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VOLUME LXV NllMBEK 48 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S4 PER YEAR 10c PER COPY THllRSliAY apbii q 10?
Around Town
" BY SAM MORRIS
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The annual Key Club Barbeque supper
will be held tonight (Thursday) at the
W.T. Gibson school cafeteria. The feed
will be from 5 to 8 pjn. and tickets may
be purchased from any Key Club member
or any Kiwanian. If you can't go and eat,
stop by and take some plates home with
you.
Judge George Stuhl spoke at the
meeting of the West Hoke School PTA
Monday night. Judge Stuhl spoke on the
workings of the new court system and
also commented about the type of
defenders that come into court. His
remarks were very informative and
enlightened the parents and teachers that
were present. He was introduced by Mrs.
L.B. Seals who is a worker in Clerk of
Court E.E. Smith's office.
Robert Gatlin was by the office last
week and was showing me a catalogue
that he found at his old home recently. It
was headed "Raeford Institute." We will
run a couple of pictures this week from
the book and ask that readers help us
identify the names of the 1907
graduating class. The picture in the book
does not name the class members. The
pictures are on page 3 of this issue.
According to the catalogue the Board
of Directors of Raeford Institute were as
follows: Dr. A.P. Dickson, President, J.W.
McLauchlin, Secretary and Treasurer;
A.A. Williford, T.B. Upchurch and C.B.
Rhodes.
The principal of the school was C.D.
Summers. Ph.B (University of North
Carolina) - Latin, Greek and German.
Other instructors were: Miss Catharine
McDuffie (Greensboro Normal College),
Miss Sallie McBryde (Hollins Institute),
Mrs. H.R. Cromartie (Munson College,
Georgia). Miss Mollie E. French
(Whitworth College, Brookhaven, Miss.),
Miss Mollie Chandler (Kings Business
College) and a Miss Willie B. (Griffin
High School) Piano and Stringed
instrument. The last name of this
instructor is not readable. Maybe
someone could let us know the last name.
The history page in the catalogue states
tliat "Raedord Educational Association"
was chartered under the laws of North
Carolina, May 25,1895. This would make
this catalogue cover the opening of the
13th year.
The book states thai {he purpose of
the association is not to mate"money, but
to guard, to advance and to provide for
the education interests of this
community.
The picture of the building on Page 3 is
the main building and was located on the
lot now occupied by the Raeford Savings
& l oan and City Cleaners. Fire destroyed
the first building in 1903 but the school
continued by the use of smaller buildings
and the Presbyterian Church, which was
located at the same place the present
church building is located. There were
nine buildings at Raeford Institute in
1908 and nine teachers. The history says
that boys have been prepared for every
college in North Carolina and the
patronage extended from a merely local
one of three hundred-nnd twenty ? five
students from 12 counties and three
states.
We will continue about old Raeford
Institute next week unless we receive
letters asking us to stop. Also we will
include more pictures of homes and
buildings in Raeford in 1908.
If you can identify the remainder of
the l'K)7 graduating class please do so
and we will publish same in this column
next week
Tlu American Cancer Crusade
Kick-Off dinner will be lie Id Tuesday,
April 14 at the W. T. Gibson school at 7
p.m. ClilT Blue will be the speaker. Plates
are $5.00. Contact Frank Crumpler.
Avery Connell or Graham Monroe for
tickets.
City Council Accepts
Low Street Paving Bid
The low bid was accepted tor street
paving, curbs and gutters from Crowell
Construction, Inc. of Fayetleville by the
city commissioners at the April
commission meeting Monday night.
The total bid was SI5.495 for 10.500
Hold Census Forms
Until Taker Comes
if a census taker hasn't picked up your
census form yet. please don't throw it
away, census crew leader Mrs. Edith
Nixon begs.
Census Day was April I but it will take
three or lour weeks to l insh collecting all
of the forms, she said
Some of the census takers here in Hoke
County have found that householders
have discarded tlie forms when they
weren't picked up on April I. Mrs. Nixon
said.
square yards of paving at 39 cents acyertf'
and 5,000 feet of curbs and gutters at
52.28 a toot.
