. . . Literacy group helps on low budget
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There has never been a
recruiting effort in the county
before, she said.
The council is looking for a few
volunteers to get students from the
outlying areas of the county.
The first volunteer was found
last week, said Buie.
Six or seven more are needed to
travel around in the county, she
said.
According to Buie, the
volunteers will have to be trained
and then they will go knocking on
doors for the cause.
The drive, if the needed number
of volunteers can be gotten, will
save time for the staff, said Buie.
The director feels that many
needy students can be recruited by
the drive.
"Almost any word that gets out
about us or any publicity we get,
gives us a student," said Buie.
The final product, turned out by
the council's efforts, is a produc
tive person who can function in the
reading wor'd, the director said.
The method"" used to teach
students contains four books.
Students work through the
books in a series. %
"We are just very excited when a
student gets through the First three
books," said Buie.
When the third book is com
pleted, a student is able to sound
out 88% of the English language,
Buie said.
The first three books teach
students to sound out long and
short vowels and primary con
sonants, she said.
At the completion of the third
book, students have "blending
skill," or those needed to sound
out difficult words, said Buie.
Most all of the students that
enter the program finish book
three, said Buie.
Currently, there are five
students in that book and one that
is nearly finished.
If students want to move on to
book four, chances are their tutors
will not have the skills to get them
through it, said Buie.
The last book of the series con
tains some gr ammatical work, she
said.
Some of the students who move
to the final book may have to be
referred to Sandhills Community
College, she said.
Although most of the students
worked with by the Literacy Coun
cil did not finish high school, there
are some who actually graduated
who cannot read or write, said the
director.
"We have had people who went
through the eighth or ninth grades
who do not know their alphabet,"
Buie said.
When asked how a student could
get that far without knowing the
alphabet, she replied: "For a long
time, I don't think an education in
Hoke County was necessary. Peo
ple could function without it."
"Now, they come to us because
they want to function," said Buie.
"One lady came to me and said
she just wanted to be able to read
what was on the boxes she
packed."
. . . Chore work cuts costs
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adding that people who heat with
electricity will get larger checks.
Board members were also told
that 55 families were helped last
month with additional crisis in
tervention funds.
The Department of Human
Resources freed up an additional
SI million dollars for helping peo
pie who have homes but no money
to heat them, said Witherspoon.
Those persons must be totally
out of heating fuel before they
qualify for funds, said the direc
tor.
Hoke County's allocation of the
extra funds was $5,960, said
Witherspoon.
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A kid's dream
Doesn't every child dream of a tree house and a swing set to play on?
Whoever belongs to this layout should have been living in a dream.
Not only was there a treehouse and a swing set, but they are right
together and it snowed. Enough said.
. . . Around Town
(Continued from page 1)
old Graham's Service Station
building has brought forth several
telephone calls and also many peo
ple stopping me and talking about
not destroying the deer.
One call last week from a local
lady said that she saw busted ce
ment in front of the station and
wanted to know if the deer had
been put in a safe place. I told her
that from all reports the deer
would not be destroyed.
I can't say it is a fact, but I have
been informed that the deer are
now at the Hoke High School and
will now be the mascot of the
Bucks.
For many years they were the
symbol of the Elk Restaurant, so I
would say it is time for them to be
deer as they were sculpted.
To the students of Hoke High,
please take care of the deer.
? * *
Since the remarks by Judge D.B.
Herring and the editorial comment
in The News-Journal concerning
the Hoke County Courthouse, that
has also brought forth calls and
conversation on the streets.
The people that have talked to
me don't care if a new courthouse
is built, but they don't want to see
the old courthouse torn down. It
has become a landmark for
downtown Raeford just like the
Market House in a nearby county.
I don't know if you watch Channel
11, Durham or not, but when they
mention the heart of Carolina and
Raeford or Hoke County, a pic
ture of the courthouse appears.
There have been many new
courthouses built in North
Carolina in the past few years, but
the old courthouse has not been
destroyed in most counties. I will
not name the counties, but will tell
them to anyone that wants to
know.
Downtown Raeford has to be
kept alive and preserved if Raeford
is to go forward. There are places
to put office space next to the old
courthouse and with some im
agination the old building could
still be renovated and still be used
for a courthouse.
Let's keep the old courthouse.
Our heritage must be with us for
years to come.
. . . School districts eyed
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High holds grades 9-12, said the superintendent.
The middle school organization offers students a transition
period after leaving the elementary school level, said Nelson.
Current transitions from elementary to junior high levels are too
harsh on the development of students, he said.
"We now have students changing classes in the fourth and fifth
grades just like high school, and that's much too early," Nelson
said.
In a middle school organization, students will still change classes,
but they will stay with a single teacher longer, said Nelson.
There will be time for individual attention and students will come
in contact with more than one teacher per day, he said.
The superintendent said that children in grades six, seven and
eight are going through traumatic periods in their lives and need
special attention to develop properly.
The middle school organization will offer students time to adjust
to the high school way of life while not completely losing aspects of
elementary school, Nelson said.
Deaths & Funerals
Star Sessoms
Star Wilson Sessoms, 72, died
Wednesday evening in Veterans
Hospital in Fayetteville.
Memorial services were held at 2
p.m. Saturday at Pittman Grove
Baptist Church by Revs. Rodney
Barwick and Mack Musslewhite.
Survivors are his wife: Mrs. An
na K. Sessoms of Raeford; one
son: Donald Conant of Oklahoma
City Oklahoma; two daughters:
Mrs. Patti Peck of Geneva, Ohio
and Mrs. Kathy Hardaker of
Lakeland, Florida; two sisters:
Mrs. Hattie Chason of Raeford
and Mrs. Mary Sessoms of
Raeford and nine grandchildren.
Crumpler Funeral Home served
the family.
Contributions may be made to
the Pittman Grove Baptist Church ,
Building Fund.
Mack Andrews
McDougal (Mack) Andrews, 75,
of Asheboro formerly of Hoke
County, died January 22 in
Asheboro.
He was the son of the late Ras
Roscoe and Letha Pierce Andrews.
Andrews was a retired executive
of Acme-McCray Corporation in
Asheboro.
Funeral services were conducted
January 24 at Pugh Funeral Home
Chapel. Interment followed at
Oaklawn Cemetery.
He is survived by one brother
Carl Roscoe Andrews of Asheboro
and several nieces and nephews.
Mayade RHey
Mrs. Maymie Downey Riley, 84,
died Saturday at her home.
Funeral was held at 2 p.m. Mon
day at Shiloh Presbyterian Church
with Rev. W.K. Fitch Jr. of
ficiating.
Burial was in the Church
Cemetery.
Survivors include her husband,
Fred W. Riley and a sister, Mrs.
Cora D. Queen, Orlando, Florida.
Arrangements were handled by
Powell Funeral Home of Southern
Pines.