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The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOL. LXV1I NO 2 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S4 PER YEAR 10c PER COPY THURSDAY. MAY 20. 1971
Around Town
By SAM C. MORRIS
In this column last week we wrote
jbout a conversation we had with Cov.
Bob Scott in Raleigh recently concerning
US 401 from Raeforil to Fayetteville.
Representative N.L. McFadyen had also
oeen to see the Governor about the road
unbeknowing to me. Last week we
received a letter from Rep. McFadyen,
that we quote: "Enclosed you will find a
communication from Governor Scott
which I thought you would be interested
in."
The communication follows:
Memorandum
To: George Willoughby
From: The Governor
Subject: U.S. 401 from Fayetteville to
Raeford
Please give me the status of the
proposed improvements on US 401 from
Fayetteville to Raeford. I would like to
have at least a tentative time schedule for
public hearings, for bids, etc.
Every time I go to that area I am asked
what the story is on the road, which they
feel I have made a commitment to
improve.
Grady Set/.er was by the office
Monday and had a ripe tomato that he
picked from a plant at Ormand Black's
farm The tomato was small but was
turning pinkish. The Black farm is near
Arabia.
Mrs. E.C. Duncan was by the office
Monday and was telling us that her son,
Steve, had called last Saturday night from
Greecc. He told her he hadn't been
getting his paper and wanted her to check
here at the office. We checked and hope
that the papers will catch up with him
soon. Steve is in the Navy and has about
two more years to serve.
We received another nice paper weight
this week and want to thank the Girl
Scouts .for it Now we cap just
accumulate enough , apers iu pat the
weights to work.
Congratulations to Clyde L'pchurch. Jr
on winning the Lions Club golt
tournament. With the weather like it was
over the past weekend we must say that
Clyde was the best "Mudder."
Next week we will publish our annual
graduation edition with pictures of all the
seniors. If you haven't been contacted for
an ad in this edition, please get in touch
with Mrs. Martin Webb. We don't want to
miss anyone who would like to offer
congratulations to the Class of I'>71.
Next week we will also run something
about the Class of 1927. Last week we
were given a copy of "The Megaphone"
the school paper of Raeford High School.
The issue was the Senior Class Edition
and contains pictures and history of all
the 25 seniors of ll)27. Also is a picture
of the mascot. We hope to find out by
next week how many of this class arc still
living. As you can see this was 44 >ears
ago. We want to thank ihe member of the
class that brought the paper into us. She
requests that her name be withheld.
Trip Planned
Extension home makers are planning a
bus trip to Tryon Palace in New Bern on
June 10. The trip will be open to non -
members of the honiemaker's clubs also.
Reservations must be made at the home
agent's office by Friday.
Further information may be obtained
by calling 875-2162.
STIIJ. FOUND - ABC officers found and destroyed this still about 8:30 last Friday
night near Bethel Church an U.S. 401. The illegal liquor rig was located in a swamp
across the highway from the church near the intersection of rural road 1207 and
Highway 401. The still onerator got away.
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STUDIES ~ Students in the Level 4 special education section at Samuel Leonard School buckle down to work in one of the new
classrooms recently completed at the school. The new rooms feature air - conditioning, bright colors and large, plate glass
windows. Classes are small. Here, teacher Mrs. Evelyn Windley lends a hand.
Director Says
Leonard's Students Are
4Boys With Problems'
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two
parts about Samuel Leonard School at
McCain.
They are boys with problems, not
problem boys, William R. Windley
director of Samuel Leonard School said
of the students there.
There are now 260 students at
Leonard, although the training school was
designed, according to Windley, for a
capacity of 150 boys. A new classroom,
library and shop building, completed in
February, has freed some former
classroom space for living quarters for the
students.
Windley and Lorenzo V. Balsley,
principal and assistant director, are proud
of the new building, which Windley says
has been needed since the school opened
in 1959. They have used temporary
classrooms for the past 11 years.
Nine new classrooms, bright with color
and light with large plate glass windows
affording a view of the rolling campus,
are housed in the building, designed by
Ha>se and Howell Associates of Southern
Pines and built at a cost of $350,000.
Leonard is an elementary school with
grades one through eight.
A large library and reading room is also
part of the new building. Glass partitions
enclose an office for a guidance counselor
and a social education teacher within the
library complex. An auto mechanics
shop, maintenance shop and electronics
workshop are included in the building,
along with various office space. There will
be an open house at the building next
Sunday, following commencement
exercises at the school.
A multi - purpose, paved recreation
area painted tor courts for basketball,
lennis and volleyball lias been completed
recently and a well ? equipped mobile
reading laboratory was installed three
years ago.
The school was established in 1959
with eleven students, using three mam
buildings, a small shop building and 228
acres of land from the south division of
the McCain Sanatorium. It was named
Leonard Training School in honor of the
first Commissioner of Correction and
Training. Samuel E. Leonard. The name
was changed by the 1969 General
Assembly to Samuel Leonard School.
