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4 The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXIV NUMBER 26
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
14 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1968
Nixon Wins State, Nation As
VOTING AT McCAIN PRIC1NCT - Harry Thornberg, registrar, checks for a voteri
recorded name while R. D. Strother Sr, directs the voter. The third poleholder it Lee
Strother.
County Commissioners
Hold Routine Meeting
The Hoke County Board of County
Commissioners made a number of
appointments Monday at the regular
November meeting and heard reports
from various agencies.
Upon the formal resignation of Jim
Fout, former local Chamber manager,
Phil Diehl was named as his successor on
the Hoke County Planning and
Development Commission. Olhcrs
re-appointed were, Bobby Gibson and C.
D. Bounds.
' Jerry Goza was appointed to succeed
Charlie Holtel who tendered his
resignation from the Sandhills
Community Action Program board.
Dichl was also named to succeed Fout
on the Southeastern District Economic
Town Board Meets
Town commissioners spent most of
Monday night's session in dealing with
water and sewer projects.
A resolution was passed authorizing
Moore-Gardner and Associates to
advertise for bids on the expansion of the
present disposal plant.
December lOlh was set as the date for
letting contracts. It has been an
established fact (hat the facility as it now
stands is insufficient for the town's needs
By common consent, Town Manager
John Gaddy was authorized to proceed
with expansion of water facilities in the
Kacford Cemetery and to hire
McLaughlin Plumbing Co. to open a
trench for water lines at 10 cents per
foot.
School To Hold
Open House Nov. 14
The Raeford tlementary School will
hold open house on Thursday, November
14, at 8:00 P.M. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
This is in observance of American
Education Week from November 10-10.
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Local Physician Complains
To County Commissioners
Hie "impossible medical situation"
existing in Hoke County is not an isolated
case because it is one which exists all over
Ilk- stale. Dr. Riley Jordan agreed
Monday, but he told Hoke County
ConimisMoners that "it is getting bigger
than hot h Dr. Bob Town send and I can
handle."
The two are the only doctors left for
regular duty at the Raeford Medical
Group since Dr. Hairy Mcl ean left a year
ago.
Dr. Jordan emphasized thai he was not
arguing or complaining but that he and
Dr. Townsend could not continue lo treat
indigent patients lor nothing. He did not
know the solution lo the problem, he
declared, Bui "lime is spent giving
treatment lo non-paying patients while
persons needing services just as badly ,
who will pay, are wailing.
"For sell survival, doctois iiuisl begin
looking oul for themselves." he averted.
He explained thai there is not enough
medical personnel available heic and "we
have lo leave (own lo get icst night or
day." He declared thai iltcy are
rcproatlted upon llieir iciurn lor having
been elsewhere when needed. "Ihee
detrimental remarks also aie dnectcd lo
our children and our wives," lie declaicd.
Development Commission.
Reports were heard from the Sheriff!
Department, the tax collector's office and
the Extension office.
I he commissioners passed a resolution
approving uniform fees in the office of
the Register of Deeds as recommended by
the state.
Paved walks from the new drive to the
building at t'pehurch were discussed and
Supt. D. D. Aberncthy advised the
county men that the auditorium there
was in a had state of repair. The question
was raised as to whether the structure
should he removed or remodeled. The
auditorium is one of two in the county
which is sufficient to hold a sizeable
audience. The other is Raeford
tlementary.
I he board voted in favor of
authorizing the town manager to proceed
with plans to extend water lines on North
Main Street and North Fulton Street to
alleviate water pressure problems to
provide for adequate fire protection.
The manager was also authorized to
negotiate for the sale of an old house, in
the cemetery, which has been termed
surplus properly.
Plans were made for the annual
fireman's dinner to be held at J. W.
Mcl-auchlin School at 7 p. m., Nov. 1 1 .
During the monthly business session
presided over by Mayor H. R. McLean,
the possibility of giving i firm supplying
cable TV t lie privilege of coming into
Raeford was discussed. Since a contract
signed with another cable IV supplier
some two years ago was not exercised by
the firm, Phil Diehl, town attorney, was
asked to check out the legal status of the
town.
The board was advised by Gaddy that
Dr. Riley Jordan a local physician, had
publicly deplored the tact that the
kacford Medical Group is being overrun
with indigent and otherwise non-paying
patients. He (Gaddy) added that this was
not a request for action but was food for
thought.
"I don't feel il our Christian duly to
serve these people, it it a Christian
privilege, the doctor thoughtfully
declared, "but the demands are bigger
than the two of us can cope with.
He said dial he felt an obligation to the
public but thai there is a slopping place
within reason.
