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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXIV NUMBER 13
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
14 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY
THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1968
Three From Each Race
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CHUG A LUG JUG-Statt Highway
Patrolman J.D. Robinson Isn't getting
ready to take off on vacation In the above
photo, but displays a one-gallon bottle
(half full) of champagne confiscated
Irate Husband Shoots
Estranged Wife Twice
A 38-year-old Antioch nun ha been
placed und:j bonis tcf'Jing $4.(X)
following a weekend ihooting scrape in
which hit eitringcd wife and another
woman were Injured.
Sheriff Dave Barrington laid Henry
Woodi, Antioch Rt. 1, hai admitted
wounding hit wife, Emma, and Mm.
Brenda Joyce Locklear ihortly after
midnight Saturday.
"Woodi told deputiet Harvey Young
Meeting Set
By Waterworks
There will be a "mast meeting" of
memberi of Northwest Water Supply,
Inc., Monday night at 8 o'clock at bait
Freedom Maionic Lodge, according to
officers of the North Racford waterworks
group.
Purpose of the meeting is to collect the
$20 membership dues required of any
household expecting to become a
member of the organization.
The corporation recently was awarded
federal loan to construct and put into
operation a water system for the
Queenmore, Silver City and Cameron
Heights sections.
Further information is available from
any member of the board of directors,
which includes Arthur B. Kemp, the Rev.
Robert E. Fisher, James A. Thomas Jr.,
Mary T. Morrison, Robert L. Doby,
Emmette Steele, Mrs. Clara Wilkerson and
Elder Mantey Pureed.
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UMQVh' HASDLEBAR Bitty Bets' bicycle probably it the mutt unusual one in
town. He was trying to outdo his friend, Willie McArthur (on two-wlteeler with
oversize handlebars) and came up with the idea of using a rod and steering wheel
from a car. Breesing around town last Friday, he stopped to let hilie McLean
climb on for a picture. Willie will have to grow a Utile more before he gets a ride
out of It.
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recently pom an auto driver. The driver
and another occupant of the car both
were charged with having consumed too
much of the missing champagne.
and Alex Norton he opened tire on her
fter believjn? she baleen out late at a
Juke joint with another man," Barrington
said.
He said the Locklear woman and her
husband apparently had brought Mrs.
Woods to Henry Woods' home and were
not otherwise involved in the
"misunderstanding."
Mrs. Woods was struck by two bullets,
one hitting her in the shoulder, another in
the arm. Mrs. Locklear received a bullet
wound near the temple, the slug
traversing her scalp between the skull and
the skin, as it half-spent when it struck,
Barrington said.
He said Woods' account and the nature
of the wound led him to believe the slug
which struck Mrs. Locklear had first
passed through Mrs. Woods' arm.
Meanwhile, Barrington revealed that
three men have oeen arrested in
connection with theft of some 9,000
pounds of pelletized turkey feed from an
Upchurch Turkey Farms operation near
Poole's Orchards on N.C. 211.
Lacy McMillan, 32, of Red Springs Rt.
1, faces a charge of larceny of goods
valued at $432.
Joseph Hunt, alias Nich Hunt, of
Shannon Rt. I, and Alamander Lowery,
Shannon Rt. 1, are charged with receiving
stolen goods, Barrington said.
' The theft allegedly took place Sunday
morning, July 28, the sheriff said. About
7,500 pounds of the feed has been
recovered.
Hearings for the trio were scheduled
for Wednesday, but Barrington said he
expected defense counsel will ask for and
be granted continuance.
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County Board To Name
Human Relations Council
Hoke County commissioners this week
agreed to appoint a nine-man "Hoke
County Human Relations Commission"
in repsonse to a petition of Negro
ministers and citizens.
The agreement culminated several
months of preliminary planning and
petitioning by a group headed by the
Rev. Thomas D. Walker, pastor of Piney
Grove Baptist Church.
The group had appeared earlier before
Raeford Town Baord and won agreement
to go along with county commissioners in
the matter. That willingness was
stipulated in a letter from town
commissioners to the county board,
delivered to the county group's Monday
meeting.
Purposes of the commission were
identified in the petition as:
- Opening a channel of
communication between the races in the
county.