The boys live in seven "cottages''
wings of the former hospital buiLi J.
They are, as Windley points out, greatly
overcrowded.
Some of the rooms are spacious, with
both sleeping and living areas. The boys
decorate their rooms with a variety of
materials, ranging from rock and race car
collections to a room complete with
carpet, bar and coffee table constructed
in the school's wood - working shop.
In other areas of the school, the beds
are crowded together, using old porch
areas for bedrooms. Although Windle>
said the policy is to house no more than
three boys to a room, some areas have as
many as six beds lined up side by side.
The school has requested $45,000 to
remodel formerly used classrooms into
dormitory rooms for the students.
The rooms are clean and well -
maintained, military in their appearance
with tightly made beds. The boys add
their individual touches, which contrast
sharply with the institutional
surroundings. There is little furniture
provided beyond the basic hospital - type
beds which were in the building when it
was turned over to the school eleven
years ago. The beds, old then, are now
badly in need of replacement, Windley
said. Funds were requested for new
furniture, particularly replacement of the
beds, he said, but the request was not
approved b\ the advisory budget
committee. The boys improvise chairs
and sofas, using wooden chairs covered
with scraps of drapery material donated
to the school by a textile factory.
The school has a staff of 86. There are
24 teachers, all with an A certificate or
better, Windley said. The teachers are
hired by the state.
Supervision of the students after
school hours falls to the cottage staff,
under the direction of Russell Harrison,
cottage life director. There is a cottage
parent supervisor for each of the seven
.ottages as well as two cottage parents for
each of the seven cottages.
The salary structure for the cottage
personnel is low, Windley said, which
makes it difficult to find good people for
the job. He defended his staff against
attacks made recently on personnel at the
state's training schools.
"Contrary to what some have said, we
have a hardworking, dedicated and
competent staff in the North Carolina
Juvenile Correction Schools." he said.
"We recruit on a very high level and
cannot always fill positions immediately
or keep staff members in our
employment due to low salaries that are
not competitive.
"I am proud of our staff for they are
dedicated, overworked and under paid."
The school has an active program of in
? service training tor cottage personnel,
Windley said. "Our agency is engaged in a
continuing program of in ? service training
in order to continually upgrade the
professional level and skills of all
employes." ,
Rccent workshops have been held on
techniques of ocunseling, for cottage
parents as well as workshops for social
workers, recreation workers, librarians,
food service personnel, maintenance
personnel and farm personnel.
Rehabilitation of boys sent to the
training school is not cheap. Windley
points out. It costs an average of $588.29
to educate a child for one year in the
North Carolina public schools. The cost
last year to educate a Leonard student for
a year was 52,854 and the budget request
for the next two years raises that figure
to 53,265.
The total budget request for the school
next year is 5818,826.
In addition to the funds requested to
remodel the classrooms into living areas,
several other improvements have also
been asked. These include a home on
campus for the director, who is presently
housed in the old 18 ? room nurses home,
and funds to renovate the south and
center wings of the main building.
Requests made but not approved by
the budget commission include funds for
more classrooms, an auditorium, an
industrials arts department and a
mechanics department; funds to repair
and extend walks and drives and to
enlarge the kitchen at the school.
Windley has also asked for an irrigation
well for the farm.
The school also needs funds to employ
two more social workers, he said. There
are presently two social workers
employed for the 260 students.
"We also need money to keep up with
the rising cost of living," Windley said.
In discussing the cost of rehabilitation,
Windley said: "A lot of people think that
because a boy has been sent to training
school, he doesn't need or deserve very
much. But this isn't so. These boys need
to be exposed to some of the finer things
in life while they are here, and we hope
they will seek them when they leave."
Future needs of the school include a
See SCHOOL, Page I 1
No Head Start
This Summer
Head Start will begin a lull - year
program here next fall with no pre -
school summer program offered this year,
the Sandhills Community Action Program
office announced this week.
Applications for students for the full ?
year program are now being taken in the
SCAP office.
Children from low - income families
who will be five years old on or before
Oct. 16, 1971. are eligible. Parents may
obtain more information on the program
at the SCAP office from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Applications are also being taken for a
teacher and teachcr's aid for the Head
Start class.
Rev. Cooper
Will Preach
The Rev. Cortez A Cooper will hold
morning worship services at Racford
Presbyterian Church Sunday during the
absence of the pastor, the Rev. John C
Ropp.
The Rev. Mr. Cooper is returning to
Raeford for his first visit since leaving the
church here two years ago. He is now
paitor at Marietta. Ga.
Knit-A way To Add
Knitting Works
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Teens Named
To Council
Twelve high school students were
named to discuss the possibility of
forming a Teen - age Planning Council
sponsored by the Recreation Advisory
Board.
