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Welfare Director Answers Doctor Jordan
Dear Sirs:
I want to thank Mrs. Peebles
for her account in last week's
paper of Dr. Riley Jordan
appearing before the County
Commissioners. It gives me an
opportunity to say in writing
what 1 have attempted to
explain verbally to local
interested persons.
County public welfare
departments are locally
administered. State supervised
agencies. Policies and rules by
which public assistance is given
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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
VOLUME LXIV NUMBER 27
Rockfish Wins
Third Award
A third set of judges in three years has
named Rockfish first place winner in the
Community Development civic
improvement competition.
The Hoke County community entered
the contest under the non-farm
community division. Its prize of $125 in
cash and a plaque was accepted by
Gilbert Ray, president, at the annual
district awards dinner held Monday night
at Samarcand.
Wayside, competing in the Rural Farm
division, took second place and SIU0 in
cash accepted by Mrs. Charles Hclblin,
Still Lagging
United Fund Drive
Reports $12,468
"Please turn in your cards" is the
request that Bobby Conoly, Hoke County
United Fund drive chairman, made this
week. He stated that pledges at this time
are around 60 of the goal but it is still
not anywhere near the $20,000 need for
success. Raeford Worsted Plant turned in
over $10,000 of the SI 2,000 now on
hand, Conoly said, and this shows that
other firms haven't been doing their job.
The breakdown of money received by
disivions are as follows:
Industrial $10,918.54
Commercial 318.00
Individuals 180.55
Professionals 55.00
Community Areas 2I5.2S
Teachers b78.00
Public Employes 103.00
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IS COSChRT - David College Male Chorus will be sponsored here in concert Saturday. ov. 2JatSpm in the Raeford Elementary School Auditorium by the ChaminaJe
Music Club of Raeford. The group has been wtf received throughout the South. Ihe all male organization of S2selected voices has grown in nature and is now recognized by
eminent music critics as "one of the lop choral organizations in the nation. "
re made by federal and state
governments. In a few smaller
programs, financed totally by
the county, policies are made
and approved by welfare
boards and agency directors.
There is a limited county
medical program in Hoke that
pays for visits to local doctors
for indigent persons who do
not get monthly public
assistance checks. Public
Assistance includes Old Age
Assistance, Aid to Families
With Dependent Children, Aid
to the Permanently and Totally
Disabled, and Medical
Assistance for the Aged, and is
financed largely by the federal
government. There is an
amount included in monthly
public assistance checks for
medical care.
Our department determines
eligibility for visits to doctors
by working a budget with each
applicant. If income is more
than budgetary iequirements,
according to a schedule
furnished by our state
department, this applicant is
ineligible. I might add,
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president, and the Town of Raeford won
third place in the Town Division. Avery
Connell accepted the prize.
In the absence of Ray, Tuesday
morning, Mrs. Ray said that the prize was
won on the work accomplished on long
range goals and on progress shown in
industry hunting. The community paid
off a $500 debt carried over after
renovation of the club house last year. It
purchased a new fire truck and among
other projects continued its work on
water conservation.
Total $12,4MU4
These figures Conoly said will show
that workers have not completed their
work. The Raeford Turkey Farms started
their drive this week, the chairman said,
and should turn in their report by next
week. Pacific Mills Dye Plant is almost
through and their report should also be
in.
No word has been heard from a
number of the schools, as only three have
turned in reports and only two of these
are complete.
Conoly asked that all firms please turn
in their cards to The News- Journal office
or to him at the Hank of Raeford. If you
can't, please call and they will be picked
up.
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however, that very few
applicants for medical care are
found ineligible. We do not pay
bills that we do not authorize
before the patient visits the
local doctor, but the county
pays for all visits that are
referred by our agency. We
operate under a budget, of
course, but funds up to now
have been adequate to meet
the needs of eligible applicants.
I he case in question in the
report written by Mrs. Peebles
was not a welfare case, but a
School Health Program case.
Upchurch Auditorium
May Be Condemned
The life of Hoke County's largest
auditorium is weighing on a balance!
There arc signs of imperfections in its
structure and it is feared that it may have
to go.
It was recently determined mat broken
areas in the Upchurch School Auditorium
ceiling has been caused by weakness in
wooden trusses. It has also been
established that this faulty condition has
also caused a side wall to sway. This,
however, is not visible to the eye of the
average person.
The concrete block building, which is
connected with the main portion of the
original structure of the school by a
broad hallway, sufficed for three
classrooms until the doors were locked
recently for safety's sake. The two
dressing rooms and the stage were utilized
for teaching purposes.
Chairs are now set up in the hall to
lake care of some of the classes.
I he auditorium, built in the early
1940s, is equipped to seat 850 persons,
some 300 more than can be
accommodated at Raeford Elementary
School, site of the only othei full-fledged
auditorium in town.
Stationary scats at L'pchurch are
comparatively new and in good
condition. Hie building itself is not old
compared to some still being on many
college campuses.
Calvin Howell, architect of Southern
Pines and Nick Gardner, construction
engineer, have inspected the building. A
report on their findings has not been
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By an agreement between the
State Boards of Health,
Education and Welfare, local
welfare agencies certify school
children for treatment by
doctors after these children are
referred to welfare by health
departments as being medically
eligible. Welfare only certifies
financial eligibility according
to an income guide set up by
the State Board of Education,
and Education pays the bill.
The income guide for the
School Health Program is fairly
generous, and is not restricted
4 PER YEAR 10
Inspection Shows
filed.
