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New One s-Joumrau vmci or I mmimai vqici or HttlPOM miooM ntii oriiBtut The Hoke County News The Hoke County Journal VOLUME L; NUMBER 7 THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1955 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR 'lr - UCUAJUMAN or iiBtm WIS I fiv I IStor ;ia I By The Editor My Uncle George Graham Dick son, resident of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for the past few years, re turns to this place of his begin ing every now and then to look around and shoot the breeze with his old friends and kinsmen. Much of anyone's conversation when they return is about the days when they were here, and he is no exception. Speaking of his father, the late Dr. A. P. Dickson, the other night, He said he was accused of having one of his nine sons and four daughters as a favorite, but replied that such was not the case at all, that he didn't believe in a parent hav ing one child as a fovorite. "How ever," the doctor concluded, "if I did have a favorite, he is the one it would be." Graham is looking and feeling well, and seems to be enjoying his visit. Farmers hereabouts, who have had to cry and pray for rain and still do without it a great deal in recent years and last year most of all, are about to begin pulling the other way for a while. It has rained in and around Rae ford just about daily for a good many days now. In spite of this I heard someone say that it still hadn't rained as much this year as it had last year at this time, difference being that it came ear ly last year instead of when the crops were maturing. I don't know about this. Anyway, the crops are generally looking good, and farmers as a group are more optimistic about having a good year than they have been in Quite a few. Things are to the point now, they say, where it will take nothing less than a ma jor disaster to prevent a fine harvest. Thank the Lord. Plans are being made for a big homecoming day at Bethel Presbyterian Church on August 14, and a highway historical marker is to be erected there as one part of the program. This will be the third such marker in the county, the others being for the Civil War battle of Monroe's Crossroads and for Edenborough Medical College. Details on the Bethel program will be published when plans have been completed State Highway Chairman A. H "Sandy" Graham was a guest of Eighth Division Commissioner Forrest Lockey Tuesday, and toured many of its installations. Among these was the new main tenance shop and office recently constructed here by the highway commission. Leaving here Tuesday in the direction of Aberdeen Commis sioner Lockey, vice-president of the Aberdeen & Rockfish Rail road, was able to satisfy a long ing for Graham that most of us grown-up boys never get over. Lockey stopped an A & R train near Timberland, and he and the chairman rode the big Diesel into Aberdeen, with about 25 freight cars behind. Graham, it is said, acted as fireman on the trip, in which the train stopped a time or two to allow him a closer look at the "highway along side the ra'lroad. Gift I enjoyed getting and ap preciate came from Ira New ton in the form of just about the biggest cantalope I ever saw. It weighs just short of seven pounds, and he says it is a "schooner shell" cantalope. Said he got one last year from a friend in Scot land County and saved the seed. It would not havj been unex pee'td if Hoke Co:snty Represen tative Harry A. Greene had been appointed chairman of the House Finance Committee succeeding Attorney General William Rod man, but it did not happen that way. Greene is vice-chairman of the committee and one of its sen ior members, but the new chair man named by Speaker Larry Moore this week did rot even ccme from the committee. New cnairman and me.nber of the Ad visory Budget Commission as a result is Carl Venters of Jack sonville, in Onslow County. Guess we are Just a little county with . light vote. Recorder's Court, 36 Forfeit Bonds On Traffic Counts A period of much activity on the part of State Highway Patrol men in the county was indicated by the fact that 36 traffic vio lators forfeited bonds of varying amounts and two other paid fines and court costs before Judge T. O. Moses in Hoke County re. corder's court Tuesday. One de- fendant left a $50 bond for speeding 85 miles an hour, and one paid $10 and costs for speed ing. For careless and reckless driving one left a $50 bond and one left $25. Others leaving bonds for speeding and other violations included 11 leaving $25 each, four leaving $40 each, and 19 leaving $15 each. Two somewhat familiar faces appeared in court on charges of possessing non-tax-paid liquor for the purpose of sale. These were Ed Hollingsworth and James Purcell, the latter more common lv tnnuin nn 'RnH Pete" nr Bud McNair. Each entered a plea of not guilty, but was found guilty as charged. Sentence for each was three months on the roads, to be suspended on payment of $100 and costs and two years good be havior. Clifton Dial, Indian, pled guil ty to a charge of possessing a liquor still. He got four