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The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOL. LXVII NO. 3 HAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA *4 PER YEAR 10c PER COPY THURSDAY mavot .n-?
Around Town
By SAM C MORRIS
Lilt week in this column we stated
that we would run something on the
graduating claa of 1927. Tuesday we
received a -post card that reads as follows:
"I am the former Johnsie Lee Akins and a
member of the class of 1927. I am
fortunate to be listed among the ones still
living. Mrs. J.C. Poole, Thomasville, N.C."
Thanks for the card Mrs. Poole.
We will list the 25 members of the
Claa of 1927 and will put by a member,
deceased, when we are certain he or she is
dead.
The class was composed of Louise
Blue, Isabel McFadyen, Lucille McLeod,
Johnsie Lee Akins, Boswell Bethune,
Lacy Pratt, Curtis Smith, Jonah Brown,
Sarah Cromartie, Mary Norton,
Marguerite Freeman, Bennie McFadyen,
Kate Dalton, Laura Yearly, Vera Cox,
Mary Francis Shankle, Robert Hampton,
Walter Culbreth (deceased), Crawford
Thomas (deceased), Robert Draughon,
Archie Epstein, Harris Parker (deceased),
Archie Howard (deceased), Mary
McVicker and Robert Gatlin.
The mascot of the class was Patsy Blue
now Mrs. Joe Hoffman of Winston -
Salem and the daughter of Mrs. N.B.
Blue.
Of the 25 members of the class only
six now live in Hoke County they are
Louise Blue, label McFadyen, Lucille
McLeod, Mrs. Crawford Thomas
(Marguerite Freeman), Bennie McFadyen
snd Robert Gatlin.
The clau prophecy for these six
members is as follows:
1. Marguerite has helped her mother
now for 35 years in the spring cleaning of
Mr. Paul Dickson. You we her here
prepared for the ordeal. The Hoke
County Journal still records the date and
calls on all loyal citizens for help.
2. Robert Gatlin runs a dairy. He still
believes in the old fashioned method of
milking. He read in the Literary Digest at
Raeford High School in 1927 that singing
while milking would make the cow give
more milk. He took singing lessons a
whole year to prepare him for his life
work.
3. Louise Blue married Archie Howard.
He came to us in our senior year. Louise
Tatter and fatter and bosa?d Archie
to her heart's content. You see heT here
with the rolling pin ready to ua it on
Archie for being late for dinner.
4. Lucille learned to count pennies
during her senior year at Raeford Hiah
School when she was treasurer of the
chss. It required no memorizing as
Htitory, French, English or other studies
and she was willing to try it. When school
cload she wu so accustomed to it that
she is still at the job.
5. label McFadyen is teaching third
grade in the Raeford school - she has
begun the ua of glasas but looks over
them instead of through them. She has
developed into a typical school teacher.
She occasionally sees Archie Epstein.
6. Bennie McFadyen is seen trying to
earn a few pennies by teaching bicycle
riding. Many years ago children rode
bicycles but in 1962 it is almost
unknown. Bennie is reviving the lost art.
It has become popular again and Bennie is
succeeding financially.
According to Robert Gatlin slides were
made and shown as the Class Prophecy
was read.
On another page we are running the
pictures of the six members of the Claa
of 1927 that still live in Hoke County.
Worth Graham sent us a clipping of a
brave young man that lives near Asheville.
We will write about him next week.
Children Blamed For
Vandalism At Ballpark
Vandalism by children during the
Softball games hat disrupted mmei and
destroyed droperty at the ball park,
recreation director W.K. Morgan sala this
week.
Morgan Mid of the 649 spectator! who
attended one night last week, at leait 200
of them were children.
"The klda are throwing rocks off the
roof, breaking bottles, tearing up the
bleachers," he said. "They've torn up the
rest rooms, damaged the roof and have
broken bottles down the toilets."
of the youngsters range from four
iflfcffefVoM teenagers, Morgan said.
"The 4 to 10 ? year ? olda are running
aO over the place," he said, "and the
teens are standing outakte the gate, some
of them drinking baar and ire making
ugly remarks to people who tome in the
?rte."
There are only two recreation
safanrtsora oo duty torts* the game, he
nU. Howard Berkley la usually
officiating at the mm and Morgan
patrols tba grouada.VrkWy had to stop
the game ooe tad pM AUdren to
stMhrnkftMbattlaa, Mwpn said.
