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News-Journal
The Hoke County Neyri^
The Hoke Owinty JounuJ
VOLUB^rLUX; NUSfflER 50
THURSDAY, MAT 7, 1959 KAEFOM), N. C.
2 SECTIONS — 12 PAGES lOe PERCXIPT
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c^cLUnda . .. .
fil clearing my desk yesterday
afternoon to see that I had every-
thHig in the paper that 1 intend-
ed-to put in, I came across a note
about the American Legion meet
ing, and election of officers which
I had intended to put in last wedc.
Only thing I cin 'aay is that. I was
beginning to. get the National
Guard week end at Fort Bragg on
my mind and must not have clean
ed my desk last week. Being sorry
never helped any that I know of.
Was ..unintentional, t teough,.
News-Journal Cemetery Fund
contributiens from Robert M. Peele
and W. R. Sanders in the amount
of $5 each, and $2 from an anoy-
mous donor. All are appreciated
... ..Ww and tear on lawnmowers
out ^ere is something terrific. I
guess one gets as-much work from
D. H. Williamson there in a couple
of weeks as it would on a home
lawn in a whole summer. The only
thing we can use very-weU at the
cemetery is the light home type,
too, because of the monuments,
fences, trees and other obstruc
tions which, a bigger golf course-
type mower wouldn’t get around.
Nice letter from Annie Neal
Siskron in Shreyeport, La., this
week tells how much she looks'
forward to and enjoys The News-
Journal every week, and particu
larly since we have been having
so many pictures. She wound up
with a complaint about the scrap
paper we use for wrapping the
single copies.. She said they break
open occasionally and she receiv
ed them tied with a string by the
Post' Office Dopertment. In one
recent case she was somewhat dis
appointed to find “The Mountain
Eaglo,” from some place in Ken-
tucy, in 'fhe News-Journal’s wrap
per. We’ll do better, Annie Neal,
and that’s a promise. . ~Annie
Neall.by the way, is the daughter
Rifif^d ’^^the^s^tor*^^rs.
Bob Russell of Donaldson Avenue.
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Another former resident, Melvin
Dewar of Gainsville, Ga., sent me
a page from The Atlanta Constitu
tion of Aprils 29. It contained a
full page ad shouting the virtues
of “iwhy summer suits of Raeford
two-eighties cost more and are
worth more than they cost.’’ It’s
interesting to know that Raeford
Worsted Corporation is giving
their fine summer suiting, and
Raeford along with it, such broad
advertising. Melvin’s wife is one
of the McPhail girls from the
Puppy Creek Philosopher’s neigh
borhood, if my memory serves me
correctly.
Rbbert Gatlin came in with a
fish; story Tuesday, which he said
he could prove by Harry Greene,
who was with him. He said he
caught two bass on one plug at
the same time Sunday morning.
He also said it was a very small
plug with only two sets of hooks,
a “Baby Dalton,’’,! believe he call
ed it. One of the fish weighed a-
bout five pounds, he said, and the
other about a pound. . .About
11:00 o’clock Sunday morning, 1
belihve he said, somewhere up in
Wake County.
To all who tried to vote and
found they were not registered,
please let me extend my sympathy.
I made two comments in this col
umn about the fact that the county
book used for primaries and gen
eral elections, with the Town as a
voting place, was not good enough
to vote in Tuesday’s town election,
and a paid notice from the town
registrar said the same thing. I
understand there'were about 40 in
this same boat, and that some were
so unhappy they suggested they
weren’t being allowed to vote be-
Mrs. Harrison, the registrar, was
agraid they wouldn’t vote “right.”
. . .Well, it’s hard, but it’s fair.
Hoke Lady Dies After
Illness In Asheville
Agnes Blue Hendrix of the
Arabia community died Tuesday
in St. Joseph!a- hospital in ^he-
ville. 85 years of age, she had
been ill for two weeks.
