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The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXV NUMBER 5 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 14 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY THURSDAY, JUNE 12. 1969 Around Town BY SAM C.MORRIS A Reminder: Don't forget to register Monday, June 16 for the summer reading program at the Hoke County Library. Mrs. Lee Cameron, librarian, says that all children in grades 1 5 are eligible. The program will continue through August 14. Every Thursday morning between 10 and 1 1 o'clock special films or stories will be on the program. The Raeford Woman's Club is co-sponsor of this worthwhile program. The comment in this column last week about a typing class this summer brought forth many phone calls. Mrs. R. B. McRacken, who will be in charge of the class, asked that anyone interested and who didn't get in touch with her or Diane Upchurch, to be at the Hoke High School Monday night, June 16. The cust for the course will be $30. The Wagon Train trip was completed over the weekend and as always the hot weather came along for the trip. There, didn't seem to be as many wagons or horses at the site Thursday night, but the number of people that turned out for the dance and drawing were about as usual. Younger Snead, Jr. was the winner of the pony and cart. He has a place to keep the pony and can make use of pony and cart. One man said last Thursday that he didn't buy i ticket because he was scan-d he would win. Last Thursday night before the meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis ( lub someone mentioned the Wagon Train. Of course during the conversation it was mentioned about my father being in the horse and mule business. I explained to the newcomers in the crowd that feeding horses and mules and camping out is behind me. The other r'glit 'he conversation also brought forth the subject of cows and milking. John Campbell, a farm boy of the 30s, can relate many tales about cows and milking but when Ed Murray, the textile chief, started telling about his days with cows and how two of them would milk the same cow, the crowd seemed to grow. Dr. Julius Jordan is also an expert milker. Now these milkers are not the modern milkers that attach a milking machine to the cow, but the boys that either squatted or sat on a small box and pulled and squeezed or vice versa until the job was complete. You were called an expert when you could hold the bucket between your knees and milk with two hands. The reason the bucket was held was to keep the cow from kicking it over. Ed Murray liadn t ever heard about putting a cow in a break for milking but he understood the reason you would need one. Some cows would kick and especially if they weren't familiar with the person milking them. So you would put them in an enclosure and place a plank or rod in front of their hind legs wliich would solve the kicking problem. I don't want anyone to gel the idea that I am an expert on the milking of cows but I do know that milking, feeding See AROUND TOWN, Page 11 1 t il to f 19.310 CHI CK PRISI ' ) - Shackleford. Director o) AMum present at the prixmimtoii rc .,1-.. Superior with iamicn lh me Administration. Mtilatllc. Ralph Barnliart. Clurlie Sluckhjord and l.ewa Oxendine. member o) board oj director " l-orward. Inc. Low Income Home Building A low income home building program will soon be started under the administration of Forward, Inc. A check for $19,510 was presented to Ralph Bamhart, President of Forward, Inc., by Charlie Shackleford, Director of Advancement, Inc. for the project. Forward, Inc. is a local nonprofit corporation organized for Improvement of economic conditions in Hoke County. The check will finance development of low income home building lots in the Queenmore section. The 10 acre section of the Buie estate will be provided with water lines and a paved inner street. Advancement, Inc. which is supplying the funds, is a four-county program aimed at reducing out-migration from this area. It is administered locally by a 16 member board of directors representative Three Local Businesses Change Hands Three Raeford businesses have changed hands this week. T. Stanton has purchased the Raeford Hardware Co. and George Caddell has bought the James Wood Grocery on South Stewart Street. The former owner of the Wood's Grocery has bought Western Auto of Raeford which was formerly owned by Homer McGuinn. Fire Sunday The Raeford fire department was called out Sunday night to extinguish an electric motor on fire at the Upchurch Milling Company. A small amount of water damage was reported. Loans Available For Low Income Rural Families Improved incomes and higher standards of living are now being enjoyed by more than 60,000 low-income rural families as the result of economic opportunity loans advanced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This report comes from Jake D. Vinson, Hoke County Supervisor for the Farmers Home Administration, which makes available economic opportunity loans to enable rural families to purchase equipment and supplies needed to earn a better living in farming or in small business enterprises. To qualify for a loan an applicant must: 1 . Have limited resources and be receiving an income from all sources that is too low to cover basic family needs. 2. Be unable to obtain the necessary credit from other sources, including regular loan programs of the Farmers Home Administration, at reasonable rates and terms. 3. If the credit is for a nonfarm ... v' y- " v ' - : ',' Kuli'li H.miluri (ivnlirl. President of Forward. Inc.. it i "ii ;. Inc. Hie lu ck Hill hell' finance development of low income hunt building ktts. Others 1 1 M rl leery Mc.Sair. mcmhiT of the board of directs of I'trward. Inc.. Hugh Clark. Civnty To Start of business, local government and civic elements from Bladen, Columbus, Hoke and Robeson Counties. Board members from Hoke County are R.W. Barn hart, W.T. Altman, Ivery McNair and Lewis Oxendine. Funds for the program were provided by the Office of Economic Opportunity to the US. Department of Agriculture which delegated the responsibility to Farmers Home Administration. The program here is one of only two such pilot programs in rural areas in the United Slates. Hail Storms Cause Hoke Heavy Damage Hail stones have taken their toll throughout Hoke County the past week and a half. Over 250 acres of tobacco have been severely damaged by two storms that have hit the county. The damage will run into thousands of dollars. Some of this is covered by insurance. On June 2 a hail storm damaged over 200 acres of tobacco in the Ashley Heights section of the county. Most of the tobacco in that section was fairly young and might have a tittle better chance of recovering than the fields hit early this week. enterprise, furnish evidence that the service or product is not being adequately supplied by others in the community. 