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Ttw Hokt County Journal - Established 1905
The Hoke County Neves - EstabtUied 192t
*yOLUM^ LVm NUMBER 29 RAEfORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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THURSDAY. DKCMMWRR X ffit
Surplus Food Plan
Being Considered
r
Whether needy families in
Hoke County have a Christmas
present of extra food In the
house depends upon the county
commissioners’ luck In finding
a juilding to store government
surplus food offered.
Mrs. C, H. Giles, county
superintendent of welfare, ex
plained to the county board at
Its Monday meeting that free
food Is available for Hoke Coun
ty provided the county will do
Its part.
Members of the board were
Interested. So Interested that
they completed other business
of the day by noon and spent
the afternoon In Laurinburg In
specting and investigating the
distribution set-up there. They
discussed the program with two
field representatives from the
State Department of Agricul
ture, who happened to be on
hand.
"It is a good think and It
is needed In Hoke County,"
T, B. Lester, county account
ant, said, noting that many
families have no income after
crops arc harvested. The com
missioners agree but the an
swer hinges on the availability
of an empty building which will
qualify as an adequate storage
place for a two months supply
to meet the county’s needs.
Mrs. Giles said Tuesday that
there are families in her ter
ritory numbering as many as
25 living in three rooms witfi
hardly enough to eat and wear.
Qualification requirements are
rigid and a great deal of red
tape Is Involved In getting a
family on the list. But it is
worth the trouble, according
to Mrs. Giles, to know that
children, as well as unfortu
nate adults, are getting enough
to eat.
Mrs. Giles and C. C.
Conoly, chairman of the wel
fare board, accompanied the
commissioners on the trip to
Laurinburg.
CHRISTMAS AND NOODLES - Larry Norton’s Christmas
tree has a regal look but it was made in his classroom, under
the supervision of Mrs. L. W. Turner, from macaroni and
cardboard. Sprayed in white and tinged with gold, the orna
ment appears to be made from expensive ceramic materlaL
A cone Is first fotmed from heavy paper then finished with the
use of Elmer’s glue and macaroni and noodles In the shapes
of screws, shells, ribbon strips, tubes, bows and other Items.
The finished ornament can be set on a base as shown or it
can stand flat.
Ceimty Board Meets
Education • Commissioners
Compliments have been paid
to Hoke County High school
by superintendents of two other
school districts, Supt. W. T.
Gibson Jr. reported to die coun-
a board of ec^a^on atMond»v
nIghfS regular 'monthTjT. nft. f
_ Ing.
J. E. Huneycutt, of Rock
ingham and Walter R. Dudley
. of Chatham County wirs^te
* letters commending the school
on Its “fine educational work."
The two superintendents were
here recently assisting with
evaluation of the local school’s
program In connection with the
SouSiern Association of Secon
dary Schools with which the
school is seeking accreditation.
The board recommended to
See Education Page 4
The Hoke County Board of
Commissioners voted at the
December meeting Monday to
participate In an employees’
hospital Insurance plan.
?r theproposedset-i.\pthe
“|i.60 pwr
Each individual and the
employee .will pay the remain
der of the4)remlum.
In covering a lot o f terri
tory in a half day session In
order to devote the afternoon
to other business, the board
transacted the following busi
ness:
Passed a motion to contri
bute $25 to Caswell Training
School, Kinston, to help defray
expense of Christmas presents
for children there.
See Commissioners P-4
Two young Fort Bragg men
were ordered Tuesday at Re
corder’s Court to stay out of
Hoke County for two years.
James Anthony Del Negro and
John Richard Schwichtze, both
20 were convicted of rifling an
automobile on a used car lot
owned by Harold Glllis.
Policeman S. R. Motley said
that as he patrolled the town
Saturday night he noticed un
usual actions of a car driving
past the car lot. He parked
his own car, turned off his
lights, and saw a man come
out of the ' lot and get in the
watched car. A pursuit fol
lowed and the two men were
apprehended. In their posses
sion were a distributing cap,
an oil pan and a fuel pump
from a Renault.
Motley said that one of the
men, who admitted the tfieft,
said that he owned a foreign
car of the same make.
Judge Harry Greene sus
pended a 60 day road sentence
and fined the two men $25 and
costs before ordering them to
stay out of this county.
