Man sentenced to
60 days in jail
for bad checks
A Racford man was sentenced to
60 days in jail after pleading guilty
Friday in Hoke County District
Court to six worthless check
charges, court records show.
In addition to the jail term,
' Nigel K. Baldwin received a
12-month suspended sentence with
three years of "special supervised
probation," according to a ruling
issued by District Court Judge
Warren Pate.
Court records show that
Baldwin was charged with writing
"worthless checks" totaling
$211.64 to six local merchants.
Pate also instructed the defen
i dant to pay a $300 fine, court cost
and restitution to the merchants.
Baldwin will serve his 60-day
sentence under the direction of his
probation officer, records show.
In unrelated cases, a 20-year-old
Raeford man was given a six
month suspended sentence after
pleading guilty to larceny.
I Alfonzo Buie, who was charged
with taking a $4 pair of sunglasses
from Pope's Variety, was also
placed under a year's unsupervised
probation.
The defendant was also ordered
to pay a $100 fine and court cost in
the action. '
Olivia Mclntyre Jones of Route
1 Raeford was also given a six
month suspended sentence on
larceny charges.
Jones plead guilty to "stealing
$4.99 in property from Pope's
Variety Store."
Pate also placed the defendant
under a year's unsupervised proba
tion and ordered her to pay a $100
fine and court cost in the action.
In further action, two Hoke
residents and one out-of-towner
plead guilty to driving while im
paired charges (DWI).
I Paul Waters of Maxton received
a 10-day sentence that he must
serve at the Hoke County Jail over
the next Ave weekends, according
to a ruling by Pate.
In addition, Waters, who was
also charged with driving without
an operator's license, was given a
one-year suspended sentence with
two years of "special supervised
probation."
The defendant was ordered to
pay a $300 fine, participate in a
prescribed treatment program and
"not operate a motor vehicle until
licensed to do so."
The DWI conviction was
Water's second, records show.
Jessie Johnson of Saunders
Street received a 90-day suspended
sentence after pleading guilty to
her first DWI charge in court last
week.
Pate ordered the defendant to
perform 48-hours of community
service work within 60 days, sur
render her operator's license and
pay a $150 fine and court cost.
Weidone McCoy of the North
Raeford Trailer Park received a
60-day suspended sentence with
one year of unsupervised proba
tion after pleading guilty to her
first DWI charge.
Pate instructed the defendant to
pay a $100 fine and court cost,
enroll and complete the alcohol
and drug abuse school within 90
days and perform 24-hours of
community service work within 30
days.
In addition, the judge ordered
the defendant to surrender her
driver's license but granted her a
limited driving permit.
In further court business, Mark
Stephen Thompson of Moore
Street plead guilty to driving at a
speed greater than was posted and
received a prayer for judgement
upon payment of the court cost.
John Daniel Wilkes of Green
Street plead guilty to a stop sign
violation and was given a prayer
for judgement upon payment of
the court cost.
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major funding are the local Rescue
Squad chapter $1,500, $1,892 to
the Hoke Reading/Literacy Coun
) cil, and $1,000 each for Adult
Transportation and the Hoke
County Children's Center.
A total of almost $4,000 will be
distributed in differing amounts
among the Lion's Club White
Cane Project, Senior Citizens, the
Arthritis Foundation, N.C. United
Way, the Children's Home Socie
ty, the American Social Health
Association, the Epilepsy Associa
tion of North Carolina, Interna
tional Social Services, the Florence
Crittenton Home, the National
Council on Aging, United Health
Services, the Research Fund of
North Carolina United and the
Hospice of North Carolina.
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Although sprays of pink, white and red azaleas have begun to poke ing has officially arrived, recent cooler temperatures, cloudy skies and
their head out to welcome the sun and the calendar indicates that spr- rainy mornings leave some doubt about the season.
Lumbee River co-op rate hike delayed
Lumbee River EMC members
will not receive a scheduled retail
rate increase according to general
manager Ronnie Hunt.
A settlement has been reached,
according to Hunt, between CP&L
and N.C. Electric Membership
Corporation (NCEMC).
In the agreement, the scheduled
wholesale rate increase for April
will not be implemented by CP&L
if the wholesale buyers do not con
test the wholesale rate increase
levied last November.
In the original request said
Hunt, CP&L filed for a 24<7o
wholesale rate increase to be effec
tive in two phases.
A 13^o increase was passed to
Lumbee River EMC on November
27, and the remainder was to be
passed to Lumbee River EMC on
April 27. Cooperative members
received a retail rate increase
averaging 6 on bills after
January 10.
"We don't foresee another rate
increase until April 1985," said
Hunt. "However, because
NCEMC is now serving as our cen
tral power agency, any wholesale
increase initiated by CP&L, Duke,
or VEPCO will affect us."
NCEMC, the EMC's state
organization, became the
wholesale power agency for the 28
North Carolina cooperatives on
November 1, 1983.
The state organization
negotiates rates with investor
owned utilities that generate the
power the North Carolina EMCs
buy and resell to members.
NCEMC is also responsible says
Hunt, for the EMCs' investment in
the Catawba Nuclear Plant in
York, South Carolina. It is
NCEMC that now bills Lumbee
River EMC for the power it pur
chases to resell.
"The purpose of the arrange
ment," said Hunt, "is to get all the
wholesale rates the cooperatives
are paying consistent. Before the
arrangement, each investor-owned
utility had a different rate for its
wholesale buyers."
Hunt said that any increases
from the power suppliers before
April, 1985, will be reflected as a
wholesale power cost adjustment.
Lumbee River EMC serves ap
proximately 22,000 electric service
accounts in Robeson, Scotland,
Hoke, and Cumberland counties.
Video equipment dedicated at Library Monday
About 50 residents attended the
dedication of new radio equipment
to the Hoke County Public
Library, Monday night.
The new video recorder and
monitor was given to the library by
the Hoke County Bicentennial
Committee.
Robert Gatlin opened the
ceremony and welcomed the crowd
as a representative of the Bicenten
nial Committee.
Luke McNeill presented a video
tape of the major historical sites of
the area including a special em
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The committee also presented
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with the restoration.
After a reception, the group
viewed another video of Raeford
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A copy of this tape was also
presented to the library.
McNeill is currently adding to
and putting a script with the new
historical video which will be add
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completion.
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nearly seven times as much water
as all the nation's city water
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