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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal • Established 1905
VOLUME LXI NUMBER 44
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA
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THIRSDAY. MARCH 16, 1967
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Town Board Says OK
To Water - Sewer Tap
Sgt. MaJ. Jesse Gulledge
Lt. Col. Paul Dickson
Sergeant Major Gulledge
Retires After 40 Years
When he was called for pre-
induction physical In 1940 when
the local National Guard unit
was federalized, Sgt. Maj. Jesse
Gulledge was sporting a new
.set of dentures,
**Let me see your teeth,"
the doctor said.
Gulledge dutifully plucked the
plates from his mouth and hand
ed them to the physician.
That little pleasantry, plus
underweight, made him "phys-
- Ically disqualified’’ to go off
to war with hlsKuefOidhuauiea.
ThisMMMkiencies didn’t ke^
him out for long, however, be
cause In August, 1942, he en
listed In the Army of the United
States and later went through
five battle campaigns in Europe.
Friday night, Gulledge was
honored on the eve of his re
tirement from a military career
that dates back to 1927.
The occasion was the 20th an
niversary of the local National
Guard company’s existence as a
postwar outfit.
Officers and men of the unit,
plus their wives and guests and
former members of the unit
gathered for the celebration at
the local armorv.
Gulledge turned out to be the
, center of attraction, for after
' company commander Capt.
Danny Baker got the shindig
under way. Lt. Col. Paul Dick
son called Gulledge to the ros
trum and read a letter of com
mendation.
After citing the sergeant’s
long military record, Dickson
said:
“It Is a pleasure to commend
you for service over a period
of almost 40 years to your
state and nation In both peace
and war, from the strike-torn
streets of Gastonia In 1934 to
the battlefields of Europe In
1944; In camps at Fort Monroe,
Fort Moultrie, Fort Story, Fort
Knox, Fort McClelland, Fort
Stewart and Fort Bragg.’’
M/Sgt. Roger Dixon re
counted some “tales’’ on Gul
ledge, then presented him a gift
of a fishing rod and reel from
men of the company.
Maj. Ed Newton presented
an engraved watch, a gift from
officers and men of the bat
talion.
Gulledge actually will retire
In September on his 60th birth
day. That is the earliest age
any member of a reserve com
ponent may retire.
He also will retire at that
time from federal service as
a rural mall carrier.
He enlisted In Battery F, 252
Coast Artillery, N.C. National
Guard (Raeford unit). May 2,
1924, and was discharged Sep
tember 1, 1938, when he changed
residence.
Church Plans
Study Course
A combined home mission
study course will be sponsored
March 21, by the Brotherhood
and the Women’s Missionary
Society of First-Baptist Church.
^ Members of all church fam
ilies are Invited to participate
In a covered dish supper at
6:30 p.m. Classes will l)egln
In the auditorium at 7:15.
Teachers will be the Hr\.
and Mrs. James H. Mitchell.
He Is former paste: in New
York City and now lives in
Columbia, S. C.
Gulledge re-enllsted in Bat
tery F January 2, 1934, was
inducted Into federal service
September 16, 1940, and dis
charged September 18, 1940, for
physical disqualification.
He volunteered for the Army
of the United States on August
11, 1942, and later served at
Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Meade,
Md. He was sent overseas to
the 2nd Armored Division In
England and saw action In the
campaigns of Normandy, North
ern France, Rhineland, Arden
nes, and Central Europe, earn
ing the European Theater medal
and five bronze battle stars.
He also received the Good Con
duct Medal.
Gulledge transferred to the
Enlisted Reserve Corps on Oct-
See GULLEDGE, Page 11
Negro Mall Held
In Shotgun Death
Preliminary hearing was held
here yesterday for James Cur
tis McNair, 30, alias J. C. Mc-
Fadyen, charged with murder In
the shotgun slaying Saturday
morning of his wife’s urcle,
Arthuc^cPhaiU, 40.
McRH^IBM fram a -le
blast ff^^Vtt-gauge shi .m
which struck him just below the
groin and apparently severed
the artles In both legs.
McNair was bound over to
the April term of Hoke Superior
Court without privilege of bond.
