The Hoke County News- Established 1928
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The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
^UME LXI NUMBER 40
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RAEFORD. HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1967
A T NOON TOD A Y
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Town Board Resumes
Water , Sewer Study
HOUSING N££D£D? Riclorfl Tovm oottFu is iv uu\c t\Aiojr d .iwii n *
asking the board to establish a local housing authority to provide low-rent housing for Impover
ished families. The board delayed action on the petition last week but is to set a date
for a public hearing on the matter and perhaps appoint a study group to survey local needs and
report its findings at die public hearing. The housing authority would issue 40-year bonds to
build die units and the Federal Housing Authority would guarantee payment of the bonds. Hie
town would have no financial obligation other than providing normal services to the units. This
house Is one of many substandard dwellings In and around Raeford-
BY JIM TAYLOR
Raeford town board will
return to the dilemma of trying
to provide services without
money today at noon when com
missioners resume a meeting
which was recessed February
6.
Principal Item of business
will be consideration of a bond
Issue to finance urgently needed
Improvements to the town’s
water and sewer systems.
After last week’s meeting,
Town Manager Ed Williams,
Town Attorney Harry Harrison
and Consulting Engineer Rich
ard Moore went to Raleigh at
the request of the town board
to discuss the bond Issue with
officials of the Local Govern
ment Commission.
•‘We didn’t get any definite
answers,” Williams said. ’‘K^r.
Easterly (of the commission)
said he needed a little time to
study the matter. We’re to go
back up there next week.”
Privately, commissioners
concede that a bond Issue is
the only means of financing the
project. Moore estimated last
week It will cost more than
$900,000, which, less a 30 per
cent federal parlicipationwould
leave the town with a bill of
$600,000 to $700,000.
Trouble Is, town officials say,
the town Isn’t even eligible to
apply for the 30 per cent federal
orant until a bond Issue has
been set up.
Thus, to get any favorable
priority on federal funds, the
town board would have to set
up the bond Issue immediately.
It would be practically Im
possible to bring the project
to a vote of the people before
May.
Then there’s the matter of the
town’s credit, which would be
extended to the limit, or parac-
tically so, by a bond issue of
$700,000.
The town’s bonded indebted
ness currently is $619,000. A
bond issue of $700,000 wouldi
raise It to $1.3 million. For'
all practical purpose, the local
government commission will not
approve a bond issue which
would raise the town’s indebted
ness beyond 14 per cent of
the assessed valuation of
property on the tcwn tax books.
Assessed valuation naw
amounts to more than $10
million. That, by Local Govern
ment Commission standard,
would permit a bonded indebted
ness of some $L4 million.
At last week’s meeting of the
town board, Moore told com
missioners the improvements
they began considering a year
ago would have cost KSO.OOO.
Today, the same cost would be
12 per cent greater, or some
$940,000.
Tlie improvements would In
clude an additional outfall,
from the treatment plant to
Pacific Mills, doubling die size
of facilities serving that major
Industry.
Improvements to the exist
ing srwage trcatrient ptant
would elevate its capacity more
than four times the current
amount.
"Waterwlse, the capacity
would be doubled,” Moore said.
‘T see no alternative but facing
up to tile facts. If you are going
to serve existing industry and
even contemplate expansion or
addition of new Industry, the
Improvements have to be made,”
TTie additional outfall to
Pacific Mills alone would cost
$185,000. To avert compli
cations such as the town ex
perienced soon after the new
treatment plant was built three
years ago, the line and other
additions to plant capacity are
urgenil'y needed.
see BOARD, Page 7
Band Uniform Drive
Off To A Good Start
GIDDYAP“Last Thursday’s
venient for auto drivers,
snow, sleet and frozen rain
snow may have been Incon-
but the accumulation of Ice,
delighted the county’s young
sters, who got a day off from schooL Bill Howell’s young
sters, Tom and Ann, took advantage of the snow to hitch
th^lr mule to a sleigh and take a ride.
Suicide Men Of ChuFcheS Merchants
To Hear Watson
Is Ruled
A Raeford Rt. 2 woman died
early Tuesday morning of gun
shot wounds apparently self-in
flicted, Sheriff Dave Barrington
revealed,
Mrs. Mary Ella Peterkln, 38,
was found In a bedroom of her
home In the Shawtown section
shortly after 7 a. m. when
of leers responded to a call
from children In the house.
