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The News- Journal
The Hoke County Newt—Establithed 1928
The Hoke pounty Journal—EetabUtked 1905
VOLUME LV; NO. 4#
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961RAEFORD, N. C.
12 PAGES
10c PER CX)PY
addenda...
I Th« Editor
W. L. Poole, chairman of the
Pioneer Events coinmittee tat
the Golden Jubilee, has asked us
to announce that in addition to
those named a while back in the
different communities together
names of oldtimers and former
residents Mrs. J.. A. Jones and
Mrs. Bill Jones would collect
them in Stonewall Township.
A reminder of the two meet
ings of the Jubilee Belles at the
courthouse at •4:00 and 7:30 t^
day might be in order, too. The
Belles say they are going to out
do the Brothers of the Brush in
the crowd they have. That’ll be
going some, girls.
I didn’t get quite the picture
I wanted of Clarence Willis out,
at the armory Monday night, but
there is still time. You can see
from the ones we are running,
though, tliat Castro would cer
tainly feel at home out there at
a drill period. They already wore
the same type uniform and now
with the brush, they’re plumb
gone.
CASTRO is who the local National Guardsmen are
saying First Sergeant Clarence M. Willis, looks like
in his fatigue uniform when he and the others were
snapped with their beards and uniforms. There were
six in the picture, but somebody cut it Up and scattered
them around thfe paper in uban pairs. PD Pic.
Name McFadym
To Cmnmittees
Of Legislature
Townsend Store
At Rockfish
Friday Night
ns
And one more Jubilee item . .
The Raeford Woman’s Club is.
handling the sale of the advertis
ing in the Golden Jubilee Histor
ical program, and they hope to
get around in the next couple of
weeks.
Last ^ek’s paper had an ar
ticle about the swimnaing pool
association's meeting at the Pres
byterian Church at 7:30 tomorrow
night, but the headline over it
said Tuesday instead of Friday.
If you were a little confused, it
is still set for Friday.
Hoke Teams Win
Last Games Here
If we got by a week wi^h no
worse mistake than. that, I feel
not too bad, because there is i
usually at least one that some- '
one takes personally, and I don’t;
really see how anyone could about |
the pool—at least when it was no !
wors« . than^ ,th^t^and they got t
two mentions forTlSe price ol one. |
. on credit.
Hoke’s Bucks dropped their
non-conference game with the
Campbell College freshmen here
Friday night, but added a con
ference victory over Lumberton
in their last regularly scheduled
game on Tuesday, also on the
home court. The girls also beat
Lumberton.
Against Campbell^he Hoke
boys stayed close thrWghout the
first half, trailing one point, 34-
33, at halftime. The college team
put on the steam in the second
period, though and took the con
test, 70-62.
Bill McPhaul was high score''
for Hoke with 23 points, follow
ed by Upchurch with 22 and
Phillips with 17. Campbell’s high
man was Jackson with 25.
Lumberton Games
* Against Lumberton Tuesday
the Hoke boys evened the score
for an earlier defeat in Lumber-
ton as they took the contest, 50-
44. At the half Hoke was in front
29-19. Guin was high for Rae-
ford with 19 followed by McPhSid
with 11. Byrd and Phillips witm
8 each and Upchurch with 4.
The girls had it a little closer
but managed to edge their visi
tors 37-36, as McNeill got 21
points, Gatlin 11 and Culbreth 9.
up during the 1961 General As
sembly.
He was named early this week
to the M^ufacturers and labor
Committee which will make re
commendations as to whether the
minimqln wage law will be rais
ed from the present 75 cents
per hour. Rep. Joe Watkins of
Granville County is chairman #
the committee.
Other committees to which
House Speaker Joe Hunt has ap
pointed McFadyen are. Conser
vation and Development, Agri
culture, Education, Banks and
Banking, Insurance, Appropria
tions, Institutions for the Blind,
Water Resources and Control,
and Library.
The Water Resources ahd Con
trol is a new committee.
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Revival Set For
Next Week By
Local Methodists
Little Symphony
Heltre Nelt Thurs.