Sheriff Dave Barrington said
the shooting took place at a
house on Raeford Rt. 1 occupied
by Flossie Harris and Annie
Peguese early Saturday morn
ing.
"McNair came to my house
about 7:10 a. m. and told me
he had just shot a man,*’ Bar
rington said. "I went to the
Harrls-Peguese house and
found the body lying half-in,
half-out of the kitchen door
way.”
The two women were not at
the house, the sheriff said, but
two children were In a bedroom.
Testimony at yesterday’s
hearing Indicated the shooting
ended an argument which had
begun the night before between
McNair and McPhaul.
The two men work on the
same pulpwood crew. It was re
vealed, and McPhaul came home
with McNair at the end of the
day Friday. That night, they
visited the Harrls-Peguese
house, with McPhaul remaining
overnight. Early Saturday
morning, according to testi
mony, McNair went to the house
and when McPhaul came to the
door, demanded that his (Mc
Nair’s) wife come out.
After McPhaul told him sev
eral times she was not Inside
the house, the argument de
veloped Into the shooting, testi
mony Indicated.
Barrington said McNair had
five or six children In the car
with him when he came to the
sheriff’s house.
‘ ‘1 told him to go to the jail
and wait lor me,” the sheriff
said. "When I discovered that
McPhaul was dead, he was
placed under arrest.”
Barrington explained that
McNair Is known here as J. C.
McFadyen, but his driver’s li
cense and other official docu
ments use the McNair name.
ERNEST BLUE
MICHAEL BLUE
Young Brothers
Drown In Pond
iVo yourii^ brothers, Michael Anthony Blue, 10, and Ernest
Emmett EUue. 11. drowned late Saturday afternoon in a farm
ptind on ttie Crawford Thomas place after the younger lad fell
into the water and his brother attempted to rescue him.
A tliird youngster, not identified by officers, said the trio
was trying to catch minnows with a homemade dipnet. The
younger brother slipped on the steep embankment and fell into
the water, lie said, and both other hoys tried to rescue him.
(.oroncr Eiank Cnimpler said tlic tliird lad told him that
when the, brothers went down, he ran several hundred yards
lor help.
receivnig tfie call. The bodies were raised from about 10 feet
5ee BROTHERS, E>a,;e 11
Emergency
Measure
Passed
Raeford Town Board has a-
greed to'Slllow contractors hook
onto water and sewer lines the
new elementary school now
under construction off Bethel
Road.
Earlier, the town’s pressing
water and sewer problems in
dicated thefe was no main near
the new school not already over
taxed. Moreover, consulting
engineers have said that the
treatment plant is so badly over
loaded that it Is inadvisable to
add any new customers.
The school lines will connect
with a six-inch main at Woolev
Street and Maxwell Avenue.
“It Is strictly an emergency
measure,” said one member of
the town board. "Since what
ever solution we find for our
water-sewer problems cannot
be Implemented this year. It
was absolutely necessary that
we find some means of serving
the school, which. It is hoped,
will be ready for use In the
fall.”
Meanwhile, the town board
has left open the possibility of
calling for a $914,000 water-
sewer bond issue, but the dead
line has passed for making this
year’s priority list for federal
participation.
It Is estimated that $1.3 mil
lion Is needed here for water
and sewer Improvements. The
town presumably would be eli
gible for a federal grant for
30 per cent of the cost; how
ever, a priority list is estab
lished in Raleigh for federal
aid and the deadline is April 1.
In order to qualify for federal
assistance, the machinery must
be in motion to call a bond
issue. It would be impossible
at this late date to have the
necessary preliminary planning
done by New York bonding at
torneys.
It appeared this week that
local fhdustry will cooperate
fully with the town and county
In solving the water-sewer
needs. Both Burlington Indus
tries and Raeford Turkey
Farms, biggest water and sewer
users In the town, will help
out In further engineering stu
dies of the problem.
Two weeks ago, Edward R.
Zane, chairman of Burlington
Industries executive finance
committee and a senior officer
of the huge textile firm, appear -
ed here and at a combined meet
ing of town and county officials
pledged Burlington’s willing
ness ‘‘to do Its part, and more”
in paying for that portion of
the project concerned with the
two Burlington plants here.
