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Tlew^ - journal The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LI X NUMBER? KAEIORD. BOKE COl \T), \0KTH CiHOLl S4 PER )E iR 10' PER COP) rniHSOl), JiL)2,l96t J\ HOKE COUNTY Judge Moore Wins By Large Margin Guardsmen Move Takes 10 Precincts; Into Field Monday Vote Is Heavy NEW PRlNClPAL-'Raeford’s newest family is that of tlie Donald D. Abernethy, who will be principal of MokeHiuh School for the coming year. Left to right are Abernethy. Jeffry 5, and Douglas 7, Jonathan 4. is on a visit out of town KECOKDEirS COMM' 12-Year Old Help Reported Is Very Expensive in County and was not pictured. The family, now living at the former Dewey Huggins residence, comes here from Duplin County where he was principal of the Wallace-Rose Hill High School. Meningitis SllOOtS^ It doesn’t pay to let an ado lescent manipulate your car even if Its engine Is not running. Franklin Miller of Raeford found this out the hard way, Tuesday. Miller was allowing his 12-year-old son to guide a car which the father, driving another automobile, was towing when he was cited by a patrol man. Miller told Recorder’s Court Judge J. M. Andrews, Tuesday, that he was unaware that he and his son were breaking the law. He was, nevertheless, fined with cost of court, $20. The charge was for ’‘knowllngly permitting a person without legal right to operate hlsmotorvehlcletowlt: a 12-year-old boy.” Other decisions handed down this week were: Willie McNeill, Rt.lRaeford, careless and reckless driving and damage to property. Pay $140 for automobile damages to Richard Branch. Herman Edward White, 43, Fayetteville, failure to de crease speed to avoid a col lision, 30 days. Judgment con tinued on paynient of costs. Earl Locklear, Rt. 2 Rae ford, larceny of goods, GOdays, suspended on payment of $10 fine. Violate no law In 12 months. Delmer Neal Harris, 31, Fort Bragg. Driving without due caution and circumspection, 00 days, suspended, $25 and costs. James Earl Locklear, 18, Shannon, assault, 60 days, sus pended $10 fine and court costs. See COURT Page 9 Courthouse Open Sat. Closed Mon. The Hoke County Courthouse will be open Saturday as usual and will take the July 4th holi day on Monday, officials have announced. All of ices in the county of fice building, including the fed eral offices, will be closed on Friday and open on Monday. Most of the stores will re main open on Saturday and will take the holiday on Monday. The News-Journal and tiie local banks will take the holi day on Saturday. July 4, and will be open for liushiess on Monday. The Raeford case of menin gitis, hospitalized at Scotland Memorial Hospital, is not the contageous kind. Dr. Purcell of Laurinburg. the child’s phy sician, assured The News- Journal Wednesday. Jerry Wayne Hyatt, who was seized with a severe headache last Wednesday while at the Little League ball park for practice, was referred to 'the hospital by a local doctor. According to members of his family the 12-year-old boy was not feeling well before he left home to go to the park. They reported tliat he has since sufiered a number of convul sions. Dr. Purcell said, however, that chances for his recovery are now good. He termed the case as pneumoccal meningitis. She didn't ir.ean to shoot Bert Hankins. Annie Lee McNeill told the sheriff’s department. She meant to’ shoot someone else. The- McNeill woman was charged with entering into an affray with a deadly weapon after her shot struck Hankins in the leg. James Bostic, owner of the Negro hang-out where the Sunda'^’trtghl fracas took place^ was also charged with entering in the affray. The shot was intended for him. Hankins, who refused to press charges against his assailant is hospitalized at Veteran’s hospital in Fayetteville. Sheriff Dave Barrington said that his condition is fair. The roar of tank and armored personnel carrier engines of the .lOth Infantry "Old Hickory’’ Division broke the earlySunday morning silence of Fort Stewart. Georgia as elements of the division prepared for their move to fieldbivouc areas. Units just arrived from the Tarheel State Saturday night, were ready to make their sec ond motor march in the past twenty four hours. These units of the North Carolina Army Na tional Guard consisting of ap proximately 1356 officers and men had departed their home stations in North Carolina on June 27. All equipment and personnel were moved in large motor convoys to Fort Stewart. When the troops arrived at Fort Stewart, late Saturday night, they were fed a hot meal and allowed a few hours of well earned rest. Even though they were weary from thei r long trip down the highways of three states, their morale was high and