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The Hoke County News- Established 1928
The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXIV NUMBER 51
RAEFORD. HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
4 PER YEAR 10 PER COPY
THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1969
In Superior Court
Around Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The Raeford Kiwanis Club went as t
group to Sanford last Thursday night for
t district meeting. They went by bus and
took along the Hoke High Pep Band. The
band provided music on the way to
Sanford and it kept the Kiwanians in high
spirits.
Gov. H. Douglas French of Castonia
made the principal address. Also on the
program were Lt. Gov. Albert L. Cox of
Sanford and Herb Hennig of Darlington.
Herb who is 75 years young was
celebrating his birthday. I believe he was
district secretary and treasurer when my
father joined the club here in 1924. He is
known as "Mr. Kiwanian" to the
members in North and South Carolina.
The Pep Band played during the affair
and high praise was bestowed on them by
each speaker of the evening. It just goes
to show that all youngsters don't want to
take over at this time.
In January of 1961 Paul Dickson
received t letter from a lady wanting to
know if we needed a reporter on The
News-Journal. The letter was from
Elizabeth City and the writer said she and
her husband were moving to Parkton and
she had experience as a correspondent
and would like to go to work.
Paul had been contemplating hiring an
editor and making a change in the
business so he wrote her. he w 'd like
for her to come by and talk with him. In
the next few days in came Mrs. Glenn
W. Peebles. She was hired and worked for
i few months until Peter B. Young took
over as editor. Peter B. wanted to do
everything his way and do it himself. So
Lucy Gray went back to Parkton.
Hoke County's Golden Jubilee was also
in 1961 so when we decided to put out a
special edition, it was more than Peter B.
could handle by himself. Paul asked me
to go down to Parkton and talk to Lucy.
My wife and I went down one Sunday
and after tome horse trading Lucy Gray
came in and proceeded to write the
history of each business that appeared in
that edition. It was a job well done.
Several months afterwards Peter B.
found that the grass was greener in
Rockingham and Lucy returned. She has
continued either full or part-time in some
capacity for Dickson Press ever since.
She worked in Lumberton and Parkton
on papers we published there. She was
always ready to go anywhere and do a job
for us. 1 don't believe she ever met
anyone the couldn't talk with and make
friends.
After her husband died she stayed on
in Parkton but continued to work here.
She it known by both young and old in
Hoke County and by members of all
races.
She moved here several months ago
and took her place in the community like
the has done in making friends while
working for The News-Journal. She it
known to most people in the county as
"Lucy Gray."
A month ago she told Paul and I that
she was retiring1 and would leave for
Raleigh where her daughter lives .around
the first of May. Lucy has purchased
home in Raleigh and will be near her
daughter and grandson. This it Lucy's last
week in Raeford. I know that the will be
missed by the readers of this newspaper
and I know that she will be missed by me.
Lucy it the kind of worker everyone
likes to have in an organization. She
would undertake any job, large or small,
and give it all the had. She always made
friends for the organization and this
meant money in the pocket. We will mist
you, Lucy, but we know that Hoke
County's loss is Raleigh's gain. Best of
luck in anything you undertake and be
sure to come back at any time to Hoke
County. The door is always open to you,
Lucy Gray.
Recommendations Presented
As the Governor's Study
Commission on Education sees
it. North Carolina needs to
spend an additional
$300,000,000 on its public
school system to bring them
nearer to the national average
level.
Appointed two years ago by
Gov. Dan Moore, the
commission has come up with
a long list of recommendations.
These were presented at a
District 4 (involving II
counties) meeting Wednesday
night of a Task Force for
Education group at a
Lumberton restaurant by
Jerome Mellon, assistant
superintendent ,of public
instruction. The group
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PAULCURRIE
Paul Currie
Will Attend
West Point
Paul Currie, a former Hoke High
School student and now a freshman at
N.C. State University, has received
notification of his selection for admission
to the U.S. Military Academy.
Currie is the ton of Col. (USAF Ret.)
and Mrs. David S. Currie Jr. He was
nominated for the appointment by
Congressman Alton Lennon.
At N.C. State, he it studying
engineering (Aerospace), it an ROTC
ttudent and it a member of the Varsity
Men's Glee Club.
At Hoke High School, he wat ttudent
council representative; Junior Class
president, High School staff treasurer;
Key Club treasurer, member of the Beta
Club, Monogram Club, High School
Choral Group and Ensemble, was Glee
Club president, a member of the football
squad where he received t number of
honors and participated in track. He was
i Junior Class marshal.