Other Recorder’s Court
Hoke High Gets New
$5,800 Activity Bus
A bright new, red and white
activity Bus arrived at Hoke
High School Tuesday. It will
be put Into use for the first
time Friday When the basket
ball teams travel to Rockingham
for the second game of the
season.
Funds with which to purchase
the $5,800 bus were advanced
^ the Hoke County Board of
Education and will be repaid
within the next three years,
if present conditions prevail,
accordlqg to Superintendent W.
T. Gibson, J r.
"It Is to be understood," the
superintendent said, "that the
37-passenger vehicle Is not an
athletic bus merely to haul boys
and girls to ball games but Is
a medium of travel for the Glee
Club, for transporting children
to and from the health depart
ment or any other place they
need to go In comfort and safe-
ty."
The vehicle is equipped with
Individual seats and overhead
racks for storage. It should
serve the school amply for at
least 10 years, Gibson said.
In speaking of the athletic
club’s financial status, the su
perintendent noted that the or
ganization Is now doing a fair
job of carrying its own load.
It has reduced a $5,000 debt
of last year to a present de
ficit of K.OOO. In past years
It has been able to make con
tributions toward other school
projects. One year it turned
over a $500 sum to J. W. Mc-
Lauchlin School for the school’s
reading program.
While the athletic club is not
expected to foot the entire bill
of the new bus, it wiU, no doubt,
with the above facts in mind,
make the major portion of the
payments. Other groups using
the bus will also contribute,
Gibson said.
HOKE COUNTy HlftH SCHOOL
Ready to roll - Hoke High School’s brtnd new activity bus will make Its first trip
tomorrow night when the girls’ and boys’ basketball teams make the 40-mile trip to Rocking
ham for the second game of the season. The vehicle arrived Tuesday painted in the red
and white colors of me schooL Shown widi It at the county school garage are N. B. Blue,
Robert Blue and L. E. Luck, shop chief.
Town Board Involved In
Cemetery Controversies
y
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Recorder Banishes 2
Thieves From Cty
Memorial Park Cemetery and Houses
Antioch Church
cases included:
Willie McFarlng, 37, of Clin
ton, no operator’s license, $10
fine and court costs.
Hubert Allen, 30,Lumberton,
speeding 65 miles per hour in
a 55 mile zone, costs of court.
Curtis Harris, trespassing
and assault wit a deadly weap
on, 60 days, suspended on pay
ment of costs.
Jim Thomas Powell, 63, Wa-
gram, reckless driving, $25
and costs.
Pauline Allred, no operator’s
license, costs.
Cyrus Earl Autry, 55, Rae-
ford, failure to yield right of
way, resulting in an accident.
Appealed. Bond set at $50.
Jesse L. Locklear, 34, no
operator’s license, $25 and
costs.
Clarence Alvin Webb, 45,
Raeford, driving under the in
fluence, $100 fine and costs,
license revoked for 12 months.
See Recorder Page 4
Hoke Buses
Have Lowest
Cost Pen Mi.
In a recent compilation of
transportation data in the coun
ties of North Carolina pub
lished by the State Board of
Education Hoke was shown to
have the lowest school bus ope
rating cost per mile in the state
during the past eight years.
Cost per mile in Hoke during
this period was 8.736 cents, as
compared to the state average
cost per mile of 11.415 cents
and to the highest, Mecklen
burg County, of 13.568 cents
per mile.
Hoke County operates 45
buses, compared to the state
average of 87, an average of
52.7 miles per bus daily, com
pared to the state average of
36.9 miles daily.
School bus maintenance per
sonnel In Hoke County areL.E,
Luck, chief mechanic, W, B.
Lunsford, mechanic, Robert
Blue, gas man, and N. B. Blue,
property and cost clerk.
Peacemaker
Gets Shot
Freddie Lee Morrison,
Negro, In trying to settle an
argument between friends,
wound up in Moore Memorial
Hospital with a shot gun wound
in the chest.
