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CM All Voters In County Required To Register ournal Registration Books Open In Precinct March 30 The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXII NUMBER 45 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA SI PER YEAR 10 PER COPY THURSDAY. MARCH 21. 1968 Near Dundarrach EVERY LITTER KIT HE LPS Ti Ik tbout a cat having kittens, Whiskers, the "common kitty" (no pun Intended) shown here went overboard. Whiskers came up with a 10-kltten Utter and when dinnertime comes, somebody has to wait. Sorry, kitty, no seconds. tVhlskers belongs at the John Blackburn home op Raeford Rt. 1. Accident Leaves 4 Injured A car loaded with people re turning to Pennsylvania after attending a funeral In Laurln burg was Involved in a fiery crash with a pulpwood truck Monday morning Just south of Raeford on U. S. 401. State Highway Patrolman E. M. Roberts said the Pennsyl vania car, occupied by eight people, was one of three in a "caravan" returning to Phil adelphia. All were former residents of Scotland County, he said. Four of the eight persons in the car were taken to the hos pital, Roberts said, none of mem injured critically. t Roberts said the pulpwood truck was being operated by Wlnford Locklear of Maxton and that Locklear told him he applied brakes to the loaded truck when a car in front of him indicated it was making a right turn off the highway. The truck was traveling south ward. Roberts said the driver told him the truck veered Into the opposite lane and was turned sideways when the vehicle struck 1L The car rammed the truck at the right front fend er and door. (See ACCIDENT, Page 7) Upchurch First Grade 'Hysteria Nothing To Get Excited About BY JIM TAYLOR A first grade classroom at Upchurch School was back to "normal" this week after creating something of a stir for several days. "Normal" in this particular case means that up to a do?en of the six-year-olds continue to fall into a sleep-like trance, but their condition is not "na tural" sleep. The youngsters have been under close observation since March 11, when school officials were notified something pe culiar was happening almost daily In that one classroom. D. D. Abernethy, superinten dent of schools, called in health officials, who found absolutely nothing physically wrong with the youngsters, although some of mem were given physical examinations which included spinal taps. Dr. Harry H. McLean, regional director, N. C. Board of Health, ruled out any danger of Infection or physical disease. Voter Sign-Up Begins March 30 A complete new voter regis tration In Hoke County will be gin in Hoke County Saturday, March 30, and continue for four successive weeks, with regis trars at the precinct polling place on Saturdays. The fifth Saturday, April 27, will be chal lenge day. J. Scott Poole, chairman of Hoke County Board of Elections, emphasized that all voters must re-register, since the present system of keeping registration books will be abandoned. The new system, ordered by the 1967 General Assembly, will standardize registration throughout North Carolina. It will be the so-called "loose leaf" sytem, wherein each voter has a page in the book and pages can be added or with drawn without defacing the book. Poole said there currently are some 4,000 registered vo ters in the county and it is hoped more than that will re-register before May 3 primaries. Hoke County's registration is pre dominantly Democrat, but in past years, voting results in dicated many people may have been registered Democrats pri marily to allow them to vote in the Democratic primary. A concerted voter regis tration drive will be conduct then called in mental health of ficials. This week, a tentative diag nosis of "hysteria" was made by Dr. Don Schulte, psychiatrist and director of Sandhills Mental Health Clinic in Pinehurst, and the diagnosis was confirmed by a Duke University clinical psychologist. Neither Dr. Schulte nor the psychologist was available for comment today, but Dr. McLean said the class will remain un disturbed, at least for the time being. There is absolutely nothing dangerous or harmful in the situation, he said. " There l absolutely nothing that poses any danger whatso ever to either the children who are falling to sleep, or other children in the classroom," Dr. McLean said. "There is nothing one will 'catch' from the other, and the teacher has been told exactly how to handle the situation." Dr. McLean would not specu late on an answer to the odd behavior, although he said it ed In a new Raeford precinct, Raeford No. S, which was trim med from the northern part of precincts 1 and 2, also taking a small portion