He also received a Time Magazine
Current Events Award. v
At the Presbyterian Church, he hat
served as treasurer of Presbyterian Youth
Sub-Committee and president of the
Senior High Fellowship. He was a
member of the church choir.
For hit scholastic and leadership
achievements, he wat presented the Lions
Club Citizenship Award.
Paul will leave for West Point on July
Burlington
Sales Up
For Quarter
Burlington Industries Inc. reported
Tuesday, April 22, its consolidated net
sales and earnings were up for the first
quarter of 1969.
The board of directors, meeting in New
York, declared a regular quarterly
dividend of 35 cents per share, payable
June I to shareholders of record May 2.
Net sales for the quarter that ended
March 29 totaled $445,755,000
compared with $400,089,000 for the
tame period last year.
Net earnings were $19,770,000 or 76
cents per share, compared with
$18,746,000 or 75 cents per share for the
same period last year.
For the six-month period that ended
March 29, net sales totaled $883,933,000
and net earnings amounted to
$40,555,000 compared with tales of
$791,859,000 and earnings of
$38,778,000 for the tame period a year
ago.
included principals,
superintendents, schoo' board
members, the newt media and
other laymen.
The commission. Melton
explained, recommends:
That the State Board of
Education be firmly
established as the policy
formation agency for public
education.
That tlie Superintendent of
Public Instruction be
appointed by. and made
answerable to, the State Board
of Education.
That a North Carolina
Education Development
Council (a ciiien's group) be
created with subsidiary
branches in each of ihc eiglu
educational districti and each
local tchool administrative
unit.
That services of the state be
brought closer to local schools
through eight regional service
centers, stemming from the
Stale Department of Public
Instruction.
That, to provide economic
and effective schools, the state
adopt tlx county as the basic
school administrative unit and
that t merger of city and
county units be effected.
Tint the financial support of
public education in North
Carolina be financed by local,
state and federal effort.
That the General Assembly
enact legislation providing for
Peterkin Gets 8-10 Years;
Watson Murder Case Starts
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LARGE ENOUGH FOR A SWIMMING HOLE! - When this sewage digester Is completed it will have a diameter ofl04 Although
the digester will make the sewage 87 per cent pure the management does not feel the swimming hole idea will go over with a large
splash!
Scurlock Participating
jn pilot Lunch Program
C7
Everv Scurlock School child will on
free lunches from now until May 30.
The school has been selected for
Another
Bomb
Scare
For the second time the
Unchurch School was searched for
a possible bomb. According to
Sheriff David Barrington a call was
j received about 8:15 a. m. on
. Monday warning the police that
there had been a bomb planted in
the school.
The rescue squad, Raeford police
and the Sheriff searched the
evacuated school but found
nothing. Sheriff Barrington warned
that such callers will be prosecuted
if found.
Report Of Governor's Study Commission
an extension of public
education to five year olds
on the same basis that the
educational programs are
established for other age levels.
That these be established for
children, ages five through
eight, a program of continuous
learning that it based upon
their individual needs, interests
and stages of development.
Tliat much greater emphasis
be placed on occupational
education, including specific
training in vocational subjects
at the junior and senior high
school levels.
Tint provisions be made to
meet pupils' instructional
needs wluch are exceptional
because of special handicaps or
participation in t special pilot school
program, according to Principal F.W.
Caldwell. It is one of 49 other schools
across the state making the test.
Purpose of the program is to determine
how hunger affects the. child's
achievement, to help determine the effect
of good nutrition on learning, to improve
alertness, attendance and attitude
through improved health due to better
nourishment. It is also to show possible
correlation between participation and
total lack of discrimination when all
pupils eat free food. For this reason, all
children will participate in the program,
rather than choose only those who are
undernourished or underfed.
The federal government reinbursement
will be set at 34 cents per lunch.
Fifty schools were chosen at random,
Caldwell explained, as were sixteen
schools which were selected to react to
forum at the conclusion of the
lunchroom program.
A requirement is that every meal
served be nutritionally balanced. "Of
course this has been a lunchroom
requirement all along," the principal said.
special abilities and talents.
That the concept of team
teaching be encouraged in
North Carolina schools at all
levels.
That school instructional
staff be differentiated. Every
school has teachers, it was
pointed out, who are more
competent than the others,
work hard at doing a better
job, and assume more
responsibility. Putting these
teachers in special roles, it was
further explained, as leaders or
supervisors is an excellent way
of upgrading the entire school
staff, as well as giving extra
recognition and pay to those
teachers with greater
responsibility.
