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CM ournal The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXIV NUMBER 7 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 4 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1968 Must Have Them By Monday TTTi rrivaite chool Seeks 200 Pupils BY JIM TAYLOR A whirlwind drive to enroll 300 students in grades one through nine was launched here Wednesday by a group of citi zens proposing to establish a private school. The 200 minimum was set as the least number of students with which the proposed school could operate. That number must be signed before July 1, the founders sti pulated, if 300 Hoke students have not been signed by Mon day night on first come, first served basis, additional stu dents will be admitted from communities in neighboring counties. Total cost of first-year en rolment will be $400 per stu dent, with $50 of (hat amount an "entrance fee" the student will pay the first year only. Tuition has been set at $350 for the first year. The proposed school to be known as Hoke Day School will lease the former Rockflsh School Plant, now owned by a private corporation. It pro poses to provide classes In -w-::x:x:.::xxw grades one through nine. The proposal was explained Tuesday night to a group of about 80 persons In a pre-arranged gathering at Hoke Civic Center, where an initial pri vate school meeting last week attracted some 200 persons. Younger Snead Jr. functioned as head of steering commit tee which reported on Its find ings since it was appointed at the Initial meeting. Snead revealed that a mini mum of 200 students will be required to raise the $80,000 estimated as necessary to launch the program and provide the first 10 months of operation. The school will aim for 25 students In each of the first eight grades and will take appli cations for ninth graders, Snead said. The commitee has opened an office in the former Dr. Mathe son office building adjacent to Wood Furniture Company on East El wood Avenue. It will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p. in., except Sunday, until Monday evening. It was Indicated that suffi cient interest must be shown by that deadline before the pro ject can proceed. If registra tion is only slightly less than the required 200, another seven days will be used in recruiting the students from nearby com munities in other counties. Snead and other members of the committee Indicated inqui ries already have come froi,, parents outside Hoke County, but that Hoke County Is the pri mary concern of die commit tee and that local needs will be attended to first. The $40O-per-chlld fee is payable in three Instalments although the committee indicat ed it would rather the entire $400 be paid at the time of ap plication. If paid In instalments, $100 must be paid at the "me 0( ap plication. An additional $150 must be paid by August 1 and the remaining $150 by Au just 20. The committee pledged that any money paid In advance of the school's openin, will be placed in escrow and refunded if the school does not open. Similarly, If a parent says the $100 initial fee and applies for his child's admission, the $100 will not be refunded if the child does not enroll (except for reasonable cause, such as moving away from the area). The proposed budget will pro vide $60,000 for salaries (head master and one teacher foreach grade); an additional 5 per cent for teacher retirement bene fits, a total of $3,000; books, $3,500; rent. $1,200; desks, $2. 000; janitor, $1,300; secretary, $3,600; heat, $1,000; lights, tele phone, supplies and otiier ad ministrative costs totaling $3, 800 a total of $78,400. "We would not except to pay a teacher less than he or she would be entitled to in the pub lic school system," said Jake Austin, chairman of the budget committee." I would not be a party to asking a teacher or any body else to accept employment for a year unless we had the money on hand to insure pay ment of this year's salaries," he added. Snead and other members of the committee stressed the nec essity of securing amlnimumof 200 students within the next few days. "Time is working against us," Austin said. "We have to know within the next few days If we are going ahead with the school, and we ob viously cannot go ahead if 25 or 30 people are going to have to foot the bill." There will be not cut rate for multiple admissions from one family, the committee said. The first-year $50 fee and $350 tuition will apply to each student, even though two or more may come from the same family. Asked about second-year tui tion costs, Snead declared: "We are concerned right now with the first year. Until we get the first year under way, we can't 'tli ink about a second year." He and other members of the committee later said, however, that if adjustments were needed for a second year of operation, they would be made. "It Is possible that the tui tion would have