Fall nap
This Hoke County cat takes a brief snooze in the
last remaining days of fall warm weather last Sun
day. Cooler temperatures are predicted for the end
of the week, and rain on Monday and Tuesday was
expected to end by Wednesday. Although
temperatures might drop, the cat will probably find
somewhere for its afternoon rest.
. . . Around Town continued
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maybe it will show the commission
that Raeford and Hoke County
wants to move forward. We have
lost many things in Hoke County,
because we don't have numbers.
So let's have numbers next Tues
day.
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The annual Halloween Carnival
sponsored by the Raeford Kiwanis
(hub and the TMH classes of the
schools will be held Saturday, Oc
tober 26 at the J.W. Turlington
School. The fun will start at 5 p.m.
Now this is the way that Hallo
ween should be celebrated by the
young folks of our community.
? There will be all types of enter
tainment for the young folks and
when you get to a carnival, most of
us old folks become kids again.
The Raeford Jaycees will have a
haunted house in the gym and that
will be worth the time to attend the
event.
The proceeds will go to the
TMH classes and this is a project
that is worth supporting.
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Last week I rode out to Oakdale
Gin to see Julian Johnson about
some church business. After get
ting the business completed, we
started talking about the ginning
of qotton. He stated that the entire
crop of cotton should almost be
ginned by the end of October.
Julian said he couldn't remember
the crop being finished this early in
years past. Benny McLeod of
Hoke Cotton Warehouse said the
same thing Sunday when I was
talking to him.
I can remember back in the
1930s that we had a special section
each year during the cotton gin
ning season. Each gin would run a
? ISrgf ad in nhe section aryl the
theme was "King Cotton/'
To the best of my knowledge the
gins were Oakdale, Hoke Oil and
Fertilizer Co., Raeford Gin,
Rockfish Gin, Duffie Gin and
maybe one more I can't recall.
Maybe it was in the Stonewall sec
tion of the county.
In those days there were a few
trucks, but most of the cotton was
hauled to the gins in wagons. I can
remember going to school in the
late 1920s and wagons would be
backed up on the Laurinburg
Highway, down past Magnolia
Street.
I don't know how many bales
they could gin at that time, but
Julian said the modern gin at
Oakdale ginned 10 bales an hour.
Yes, it is good to see cotton still
around. I still like cotton products,
and buy them every chance I get.
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Don't forget to set your clock
back Saturday night. Daylight Sav
ings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday
morning. It would be bad to get to
church an hour early.
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The Hoke High Bucks finally
came through with a victory last
week. They will gain experience
and be ready for next year.
LREMC directors re-elected
Three directors of Lumbee River
Electric Membership Corporation
kept their seats during elections
held at the cooperative's annual
meeting.
One incumbent director was
defeated in the voting at Pembroke
State University's Performing Arts
Center.
Challenger Ward Clark Jr., a
former board member, outpolled
Bill James Brewington 413-280 to
claim the District 1 seat, represent
ing the townships of Maxton,
Alfordsville, Thompson, Union
and Rowland in Robeson County.
Clark is from the Maxton area
and Brewington is from the Pem
broke area.
Ronald Hammonds retained his
District 5 seat by defeating
challenger James Hester Ham
monds, 382-309. District 5 consists
of the Robeson County townships
of Lumber Bridge, Parkton, St.
Pauls, East and West Howellsville,
and Saddletree.
Lacy Cummings, an at-large
representative on the LREMC
board, defeated two challengers.
Cummings got 526 votes; Steve
Strickland, who was nominated
during the annual meeting, got
119; and petition candidate Carl
Branch got 49.
Alton V. Dudley of District 6,
the eastern half of Hoke Couonty,
was unopposed. He got 689 votes.
Lumbee River EMC, a rural
electric cooperative, provides elec
tricity to nearly 24,000 homes and
businesses, in Robeson, Scotland,
Hoke and Cumberland counties.
One way its members (customers)
exercise their ownership of the
business is at the annual meeting.
Registered members vote for can
didates to the 12-member LREMC
board, which formulates policies
and procedures for the co-op. Four *
seats are up for election each year. ?
More than 1,100 people attend
ed this year's annual meeting on
Tuesday, Oct. 15. There were 845
registered members.
Reports were given by board
chairman Gus Bullard and General
Manager Ronnie Hunt, who noted
that Lumbee River EMC cut its
costs this past year to absorb an
11.13 percent increase in the price f
of wholesale electric power from
Carolina Power and Light Com
pany.
