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The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOL. LXVI NO. 35 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S4 PER YEAR 10c PER COPY Till RSDAY. JAM ARY 7. 1971
Around Town
By SAM MORRIS
We want to report to readers of thia
column that we didn't have any kind of
?n accident over the New Year's holidays.
Of course the family was at home and the
only trouble that arose was who would
u* the color T.V. Anyway after much
^conversation we worked out a deal and
everytlaing was peaceful and quiet on
Jackson St. I heard my daughter tell her
mother that Daddy would dream of
football for a week. We only have about
three more weeks to watch football so
anyone can see that six months of
football is n^t too much for a tun.
We haven't heard much about Carolina
sports from our son, John, since the
defeat of the Tar Heels in the Peach
Bowl, but after the basketball win
Monday night over South Carolina we
know we will have a big weekend at
home. Not only John, but we expect
some other Tar Heel fans will be seen
with their heads high once again.
It is hard to measure or try to figure
out what articles in the paper are read by
the subscribers. We found out this past
week one paragraph that was read by
most of the readers. It appeared in the
column that is on page two and signed by
the editor. We refer to the paragraph
about the breaking of a foot by yours
truly.
We tried to explain how the accident
happened but after comments, phone
calls and letters we will truthfully say
that the vote on how my foot was broken
doesn't agree with my story. Is the
majority always right''
Some of the comments are as follows:
Mrs. Paul Dickson: "Either drunk or
stupid."
Dan Mclnnis: "Did your wife put her
foot down?"
Trooper E.G. Coen. "Wiry don't you
change brands?"
Mrs. Laurie Telfair: "If you weren't
drunk you missed a golden opportunity,
because you will be accused of it."
Rep. N.L. McFadycn: "He kicked a
Republican."
Judge Joe Dupree: "I understand,
because I accidentally shot my foot."
Ken McNeill: "You finally got your
foot in your mouth."
The article written by the editor had
many more paragraphs but it seems the
only one anyone paid any attention to
was his sneaky way of doubting iny word.
Well this is the way the world turns.
People never look at the good in anyone,
just try to pick out his bad points.
The only person who wouldn't
question me was the Rev. John Ropp and
now my mind keeps working as to why
he stayed off me?
Time will tell as the foot is about well
and we will soon be back on the golf
course
I A large farmer and equipment dealer of
Jftoke County upset the Sunday School at
Antioch Presbyterian Church last Sunday
when he wore his new wig to class.
Everyone thought he was a stranger and it
seems the teacher gets nervous when
strangers are in the class. Also it seems an
aunt of the wig wearer wanted to know
who the fine young man was at the
family reunion. We haven't seen the wig
but from all reports it is a knockout.
So you men with receding hair, please
take notice
Council Considers
Housing Authority
The city council agreed Monday night
to call for a public hearing on a plan to
appoint a houiing authority for the city.
A petition containing the names of 25
city residents who requested a housing
authority was presented to the council.
Two Break-Ins
In County
Two break - ins were reported in the
unty during the New Year's holiday.
The pumnhousc at the Allendale
Community House was broken open and
*a water penv *?? stolen, Sheriff D.M.
Rarrincton add.
A storage budding on the AS. Baldwin
property at ttifTy's Station was entered
and e radio, ? television set and a new
heater were taken.
Both break ? Ins were reported to the
sheriffs department on Dec. 31.
Commissioners List Three Uses
For One-Cent Sales Tax Revenue
Man Dies
In F ire
A man died Saturday night In a fire
that burned hit home to the ground.
Prctton MePhatter, about 60, wax
found near the oil heater by the chimney.
Co roner Frank Crumpler, who
investigated the accident, speculated that
MePhatter was putting oil in the heater
when the fire started.
MePhatter lived alone near the Doug
Currie farm. Neighbors noticed the lire
about 11:30 p.m. Jan. 2 and called the
Sheriffs Department.
County Buses
More Crowded
County school buses traveled more
miles and carried more children per bus
than did the average school bus in the
state, according to data recent l>
announced by the transportation division
of the Department of Public Instruction
Using figures for the 1969-70 school
year, the average school bus in the sta'
transported 67 students and traveled an
average of 17.8 miles a day. State mileage
is based on an average of 1.59 trips pc-i
day each 11.9 miles in length one way.
