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District Democrat Convention Sat The Eighth Congressional Dis trict Democratic Convention will be held in Albemarle, at North Stanly High School, Saturday, starting at 1 p.m., and Hoke County will have a delegation at the session for the first time in many years. Bragg Fair The general public is cordially invited to attend the 1982 Fort Bragg Fair which begins May 27 and continues through June 5. On weekdays, the fairgrounds open at 6 p.m., and on weekends and Memorial Day the gates open at I p.m. Attractions of this year's Fair include a complete carnival midway featuring 25 rides. Rounding out the carnival atmosphere will be a circus show on the grounds with animals, clowns and a highwire act. Disco dances are also planned for each night of the Fair. Admission price is S3 for adults on weekdays, S4 on weekends and Memorial Day. Children (10 vears and under) pay one half the adult tare. This price entitleseach patron to unlimited rides and attendance at the circus and all side shows. The fairgrounds are located on Bragg Boulevard across from Stryker Golf Course on Fort Bragg. Letter To The Editor Last week school superintendent Autry presented his 1982 school budget. During his presentation Mr. Autry stated that his budget could not sustain one ( 1 ) penny cut. if the budget is cut the school system could not grow and so on & so on! This budget does, however, raise question for me: is $30,000 worth ot carpeting indigenous to educa tion. I remember with fondness the era of my education in this county, as many others do, some will argue that the learning process must take place in ideal situations. I believe many students have achieved in less luxury. It is indubitably clear to me as I know it is to the county board of commissioners that this is not your everyday lean and astere budget. Surely citizens of this county were informed of the school board's public hearing on budget matters and indeed the public may inspect copies of budget proposal, but what consideration is given to how this ostentation spending impacts upon the learning process? County commissioners: defeat this unw ise and unnecessary spend ing and direct such funds in a more productive profound program of learning. 1 beg you. Robert Warren 8^5-2149 ?2jj j:ri ...that the Baltimore Orioles swept the, Los Angeles Dodgers in four straight games in the 1966 World Series, despite a mediocre .200 team batting average, lowest ever for the winner of a four-game series? HELP YOURSELF WITH A NATIONWIDE m ACCOUNT Tak? advantage of recent tax-law revisions on IRA plans Your Nationwide agent can help you arrange for tax-deductible contributions op to $2,000 annually in an IRA account M. Vordell Hedgpetti 1 21 West El wood Avenue Roeford, N. Corolino 28376 d 875-4187 NATIONWIDE INSURANCE NaMnwnd* >? on your Hn Nttionw4d? !.>?? Inwrmc* Co?*?w Oftc# Cotumbu*. Otiia Hoke has been switched to the Eighth from the Seventh District by the General Assembly redistricting of 1981 . It had been switched to the Seventh from the Eighth years ago. Harold Gillis, chairman of the Hoke County Democratic Execu tive Committee, will head the group of 20 Hoke County delegates, who include himself, at the district convention. The delegates were elected at the county convention in April. Congressman W.G. Bill" Hef ner of Kannapolis will be the keynote speaker at Saturday's con vention. At the business session, the delegates will elect a chairman and the other members of the district Executive Committee. LREMC To Use CP&L Refund To Pay On Loan RESTORER - John Shepley of Rockfish is shown with the 18 Hoke County High School statues he put back in shape, just for the fun of it. in the past 2Vi weeks. He says he painted them and put some back together. He did it during his lunch period and sixth period ?? about two hours a day ?? on school days. Shepley is a Hoke High junior and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shepley. This picture was taken in the high school library. The Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation will not make individual refunds to mem ber-consumers with the refund of excess charges received from Caro lina Power and Light Company recently. According to General Manager Deri Hinson, the refund of S621.612.66 which came to LREMC under the settlement of the rate case which covered August 12, 1980. through January 12, 1982, will be used to lower the total of the nearly $6 million loan application which is to be for Family Health By CLAY WILLIAMS A service of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians You have just eaten a whopping meal consisting of a thick, fat pork chop with a side dish of collards, several rolls oozing with butter and topped off with a wedge of choco late cake with a mound of ice cream cascading down the sides. Later in the evening you are suddenly gripped with an all-con suming pain under your right rib cage shooting up to the right shoulder. Chances are you can count yourself among the approxi mately 10 million Americans who have gallstones or some other gallbladder