- Seeking ways and means of
Improving race relations within the
county.
Schooldays
Will Begin
August 30
The school calendar for the
upcoming school year has been
announced by D.D. Abemethy,
superintendent of schools.
After an August 30
registration day, students will
have a holiday on Labor "Day,
September 2, and begin classes
September 3.
Teachers will report for duty
August 28.
Other dates on the calendar
Include: September 30, end of
first month; October 11,
teacher professional meeting;
October 29, end of second
month; November 26, end of
third month; November 29-30,
Thanksgiving holiday; December
23-January 1, Christmas
holidays.
January 7, end fourth month;
February 4, end fifth month;
March 4, end sixth month; April
I, end seventh month; April J-7,
Easter holidays; May 2, end
eighth month; May 30, end
ninth month; June 3, last day
for teachers.
Culbreth Dies
At Drug Store
Graham McKenzle Culbreth, 61,
Southern Pines druggist and a native of
Raeford, died Tuesday morning at an
Aberdeen drug store where he was
temporarily working.
He had owned drug stores at Hamlet
and Southern Pines, but sold them
recently and retired. As do many retired
druggists, he "filled in" for other
pharmacists during vacation periods and
emergencies.
Culbreth was a 1931 grsduate of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He was i member of Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church, a Shriner,
Rotarian and Elk.
Professionally, he was a member of the
National Association of Retail Druggists,
North Carolina Pharmaceutical
Association, and Kappa Psi fraternity.
He had served 10 years as a member of
Moore County Board of Health.
Among his survivors are a brother,
Fred M. Culbreth of Raeford. He also
lesves his wife, Mrs. Lou Eastwood
Culbreth; one son, Thomas E. Culbreth of
Australia; one daughter, Mrs. Mark C.
Liddell of Southern Pines and five
grandchildren.
Graveside rites will be conducted
Fridsy at 5:30 p. m. at Mount Hope
Cemetery, Southern Pines, by Or. Julian
Lake and the Rev. Dan K.. Norman.
- Recommending appropriate action
to relieve potential problem areas within
the county.
Promoting a spirit of common
concern among people of the county for
all its citizenry.
The nine-man commission will consist
of three representatives from each the
white, Negro and Indian segments of the
population.
Its members will elect from among
themselves a chairman and other officers.
It will maintain committees on
grievances, recreation, education,
employment, housing, and community
development.
The organizational plan stipulates the
commission will meet at least once s
month to discuss problems and other
matters pertinent to its existence and
purposes.
It will report bi-monthly to the board
of county commissioners its findings and
make appropriate recommendations to
Improve areas deemed deficient.
Furthermore, the commission ahull,
after appointment, meet and select the
Mayor Of Bessmer City
Hired As Town Manager
Raeford Town Board has hired a town
manager to succeed J. Ed Williams, who
left July 1 to become town manager of
Erwin.
He is John D. Caddy, 44, former town
manager at Bessemer City and currently
mayor of that Gaston County town, lie
will report here August 1 5.
Appointment of Caddy was agreed
upon Monday night at the August
meeting of the town board, held
downstairs from the usual meeting place
because of unbearable heat in the second
story meeting hall.
Gaddy was chosen from among three
applicants for the town manager's lob,
created five years ago and first filled by
Williams.
Caddy's experience in municipal
operations date to 1946, when after more
than three years of wartime duty with
air-sea rescue assignments in the Army
Air Forces he began work as street
foreman in Gastonia. He supervised
construction and maintenance ot streets,
dirocted vehicle maintenance, and was
coordinator for the street and sanitation
departments until 1953.
He is a former business manager of
Gaston Community Hospital, where he
handled all revenues ana administrative
duties, and since 1967 has been personnel
and production coordinator for a thread
manufacturing firm in Gastonia.
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following officers: chairman, vice
chairman and recorder; set a time and
place f r its regular meeting, and
designate responsible persons within the
commission for the several committees,"
the petition explained.
Any meinber of the commission who is
absent from three consecutive regular
meetings or is infrequent in attcudacne at
the monthly meetings shall be removed
from the commission and replaced by
another member of his race.
Members shall be appointed for
two-year terms, according to the outline.