they appeared eager to con tinue their training. The move to the field Sunday morning was necessary to meet the rigid training scliedule required dur ing annual summer field train ing. The bulk of the 30th Infantry Division of the North Carolina Army National Guard, less the armored elements, lias just completed two weeks of summer field training at Fort Bragg, Reunion The Chason Clan will hold a reunion Sunday . July 12 at Cum berland Memorial Park on Highway 401 between liere and Fayetteville. AT THE TOP--Davld Harrison’s mother has the honor of pinning the Eaj’.e Scout badge on her son at ceremonies held at the Presbyterian Church Tuesday night. Dr. I. Beverly Lake of Wake Forest extreme right, made the Eagle Award presentation. David’s father, H. D. Harrison Jr. is at center. ' Patrolman J. E. Dupree re ported that only one slight injury resulted from three ac cidents in Hoke County, Sunday. William K. Asbury, a Fort Bragg soldier, received minor injuries when he overturned three times and landed in a corn field. The accident oc curred at 1:30 p.m. between the communities of Wayside and Rockfish when Asbury’s vehicle failed to make the curve at the intersection of rural paved road 141.5. The vehicle was demolished, according to Dupree. The driver was charged with op erating the car under the in fluence. .At 6:4.5 p., m. the same day. the Warren Phillips Service Station on N. C. 211. 8 miles west of Raeford, was the scene of anotl'.er accident. Jesse Franklin Odom. Ill Aberdeen, side-swiped a car operated by Lloyd E. Brown of Robbins. Odom stated that he skidded into the car as he slammed on brakes to 'Keep from hitting a car driven by Local Scout Receives Eagle Badge The highlight of a Western District Scout Court of Honor held at the Raeford Presby terian Church. Tuesday night, was the awarding of the Eagle Scout badge to David Jay Har rison, Here to make the presenta tion was Dr. L Beverly Lake, of Wake Forest, a recent North Carolina gubernatorial can didate. In recognizing the honor won by the boy, Dr. Lake remarked that he had admiringly watched David as he developed his ta lents throughout his childhood. “We were neighbors of the family 12 years 14 years ago when he was bom,” he re- See SCOUT Page 9 North Carolina. For the past several years, the30thDivision has been unable to spend its two weeks of summer field training as a complete organi zation due to the lack of tank firing ranges at Fort Bragg. It has become necessary each year for the armored elements of the division to train at Fort Stewart. Georgia where on this large expanse of swamp land wilderness, on the FortStewart reservation adequate range fa cilities and maneuver grounds are available for the large tanks of the division totrain and com plete the necessary firing re quirements. Brigadier General Roy E. Thompson. Assistant Adjutant General of North Carolina, senior officer with the North Carolina contingent said, "I never cease to be amazed at these young guardsmen and their devotion to duty. They •perform any given task with much spirit, and are always ready to continue as soldiers, day or night.’’ “A good example of this is their eagerness to make the rru.’or momh to the field early Sunday morning even though they had just completed a 350 mile convoy movement to Fort Stewart on Saturday, ’ General Thompson also said. See GUARD Page 9 Three Accidents In County Sunday Irene Allen Jernigan of Dunn, who he said made a left hand turn into the service station. Odom said he wa s cresting the hill -from the East and was too close to avoid hitting one of the two vehicles. He skid ded 200 feet. Because of conflicting state ments of witnesses, Officer Du pree said that no cliarges have been preferred. A second collision took place less than an hour later. The • car of Alvis Hollingsworth, .Ne- aro of Rt. 2 Raeford, was struck O broadside by an automobile op erated by Henry Maynor, Negro of Rt. 3. Hollingsworth was charged by Patrolman Dupree with mak ing an improper left turn. Both cars were damaged a combined estimated -AA-'O. Child Killed By Auto David Walters, seven-year- old son of Mrs. Louise Walters, who works at the A & P Store here, and Earley Walters, was struck by a car, near his home at Rennert, and killed, Tuesday afternoon. The automobile was being driven by Mrs. Leila Ivey Par nell, of Aberdeen, who works here at the Elks Restaurant. The accident was investigated by State Trooper J. C. Davis. .Mrs. Parnell said the child was walking down the road and that he darted in front of her car. He was with a sister at the time. No charges have been filed. Funeral services will be con ducted today at 3 p.m. at the Prevatte Funeral Home in Fair mont by the Rev. A. P. Ste vens. Burial will be in the Fairmont Cemetery. Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Gerald Bruce of Ft. Jackson, S. C. and Michael of the home; one sister, Gail, also of the home. I or some unpredictable rea son. familiar only to politics, Jud^e Richardson Preyer lost some of his .May 30 election votes in Hoke County and in last Saturday’s run-off allowed Jud.;e Dan K. .Moore to walk off with all l)Ut two of the 12 precicts to come out ahead in the county and in the state. The unofficial tally at Hoke election headquarters was, Moore 1 470; Preyer 1,013. .Ashemont citizens turned out in the greatest number of all the outlying precincts in both elections. .Moore’s count there jumped from 00 to 128 while Preyer’s dropped from 127 to 115. Allendale, another of the larger precincts, continued to put their mam strength behind Preyer upping his vote count from 84 to 90. Moore only won 16 votes in the area, add ing five new followers to his original count of 11. Blue Springs gave Preyer 107 votes in May and Moore 28. Last Saturday Preyerdrop- ped to 90 while the winning Moore rose to 80. .Moore gained even more than the 44 votes won in the precinct in .May by I. Beveraly Lake, another gub ernatorial candidate, who came in third in the May primary. Cliff Blue of Aberdeen, who lost the state-wide Lt. Gover nor’s race to Bob Scott of Hav River in a close race in the run-off, tallied the largest num ber of Hoke County votes among the four candidates in the June 27 election. His total was 1,930. Even so, he lost 34 votes be tween May 30 and June 27. Scott jumped from 332 in the county in May to 508 in June. Moore upped his original 566 to 904 new votes, evidently winning the bulk of the Lake supporters. In comparison the unofficial count of June 27 and the May 30 outcome was: Allendale, May prlmary- Preyer 84; Moore 11; Blue 81; Scott 9. June-Preyer 96; .Moore 16; Blue 50; Scott 62. Antioch, May-Preyer 61; Moore 35; Blue 108; Scott 18. June-Preyer 54; .Moore 79; Blue 104; Scott 21. Blue iinr.rs Ma>-Freyer 107; .Mi>)r- Ni, blue 131. Scott 28. Juiie-r re', er jC: .Moore 80; Blue .. ,. S.'ott 77. Buchan, Ma;. - Preyer 18; .Moore 22. blue Scott 8. June - Freyer 14. Moore 65; Blue 76, Scott '.3. Pupiy Cr-ek, May - Preyer 52; Mocre 45, Blue 123; Scott 2' Jure - Frnyer 42; Moore 1'.; Blue 123; Scott 29. Raeforf 1 May - Freyer 255; Moore 117, Blue 424. Scott 65. June - Freyer 228, Moore 308; Blue 43 3. Scott 34. Raeford 2, May - Preyer 248; Moore 117; Blue 418; Scott 45. June - Preyer 222; Moore 250, Blue 395; Scott 71. Raeford 3. May - Preyer 46; Moore 13. Blue 82; Scott 25. June - Preyer 38. Moore 70; Blue S' Ott 31. Raeford 4. May - Preyer 07; Moore 74, Blue 164; Scott 34. June - Freyer 58; Moore 17), Blue lb, Scott 33. Rockfish. May - Preyer 21; Moore 28; Blue 85, Scott 17; June - Freyer 13; Moore 105; Blue 34, Scott 18. Stonewall. May - Freyer 45, MDore 32; blue 104, Scott 18. June - Preyer 43; .Moore 88; Blue 103; Scott 24. Ashemont, .May - Preyer 115; Moore 128; Blue 182; Scott 59. June - Preyer 11'; .Moore 128; Blue 182; Scott 59. N J Staff Short Both The News-Jou.-nal ed.- tor Jim Taylor and ;:s publisher, PaulDirks”;, are out of the office this we Taylor entered Moore Me no- r;al Hospital last Wednesday and underwent throat su.'gery. Thursday. He s eicpected to return home today. It ;s not certa n whether he w.'.! '-g in the office .Monday. Col. Dic'isbn left Surdav morning for a two-week en campment with the Nat oral Guard at Fort Stewart Ga. Barning Time Correction Earl Hendrix of the Bethel section and a few other tobacco farmers will begin housingtheir crops tomorrow or at least by Monday, W. S. Young, county agricultural agent, said. The tobacco crop is about a week behind last year but the cotton crop is aliout at its nor mal stage. Young said. Cotton blossoms have been showing themselves for about 10 days and a few bolls can now be found. In a round-up of Recorder’s Court News last week, The News-Journal erred in omitting the word. "Jr". W'e are sorry and are glad to ma-ie this cor rection. The item .-ead: JuLan .H. -Ige .Raeford wo.'thless check in '‘-e amount of 5.36.5.60 60 days suspended restmut on of chec- costs. The name should have been Julia.n H. Blue J.u ! Miraii UftlU ui UHCWiia Shv’ Qto .•«-v NEW BL’ILDING--Thc Raeford Savings and Loan will move into this new home today. It Is located on Campus Ave. The structure contains a lobby, multiple teller windows, a private otHce for Mrs. W. L. Poole, secretary-treasurer and a kitchenette. The building also affords t drive-ln t«U«r window. Open house will be held. July 17.
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