Burlington launches
letter writing effort
Employees at Burlington In
dustries' Raeford and Burlington
Menswear Dying plants are con
cerned about the rapid growth of
textile and apparel imports that is
costing American textile workers
their jobs, and they are expressing
that concern in letters to President
Ronald Reagan.
"Plant employees began writing
letters last week to send a message
to the president that import growth
must be controlled," plant
manager Bill Archer said today.
He said the letters are part of a
company and industry-wide effort
to gain presidential support for the
Textile and Apparel Trade En
forcement Act, a bill designed to
slow down the rapid growth of im
ports.
A majority of both houses of
Congress are co-sponsoring the
bill, but President Reagan's Ad
ministration has opposed it.
"This bill is badly needed," Ar
cher said. "In the past five years
foreign imports have doubled and
more than 200,000 Americans have
lost their jobs. Imported clothing
already has captured almost half
of the U.S. market, and imports
keep growing. If action is not
taken soon we're in danger of los
ing another two million jobs by
1990."
Archer termed the situation a
critical one for "our employees
and our plant communities." He
said employees of the Raeford and
Burlington Menswear Dying plants
are not only writing letters to the
president themselves, they are also
urging their families, friends and
business acquaintances to write
before the end of September.
"It's very important that we let
the president know how those of us
who are most directly affected by
imports feel about the issue," Ar
cher said. He encouraged all local
residents and businessmen to write
the president also. "If textile jobs
are lost in this community it affects
everyone," he said. "So all of us
have a stake in the passage of this
legislation."
Archer said letters could be
brief, as short as two or three
sentences long, but should em
phasize the importance of textiles
to the community and should urge
President Reagan to support the
Textile and Apparel Trade En
forcement Act. "The small
amount of time it takes to write
may well save your neighbor's
job," he emphasized.
Letters should be addressed to
President Ronald Reagan, The
White House, Washington, D.C.
20500.
. . .Cleanup is urged
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visitors to Hoke County.
Now that festival goers and
potential residents have been
drawn to the county, it would be a
shame to give them a less than
favorable impression of the com
munity, Howard said.
"We will be making an impres
sion every moment on people who,
hopefully, will like what they see
and want to live and work with
us," Howard said.
"If all goes as planned, the
numbers of visiting dignitaries,
guests and neighbors from across
the state will be tremendous. We
must portray the clean, neat ap
pearance of a rural community on
the way up," he added.
Lots need mowing. Liter should
be controlled. County residents
should go out of their way to make
things look attractive, Howard
said.
Scouting roundup Thurs.
Boys who are at least seven years
old and their parents are invited to
attend Scouting Roundup Night
Thursday.
Meetings will be at 7 p.m. at
three Hoke County locations; the
new National Guard Armory, Pitt
man Grove Baptist Church and
West Hoke School.
Boy Scouting now involves three
different groups.
Children seven years old may
join Tiger Cubs.
Those 8-11 years may become
Cub Scouts and those over 1 1 may
become Boy Scouts.
All groups are administered by
the Cape Fear Council, Boy Scouts
of America.
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Former Gov. Bob Scott teiis about 125 Hoke County supporters of the
North Carolina Symphony and the Hoke branch of SandhUts Com
munity College about the need for a symphony In the state and the or
chestra's long history of service. Scott is the head of the state's com
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Warren Johnston, chairman,
stated Monday that some
volunteers were needed to help
during the festival. If you would
like to help, contact Crawford
Thomas or the Chamber of Com
merce office. This is your festival,
so become a part of it.
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It is always good to go to the
meeting at the local Burlington
plants. Each year at different
times, business men & women of
Raeford are invited to lunch and
are told of the ups and downs that
the plants have experienced during
the year.
Last Wednesday I attended this
luncheon and came away feeling
that Raeford and Hoke County
would continue to prosper with
those plants in our community.
The outlook for the future here is
somewhat better than at other
places and the work force at the
plants are about the same as it has
been over the years. Everything is
not easy, but it is not all dark
either.
We are fortunate to have these
plants.
