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ew^ journal The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXII NUMBER 7 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA •4 PER YEAR KX PER COPY THURSDAY. JOE 29. 1H7 Redistricting Deadlock Senate Axes House Which Put Hoke In Seventh The Hee Haw You Say Wagon Train Survives Trek BY JIM TAYLOR For the third straight year, the annual Hoke Wagon Train has traversed the 25 miles to Little River township In Moore County and the 25-mlle return trip without serious In cident. That has to be something of a record, because It adds 14) to 150 miles of hard^lp by wagoners and riders softened by automobile rides and tele- July 4 th Closings Raeford stores and other business and governmental establishments will be closed Tuesday In obser vance of Independence Day. All county and town of fices, the post office, banks and so forth will reopen for business Wednesday morn ing. Mail will be posted In post office boxes, but no town or rural delivery will be made on Tuesday. TH The Ne'vs-Tournal office will be closed Tuesday. Per sons with news or advertis ing matter for next week's paper are urged to bring it to the newspaper office be fore the end of this week. If possible, and no later than Monday morning. Vision watching. It is doubtful that even those hardy pioneers who pushed the Conestogas of the past century across the western plains could have done as well. The third wagon train — containing 47 wagons and some 13S riders—returned to Raeford Sunday afternoon, some 72 hours after the wagoners first gathered at the National Guard armory Thursday night. It was a tired and soiled crew, to be sure, but there w^s not a slclc soul among them and only one or two of the more than 200 animals making the trip were report ed to be Indisposed. Jesse Lee, Hoke County dep uty sheriff who served again as wagonmaster, reported that all went well on the 16-hour round trip. In traditional fashion, the gang gethered Thursday night Just after a downpour descend ed and reveled late into the night at the armory. Adams Street was blocked off and a square dance conducted, with Ed McNeill and his band pick ing for the hoedown. After an overnight encamp ment, during which a braying jackass enlivened the affair, the wagoners and riders head ed out of town, moving up Main pet. An unruly mule bolted from the train and spooked Intr a frontyard and was persuaded to continue the march only after It was blindfolded. As the train crossed US 401 Bypass and headed out Vass Road, several wagons without See WAGON TRAIN, Page 9 'ir No Room Leh On Hoke Bandwagon BY LUCY GRAY PEEBLES Heated words are zooming over the telephone wires down a t the CAP office, and Direc tor J. R, Attaway says his ears are burning. Everybody wants to get on the poverty program's bandwagon and the wagon Is full. So they are riding the back of the man In charge, he says. (The bandwagon is the Neigh borhood Youth Corps summer program), Attaway declared that the phone has been “Jumping off the hook'" with parents wanting to know, "Why can't my son (or daughter) get on? Our in come Is not as much as that of so and so, and their son got on." Attaway, wanting them offhls back, yelled for help. Bob Kelly Jr.. NYC director of the Sand hills Community Action Pro gram, Involving Hoke County, came to the rescue Monday to try to help cool down Irate tem pers by explaining "the guide lines we must follow." Complaining parents are ac cusing the office of hiring youths whose fathers hold civil ser vice jobs at Fort Bragg or are retlr^ and operating success ful businesses. They claim that a SCAP of ficial admitted that only the youth's word Is required In obtaining Information to deter mine the applicant's eligibility. Attaway said that In many cases there is no way to find out what the family Income really Is. "The parents are often day laborers and they don't know themselves how much they earn In a year," he said. "We base our selection pri marily on recommendation of high school principals and counselors," he pointed out. - f w ....s,.., vvii^ van i iii_> auii iriiiru «i»u Kelly said. "There are guide lines we must follow and we do our utmost to follow them." In screening applicants the field supervisor, or CAP direc tor, must ask the following questions; “Are you In need of paid, part-time work ex perience to enable you to stay In or return to high school?" "Are you unemployed and In need of paid work to qualify for suitable jobs?" "Are you between the ages of 16 