That the state establish a
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SewaSe Work
Under Way
Plagued for many months
Plagued for many months by money
problems the new additions to the
Raeford sewage plant are now well under
way. The finished plant will be more than
twice the size of the present plant.
A grit separator will be a brand new
unit in the plant. It will remove the grit
before the sewage enters any of the
system's pumps. The plant will also gain a
second floater which removes grease
before the sewage runs through the other
installations.
Two more digesters are being added to
the two already in use. This unit separates
the solids from the liquids and purifies
the liquid to approximately 87 per cent.
The liquid is then pumped into a nearby
creek. Another entirely new unit is the
sludge holding tank that will draw solids
out of the digesters and put the solid
material into drying beds. After the solids
have dried it can be used as fertilizer.
There will be eight new drying beds.
The pipes in the sewage system will be
24 inches instead of the present 18
inches. About 20,000 feet of pipe will be
laid.
The re-vamped sewage plant,
contracted by the Republic Contract
Team Cooporalion, Columbia, S.C., is
scheduled for completion by February or
March 1970.
At Lumberton
salary range for teachers based
on the national average; that
the salary for teachers cover 10
months' employment, that the
state provide 12 months
employment for supervisory
and administrative personnel;
and that a salary index
schedule be established.
That North Carolina's
certification levels be revised to
provide an Early Childhood
Certificate for grades
Kindergarten through grade 3;
Intermediate Certificate for
grades 4 through 9, and
Secondary Certificate for
grades 9 through 12.
That North Carolina inititate
pilot projects using high school
students as teacher aides.
Thai an in depth study of
William Peterkin was sentenced to not
less than eight years and not more than
ten years imprisonment to the State
Department of Corrections at Superior
Court Tuesday. Peterkin was charged
wilh felonious breaking and entering and
larceny in connection with four robberies
that have occurred in the Raeford area
within the last few months.
A sentence of not less than three years
and not more than five years
imprisonment to the State Department of
Correction was given to Preze Woods.
Wood's offenses were consolidated into
one case and the Court requested that he
be considered for work release.
George Walker, who had filed an
appeal judgment against a sentence passed
on him for larceny, was brought into
court for not serving a Statement of Case
on Appeal of Solicitor. The Court ruled
that he will serve his sentence, delivered
May 15, 1968, of not less than 4 or more
than eight years imprisonment.
Other action in Superior Court brought
a forfeiture of $300 cash bond in the
Ronald William Cochran, Sr. case. Delton
Lowery was given a judgment absolute
against a bond of $300. '
Late Tuesday the Court was choosing a
jury for the James Willie Watson murder
case. Fifty more names had to be picked
due to a shortage of available jurors on
the first jury list.
Mystery Surrounds
Yates Departure
M. D. Yates, Pacford businessman and
former Hoke County official, left the
community last week for a destination
and for reasons apparently known only to
himself.
Quit claim deed to his property in
favor of his wife and her heirs dated
Thursday, April 24, has been recorded
with the Hoke County Register of Deeds.
Yates, a native of Richmond County,
had been a Hoke resident for many years.
He had been manager of Dundarrach
Trading Company and of The Johnson
Company, office manager at the local
plant of Robbins Mills before it became
part of Burlington Industries, clerk of
Hoke County Superior Court, and most
recently owner and operator of Raeford
Hardware Company. He resigned as clerk
of court before the end of his term and
for a time operated a retail business in
Charlotte before returning to Raeford to
enter the hardware business. He was a
ruling elder and clerk of the session at
Raeford Presbyterian Church.
No one appears to know where he has
gone or why.
55 New Voters
Register For Town
Election May 6
Fifty-five new voter registrations had
been registered by Mrs. Kate Blue
Covington, registrar for Town of Raeford
elections, when books were closed last
Friday. Election day is Tuesday with
polls opening at 6:30 a. m. and closing at
6:30 p. m.
The more than half a hundred new
See ELECTION , Page 1 1
the various plans for extending
the school year be initiated.
That the school bus
transportation system include
urban children, children with
special needs, and flexible
service to accommodate
programs.
The program for public
kindergarten education would
cost an estimated $18,000,000;
to expand vocational education
$10,000; services for health
and handicapped $9,000,000;
Teacher Aides $20,000,000:
Salary Increases $197,000,000.
Professional Help for Teachers
$7,000,000; Local Plant
Operations, Transportation and
Food Services, SI8.000.000;
other itemt $21,000,000. The
total is $300 ,000 ,000.