There should he a strong movement by
some individual, public agency or
organization to bring more medical
people here, Dr. Jordan said.
He pointed out that he had brought
several good doctors here, naming Dr.
Jones. Dr. Davenport, Dr. McLean, Dr.
Barry, but Hoke County and the town
had let them go." We have the facilities to
entice other doctor! here but when they
look at the outstanding accounts on the
books, i hey say they can do belter
elsewhere.
The physician pointed out that
preventive medicine could keep many
patients out of the hospitals, cutting
down on expenses of llie county and the
institutions Not as a suggestion, hut
more as a projected idea, he said tlut if a
nurse were employed by tlie welfare
department who would visil the hornet
and help chronically ill. low income
patients, their condition may be
Hoke
With
United Fund Drive
Reported Lagging
The Hoke County United Fund drive ii
in its second week but reports from
workers are coming in slow. Around $500
hat been reported to date to Treasurer
Sam C. Morris, Bobby Conoly, campaign
chairman, requests that all workers make
a final push so that the drive can be
concluded by this weekend.
In the divisions donations are as
follows: Commercial $79.00; Teachers
$95.00; Industrial $260.20 and County
areas $5.00.
Six Accidents In Hoke
No Deaths, Damage Heavy
A car was so badly demolished early
Sunday morning that four truck loads
were required to haul it away from the
scene, yet the driver was not critically
injured in the one-car accident.
According to Patrolman Joe Stanley,
Freddie Revels Jr., Raeford, was being
pursued by a patrol car when he lost
control of his 1 96 J Chevrolet oH U". S.
Kidnapping
Unsolved
Both federal and local law enforcement
officers are trying to solve a kidnapping
crime which occurred in Raeford,
Monday night at 6:30 p.m.
Robert (Bobby) Harrell Jr., 17 year
old (on of Mr. and Mrs. Harrell of
F.dinhorough Avenue, was using a pay
telephone booth at the but station when
the door was pushed open and a strange
man thrust a gun in his side and ordered
him to hang up the receiver.
The high school boy was then told to
get into hit car and drive the gunman to
Red Springs, Orders were dished out from
town to town until the two were in Latta,
SC. After reaching there, the alleged
kidnapper snatched the keys from the car
and fled, leaving the young boy stranded.
He made his way to a phone booth and
notified his parents of his frightful
experience. They picked him up as toon
as possible but left the car with Latta
police who were holding it for
fingerprints and other inspection.
improved before the circumstances
reached the point of necessary
hospitalization and even in tome
instances, vititt to the doctor, he
indicated.
Dr. Jordan remarked that the welfare
department referred patients to him with
papert which allowed payment for one
visit only. Often an ailing person can not
be sufficiently treated in lest than four or
five, or sometimes 10 or 15 visits.
To this Mist Mabel McDonald later
remarked that the never gave a client a
clearance slip for more than one trip to
the doctor at a time. "But if I he doctor
advises an additional visit for further
treatment, anollter card is issued.
"We have a budget and we have no
alternative but to watch il carefully," she
declared.
Suspicion was aroused among tlie
commissioners as to whether an
occurence of last week may have been the
straw tlut broke the camel's back. Three
children were checked out. and cleared,
by the local welfare department as to
eligibility from the family income
standpoint. One case wat later turned
down for welfare payment by the title
department because the nature of the
illness did not qualify.
Goes Democratic
Record Turnout
The drive at Raeford Worsted and
Pacific Mills Dye Plant are almost
complete according to Ashwell Harward.
He said that donations were about the
same as in the past few years and expects
about the same amount of money.
The United Fund campaign here has
failed to reach its goal only twice in
about 20 years of operation.
Conoly requested that all pledges be
turned in to Treasurer Morris at The
News-Journal office.
401 five miles north of Raeford. Tie car
overturned and appeared to have
exploded, he said. It burst into flames
which were extinguished by the Hillcrest
Fire Department.
Revels was charged with exceeding 100
miles per hour and with careless and
reckless driving. He was treated at Cape
Fear Valley Hospital and released.
On Friday night, Daniel Hendrix of
Raeford, driving a 1967 Plymouth, lost
control on the Raeford Dundarrach road.
Stanley reported that Hendrix found,
when passing a pick-up truck, that he was
meeting a car head-on. To avoid a
collision he swung quickly to the right
side of the road again, only to find that
there was not enough room for his car
between the car he had passed and
another just ahead of it, so he took to the
ditch. He was treated and released at
Cape Fear Valley Hospital and was
charged with reckless driving. His car was
damaged an estimated $2,000.
On Saturday night, Perry McCord, Ft.
