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The Hole* County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOL. LXVI1 NO. 10 KAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S4 PER YEAR THURSDAY, JULY II, 1971
Around Town
By SAM C. MORRIS
Raz Autry called this week and asked
that we remind club members at the
Arabia Golf Club that the time is growing
short to register for the member - guest
tournament. Raz said that he must have
all entries in by Wednesday, July 21. As
it now stands he will call off the
tournament if more members don't sign
up. The tournament will be played
Saturday and Sunday, August 14-15.
So if you are a tournament player
please get in your entry blanks.
The high school boys and girls that are
going to the Region III Junior Olympia
Track Meet in Athens, Ga. July 17 are in
need of money tor expenses. The Booster
Club ii sponsoring the trip but from a
source close to the treasurer the club Is in
dire need of money. So if you can see
your way clear to make a deductible
contribution for this worthy cause, just
drop your check by The News-Journal
office or mail to P.O. Box SSO and we
will see that it gets in the right hands.
The graduating classes of 1940, 1941,
and 1942 are planning a combined
reunion of the classes on August IS,
1971.
The whereabouts of the following
persons are not known. Anyone having
information on where to reach them
would be greatly appreciated. Contact
Mrs. Chalmer Davis, 875-2070.
Willie Goodwin, class of 1941
Loulne Burney, class of 1942
Mary Ruth Whitiner, class of 1942
If there is anyone who attended school
with these classes and would like to
attend this reunion, contact the above..
A letter to all known classmates was
mailed recently. The letter is as follows:
Dear Fellow Class Mates of Hoke High,
The graduating classes of 1940, 1941,
and 1942 are planning a combined
reunion of the classes on August 15,
1971, in the vicinity of Raeford.
In order to make further
arrangements, it vUll be necessary to
know the appmx*msv nu(>)^fix.Ajipex!(?d
. to attend; therefore, it is requested that
one of the undersigned be notified of
your desire to attend, not later than 21
July. After this information is received
definite plans, such as place, hour, cost,
etc., will be furnished.
It is with great anticipation we look
forward to seeing each of you present.
Mrs. Hazel Gentry Niven (1940)
118 W. Donaldson Avenue
Raeford, N.C.
Phone - 875-3785
Mrs. Eva Plummer Miller( 1941)
Rt. 1, Box 636
Raeford, N.C.
Phone ? 875-4866
Mrs. Margaret Lytle Davis (1942)
Rt. No. 2
Raeford, N.C.
Phone - 875-2070
We want to set the record straight
about the 1884 maps. The maps were
given to me by Neill J. Blue, Sr. He said
his son had them and was doing research
on them before his death. We talked to
Robert Gatlin about the maps and he
took them with him and after much
work pieced the two together and
marked off Hoke County and placed
Raeford where it is today. Now Robert
did not survey the land in 1884 as some
of his coffee drinking partners are trying
to tell his friends. We want to thank
Robert for his work and hope others will
write in if they can connect an instant
See AROUND TOWN, page 11
Little Mint
To Open Here
Comtruction will begin immediately
on a Little Mint restaurant on U.S. 401
By ? pan, next ?o Clark's Gulf Station,
C.D. Bounds, . Jr., president of the
Raeford ? Hoke Chamber of Commerce
and Wilbur Hardee, president of Little
Mint, announced Monday.
The opening date is planned for the
week of Oct. IS.
The restaurant will have a dining room
capacity of 32 and a limited menu of
hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, face
sandwiches, drinks and milk shakes.
The Little Mint chain was founded in
1964 by Wilbur Hardee, who formerly
owned Hardee's, a fast food hamburger
chain. The Little Mint home office is in
Greenville and they now have 33
restaurants in operation and four more
under conatruction.
Little Mint went public several years
ago and Is listed on the over the counter
list.
The restaurant will be open from 10
a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week. They
plan to hire locally to operate the
business, Hardee and Bounds said.
Total coat of the land, building and
equipment will be approximately
The contractor la CAF Conatruction
Company or lUaford and the transaction
was hnadlad by J.H. Wright of J.H.
Wright Realty Company.
