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The Hoke County News- EstablisKed 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 26
RAKtmO, HOKE COISTY, SORTH CAHOLISA
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1967
$950,000 Project
Town Board Gives Nod
Sewer Bond Issue
Vole Ends
Y ear-Long
Deliberation
SWEETHEART"Ra« Autry, right, principal of Hoke High School. Is shown here congratulat
ing Becky Ray, winner of the district'‘DECA Sweetheart” title last week at a district meet
ing of distributive education clubs at Slier City. Miss Ray Is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gil
bert Ray of Rockfish.
‘New? Career’ Poverty Program
Is Explained To Hoke Board
Hoke County commissioners
were presented a proposition
Monday on a New Carreer pro
gram to be sponsored by the
federal government through
Sandhills CommwMT Aoui...
Program.
Frank Klvett, head of SCAP,
"explained a program by which
employes would be provided for
different county agencies free
of charge throughout a training
period of at least a year.
Starting pay, he said, would
be $1.60 per hour. They would
work 20 hours a week and would
undergo training elsewhere 20
ti'.,... a wtv’;
The prc^sal brought forth
some imposing questions and,
comments.
A delegation composed of
Miss Mabel McDonald, director
of the county welfare depart-
Town Board Vetoes
Directive To Police
Raeford town board Monday
night substantially modified In
structions passed on to Rae
ford policemen by Mayor H. R.
McLean and Town Manager Ed
Williams.
The edict, in the form of
printed instructions, was signed
by Williams, who told town
commissioners he complied
with the request of Mayor Mc
Lean, who “had said something
about It several times and I
told him we would have to put
something in writing until the
town board could act on it.”
This week, tfie board effec
tively squashed the instructions
without taking formal action.
Most notable among the in
structions was an order to cut
nighttime patrol car mileage
to 50 per cent and to use the
patrol car duringdaylighthours
“only when necessary.”
Mayor McLean told the board
“they’re riding too much.”
Their activity would be more
effective, he said, if they parked
where they could be seen and
where they could observe traf
fic.”
Commissioner J. D. McMll-
llan disagreed.
"I believe our policemen have
been doing a wonderful job, and
I don’t think they should be
In any way restricted. The
night patrol is necessary, be
cause we owe police protec
tion to everybody In Raeford,
and It is comforting to know
that the police car cruises
through all neighborhoods sev
eral times a night."
Palmer Wlllcox agreed.
It was suggested that several
break-ins and other crimes
have been foiled or solved in
recent months primarily be
cause cruising officers pa.'sed
while the crime wasbelngcom-
mitted or soon after it happened.
The mayor and manager’s
Instructions also stipulated that
during daylight hours, officers
should remain on foot at Inter
sections and other traffic
trouble spots to insure order
ly flow of traffic and to appre
hend violators.
See VETO, Page 9
Lumbee River Co-Op
Election Protested
i
A contested election of a
Lumbee River Electric Mem
bership Corporation director
appeared headed for the courts
this week after some 175 to
200 liallot* cast fur a Hoke
County man allegedly were
ruled Invalid.
A complaint was Hied by
Ellas Rogers, who lives between
Raeford and Antioch, piotestlnj
the conduct of U»f Urdne^ ?U\"
•lection held at the co-oti'-
•ni.«al rae-*;r.. - Lum'‘>ertno,
In the the ••lerttiNi-,
committee ruled void n esti
mated 175 to 200 lallot. e ,.-:
for Rov^era, who was noinlnnted
from till’ floei. His n^rNe wbs
w rltten In on the balkitu, he
said.
Th# committee declar'd Ib.ii
Mts. J. .M. Andrews, \ )f> oi
the lafi- Judfe J, M. Andre-
Of Antioch, had been re-i left d.
The election- cnmniltt.-f ip-
pai ertl} u-‘■1 a lechnli slit'
s b>-lsw to prevent d'- ;te stwl
votUr to Ulv>l the UIce number
ment, Mrs. Dorothy Cameron,
county librarian, W. T. Gib
son Jr., school superintendent,
and Mrs. Ruth Phillips of the
A£C office.
ll/ett explained that the
worker would be a trainee for
one year without cost to the
county. The second year could
be financed partly by the county
and partly by the federal govern
ment. But beginning with the
third year, the federal govern
ment would drop out of the pic
ture and the county take over
all salary demands.
To meet qualifications, the
worker would come from the
low Income bracket. They must
have completed the eighth grade
and have less than two years
of college to be placed In any
type of job, Klvett said.
Gibson asked where the work
ers would be found. He said,
"We are short of help at the
shops and have tried for two
months to find desirable help.
