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journal The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXn NUMBER 23 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA •4 PER YEAH 104 PER COPY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1947 Begins Monday i. r' United Fund Campaign Hopes To Net $22,000 LONG, DRY SPELL ENDS -- We don't customarily run sports stories or pictures on Page One of the News-Journal, but last week's 2-0 victory by Raeford over Seventy-First ranks as front page news. It was the second win of the year lor the Bucks, and only the second In two years. In this photograph, a Seventy-First player Is shown getting one hand on a forward pass that could have made the game 6-2 In favor of Seventy-First, but he dropped the ball. Looking on Is ► Raeford's Mike Prince (42). Raeford’s eight and ninth grade team won over Hamlet last week, 32-0, but the local Jayvees were defeated, 32-12, by Rockingham. Co-Op Meet Hoke High Student l8 Planned Qq Jq France Lumbee River Electric Mem bership Corporation will hold Its 27th annual meeting Novem ber I at Lumberton Recreation Center. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m, and the meeting will get under way • at 10:30. A nominating committee has selected tiiese nominees for di rector: Mrs. Junius M. Andrews, representing all of . Hoke County east of N. C. 211, * including Antioch township, which lies west of N. C. 211; Cecil S. Dunn, representing the Robeson County townships of Lumber Bridge, Parkton, St. Pauls, East and West Howells- «, vllle and Saddletree; and Nell A. Watson, representing the Robeson County townships of Maxton, Alsfordsvllle, Thomp son, Union and Rowland. Other members of the board of directors Include E. L.Cook, Fayetteville Rt. 3, W. B. Branch, Lumberton Rt. 2, EH F. Mur ray. Laurlnburg Rt. 2, Hubert R. Prevatte, Pembroke Rt. 1, W.H. Powell, Rowland RL 2, and Charlie Pendergrass, Rae ford Rt. 3. Principal speaker will be H. Pat Taylor of Wadesboro, for mer member of the N. C. House of Representatives, lawyer, and potential candidate tor the Dem ocratic nomination for lieu tenant governor next year. Entertainment will be by the Harvesters, a gospel quartet. ^ Attendance prizes will be award ed as usual. at Hoke Granges Win Awards Three Granges in Hoke Coun ty are among 96 in North Car olina sharing honors In the 10th annual program of community awards. They are Wayside, Ashemont and Blue Springs. Each will receive a $25 award during the state Grange convention now Is session at Charlotte. The awards are sponsored jointly by North Carolina Na tional Bank and North Carolina State Grange. They are given In recognition of the efforts of local Grange* to inriprove their rural communities. Projects carried out by the Granges J over a wldi' range of activ ates, Mrs. Mai'hall Newton Is master of Wayside Grange, James Nixon master of Ashe mont Grange, and Glenn W, • Wood master of Blue Springs Grange. BY GWEN ANDERSON Hoke County High School Is In the midst of organizing a student-exchange program. Our principal, Mr. G. R. Autry, who Instituted the program at East Montgomery High School, is whole-heartedly in favor of the program and hopes that it may be started by the next school year. The exchange is under the School Affiliation Service (SAS) This Is an educational program with one purpose: to develop out of a vivid personal experi ence an understanding that will serve the cause of peace In the world. It provides a means of exchange of many different kinds with a school In a foreign country. Hoke High will not only send a student, but it will con tinuously be sending classroom projects, exhibits of arts and crafts, tapes, books, slides, school publications and letters about the happenings at HHS. Hoke High's sister school Is Lycee d'Etat de Jeune Fllle In Alencon, France. Tlie school had been a state school for girls but It has become co educational. Whereas our school consists of four grades, the school at Alencon Is com posed of six grades. As of now a rising Junior will be selected to go. In this way, he or she will be able to return to Hoke High School to share his or her experiences. They will be many. This will be a very reward ing and enriching experience for the student chosen to go. He will have the experience of attending the sister school and living with a French family in the community. Two-Week Canvass Is Planned Raetord-Hoke United Fund will launch Its annual tund-rals- ing campaign here Monday, and ^und otUclals said they hope the drive canbe completed this year In the two-week campaign period, which will end Novem ber 3. Goal In this year’s drive Is $22,027.75 — only slightly high er than last year’s goal, which was surpassed. Only twice In the 14-year history of the drive has the campaign ended up short of Its goal. Chairman of this year’s cam paign Is Palmer Wlllcox, local attorney and member of the P.aeford town board. Vice chairman is Bobby Conoly, banker. Volunteer workers will can vass the residential areas of tie town and county. Downtown business and professional men will solicit contributions from their employes. Industrial plants will conduct the drive within their pfShts.”* Mitchell Sports and Doc Ivey are In charge of solicitation In tlie downtown business area, iames Attaway and Gilbert Ray are campaign leaders In the rural areas; W, T. Gibson Jr. In schools, and Wlllcox among professional men. The campaign each year raises money for about a dozen local agencies, as well as for state and national agencies which benefit local citizens. Individual Items In next year’s United Fund budget — v/hlch will be provided by money raised In the current drive — Include: Girl Scouts, $2,400; Red Cross, $4,088: 4-H Clubs, $350; crippled children, $300; l ecreatlon, $5,800: Boy Scouts, $4,310.53; CarollnasUnited(for U. S. O. and a half-dozen other services), $1,779.22; needy children (free lunches), $2,400; white cane (LionsClubprogram •or the blind), $200; shrinkage c nd expense, $400. The recreation Item Includes $3,000 for ‘’Hoke recreation; $1,000 for “county recreation See UNITED FUND. Page 11 JAlLnRE.