She was the oldest living mem
ber of the Sandy Grove Church at
the time of her death. The funeral
was held there Wednesday with
the pastor, the Rev. C. B. Long, of
ficiating. Burial followed in the
church cemetery.
She is survived by six sons,
James Hendrix of Raeford, Brown,
Dewey, Wilmer and J. R. Hendrix
of Arabia, and^ B. T. Hendrix of
Asheville; two' daughters, Mrs.
Susie Rayburn of Dublin and Mrs.
Lida Jackson of Four Oaks; 26
pgndchildren; and 23 great-gran
children.
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Recorder Hears
Traffic, Liquor
Law Violators
Tangles With Truck —The driv
er of the car above, by his own
admission, dozed at the wheel and
when he awoke he was just a few
feet away from a collection with
Dozug At Wheel
Causes Car-Truck
Collision Sunday
A soldier dozing at the wheel
of his car, caused a wreck just af
ter ^ midnight Saturday in which
he and one of two companions
were critically injured.
The wreck occurred three miles
south of Raeford near the same
spot where seven youths were kill
ed in a wreck in 1054, according
to J. -E. Dupree, investigating offi
cer.
James Adair Haney, 19, station
ed at Port Bragg, told Dupree that
he went to sleep at the wheel and
when he awoke he w>> just a few
feet -away from a tractor-trailer
truclc.
The truck’s driver, John Reich,
29, of New Providence, Pa., toljd
Dupree that be saw the car come
into bis lane and he swerved his
vehicle attempting to avoid a col
lision. The car crashed into the
left wheel of the tractor.
The impact of the crash threw
Haney against the steering post of
the auto breaking the wheel.
Haney was sent to Scotland Me
morial Hospital where he was re
ported to have a severe brain con
cussion, a broken nose, and multi
ple cuts. One of his companions,
Robert Adkins, also of Bragg, suf
fered a severe brain concussion.
The third man, Roger Myers, an
other soldier, was hospitalized
with a broken jaw and brain con
cussion. Haney and Adkins were
placed on the critical list.
The Ford the men were driving
was a total loss and $2500 damage
was done to the truck.
No charges have been preferred
by Dupree.
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Committees For
Two Hoke Schools
Named By Board
Two school committees have
been appointed by the Board of
Education. Committee of Mildou-
son School consists of 0. B. Max
well, John Glisson, and W. L.
Smith. Serving for the next term
at the Hawkeye School will be
Elisha Dial, Roderick Locklear,
and Lonnie Locklear.
Monday night the home econo
mics club at Hoke High School
served supper to members of the
Hoke Board, the local school board,
the county commissioners, the
town attorney and the clerk ofJSu-
perior court.
Following the supper members
of the county Board of Education
held their regular meeting. The
auditing contract for the year,
1959-60 was awarded to Williams
and Wall of Raleigh. Superintend
ent K. A. MacDonald reported on
progress made at the site planned
for the Scurlock School.
Baptist Offering To
Hospital In Winston
The Raeford Baptist Church will
join other churches of the Robeson
association in a special Mother’s
Day offering to go to the benefit
of Baptist Hospital in Winston-
Salem this Sunday.
The state-wide offering of Bap
tist churches enables the hospital
to carry on an extensive aid pro
gram to needy patients, according
to the Rev. John M. Glenn.
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Graoge To Meet May 8
The Ashemont Grange will meet
Friday evening. May 8, at 8 o’colck
in the Grange HaU at Ashemont
SchooL
a truck. The efforts' of James
Haney, soldier at Bragg, to avoid
hitting the truck on 401 three
miles south of Raeford, were un
successful and the smash-up oc
curred at 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Han
ey and two companions were hos
pitalized and two of the three are
critically injured.
Cole^ McNeill, Gatlin
Tuesday Vote
Mayor Alfred Cole and two
members of the present board of
commissioners led the ticket in
the Town of Raeford election Tues
day. In what is generally taken as
a vote of confidence for the pre
sent administration, all t^ee
members of the present board who
are running were returned to of
fice.
