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The Hoke County Newt—Ettabliihed 192IB
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The Hoke County Jmumel—EtUblkhed 1905
▼dLUME LV, NU. S4 THURSDAY. JANUARY 12, 1961
Addenda...
By The Editor
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Now that it has been sever
al days since the Rowladd child
became ill, there is a rumor be
ing circulated that she may not
have, the highly contagious type
of meningitis, tmd Aat all jthe
worry and precautions as to
their children on the part of
other parents may tm-n out to
have been completely unneces
sary
Nothing could be hirther
the truth, in my opinion- even if
.by miracle it should turn out to
. have teen nothing worse than .a
cold. With the diagnosis of men-
. ingitis by a responsible physi
cian, and the -confirmation of
this by a laboratory test, I would
want the precautions taken as to
my children every time, regard
less of what later tests might
show. The incubation period of
the - disease is less than as week
andr somttimes as Ipw'as three
days, and by the time all the
checking had been complied
my child might be one who had
al^dy contracted Oie stuff;
/"Don’t you feel the same way?
The time to shut the gate is be
fore the cows are out.
W' * ■ . . - - —
I am the somewhat red-faced
operations officer of the 2n(U..
Mediam Tt^ Battalion, 196th^
Armor Regiment, and the same
fellow who wrote the article in
last week’s paper about the
, achievement of a “Superior” in
spection rating by the Head
quarters and Headquarters Com
pany. Trouble is, in the article
last week 1 referred to my own
unit as of the “68th Armor” in
stead of the 196tlf. Only excuse
I can offer for this la{>se is that
I publish the post newspaper at
Fort Bragg,, and the only tank
battalion over there:is the 4th
Battalion of the 68th Armor.
Guess I just had this stuck in
my mind. Battalion Commander
Lt. Col. William Xamont, Jr.,
didn’t take long to get it unstuck
Friday, (He Was away at the^gov-
ernor’s. -inauguration Thursday
where he ^commanded 30th Di
vision troops in the parade. Ma
jor T. B. Lester, Battalion exec
utive officer, acted as battalion
commander)
SA£F(fBD, N. C.
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It PAGES
l«c PEB CX)PY
HM PER VE^I
NEW BANK OFFICIALS. The Bank of
Raefdrd selected the following officials
for the new year at their directors meet
ing Thursday. They are, from left to
right, H. L. GatKn, chairman of the
oard; R. B. Lewis, president; Miss Jes
sie B. Ferguson, cashier; A. W. Wood,
Jr., assistant cashier,
Sam’s got a heading of his own
now. and his coltimn follows.
Hope you enjoy it.
around
....town
With Sam MUtris
L B. Satterwhife
Of McCain Is.
BwiedMonday
The Australian Olympic team
that went to Rome last summer
wofe uniforms made from Rae-
ford 2/80’$ material that was
donated to them by a Burling
ton Industries mill in that coiin-
ry. The managing director of th?
mill received betters from two
members of the team pfaising
the Raeford 2/80’s uniforms
which'' they wore during their
visit to. Rome. Both of the
men stated “we wore the uni
forms for more than Tive weeks
and they looked as good when
we arrived back home as when
we left and wd had the best
.uniforms worn at the Olympics.”
The article the above was
taken from came out of an Aus
tralian Textile publication. The
headline in big bold type read.
“Olympians Braise Our Raeford.”
The Radford name has been ap-
^ pearibg ilr ada all across the
States and now .it roovgs
Weraeas. So if you go to Aus-
, tralia just tell thepyou are frbm
the town that the material
for their Olympic team’s uni
forms.
E. B. Satterwhite,''66, who re
tired Dec. 3l after 34 years .as
McCain postmaster, died Sunday
In Moore Memorial Hospital at
Pinehurst. Funeral services were
held Noriday at 2 p.m. at Page
Memorial Methodist Church in
Aberdeen.
The'services were conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. Brooks
Patten, assisted by the Rev,
Charles MqnessT'-chaplain at N.
C. Sanatorium, - antMhe Rev. T.
J. Whitehead of Grah^. Burial
with Masonic rites followed in
old j Bethesda Cemetery, Aber
deen.
Mr. Sattemhite came from
Salis)uu:y.j0 ilie Saoatorium^as
a patient and ran the store and
switchboard before his appoint
ment as postmaster in 1926.'
He was a member of the Rae
ford Kiwanis Club, the Roman
Eagle Lodge No. 550, AF &
of Aberdeen and thq Page Me*
morial 'Church, where he was
formerly on the board of ste-^
wards. He was also a'director of
the Aberdeen Savings and Loan
Association,' and -a director of
the Hoke County-United Fund.
