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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
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Tin HSU I», fEBRLARY 6, 1964
Candidate
Appoints
Managers
In Hoke
ALFRED K. LEACH
J. BION BREWER
Preyer To Bring Campaign
To Hoke County Wednesday
J. Bion Brewer and Alfred K. Leach have been
appointed co-tnanagers of the Preyer for Governor
campaign in Hoke County.
The announcement came from L. Richardson
Preyer's campaign headquarters, which simul
taneously revealed that Preyer will visit Raeford
next Wednesday.
The Guilford candidate for the Democratic
nomination will appear at die Hoke County court
house at 2 p. no. He will make a speech in the
courtroom and will spend some time visiting with
friends and meeting Ae voters.
The Upchurch High School band will play on the
courthouse lawn and Ed McNeill's string band will
pierform In the courtroom. Free refreshments will
be served.
Preyer’s appointment of Brewer and Leach Is
the first by a major candidate In Hoke County.
Brewer, 35, Is active In the Democratic party.
He Is former president of Hoke County Young
Democrats.
He also Is a member of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and Immediate past president of the
Bank Board
, Adds Pair
Two new members have been
elected to the Raeford board of
managers of Southern National
Bank, according to an announce
ment by Joel E. Davis, senior
vice president of the banking
firm.
They are Junius M, Andrews
of Route 1, Red Springs, and
Marvin J. Pinson of Raeford,
Andrews, a farmer, lawyer
and vice recorder. Is pre
sident of the Lumber River
Electric Membership Co
operative. He is a Mason and
a member of the Antioch Pres
byterian Church.
Pinson, plant manager of the
Pacific Mills worsted plant,
here is a past president of the
Lions Club and the Hoke County
United Fund. He is a deacon
in Raeford Presbyterian
Church.
Heart Fund
Campaign Set
( Mrs. L. S. Brock Jr. and
Mrs. George Wilcox have been
named co-chairmen of special
events for the 1964 Heart Fund
. ^rive In Hoke County.
' Mrs. Brock will be In charge
of a balloon sale In downtown
Raeford, tentatively set for
February 8. Mrs. Wilcox Is in
charge of a "roadblock’* col
lection, tentatively set for Feb
ruary 15.
James Sinclair Is In charge
of Heart Sunday — a door-to-
door canvass set for February
28.
• Henry Miller Is Business
Days chairman. Downtown
business establishments will be
solicited during that campaign.
Mrs. Harry McLean, city
chairman. Is sending out letters
to civic, fraternal and church
groups, soliciting memorial
gifts.
Hoke County
In Magazine
The anticipated Hoke County
issue of The State magazine
^hlt the malls this week and a
copy of it can be purchased from
the Chamber of Commerce.
Steps Are Taken
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For Revaluation
According to a schedule set
up by the 1960 state legislature,
it is time for Hoke County to
prepare Itself for another re
valuation program.
Hoke commissioners were
advised by its clerk, T. B. Les
ter, that the 196C taxes must be
based on a new valuation of
property. In order to have the
work completed by that time
preliminary steps must be taken
soon, he said.
Taxes are now being paid on
a current real value of
$27,782,528. The tax rate is
based on a 60 per cent of evalua
tion.
Lester was authorized to be
gin drawing up proper contracts
so they can be submitted to
appraisers. The information
contained will reveal the num
ber of parcels of land and the
number of building in the county.
A county committee will be
appointed between now and June
to work with appraisers who
will arrive here by November
to begin preliminary pro
cedures.
As soon as taxes are listed
next January, the team of ap
praisers will begin work and
evaluations will be completed
by the end of 1965.
In other business, the county
board voted to pay Dr. Clifton
Davenport $717.30 for accumu
lated leave. Dr. Davenport is
leaving the county Feb. 12, after
having served as county health
director since Feb. 18, 1960.
The decision was based on the
state's merit system schedule.
Lester was authorized to ac
cept applications for a city dog
warden to succeed L. R. Irion
who resigned recently. Appli
cations will be turned over to
the new health director when
one is officially named.
The county board accepted
an offer from Camp 118 of the
Woodmen of the World to in
stall a flag pole and a flag on
the courthouse grounds.
