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a Or N J .e VOKI GUMMA or iiBttn voi ci or MIIOOM CUAJUMAN or UBtan ftilOOM The Hoke County Journal The Hoke County News VOLUME L; NUMBER 11 THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1953 RAEFORD, N. C. 10c PER COPY $3.00 PER YEAS 112 3 ,y or T f czfJJsnda By The Editor Main subject of conversation and interest this afternoon is is Hurricane Connie, center of which at last reports is likely to strike the coast line somewhere not far south of Wilmington to night. The course it seems to be taking at the present time would bring it about as close to us here as the famous Hazel came last October 15, but reports already are that Connie is slowing down some from the 135-mile winds that were reported near its center yesterday. Let us hope so. When George Jones was here Tuesday he and W. C. Williford came in and talked for quite a while about what they had seen in looking over the cotton crops that day. Of course, Hurricane Connie had already begun to make news before stopping forward motion off the southeast coast, and we talked about the storm some too. Now Mrs. Raymond Ellis in our front office has the first name of Connie, too. When Jones, a complete stranger to her, went out of my office with Willi ford I walked to the front door with them. The last thing Jones said as he went out the door was, "I sure hope Connie will behave herself," with which he was gone. Needless to say, I had a little ex plaining to do. Archie Stevens came in here Monday with a cantaloupe which he said Mrs. Stevens grew in their garden up on Donaldson Avenue. He said he was bringing it in to show that he could keep up with Ira Newton and that it weighed 12' 2 pounds. I took it back and weighed it, and sure enough it did. Smelled good too, but he wouldn't give it to me, even when I threatened not to put his name in for growing one bigger than Mr. Newton's. It was a beauty, for sure, but I didn't try to buy i. The Raeford Kiwanis Club passed a resolution and sent it to the county commissioners last week favoring the employment by the county of the assistant farm and home agents and secretary which they can get for $50 a month each, what I would guess to be somewhere around 20 per cent of their total salaries. The county council of Home Demon stration clubs had already done this. The commissioners met to take some action on the matter Friday night, but decided to de fer it again until their September meeting. As I understand this proposi tion, it looks ?ike it might be a good one for the county and its people. Certainly the cost is not high for the people we would get The service they are rendering in other counties under a new program is somewhat different from the regular notion of the woik done by farm and home a gents, according to a magazine ar ticle I saw. Their business would be to take specific farm families of the county and to give them, no more at a time than they would have time to work wi'u completely, as complete advice or. all phases of their operation as the training of tha agents would have taught them t do. The whole purpose of the work would be to raise the income level of these families, and it has worked in other places, specific examples and figures being given in the article. As the families be ing worked with improved their income and needed less help and advice more would be taken into the program, which is intended to be ever-widening. It sounds good, and if it could be worked here as elsewhere it could mean as much to business as an industrial pay rell, and far more to the families directly involved. I feel certain that our board will consider the matter from all angles before taking action, and that they will do what is best for the people or the county. Along that line, it might be worthwhile to mention that Hoke County was the only county in Ncrth Carolina with only one farm agent and one home agent to take more than one State prize at the recent 4-H club week. These prizes usually go where (Continued on Back Page) Judge Fines 100 Mile Speeder At Rate Of $1 Per A young negro soldier from Fort Bragg with a Louisiana dri ver's license appeared before Judge T. O. Mosses Tuesday at Hoke County recorder's court and was found guilty of speeding 100 miles an hour on the highways of the county. The judge sentenced Willie Haynes to 60 days on the roads, and suspended sentence on condition that he pay a fine of $100 and court costs and that he not drive a motor vehicle in this county during the next 12 months. The session Tuesday was about average or a little less, with 13 cases being tried and nine bonds being forfeited. Luther C. Taylor, white man who pled guilty