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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 22
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA
14 PER YEAR lOe PER COPY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, IW
Five Departments Compete
Hoke Volunteer Firemen
PRACTICING—When a homerun hitter In baseball warms up in the on-deck circle, he usually
swings a leaded bat, or several regular sticks. The extra weight makes the regular bat seem
* lighter. Raeford Volunteer firemen appear to be doing the same thing as they “rescue" Craw
ford Thomas Jr, from the second story of the fire station in practice for Wednesday afternoon’s
volunteer fire department competition here. Coming down the ladder with Thomas Is Buster
Jackson, while Doc Ivey (back to camera) and John Scott Poole look one. The photograph was
arranged as a gag for benefit of firemen of the fire departments which contested.
Phil Diehl Civil Term Set
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Directors
Philip Diehl, Raeford attor
ney, was elected chairman of
the board of directors for Sand
hills Community Action Pro
gram, Inc., at the annual meet
ing In Southern Pines last Tues
day.
Diehl, who succeeds James R.
Fout of Raeford, served as sec
retary-treasurer for the organ
ization for two terms. He has
been active in the organization
I from its beginning and was in
strumental in the four-county
merger.
Other officers elected were
Dr. J. S. Simmons of Sanford,
president: Frank Ledbetter of
Troy, vice president, and Earl
Raynor of Carthage, secretary-
treasurer.
The board commended Fout
for his “devoted service to the
program,’’ and thanked him for
his many contributions.
In District Court
Hoke County District Court
will begin a civil term Monday
at 10 a. m., with some 20 cases
on docket.
It will be the second civil
session held since the new dis
trict court system came into
effect here nearly a year ago.
Judge D. B. Herring of Fay
etteville will preside.
The court has Jurisdiction In
certain civil cases involving
judgments of no more than $5,-
000.
Included on the docket are the
following divorce cases:
Linda Lee Llsenby versus
James Earl Llsenby.
Arthur Graham versus Lillie
Belle Shaw Graham.
Brenda C. Plauger, a minor,
by her next friend, Cyrus J.
Falrcloth, versus Anderson
Plauger,
Floyd Ray Mansfield versus
Peggy Joyce Mansfield.
David Bratcher versus Sadie
Bethea Bratcher,
Coming up for motion is the
case of Bodenheimer Furniture
Co., Inc., versus Mrs. Bracey
Bell.
Coming up for judgment, Bry
an N. Galloway versus Milner
Hotels.
Coming up for trial are;
See COURT, Page 9
Willcox Heads
Young Demos
Palmer Willcox, young Rae
ford attorney, has been elected
president of Hoke County Young
Democrats Club.
He succeeds James Sinclair,
who was elected secretary-
treasurer of the club for the
coming year.
Bobby McNeill, Raeford na
tive and a law partner of Will
cox and Charles Hostetler, was
named vice president of the
group.
Stage ‘‘Shindig
Street
Attention
Is Called
To Crews
If you passed through Rae
ford late yesterday and con
cluded that the whole town had
been ablaze and the flames
doused by firemen, you had
good reason for your con
clusion.
There w-as no fire — except
those started by firemen —
but volunteer firemen from five
Raeford and Hoke County fire
departments were in town.
The occasion was a series
of contests, sponsored by Rae-
ford-Hoke Chamber of Com
merce, to draw attention to
National Fire Prevention Week.
Taking part in the games —
all of which measured efficiency
of firefighters — were the Rae
ford, North Raeford, Hillcrest,
Rockflsh and Puppy Creek de
partments. A sixth Hoke de
partment, Stonewall, did not
compete because its members
are mostly farmers and were
busy during the middle of the
week. .
The four-event program was
to have begun at 3:30 p. m.
(after the World Series game
was concluded on television)
and was to have Included a res
cue race, with firemen hoisting
a ladder and bringing a ‘‘vic
tim’’ out of the second story
of Raeford Town Hall; a barrel-
filling contest, seeing which de- '
partment could fill a 55-gallon
barrel with water the fastest;
dousing an oil fire in a pit, and
moving a barrel with a stream
of water.