In Hoke County, each bus carried an
average of 76.6 students and traveled an
average of 43.8 miles a day. There were
S2 buses operated in the county to
transport an average of 3,983 students.
Twufother buses have been added this
year, Donald D. Abernethy said, to help
alleviate bus crowding. However, the
county's pupil load per bus is higher than
the state average partly because tin
county uses a larger bus than many other
counties, he said. Many of Hoke's buses ?
have an 35 student capacity.
While 'the average mileage traveled b>
each bus per day is more than the state
average, Abernethy said this does not
mean that individual students arc riding
43.8 miles a day. Many of the buses
transport chiluren from more than one
school, which increases tlsc mileage figures
for the county.
The operating cost for the county was
listed by the Department of Public
Instruction as S.0471 per mile. The
average cost statewide for the 1969-70
school year was S2.026.I9 per bus and
S.2958 per bus mile of operation. The
total cost of North Carolina's school
transportation for 1969-70 was
S19,141,379.21, including replacement
buses.
The date tor the public hearing will be
announced later, city manager John
Gaddy laid andwilt be advertised.
An attempt was made by the city once
before to establish a housing authority,
Gaddy said, and members were appointed
to it. However, the procedures used in
establishing the authority were not
correct, he said, and the city later
dissolved it.
In other business, the council made
several appointments to city boards.
Two new members were added to the
recently ? formed buildinu code board of
appeals. They are J.B. White and Hugh
Lowe. Already serving on the board are
J.W. McPhaul, Sam C. Morris and Ivery
McNalr.
Three appointments were made to the
/oning board of adjustments to repiuce
members who have resigned. Thoinas
Holmes, appointed to replace Avery
Connell, will represent residents outside
the city limits.
Jimmy Conoly and Bennie McLeod,
replacing R.B. Lewis and J.H. Blue, will
represent city residents on the board.
Board H ears Petition
For Food Stamp Program
The county board of commissioners
Monday indicated support for a food
stamp program in the county alter
hearing a group of citizens request the
program.
Jimmy Morrisey, the Rev. Thomas D.
Walker. Maty H. Whined jnd Mrs. Ozolla
Bridges, appealing as officials and
members of the Hoke County chapter ol
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
presented a petition requesting food
stamps to the board.
The action, the Rev. Mr. Walker said.
?js piompkd by lite economic slump
which lias lell many woikets in the
county on ieduced vstges. The cost of the
program to lite county would be about
S4.1XJI), he estimated, but the initial costs
would be compensated b> state funds and
by taxes from increased business revenue
Morrisey, president of the NAACI*
here, told the commissioners he lavored
claming she su-plus commodities
program and adding tho food stamp
urogram it 'li.it.
W.ils1-. .h.iuii'..iii of the \ \A(T
e\eu;t\e commt'.ice. said the f. d
lamps ?s?i.iUi he 01 ucuciit to a t ' aider K
range ol residents that arc the sin plus '
commodities. Issentiully. he said, the
program provides "slO svoith ol toudstirlf
lor each S4 spen I on the stamps. Tiie
stamps are issued oil a sliding scale
accordim: t< income level, he explained.
I he piogran; is administered in lite date
by the Dep.111 meat ot Social Services and
at the tcdeial level by I he Department of
AgticulHnc.
Tin ie\i ol the petition presented to
the board read.
Whereas, the strained economic
situation i;; the United States has caused
increased unemployment in Raeford and
Hoke County, and
Whereas, there has been a decided drop
in the sending power of many citizens of
Kacfordand Hoke County and
Whereas, the constant rise in living
costs lias made the maintenance ol a
balanced diet almost impossible lor mans
>.iti/ens ol Raelord and Moke County and
Whereas, there is a program of relict
available to the citizens ot Raelord and
Hoke County other titan the surplus
commodities program,
The I xecuttve Committee ol the Hoke
County Chapter ol the NAAl'P petitions
the Board of Commissioners for Raelord
and Hoke bounty to initiate nccessaiy
actions leading to the institution of a
A BARGAIN - City tagskffoA tdr until Feb. 16 for a dollar. Afteitht dm hdBm. city resident, caught without tag* "uty fl,uJ
'he price skyrocketing. (MtfL*. m* ton points out. because court com fi>r it, sbrkthm of city ordinances ore $15 Here Rondo
PukIcr, left, gets her tag fipm Bitty Smith at City Hall "
Food Stamp Program in and for the
citizens of Kacfoid and Hoke County.