Bom at Stony Point in Alex
ander County on July 20, 1894,
he was the son of^the late Emma
Watts Satterw-hite of Stony Point
and the late T. E. Satterwhite
of Rutherford College.
Surviving in addition to his
wife, the former Suf Burton of
Hightowers in Caswell County
and a former nurse of the Sana
torium, are: one son, Richard of
the home; his stepmother, Mrs.
T^ E. Satterwhite of Rutherford
College; four sisters, Mrs. John
Keith of Rockingham, Mrs. Ru
dolph Mauney of RirtherfdFd Col
lege, Mrs. Robert N. Groh of
Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Way-
land Seagraves of Raleigh; and
six. brothers, Harold ?nd Pat of
McCain, Garland and Arthur of
Rutherford College, Bill of Ra
leigh and Tom Glass of Apex.
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Sidney Stanley is spending
this week in"'Fairmont with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Car
los Stanley.
Gatlin, Lewis, In
Bank Promotions
At the directors* meeting
following the annual meeting of
stockholders of the Bank of Rae
ford Thursday H. L. Gatlin, pres
ident since 1945, mas rhoved up
to the newly-created positiojjerfl
chairman of the board, and R^*‘
Lewis, executive vice-president
since 1946 and cashier since 19-
20, became president.
'The new board chairman is a
native of near Hartsville, S. Cr,
coming here in 1904 and acquir
ing stock in the then-new bank
shortly afterwards. He became
a director in 1907 or 1908, ac>
cording to his memory, and was
vice-president during the early
lupetecQ. thirties. GatUo-bet^asie
president in 1945 after the death
(jf T. B. Upchurch,
r Lewis, a native of Wilmington
and veteran of both World Wars,
went to work for' the bank as as-,
sistant cashier- in 1919 when he
got out of the Army, .and. be
came cashier in 1920. Since 1946
he had been executive vice-pres
ident and cashier.
F. B, Sexton was reelected
vice-president and J. L. McNeill
was’ elected a vice-president to
succeed Lewis. The position of
executive vice-president was dis
continued, as the new .president
devotes full time to the bank.
Miss Jessie Bright/Ferguson,
an employee of the bank since
September of 1928, and assistant
cashier since January of 1947,
was promoted to the position of
cashier. A. W. Wood, Jr., who
has been employed at the bank
since April, ,1949, and assistant
cashier sttacq-Jdlmary, 1952, Con
tinues as assistanr cashier.
Good Year Enjoyed
In his report to the stockhold
ers the executive vice-president
stated, that the bank had enjoy
ed another outstandin{K'">^ar,.
only slightly under the record
business done in 1959, and that
dividends had been paid as of
January 1, 1961.
The Bank of Raeford was or
ganized in 1903- and its presi
dents, in order; have teen John
Blue, J. W. McLauchlin, E. B.
McNeill, T. B. Upchurch, H. L.
Gatlin and R. B. Lewis.
Directors, all reelected at the
\stbckholders meeting, are H. L.
Gatlin, F. B. Sexton- J. B. Thom
as, T. B, Upchurch,* J. L. McNeill,
K. Stevens, H. L Gatlin, Jr.
T^mas, Tom U. Cameron,
lomas^. McBrydc, W. L. How
ell, Jr., pnd R. B. Lewis.
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^tate, Deacon,
Frosh To Tangle
Here Monday
Thq ^tate College Wolflets and
the “iDeaconettes” from Wake
Fore^ will tangle in a head-on
hard\i|pod encounter here al 8
p.m. next Monday, Jan. 16.
The two "frosh” . clubs will
be taking the court for the sec
ond ' time this seasoh as oppon
ents when they step onto ‘tne
boards at the new. .Hoke High
School gynmasium. The State nqo-
phytes lost their first contest
with the Weke Forest Freshmeq
by a score of 81-60. This revenge
match is expected to pit a vastly
improved Wolflet squad against
the junior Deacons.-
The lyolflets have not had a
very successful season thus far,
winning but one in five tries.
That win, however, wai an im
pressive 80-55 triumph over The
Citadel freshmen. An indica
tion of their in\proved play can
.be noted by their, games with.
Wilmington College. In the open
ing contest of the season, the
Wolflets lost 93-57 at''Reynolds
Coliseun^ but later lost to the
same te^, 74-73, on their home
court. Tfie Jifolflets led through
out most of that contest,
\
Scoring leaders for he Wolflets
have been guard Les Robinson,
Ron Gossell and Don Cox.
