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h '■ A WMCIM The Hoke County Newt—Ettabliihed 192IB -Journal The Hoke County Jmumel—EtUblkhed 1905 ▼dLUME LV, NU. S4 THURSDAY. JANUARY 12, 1961 Addenda... By The Editor d V 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. , 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. : 0 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. 0 ^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.^ rO ; •- , . 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 Continued On Page 6 0 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. 0 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 - “Continued On Page 6” 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«