of Raeford No. 3. ' Negro leaders had organized a registration drive before the new precinct was rreatud re cently, and had to revamp their plans. They held another in structional meeting for cam paigners and are now reported ready to launch the drive when the registration books open. The News-Journal will pub lish a week-by-week tabulation of voter registration, hopeful that it will encourage more people to register. The county has never produced anything close to its voter potential. Registrars will be at the pol ling places on the four Satur days of registration from 9 a-m. to 6 p.m. Voters may reg ister any other time they con tact the registrar at a rea sonable hour. Following is a list of pre cincts, registrars, and poll ing places in Hoke County: Allendale, WJ.. Roper, Com munity Building. Antioch, Mrs. Herbert Glllls, Community Building. Ashemont, Harry Thornberg, (See VOTER, Fage 7) definitely is psychological and apparently very rare for chil dren of that age. The young students are not faking, nor are they actually asleep, but retreat Into the slumber regularly, sometimes as many as five or six at one time. In fact, the psychiatric-psychologist team arrived at the classroom Tuesday morning to find five of the youn-sterj al ready "onstage" with their rou tine. The doctors have talkedor are going to talk, to the chil dren's parents. Dr. McLean said, to insure them there is no harm at all in the younA sters continuing to occupy the classroom. The Incredible situation was first reported to Abernethy about a week ago. The chil dren's teacher.Mrs.Ha-.el Gal breath, told Abernethy the rou tine had been going on almost dally, usually in mid-morning, for several weeks. Abernethy ordered the chil Pickup, Train Collide; One Man Badly Injured Skid Marks Show Slide Of 125 Feet A pickup truck rammed into the side of an Aberdeen and Rockfish Railway engine near Dundarrach at 8:00 a. m. Wednesday morning, serious ly Injuring one of the two men riding in the truck. State Highway Patrolman E. M. Roberts said evidence at the scene indicated the truck, proceeding toward Dundarrach on Rockfish-Dundarrach Road, skidded a distance of about 12f feet before colliding with the diesel engine. Roberts identified the pickup driver as James William Bent ley, 5116 Cumberland Road, Fayetteville, who apparently owned the vehicle. The name Bentley House Moving Co. was painted on its side. The second man, the more seriously Injured of the rwo, was not immediately identified. He was rushed to Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville with undetermined injuries. Bentley suffered a severe gash on his head, Robert said, but did not appear to be critical ly injured. The crash occurred at a sun lit crossing visible for several hundred yards in both direc tions. Approach to ihe crossing was marked by road signs, but no blinking light or audible sig nal. Dave Jones of Aberdeen w& engineer of the train, which was pulling some six or eight box cars toward Fayetteville. Members of the train crew and an A & R official at the scene s aid die train was sounding its whistle long before reaching the crossing and the locomotive was across the pavement when the truck skidded into the side of it. The front end of the pickup, a late model, was demol-'alied and the vehicle was a total loss. Members of the train crew and others who arrived at the scene before the victims were moved by ambulance said one man appeared to be seriously Injured, but the second ap parently not too badly hurt. dren moved in with another first grade section next door while Mrs. Galbreath's class room could be examined for possible furnace fumes or other ventilation problems. The suspected classroom was sealed off and a health board Inspector came here to check it. He found nothing which would explain the mystery. While he was conducting his examination of the room, Mrs. W. S. Young, nurse, entered the room from next door. "I wish you would come over here," she said, referring to the room next door. "Thechil dren are going to sleep." Five or six children were seemingly asleep. They were taken Into the open air, but failed to respond to normal awakening procedures. They even remained apparently asleep while being walked around to keep them awake. Cnce aroused, they appeared to i be normal. Abernethy had the youngsters (See UrCHVRCH, a 7) .4. J CROSSING This photograph shows the scene of a pickup truck-train collision early Wednesday morningatacrosslng Assistance Is Sought For Page A fund for benefit of C.A. Page, principal of l.'pchurch High School, has been started by other principals and pub lic contributions are being accepted, school officials an