months suspended on payment of $100 and costs and two years good behavior. Case against Leo Kelly, colored, charging non support, was drop ped by the State when the pro secuting witness failed to appear. Annie Lee McNeill, colored, offered no defense to the State's charge that she had ssaulted Frances McNeill, also colored, with a glass jar, a deadly wea pon. Sentence was 90 days in pri son, to be suspended on payment of $25 and costs, $20.50 hospital bill and $10 doctor bill. Sidney Townsend, colored, was found guilty of assaulting Moses Townsend with a deadly weapon. He got 12 months on the roads, suspended on payment of $50 and costs and two years good be havior. For driving with no driver's license and no license plates, James McLauchlin, colored, was given a 30-day sentence, suspend ed on payment of $20 and costs. Eal Parker, also colored, was given 30 days, suspended on pay ment of $25 and costs for driv ing without a license, and charge of having no driver's license a gainst Richard L. Mills, white, was dropped by the State for lack of evidence. 0 Tutor Farm Home Pictured Last Week The farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Tutor at Arabia was identified as the mystery farm picture in last week's paper by George Caddell first. The first rural subscriber to name the farm correctly was Tommie Jones of Route one. Shannon. Others naming it correctly were Mrs. Flora Alice Crowder, Mrs. Reu ben Morman and S. B. Hobson. The farm of Mr. and Mrs. Tu tor has 57.9 acres, and has been formerly owned by Luther Jack son, Grady Guin and Dundarrach Trading Company. Mr. and Mrs. Tutor, who have three daughters and a son, are buying it through the Farmer's Home Administra tion. WOODMEN PLAN TO PUT UP BUILDING D. J. Campbell, committee chairman for the building project of the Raeford Woodmen of the World Camp, said this week t' the camp is planning to build it self a home and that the been bought and paid for. A cn paign is now being conducted by the camp to raise funds for the project, and Campbell expressed the hope that they would have the bu.iding by the first of next year. 0 Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Montague and children, Lyne, Linda and Kathy, returned to their home in Springfield, 111. on Monday after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gulledge and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gulledge. American Legion Post Has Installation Of Officers Mon. P. M. The Ellis Williamson American Legion Post of Raeford and Hoke County held its regular monthly meeting and supper at the Clyde Upchurch pond at Timberland on Monday night, with the installa tion of officers for the coming year as the feature of the pro gram. Ji hn D. McNeill was installed as cemmander, succeeding Tru msn B. Austin, with Kermit L. Wxid and Joe Upchurch as vice ommander.3. A. D. Austin was installed as adjutant, with John Archie McDiarmid as finance of ficer, Dr. R. L. Murray as chap lain, Charles Morrison as serge-ant-at-arms, Robert Gatlin as historian and D. H. Hodgin a' service officer. Named as committee chairmen for the year by Commander Mc Neill were W. L. Poole, member ship; Alfred Cole, rehabilitation; Dr. R. L. Murray, child welfare; J. H. Austin, Americanism; Dr. Julius F. Jordan, community ser vice; R. B. Lewis, oratorical; W. T. Gibson, Jr., Boys State; J. H. Blue, athletics; Sam C. Morris, public relations; Harry A. Greene, security; A. W. Wood, Jr., econo mic; Israel Mann, graves regis tration and memorial; John F Campbell, Boy Scouts; Clyde Up church, Jr. house and entertainment. How Farmers Can Up Yields And Improve Quality Of Cotton By T. B. Upchurch, Jr. Each year about this time many cotton farmers begin to think they have done all they can to insure a good yield of good qual ity cotton. This is a very crucial time with cotton, both from a yield stand point and a quality standpoint. Several insects are just begin ning to make serious attacks on cotton and every cotton grower should check his cotton often and very carefully now for boll-weevil infestation. He should make application of insecticides promptly if 10 of the squares are punctured. Weevil not only lower the yield of cotton but also reduce the grade by causing a lot of brown stained lint where the boll is punctured and has allowed water to enter and decay even the good section of the cotton boll. This brown stained lint from boll weevil can often lower the value of a bale of cotton by $30 be cause of the lowering in grade of the staple. Indications are that the boll worm infestations will be very severe this year. The boll worms over-wintered in larger numbers than I have ever seen and al ready have been very active on corn and tomatoes. There will be a new brood of countless thou sands in two or three weeks be cause the moths that lay the eggs on cotton are about ready to emerge from the ground. Since corn will be well ad vanced and not as green as cot ton, the worms will move Into the cotton fields. Every farmer should dust his fields as soon as he sees the little brown moth that is the parent of the boll worm. The