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journal The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXn NUMBER 12 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA 14 PER YEAR 10# PER COPY THURSDAY. AUGUST I, If#? n Four Firms Set Pace //' Local Textile Workers Will Get Pay Increase GIFT TO CIVIC CENTER — Posing with the new Civic Center piano Is, left to right, Mrs. H. C. McLauchlln, Mrs. J. H. Austin and Mrs. Lewis Upchurch. They are members of a commlttM named by the Chamlnade Music Club which presented the new and Important addition to the ^ cehter. Finished In jet black, the Instrument Is made by Steinway and Sons. July Believed Coolest ' In Recent Hoke History Burlington Industries announced In Greensboro this week tfiat waj- increases will be made next month by most of its ma iufacturlng divisions. Including the two Pacific Mills plants In Raeford. Four other textile manufacturers made similar announce ments, i iJicating an industry-wide pay raise may be In the tnal’.'ng, despite reports of decreased earnings. The Burlington announcement came from Charles F. Myers Jr., president, but he did not specify the amount of tile forthcoming increase. Myers said, amounts and effective dates of the Increases will be established on a divisional basis. The company, largest textile manufacturer In the world, has 120 plants in 15 states. Myers noted that several divisions of Burlington had made recnt wage adjustments and will not be affected by the broad movement now developing. "Because of the diversified and decentralized nature of our operations, wage ix)licy Is established at the division level," he added. "However, for most of our divisions the increases will be the 'ifth in the past four years." Erwin Sibley, division manager of the Raeford operation, said w^ge increases will become effective September 4 for employes of Raeford Worsted Plant and Pacific Mills Dyeing I'iant here. It is belivede the pay increase will apply to some 1,600 productio i workers at the two local plants, which are housed u i Jer one roof. Neither Myers nor Sibley revealed the amount of the pay increase, but other newspaper reports pegged the raises at about ' - cent. Also involved In the pay Increases are Collins and Alkmai Corp., ,\'ew York; Greenwood Mills, Greenwood, S. C.: Deering Milllken, Spartanburg, S. C., and Abney Mills of Greenwood. "While the current level of textile business generally is well below that of the past several years, we are be- ginnfng to note Improvement In a number of markets and feel that wage rate adjustments are warranted at this time " Myers said. The Associated Press reported the national average wage for textile production Is J2.01 an hour, citing the America!! Textile Manufacturers Institute. It said a spokes man for ATMI reported most mills In the South pay the national average or more. People who keep humming the recent folk-rock hit, "Where Have All The Flowers Gone," . may well be wondering what happened to "The Good Old Summertime." July, 1967, was believed to have been the "coolest" seventh-month In recent Hoke history. Official weather records are not kept here, but at Fayette ville. about 20 miles away, the U, S. Weather Bureau keeps tabs on weather statistics. It Is ic^aso.. ble. to assume that weather conditions In Rae ford would be similar to those In Fayetteville, except that a- mounts of precipitation might fluctuate between the two locali ties. Last month was the coolest July in Fayetteville during the Town Board To Get Report On Sewage Raeford Town Board will meet Monday afternoon In a rare day time session to hear a lon^- awalted report on the town^s sewage situation. The report, compiled by three agencies several months ago, followed a seven-day study of sewage load and plantcfflclency. It was ordered to determine how much. If any. Improvement is needed at the local plant. Richard Moore, consulting engineer, has in the past re commended a $1.3 million Im provement of facilities, with out which, he declares, the town may expect trouble. Dally reports from the treat ment plant have Indicated a B.OJ). (biological oxygen de mand) of up to 8,000. The plant's maximum B.OJ). capa city of 2,800. Nonetheless, the plant has been functioning satisfactorily ever since Initial difficulties were overcome after the plant was opened some four years ago. Recommended Improvements would Includi a major expansion of the sewage treatment plant, plus two additional outfali llnes"0ne to Burlington Indus tries two plants and another on the south perimeter of town. The survey on which Moore will report here Monday was conducted by town sewage plant operators, technicians from the State Health Department, and a private engineering and testing firm. Southern Laboratories, of Wilson. past 20 years. Average dally mean tempera ture was 77.1 degrees and the '■('Jliber- >f 90-degree days was only one-third of the long-range average. Long-term July mean temperature for Fayetteville Is 80.3 degrees. In 1947, aver age dally mean temperature for July was 76.7 degrees. Last month, there were only seven days In which the tem perature was 90 degrees or more. In the average July, there are 21 such days. Highest July readings were 92 degrees on the 11th and 12th and the lowest temperature was 57 degrees on the night of July 4. IXirlng the past 34 years, Fayetteville has had a maxi mum July temperature of 106 degrees In 1940 and a low of 51 In 1932. Rainfall here was above aver age for July. Although official records were not kept, several rains of more than one Inch- Including one of 5 1/2 Inches— were unofficially recorded by backyard rain gauges. The July rainfall