watermelon Prospects Good If Grade Is Up County Agent W. C. Williford, after consultation with two out side watermelon men this week and a study of the situation here and elsewhere, this week report ed that prospects appeared ex cellent for a good money return to farmers in Hoke County and th's section from the crop expect ed to move about mid-July. Here to look over the situation with Williford were Henry Covington, watermelon specialist with the State College Extension service, and A. R. Boykin, agricultural a eent with the Seaboard Airline Railway. Williford said the Georgia and Florida markets were having a goi d season, but that the demand for graded melons was greater than ever before. He said hat Clinileston Grays were bringing average of $50 per carload more than other varieties on these mrlfets where the melons graded 30 pounds and better. He said that "rowrf in Hoke County had planted probably the highest per centage of this new variety than anv county, and urged them to take advantage of the prospects bv pruning their vines to reach the grade. He said that there were about 12.000 more acres of watermelons planted this year in North and South Carolina than last, and that the planting was up in Hoke County also, with several hundred acres being planted commercial growers. There are about 50 of these having from one to 50 acres each. He said about 65 per cent of the melons planted in this county are Charleston Grays. Another factor Williford said the specialists considered favor able to the crop in this section i that dryness around planting time made the drop a little later, which will result in a big portion of the South Carolina crop being off the market by the time this section reaches it. Williford said farmers in the county interested could receive the daily watermelon report from the Federal State Market News Service by writing the Agricul tural Marketing Service, Box 329. Thomasville, Ga. This report shows the daily shipments from the various watermelon cente-s and prices. 0 George Faircloth Of Lumberton Dies George Faircloth of Lumberton, 41 -year-old construction worker, died Monday afternoon near Dub lin while en route home from Clinton. He is survived by his wife, two children, three brothers including Billy Faircloth of Rae ford, two sisters including Dixie Faircloth of Raeford. Funeral was Wednesday after noon at Cedar Grove Baptist Church and bruial was In New Hollywood cemetery. 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McAnulty and children of Waverly, Ohio arrived Wednesday for a visit of several weeks here. Credit Men Meet Monday Night To Organize Bureau Fifty-six men and a lady, re presenting most of the businesses in Hoke County which sell on credit, met at the High School cafeteria Monday night, and after enjoying a barbecued chicken supper prepared by Mrs. Lucy Smith and staff, took initial steps to organize a credit bureau of Raeford. Details on the operation of a credit bureau were explained to the group by Lawrence McNeill and Paul Dickson, who had been appointed to a Chamber of Com merce committee to investigate the matter. Following this ex planation of the basic principles, there was a discussion session of the various factors which might affect its operation here and on the various ways it would serve the business firms and the buying public. , The group then voted to pro ceed with the organization of the bureau and a committee to take first steps and be a governing board was named with Neill A. McDonald as chairman, and Dr. R. A. Mathcson, W. A. McDonald,' Charles Hostetler, Lawrence Mc Neill, Younger Snead and Paul Dickson. First action by the com mittee was to be the raising of $1000 for initial equipment and expenses, following which ar rangements are to be made to ac cept businesses as members and to audit their books for names of all who have done business on credit in the county and the standing of their accounts. As McNeill pointed out in his explanation, the information com piled and filed by the bureau Is to be accessible to no one in list form and only to members for bona fide use. 0 General Wishes Bragg-Mackall Linkup Possible "I would like to see Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall one big reser vation," declared Maj. Gen. Jos eph P. Clcland, retiring comman der of Fort Bragg, as he said fare well to the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon in the Prince Charles last Thursday. The old soldier told the Cham ber of Commerce gathering: "I would like to see 100,000 men sta tioned at Fort Bragg. The new barracks when completed will house all the troops we have there now and the government is spend ing two and a half million dollars to renovate many of the barracks now occupied by the 82nd Divi sion." "If it were possible to link Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall with the proposed corridor through Hoke County, General Cleland indicat ed the enlarged reservation would become the seat for major mili tary maneuvers," the Fayetteville "Observer" said in reporting the talk. That this is not possible was learned last year from highest sources in the Defense Depart ment when it was announced from the Pentagon that the plan had been dropped by the Army. "I feel it would benefit the Army without question and also benefit you people in the com munity of Fayetteville," the gen eral said, in his talk apparently aimed at pleasing the store own ers of Fayetteville and carrying no weight or authority with any one. General Cleland was brought for the talk by Wilbur Clark, chairman of the military affairs committee of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce and re ported to have been a leader In the Fayetteville movement in favor of the taking of Hoke Coun ty land for the project in 1953. 0 WAYSIDE CAKE SALE The Wayside Home Demonstra tion Club will have home-made cakes for sale at Cooper's Super Market Saturday morning. Mrs. Jack Knapp returned to her home in Charleston, West Va. last Thursday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
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