Bragg, was charged with careless and
reckless driving when his car hit a bridge
and ran into Lumber River on Highway
401 near the Hoke-Scotland County line.
McCord told Patrolman Stanley, he fell
asleep at the wheel. He was not injured
hut damage to his car was estimated to be
about $1,000.
On Sunday night, Gleen West's car was
termed a total lost when he lost control,
ran off the highway, struck a tree and
overturned. He was not injured.
Patrolman Stanley charged him with
exceeding safe speed.
(See ACC IDLNTS. Page 11)
AFTF.R
Scott Carries County
In Winning State
A record 4527 Hoke County voters
cast ballots for presidential candidates in
Tuesday's election, by unofficial count.
This is about half again as many as the
3032 who voted for Johnson and
Goldwater in 1964, and about two -thirds
more than the 2702 who voted for
Kennedy and Nixon in the county in
I960.
In the countv, Hubert Humphrey was
high with 2 1 14, followed by Geoige
Wallace with 1544 and Richard Nixon
with 809. Humphrey w as high in seven of
the county's 13 precincts, while George
Wallace was high in the other six. Wallace
was high in Raeford pn eincts one, two,
three and four, Rockfish and Sloncwull.
Raeford precinct five gavr Humphrey 485
to three each for Nixon and Wallace.
While Humphrey carried Hoke County,
Nixon carried North Carolina, becoming
the first Republican to do so since
Herbert Hoover did it in 1928, and it
appeared Wednesday morning that Nixon
was on his way to squeaking by in the
electoral vote, although leading in the
national popular vote bv le-. than a half
bullion out of about ?! t tt '
Scott Wina llig Here
While it appeared that Bob Scott had
carried North Carolina by about 20,000,
he was able to look at Hoke County and
be thankful for more than 2,000 of hit
majority. Scott carried every one of the
county't thirteen precincts with an
unofficial total of 3,346 votes to 1 ,1 25 in
the county for Republican Jim Gardner.
Hoke County went along with the rest
of North Carolina in helping Senator Sam
Ervin defeat his Republican opponent,
Robert Somers. Ervin carried every
precinct in Hoke for an unofficial total in
the county of 3,748 to 61 1 for Somers.
Congressman Alton A. Lennon,
unopposed in the Seventh District,
received an unofficial total of 3,786 votes
in Hoke County.
In Hoke County H. Pat Taylor, Jr.,
Democrat, defeated Republican Don
Garren unofficially, 3,351 to 915. Taylor
was elected by a comfortable majority in
the state as were other Democratic
nominees for State offices. All these
received approximately the same vote in
Hoke that Taylor did. E lected were
Secretary of Slate, Thad Eure, State
Auditor, Henry Bridges, State Treasurer
TIIF. RACF. (Retels) - Plioto I Jesse
Edwin Gill, Supt. of Public Instruction
Craig Phillips, Attorney General Robert
Morgan, Commissioner of Agriculture Jim
Graham, Commissioner of Labor Frank
Crane, Commissioner of Insurance Edwin
Lanier along with the Democratic
candidates for the state supreme court,
the court of appeals, and superior court
judgeships.
State Senator Win
For the Stale Senate in the 14th
district Democratic Incumbents John
Henley and Heclor McGeachy won
handily in the county and in the
two-county district. They carried all
precincts in Hoke and Henley's unofficial
total being 3,775 and McGeachy't 3,731
to 567 for their Republican opponent,
John Costin.
Stale Representative Neill McFadycn
received the highest unofficial total of
votes of any opposed candidate in the
county in getting elected to the House of
Representatives from the 24ih District,
w'Hch a.'to include Scotland and
Koftcson counties. Others also elected
were R.L. Campbell, R.D. McMillan and
Gus Speros. In the county McFadycn got
3,868, Campbell 3,708, McMillan 3 ,789,
and Speros 3,707. Their Republican
opponents Charles Davit, John
Sutherland and Frederick Weber got 557,
539 and 528, respectively. In the district,
McMillan had 23,497, Sperot 23,080,
McFadyen 22,875 and Campbell 22,814.
Davis got 3,780, Sutherland 3,720 and
Weber 3,651.
For County Offices
Joe E. Gullege, running unopposed for
register of deeds of Hoke County, wat
high man on the entire ballot, at he
received an unofficial total of 3,898
votes. For two places on the county
board of commissioners, Democrats T om
McBryde and J.A. Webb received 3,857
and 3,748, respectively, to 584 for
Republican Audrian Chambers.
The county went along with the Slate
in passing both constitutional
amendments being voled upon. Hoke
voters favored the amendments on
General Assembly compensalion 2,543 to
1,242. They favored the amendment on
the present system of representation
2,631 lo 826.
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