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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
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THIRSDAY, FEBRIARY 2, 1947
WILL PETITION TOWN BOARD
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Low-Rent Hgusing Sought For Raeford
A group of Raeford citi
zens will petition the town
board Monday night to establish
a housing authority to provide
low-rent dwellings for Impov
erished families.
The petition, signed by 123
property owners, cites the sub
standard condition of dwellings
occupied by low-income famil
ies.
It ‘‘represents and states that
unsanitary and unsafe dwelling
accomodations exist In the Town
of Raeford. . .and there Is a
lack of safe and sanitary dwell
ing accomodations*' here.
The housing authority, If es
tablished, would consist of sev
eral commissioners appointed
by the town board. It would be
a separate entity, however, and
Its function would be to provide
low-rent housing.
That would be accomplished
with federal coq;>eratlon, ac
cording to Phil Diehl, who with
Gilbert Ray Initiated the peti
tion in behalf of Hoke Planning
and Development Commission.
“The federal government
would make available through
the Federal Housing Author
ity funds for construction of
specified number of units. Ac
tually, the housing authority
would borrow the money on a
40-year repayment plan and the
FHA would guaranteepayment,”
Diehl said.
The planning and development
commission Is thinking In terms
of 100 units, Diehl said.
The need for housing here
was determined In part by sur
veys made by Hoke Commun
ity Action Program, headed by
^ James Attaway.
According to those surveys
and others, Hoke County ranks
at the bottom of the list among
North Carolina's 100 counties
In housing needs. An estimated
60 per cent of the housing In
the county Is substandard.
“Out of 1,000 houses served
by Lumbee River Electric Mem
bership Corporation, only 300
had running water and only 201
had Inside toilets,’* Diehl said
The petition has the endorse
ment of Don Prince, president
of Raeford Improvement Coun
cil (the local community de
velopment organization).
If the housing authority Is
formed. It would be empowered
to Issue bonds to finance cer
tain housing projects. An exe
cutive director would be hired
to supervise the rental opera
tion and would be paid at the rate
of |4 per nwnth per housing
unit, Diehl said.
The units would be avail
able only to persons who do
not now have adequate hous
ing and are In the “poverty”
grov9>. That, as defln^ by the
federal government, Is any
family with less than a |3,000
per year Income.
Tenants would pay accord
ing to their ability, Diehl said.
That Is, a certain percentage
of their income would be assess
ed as rent. The lower the In
come, then, the lower the rent.
“In lieu of taxes, the housing
authority would pay 10 per cent
of the annual rental Income,**
Diehl said. "The town would
have to provide normal ser
vices, including water, sewer,
garbage collection and police
and fire protection.”
To qualify for-^fi)^ endorse
ment of housing authority bonds,
the municipality In which the
housing authority is situated
must have "standard.” or FHA
approved building and zoning
codes.
Raeford presumably would
qualify under that stipulation,
since It does have a ptanning
and zoning board, a zoning ord
inance, and a building code.
Any housing built by the au
thority would have to meet FHA
requirements, of course,
Diehl said Laurinburg has a
very successfully operated
housing authority and Wagram
has gained FHA approval of a
housing project.
"We have reason to believe
the FHA would go along with
100 units in Raeford,” Diehl
said. "They would not all
built at the same place, but
probably at three or (our loca
tions.”
The dwellings would be de
signed and constructed to last
at least 40 years, or until ma-^
turlty of the bonds, Diehl said.
The town board in July, 1984,
rejected a proposal to estab
lish a bousing authority here.
Then, however, the proposal did
not have the weight of petitioners
and bona fide development or
ganizations in si4>port of It.
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Col. W. L. Poole (seated) and R. B. Lewis
jPiaL W. L. ‘Rube’ Poole
is Kiwanis ‘Man Of Year’
Col, W, L. Poole has been
named “Man of the Year* by
Raeford Klwanls Club on the
basis of his contribution over
the years to the young people
of Raeford and Hoke County.
