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journal ^ Th« Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXII NUMBER 10 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA •4 PER YEAR I0 PER COPY THURSDAY, AXY 20. IW Church Objects i Drag Strip Conflict Looms At Wayside - f* •* f Wi FOR SUN'SET HILLS -- The Town of Raeford had to hire a Charlotte firm to come and bore beneath the highway In order to comply with regulations In Installing a new water line to the Sunset Hills section. Some 1,300 feet of new slx- Inch line Is being Installed to give residents there better pressure and to take care of future new construction. The existing line Is of slx-lnch piping. Town manager Ed Wil liams (white shirt) Inspects the work. Car Clips Two Poles; None Hurt Three persons escaped Injury shortly after midnight Saturday when the car In which they were riding left the road and sheared two utility poles near McCain. State Trooper J. D. Robln> a^on said Investigation reve-iied miffcar tnadrlvenby Joe Wood- —“ row 'Gregory ot Raeford Rt. 3. The wreck apparently oc curred at about 12:30 a, m. Sun day, Robinson said, but was not ^ reported until an hour and one- hati^ater when passersby came upon the wreck. Gregory and the passengers were not at the scene when he arrived, he said. The car left the rural paved road on a curve, Robinson said, and traveled some 500 feet before striking a second utility pole, after clipping another one. It came to rest In a swamp. 4 Gregory has been charged with excessive speed and fall ing to report an accident. The car, a 1960 Ford statlonwagon, was demolished. Robinson said Gregory and the two passengers apparently . caught rides and went home after the wreck. Earlier Saturday night, a Fort Bragg soldier was Injured when his car, traveling north, left the road on Highway 401 Bypass north of Raeford, went across the median at Aber deen Cutoff, and overturned. Robinson listed the driver as James Andrew Klrkman, 21, who was operating a 1967 Chevrolet. Chamber Members Favor Uniform Monday Holidays Raeford merchants, busi nessmen and others strongly favor the "Uniform Monday Holiday" proposals now before Congress, a survey shows. In a poll of members of Rae- foro-Hoke Cnamber of fcom- merce, 70 per cent of the mem bership favored the proposal, 24 per cent was opposed, and 6 per cent voiced no opinion. Briefly, the proposal Is to establish several non-religious holidays on Mondays, switching them from their traditional dates, so as to provide more "long week ends" of the Labor Day variety. A bill by Sen. George Smath- Smith Says Court SystemGetting Better Tbdre have been changes and there are to be more changes In the new district court system. Clerk of Superior Court E.E. Smith reported last week'when he returned from a clerk's con vention In Charlotte. "I think they are working to ward a good system, he sur mised," "but there are still kinks to be Ironed out." He said that more counties will be brought into the system this year. Hoke County was one of the 20 pioneer counties which began using the new system a year and a half ago. Smith's office hardly re sembles the same that It for merly was. New equipment has been brought in, such as more typewriters, photo graphic machines, desks and other equipment. In addition, the number of employes has Increased from two, besides the clerk, to five because of the additional paperwork required. Miss Mamie Livingston ser ves as assistant clerk. Miss Betty McFadyen, as deputy clerk. Miss Myra Inman, as office clerk, Mrs. Dale Aver- Itt, as bookkeeper, and a Youth Corps worker. Miss Joanne Monroe. Counties that have experienc ed the new court system Include those In six districts, they are Hoke, Robeson, Cumberland, Scotland, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Pas quotank, Perquimans, Durham, Burke, Caldwell, CaUwba, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Hay wood, Jackson, Macon, Swain. ers (D-Fla.) proposes five changes In current holidays. They are: Washington’s Birthday (Feb. 22) would be switched to the third Monday in February and ’designated Presidents Day In honor of all presidents. Memorial Day (May 30) would be set on the last Monday In May. Independence Day (July 4) would be established on the first Monday In July. Veterans Day (Nov. 11) would be changed to the last Monday In October. Thanksgiving Day would be changed from 5ie fourth Thurs day In November to the fourth Monday In November. Both federal and state gov ernments will have to adopt laws If the changes are to become uniform and