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Tht Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOUIME um NUMBER S
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
$4 PER YEAR 104 PER COPY
THURSDAY. AJNE 1. 1H7
JOB CORPS”R«nell Hasty is shown here taking the oath of office from James Attaway, Hoke
Community Action Program director, to go to Keystone Job Corps Training Center in Drums,
Pa, to begin training for skilled work. The anti-poverty program is available to both boys and
rirls and pays a monthly stipend while the youths are being trained for better jobs. She Is
the first Hoke girl to take part in the program, although several Hoke boys are now in training.
Husband Of Raeford Girl
Wins Medals In Vietnam
A former Raeford girl pos
sibly was the happiest of moth
ers on Mothers Day although
tfie fact that she was a young
motfier had little to do with it.
Mrs. Carolyn Schwarchber’s
joy came when her husband,
S/Sgt. Alexander C. Schwarch-
ber, arrived on that day after a
S ear in Vietnam. He saw his
;ve-month-old daughter for the
first time upon his arrival.
Mrs. Schwarchber is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Mc
Coy Maxwell of Raeford. She
now lives in Bridgeport, Conn,
Her husband is a four-year
Army veteran. He is holder of
a Purple Heart with Star, the
Bronze Star, and two Army
Commendation Medals. He was
wounded twlcewhile in Vietnam,
once in the arm and once in
the leg.
' The Bronze Star was award
ed as the result of action in
Vietnam on December 31 of
last year, when, the citron
states, “He distinraisheH
self by exceptionally valorouJT
actions near Kontum, Republic
of Vietnam.”
His action was described as
follows: “Sgt, Schwarchber,
serving as the company com
munications chief, volunteered
to assume the position of pla
toon sergeant. As the platoon
approached a stream bed which
lay between them and their ob-
Town Board Meets Monday
Two major issues are ex
pected to come before the town
board of commissioners when
it holds its June meeting Mon
day night.
The nrst is a report of a
housing survey team commis
sioned sever^ months ago to
sti^ ^«>k5t»ndard housing in
Raeford. The survey was asked
tp determine if there is need
tflsre for a housing authority to
provide low-rent housing for
poor people.
The board also Is expected
to hear from a water-sewer
survey conducted some six
weeks ago by three organiza
tions. That survey was to de
termine how badly overloaded
the sewage treatment plant ac
tually is and how much each
Industry is contributing to the
overload.
Hoke County commissioners
will meet, too, on Monday. No
agenda of that meeting has been
made available, but it is ex
pected that routine business will
dominate, since the board al
ready has passed its new bud
get.
m REDISTRICTING
Hoke Friends Fight
To Keep It In 7th
jective, the point man was sud
denly brought under enemy au
tomatic weapons fire and killed,
while another man was wounded.
“With complete disregard for
his own personal safety*, the
sergeant rushed forward through
the murderous volume of ene
my fi/e to the side of his
wounded comrade and admin
istered the needed medical aid.
Returning to ^he main element
of his platoon, he picked up his
machinegun crew and position
ed diem where they could fire
effectively onto the enemy posi
tion.
“Sgt. Schwarchber then ex
posed himself again to the ene
my Arc by crawling forward
and carrying his dead comrade
to a covered positioned. Aiding
the platoon leader, he helped
reorganize the platoon and led
a successful assault on the en
emy position.
Following basic training at
Fort Dlx, N.J., he was assign
ed to jump school at Fort Ben-
ning, Ga., transferred to Fort
Bragg, for two and one-half
years, during which he served
for seven months in the Do
minican Republic, and then was
assigned to duty in Vietnam.
On his return to Fort Bragg,
Sgt. Schwarbher will apply for
transfer to helicopter flight
school for a nine-month course
of training at Fort Wallace,
Texas, and Fort Rucker, Ala.
High Says
BUI Will
Be Amended
Hoke County is the center of
a move to ammend a House
re-districting bill in the Gen
eral Assembly, where moves to
alter the measure failed in the
Senate and was passed, 24-22.
The bill would make Hoke
County part of a new Eighth
District composed of Hoke,
Moore, Scotland, Montgomery,
Anson, Union, Richmond, Stan
ly, Cabarrus and Rowan coun
ties.
Hoke, of course, would be re
moved from the Seventh Dis
trict, which would stand as it
Is now composed without Hoke
and Scotland.