Colonel Poole, an avid sports
fan and ong-tlme baseball
coach of high school, Ameri
can Legion and semi-profes
sional baseball teams here. Is
now retired. He is confined to
a wheel chair because of an
Fire F und
Is Coming
To A Close
The "Fund for Five" Hoke
County fire victims Is being
brought to an end next Thurs
day, members of the campaign
committee announced this week,
with a total of $2,421.88 raised
In Hoke and Moore Counties.
D. R. Huff Jr,, who served
with the Rev. Vance Baucom
and Ralph Strother, said Hoke
contributions amounted to $1,-
088,76. In Aberdeen area of
Moore County, people gave a
total of $1,333.12.
The money was raised for
benefit of five families, each
of which had a teenage son In
volved In a tragic camping fire
the Friday beforeThariisglving.
Four of the youiw lads died.
, They were David Womble, 13,
Harry Duke Pickier, 13, John
Crlssman, 14, and Clarkson Al
len, 13. All lived In the Mont-
rose-Ashemont section of Hoke
County, which is near the Moore
County line. Thus the Interest
of Aberdeen citizens, since the
See FIRE FUND, Page II
operation which Included ampu
tation of one of his legs.
Presentation of the award was
made Thursday night at Chris's
Steak House In Fayetteville,
where Kiwanlans and their
wives gathered (or the annual
"out-of-town” affair.
The award was made by R.B.
Lewis, long-time associate of
Colonel Poole. Lewis Is presi
dent of The Bank of Raeford
and served with Poole In the
National Guard and on active
duty wlththe Army during World
War II.
"I have known Lawrence
Poole since the latter part of
1919, when we both returned
here from serving In World War
I,” Lewis said. "He has always
been for the betterment of our
young people, and anything that
wasn't good for them, he op
posed. With respect to his con
tributions to the young people
of Hoke County, he Is second to
none.”
Colonel Poole was a special
guest at the banquet, along with
his son, John Scott Poole, and
Mrs. Poole.
As head of the W. L. Poole
Agency, Colonel Poole ior many
years operated an Insurance
and real estate business here.
He also had an appliance busi
ness.
His wife, the late Mrs. Irma
Poole, worked with him and was
secretary-treasurer and man
ager of Raeford Savings and
Loan Association (or 25 years
before her retirement last year.
She died several months ago.
In the davs before coaches
were required to be faculty
See COL. POOLE, Page 11
Superior
Court
Term Ends
Two South Carolinian* who
foiled a local doctor Into ad-
mlolstorlng nrtafectlan ofnax-
cotles to one while the other
rifled the doctor's ofilce (or
other drugs were handed prison
terms here last week In Hoke
Superior Court.
Judge William Copeland gave
John Wesley Lloyd two to three
years and directed that he re
ceive Immediate medical treat
ment and passed out a three-to-
flve year sentence to James
Carl Gibson.
Lloyd was convicted of using
false pretense (feigned Illness)
In getting Dr. R. M. Jordan to
administer a shot of a narcotic
drug to him at Raeford Medical
Group, where Dr. Jordan prac
tices.
Gibson rifled other sections
of the offices, which are oc
cupied during business hours by
two other doctors, of a quan
tity of other narcotics.
The court defined Lloyd as a
narcotics addict. It specified
that he be examined Immediate
ly to determine the need tor
medical treatment.
Both men had received simi
lar sentences for another of
fense In Scotland County. The
sentences Imposed here are to
run concurrently with those
given In Scotland Superior
Court.
Meanwhile, the trial of four
young Negroes charged wlththe
brutal slaying of a 77-year-old
Hoke County Negro awaits the
return of two of the defendants
from Dorothea Dlx Hospital,
where they have been under ob
servation (or about 60 days.
The Hoke grand Jury last week
returned true bills of Indictment
against Malcolm McCoy, 17,
Landon Johnson, 16, Robert Lee
Hollingsworth, 23, and King
David Purcell, 20, all of the
Duffle's Station section of Hoke
County.
