/'
ew&~ journal
The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
IME LXI NVMBER 35
14 PER YEAR
RAEFORD, HOKE COVNTY, NORTH CAROUNA
1(H PER COPY
THIRSDAY, JAN14RY 12,1967
TO NEW SCHOOL
Town Board In‘Tizzy’
On Water, S^wer Lines
BIG HOLLY, BY GOLLV — TTiis unbelievably large holly tree stands Just east of Wagram In
Hoke County alongside the Wagram-Antloch road. It measures 108 Inches In circumference,
which would give It a diameter of some 35 Inches. The tree, which Is covered with red berries.
Is some 40 to 50 feet tall and may well be the largest holly tree on record.
Negro Man
Is Victim
Of Hit-Run
Local law enforcement
cers are still looking for a hit-
run driver who struck down a
N4|to man on South Main Street
here last Friday night.
Police Chief L. W. duaitton
said Robert Rogers, 41, was
badly cut on the lower part of
his rear torso, apparently by
an automobile. He was taken
to Cape Fear Valley Hospital,
where the 20-lnch gash was
sewn,
Stanton said a telephone call
to the police department late
I Friday night sentOfflcer James
West to the scene. West found
Rogers lying In the street with
his clothing around his head
and bleeding profusely.
The chief said Indications
are that Rogers, whose father,
Nick Rogers, lives on Raeford
* Rt. 2, was Intoxicated. It Is
believed hel staggered Into the
path of a cai^,'Stanton said, since
at least one mworlst reported
seeing a “drunken man" of Rog
ers' description staggering In
the vicinity of the accident
shortly before Rogers was
struck down,
“We have absolutely no lead
on the hit-run automobile,”
Chief Stanton said. He Indicated
that Rogers is responding to
treatment and Is expected to
survive.
Savings - Loan
Directors Named
Ten directors of Raeford Sav
ings and Loan Association were-
re-elected ruesday at the an
nual stockholders meeting of
the organization.
The directors, holding a brief
session after me main meeting,
re-elected from their number
H. L. Gatlin Jr., president:
Younger Snead Sr., vice presi-
dfflt, and Franklin Teal, sec
retary-treasurer.
About 50 persons turned out
in the rain for the meeting,
held at the association’s of
fice on Campus Avenue. Many
stockholders who did not attend
voted by proxy.
Directors include the-three
officers, Fred Culbreth, Dr.
Julius Jordan, Tom McBryde,
J. D. McMillian, Graham Mon-
roe, 5am Morris and H. D,
Harrison Jr.
Stockholders approved a
resolution of respect and ap
preciation citing ^e outstand
ing service-to the association
and the community byMrs. Irma
Coble Poole. Before her death
in December, Mrs. Poole
served for 25 years as secre
tary-treasurer of the associa
tion, retiring about a year ago.
She took over routine opera
tion of the business when her
husband, Col. W, L. Poole, was
called to active duty In 1940 with
the Raeford National Guard
unit.
Teal repeyted to stockhold
ers that business was good
y^urtTig 1966 and that deposits
In the association showed ap
preciable gain.
PTA Topic Is ‘New Math’
Mrs. Agnes E. Page, super
visor of Instruction for Hoke
County Schools, and teachers
from grades 1-12 will present
the “New Math” at PTA on
Monday night, January 16, at
7:4p o'clock In Raeford Elemen
tary Auditorium.
Modern termlnoloty, me
thods, and concepts will be pre
sented In a sequential order.
“The new or igidated Mathe
matics Is not aimed at produc
ing more mathematics for our
better students, but at produc
ing better mathematics for
more of our students, Mrs.
Page said.
Project
To Cost
$9,000
Raeford town officials were
left In. a somewhat of a tizzy
this month when they learned
that expensive sewer and water
lines must be laid to the site
of Hoke County's new elemen
tary school on Bethel Road.
Construction already has be
gun on the school, which will be
raised on a 30-acre tract across
Bethel Road from Hoke High
School. It will cost about $600,-
000.
Ellis Construction Company
of Sanford is the general con
tractor with a low bid of $605,-
700. Preparations for digging
the foundation for the modern
istic complex of classrooms,
designed by Hayes Howell and
Associates architects, already
have been made at the site.
“It never occurred to me that
the town would have any diffi
culty or hesitancy whatsoever
In providing water and sewer
lines for the school,” saldW.T,
Gibson, Jr.,. superintendent of
schools.'
Nonetheless, the town was
caught In the middle of its fiscal
year without the estimated
$9,000 the water and sewer fa
cilities will cost.
Monday night, town council-
men pored over the problem but
at time for adjournment had
come up with no satisfactory
solution.
Ed Williams, town manager,
said the town board was not
approached about the sewer and
water needs until a few days
before all bids were In. At
that time, he said, one or two
bidders made inquiries about
the lines and were told that no
plans or requests had been sub
mitted to the town board.
Williams said town council-
men will meet later with county
commissioners to discuss a
possible Joint project to provide
water and sewer facilities for
the new school and tying the
project with development of an
Industrial site In the same sec
tion which seems likely to be
occupied In the near futirre by
a new Industry.
