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r"""r All Voters In County Required To Register CM Registration Books Open In Precinct The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXH NUMBER 48 RAEFORD. HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 14 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1968 S7 To Quell Riots, Looting Local Guard Battalion (4 f. IK TO SON, FROM MAMA Local National Guard boys who were called out Sunday to duty In riot-torn Wilmington after 48 hours found themselvea running out of clean clothing. A truck waa sent home to pick up a change. Here, SFC Roger Dixon takes a bundle from Mrs. Harry Daniels for Harry Jr. SSG Worth Freeman also helps with the loading. Larry Miller, Others Stars Will Play Here Tuesday Two teams of collegiate bas ketball stars will play here at o'clock Tuesday night under sponsorship of the Hoke High School Booster Club, according to C. D. Bounds Jr., president of the club. On team will be headed by Larry Miller, who earlier this week scored 19 points In a similar contest elsewhere In w state, rhe game wll be phyWVat Hoke Hiiro School. The booster club will use profits from the affair to pay for the annual spring banquet for Hoke High athletes. This year, the spring outing also will be for football players, who previously had a separate awards affair. Advance tickets are being old by members of the Booster Club. All seats will cost $1.50. "We felt that the excellence of the basketball play our friends are likely to see will make the admission price well worthwhile," Bounds said. "Moreover, we feel the money Is being put to good use, and we plan to lend even stronger support this year to the high school sports program than ever In the past." Boosters met Tuesday after noon at Southern National Bank to discuss the basketball pro posal. They also heard from Hit Autry, Hoke High School principal, and John Pecora, head coach. Autry proposes to send the varsity football team away from the county for a one-week foot ball camp Just before school opens In the fall. He said he feels the out-of-town camp will t K - 'it, I ; : V- t it- ! i W . H ' ' I. J 'I t: J '.$ K ..' -vi ; I. A BABY, A BONNET AND A BUNCH OF BUNJTSS Add to that a basket of Easter eggs, and wilngs rtfM and ready for the holiday. Little Wendy "bo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marty Webb, loves the eotorful excitement. But what she Ukea best and clings to longest Is the candy benny wrapped to not ay cellophane paper. be much more beneficial than the customary camp conducted at the high school. In previous years, the foot ball players slept In the high school gym and ate In the cafe teria. Date of the spring banquet has now been firmly set ai May 16. Jack McCleskey, head basketball coach at Wake Forest Universl, v.-illui'"in-clpal speaker.' Mel Broughton Jr. To Be Here Saturday J. Melville Broughton Jr., candidate for governor subject to nomination in the May 4 Dem ocratic primary, will visit Hoke County Saturday, according to his campaign leaders here. Broughton will arrive here from Moore County about 4:30 p.m. and will remain about two hours. He will be at the county courthouse, both on the lawn and inside the building during the two-hour stay. "Mel Broughton's campaign schedule Is quite full," a spokesman for his Hoke campaign said. "Nevertheless, he wanted to meet here with his friends and supporters and the late Saturday afternoon time was the best he could figure into his schedule." See BROUGHTON, Page II The boosters Tuesday named a nomination committee con sisting of Ashwell Harvard, Richard (Doc) Ivey and Nell A. McDonald to propose a slate of officers for the new club year. Bounds said the two teams will feature a North Carolina squad headed by Miller and a South Carolina five headed by Jack Thompson and Skip Har Ucka of the University of South Carolina. m tr MEL BRCUGHTON Called To Wilmington Raeford and Hoke County's unit of the N. C. National Guard remained on duty in riot-torn Wilmington yesterday, and there was no Indication when the troops would return to their homes. Lt. Col. Paul Dickson, com manding officer, 2nd Battalion, 252nd Armor, said his troops bad been "performing magnifi cently" since reaching Wil mington early Sunday evening, "They have done a splendid Job in every respect," he