nounced this week. Page has been hospitalized since December and has re turned to Veterans Hospital in Durham after a brief visit to his home here. He first was admitted to Southeastern General Hospital In Lumberton, then transferred to Durham. His ailment is ex pected to require long hospi talization, school officials said. Page had no hospitalization insurance, they said, and his resources have been depleted. (See JAG, I-age 7) Entranced Student Being Removed Fire Destroys Home Of Family Of Seven A house was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Thurs day In the Queenmore section north of Raeford. It was the second house' to burn within less than a week In that area, and both rejiortedly belonged to members of the same family. North Raeford Fire Depart ment answered the call between 11:30 a.m. and noon, but when firemen arrived, the building was enveloped In flames. It was the home of John and Maggie telle Galbreath, which Gallirelh said he rented from l-rlscllla Mr! hatter, formerly of Faeford and now living In the North. She was further Identified as a dauchter of Rich ard Mcl hatter, whose house burned dov.-n early Monday, March 11. The fire destroyed all the furnishings of the Galbreath a mile east of Dundarrach on the Rockflsh-DundarrachRoad. One man was seriously Injured. family, which Includes the parents and five children. They moved In with relatives tem porarily while preparing to es tablish another rented home. Galbreth, who works for N.C. Sanatorium at McCain, said he extinguished the fire In the space heater before leaving for work. His wife was at her Job at Anthony Nursing Home and the children were at school when the unoccupied dwelling burned. E.Vv. Coen, chief of the North Raeford department, and other firefighters remained at the scene until neighboring houses were out of danger, Galbreth said he had no in surance except that on an electric range and refrigerator purchased only recently. Mrs. Callie Belle Buie. mother of Mrs. Galbreth, said the family is living with her until they can get some furni-, ture to put in a house across the street which they have rent ed. "They need evervthini," she (See FIRE, Fage 7) School Guidelines Apply To 50 States The federal government earlier this week issued a new set of nondiscrimination guide lines for school systems, apply ing the racial rules forthelirst time to all 50 states rather than to the South aione. The guidelines set a deadline for ending segregation in cer tain Southern districts, pre sumably including Hoke County, and they form a base lor the government's first big move into the North to check for dis crimination. But the guidelines were said to state that neither the new policies nor the 1964 Civil Rights Act "bars a school sys tem from reducing or eliminat ing racial imbalance in Its schools." L'nder the Civil Rights Act, federal officials have required mixing of Negroes and whites in the louth, where the races had been kept apart by law or policy. But that cannot be done In the north, they said, where 3 Andrews Funeral Is Held Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Lorena A;;anora Andrews, 82, who died about noon Monday at her home on West Donaldson Avenue after several years of declining health. A native of Scotland County, she was the widow of Luther W. Andrews, who died in 1945, and had lived in Hoke County since her marriage in 1905. She at tended Raeford Institute. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. T.B. Lester Jr., and one grand daughter, Andrea Lester. Funeral services were con ducted at Raeford Methodist Church, of which she was a member, by the pastor, the Rev. R.EX. Moser. Burial was in Raeford Cemetery. Pallbearers were ArchieMc Gugan, Carlton Nlven, Paul Dickson, J.W. McPhaul, Berder Niven and Paul Burnett. A A k A'A'Ar school segregation has result ed from private housing pat terns. The Civil Rights Act prohibits use of federal funds for pro 6rams in which racial discrimi nation is practiced, and school districts failing to comply with the guidelines stand to lose fed eral education aid. Hoke County's school system was advised several weeks ago that it probably was not in com pliance with the Civil Rights Act and recommended that im medi ate action be taken to end the "dual school syitem" by next fall. The guidelines also require nondiscrimination activities. For the South, the new guide lines drop any reference to per centage of Negroes in white schools required for compli ance. And for the first time they set a completion deadline of the 1969-70 school year for school districts which are de segre6ating voluntarily.
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