average for Fayetteville Is 6.06 Inches and the July, 1967, total was 8.32 Inches. It Is estimated that some parts of Hoke County received upward of 10 Inches of rainfall during the month. Complaints of a "late spring” were abundant here as late as mid-May, when some residents still were using their furnaces to take the chill out of the air. T wo Hoke Sailors On F orrestal At least two Raeford boys were on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal when an ex plosion and fire occurred last Saturday off the coast of Viet nam, taking the lives of 139 officers and men. Mrs. Lois Holley Feele said she has heard nothing from her husband, Marshall, since the explosion but that she Is sitting by the television set and radio trying to glean what she can from commentators. Marshall Peele was a baker on the night shift, Mrs. Peele said. She would have heard something If he were not all right, although she heard on one newscast that the cooks were trapped. She received two letters from him Monday but both were written before t.he accident. Peele was at home during April, reporting to Norfolk on May 8. The ship set sail for Vietnam on June 6. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Peele. William Ernest Caulder, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Caul der, Robbins Heights, wired his wife, Mrs. Claudlne Caulder, Monday night that he was all right. She was visiting In Rae ford when she received the mes sage, Upon her return to Nor folk, she reportedly was hos pitalized from shock. Caulder works In the engine- room on the ship. It has been three months since he was home. 1 i / ill EXPLAIN PLAN — W. T. Gibson Jr., center background, explains integration efforts of the Hoke County school board to two members of a federal team, foreground, at Wednes day meeting of school board. Federal School Team Here A Six-man team of federal school officials arrived here yesterday to review Hoke Coun ty's integration efforts to de termine if they comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There hinges on the team's findings Hoke’scontlnuedquall- fication for federal school funds, which can be denied to counties In which integration Is termed insufficient. The Hoke Board of Education Immediately went Into session and spent the morning explain ing Its policies and the entire school plan to two members of the team. Miss Ann Lassiter and William Hutchinson. Four other members of the team were escorted by Hoke school principals and W. T. McAllister, director of ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) activities In the county, to each of the county school plants. Earlier this summer, the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare notified the local school board that Its Integra tion efforts probably would not be enough for continued qualifi cation for federal funds. HEW offered to send the team here to make recommendations which would enable the school board to comply with provlsioas of the law. W. T. Gibson Jr., superin tendent of schools, did most of the talking for tlie school board Wednesday. All members of the board, plus Its attorney. Bill Moses, attended the meet ing. The four members of the See FEDERAL, Page 9 :ix':¥:¥:v:¥:¥:-:v:v:¥:¥:¥:':':¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥:¥;i:;:x:x:i:;:;$;w;i¥:::!'.!.’!:¥S!;':r¥¥¥ Puppy VOL.r;- Puppy Creek Firemen Are Fast On Getaway dept 'I V ^ : BY LUCY GRAY PEEBLES Wives hold the pants down Puppy Creek way and husbands jump In and run. That’s the way things are done In that part of Hoke County since the new fire department went Into operation there. It all started last winter when the Puppy Cree’; Fire Depart ment got Its first nighttime call. Paul Johnson, first president of a club organized for pro motion of a fire dssparBment explains U thU way; No fire chief had yet been chosen. The five - horae siren hadn't ar rived. In tact about all there . was to the department was a truck and 25 volunteer fire men. "The Initial call came t* my house,” Johnson recalls. "My wife and I both bounced out of bH. I took the message arid as I threw my clothes on I asked her to call three key men. Priding myself In my swift ness I sped to the scene. But my feathers flopped when I arrived and saw the other two already there. "There was no time to ask questions or even to think about it. Other things were demand ing attention. But the inci dent weighed on my mind until the Monday night fireman’s meeting. I demanded to know how the heck they beat me to the fire." He all but acewed them of sleeping in their clothes. After all the three of them lived about the same dis tance avf«y. Then h. B, (Buddy) Newton told of the ingenious pants- boldlng scheme their wives had figured out. Now, the siren sounds off and Johnson’s wife doesn’t have to make subse quent ralla, ao she doee like the others. While be puts on his shirt aha grabs hla trou sers, holds them Just right and be jumps In. While the pants go on and the aj^per goes up, she pieces the sbOM ready to be stsiiped Into. The co operative procedure takes about 15 seconds and the P>gppy Creek Fire Department hasn't lost a building yet. The Ptvpy Creak iDtka are proud of what they have ac complished sutce last Novem ber, when the idea of setting up a dre iMpertuesnt was first Launched; asu of what coopera tion has (tose, not Jwst hew teen husbands and wlwes bat betweac tile resldeaU of tits coinmtialty. Ths cUmax to iheU sSorts cams last weak wtian Mwy grats- fully reclevad their slate-ap proved 9-A rating. Last year HoSe Cotmfy com- mlsslooera became coacerwad See PUPPY CRCCK, Page »
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