Buddy Blue injured
in one-auto crash
Hoke County Republican Party
Chairman J.H. (Buddy) Blue Jr. is
recovering in the Moore County
Hospital after being injured when
his car left the road and overturned
in a deep ditch off Highway 211
Monday.
Blue, 52, was traveling toward
Aberdeen at about 7:35 Monday
morning when the accident occur
red, State Trooper K.W. Weston
said.
According to the report, Blue
was behind a slow car and went to
pass it just after another car
behind him started to pass.
When Blue saw the other car
beside him, he whipped his car
back into the proper lane and when
he did, one of. kis tires left the
road, the repojg says.
The car then skidded off the
road and into the wet grass on the
narrow shoulder of the road and
overturned in the eight-foot deep
ditch, said Weston.
The former Chamber of Com
merce Director was reported to be
comfortable in his hospital room
as of Tuesday noon, a spokesman
for the hospital said.
Due to his injuries. Blue had a
tube down his throat into his
stomach and could not eat or
drink, a nurse at the hospital said.
His main injury is a "fracture of
the thoraxic spine" or the middle
back, she said, adding that he was
able to move all of his extremities
and that there appeared to be no
chance of paralysis.
Management changes
made at rest home here
John and Kathy Leandro arc
reassuming the management of
Open Arms Rest Home in
Raeford.
The Leandros, who operated the
facility for nine years prior to
1983, will be taking over the duties
which have been held down by
John and Joanne Plummer.
Although John Plummer will
pursue some outside business in
terests, both he and Joanne will re
main on the staff of the rest home.
The Plummers will also continue
to operate the Edinborough Place
Family Care Home.
Leandro, who left Open Arms
last year to devote more time to a
business venture in Fayetteville,
said that the facility had improved
under the guidance of the Plum
mers.
"We are going to continue to
provide the care with the warmth
and concern that the Plummers
did," Leandro said. "They have
made the transition easy."
The changes in management will
take effect September 1 .
Not a pretty sight
A wreck, which occured last Tuesday on rural road 1225 resulted in
both drivers having to be hospitalized and with one of them being
charged. The driver of the pictured 1983 Ford was charged with driv
ing left of center as he lost control of his car, swerved into oncoming
traffic, and popped an army truck, according to Highway Patrol
reports. Dwain Ray Lawson was the driver of the truck. Aberdeen's
Joel Edwards drove the car and was charged with causing the acci
dent, reports say.
. . . Meeting set on expansion of
USHwy. 401
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ed that the case be appealed to the
federal government but warned
that if the case is lost, the govern
ment could tack 12?7o interest on
the balance due.
"The state feels that it may take
several years before the issue is set
tled," according to the letter.
The discrepancy arose when the
county accepted applications for
CETA jobs from persons who had
not been unemployed for 30 days.
Although the wording of the sec
tion of the rules and regulations
governing CETA hiring is vague,
and no one was actually hired
before they were unemployed 30
days, the USDOL is questioning
the acceptance of the applications
and therefore wanting repayment
of money paid to those persons
whose applications were taken ear
ly.
The commission also voted to let
County Attorney Duncan McFa
dyen handle the appeal.
401 meeting set
On another matter, Commission
Chairman John Balfour informed
the other members of the body that
a meeting has been set with the
Secretary of Transportation
William R. Robinson Jr. to discuss
the fate of Highway 401 .
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meeting will be in Raleigh on
August 15 at 11 a.m.
In still further business, ap
proval was given to a request by
County Extension Service Chair
man Willie Featherstone to hire a
new 4-H agent to replace Alice Pet
titt, who took over the respon
sibilities of the Home Economics
area after Ellen Willis retired.
Commissioners expressed some
concern that even though the total
salary of the new agent was
lowered, the state received the
benefit of all the reduction while
the county's share of the salary re
mained the same. . .
Featherstone said Hoke County
was not paying any more than the
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commission had budgeted for the
salary.
The county is still paying a
smaller percentage of the total
salary in comparison with some
surrounding counties, the exten
sion chairman said.
The starting salary for the new
agent will be $16,300 with the state
paying $10,087 and the county
paying $6,413, Featherstone said.
Since the agent is to be hired in
September, the county will save
two months of the costs.
In other business, the commis
sioners took action on these mat
ters:
?Granted a request from the
Literacy Council to expand their
offices and classrooms into the
building just adjacent to one now
being used on West El wood Street.
This building was also being eyed
by a Senior Citizens group as a
future meeting place.
?Approved the creation of a
new budget line item of $1,200, to
be paid by the Department of
Agriculture, for the renting of
refrigerated trailer units for
storage of cheese and butter until it
can be disbursed to recipients.
?Extended the operation of the
Driver's License Examination Of
fice to four days per week.
?Approved a resolution allow
ing the Health Department to sell a
surplus X-ray developing tank.
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NOTICE TO HOKE COUNTY TAXPAYERS
PURSUANT TO
N. C. GENERAL STATUTE 1-42.9
TAKE NOTICE that within two years from
September 1 , 1984, all oil, gas or mineral interests
in lands severed or separated from the surface fee
simple ownership and forfeitable under the terms
of G.S. 1-42.9 ( b ) must be listed for ad valorem
taxes, and notice of this interest must be filed in
writing in the manner provided by G.S. 1-42.9 (b)
and recorded in the local registry in the book pro
vided by G.S. 1-42 to be effective against the sur
face fee simple owner or creditors, purchasers,
heirs or assigns of such owner. Sub-surface oil,
gas and mineral interests shall be assessed for ad
valorem taxes as real property and such taxes shall
be collected and foreclosed In the manner
authorized by Chapter 106 of the General Statutes
of North Carolina.
This the 9th day of August, 19B4.
HOKE COUNTY
BOARD Of COMMISSIONERS
RAEFORD, N.C.