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VOL. I.XVI NO. 45 HAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA $4 PER YEAR 10c PER COPY THURSDAY. MARCH 18. 1971
Around Town
By SAM MORRIS
W.K. Morgan, recreation director
for Hoke County, was by the office this
week and asked that we print the
following announcement.
Morgan would like to meet with all
prospective Softball managers on Monday,
April 5th at Upchurch School Gym at
7:30 pjn. All interested must be present
at this meeting, he continued. The regular
softball season will begin Tuesday, May
11th.
Three members of the National Honor
Society at Hoke High School were by the
office this week and also had an
announcement to make. The National
Honor Society replaced the Beta Club at
Hoke High this year. They want to
announce a Bake Sale Saturday, March 20
in front of Joe Sugar's store between 9
and 11 a.m. They also stated there would
be a remote broadcast. The society is
raising money for the state convention so
go by and pick up a few goodies and help
these young people.
We had always rated Jake Austin as the
No. 1 Carolina rooter in Hoke County. In
any sport that the team participates
you can get into a discussion with Jake
about it. If the team is in a winning
season he may get so excited you would
think he was on cloud nine.
Of course everyone was in orbit last
Saturday before the North Carolina -
South Carolina game for the tournament
championship, but Jake was orbiting a
little higher. Before the game started in
Greensboro last Saturday night the man
on the public address system stated that a
car with license number LX ? was in the
parking lot with the motor running The
man behind Jake stated that the owner of
that car must be excited and Jake replied,
"I am that man."
He said that his wife took the key out
of the car and that he had been told you
couldn't take the key out with the motor
running. Younger Snead, Jr., confirms
this, but stated that Jake's car was
running so smooth, he couldn't hear'the
motor. _ -j, r
We will not cbmmdflr One way or the
other, but this incident confirms our faith
in Jake as the No. 1 Tar Heel rooter.
Don't forget the Booster Club Fun
Night at the Hoke High gym. Pictures of
the participating teams and cheerleaders
can be found elsewhere in this issue. The
event will be Friday night and admission
is only SI .00
William McAllister, an employee of
Knit ? Away and a veteran of the war in
Vietnam, spoke to the Raeford Kiwants
Club last Thursday night. McAllister
served under Capt. Ernest L. Medina who
was in charge of the company that was
involved in the My Lai incident. He stated
that he couldn't understand the Court
Martial of Americans.that had fought in
Vietnam and said it was "a shame and a
disgrace."
He was high on his praise of Capt.
Medina and said tha if he gave any orders
around My Lai that he was justified in
doing so. The speech was well received by
the Kiwanians.
The members ot the Hoke County
Rescue Squad reports receipts of
$2,783.25 as of Tuesday, March 16. This
leaves only $ 111.75 to make their goal of
a little over S2800. If you haven't sent in
your contribution do so today.
Hoke Nominee
Selected A9
Alternate
Kathy Sue Sanders was selected ai
second alternate from this district for th<
Katharine Smith Reynolds Scholarships:
the University of North Carolina a
Greensboro.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Monnie Sanders of Wayside and is :
senior at Hoke High.
Two finalisl and two alternates havi
been chosen from each of the elever
districts in the state by district alumnai
committees.
Miss Sanders was chosen as Hoki
County's nominee for the scholarship b)
the IJNCG alumnae committee here.
Church Plans
Revival
Special revival services will be held ai
Antioch Presbyterian Church March
21-25 at 7:30 p.m. each evening.
The Rev. John Ropp. pastor of the
Raeford Presbyterian Church, will be the
guest speaker. The public is invited tc
attend all of these services.
Preaching service \'ill be held at the
Dundarrach Presbyterian Church March
21 at 3 p m.
Man Slain
In Antioch
Bobby Strong, 20 ? year ? old Indian
from Shannon, was shot and killed last
Thursday afternoon near the Robeson
County line.
Strong was shot in the back about 1:30
p.m. according to Sheriff D.M.
Barrington. He was killed in the yard of
Mrs. Annie McNeill in the Antioch
section of the county.
Arrested about 40 minutes later in
connection with the shooting was Hubert
Lowery, Jr., 21, of Shannon. He is being
held without bond in Hoke County jail
on an open charge of murder pending a
preliminary hearing in district court
Friday.
Barrington and deputies Robert
Locklear and Herbert Polston arrived at
the McNeill home shortly after the
shooting after being notified by radio by
the Red Springs police.
David Earl Bullard, who was at the
home when Strong was killed, called the
operator and asked that the sheriff be
called. The Red Springs police were called
by mistake.
Sheriff Barrington said Strong was shot
just outside the carport of the home. He
was killed instantly, Barrington said.
GAO
Audits
F unds
Auditors from the Government
Accounting Office are checking on the
money alloted to Hoke County this year
under the emergency school assistance
project.
Three GAO auditors will be in the
county about two weeks D.D. Abernethy,
county school superintendent said. They
will have a temporary office at the
county board of education building and
will visit the schools and interview
citizens duimg the audit.