Commissioners agreed to appoint the
commission soon after the petitioners
submit a list of persons recommended for
appointment. It was estimated that the
appointments will be made within the
next two weeks.
Appearing with the Rev. Mr. Walker at
Monday's meeting were Jimmy Morriscy,
G. A. Robinson, W. T. McAllister Sr., the
Rev. Neil McPhattcr and James Hurst.
In other business, commissioners voted
to sell a radio at the health department to
From 1961 to 1966, he was general
superintendent of Bessemer City, a
position upgraded to city manager in
1963.
After leaving the city administration
for the hospital post in 1906, he returned
in I9h7 as mayor.
"Since being elected mayor in 1967,
we have applied for and received a federal
recreation grant; adopted a planning and
zoning ordinance; adopted an industrial
sewer ordinance, and applied for a federal
grant for a waste treatment plant
addition," Gaddy said in his application.
The new town manager is 44 years old,
six feet tall, weighs 200 pounds, and is
married and father of four children.
Trucker Is Hit,
A South Carolina truck driver escaped
serious injury here Friday afternoon
when he reportedly stepped into the side
of a moving auto after alighting from his
tractor-trailer rig at Racford Turkey
Farms.
Police Chief L.W. Stanton said L.M.
Posey had parked the rig on the curb
across Central Avenue from the Raeford
Cold Storage, a subsidiary of Racford
Turkey Farms, where he was to pick up a
load of frozen birds.
When he started across the street,
Stanton said, he bumped into the side of
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OLDTIMERS- This is the entire student body of Gold Hill School in Hoke County
in IS 95. Only four persons in the photograph are still alive, according to the
photo 's own. Mrs. Elizabeth Livingston. Shown are, left to right: Front row, Sal
McKemie McBryde end Annie McBryde McNeill (still alive). Flora Belle Currie,
Maggie McMillan, tin tie Currie. Dixon McMillian. Bud McMillian; Lorn Hall (still
alive), John Hector Currie, Jim Mckewle and Bill McMillian; back row, Lawrence
Hursey teacher), Maggie McBryde Barnard, Jimmy McBryde Campbell, May
McKemie McBryde, Mary Ella McMillian Goodman, Janie Mae Currie, Kate
McBryde Livingsnn (still alive). Charlie Hursey, Sam Mckenzie, Gus Mckenzie,
Arch McKemie and John Dunk McBryde.
the Town of Racford for $25. They
passed resolutions (according to requests
by citizens) to recommend that SK 1440
in Antioch section by paved and that a
road be opened up from Highway 21 1 to
Bethel Road to Highway 401 .
A request also was sent in asking that
the highway department be asked to
speed up work on a bridge on Rural Rt.
3, near Rockfish. Detour signs have
caused the mailman and many farmers to
go long distances out of the way for
several weeks, it was pointed out. The
board agreed to contact the highway
department on the subject. The requests
came from Albert Leach (new road
project) Albert C'urric (SRI440) and
Smith Mclnnis (bridge).
M.F. Page, representing the
architectural firm of Echols, Sparkcr and
Associates, advised the board that the
new jail is complete. The board, at the
suggestion of Attorney C.H. Hosteller,
agreed to sign acceptance papers as soon
as they had been properly signed by the
contractors and the contractors and the
architects.
He was graduated from Belmont High
School, Auto-Diesel College in Nashville,
Tenn., and completed courses in
municipal administration at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He also attended N. C. Waste
Treatment School there, taking courses in
construction, operation and control of
municipal waste and water supply,
He also received a certificate in
industrial management, personnel control
and public relations at Gaston College.
Gaddy comes to Racford at a time
when bids arc about to be advertised for a
million-dollar sewage treatment plant
expansion and installation of industrial
sewer mains.
Not Badly Hurt
a car driven by Mrs. Lorcnc Mason and
owned by her father, Thomas Warren,
Ractord Rt. I. a passenger in the car.
Chief Stanton said Posey, operator of a
rig for Ncilscn Motor Lines, Charleston,
miraculously suffered no broken bones.
He said the windshield of the car was
smashed, indicating Posey may have been
hit as he swung away from the tall truck
cab.
He was taken to Cape Fear Valley
Hospital in Faycttcvillc, where he
reportedly was admitted in satisfactory
condition.
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