Fourth Man
Is Arrested
Charles Wesley Bullard, 19,
was arrested during the week
end in connection with a series
of soybean thefts at the Tom
Holland farm, sheriff’s officers
reported.
Bullard was apprehanded
by Deputies Jesse Lee and Alex
Norton. He also was charged
with speeding 75 miles per
hour, failure to heed a stop
sign, and failure to heed an
officer’s red light and siren.
Three other Indian youths
have been charged in the two
cases.
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REFUSES PERMIT
Town Council Halts
Plans For Cemetery
Hoke County Fair Association.
Brewer is general overseer of the spinning de
partment of Raeford Worsted Mill. Heis a native
of Moore County and has lived In Raeford 11 years.
Brewer Is a graduate of N.C, State College. He
is married to.the former Phyllis Apperson of
Durham. They have five children.
Leach, also a graduate of N. C. State, is a 33-
year-old native of Hoke County. He is vocational
agriculture teacher at -Hoke County High School.
He is a lifelong Democrat and active in pany
affairs-In the county.
Leach is a deacon In Antioch Presbyterian
Church, where he also teaches a Sunday School
class. Last year, he received the Distinguished
Service Award of Raeford Jaycees.
In 1962, he was local unit president of die N. C.
Education Association and last year headed dis
trict four of the Vo Ag Teachers Association.
Leach is a veteran of the Navy, in which he
served four years during the Korean conflict. He
is married to the former Sarah Coxe of Wagram.
They have four children.
Sunset Hills
Residents
Protest
Raeford town commissioners
Monday night halted plans for a
cemetery In the Sunset Hills
'■“.velopment just south of town.
Commissioners declined to
issue a permit to Hoke
Memorial Gardens., Inc., which
reported it already had invested
about $11,000 in the project.
The town board thus ba^ed
a recommendation by the Rae
ford Zoning Board of Adjust
ment which Monday night held
a public hearing on tfie cemetery
squabble.
The board issued the recom
mendation after 21 property
owners dafelsred at the hearing
that their property would be
decreased In value if the ceme
tery was allowed to develop.
Charles Hostetler, attorney,
represented the cemetery in
terests and argued for his
clients that the cemetery would
be an asset to the area and would
not impair the value of existing
residential property.
The Sunset Hills residents
declared that they expected the
area to remain residential when
they bought their property from
Julian Wright, who developed
Sunset Hills and also was a
developer of the cemetery.
Raeford's zoning ordinance,
which is effective one-mile out
side the town limits, would have
permitted the cemetery to be
established provided it had suf
ficient parking and did not im
pair surrounding property.
In effect, the board of ad
justment’s vote “against" the
cemetery ruled that neither of
. these provisions were met.
Principal spokesmen for the
Sunset Hills group included
Harold Glllis, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Herbln, Gladys Summer
lin, Mrs. James Johnson, Sgt.
James Johnson, William Wam
pler, Boyd Edmonds, George
Ashley, Ray Klutz, and several
persons who appeared only as
“Interested citizens."
Shuford Pennell, one of the
Sunset Hills group, said he felt
the cemetery would decrease
the value of his property. “But
even if It didn’t," I would be
opposed to It. I think Sunset
Hills is a beautiful housing
project and ought to continue to
develop as a residential area."
Julian Wright told the board
he owns 60 acres of land ad
jacent to the proposed cemetery
and that he plans to develop
it as residential sites.
"If 1 had thought the cemetery
would hurt the community, I
would not have put it there,”
he declared. "The State Burial
Commission came down here
and selected that site and con
vinced me that there’s where
it ought to go."
Theae magazines cannot be
bought from the newsstands.
A pair of cover pictures fea
ture the county courthouse and
an aerial view of Pacific Mills.
Inside pictures Include the old
Raeford Institute, the town's
churches, the Civic Center and
many other shots which help
to tell Hoke’s story.
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LOAN BUILDING -- Above is an architects’s drawing of
the new Raeford.Savings and Loan building now under con
struction on Campus Avenue. Plans call for the building
to be completed and in use by spring.