4. Have reasonable prospects to earn more income. The total outstanding amount of these loans to any one family may not exceed $3,500. The actual amount loaned will be limited to the family's needs and reasonable ability to repay. "In Hoke County, 26 families have participated in the program, with loans totaling $32,190," Vinson said. "A variety of small businesses have been founded or expanded with the loan funds, and other borrowers have purchased tools and supplies to make their small farms more productive and profitable," he added. Applications for economic opportunity loans may be made by contacting County Supervisor Vinson at the local Farmers Home Administration office, in the Federal Building, Raeford. presented I check for SI9.SI0 by Cltartie $1.30 Tax Rate Set; Increase Of 13 The town board voted Monday to increase the tax rate to SI. 30 which will increase the rate by 13 cents on every SI 00. The last tax raise for the town was in 1962, according to John Caddy, town manager. "The board felt that in order to make Tobacco Hardest Hit According to Wendell Young, County Farm Agent, the following is a list of owners whose crops were most severly damaged in that storm: D.R. Huff, J.W. King, Ed Pickler, Hardin Krouch, DP. Troutman, James Nixon, EJ?. Smith, R.R. Lucas and John Smith. Over 50 acres of tobacco was badly damaged on Sunday afternoon, June 8, in the Shannon area of Hoke. "I've never seen so much hail in my life," was the comment made about the Sunday storm by Harold Boyles, a farmer in the Shannon area. "It must have hailed for 30 minutes. The ground was white w.t' hail stones." Boyles also suffered some lightning damage. Other farmers hit in that storm were Cline Boyles, Gardner Bostic, Max Simpson, Tom Holland and Woodrow Hayes. ESEA Summer School Program Starts Monday The Hoke School System will again hold a summer school program for all grades beginning June 16. The program will run for six weeks with classes starting at 8:30 a. m. and ending at 1 p. m. for elementary children and from 7 a. m. until 1 2 p. m. for high school students. The program will include English, Awards Given At Upchurch At the Upchurch 8th grade graduation the following awards were presented: American Legion Awards, Chuck Davis and Joy Lent; Woodmen of the World Award for American History, Linda Teal and Eddy Dupree; Kiwanis Scholarship Award, Kim Jordan; Schools Best Ail-Around Award, Linda Harrell. HAIL DAMAGE - Harold Boylei and iti Sunday. Boylet Jtid Out lie lud estimated Town Commissioners the needed improvements and to maintain a high standard of service to the town's people the tax rate would have to be raised," Gaddy said. The proposed budget will be voted on as soon as the tax adjustments are completed. The tax increase will add The tobacco was the most severly hit in all of the hail areas according to Young. The cotton, corn and soybean crops on the average were still young enough to pull through the storm. "Usually this area will have around two hail storms a season," said Young. "But these have been awfully close. 1 hope we don't have any more." Young also said that there was some humidity damage being done to small grain crops. The humidity has caused some of the grain heads to be soft. Within the first three days of the week over six inches of rain lias .'ali -, m the county, according to Youi g. The water standing in the fields is causing some crops to suffocate at the root systems. Young said that on Monday night alone Raeford received between 3 to 3tt inches of rain. Language Arts and recreational activities. Each child must attend the school within the assigned district. Transportation will not be furnished. Grades I through 5 will be held in Raeford Elementary, Scurlock, South Hoke and West Hoke. The Upchurch School will handle grades 6 through 8. High school students will attend Hoke Hrgh. Principal for the program will be Earl See SUMMER SCHOOL, Page 1 1 Senior Pictures Ready Pictures taken by News-Journal photographers of Hoke High seniors receiving their diplomas from Principal Raz Autry at commencement' last week have been processed and may be seen at The News-Journal office. Acceptable pictures were obtained of about 200 of the 220 graduates. look over the damage that wat dune by the the damage to be around VO per cent. v 1 v r Meet Cents about $15,000 to the town budget. The over all tentative budget is $438 11 2. 71 which is approximately $60,600 over last year's budget. In other action the board voted to increase the rates for water and sewer connections. Inside the town limits three-quarter inch water connections going to houses will be raised from $60 to $100. One inch water connections will be raised from $1 12.50 to $150. Outside the town limits the three-quarter inch pipe connection will be $250 instead of $225. Sewer connections will be increased from $50 to $75 for four inch connections and from $75 to $100 for six inch connections. According to Gaddy the present fees for installing water and sewer connections were not even covering the cost of the materials used. Palmer Willcox was appointed by the board to the office of town attorney. He will replace Phil Diehi who, due to his heavy work load, was not re-appointed to the two-year office. The board also re-hired John Gaddy as town manager. Wagon Train Returns Sunday Another Hoke Wagon Train ended Sunday afternoon as 25 wagons and buggies and over 100 horses trudged back to Raeford after a weekend at Waldo's Beach. Saturday night at the beach it was estimated that over 800 people.whooped and hollered it up at the square dance. Some campers joined the group Friday night and Saturday night with pick-up trucks and real beds. But the wagon train members roughed it through the entire weekend! On the trip back number of horses and riders accompanied the train that were not on the trip to the beach. The train arrived in Raeford at I p.m. Sunday. Hoke High Booster Club To Meet Mon. The Hoke High School Booster Club will meet Monday night, June 16 at the Gibson Cafeteria at 8 p. m. according to Charlie Hottel, president. Plans will be made for the coming year and all interested in high school sports are invited to attend. A feature of the meeting will be a film on the highlights of the 1 968 season of the St. Louis Cardinals football team. The business part of the meeting will consist of membership dues, seating in the new stadium and plans for the annual banquet, Hottel and Raz Autry, principal, urge everyone to be present. V4 r hail storm that hit Boy lei tobacco crop on
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