of driving 85 miles an hour, got off with a $50 fine which ran a little less than the dollar per mile imposed in the other case. Sentence of 30 days was suspended and he had to pay court costs. Willie Collins, Indian, was found guilty of assault and using profane and indecent language, He got 60 days, suspended on pay ment of $25 and costs, two years good behavior and the condition that he stay away from the prem ises of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Martin. Isaac Milton Davis, white, pled guilty of driving drunk and vio lating the prohibition laws. Sen tence was 90 days suspended on payment of $110 and costs and two years good behavior. Willie Clyde Graham, colored, pled guilty of driving drunk, and got 90 days suspended on payment of $100 and costs. Ted Morrison, colored, was found guilty of assaulting Mary Rogers, and was sentenced to 30 days, suspended on payment of the costs. George Hollingsworth, operator of the "Ape-High" club north of town, was found guilty of violat ing the prohibition laws after evidence showed that whiskey had been found on the premises, He got a 9u-day sentence to be suspended on condition that he pay $50 and costs, be of good be havior for two years, close the club until he could rent it and not rent it for use as a night club. Claude Baldwin, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of $20 and costs for public drunkenness and violating the prohibition laws. Eugene Campbell, white, got 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs for public drunk enness. James McLean, colored, was found guilty of non-support of his family. Sentence was six months to be suspended on payment of court costs and $10 each Saturday to the court clerk for his family. Sherman Jackson, Indian, was also found guilty of non-support. His sentence was six months su spened on payment of court costs and $20 per month for his family. James Taylor, Indian, pled guilty of driving his motorcycle while intoxicated and having no driver's license. Sentence of 90 days was suspended on payment of $110 and costs. Ellis F. Harris .white, pled guil ty of careless and reckless driv ing and paid $10 and costs. Three $25 bonds were left for speeding, five $15 ones, one of S15 for failing to yield right of way, and one defendant left $25 and costs for passing in the face of oncoming traffic. o Visitation Team To Meet With Presbyterian Youth The Youth Fellowship of the Raeford Presbyterian Church has announced plans for a Visitation Team of young people from Fay etteville Presbytery to meet with them August 15-18. The purpose of their visit is to revitalize the work of the local youth group and to stimulate new interest. The topics for the week have been announced as follows: Mon day night. Challenge to Christian Youth; Tuesday, a short worship service and a visit to the local Teen Canteen; Wednesday, Pro gram Planning; Thursday, In spirational Worship Service. The meetings will be held at the Presbyterian Church each night at 7:15. All local young peo ple are invited to attend. HHS Grid Slate Has 10 Games; Practice Monday Together with the release this week of the complete schedule for the Southeastern AA Athletic Association, including 10 games for the Hoke High Bucks, Super intendent W. T. Gibson announced that the Bucks would begin re gular practice sessions next Mon day. Head coach for the 1955 season will be Floyd Wilson, who comes from Concord. Assisting Wilson will be Coach George Wood from last year's staff, and Wilmer Wiles, new seventh grade teacher, will also be an assistant. Wiles, the latest addition to the staff, comes here from two years as head coach at Robbinsville. He is a graduate of Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C, where he was a lettcrman in football, basketball and baseball. He has been at Ap palachian State College this sum mer working on his master of arts degree. The schedule is as follows: Sept. 2, Chadbourn here: 16, Clin ton there; 23, Whiteville there; 30, Hamlet here. Oct. 7, Rockingham here; 14, Rohanen there; 21, Wadesboro here; 28, Tabor City there. Nov. 4, Lumberton here; 11, Laurinburg there. o Archie McGill Dies In Little River Archie McGill, 84, of Vass, Route 2, in Hoke County, died Saturday morning at Pinehurst Convalescent home after a lin gering illness. He was born No vember 17, 1870, in the Lobelia section and farmed there all his life. Funeral service was conducted at Cypress Presbyterian Church at 3:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon by the Rev. C. K. Taffe, former pastor, and burial was in the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife, the former Frances Smith, two sons, two brothers, one sister and five grandchildren. Wheat Allotments Are Made Available Farmers on land on which no wheat was seeded for grain for any of the years 1953, 1954, 1955 may apply for a 1956 wheat acre age allotment, according to R. J. Hasty, Chairman of the Hoke County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. To be considered for an allotment on a farm which had no wheat seed ed for grain for any of those years, the farmer must apply in writing to his County ASC com mittee by August 15, 1955. Blank application forms are a- vailable at the county ASC office for use in filing requests for al lotments. 