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' The Hoke County Newt- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXIV NUMBER 40
RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
4 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1969
Around Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The new organ it tlx Rteford
Presbyterian Church wu used Sunday
and sounds fine to me. It wu stated
during the service that more pipes and
reeds w'll be added in the next week or
two and then the Tine tuning will be
done. I don't know anything about music
but guess this it the same as fine tuning a
color TV set. You can see the picture but
the image and color are much clearer
when you can get the fine tuning
adjusted. So we have something still to
look forward to as far as music is
concerned at the Presbyterian Church.
The Canadians left to go back to
Canada and the day afterwards J. D.
McMillian received a call from a local lady
who Is of French descent who wanted an
introduction. So you see it "Pays To
Advertise."
Two stories which happened in
Raeford recently seem to be on the
humorous side so I will relate them
below, of course, omitting names.
Last week a man came into the office
and asked Mrs. Floyd to see me and she
Indicated my desk at the opposite side of
the building. He said it was in confidence
and we went into a private office. It
seems someone in the Federal Building
told him that if the Selective Service
office wu closed to come by and see me.
This is the reason for the confident
nature of the conversation. After he
found out that I was chairman of the
draft board, he said that his son didn't
mean to volunteer for the Army when he
signed up the day before. Of course, I was
completely In a fog u to what he wu
talking about. You do not volunteer to
nor does the board put people in any
branch of the service and I explained that
to him. The boy had just turned 18 and
after more talk it seems that Raz Autry
had let the boy go to register during a
study hall. The man said a soldier came
out to his home that morning and told his
wife that their son made a mistake on his
form the day before and that he would
like to et it corrected before he went
into tErXimf.Vy this time the fog was
lifting somewhat. The Army Recruiter for
this territory uses the office across from
the Selective Service office and as the
Selective Service office is open only 28
hours a week the boy must have gotten in
the wrong office. I explained this to the
man and he left to see if he could get up
with the recruiter and get his son signed
up in the correct office. I don't know
what the outcome will be, but a little
advice to 18 year olds going to register.
The clerk at the selective service is a lady
and she doesn't wear an army uniform.
A business man in this town, who in
the put twenty years hasn't had much
time for anything but work, related this
to me a few weeks ago. He said that his
children wanted him to purchase a certain
brand of perfume to give his wife on her
anniversary. The perfume couldn't be
purchased in Raeford so a very close
friend of his, especially before he started
working so hard, wu in his store and lie
told him about the perfume and that it
must be purchased out of town. Now his
friend hu business in Fayetteville or Fort
Bragg three or four times every week and
told him he would be delighted to pick
up the bottle of perfume for him. Of
course a price wu mentioned of about
SI 2 to SIS. The next day when his friend
brought back the bottle of perfume he
asked him how much it cost. The buyer
told a sad tale about how they didn't
have the brand he wanted so he had
purchased a bottle that wu almost $30.
This didn't make our local busineuman
happy but he said he had learned his
lesson and he wouldn't let anyone spend
his money again. This would seem to be a
good ending to the story but it wu only
the beginning for when the man gave his
wife the $30 bottle of perfume - Sorry,
but the girls can't type the words that
didn't make it a happy anniversary.
Family Needs
Aid As Fire
Destroys Home
The home of Jessie Ann and Neil
McCeachy was burned Tuesday, Feb. 4
leaving the family of eight including an
expectant mollier. without clothing.
The Dundarrach area home was burned
Tuesday night after it caught fire from an
electrical sliortage. Neil is a garage
worker.
The family moved in with a
siiter-in-law. Bertha Garcia of Shannon
Rt. I. Children in the family four girls
and two boys, ages 2 to 1 1 .
Needed are clothing and houiehold
items. Nothing in the house was saved,
according to case workers at the Hoke
County welfare Department. Those who
have things to contribute may call the
department or take them there for
delivery.
District Civil
Court Starts
Here Monday
District Civil Court will be held in
Hoke County next week with Judge D. B.
Herring presiding.
