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, The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXV NUMBER 11
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
14 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY
THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1969
Around Town
In District Court
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BY SAM MORRIS
The word "friend" as stated
somewhere, means simply a person one is
lord ol and chooses to associate with.
This is one meaning and of course many
people have other meanings for the word.
The following people are ones that I call
my friends, after reading this part of the
column you will understand why.
In this day of high interest and high
food prices, you can't help but call
someone a friend who comes by and
leaves you food for the table. Recently
Mrs. T. Jeff Harris of the Bowmore
Community came in the office and gave
me a bag of string beans. A few days later
Cousin John B. Cameron came by with a
box of tomatoes. One morning last week
before anyone but Dickson and myself
were at work, in walked Raz Autry with a
peck of peaches for yours truly. (He went
back home and returned with Dickson a
peck also.) Now these are friends, but this
isn't all. Last Tuesday night H.R. McLean
came by the house and gave me a bushel
of corn. He said if we couldn't use it all
to give some to our neighbors. To make
the meal complete, my neighbor Angus
Currie dropped by Sunday afternoon
with two watermelons.
Now these people are what I call
"friends". Then again they could be
looking after the chairman of the
Democratic party under a Republican
administration. Anyway Dickson said,
"Morris you got a ood thing going!"
The picture in the paper last week
caused some comment and in case you
haven't identified it, it was of Clayton
Buoyer. One comment heard was from
Scott Poole who was upset because his
picture wasn't run also. It seems Scott
was working at Hoke Drug Co. the same
time Buoyer was across the street. The
only thing that came to my mind, was
how much work either one of them was
doing.
The baptists won the league Softball
tournament by defeating the
' Piesbyterians in the second game of a
.topHr-hi-i.-; l-i. r.ida, u.feht. T.x first
game , went 14 innings and the second
game 10 innings. About four hours of
playing in tliis hot weather certainly
should separate the men from the boys. I
will commend the manager of the
Presbyterians, Scott Poole, who came off
the bench after Wyatt L'pchurch sprained
his ankle and finished up the night's play.
This brought back memories of Softball in
the pasture field when Col. Rube Poole
was playing before World War 11 with a
young National Guard team.
The group of 17 teams entered in the
Southeastern District Softball
Tournament sponsored by the Raeford
Kiwanis Club is the largest for the
tournament in recent years. Included in
these teams are Ralph's Mobile Homes
and Auto Glass of Fayetteville. They are
the two best teams from Fayetteville and
with other towns trying to obtain the
tournament, help the local Kiwanians
keep the tournament here. Another way
to be sure that the tournament stays here
is for each of us to support it. Season
tickets are on sale at a savings if you can
attend every night or you can pay as you
go. See any Kiwanian for a ticket.
As stated in this column last week the
National Guardsmen are in camp at Ft.
Stewart, Ga. for two weeks. This means
that hot weather is still around. When
you don't have anything else lo write
about, you can always write about the
weather. Well it is still hot in North
Carolina. But this wtek you can certainly
write about tlie man on the moon, or two
men. As this is being written Apollo 1 1 is
out ol moon orbit and racing to the
splash down near Hawaii Thursday.
How great was this accomplishment?
One nun stated on TV tlie other day that
it was the greatest achievement man had
made since creation of the universe. No
doubt the feat was great but to be tlie
greatest is taking a lot for granted. I guess
in the mind of a scientist tliis would be
so. Of course we all saw history nude and
time will tell what the future holds for
this step forward into space.
Burlington Plants
Closed Next Week
The local Burlington plants will close
for vacation from July 28 through August
3. Vacation bonuses totaling more than
$4 5 million ire being paid to Burlington
Industries wage employees during the
vacation season.
About 52,000 Burlington employees at
plants in 15 states are to receive the
payments, according to Charles A.
McLendon, Burlington vice president for
personnel. The summer payments are in
addition to over 3.S million in bonuses
paid last December.
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STRESSED CONCRETE BRINGING STADIUM TO COMPLETION - Hoke High's
new stadium didn't make the graduation deadline but from all reports the stadium's
completion date should come In plenty of time to allow football fans to enjoy the
games in first-class comfort. Erecting the concrete is the S iG Pre-stress Concrete
( Company, Wilmington.