Proposed improvements In
clude an additional outfall from
Pacific Mills to the sewage
treatment plant, a south out
fall to serve the new school
and other customers In the sub
urban southslde, and vast im
provement to the treatment
plant.
Water And Sewer Pipes Await Installation At New School
Two Bills
For Hoke -
Introduced
Two local bills relating to
Hoke County have been Intro
duced In the General Assembly
by Rep. Nelli McFadyen of the
Hbke-Robeson-Scotland Dis
trict.
The first relates to the ap
pointment of assistant county
tax supervisors and removes
Hoke County from the list of
counties exempt from a state
statute which enables county
commissioners to appoint as
sistant tax supervisors and
clerical assistants to the sup
ervisor and listing duties of
such appointees.
The bill passed the House
March 9, was received In the
Senate March 10 and sent to.
the committee on counties, cit
ies and towns.
The second bill would em
power the board of county com
missioners to meet In the con
ference room ofthe board of ed
ucation building (Which the
board has been doing, anyway,
for some time. The statute in
question specifies that county
commissioners shall meet In
the county courthouses of their
respective counties.
The bill also passed the House
March 9, was sent to the Senate
March 10, and sent to the com
mittee on counties, cities and
towns.
Meanwhile, Sen. John Hen
ley of the Hoke-Cumberland
district has introduced a bill
to make East Carolina College
a university within the Con
solidated University of North
Carolina system.
Bob Seitz Fund Is Started
Bob Seitz, former N. C. State
University basketball player
and for several years a popu
lar resident of Raeford and
employe of Pacific Mills, is
making the news again these
days.
Unlike his heydey, however,
the news this time Is bad.
Nick Pond, Raleigh sports-
caster and teammate of Seitz,
made this report at a recent
meeting of the ACCSportswrlt-
ers Association:
"Bob was hospitalized with
a pituitary problem about a
year and a half ago. A large
man anyhow (Seitz played from
1954 to 1957at6-11, 263pounds)
he started growing again. His
head started swelling and he
lost all of his hair.
"He suffered a stroke and was
paralyzed. Through the efforts
of Bucky Waters, West Virginia
coach and another teammate of
Seitz, he was put Into a rehabil
itation center and received rad
ium and cobalt treatments. He
responded some, and his paral
ysis has been half cured. But
one of his feet Is still enlarged
and he had difficulty talking.
"He was sent home last week
(Week before last at this date),”
Pond continued, “but he cer
tainly Isn't a well man. Bob and
his wife have an adopted child
and he had not earned a pay
check In more than a year. The
hospital bills have piled up and
we are certain he will have to
undergo brain surgery tn the
near future.
“My whole point In telUngyou
this,’’ Pond said, “Is that we are
trying to raise some money to
help pay some of the back hos
pital bills and to help the family
In any way we can.”
Seitz currently lives In Mor
gantown, W. Va.
The sportswrlters voted to
contribute $200 to a '‘Bob Seitz
Fund, care Reynolds Coliseum,
Raleigh.” Other contributions
are being received at that ad
dress from throughout the state.
Meanwhile, friends of Seitz
In Hoke County are rallying to
the cause. His former fellow
workers at Pacific Mills are
planning a collective contribu
tion, as are people at the Catho
lic church, which Seitz and his
family attended here.
Contributions also may be
made by mall to “Friends of
Bob Seitz, P. O. Box 278, Rae-
ford.”
Band Uniform Drive
Soared To $7,649,50
The Hoke High Band uniform drive soared far above its
$6,000 goal this week when several major contributions ar
rived after the drive was unofficially concluded,
A total of $500 was received from Burlington Industries Foun
dation — $250 each for Aeford Worsted Plant and Pacific
Mills Dyeing Plant.
Other contributors included Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ashburn.
$20; Hoke County Friendship Club, $20; Nettie McDuffie
Circle, $5, and Everett Farrell. $10.
That pushed proceeds up to $7,649.50 as of Tuesday mom-
ing.