Besides four divorce suits, other cases
to be tried will include, James Rodney
Lee, BNF Mary Lois Lee vs Hubert M.
Crumpler and Nellie B. Crumpler, DBA
The Hitching Post.
I. W. Kinlaw vt William Nelson Brown
and Cape Fear Electronics Co.
Hoke-Scotland Tractor Co. vt Ben
Als'on & wife Annie Alston.
Lamar K. Smith Jr. vs Clyde Griffin.
Ray Woolfenden vs Friendly
Broadcasting Co. TA Radio Station
WSHB.
Clayton Bouyer vs Bernard Bray.
William J. Ratley vs Gloria Beam
C. O. Brackin vs C. W. Harvey.
Louise Kemp Thomas vs Gateway Life
Insurance Co.
A 42-member jury list drawn for the
term includes: Albert McArn, Kenneth A.
McDonald, Mrs. Stanley M. Koonce,
James McCormick, Wood row Lewis, Fred
W. Culbreth, Aron Lloyd, C. J. Conneil,
Howard Ray, Mamie Ross Gatlin, Willa
Wells.
Louise G. Ledbetter, Elaine H. Brown,
James Luther Odom, Sr., Miles
McEachern, Geraldine Barber, Ernest
Dewey Hodges, Daniel Henry Shaw,
Milton B. McCall, John T. Stewart, D. K.
Parker, Sr., Fred Leslie Foster, Bessie
Jane Morrison.
Marjory J. Roberts, L. D. Dukes, Mrs.
Harold Gillis, Sadie M. Diggs, Walter
Purcell, Earnest Hall, Peter Dockery,
Prince A. Black, James McKay, lola McB.
Powell, Kathryn H. McPhatter, H. L.
Satterwhite, Wilson Lunaford.
J. H. Blythe, Fred Lloyd, Mattie
Campbell, Mrs. May me Bevan, Will
Baldwin, Faye Dot Bain.
Vandalism
Of Mail Boxes
Could Bring FBI
There seems to be some indecision as
to whether or not the persons who pulled
up and tore down some 50 mail boxes in
the county last week have committed a
federal offense. It may be yes and it may
be no!
There is one thing Sheriff Dave
Barrington is sure of that is, if there was
mail in any of the boxes the vandals can
be in trouble with the FBI. The VS.
Postal Department does have a certain
amount of jurisdiction over mailboxes. It
can say what is and what is not to go in
the boxes - and it may step in if the
boxes are tampered with even though
they were purchased and installed by the
user.
The sheriff said that investigation is
continuing into the vandalism in which
boxes were pulled out of the ground and
stacked in a pile in the McLeod Cross
Road area and on the other side of
Raeford in the South Freedom Church
area. The church's outside toilet was
again pushed over, according to the
report.
Last year a number of boys involved in
vandalism at South Freedom Church were
obliged to pay for damages there after an
investigation determined who the
offenders were.
Frank Tapp, Retired
Farmer, Passes Tuesday
Cicero Frank Tapp, 72, a retired Hoke
County businessman and farmer, died
Tuesday morning in Moore Memorial
Hospital at Pinehurst.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday rr-
at 3:30 p.m. I
at the Rae-
30 p.m.
lie Rae
Prrthv,
ford
t i i I i UK
Church V '
where he had
oeen a mem- iv
her for manv
years and !'
had served u '
deacon.
Officiating
at the serv
ices was tlx
Rev. Cortea
Cooper.
Burial was in
the Raeford
Cemetery.
Masonic rites were held at the grave.
Mr. Tapp wu a member of the Royal
Arch Masons, the Knights Templar and a
East worthy patron of the Order of the
astern Star. He alto was former
Shrmer, belonged to the Soutlicrn Pines
Masonic Council of Royal Arch Masons,
the Select Masters, The Council of Super
Excellent Masters, and was past master of
the Raeford Masonic Lodge.
He was a former director of the
Cooperative Warehouse of Lumberton.