If the report is favorable, bids will be
called for with repairs in mind. If it shows
Superior Court Starts Mon.
Judge Braswell Presiding
Judge Maurice Braswell will face nearly
I (XI cases when he opens Superior Court
here next week.
If no cases arc continued, an average of
almost 20 cases a day must be tried or
othewisc disposed of. This is an
impossibility since there arc such
time-consuming argumentations thai aie
likely to develop in cases of defendants
who arc to he tried for murder,
kidnapping, rape, manslaughter, assault
with deadly weapon with intent to kill
and carnal knowledge of a minor, none of
which are to be taken lightly.
Offenses and alleged offeiuleis are
docketed as follows: ( 1 hose listed
following certain charge does not mean
their cases arc connected)
Murder James Frederick Handon.
Manslaughter Charles Elmore
Newton.
Embezzlement Waller Scott and John
D.Stridcr.
Carnal Knowledge of Minor James
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to persons actually in need of
basic requirements, as welfare
is. It is a good program for
school children from limited
income families who very
probably could not pay for the
recommended treatment.
Please let me again make
cicar that welfare does not pay
the bill in School Health cases.
Our part in this program it
certifying eligibility, according
to an income guide furnished
by the State Board of
Education, that pays the bill,
and all referrals come to
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that the structure on the whole is not
worth repairing, the building will be
abandoned and $100,000 to $150,000
Scott, alias Dobbin Scott.
Kidnapping and Rape, Ardcll
Slurdivant.
Attempted Rape - Johnny Eee Scott.
Conspiracy John Wayne Eocklear,
Nick Hunt. Jimmy Eocklear, Lloyd
Merrill, Alamancler Eowcry.
Non Support - Pete Junioi Brunson,
Joseph Flowers and James Patterson.
Breaking and Entering and Larceny
Ernest (June Hug) Murchison, Clayton
Eugene Parks, Roscoc Griffin, Terry
Waterson, Grady lee, Jiinmic Lee,
Chailes Wayne I ee, and for larceny and
receiving only, George Walker.
Assault with Deadly Weapon With
Intent to Kill - Marline Eocklear,
Roderick Graham, ;;nd charged with
assault with deadly weapon only is Joe
Alexander Wilson. Prec Woods is charged
with ADVt and also with destroying
persoiul property, driving while license is
suspended and larceny.
l arceny - George I . Walker.
Felonious I arceny l acy McMillian.
Felonious Receiving - Alamander Eowcry
and Attempted I arceny Kenneth
Itlanchard.
Failure to Yield Right of Way - Bell
Love Baldwin.
Driving L'ndcr the Influence, or Driving
Drunk Ronald William Cockran, Sr.,
(second offense), lwis Junior Fllcrbe
(second offense), George Marion, William
David Lunslord, Clyde Thompson, lona
Judton Lennon To Preach
Robbins Heights
Revival To Start
Revival services will be held at Robbin
Heights Baptist Church, Nov. 17-23,
beginning each night at 7:30 o'clock.
Guest evangelist will be the Rev.
Judson lennon.
The Rev. Mr. Lennon has many friends
in Raeford, having served as pastor of
first Baptist Church from l')49 to 1953.
He has also served other churches in
North Carolina and is now city
missionary for Bangkok where he has
lived since being appointed to Thailand
service in 1965. He has taught in the
Baptist Theological Seminary there and
has helped with evangelical work in the
near hv town of Nonburi.
The public is invited to attend Ihe
revival and renew acquaintances with this
former Raeford resident. Services ill
also be held on Tuesday and Thursday
mornings at 10:30 a.m.
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will be needed for rebuilding, unless it is
decided that the town must do without
this sizeable gathering place.
Chavis Phillips, James Tillman Long,
Elmer Davis, Robert Wayne Mims, Dennic
Eugene Davis, Wyvie Davis, Ben Lewis
Sowcll, William Marccllus Shcllcm, Jack
Carrie Jackson, Isablc Domhkowski, Fred
Dudley, Brantley Oxcndinc, Willie Martin
McCain, William Otis Webb, Marccllus
Boahn, Tracy Locklcar, James Edward
Locklcar, W illiam Edward Baxlcy, Daniel
Ferguson, James Pearlcy Wall Jr., Roscoc
McMillan, Thomas Monroe, Buster Currie
and Glenn Currie (second offense).
Arson Richard Ellis.
Affray - John Wayne Eocklear.
Speeding - George Phillip Martin,
Leonard McBryde Jr., Kenneth Earl
llarrell, Jim Hollingsworlh.
Aiding and Abetting a Drunken Driver
- Herbert Alexander Parks.
Reckless driving and oilier traffic
charges - Johnny Spencer, Thadcus Ezell
Jones; No operators license Johnny
Leon Spencer.
Worthless checks arc continuous
weekly headaches in magistrate's and
district court. A dozen of them will take
up the lime of Judge Braswell and
Solicitor Doran Berry in this term of
Superior Court. Charged with passing
seven in amounts ranging from $25 to
$55 is James B. Bryant. James Long it
charged with issuing five ranging from
$1.42 to $6.12.
Baptist Church
Nov. 17th
The Rev. Judion Lennon
welfare from the health
department. The three agencies
in this way work together for
medical treatment for school
children who would not
otherwise get this help.
Thank you for space for this
explanation, and for the
support your paper lias always
given our program.
Sincerely,
Mabel McDonald, Director
Hoke County Department of
Public Welfare
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