Thanks to A. M. McBryde for a
contribution to The News-Jour
nal Cemetery Fund. You might
start giving that subject some
thought now, too, with spring just
around the corner, and grass to
be Ranted and cut.
Raeford’s^flrst presentation of
I the North Carolina Little Sym
phony to take place here March
' 2, at the Raeford Elementary
School will feature music from
Rodgers’ “Carousel,” as well as
from the more classical opera.
Read the report on recorder’s
court and see if you don’t find
a many many time offender there
getting a suspended sentence. Or
am 1 wrong?
pund...
....town
With Sam Morris
The “Brothers of the Brush”
organization is adding members ,
every day and it isn’t hard to |
tell now who belongs. The grow
th of hair on the face seems to
draw comment from every
source.
' Paul and I went up to Aber
deen this week and stopped by
the Sandhill Citizen Office to
see Cliff Blue. When we got to
his office Forrest Lockey, well-
known in this county, who was
there and Cliff had a few re
marks to majee about Paul’s beard
and my ihustache. Cliff said 1
looked like my Grandfather Sam
Cameron with a mustache and
Forrest agreed. Going back Into
the rear of the shop Jerry
Thompson, long time employee
of the newspaper, said with my
mustache I looked like my
Grandfather Morris. Now as best
as T can remember my two grand
fathers didn’t look alike at all
and Grandpa Morris was clean
shaven, so I (Jon't know who I
rc'c^hle but my wife says I look
g tv./'ct;. Uness everyone around
town In the great organization
gel.': the same comments.
“Symphony No. 29Tn A Major”
Excerts will be taken from the
“Suite—Woodland Sketches,” by
by Mozart.
MacDowell; “Straus Waltz,” and
“Village Swallows in Austria.’*
“Clear Track,” by E. Straus, will
follow.
V.
Additional selections will be:
Meditation from the Qpera,
“Thais” by Massenet; “Sandpaper
Ballet” by Anderson, “Stravinski’s
“Round of The Princess,” from
the ballet,' “Firebird,” and “Pea
nut Polka,” by Farnox.
This is the Symphony’s ^ 16th
annual season. A total of 122 con
certs in 52 North and South Caro
lina communities will be given
this yeSr.
Dr. Benjamin Swalin. director
of the North Carolina (full and I
little) Symphony, is embarking j
on his 15th annual tour with the
orchestra. i
Besides serving as conductor, i
Dri Swalin spends his time aud- j
itieming musicians, handling vol- j
un»s of corresDondence, selecting
sic, arranging programs and
0. L. Townsend’s Store and ser
vice station at Rockfish was
I burned to the ground Friday
night. The entire' contents were
Neill L. McFadyen, represen- lost,
tative of Hoke County, has been | Townsend, according tp Sher-
appointed to one of the most j* iff d h. Hodgin, said that wnen
controversial committees to come I he reached the building at 3 a.m.
fire was breaking through the
door and he was unable to enter
and salvage any of the stock
The Raeford Rural Fire Depart
ment went to the scene but ar
rived too late to save any por
tion of the building.
Cause of the fire or the amount
of damage has hot been deter
mined.
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Guy Phillips To
Speak Here To
District Group
District 8 of the North Carolina
School Boards Association, will
meet at the Hoke County High
School Cafeteria. Thursday,
March 2. Dewey W. Huggins, Jr.,
principal, announced.
Registration of those attending
and a tour will take place from
6 to 6:30 p.ih.
Dr. Guy Phillips, a member of
the State Board of Education,
will be guest speaker.
Dr. Phillips, known to be ac
tive in school work for the past
40 years, has for some time been
dean of education at the Univer
sity of North Carolina, where he
is a professor of education. He is
also dean of Summer school at
the University.
Huggins said that between
150-175 school men and women
are expected to attend the din
ner meeting.
Schools from Harnett, Hoke,
Lee, Montgomery, Moore,- Rich
mond, and Scotland counties, as
well as from the city units of
Hamlet, Laurinburg, Pinehurst,
Rockingham, Sanford and South
ern Pines, will be represented.
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Annual Meeting
Of United Fund To
Be Held Tuesday
The annual meeting of the
United Fund of Hoke County
will take place Tuesday, Feb. 28
at 7:30 p.ra. at the Courthouse.