Statistics on the Wake Forest
freshmen were not available to
The News-Journal. An indication
of their basketball prowess, how
ever, seems apparent from their
previous lefeat- of the Wolflets.-
I went over to the courthou.se
last Friday to renew my driver’s
license. As I handed the paper
back to the examinor in talked
Patrolman . J. E. Dupree. The re
marks he made to the examiner
about the way I operated a motor
vehicle almcst made me leave
before finishing the- test;^ 01
cu 'T)!'., 11 was all in fufi ,ajid I
got fixed up after forking over
♦2:50.
Going back up stairs and walk
ing down the corridor I happen-
ed'to think about tax ll^lRg and"
went in to wait my turn. Well to
tell the truth, here was no fine
and only the tax lister, Mrs. Ruby
Tuttle, was in the office. Jf you
haven’t listed, noW would be «
good time to do so. From what
i hear iisUiig ir'abuut normal
and everyone is' waiting for the
last day so they will have to
stand- in liqe or net list at all
and then complain to the commis-
"Continued On Page' 6”
Health Board -
Msdcfs Plans At
Meetmg Tuesday
The qiiarterly meeting
of the Hoke ;County board m
■health was held -in the health
center Tuesday night-*With all
members present. Dr. '.Julius
Joidan, chairm^, presided and
present were Dr. R. C. Murray,
Dr. M. R. Smith, W. P. Baker,
Alfred Cole, A. K. Stevens, W. T,
Gibson, Jr. and Dr. .Clifton Dav
enport, health director and sec
retary to the board..
The board voted to bring the
mobile x-ray unit to the county
every year, with fall of 1962 be
ing set as me .tentative lime for
the next mp. The unit is jn the
county ndw and will be in Rae
ford through Saturday of this
week.
Agresolution was passed by (;he
board to the effect that a dog
warden should have his services
available, on a half-day basis
dpring the whole year, and that
a veterinarian should conduct
the dog vaccination clinics in
February if one is available. The
veterinarian would be paid from
the fees from dog owners ac
cording to the board.’s resolution
Dr. Davenport, the health di
rector, presented the'quarterly'
report of the libalth di^artment’s
activities including statistics on
the various’” subdivisions of di
sease control, vital statistics,
youth, and adult healtii sanita
tion, rabies, laboratory service
and health education.
Dr. Davenport reported that
1009 x-rays had been taken by
the mobile unit operating in the
county under the sponsorship of
the Raeford Jaycees and the
county health department in Oc
tober, and that two cases of ac
tive pulmonary tuberculosis had
been found with these films. The
program also disclosed 10-cardio
vascular, or heart, abnormalities
and 44 cases of scarriilg or other
pu^iAonary abnormalities.^
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Cgiuly Board; -
Handles Routine
Matters Monday
A road request, from McLaueb-
lin Township, requesting that a
street be added to the Tyler sub
division, was one of many items
on the agenda for the county
commissioners as they met here
Monday. The bdard approved the
addition of the street to the
county highway system, by a
animous vote.
Other subjects which came
der the consideration' of tpe
board included the appointment
of a new trustee for the library
and a discussion of the dog
warden program.
J. A. Webb, trustee of the
Hoke County Library, resigned
from the position this week and
has been replaced by R. A.
Smoak, who was named by the
board to succeed him. Webb
was thanked by the board for
his past service in library work.
The motion to appoint Smoak
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Library Entered
During Week End;
Only $1 Is Taken
A mysterious break-ih at the
county library, jvhith netted un-
indentified “thieves” a total of $1,
occurred here on Sunday night.
The “uninformed” culprits com
pletely overlooked 49 cents in !
xhange wliich had be^n^^ Wft in
desk drawers at the builmng.
Mrs. Luke Bethune, county
librarian stated that she was a-
wakejied-early Monday morning
by the janitor, at the county of
fice building who informed her
that a break-in had occurred.* ' I
went downtown later and arriv
ed at about the same time as the
police,” she said.
B ninesB Said
;iti8; Only One
Public Library Personnel
Mrs. LA Cameron, left, ah^
Mrs. Harry Greene, right, are
shown in the Hoke County Publiy
Library this week with Mrs. Luke
Bethune, whose resignafion as
librarian was accepted by the lib
rary board of trustees' Fridaj^.
Mrs. Cameron, bookmobile libra
rian, was selected by the board
to succeed Mrs. Bethune when
she stops at the end of January,
and Mrs. Greene, who has been
i)ookmobile assistant, will succeed
Mrs. Cameron.