Burlington Sales Up;
Earnings Decrease Slightly
Burjington Industrie!, Inc. Tuesday
recoiled record consolidated net sales of
$447,627,000 for (lie quarter ended June
28, 1969, compared to sales of
$410,418,000 for the same quarter last
year.
Net earnings for the quarter were
$19,607,000 equal to 76 cents per share.
For the comparable quarter last year, net
earnings were $20,486,000 or 80 cents
per share.
For the nine months ended June 28,
net sales were $1331,560,000 and net
earnings were $60,162,000 or $2.32 per
17 4-H Club
Members To Go
To Raleigh Mon.
Hoke County is sending 17 4-H club
members to the 4-H Congress next week
in Raleigh. According to Talmadge Baker,
assistant Farm Agent, this is a climax to
the 4-H year.
At the Congress the state
demonstration winners are chosen and
tlie new stale officers are elected. The
State dress review and talent show are
also held next week.
Sometime during tlie week Governor
Boh Scott will address the group. The
4-H'crs will also take a tour of the
governor's mansion and legislative
building. All those attending the Congress
will stav at tlie North Carolina State
dormitories and each youngster must pay
his own way to the event.
Three adults will accompany the
group. Tliey are Brenda Abrarm, assistant
home agent, Joy Crissman and Talmadge
Baker.
Bronze Star
Medal Awarded
Posthumously
The third highest medal given by the
United States Army, the Bronze Star, will
be presented posthumously to John M.
Pratt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Woodard
of Raeford.
The Bronze Star Medal with First Oak
Leaf Cluster plus the Purple Heart and
the Good Conduct Medal will be
presented to the Woodards within the
next few weeks, according to t letter
from Major General Kenneth G.
Wickham, Adjutant General of the
Department of the Army,
Pratt was killed In Vietnam on May 6
when he was accidentally shot returning
from a late night patrol. He had served in
Vietnam since January 1969.
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share on the 25,973,000 average shares
outstanding during the period. In tlie
comparable nine months last year, sales
totaled $1,202,277,000 and earnings
were $59,264,000 or $2.34 per share on
the 25,322,000 average shares
outstanding during the period.
Charles F. Myers, Jr., chairman,
commented that while the 99! increase in
sales volume in the June quarter reflected
a continuing high level of business,
pre-tax profit margins of 9.3 for the
quarter were lower than the 10.3
margins of the same period last year. The
lower margins, he commented, resulted
from lower selling prices in several
product areas and increased costs,
generally occurring in the economy.
The Board of Directors, meeting in
New York today, declared a regular
quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share,
payable September I, 1969, to
shareholders of record at the close of
business August 1 , 1969.
Booster Club
Football Feed
Set For Aug. 14
The annual supper to raise money for
football camp staged by the Hoke High
Booster Club will be held Thursday,
August 14 at the W. T. Gibson School
cafeteria. The feed will begin at five p.m.
and continue until seven-thirty. The date
was set Monday night at the monthly
meeting of the club.
Charlie Hottel, president, appointed
Horace Davis as chairman of the supper
committee and he will be assisted by
Ashwell Harward and Jack Pope, along
with other booster members.
The membership dues for the club
were set at $5.00 at the June meeting,
but it was amended Monday night to sell
a double membership man ana wife for
$8.00. A cap will be given for each
membership. It was noted that the cap
for the ladies will not be men's caps. The
membership committee was appointed
and it consists of Jack Tucker, chairman,
Jack Pope, Mike Wood, Bill Colson and
Wilton Wood. The committee has set the
goal for 240 members.
Hottel also appointed the program
committee and it consists of Ashwell
Harward, chairman, Neil A. McDonald,
Pete Sawyer, Doc Ivey and Jimmy
Plummer.
Following the business meeting a film,
"Highlights of the 1968 ACC Football
Season' was shown.
The August meeting of the club will be
held Monday, August 4 at eight p.m. at
the W. T. Gibson cafeteria.
Mclnnis Under Five Year
Suspension For Bad Checks
Neil G. Mclnnis, Fayetteville, was
charged with six counts of passing over
SljOOO in worthless checks in District
Court last Friday. Judge J. E. Dupree
charged Mclnnis with a total ol five years
suspended sentence upon payment of
restitution and costs in each case. The six
Border Belt
With Government Graders Present
Hoke County tobacco farmers started
taking their crops to market yesterday as
the North Carolina's Border Belt Tobacco
Markets opened for business.