Storms Damaged Property. County Liked Rain
Kids Plan
Dog Wash
The MethodUt young people are
looking for the dirty dogs in the county.
They are sponsoring a dog wash July
21 from 1 to 5 p.m. behind the Raeford
United Methodist Church.
Dogs will be priced according to size.
Baptists Stage
Folk Musical
A folk musical about God will be
presented at the 11 a.m. worship service
at the First Baptist Church Sunday by
the Winterville Baptist Church Youth
Choir.
The musical is concerned with the
nature of God and some of the problems
confronted by those who believe.
Jerry S. Cribbs directs the youth choir
and Mrs. Paul Braxton is the pianist.
STORM TOSSED - This trailer, used for a personnel office at Knit-Away, was flattened last Thursday afternoon by a
tornado-like wind that accompanied a thunderstorm Fortunately the plant was closed for vacation that week and no one was in
the trailer when it was hit.
Council Adopts New City Code
The city council at its regular meeting
Monday night inspected and approved an
advance copy of the new city code
containing all the city's ordinances and
then adopted an ordinance which will
make the new code effective.
The council approved an ordinance
that adopted and enacted the new city
code of ordinances for Raeford, to be
effective on Aug. 12.
The code primarily rewrote and
updated the city's laws and then
compiled them into one book. There are
no major changes, but the intention to
get rid of most of the horse and buggy
laws was not quite carried out. It is still
against the law in Raeford to exhibit any
stud horse or jack on the streets or alleys
of the city.
The city received a notice from the
federal government of the approval of
the final grant payment on the sewer
County Studies Sales
Tax At PubJic Hearing
A county sales tax is up for discussion
today *t a public hearing in the
courtroom. *
The county commissioners have
scheduled a hearing on the one cent sales
tax at 2 p.m. Thursday.
Following the hearing, the
commissioners have serverl possible
courses of action, according to T.B.
Lester, county manager.
They could take no action on the sales
tax, thereby leaving the situation as it
stands now, with no county tax imposed.
Or, they could impose a countywide sales
tax, under the authority granted county
commissioners by the legislature.
A third course would be to call for a
county election on the matter, Lester
said.
Lester estimated that if a sales tax is
enacted, it would add about S75.000 to
the county treasury and 520,000 to the
city. This estimate is based on state sales
tax statistics for last year that show that
more than S300.000 was collected in the
county. The state would deduct aboi;
%
$5,000 from a county tax to covi
collection costs, he said
The county sales tax has been an issue
here for several years. The measure was
defeated nearly two years ago in a
county referendum. This past January
the commissioners were preparing to
hold another election, and had drummed
up considerable support, when the local
option county lax was declared
unconstitutional by the state supreme
court. The General Assembly quickly
rewrote the law, giving commissioners
the power to impose the tax on their
own initiative or to hold an election to
decide the question.
When the commissioners were
preparing for the election, they stated
that sales tax money would be used to
establish a solid waste disposal system in
the county; for county recreation; and to'
maintain the tax rate at its present level.-'
at its present level.
Seven Hoke Kids Going
To Junior Olympics Meet
STATE REPRESENTATIVES - Five of the seven Hoke High students who will
compete es representatives of North Carolina in the Region III Junior Olympic track
meet at Athens, Ga. are shown at the school Monday after a practice session. From
left are Fat McKoy, Debbie Little. Janle Baatty, Linda Davis and Alexander McMillan
Barbara Llde and Bruce Morrison are pictured on Inside pages
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Compete
Saturday
Seven Hoke High athletes will
represent North Carolina Saturday in the
Region 111 Junior Olympic track meet in
Athens, Ga.
The students qualified to represent the
state in the State Junior Olympic track
meet in Jacksonville in May.
Competing in the regionals are Bruce
Morrison, Debbie Little, Pat McKoy,
Barbara Lide, Janie Beatty, Linda Davis
and Alexander McMillan.
Morrison qualified in the broad jump
and McMillan qualified in the 100 yard
dash, the 220 yard dash and the broad
jump.