moth is a light brown color and is about one inch long and one-half inch wide. The boll worms are extremely hard to kill except when they first hatch because they go into the cotton boll and grow there by eating out the entire bolls or a large part of them. Fanners can Improve their cot ton quality by being careful not to stop cultivating too early. They should get the bunches of grass out of the cotton before the grass seeds mature. A little more effort now will pay big dividends for the labor used in controlling insects, weeds, and grass In cotton from now un til the cotton plants shade the ground enough to control grass and weeds. o AT BANK CONFERENCE Angus J. Currie is representing the Bank of Raeford at the an nual management conference of the N. C. Banker's Association in Chapel Hill this week. This is the 19th such conference to be held by the State Association, and Is the oldest in the country. Guard Unit Gets New Tank Monday Company A, 130th Tank Batta lion, which has been changed from antiaircraft to a tank unit for some months now, received its first piece of heavy armored equipment this week when an M-47 tank was unloaded from a flatcar on a siding of the A Sc R railroad. The tank, one of the most mod ern in use and developed for the Army since World War II, is a large one by most standards, weighing some 60 tons and mount ing a 90 millimetre gun, a 50 calibre machine gun and a 30 calibre machine gun. It is manned and operated by a crew of five, and has two 16-cylinder Cadillac engines for power with a hydra matic transmission. Instead of miles to the gallon on gasoline consumption, it gets one mile on seven gallons and is capable of speeds up to 45 miles an hour. It was unloaded from the flat car by Warrant Officer Elbert Stutts, assistant motor office of the 130th, and a recent graduate of the Armored Force School in Fort Knox, Ky. Mr. Stutts is a full time employee of the Na tional Guard, being in charge of the battalion service center in Red Springs. He was assisted in the job by Sgt. Harry McMillan, a member of the National Guard tank company in Parkton and a tanker ci considerable experience. They were watched by a sizeable crcwd. A driver's lesson on the tank was given members of Company A today by Howard W. Booth, General Motors representative of Fajetteville. The tank was ship ped to the local company from the Letterkenny Ordnance Depot in Chambersburg( Pa. The members of the local tank company, commanded by Captain Edwin D. Newton, will get exten sive training in tank driving and warfare at their annual summer training period at Camp Stewart, Georgia next month. They will leave for Camp Stewart on Aug gust 14 and return on August 28, and will make the trip by rail for the first time in several years. The company has 105 en listed men, five officers and one warrant officer, and has maintain ed full strength for some months now, filling vacancies as soon as they occur. n Textron Buys Another Company Royal Little, chairman of the Board of Textron American, Inc., parent corporation of Amerotron announced Monday the purchase of the Homelite Corporation of East Port Chester, Conn., man ufacturers of chain saws, gener ators, blowers and pumps. The Homelite Corporation was established in 1927 and was the pioneer in the design and man ufacture of light weight two- cycle gasoline driven equipment for the construction industry. During the war almost the entire production of Homelite gasoline driven equipment went to the armed forces. The first model Homelite chain saw was introduced in the fall of 1949. In 1950, Homelite sold 4,344 chain saws in 1954 there were 47,355 Homelite chain saws sold. This increase of over 1000 in just five years made Homelite a leading producer of chain saws. The corporation has selling or ganization of 56 branch offices and more than 2.000 dealers. Homelite's current sales of chain saws, pumps and generators are running at the rate of $20,000,000 per year. n JOHN W. McLAUCHLIN AT FORT BENNING Cadet John W. McLauchlin, son of Mrs. H. C. McLauchlin of Rae ford is among the group of Ad vanced Reserve Officers Training Corp studenls who have arrived at the 1955 General Military Science Summer Camp, located at Fort Ben ling, Ga., home of the United States Infantry. A student at Davidson College, Cadet McLauchlin will partici pate in six weeks of intensive general military training which will permit him to put into prac tical application the theory that was taught in his school. Tobacco Growers Will Vote On Quotas July 23 R. J. Hasty, Chairman of the Hoke County Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation Com mittee again reminds all flue cured tobacco growers of the re ferendum to be held July 23. The choice will be for quotas for the 1956, 1957, and 1958 crops, for the 1956 crop only, or against quotas for 1956. If at least two thirds of the growers voting ap prove quotas, price support at 90 percent of parity will be available to growers who comply with their farm acreage allotment. If more than one-third of the votes are opposed there will be no Flue Cured Tobacco Marketing