Mayor Cole got most votes in
the election, with 291 to 60 for his
opponent, Floyd Holland.
John K. McNeill, Jr., was high
in the race for commissioner, with
270, followed by Marion Gatlin
with 253. Next came
Uan with 238 and Clyde Upchurch,
Jr., with 219i the 'two new mem
bers of the board.
Angus Currie of the present
board edged with Carlton Niven
by eight votes to keep his seat.
Currie got 209, to Niven’s 201.
This was Currie’s first time to be
elected to the board, as he was
chosen by the other board mem
bers to fill out the unexpired term
oi Truman Austin.
Following Niven were Bryan
McLamb with , 134, J. Bion Brewer
with 131 and Heston Rose with 73.
A total of 361 ballots were cast
in the election. Of these one was
disqualified for voting for six can
didates for the board and six for
voting for less than five. Of the
aix three were for Currie and two
were for Niven, so the outcome
weqld not have been changed had
these ballots been counted.
The new board and the mayor
will be sworn in and begin to func
tion on the next regular meeting
night, Monday,'June 1.
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Safety Check Lane
Week Of May IMS
IJie annual safety check lane
set up on Main Street in
of the cowlhiaifie
VOT^a^ inspe&M ^ fairing \o
by motorists of their cars. Inspec
tors from three local garages will
be on duty all through the week.
From 8:00 until 9:30 each morn
ing and 2:30-5:30 each afternoon
mechanics will inspect each vehi
cle for brakes, front and rear
lights, steering, tires, exhaust sys
tem, glass and windshield wipers,
rear view mirror and horn.
Sponsored, this year by the Ki-
wanis Club, the check lane will
have the assistance of the Key
Club and town police and highway
patrolmen.
Hoke Auto, Raeford Auto, and
McNeill and Willis Garage will
furnish the men to inspect the
cars.
The docket for Hoke Recorder’s
Court was heavy after a session
had been missed due to the hold
ing of Superior Court here last
week. Even with the larger num
ber of cases, the session was con
cluded just ufter one o’clock. •
Ed Jacobs, Indian, pled guilty
of trespassing and was sentenced
to 30 days on the roads, to be su
spended on the payment of $10
and costs.
Charged with driving under the
influence of liquor, James Edward
Smith, colored, pled guilty and got
a sentence of six months on the
roads.
John Howard McAnuIty filed
notice of appeal to Superior Court
aftpr being found guilty of driv
ing under the influence of liquor.
Judgment- was suspended on pay
ment of $100 and the costs.
David Odell Johnson, white, was
charged with driving under the in
fluence of liquor, speeding 80
mph in a 60 zone, and violation of
the prohibition laws. He -pas
found not gtplty of drunken dm-.
ing, guilty of the other two counts.
A sentence of nine months on t$e
roads was to be suspended on ^e
payment of $50 and the costs.
LeRoy Langley, Indian, .pled
guilty of violation of the prohibi
tion laws.. Judgment was suspend
ed on the payment of the costs.
Walter Lee Cook, colored, pled
guilty of speeding 85 mph in a 60
zone. His sentence of 90 days on
the roads was to be suspended on
the payment of $50 and the costs.
Charged with driving under the
influence of liquor, Mills D. Mc-
Eachin, colored, pled guilty and
a sentence of six months on the
roads was to be suspended on the
payment of $100 and the costs.
Jack Thomas Davis, white, pled
guilty of careless and reckless
driving and judgment was suspend
ed on the payment of $15 and the
costs.
Iqdjap. pled
report his earn
ings while drawing unemployment
benefits. Judgment was suspended
on the payment of $20 and the
costs. James Graham, colored, was
found guilty of the same offense
and sentenced to 60 days on the
roads to be suspended on the pay
ment of $40 and the costs.
