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ew^ Jhe Hoke County News- Established 1928 journal The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXII NUMBER 11 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA *1 PER YEAR 10# PER COPY THURSDAY, JULY 27, IH7 Coming Wednesday tA I H St Federal School Team Will Study Hoke Plan Willie McPhaul And Prize S even-Foot A lligator Caught, Killed, ^Skunt Bv jry TAYi OR, . Willie McPhaul, 59, turned up at She- lff Dave Barrington’s office last week with a pe culiar problem. He Ibid the sheriff he had an alligator In the car and didn’t know what to do with It. ’’Why didn’t you take a stick and kill It?” Barrington asked. ”He’s most too big for that,” McPhaul re plied. The sheriff had McPhaul drive his car back of the courthouse onto the grassed playground of McLauchlln School. Expecting to encounter a small Iguana-slze alligator of the sl^e tourists smuggle out of Florida, Barrington opened the trunk of Mc- Phaul’s car. What he encountered was more than aspring lizard. The ’gator later was measured at seven feet long and weighed an estimated 75 to 80 pounds. How in -the world did he capture such • critter and put It into the trunk of an autc mobile? McPhaul, who lives in the vicinity of New ton’s Pond west of Antioch, was driving home ward when he saw the alligator near the edge of the road. The critter was miles from any sizeable swamp or body of water. McP*’'»nl wTj home, got a neighbor, I.erow Henderson, and they went together to catch the alligator. No problem. They made a lasso out of Insulated wire, slipped the noose over the ’gator’s head, and tightened It around Its throat. ‘‘He thrashed his tall and rolled around a good bit,” McPhaul said. One of the two men grabbed the alligator by the tall, the other hoisted the iassoed head, and they crammed It Into the trunk. There was a real problem, of course, when the alligator got out of the trunk and started writhing on the schoolground. That put an obviously unhappy, seven-foot alligator loose near the busiest part of town, scarcely a block from the center of the business section. Barrington saw fit to exterminate It and dis patched It forthwith with his pistol. McPhaul took the carcass home. Almost Immediately, neighbors began arriving to view the phenor enon. Seven-foot alligators are not common In Hoke County, although smaller ones turn up from time to time. Oldtlmers recall specimens of two feet or so In length, but nothing out of the “baby” See ALLIGATOR, Page 9 A federal team will arrive here Wednesday to advise lo cal arhool officials how to step up Integration of Hoke County schools, so as to comply with Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The county school systom tor the past three years has op erated on a “fre^omofcholce*’ basis, with students and their parents deciding which schools they want to attend. In the past, the procedure haa satisfied officials of the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare. This year, HEW Indicates more "student Integration" may be neceasary before the county can quall^ for federal education funds. The tioard of education met Monday night on the eve of the departure of W,T, Gibson Jr., superintendent of schools, who Is now attending the state convention of school superin tendents. In addition to dis cussing the forthcoming visit by HEW officials, members of the board also elected a prin cipal for J.W, McLauchlln Ele mentary School, He Is James B. Bowles, 40, of Morven a graduate of Cat awba College who has been teaching in Anson County. Bowles will succeed Lonnie W, Bledsoe, who will become r rlncipal of the new elementary school on Bethel Road, Bowles also has had special training at Wake Forest Col lege. He is married and has three children. The Bowles family Is Presbyterian. The HEW visit was proposed early in June when Its officials reviewed Hoke's desegregation plans for the forthcoming year. At that time, Harold B. Wil liams, acting assistant com missioner of HEW, wrote: "The report you recently sub mitted on the staff and student assignments you expect to make for next fall under your dese gregation plan indicates your faculty desegregation^ repre sents sufficient progress for the 1967-68 school year. How ever, a review of the operation of your plan will be necessary because further action would appear to be necessary in the area of student desegregation. *‘ . . . I urge you to discuss with your board at the earliest possible time what additional steps can be taken to make further progress Intheellmlna- See SCHOOL, Page 9 V hen Preacher A, W. \\ right’s eyesight became a bit blurred a dozen years ago, it didn’t both er him that he might not be able to get his auto driver’s license renewed. He parked his car and bought a bicycle, and has been pedal ing off into the sunset ever since. More accurate, he’s used the bike as his sole means of con- veyence ever since he returned an instruction manual to the license examiner. "I can’t see to read the l)ook,’’ he told the examiner, "so I don’t have any business with a driver’s license.’’ How many miles has he rid den the bike?. "There’s no telling," Preach er Wright said. "I ride it all over Raefurd and parts of Hoke County selling my batli- room chemicals, and I’ve l)een as far away as Bladenboro on Preachei' Wright (few peo ple know his first name or initials) is a Iona fide minis ter in The Church of God of Prophecy. He doesn’t "pas tor" a church anymore, liut he "sort of fills in." He con ducts tiouse-lo-housr oedita- tlon, Instnictloii and prayer a- mong members of the local con gregation, visiting his "liand" by bio cle. At 74 jeers of age, he’s Wit). long-y»inded, and drieari’t weigh more than a cake til wet soap. The bUe-rldlna un doubted!) iMs iwen par’l te- sponstble for his physical fit ness. a "It’s good eserelsf,’’!,# s«id, See PHl.’ACHER, Page 4 w w 0^ • r 4 ». V. •4- yi 4: V: - ‘ V- V ■ A' '•H : • '4^:: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Nixon Survey Ruined Tobacco and Soybeans Hailstorm Batters 100 Acres Of Leaf Preacher Is Pedaling Peddler wind and hall cut a $150,000 swath through QuewhlffleTown ship Thursday evening, laying waste 75 to 100 acres of to bacco and several hundred acres of corn, soybeans and other crops. The storm was concentrated In an area containing about a dozen farms, near Five Points. Most of them had tobacco losses of 100 per cent. Perhaps the worst blow was delivered at the Pat Nixon farm, where five acres of tobacco wa-' literally 'tripped from the stalk. Corn leaves were shred ded and the leaves and stalks of soybeans bruised, broken, and riddled by hall. Bryon Parks said his 10.7- acre crop was stripped from the stalk and some 40 acres of soybeans and corn virtually ruined. Parks was In his pickup truck when the storm struck shortly after 6 p. m. ‘‘My brother drove up and got In the truck with me,” Parks said, "When It started to hall, I moved the truck up against the south end of the house, the storm whipped around and started blowing from the other way, and I had to move the truck to the other side of the house.” One pellet knocked a plug from the truck’s windshield, as If it had been shot by a BB gun. Parks said hailstones as large as golf balls plummeted the area for about 30 minutes. The wind was extremely strong. In a nearby path of woods, tops were wrung from several trees and branches blown off Into the roadway. Nixon said the wind was so strong at hls home “that It looked to me like the house was going to blow away. W. s. Young, county farm agent, said the storm also struck at the farms of Paul Hurst, Willie Davis, Parnell Locklear, Howard Ray, Mrs. Ruth Leslie, Bobby Lee Walters, Reuben Webb, Charlie Pendergrass and Neill Mc- Fadyen. Light hall also struck In the Ashley Heights section, where four Inches of rainfall was measured after the half-hour storm. The tobacco crop of D. R. Huff Jr. was damaged by both wind and hail. It was the second consecu tive year the Five Points com munity has received hall dam age. Last summer, two dif ferent hailstorms damaged leaf crops, but not to the extent of Thursday’s storm. Most of the tobacco was oe- glnnlng to ripen and some of It had been primed onetime. Nlx- Se* HAILSTORM, Page 4 Owner Of ‘Speedway’ Site Says Track 4 Years Off Preacher And Wheel The owner of a piece of prop- erf j on which Parker Metho dist Church members reported- 1> are seeking to block con struction of an auto race track said this week their action is premature. ’•I don’t know where they got the kiea I am folA( to build a speedway right away,’’ said Jsmes R. Zimmerman. '-And it they had any objection, why didn’t the) come to me?" /Immerman, a supplv ser- Kcant at Fort Bragg, said he r^centU Irought some 15 acres of land across Highway 401 trvim the church. The proper ty includes a roadside building, formerly used as a service station, the Zimmerman home. and a strip of cleared land extending some 600 yards a- way from the road. "I bought the property be cause I was looking for a place in the country where I can re tire in four more years. Yes, I am thinking atout building a threr-teoths-mHe speed" a> for cars and motorcycles, but I’ll probably wait until I retire to do it. It depends on the money situation,’’ he said. Neighbors and members ot the church apparently suspect ed that the track would be built sooner. Last week, several members ot the church confirmed rumors that the board of stewards had hired an attorney to investigate legal means of preventing the construction. A petition re portedly was prepared and cir culated in the commuitlt)’, ‘The newspaper account said 1 was going to build a drag strip," 'Zimmerman said. ’’1 am not. My plans are some day to build a sfn’etlway on .>he back side of the {tropes 'y, where there is not :oom enough Cor a drag strip." Zimmermar contends a speedway would not interfere with church service or the ac tivity of neighbors. He invited a re^torter to look at the I’roperty itid salkedover tt with him. /immernsan’s house la eome See SHLLDWAY, Pag# 9 CHARLES G. ROSE HI Rose Gets Judgeship Charles G. Rose DI. y»ung Fayetteville attorney, has been appointed district prosecutor for Hoke-Cumherland District Court. He succeeds George Stvhl, who was elevated to die dis trict judgeship vacated when Judge Coy Brewer was made a superior court judgfc Rose was appoint^ by Jfdge Maurice Braswell of Fayette ville, resident superior court judge for the 12th Judicial Dis trict. I-dicatlons are that the court had a somewhat difficult ticae I ’ ‘llllig the posL Re^rts were that no attor-’eys in Ko*»e County were l-terested In the SlZ.nco-a-year Job. Rose, a 1964 graduate of the U'’lver»lty of Noth Carolina School of Law, has work ing for hls father’s law firm. Rose ard Thorp, r r'ayeneville sr'ce .April. cevicufly, he worKed in Ra.’el>r' th# o%- aartraent ' vlrd Lursoor. a. 4 with fomKsr ^vemc. Terry Saniord when he .-■tmevl a law firm after 'eavi the executive mai’sioc.. Rose Is mar rle to the former Sarah RicharO'o ot Monree a w thev ‘-ave one cWld, a son. A'\>t''e •Kk’xv eusra Intfie district ,hrosecuior*s ofRee^ L>Uv’a:J I ^arn Is assistarir.
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