1 w 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. 0 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. 0 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. 0 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. 0 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

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