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By SAM C MORRIS
There is one thing that the wagon train
will bring to Hoke County and that it hot
weather. We suspect that local gardens
will be destroyed if rain doesn't come
before long.
The wagon train left last Friday
morning and returned Sunday. Thursday
night was dance rtight and many gathered
on Adams Street for the affair. About ten
o'clock C.D. Bounds drew the ticket for
the 450 pound steer. The winner was
Willard Shell,, local Route one mail
carrier.
Sunday morning before Sunday School
Willard was telling a group of
Presbyterians about Younger Snead, Jr.
coming to his house and informing him of
his winning the steer. He said that Snead
woke him up and asked where he wanted
the steer put. Willard said that he got in
such a state of shock that he told the
steer to Snead for S12S and felt that if he
hadn't just been awaken he would have
put the steer in Tom McBryde's pasture
and maybe picked up an additional $50
for the steer.
Jack Bray, local car dealer, was in the
crowd and stated that if Willard was in a
state of mind that he couldn't figure out
money that someone should have called
Frank Crumpler. It seemed that everyone
in the group agreed with Bray.
We mentioned in the beginning of this
column about gardens and would like to
express thanks to W.R. Windley of
Leonard Training School for nice
strawberries he brought by a few weeks
ago and to Robert Gatlin for some nice
squash.
Now we know that Dick Neeley will
remark that Morris is asking for a hand
out.
A letter from Raz Autry last week
informs us that two golf tournaments will
be played at the Arabia Golf Course in
the .near future. If you didn't receive*
!ci:er Raz, C.D. Bounds o* Joe
Upchurch for information concerning
these tournaments.
Robert Gatlin was the subject of
Tommie Upchurch's speech at the weekly
meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis Club last
week. We didn't know that Gatlin could
get so involved or that Upchurchkept up
with his life. Anyway when we
questioned Robert about some of the
events he said that Tommie would stretch
the truth. Of course people who know
Tommie wouldn't believe that?
Tommie did say one thing that we have
always believed. When you hear someone
joking about someone else you know that
they are friends. You don't tell jokes on
anyone you don't like.
Herman Koonce says that he heartily
agrees with The News-Journal writer of
the Rockfish news, that Rockfish is a
delightful place to live, and the present
Rockfish people are good people.
But he disagrees with the writer for
saying that we wanted it to stay just like
it is. For he states that he thinks that he
expresses the sentiment of the majority
of the Rockfish People in saying that we
do not want it to stay just like it is.
We want it to grow and grow with lots
and lots of more good people.
Pump Breaks
Creek Was Red
The gasoline pump that operates the
city's temporary sewer line from Knit -
Away was broken for several hours
Monday, city manager John Gaddy
confirmed.
Peddler's Branch, which has been
polluted periodically since the textile
plant began operation in January, carried
bright red, frothy water most of Monday
until the pump was repaired and wastes
from the plant were again diverted
through a temporary irrigation pipeline to
the city's sewer line near the dog pound.
The branch was clearer Tuesday and
the volume of water had dropped
noticeably.
The little stream empties into Rockfish
Creek at the William Howell property
named Peddler's Parlor.
Dawkins To Meet
On Landfill Road
Highway Commissioner Charles
Dawkins is meeting in Raleigh soon
concerning the road construction to the
new city county landfill, county manager
T.B. Lester was notified.
Dawkins telephoned him Monday
about the meeting, Lester said. "I think
the meeting will be sometime this week,"
Lester said.
DawkJni discussed briefly the project
to four - lane UJS. 401 to FayetteviUe,
Letter uid, and repeated that the
highway improvement will ba
constructed. Letter mid Dtwkint told
him that the paperwork involved in the
environmental study required for the,
project aaa complicated because It'
involved numeroue state agencies but was
not time<
Make-Up Blood Visit Necessary
To Save Program For County
Firemen Fight
Home,CarFires
The third fire in lets than a year
damaged the trailer home of Mr. and Mn.
Winston Locldear Sunday at McFadyen's
trailer park.
The fire was confined to one bedroom
and cauaed about SI SO damage, Raeford
fire chief J.D. McMillian estimated.