Quota or Price-Support Program for the 1956 crop. Chairman Hasty reports that according to farmers' intentions on March 1 about 995,300 acres of Flue-Cured Tobacco will be grown in 1955. This is 5 less than the 1954 acerage. Mr. Hasty said, "At average yields the 1955 intended acreage would produce about 1,275 million pounds 3 per cent less than in 1954 and prac tically the same as the 1953 crop. The carry-over of Flue-Cured Tobacco on July 1, 1955 is ex pected to be about 2,004 million pounds, nearly 5 per cent above one year earlier." Domestic use of Flue-Cured Tobacco during the current mar keting year July 1954-June 1955 is estimated at 770 million pounds slightly lower than in 1953-54 but may be up a little in 1955-1956 year. Exports of Flue-Cured Tobacco in the year ending June 30, 1955 are estimated at 455 million pounds (farm-sales weight). This is between 5 and 6 per cent above 1953-1954 and the second larg est in eight years. It is expected Flue-Cured exports may improve further in 1955-1956. Mr. Hasty also reports that during the 1954 marketing sea son growers placed 130 million pounds under Government Loan. This was almost 10 per cent of the crop as compared with IT nor cent the preceding son. Flue-Cured Tobacco in Govern ment Loan stocks now totals bout 335 million pounds. Polling places for this refer endum in Hoke County will " announced within the next few days. Welcome For Soldiers Needs Volunteers Mrs. Helen S. Barrington, local Red Cross secretary, and H. D. Harrison, chairman of the volun teer welcoming committee of the Hoke County Red Cross chapter, said today that several more vo lunteers are needed by the chap ter to help with the four-hour welcoming shift at Camp Mackall on Saturday night. First planes of the 38 C-124 Globemasters bringing 3.120 troops of the 187th regiment from Japan were scheduled to land at Camp Mackall early today, and to continue airiving at approxi mate 1wo-liui intervals until Sunday. Red Cross volunteers from mrny communities in the section are cooperating to wel come the men home on a shift basis until all have arrived, and the local chapter has accepted re sponsibility for a four-hour per iod Saturday. Men or women will ing to help may contact either Harrison or Mrs. Barrington for complete details. DEANE'S DISASTER LOAN INTEREST BILL IS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Representative C. B. Deane of the Eighth Congressional District has announced that the President has signed a bill, which he co authored in the House, to reduce the interest rate on disaster loans to the farmers from 5 to 3 per cent per annum. Last January, without Con gressional authority, the Farmers Home Administration with the Department of Agriculture raised the interest rate to 5 per cent on disaster loans to farmers. Mr. Deane's bill, which is now Pub lic Law 132 of the current Con gress, places a top ceiling on this interest rate at 3 per cent. Next To Biggest Flue-Cured Tobacco Crop In Prospect Based on reports from growers as of July 1, prospects are for a Tar Heel flue-cured crop of 958,900,000 pounds. Such a crop would be the second largest of record, being exceeded only by the 1951 crop of 978,375,000 lbs. from 735,000 acres. According to the North Carolina Crop Reporting Service, a crop of 958,900,000 pounds would be 69 million pounds or 8 percent a bove the 1954 flue-cured crop of 889,490,000 pounds. Prospective increased per-acre yields account for the larger crop this year, since the estimated North Caro lina flue-cured acreage for har vest at 655,000 acres is 31,000 acres below last year. A flue cured crop of 958,900,00 pounds would result in an average yield of 1,464 pounds per acre. This compares with the previous re cord flue-cured yield of 1,341 pounds set in 1950. The yield and production fore cast for North Carolina by flue cured types, as of July 1 for the Border Belt is as follows: Type 13 production in North Carolina is estimated at 126,575,000 pounds from 83,000 acres for an average yield of 1,525 pounds. This is the highest yield of record and sec ond only to the 1951 record pro duction of 127,420,000. The total U. S. flue-cured crop is estimated at 1,412,478,000 lbs. This is 98,071,000 lbs. or 7 per cent more than the 1954 crop of 1,314,407,000 lbs. 0 Robert Weaver, Jr., To Make Scout Trip To N. Mexico Ranch Explorer Scout Robert Weaver, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Weaver of Raeford, will join 14 other Scouts and two leaders from the Cape Fear Area .Council who will leave Monday for a month long trip to the Philmont Scout ranch at Cimarron, New Mexico. The Cape Fear group will join with explorer Scouts and leaders from the Tuscarora Council at Camp Tuscarora, near Mount Olive to make a total party of n'lout 10 making the trip together. En rente to New Mexico the hoys will visit Mammouth Cave. Ky., Garden City, Kansas, Colo rado Springs and Estcs National Park in Colorado, and other points of interest, arriving at the ranch on July 30. While there the Cape Fear boys will make the "Lucien Maxwell Trek-' through the large ranch. in which they will