Hanry MM, who slao umpirea at
mm, I iMomsaisI on the problems
Sw: "l don't aee much of it b?c?ivtsVm
bow on Ma field, but I can hea V
Breaks In Temporary Sewer Line
Contaminate Peddler's Branch
Wagon Train
Goesjune 11
The Wagon Train will leave Rieford
June 11, bound for Sinclair's Pond 18
miles away in Ashley Heights.
This will be the seventh annual wagon
train, wagonmaster Jimmy Conoly said.
The campers will gather the night
before, on Thursday, for a square dance
by the Armory. The train will leave town
at 8:IS Friday morning and return on
Sunday about 1 p.m.
The train will travel down Highway
211 to-Tumpike Road. From there, they
will go to Five Points and then on to the
pond to camp. There will be no square
dance at the campsite Saturday night,
Conoly said.
The wagon train is sponsored by the
Saddle Club. Henry Maxwell is president
and Ed Willis will be camp master.
Campers can register for the train at
Conoly s Esso, Hoke Auto or Howell
Drug. The fee is S2 for a wagon and SI
for a horseback rider.
The Saddle Cub is raffling a 500 ?
pound grain ? fed steer, to be given away
at the square dance. The steer will be
delivered to the freezer locker ready for
slaughter and processing. Chances are on
sale for $1.
Plan Cook-Out
The Raeford Senior Citizens Club will
have a cook ? out at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Harliss Wright at 823 E. Donaldson
at 4:30 Tuesday.
In case of rain, the cook - out will be
held at the Raeford United Methodist
Church. Members are reminded of the
shower they voted to take part in when
they met in May.
East Donaldaon is the street that runs
to the left of the J.W. McLauchltn School
and the Wright home b the second to last
house on the left.
Man Charged In Hoke Kids To Compete
Shotgun Slaying In State Jr. Olympics
Police arrested a man armed with a .12
gauge automatic shotgun early Tuesday
morning and charged him with murder
following a shooting in Robbins Heights
about midnight.
Lannie Ray Tyler, 22, of Fayetteville,
was charged with killing J.W. Lester, 30.
Lester, who lived on U.S. 501 in Hoke
County near the Moore County line, was
an employe of Coca-Cola Bottling
Company of Aberdeen.
Police arrived at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Wayne Childress, 522 E.
Fifth Street, about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday
and found Lester lying in the door of a
bedroom shot in the chest form a .12
gauge shotgun, Police Chief L.W. Stanton
said.
Tyler was arrested in the yard of the
Childress home by city policeman Chester
Price and deputy sheriff Herbert Polston.
breaking all during the game. The kids
won't do anything you tell them to do."
Morgan appealed to the parent! to help
control their children.
"The parents could do a whole lot to
help," he said. "A lot of them are using
the park as a babysitter, just dropping the
kids off."
He said he has talked to city officials
about the problem snd has asked police
to check the park.
Morgan aid the recreation program
was still in deep financial trouble-.
"The only money we have is the
$1,000 from the United Fund and we
owe all of It, for expenses so far," he said.
The city and county have both
promised funds to the program but have
not paid vet. The county agreed to
contribute 12,500 in July when the new
budfet year begins. The city agreed to
give $1,500 to the program but did not
set a payment dale.
Morgan aid the rest rooms and the
bleachers would be repaired. He had
hoped for Mp with labor from the Army
program, he aid, but did not expect to
receive any Army aid now as he had not
heard anymore from Ft. Bragg.
Morpan aid the Little League and
Junior Tar Heel teams were begun last
week with good response from the
parents and boys.
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POLLUTED - Peddler Is Branch, which flows through the back ywd of the Jesse Jones home on fast Donaldson, was a cloudy
blue last Friday when this photo was taken. The water wheel, that pumps water Into a fish pool, shows the accumulation t>f fiber
and other debris in the creek water, whic\ htu ?ollecteJ, Jt, ucs said, since a new textile industry began dye operations several
months ago. A temporary pipeline to carry the waste to the t ity sewer system, keeps most of the waste out of the branch, but
several breaks in the line Friday resulted in the polluted water.
Tylei was still carrying the shotgun but
offered no resistance, Chief Stanton said.
Chief Stanton and officer Leonard
Wiggins were called to assist Price in the
investigation.
