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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 20
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA
14 PER YEAR lOt PER COPY
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2S, 19*7
None Hurt
In F our
$635,000 Bond Issue
Accidents Revised Sewer Plan
Is Studied By Town
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AFTER THE FIRE—Gene Gooden, a floor finisher working at Racford Hotel, used a fire ex
tinguisher on a mattress after the firemen left Monday, to make sure no sparks were left In
the burned hole. Nobody slept In the room, but another worker said a cigarette was suspected
as the cause of the fire.
Collegians
May Lose
Draft Status
Firemen Douse Blaze
At Remodeled Hotel
H^e^unty’s young menwho
ar%*yffrently exempt from the
draft because of studentclassl-
ficatlon will face reclassifica
tion if they do not make satis
factory progress in their stu-
dU 5. the local draft board warn
ed this week.
College sophomores must
have completed 25 per cent of
all graduation requirements to
retain the Class n-S classifi
cation received at the beginning
of their freshman year. Juniors
must have completed 50 per
cent.
Freshmen may enter school
and receive Class n-S If ap
propriate information is fur
nished to the local board.
if an undergraduate student
falls to meet requlremaits of
Class n-S , he will qualify for
Class 1-S (C) until 12 months
and 15 days from the date he
entered his particular class.
That is, provided he has never
had a I-S (C) classification,
and provided the institution cer
tifies that he was a satisfac
tory full-time student on the
date he was mailed an order
to report for Induction, and
provided he continues to be a
satisfactory full-time student.
Mrs. Mary Donnellan, clerk
of the local board, estimated
some 50 H oke County coUegians
may be affected by re-classl-
fication.
There' was a lot of smoke
but not much fire at Raeford
Hotel building Monday when the
fi'a'arm sounded.
Firemen dashed to the second
floor and across newly finished
floors to find a mattress on
fire in a bedroom. The burn
ing bedding was pulled through
the window onto a first floor
rooftop, where the fire was
extinguished without water
damage to the new paint inside.
The building is being reno
vated Inside and out by J. H.
Wright, Raeford realtor, who
■ puichased it several months
ago. Two men. Gene Gooden
and A. Wenzell, refinishing
floors in that part of the sec
ond floor, smelled smoke and
called the fire department.
Fire broke
in the 1920s
building and
out in the hotel
and ruined the
several stores.
Volunteer Firemen
Drill, Elect Chief
Thirty-four men have re
ported for drills at the brand
new North Raeford Volunteer
Fire Department, where an or
ganizational meeting was held
Monday night.
In an election of leaders,
firemen chose State Trooper
E. W. Coen as their chief and
Charles Wilson, assistant chief.
The department, one of sev
eral ruri firefighting outfits
organized during the past 12
months, soon will be ready to
go iqto operation. It already
has a brick firehouse on Aber
deen Cutoff near Pacific Mills
and a secondhand fire truck
has been delivered.
As soon as the department's
fire siren arrives, it will be
ready for business.
The department will fill a
need often subject to contro
versy here. The residential
areas in the North Raeford dis
trict are outside the town limits.
In the past, Raeford Fire De
partment was without authority
to answer calls there and sev
eral homes have burned while
residents stood helplessly by.
Other rural fire departments
include Rockfish, Hillcrest,
Stonewall and Puppy Creek. Ad
ditional fire districts Include
those in Allendale, Blue Springs
and Quewhiffle townships.
Residents of each of the dis
tricts except Hillcrest last fall
voted to levy a special tax to
organize, equip and operate a
fire department in each district.
Hillcrest, residents, whose De
partment has been in operation
several years, decided to con
tinue financing its operations
by private subscription.
Minor Mishaps
Are Investigated
Four minor wrecks were re
ported during the weekend, but
no serious injuries resulted,
according to state highway
patrolmen stationed here.
A Hoke High Football play
er, Mike Prince, was traveling
west early Saturday night on
N. C. 211 and had stopf^ for
a car in front of him to make
a right turn off the road at
Raeford Moose Lodge, when a
car driven by Roscoe Mc-
Lauchlin, Raeford R^ 1, hit
Prince’s car in the rear, ac
cording to State Trooper E. M.