T ;e county received SX9.000 through
'he program for this .hool \ eat.
The funds were part of a S 75 million
appropriation by Congress last fall as part
of President Nixon's proposed SI.5
billion program to ease the transition to
school integration. Sen. Walter F.
Mondale Tuesday accused the
Department of Health. Education and
Welfare of misuse of the funds in
approving projects that ignored the
guidelines set down by Congress.
Abernethy testified before the
Mondale committee last July on the
progress made in intergration in Hoke
County schools.
Rescue Squad
Breaks Ground
Members of Hoke Couniy Rescue
Squad. Inc. held a ground breaking
ceremony on their recently acquired lot
on Adams Street Sunday evening at 3:30
p.m.
After friends and relatives were shown
the building blue prints and squad
equipment, T.C. Jones. Chairman of
Hoke County Commissioners spoke on
behalf of the rescue squads work in the
community the past nine years and gave
the invocation.
The ceremony concluded with the
traditional shoveling of first spade of dirt
to begin the construction by William
Parker, President of the rescue squad.
Donations received in addition to last
weeks were:
Jack A, Bradford ? S50.00. Neil L.
McFadyen ? 10.00, A&P Food Store ?
10.00, J.W Turlington ? 20.00, Raeford
Kiwanis Club - 200.00, Miss Alma D.
Ferguson - 10 00, Mr. and Mrs. H.R.
McLean ? 20 00, Burlington Dying Plant ?
100.00, Kerr Stevens - 10.00, J.H.Austin
Ins. Co. ? 15.00, Mrs. Bennie M. Kelly ?
5.00, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Brauer ? 5.00,
Hoke High School (students) 250.00.
Total 3/15/71 - S2.783.25
Safecracking Goes To Grand Jury
Soldier Free On $5,000 Bond
PHOTOGRAPHER GETS A CLOSE-UP - Al Sattenvhite (left) photographer for Time Magazine, moves in close for a picture of
Special Forces doctor George R. Reavell as he prepares to immunize Keith Locklear. Time Magazine is publishing a story on the
Army medical aid program in Hoke County and Satterwhite visited in the county Monday and Tuesday to get pictures.
Clinic Opens
At South Hoke
A nedi. <1 c!i?"c ftr pre - s?:h\K?'
children will be held two mornings a
week at South Hoke School by Army
medical personnel working at the county
health center.
Routine immunizations, physical
examinations and treatment of minor
injuries will be given at the clinic.
It will be open in a schoolroom on
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to 12
a.m.
If children have received some
immunizations, parents are asked to bring
a record to show which shots have been
given. Immunizations administered at the
county health center are recorded there.
City Is Finalist
In Beauty Contest
Raeford has been chosen as a finalist in
the state Years of Beauty contest
sponsored by the Governor's
Beautifieation Committee
Miss Josephine Hall, chairman of the
clean ? up drive last spring, was notified
this week of the honor.
The city was sponsored in the contest
by the city council and the Raeford
Woman's Club.
Awards will be presented May 11 by
the Governor and Mrs. Bob Scott.
Invited to attend the ceremony from
Raeford are Mayor John K. McNeill, John
Gaddy, city manager, Jeny Goza,
chairman of the Jaycee clean - up drive
conducted in connection with the city's
GOP Meets Mon.
The Hoke County Republican Party
will hold a meeting Monday night at 7:30
in the courthouse.
Mrs. Edith Nixon, party chairman,
urged members to attend.
Goes 140 Feet
Car Misses 401A Turn
Clips Pole, Sign, Tree
A National Guardsman on his way to
drill at Ft. Bragg Sunday morning missed
the turn from NC 20 onto Central
Avenue and plowed through a utility
pole, a street marker, a hedgerow and a
tree.
Carson Norton, Jr. of Cherryville left
the road on the turn and travelled 66 feet
betore hitting a utility pole, Leonard
Wiggins, city policeman said. The car
campaign; Mrs. John Baliour, Mrs. R E.
Neeley, Mrs. Ed. Manning. Mrs. Stephen
Thompson, Mrs. Neil] Seiner. Miss Hall
and Mrs. Tom Jones, chairman of the
home demonstration clubs' beautification
drive.
Tornado Hits
T imberland
A tornado was reported to have
touched down in Timberland Monday,
demolishing a house on the Harley T.
Johnson place.
The tornado hit the house about 4
p.m. The roof was torn off and blown
into the woods behind the house. Walls
were blown down and furnishings in the
home were destroyed
Mrs. Trula Leach, who lives there, was
away at the time, staying with a sister in
Fayetteville.
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Rt'SCUk' GROUND BREAKING - Ceremonies to begin the construction of the new home of Hoke Cbunty Rescue Squad, Inc.
are shown above with William T. Parker digging first foundation spadefulI. (Left to right) squad members Eric Allen. Charles Tew.
city policeman Uonard Wiggins; chairman county commissioners. T.C. Jones and squad members Winfred Walters. William T.
