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VOLUME LXVII NO. 29 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA S5 PF.R YEAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1971
Around Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
If you haven't purchased your ticket to
the Raeford Kiwanis Club annual pancake
supper, do so today Any member of the
club has tickets and will be glad to let
you have one. The supper will be held at
the Gibson School cafeteria starting at
5:00 p.m. Thursday, December 2.
The picture of Main Street which ran
in the paper last week had a mistake in
the cutline. The date should have read
May 31.1911.
We would like to thank Howard
Barkley for covering the football games
fur the paper this past season. He did an
excellent job for us and we would not
have had the football writeups except for
his work. Thanks again, Howard.
* ? *
The Bucks didn't defeat Havelock, but
the Rams certainly knew that they were
in a battle. Hoke High scored the most
points on them for the season and
Havelock was behind for the first time
this season. The score at the half was 8-6
in favor of the Bucks. Even in defeat the
whole community is proud of the Bucks.
They had an outstanding season and if
the ball had bounced the wrong way once
or twice they could be playing for the
championship. Congratulations to the
coaching staff, football players,
cheerleaders and also Jimmy James and
his fine band.
Now on to basketball.
The Booster Club will meet for supper
on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. at the W.T. Gibson
cafeteria.
A guest speaker will present the
program.
Below are letters to the writer of this
column and also to the executive
secretary of the N.C.H.S. Athletic
Association.
Dear Sam: v
1 am writing this before the Havelock
game, therefore I can't be accused by the
people of Havelock of sour grapes if we
1 >se. or gloating if we win.
have witnessed more unethical
Jl'aling in the game, from the State
Superintendent. Dr. Craig Phillips, and
the school people of Havelock, and
especially the Mayor of Havelock, than I
have ever encountered in my twenty two
years of school work.
The principal of Havelock. and I agreed
to abide by Mr. Simon Terrell's decision,
though the principal did not live up to his
word, therefore we were forced to play
the game at Havelock. It is a long,
involved story, that people wouldn't
believe, unless they lived through it. I
would like to thank all of our people for
sticking with us through this unpleasant
encounter, and the people can rest
assured that this is not the end of it,
because when an individual puts athletics,
as much as I love them, above the safety
of the students involved, whether that
individual be a State Superintendent, or a
principal, they don't have any right to be
associated with young people whatsoever.
Sincerely,
Raz Autry
November 22, 1971
Mr. Simon Terrell, Exec. Sec.
N.C.H.S. Athletic Association
Chapel Hill. N.C.
Dear Simon:
I wish to go on record as placing ;
formal protest against the unethica
conduct of the Administration o
Havelock High School. It is unfortunati
that my own school is involved, but tha
is beside the point. As one that wa
elected to the Board of Control t<
represent the schools in the state, I feel i
is my du'y to see that this doesn't happei
again.
On page 14 of the handbook it state
that the representatives shall meet, am
work out the details concerning the game
The Havelock officials would not agree ti
meet with representatives from Hoki
High School, and wanted to work ou
details on the telephone We told th<
principal that this would not bi
satisfactory, but he insisted. We were no
invited to see their facilities at any time,
sent the head coach and one assistant tc
make arrangements at New Bern for i
pre-game meal. I told them to go tc
Havelock. and check the facilities. The
facilities were as poor as any in the state
See AROUND TOWN, Page 11
In Superior Court
McClendon Found Not Guilty Of Rape
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$18,171.11 United Fund Campaign Underway
FISH FOR NEXT SUMMER - R.E. Smothers, supervisor of the Fayetteville hatchery,
dips out some of the 30,000 tittle shell crackers released into Rockfish Creek last
week. The minnow - sized small fry were put in at the bridge on 401 Bypass.
By Havelock
Autry Protests
Unethical Conduct
Raz Autry, principal of Hoke High
School, has accused the Administration
of Havelock High School of unethical
conduct and has lodged a protest with the
North Carolina High School Athletic
Association.
The protest grew out of the
controversy surrounding the playing field
at Havelock on which the two teams met
for the semi ? final round of the
Southeastern 3-A Conference last Friday
night.
Autry has charged the administration
with nine instances of unethical conduct
and has asked for a public reprimand
from the Board of Control of the
N.C.H.S. Athletic Association.