The family requests, that hi lieu of
flowers, contributions be sent to the
Fund Raising Committee Appointed
.New Stadium Proposed
For Hoke Hi
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MA YOR COMES FIRST - Beth and Becky Riddle launch the Girl Scout Cookie tale by approaching Mayor H. R. McLean for the
first tale. The annual sale is about to go into full swing. Orders wilt be taken now and hundreds of boxes of fresh cookies will be
delivered at a later date. Proceeds will go for heal and area scouting needs. Cirl scouts are working under the supervision of Mrs.
MiloPosteL
1969 Advance Payments
For Commodity Programs
Producers signing up February 3
through March 21 to participate in the
1969 feed grain and wheat programs (as
well as certain small cotton farms) can
request advance payments of up to SO
percent for voluntary extra acreage,
diversion, it was announced today by
Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M.
Hardin. This is the maximum advance
that- can be made on the diversion
Masonic Building Fund, Kaetord.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary W.
Tapp, one daughter, Mrs. Earl Fowler of
Winston-Salem, one brother, William H.
Tapp of Raeford, four sisters, Mrs. Mary
Helton Smith, Raeford; Mrs. Crawford
Wright, Raeford, Mrs. Hinson Walters of
Vass and Mrs. H.E. Stinchcombe of Black
Mountain; two grandchildren.
Heart Fund
Coffee Day
February 22
Mrs. Al Bruketa, Chairman of the
Heart Fund Coffee Day, announced that
Coffee Day this year will be held on
February 22 in front of Howell's drug
store.
Between the hours of 10:00 a. m. and
4:00 p. m. the members of the Deca Club
will sell hot coffee and will collect the
proceeds for the Heart Fund.
The Deca Club, Distributive Education
Club of America, consists of juniors and
seniors who have classes either in
marketeering or distributive education. It
is an active group which has helped needy
children at Christmas by making,
repairing and buying toys. On Saturday
the 22 of February they will be joining
others in Hoke county to give so that
others may live.
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payments.
In a statement issued by the President
at the White House, the Secretary was
instructed to make available a SO percent
advance payment to participants in the
1 969 feed grain program. The Presidential
statement pointed out that a budget
request to the Congress on January IS,
1969, and this advance reduced to 25
percent. Because of the short time
between the January IS budget
presentation and the signup starting
February 3, the President indicated the
Government has a moral obligation to
continue the rate without abrupt change.
Projected on previous years' signups
and current payment rates, disbursement
of partial advance payments to feed grain,
wheat, and cotton program participants
are expected to reach $386 million by the
close of the signup period on March 21 .
Otherwise, the advance payments would
have been $168 million less.
Feed grain and wheat producers may
receive, upon request, up to SO percent of
the estimated diversion payment for their
farm. This is for acreage which producers
voluntarily retire from production
beyond that required to qualify as a
participant.
For cotton, there is no acreage
diversion program in 1969. However,
planting cotton is not an eligibility
requirement to receive a special payment
for small farms with allotments of 10
acres or less (or projected production of
3,600 pounds or less). These can request
up to 50 percent advance payment based
on a total of 11.26 cents per pound on
the projected yield of 35 percent of their
effective allotment.
These advance payments wiil be made
as soon as possible after the producer
signs up.
Shooting At 66
A Raeford man is in jail awaiting a
hearing and another is in Cape Fear
Valley hospital suffering from gunshot
wounds as a result of a late Saturday
night brawl at Club 66.
George Moore is accused of shooting
William McLaurin of Shannon leaving 16
shots in his body.'The incident occurred
at the night spot on Highway 401 near
the edge of North Raeford.
A hearing has been set for Feb. 28.
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Free Meal
Used Making
Stumphole'
A 300-gallon liquor drum and loads of
"surplus food" meal flew to smithereens
Tuesday morning when ABC and ATU
officers fired TNT to a Hoke County
whiskey still.
It was the first to be uncovered in the
county this year, Kermit Riley, Hoke
ABC officer, said. The set-up, located
about one mile from Rockfish on the
Dundarrach road, was unattended when
found.
Empty bags lying around in the area
disclosed the fact that meal given free to
feed hungry children of low income
families was not being used for this
purpose, but was fermenting in a 250
gallon mash container to make illegal
"stumphole whiskey."