lite board approved a motion to
investigate the matter. T.B. Letter,
county manager, was asked by board
members to obtain advice from state
officials in Raleigh on the program and
then the board agreed to meet again with
the NAACPofficials on the matter.
"The board is in sympathy with you
and we arc willing to work right with
you," T.C. Jones, chairman, told them.
The board also heard a report from
M.R. Mills, county sanatarian and Fred
Wood of the State Board of Health, on a
eaibage disposal plan for the county.
Cost of a system using SO containers
placed around the county and a service
nuck to transport garbage to a landfill
would be 538,500 for the initial
investment and S14,750 for annual
operating expenses. Wood told the board.
This does not include payment to the
City ol Kucford for use of the city
. I iiidftll and equipment.
In other action, the board.approved an
'.(???tulmont to the county budget to
appropriate" an additional S4.47C.20 for
the addition to the county health
building and approved $1,063.84 to the
Region "N" Council of Government as
iho county's pro rata share.
The bouid did not aft on a request
from the Sandhills Mental Health Center
for a meeting lo discuss next year's
Abernethy Invited
To Seminar In Russia
Donald D Aberncthy, county
siipciintciulcnt of schools, is among a
hundred educators invited to attend a
seminal on socialist education to be held
next November in Russia.
The seminar is sponsored by the
Comparaiivc and International Education
Society, Phi Delta Kappa, the National
School Bujrds Association and the
Research Comer for Socialist Education.
Seminars have been held previously in
most of the countries of Western Europe
but this is the first opportunity in many
budget. In a letter to the coinmissioneis
lhe center announced Hint they wcie
reducing their staff and services offered
to the four county region served by the
center because of inudequute funds. A
federal grant expected by the center was
not released and the ccuUi has since
experienced severe financial problems.
A letter was read from Dr. M.I). Pate
Jr., health director for Robeson County,
requesting that the county consider
joining in a Repun "N" Comprehensive
Health Planning council. Hoke Counts
now participates in a comprehensive
health planning council with Moore and
Lee counties.
The board also agreed to ask the
Highway Commission to place caution
signs at the approaches of Hoke C'ountv
Holiness Church and to ask for
directional signs to Kphesus Baptist
Church in Arabia.
Reports were received from the counts
farm and home agents and irom the tax
collector.
Tax receipts were down in ail
catagories from lust year. Brian
Thornberg, tax colleiloi, reported. S,
far. this year, 38.69 per cent ol the ia\
levy has been collected lor a total u:
5276,423.15. Last year 40.40 per cent
had been collected. Collections for
December amounted to S34.037.50
Collections last December were
535,393.47.
years for educators to observe the
educational system used in the eastern
Communist countries.
The group will stop first in Budapest,
Hungary and Bucharest, Rumania before
going on to Moscow. The main part of
the seminar will be held in Academic City
in Novosibersk, Western Siberia. On the
return trip, the group will stop at Warsaw,
Poland. The seminar is scheduled from
Nov. 6-27.
The purpose of the seminar is to point
out the contrasts and pioblems ?
education in those nations
Sjles Lix money will km used i>> m-ct
I lie county's needs In three aica:. county
commissioners promised ilus week d the
one cent lax is approved in the I alt 4>
? eferendum.
"We will apply the tevrnoe to .1 ? ouu\
garbage disposal system, .1 ,0, ,?u>in
recreation program and low.iol keeping
pctsonal and piopcily las ioo ilmii,'
T.C. Jones, chaiiniaii ol the l >.itd ol
eommissionei v said
The estimated iev.-mie lot the county
front the sales ia\ will be SI JO,000 a
year, according to lit. LesICi, county
manager. Tlie city will receive another
N20.1XK). lie said.