Roberts.
Roberts said McLauchlln
came to the sheriffs officelater
that night and reported that he
was driver of the car, that he
was scared, and thereford did
not stop.
He was charged with reckless
driving and leaving the scene
of an accident.
Saturday night at 11:30 p. m.
near Sandy Grove Church on a
rural paved road 1140, Thomas
Steve Jackson, Red Springs,
lost control of his car and
overturned, Roberts said.
Jackson, who is only 14 years
old, was charged wlfii driving
without a license and failing
to drive on the right side of the
highway, Roberts said.
Sunday morning atl2:15a.m.,
a car belonging to E. V. Mon
roe was wre^ed five miles
east of Raeford on a rural paved
road, injuring Monroe.
Roberts said Monroe told him
he was not driving the vehicle,
which was abandoned when Rob
erts and Hoke Rescue Squad
arrived.
Monroe went to Moore Mem
orial Hospital on his own Sun
day morning and was admitted
for treatment.
Roberts said his investiga
tion indicated the car left the
road on the wrong side of the
road at a high rate of speed and
overturned.
Patrolman J. D, Robinson
said he is still looking for
the driver of a 1959 Pontiac
stationwagon which was wreck
ed Monday at 10:35 p.m. on
Antioch-Bowmore Road.
“Tire marks at the scene
indicated the vehicle went out
of control, skidded 520 feet,
overturned, and traveled ano
ther 50 or 60 feet,'* Robinson
See WRECK, Page 9
Radio Operator
Robert (Bob) Morris, Rae
ford native, has been employed
by Raeford Police Department
as a night radio operator. Police
Chief L. W. Stanton announced
this week.
He fills a vacancy created
when both Lonnie Hendrix and
Frank Brock left the depart
ment for other jobs. L. L.
Faircloth, a third operator, also
left the department several
months ago.
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PUP AND PRIZE PUMPKIN--Posing for his master, Ben Faulk, with a 130-pound pumpkin
raised by Faulk’s father, is the family dog, who himself weighs between 75 and 100 pounds.
The other pumpkin dwarfed by the one in the foreground is larger than ordinary, weighing
in at 75 pounds. The two vines on which die colorful pumpkins grew can be seen in the back
ground.
Doctor's Bag
Is Returned
A medicine bag lost by Dr.
Harry McLean was returned
to him Saturday from a place
he has been nowhere about.
But the medicine was missing.
According to Police Chief
L. W. Stanton, Dr. McLean
lost the bag from his car on
September 13. On September
23, Sgt. Thomas K. Tarpley of
Fayetteville brought it to Fay
etteville telling police that he,
his wife and some friends were
walking in Cumberland Park
when die bag was found. It
contained a letter addressed
to the Raeford doctor.
Everything was intact with
the exception of narcotics and
medicines containing narcotics.
They were missing.
The doctor told police that
the bag was taken from his car
sometime during the after
noon or early evening.
Siege On House
Blamed On Gang
Tenacious Social Worker
Passes Another Milestone
Tenacity and a will to win
has paid off several times for
a young Raeford man, and this
month, he received another
dividend.
Ronald M. Huffman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Huffman, was
among the first students to en
roll in the Fayetteville branch,
University of North Carolina
School of Social Work, when It
opened last week.
Huffman, a paraplegic, will
be working toward a master’s
degree In social work. He re
ceived a bachelor of arts degree
two years ago at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College.
Most people would have found
the feat impossible, but not
Huffman. Although he gets
about with great difficulty on
special crutches, sometimes In
pain, he has nunaged for years
a more normal life than most
doctors would think possible.
Until he was 14, Huffman was
an athletic young lad, fond of
sports, and almost addicted to
swimming. Then came the ac
cident. Ronald broke his spine
diving at White Lake.
For months he was paralyzed,
and it took years of intensive
treatment, therapy and painful
effort to restore locomotion
to his body.
His determination paid off.