The Lockleart have lost a houae and a
trailer in fires in the past year, McMillian
said. No cauae has been established for
this blaze.
A grease fire in the stove vent caused
about S400-S500 damage to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed A. Manning on
Donaldson Saturday, McMillian reported.
The flames appeared to have started
from grease at the stove and burned
through the vent into the roof, he said.
A car parked at Averltt's Pure Oil
Station was totally deatroyed Friday
morning in a fire that appears to have
started in the wiring in the dash,
McMillian said.
The Raeford fire department answered
one false alarm last week, making the
second false alarm turned in recently, he
said. The North Raeford department also
had a false alarm recently.
McMillian said this was a matter of
great concern because of the personal
danger to firemen and others and because
See FIREMEN, Page 7
Legislature Petitioned
To Save School Lunches
The school lunch program in North
Carolina is in trouble because of the
deletion from the budget
recommendations of the state's portion
of the money and a petition circulated
across the state will be presented today in
Raleigh to request that the funds be
restored.
The petition, which may carry as many
as 20,000 signatures, will be presented at
10 a.m. Thursday to Lt. Gov. Patrick
Taylor, by representatives of the state's
community action agencies.
They were circulated by the 39
community action agencies in the state,
Phil Diehl, president of the North
Carolina Community Action Association,
said. In two days time, 765 signatures
were collected in Hoke County. The total
for the four ? county Sandhills
Community Action Program area was
1.208.
According to Diehl, S2,016,000 as the
state's portion of the federally financed
school lunch program was deleted by the
Budget Advisory Commission. These
funds are now included in the
supplementary budget, Diehl said. The
matter is under consideration by the
finance committee and is expected to be
reported out soon for a vote.
The State Department of Public
Instruction and the Social Services
Department have both requested that the
funds be approved, he said.
Ernest Sutton, assistant superintendent
of county schools, gave some figures on
the impact of the school lunch program
in the state and county.
The federal government will contribute
534,000,000 a year or $68,000,000
during the biennlum to match the
S2,016,000 in state funds, Sutton laid.
This includes both cash and commodities.
The school lunch program affects all
school children in the state, Sutton said,
for without the federal participation, the
cost of the lunches would more than
double, he estimated.
"If we don't get these funds, the state
won't operate a school lunch program as
it is operated now," he said.
Sutton estimated that the school lunch
that now costs 30c-35c full price actually
costs 45c to prepare. Federal
reimbursements and commodities absorb
the extra costs, he said. Without the
federal participation, school lunches
would cost as much as 75c, he estimated.
Directly affected are the students on
Tree "or reduced cost lunches, who will
lose that benefit entirely if the lunch
program is not approved.
In Hoke County last year an average ot
4,061 children ate lunch at school each
day. During the year, 354,271 full price
lunches were purchased and 376,740 free
or reduced price lunches were prepared.
A total of S186.2S8.S3 was paid to the
county for the lunch program by the
federal government and SS0.6S0.97 was
contributed in commodities, Sutton said.
Sutton explained that until this year,
the state has been able to provide "in
kind" services, such as administering the
program, as matching funds. This year the
state was required to contribute cash and
the item was a new one in the budget.
"I don't think the program was
adequately explained," he said. "It was
new and so the committee cut it out. I
don't think they realized that the S2
million from the state would bring in S68
million from the federal government."
A total of 900,000 school children
across the state will be affected if the
program is not approved, Diehl said.
The Community Action Association
set to work on the problem last week, he
said, as soon as the members learned that
the funds had been deleted.
5,000 petitions were prepared and
circulated at the end of last week and the
beginning of this. Most ?f the signatures
are those of poor peojk in the state,
Diehl said, giving them rwhance for their
voice to be heard by the legislature.
The petition will be presented as a
scroll, wound around a rowing pin.
A dozen men and women met
Wednesday morning to try to save the
blood program for Hoke County.
Representing industry and other
groups in the town and county, they
listened to Clyde Upchurch, chairman of
the county blood program, explain the
situation since the last blood drive here
two weeks ago that netted 23 pints.
The county has been put on probation,
Upchurch said, and must accept a
make-up visit to restore its status in the
Red Cross program.