Riley said he was assisted by other
officers including ABC and ATU men
from Cumberland and Robeson counties.
No Road Work
For Hoke County
Cumberland, Robeson, Scotland and
Moore counties are listed among those
getting new road work under the fist
1969 letting of contracts by the Highway
Commission last Friday, but Hoke was
again the underdog.
A few weeks ago, a report released by a
commissioner for this area, J. F. McN'air,
111 of Scotland County, showed that
Hoke fur three years had all but been left
out of the picture when it came to
building and rebuilding roads. Had it not
been for the 1968 McCain project on NC
211, Hoke would have had nothing to
brag about.
Among contracts let last week was a
$63,377.40 contract in Cumberland for
rest area improvements on 1-95; Moore
SI 00,276.50 for grading in Carthage;
Scotland $17,23$ for widening and
surfacing a piece of SR 1611; and
Robeson $1,692,404.79 for grading,
structure and fencing in the relocation of
LS-74.
Schoo.
"Lights and bleachers must be installed
at the old field if we are to use it next
season for football," Raz Autry principal
at Hoke County High School told a group
of citizens at the Gibson School cafeteria
last Wednesday night, February S. The
group came at the request of the principal
and were told that he was an optimist and
had asked people who were optimistic to
attend. Autry explained the condition of
the lights and bleachers at the present
location and how the school each year
had to pay for repairs at the park that
occurred during the off-season caused by
vandalism. He tlien informed the group
that he was going to ask the Board of
Education to build a new stadium at the
High School and needed the group
present to assist in raising the necessary
funds.
Autry along with John Pecora, Jim
Danks and Landwood Simpson had gone
on trips to Sanford, Lumberton and East
Guilford to inspect their new stadiums
and had plans from two of these for the
interested citizens to look at. After the
principal had explained the plans and the
work done by these schools he opened
the meeting for questions and discussion.
John Scott Poole said he represented a
group of conservatives and had some
questions that the group wanted him to
get answered. He went into the difference
in costs of moving the stadium from its
present location and inquired if the land
at the school wouldn't be needed for
building space. After other questions
Autry said that th- w' ol had to furnish
space for phytic! eduction and that the
stadium would be on this part of the
school property. He also stated that lights
would be installed for football only and
would be cheaper than installing new
lights at the old park to be used for all
sports. More control and usage could be
made of the field if it was at the high
school, the principal continued. After
another question or two Poole excused
himself.
The remaining citizens asked that a
committee be appointed to consider ways
of raising the money and for the principal
to find out what the cost would be for
the new stadium. This was approved and
the group will met again on Wednesday
night at 8 o'clock Feb. 19 at the Gibson
School cafeteria to formulate final plans.
The committee appointed is as follows:
Leonard Frahm, chairman, William Poole,
Palmer Willcox, Mrs. Ed Murray, J.D.
McAllister, the Rev. Thomas Walker, Pete
Sawyer, Dr. R.M. Jordan and CD.
Bounds. This committee and Autry
invites everyone interested to attend the
meeting on Feb. 19th.
Cameron
Replaces
Bostic
Hubert Cameron will be the new cost
accountant for the transportation
department of Hoke County schools,
Supt. D. D. Abernethy has announced.
Cameron is filling the position in the
school garage office which wu left vacant
with the death of C. D. Bostic several
weeks ago. He was hired last week by the
county board of education.
At the same time, Mrs. Jack Vinson has
been hired as special education teacher at
Raeford Elementary School. She fills the
place vacated by Mrs. Sarah Jacobus.
1969 License
Purchase Time
Extended
The Raeford Motor Vehicles Bureau
will sell license plates through Monday,
Harold Gillis, chamber manager,
announced Tuesday. The deadline was to
have been Saturday noon fix the local
office.
The extension of time wu made from
the state level since many offices are open
half day, or not at all, on Saturdays.
Vehicles not displaying 1969 license
plates will be stopped by patrolmen after
mid-night Monday.