In his letter to Simon Terrell, executive
secretary of the Association, Autry made
it clear that his protest was not directed
at the tootball team, who were to be
"commended for their conduct on and
off the field,"
A text of his letter is printed in
Around Town.
Boy Arrested
For Breakins
Wilbert Fairley, 16, who was wanted
by the police in connection with the
series of store breakins here, was arrested
last week at his home.
He was charged with seven counts of
breaking, entering, larceny and receiving
stolen goods. Bond was set at SI0,000
Sales T ax
In County
Is $9,858
The one per cent sales tax in the
county for October amounted to
$9,858.95, according to a report issued
by the State Department of Revenue.
Collection for the state during that
month were $4,626,531.15. Collections
in neighboring counties that have the one
per cent tax were: Cumberland,
$236,546.88 and Moore. $48,423.53.
Bloodmobile
Here Dec. 1
The Bloodmobile will be at Burlington
Industries Dec. 1 for the quarterly county
collection.
The in-plant visit will be held from 12
to 5:30 p.m.
Clyde Upchurch. Hoke County
Bloodmobile chairman, urged residents to
donate at this visit to keep the county up
on its quota.
Two More
Jobs QKed
The county has received final approval
.'?> hire two more persons under the
public service employment act, county "
manager T.B. Lester said this week.
A total of five jobs have been approved
for the county. The jobs are expected to
be filled immediately, he said. Hiring was
delayed until funding arrangements were
made, Lester said.
The two jobs most recently approved
include a janitor for the county office
building and a social services aide. Other
jobs approved under the act designed to
increase employment are two sanitarian
aides, and an immunization specialist for
the health center.
Conference
Delegation
To Remain
The N.C. Community Action
Association, headed by Phil Diehl, has
lost its bid to change the make ? up of the
North Carolina delegation to the White
House Conference on Aging.
The N.C. CAA had contended that the
elderly poor are not represented on the
delegation appointed by Governor Bob
Scott and asked in a letter to President
Nixon that delegate ? at ? large slots equal
to one third of the official delegation be
given to elderly poor representatives.
In a letter to Diehl last week, Arthur S.
Flemming, chairman of the Conference.
See DELEGATION, Page 1 I
N-J To Publish Shelter Plans
Next Thursday citizens of Raeford and
Hoke County will receive an important
information package with their copies of
THE NEWS-JOURNAL. This supplement
will help each householder be prepared
for a nuclear attack, and tell him where
to go and what to do in the event an
attack occurs. People who do not receive
the supplement with their newspaper on
Thursday should immediately contact the
Hoke County Civil Defense Office and
obtain a free copy.
The information package contains
maps of the entire county and Raeford
showing the location of every public
fallout shelter, and the routes people
should take to reach them.
Additional information it given about
what items families should carry with
them to public shelters. The householder
also is told how to set up a fallout shelter
in his own home in case he prefers a
private shelter. Enough public shelter
spaces are available for the entire county
population.
The information and guidance
contained in this newspaper supplement
will give all residents of Hoke County a
better chance of surviving the deadly
radioactive fallout that would follow a
nuclear attack.
Those who do not receive a Thursday
newspaper should contact the Hoke
County Civil Defense Office located in
the County Office Building. Raeford
Everyone should keep this civil defense
information in a safe place where it will
be readily available should a nuclear
attack occur.
Copies will also be available at the
offices of the Raeford ? Hoke Chamber of
Commerce and the Hoke County Civil
Defense Agency. Wendell S. Young, the
Agricultural Extension Chairman, has
agreed to assist in the distribution of the
supplement to rural non ? subscribers of
the newspaper and new families in the
county. Donald D. Abernethy,
Superintendent of Hoke County Schools,
has agreed to allow the oldest child in
each non - subscribing family to take a
copy of the supplement home.
The United Fund campaign got
underway this week toward a goal this
year of $18.171.11.
The drive will be conducted by the
directors. No campaign manager was
named this year.
The goal this year is $1,010.08 less
than last year's goal. The budget for most
of the 12 agencies remained the same,
however reductions were made in the
allocation to the recreation program.
Community development and to Carolina
United, the combined national agencies
such as USO, and Mental Association.
The only increase in the budget went
to the county 4-H clubs.