The commissioners 111 an interview
Monday pledged 54.SOU 10 the
city-county recreation program if the tax
measure passes. The tccte.it 1 -n pi opt on
has prevtiioslv been operated wi-h t-mds
from the 1 titled fund litis sen. I und
? iflKials asked the city and county
government to take over the financing
The city council has approved up to
Si.500 for tecieation if the county will
1111 nt sh the remaining funds five
^oration program has a budget of
ih.OOO this vcai The I'nited fund
included SI,000 l"t 1 e,!eat 1011 in this
year's fund drive to piovidc lio.oieiiig
until the city and county governments
begin a new budget period. H wvcvei the
county has not yet approved .,,0 tuiids
for recreation
The county government in*o pi.--: in
move into the w ol got i..v .1 ,i- ? . --.
rued resule-1 . ,id o .m'n. 1; ? -ni .!e
t.i\ money to uiaivea >y?te 1
A lepoit tcccived this wees - iti
Stale Board it Health is now uncle; -i......
by the conui.issimiers
In the renin. it is 1-..limned thai
.?til*i I y uv. V;-ts pin',,. ,
t-ois of refuse ea. 1. year. W< '. , -
this is burned and part buried
says, "a large part isclultciii
woodlands, streams and higltw .
A system of containers placed in 5|)
locations around the .\?m-i\ is
ic'coinmcnded. A service m..' w.?ald
tiativport .efuse left in the tout - cubic ?
yard containers to the landtdi. 'lite icpoii
recommended that the land'ill be
operated bv the citv.
Tliis system will cost about Soti.-iih 1.
initiate and operate lor the 'i 1 ve*:
the commissioners estimate
The duiiipniaster tiuck will ^o-i about
$23,500 and 50 contamcis win . --i
another 512,500. Site preparation ihe
containers will cost about SJ.SlMi
Yearly opcriting costs aie estim at
514,750. The amount of subside - nc
c;iy lor use of the land till I.a*. 1 f -i.
ilciei mined.
With the county piovidim: la. ,:i. -u
garbage disposal, commissu 1 1
ordinance against dummr, . I
private property c.-n he ??;?: ?.
Citing the inc a c?! . t mg
louniy govct'-. :e 1 . tin i.ia.d . u-iiej
See S \l 1 S 1 AN I'agr. I
County To Get
Aid From Army
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i-itnoutuvil ihv viur! vii j j v .1 in.o
progiam in io-t.pitijiinr v. i|i || c \ii;iy
a( I t. Ihagg.
M.ivnr John K. McNriit Ji.l ??><) ?? a
v'.iscmeni Wcdnono, in wnirft# Moke
(?unity und the City of KaeliJ nc ti>
i ter inti. a I t. brugg project u? which
?Ih") have offered to assist the \ i.u ?
"lo get the protect into ii g, I' county
0 to piovtde oil ice space l?.. per*, md t.?
act i* li lison with 11. Iti jgg
This of I tee will he star ? ' t ne
otfleer and two enlisted men
Fire Destroy*
Wilkes Home
\ tire believed lo have Matte.1 .i U'
kitchen destioyed a live :oi-i.i we >?lc
house oft -lul A last week
I he home in which Mi. j.??1 Mis ?' n
Wilkes jihI ihen children heed v .?> -< t ?'
loss, tlillcresi l-itf t hief I o M> V- h
A pan on the electric stow laugh It.e,
McNeill said, and WilKcs uied t?
exiing-Jish the bla/e belt ??' culling the
UilleruM I ire Department about ! pm
Dec. i0.
A water tanker and truck Iroin the
Milkiest department and a water unkci
frrim North Raeford Fire Depaitnient
answered the call. Firefighters were
hlampered by spectators who paiked cars
jfn the roadway, blocking the vsaiei tankei
/from going to refill, McNeill said
J Nothing from the house, not even
1 clothing, was saved, McNeil! v.ud. No one
f was injured in the blaze, he said, but two
1 of the children who were evacuated from
[ the building in freezing temperatures
f were tick with mumps.