N.C. Fund
Car Shears Pole, ■'"n^
hcLaruoke Darkens Raeford
Hoke County apparently has
lost out on an experimental
pi ogram being financed by the
North Carolina Fund in an effort
to cut down on poverty in the
state.
According to reports and
statements made Monday at a
meeting of the county board of
commissioners, most of the 20
sections to receive the funds
had already been picked, if not
officially selected, before most
other counties had been given
complete information regarding
the project. Cumberland county
officials, learning that areas
were being chosen for the trial
effort, rather than counties,
asked that Hoke be classified
with them, according to infor
mation received by the board.
But Cumberland also failed to
get in the bandwagon.
An area in which Scotland
and Montgomery are a part,
however, did make the grade.
Miss Josephine Hall said that
reports from most public
agencies in Hoke had compiled
statistics which reveal the eco
nomical status of the county
and that she hoped the informa
tion would help Hoke' County get
in on the program in the future
if it is continued.
Raeford was left without
electric pow.er briefly Sat
urday night when an automobile
crashed into a utility pole at
the south edge of town.
The crash sheared the power
pole and blew a transformer,
plunging the town Into dark
ness at about 10 p.m. Electrical
service was restored in most
areas within a few minutes,
but power was off in the
immediate vicinity of the crash
until early Sunday morning.
Robert Leo Lovette, 24,
of Shannon I?t. 1 was driver
of the car which went out of
control on St. Pauls Hoad and
skidded 125 feet across Central
Avenue into the pole.
Lovette and a passenger, Eli
zabeth Baxley of Haeford,
both were injured and taken
to Cape Fear Valley Hospital
for treatment,
Lovette’s 1964 Mercury was
demolished. Policemen Sam
Motley and J. C. Barrington
Investigated. Lowette was
charged with reckless driving.
Two other accidents occured
in the area at week’s end and
were investigated by State High
way Patrolman J. E. Dupree.
At 1a.m. Friday,a cardriven
by Grover Wilson Gaddy, 54,
of Wagram went out of control
and crashed between Duffy’s
Station and Red Springs on a
rural paved road.
Dupree said the car skidded
375 feet into a field on the left
side of the road, re-enderedthe
highway and skidded another 90
feet, then overturned and rolled
135 feet into a field on the
right side of the road.
Gaddy’s left ankle was broken
in the wreck. The car, a 1964
Ford, was demolished. Gaddy
was cited for careless and reck
less driving.
Another wreck occurred at
7:30 p.m. Sunday between be
tween Pittman Grove Church
and Davis’ Bridge when a 1956
Buldk owned and operated by
Daniel Welton McPhaul, 28, of
Lumber Bridge Rt. 1 went out
of control and overturned on
a curve.
Dupree said McPhaul was
uninjured. The car was a total
wreck. McPhaul was cited
for careless and reckless
for careless and reckless
^riving.
Open Nights
The Hoke County Library will
begin remaining open each Mon
day night between the hours of
7 and 9 p. m., Mrs. Lee Came
ron, librarian, announced.
Wants Jail
Repaired
If a judge can make a county
spend money regardless of lU
financial standing, Hoke has its
orders.
Last week, while Superior
Court was in session here.
Judge W. K. Nimmoeks issued
an order to Sheriff Dave
Barrington instructing him to
repair the living quarters at
the county lail.
It was all a follow-up of the
grand jury report which stated
that previous recommendations
to repair the property had not
hei n carried out.
I he judge instructed the
sheriff to "have the living room
in the jail living quarters paint
ed and the floors and walls
put in first class lotidltion; to
have the jail inspected and
treated for termites by an
authorized jiest control dealer,
and to have the bill for the
ai)Ove expenditures submitted to
the county auditor and county
commissioners for their ap
proval and payment,"
The judge’s order continued,
‘ Furthermore, the county com
missioners of Hoke County and
the county auditor are hereby
authorized, empowered and in
structed to pay the hill for the
repairs set forth when said bill
is properly presented for pay
ment."
TO SI PFJIIOKCOI RT
Five Cases Appealed In Long Session
SEWING BEE — Women of Antioch Presbyterian Church held t sewing bee this week to make
nightwear for the children at McCain. Shown In the foreground, left to right, are Mrs. Della
Rayner, Miss Wills McLauchlln and Mrs. J. W, McPhaul.