\K ” Many avloUtor of the law vrlshes this had happersd while he wa* incarcerated ill Huke Gouiity Jail. The eld jail Ir beiiiji torn dowt, wMU a new on. Is being raised nearbv. ‘ he twrx-ilke steel tructure lihlnd the worker oi; i''- ru' 'le i 'he "econd floor cellMnck. Hoke', prUonert are being housed in die . totUiid f ou.itv jaii at 'urlnburi. while ttw new Hoke jail Is Neltii completed. FIREFIGHTERS -- Volunteer firemen of Rockftsh Fire Department are shown applying water to an oil fire during competition between five Raeford and Hoke County Arc departments last Wednesday afternoon. The Raeford de partment was overall winner of the competition, but was hard pre.ssed by the other departments. Raeford Firemen Winners Williams Of Five-Way Competition Is Director Volunteer fire departments from five Raeford and Hoke County communities staged an afternoon of fun and competi tion here last Wednesday Inob servance of National Fire Pre vention Week. The Raeford department was adjudged winner of the com petition and received a bronze plaque. Puppy Creek was se cond. The competition was spon sored by Raeford-Hoke Chamb er of Commerce to attract at tention to the volunteer fire fighting units In Raeford and the county. Competing were the departments from Raeford, North Raeford, Rockflsh, Puppy Creek and Hlllcrest. A sixth department. Stonewall, did not compete because most of Its volunteer firemen are farmers and were working on Wednes day afternoon. Four events were staged, with all but one being judged on time. They were ladder rescue from the second floor of town hall; filling a 55-ga'lon barrel with water from the department's pumpers: dousing an oil fire, and rolling a barrel with water, while an opposing team applied resistance. Ihe last event did not count in tne scoring. Raeford’s wirnir.g time, an average of the three events, was 50.6 seconds. In second place was F'uppy Creek with 55.4 second.., Hlllcrest was close behitx' wir .'Hl.4 seco.nds. Rockfuh, wn.ieh was disquali fied in O I r r. .“■ad 64.2 second', a;id North Raeford, also diiqjahfied 1' o e attempt, had at. aserage .-■f Ralpf. Bar-hart, Doe DeyatrJ Neill A. McD’ ^ d "'ete C af- me- .i ’■ eif-t. ''iV alia'..' wa' ,i ccvi-cii tueeos 'Jar art'aid. "Wc ;ad i rvd wd a J t « fire men said they enjoyed iL It pointed up the fact that we have some mighty good volunteer firemen In the town and county." Tlrues In each of the events were; Ladder rescue — Hillcrest, 34.8 seconds for two runs; Rae ford, 37.8 seconds; North Rae ford, 39.6 seconds; Rockflsh, 40.2 seconds; Puppy Creek,42.6 seconds. Barrel All -- Raeford, 67.2 secorids for two Alls;Hillcrest, 78.0 seconds; Puppy Creek, 78.6 seconds; North Raeford, 98.4 seconds (disqualified on one at tempt); Rockflsh, 100.8 seconds (disqualified on one All). Fife dousing — Puppy Creek, 45.0 seconds for two runs; Rae ford, 46.8 seconds; Rockflsh, 51.6 seconds; Hillcrest, 56.4 seconds: North Raeford, 58,8 seconds. Rockflsh won the barrel roll, with Raeford flremen second. Some of the departments be gan to plan Immediately for similar competition next year, when the county may Iiive two other departments — one in the Blue Springs area and another In Quewhlffle. The North Raeford depart ment actually had not begun op erations, but entered a team from the 34 new members who are drilling each week while they wait for their siren to arrive. The rural fire departments are part of a county wide net work of volunteer fire depart ments supported by taxes levied See FIREMEN, Page 11 Ed WUlUms, who recently returned from a national con vention In Miami of the Wood men of the World, has been named a national director. Williams, who resides in Raeford and serves as town manager, has also held many Important W.O.W, positions. In cluding that of national frater nal committeeman. He Is a member of Camp 718, Raeford. He Is a past camp president and has served as chaplain. The organization’s magazine stated recently that he has tor many years been a popular speaker at Wood men functions. The new director spent last weekend m Brevard, where he presented a United States flag to the Transylvania County Hos pital. W. 0. W, has presented nearly 50,000 such flags In the past 20 years. Hoke Driver Is Charged In St. Pauls Hit-Run A Floke County man has been charged with hit-run driving end manslaughter In the death of Hqnry Jackson, 73, who was killed siaturday as he walked along a rural paved road flve mlle^ north of St. Pauls, State Highway Patrolman K. K. Dqnicls of Cumberland Coun- t) sa id the charges have been 'lied against Robert SpeiKer, Raeford Rt. 2. Spencer was arrested Sat urday afternoon at the home of 'Mlllam Hart Jr., Fay-ettevllle Rt. Both Spencer and Hart were Jailed In lieu of $20,000 bond^ Hart was charged with being an accessory after the 'art. .4 ihree-county manhunt was launched aUer Jackson's death. He was walking alongside the road near his home when struck. He died an hour later in South eastern General Hospital m Lumberton. Officers said the hit-run car was Identified and they traced ownership. Meanwhile, a tractor-trailer which overturned staitulesetn of Rae'ord on Highway 401 sometime early Wednesday morning had to be unloaded yesterday before It could be moved. State Troeper J. D, Robin son of Raeford said the heavily loaded rig belonged to County wide Sewing o' Clinton and was loaded with neavy, cumbersome boxes o' wool. Driver of the truck was list ed as George Perry o( Glut ton. Robinson said he was called to the scene about 4:30 a. m. Wednesday and found that the driver was not present. Later in the day, another truck came to the scene and picked up the cargo be%>re a wrecfttr could move the overturned truck. Robinson said the accident occurred Juat east o' Richard Neeley's residence. The trac tor-trailer lefl the road on the right side, gfiinf toward Fay etteville, and overturned. Moivday aflernoon, a Make See DHIVER. Page 11
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