0 Pony League Team Wins Playoff Game The Jaycee-sponsored Raeford entry in the pony league along with Red Springs, Rowland, Park- ton, Laurinburg, two Lumberton teams and Laurel Hill, is in the playoffs for the league champion ship and won their first game from Laurel Hill here Wednesday. Red Springs, Raeford, Laurel Hill and Rowland finished in that order in the regular season, and the winner of two out of three between Raeford and Laurel Hill will play the Red Springs-Rowland winner two of three for the title. The second game of the Rae-ford-Laurel Hill series Is being played in Laurel Hill tonight. The league is not affiliated with national Pony baseball, so the league championship Is as far as a team can go. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Upchurrh. Jr. and children and Mrs. W. T. Gibson, Jr. and children are spending this week at Bogue Sound. Mr. Gibson spent the week end with them. Mrs. C. L. Thomas and Mrs. Carson Davis, Jr. attended the wedding of Miss Anne Peoples of Pittsboro to Joseph Trogdon of Asheboro at the Episcopal Church in Pittsboro on Saturday. 4 j&fM$$m. . J Aw, ' ... 1 M r. jj; nj - - " ' BETHEL HOMECOMING SUNDAY; HIGHWAY MARKER DEDICATION Specialist Says Cotton Crop Fine, But Needs Poison George D. Jones, extension en tomology specialist with the North Carolina Department of Agricul ture, visited Hoke County Tues day, and made a tour of inspec tion of several cotton fields in Hoke County with W. C. Willi ford, county farm agent. Jones was high in his praise of the appearance of the crop in the county, but said there was still danger of considerable dam age to the crop from insects. Stating that this was a most un usual crop year from the stand point of insects In cotton, he said that there were practically no in sects in cotton during the month of June, but said that early in July when the second brood ap peared the increase was tremen dous throughout the cotton belt, all the way from here to Texas. The specialist recommended that farmers continue to treat their cotton for insects where pos sible. He said that fields with late growth showed a good possibilitv of suffering worm damage. He said that these later fields in many cases are small enough for the application of insecticides re tractor. The boll worm, he said. is the greater potential danger from now, and he recommended toxaphene as a poison if several more applications are planned, as this is effective against boll worms and weevil. Where a farmer plans only one more application the specialist said he would recom mend DDT because of its greater effect and the fact that much of the boll weevil's damage Is al ready done. On the subject of defnlintion. Tones said he would certainly re commend it In unusually heavy fields where bolls are not show ing and where the boll worm i active. He raid that the possibil ity of several days of wet weather with wind would increase the ad visability of defoliating. He said that this section was more fortunate that the Piedmont area, where the crop is later and a prospect of even greater inserl damage is faced. McBRYDE REUNION SUN. The annual McBryde Clan re union will be held at Antioch Presbyterian Church next Sun day, August 14. There will be dinner on the grounds at 12:30, followed by the business meeting. Members and friends are invited to attend. McINNIS REUNION 21 ST DUNDARRACH CHURCH ( The annual reunion of the Mc Innis Clan will be held at Du darrach Presbyterian Church on Sunday, August 21, and all mem bers and friends are invited to come and bring a picnic basket. The program will begin at 11:00 a. m. I m Rev. L. A. McLaurin To Preach: Oscar Leach And State Historian To Speak A pastor of a half-century ago will preach the sermon next Sun day morning at the Homecoming Day of Bethel Presbyterian Church, one of the historic old churches of this section and inti mately connected with its history and development. This historical significance will also be recog nized at a program during the day, when a highway marker, lat ter to be placed on U. S. 15-A near the church, will be unveiled. Preacher