Although the opening was hotly
contested by Border Belt Warehouse
Association, Inc. Federal District Judge
Algernon Butler, Clinton, cleared the way
for the opening. Judge Butler directed the
U. S. Department of Agriculture to
provide graders for the sale. His action
came after a hearing on i complaint
against the USDA filed by the Border
Belt Warehouse Association.
Going To France
( Debbie Anderson Hoke's
First Exchange Student
By Margaret Lamster
"Of course I am excited," Debbie said.
"I can't wait to find out what it's like!"
The Debbie mentioned above is Debbie
Anderson Hoke High School'i first
foreign exchange student. The "it"
mentioned is the country that will be her
home for the next year, France.
Debbie, daughter of Mrs. Frances
Anderson, will leave Raeford en route to
France on August 6. Her departure for
France from Philadelphia will be on
August 11.
According to Larry Mabe, Hoke High
French teacher, Debbie was chosen for
this honor because of her academic
ability, her interest in France and her
outstanding character.
"I have no doubt in my mind that
Debbie will be a credit to us and to
herself during her stay in France," Mabe
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RAEFORD GIRL LEA VES FOR FRANCE - Larry Mabe. Hoke High School's French teacher, points out where Debbie
Anderson, Hoke High's fttt exchange student, will spend her year in France. Debbie will attend boarding school In Franc at no
expense to herself. The school will pay t minimum fee of 1 750 for Debbie i year abroad.
charges were consolidated into three
sentences to run concurrently. Five
forgery charges against Mclnnis were
dropped when the Court found no
porbable cause.
in other action the Court waived
preliminary hearings for Rudolph
Judge's Order
Opens Wednesday
The Border Belt Warehousemen met
last week and decided to open the
markets Wednesday. Their action was
taken despite a recommendation by the
industry wide Flue Cured Tobacco
Marketing Committee that Border Belt
Markets in the state delay opening until
July 28 or 29.
The warehousemen Tiled the complaint
after the USDA turned down its request
for graders on the early date.
Tobacco is not eligible for federal price
supports until it is graded.
The warehousemen had contended
earlier that a week's delay in the opening
said.
She will be attending the Lycee
Marguererite De Navaree in Alencon,
France as a junior. The boarding school
has just recently been completed and
according to Debbie it will be
co-educational.
Debbie will return to Hoke High as a
senior and use the knowledge she has
gained during her stay in France to help
the students receive a better
understanding of the language. Mabe felt
she could be of great service in helping
the advanced students become more
fluent in their speaking of the language.
On Iter arrival in Paris Debbie will be
met by an English teacher from the
boarding school and will have a few
weeks of sightseeing before she enters
school. Next spring Debbie will meet her
mother in Germany.
The exchange program is being
conducted through the American Friends
Service Company, a Quaker organization
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Singlctury, Raeford, wlio was charged
with breaking, entering and larceny. He
was bound over to Superior Court and his
bond was set at SI ,000. Singletary is
charged with the March 22 robbery ol tlie
Johnson Store in Raeford.
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of North Carolina markets would mean a
loss to them of thousands and thousands
of dollars in profits to markets in South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, which
opened on Wednesday.
Warehousemen lose heavily when
tobacco is taken out of tlicir area and
sold in other markets. North and South
Carolina markets normally open on the
same date.
The Border Belt markets are in
Fairmont, Lumberton, Whiteville, Tabor
City, Chadbourn, Clarkton, Fair Bluff
and Fayetteville.
headquartering in Philadelphia. The
exchange will cost the Hoke School $750
for the entire year. Debbie will be given
her room and board plus $5 a week
spending money.
According to Mabe the schc.nl has been
informed that the American Friends
Company is cancelling its exchange
program next year so if the school wants
to keep the program going it will have to
be done by forming an alliance possibly
with the boarding school Debbie is
attending.
The program is a reciprocal affair with
each school system taking a student. Last
year Hoke High had its first foreign
exchange student, Phillippee Marcel Piere
Bertheau.
Raz Autry, Hoke High principal, was
the instigator ol the program in Hoke.
Beth Autry and Mabe are hoping they
will be able to somehow keep the
program going.
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