The only thing we have come
up with was untralnable." He
said he hired what he thought
might be a promising employee
a couple of weeks ago and when
the second Monday morning
came around he didn't show up
for work. Tuesday came and
he still wasn't heard from.
"There must be some poverty
stricken people who are not
from the tottom of the barrel,"
Klvett declared. "The class
room training will help," J.R,
AtUway, Hoke County CAP dl-
See NEW CAREER, Page 9
Raeford town commissioners
voted Monday night to put in
motion the action necessary to
call a $650,000 bond referendum
in Raeford for water and sewer
Improvements.
The board formally adopted
an engineering plan by Moore,
Gardner and Associates of
Asheboro, consulting engineer
ing firm which has been work
ing with the town for several
years trying to solve Its water
and sewage treatment prob
lems.
The plan, drawn by Richard
Moore of the engineering firm,
calls for a $950,000 project.
It would include improvement
and expansion of the sewage
treatment plant at a cost of
$805,500; new outfall lines cost
ing $212, $897.11; engineering
fees of $49,103.82; land cost
of $5,000, and legal fees of
$4,500.
The town will apply for a
federal grant covering 30 per
cent of the coast The re
maining $650,000 will have to be
raised by a bond issue, on
which residents of the town
will be asked to vote as soon
as the referendum can be set
up.
The bonds would be paid over
a 30-year period with revenue
raised through increased water
and sewer charges to industrial
and commercial customers. In
dividual citizens would not be
taxed with additional water-
sewer charges.
Only users ofmorethan200,-
OOO gallons of water per month
would be affected by rate
changes.
New rates are proposed as
follow:
200,000 to 500,000 gallons,
30 cents per thousand.
500,000 to 1,000,000, 24cents
per thousand gallons.
1,000,000 to 2,000,000 gal
lons, 35 cents per thousand.
Over 2,000,000 gallons, 20
cents per thousand.
Water rates for out-of-town
customers for up to 200,000
gallons per month are now one
and one-half times the rate
for “In-town” customers. The
See PROJECT, Page 9
DEMOLISHED--A Fort Bragg civilian employe was driver
of thl.s car, which was demolished when it slammed into
two tractor-trailers m separate crashes fuesday night on
Highway 401 at Tanglewood Motel east of Raeford. The
driver, William Lee Combs Jr. of St. Pauls, was critically
injured.
Fort Bragg Civilian Employe
Seriously Hurt In ^Odd^ Wreck
A Fort Bragg civilian em
ploye was critically injured late
Tuesday night near Tanglewood
Motel on Highway 401 when he
backed his car into one tractor-
trailer, drove a half-mile,
turned around, and slammed
Into another.
State Highway Patrolman J.
D. Robinson identified the man
as William Lee Combs Jr., ap
parently of SL Pauls, later
Identified as a Bragg Civil Serv
ice employe.
Combs was taken to Womack
Army Hospital, where his con
dition was described as
“serious” Wednesday morning.
Robinson said eyewitnesses
accounts indicate this series
of events:
Stanford M. Wi Hams of Co
lumbia, S. C., driver of a
tractor-trailer, said he was fol
lowing another tractor-trailer
toward Fayetteville when the
lead trailer swung left to avoid
hitting the car, which was back
ing down the highway. The car
crashed Into Williams’ rig, but
was not rendered inoperable.
Williams said the car then
circled around Big Star Truck
Stop, which is no longer in
operation, and back onto the
highway. It went toward Fay
etteville, driving mostly on the
shoulder of the road.
About a half-mile from the
scene of the first accider t, the
car turned around and came
back toward Raeford at an ap
parent high rate of speed.
James William Miller of
Panama City, Fla., driver of
the second tractor trailer, said
he had slowed to render assist
ance to the first truck driver.
Miller’s rig was moving slow
ly, with all wheels off the pave
ment. when the car came
straight at it and hit it at the
left rear wheels of the tractor.
Force of the impact was so
great, Robinson said, that it
knocked a wheel and tire off
the tractor, dislodged the bat
tery, knocked the driveshaft
off, tore the landing gear from
under the trailer, and demol
ished a left rear wheel on the
trailer.
Combs was pinned half in,
half out of the vehicle when
he arrived, Robinson said.
Ofilcials at Fort Bragg in
dicated Wednesday morning that
Comas was brought to the hos
pital in .serious condition and
had to be kept, although it was
See wreck. Page 9
Commissioners May Condemn
Easements On East Prospect
of Rogers' liaUots Invalid.
Instructions on the top of the
official ballot clearly advised
"Vote For Three.'"