to be increased to $375," Snead said. The committee revealed that it was to interview a prospec tive headmaster Wednesday (yesterday). He was described as a Maxton man who has been public school principal In Rob eson County. The committee revealed it has arranged with the Rockflsh school property owners to lease the facilities for $100 a month under a two-year lease. Paul Johnson, chairman of the building committee, said die plant offers four classrooms, an auditorium that can be con verted into two classrooms; a dining room that will provide another: an office, and a li brary. The private school would op erate no lunchroom. Transpor tation would be provided by pa rents, presumably by use of car pool arrangements. Johnson said the school can be readied, as far as the phys ical plant Is concerned, by fall, and that work can commence within 10 days or so. "We will have to depend on a lot of volunteer help In get ting the rooms repaired and painted," Johnson said. "We estimate that each family with a child enrolled will have to contribute 20 hours of work and the paint to reflnlsh the rooms," he said. Several committee chairmen have been named. They includ ed Paul Johnson, building; Jake Austin, budget; Jackie Crump ler, public relations; John Bal four and Julian Barnes, furni ture and fixtures; Sam Copper scholarships, and Jimmy Sin clair, admissions. Phil Dlehl was listed as legal counsel for the organization. Before he presented the pro posed budget, Austin asked why the crowd was less than at die first meeting. At that time, parents signed statements in dicating Interest in enrolling some 130 students in die school. No applications were taken Tuesday night. The committee said application blanks were being prepared and printed and will be available at the down town office. Inquiries from parents at the Tuesday night meeting ranged from "will the school have a band?" to 'Vlll high school grades be added next year?" Snead and other committee members said plans for next year cannot be made until after the first year Is success- X'X'X; 'X"X Kir 1 - s Hoke May Share Federal Grant Hoke and three other coun ties have applied for a $1,3 million federal grant to pro- keeping their migrating to A-V,?dW - ' ' ?';U'V-"V ment of Agriculture 'i'-'V" jV'flB:' " used to build low in ing, available through ministration, S. Depart ure, and can be Income hous- develop industrial sites, generation at home. The Hoke-Bladen-Columbus-Robeson area has one of the highest emigration rates In the country. Directors of the corporation were told they may use the money to provide loans for housing, develop Industrial sites, or provide training or other inducements aimed at en abling prospective .migrants to remain in me area. Money used to build or buy housing would be repaid by the borrower. Repayment could then be used to build or buy other homes. The application waa hastily drawn to meet the deadline. Further meeting will be held as soon as the application la approved. Wagon 1 rain Survives not 1 rett FHA oan Some 200 hardy "pioneer" types weathered one of the hot test weekends on record here, surviving a wilderness campout and a 15-mile wagon train trek from Waldo's Beach to Raeford at the height of the heat wave. Despite roasting heat Satur day and Sunday, participants In the fourth annual Hoke Wagon Train termed this year's outing the best of the four. The wagon train pulled out of Raeford early Friday morning after having assembled the nlht before for an evening of revelry at the National Guard armory here. With some 35 wagons and 150 horseback riders in tow, wagon train scouts led die way out Rockflsh Road, past Phillppi Church to Davis' Bridge, then to Waldo's Beach near Hope Mills In Cumberland County. The trip eastward was made under cloudy skies, with plea sant temperature; and a cool breeze stirring. The pleasant weather was not to last long, however, and soon after the campers pitched their tents in the underbrush near the beach, the sun came Irom behind the clouds and the temperature be gan to rise. By Saturday, most campers were stripped down to bermuda shorts or swimming trunks and the "swimming hole" at the beach got a good workout Satur day. Saturday night, a square dance See WAGON, Page 11 Approved For 'Hill' A $221,700 FKA loan has been tentatively approved for a non profit corporation to provide water in the Queenmore, Silber City and Cameron Heights areas north of Raeford, it was an nounced this week. The federal loan, secured through Farmers Home Admin istration, will be used to provide water for some 275 families and to develop the wa ter system. The loan will be made to Northwest Water Supply, Inc., to drill wells, construct pump ing stations, erect a 100,000 gallon water tank, and lay 23 miles of pipeline. Construction of the project will provide 3,740 manhours of laixir for engineers, well dril lers, ditch - dlg0er operators, surveyors, and