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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1 905
RAEF0R0, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
vSj ' 'IritH YEAR 10 FER COPY
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 43
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North Of Town
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McDuffie
Is Named
Inspector
Edwin McDuffie, Raeford con
tractor! has been named build-'
Ing Inspector for the town of
Raeford following the resigna
tion of Robert Gatlln.
Gatlin, who teaches a draft
ing class at Hoke High School,
submitted his resignation by
letter to the town board when
It met here Monday night. Gat
lln, who has been a surveyor
and building Inspector for many
years, explained to the board
that his duties as teacher no
longer leave him time to ful
fill the duties of the building
Inspector's job.
The board accepted his res
ignation "with regret" and di
rected that a letter of appre
ciation for his services be writ
ten. Meanwhile, the board Monday
night formally adopted an or
dinance setting forth provisions
of the upcoming $700,000 water
sewer bond referendum. The
vote will be conducted April
30.
Town registration books will
be opened four consecutive Sat
urdays Immediately preceding
the election. The first day of
registration will be March 23,
na on two succeeding Satur
days. The fourth Saturday will
be challenge day.
see Mcduffie, Page u
Hoke Budget Requests
Must Be In March 28
BY LUCY CRAY PEEBLES
The Board of Hoke County
Commissioners set March 28
as budget request day at Its
regular March meeting Mon
day morning and selected
April I at the day to alt as a
board of equalization and re
view. That action means that by
March tl all agencies support
ed by the cotaity must present
tentative budget to the board
for study.
Tom McBryde, vice chair
man, prealded at Monday'! ses
sion In the absence of chairman
T.C. Jones.
The board voted to purchase
two filing cabinets for the wel
fare department at $63 each, an
electric typewriter tor the tax
collector's office at23S,and4S
chairs, t desk and bookcase tor
the courtroom and Jury room.
The board also authorised
Sheriff Dave Barrington to trade
his 60-watt office base radio
station for a 100 watt unit
In order to have better recep
tion. The equipment will be
acquired along with a couple
Area Indicates New Precinct
Driver Loses Contest
After Drinking Beer
They swear on the Bible, but
it's still hard to believe some
witnesses who appear before
the courts of the state.
So in last week's District
Court in Fayetteville, doubtful
Judge Joe Dupree decided he
would give a defendant a chance
to prove his argument.
At the close of the testimony
Tuesday afternoon, Dupree an
nounced that he would delay
judgment for 48 hours in the
drunken driving charge against
Capt. Ward Stanley Thomas,
25. The delay, he disclosed,
was to give the defendant a
chance to prove three beers,
which is all he claimed he had
drunk before being arrested,
would cause him to have a
breathalizer reading of .16.
Ken And Betsy McNeill
Parents Of Baby Girl
No question about It, Ken McNeill Is the happiest man In
Hoke County this week.
McNeill, a Raeford native, Is married to the former Betsy
Ann Cole, daughter of former mayor Alfred Cole.
Ken and Eetsy Ann have been married IB years. This week,
Betsy Ann gave birth of a bouncing baby girl at Moore Me
morial Hospital.
It Is their first child.
of two-way car radios at a
coat to the county of $850 a
year, plus $25 a month main
tenance fee. After four years,
however, the county will be
eligible to purchase the unit
and the money spent In rental
fee may be applied to the
principle.
It was reported that four rec
ommendations of the grand jury
In February had been compiled
with. They Included the Instal
lation of a rail behind the jury
box, repairs to the floors and
windows of the county office
building, and extermination of
roaches therein.
At the request of County At
torney Charles Hostetler, the
board gave approval to a spe
cial term of Superior Court.
Hostetler declared there Is a
stockpile of cases which should
be disposed of. Only three of
10 rases on last week's
civil docket were disposed of,
he said, and they had been on
the docket since 1864.
Bonds were approved as fol
lows! M, A. Maxwell, county
electrical Inspector, $500; Har
vey S. Warllrk, treasurer. North
The law presumes that a per
son recording .10 or more Is
under the influence of Intoxi
cating liquor or beverage.
' Under supervision of die
court and StateHlghway Patrol
man B. H. LaRocke, the arrest
ing officer, Thomas was treat
ed to lunch and then allowed
to consume not three, but six
beers. Dupree said that if
after that Thomas blew .16 on
the breathalizer, he would find
him not guilty. But if he blew
less than that he would find him
guilty as charged.
Alter taking food and drink
(not three beers but six) Thomas
registered only .02 on the de
vice for detection alcohol con
tent of human blood.
Raeford Fire Department,
$3,000; Mrs. Lucille Posey,
treasurer, Puppy Creek Fire
Department, JL000; Kenneth
Rltter, treasurer, Rockflsh Fire
Department, $1,000.
Maxwell requested and waa
given permission to set the fee
for Inspection of a normal house
at $7.50 with an additional fee
of $5 for inspection of a sealed
heating system. The former fee
was $3 plus 5 cents each for
outlets exceeding a certain num
ber. He also asked that Donald
Burrow be named aaslstant
county inspector because of the
need for help In periodic In
spection of schools. His re
quest was also granted.
