Rockfish News
By Polly Barnard T.I. B7S-27J4
The brotherhood of Tabernacle
Baptist Church did "inside im
provement" work on the Rockfish
Community Building last week.
The brotherhood of Tabernacle
Baptist Church was in charge of
the worship service the past Sun
day morning. Those who spoke to
the congregation were Guy Berry,
Danny Brock and Jerry Bundy.
Sunday night the WMU gave an
interesting program on, "New Vi
sions and New Frontiers" which
concluded the week of prayer for
home missions.
Sunday March 11 through
Saturday March 17 is youth week
throughout the Southern Baptist
Church. The youth at Tabernacle
Baptist Church will be in charge of
the worship hour Sunday morning
March 18.
Sunday evening March 18 at 7
p.m. the Seventy First High School
Choral group will present a sacred
concert at Tabernacle Baptist
Church.
Mrs* Sandra Wood Jones is
recuperating from rheumatic
fever.
She and her infant daughter Jen
nifer Jean, has spent the past
several weeks with her parents Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Wood.
Mrs. Jones was able to return to
her home in Fayetteville last week
but is not able to take care of the
baby yet, which remains with Mr.
and Mrs. Wood.
Sympathy is extended to the
family of Mrs. Francis Fowler who
died Saturday March 3.
The funeral was at Tabernacle
Baptist Church March 5. Rev. Ar
chie Barringer officiated. Inter
ment was in Alloway Cemetery in
Red Springs.
Mrs. Marie Fowler, Mrs.
Henrietta Tanner and Mrs Mice
Allen visited Mrs. Vera Powers of
Rennert, Miss Irene Phillips of
Buie and Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow
Hayes of Dundarrach Thursday.
Miss Sandra Allen and Mrs.
Shirley Stika of Charleston, South
Carolina and Mrs. Alice Allen
visited Miss Teresa Allen of
Henderson last weekend.
Mrs. E.T. Brock, Sr. had eye
surgery recent ly and is
recuperating at home.
Mrs. Claudyne Brock and Mrs.
Jean Sisk attended the Carolina
Flower Show and Designers School
in Sanford March 4th. They
especially enjoyed the new ideas in
design and arrangement of silk
(lowers and invite you to come in
and see them.
Mrs. Herbert Long has been on
the sick list for several days.
Herbert is also having problems
with his eyes.
Wolfe novel seminar topic
"Look Homeward, Angel -
Thomas Wolfe's First Book," will
be the topic of a Humanities
Seminar to be held in Hoke Coun
ty on Thursday evenings from 7 to
9 p.m. beginning April 5 and conti
nuing each Thursday evening for a
total of four weekly sessions. Pro
fessor James Clark of the English
Department at North Carolina
State University will conduct the
seminar.
Participants will examine Look
Homeward, Angel, Wolfe's ap
prenticeship novel in which his
semiautobiographical hero,
Eugene Gant, escapes his family
and hometown.
Professor Clark will conduct the
first and fourth sessions personally
but will withdraw from the
seminar during the middle two
weeks in order to encourage
discussion of the topic by the in
dividuals themselves. These two
sessions will begin with the presen
tations of a professionally produc
ed videotape featuring Professor
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Discussion questions for these
sessions are provided by the pro
fessor at the first session. The
seminar concludes with the return
visit of the professor in the fourth
week when they will answer all ad
ditional questions on the topic and
discuss any additional material.
This Humanities Seminar is be
ing sponsored by the North
Carolina Agricultural Extension
Service and the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences at
North Carolina State University.
Any person desiring to par
ticipate in the seminar should call
Ellen Wilis at the Hoke County
Agricultural Extension Service.
875-3461 or 875-2162.
Deadline for registration is April
4.
There is no charge to the public.
Any individual desiring a Continu
ing Education Unit (CEU) credit
for attending the seminar is re
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MARCH AUCTION SALE
Meekins Auction Yard
Hwy. 211 South, Lumber-ton, N.C.
Thursday, March 23 at 9:00 a.m.
25-Bulk Barns Gas ft Oil - 60 Tractors = Trucks = Cars =
300 Places of Farm Equipment = Consign Items Any Day =
For Hauling Call The Auction Co. This will be one of our
biggest sales of the year.
SALE CONDUCTED BY
Lloyd Meekins & Sons Realty & Auction Co.
Lumbfton, N.C. Dillon, S.C.
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Completes 25 years
H'illiam M. McArn recently
completed 25 years unbroken
service at the Raeford Plant of
Burlington Industries. During
his entire career at the local
facility he has been assigned to
the Warehouse. Most of that
time he has been a Lift Truck
Operator on first shift. McArn
was presented a certificate, a
diamond pin and gift by Plant
Management in appreciation
for his loyal service.
Deaths & Funerals
Ralph H. Chapman
Ralph Herbert Chapman, 76, of
Aberdeen died Sunday.
Chapman, a member of the
Pope Memorial United Methodist
Church and an active Mason, lived
in Raeford from 1939 until 1946
when he moved to Aberdeen. He
worked for Hoke Auto during that
time.
Funeral services were held at 11
a.m. Wednesday at the Powell
Funeral Home Chapel in Southern
Pines.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Dora Snead Chapman; one
daughter, Mrs. Lucy Hupko of
Graham Bay. Alabama; two
brothers, George E. Chapman of
Absecon, New Jersey and Robert
K. Chapman of Northfield, New
Jersey; two grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials
may be sent to the Land Fund of
the Page Memorial Methodist
Church or the Oxford Orphanage
in Oxford.
