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The News ouimai The Hoke County Journal OUAUMAM UBtMl The Hoke County News VOLUME L; NUMBER 8 THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1935 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAR VMCIOF, f CUAUMAM ffiF ' Vi4 I If u voici or muioom or zfdcLnda - - Br The Editor Members of the Kiwanis Club had an interesting program Thur sday night when State Highway Patrolman Joe Dupree talked to them on the subject of traffic laws. This man knows his subject, as of course he should, and pre sents it in a clear and interesting manner. Impressive to his aud ience was his display of a pam phlet as thick as a magazine which he said contained just the new motor vehicle laws passed by the last General Assembly. As he got deeper into this it be came appaent that many of his listeners are breaking these laws from not knowing about them, which is no excuse when you get . to court. He also displayed a text book on the subject of motor ve hicle laws which he said will be used in the schools of the State starting this fall. . .a good idea. Talks like this, though, are one way that the rest of us can get some of these facts. I recommend the highway patrolmen for a fine interesting program for any group and one that might keep some of the members out of trouble. There are new laws requiring use of some of the same lights and re flectors on pick-ups that are re quired on larger trucks, for ex ample, and another which re quires lights to be dimmed when driving at a normal distance be hind another car, and many others. This last is a fine one. Many's the time I, and you too, have felt like throwing a handful of tacks out for the fellow who dis courteously sticks close behind you with his bright lights on. Then there's the law making it an offense to impe'de traffic by driv ing too slow, and many others. You really should hear these things discussed. i - Chairman Neill A. McDonald of the credit bureau organizing committee reports that the drive to get at least $1,000 in contrib utions to start with has reached $700, but is slowing somewhat. He urges credit businessmen to kick in a little if they feel they can, so it can get going. On the com mittee with him are Younger Snead, Charles Hostetler, Law rence McNeill, Dr. R. A.Math eson, Wilmer McDonald and my self. Any of us will be glad to accept any size contribution. There is no charity in this. It's pure business, and will undoubtedly help business. The committee feels that if it has this capital to start with it can be self-support ting from then on. I have noticed and had called to my attention the fine way in which Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Jones are keeping the county jail. You remember the commendation they received from a State in spector some time back. Well they seem to be keeping the good work up, and if you notice the county budget you will see that they are getting cooperation from the county board of commission ers in having the facilities there improved. You can just ride by the place and see that there is some good housekeeping going on there, without which no de gree of fine facilities would be very effective.... Incidentally, Mrs. 4pnes and their new son are back at home now. Chief Warrant Officer Roger W. Dixon unit administrator for Company A, 130th Tank Battal ion, comes back at me after my mention of their constant full strength last week with the in formation that the company has a vacancy right now, the first since October. With the possibil ity that there might be.pthers be fore the company goes to Camp Stewart, Ga., for field training on August 14, he suggested that one or two qualified young men might be able to get in within the next 10 days. They will not be able to enlist after August first, as roster for camp must be complete by that date. Racford Jaycees and Car olina Power Sc Light Company have been ready to light the creek for a week or two now. The poles and fixtures are up, but lamps hadn't been put in up to a couple of days ago when the lights went on. ERNEST CAMPBELL, FAN, WITH HORSELESS CARRIAGES ' 1 ' it f Q : : r - i - , . , - Till tWu iiil-H ,,4 - mi Tfi i tsvvfl Ernest Campbell is chugging away today between High Point and Danville in the 1917 Chevrolet shown above, left, or in his 1926 Cadillac roadster. Picture was made when '55s came out with V-8, first V-8 Chevrolet since the model shown that he sold in 1917. Parker Lovette Home Named As Last Week's Pohto The home of John Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lovette on Rae ford, Route Two, about nine miles east of Raeford, north of Highway 15-A, was identified as the mys tery farm picture in last week's paper. Mrs. John Lentz of Route Two was first to correctly name the picture, and first rural sub scriber to get it right was S. B. Hobson of Route One. Located on a 115-acre tract that has been in the Parker family since 1905, the place belongs to the Lov ettes and Mr. Parker, Mrs. Lovette being his sister. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Parker, bought the place from Mr. and Mrs. John Holt. Mrs. Holt was a Lindsay before her marriage, and the land had been in the Lindsay family since about 1840, they having got ten it from the Lamonts, said to have been granted it by the King of England before the War of the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Lovette and John have bought the place from their nine brothers and sisters since their parents died in 1925 and 26, Mr. Lovette, a retired master ser geant with 22 years service in the Regular Army, runs the farm, while John works at Mrs. Marshall Newton's store. They remodeled the home in 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Lovette were mar ried in 1932 and have three chil dren. Betty Jo is a graduate of Lees-McRae College as a medical secretary, Sidney has attended Lees-McRae two years, and Alma Lee will be a senior at Hoke High next year. They are members of Parker's Methodist Church, and of the Way side Grange. Mrs. Lovette is a member of the Wayside Home Demonstration Club. Mr. Lovette likes to fish, while John's delight is chatting with his friends. Tobacco, cotton, corn and small grain are raised on the place, and they are strong believers in soil conservation practices and mod ern farming methods. Telephone Co. Pays Local Taxes The till of county and city tax collectors was substantially in creased when checks dated June 29 totalling $2,701.20 were pre sented to the town of Raeford and Hoke County by Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph Company. According to T. P. Williamson, local manager for the telephone company, payments were made in the month of June in order that the company could 'avail itself of the discount allowed on ad valorem taxes paid prior to July 1. The sum paid represents the es timated ad valorem taxes for the city and county and is based on the valuation of the company s property in the area as determined by the State Board of Assessments on other than real property and the local valuation of the real property of the company. The company ad valorem tax bill in its operating territory paid n the month of June alone was about $300,000, the manager stated. Joseph N. Maxwell Dies At Age Of 90 Sunday Afternoon Joseph Neill Maxwell, 90, died in a Pinehurst rest home Sunday afternoon. He had suffered a stroke about three weeks before his death, and had been trans ferred to the home from the hospital about 10 days before. He had been apparently improving at the time of his death. Anative of this section he lived here all his life. He had been a merchant, farmer and lumber dealer, and a lifelong member of the Raeford Metho dist Church. His wife, the former Alice McCoy, died several years ago. Funeral service was conducted in the Raeford Methodist Church at 10:30 Tuesday morning by the Rev. Herbert Miller, pastor, and the Rev. E. C. Crawfrod of Rockingham, a former pastor. Pallbearers were his grandsons, Henry, Jim, Joe, Glenn and Neill A. Maxwell, and T. W. Burkhead, Jr. Burial was in Raeford Ceme tery. Mr. Maxwell is survived by one daughter, Mrs. T. W .Burk head of Cander; three sons, H. C, fJ. A. and W. S. Maxwell, all of this community; 20 grand children and 15 great-grandchildren. o Mrs. Lancaster Wins Food Store Vacation Mrs. W. L. Lancaster of 313 N. Jackson Street, was officially noti fied Friday that she was the win ner of the Free Vacation Contest sponsored and conducted by the Cooper's Super Market here in co operation with the Raeford Oil Company, local distributors of Es so products. She and her family will get to spend a full week at Ellinor Vil lage, Daytona Beach, Fla., plus re ceiving 100 gallons of Esso gaso line to make the trip with. Mrs. Lancaster won the free va cation on the following statement: "I like to shop at Cooper's because I get quality at this one-stop shop ping center and am still able to stay within my food budget." The contest was judged and ad ministered by Ladd, Southward Gordon & Donald, Inc., advertising agency of Chicago. Honorable mention went to Mrs. L. W. Turner of West Fifth Avenue and to Mrs. Esther Teal of Campus Avenue. 