Results of the competition
were not available until late
Wednesday afternoon, but win
ners In each of the four cate
gories were to receive certi
ficates of achievement.
Doc Ivey, chairman of the
special events committee of
the chamber of commerce, Neill
A. McDonald and Ralph Barn
hart were coordinators of the
program.
Wyatt Upchurch, president of
the chamber of commerce, said
the affair was arranged to pro
vide entertaining and beneficial
competition between the five
fire departments, and to show
chamber appreciation of their
efforts.
The five departments, plus
the one at Stonewall, provide
almost complete coverage of
Raeford and Hoke County. As
soon as departments are or-
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WINNER — This booth, prepared by Rockflsh Community Development Club, tied with three
others for fourth place at State Fair in Raleigh this week. The club received a $300 award tor
the booth, which symbolically depicts how Rockflsh hoped to “fish" for an industry so the com
munity can employ its youthsat home. L. E. McLauchlln Jr., Hoke specialist in Duroc swine,
won a number of awards for animals he showed rtOw Ml:. Included were a fim« pteec ui Lv’
March boar class, ninth place in February gilts, and seventh and eighth places in March gilts.
The March boar class had more than 50 entries.
Boy F alls
Off Truck
Members of his family re
ported Monday that Andrew
Morrison was progressing
nicely in Cape Fear Valley Hos
pital following an accident which
occurred near his home Satur
day.
The seven-year-old child suf
fered a head Injury when he
fell from the back end of a
truck where he had climbed
without the knowledge of the
driver, Willie Maynor.
According to J. D. Robinson,
highway patrolman, the child
perched himself on the tailgate
of the pick-up as it was about
to pull out of Maynor’s yard on
Scull Road north of Raeford.
When the vehicle reached the
drive at the Morrison home, he
apparently tried to drop off, but
fell Instead.
He was rushed to the Raeford
Medical Group ,
Brooding Sow Mauls
71-Year-Old Farmer
A 71-year-old Hoke County farmer was badly mauled by a
sow when he entered her pen Sunday morning to remove four
dead pigs.
R. F. Clark, who lives on Raeford Rt, 1, sustained serious
bites on both arms and legs, plus a fractured arm, a member
of his family said.
The sow had given birth to nine pigs a few days before the
incident, Clark said. Sometime Saturday night, something got
into the pen and killed four of the pigs. Clark told relatives
he did not believe the sow accidentally killed her own pigs,
because there were signs that a prowling animal or animals
had been in the vicinity.
Clark said that he and a young nephew had gone to the pen
Saturday afternoon and found both sow and pigs undisturbed.
The sow paid absolutely no attention to them, he said.
Sunday morning, however, the hog attacked Clark the moment
he entered the pen, knocking him to the ground and chewing on
his arms and legs.
Fortunately, Clark had Uken a pitchfork into the pen with
him and finally was able to scare the hog away after jabbing
her in the face and eyes repeatedly with the pitchfork.
Clark was taken to Raeford Medical Group by his daughter,
Mrs. Homer Tuttle, who Mrs. Clark summoned by telephone.
He was treated there and returned to his home.
Woman
Is Shot
In Chest
Indian Male
Held In Jail
A 63-year-old Indian man,
Luther Edmund Locklear, Red
Springs Rt. 3, has been arrested
by Hoke County officers on
charges of shooting a Shannce
Rt. 1 Indian woman Monday
afternoon.
Sheriff Dave Barrington
identified the victim as Cath
erine Jacobs, about 48, who
was wounded in the upper right
chest, apparently with a .38
caliber pistol bullet. She was
taken to Southeastern General
Hospital in Lumberton.
Barrington said his investi
gation indicated that the shoot
ing took place at the home of
Boss Jones, where the Jacobs
woman resides. It culminated
an argument between Locklear,
the Jacobs woman, and a third
party, whom the sheiiff did nut
identify.
Locklear was being held
Tuesday without bond m Scot
land County jail, pending the
Improvement or worsening of
the victim’s condition. He is
tentatively charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon with
Intent to kill and will be tried
in Hoke Superior Court.
