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CM ournal The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXIV NUMBER 1 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 4 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1968 Bloodmobile Ready For Large Turnout Preparations are being made to lake care of a large number of donors when the bloodmobile cornea here Friday. Clyde Up church, chairman, said. Last February, manpower was not sufficient to take care of the overflow crowd and long waiting lines resulted. The situation should be different this time, Upchurch said. Faced with a loss of credit at the Regional Blood Bank In Charlotte, the local Red Cross chapter staged a concerted drive for the last visit and a record crowd came to the res cue. Many became donors for the first time. Prior to Hoke County had failed to meet its quota time and again. As a result of the large num Four Are Of Armed Four young men were con victed this week in Hoke Su perior Court in the January 25 armed robbery of the L. F. West store in Antioch and re ceived sentences ranging from eight to 30 years. Roger Jacobs. 18. was given not less than 35 years nor more than 30 years. At the time of the crime, he was living at Rt. 1. Red Springs, but has since moved to Hoke County. Fred Jacobs, 23. Rt 1, Lum ber Bridge, received not less than 20 nor more than J5 years. Ernest Jacobs, 16, and David Jacobs, 18. both of Lumber Bridge Ru 1. got eight to 10 years and were expected to be put on probation Wednesday. Judpe W. H. S. Burgwyn 1 presiding at me one-week ses- Indian Charged With Rape Held in Jail without privi lege of bond is Ardell Sturdlvant. who is accused of turning a bad deed for good one. The 25-year-old Indian is charged with kidnapping and rape. According to of ficers, he was given a ride home by Silas Love and Grade Love. Details of the occurence which al legedly followed were not disclosed. Sturdlvant was arrested Sunday morning by sher iffs deputies. A hearing is set for May 22. i FOR COMMUNITY Fl N--ThrDundarrachComiTiuntty House needs repair and civic-minded adults hope to et a coat of paint and some new window sashes soon. Here, a -H Club roup enjoys j,aines prior to a Monday niit cookout. Mrs. ber of wrecks in addition to the usual number of hospital patients requiring blood trans fusions, the supply collected In February, as large asltwas. is already nearly exhausted, Upchurch said. F am tie j whose relatives have received blood transfusions in any hospital during the past three months are asked to re cruit donors for this mobile visit If possible. It Is easier to do it this way, Upchurch said. If the county were to be forced out of the program for lack of contributions, families would have to search for donors with matching blood while the desperate patient waited at the hospital. Convicted Robbery slon, which was delayed some what on Monday. Solicitor Doran J. Berry is prosecuting the docket. Other decisions handed down Monday and Tuesday Included! Delton Bullard pleaded guilty to common law robbery and had not been sentenced as of Wednesday morning. Johnny Scott was adjudged not guilty on a charge of armed robbery. Both Scott and Bullard are of Hoke County. New Pastor A f Raraticf "apUOl li is f Vl A minister has twtn called by the Raeford Baptist Church to fill the vacancy which baa existed there for eeveral months. The Rev. Jack Mansfield will move his family of five here on June 10, C.D. Bounds, chair man of the pulpit committee, announced this week. The new minister aucceeda the Rev. John Glenn who re algned list December. Methodist Men's Club To Meet The Methodist Men's Club of the Raeford Methodist Church will meet Tuesday mlng.May 21 at 7 p. m. Ti will be In the form of a sun"r meeting and will be the last meeting before the summer vacation. It Is hoped that a large crowd will be present Tickets can be obtained from! Danny Hales, Clyde Teal, Joe Upchurch, Bobby Carter and Talmadge Baker. t;!:7 j,'1- J. ED WILLIAMS Ed Williams Takes