for the morning ser vice, at which many members and former members, friends, relatives and descendants of former mem bers are expected to be present, will be the Rev. L. A. McLaurin, retired Presbyterian minister who now lives with his daughter in King's Mountain, North Carolina. Mr. McLaurin was pastor of Bethel Church from 1901 to 1906, and during this period the Rae ford Presbyterian Church was or ganized by members and under the sponsorship of Bethel, and Mr. McLaurin was its first pastor as well. Other former pastors expected to attend the day's activities in clude the Rev. Eugene Alexander, retired, of Sanford, who was pas tor of the church from 1916 to 1923, and the Rev. W. B. Gaston, now pastor of McPherson Pres byterian Church in Cumberland County, who was pastor at Bethel from i944 to 1947. Program for the day will in clude the. morning worship serv ice at 11:00 o'clock, followed by a picnic dinner on the church grounds. Afterwards there will be a homecoming program and the dedication of the highway marker. Featured on the afternoon pro gram will be Oscar Leach, a son of the church who made an envi able record at the University of North Carolina and who Is perm anent president of his class, who is now a promienent Raleigh at torney in the firm of Smith. Leach, Anderson and Dorsett. Un til his death the late U. S. Senator Willis Smith was senior member of this firm. Mr. Leach, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ashe Leach of the Eethel community, is expected to discuss the highlights of the hisL tory of Bethel Church. W. S. Tarlton, chief researcher for the State Department of Are hives and History, will discuss the historical facts leading to the de cision to erect the highway mark er, and will preside at its unveil ing. The marker is to be unveiled by Tommy Wright, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Wright, of a family long members of the church. The erection of the marker will be the result of tin activity of the Hoke County chap ter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy who have already succeeded in getting two other such markers erected in the coun ty. In his discussion, Mr. Tarlton is expected to discuss actual his torical facts, as distinguished from (Continued n back yfi) Moore Declines Hoke Offer For Taking Pupils Acting County Supei intendent W. T. Gibson said this week that he had been notified that the Moore County board of commis sioners had declined to accept the offer of Hoke County of the Little River School tax plus the pur chase of two buses in reoirn for the privilege of having 178 Hoke C cur.ty children of Little River Township attend school in Movre County. The Hoke Commissioners had gone on record to the effect that if this offer was not accepted Gibson was to make pldns and arrangements for the children to attend Hoke County schools dur ing the 1955-56 school year s'art 'n September 8. Gibson said the Moore County request for the 176 pupils was based on $36 per pupil in addi tion to the $5800 which frvo buses would cost, making a total of $12,196. He said that the total cost per child for education In Hoke County is only $20.02, including capital outlay, under which the buses would fall. At that rate Moore County is asking this county to pay $69.19 per pupil, or almost three and a half times what It costs Hoke to educate its own children in its own schools. Meeting Hoped For Board of Education Chairman Neill McFadyen went to Little River Township with Superinten dent Gibson on Wednesday night for a meeting with interested cit izens and parents there about the situation. These people do not want their children to spend four hours a day riding school buses during the next year, and they appointed a committee to try to do something about it. This com mittee is hopeful of getting the boards of commissioners of Hoke and Moore Counties around a table together to settle the mat ter. The principal of the Vass- I.akeview school, which most of the children from Little River at tend, has expressed the hope that something could be worked out. as it would cost the school five teachers which have already been employed, and otherwise disrupt plans for the term. Renort For Hoke Highway Patrol Work In July In the thought that the people of the county mifciit be interested in what members of the State Highway Patrolmen stationed here do with themselves In an average month, a report on the activities of Patrolmen W. T. Her bin and J. E. Dupree for the month of July has been prepared. Members of the patrol in the county investigated 13 automobile accidents during July, in which one person was killed, five were injured and in which there was an