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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXU NUMBER 18
RAEFORD. HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14.1467
Doubling Cold Storage
Raeford Turkey Farms Has New Products
Raeford Turkey Farms today
announced a major expansion
of its operations here and a
capacity-doubling addition to
Raeford Cold Storage Ware
house. Inc. — a subsidiary of
the processing plant
Leonard Frahm, general
manager, said the fast-growing
processing firm will go into
further processing of turkeys ~
a move that has been awaiting
enlargement of storage facili
ties.
This week, it was announced
in Washington by Senators Sam
Ervin and B. Everette Jordan
that Hoke Development Com
pany has been approved for a
Small Business Administration
loan of $216,000.
The local development com
pany will use the money to build
an additional cold storage fa
cility at the processing plant.
It will be leased to the proces
sors on a lease-purchase ar
rangement
“The new cold storage
facility is being added to coin
cide with programming of fur
ther processing, so as to pro
vide the necessary cold storage
for our new products.’’ Frahm
said.
Raeford Turkey Farms is
now equipped to make cooked
turkey rolls and cooked roasts,
as well as small (two-pound)
uncooked turkey roasts — both
packaged and fro-'en at the plant
Also in the planning stage,
Frahm said, are “Turkey
Stroganoff’ and turkey barbe
cue. All the prepackaged brands
will bear the firm’s House of
Raeford labeL
Ultimately, addition of the
further processing unit and the
addition^ cold storage facility
will mean the addition of 50 or
60 people to the payroll, Frahm
said.
The Arm now has 465 em
ployes working on two shifts.
Its payroll last Ascai year (June
1, 1966, to May 31, 1967) was
$1.7 million.
F rahm s aid his company esti
mates that the turkey industry
throughout the country will go
heavily into further proces
sing — that is, packaging cooked
and uncooked turkey products
smaller than an entire dressed
turkey.
“The reason, of course, is
that the housewife is sometimes
reluctant to buy turkey because
^e dollar outlav for a wnole
bird is too big for her weekly
food budget. When a turkey
roast is provided at less cost
than a beef roast, she will often
buy the turkey."
Frahm said Raeford Turkey
Farms currently is processing
an average of 1.5 million pounds
of turkey per week. During
die first ^ree months of the
new fiscal year — June, July
and August — production was
15 per cent ahead of the same
months last year.
“Acmally, we could get more
orders than we can fill. The
Industry as a whole, however,
is experiencing a weak price
market," he said.
The turkey for a long tir^p
has been more than a “holiday"
bird. Before World War D,
turkey was used almost exclus
ively at Thanksgiving and
Christmas and was seldom seen
on the housewife’s shopping list
at any other time of the year.
“We now do about 40 per
cant of our business in the
''flB.st seven calendar months
of the year, and 60 per cent
in the last five, which Include
the Thanksgiving and Christ
mas holidays. This year, there
are 125 million turkeys being
grown in the country — and
that’s beoer than a half a tur
key per capita. So you can
see, that a lot of turkey is being
consumed."
The number of turkeys grown.
processed and sold in this coun
try has Increased steadily for
a number of years. Frahm s
own firm sold 14 per cent more
mrkey from J anuary to August
than it did a year ago.
“We believe that within five
years, 80 per cent.of all turkey
sold will be in further proces
sed products,’* Frahm said.
The idea is to offer the house
wife an economy meat for a
single meal. it used to be
diat a housewife bought a whole
bird, had roast turkey for a
meal or two, then turkey sand
wiches, then turkey hash about
the middle of the next week.
With the new House of Raeford’s
two-pound roasts, she merely
places the package in the oven,
cooks it the specified length
of time, and has turkey foroftjy
one meaL
Raeford Turkey F arms p^'k-
aged turkey products are pfe-
pared in a gleaming stainltf s
steel “kitchen," where wh^le
birds are boned, chopped, ind
“extruded" by a machine ito
turkey rolls or roasts
In both rolls and roasc ;he
company offers a choice all
white, all dark, or dar ind
white meat. The turke all,
which comes in about 10- ind
quantities, is packaged i a
synthetic “bologna" ty| '?cn-
tainer, then cooked. It ,used
exclusively by schools a ,^jcher
institutions. '
Raeford Turkey Farms did
most of its own “culinary re
search” on tile products.
Road To Be Routed
A t M cC ainS anatorium
FURTHER PROCESSING — Pauline Cummings, above. Is
showing removing a turkey breast in the boning phase of
Raeford Turkey Farm's further processing operation. In
photo at right, above, James Starling, manager of the further
processing department, is shown with two House of Raeford
cooked turkey rolls.
No Turn Town Board A sks Estimate
‘On Red’
In Raeford
On Modest Sewage Plant
After forty years, “Red" is
getting a break in Raeford.
He's been abused in the past—
and it all was perfectly legal.
The reference is to turning
"right on red" at traffic signal
lights in Raeford--a common
practice in the past.