The group agreed to hold the make-up
visit on June 30.
Upchurch provided a copy of the letter
from James Watson, chairman of the
Piedmont Carolinas Red Cross Blood
Program which said that: "according to a
standing rule of the regional committee,
if a chapter has failed to meet its blood
usage by a$ much as 100 units deficit for
the fiscal year by June 30th, such chapter
must accept a make-up visit."
"The recent very poor visit to Hoke
County has left your Chapter greatly
behind in meeting its blood needs for the
year," he wrote. "Not only was this a
poor visit by not meeting your needs, but
it also will create a problem in meeting
total blood needs of the region for the
month of June."
Upchurch said the region uses about
2,400 pints a month. The county is about
100 pints short of it's actual usage and
will be further behind by the end of the
month, he said.
Upchurch suggested a quota to help
the county meet its of 100 pints each
visit, and asked for discussion. He
suggested that Burlington supply 45
pints; McCain, 10; House of Raeford, 10;
Knit-Away, 10; townspeople 10; county
10 and Tex-Elastic, 10.
The group discussed hours for the visit
and means to facilitate the collection and
agreed to announce further plans next
week.
A similar make-up visit several years
Sec BLOOD, Page 7
By Tuesday
Fifty-One Arrests Made
In Prohibition Law Raids
State and local law enforcement
officers had arrested SI persons for
violations of prohibition laws early this
week and at least eight more arrests were
expected, county ABC officer Kermit
Riley said.
The arrests followed a series of
purchases made in April and May by a
state Alcholic Beverage Control
undercover agent working in the county.
Many of the persons arrested in this
latest sweep on liquor law violators were
convicted earlier this year of similar
charges.
Officer* from the ABC department and
the Hoke County Sheriffs Department
began making arrests Friday and
continued through the weekend. By
Tuesday, 51 persons had been charged
with violation of prohibition laws. VPL
charges included the possession and sale
without a license of tax ? paid liquor and
the possession or sale of non- tax - paid
liquor. A few persons were charged with
selling beer or wine on Sunday. The cases
are set for trial in district court on July 2.
The following persons had been
charged by Tuesday, Riley said: Bessie
Harris, two charges; Reba Mclntrye, two
charges; Doris Dixon, one charge; George
Hollingsworth, one charge; Betty Petty,
three charges; Terry Lee Petty, two
charges; Read Rush Petty, one charge;
Carolyn Petty, one charge; Odell Beatty,
two charges', Lula Jenkins, one charge;
Louise Morrise, two charges; Ozella
Beatty, one charge; Clemmie Miller, one
charge; Archie McLean, two charges,
Luther McRae, two charges, Gertrude
Richardson, one charge; David Kelly, one
charge and Dolly Virgil, two charges.
Others arrested include Calvin Beatty,
two charges; Purline Rogers, three
charges; Leroy Lock!ear, two charges;
Alphonse Frazier, two charges; Alex
Campbell, one charge; Louvenia Jackson,
one'charge; Arletha McRae, one charge;
Ernest Jackson, one charge; Gladys
Locklear, two charges; James Virgil, one
charge; Annie Bell Richardson, two
charges; Carl Virgil, one charge; Nick
Rogers, one cfiarge; Jim Hollingsworth,
one charge; Lena Mae McMillan, one
charge; Major Bud Brown, three charges;
Annie Mae Torsnce, one charge; Ruth
Davis, one charge; Chester McLean, one
charge; Mattie McLean, one charge; King
David Leslie, one charge; Buie Shaw, one
charge; Waver Graham, three charges;
Artilie Graham, two charges; Blonnie
Ballard, one charge; Terry Petty, one
charge; Bernice McMillan, one charge;
James Ernest McMillan, one charge; Doris
Ann McCain, one charge; Redell BuUard,
one charge and Dorothy Leslie, one
charge.
Arrested for selling beer or wine on
Sunday were Freddie Breeden, two
charges; John McPhatter, at Curtis
McNeill's store, one charge; and William
Butler, one charge.
Speak Up
Funeral services for "Speak Up" were held Monday morning at The News ? Journal
office over a nearly empty ballot box. Burial is in this week's issue.