Sheriff Barrington said Cur
tis Sturdivant, 13, a stepchild,
told him that he and two young
Peterkln children were asleep
when awakened by a gunshot.
They Immediately heard an
other shot fired and found their
mother lying on the floor.
Barrington said the woman
was shot twice In the throat.
A .22 semi-automatic rifle was
lying nearby.
The woman's husband, Cary
Peterkln, said he left for work
at about 6:40 locking the house
as he left, Barrington said. The
young stepson said he had to
unlock the door to go for help.
The victim vas a former
mental patient, i!ie sherlflsald.
Hospitals
Get Grants
The Duke Endowment this
we^ appropriated $l[,4fi6,019 to
hospitals and child carecenters
to assist in financing services
to needy patients and orphans.
Moore Memorial Hospital In
Plnehurst will receive a grant
of $9,107. Southeastern General
InLumberton was granted $14,-
278; Scotland Memorial In
Lauriiiburg, $6,844.
Grants to 99 hospitals in
North Carolina totaledi564,729
Frank E. Watson, vice presi
dent of North American Van
Lines, Charlotte, will be guest
speaker for the union meeting
of the men of Mehodlst, Presby
terian and Baptist churches
Tuesday, February 21, at Rae
ford Methodist Church. Supper
Is at 6:30 p.m.
Watson accompanied 12 other
rtien to Bolivia, South America
during summer of 1966 on a
medical mission endeavor,
under sponsorship of the
Mission Commission of Myers
Park Methodist Church In
Charlotte, of which Watson Is
a member.
In the group comprising the
mission were: Dr. John Glenn,
radiologist, Charlotte; Dr. Bill
Stewart IV, orthopedic surgeon.
See WATSON, Page 7
FRANK E. WATSON
Raeford Merchants will begin
their annual Washington's
Birthday Sale tomorrow, with
specials continuing through next
Wednesday.
Wednesday night, merchants
present "The Daybreak Variety
Show" at Raeford Elementary
School auditorium to kick off the
event. Tickets were passed oiit
free by participating merchants
to customers In their stores.
Participating establishments
Include Home Furlnlture, Al
len’s Ltd,, Western Auto, Kin-
law’s Jewelers, Niven’s Appli
ance and Furniture, Israel
Mann, Mack’s 5 & 10, Pope’s
Raeford Hardware, Home Food
Super Market, Belk-Hensdale,
Theresa’s, HokeDrugCo., Har
ry’s 5 & 10, R. L. Long Gro
cery and Collins.
•Reaction
To Move
Is Mixed
A drive to raise $6,000 for
band uniforms for the Hoke High
School band Is producing mixed
reaction, according to leaders
of the campaign.
"Some people you would ex
pect to give generously are not
responding at all, while others
whom you’d expect to be reluc
tant are giving generously,’”
was Tuesday’s report on the
drive.
With the campaign only a few
days old, checks for seven uni
forms had been received.
Pledges raised the number to
about 25, according to Mrs.
Ralph Barhnart and Mrs. Ed
Murray, who with Mrs. Carlton
Niven are spearheading the
campaign.
A total of 70 uniforms are
needed by the band, which has
dressed lor the past two years
In makeshift outfits. This
year, band members wore
Mexican hats and homemade
serapes.
The band, under the direction
of Jimmy James, has grown
from a lew students three years
ago to one which attract^ at
tention and critical acclaim last
November In the Charlotte
Christmas parade.
The drive thus far has cen
tered In the business section
of Raeford. A few contributions
have been received by mall.
One check came from a form
er Raeford resident who now
lives In Parma, Ohio. The
donor was Mrs. Mary Thomas
Helurlg.
"The happiest days of my
life were spent In the Raeford
schools from 1930 to 1940 when
my father, the Rev. A. D. Cars
well. was pastor at Bethel
see DRIVE, Page 7
ir
BENNY MCLEOD
DOUG WALLACE
JAMES HAYES
Outstanding Young Men
Receive Jaycee Awards
Old ‘Flimflam’ Has AntUPoverty Twist
The old ’’filmflam” game showed up In Raeford last week,
this time with an “anti-poverty” twist.