estimated $9,465 in damages. The patrolmen drove 6,114 miles in patrolling the highways during the month, extending 73 courtesies, such as assisting at funerals, changing tires and giv ing information of various sorts to motorists. During the month the patrol men inspected 389 vehicles for faulty equipment or ownership, and they checked 634 driver's li censes. One stolen car was re covered. They arrested or issued citations to 133 persons. One hundred persons were tried as a result of these and 97 either pled guilty or were found guilty, paying a total of $2,632.30 in fines and costs. These charges included three for driving drunk, two for driving after license had been re voked, nine for having no driver's licenses, seven for reckless driv ing, 82 for speeding, seven for having no brakes, two for impro per lights, three for running through stop signs, three for be ing drunk on highways, one for following too close, one for Im proper passing, one for transport ing whiskey, and 12 for other miscellaneous offenses. Three were found not guilty. Warnings were given to 45 drivers for Impeding traffic by driving slow, and 29 pedestrians were warned. Company A Leave For Camp Stewart Sunday To Entrain At Parkton For the first time since its first postwar encampment in 1948, members of Company A, 130th Tank Battalion, local National Guard unit, will go to their an nual summer encampment at Camp Stewart, Georgia, by rail, and they will board a special train on the Atlantic Coast Line at Parkton at 9:30 Sunday morning. Arrival at Camp Stewart Is sche duled for 5:10 Sunday afternoon. All their previous trips have been by truck with an overnight biv ouac on the way, except for 1948 when they slept on the train. In this first summer since the "Old Hickory" 30th Infantrv Di vision has been entirely a North Carolina division the troops will eo to Camp Stewart and to Fort Bragg. The entire division, which is commanded by Maj. Gen. Claude T. Bowers of Warrenton, will go to camp at Fort Bragg Sunday for. two weeks with the exception of the armored and anti-aircraft units. Along with Company A to Camp Stewart will go units of the 130th Tank Battalion, with headquarters In Red Springs and commanded by Lt. ' Col. William Lamont, Jr.. of Raeford, the 130th AAA Battalion with headquarters in Whiteville, the 30th Recon naissance Company of Sanford, and the tank companies of the 119th, 120th and 139th Infantry regiments, the latter being the Parkton Comnnnv. Units of the 130th Tank Battalion are In Sou thern Pines, Lumberton and S Pauls in addition to Raeford and Red Springs. Advance detachments of the units left for Camp Stewart to day under the command of Major Thomas B. Lester and will pre pare the camp for the arrival of the main body on Sunday after noon. From Comnany A went Master Sergeant William E. Ken nedy, SFC Herman B. Heming way, Cpl. Fred B. Sports and Pvt. Marion L. Wade. With Major Lester from the battalion staff from Raeford went Captain Her bert S. McLean, Jr., supply of ficer, and First Lieutenant Wil liam E. Willis, adjutant. Captain Edwin D. Newton, commanding officer of Company A, said that the men were look ing forward to the trip by train for a change, as well as to their first year of tank training. The 15 days of active duty is a cli max to the year's training in the armory, he said. Pre-Camp mess personnel will also be in Camp Stewart to have the evening meal ready for the troops arriving by train. Units from Hoke and Robeson Counties entraining in Parkton will arrive there at about 9:00 a. m. for their departure at 9:30 and the people of Parkton are plan ning to give them a send-off party, it was announced by Mayor L. L. McDonald this week. He In vited all friends and relatives of the departing Guardsmen to come and help. o Judy Almond Is State Winner In 4-H Contest Judy Almond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crowell Almond of Quewhiffle Township, Route One, Aberdeen, was declared State winner in the poultry demonstra tion at 4-H Club week in Raleigh recently. A member of the Ashemont 4-H Club, she has been an active 4-H member since she was ten years of age. Last year she was district winner In the Junior Canning project. On Monday of this week she was accompanied to Greensboro by Miss Josephine Hall, Home Agent, and Miss Elsie Puekett of Ashley Heights, and presented her prize-winning demonstration over Television Station WFMY TV at noon. ' Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gatlln and daughters and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lancaster and sons are spending the week at Elinor Vill age, Daytona Beach, Fla.
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