The commission also heard a report on
the zoning survey from Berry Williams,
planner lor the State Department of
Local Affairs. A suggestion that the city
and county jointly hire a planner and
zoning administrator was discussed.
The portion of Stewart Street behind
McLauchlin School was officially closed
during school hours at the request of
school officials.
In other business, Cruwford Thomas
was authorized to attend the Governor's
Conference on Drug Abutt in Raleigh
April 15, and the agreement to lease a
-portion of the airport and a building to
be erected there by the city to Gene
Thacker was accepted. Monthly rent was
set at SI25. The lease will now be
submitted to FFA for approval.
NEATNESS COUNTS - Thefint Yard-of-the- Week award in the April Clean-Up Month campaign went to Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Coats
cjn^North Magnolia Avenue for their attractive yard and shrubbery.
April Clean-Up Campaign
In 2nd Week: Award Given
The April Clean - Up campaign began
the first week by selecting a Yard - of ?
the Week from northwest Raeford and
awarding prizes to the winning clean ? up
posters submitted by Upchurch School
students.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Coates on North
Magnolia StrdW^Von the Yard - of - the -
Week award. The selection was made last
Friday by a committee on the basis of
neatness, attractiveness and evidence of
care for the yard.
Yards selected for honorable mention
were those of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Maxwell of Fulton Street and Miss Mary
Hazel Whitley and Ed Whitley on West
Donaldson. .
The winning poster was done by Bill
Barnwell, a sixth grader at Upchurch.
Second place went to Tim Hasty, sixth
grade, and third place was won by Sue
Pandell, 7th grade. Willie Galberth,
Two-Car Accident
Saturday; Four Hurt
An accident near the Tex-Elastic plant
Saturday resulted in extensive damage to
two cars and minor injuries to four
.occupants.
Montie Mack Lunsford, of 419 W.
Donaldson, skidded 165 feet before
striking the rear of the car driven by
Lawrence Junior Knight of Rt. 1,
Shannon. Both cars were traveling north
on Bethel Road.
Mary E, Graham and Dorothy Knight,
passengers in the Knight auto and
Lunsford and Glen Clravis in Lunsford's
car were treated for injuries at Raeford
Medical Center.
Damage was estimated at S800 to the
front end of Lunsford's 1970 Ford and
total damage to Knight's 1965 Chevrolet.
Lunsford was charged with failing to
decrease speed in time to avoid an
accident.
special education student, won fourth
place.
Honorable mention posters were
submitted by Levern Southerland: Cindy
Baker; Jayson McPhatter; Daniel Norton,
Jerry Lewis Ross; Johnny McMillan.
Carolyn White; Robert Malloy; Nathaniel
Leslie; Debbie Riddle; Robert Anderson.
William Chavis and Reginald Craig
Treadwell.
The posters were judged by Mrs. Lee
Cameron and J. I. Hubbard.
Next week the clean ? up drive will be
concentrated in the northeast section of
Raeford from Main Street east to
lidinborough on the south.
Phillips Resigns
As High School
Basketball Coach
Larry Phillips, who coached the Hoke
High varsity basketball team to a tie lor
the conference first place this season,
submitted his resignation this week to
Donald Abernethy. superintendent of
Hoke County Schools.
He will finish the school term and then
begin work for Raeford Turkey Farms,
Inc.
Phillips has taught introduction to
vocations and has coached at Hoke High
for the past three years. For his first two
years, he coached the Buck's junior
varsity basketball team, with the JVs
tieing for the conference championship
He also coached with the junior varsity
football team and assisted W.K. Morgan
with the baseball team
He lias also been golf coach for the
past two years.
Pliillips. who is a native of Raeford.
graduated from Hoke High School and
went on to East Caiolina University
where he played basketball for three
years. ?
Tins year. Iiis first year as varsity
basketball coach, the Bucks tied for first
place in the 3-A eastern divuion
conference and reached the semi finals in
the tournament before falling to
Pinecrest. The team ended with a 6 ? 2
conference record and a 16-6 overall
record Phillips was runner-up for the 3-A
Coach of the Year award
"I want to stress that I have really
enjoyed working with Mr. Autry and
everyone here.'' lie said. "It lias been a
wonderful experience: I've met some fine
boys and some fine people."