Job In Erwin J, Ed Williams, town manager here for the paat five years will go back to his home county of Harnett to work when he leaves here May 31. Williams will become town manager of Erwin which is near the town of Dunn where his family lived for some 30 year and where he served as town clerk. The formal resignation of the town manager was turned in to the Raeford Town board of Commissioners at last week's regular May meeting. Williams said that with some property he and Mrs. Williams holds in the area, be plana to become Involved In aome real estate development business on the aide. E rwln is a newly incorporated town now operating under a board of aldermen and mayor aystem. Before Incorporation a year ago, it waa operated by Erwin Mills. The mills now belong to Burlington Industries. Presbyterian Men To Meet The May meeting of the Men of the Raeford Presbyterian Church will be held Tuesday evening. May 21. Inthe church's Fellowship Hall, with supper being served at 7:00 P. M. Following supper those at tending will be privileged to hear vie Rev. Robert Hender son of Durham, the director of the Evangelical Churchmen's Conference Center. He will tell the Inspiring story of the development and growth of this interdenominational conference center for laymen and minis ters. The men of the com munity are Invited to join the Presbyterian men for this in spiring program. . .. J t -aTtfeZLSUA vri Wood row Hayes directs them. All such community build in in the county sre property of Hoke County end are nder the jurisdiction of die board of commissioners. County Precinct Meetings See Record Attendance Ernest Sutton Named Asst. Superintendent The Hoke County Board of Education last Monday night named a Hamlet man to take the newly created position of assistant superintendent of schools. Ernest Sutton will take over duties on June 1, andwlllhandle the federal programs of Hoke schools. He also will assume other school duties aa desig nated by Supt. D. D. Abernethy. Sutton la a native of Colum bia, (N. C.) he Is married and has three children, Ernest Sut ton Jr 12; Blaine 6 and Neal 3. They belong to the Method ist Church. He received his education af ter graduating at Columbia High School, at Atlantic Christian College, Western Carolina where he received his Master's Degree and the University of North Carolina where he re ceived an advanced certificate in Gli ted Child Fellowship. He has served aa teacher, principal and assistant super intendent. He cornea here from Booster Club Banquet Tonight At School The annual athletic banquet of the Hoke Hlcsji Booster Club will be held In the Hoke High cafeteria Thursday (tonight) May 16 at 7 o'clock. The ban quet has been held after foot ball season In years past but was changed this year because the boosters felt all sports at the school should have the same recognition. The speaker for the event will be Jack MacCloskey, head bas ketball coach at Wake Forest University. McCloskey re placed Bones McKlnney as coach several years ago and recruited Gilbert McGregor, a local star, who will begin his varsity play at Wake Forest next season. C. D. Bounds, club president, said that awards for all sports for the entire year would be presented at the banquet. Tickets for the affair may be purchased from any booster member or at the door that night. Bounds urges all boost W i'- ... ERNEST SUTTON Kicnmona toumy scnooiswnere he was director of Federal Pro- Richmond County Schools where lects, ers and wives and friends of the school athletic program to come out to give the players a "thank you" for the year's work. Picture, No Fish, Gets Away The big one got away, after all. The Rev. Joe Lowery caught a big bass (10 14 lbs.) in Drowning Creek last week. He brought it to The News-Journal to prove that it Is the little ones that jet away from him and not the big ones. Well, the big fish really didn't get away. The preacher left the news paper office and continued on his way to ;;lve it to Israel Mann. It was the picture taken by