Rep. Sneed High of Cumber
land County, chairman of the
House Redlstrlctlng Committee,
says the bill will be amended
before It gets through the House.
“I would hope we will make
some changes in the Senate
bill, ” High said, “especially
I'egardlng Hoke County.'#
Rep. Neill McFadyen of Hoke
and others sympathetic to
Hoke's-pMgUoD vow they wlU
carry on the fight until the
amendment is made.
It makes no sense to add Hoke
to the proposed Eighth District,
opponents say, when to do so
would make the Eighth 152 per
sons larger than the Seventh
with Hoke Included.
They also contend that Hoke
County has more in common
with counties to the east of it
than with those in the proposed
Eighth District,
Sen. Hector McCeachy of
Cumberland .tried to get the
bill amended to put Hoke in
the Seventh, but his efforts in
the Senate failed, 22-24.
High said action would be de
layed on the bill until late this
week, “but we should be able
to bring a bill to the floor in
a very short time.’’
The Senate bill would create
two districts—the Eighth and
the Fourth—with no Incumbent
congressmen.
Under the bill. Rep. James
Gardner of the present Fourth
would face Rep, L. H. Fountain
in the Second.
Republican Rep. Charles R,
Jonas of the Eighth would be
pitted against Rep. Basil Whit-
ener in a new lOth District.
A map of the proposed dis
tricts Is on Page 7.
STEP RIGHT UP”Betty Pope, center, won several a-
. wards at Tuesday Hint's awards night program of the
graduating class at Hoke High School. Here, she and
Elaine Cunningham, left, are receiving Jaycette scho
larships in the P.A,C.E. program. Mrs. Joanne Hartley
is presenting the awards.
Awards Night Program Held
By HHS Graduating Class
Outstanding members of the
class of 1967 at Hoke High School
and other accomplished stu
dents were honored Tuesday
night when the 102 graduating
seniors held class night at Rae
ford Elementary School audi
torium.
Steve McNeill, president of
the senior class, presided at
the two-hour affair, during
which the faculty and other
school officials were spoofed
in a number of humorous skits.
The class prophesy was read
by Margie Tyler and Edward
Robinson presented the last
will and testament. Zan Mon
roe read a compilation of statis
tics about the class to the capa
city audience of family and
friends of the seniors.
D. D. Abemethy, principal,
presented major awards and
representatives of civic clubs
and other organizations passed
out tokens of achievement to
high school and elementary stu
dents.
Abemethy announced that
$20,885 In scholarship aid had
been granted to 26 members of
the senior class for use during
the next college year. An addi
tional $1,750 in pledges will
push the total to more than
$22,500.
The education department of
Raeford Woman's Clubpresent-
ed awards to Susan Howard,
valedictorian, and Sarah Mor
ris, salutatorlan, who aWo won
the department's annual
scholarship award.
The department of literature
of the woman's club gave crea
tive writing awards to Benny
Gasque, Sylvia Sellars, Eddie
Inman and Dwan Upchurch.
Mrs. Joanne Hartley awarded
Jaycette scholarships in the
P. A, C. E. program to Elaine
Cunningham and Betty Pope.
The citizenship awards of
Ellis Williamson Post, .Ameri
can Legion, went to Mac Smith,
Sarah Morris and Lorraine
Walters. Abemethy made the
presentations.
J. D. Black won the Hoke
County Farm Bureau award
to the most outstanding student
of vocational agriculture. T.
C. Jones made the presentation.
Carroll Wilburn, president of
Raeford Lions Club, presented
Lions Club awards to Susan Ho
ward, David Upchurch and Mit
chell Cox.
.Avery Connell, president oi
Raeford Kiwanls Club, made
similar presentations to Zan
Monroe, Rled Parsons and
Kathy Sanders.
Woodmen of the World gave
an award for achievement in the
study of history to Paul Cur
rie. E. G. Inman made the
presentation.
A $100 scholarship from Ho
well Drug Company went to
Marie McLauchlln.
The Danforth “I Dare You”
awards went to Betty Pope and
Steve McNeill.
Tommy Wllkerson won the
annual scholarship award of
Ashemont Home Demonstration
Club. Mrs. R. D. Strother
made the presentation.
Raeford Home Demonstration
Club gave its annual scholar
ship award to Joel Crissman.