Tyler was visiting at the Childress
home when the shooting occurred,
Stanton said. He is being held without
bond on an open charge of murder
pending a preliminary hearing in district
court Friday.
Coroner Frank Crumpler and Dr. Riley
Jordan, acting as medical examiner, were
called to the scene. Dr. Jordan
pronounced Lester dead at the home, and
the body was taken to Moore Memorial
Hospital for an autopsy, Chief Stanton
said. Under the new medical examiner
system, he explained, the body cannot be
moved without the authorization of the
medical examiner.
Eight Hoke High students placed in the
Junior Olympic divisional track meet in
Raleigh last Saturday and will compete in
the North Carolina AAU Junior Olympic
track meet in Jacksonville on June 6.
Debbie Little took two first place wins
in the 14 -15 year old age group. She was
first in the 100 yard dash with a 12.0
time and first in the high jump with a
distance of 4'9". This sets a new school
, record for the girls' high jump.
Alexander McMillian was first in the
broad jump in the 14 - 15 year old
division with a distance of 21M34. He
took second in the 100 yard dash,
running it in 10.2 time, and second in the
220 yard dash with a 23.8.
Barbara Lide was third in the broad
jump for 14-15 year old girls with a
distance of 15*10**. Angela McPhatter was
second in the high jump in this age group
Speak Up
According to the readers who replied to the question last week on the phone
service, there's no one in Hoke County who's satisfied with the telephone company.
As one reader put it, ANY improvement made by the telephone company will be a
help.
Questions this week concern money matters.
The county commissioners were given the power by the legislature to levy a one per
cent county sales tax, either directly or to put the matter to a vote. Estimates on the
amount of revenue gained from the tax vary widely, ranging from the opinion that it
wouldn't amount to enough to pay the state for collecting it to a high estimate of
about $100,000 a year.
When the commissioners were planning a sales tax election, they said the money
would be used to implement a county ? wide garbage collection system, provide
recreation and help keep property taxes down.
Question: 1 am in favor of a one p?r cent county sales tax.
Strongly agree . .
Agree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
No opinion
Postal rates were increased last week with the aim, according to the post office, of
making the mail service pay for itself.
Question: I am in favor of the postal rate increase.
Strongly agree
Agree .
Disagree
Strongly disagree
No opinion
Now for tha results of queations on the water and phone situation in the county.
Question: I am in favor of budding ? facility to use water from Rockflsh Creek to
supply the city of Raeford.
F
SPEAK UP, Pfep 11
with a 4'6" jump.
In the 16 ? 17 year old group, Pat
McKoy was first in the 50 yard low
hurdles with a time of 8.0. She took
second in the 220 yard dash and third in
the 100 yard dash.
Janie Beatty placed first in the 440
yard dash for 16 ? 17 year olds, and first
in the broad jump, setting a school record
of 16'10".
Bruce Morrison took the broad jump in
the 16 - 17 year old division, setting a
school record with a leap of 22'3W". He
ran also on the third place Union Pines
440 relay team.
Hoke girls won the 440 relay, setting a
school record with a time of 52.7 seconds
for the event. 440 racers are Janie Beatty,
Debbie Little, Linda Davis and Barbara
Lide.
Eighth Grade
To Graduate
At Upchurch
Approximately 450 eighth grade
students will receive certificates of
promotion in graduation exercises at
Upchurch School Monday at 9 a.m.
L.W. Bledsoe, principal, will present
the certificates. Participating in the
program will be the Rev. M.H. Williams,
Reid Parsons, student council president,
and the Upchurch School chorus.
Awards will also be presented that day.
Bledsoe will present the principal's
award for scholarship. Two citizenship
awards will be given by the American
Legion. The Woodmen of the World will
present two history awards. Six creative
writing awards will be given by the
Raeford Woman's Club.
Items Missed
At Church
An adding machine and a small air ?
conditioner were reported missing from
the office at the First Baptist Church last
Thursday.
City police uy the church was entered
through the unlocked back door.
The items were taken sometime
Wednesday or early Thursday morning,
Folic* Chief LW. Stanton add.
Total value of the two machines was
estimated at Si00.
.??cy, w?rked Friday night
and Saturday morning repairing breaks in
the temporary sewer pipeline that serves
Knit - Away to jtop the now of dye and
other wastes into Peddler's Branch.
