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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 16
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA
•4 PER YEAR lOe PER COP^ THLRSDA^. ALCLST 31. 1967
Buford Davis, Gerald Pogmore, John Potts
, English College Students
End Summer In Raeford
A pair of English university
students who have spent the
summer In Raeford will leave
here this week end for a *'grand
tour" of North America before
going home.
They celebrated the occasion
by getting haircuts — the first
they have had since leaving
Manchester, finglaniS, In May.
John i>otts, 21, and Oerald
Pogmore, 21, are textile majors
at the University of Manchester,
where they will begin their
senior year of study when they
return to England next month.
They have been working at
the Burlington Industries plants
here for the past three
months — holding down regular
jobs and receiving regular pay.
Potts has been working In the
"la-BOR^atry" (laboratory) at
Raeford Worsted Plant. Pog
more was In process control
at Pacific Mills Dyeing Plant.
Their stay in Raeford was
pleasant, they said, thanks to
Buford Davis, former Hoke High
football star and a Junior at
East Carolina University,
Davis, whosa mother, Mrs.
Brownie Davis, Is a native of
England, also worked this sum
mer at the mill,
"Buford certainly has been
great to us," Potts said. "He
sort of took us under his wing.
Got us a television set for the
apartment, and was helpful In
so many wasy."
Both young men had worked
summers In British textile
plants, and said working condl-
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Labor Day Closings Set
Both town and county officials
will observe Labor Day with
closed offices and postponed
monthly meetings.
The town board has set its
September meeting date for
Monday, September 11, one week
from the regular meeting time.
County commissioners will
meet Tuesday, September 5,
one day later than the regular
meeting date.
One matter of business for the
town board will be the opening
of bids for 35,000 square yards
of street resurfacing.
All county offices will be
closed all day Monday, T, B.
Lester, county manager report
ed. Mrs. Lee Cameron said
the library also will be closed,
as will the CAP office thereby
emptying the entire building for
the holiday.
Southern National Bank will be
closed and the Bank of Raeford
will remain open.
The post office and federal
offices in the post office build
ing will be closed.
Indications this week were
that most retail stores will be
open.
tlons are similar. The pay Is
slightly lower In England, but,
then, so are living costs.
"The big difference Is the
relationship between manage
ment and the worker, "Pogmore
said. "Here, Burlington makes
you feel that you're a part of
the business. Individual work
ers are actually maoe to feel
that they are Involved In the
operation. In England, the re
lationship Is less personal. And
factories are unionized there,
too."
Potts and Pogmore occupied
an apartment on Central Avenue
during their stay here. On week
ends, they "got on the Grey
hound" and went to various
points of Interest — once to
New York City, and once to
Daytona Beach.
The week end travel wasn’t
expensive, they said, because
they paid a flat fare of less
than $100 and were permitted
to use the ticket for trans
portation anywhere to any place.
They Joked about their new
haircuts, which were strictly
American.
"Our hair was long when we
left England, and we hadn’t had
It cut since May, Naturally,
It caused people to wonder,
and when they found we were
from England, they wanted to
know right away about the
Beatles. People seem to think
that English young people do
nothing but plunk guitars and
Indulge the Beatles,’’ Potts
said.
Actually, English youngsters
are much more MOD than
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Everything Near Normal
Hoke Schools Are Opened
Some 5,000 Students
Summer vacation ended yes
terday for an estimated 5,000
Hoke County public school stu
dents who trooped back to the
county’s nine schools.
W. T. Gibson Jr., superin
tendent of schools, said it will
be days before enrolment fig
ures are completed, but he ex
pects the school population to
be "slightly higher" than last
year.
Schools were nearer normal
than they have been since 1965,
when classes began with three
grades housed in downtown Rae
ford churches. That emergency
measure was necessary after
fire destroyed the main build
ing of J. W, McLauchlin Ele
mentary School the previous
fall.