said. The entire battalion was pressed Into service when vio lence flared in several North Carolina cities following the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, in Memphis, Teniu, last Thurs day. In addition to the Hoke County unit, which comprises part of the battalion's headquarters company, units from Southern Pines, Sanford, Lumberton, Red Springs and Laurlnburg, all under Dickson's command, were transported to Wilming ton. The battalion was alerted for call by Gov. Dan K. Moore late Saturday night. Ranks were Coming Home National Guardsmen from Raeford and Hoke County were relieved of riot duty at noon Wedneaday and wert expected to arrive here in late after noon. Lt. Col. Paul Dickson, bat talion commander, said the unit will disperse sometime after supper. Weapons and equipment had to be cleaned and stored after reaching the local armory. The battalion will remain on standby alert, formed early Sunday morning, although the call to move out did not come until late Sunday afternoon. In Wilmington, the unit was used primarily to patrol streets and assist state and Wilmington police during curfew hours, or 6 p. in, to ( i. m Dickson said. There have been no injuries to Guardsmen, and they have not fired a shot, according to Dickson, although they have been fired upon several times by snipers. He said damage In Wilming ton is extensive. There have been 12 to IS fires attributed to fire bombs and other violent action by demonatrators. Many store windows have been New Voter Registration Totals Climb To 2894 In County's 13 Precincts A total of 1,520 Hoke Coun tians registered last Saturday In the second Saturday of a four-week new registration throughout the county. That was slightly less that registered on the first Satur day of the county wide regis tration, although It Included total registered on week daya. It brought to IBM the number of registrations in the new cam paign, brought about by a new state law which requires all counties in the state to con form to a new "looaeleaf" type registration In which registra tion books can be kept current, day by day. When a person registers under the new system, he has an Individual page in the reg titration books. When he leaves the precinct, or otherwise is no longer eligible to vote, his page la removed from books without disturbing the remaind er of the registration book a, which formerly had to be "purged" every few years to eliminate the name of dead persons, and so forth. Heaviest registration Rae ford No. S, a new precinct which covers an area aorta of Raeford, where B15 names have beea put oa the books. See REGISTRARS. Page 11 smashed, and there was some looting. The situation has been kept pretty well under control since the National Guard and state troopers were called In, ac cording to reports. In addi tion to the 252nd Armor, the first battalion, 120th Infantry, with headquarters In Wilming ton, was petroling the streets. Spiking a rumor that local Guardsmen had been sent onto the riot-torn streets without loaded rifles. Dickson said bis Churches Plan Easter Services There will be no Easter Sun rise service by the three largest churches In Raeford this year, but each church will hold re gular morning worship with special Easter music Raeford Methodist Church observed Palm Sunday (last Sunday) with infant baptism and a service in which 13 young communicants were received Into the church. On Maundy Thursday (today) holy communion will be served from 7 to 9p.m. with partici pants coming and going at will. On Good Friday, the annual sacrificial meal will be spon sored by the MYF. Partici pant will assemble in the sanctuary at 6:30 p.m. and go from there to the fellowship hall. There will be i program of quiet meditation Balm of GUhead. On Easter Sunday, Miss Dlanne upchurch will sing, The Holy dry," and the choir, under the direction of Mrs. Lewis Upchurch Jr., will sing, "Rejoice. All Men of EaroV' The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. R. E. L. Moser. The sermon at First Baptist Church will be preached in brief by Dr. Ellis Hollan of South eastern Seminary and the six choirs of the church will pre sent a musical program. The chancel choir will be presented under the direction of Mrs. J. H. Austin. Raetord Presbyterian Church will hold regular morning wor Last Week's