Commissioners Meet
As Equalization Board
Gail Womble Named
To Phi Bfcta Kappa
Miss Gail DeLoache Womble, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Womble, Jr. of Rt. 1,
Aberdeen, has been selected for
membership in the Phi Beta Kappa
chapter at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
She is a graduate of Hoke County High
School. Miss Womble is majoring in math
at UNC-G, where she is a member of Pi
Mu Kpsilon, an honorary math fraternity.
Forty - nine students were elected to
Phi Beta Kappa on the basis of their high
academic achievement during their
enrollment at UNC-G. The honor society
was established in 1776 at William and
Mary College to honor students with
outstundins academic records.
UNC-G is one of five college and
universities in North Carolina which has a
Phi Beta Kappa chapter. The other
schools are Davidson, Duke, UNC-CH and
Wake Forest.
The 49 students were recognized at
UNC-G's Phi Beta Kappa Convocation on
March 19. They will be formally initiated
into the chapter at a banquet in the
spring.
A new member of tire Board of Social
Services was appointed Monday by tire
county commissioners at their regular
monthly commission meeting.
Mrs. J.D. McAllister, wife of the
assistant superintendent of Hoke County
schools, was appointed to replace Mrs.
Annie Williams on the board. Mrs.
Williams has not attended a meeting since
last May and is reported to have moved
from the county.
The commissioners also heard Miss
Mabel McDonald, director of the
Department of Social Services, request an
additional S4.000 to be added to her
budget request for the coming fiscal year.
She had been told by the state welfare
board that her figures were too low to
meet projected needs for next year, site
said.
The paving of rural road 1317. from
US 401 to Plank Road on the Ft. Bragg
reservation near Rowland's Restaurant
was approved at the meeting.
A resolution was passed by the
commissioners extending the retirement
for two years of J.E. Gulledge.
The commission also approved the
purchase of an electric typewriter for the
tax office for S27S and authorized the
sheriff to request bids on a new patrol car
lor delivery in July.
M.R. Mills, county sanitarian, asked
the commission to pass a resolution
enabling the electrical inspector to
prohibit the electricity from being
connected in trailers until the trailers are
also equipped with adequate sewage
installation.
The commissioners voted to request
that Hoke County be given a full ? time
highway supervisor. Presently Hoke and
Lee counties are served by one supervisor,
however there are plans, the
commissioner's said, for Hoke to be
switched to Scotland County for highway
supervisors.
Authority was also given at the
meeting for the accountant to attend the
annual accountant's school at the
Institute of Government April 13 - IS
and for the county manager to attend the
County Manager's Association meeting at
Pine hurst on May 21.
The Board of Equalization and Review
.also met immediately following the
adjournment of the commissioner's
meeting.
The following residents appeared
before the board:
J.H. Blue, Allendale Township, was
requested a S750 adjustment due to
moving all of his crops to Robeson
County.
John H. McGirt of Allendale
Township, who requested release of
S51.35 for land over listed since 1966.
L.E. McLauchlin of Blue Springs
Township, who requested a $690
reduction in land value and buildings.
Knox Watson of Antioch Township,
who requested acreage and value be
reduced since original deed listed only SO
acres and register of deeds office listed 60
acres.
Trula J. Leach and Carson Jones of
Quewhiffle Township, who requested
release of taxes on house listed to a lot
through an error.
All requests were approved.
The request of C.G. Odom of
Quewhiffle Township that he be released
from taxes of personal property of
Clayton W. Chavis which he bought v^ilh
a foreclosed piece of property in 1967
was Dosfooned.
SCHOLARS ?? Martha Ann Stewart and Jimmy Womble, both Hoke High juniors, have
been selected to attend the Governor's School this summer. Martha Ann was chosen
for the math area and Jimmy for voice study.
Two Hoke High Students
T o Govenor's School
Two Hoke High School juniors have
been selected to attend the Governor's
School this summer held at Salem College
in Winston ? Salem.
Martha Ann Stewart, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert A. Stewart of Rael'ord.
and Jimmy W'omble, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William H. W'omble, Jr. of Rael'ord. will
attend the seminar for gifted students.