John Campbell, nresident. said
that matters of business would in
clude the election of new direc
tors and the changing of the
organization’s constitution.
The Hoke County chapter of
the United Fund has advanced
from a $5,000 to a $16,000 budget
during its years of existence.
■ The Rev. Marquis W. Law
rence, district superintendent of
the Goldsboro District of the
North, Carolina Conference of
the Methodist Church, will be
Revival preacher at the Raeford
S dist Church, February 26
!h March. 3. First service'
e Sunday morning and
they will be held each evening
through Friday.
Highway Race Ends^Ia
Death For Hoke Youth
y
Helms To Speak
At Dinner Here
Monday Night
A dinner to mark the end of
a 17 weck training course on
Economic Understanding will
be held at 7 p.m. February 27
at the Hoke High School Cafe
teria.
Dr. D. W. Whitehead, Cham
ber of Commerce chairman of
the committee on Economic Un
derstanding, announced that the
speaker for the occasion will be
Jesse Helms, of Raleigh.
Helms is heard daily on
WRAL—TV and WRAL Radio,
as vice president in charge of
news, public affairs and pro
gramming. ^
He has been executive direc
tor. North Carolina Bankers As-
ober 1953. As editor of The
Tarheel Banker, member of the
executive council of American
Bankers, and past president of
The Rev. Mr. Lawre^e cajnb
to Ihe Goldsboro district from
the Trinity Methodist Church in
Durham. He received his A. B.
degree from Duke Divinity
School and is a native of North
Carolina.
Recognized as a leader of the
North Carolina Conference, he
has served for many years as
counselor, teacher an^ dean at
the Louisburg Older Youth As
semblies. He is now serving as a
trustee of the Methodist Retire
ment Home and of Louisburg
College. He was a delegate to the
[Wreck hjuries
[Feb. 5 Cause
jPeath Of Man
Dan Ferguson, 84-years-old col
ored man who was hurt in a
wTeck near the Catholic Church
south of Raeford on the after
noon of Sunday. February 5. diel
in a Fayetteville hospital at aboii'
7:00 o'clock Saturday. Febru^y
18. from the injuries.
. He was a-resident of the Bow-
more community in Blue Springs
Township and had been carried
to Memorial Hospital in Chapel
' Hill after the wreck, with a neck
I injury, and was later brought to
Fayetteville.
Ferguson was a passengM in
the car driven by Needham Mc
Bryde colored, 79, also of Roqte
One. Raeford. which ran into the
back of Timothy MePhatter’s car
which had stopped preparatory
to turning left into the filling
station there.
McBryde had been charged
with reckless driving by J. E.
Dupree, the investigating State
Highway Patrolman, with trial
having been postponed because of
Ferguson’s condition.
Ferguson's death was the sec
ond tratfic fatality of 1961 lu
Hoke County.
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3 Wrecks Occur
Mon. and Tues.;
1 Serious Injury
A hit and run wreck Monday
night and two wrecks Tuesday
morning have been reported by
State Highway Patrolman E. G.
One of the Tuesday
Southern Secretaries Conferen-'j Inman.
ce of American Bankers Assoc- wrecks involved a school bus and
iation; a former editor of The the othdt- caused the only injury
Raleigh Times, he is well qual- of the three. All were in Hoke
ified to speak on the subject County south of Raeford.
of economics, Dr. Whitehead Hit And Run Monday
said. On Monday night Mrs. Archie
Serving on the economics com- • Howard of Antioch community
mittee with the chairman are, was going southeast on the Rae-
Phil Rieg, Chamber secretary; ford—Lumber Bridge road, N. C. , ^ ^
Harry Birch, Dewey Huggins, ' 20, when a car coming from the I fatal. .IcGougan, the
Archie Howard and R. B. Lewis. Gold Hill road about three mil- passenger
Certificates indicating com- i es from Raeford failed to stop,
pletion of the course will be hit the right rear of her car and
F. K. Wabon, Jr^
Dies; Another
Seriously Hurt
F Know Wjitson, Jr, 17, dteJ
shortly after being carried !•
Scotland Memorial Hospital Ta***
day night after a wreck abaiK
three miles inside the co'unty Ml
the Red Spnngs-Duffie r iad. El^
ward Hector Curne 16, wm
thought to have a b.'oken neck
from the same wreck and was
carried from the Laurinburg ho*»
pital yesterday aiiemoon to MeA-
onal Hospital. Chapel Hill.