disease. The gallbladder is about the size of a lemon. It is located on the right side of the body under the rib cage, on the undersurface of the liver. Its function is to store bile which is produced by the liver. Bile is a bitter fluid, varying in color from golden brown to greenish yellow. When food enters the upper part of the digestive tract, the gallblader contacts and empties bile into the small intestines. The bile helps break down fatty foods so the intestines can absorb nutrients contained in the food and refuel the body's energy supply. The gallbladder is one of the smallest organs in the body and one the body doesrft even need to survive. Vet it is responsible for an expenditure of about SI billion each year for medical and surgical treatment. It is estimated that 800.000 Americans develop gall stones yearly. Further, it has been reported that 500.000 Americans have their gallbladders removed each year, with the illness and recovery period causing each of them to be out of work a month or longer. The pain and stress of a gallblad der attack may cause you to think you have been singled out by a demoniac source, but not so. Gallbladder diesease is not selective in its victims. President Lyndon Johnson, you may remember, had his gallbladder removed during his presidential years. Remember the now famous scar? Anyone can drop up with an inflamed gallbladder. Gallstones can become a_ real health hazard when they get firmly lodged at the neck of the gallblad der or in the bile duct -- often causing the gallbladder to become inflamed. The liver continues to produce bile but. with the duct blocked, the bile backs into the liver and then into the blood stream. At this point, the patient's skin takes on a yellowish color -- thus, yellow jaundice. Other symptoms of gallbladder disease, in addition to cramping in the upper right side mentioned above, are fever, chills, nausea and vomiting. Itching may occur in long-standing obstruction because of the increased concentration of bile salts in the skin. Many victims of gallbladder disease think they are having a heart attack. To be sure, the possibility of heart disease, a peptic ulcer, pancreatitis (inflamed pan creas) and small bowel obstruction -- all of which may cause similar symptoms -- must be ruled out. Diagnosing gallbladder disease consists of having the patient take tablets containing a dye one to three nights In a row. The dye A concentrates around the stone (stones) and causes the obstruction to show more clearly on X-ray. The process is called cholecystrogram. It' the gallbladder is severely diseas ed. ultrasound may be used, ultra sound may be used to diagnose the problem. Once the diagnosis of inflamma tion of the gallbladder is made, the decision may be made to remove the organ. In some cases the immediate course of action may be to start conventional treatment, with elective surgery a possibility later. Because the pain is relieved and the acute attack subsides does not mean the patient is well and can forget about the problem. Obstruc tion is still there and. with each succeeding attack, the situation may worsen -- possibly leading eventually to permanent liver dam age. warded to the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington, DC soon. If the refund was divided out among the consumers of the co operative, the average check would be about $30. But, because LREMC would have to turn around and borrow the total amount again, the average consumer would pay back about $72 in principal and interest. Other monies will also be saved by the cooperative's consumers, according to Hinson. The last time CP&L refunded money to Lumbee River and individual refund checks were mailed out, more than $25,000 returned to the cooperative unclaimed. This unclaimed money reverts back to the State of North Carolina under the escheats laws. It also costs about $15,000 to set up and mail a refund to members, Hinson said. These losses are shared by all members of the co-op. With the CP&L refund, Lumbee River EMC remains in a strong financial condition. That condition is good enough for Capital Credit refunds to continue again in 1982. Capital Credits for the years 1961 and 1962, those amounts allotted to each member who bought elec tricity in those years, will probably be refunded next fall, Hinson added. "Refunding of Capital Credits is an integral part of doing business in the cooperative way," he said. "The members not only expect ... they deserve sound business prac tices and high quality electric service at a reasonable price. We intend to see that happens." Lumbee River EMC serves more than 20,000 electric consumers in rural Robeson, Scotland, Hoke and Cumberland counties. LAW For Laypersons If you have ever been stopped by a policeman and at the same time had alcoholic beverages in your car, you probably became very nervous. You are naturally aware of the stiff punishment provided by North Carolina law for those convicted of driving under the in fluence of alchohol, as well as the terrible tragedy which can result from drinking and driving. You may fear that if the officer sees you with alcoholic beverages in your car, he may arrest you immediately for drinking and driving, or for transporting alcoholic beverages. If you stop and think about it, however, you should be able to transport alchoholic beverages in your car without violating the law since it is legal to buy alcoholic beverages in North Carolina. North Carolina's General Assembly recently rewrote its Alcoholic Beverage Control law. ? 