One reader voted to continue the feature, saying "If not "Speak Up", why not
"Live Wire" such as the Fayetteville Observer carries daily. Otherwise, people will not
know the opinions and answers that each of us should know. 1 am of the opinion that
a better informed citizen makes a better place to live.
There was no opposition.
Town Saves Charter From Repeal
Dundarrach, the county's second
incorporated town, almost lost its charter
this spring before many of the residents
even knew it had one.
A bill introduced in the General
Assembly to repeal the charters of
inactive towns and municipalities across
the state included Dundarrach, but a
petition signed by 22 persons in the
community appears to have saved the
town's incorporated status.
Dundarrach, along with 32 other
towns, was excepted from the charter
repeal bill in an amendment passed May
26.
Tom Jones, a resident of Dundarrach
and official of the Dundarrach Trading
Company, circulated the petition to save
the town charter. He was first notified by
Sam Morris, county chairman of the
Democratic party, that the charter was to
be repealed. Then a letter from Rep.
Johnson, addressed to the "Mayor of
Dundarrach" found its way to him,
somewhat delayed, he said, because the
post office didn't know to whom to
deliver it. A letter from Representative
Gus Speros followed that, asking if
anyone objected to the repeal.
"We got this letter saying they were
going to take the charter away and a
couple of people in the community said
we ought to try to keep it and become
active," Jones said.
So the petition was circulated and
taken to Raleigh by Hoke Rep. Neill
McFadyen, Jones said. In it the signers
state "We are making plans and intend to
become an active municipality."
Jones said the main community project
now is to establish a fire district.
"We'll have to get organized to become
an active town," he said, "and hold an
election for mayor and town officials."
The move to repeal the charter came as
a surprise to some in the county, who
didn't know that Dundarrach was
incorporated in the first place.
"I thought Raeford was the only
incorporated town in Hoke County,"
Raeford city manager John Gaddy said.
The charter was no surprise, however,
to Mrs. Jones, a life - long resident of
Dundarrach and niece of the first, and
probably only, mayor of the town.
"We knew all along the town was
incorporated," she said. "There used to
be city limits signs but I guess they have
been taken down."
Dundarrach was incorporated in
Robeson County on Feb. 24, 1911, just
two months before Hoke County was
formed. L.A. Mclnnis was named mayor
until the "time of the first election" and
Edgar Hall, Jesse Gibson, M.C. McMillan
and L.B. Smith were named
commissioners.
The city limits were set out in the
charter to form a mile square around the
depot. "The corporate limits of said town
shall be as follows: Beginning at a point
one half of a mile north from the center
of the Aberdeen and Rockfish Railway
Company depot as it is now located at
the station of Dundarrach, and running
thence west one ? half mile; thence south
one mile; thence east one mile; thence
north one mile; thence west one - half
mile to the beginning; forming a perfect
square, with the depot as the center."
The A&R depot still stands, used now,
Mrs. Jones said, to store fertilizer.
The charter first came lo light when
state highway 20, through Dundarrach to
St. Pauls was being paved, about 1938 or
'39, E.E. Smith, clerk of the court, said.
"Nobody knew it was incorporated
until then but a highway man came
through and said it was and it caused all
kinds of trouble putting that road
through."
A check at the county register of deeds
office last week failed to locate the
charter, which is probably filed in
Robeson County according to Joe
Gulledge, register of deeds.
But he knew about the charter and had
even seen it, he said. A call to the state
Department of Archives and History soon
had a photostatic copy of the charter in
the mail.
Dundarrach is listed among the towns
in the North Carolina Gazetteer as a
"town in south Hoke County." The
population is given in the 1964 edition of
The World Book atlas as 109.
There was once a school there and a
post office was twice established in the
See DUNDARRACH, Page 7
No Roads
For Hoke
No highway projects for Hoke were
Included in this months' listing by the
State Highway Commission of projects
for which bids will soon be asked. '
The commission announced detail*
June 7 of 10 road projects in 12 countiea
containing 22 miles on which it plana to
ask for bids this month.
Counties include Pitt, Wilson,
Buncombe, Duplin ? Lenoir, Sampson,
Rockingham, Chatham, Lm, Ashe, Macoa
and Forayth.