Debbie Little qualified in the high
jump and the 440 yard relay. Pat McKoy
will compete in the 80 yard low hurdles
Barbara Lide qualified in the broad jump
and the 440 yard relay.
Janie Beatty and Linda Davis will
compete in the 440 yard relay.
The relay team has not been beaten
this year and is considered to have the
best chance of placing in the district
meet.
The winner in each event at the
district meet will qualify for the National
Junior Olympic Track Meet to be held
Aug. 9 at Colorado Springs, Colo. The
athletes qualifying for this national meet
wiU have their expenses paid by the
Quaker Oats Company.
plant and line expansion undertaken a
year and a half ago. The payment, which
has not yet been received, will amount to
S43.000. The council last night amended
the new budget, adopted a week ago at a
special meeting, to include about
$13,000 from the grant payment to
apply to the new sewer expansion. About
$30,000 of the grant is owed to the
contractor on the earlier project.
They approved a contract with
Koonce, Noble and Associates, Inc., to
draw the plans and specifications for
improvements on the city airport.
However, this is subject to receiving a
federal grant on the project.
They also approved a municipal bond
rating agreement with Moody's Investors
'lfi?rvice, Inc. of New York. This will
prqvide a rating on bonds issued by the
city in the future.
In other business, the council renamed
John Caddy as city manager and Palmer
Willeox as city attorney. They accepted
the resignation of T.B. Upchurch trom
the Zoning Board and reappointed the
members to the Zoning Board and the
Planning Board.
Members of the Planning Board are
Stanley Koonce, W.L. Howell, chairman;
J.H. Austin, Ken McNeill, James Davis,
Jim Williamson, J.B. McLeod, H.L.
Gatlin, Jr., Younger Snead, Jr. and J.D.
McAllister.
Members of the Zoning Board are D.C.
Cox, chairman; A.S. Mclnnis, Thomas
Holmes, J.H. Blythe, Alfred K. Leach,
Jimmy Conoly, Dan Mclnnis, and Benny
McLeod. Vacancies exist for T.B.
Upchurch and Neill L. McFadyen.
No Road Work
N'o road projects for Hoke County
were included in the list of projects
approved July 8 at the meeting of the
State Highway Commission.
C Of C Appoints Harvard;
Plans For Visit By Brass
The Raeford - Hoke Chamber of
Commerce directors re ? appointed
Ashwell Harward as a director, discussed
plans to host a visit of high - ranking
officials to the county in August and
heard reports of new businesses at the
monthly director's meeting Tuesday.
Ashwell Harward was appointed to
replace Larry Allgood as director.
Allgood was recently transferred from
Raeford by Burlington and Harward was
reassigned to the Raelord plant. Harward
had completed a portion of his term as a
director when he was transferred from
Raeford last year.
A visit to the county by Pentagon
officials is a possibility, the directors
were told. They discussed plans to host a
luncheon for the visitors, who will be
here to inspect the program being
operated by Army doctors and medics at
the county health center.
The directors heard a report on the
location of a Little Mint restaurant here.
C.D. Bounds, Chamber president, said
that several other business firms were
considering locating in the community
and that one has definitely decided to
open here. An announcement will be
made soon, he said.
Bounds said a new contract with the
N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles was
approved, which should increase the
Chamber revenues by about S400. As a
licensed plate contractor for the Motor
Vehicles Department, the Chamber will
get a 30c fee for each plate sold. The
present late is 27c.
Future events discussed at the meeting
included the annual Fire Prevention
Week in Oct. 3-9, which has been co ?
sponsored for the last several years with
the Hoke County Firemen's Association.
Dues were reported to be slightly
ahead of last year and several new
members have joined the Chamber.
Bounds said if the present trend
continues, it should be a good year for
the organization.
The directors voted to contribute to
the fund to send the seven Floke County
youngsters to compete in the Jr. Olympic
regional trials at Athens, Ga on
Saturday.
Although there has been tome damage
to crops and property in the county due
to weather in the past week, on th?
whole, the heavy rain haa been more
beneficial than harmful, county agent
Wendell Young said this week.