The students are: Shelby Jean
Bratcher, Andy Bullard, Joe Cothran,
Kathy Currie, Patricia Dial, Ronnie
Dockery, Lee Gillis, Ricky Huff, Kelly
Jordan, Patricia McKoy, Sam Ray and
William Windley.
These young people will meet June 2,
at 2:30 in the City Hall for the following
purposes:
1) To discuss whether or not the
teenagers in Raeford and Hoke County
want to be a part of the recreation
program.
2) To suggest ways in which interest
can be created in teenagers and adult
volunteers.
3) To name purposes of a Planning
Council.
4) To determine if the teenagers will
plan and work for a council
5) To list activities in which teenagers
will participate.
It is hoped that all teenagers interested
in forming a Council will give their ideas
and suggestions to the students before
June 2. if it is concluded that teenagers
are not interested in planning their own
recreational activities, the Recreation
Advisory Board will give this time and
attention to other groups.
Hoke Band
To Perform
A spring concert by the Hoke High
School band will be held tonight at 8 in
the high school gym.
The ')0 ? member band will perform a
varied program of serious and light music.
Selections will include "Tunes of
Glory", a concert march; "Apioso"; the
first movement from "Symphony in B
Minor" (the Unfinished) by Franz
Schubert and "Ode For Trumpet",
featurine Kenny Davis.
They will also present a Wagnerian
melody, Elsa's procession to the cathedral
from "Lohengrin" and a tune from the
movie "Ben Hur" - "Parade of the
Charioteers".
A modern samba and bossa nova beat
will conclude the program as the band
plays "A Das In The Life of a Fool" and
Knit ? Away will double its present si/e
o add a knitting operation lor its men's
vear division, Richard Bruce, president,
innounced last week.
Construction on the 75.000 square
foot addition will begin immediately, he
said. Approximately 600 to 700 new jobs
will be added by the time the knitting
division is completely equipped in mid ?
1973.
The present dyeing and finishing
operations will also be expanded to
accommodate the men's wear division.
Bruce said.
When the additional facilities are
complete, Knit ? Away will employ
approximately 1,000 people, he said.
Bruce said the expansion is due to the
addition of men's wear division to the
corporation's line of double ? knit
polyester fabric for home sewing.
Equipment for the knitting operation
will begin arriving in August of this year
and will be added until July of ll)73.
Bruce said he expected Knit - Away to
begin hiring additional employees for the
knitting within the next four weeks to
begin a training program. There will be
more jobs available for women with the
new operation, he said, than there had
been in the past.
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DIRECTOR - Jack A. Bradford has been
named to the board of directors o]
Southern National Bank in Raeford. A
native of Greenwood. S.C., Bradford is
plant manager of the Raeford plant of
Burlington. He is a graduate of Clemson
University and served in the infantry in
i'urope in World War II. He was wounded
in action in France. Bradford, who lives
in Southern Pines, is married to the
former Helen Williams of Anderson. S.C.
and they have two daughters.
Speak Up
Opinions were mixed in the voting to admit Red China and other nations to the
United Nations, as readers slightly favored membership for the communist nations.
Getting back to questions to closcr to home, a reader wants the proposal to outlaw
self ? service gasoline stations put to a vote. A bill is now before the General Assembly
to require an attendant to put gasoline into cars, as a safety measure. Opponents
contend that the real reason behind the bill is to placate the service station lobby, who
find the self ? service stations, with cheaper prices, an economic threat. Those who
favor the bill say that gas is a highly flamabie substance and should be handled by
persons who have some knowledge of the safety aspects.
Question: I am in favor of the bill to ban self ? service gas pumps by requiring an
atiendant to operate the pumps.
Strongly agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
No opinion
The sccond question concerns revenue sharing. Vice - president Agnew was in North
Carolina recently stumping for the Administrations plan Under the revenue sharing
proposal. North Carolina would gain $42.3 million in programs already in existence
that would be restructured. Agnew said that "no attention is being paid in Washington
to the clamor that is arising throughout the country" for revenue sharing. Okay,
readers, here's your chance to clamor.
Question I am in favor of President Nixon's revenue sharing plan to return tax
money to the states and 1 urge legislators to ask for this program.
Strongly agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
No opinion
Now for the voting in last week's question.
Question Number One I am in favor of admitting Red China to the United Nations
next year.
Strongly agree 4
Agree 6
Disagree I
Strongly disagree 0
No opinion 1
One reader said "1 think every nation in the world ought to be a member." Another,
less emphatic, said. "I think Red China should be admitted, if it would help world
peace."
Readers were less positive on the sccond question.
Question Two: I am in favor of admitting the governments of any divided nation
I hat wants membership.
Strongly agree 2
Agree 4
Disagree 2
Strongl> disagree 2
No opinion 2