Registration White Negro Ind. Dem. OOP. ALLENDALE 10 13 7 39 0 ANTIOCH 42 SI 31 107 4 BLUE SPRINGS 34 72 31 134 BUCHAN 32 13 0 41 3 MCCAIN 101 46 0 134 13 PUPPY CREEK 43 90 1 97 2 RAEFORD 1 200 45 3 231 10 RAEFORD 2 1 67 1 2 0 160 T RAEFORD 3 61 72 31 134 RAEFORD 4 lit 19 3 jjg u RAEFORD 3 0 220 0 220 0 ROCKFISH tt 21 0 7t 0 STONEWALL 23 4 96 I TOTAL 323 Bit 7 1450 6 3 Independents In parentheses. troops ware armed with rifles, pistols, machlneguna and tear gas. All weapons were loaded, he said, and tear gas has been used, but the Guardsmen have not fired a shot. He also cleared up another rumor which was being circu lated here that two local Guardsmen had bad their weap ons taken away from them. "That is not correct," Dick son said by telephone. "There have been absolutely no disci plinary problems In my unit and ship service Sunday, and at 7:30 p.m. the chancel and youth choirs, with guest singers, will present a cantata, "Christ Lay in Death's Dark Prison," by J. S. Bach. This Ressurrectloncantatals said to be one of the finest and most difficult of the more than 300 church cantatas com posed by Bach. It is charac teristic of the music of the Baroque Era (1600 1750) In which Bach lived. It has Im pressive, dynamic movement, rich effects of harmonic color, dignity of utterance, and above all intensified emotional ex pression. In this Cantata. Bach very skillfully wove me chorale melody from the final verse into each of the choruses, solos, and duets, with the chorale melody appearing alternately in one of the four parts, and the other parts singing a contra punal accompaniment. Mrs. J. N. Sinclair Jr. of Aberdeen Is director of music for the Raeford church. Jim Ratcliffe. of the faculty of Var dell Hill in Red Springs will conduct the choir, with Mrs. Sinclair serving as accompan ist. Soloists will be Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Brock from Red Springs, and Mr. Ratcliffe. Most other churches In die ares also will have special programs and services. Indi vidual contact with all the churches was highly impracti cal. Total 40 (I) 111 133 (2) 48 (1) 147 93 248 168 (2) 8 (2) 187 220 60 (1) 100 1530 (7) nobody has been relieved of either his duties or his weapons." Capt Dan Baker, commander of the headquarters company of which the Raeford men are a part, Is commanding about 250 men, Dickson said. The mess hall is open 24 hours a day, and the Lumberton unit, which provides the mess crew, has been dishing out "home cook ing" practically at the whim of the individual soldier. Supplies are being purchased Consider The Lilies: . . 4 Bond Vote Near Less than two weeks remains before Raeford voters will ap prove or reject a proposal to issue $700,000 in municipal bonds for water and sewer Im provements which engineers declare are mandatory If trouble is to be avoided here. The vote will be taken Sat urday, April 20, at town hall. Registration books will be open (for in-town voters only) until next Saturday night, April 13. Total Registration Precinct ALLENDALE ANTIOCH BLUE SPRINGS BUCHAN McCain puppy creek RAEFORD 1 RAEFORD 2 RAEFORD 3 RAEFORD 4 RAEFORD 5 ROCKFISH STONE WALL TOTAL Indpendenta In Wilmington on state voucher, Dickson said. Laundry service, also provided by a Wilmington commercial laundry, has been good. Other local officers at the scene Include Maj. tdwin New ton, battalion executive officer; Capt, Thomas Macku, com munications officer, and Capt. William E. Willis, administra tive assistant to the battalion commander. See GUARD, Pace 11 i s - A Symbol Of Easter 6. 4 .. - I- The new registration does not apply to the town's registration books, which are separate from those of the county. Town commissioners empha size that the proposed bond Issue requires no Increase In the tax rate, nor will residen tial water-sewer customers pay an Increased rate for those services. The whole bond Issue will be See BOND VOTE, Page 11 White Negro Ind. Dem. GOp Tout 14 75 14 102 0 -103 (1) 91 66 104 2 46 12 261 (3) 50 107 40 2 02 5 210 (2) 49 62 3 109 j -113 (1) 150 98 2 226 22 2S0 72 107 1 176 ( 164 270 101 S 358 l6 374 239 37 0 267 , 276 (2) 3 130 33 234 4 240 (2) 189 27 I 20 16 228 0 615 0 514 , 516 (1) 8 9 21 0 100 , 104 (I) 113 96 12 '213 (2) 1414 1303 176 2761 ,1S 2694 in parenthesea. I
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