nationwide. The Raeford-Hoke vole was substantially lower In the sup port column than other polls taken by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and others In other areas of the nation. Almost 10,000 business mem bers of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce showed 85 per cent In favor of the proposal. Favor able public opinion was regis tered In a poll by "This Week" magaxlne, which was deluged by 180,061 ballots In favor and only 10,094 opposed. Attorneys Are Hired For Battle Members of Parker’s Metho dist Church In the Wayside community are up In a rms over a proposal to build a drag strip across Highway 401 from the rural church. Deacons of the church voted Monday night to employ the law firm of Harrison and Diehl of Raeford to seek legal means of blocking the planned project. Residents of the community and members of the church contacted by telephone said they do not know details of building plans, but have been told a group from Fort Bragg is planning to build the racing strip on prop erty purchased from John Tyler. The property was described as lying immediately behind a row of roadside houses some 100 yards from the highway. That also would put it In close proximity to the church, which is across the highway from the houses. ’-We object to the noise, the dust, the crowds, and the very strong possibility that racing activities will interfere with church services," a member of the congregation said. A drag strip Is a facility at which automobiles are timed at top speed over short dis tances. It Is not a race track, per se, because autos compete Individually and not In groups. Nonetheless, church mem bers contend the noise will be deafening and the whole affair degrading to the church and the community. Houses In the Immediate vi cinity are occupied by the Josh Scull, John Tyler, Clifford Mil ler, Vestal Posey, Haskln Allen and other families, a church member said. Neither attorney Harry Harrison nor Phil Diehl were Immediately available for com ment Wednesday morning, but It appeared certain that Parker Methodist Church members will circulate a petition to be signed by residents of the community and church members opposed to the drag strip project V DOING WELL — Six-year-old Hyun Lee, left, and Ms brother, Dong Lee, 12, caught on In a summer language arts class at West Hoke School, Korean Kids ^At Home^ In Language Arts Class A summertime language arts program at West Hoke Elemen tary School has turned out to also be a lesson In International relations, according to M. B. Hayes, principal. Two early enrolees In the program were Dong Lee, 12, and his brother, Hyun Lee, 6. They are Koreans. Their father, Dr, H. K. Lee, recent ly arrived at the N. C. Sana torium at McCain for a tour of study and practice, Hayes said. The Lee boys — bright-eyed and energetic — spoke not one word of English between them when they were entered In a class with 22 other youngsters. m 0. i 1 i Mrs. Evaline McPhaul Walters Shows Zest For Living At 93 'It was amazing to watch them develop,’’ Hayes said. "Long before the six-week course was over, they were doing splendidly. If they go to school here this fall, I feel sure they will be able to keep up." Miss Jane McKoy, who teach es the class in which the Lees are enrolled, said the young sters have been no problem at all. At first, she said, they communicated with their class mates largely In "sign language.” Almost immediate ly, however, they began using the English words and phrases taught to them by the teacher and used by the other students. It was astounding, teachers at the school said, to observe the Lees and the other children become acquainted. Most of the other students In the WestHoke program are Negro, and most had never seen a "foreigner." Yet there was an Imnxadlate rapport between the strangers. T^e six-week program Is now nearing the end, Hayes said. It is pan of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act program In the county, financed by federal funds. In addition to language arts, the children are tau^t ^slcal education, an and music. They have been attending classes three and one-half hours dally; five days a week, leavingscho^ at noon. "We examined all students when they enrolled," Hayes said, "and this week we gave them another test. They showed measurable progress." Students range in age from six to 14. Most were enrolled for enrichment, but a few were entered for enrichment pur poses. BY LUCY GRAY PEEBLES The most sought out person among the hundreds of people attending the McPhaul family reunion at