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ew^ Ttm Hoke County JoLimal - Established 1906 journal The Hoke County Nms - Established 1928 VOLUME LVIU NUMBER I RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 14 PACES $4 PER YEAR W' PER COPY THiRSDIY, M4Y ms Green Light Hoke, Upchurch, Hawk Eye Are Given Bank Dttvis Named As Manager Outlet Joel E. Davis has been appointed senior officer and manager of Southern National Bank in Raeford, according to an announcement Tuesday by Hector MacLean, president Davis currently is associated with Soudiern National Bank at Laurinburg where he is vice president He moved there from the home bank at Lumberton when the branch was opened in 1959. Before entering the banking field, Davis served in an exe cutive capacity through the southern territory of Sears Roebuck and Co. His last assignment with Sears was. as group credit manager of the Mernphis Group. A native of Robeson county, he is a graduate of St Pauls High School, and he attended the University of Chattanooga, Davis has completed courses in banking with the Afherican Institute of Banking. Currently, he is attending the Banking School at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville where he will graduate in August In banking affairs over the state, Davis has held several positions of important At the present he iS a director of the Cape Fear Chapter, American Institute of Banking. The Southern National vice president has been elected to the Executive Committee of tfie N. C. Bankers assn, for 1963 and 1964 He is also vice president of the Alumni Assn., School of Consumer Banking University of Virginia. Davis is active in civic attairs in Laurinburg and is a past director and treasurer of the Laurinburg Chamber of Com merce. Hehas served as chair man of die Christmas Parade Committee and chairman of the Tourist and Convention Com mittee. As a member of the Laifrinburg Rotary Club he is a past director and secretary and treasurer. He also is a Mason. Davis and his wife and their three children are members of the First Baptist Church, and he is on the board of deacons. The familv olan to move to Raeford from their home in McLaurin Acres in the late summer. Other personnel of the new bank at Raeford will be announced at a later date. S. National To Open Branch By This Fall The application by the Soutfi- ern National Bank of North Carolina to establish a bank in Raeford has been approved and construction on the build ing is expected to start within 30 days. Announcement of the approval of Southern National’s appli cation by the U.S. Comptroller of Currency was made last week by the bank’s president, Hector MacLean of Lumberton. The bank made the application on April 10. Harold Gillis, Raeford real tor who played a strong part in bringing the bank to the town, said the bank building will be of modern brick design, two-story , 5,000 feet of floor space with drive-in facilities. It will be located at Elwood and Main Sts. on the site now occuppied by an abandoned diner, and the McPhaul-Willi- ams Co. The structure will be erected and owned by T. B. Upchurch Inc. and leased to Southern National. According to Gillis, the architects currently are re vising plans used to build another bank to meet the local situation. He said bids on the building will be adv'i'tised in two weeks and let soon after that, Gillis said: ’’Those of us who worked to get die bank are pleased with the sWift ap proval and know that it will be a fine asset to our business community.” MacLean said that the bank is planning a fall opening. The Raeford bank will be die seventh in the Southern National chain. There Are already four branches in Fayetteville, two in Lumberton, where the home office is located, and one in Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Hamlet and Fairmont. A board of managers selected from Hoke County citizens will control the bank here and stock will be made available to the people of the county. PTA Installs New Officers officers were installed at the final P-TA meeting of the year Monday night at Raeford Ele mentary School. Featured on die program were the Boys’ Chorus, die Junior Chorus and the Girls* Glee Club of the schooL They were under the direction of Ann Miller and were well re ceived, John Manuel awarded a desk pen set to the ’’World’s Best Baby Sitter,” John Pickup. For the past three years Pickup, an industrial engineer at the Raeford Worsted Plant, has been showing cartoons to chil dren while their parents attended P-TA meetings. Manuel also recognized Ardiur Ramsey and members of the Hoke County High School Key Club for their assistance on the program. *il Ready Graduate Seniors i ■ Havdi Eye Dr. Morton Public Relations Director To Graduate Address Commencement Speaker 10 Seniors Senior Class ‘■‘i Commencement exercises for 10 graduating seniors at Hawk Eye High School will be conduct^ at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. The students who will graduate are Bobby Locklear, Car vie Lee Miller, Charles Clark, David Earl Bullard, Don ald Ray Oxendine, Eloise Clark, Hellen Locklear, Henry Thur mond Locklear, Judy Faye Jacobs and Willie Foy Jacobs. The commencement address will be given by Dr. Martin L. Brooks yrfio will be