day laborers. The system will be capable of See LOAN, page 11 and provide other Inducements to enable migrants to stay put. The appropriation for four pilot areas In the I nlted States, including the Hoke-Lladen-Co-lumbus-Hotwson district, al ready has been made by Con gress and must be used before the end of the current fiscal year (June 30). The grant will be used In the four-county area for pur poses outlined by trie federal government if the application submitted last week is ap proved. Leaders of the four-county area have established a non profit corporation to plan the program, secure the loan, and administer the project. It is Action, Inc., with a board of directors Including persons from all four counties. Members of the board from Hoke County Include Ralph Barnhart, W. T. (Bill) Altman and Ivery McNalr, Officers of the corporation are J. A. Singleton of Red Springs, president; J. Roland Gore, Tabor City, vice presi dent, and D. M. Campbell, E llzabethtov n, secretary treasurer. Purpose of the pilot program was outlined at a meeting last week by Marlon Holland of Ral eigh, FHA state supervisor. Simply put, Holland said, it Is to reverse the migration trend and keep the younger Hoke SchoolExpense Above State Median Hoke County's per-pupll ex penditure in its public schools is some $30 per year higher than the state average, accord ing to a survey made public last week. The study, prepared by the State Department of Education, shows a per-pupll outlay of $426.29 for 19CC-C7. That figure was for current expenses only and does not reflect capital outlay or bonded Indebtedness principal and interest. Statewide, the average for current expenses was $420.29. Hoke's ili"ure v. as above the state average largely because ol higher than average federal Involvement. The local ex penditure Included $290.95 In state funds; $r,4.08 in local money, and $110.26 In federal funds. The state average Included $292.19, in state (slightly high er than Hoke); $68.45, local ($14.38 higher than Hoke), and federal, $65.66 ($44.60 less than Hoke). Added to the current expenses outlay would be some $20 per pupil for debt service and about $10 per pupil for capital out lay. A'hlle education accounts for about 65 per cent of all county budget expenditures, the local share of the total school cost Is only a fraction of the total cost. The $54.08 in. local costs was only 12 per cent of the total for 19C6-67. Hoke County has a tax rate of $1.28 per hundred dollar evaluation. Of that amount, about 85 cents goes for local school expenses. New Pastor Arrives At Bethel, Shiloh s pa' -?' Newspaper Early On Fourth The Rev. J. Allan Smyth was Installed as pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church Sunday dM and will be Installed at V4 ON THE FIRING LINE Tanks of Second Battalion, 152nd Armor, are shown here on the firing line at the Camp Stewart, Ga., artillery raniit during a two-week iumnur encampment of the North Carolina National Guard (S0h Infantry Ltvlaioii), The batullon'a headquarters 1 In Raeford, aa la a portion of the headquartere company of (he battalion, and other units are In neighboring towns. The local Guardsmen returned lo Raeford Sunday after two weeks of rough veather and hard drilling In Georgia. They were plagued the first eek by heavy rauia, and the final week by torrid temperatures. Next week's edition of The News-Journal will be Issued a day earlier than usual to give advertisers benefit of July 4 holiday weekend business. Thursday being a leal holiday, most subscribers would nit receive the paper until Friday If it were Issued at the customary time. Now, the paper will be in the hands of sub scribers by Wednesday, giving weekend advertisers an extra day of circulation. Community correspond ents and other readers with contributions for the paper are asked to deliver them to the newspaper office a day earlier than usual. That is, all material for publication ;hould be sub mitted by Monday morn ing. The News-Jourr.al office will be closed Thursday, as will most business es tablishments ar.d offices in Raeford. Kb EVJ. ALLAN SMYTH Shiloh Presbyterian Church in Montrose Sunday night, June 30, at 3 o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Smyth and his wife have been in Raeford for three weeks, moving here from Dunn, where he served as as sistant pastor of First Pres byterian Church. His respon sibilities Included serving the congregation of Sansom Chapel and serving as campus pastor at Campbell College, where he was director of a coffee house ministry, sponsored by several churches in the area. Before the work at Dunn, the minister served as pastorate In Leatherwood, Ky., a coal camp in the mountains near Harlan. He Is a graduate of Davidson College and of Union Seminary In Richmond. He grew up In Hartsvllle, S.C., and In Blacks See PASTOR, Pat U
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