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While researching for the items
on the 75th anniversary of Hoke
County, I came across a list of
names of the people who have held
political offices in Hoke County
over the past 74 years. While
reading the names, I realized that
when someone is elected in the
county, they usually keep the of
fice for a number of years.
Do you realize that in the 75
years that Hoke County has been
formed, there has been only three
people to be sheriff of the county?
The first was Edgar Hall and he
served from 1911 to the late 1920s
or early 1930s. He was replaced by
Dave Hodgin and he served over
30 years. They are both deceased.
The present sheriff, Dave Barr
ing ton, has been our sheriff for
over 20 years.
If you think back, most of our
Board of Education members serv
ed many years, some were
defeated, but many retired.
Yes, Hoke County has elected
good men to office and have kept
them there as long as they did a
good job. You can't beat ex
perience.
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I can't understand how football
players do as well as they do in this
hot weather. Last Saturday most
games were played in 90? weather.
This meant that the temperatures
on the playing field was 20 or 30?
hotter. They must be in good con
dition.
It is good to know that it will be
cooler Saturday. See you in Chapel
Hill.
Rockfish building
nixed as new school
By Ed Milter
An abandoned school building,
that was more recently a manufac
turing operation, probably will not
be suitable for reconversion into a
school again, a team of state
engineers and architects said last
Wednesday.
After a tour of the facility about
a month ago, members of the
Hoke County Board of Education
asked the team from the Division
of Schools and Planning in Raleigh
to look at the building.
"It's a nice building for what it
was meant to be, but for a school,
you might be about equal with new
construction if you use this
building," Jerry Knot, team ar
chitect said.
In fact, the team determined
that the part of the building that
used to be a school is not usable at
all.
"If there was any talk of keep
ing the old building, we would
have to scrap the whole thing,"
said Knot.
"A school is such a specialized
building that it's hard to use a
building made for another pur
pose," engineer Ralph Self said.
"Not many facilities are suitable
for turning into a school," said
Ron Wilson, another engineer on
the team.
"It wouldn't be cost effective in
our opinion to use this building,
and you wouldn't have a good
school facility when you're finish
ed," Self said.
According to the team, the cost
for renovating the building into a
school is estimated to be about $35
per square foot.
Those costs plus the asking price
of the building, SSOO.OOO, would
put the price of turning the plant
into a school at or over the price of
new construction, according to the
team.
"We might go in the hole by
buying this thing,"said School
Business Manager Don Steed.
There are many problems with
the building that rule out it becom
ing a school, according to the
team.
A major problem is the small
amount of land the building is on.
There would not be adequate
room around the building for
teacher parking and school bus
parking, said Wilson.
A major problem with the facili
ty is its lack of windows, according
to Knot.
While most manufacturing
buildings need no windows,
schools do, said Knot.
If the building were converted,
contractors would have to. First,
put in windows, and second, make
sure that classrooms are placed on
outside walls where there are win
dows, said Knot.
Support offices would have to
be put in the middle of the building
where no windows can be built, he
said.
The entire electrical system in
the building would have to be
taken out and replaced, according
to Wilson.
Massive duct work, in the ceiling
of the building, would have to be
removed and the ceiling lowered,
said Knot.
"Basically, what you've got here
are walls and a ceiling," said Self,
adding that the walls leak.
"Probably, if you do anything
with this building, you would take
all of this down and start over,"
said Knot.
Hoke County School Superin
tendent Dr. Robert Nelson has said
that Rockfish is prime for a
school.
If a stranger looked at a map of
Hoke County and put a school
where it was most needed, the
school would probably be placed
in the Rockfish area.
Cunningham is decorated
Spec. 4 Tony F. Cunningham,
son of Lewis C. and Lucille Cunn
ingham of Fuller Street, Raeford,
has been decorated with the second
award of the Army Achievement
Medal at Fort Riley, Kansas.
The Achievement Medal is
awarded to soldiers for men
torious service, acts of courage, or
other accomplishments.
Cunningham is an artillery
system mechanic with the 1st Bat
talion, 5th Field Artilery.
He is a 1982 graduate of Hoke
County High School.
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