At least four breaks in the pipeline
were discovered and repaired over the
weekend.
Peddler's Branch was a cloudy blue
Friday morning, the bottom of the
shallow stream invisible through the
mu*y water. It smeHed of dye.
r?" !? 4br*MCh joined R?cWlih
Lreek, the cloudy blue water swirled into
the clear brownish water of the creek the
colors marking clearly the two streams.
Monday the branch was nearly clear
again. There was no dye odor about the
Tuesday SUght ?d?r W" noticeab,e
RuC' ,ea,tin8 Periodically from breaks
to the > temporary pipeline, is entering
Peddler s Branch and Rockfish Creek
disrupting swimming and fishing in those
streams, some property owners charge
A complaint was filed earlier this year
with the Air and Water Resources Board
feJ,e?V?T ?f Dawson.
backyard rUnS ,hrough the Jones'
^ily property owners and
Knit . Away executives agree that the
pollution of the two streams from
uidustry waste is a serious problem. City
officials, however, stress that the problem
is temporary and will be solved when the
new sewer construction is completed In
the meantime, they ay, the temporary
ES'.hE. xcept for occasional
c JoJjn a,0*"*. city manager, and
Franklin Teal, councilman, gave a history
of the city s troubles with the dye in an
interview Monday.
* AwaV began production
about the first of the year, Gaddy said
the city s sewer service to the industry
was not yet "nder construction. A
pipeune ?' Zi p.> by (he city itom the
textile plant to a point several hundred
u . arayu CTe ,l,e sewer would be
located when it was finally constructed
The pipe ended abruptly in the woods
and the entire wastes from Knit - Away
Branch?Ut ,0 'nt? ' by PeddIer'?
. ^ "er.er. knew what color the creek
would be, Mrs. Jones said. "Sometimes
LWUed."ed* ?r blUC ?r purple' "
The Jones and W.L. Howell
complained to the city about the dye.
HoweU has a private picnic and swimming
area on Rockfish Creek where Peddler's
Branch joins the creek.
Teal commented on the city's sewer
arrangements at that point:
.?ni, eAn we madc 'he commitment to
! * Aw?y to provide water and sewer
service we thought we had enough
money from an old sewer issue, from cash
?".ha"d and from an Advancement grant,
H.ht # L Wc could ^run a |lne
right to Knit - Away and tied it into the
i?8 r' we wanted to increase
the sewer facilities to the south part of
nto"m WC WCrC d0ing il- "H"8 ra"
we haTtn STVC l^n we Panned and
we had to have the bond issue and get a
federal grant. That delayed us."
The sewer service to the south part of
town has been inadequate for years Teal
?ut thl? thC i?4 " tach pipe that is bein8
put there will meet present needs and
allow for expansion also.
didno '!Uend to run the sewer
??., branch indefinitely, Gaddy said
u/iti, ^ kCre loo'li1n8 for something to do
with it but it took a while to fugure out
what, and find the stuff to fix X
temporary line with," he said.
Gaddy said he really didn't expect the
industry to begin as soon as it did, or to
nave the capacity it does.
ArU5'n?. a P.umP borrowed from the
Army through the Civil Defense office
and irrigation pipe borrowed from
/rwvw C',y ran 8 ,cmF>orary pipeline
4,000 feet to a manhole behind the city
dog pound From there, the waste goes
fuough the city sewer line to the
treatment plant.
Jones complained to the Air and Water
Resources Board in April that the stream
was still being polluted. An investor,
j Jr < checked the complaint
and advised the city to keep a cloae watch
on the stream after a holding pit, then
fiS^T"01^ a,cKnjt ? Aw>y.
finished Jones said Smart told him to
cImhL f B?fd if ,hc stream wa* not
clear in a few days.
s..n.hkldlV P" for ovcrlo?d? or dye was
built by Knit . Away to keep from 1
overloading the pumping system. A Knit ?
Away employee checks the pump evtry
Khour and the induatry shares the coat of
for the pump. So far, two pumps have
n burned up in the 24 ? Iwur a day
operation, Gaday ?Id.*- y
J*"* H* vice ? president In
-irt E at Knit ? Away
?M Monday "We know thia b a problem
the dlj ^"rt l? 40 "nythln? w* f<*
I Iowa Ml, Iw emphaaUed that providiiw
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