Mrs. Mary Evans, 70, who lives alone near Upchurch High
School, was the victim.
Mrs. Evans told police officers she was standing on the side
walk near Mark’s Food Center on Main Street when two well-
dressed Negro women sti^ped narby atid began a conservation.
One of the women extracted a roll of bills from her purse,
Mrs. Evans said, and asked the other woman: “Have you got
your money yet?”
The second woman replied that she had not, Mrs. Evans said.
“Well, you’d better,^^et around there and get it,” she reported
the ftlmfiamer as saying. “He’s not going to be there much
longer.”
■Then, Mrs. Evans said, the womiati turned to her and asked,
“Do you need any money’’”
Mrs. Evans, a welfare recipeljit, said that she could use
“Do you have any money?” the filmfiamer asked.
Mrs. Evans told her she had a little bit.
“Let me see it,” the woman said. Taking Mrs. Evans’
purse, she counted out the contents. It amounted to $80 — all
she had in the world, Mrs. Evans said
“The man is sitting around there at the lawyer’s office. He’s
letting people who need money have some. He’s giving it to
them, but they have to show thattheyneed It. I’m going around
there to get mine, and I’11 try to get some for you,” Mrs. Evans
told policemen the woman said.
Whereupon, the two women disappeared with Mrs. Evans’
pocketbook and her $80.
“It’s a new wrinkle to ar, old trick,” Chief of Police L. W.
Stanton said. “After a hundred years of the old flimflam,
people are still gullible.”
Any such “something for nothing” scheme should be resisted
and reported immediately to the police department, he said.
Raeford Junior Chamber of
Commerce passed out awards to
three outstanding young men
Tuesday night at the annual
awards night banquet of the or
ganization.
James B. (Benny) McLeod
was given the club's Distingu
ished Service Award (Young
Man of the Year); James Ed
ward Hayes of the Stonewall
community was recipient of the
Outstanding Young Farmer
award, and Doug Wallace was
honored as Jaycee of the Year.
The banquet was stageoinine
private dining room of Jiffy-
burger restaurant, with bosses
of Jaycees as guests.
Phil Diehl was master of
ceremonies and took o er from
A1 Bruketa, Jaycee president,
for the awards program.
Bruketa made the presenta
tion to McLeod and cited
some of his contributions to the
community.
McLeod, 31, is martajer o’
Hoke Cotton and Storage Com
pany. He attended Staunton Mili
tary Academy, the University of
North Carolina at Chapel HlU
and was graduated from E £
Carolina College.
He is active in Cub Scouts,
coaches baseball In the summer
recreation program, is a past
president of Raeiord Lionr
Club, past president of Men ot
the Church at Raeford Presby
terian Church, pastpresidentof
Men of Fayetteville Presbytery
and past chairman of the board
of deacons at Raeford Presby
terian Church.
Hayes is a 1959 graduate
of Hoke High School.
"He Is an unusual young far
mer." said W. S. Young, county
agent, who made the presen
tation. "He owns no land, but
conducts extensive fkrmlng op
erations on rented land."
In 1966, Hayes harvested 150
acres of com, 40 acres of which
averaged 132 bushels per acre.
He also had ISO acres of cot-
See .awards. Page 7
Hoke Draft Official
Gets 25-Year Award
•Arch McEachern, a charter member of Hoke Count;' Selec
tive Service Board, was honored for more than 23)earsof
service with the board Tuesda; m Raleigh.
McEachern was among draft board oiflcials from throughout
the state who gathered for a luncheon meeting to hear Lt. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey. director of the national selective service
system.
More than 300 draft boa'd clerxa md draft '"ard rnessbera
heard Hershey praise North Carolina draft txxard workers
as "the backbone of the service’' and hit at .Americans In
general for ‘'not understanding or having interest in draft
laws.’’
McEachern was one of the first three members of the local
board when the draft began in 194?. He has servtfd contineoualy
ever since.
Also attending the luncheon "vere Sam Morns, a member oX
the board, and Mrs. Mar; Baile;. •venJ clerk.
McEachern was presented * lap-'' pm emblematic ol hla
lonv service.