He was graduated from Hoke
High School, and later from St.
Andrews.
He became a symbol of dogged
determination, and his towns
men became Interested In th«
young man who wouldn’t give up.
Local civic clubs contributed
encouragement and financial
assistance toward his educa
tion, His parents left no stone
unturned to help him.
But In the final analysts. It
was this tall, thin young man
on crutches who made his own
way, for without his courage
and spirit, rehabilitation would
have been Impossible.
“It Is true that Ron Is physi
cally dependent ig)on his crutch
es,’i said Mabel McDonald,
Hoke director of public welfare,
“But don’t forget this — he
depends on nothing and no one
to do his thinking for him.
He Is mentally alert, an avid
reader, and has fine use of (be
English language.’’
It was no simple attainment
to gain admission to the gradu
ate school of social work, ac
cording to Miss McDonald, Mil
ler’s Anthology Test alone stops
many aspirants, but Huffnnan
passed all the Initial examlna-
See HUFFMAN, Page 9
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Seven teenage boys were to
be tried here yesterday in Dis
trict Court on charges of break
ing all the windowpanes from
an occupied dwelling on Red
Springs Rt. 1, allegedly when
they tried to “flush” another
lad with whom they had trouble
earlier Saturday night.
Sheriff Dave Barrington said
an eighth boy, a 15-year-old
Indian, was involved in the af
fair and will be tried in juvenile
court.
The sheriff identified the
seven defendants, all Indian,
as Marven Lee Woods, Hubert
Lowery Jr., Talmadge Hunt,
William McMilllan, Robert Ox-
endlne, Irvin Dean Oxendine
and Ernest Lee Woods.
Barrington said officers of
his department rounded up the
eight youths after Ethel Lock
lear complained that the siege
took place shortly after mid
night Saturday.
Barrington said the Locklear
woman told him the eight young
sters, ranging in age from 15
to 17 years, took brickbats and
a hoe handle and smashed the
panes in all the house’s win
dows. Several persons were
inside the dwelling at the time.
As of noon W^nesday, the
case had not been disposed of
in District Court.
Cole Is Back
In Hospital
Former Mayor Alfred Cole,
who suffered a heart attack
several weeks ago, is back in
the hospital, this time at Pine-
hurst.
Cole was vlsiti his son,
Alfred Jr., in Roxboro when
he became ill last weeks He
was admitted to Moore Memo
rial Hospital,
His first attack came while
he visited relatives inLumber-
tioa He was confined to South
eastern General Hospital for
several weeks and had been re
cuperating at home only a short
time before going to Roxboro.
Meanwhile, Barrington re
ported fiiat warrants have been
issued against two Cumberland
County men charging them with
using someone else’s credit
card to purchase three tires
and a battery here.
The sheriff said the duo ob
tained the tires and battery
from Graham Clark’s service
station with a credit card is
sued to Willard P. Smith of
Hope Mills.
After turning the merchan
dise over to the two men, Clark
became suspicious, Barrington
said, and followed their car
downtown. He fouixi the two
men at Arch Graham’s service
station, apparently making an
other pur^ase,
Barrington said Clark told
him he went to Conoly’s serv
ice station nearby, tdephoned
See SIEGE, Page 9
Expansion
Would Be
Lessened
Revised estimates of im-
provementj to Raefcrd’s water
and sewer tacUlties indicate
a bond Issue of about 9639,000
would be needed to solve the
existing problems.
Richard Moore, consulting
engineer. In a written report
to town commissioners and ex
ecutives of local li¥iustrlal
plants said the capacity of the
sewage treatment plant would
be more than doubled by the
proposed Improvements.
Moore made the estimates
after town commissioners balk
ed at spending 9L4 million for
more extensive expansion of
water and sewer Mcillties.Such
a project would require a bond
issue of almost a million dol
lars.
For more than a year, town
officials have pondered means
of heading off what Moore pre
dicts will be serious overtaking
of present sewage treatment
facilities.
