Getting ready for feast
Raeford Methodist Church members will be firing up the logs on Fri
day night for barbecuing hogs for Saturday's Happy Hobby Harvest.
Plates of the homecooked hogs and chicken will be served for lunch
and dinner from McLauchUn School Cafeteria. An auction and craft
sale wiU follow In the church's fellowship hall.
Deaths & Funerals
Kirby Jackson
Kirby Pittman Jackson, SS, died
Sunday night at Duke Medical
Center. He was a merchant on
North Third Street in St. Pauls.
Funeral Services were to be held
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the
McNeill Funeral Home Chapel
with the Rev. Larry Blount of
ficiating.
Burial was to be in the Oak
Ridge Cemetery.
Survivors include: two sons:
Robert Jackson of Fayetteville and
Kirby Pittman Jackson, Jr. of St.
Pauls; two daughters: Mrs. Nancy
Stone and Mrs. Jeana Maitland,
both of Faryetteville; three
brothers: Cary Jackson of Chat
tanooga, Tennessee, Otis Jackson
of Raeford and Woodrow Jackson
of Jacksonville; two sisters: Mrs.
Jennie Townsend of Raeford and
Mrs. Flossie Willoughby of Fayet
teville and four grandchildren.
Albert McLean
Funeral services "for Albert
George McLean were conducted at
2 p.m. Sunday at Bridges Grove
AME Zion Church by the Rev.
Thurman McGougan.
Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Mr. McLean, 82, died last Tues
day in Brooklyn, New York.
Surviving are nine sons: George
Levern, and Billie McLean, all of
Brooklyn, New York, Albert
McLean of Richmond Hills, New
York, Charles McLean of Queen
Village, New York, Melbeodis
McLean of South Ozone Park,
New York, Franklin McLean of
Virginia, Delano McLean of
Bronx, New York, and John
McLean of Lauralton, New York;
a daughter, Myrtice V. Pollard of
Brooklyn, New York; 25 grand
children and six great
grandchildren.
Red Springs Funeral Home ser
ved the family.
Angeline H. Port erf ield
Mrs. Angeline Hicks Porter
field, 60, died Sunday.
Funeral services were to be held
Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Antioch
Presbyterian Church by Rev.
Charles Ansley.
She is survived by her husband:
Charles Porterfield; one son: Ron
nie Bowen of Atlanta, Georgia;
one daughter: Mrs. Catherine
Arnett of Hattisburg, Mississippi;
one brother: Ernest C. Hicks Jr.,
of Asheboro; two sisters: Mrs. Bill
(Betty) McNeill of Antioch and
Mrs. Lois Hudson of Hamlet and
six grandchildren.
. . . School unity pledged
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most likely course for the state
legislature to take, Cowan said.
Members of the Board of
Education will develop a plan for
the schools and will work with the
county commissioners to make
sure the program is financially
feasible.
A bond referendum would take
about nine months to get on a
ballot for Hoke voters, Cowan
said.
"It might be good to get it ready
for next November," School
Board Chairman Bill Cameron
said.
"I keep hearing interest rates are
going down. The time is now. The
sooner the better," Commission
Chairman John Balfour said.
For every $1 million in bonds,
Cowan estimates it would take a
4.84 cent increase in ad valorem
rates to retire the debt.
Under state law, the county
could borrow up to 8Vo of the
assessed evaluation of real proper
ty or about $27.2 million.
75th funded
In a meeting prior to the joint
session with the Board of Educa
tion, the commissioners approved
funding of not more than $10,000
for the 75th anniversary celebra
tion of the county.
Other funds will be raised and
the county money needed could be
less than the $10,000, 75th Com
mittee Chairman Sam Morris said.
The celebration will be held May
4 through May 9, Morris said.
Preliminary plans are for a
parade, a community religious ser
vice and a fireworks show, Morris
said.
"The committees are just begin
ning to work," he added.
Remodeling of the Hoke County
Courthouse will probably not be
finished completely by the 75th
celebration, but enough work may
be done so that the building can be
part of the event, Balfour said.
In other business, the commis
sioners took action on these mat
ters:
?Received for information an
audit of the county's last fiscal
year, conducted by Pittard, Perry
and Crone, CPA's.
?Approved a resolution for
Hoke County to become part of a
Service Delivery Area for the Job
Training Partnership Act (JTPA).
?Agreed to purchase Esophageal
Obturator Airway (EOA) tubes
and charge EMS patients $1S for
their use. Although they are
reusable, EMS advisors believe it is
better to dispose of the tubes
because of the threat of AIDS and
Herpes.
?Announced following an ex
ecutive session that Dale Teal had
completed his course work ahead
of schedule and was now a cer
tified Tax Supervisor. Teal did not
make a test grade below 80 and
passed the work over a year sooner
than expected.
. . . Robbery reported
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A lawn mower was stolen from
Upchurch Junior High School last
Tuesday.
Someone entered a storage area
by kicking out a panel in the door,
Principal Allen Edwards reported.
A tennis shoe print was found
near the area where the theft oc
curred.
Lawn furniture, a lawn mower
and a gas grill were stolen from the
lawn of a Shannon area residence.
Susie Dial reported someone
drove up in front of her house,
jumped out of a truck and stole the
items from her lawn.
A value of $819 was placed on
the stolen items.
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Two trucks were reported stolen
last week in Hoke County.
A 1983 Nissan pickup truck was
stolen from Billy Sherman Butler
while he visited his brother.
The truck was later found in the
Arabia area of the county.
Another truck was stolen from
the residence of Murrill Foster of
Rt. 4.
The vehicle . was valued at
$5,000.
William McBryde told deputies
someone broke into his home on
the Vass Road and stole a televi
sion and a radio.
The incident apparently occur
red when McBryde was at work on
last Wednesday.
The black and white TV and the
AM-FM radio are valued at S209,
reports show.
Jail break-in draws
suspended sentence
A 19-year-old Charlotte woman,
who was found inside the Sandhills
Youth Center dressed only in a
towel, received a suspended
sentence in District Court last week
for the offense.
Tracey Keasler Brandow was
sentenced to six months in jail,
suspended with three years un
supervised probation for forcible
trespassing and giving beer to an
in-mate:
Brandow was discovered by a
guard in the early morning hours
of October 17 coming out of a
shower at the facility.
She had apparently entered the
Sandhills Center through a win
dow to visit her husband Brian
Brandow , 2 1 , and to give him beer .
According to the order from
District Court Judge Warren Pate,
Tracey Brandow is not to go on the
grounds of the North Carolina
Department of Correction during
her probation.
In other court matters, Larry
Bratcher was sentenced to two
years in jail suspended for three
years probation and a $1,000 fine
after being found guilty of four
counts of possession and sale of
alcohol without an ABC permit.
William Bratcher was sentenced
to 18 months, not to exceed 24
months, after being found guilty
of four charges of the same of
fense.
William Bratcher has filed a
notice of appeal.
Eddie Wayne Hawks was
sentenced to three years after he
was found guilty of possession of a
controlled substance and posses
sion of drug paraphernalia.
Hawks has also filed notice of
appeal.
Hawks was bound over to
Superior Court on another charge
of possession with intent to sell
and deliver marijuana.
A sentence of one year in jail
was given Friday to Ann Campbell
Tolar for possession of marijuana
with the intent to distribute and
sell, possession of a controlled
substance and possession of drug
paraphernalia.
She has also served notice of ap
peal.
Ludie Dixon was found guilty of
food stamp fraud and sentenced to
12 months suspended with one
year of probation and a $250 fine.
Dixon must also make $707
restitution to the Department of
Social Services (DSS).
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