I.a.'t year, six new class
rooms were completed at the
McLauchlin .school site and stu
dents were moved out of Rae
ford Presbyterian Church- This
fall, neither First Baptist
Church nor Raeford Methodist
Church facilities will be used
by the school board.
But it will be a few days until
seventh and eighth graders will
occupy classrooms at the new
elementary school off Bethel
Road across from Hoke High
School. The new school, built
with bond money approved by
the people lastyear, was sched-
Sam Motley
Is Promoted
Sam Motley, a Raeford police
officer for tne past five years,
has been promoted to assistant
chief of the local police depart
ment, effective September 1.
The promotion was recom
mended by Chief L. W. Stanton
and approved by the town board.
Motley is to take the oath of
office tomorrow.
Motley, who has lived in Rae
ford for the past 15 year , is
a native of Martinsville, Va.
He came here as a textile
worker, and joined the police
force in 1962. He was absent
from the force about four
months a year or so ago when
he worked as an overseer at
the Crandall Finishing Plant
in Wagram.
Motley and his wife, Agnes,
iive on West Sixth Avenue. They
have two married daughters,
Mrs. Eugene Polston and Mrs.
John Wayne Smith, both of Rae
ford.
uled to have 10 classrooms
ready by yesterday; however,
recent rains slowed construc
tion and the classrooms will
not be ready until Monday.
"We will move the two
classes Into the 10 rooms on
Monday," Gibson said. "In the
meantime, one class will be
housed In the gym at Raeford
Elementary School and the other
at the high school gym."
The new Bethel Road school
will be the first school in the
county to be integrated on other
than the "freedom of choice"
plan. Hoke Board of Education
last Friday advised Office of
Education officials it will trans
fer the sixth grade classes from
Upchurch Scnool, probably in
early December when the new
facility is complete.
In addition to the 10 class
rooms now being readied, the
new school will have nine more
classrooms, an administrative
wing, a gym, lunchroom and
other facilities.
Hoke County High School re
opened with new personnel in
key positions. G. R. Autry,
new principal, and three ne
teacher-coaches already had
become known by most of the
students. The new coaches are
Jimmy Bryd and Larry Phillips
jt Raeford and Sammy Bryant
of Erwin.
J. W. McLauchlin School has
a new principal, too. He is
James Bowles, who came here
from Morven. He succeeds
Lonnie Bledsoe, who will be
principal of the new Bethel
Road school.
Other principals include
James ITirlington, Raeford Ele
mentary; G, R. Page, Upchui ch
High School; Earl Oxendii.e,
Haw'k Eye Maurice B. 11-ye'}.
We'-tHoke; F. W, Caldwell Jr.,
Scurlock, and Janies H. ( iai-
mers. Burlington.
Gibson said that a.- ol
Wednesday morning, facul" t
tor all county -schools wen.
complete and all atailable
classroom space was lilted.
He said the administrative
wing and several more class
rooms at the Bethel Road school
are expected to be completed
within the next 20 days.
Hoke High School Band, which
will step out in brand new uni
forms supplied by public con
tributions last spring, will not
be able to play for the season’s
first football game here Friday
night.
Band director Jimmy James
said it would te impossible to
issue uniforms and Instruments
and have a reiearsal in time
for the game.
The school hoard decided to
transfer the sixth grade of Up
church School to the new Bethel
Road td. 1 :•) a'ts; Uftice '*
Educatii ol .ciais .'ecom-
me’.ded there x; ■■.■> "racial
iden’i’ia'I'lf” at rfe schv.cl,
r'’at '-c. mme'idtio'; came
after a teoera. team inspected
the loca. sc luol svstem, at tine
invitatio'- ot tne ■scare :t eCu-
catio". Earlier, the local oca: J
had 'ee warned ny fedsra. of-
f.cia.s tnatHoKe schools mignt
not quality ‘or nn-tmuec federal
aid if desegregation was not
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FIRST DAY--School may be fun, but these dubious six-year-olds will have to be cocvlnced-
Right now, most of them are more interested in the camera than in snhooi, except the little
boy at left, that is. it appears that he would rather get on with the business at hand so he can
go home. The teacher is Mrs. Nell Snead at J.W. McLauchlin Elementary Scrool.