Miss Stewart was selected in the
academic area of mathematics and
Womb'e was chosen in the area of choral
music.
Only 217 students in the state are
selected to attend in the academic areas
and 183 are selected in the performing
arts. Students are chosen on the basis of
academic achievement, intelligence,
interest and aptitude. The student must
also be in the top 10 per cent of his class.
Judge Stuhl Orders Youth
To Jail For Public Drunk
William Bratcher, 16 year -
old Raeford youth, was
sentenced to lour months and
twenty days by Judge George
StuhJ in District Court Friday
for public drunkenness and
tampeiing with an automobile
Judge Stuhl, after having the
probation officer, William T.
Lester, confer with the boy,
designated Bratcher as a
youthful offender and ordered
a diagnostic study made of
lum. Lester reported that in Ins
opinion the boy would not be
successful on probation.
Brit ton May nor, Red
Springs, pleaded guilty to
issuing a worthless check .o
Walter Parks. He was sentenced
to 30 days injjal_ suspended
and ordered lo pay the check
of SI9.82 and court cosis.
Maynor. who is in jail serving
under the work release
program, was given 00 days lo
comply wiih the ludament.
Mrs. Louise Nichols of
Raeford pleaded guilty ot
issuing a worthless check of
SI00 to I. Hubbaid at Collin's
Department Store. She was
sentenced to 30 days
suspended on the condition
that she pay lite check and cost
of court.
Simion Headen, Jr. of
Raeford pleaded guilty of
issuing a worthless check to
Florence Peterson for 520.46
He was ordered to pay cost of
court. The check was paid
before the trial.
Bennie J. Ldwards of
Raeford was found guilty of
issuing a worthless check for
520 to Ma Bell Morrison. He
was sentenced to 30 days
suspended and ordered to pay
the check and court cost*.
Raymond McLaughlin.
Raeford. pleaded guilty to
issuing a worthless check for
537.71 io Ma Bell Morrison.
He was sentenced to 30 days
suspended and ordered to pay
the check and court costs.
Leon Carter of Lumberton
pleaded guilty to issuing a
worthless check of S62.50 to
L.F. West He was sentenced to
00 days suspended and ordered
to pay the check and court
costs.
Danny Walters, of the
Bowmore section ol Hoke
County, was committed for a
six months sentence for failure
to comply with a court order
to pay child support. The court
also ordered that lie he given
anv and all needed medical
attention, after Walters said in
testimony that he had been
under treatment at the Mental
Health Clinic in Fayetteville
for several weeks. He was also
sentenced to a total of 90 days,
to he served concurrently with
the sentence for non support,
for trespassing, forcible
trespassing and malicious
damage to personal property
Bobby Cene Lxrcklear of
Red Springs was sentenced to
30 days suspended for 2 years
on the conditions that he nm
violate any North Carolina laws
and that he not molest or
bother Ins wife for this period
He was convicted of assault on
a female In addition he was
sentenced to 30 days
suspended and fined SIO for
driving without a license,
without a license tag and
without liability insurance. He
was charged court costs in both
cases.
Horace Jacobs, ot Lumber
Bridge, charged with no
operator's license and speeding
70 in a 55 mph zone,bailed to
appear and forfeited 5110
bond.
l;eon Ixivc. Raelord, was
found guilty of injuiy to
property and was sentenced to
90 days in jail suspended on
ihe condition that he remain
on good behavior and not
violate any N.C. law for the
next two years. Me was also
ordered to stay away from the
home of the prosecuting
witness and was fined S25 and
court costs.
Kenneth Maynor, of Hoke
County, was sentenced for
shoplifting to fi months in jail
suspended lor 2 years with 2
years probation on the
condition that he remain
employed during that time and
that he pay S50 and costs.
lire state took a nol pros
with leave on a charge of
public drunkenness against
Juanita Melton of Raeford.
2 I L t . Louis James
Batterstellar, ft. liragg, was
found not guilty of speeding
SO in a 60 mph zone and was
allowed to plead guilty to
speeding 75 in a T60 mph zone".
He was lined S25 and costs.
Probable cause was found
against James Alford of
Raeford for assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to
kill and he was bound over to
lire grand jury. Bond was set at
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