Rogers said the write-in bal
lots contained checks for the
iltst tv.0 candidates, and beside
tiLs wrltp-ln candidacy, or a
total of three on each ballot.
The board of the directors
was to have met vesterday to
heai thi complaint, but post-
tH>»ed the meetlni',
Hogers said he was told the
[iieetini' was posip.>nef i«*r4u#e
one of the (iirertorv could not
1)4 present.
"We are ^'Otiu to protest this
ele(tion »'» loin as we can, and
* »• :ii - prepated to go to couit,
(>- (0 )\ Jshin^'ton, a necP!,-
Ho. "I said.
H' vil'I no Indian oi Negi-o
had errr l*lore lieen a candl-
dat, lor Jii Office in the co-op,
hic'li .'rve# rnial elettiR
need' in Hf)ke, liot)eson, .‘.cnl-
ia;4>nl j.arl ol v. umbelIjikI
C oufiti.
d.re-n’t quite qualify as “the old gray mare.” jhe is Roxarna Bar,
hor.-e mare and winner of champion niarv honors at Friday’s quar-
At the halter 1-= Fat Lemmo.'. of jr.'okfield. Wise., who alio showed
QI/\.MPr:N'--rhi£ hor-e
world champion quarter
ter hor-e how here,
the world (ha'r.pioii mare here la-t year. Ro.xarr.a
I.ou ton, I'ex. N ore p’’oto- and text onpa.e* 7 a.'8 ®.
Bar i}' 'W-.ed h\. Do ■ MC'Iillia ' of
Raeford Town Board of Com
missioners voted four -to - one
Monday night to proceed with a
street improvement project on
East Prospect Avenue, despite
the objections of two or three
property owners along the
street.
If necessary, the town will
condemn the required right-
of-way to provide for curb,
gutter and sidewalks from
Stewart Street to the town limits
near the swimming hole on
Rockfish creek.
The board has been trying
for a year to secure the right-
of-way for the project, which
will be completed by .the State
Highway Department, Mostpro-
perty - owners have granted
easement, which amounts to a
foot or two on each side of the
road.
There are about six property
owners who have not agreed to
contribute rtght -of -wav ac
cording to Town Manager Ed
•viitiams, and several of the
six have not been awllable.
The project Is essential, town
commissioners and other offi
cials declare, because of the
tremendous number of school
children — many of them six
and seven veers old — who
walk from Robbins Heights to
school and back. At some
places along the route, there
Is not room for them to weUc
on the sihoulder of the road,
*0 thev • 't ’■ '"'ent.
Epeed limit is 35 miles per
hour along the street, but auto
mobiles are observed everyday
whizzing along at higher speeds
on the street.
Franklin Teal cast the one
dissenting vote.
"I am not against condem
nation in extreme or Isolated
cases, but this care does not
qua 11^, In my mind, as one
tn which condemnation Is neces
sary," he said.
Moments later. Teal joined
other commissioners in voting
to condemn other property. If
necessary, to open a narrow
unpaved street In the Mc-
Lauchlin Chapel section on St.
Pauls Road.
See CCMMISSIC.NER5, Page 9
United Fund Drive
Reported Lagging
Raeford-Hoke United I'und's
current fund raising campaign,
which was supposed to have
ended Saturday, is lagging,
campaign officials declare.
To dat*. only 33,634.4* has
•■eeti leiwrted in the drive to
raise sllgfitly more titan Stt,-
for suf^i-ort \j: local, state
and national causes.
Workers have been ui ged to
complete their canvasses, so
the campaign ran be brosight
to a ckise.
The antioupred roliei turns in
cluded chIv a small perrenuge
ol volunteer workers* efforts,
.Setums rrooi Pacific MilU
Dyeing PUni and Rieford .wor
sted Plirt ->•■ 'tv • frsc-
tiofl OI what rinai ivsaiis .il.
IM.
The industria' dtvlsiea re
ported coliecuons of $2.257,>5.
They included $1,799.25 from
Raeford Worsted Plant, $>tL-
10 from Upchurch MUliag and
Storage UoirgMny, and lrn.*0
from PtcifH Mills Dyemg
Plant.
The Co m me r c t a l divistoo
turned ui 1 rellBUna.7 totals of
$511.50. Included were thMe
tnd iv idual totals:
Raeford Hardware. $7, Israel
Manii Department Store, $20;
J. K. Vusun Insuraaca Coim
$30. The Johnson Company, $$;
Theresa's, Jlj, Credit Bureae
OI Raeford, 3. GrifHa'i Fahric
du)(, >2. loose's Thai Ser-
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