The project will entail extend
ing water mains from the high
school — a distance of some
600 feet — and a sewer line
approaching from the east side
See ‘TIZZY’. Page 9
MASONIC OFFICERS — Raeford's Masonic lodge Installed
dicers In a special ceremony Tuesday night at the lodge
hall, with J. Ed Williams, grand lecturer and past master
Q^the Dunn lodge, serving as installing officer. Shown
ner# are, left to right: Front row—Alfred Long Jr., senior
deacon; Henry J. Fowler, senior warden; Bobby McBryde,
I
master: Glenn Mclnnls, Junior warden; Paul Livingston,
secretary. Back row—Joe Dupree, treasurer; William Mc-
Phall, junior steward; Henry T. McColl, Junior deacon;
A.'K. McPhaul. chaplain; Keith Hawks, outgoing master and
new tyler; June Rodgers, senior steward; Ed Williams,
Installing ofilcer.
\
y
V
■'U’
fM!
CO-OP MEMBERS — Five oflO members of a small-farmer
cooperative stand with James Pittman, FHA supervisor for
Hoke County, in front of the expensive combine they bought
with the help of a $13,500 FHA “anti-poverty” loan. Such
loans are available for other purposed as well. Shown here
are, left to right, Johnny Singletary, Mason McLauchlln,
Roscoe Miles, Pittman, L. E. McLauchlln, and Fred McCor
mick, standing at the combine’s air-conditioned cab.
N .
Fire Fund Farmers Form Co-Op;
Buy Expensive Combine
Total Up
To $709
Contributions to Hoke Coun
ty’s “Fund For Five” fire vic
tims rose this week to $709,
the campaign committee re
ported. a substantial Increase
over last week’s $390.
The drive was started by
neighbors of five families In
the Ashley Helghts-Montrose
neighborhood, each of which had
^a boy. In a tragic November 19
bampng fire that cost four of
the i3-year-olds their lives.
Contributions to the fund may
be made by mall to “Fund For
Five.” P. 0. Box 299, Rae
ford.
Following are contributors
not previously listed:
Mrs. Mumford Horr, Mrs.
Mildred S. Parks, Sam Snead,
Mr. alia Mrs. Grady Peeler
Jr., Lottie L, Thomasson, Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Jones, R. E.
Neeley family, Mr. and Mrs.
See FIRE FUND, Page 8
Mrs. Andrews
Is Appointed
Lumbee River Electric Mem
bership Corporation's board of
directors have named Mrs. J.
M. Andrews of Hoke County to
fill the unexplred term of her
late husband. Judge Junius M.^
Andrews, who was president’
of the co-op at the time of his
death In November.
Mrs. Andrews will sit on the
board of directors until next
November, when officers will
be chosen ^t the annual meeting
of the 960-member cooperative;
Meanwhile, E. L. Cooke of
Fayetteville Rt. 3 was elevated
to the post of president. He was
a vice president.
Wade Powell, a former treas
urer and member of the current
board of directors, was pro
moted to vice president. Other
officers are Nell A. Watson of
Maxton. treasurer, and Cecil
Dunn of Lumber Bridge, sec-
retar).
The cooperative serves rural
electric customers In Hoke.
Robeson. Scotland and part of
Cumberland county.
Cooperative farming Is noth
ing new. Twenty or so years
ago, farmers “swapped work''
In getting their corn husked,
their wood cut, their barns
raised, and their wheat
threshed.
Today, however. It Is com
paratively rare to find a farm
er and his neighbor In harness
together.
Not so with 10 small Hoke
County farmers who have form
ed a cooperative and bought an
expensive combine and other
harvesting equipment. Including
two grain wagons and a farm
truck.
They banded together to qual
ify for an “anti-poverty” loan
from the Farmers Home Ad
ministration, a branch of the
U. S. Department of Agricul
ture.
James Pittman, manager of
the Hoke FHA office, said the
group quallQed for a $13,500
loan because nine of the 10 are
In the low-income category. By
federal definition, any family
with less than $3,000 a year
Income Is poverty-stricken.
They saw the need tor the
combine, Pittman said, when
See FARMERS Page 8
Hawk Eye Principal Hails
From ‘Educated’ Family
BY LUCY GRAY PEEBLES
Earl Hughes Oxendlne Is
probably the only man whoever
got Into the United States Air
Force’ with an artificial eye.
.At least, with a twinkle In his
good right eye, he declares,
“I'm the only man ever to get
into the Air Force with just one
eye,”
The secret came to light a
year after Induction, During
the year he went through eye
tests before becoming a mili
tary policeman and ^ore ob
taining a military 'driver's li
cense. After being sent home,
he re-entered the classroom
and Is now principal of 670-
pupll Hawk Eye High S^shrol.
Before he left hlsGIbuddi^,
he had seen service at Camp'
Gordon. Ga., and FortDl^N. J.
As a lad of eight, Ean was
hit In the eye when a playmate
threw > stick to demonstrate
the old ‘'itodlan method of kill
ing a chicken,” he said.
The young school man comes
from a family that Is full of
educators, and the family comes
from a town that is Said (with-
our verification) to be the resi
dence of more teachers than any
other town Its size In the
country. He was born and still
lives just outside Pembroke,
where he recently built a nev
home near the residence of his
parents.
His family believes In educa
tion. There were eight.chiWron
See OXENDINE.-Tage^
k
D \RL OXENDINE