intro duced by Earl H. Oxendine, principal. Diplomas will be awarded by Lonnie Locklear, chairman of the local school committee. The school’s Baccalaureate Sermon will be delivered at the school at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 26. The speaker will be tile Rev. Venus Brooks. HOKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL salutatorian, left, Nancy Bray, valedictorian, Jean Brock. Wheat Vote Yes In Hoke, No In Nation Almost 95 per cent of tiie wheat growers in Hoke County voted in favor of continued pro duction restrictions and price support in the referendum con ducted Tuesday. The control ptogram failed nationally. The total county vote was 533 of which 28 were against con trols. The total figure re presents 95 per cent of tiie wheat growers in the Hoke, which, according to Mrs. Louise Blue. ASC agent, is an ex tremely good turn-out. There were 20 absentee ballots vrhich had not been tab ulated by press time Wed nesday. The control program passed in North Carolina. Virginia was against it as were most states in the West. Y ro. * .j UPCHURCH HIGH SCHOOL valedictorian, left, Connie Murttiiison, and salutatorian, Marilyn Murchison, sisters. *195,000 l\iriiey Loan OK A $195,000 industrial loan to help Raeford Cold Storage Warehouse. Inc., Raeford, North CarolLna, construct and equip a plant for the freezing and storage of poultry was an nounced yesterday by the Area Redevelopment Administration of the U. S. Department of Com merce. ARA Administrator William L. Ban, Jr., said the loan, which will run for 15 years and bear an annual interest rate of 4 percent will help create an estimated 140 jobs at an ad jacent turkey farm, which is owned by the firm’s parent company, Raeford Turkey Farms. Inc. The project will also create 10 direct new j(^ (See ARA LOAN, Page 10) Drifter Killed Hit-Runner P-TA OFFICERS INSTALLED Monday night were, left to right, Mrs. Brown Hendrix, treasurer: Miss Nancy Thornberg, secretary; and Mrs. C. P. Sauerwhite, vice-president. The ins^t^ing officer is Bion Brewer, Immediate past president, was in Atlanta on business. (Staff Photo) The newlv elected president, Fred Culbreth, Tne mutilated body of a hand some young Hoke County drifter still lies unclaimed on a cooling table in the Cape Fear Valley Memorial Hospital in Fayette- viUe. He was struck down, dragged and killed by in uniden^ed hit-and-run driver early Sun day morning o" Rural Highway 1228 near the Five Points Community. The Hoke County Sheriffs Department, the Highway Patrol and the State Bureau of Investigation are still seardiing without results so far, for the driver of the car. The young man, who Sheriff Dave Barrington thinks may originally have come from New Hampshire and who had been in the county only three weeks, was known in these parts as A1 Duntin. He, according to information the sheriff has re ceived, had attended the Four square Church in Raeford on at least one occasioa The sheriff said that it is likely that Hoke County will bury him since efforts tocontact his family have bm futile. Duntin. whose full name, as the sheriff received it, was Al Leon David Duntin Jr., was approximately 21 years old. Barrington said he had been working for Byron Parks of near Five Points but tiiat he apparently was not a farmer and just taking what work he could find. (See HIT RUN, Page 10) Mrs. MacDonald Hurt In Crash Mrs. K. A. MacDonald, 303 E.^ Central Ave., is still con fined at Cape Fear Valley Hospital as a result of an accident which occured Sat urday on U. S. 301 near tiie Americana Motel. Mrs. MacDonald’s husband, who was driving the car, was not injured, ^e suffered a broken ankle and minor head Injuries. Their car was struck by anotiier driven by Allen Norman Roush, 16, of Bidwell, Ohio. The Bidwell car belonged to J.ucian Strickland of Wilson. The youth was charged with public drunkeness and litteriqg the highway by tossing a liquor bottle out of the car. Damages to the two vehicles totitied approximately $600, according to Investigating officer, E. C ColweU. Updiurch High School will graduate 87 seniors at com mencement exercises in the school auditorium at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 28. The speaker will be Dr. Charles E. Morton, dean of Fayetteville State Teachers College. The schedule of closing events for the school year will be as follows: At 8 p.m. Thursday. May 23. in tiie school auditorium a Senior Class night at which the graduating students will present the class history, prophecy, re citals and skits. At 4;30 Sunday. May 26. in the school auditorium, the Bac calaureate Sermon by the Rev. Charles Blalock, pastor of Bright Hopewell Baptist Church, Laurinburg. On Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the school auditorium an Awards Day at which all students will receive honors for achievements in school activit ies. Dr. Morton, the commence ment speaker, is a man of remarkable achievements. Only 37 years old. he grad uated from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He also studied at the Union Theological Seminary in New York and obtained a BJ), from Heidleberg Un iversity in Germany. He re ceived a Ph. D. at Columbia University. He is a Baptist Mli^ter, a lecturer and writer. He