Most of the rainfall seema to have
concentrated on Raeford, Young said,
and parts of the county have received
very little. While there has been ample
rain lor most of the county, the aoif is
not soaked and could stand some more
slow rain.
However, the primary danger to crops
during cloudy, rainy weather is deseaae
he said. '
"Weather like this, overcast, warm and
damp, Is just right for the start of a lot of
disease," Young said.
,om,inHd' J"11 ??d "ib'ning have caused
some damage tliis week.
A trailer, used to house the personnel
Iff ce at Knit-Away, was demolished
Tnursday by a tornado ? like wind that
blted the building from its block
foundation and dumped it over a gas
tank at the rear of the trailer. Several
small trees, planted at the corners of the
trailer, were not damaged.
During that storm, occurring about 3
p.m. Thursday, the electricity for the
plant was disrupted and remained off
until 9:10 p.m. Friday.
The horizontal bars that carry power
into the main distribution panel were
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troin the Hoke County Rescue Squad
and the Civil Defense, are being used
until repairs are made.
The plant was closed that week for
vacation.
Lightning struck one of the chimncys
at Upchurch School Sunday night,
causing damage to the chimney and roof.
Children attending summer school the
next day were moved from the room
next to the chimney, which had been
by rain leaking in through the celling.
The lightning struck the newer
classroom wing at the rear of the campus.
Hail was reported over the weekend in
the Rockfish and Ashley Heights
sections, Young said, but there was little
damage to crops there. Hail also fell in
Raeford last Friday.?,
High winds in several areas have blown
down tobacco plants, he said, which will ?
cause additional work to set the plants
upright again.
Young said he has noted several
See STORMS, page 11
Operation:
Game Box
The Teenage Planning Council of the
Recreation Advisory Board will sponsor a
community service project called
OPERATION: GAME BOX. One purpose
of this project is to collect used games,
sports equipment and toys to be loaned
out to groups who need equipment and
who have a representative on the
Council. This representative will be
responsible for checking out and
returning the items. Another purpose is
to help out the communities in Hoke
County until more personnel and money
can be made available to support a year ?
round recreation program. The best
purpose of this project is to give
teenagers a chance to serve their
community.
OPERATION: CAME BOX will be
held July 20 ? 21 from 10:00 A.M. until
1:30 P.M. Teenagers who want to help
collect from door ? to - door in the
immediate Raeford area should contact
Countil Representative Lee Gillis. All
collectors will meet at the City Hall at
9:30 A.M; on July 20th to be assigned
their street on which to collect. All
citizens are asked to clean out their toy
boxes and attics and have them ready
when the teenagers come to collect.
The Tyler Town community under the
direction of Council Representative
Shelby Bratcher has organized two ball
teams, two sewing classes and a program
lor younger children similar to
Head-Start.
William Windley, Council
Representative at McCain, is in the
process of starting ball teams for the
young people in that area.
The Teenage Planning Council will act
as headquarters for the communities in
Hoke County and will coordinate and
help plan activities. Give your support
through interest and time to these fine
young people in our County.
Ticket Nol Prossed
For Medical Science
SGT E-S John A. Robertson of 7th
Special Forces Group, Ft. Bragg was
stopped on his way to work a couple of
weeks ago by a Highway Patrolman and
given a speeding ticket.
SGT Robertson was charged with
speeding 60 in a 45 mph zone on U.S.
401-A.
Friday, in district court. Assistant
Solicitor Robert F. Page took a nol pros
on the charge "in the interest of medical
science."
SGT Robertson is a medic working at
the Hoke County health center. He has
been involved since last fail in tlgfcAfaiy't
program of medical aid to MMnunty
and, among other project*, hFnifTi a
screening clinic for children the South
Hoke area and teaches weekly ck
pre ? natal care at the hetlth
maternity clinic.
E.E. Smith, cleric of superior court,
said that SGT
praised
chairman
other health woifeeri in the AoMty.
Page entered tin umnugl I ?MM ,'tt^ %
the nol proa on tM court mojL .
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Smith, clerk of superior court,
t SGT Robertson haibeen highly
by the county tiafarita, the
n of the board of berth Mi