Not long ago, the State High
way Department replaced most
stoplights Inside the townlimits.
When the old lights came down,
so did the Hale signs that ad
vised motorist to “turn right
on red after stop."
“We have had a dozen or
more inquiries from people who
wanted to know if they could
still turn right on red at the
new stoplights," said Mayor
HJl. McLean. “So far, the
state people have said there
will be no turning on red. State
people make the determina
tion."
E3est rule to follow, mayor
said, is not to turn unless there
is a sign telling the motorist
he may do so. No such signs
remain in Raeford.
“By eliminating the right
turns on red, the pedestrian is
given a chance,” Mayor McLean
said. “Before, drivers made
the turn without stopping, ad
they were required to do, and
pedestrians had to jump out
of the way."
The two intersections most
affected by the elirtiinactoji of
“go on red” permission are
I the “hotel corner” on Main
Street, where southbtjund traf
fic used to drive into die right
lane and proceed when die llgltt
was red, and the "Auto Inn
corner," where Harris Avenue
ends at the intersection of Main
Street.
Motorists are now required
m wait for a green light be-
Rm 'RED', B
Raeford Town Board of Com
missioners decided Monday
night to go ahead with its plans
to obtain from Richard Moore,
consulting engineer, figures on
expansion of the sewage treat
ment plant which would be less
expensive than a suggested Im
provement which would cost ap
proximately $1,020,000.
A special meeting has been
called for next Monday night to
discuss that and other relative
matters.
The board indicated it would
like to work toward a plant
capacity of 7,500 B.OJO., which
would almost triple the pre
sent 2,800 B.OJO. capacity. B.
OJO. stands for biological oxy
gen demand.
The cost per year to pay for
an Increase to 11,000 B.OJ).
would be $79,000 a year, said
Ed Williams, town manager.
That Is too big a load for the
town to carry, he said.
Moore has advised the town
Johnny Plummer
Gets Gold Bars
John A. Plummer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Plummer of
Raeford Rt. 2, has been com
missioned a second lieutenant
in the North Carolina National
Guard.
Plummer, a 1965 graduate of
Hoke County High School, com
pleted requirements for the
LT. JOHN A- PLUMMER.
commission at North Carolina
Military Academy, Fort Bragg,
where graduation exercises
were held September 2. Fifty-
three young guardsmen were
commissioned at that time.
Lieutenant Plummer was sev
enth In class ranking.
He entered the National Guard
in 1965, joining the Raeford
unit. After six months of ac
tive Army duty at Ft. Jackson,
S.C., and Ft. Knox, Ky., he
returned to the local unit and
began officer candidate train
ing on weekends.
rhe course leading to a com-
was compTeiftd In 13
months, with weekend sessions
(xic« a month. It also included
two summer encampments.
Plummer has been reassigned
to Company C, 2nd Battalion,
25'Jrid Armor, in Southern
Pines—a part of the banallon
whose beadquarRirs is In Rae-
foid. He is a platoon leader.
Plummer is married to for
mer Brenda Strother of Aber
deen. They have two chlldreii,
Kim. 9, and Tod, iO months.
that the plant Is overloaded
by several times Its capacity,
Moore already has suggest^
that water rates for out-of-
town (non-town-tajcpsylng) cus
tomers be raised 50 to 100
per cent and that a sewer charge
of 40 to 50 per cent of the
water bill be made to all cus
tomers.
In other business, the board
awarded the bid on 35,000
square yards of street resur
facing and 3,000 square yards
of new pavement to Riley Pav
ing Co., as lowest bidder among
five. ITiree bidders were within
$150 of the low mark. Riley's
bid was $15,150, while the
bid of Crowell Construction
Co. In Fayetteville was $15,236
and that of H, W, Johnson of
Parkton was $15,300. Other bids
were Lee Paving Co., Sanford,
$16,075 and B. E. Benson Co.,
Lumberton, $17,610.
The repair work will be scat
tered about town. Most of the
new paving will be done on
North Magnolia Street Exten
sion.
The board authorized the pur
chase of 100 new metal street
comer markers to begin a pro
ject of replacing signs all over
town. The second lot will be
See ESTIMATE, Page 9
PTA Meet
Set Monday
Phil Diehl, president of Rae-
ford-lloke Parent-Teacher As
sociation, has announced that
the first meeting of the year
will be held Monday at 7:45
p. *(i. at Raeford Elementary
School.
New prlnclpala, Raa Autry,
Hoke High; and Jamea B.
Bowles, J. W. McLauchlln, will
be present and will be Intro
duced to the patrons.
New Route
Is Behind
Hospital
Highway 211 will be re-routed
so as to pass to the rear of
the N. C. Sanatorium at Me-'
Cain.
A contract was lot last week
for grading and surfacing the
new portion of the road, for
which Hoke County leaders have
been working for some time.