Mrs. Earl Floyd made the
presentation.
Betty Pope won the scholar
ship awardofHoke County Horae
Demonstration Council. Mrs.
James Attaway presented the
award.
Susan Howard received a cer
tificate of award from Readers
Digest and a one-year subscrlp-
See AWaRDS, Page 7
Presbyterians Plan Program For Summer
4 WINS award--r.C. Jones, right, pnsideiit of Hoke County’ I'artr Bureau, is shown present
ing an award to J.D, Black, f'v v .-gtlonal agrlculturi student in the graduating class at Hoke
High School. The award was made Tuesdav nigiit.
BY REV. C-A. COOPER, JR.
In keeping with the tradition,
Raeford Presbyterian Church
is again planning to have its
expanded summer program with
a ministry to all age groups,
including adults. This year
most of the program centers
on the catechl'rm. Youth and
adults will meet each Sunday
evening in June and July for a
biblical and theological study
using die shorter catechism.
Children’s groups are planned
for week days.
The staff of the church will
be enlarged for the summer
by the addition of two outstand
ing graduate students.
Beth Ann Mahler, a rising
senior at the Presbyterian
School of Christian Education in
Richmond, Va., arrived Tuesday
and will direct the summtrkin-
dergarten, as well as be as
sistant director of Christian
education for the summer. She
is from Nashville, Tenn., and
BETH AN.\ M.AHLER
is staying with Mrs. Harry
Greene and Frances.
She was a music major at
Maryville College, where she
completed her undergraduate
DCL’GL.AS F. KELLY
work. She will use her mus
ical talents as she directs the
choir camp for senior highs.
She is interested in all phases
of church work and has ex
perience in working with choirs.
camps, conferences for youth,
and for two summers she work
ed as an aide in a crippled
children’s hospital.
Douglas F. Kelly, a rising
senior at Union Theological
Seminary in Richmond, Va., ar
rived in Raeford on Wednesday.
He will serve as student as
sistant minister for the summer
months, assisting the pastor
in many ways as well as serv
ing in some areas of tfie sum
mer program. Kelly, who will
live in the guest house adjacent
to the manse this summer, is a
graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel HilL
His undergi aAiate work includ
ed a year’s study in Europe.
He has now completed two
years’ study at the seminary,
and spent last summer serving
as student assistant minister
in First Presbyterian Church.
Jackson, Miss. He hails from
Lumbertor, where he grew up
in Lumberton Presbyterian
Church.
Hoke Cotton
Plowed Up
More than 2,500 acres of
cotton has been plowed up a-
galn this year in Hoke Coixity,
W.S. Young, farm agent, said
this week.
The large amount of acre
age has been replanted In most
cases with soy^ans after the
cotton plants became worth
less because of unseasonable
weather during May. Last year
cold, wet weather badly dam
aged the county's cotton crop
as a whole.
The ASC office announced this
week that cotton producers tn
Hoke County disapproved In a
referendum the sale and trans
fer of cotton acreage allotments
outside the county.
Even though Hoke County
farmers disapprove transfer
ring outside the county by sale
or lease, they can still purchase
or lease and move to their
farm, cotton from other coun
ties In North Carolina which
approved transfer.
A total' of 204 votes were
cast with 101 In favor of sale
or transfer outside the coun
ty; 103 were against transfer.
West Hoke
Finals Held
West Hoke Elementary School
ended its programs for the year
with eighth grade graduation
exercises Friday.
Honor students were; Ruby
McNair, valedictorian; Carolyn
Leggett, salutatorlan; Joyce
Armstrong, Thelma Stubbs,
James McLead. Jimmie Pur
cell, Robert Madison, Owen
Black and Patricia Harris.
LJ. Lockamy, sute super
visor of elementary sc.hools.
Raleigh, was guest speaker. He
was accompanied by his wife
and son.
He used as a sub^tet “Five
Steps to Success” and advised
students to; 1. .-’reparc your
self; 2. Devekv s«r5t*erioc»:
3. Have a magnetic personality:
4. Practice good Iieaith;
5. Practice Christian living,
Mrs. Cole received an award
for being “leacherofthe Year”
at West Hoke.
w.r. McAllister, received a
gift for the service render-
^ during the schod year as
president of West Hofce PTA.