The wreck took place at about
9:00 o'clock Tuesday night, ac
cording to State Highway Patrol
man E. G. Inman, who investi
gated, and Inman says boys who
were in one of the two vehicles
involved told him they wan
racing.
Young Watson, was the soB oi
Mr. and Mrs. Watson of the vi
cinity in which the wreck occur
red. and his father was at one
time chairman of the Hoke Coun
ty commissioners. He was driving
' a 1959 GMC pickup truck with
Currie and James Henry McGofr-»
gan. also 16. as passengers. The
other vehicle, a 1956 Ford, the
patrolman said was being operat
ed by Bobby R. Creech. 17, of
RFD 4, Red Springs, a'fcompan-
led by Jerry Gattis. 16. of Red
Springs. All involved were white.
Currie is the son of ilr. and
Mrs. W. D. Currie of .\llendalc
Township, the patrolman said.
Inman said that the vehicles
were racing south, in the direc
tion of Red Springs and that Wat
son, in the lead, apparently lost
control of his vehicle in a slight
curve near the .Jim M''Phanl
place. The truck rap off the road
on the right, skidded across and
off on the left, then across and
off on tse right and into a tobac
co bam being out of control for
a total of 650 feet. He said that
the truck was destroyed and that
j about $500 damage was done to
[ the bam in addition to thr death
of one of the boys and the serious
injury of another.
Watson suffered a crushed
' chest and head injuries whidi
presented following the program
to 13 Raeford bussinessmen.
The public is invited. Dinner
tickets may be purchased at
the Chamber office or from any
! member of the committee-
Hoke Leads Stale
In Woods Burning
V A* , SAX. W AA.9 Sl W A W qCI 4 w
“If I Were King,” by Adam, and : conducting a 12-week concert tour i Southeastern Jurisdictional Con-
other well known musicals by i which involves thousands of tra-! ference in 1956 and 1960 and was
Bi'l Howell said he would give
$5.00 to the first person to give
him the score of the baseball
game that is Wertised on the
sign in the picture of Aaeford
Main “treet mnning in the pao-
er tb's week, including his
store i'l 1908. I don’t know who
ran v-ove who is right if more
th-n cne score Is turned in.
A show that Inost sportsmtn
In tb’.s community would certain-
Iv li’-p to attend this weqk.
thmu"*! Sunday is the Fourth^
.Snortsmen’s Motor Boat
jin't '’sx-alion Show of th^ Caro-
Unas. Tf. will he helrl tpf (hC
(Continued on. Page 6)
famous composers.
Sponsoring the concert are the
Raeford Woman’s Club, Raeford
Kiwanis Club, Raeford Jaycees
and the Raeford Lions Club.
Opening the pro^m', the or
chestra will play OTam’s Over
ture to his opera; followed by
vel miles and more than five
score concerts annually.
He also supervises financial
arrangements for the maintenaft-
ce of both the Full and Little
Symphony and a diversified staff.
Working always by his side is
his talented wife, Maxine Swalin.
an official visitor to the World
Council at Lake Junaluska in 19-
56. He visited historic shrines of
Methodism while attending the
Ecumenical Conference in Eng
land, and has loured the Holy
lands and the West Indies on
other occasions.
THE NEEDLE is what Dr. K. M. Lewis,
veterijiafian, 'is givirjq this pooch at the
rabies k«uc, while Hoke Dog Warden
Leslie Irion does the holding. This is not
the one that took a piece of Irion’s hand.’
Pic By PD III,
BY James A. Pippin
District Forester
Forest fires in Hoke County
have reached critical proportions
this year. Since January 1, 1961,
33 Hoke County forest fires have
burned over approximately 2164
acres. Mbst of these fires have
occurred in the vicinities of Bow-
more, Antioch,’and Dundarrach,
and were aparently caused by
people in these areas attempting
to burn off bays and fields.