Antioch each year Is a lively lady who just celebrated her 93rd birthday. She is Mrs. Evaline Walters, of Cole Avenue, wife of the late Thomas Edwin Walters, Mrs. Walters was honored at two parties last week In ob servance of her birthday. One was a surprise party on Fri day. The other was a family dinner which brought company from both ends of the state and from Virginia and South Carolina. Clapping her hands last Fri day as she unsuspectingly spotted the car of her Elizabeth City daughter coming down the street, she hurried to the door to greet them with the agility of a person half her age. Unlike her sister, Mrs.Sallle M. Miller; 91, she still has good eyesight. Unspectacled, she can read, write letters and sign her own checks, she proud ly proclaims. Mrs. Miller, who was here from Hendersonville for the two joyous occasions, retired from the real estate business just five years ago following an eye operation. Now, she neither sees nor hears as well as her older sister, but she Is just as youthful In actions, appearance and conversation. Neither Is bound to the rock ing chair. They put on bright summer dresses, a mist of rouge and lipstick, pretty up their silver gray hair, and go shopping like anyone else. "Sister brought a pretty pew dress today In Laurlnburg but I didn’t see anything 1 liked," Mrs. Walters mused u she pointed to her puffed ankles. "That comes from walking on the pavement, but It will go down tonight,’’ she said with assurance. Mrs. Walters was born near Bethel Church, but raised In the Antioch section. She re members living briefly In the old house (still standing) near the old McPhaul grist mill while her father, H. W. McPhaul, built the family a new home. The mill, also still standing, belonged to her grandfather, Daniel McPhaul. Daniel McPhaul wasn’t a preacher, but was a religious man. His granddaughter re members tfiat he built the Methodist Church at Raft Swamp. "Do you remember how we used to go to Sunday School every Sunday and if there was no preaching that day at our church we stopped by the Pres byterian Church on the other side of the swamp and attend ed there?" Her sister did remember, very clearly. The two also have a brother here In Raeford, F. F. McPhaul, 79, who lives at Anthony Nursing Home. Did she attend the Raeford Institute? Heavens no! Mrs. Walters was having babies when the Institute was born. The McPhaul children went to school, first In a log cabin, then In a "nice, new, one-room building to which Mr. Edens taught everything from ABCs to Latin.’’ Pupils from five to 25 studied books and recited Individual lessons in the same room. Mother of the McPhaul chil dren was the former Margaret See MRS. WALTERS. Page 9 Hoke F armers Vote ‘Big’ For Controls :-Xv Hoke County farmers voted overwhelmingly In favor of to bacco quotas which would con trol acreage and poundage for the next three years in a ref erendum held across the state Tuesday. A total of 423 Hoke farmers the polls. Only 10 voted against the is- 1 Mrs. Evaline Walters went to of them sue. Voted on at the same time was a tobacco assessment for promotion on flue-cured tobac co, which means that each far mer will pay from 50 cents to $1 per acre each year for the program. Voting In favor of assessment were 405 and a- galnst, only 15. On a cotton promotion ques tion, 344 voted for a.**! 23 #- gainst. Quewhiffle tovtiiship had the most objectors. Voting there against the tobacco quota were 5, against the assessment were 7, and against the cotton pro motion were 10. There is less cotton grown In Quewhlffle area than In an> other section In the county. The next highest numbers vot ing against the programs in other township were: Tobacco quota, Stonewall 2; tebacco as sessment, Stoaewall 3; Gotten promotion. Antioch 4. The favorable vote exceeded 90 per cent in all North CaroUna tobacco growing counties except Rowan and Davidson. Totals In the state were 107,195 favoring quoUs and 3,230 opposing tor a 97.1 per cent margin of app roval. Flue-cured tobacco controls have been In effect since 1940. The total tobacco quotas vote and the favorable percentage in other states were: Georgia, 14,266 and 93.6 per cent. South CaroUna, 13,351 and 9M per cent. Florida, 2.013 and 93 per cent. Alabama, 103 aad MU per cent. Virginia results were not a- vaiUble. Flue-cured farnier.i w the Carolinas approved a conOnaa- tlon of their tobacco asawsa- ment bj, a vote of 99,441 tor aad 5,857 agamst. The cotton promotion asaaaa- meht vote went 9U383 tor aad 1,925 agatnat.
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