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OF JUSTICE
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
HOKE COUNTY
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as Executors of
the estate of A.A. Ray of Hoke
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said A.A. Ray
to present them to the undersigned
within 6 months from date of the
publication of this notice or same
will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate please make immediate
payment.
This the 16th day of February
1984.
Thomas A. Ray
Rt. 4, Box 399D
Raeford, N.C.
28376 &
Irma Ray Clipson
1016 Pine Crest Dr.
Annapolis, MD
21403
44-47C
PUBLIC NOTICE
City of Raeford
Hoke County
North Carolina
In the Matter of Planning
Mr. Joe Upchurch
711 N. Main Street
Raeford, NC 28376
You are hereby notified that an
application is now pending before
the Planning Board and the City
Council whereby the above said
Mr. Upchurch is requesting that
his property on St. Paul's Drive or
N.C. Hwy. 20 be rezoned from R-8
Residential to C-2 Commercial.
Beginning at an iron stake, said
stake being the northeast corner of
the Larry Upchurch house lot
described in Book 171, Page 217,
Hoke County Registry, and runs
N41-00E 112.8 feet to an iron stake
by a farm road near the woods;
thence N22-15W along the edge of
the Woods" 418 feet to an iron
stake; thence 69-50E along a field
road 461.5 feet to the center of
N.C. Highway No. 20; thence
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S35-OOE with the center line of the
highway 500 ft.; thence S32-OOE
continuing with the center line 500
feet; thence continuing with the
center line of the highway S28-50E
356 feet to the Johnson (now
Campbell) corner, said corner be
ing the corner of the "Oakdale"
tract, map of said tract recorded in
Map Book 2, page 303, Hoke
County Registry; thence with the
Campbell line N88-45W 495 feet to
a corner by a pine row; thence
along the pine row N82-50W 724.2
feet to the John and Agnes Mae
Campbell corner; thence N22-20E
248 feet to the Larry Upchurch lot;
thence with the Larry Upchurch lot
line N11-30E 198 feet to the begin
ning, continuing 18.55 acres (sub
ject to 1356 feet highway front
right-of-way, 50 feet wide).
The public is hereby requested to
attend this public hearing and ex
press their views and opinions for
the benefit of the said Boards.
A called public hearing will be
held at the City Hall on March 30,
1984, at 6:00 p.m. with the
Raeford Planning Board. A public
hearing will be held with the
Raeford City Council at the City
Hall on April 2, 1984 at 7:00 p.m.
This public notice to be publish
ed on March 15, 1984 and March
22, 1984.
Raeford Planning Board
Ken McNeill, Chairman
Mayor John K. McNeill, Jr.
On behalf of the Raeford City
Council
47-48C
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed bids are now being ac
cepted at Lumbee River Electric
Membership Corporation, 601 E.
Fourth Avenue, Red Springs, NC
for 1980 Toyota Pickup,
automatic transmission. Bids will
be accepted through 2:00 p.m.,
April 4, 1984. Vehicle can be seen
at above address from 8:00
a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Submit bids to Purchasing Agent,
Lumbee River EMC, Post Office
Box 830, Red Springs, North
Carolina 28377. Vehicle will be
sold as is, and seller reserves right
to refuse all bids.
47-48C
AUCTION*
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WEDNESDAY ** MARCH 28
2:00 P.M.
651.20 Acres
Four Farms - 10,000 lb. Tobacco Base, 17,000 lb. Peanut Allotment.
Cumberland and Bladen Counties, N. C.
SALE NO. 1
252 ACRES
Timber and Planted Pines
Cape Fear River Frontage (1,500 + ft.)
Offered in Tracts and Combinations.
LOCATION: From Fayetteville go South on 1-95 to Exit 49 and
Hwy. 53. Follow Hwy. 53 S.E. to Cedar Creek, turn right on Road
2023 and go 3 miles to Tabor Methodist Church. Turn right on
Road 2229 and go 3 miles to property.
SALE NO. 3
38.8 ACRES
All In Cultivation
*1 Tobacco Barn
?Formerly in Tobacco, Peanuts & Soybeans.
Offered in Tracts and Combinations.
LOCATION: Just West of Farm t2 on State Road 1002.
SALE NO. 2 242.4 ACRES
Prime Farmland - Class I Soil
190 Acres in Cropland
House (5 bedrooms & 1 bathroom)
All Cypress Construction
*3 Irrigation Ponds *Little Turnbull Creek
*Big Turnbull Creek *3 Tobacco Barns
Offered in Tracts and Combta^tfqns
LOCATION: 22 Miles South of Fayetteville on State Road 1002 in
Turnbull Community or Sharon Church Community. 110 miles
East of Sale #1).
SALE NO. 4 188 ACRES
65 Acres in Cultivation
Balance in Timber
?Tenant House
?Tobacco Barn
?Formerly in Tobacco, Peanuts & Soybeans
?Turnbull Creek Frontage
LOCATION: South of Farm 93 and State Road 1002 on State Road
1328.
Terms on all properties 20% down. Balance in 30 days.
SALE LOCATION: All Sales to be conducted from Farm i2 (242.4 Acres)
22 miles South of Fayetteville on State Road 1002 in Turnbull Community or Sharon Church Community
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