The present plant, complet
ed In 1963, already is operating
far In excess of its designed
capacity, Moore contends, and
trouble Is In the making if In
dustrial use of the facilities In
creases.
Capacity of the plant is mea
sured by two yardsticks — hy
draulic (L5 million gallons a
day), and B.OJ}. (biological oxy
gen dema^ 2,S00 per day).
A recent three-team survey
of sewer use put the maximum
flow into the plant at well a-
bove 5,000 B.OJ).. or roughly
twice the plant’s capacity.
Trouble has been averted, ex
perts declare, only because the
hydraulic capacity has been less
than maximum.
At the town board’s request,
Moore compiled estimates for
an Increase to 7,500 B.OJ). at
the plant and addition of two
new outfall water lines—one
to Pacific Mills and another
around the southern perimeter
of town.
Total cost of the 7,500 B.OJ),
project would be $950,000. A
federal grant of $315,000 — or
30 per cent of the cost — would
lower the local cost to $635,000.
Moore recommended that the
required bond Issue be planned
for an Increase In Industrial
water rates, plus sewer rate
Increase to all customers, to
retire the bonds over a 30-year
period. The higher water rates
would affect only the top 10 or
U Industrial customers on the
system. A sewer rate increase
to 50 per cent of the water bill
(it is now 20 per cent) would
raise the additional money over
the 30-year period.
Actually, the average custo
mer would pay less than $2 more
See SEWER, Page 9
Jurors Are Listed
For District Court
Forty - eight prospective
Jurors have been chosen for a
civil term of District Court
here October 16, according to
E. E. Smith, clerk of court.
The session will be devoteo
to hearing claims Involving no
more than $5,000. District
Court has no jurisdiction In
cases involving larger amounts.
Summoned for Jury duty are
the following (township ab
breviations — Rae., Raelord;
McL, McLauchlln; Ant., Anttech
S.W., Stonewall; Que., Quewhif-
ne; B.S., Blue Springs; AIL,
Allendale):
L.'ibt^ Jane lAilson, McL.,
John W. Blue, McL.; Spencer
Singletary, Rae,; Catherine N.
McNeill, AU.; Mrs. Walter Max
well, Rae.; Lawrence Jones Jr.,
Ant.; Eston Crouch, McL.; Mrs.
Cornelia R. McbuiLs, SW; Mrs.
W. Hj Breton, Rae.; Mre. Uw-
rence £. Wilkes, Rae.; Fred
Dew, McL.; Walter K. Beasley,
Rae.
Junior M. Leach, Rae.; Dewey
Hendrix, S. W.; Mre. Thomas
J. Upchurch, Rae.; Mrs. Oscar
L. Wood, McL.; Mrs. Jessie
Belle Murchison, Que.; Howard
Lunsford, McL.; Mrs. L. R.
Irion, S.W.; Mrs. WUUam B.
Davis, Ant.; WUllam Nash Smith
S. W.; Harry Epstein, Rae.;
James Kelly, Rae.; WlnfOrd J.T,
Epps, Rae.
Mrs. Walter Reid PurceU,
Que.; Re«d»n Jacobs, $.W.;
Frank M. Miller, Rae.; Mrs.
Marlon Lae Wade, Rae.; Mrs.
Richard Cobb, B.S.; Mrs. WUUe
E. Kelly, Rae.; Franklin C runn
ier, Rae.; Mrs. Grady Ellis,
Rae.; NoU McLauchlln. Qim„'
Armond Black. S.W.; Charles
Hedcei>e(h, Aat.; Mrs. Akwn
Kellis, Que.
Mrs. J. A. Farmer. BJQ
Belton StepiMos, McL.; Mrs. R.
Franklin Bundy, McL.; Mre.
George Maynor, Rae.; Sod C.
Peterkin, Rae.; JAmes Henry
Johnson, Rae.; Mrs. Leqaard
SaJfwln, S.W,; Mrs. Bobby Me-
Ir^de, Rae., Clyde Ifettgh, McL.
:, D, Wicker, Que., Mrs. AMe
J. V'lrgiL Rae.; D. T. HardU
son, Rae.