Some particularly large and
destructive fires are listed as
follows: January 6, 158 acres on
the C. A. McLeod Estate; January
8. 126 acres on G. 3. Lytle’s land;
January 8, 66 acres of Z. V.
Pate, Inc.; January 9, 48 acres
of James Butler and Z. V, Pate
Inc.; January 11, 125 acres of
J. A. Hodgin and Cecil McPhaul
land; January 11, 71 acres of W.
Stanley Crawley; January 12. 95
acres of W. Stanley Crawley;
January 13, 28 acres on Mrs. Betsy
McCormick's land; January 13,
21 acres of T. F. McBryde: Janu
ary 14, 25 acres on G. B. Bostic's
land; January 25, 41 acres of J.
W. Hasty and McNair Farms, Inc.;
January 25, 67 acres of J. M. Mc-
Gougan and W. G. Marley.
These are-dust a few of the
forest fires on N. C. Division
of Forestry records for January,
1961. During tne period of Feb
ruary 16-19 several more extrem
ely serious'fires burned and des
troyed Hoke County woodlands, 4-
I one of these reaching a size of
450 acres before it was finally
brought under control. More in
formation concerning these, and
' other fires will be published later.
I The number and size of forest
• fires occurring in Hoke County
I far exceed that of any other «.oun-
kept going.
The car is believed to be a
1959 Ford, blue with white top.
It had not been located yesterday.
About $200 damage was done to
the Howard car with no personal
injuries.
School Bus Hits Car
At 7:30 a.m. Tuesday there was
a wreck between a school bus
and a car at the intersection of
two county roads about 300 yards
west of' the Raeford—Red Springs
road three miles south of Rae
ford.
Inman said that it was report
ed to him that James Sahdefson,
white, of Red Springs, Route 3,
had stopped at a stop sign at the
ty in North Carolina. A great
I deal of damage has been done
I to Hoke’s young forest stands
and planted seedlings.‘While the . . ,
fires were probably set with the j ^ntcrsecUon when the school bus
intent of burning briars,* brush hy Marion Hollingswortn,
and grass out of bays or fields, ! colored, 17. cut too short in mak-
I this vear’s unusually dry weather the turn and struck Sander-
' has caused the flames to sprea#-r48P's «r doing about $3(|0 dam-
j out of the- lowlands into very about $50
, valuable timber stands where I
they caused severe damage. Sev
eral barns and outbuildings have
also been lost to these fires.
Many people still have the
false idea that burning the woods
will kill ticks, boll weevils ant^
(Continued on Page 6)
Inman charged Hollingsworth ,
with driving on the wrong side ^
of the road. |
Wreck Near .Maxton
Also on Tuesday morning, at
about 8:00 o'clock, Robert Milton
Home, 22, white man of Maxton,
(Continued on Page 6)
was taken to the
hospital with what was thought
to be a broken back., but the
I hospital said yesterday that he
' was not seriously hurt.
I Trailing the Watson vehicle
Creech lost control of his trude
in avoiding hitting the Watsoo
truck when it went out of^spn-
trol. His Ford went off the roa4
! on the left and turned over\
i against a fence. Neither he ner ’
I Gattis were hurt.
I Tlie patrolman said that the
I boys who were able admitted to
him that they were racing, and
that Bobby Creech had beea
charged with racing and recklea
driving.
Inquest Friday Night
Dr. William Barry, Hoke Coia
ty coroner, has investigated the
accident, and has set an inquest
for 7:00 o’clock Friday night hi
the county courthouse.
The death of young Watson
brought to three the number at
fatalities from highway accidenti
in Hoke County in 1961. the same
number in seven weeks as there
were in all 1960.
Funeral 10:90 Today
Funeral service is to be co*
ducted at 10 00 o’clock tdis morA
ing at Red Sorings Presbyteriae
church for Knox Watsoo. Jr,
and burial is to be in AUowaf
Cemetery in Red Springs
PAY is-what Bill Howell is going to have
to do for the next advertising
he gets, but this picture in 1908
is in now, although the re^t of the street
and the surrounds seem to have
a mite.
a a the