Barrington Indicated bond
likely would be asked for Lock
lear Tuesday afternoon at a
magistrate’s hearing. He said
he will seek to have bond set
at no less than $5,000, depend
ing upon condition of the woman
at the time of the hearing.
Barrington and Deputies
Jesse Lee and Harvey Young
Investigated the incident, which
occurred Monday at 3:30 to 4
p. m.
Locklear voluntarily sur
rendered to officers at the home
of George Wilson, on whose
farm Locklear is a tenant farm
er, Barrington said.
Meanwhile, the sheriff re
ported the theft of about $350
in cigarettes, beer and other
goods from the Walter Parks
store in Dundarrach sometime
See SHOOTING, Page 9
Five Persons Hurt In Serious Wrecks Sunday And Monday
WRECKl.D PICKUP--J.H, Mc.4nulty, Raeford welding shop operator, and Mrs. McAnulty wore
in the pickup truck, just behind the car in the foreground, when it rammed a loaded tiactor-
traller Monday afternoon near the turkey processing plant. The truck was coming up the grade
on Highway 20 just south of the armory, ofllcers said, and the McAnult) pickup hit it from be
hind and wedged under it.
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involved in a head-on cullislan latr .siwiriai after m
Mrs. Clark was taken tr Scotland Memorial Hospital, as
Johnni Prldjen, '6, ol Red ikirlnis Kt, 2, the driver, and
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were two persons m
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Five persons were injured,
rwo of them seriously, in rwo
automobile accidents durim^the
weekend and at the first of the
week in Hoke County.
J- H. Mc.Vulty, Raeford
Welder and his wife, Tiny, were
injured Monday t i.:ht when Mc
Anulty's pickup tr-ck was in
volved in a rcar-e d collision
will a tractor-trail?r loaded
'‘^Iti turkeys ot Highway 20
ear the tovrn limits.
Mr' , Me A ult). who was still
recuperating: from a troken hip
a''d Unable to walk without use
a "walker," is ;' \foore
Memorial t!ospi:a'.w;t’. injuries
sustained in the wreck and corr-
pliv-atiO' s of iter former iurts.
n!ty wa' treated over-
I’■ t at tie :pital and re-
r ■.'■tc'lly released TuesJav.
L. arotfier accident, Mrs.
Rose Clark, -z', ol Uae-
'r ‘ wa- i, jurc'i w''e, t car
was Iriviin. a.>d adorer
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Driver ot t‘v
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M Rt. 2 4jv1 a pasxr^r
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M (:.a;v Wo idnUtlrC at
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a-.jf> • tor tre.itme t o'
'o. e tjnifad ’eadi.ijuru-s,
according to State Hi^way
Patrolman E. W. Coen.
Pridgen was treated and re
leased at the hospital and
V'iola Bridges was admitted.
Coc;- said it appeared at the
scene of dfe accident that she
had a broken leg and elbow.
Raeford Policeman James
West invested t>.e crash in which
the Mc.Arultys were Involved.
r''e wreck happened at 5:50
p. m.
Wes' said the Mc.AnuItv ve-
icle "ran under" the rear
e”J of the tractor trailer, op
erated by Wilbur Roberts, S3,
■: Faisot-, and ownej :?y Nash
Johnson ard Soi s ol Rose HiL.
r‘’e truck appare tiy had
pilled onto the '\v-rwav from
Reaves Street a“d was coming
'jp the hill toward town. W’est
said the driver told him he was
moving at aKjtit 2l' miles per
nour tr third gear.
The frort cart jf MeA.nviIty’s
pickup cac was s.aared off at
Ch? level .'f tne » ritsuield and
tne vehic.c wcUgeU under the
nsary tractor trailer.
fiewe Rescue squad w as sum
moned to the ''Cene asi Raeford
Vrbu;a!X:e Service c.-ansported
Mr. aid Mrs. VcAr-jiry (o the
n.’vpital. Roberts apparently
wa- 'j- ’’urt. accorqj-g to West,
■e «aid Mrs. Clark ap-
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