Richard Joy, colored, was charg
ed with non-support of his chil
dren. He was found guilty and
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Town Estimate b
$26,000 Higher
Water Sales, Sirius, Keep Rate $1.05;
Plan To Add Policeman, Improye Facilities
Chamber Dinner
To Hear Merchant
Of Fayetteville
JOHN G. ORMSBT
County Board Will
Set Rate Tomorrow
MildoustmWins
Most Of Awards
In Dress Revue
Discussion of possibly including. the courthouse and the necessary
retirement benefits for county painting’ on the interior of the
employees or some county em- county office building.
ployees, and lack of complete in
formation about the retirement re
quirements caused the Hoke Coun
ty Board of Commissioners to de
fer adoption of the budget for 1959-
60 at their regular monthly meet
ing Monday.
A special meeting for the pur
pose of adopting the budget and
setting the new tax rate was call
ed for Friday at 5:00 o’clock.
Raises had been contemplated
for some employees under the
merit system, and the question of
retirement benefits had also been
discussed. Decision as to which or
a combination of the two could not
be decided until a clarification of
certain regulations could be ob
tained. County’s part of the re
tirement scheme would be about
$4,500 annually for all employees,
or about $260 a year for health
and welfare employees, for whom
the plan was first considered.
The board passed a motion al
lowing Tom Hall to pay his back
taxes, penalty and interest - at a
rate of $::U or more a month.
Anna Brown’s tax was released,
as it was also listed to her hus
band, John Brown.
Sitting as a board of equaliza
tion and review, the board allW-
ed a reduction in valuation of J.
H. Blue’s farm in Allendale Town
ship from $14,095 to $13,625 due
to an error in computing the bam
and feed stalls.
Other valuation revisions for
improvements and additions wer^
approved.
Motion was passed to order qew
4-door Chevrolet for rural police
use, the Ford in present use to
be sold.
Building and grounds commit
tee was authorized to contract the
painting of the exterior trim of
The board passed a motion re
quiring aU county departments to
submit a monthly report on all
long distance telephone calls.
Board of Education was autho
rized to transfer surplus funds
from one school account to cover
deficit in another, with no change
in overall school appropriations.
Reports of farm and home a-
gents were presented to the biartl.
J. H. Austin, of the Library
board of trustees, appeared asking
for a $500 increase in the annual
library appropriation.
The clerk was directed to ask
the highway commission to install
tile in Booker T. Rooker’s drive
way and to remind the commission
of the request for tile io^the
driveway at Antioch church.
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Wheeler Elected To
Post In Methodist
Conference Agency
TiiE' Rev. KermH Whssier, pas.
tor of the Raeford Methodist
Church, has been elected director
of the Golden Cross for the North
Carolina Conference. He is one of
nine directors in the Conference
and succeeds. Russell Dicks, pro
fessor at Duek University. /
The (^Iden Cross administers
money donated, by the Methodist
Church for the aid of patients re
quiring hospitalization and unable
to meet the expenses of a hospital
stay.
Church To Sponsor Supper
bpoB
A supper of fried chicken will
be held May 15’ at Community
Chapel Methodist Church near
Five Points, according to the pas
tor, the Rev. Jack Martin. Serving
will begin at 5:30 pun.
Nearly 70 women were partici
pants in the annual dress revue
hursday sponsored by the Home
Demonstartion and 4-H Clubs here.
After the showing of dresses to
judges in the cafeteria of the Mc-
Lauchlin School, their decisions
showed that the Mildouson Club
had the top number of prizes.
Mrs. Tom Jones won first prize
for the best suit; Mrs. Duncan
Humphrey won first place for the
best dress and for the best child’s
dress; and Mrs. Clayton Maxwell
won first place for the best house
dress and for the best dress made
for a child /from seven to nine
years.
All these ladies are members of
the Mildouson Club.
Mrs. J. M. Andrews and Jenny
Bishop won first places for the
best hat and the best dress by a
4-H member, respectively.