George Moore, 30, a Negro
who did the shooting. Is still
at large. Investigation was
made by Hoke deputies, Alex
Norton and Jesse Lee. Botfi
men live on Raeford Rt. L
Morrison’s wife told Lee that
Moore was arguing with others
at the Hollingsworth Club on
the Dave Jones road, when her
husband stepped In and tried to
calm him down. She accused
Moore of saying, "This goes
for you, too,’* and then pulling
the trigger of a sawed off shot
gun on her husband.
Morrison, however, told of
ficers that it was all an ac
cident.
The victim was reported,
Wednesday, to be In fair con
dition.
Funeral Today
For Lacy Parks
Lacy Parks, 49, native of
Hoke County, died unexpectedly
Monday morning while visiting
his sister In California.
Funeral services will be con
ducted today at the Antioch
Presbyterian Church at 3 p. m.
by the Rev. P, O. Lee and the
Rev. Ben Ferguson. The body
Is at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Parks at the Mildouson
teyheragfidhere he made his
nome.
Surviving are three sisters,
Mrs. J. F. Hardison of Raeford,
Mrs. Dean Stroud of Rock Hill,
S. C., Mrs. Nicholas Velzades
of Sunnyvale, CaL; five broth
ers, Roy of Woodside, Cal.,
Jesse of San Jose, Cal., Eve-
rette of Stockton, Cal., Ralph
of Charleston, S. C., and W^-
ter of Raeford, RFD.
Bucks Win Opener
Hpke High School’s basket-
bill teams divided a pair of
tlUs with 71st High School on die
local court Tuesday nighf as the
Bucks took their game In over
time, 66-65, and die Hoke girls
were edged by the visitors, 27-
18.
The Hoke teams go to Rock
ingham tomorrow night for their
first games on the road against
the Rockets. Next Tuesday night
the Massey Hill teams will come
to Raeford for two games, and
on Friday night, December 13,
both teams will play Laurin
burg High School In Raeford.
Office Space S huffie
Is Planned By Town
The Raeford Town Board
passed a resolution at Mon
day night’s meeting which
will result in a complete phys
ical rearrangement at the town
office.
In reporting on the project,
Ed Williams, town manager,
said he has been given per-
■ by the board to add
some petitions to the right
hand section (now police de-
.partment). The divisions will
create a private office for the
town bookkeeper and In ad
joining one for the town man
ager. The police department
will move to the left side of
the building where die chief
will also have a private of
fice.
Williams said the change
will connect the offices in his
department. Now one of them
Is in the front of the building
and the other is in the rear
making It necessary to travel
the length of the police office
to reach one from the other.
The new plans also call for
a reception room at the front
of die right hand side of the
building where a clerk will
receive payments for water and
tax bills.
Carpentry work will be done
by town employees and the ex
pense will be kept at a mini
mum, Williams said.
In other business, die board
Train Hits Truck,
Driver Badly Hurt
The condition of Green Hulon
of Fayetteville was reported
by hospital authorities, accord
ing to Sheriff Dave Barrington
to be serious following a Tues
day afternoon train-truck
wreck, near here.
Hulon was removed to Cape
Fear Valley Hospital with head
Injuries immediately after the
3:45 accident.
The victim, an employee of
the Modern Gas Co. ofFayette-
ville, was driving down a paved
Cotton Quote
Voting Places
Cotton growers in Hoke
County will Join those all over
the cotton growing area of die
Nation next Tuesday In voting
on the type of control program
they wlU farm under In 1964,
Hoke farmers were reminded
this week In their ASC news
letter by Miss Louise Blue,
county oMlce manager.
Miss Blue urged all Hoke
cotton farmers to cast their
ballots at the polling places
in the county between 7 a. m.
and 7 p. m. next Tuesday,
December 10. Voting places
are at Allendale community
house, ^J. H. McNeill Store,
Blue Springs community house,
Newton’s Store, A. W, Wood’s
Store, Moss Pure Oil Sutlon,
the ASCS office, Hendrix Store
and Dundarrach Trading Com-
pany.
county road near the Oakdale
Gin. It has not been determined
why he failed to hear the train
whistle which Fred Blue, engi
neer, said was blown several
times before the crossing was
See Train Page 4
raised the salary of the town
manager by $65 per month.