■ We ran out of space on the board we were using to show
how the drive was coming along,” said Mrs. Ralph Barn
hart, a leader in the campaign- “While we would have been
able to buy 70 uniforms with $6,000, we can do a whole lot
more for the band with the extra $1,600,” she said.
The band was without formal uniforms until Mrs. Barnhart
Mrs. Ed Murray and Mrs. Carlton Niven took the situation in
hand .
About a month a^o, they announced they would raise $6,000
for 70 band uniforms. The model chosen by band members
sells for $87.86 each.
Within three weeks, the drive passed the goal. The leaders
announced the campaign had achieved its major goal, but left
the door open to people who had missed the opportunity to
contribute.
McFadyen Bill Asks Increase In Jurors
A bill Introduced In the Gen
eral Assembly by Rep. Nell
L. McFadyen asks an increase
in the number of jurors who can
be empaneled for term of court
in Hoke County.
Clerk of Superior Court E.E.
Smith requested that McFadyen
ask for passage of the bill
because, “Hoke County is
choked where empanelment
Is concerned.” Under thepres-
ent statute, a panel of only
36 jurors can be drawn tor
criminal terms of court and
only 24 for civil terms. Smith
laid ftat under the new coirt
system, the allotment stands
likely to be insufficient.
McFadyen asked for the num
ber* to be raised to 60 for each
criminal or mixed term cl sup
erior court and to 48 for each
civil term.
Smitti noted ttiat most otlier
countie* have heretofore been
befori the Legislature to have
ilielr quotas raised.
Smith pointed out that there
are many exemptions under
which prospective jurors may
become excused from jury ser
vice. This sometimes cuts short
the number left for making up
12-man juries, he said.
In Certain instances die clerk
of court can, on request, excuse
a drawn juror. Statute 9-19
allows him, merely because of
tlieir profession or occupation,
excuse physicians, druggists,
minlsttrs of die jjspel, officers
or employees of a state hospital
tor insane, nurses, firemen,
funeral directors, embalmers,
printer ^ and linotype operatorB,
V. '. Postal clerks, rural mail
■.triers, locomotive engl-
rs. radio announcers and
technicians, optometrists, at-
tornev-, all memheFs jf the
.sational Caiard and members ot
tte Civil Air . atrol, oflicers
vvf die Rc'erve Corps, Naval
officers and enlisted men and
all other members of the armed
forces in active duty.
Some other exceptions con
cern Hoke County very little,
such as those for accredited
Christian Science practitioners
and readers and millers of grist
mlUs, and telephone operators.
Then there are the licensed pi
lots, train dispatchers, firemen,
brakemen and railroad conduc
tors, who are automatically ex
empt. The clerk ■'f court can
also exeii.pt women w' o ave
children under 12 year* of age
who her at ' f-riie,
who are ill or who lave ill-
nes; in t e uome.
A jury lUt 1' drawn oyc..>unty
commissioner*, whocanscrecr
out the namej of f ose who
have commine.1 a fc'.onv arxl
dioitf known to o' uns.-und
tmi'd. rhev also tfu'oWiMitname?
ot Jecea.-ed persoc- a.id of d o ■ -
w. 0 have moved out ot the area
viiice the names were talxcn
from the tax list aivJ put into
a locked box to be kejjt lor jury
drawing, A new list is taken
from the tax books every two
years.
The commissioners as a
body, or as individuals, can
not excuse a persor who has
been notified that he is to re
port for jury duty. The only
person who can do I'.is 'se-
sidcs the clerk or court is
the judjC. who ca.'i m.*keexcep-
ti ins of tile .aw i: ■'« deems
the case wort’ v 'I soctn.
Smith said rat a.^de; the new
c.“U:t system, t'e nate wiLpay
the itror raC'.cr t‘ ar t  coun
ty. as ha* '«€.■’the as--m the
pa'f
“c 1* i- t’-e cam reason we
Nm:;’ It important to have tlie
reim r* ar.'Cd." 'c said. “If,
ter acv reasv'.i. Nad to call
ic lore to le." ve thanthe
Uw suthoru'«l die state would
not o-it thym,” h* * ■ id.
REP. MCFADYEN