Other winners and their cate
gories were Mrs. J. M. Andrews
and Mrs. Humphrey, second and
third places in the suit division.
Mrs. Eugene Maxwell and Mrs.
Daniel Wright placed second and
third in the best dress category.
Two members of the Blue
Springs Club, Mrs. W. I. Strider
and Mrs. J. A. Blue placed second
and third in the house dress group.
Second place in" the best dress
or suit for age-^oup seven to nine
went to Mrs. Duncan Humphrey
for a suit made for her son.
Betty (^urrie and Annie Marie
Autry were second and third in
the senior 4-H division. In the jun
ior division the winners were Lola
Wilkerson, Linda Roberts, and Ja
nice Pendergrass. Prizes were won
by Barbara Beasley, Vicky Gillis,
and Gail Womble for Their skirts
Barbara Lindsay, Gail Womble
and Catherine McKenzie won prizes
for aprons.
Prizes were donated by Raeford
and Hoke County merchants.
Judges for the occasion were Mrs
Laura Wright, Scotland home a
gent, and Mrs. Stanley Oawley,
Mrs. W. L. McFadyen, Mrs. Joe
Lovette, Mrs. R. E. N^ley, Mrs.
Halley Blythe, and .Mrs. W. E
WilHs. Mrs. Sam Hiser was narra
I tor.
John G. Ormsby, manager of the
J. C. Penny Co. store in Fayette
ville and a director of the Fayette
ville Chamber of Commerce, is to
be the speaker at the annual meet
ing and dinner of the Raeford
Chamber of Commerce at-the Mc-
Lauchlin School Monday night,
Phil Rieg, Chamber manager, has
announced.
Rieg says that the meeting will
begin at 7:00 o’clock and that tic
kets are I being sold by Chamber
avnilohlf «L the
office. He says that tickets will be
available until 5:00 o’clock Friday.
Ormsby is well acquainted in
Raeford, having attended Davidson
College with several local citizens.
He grew up in Wilmington, and
graduated from high school there
and from Davidson.
He began work in 1934 with
Penny’s in Wilmington, moving to
Charleston with the firm four
years later. After two years in
Charleston he became manager of
Penny’s in New Bern where he
stayed for 10 years until coming
to Fayetteville nine years ago.
In New Bern he was president
of the Merchants Association in
1944, and was president of the
Chamber of Commerce in 1944,
the year the New Bern Chamber
was reorganized and employed
Charles McCullers. JJcCuUers is
the manager of the Kinston Cham
ber who gave so much help to the
local Chamber in its reorganiza
tion on a professional basis two
years ago.
Mr. Ormsby has been a direc
tor of the Fayetteville Chamber
for six years and of the Merchants
Association of the Chamber for 7
years. He is preseflt chairman of
the agriculture committee, and
was chairmaif of the first fat stock
show sponsOTed by the Fayette
ville Chamwr five years ago.
He has^een active in Chamber
of Comrtferce work for many years,
and has recently been called on
to speak to professional Chamber
people on what a business man ex
pects from his Chamber of Com
merce.
Mrs. Ormsby is the former Rosa
Walton of Florida, and thjy have
a son. Dr. John W. Ormsby of
Seattle, Washington, and a daugh
ter, Mrs. S. M. Verdi, wife of a
naval officer at Charleston Navy
Yard.
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Key Club Plans Drive
To Start Scholarship
A drive wiR be conducted next
week by the members of the Hoke
Key Club to raise money for a
scholarship fund. Club members
wiU canvass homes asking for con
tributions of a dollar for the fund.
The drive is patterned after a
similar fund-raising effort followed
in Aracadia, Calif, with success. A
decal suitable for an auto wind
shield bearing the slogan “ I help
ed a scholar with a dollar.” will
be given those who contribute.
Administration of the fund rais
ed will be left to a committee con
sisting. of W. T. Gibson, principal
of Hoke Higb School; J. H. Austin,
president of the Kiwanis Club;
Mrs. Tom Cameron, guidance coun
selor at Hoke High; and Mrs. J. C.