When tile project is com
pleted, it will finish a major
Improvement to N. C. 211 be
tween Raeford and Aberdeen.
Earlier this summer, the road
was resurfaced and widened
to 24 feet.
The new portion of the road
will leave the old route at the
vicinity of Leonard Training
School and come back Into the
present road west of the hos
pital. It will eliminate several
sharp, dangerous curves, as
well as a speed zone In front
of the hospital.
Low bidder on the project
was Eagle Construction Com
pany of Newberry, S. C., with
$194,291. There were seven
bidders In all, with the next
closest bidders Sikes Brothers
Inc. of Wadesboro, $203,905,
and Lee Paving Company, San
ford. $206,031. ‘
The project Is described
as “McCain Bypass,” Indicat
ing the present road, which
provides access to the hospital,
will continue to be maintained
as a highway. However, the by
pass is expected to divert the
major portion of traffic on the
heavily traveled highway.
The project was recommend
ed last year — or perhaps
year before last — by Raeford
and Hoke business and Indust-
See ROAD, Page 9
NEATNESS IS AIM—Myra Inman, clerk In the office of the clerk of court, is doing her bit to
help make a neater town. The town has recently spent $400 for the blue-and-white cans, which
are decorated with the town’s gold seal. No amount of money expended by the town board will
do the job, Mayor H. R. McLean said, unless the people cooperate by using the sidewalk trash
cans.
Heavy Rain On Saturday
Brings Rash Of.Wrecks
Torrential rain on Saturday
brought a rash of wrecks on
Hoke roads, state highway pa
trolmen reported, but none re
sulted in death and few In ser-
Gets New Bike,
Thanks To Worker
Thanks to the generosity and
concern of a Pacific Mills work
er, a 15-year-old lad whose
bicycle was stolen September
1 at the Raeford-Stedman foot
ball game now has a new bike.
Cesory Jacobs, whose father
is l;^ a veterans hospital and
whose family lives seven miles
out in the country and has no
car, was grlef-strlckcn when
his bike was one of five stolen
during the football game.
What made It really rough
was that the boy had worked all
summer to buy the bike. He
made weekly payments, and
when the final payment was
made a few days before the
theft, tookposslonof tbawhwls.
He hadn’t dulled the new
shine on tlie paint before the
bike was stolen.
Police Chief L. W. Stanton
was about as upset about the
thefts as were the boys. He
particularly was concerned
about the Jacobs boy.
This week, Chief Sta-Tton re
vealed that a Pacific Mills em
ploye who lives in RobbLrs
Heights had boi gt- a new bike
and given it to Jacobs.
“I don’t know whether he
would like his name used or
not, but please tell the people
the boy now has a bike,” Stan
ton said.
Meanwhile, officers have re
covered two of the five stolen
Ukes and are still searching
lor tV.- ot^e* ”
lous injury.
State Trooper E. W. Coen
reported that he investigated
six or seven wrecks during
the weekend, several of them
attributed to rain - slickened
roads.
At 8:15 Saturday morning, a
car driven by John Alex Col
lins, 19, Raeford Rt. 3, went
out of control in heavy rain,
skidded off the road, and
clipped a utility pole, Coen said.
Damage to the car was es
timated at $350, and to the pole,
$150. There were no Injuries and
no charges were filed.
Saturday at 1 p.m., a small
foreign-made car operated by
Bcrtiia Parker Lupo, 19, of Rae
ford Rt. 2, spun out of control
near Poole’s Orchard on N. C.
2U west, went down an em
bankment and overturned.
Mrs. Lupo and her l8-mofith-
old son. Gerald Lupo, were
admitted for treatment at Moore
Memorial HospitaL
At 1?40 pwm. Saturday, anoth
er car driven by Barbara
Kay Swain, 19, of Plnebluff,
skidded off the road near Wil
son’s Service Station at Ashley
Heights, Coen said.
The car, a 1967 Chevrolet,
tore dewn a utility pole. Dam-
ate to the vehicle was es
timated at $600, and to the
pole $150. There were no in
juries and no charges were
filed.
Saturday night at 9:45, cars
operated by James Arthur John
son, 55. of Fayetteville, and
Carl Arthur Fosberg, 23, of
Fort Braig. crashed near Big
Star Truck Stop on Highway
401 east of Raeford.
Coen said the Johnson ve
hicle was parked alongside the
highway and attempted a U-turn
as the Fosberg car approachtd.
The vehicles crashed, inflict
ing serious injury to Thomas
F. Pierce Jr.. 19, and Mib#
Downing, 20, vf Fort Bra|g.
They were admitted at Wo
mack Army HospitaL A third
injured passenger of the Foe-
berg car. Robert E. EHicit,
19. of Fort Bra«. was treasad
and released at Tie Army has-
pitaL
Both cars were termed
losses. Johnson waa oharfad
with driving under the infiaence
of intoxicants. Coen sal4
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