This was done since he will
take over pan of die duties
at the water plant where the
job of assistant to the super
visor has been eliriiUiaied,
Requests to allow certain in
dividuals and organizations to
use gie. town’s radio fj
cy was denied,
Another request from the
Southern National Bank asking
that the town use its facilities
as a depository was tabled un
til a new accounting system
Is set up.
The board adopted a picket
ing ordinance In an effort to
ward off any disorderly pick
eting
Funeral Held
Sunday For
Mrs. Sexton
Mrs. F. B. Sexton, 69, died
Saturday. Funeral services
were conducted from the home
at 604 Fulton St. at 2:30 Sat
urday afternoon, and burial was
in Raeford Cemetery.
Mrs. Sexton was the wife of
Finander Bederry Sexton who
died Oct. 12. Daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Mc
Lean, she was born just a mile
or two south of Raeford, and
worked for Mr. Sexton In Rae
ford Hardware Company for
many years before they were
married.
Surviving arc three sisters,
Mrs. Percie D. Niven, Mrs.
Marshall Beatty, both of Dun
edin, Fla., Mrs. L. W. Mc
Cormick of Nichols, S. C.; six
brothers, Malcolm W. McLean
of Dunedin; A. W. McLean of
Winter Haven, Fla., J. D. Mc
Lean of Aberdeen, W. W, Mc
Lean aind H. R. McLean, both
of Raeford.
Cemeteries seem to be the
number one headache this wwli
for the Town Baerd of Rae
ford. Centrovertles are build
ing up from two directions on
oppoalte sides of town.
At the December meeting
Mond^f mght. residents of Sun
set HOls filed a petition ob
jecting to the location of a
new cemetery being started In
that vicinity. The 18 signers
- of the petition complained that
owners of the commercial en
terprise had begun devdopment
of the project without looking
^ Into (he zoning ordinance.
The cemetery property is
outside the city limits but a
state law gives a town the
right to zone the ureM within
one mile of the city limits.
In asking that the town seek
an Injunction to stop proceed
ings until consideration and
study can be made, the peti
tioners complained that:
1. The area was planned
and dedicated as a residential
area.
2. The esubllshment of a
cemetery in this area will halt
and hinder further growth of
town In the westward area.
3. If it developes to a sub
stantial portion it will create
a traffic hazard at an Inter-
SKtion already burdened widt
traffic.
4. It will decrease the value
of the present property owned.
5. It will tx unsi^tly and
will reduce surrounding vicin
ity to a commercial section.
6. It is basically unhlr to
thf present owners to estab
lish a cemetery in die middle
of a housing development.
k requea were: W,
T. Herbln, Bennie C. Cox, Bob
by E. Tyner, Alex A, Gray,
James W. Johnson Jr.. Harold
Glllis. w. H. Womble Jr., SX.
Pennell. Thomas J. Wood.
George H. Ashley, Mr. and
Mrs. Julius Niven, Boyd Ed
mund. Charles I. Hottel. Myrl
S. Miller. Charles Connell, El-
ben R. Klutz, Clayton H.
Buoyer.
The town board ordered that
the matter be turned over to
the zoning committee for study
and that a joint meeting of
the committee and the bi^rd
follow.
The other cemetery question
was in regard to die commer
cial graveyard which joins the
old cemetery owned by the town.
Certain lot owners have re
quested that the town supply
water to their lots without
charge. According to Ed Wil
liams, town manager, some
board members are opposed to
supplving water to a privately
owned  etnctery. The ques
tion was tabled for the second
time without action.
wilUams said that it was
pointed out at the meeting that
the town had spent $8,355.57
since 1957 for a maintenance
man to work at both the two
adjoining cemeteries even
though one is a competitor of
the ocher. Equipment and sui^*
plies used at boA cemeteries is
paid for through contributions
made to the News-Journal Cem
etery Fund.
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OFFICIAL - Charles Morrison’s appotnmwt as acflng pesooMtar of RaiiMd i
came • official on Tuesday when he wu preaeond his cettifkesse of igpainBMi stfsii kf
Postmaster General Edward GronouskL Tlw preseocsiieo is beiag SMis sbeew t> Dt.
Huihnaoce, left, postal service officer of Atlanu. Looking oo is Poseni—r J. C* NaaHMi
of Rockingham. The preseiKSlien wu made in die RMferd Post Offlos.