Parker, Jim Wade.
Droke the pole and continued across
Jackson Street, where it jumped the curb,
knocking down a street marker.
The car, a just ? purchased '71 model,
then jumped a hedgerow, Wiggins said,
ran over a small tree in the yard of N.A.
Mercer and stopped 140 feet from the
point where it left the road.
Damages were estimated at SI000 to
Norton's car and S500 property damage.
Norton was charged with driving under
the influence.
There have been eleven traffic
accidents inside the city limits during
March, Wiggins said. Several wrecks
occurred this week.
A collision at West Donaldson and
Magnolia on March 11 slightly injured
four persons.
A car driven by Mrs. Sarah Kay Epton,
of Red Springs, a teacher at Raeford
Elementary School, collided with an auto
driven by James Daniel McCormick, Jr. of
Rt. 3, Red Springs, about 4 p.m. last
Thursday.
Passengers in both cars received minor
injuries and were treated and released at
Raeford Medical Group.
Damages were estimated at $600 to the
Epton car and SI200 to the McCormick
vehicle.
McCormick was charged with failure to
yield right of way at a stop sign. City
police officers Leonard Wiggins and J.C.
Barrington investigated the accident.
A rear - end collision on Main Street
occurred Saturday night about 9:30. City
police say Jeffery Lintz Davis of Raeford
was stopped a a traffic light at Main and
Elwood when his car was hit in the rear
by an auto driven by McAllister Leggett
of Raeford.
No charges have been placed. Damages
were estimated at S25 for the Leggett car
and S1 50 to the Davis car.
Bloodmobile
Here Today
"We're trying for 125 pints of blood
this time," Clyde Upchurch, chairman of
the county Bloodmobile drive, said. "We
need 100 pints to even stay even."
The Bloodmobile will be in Raeford
Thursday from 12 to 5:30at the training
center at Burlington Industries. Upchurch
urged donors from the town and from
other businesses to give.
"This is absolutely not limited to just
Burlington people," he said. "There will
be signs from the gate directing people to
the center."
County residents have used 97 pints of
blood during January and February. Only
78 pints were collected at the last blood
drive. Upchurch said the totals for March
have not been sent, but that he has had
reports from some of the hospitals
already on county blood use this month.
A Special Forces sergeant was bound
over to the grand jury on charges of
breaking, entering and latceny and
safecracking after a preliminary hearing
Friday in district court.
No probable cause was found ior his
companion, who was ordeied held as a
material witness in the case.
After a hearing that lasted nearly two
hours. Judge Joseph Dupree ruled there
was probable cause to bind Gregory A.
Conner over to Superior Court.
Judge Dupree ruled no probable cause
for Richard Wiley Bultard of Fayeitevillc
but ordered him held in jail in lieu of
SI000 bond as a material witness for the
state against Conner. Bond was set for
Conner at S2.S00 in each case for a total
of $5,000
The city police were critici/.ed for their
handling of the case by Judge Dupree.
The lengthy hearing included a number
of witnesses for the state. Conner and
Bullard did not testify. They were
accused of breaking into the grocery store
of Lewis Lipscomb-on Jan. 11 and of
breaking open the safe. Lipscomb charged
that two cases of wine, three shotguns, a
rifle and about $600 in change was taken
from the store.
Lipscomb, who took the stand first,
said he worked at the laundry connected
to the store until about 12:45 a.m. on the
11th. He checked the three doors of the
store before he left and they were locked,
he said. Lipscomb identified two
shotguns and a rifle as being those from
his store. He showed the court several
identifying marks on the guns. He did not
have the serial numbers of the weapons.
Jimmy Thompson testified that he
opened the store the next morning and
found the safe torn open. He identified a
shotgun as being his "or one exactly like
it."
Police Chief L.W. Stanton and J.C.
Barrington took the stand and described
the scene when they arrived at the store
after the bieakin was discovered.
Stanton said he found a screwdriver on
the floor of the store and fitted the tip of
it into the marks on the door t>v the lock
where the door had been forced open.
Barrington testified that he found a
screwdriver and a tip of a screwdriver in
the debris in front of the sale. This was
sent to a crime lab in Raleigh lor analysis,
he said. Barrington also identified a dial
which had been sent to the lab.
Cumberland County detective Buck
Monroe told the court that he saw
Bullard showing a gun in a pool room on
Hay Street about Jan. 12. He was
investigating a report of stolen guns, he
said. Monroe said he asked Bullard to
(See SAFECRACKING, Page 11)
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SUPt.R VISOK - Joe Belcher has been
named supervisor of finishing at Knit -
A way. Belcher, who was working at the
Southern Pines facility until operations
were moved to the new plant here, came
to Knit - Away from Texfi in West
Ontario, California. A native of Inman,
S.C., he is a graduate of Clcmson
University with a bachelors degree in
textile chemistry. Belcher lives in
Rockfish with his wife, Connie, and two
children.