Sgt. Walter E. Holt Wins
Pair Of Medals In Vietnam
Sgt. E-5 Walter E. Holt, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Holt
of Raeford, has been awarded
the Bronze Star Medal a,id the
Army Commendation Medal for
Heroism for combat duty In
Vietnam.
The commendation medal was
presented to Holt "for heroism
In connection with military op
erations against a hostile
force," and the Bronze Star
"for distinguishing hlm.3elf by
outstanding merltororlous ser
vice In connection with ground
operations agaln.st a hostile
force In the Republic of Viet
nam during the period 20 May
1966 to 19 May 1967."
Holt, who enlisted In the Army
In 1963 for a three-year hitch,
had his tour extended for eight
months In Vietnam, and when
that period was over, another
six-month extension was at
tached, his relatives here re
port.
The Commendation Medal for
Heroism was awarded to Holt
by the commander 1st Brigade,
101st Airborne Division. The
citation states In part;
“Sergeant Holt distinguished
himself by exceptionally valor
ous actions on 31 January 1967
In the Republic of Vietnam. Ser
geant Holt was a squad leader
when the troops were suddenly
caught In the killing zone of a
well-planned Viet Cong ambush.
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Sergeant Hold exposed himself
to a high volume of Ore to
personally direct the fires of
his squad. During the Are
fight. Sergeant Holt with com
plete disregard for his own
safety exposed himself to the
deadly enemy Are to move from
position to position to encour
age hts men and personally
supervise the delivery of Are
on the enemy . . ."
The Bronze Star Medal was
awarded to Holt by direction of
the president. The citation
revealed:
"Through his untiring efforts
and professional ability, he con-
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Rainy Week At Elizabeth City
Knocks Out Hoke County Fair
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Raeford Jaycees were forced
this week to split the annual
Hoke - Scotland Agricultural
Fair into two parts when the
midway scheduled to appear
here bogged down at the rain-
soaked Elizabethtown fair
grounds.
Homer Tuttle, Jaycee fair
president, said agricultural and
homemaker exhibits were
entered and Judged, as planned,
because of the perishable nature
of some entires.
The carnival portion of the
annual event will be staged Sep
tember 18-23.
"We are sorry about the dif
ficulty in staging the fair as
planned," Tuttle said. "The
midway owner telephoned us
last Saturday and told us he was
stuck in the mud at Elizabeth
town, I went there myself
and saw his plight. They had
had 11 or 12 inches of rain In
a period of a few days and the
rides and other midway attract
ions were bogged down.
"The vehicles could have been
dragged out of the mire, but
all the engines would have had
to be cleaned and the midway
could not have been set up
until the end of the week. We
thought the best thing to do was
to postpone the carnival portion
of the fair, which will be held
in a couple of weeks,’’ Tuttle
said.
Meanwhile, a surprising
number of exhibits turned up
at the exhibit hall in Hillcrest
community, although Jaycees
actually discouraged entries
after the postponement.
Entries were brought in Mon
day, judged Piesday, and taker-
home yesterday.
An official from the N. C,
Department of Agriculture,
which Inspects all county tairs
In the state, arrived Tuesday
afternoon to Inspect exhibits a.nd
file a report on the fair.
Fairs must maintain a cer
tain standard in number a'd
of exhibits, as well.
Fairs must have a certan
number of exhibits to quality
for certain concessions made
by the state to sponsoring or-
ga .i’atiors. It exhibits are -.ot
jatisfactory, r'-e fair is classed
as a car ival and is sut'ject
to certain tate taxes and 'ees.
Javcees were "ot advised
t'-e Departrr"c"t ot .Agriculr.'.ry
rcpor>se'’tativc whet*'er
;piit-date fair will quality tor
-las-'ificatio as a her a 'idc
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