is listed in the third edition of Directory of American Scholars and in Who’s Who in American Education. Among others, he has con tributed articles to “The Soutii Today,” ’’Journal of Religion,” •The Catholic World” and “The Pulpit.” License Bureau To Close Monday Because of the Chamber’s annual meeting and banquet scheduled Monday evening at Hoke High School cafeteria the Raeford License Bureau, lo cated in the Chamber office, will be closed Monday after noon at 1 o’clock. Office personnel will be engaged in preparations for the banqueL The license bureau, however, will open at 9 a.m, Tuesday. DR.BUTLER Hail Loss Is Heavy A good deal of hail damage was suffered in Hoke County from a hail storm last F riday afternoon. County Agent W. S. Young said that tobacco, vegetables, soybeans and corn were damaged extensively es pecially in the Lumber Bridge, Rockfish and Davis’ Bridge areas as well as in tiie nortii- western section of the county at Qucwhiffle. The breaking buds trom to bacco plants will cause large scale replanting. David Propst of the Davis’ Bridge section, a vegetable farmer, said that tomatoes on his vines were stripped from the stalk. One insurance agent said tiiat his firm had received applications for payment from some 30 farmers, most of whom were located in the above mentioned sections. In some cases hail insurance does not cover loss on tobacco unless the plants have grown to a size of 20 leaves. In other cases the company will help pay the expense of re setting. Dr. James Watson Butler, associate director of puolic re lations at East Carolina College, will be the speaker at commencement exercises that will graduate 68 seniors from Hoke County High School the night of Wednesday. May 29, The event will take place in the Auditorium of Raeford Ele mentary School and will begin at 8 o’clock. Dr. Butler’s talk will be on ’’After High SchooL” The hi^ school also has two other events scheduled in con nection with graduation. Class and Awards Night will be at 3 o’clock on Fnday also in the Raeford Elementary Auditorium. At this event, for the entire high school, the class history, last will and testament and class prophecy will be given. Awards will be pre sented to all students for achiev^ents in various school actfviti«. Two scholarships will be awarded, also. The other event will be the Baccalaureate Sermon at 8 p.m. Sunday. May 26. This will be delivered by tiie Rev. John Glenn, pastor of the First Bap tist Church. He will speak on ’’The Secret of Success” in the Raeford Elementary Audi torium. The commencement speaker. Dr. Butler, is a graduate of East Carolina College and did graduate work at George Wash ington University. He holds an honorary doctorate of letters ^rorr "Berlin t^emorial ’Jni - versiiy at ChiUicother. Mo. He has been editor of several North Carolina newspapers and a trade publication. He also is widely known as a consultant in public relations. Frank Crumpler. Hoke Coun ty coroner, entered the Moore County Memorial Hospital the evening of Thursday. May 16, for a hernia operation. He was operated on Friday morning and is reported doing welL He is expected to return to work Thursday, May 23. Electric Power Off This Sunday Electric power in the Raeford service area will be, off Sunday morning. May 26. from 5 to 8 o’clock. Ben Hurley, service representative, has announced. Hurley said that the inter ruption is necessary in order to complete work for increasing power facilities at Raeford, He cautioned that those de pending on electric clocks should bear in mind the fact that they will stop at 5 a, m. Sunday. Two And Captured By Motley" Patrolman Sam Motley last Saturday at 4 a. m. discovered and arrested two Ft. Bragg soldiers in the act of burglari zing Teal’s Gulf Station on the Aberdeen Highway, just past the overhead bridge. Here is the story as gotten in an interview at tiie Raeford Police Department. Patrolman Motley w as making a routine check of the station, as he does approxi mately every hour, and discovered the padlock he usually sees to be missing. Looking in, he saw a man inside tiie station office and immediately radioed for help. Dispatcher Leslie Faircloth was at tiie desk when the call came in. He picked up Patrol man Harvey Young who was making the rounds of the local business establishments and sped to tiie scene. Upon arriving, he found Patrolman Mouey with tne pair against the wall making the usual search of personal pos- Under questioning, the men disclosed that they were Oscar F. Bowen, 22. and Thomas D. Lambert, 22, and were soldiers stationed at Ft, Bragg. According to Faircloth: Lambert, the driver of the car, let Bowen out at the gasoline sution and drm • the home of Dewey MoQMfi and parked his car in the ye^ Lambert then returned to the station on foot. At the rear of the station, tile two men cut a window pane and then found their way block ed by a steel bar. They then returned to the front and broke the padlock off with a crow bar. The pair made their way to tne office where they found the safe to be unlocked and with no money inside. They were pulling papers out of the safe when surprised by Patrolman Motley. (See SOLDIERS. Page 10) .Burglary Tools
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