18B-303 of that law provides that a person may purchase without per mit at any one time not more than 80 liters of malt beverages (such as beer in cans), any amount of draft malt beverages (beer) in kegs, not more than 20 liters of unfortified wine (wine with an alcoholic con tent of not less than 6Vo and not more than 1 7 ?7o alcohol by volume) and not more than four liters of either fortified wine (wine with an alcoholic content of not more than 24^o of alcohol by volume) or spiritous liquor (such as whiskey, rum, brandy, gin) or four liters of the two combined. Since the amounts of alcoholic beverages set out above may be purchased at any one time by a person in North Carolina, that same person may naturally transport that amount in his car without any special type of permit and without fear of arrest. Naturally, a person may buy greater amounts of alcoholic beverages and transport those greater amounts if he obtains the appropriate permit. The general rule of transporta tion of alcoholic beverages in North Carolina would therefore seem to be that you can transport the same amount of alcoholic beverages that you can legally pur chase at any one time. There is, however, one wrinkle to that general rule. ? 18B-401 of North Carolina's Alcoholic Beverage Control Law provides that it is unlawful to transport fortified wine or spiritous liquor in the passenger area of the motor vehicle of if the cap or seal on the con tainer has been opened or broken. Violation of ? 18B-401 con stitutes a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of S25 to $500, imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or both. Therefore, if the cap or seal on a bottle of spiritous liquor like whiskey, rum, brandy or gin or on a bottle of for tified wine is open or broken, you had better be sure that you don't carry it in the passenger area of your car. What is the passenger area of your car? The same provision pro vides that the passenger area in which you may not carry fortified wine or spiritous liquor in an open bottle means the area designed to seat the driver and passenger, and any area within the reach of a seated driver or passenger, in cluding the glove compartment. If you are driving in a station wagon, hatchback or similar vehicle, however, the area behind the last upright back seat shall not be con sidered part of the passenger area. "This article is written as a mat ter of general interest only. It is not to be construed as legal advice, and you should not rely on the statements made in the article to govern your actions in any specific case, if you have a particular ques tion or problem, up should contact an attorney. " Service Personnel Marine Lance Col. Terry L. Peterkin, son of James and Prapper Peterkin of Rt. i, Box 5/7. Raeford, has been promoted to his resent rank while serving with upport Battalion. Camp Lejeune. Col. William C. Koch. Jr.. son of William C. and Elsie A. Koch of 67 Valley St.. Adams. Mass.. has arrived for duty at Gunter Air Force Station. Ala. Koch, a computer systems pro gram director with the Air Force Data Systems Design Center, was previously assigned In Brunssum, Netherlands. His wife, Jean, is the daughter of LeRoy and Mary Mclnnis of 1501 Eastview Drive, Aberdeen. The colonel received a master's degree in 1964 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Gregory Brayboy, son of Prentis and Betty L. Brayboy of Rt. 1, Shannon, has been promoted in the U.S. Air Force to the rank of senior airman. Brayboy is an avionic communi cations specialist at Elelson Air Force Base, Alaska, with the 6th Consolidated Avionics Mainte nance Squadron. His wife. Laura, is the daughter of James F. and Delora J. Locklear of Route 3, Lumberton. The airman is a 1979 graduate of Magnolia High School, Lumber ton. Appreciation Eldress Singletary will be spon soring an Appreciation Service Sunday at Solid Rock Church of God in Raeford starting at 4 p.m. Everyone is asked to come. LEGALS IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE FILE NO. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF HOKE PAUL McCALL, JR. PLAINTIFF VS. IRENE SHIPMAN McCALL, DEFENDANT TO: IRENE SHIPMAN McCALL TAKE NOTICE THAT: A pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above en titled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: "An absolute divorce on the grounds of one years separation" You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than the 29 day of June, 1982, and upon your failure to do so, the par ty seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought. This the 7th day of May, 1982. HOSTETLER & McNEILL, ATTORNEYS BY: BOBBY BURNS McNEILL Attorney for the Plaintiff Post Office Box 277 Raeford, North Carolina 28376 Telephone: (919) 875-2142 NOTICE OF SALE NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF HOKE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust executed by DOUGAL LOCKLEAR and wife, IDA W. LOCKLEAR to BOBBY BURNS McNEILL, Trustee, dated the 15th day of February 1977, and recorded in Book 197, Page 437 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Hoke County, North Carolina, and de fault having been made in the payment of the indebtedness there by secured and said Deed of Trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclosure, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Raeford, North Carolina, at 12:00 o'clock Noon on the 8th day of June, 1982, property conveyed by said Deed of Trust, the same lying and being in the County of Hoke, State of North Carolina, Que whiffle Township, and more par ticularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron stake in a farm road located S 5? 14' W 280.0 feet from the intersection of said road and State Road No. 1225, said intersection located S 88? 06' E 769.0 feet from intersection of State Road No. 1225 and U.S. Highway No. 15-501 ( thence from said beginning point, S 84? 46' E 322.95 feet to an iron stake in a ditch; thence S 22? 00' E 157.45 feet to an iron stake; thence N 84? 46' W 395.0 feet to an iron stake in above mentioned farm road; thence with the road N 5? 14* E 140.0 feet LEGALS to the BEGINNING, and being Lot No. 3 of the plat by Matthews hereinafter mentioned. This de scription is taken from that plat entitled "M.C. BROWN ESTATE, i QUE WHIFFLE TOWNSHIP. HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA", dated April 3. 1968. and prepared by J. A. Matthews, R.L.S. The subject lot is a part of that 101.7 acre tract designated as Lot No. 27, Map Book 2. Page 16, Hoke County Registry. This lot lies East of and adjacent to a private dirt road leading from State Road No. 1225, said dirt road running in t a southerly direction across the aforementioned Lot No. 27. This instrument includes a right of way and a right of ingress, egress, and regress over the said dirt road or so much thereof as lies on or across the aforementioned Lot No. 27, and said right of access is hereby specifically designated, granted, and conveyed in this instrument. This sale will be made subject to all outstanding taxes, if any, and f prior liens of record, if any. CASH DEPOSITS; Ten per cent (10%) on the first SI, 000. 00 and five per cent (5%) on any addi tional amount bid will be required at the date of the sale. Done, this the 4th day of May, 1982. BOBBY BURNS McNEILL, TRUSTEE HOSTETLER & McNEILL ATTORNEYS AT LAW RAEFORD. N.C. 1 3-6C ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids are now being ac cepted at Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation. 601 E. 4th Ave., Red Springs, N.C. for the following: 1978 Chevrolet Nova, 4-door sedan, automatic transmission, air conditioned. - One used white stor-all pickup tool box (Marked 441) One used yellow pickup tool box (Marked 437) Bids will be accepted through 2 P.M., May 25, 1982. Equipment can be seen at above address from 8 A.M. - 5 P.M. Monday-Friday. Submit bids to Purchasing Agent, Lumbee River EMC. P.O. Box 830, Red Springs, N.C. 28377. Each item must be bidded separately. Equipment will be sold as is, and seller reserves right to reject any and all bids. P.O. #1 1555 #11555 2-3C IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE NUMBER: 82 CVD 124 NORTH CAROLINA HOKE COUNTY NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION COUNTY OF HOKE VS VIRGINIA D. BROOKS and husband WILLIAM BROOKS ETAL TO: MICHAEL B. LYNCH TAKE NOTICE THAT: A pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action and notice of ser vice of process by publication began on Thursday, April 29, 1982. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: I Property lax lien foreclosure. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days after the date of the first publication of the notice stated above, exclusive of such date, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service of process by publication will apply to the court for the relief sought. This the 29th day of April, 1982. I Hubert Wooten Attorney for Plaintiff Hoke County Tax Office Raeford, North Carolina 28376 1-3C NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF JOHNNY PRID GEN, JR., Deceased STATE OR NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF HOKE g The undersigned, having quali fied as Administratrix of the estate of JOHNNY PRIDGEN, JR.. de ceased, late of Hoke County, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 23rd day of October, 1982, or be barred from their recovery. All persons indebted to said I estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 14th dav of Anril. 1982. MARY FRANCES McDONALD Route 1 , Box 653-A Red Springs, North Carolina 28377 Philip A. Diehl Attorney at Law 127 West Edinborough Avenue Post Office Drawer 688 Raeford, North Carolina 28376 Telephone: (919) 875-3379 g 52-3C