The fund breakdown this year
includes:
Girs Scouts $3,000
Boy Scouts
Cape Fear Council $3,000
Occoneschee Council . . $1,500
Red Cross $4,302
White Cane $500
4-H Clubs $937
Crippled Children $400
Community Development $500
Recreation Program $500
Hoke Rescue Squad $ 1,000
Needy Children (School) $500
Senior Citizens S125
Carolina United $1,907.11
Reductions this year were made in the
community development budget from
$1,000 to $500; the recreation program
from $1,000 last year to $500 and in
Carolina United from $2,069.19 to
$1,907.11.
The 4-H clubs were increased from
$785 to $937.
The officers and directors of the drive
remain the same this year. Dr. Julius
Jordan is president and W.T. McAllister is
vice ? president. Mrs. O.B. Israel is
secretary and Sam Morr'r is >. usurer,
Directors with one year remaining arc.
Mrs. Richard Neely, Lewis Oxendine,
Wyatt Upchurch, A.W. Wood, Jr. and
Hugh Simmons.
Directors with two years remaining
are: William Lamont, W.T. McAllister,
Allen McDonald and Sam C. Morris. A
replacement for Ed Murray, who moved,
has not been announced.
Directors with three years remaining
are: Leonard Frahm, C D. Bounds, Mrs.
O.B. Israel. Dr. Julius Jordan and Graham
Pope.
Court Probe
In County
U ncertain
Jack Thompson, solicitor for the 12th
J_udicial District that includes
Cumberland Hoke counties, said he did
not know yet if he would carry his
investigation of the court system into
Hoke County.
Thompson has been probing
irregularities in the operation of a
magistrate in Cumberland County and has
expanded the investigation to include a
broad area of the legal system there.
The Cumberland County Bar
Association has endorsed v the
investigation and recommended that
Thompson include "but not be limited
to" investigation of:
?? The office of the Clerk of Superior
Court.
-- The office of the magistrates.
?? The office of Judge of District Court.
Any attorney practicing in
Cumberland County.
-- All law enforcement officers and
agencies
In referring to Hoke County,
Thompson said: "A lot will depend on
the information I receive as to where it
will lead."
"I can't really say if Hoke County will
be involved in the investigation because I
just got most of the information last
week and I've been in Hoke County all
this week so I haven't had a chance to
evaluate it."
Thompson was in the county all last
week during the session of superior court.
Johnny McClendon was found not
guilty of statutory rape Thursday by a
jury that deliberated less than an hour.
The Ellerbe man had been on trial for
his life since Tuesday for the tape of an
11 ? year ? old girl here. Conviction would
have meant a mandatory death sentence|
unless the jury had recommended life
imprisonment.
The selection of the jury took longer
than the presentation of evidence in th<
? case. Nine jurors were selected in three
hours Tuesday afternoon and three mo; ?
and an alternate were chosen Wednesda.
morning. The jury was impaneled at
11:25. Twenty ? three jurors were
excused before the defense and
prosecution agreed on the seven men and
live women to hear the case. An
additional 12 jurors had to be drawn after
the regular list for this session was
exhausted. The state excused nine
prospective jurors and the defense
excused 11. Three persons were excused
"for cause," which does not count against
the 14 challenges alloted to the state and
each defendant. Two black men were
among those chosen to hear the case. The
defendant and prosecuting witness were
black.
Immediately after the jury was
impaneled. the state began the
pres?
was compMHSMH
afternoon. Defense at,
made his closing arj,",
indue nts closing arg.*^nt towi
that afternoon Solicitor ' JaTT
Thompson addresser^ic jury Thursday
morning. /
The child was the slate's first witness.
She told i!w jury that McClendon came
to her nous, about 4 p.m. on March 26 of
last year. He brought two plates of
shrimp with him and after he and her
mother ate some of the shrimp, they
went to the bedroom and closed the
door, she said. Her mother borrowed
McClendon's car about 6 p.m. and left
the home to go to a launderette, the girl
said. Then she and b? ??<oer ,nd
McCle don pla' cd cards lot awlub and
after her three sisters I: en went .o bed.
McClendon asked her to make him a
sandwich. When she took the sandwich40
him, she said he put his hand under her
culottes and panties and "scratched my
private parts." She theH went back to the
kitchen, put away the bread and went
into the living room to watch television,
she told the court. McClendon was seated
on a chair in the living room then. As she
got up to go to bed. she said McClendon
grabbed her arm, and holding her by the
wrist, unbuttoned her one - piece culotte
outfit and took it off. He raped her by
the chair and allowed her to gel dressed
again, she said. Then he look her clothes
off again and raped her twice more, she
said, once on the couch and once by a
table near the couch.