530th FA Reunion Plans Announced Clarence Koonce of this county, member of the 1955 Reunion com mittee of the 530th Field Artillery Battalion Association, announced this week that plans were about complete for the second reunion of the association, and that it would be held in Indianapolis, In diana, at the Warren Hotel on Sept. 3 and 4, 1955. Koonce said that there were many men in this county who ser ved with the 530th during the war, and that he did not have a list of them. He said any who could at tend the reunion could contact him at Raeford, Route Two, or write to R. E. Parker, Chairman, 6173 Raleigh Drive in Indianapolis. i Local Folks Leave Yesterday On Ancient Auto Tour Several Raeford people left for High Point yesterday in automo biles ranging in age from 26 to 40 years to join the annual tour of the North Carolina Horseless Car riage Club which was to start from the furniture city this morning. About 74 of the cars of ancient vintage were expected to start the trip, which in to end in Southern Pines late Friday. They were en tertained at a banquet in High Point last night. The old car lovers are to be ac companied by Governor Hodges on a part of the trip which will take them through Greensboro, and by the Governor of Virginia into Dan ville, where they are to spend to night and be entertained at a bar becue. On Friday they will re turn to Southern Pines, stopping in Chapel Hill for lunch. In Southern Pines there will be a supper and dance, and the old cars will be on display to the gen eral public Friday night, all day Saturday and Saturday night. Oldest cars from Raeford will be the 1915 Buick roadster in which Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Loflin and family will make the trip, and the 1915 Ford touring car carrying Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Leslie and family. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Dark and family will make the trip in a 1925 Dodge sedan, and Jenelle and Younger Snead, Jr., will travel in a 1929 Chevrolet sedan. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Campbell will have two cars on the trip al so, with Neill A. McDonald, Jr., helping with the driving. They will carry their 1917 Chevrolet touring car and their 1926 Cadillac roadster. Cars on the tour make quite a spectacle, as local people learned when the caravan passed through here. They have all been returned to perfect mechanical condition, sometimes better than they ever knew when they were modern, and their passengers and drivers fre. quently get in the spirit of the trip by wearing costumes of the same period as their vehicles. Polling Places For Referendum Named There will be nine voting places in Hoke County where flue-cured tobacco growers can cast their bal lots on Referendum Day, July 23, according to R. J. Hasty, chair man of the Hoke County Agricul tural Stabilization and Conserva tion Committee. The polls will be opened from 8:00 a. m. to 7:0O p. m. All flue-cured tobacco growers on record have been notified of what their 1956 acreage allotments will be if marketing quotas con tinue in effect and the location of the polling place for their com munity. Polling places for the county are: Allendale Community House Antioch Community House Blue Springs Community House Little River Community House Wayside Community House Rockfish Community House Quewhiffle Montrose Commun ity House Raeford ASC Office Stonewall Dundarrach Com munity House. Mrs. J. L. Warner Dies Suddenly At Her Home On Friday Mrs. Ruth Matheson Warner died at her home near here Friday night at about 7:30, a few minutes after having suffered a heart at tack. She was 56 years of age. While she had known for years that she did not have a strong heart, her death was sudden and completely unexpected. Born in Mt. Gilead, Mrs. Warner was a daughter of the late Robert Arthur and Daisy Deane Gaddy Matheson, and she had been a resident of this county since the family moved to Blue Springs Township in 1913. She was mar ried to James L. Warner on Aug ust 2, 1918. Mrs. Warner was a member and faithful worker of the Raeford Methodist Church, and was a member of the Hoke County chap ter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The funeral was conducted at 4:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Raeford Methodist Church by the pastor, the Rev. J. Herbert Miller, assisted by the Rev. W. B. Heyward, pastor of the Raeford Presbyterian Church. Burial fol lowed in the Raeford cemetery. Pallbearers, all her nephews, were Worth Warner of Clarkton, Robert, Franklin and Thomas Mc