Thev are accused of the De-
See COURT, Page H
McFadyen Hews
Upcoming Issues
^epa Aelll McFadyen wUl be
going to Raleigh next week to
commence his fourth term as
Hoke County's delegate to the
House of Representatives.
McFadyen, who Is one of four
solons who represent the Hoke-
Robeson-Scotland district, gave
his assessment of several
major Issues certain to come
before the General Assembly
soon after It convenes February
8.
One Is the Issue of “brown-
bagging” — or taking liquor
Into restaurants and clubs to
be consumed there. Long a
practice among Imbibers,
“brown-bagging” several
months ago was declared Il
legal after a test case was
brought by a Charlotte restau
rant operator.
"Our liquor laws need to be
brought up to date,” McFadyen
said In response to question
ing. “The Turlington Act, which
established state laws re
garding the manufacture, pos
session and use of liquor, was
passed to Implement the Vol
stead Act, which was the fed
eral prohibition statute under
which the entire nation was bone
dry, from a legal stan4)olnt.
"The Volstead Act was re
pealed In 1933 and federal pro
hibition was abolished. But
the Turlington Act has remained
on the books,” McFadyen de
clared.
“As for liquor by the drink,”
I am willing to let the people
of the state decide the ques
tion (or themselves In local op
tion elections, since It is the
will of the people, by and large,
that the Legislature theoreti
cally seeks to serve.”
McFadyen would favor only
a small tax cut.
"That the state Is In good
financial condition Is evi
denced by a $200 million sur-
plus during thg ralTent bien
nium. The surplus was accrued,
however, not by overtaxation,
but by prospertty,” he said.
“I am not In favor of Inde
pendent university status for
East Carolina College, or any
other college In the state sys
tem of higher education,” he
'bald. “AS for ECC’s bid to
become a university, I would
rather sigiport a sound over
all program which would ip-
grade all the state's Institu
tions of higher learning,
“Nonetheless, I will pay a
good bit of attention to the
recommendations of the State
Board of Higher Education,
which will be heard from when
a special commission now
studying East Carolina's readi
ness for university status re
ports to the board,” he said.
"Still, I will reserve the right
to make ig) my own mind on
the matter,” he added.
Redlstrlctlng of the state's
Congressional districts will oc
cupy a good deal of legislators’
time.
McFadyen said he Is strong
ly in favor of Hoke County
remaining In the Seventh Dis
trict, The county several years
ago was transferred from the
eighth to the seventh district.
"1 am pleased, of course,
that my friend and colleague.
Rep. David Britt of Robeson
County, will be speaker of the
House,” McFadyen said. "It
will add considerable prestige
and perh^s some advantages
to the Hoke-Robeson-Scotland
delegation, and therefore to the
district”
In addition to McFadyen and
Britt, the district will be rep
resented In the House by Rep.
R. D. McMillan Jr. of Red
Springs and Rep. Roger Kiser
of Laurinburg.
REP. NEILL MCFADYEN
Scott ‘Race’ Case
Postponed Again
Raeford Merchants Protest Chamber Plans
Want Meeting Of Entire Membership To Air Views About New Office
Raeford merchants have
lodged a strong protest against
Chamber of Commerce plans to
build an office on Harris Avenue
near the southwest town limits.
Meeting last Friday night,
some 15 members of the mer
chants division of the chember
voted to ask chamber directors
to call a meeting of the full
chamber memberahlp before
proceeding with plans to build
the new office.
It was announced only last
week that the board of directors
of the chamber had purchased a
lot on the north side of Harris
Avenue between the 401. bypass
Intersection and^usUty Motors,
The board revealed plans to
erect an office building on the
property to house the chamber,
Hoke Planning and Development
Commission, and the auto lic
ense bureau.