a N-J photographer that got away) Something happened in the darkroom and the negative went black. Lost was not only Cie whopping fish but several other pictures, also. Cpl. Kenneth Floyd Killed In Vietnam Raeford gave up another son to the woea of war in Vietnam last week when word waa re ceived here that CpL Kenneth Wayne Floyd died May 7 aa a result of wounds received while on combat operation when hit by fragments from a hostile mine. This was the third sucn mes sage received here by parents, the other two announcing the death of Jerome McCormlck, the first to be killed, and Lt. Samuel War lick, who waa burled here last December. Cpl. Floyd, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Heddle Johnson Floyd of Saunders Street, is a 1(65 graduate of Hoke County High School and attended Sandhills Community College In Pine hurst before entering the service In September, 1987. He trained at Ft. Bragg and at the V. S. Army Medical Training Center at Ft. Sam Houston, Texaa. He left for Vietnam March 7 and eeemed pleased with his work aa a medic In the war zone from all reporta. Collon Vote Under Way A cotton referendum for transfer of upland cotton allot ments for 19G9 will be held May 13 through 17, Thomas R. Burg ess, Hoke County ASCS o 'fleer manager, has announced. The referendum will give cot ton growers the opportunity to decide whether they want to transfer allotments across county lines by sale or lease. Ballots have been mailed to all cotton producers on record. All ballots must be returned to the office by May 17 or be postmarked by midnight. May 17. The Hoke ASCS county com mittee will publicly tabulate the ballots May 22 at 9:30 a. m. in the ASCS office. Cpl. Branch Is Wounded T ire Jf V ICUiani The phone bell rang Sunday and gave Mrs. Ricks Branch the "best Mother's Day present anybody ever had." . The call was from far awayv Yokohama, Japan, and her wounded son was on the other end of the line. Cpl. Ricky Branch was critically wounded during combat in Vietnam on May 5. Mr. and Mrs. Branch live in the Hlllcrest section of Hoke County. His mother said she felt better after having talked with her son even (hough she learned that besides his wounds, he was fighting a battle with pneumonia. The good part was th at he would be out of the war zone for 60 to 90 days and may even get to come to the United States. The Marine corporal was hit by a hostile bullet which en tered his side, struck the ribs and left lung and made an exit through the left shoulder. For the time being, he has lost use of his left arm. Ricky was point man on a patrol. Only 13 of his platoon of 40 men survived the attselb He lay wounded in a rice paddy for five hours, his mother said, before he was discovered and removed to a hospital in Da Nang. In Yokohama, he Is at 106 General Hospital. "He will make It now," Mrs. Branch said, following the long distance conversation, "his voice was weak and husky, but I know he's going to be all right Industrious, even aa a lad, Floyd waa employed by Lips comb's Grocery and Service Station for many yeara before entering college. The message of the 22-year-old boy 'a death waa brought here by two Army sergeants last Thursday at 7:30 a. m. Hla father had arisen early and gone fishing. One sergeant remained with the family while the other accompanied a son-in-law to the fish pond. A commissioned officer arrived later to offer condolences. Numerous telegrams have been received but no definite date has been designated for the arrival of the body. Fu neral arrangements will be an nouced later. Survivors, besides his par ents, are, one brother, Denny, of the home; three atatera, Mtaa Linda Floyd of the home, Mrs. Sandra Wiggins and Mra. Jackie w llllama and a maternal grandfather, lames McGlnnts, of Wlnnsboro. S. C. Changes Made As Committees Enlarged Hoke County's Democratic Executive Committee became more integrated at the precinct meetings in Hoke County last Saturday when six Negroes and and anlndianwereelected either chairman or