During a short recess, board
members J .A. Webb, McBryde,
John Balfour and Ralph Barn
hart went next door to Inspect
progress on the new JalL They
determined that the structure
will not be completed by June
L as waa recently reported by
the architect. The delay has
been caused by slow arrival of
steel men.
.New
E
stablished
A new voting precinct has been
established In Hoke County,
bringing to 13 the electoral sub
division. The new precinct, Rieford No.
5, wis formed from the northern
portions of Rieford No. 1 and
No. 2.
J. Scott Poole, chairman of
the board of elections, said the
new precinct contains a poten
tial registration of 600.
'The additional precinct was
required because Raeford No. 1
an J Raeford No. 2 were getting
so large, from the standpoint of
registration, that It was hard to
vote and tabulate returns,"
Poole said.
The new precinct lopped off
250 to 300 possible registered
voters In the two older pre
Two Hurt
In Auto
Wreck
Two men were hurt snd sev
eral other persons escaped
serious Injury Thursday after
noon In a three-car crash three
miles south of Raeford on N.C.
21i.
State Highway Patrolman
E.W. Coen listed the victims
as Richard O'Henry Holland,
25, Shannon Rt. L and Elbert
Randleman, 20, Shannon Rt. 1.
Holland was driver of one of
three cars Involved In the ac
cident, which occurred at about
4:40 p.m. The highway hid been
wet from rain and snow began to
fall soon after the wreck.
Coen said the car driven by
Holland was going southward
behind another vehicle operated
by Delores Chavls, 19, of Pem
broke. When the Chavls vehicle
stopped behind a school bus,
the Holland car swerved Into
the left lane to avoid a colli
sion, Coen said Holland told
him.
When he moved Into the op
posite lane, he met a vehicle
operated by Jerry Johnson, 16,
of Raeford, Coen said. The
Holland car attempted to fall
back Into the right lane, and
In doing so, skidded into the
Chavls vehicle. The Holland
and Johnson vehicles then crash
ed almost headHjn.
Holland was charged with
passing In the face of oncoming
traffic, Coen said. Injury to the
two victims was not serious.
They were taken to Scotland
Memorial Hospital.
Earlier Thursday, a car op
erated by Henry Gazelle Mon
roe, Red Springs Rt, 3, was
Involved In a collision on the
Antloch - Wagram road, Coen
said.
He said Investigation reveal
ed that a pickup truck operated
by Fletcher Cecil McFhauL 57,
Red Springs Rt. 3, had run out
of gaa and was parked partially
on the highway because the
shoulder was too narrow to ac
commodate It.
McPhaul was In the truck,
which was parked on a straight
stretch of Road, Coen said, and
the vehicle operated by Monroe
See WRECKS, Page 11
Hoke Elections
Board Named
John Scott Poole, Raeford,
T.W. Jones, Shannon Rt. 1, both
Democrats, and Charles Stro
ther, Aberdeen Rt. 1, Republi
can, were re-appointed to the
Hoke County Board of Elections
this week.
Names of county elections
board members for each of the
state's 100 counties were re
leased by the North Carolina
Elections Board last week.
Poole Is Hoke County chairman.
Registration books are now
being set in order under the new-set-up
established by the Gen
eral Assembly last year and
first registrations will be taken
Saturday. March 30.
Voting
cincts, Poole said, leaving them
with a potential registration of
600 to 750.
It Is general policy throughout
North Carolina to keep precincts
well below 1,000 voters if voting
machines are not available. It
la no real problem to accom
modate 1,000 voters In a day,
but when the majority arrive
before their work day beglng
at 8 a.m. and after it is over
at 8 p.m., conditions can get
crowded.
Particularly Important is the
matter of tabulating the results.
Precincts with small numbers
of voters generally can count
the ballots In an hour or so, but
In larger precincts, the Job
sometimes extends far Into the
night.
Hoke Man
Wounded
Technical Sergeant Bobby D.
Lundy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A J. Lundy of Raeford, has been
wounded In action In Vietnam,
according to members of his
family here.
Lundy, an airman with the
United States Air Force, left
Raeford February 16 after visit
ing his parents before return
ing for a second tour of duty
in Vietnam,
Information furnished toLun
dy's parents here indicate he
and seven other menwereasleep
In their hut when the buildlnr
took a direct hit. Four men were
killed and four wounded.
Lundy reportedly received
shrapnel wounds of the back and
legs and had a badly rut arm.
Officers
A rash of break-Ins here
Saturday night resulted in the
arrest of three Michigan men,
all white, by local law enforce
ment officers.
A routine check of Hoke High
School just before midnight Sat
urday brought Officers Leonard
(leke) Wigjins and JamesWest
to the scene as one man alleged
ly was coming out of the build
ing. When officers suspected that
he had one 01 more accomplices
on the roof. Police Chief L. W.
Stanton alerted state highway
patrolmen, sheriffs officers,
and Hoke Rescue Squad. These
officers and men converged on
the scene, went to the roof, but
failed to find anybody.