Jim Fout is manager of the
chamber, executive director of
the new planning and develop
ment commission. State auto
license tags are sold by the
chamber at its present office on
Main Street, present chamber
headquarters Includes a “front
office.” which serves as a re
ception room, office space for
stenographer-receptionist, and
houses the license bureau. Fout
has an inner office, which Is
barely large enough for a desk
and a conference table.
Last week's announcement
said preliminary plans are for
the chamber to build an office
containing 900 to 1200 square
feet of floor space.
Fout told merchants Friday
night he would explain their
sentiments to chamber direc
tors. at least one of whom also
Is a member of the merchants
group.
"I work for you Just as much
as I work for them.*' Fout said,
"since you are members of the
chamber of commerce.’’
A major reason for planning
the new office appeared to be the
recent combining of Fout’s Job
as chamber manager with that
of director of the planning and
development commission.
That organization was estab
lished by the board of county
commissioners after prodding
by the chamber of commerce,
where the Idea originated. It
will be devoted to “total de
velopment” of Raeford and Hoke
County, with emphasis on at
tracting new Industry.
Some merchants Friday night
expressed fnr that moving the
license bureau off Main Street
would take trafflc(and business)
away from the downtown area.
The vast majority of motor ve
hicle owners In Hoke County
buy their license plates here.
“I am not trying to persuade
you. but merely explaining the
thinking behind the board of
director's action in buying the
lot and planning the building,”
Fout told merchants. "I work for
you as much as anybody else,
since you, too, are members of
the chamber of commerce.”
Merchants asked that the gen
eral meeting be called within
30 to 60 days to give them and
other members opportunity to
express themselves to the board
of directors.
The trial of Johnny Scott,
20, of Shannon on multiple
charges growing out of an ac
cident with a state highway pat
rolman on the night of January
2 was continued again this week.
The state reportedly asked for
continuance until February 22.
Scott Is charged with careless
and reckless driving, assault on
an officer, resisting arrest, and
other offenses. He is alleged to
have led State Highway Patrol
man J, D. Robinson on a wild
chase through the south sec
tions of Raeford, then attempt
ing to force Robinson’s patrol
car off the street when Robin
son pulled alongside.
Scott is allegM to have jumped
from his car and tied on foot,
tripping over a hedge. Robinson
contends that when he reached
Scott, the young man came 4)
swinging, Robinson said he
slugged Scott with a blackjack
until he brought him under con-
trpl.
Meanwhile, a Hoke County Ne
gro charged with shooting an
other Negro man last week at
the Hawaiian Eye night spot is of a
free on bond pending the out- trol
Peguese was taken first to
Cape Fear Valley Hospital In
Fayetteville for treatment of a
gunshot wound in the neck. It was
determined that the small-cali
ber bullet had ranged downward
Into his chest cavity, lodging
In the spine.
Barrington said Peguese was
then transferred to North Caro
lina Memorial Hospital in
Chapel HllL and although he Is
paralyzed from the neck down is
described by hospital ofilclals
as In satisfactory condition.
Graham at first was ordered
held without bond, but when It
appeared that Peguese waslnno
Immediate (tonger of death, bond
was reduced by Jud.^ WUliani
Copeland, who was here last
week for a term of Svgierlor
Court.
In another traffic case, a
Hoke County grand jury returned
a true bia of indictment against
Charles Elmore Newton, 19, on
a charge of manslaughter m the
death of three persons .Novem
ber 5.
.Newioo aJlegedl.v was driver
car which wen. out oi con-
on a curve on Rockflsh
come of the shooting. Road four miles east of Rae-
He Is Roderick Graham, 19, ford. Killed instantly were two
who Is charged with shooting of Newton’s companions, Jern
James Peguese with a .22 pis- .kUen West snd Larry E, Pltt-
man, tx^ Raeford teenagers.
Sheriff Dave Barrington said A third victim. Roosevelt
Graham made a statement ad- Malloy died several hours later
muting to the shooting, but RACE, Pa^ 11
clalAied self defense.