McLean and Mrs. D. G. McFadyen,
senior sponsors at the school
Allen McDonald, Key Club pres
ident, stated that the goal for the
I week's canvassing is $500.
■The Board of ctnamisaioners of
the Town of Raeford at their re
gular monthly meeting Monday
night passed an ordinance increas
ing the budget lor the present fi*
cal year from $140,810 to $150,-
975.
They also approved an estimated
budget for the fiscal year 195960
of $160,000, anl approved a ten
tative tax rate of $1.05 per $100
valuation, the same as this year.
The neat trick of a $26,000 lar
ger budget and increase of $10,000
in the old one while maintaining
the same rate was accomplished
by a -ximbination of circumstances.
The extra $10,000 for the 1958-
59 budget was spent for land for
sewage disposal plant and for
equipment for the water system
from money brought in and ex
pected from water sales during the
year. The water sales had brought
in the entire $55,000 budgeted for
the year by May 1, at the end of
ten months, and with two months
to go the $10,000 needed SMms
fairly certain to come in. , .
For the net increase of abtpl
$26,000 in the estimated new.
get, there was a total of $29jl
increase shown in expected r^
venue. This appears as $8,000
(round figures) increase for cur
rent and prior years’ taxes, $7,000
increase in water sales,.and $13,-
700 in surplus funds from prior
years saved for a larger sanitary
sewer main in the southeast se»
tion of town.
Expenditures of the $29,000 ap
pear, in addition to the sewer
main, as $3,000 for s fourth police
man, $4,000 for improving tha
storm sewer system, and $9,000 (or
■idML dapnrtMBt capital outlay.
This $9,(X)0 includes S4.0(X) for
work expect^ to be done as a re
sult of the planned new county
high school.
The new budget also allows for
merit system increases in salaries
of some town employees.
The estimate appears in this is
sue, and is also on file in detail
in ^e office of the town clerk for
examination by citizens prior to
the June 1 meeting of the board,
at which time the final budget
will be adopted and the tax rate
set.
Mayor Cole presided over the
meeting and all were present ex
cept A. V. Sanders, abMnt due to
illness.
. Other business included the pro-
sentation of a liability insurance
program for the town by J. W.
Canaday, on which the board de
ferred action until hearing other
proposals.
The addition of street lights at
the comer of Wright Street and
Bethune Avenue, in the aUey bark
of I. Mann’s tsore, and on Dick
son Street near the town ...Jiping
station.
Employment of Williams & Wall
to au^t the town’s books for 1958-
59 was approved.
The bo^ approved expenses
for the town clerk to attend the
school for municipal find^ offi
cers at the Institute of'Govern
ment on May 13-15.
A poll tax on all male citizens
between 21 and 50 years of age
was approved.
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Maxwell Declared
Ndt Guilty; Chril
Term En^ Friday
The jury, seated for the trial of
Oscar Benton Maxwell in the dos
ing case of Hoke Superior Court,
criminal term, deliberated for a-
bout three hours' before finding
him not guilty.
The case went to the jury Wed
nesday afternoon of last week and
they had not reached a decision be
fore the day’s session was adjourn
ed. Thursday morning, the jury
went into session again and reach
ed a decision about 10:30.
In the highlight of the civil
term, two suits brought against the
estate of Mrs. Sallie McLean, were
settled when the filers of the suits.
F. B. Sextoa and wife, Mrs. Mabel
Sexton, agreed on a paymeot of
$500 each from the estate.
Other civil action was taken up
Friday, the dosing day of see-
sion.
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Lumber Bridge Supper
A supper with proceedi going tn
the Cancer Drive will bo hdd at
Marley’s Store in Lumber Bridge^
May 13. Barbecue and fried cMcb-
en wiU be served heginatog Rl.
6:00 0.10.