A short time later, State
Highway Patrolmen E. W. Coen
and E. M. Roberts picked up
As a general rule, Raeford
No. 1 and Raeford No. 2 are
the last precincts to report.
In addition to regular count,
which Is more cumbersome,
rechecks are complicated when
large numbers of ballots are In
volved. No special action outside Hoke
County was required to establish
the new precinct, Poole said.
The board of elections has the
responsibility of regulating pre
cinct size.
Officials for the new precinct
will be selected within the next
week or so, Poole said. To be
named are a registrar and three
Judges, two by the Democratic
Party and one by the Republi
cans. Poll holders will be se
c
Wrecked Cars Block
Bill Senter Gets
Morehead Award
William Leon (Bill) Senter,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil L.
Senter of Raeford, has received
a Morehead Award to study at
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
A senior basketball star at
Hoke County High School, young
Senter Is the first Hoke County
student to win the award, estab
lished by the late John Motley
Morehead, industrialist, phil
anthropist, and benefactor of
UNC.
The award is worth $3,000
(See SENTLR, Fare 11)
Nab Burglary
two men suspected of Involve
ment in the high school break
in. The men were afoot just
east of Rockfish Creek on the
road leading to Hillcrest.
Jailed in lieu of $3,000 bond
were Robert Nichols, 23, and
Edwin Cribb, 23, both of Lake
City. Mich., and Jerome Kevin
Green. 17. of Cadillac, Mich.
Chief ;tanton said Green was
arrested at the high school by
Officers Wiggins and West.
They recovered several items
allegedly taKen in the raid, in
cluding two cameras, a radio,
and a stopwatch. Stanton said
a drink machine had been broken
open and some $9 to $10 taken.
While ofticers were investi
gating the high school break
in, another burglary was dis
covered at Mack's 5 4 10 when
Charles Barham, manager, en
.Precinc
In Hoke
lected later on the basis of
registration.
Establishment of the precinct
was advantageous at thispar
ticular time, Poole said, be
cause a complete new registra
tion of all voters In the county
Is being required this year.
Since everybody has to regis
ter anyway. It will be no addi
tional burden on voters In
the new precinct.
Polling place for the new
precinct will be at Upchurrh
High School.
In terms of potential regis
tration, Raeford's five pre
cincts are fairly close to equal,
Poole said. Heretofore, Rae
ford 1 and 2 were substantially
the largest precincts In the
N.C. 20 South Of Town
BILL StM tit
tered the store about 11:15 p. m.
He found that the office had
been ransacked and a rear
door's lock smashed.
A check revealed nothing
missing, Chief Stanton said,
leading him to believe the
thieves were scared off.
About 5 a. m. Sunday, Of
ficers Wiggins and West were
checking doors in the business
district when they discovered
someone had broken into West
ern Auto Associate Store on
Main Street.
Taken in that b.r,;lary were
several guns and watches, Stan
ton said.
Entry to Western Auto was
gained through a ventilator,
Stanton said; at Slacks, through
a roof ventilator, a. id to Hole
High School, through a window
after an air conditioning unit
county.
The new re -istiatlon in Hoke
County will U'tun Mareh 30 unci
continue for four weeks, in
stead of the custoniaiv three,
Poole said. The filth Saturday
will tie challenge day.
In Hoke County and through
out North Carolina, voter reg
istration is tuMii changed,
where necessary, to provide a
uniform "looscitaf" lesistra
tion system. I'ntil this year,
many counties, including Hoke,
still maintained registration
"books," with a number of vo
ters on the .same pace.
Under the looseleaf system,
there Is an Individual pau'e for
each registrant. The pape can
be removed without Uistuibin.'
See VOTING, l'a.:e 11
Six Sent
To Hospital
Six people reportedly were
taken to the hospital for emer
gency treatment Tuesda at 2:30
a. rn. when an ammonia pipe
burst and overcame a nurri ej
of workers at the- K-u-ioid
Turkey Farms, Inc. plant here
according to a Hoke Kesrue
Squad report.
The rescue squad aveoxy,; n
to several others at the plant
and carried four ionn to .scot
land Memorial hospital, where
they were treated ant. i aliased,
Bruton's Amtu'an e St rvice
tranferred two others to Muore
Memorial hospital, wheie they
were kept over nithi and re
leased. Suspect
had been removed.
T!ie Michigan trio w :n
have been ;ive.. prvhniriauy
hearing at yeterdav's ser.'-:o-;
of District Court here.
Early this week, Chief can
ton praised te work of C'fliceri
Wiggins a idWes! si.d expressed
his appreciation to other of
ficers and rescue iad mem
ber? for tr.or asi ta- ce ir. the
high schooi ta e.
Meat-while, Sta "ton al5" re
vealed th.it loi r me.. 1 a e -wn
charged wit': hreaki-gintoRae-ford
oalva,e fA, 1 c., ir. Jan
uary and ta-i s'me TO!
pounds of cupper.
Stanton said the tapper was
foui.d in SarferJ, wfere it had
been so.d to a nther salvage
firm. Iht. ccrper was rcrov-
See OH1C1 Ks, I"4t- 1 IJ