In addition to'personnel. pro
blem, the board at its meeting
Friday faced some difficult and
as yet unsolved financial pro-.
blems. Not being eligible for
support from tax funds without
a special election, the public
library is in critical financial con
dition.
Town Fathers Talk
OLTrailefr Zoning
' / .. '
The town board-has directed a paved street to join the two
Clerk Charles Morrison to inves
tigate the practice of nearby
communities in coping with
the problem of “parked trailers”
within the city limits. The loca
tion of thfse trailers has be
come sqmething of a problem for
the board and efforts are being
made to govern the location of
these “homes on wheels.” The
“city fathers” are anxious to
see that owners of the Jailers
are not unduly inconvenienced in
the future and desire to adopt
a policy which will work to the
benefit of both trailer owners
and the town zoning commission^
A report is expected at the next
meeting 'V the. jward on this
problem. Morrison is expected to
contact city zoning officials
throughout the ar«a before sub
mitting his report to the board
next month.
The trailer problem was but
one of many items covered by
the board- at its meeting on Mon
day night. A new street for Rae
ford was another Important is
sue which Mayor Alfred Cole
and other members of the board
found worthy, of attentibn here
last Monday. Neill McFayden,
who owns a tract of land be
tween Lamont and Oakwood, has
agreed to deed a strip of land
between the two streets to the'
town, if the board will construct
avenues. Arrangements are be
ing*; made to provide a street-
which are contingent upon the
costs involved.
The board was also informed
by the clerk that the ten year
Danger Period Fot
Others Thought Tc
Be Nearing End
Cynthia Rowland^ 13, daagb>
ter of Sgt. and Mrs. C. H. Row>
land, who live at the Army
' ger station on the .Raefor|^Vaa%
road inside the Fort,.Bragg res- ,
. ervatjpn^ was sent to WbmadC
! Army Hospital at Fort Ragg
' Sunday night with wha't was diag-
I nosed at the hospital Monday as
infectius or Contagious menhv '
J.gitis, Her condition was repflri>
j ed yestdrday as greatly injprov-
j ed and it was thought that she
'.would suffer no permanent attex
I effects of the disease. ^
Cynthia was broughK4o..Dr.
Riley Jordan Friday night and he
was told that she had been ill
since-Thursday, although she had
attended school that day at Ra»
ford Elementary School, where
she is in the eighth grade.
Dr. Jordan s^d she had been
nauseated and hid fiver and that
he had given an antibiotic and
that the.'nezt he heard was when
he saw her on. Sunday night and
heard that her condition had not
improved. He at that time diag
nosed her illness as meningitis
and sent her to the hospitaL
In cooperati^ with Dr. Clif
ton Davenport, county health of
ficer, eighth grade pupils Mon
day took their parents a note
suggesting that measures be tak
en with family physicians to pre
vent the spread of the disease.
These measures 'usually consist
of sulfa drugs or other antibio
tics. The doctors a^y that men
ingitic has an incubation period
of from four to sfven days, which -
sho^ be about up by now. and
thsit it is usually transmitted by
[ “droplets", from a ' sneeze m
cough, oi by^perso^ contact.
Indirect transmission is consid
ered unlikely.
The^alth department sug
gested that parents take children
to thdir family physicians when
symptoms of m upper respira
tory infection Appear. These are
usually upset - stomach, fev^
readache. stiff neck. No further -
cases have made their appearance
^tute of limitations has run its i in the county according to the
course on debts owed to the town health department, and while
from t unpaid taxes, and that Army doctors now state that
they have not isolated the germ,
local physicians feel that all mea
sures taken in preventing the
spread of the infection were ne
cessary.
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depts*^ totaling S254.52. which
had previously been owed to the
town, *hre now unenforceable.
Mayor ^le announced that an
increase in natural gas retail
rates has been received from the
North Carolina Natural Gas Cor-
-poration. The gas corporation
has indicated to the board that
increases from their supplier,
and losses diuing the first year
of operations, which were in ex
cess of their estimates for 'this
period, were responsible for the
increase.^ The new rate increases
will amount to approximately 87
cents per month, according to
the president of the corporation. |
The rate increases have not been |
approved by the North Carolina
Utilities Commission, but the un
expected increase will have to
be met by the town in the event
that the “price-hike” is' appi
by the commission.