deal exten sively with conservation and wildlife management for 10 days. They are to leave Philmont on August 10 and return to North Carolina by way of Sayre, Okla., Little Rock, Ark., and Nashville. Tenn. They will also stop at Cherokee, N. C, and see the pag eant, "Unto These Hills." Mak ing the 4,500-mile trip from the Cape Fear area will be boys from Laurel Hill, Laurinburg, Maxton. Wilmington, Lumberton, Rocky Point. Bureaw, Elizabethtown and Whiteville, In addition to Robert Weaver of Raeford. They expect to be back on August 14. Robert is a Star Scout and a member of Troop 403, which is sponsored by the Raeford Pres hytcrian Chirch with Sam C Morris as scoutmaster. Hoke 4-H Youths Make Good Showing In District Contest Winners in fifteen demonstra tion contests were named last Thursday as boys and girls of seventeen Southeastern North Carolina counties participated in the Southeastern North Carolina District 4-H Contests In White ville. Three of these contests were won by Hoke County boys and girls. Winners of events will enter the State Contest at North Caro lina 4-H Week in Raleigh July 25-19. Hoke County winners were: James Potter and Kenneth Scar boro in Cotton Production and Marketing, Judy Almond in Poul try, and Nancy Bishop and Helen Rose in Soil and Water Conser vation. Caroij Marshall, another Hoke County 4-H Club member, was second place winner in the Public Speaking Contest. Town To Have Same Tax Rate; Seek Whammy The Raeford town board ap proved a budget for the fiscal year which started July 1 on Monday night which closely re sembles that of the year just end ed and which will necessitate no change in the tax rate of $1.50 per $100 valuation. The meeting was the regular meeting for July, and all mem bers were present with Mayor Alfred Cole presiding. The bud get estimate was presented to the board bv Clerk Robert Weaver, and call for a total of $106,764 for the coming year, as compared to $105,600 during the year end ing June 30. Increased in esti mated tax revenue more than takes care of the difference. The complete budget appears else where in this issue. The board passed a resolution to have the speedwatch, or whammy" used within the cor- porated limits of the town in or der to more rigidly enforce the 35-mile speed limit in residential areas. Attorney Charles Hostetler re ported to the board that the legal r.rocedi.re on the proposed water and sewer bond election was pro gressing according to schedule. The board rejected bids re ceived on the three lots the town has for sale in Robbins Heights. A resolution was passed to in crease cost of building permits by $1 and to have street addresses of new construction issued and recorded on the town map. All present employees of the Town were retained, and salaries of police officers were set at $250 monthly for the chief and $225 for patrolmen. Bonus was auth orized for members of the police force and Vance Wiggins. It Is to be five percent of annual sal ary, payable at the end of next June to those who are still in the town's employ and who have served well, discharged their duties faithfully, and reflected credit on the Town of Raeford, tnus meriting praise and com mendation." Vacations as usually given were authorized for town emplovecs. , Presbyterians OK Schools Merger A merger that would eventual ly place a coeducational, liberal arts college in Eastern North Car oina in place of Flora Macdonald, Peace and PJC, gained the over whelming approval of the North Caiolina Synod of the Presby terian Church in Barium Springs yesterday. After a lively discussion on the segregation matter last night the Synod voted, 228 to 153 to move toward lifting racial barriers v ithin the Church after declar ing that "segregation is out of harmony with Christian theology and ethics of the church." An unsuccessful bid to retain its entity and be exempted from the consolidation plans was made ry Peace College. Members of the committee which made the survey of Presbyterian in the State said, however, that conso lidation was the only realistic course to take, and the Peace a mendment was voted down. Proponents of the mercer said a prime purpose of the proposals is to provide "quality education," which thy described as "a kind of church-related education that will survive." The Synod controls Peace and PJC, but Flora Macdonald Col lege is owned by the presbyteries of Wilmington, Fayetteville and Orange, which must concur In the plan before steps for conso lidation are taken. The three presbyteries will meet in the fu ture or. the matter. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gaflln, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Senter and children and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Austin and daughter, Sally, attended the birthday dinner of Mrs. W. L. Senter in Kipling on Sunday. Ap proximately sixty friends and re latives helped Mrs. Senter cele brate her 85th birthday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McAnulty and children spent several day last week at Carolina Beach.
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