Hoke
County crops
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The crops of Hoke County are
In "food shape but not great
ihape" this year, according to the
local Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service (ASCS)
Director John Currin.
Some areas of the county will
enjoy better harvests than other
lections because of scattered
ihowers that were heavy in some
places and almost non-existent in
others, members of an ASCS com
mittee were told Friday morning
"We've got an average, or
slightly above average tobacco
crop," Currin said, adding that
this year's crop is better than it was
at this point last year.
With the rain the county had in
July, there may be isolated places
where tobacco crops are unusually
good and other places where they
are bad, Currin said.
There has been some tobacco
drowned in Hoke County by the
rain but the damage is not
widespread.
The county's cotton crop is
above average, but it is not a
"bumper crop.*"
All the rain from last month will
not be as much of a factor with the
cotton crop except that it may pro
mote unusually fast weed growth
which could result in problems at
harvest time, Currin said.
However, some of the cool
nights of July might hurt the cot
ton crop, he said.
Currin explained that cotton
needs hot, moist weather to grow
to best potential and that the cool
nights hit at a bad time in the
plants' growing cycle.
Due to rain and other bad
weather, much of the county's
corn crop was planted later than
normal thus missing the crippling
rain of July, Currin said.
Although the county will not
have an overabundance of corn
this year, the crop was not wiped
Out by rain
Soybeans, have been helped by
the rains, according to Currin.
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Springlike summer
These blossoms brighten a Hoke County summer and make it seem
like spring.
. . . Around Town
(Continued from page 1)
This old school building has
been on the property and not in
use since the closing of An
tioch School. Some of the
other old school buildings have
also been sold and put to use in
other ways. They are Bethel or
Blue Springs, Ashemont,
Mildouson and the school at
Rockfish.
Maybe it is hard for most
folks to think of that many high
schools in Hoke County. They
were all high schools during my
early school days here.
If anyone can furnish me true
facts about the Antioch
School, 1 would like to have
them.
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A telephone call last Friday
morning gave me the sad news
of the death of W.L. (Lester) Seals
of Austin, Texas. He was a native
of the Blue Springs section of this
county and graduated from Hoke
High School. Seals was a star in
most sports.
He left for World War 11 with
the local National Guard unit in
Sept. 1940 and finished Officer
Candidate School in the same
class as my brother Spec and 1.
We served together in Texas
after our graduation and he
was married while in service
there.
He always came to our
National Guard reunions and just
a couple of weeks ago, while
visiting relatives here, we talked
about the upcoming reunion. We
will certainly miss him this year. I
know his many friends who read
this column will be sorry to hear of
his death.
A memorial service will be
held at Shiloh Presbyterian
Church on Sunday, August 26
at 3:00 p.m. for Lester Seals.
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The dream of every golfer is
to make a hole-in-one. On
Saturday, August 11 at the par
3 18th hole at Arabia Golf
Course Earl McDuffie had his
dream come true. On the
173-yard hole Earl hit a 6-iron
and the ball hit short of the flag
and rolled to the hole against
the flag stick. Of course it fell
in when the stick was removed.
Playing in the foursome with
McDuffie were Freddie
Williams, Randell Ashburn and
Vance McGougan. They are
witnesses and maybe you will
believe one of them. Earl
should have come out in fine
fashion with an ace on 18.
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Many years ago 1 signed a
note for a fellow at The Bank of
Raeford. He left town after the
first payment and you know
what happened. I paid, but got
experienced on signing notes.
Several years later I ran into
the fellow and he told me he
was returning to New York and
would mail me the money. He
did and it was like a gift from
the blue.
According to an article in the
paper this week some people
are getting a gift from the blue.
It is escheat account money
that was in banks or insurance
accounts. Two of the lucky
people are good friends of
mine. So have fun with the
money, Mary Virginia McFadyen
and Marguerite Thomas.
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Don't forget that schools will
be opening soon land the kids
and school buses Xvill be on the
roads. Watch otjKfor them!
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Retail sales increase
Retail sales in Hoke County dur
ing May were over $300,000 higher
than during the same period the
year before, a report issued last
week by the state Department of
Revenue says.
Sales during the month rose
from $4.4 million in 1983 to $4.7
million this year for an increase of
$304,982, the report says.
The increase for May was 6.9%,
which was well above the current
inflation rate of 2.5 %.
Retail sales for the first five
months of the year were
$21,496,268 and were up almost
$1.4 million over the $20,099,011
in sales during same period in
1983.
That hike in revenue was 6.95%.
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