The town board also ann^
ed at the meeting that
has purchased a 1952 Chevrolet
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To Face JudfC) For
Cutting Saturday
Rufus McRae, colored- 59, wax
release from the Hoke County
jail under bond Sund^ and has
been charged w4h aaaanilt with
a deadly weapon. He admits cut
ting William Wade, aian colored
and also about 60, with a switch
blade early Saturday n^t
The cutting, investigated by
Deputies Dave Barrington and
Jesse Lee. took place at the
home of Sarah Livingston .just
east of the North Main Street
.Ttension. Due to Wade’s exces
sive bleeding he was at first
thought to have been hurt worse
than he was. Sent to a hospital,
he was ' soon sewed up and
back.
Hoke-T^iiis Defeat Hamlet
Hoke High School’s fighting
-Bucks Used the same rugged de
termination that has charteriz-
ed their play throughout the
season to overcome Hamlet
Tuesday night in a contest that
remained undecided until the
I closing seconds of the game.
The thieves gaihed access' to | Jimmy Guin, a. clutch player all
the building by removing ^ the season, cinched the gaSse for
screens from the library, accord- [ Raeford after the Hamlet squad
ing to Mrs. Bethune. “Magazines i had pulled within three points
on the desk just beside the wire pjf rUe With 19 seconds Tfuiai®'^ shwrting uverige-ut 49 pweraik off the Doo attMk wit* mindJS
I dow were “well, just scattered i ing in the game. With 14 seconds
! all over the olaee,” she stated. | still on ..^e clock, Guin stulfed
[The windows aave never'. 'one through
The winner in the Tuesday * Girls Victorious
contest saw a slim eight point The Raeford girls took tho
margin at half-time slashed to measure of their opponents from
three points, late in the fourth ^ Hamlet Tuesday in their contefst
quarter. It vias then that Guin, which preceded the tej*? grw'.
who acted as though the play The local girls walked away with
was pre-ordained, stole the ^ball' a 50-36 win over the Hamlet
from the befuddled ' Hamlet lassies. Evans, McNeill, played
.giuurd^ and made Raeford’s vie- her usual brilliant game in lead-
tory a ceiHaihty.
The Raeford "club came
through with a ' remarkable
LINE — UF. Employees art Pacific Mills
are shown here last week Just before
their X-Rays at the plant. Mill officials
Joined with wpfkers in “Operation
X-fRay” last \»eek in an effoi^ to prevent
T. B. by taking time out from the work
schedule lor a tHp to the mobile unit.
, adequate locking device, .accord
ing to Mrs. Bethune.
Chief Stanton, is said to be-
live that the incident was the re-
sulf “youngsters looking for
excitement.'’ The “thieves” have
not been located, as yfL The
vandaii left tlie library by way
of tlHi library door, which was
udloplrert by them from the in
side. ft was- the open dote iriddi
.arousal the attention of the jan-
iof m Monday morning. The
“thievii” overlooked, in addition
to 49 cents in change, approxi-
$3.5.000 in honlrc
the nets after steal
ing the ball from a pair of Ham
let guards and the contest was
on ice. The final score stood at
37-46.
Raeford was never able to
command a cottriacmg lead in
the battle which fbwid viriually
every ntember of-the Hoke club
lacking in height against the
now fallen giants-feom Hamlet.,
The^Raefted team made up for
the* lack'df'physical stature by
evidencing the same type of
“nevte say ' die" self-assurance
tlUlt m’siroc wiWMMi
from the .floor in the Tuesday
encounter. Hamlet hnd 36 per
cent in a lo^g cause. Scoring
leaders for Raeford were Guin
Upchurch, and Phillips who
scored 17,11, and 8 points, respeis
tively. Byrd, with sixi and Mc-
Phaul, with four, rounded off
the Hoke ai irhu. McPhaiii and
UpAurett wnp%('- c«yitent in
their ability ttr grab the re
bounds for-4te local duh.
- Nhwell wi,:
for the loaers with 16 peinta for
the evenings work.
Senriag hy Qnartnrs
itoefard 1 14 '9 tC 4«
MamM f » II M n
ing the local squad to their final
margin of 14 points. Cohidh.Ctd
teeth and Ann Gatlin roumlid
points’. Guard Pam Loftus. Ann
contributed to the winning caofw
with their defensive abQity.
,The Hoke High School Backs
have lest only one game dwkig
heir elfort for the season. The
lM«i club ,suffered their tint
art hack palest Wndiihaen a
-ten. 6- hy a scon i^ST-9lk The
Hike quintet takes m the Waria
boro squad again on Jam- St. Tho
Backs have thaic B«ai cage cme
tut' toaaonw.
play Rockin|hant at the
Hake R^l Sdmal emnaafma'
The Barkingham qmialet has
ferad defeat firm both Am«