Neill, Harlee Johnston and Jack Roper. Mrs. Warner is survived by her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Char les J. Riddle, Jr., of Anderson, S. C; one son, James Luther Warner of this county; five grandchildren: two sisters, Mrs. Doris McNeill of Wagram and Mrs. Robert Huggins of Fayetteville; three brothers. Dr. R. A. Matheson of Raeford, Ran dall Matheson of Hightstown, N. J., and Dr. Gaddy Matheson of Ahoskie. Lytle Named To County Farmers Home Committee Grover C. Lytle of Route No. 1, Red Springs, is the new member of the Hoke County Committee for the Farmers Home Administration. His appointment became effective July 1, 1955, according to Hubert C. Chaney. the agency's county su pervisor. Mr. Lytle succeeds Wil liam M. Monroe, whose term on the three-member committee ex pired this year. The other two members of the committee are John K. Parker of Route No. 2, Raeford, and W. M. McNeill, Route No. 1, Red Springs. There is a Farmers Home Ad ministration county committee in every agricultural county in the country. The commitfee deter mines the eligibility of applicants and helps the county supervisor adapt the agency's loan policies and services to local conditions. Each member is named for a three year term, and one appointment expires each year. A member completing his three-year term cannot succeed himself. At least two of the members must be far mers. The Farmers Home Administra tion makes loans to farmers to buy, improve, enlarge, or operate efficient family-type farms. The agency makes emergency loans, but only in areas designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as being in need of emergency loans due to some calamity. Hoke County is designated for emergency loans because of the severe drought dur ing the summer of 1954. REVIVAL IN PROGRESS The Rev. J. T. Cribb, new pas tor of the Church of God. located in front of the Amerotron Plant, is conducting a series of revival ser vices there. Service is held at 7:45 each night, and the public is invited. Mr. and Mrs. Huge Lowe of Charlotte were guests last week of Mrs. Luke Bethune. Mr. and Mrs. N. L. McFadyen and family spent several days last week at Myrtle Beach. Miss Ina Mae Benner of Raleigh spent the week end with her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Benner Mr. and Mrs James MeDiarmid and family of Jacksonville, Florida are visiting Mrs. Mc Diarmid's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Williamson. Jim Wade arrived Friday from Chowan College after completing a six weeks linotype course. Dr. Jones Joins Dr. Jordan Here V .". - v.- ROBERT S. JONES, M. D. Pictured above is Dr. Robert S. Jones, M. D., formerly of Green ville, S .C, who entered the prac tice of medicine with Dr. Riley M. Jordan here on July 1. The Jor dan Clinic is located on Campus Avenue. A native of'Wagram, Dr. Jones is a son of the late Joseph H. Jones and Euphemia Watson Jones. He graduated from the Boiling Springs High School and received his bachelor of science degree from Wake Forest College. He received his M. D. degree from the medical school of the University of North Carolina. He comes here from Greenville General Hospital. Dr. Jones is married to the for mer Mabel Sperling of Waco, N. C. They have one son and live at 207 Dickson Street in Sunset Hills. Both are Baptists. Farm Agent Warns Weevil Threatens Fine Cotton Crop County Farm Agent W. C. Wil- iford warned Hoke County Cot ton farmers this week not to take fine yield for granted because of the excellent appearance of the crop up to this time, and said that the boll weevil migration period right now is in one of the heaviest stages in recent years. He said that many fields in the county which were virtually free from the boll weevil two or three weeks ago are now showing a very high percentage of punctur ed squares. He said he had check ed several fields and had heard of others which have from 50 to 80 percent of the new squares punctured. Cotton in Hoke County has a good stalk and leaf growth, he said, and can carry a very heavy Crop of bolls if it is protected from insects. Williford said he would suggest to farmers that they use three treatments of any of the recommended chemic als at 5-day intervals, beginning immediately. He said that Scotland County has reported an unusually heavy population of boll weevil devel oping during the last two or three weeks, and that these wee vils will fly long distances and help to increase the punctured square count in Hoke County. Williford also said that boll worm activity had increased con considerably during the past two weeks, and now that corn has passed the stage when It attracts them they will go to cotton. The agent concluded "Hoke County has prospects of the best cotton crop in several years, and the next two or three weeks will decide whether we make it or not." 0 Raeford Man Drowns In Pond Near Dunn DUNN, Jly 18 Vann Green, 38, of Raeford, an itinerant farm worker, died Sunday morning about 9 o'clock in Bert Woodall's pond on Angier, Route 2, between Lillington and Angier. Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen derson said the man apparently suffered cramps and drowned or possibly a heart attack while in the water. There was no water in his lungs. His body was recovered 16 feet from shore in an area five feet deep by Robert Wright. Green re portedly was a good swimmer. y, rittHMff - - Recorder Handles Few Cases Tues.; Many Continued A sizeable proportion of the cases on docket in Hoke County recorder's court Tuesday before Judge T. O. Moses were continued for one reason or another, and about a dozen were tried or drop- pea. Two speeders left $15 bonds, one left $25 and one $50, while another paid $20 and costs. Also leaving bonds were one $25 for being drunk and disorderly and two leaving $25 each for careless and reckless driving. As the result of a fight in which all were involved, Johnny Thomas, colored, was charged with assault ing Annie Mae Smith, her hus band Vander Smith and James Glover, all colored, and they in turn were charged with assaulting him. Thomas was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to two years on the roads, which he appealed. The Smiths and Glover were found not at fault and charges against them were dropped. James A. Johnson, white, plead guilty of driving after his license and been revoked, and was fined $200 and costs. L. C. Cunningham, colored, was found guilty of violating the road laws and failing to stop when sig naled by an officer. He got 30 days suspended on payment of $25 and costs. James C. Stedman, white, was found guilty of assaulting his wife. Sentence of 30 days was suspended on payment of $10 and costs and two years good behavior. Eddie Hollingsworth, colored, paid costs for having an improper registration card for his car. Henry Cribb, white, was charged with assault on a female, but was let go on payment of costs when she wanted to "take up the pa pers." M. N. Clark, white, paid $10 and costs for having no driver's li cense, and John Carthers, colored, paid costs for having improper brakes. Over 300,000 Eligible To .Vote On Quotas Over 300,000 North Carolina far mers will he eligible to vote in the tobacco marketing quota referen dum Saturday. H. D. Godfrey, State ASC ad ministrative officer, based this es timate on the fact that all persons who are engaged in the production of flue-cured tobacco this year are eligible to vote. The number of eligible voters is increased consid erably by the provision for voting of both the farmer and his wife where they own the tobacco farm jointly or where they jointly rent a farm. Godfrey described this week's referendum as "an opportunity for many North Carolina farmers, not only to make some vital decisions governing their all-important to bacco crop, but also as an oppor tunity to cast a decisive vote of confidence in our farm programs." At least two-thirds of the farm ers votitig must favor quotas, if quotas and 90 per cent support are to be in effect. He cautioned Tar Heel farmers that "unless the turnout in Satur day's referendum breaks all rec ords unless every single eligible voter who possibly can, gets out and votes we will go on record as having little or no interest in our tobacco and othr farm pro grams." Godfrey said that last year the farmer's share of the retail cig arette dollar was only 12 cents. He said that if a farmer gave away his tobacco, it would lower the price of a package of cigarettes by only two cents. "This goes to show," he said, "that tobacco far mers need to stand united they need just as much help as they can get. "Whether they will receive more help in their struggle, from pro grams offering limited plantings, a 90 per cent of parity price floor, and severe penalties for overplant ing, or whether they will get more help from a program calling for unlimited plantings, and no price support, is a decision they will have to make for themselves." GORDON HOMECOMING The annual homecoming will be held Sunday, July 24, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gordon. All friends and relatives are invit ed to come and bring baskets.
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