and 22?" "Are you a permanent resi dent of the United States?" Work-training projects are intended to serve disadvantaged or impoverished youth. "Nor mally, no mean test of a spe cific monetary amount Is to be used In determining the eligi bility of youngpeopleforNYC,'' Kelly said. In other words there may be two families, who may, for example, be earning $3,000 a year. One may have eight In the family, the other may have three. Or a family may have $4,000 annual income but pro longed Illness of a member may cut the figure down to half its size. The need of each youth Is based on an evalua- See NO ROOM, Page 9 Stalemate Is Likely: McF adyen rhe '.rrih Carclira Se ate appare. tiy strucn dow" nesdas a Huore committee maneuver which returned -'oi'e to the Seve'.th Congre^'io'.al Di5irict in a Ge. erai A''emb.y realign ment of districts. Hoke for a long time was ihe center of attentiO'’ 1. the re- districtihg considerations as the Legislature sought to com ply witi a federal court order that the state’s il districts by July L The Senate eventually passed a bill which removed Hoke from the present Sevenfr. District and put it into a proposed Eighth District in which Hoke and Scot land are the easternmost coun ties. An effort to amend die Senate bill failed on the floor of the Senate and the bill was for warded to die House intact. The amendment to return Hoke to die Sevendi failed in die Senate ’ bi- a 28-8 vote. The House Comrntttee on Re districting, headed by Rep. Sneed High of Cumberland, alerted the bill to replace Hoke in the Seventh. There were widespread expressions ofcon- fiderice diat the Senate would go along widi the Hoke switch. I'uesday, the House bill reached ^e floor of the House, where two additiaRal amend ments were made, and die bill passed in close voting. One of die accept^ amend ment was proposed by Etep. Earl Vaughn of Roddngham County and switched Rodiingham and Caswell from the proposed Sixdi District back to die Flfdu A roll call resulted in a 50-30 deadlock on ^the ameiximent, which passed only after Rep. Phil Godwin of Gates County changed his vote from ‘‘no’’ to "aye’’. Passed by a margin of three votes was an amendment of fered by Rep. David Bumgard- See DEADLOCK, Page 9 Helen S. Barrington, Evander Gillis Win Awards I Ttt' Mrs. Helen S. Barrington, E. G. Inman A pair of "old hands" were honored last week for their service to the community and devotion to their respective clubs. James Evander Glllls, 73, was named "Lion of the Year" by Raeford Lions Club for "his long service and perfect at tendance in Lionism. Also for his help and guidance over the past 18 years to keep this club functioning on a sound basis. Mrs. Helen S. Barrington, a magistrate and former justice of the peace and American Red Cross worker, was given the community serrice award of Woodmen of the World. Gillis was honored at a ladies night meeting of the Lions Club Thursday night at Jlffyburger No. 2. New officers also were Installed at ^e meeting. Mrs. Barrington was one of several persons honored by Woodmen of the World at a family outing and awards night program at the WOW building on Old US 40L Carson Davis was given the "Mr. Woodman” award for his \? contributions to the local cnapter of the order. ' Five women received proficiency awards in ritualism. The pins were awarded by J. Ed Williams, president of the grove, to Mrs. Mary Ruth Halre, president: Mrs. Janie Campbell, past president; Mrs. Evelyn Ashburn, chaplain; Mrs. Maggie Meeks, vice president, and Mrs. Louise McDIarmld, captain. Glllls was named Lion of the Year on the basis of his con tributions over the years to the club, of which he Is a charter member. A native of the Sandy Grove community, once in Cumberland but now in Hoke County, Glllls worked here for Mc.NellTs Grocery until age 31. He then left Hoke County, working at various Jobs fsom Geoi’gia Bo Wishir^gtO!., D. C. Me returned to Hoke County 20 years ago and has been employed here as an automobile salesman. Glllls has a perfect attendance record for 18 years, beginning when the local Lions Club was chartered in July, 1949. Mrs. Barrington, widow of W. R. Barrington, longtime Hoke County law enforcement officer, served for many years as a justice of the peace and paid employe of American Red Cross. When Hoke County became one of the pilot district In the new district court setup, Mrs. Barrington was named a full-time See AWARDS, Page 9 Evander Gillis, Right, And Carroll Welborn
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