The meeting also included a
question-and-answer session for
members, entertainment by dog
gers, a singer, a gospel group and a
ventriloquist, and a drawing for
prizes.
Deaths & Funerals
Sandy McNair
Funeral Services for Sandy
McNair, were held on last Wednes
day at 11:00 a.m. at the
Silvergrove Memorial Cemetery.
The services were officiated by
his pastor the Rev. M.H. Williams,
and the Rev. SJ. Judd. Musical
selections were given by his grand
son, Andre C. McNair of New
York, the son of Cora Lucille
McNair-Ross, New York.
He was retired from the Up
church Concrete Milling Com
pany.
He is survived by four children:
Mrs. Helen M. Price, R.N.,
Roanoke, Virginia; Mrs. Barbara
Hawkins, Frankfurt, Germany;
Mrs. Lucille Ross, Bronx, New
York; and Walter Sandy McNair,
Jr., Teaneck, New Jersey; one
stepson: Benjamin F. Robinson,
Brooklyn, New York; three son-in
laws, twelve grandchildren, one
daughter-in-law, three brothers:
Ivory McNair, Raeford, Waller
McNair, Veterans Home, Fayet
teville, and David McNair,
Bellvue, Washington; three sister
in-laws; one step-mother; Mrs.
Christine McNair, Raeford, three
brother-in-laws and a host of
relatives and friends.
Funeral arrangements were
handled by Buie Funeral Homes.
Marie Sides Lewis
Mrs. Marie S. Lewis, 51, Route
1 Clayton died Tuesday, October
15, at Johnston Memorial
Hospital.
She was born in Hoke County
on January 16, 1934, the daughter
of the late Martin L. Sides and
Susie L. Sides. She attended Hoke
County Schools.
The funeral was Friday at 2:00
p.m. at Parrish Funeral Home in
Selma with the Rev. Braxton
Creech officiating, and burial
following in Selma Memorial
Gardens.
Surviving are her husband:
Eldridge Lewis; Ave daughters:
Karen McDowell, Selma, Gail
Beasley, Raeford, Kathy
McDowell, Palmer, Alaska, Glen
da Worrell, Chapel Hill, and Kim
Rodenhizer of Clayton; two
brothers: Alvin L. Sides, Healeah
Florida and Glenn Sides, Southern
Pines; Five sisters: Magdaline S.
McKenzie, Rt. 1 Shannon,
Florence Allen, Healeah, Florida,
Christine Dugan, Ft. Ogethorpe,
Georgia, Carolyn Ingram; Candar,
Marilyn Beasly; Robbins and six
grandchildren.
Juliene S. Clark
Funeral services for Juliene
Susanne Clark, 5, who died at her
home in Maxton on October 16,
were held Saturday at the
Smithtown Church of God.
Clark was accidentally shot
when a .22 caliber pistol she was
handling went off.
She is survived by her parents:
Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Ray Clark;
two brothers: Teddy Jr. and
Cheyenne Clark, all of the home;
her paternal grandmother: Mrs.
Mary Clark of Maxton; her mater
nal grandmother: Mrs. Mary
Bullard of Raeford; her maternal
grandfather: Archie Callahar of
Gibson and a great grandmother: *
Mrs. Lula Jane McGirt Locklear
of Hoke County.
Bob Beaudoin
Octave N. (Bob) Beaudoin, 64,
died Saturday morning at Moore
Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst.
Funeral Services were Tuesday
at 11 a.m. at Raeford United
Methodist Church by Rev. Frank
Lloyd.
Burial was in Highland Bibilical f
Gardens.
Survivors are his wife: Mrs.
Adelaide Beaudoin; two sons:
Robert Beaudoin of Raeford and
Raymond Beaudoin of Raeford,
two daughters: Mrs. Anne
Lankford of Baltimore, Maryland
and Mrs. Margaret Andrews of
Baltimore, Maryland, three
brothers: Royal Beaudoin of Mon
treal, Canada, Roger Beaudoin of |
Montreal, Canada and Renee'
Beaudoin of Montreal, Canada
and grandchildren.
Crumpler Funeral Home served
the family.
Most people think that heart
disease only happens in the elderly.
Yet, according to the American
Heart Association, each year
almost 200,000 Americans die )
from heart and blood vessel
diseases before age 65.
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