vice-chairman In five of the 13 precincts in the county. They will begin serv ing Saturday. May 25 when the committee will meet to organize after the county convention. Precinct meetings were held at the voting places in the coun ty's 13 precincts Saturday with record breaking attendance. A committee of 10, Instead of five as In me past, according to party rules were elected, with the chairman and vice-chairman becoming members of the county executive committee. In Raeford 1 precinct, lar gest in the county, over 40 were present, somewhat bet ter than usual attendance at this precinct. Marion Holllngs worth was elected chairman and Llllle Bratcher vice chairman. Both Holllngsworth and Mrs. Bratcher are negroes. Precinct committees for all 13 precincts are as follows: Allendale: L. A. McGugan, Chmn; Mis. Alex McCormlck, V, Chmn; W. L. Roper, Arch Locklear, Charlie Bullard, George Wilson, Miss Maggie McNeill, Miss Wlila McLaugh lin, Artie Mae McPhatter, Miss Willie Mae LUes. Antioch: DaveCurrle: Chmn; Mrs. Peter Dial: V. Chmn; Mra. J, M. Andrews, Henry DlaL Mary Miller, Robert Bul lard, H. C. GUlle, The Rev. Ben Ferguson, Willie McNalr, Mrs. Dave Currle, Blue Springs: Willie Mc Phaul: Chmn; Margaret Galney: V. Chmn; Gloria McLaughlin, L. B. Seals, T.J.Harris, Willie Davis, Roy Locklear, Shirley Leggett, Mis. Julian Love, Mrs. Clydla Locklear. Buchan: C. G. 'Joe' Odom: Chmn; Lucille Hazelwood: V. Chmn; Helen Odom, W.H. Rum felt, Marcus Thompson, Harry Hazelwood, MatUe Peck, La lien Rumfelt, Leroy Scott, Ruby Thompson. McCain: O. B. Israel: Chmn; Mrs. D. R. Huff Jr.: V. Chmn; Mrs. Tom Sinclair, N. F. Sin clair, D. R. Huff Jr., Mrs. Mamie Bevan, Nelll McFadyen, Mra. N. F, Sinclair, M. A. Robertson, Mra. W, L, McFad yen. Puppy Creek: Ralph Plum mer: Chmn; Mra. R.E, Neeley: V. Chmn; Mra. Joyce Monroe, Douglas Monroe, Kerr Stevens, Mra. Marshall Newton, John Parker, Paul Johnson, Robert Graham, Luther Cummlngs. Raeford L- Marlon Holllngs "A A; ' . -A Lkl s m .L... - -J CPL. KENNETH FLOYD worth: Chmn; Llllle Bratcher: V. Chmn; Mary Farmer, Wil liam Holllngsworth, Jamea Tillman, Clyde Campbell, Ivery McNalr, Mra. Ivery McNalr, Mra. Graham Clark, Frances Ward Greene. Raeford D: William Lamonti Chmn; Mrs. Charles Hoatetler: V. Chmn; N. J. Blue, Mia. Joe Dupree, Mra. Julius Jor. dan, Mra. James Adams, Mra. Alvls Dickson, Benny McLeod, H In ton McPhaul, Jamea Adams. Raeford ID: Mrs. J. K. Riley: Chmn; Raymond Hawkins: V. Chmn; Mrs. B, B, Cole, Hu bert Davis, Ed McNeill, Chea ter Wade, Linda Scott, Mra. Sam Hendrix, Mra. Carl Math, arson, Smith Mclnnla. Raeford IV: Clayton Buoys r: Chmn; Mra. Vance Houston: V. Chmn; Bobby Cox, Bruce Conoly, Avery Connell, Joe Huffman, Mra. Clayton Buoyer, Mrs. Bruce Conoly, Mrs. Fran ces Anderson, Mrs. Harry O. Pamplln. Raeford V: G. A. Robinson: Chmn; Mra. Bobby Doby: V. Chmn; Mra, Naomi Slmmona, Hilton VUllnea, Ruaaell McAl lister Jr., Mrs. Annie Farmer, Jamea Thomas, Robert Doby, Mable L. Robinson, Mrs. Co heldia Lyons. Rockflsh: Gilbert M. Ray: Chmn; Mia. Herman Koonce: V. Chmn; Mrs. Betsy C. Foster, . William Willis, Mrs. Ellen Wil lis, Mrs. Grace C.Kelton, Mra. . K. P. R liter, Clarence M. Koonce, T. C. Jones, Clyde Huff. Stonewall: Clifford Boatic: Chmn; Mra. David Hendrix: V. Chmn; Bernlce Williamson, Weldon Bishop, Eli Shank la, Walter Parks, Mrs. Mary Adama, Mra. Elizabeth Tolar, Mra. E, Brewer, Mra. Jimmy McGougan. Chamber Meet Set Tuesday Raeford -Hoke Chamber of Commerce'a annual meeting will be held Tuesday, May 21, with H. F. (Chub) Seawall aa the apeaker. The dinner meeting will be conducted at the new W. T. Gibson school. Reaervatlons ehould be made as soon aa pos sible, because facilities are limited, according to Jim Fout, ' Chamber manager. Offlcera for the coming year will be Installed by R.B.Lewie. They are Wyatt Upchurch, re elected president; Ralph Barn hart and Alfred K. Leach, vice presidents; Younger Snead Jr., secretary, and Charles Hottel, treasurer.
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