Judge Harry Greene presided
over an all-day session of Re
corder’s Court Tuesday. The
term was lengthened because
Superior Court had postponed
the previous week’s session.
Five decisions were appealed
during Tuesday’s session. They
were:
L. C. Cunningham, no address
listed, assault, 30 days, sus
pended, $10 and costs, appealed
under $100 bond.
Broadus L. Evers, Raeford,
non-support, IS months sus
pended on condition that defen-
dent pay $25 per week for sup
port of his minor children and
post a surety bond of not less
than $2,000 and not more than
$3,000 for performance of the
judgment. Appealed under
$2,000 bond.
Fred G. Holleman, McCair.
driving car drunk, judgmsr.t
guspended upon payment of$l!0
and costs, license revoked for
12 months, appealed under 31?'
bond.
Thomas HoUandsworth, Rae
ford, public drunkenness and
usault, 12 months suspended,
$25 and costs, good behavior
for two years, appealed under
$200 bond.
William Jasper Gales. Wa
gram Rt. 1, no operator’s li
cense and driving car drunk,
second offense, two years sus
pended, $300 and costs, good
behavior for two years, ap
pealed under $500 bond.
Grady Locklear, Pembroke,
speeding 85 miles per hour,
judgment suspended upon pay
ment of $50 and costs, appealed
under $100 bond.
Other decisions included:
Rufus Dockery. Raeford, Rt,
1, reckless driving, $50 and
costs.
Calvin C. Powell, Ft. Bragg,
speeding 90 miles per hour,
$50 and costs.
Rufus P. Pearce, Raeford,
driving car drunk, six months
suspended. $100^ and costs, li
cense revoked for 13 months.
Mondell Adkins, Raeford, Rt.
1, driving car drunk, six months
suspended, $100 and costs, li
cense revoked for 12 months.
James Maxton Lovette, Pope
AFB, speeding 70 miles per
hous. 60 days suspended. $10
and costs.
Margaret Wilson,RaefordKt.
2, assault, $10 and costs.
Harvey Hunt, Pembroke,
iriving drunk and carrying a
concealed weapon, six months
suspended. $150 and costs.
Curtis White, no address
listed, assault widi a deadly
weapon, six months suspended,
$25 and costs, banished from
County for 12 months.
Delton Monroe Jr.. Raeford
1. assault on a female.
SIX months suspended, $10 and
costs, good behavior for 12
months.
J. C. Purcell, Raeford Rt. 1,
no operator’s license. 60 days
suspended. $25 and costs.
Bennie Roosevelt W right,
Fayetteville, driving cardrvuik,
six mondis suspended, $100 and
Hoke
Rt
Norman Oxendine, Fairmont,
passing on a hill. S20.
William Roland Beckwith.
Raeford Rt. 1, public drunken
ness. $30.
Harold Lee Cockrnan, Car
thage. speeding, $30.
Charles Wilson Lunsford,
Raeford, speeding. $25.
Charles Ray Bleckwelder,
Concord, speeding., $20.
Alta Carroll Meadows.
Baltimore. Md., speeding, $35.
Paul Smith, Raeford Rt. 3.
public drunkenness. $20.
John Lamar Atzaway. Win
ston-Salem, speeding. $30.
Sterling Wesley Jones, Row
land. speeding, $30.
LiUlUU#
William Earl Holder, Aber
deen. public drunkenness, $30.
Cori»ll McLauriR Raeford.
Mara4Mll W^iae, f*il«re to heed stop siga 130.
•itn drlvlrw, Benjamin FranMlnGradyJr.,
*50 and rout.. Dobbins AFB. Ga., speeding,
$30.
Clark Maxwell Mercer,
Chauston, Fla., pessing on a
hUl. 130.
Bond forfeitures included:
Clyde Eugene Key, Ft. Bragg,
speeding, $30.
Charles Sammy Byers, Con.
cord, speeding, $20.
Henry Nelson Adam Jr., Fay
etteville. passing on a hiU, $2a
Paul J. Posoraki. oo addreM
listed, no operator’s Ucanee.
$6a