Diehl, questioning her gently,
examined closely the number of attacks
and the location of the two people in the
room. The child's terminology "private
parts" figured heavily in the defense.
Under Diehl's cross ? examination, the ?
girl said that McClendon had intercourse
with her once as he leaned against a chair
pulling her against him and twice with
him seated on the couch with her
between his legs
Then speaking quietly. Diehl asked the
girl "This isn't the first time you and ?
your mother have accused someone 01
doing this with you. is it'.' You accused
your father of doing this, didn't vou'1"
"Yes," the child said
"And this was just before yo lr lather
left and right after your mother started
dating McClendon wasn't it"1"
Thompson asked the girl if her '"ather
did have intercourse with her and she said
he had.
Dr. Riley Jordan next testified for the
state, saying that he had examined ihe
child at 10 25 p.m. on March 27 and
found the opening of the vagina bruised
and swollen. He did not make a complete
pelvic examination, he said, because he
could only insert one finger into her
vagina. He said he could not form an
opinion based or his examination as to
whether the girl had had intercourse.
Under cross ? examination. Dr. Jordan
called the bruises and swelling "slight to
moderate" and said that they could have
occurred six to 1 2 hours earlier.
Mrs L1I1 Mac Graham then testified
that the next day. Saturday, her mother
See RAPK, Page 11
Unexpected Guests Surprised First Pilgrim Thanksgiving
Ninety neighbor! juit happened to
drop by as the Pilgrims sat down to their
first Thanksgiving spread.
They were Indians, and the Pilgrims ~
outnumbered nearly two to one ??
graciously invited them to stay for a bite.
They stayed three days, getting into the
spirit so well they slipped back Into the
woods and hunted up five deer for the
festive pot.
Now. 350 years later, descendents of
Pilgrims and Indians will sit down for
another get ? togetl)er in Plymouth,
Massachusetts. It is part of year - lung
observances remembering the triali end
triumph of the tiny foothold in the New
World, the log ? cabin village of Plitjtouth.
Plymouth.
Thil year't Thanksgiving banquet
ihould easily outshine the plain repast
that wu laid On rough tablet under the
trees that chilly autumn In 1621, the
National Geographic Society says.
The first Thanksgiving 'dinner wu
hardly sumptuous, though apparently
much appreciated by all. The Indians
suffered chronic near ? starvation, and the
Pilgrims had lived little better since
?rrivtng uii the Mayflower the previous
December. All but S2 died that first
winter.
Pilgrims faced their first spring planting
with justifiable foreboding. Most were
townspeople, and what little they knew
about farming suited Europe and
England.
The Indians saved the day, showing
them how to plant com, beans, squash,
and that amazing "mellon" they called a
pumpkin, and how to catch "fatt and
sweet" aela. which the Pilgrims relished
above all, and the unfamiliar lobsters
which they found of "burdensome taste "
With the end of summer, as one
Plimouth resident wrote, "Governor
Bradford sent four men on fowling that
so we might after a more special manner
rejoice together, after we had gathered
the fruit of our labours."
The Indians then showed up, attracted
by the banging blunder - busses, and
everyone set to work on the communal
meal.
The four hunters had bagged wild
turkeys, geese, ducks, wood pigeons, and
ptrtrldgr Beechnuts made the stuffing.
There was home - brewed beer and wine
from wild grapes, plus lobster, oysters,
codfish, and eels. Pumpkins were stewed
to a steaming pulp, and corn was made
into bread and to an Indian specialty
they called succotash.
Priscilla Alden presided over the largest
open fire oven. Miles Standish paraded his
20 ? man regiment back and forth.
Indians with bow and arrow and Pilgrims
with firearms displayed their
marksmanship.
Stem religious services began each of
the three days. However, heads bowed in
the New World's first giving of thanks not
in Plimouth, but in a Virginia colony on
December 4. 1619.
The Pilgrims' gel ? logether with the
Indians is believed to he what President
Lincoln had in mind when he proclaimed
the last Thursday of November as the
national holiday of Thanksgiving
Oddly, nobody knows when the firtt
Plimouth Thanksgiving occurred - in
November, or during the more likely
harvest tune of September or October.
Apparently the hungry Pilgrims were too
busy eating to note the date.