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The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXVD NO. 39 RAEFORl), IIOKF. COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA S5 PF.R YEAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1972
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Around Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The United Fund drive moved cJoier to
ill goel this week when Burlington
Wonted Rente reported a figure of
S86S2.96. If you will read the article
elaewhere in this issue, you will see that
this is over S0% of what has been raised.
The campaign has been without a drive
ft chairman, but most of the people and
? ufirms have done an excellent job anyway.
In the United Fund article you will
read that Knit - Away was unable to get
. i their drive underway. We would like to
iL, remind any employee of that firm that
they can contribute to the drive by
mailing a check to United Fund, Box
[550, Raeford.
There are many individuals throughout
j the county who haven't contributed and
the directors ask that they do so as soon
ssible so that the goal can be
as dossil
reached.
Paul Soloman, unit president of the
Raeford ? Hoke County Heart Fund,
would like to remind everyone that
February is Heart month.
RazAutry, tournament chairman at
the Arabia Golf Course, stated Tuesday
that thirty teams had signed up for the
Valentine Tournament which will be
played on Saturday and Sunday,
February 12 and 13. He also said that the
committee would like to have at least ten
more teams to enter the event. So if you
like tournament golf send in your
application to Rnz Autry, so the
committee can complete their plans.
The only rule is that your guest cannot
be a member of the club.
[v: The editor of this paper said Monday
[that he was going to change his name to
[Smith. It seems that the editor and his
? son, Paul Illare both well known over the
7state, and when one makes the news,
[there is always a mix ? up as to which
[Paul it is. Governor Scott appointed the
I editor to the Air and Water Resources
Commission last week and when it was
reported in the daily paper the
description given was that of Paul III.
Of course this wouldn't happen in
many families, but as related above,both
of the Pauls are well known in North
Carolina.
So if you think that your son will be
famous during your lifetime, give him a
name other than yours. A junior or the
111 could get you in a mix - up also.
Judge Orders Mistrial For Scott;
Probe Of Jury Tampering Ordered
Voter Drive
A Success
The voter registration drive at South
Holce School last Saturday was a
"tremendous success," according to Scott
Poole, chairman of the county board of
elections.
During the special session 212 new
voters were added to the county rolls. Of
these 187 registered as Democrats, 23 as
Republicans and two u independents, he
See VOTER, Page 7
Bounds Charged
With Falsifying
Bank Records
C.D. Bounds, former vice president of
Southern National Bank here, was
charged last week by the FBI with
making false entries on bank records.
He appeared before the U.S.
Magistrate, Walter Cashwell, in
Laurinburg last Thursday and was
released under a 31,000 personal
recognizance bond.
The charge will be considered by the
federal grand Jury in Greensboro when it
meets in mid ? February.
He is accused of making false entries
on a note in. excess of $1,900. If
convicted, the offense carries a maximum
penalty of not more than five years in
prison, or a fine of not more than SSjOOO,
or both.
Bounds, who joined Southern National
in 1960, assumed management of the
Raeford branch in 1964. He resigned in
early November after what bank officials
termed "problems" were discovered. An
audit was conducted then. Bounds has
been a radio announcer here since he left
the bank.
IANDFILL OPENING - T.C. Jones, chairman of the county commissioners, cuts the ribbon to opiafrthe city - county sanitary
landfill Monday. With him are I from the leftI M.R. Mills, county sanitarian; John D. Gaddy, city manager and T.B. Lester, county
manager. The landfill Is open to th- pitbli? during the week from 8-5 and on Saturday from 8-12.
Dickson Is Appointed
To Water, Air Board
Paul Dickson, editor and publisher of
The Newt ? Journal, was appointed to the
.Water and Air Resources Board last week
by Governor Bob Scott.
Dickson was among five new members
appointed by the governor to bring the
state's main pollution control agency into
line with the changes made by the 1971
General Aaembly.
The changes were made by the
assembly to prevent conflict - of interest
connections by board members and to
provide for more public members. The
bve new members were appointed to fill
The places of members whose terms
expired July 1 and who were not
reappointed due to the new state law.
Named to the board in addition to
Dickson are Prof. James Wallace of
Chapel Hill; Dr. Rachel Davis of Kinston,
a physician and former member of the
state General Assembly; Owen R.
Braughler of Greensboro, director of
environmental health in Guilford County
Health Department and D. J. Walker, an
Alamance County attorney.
They nil the positions of P. O. Davis of
Durham, a consulting engineer; Wayne
Mabry of Albermarlc, public relations
official with Alcoa Aluminum Co.; Glenn
Tucker of Carolina Beach and Raleigh, a
realtor specializing in resort property;
Grady Stevens of Shiloh, a farmer and
Nelson Gibson of Gibson.
Among the new members is a
conservation activist who has often been
at odds with the Water and Air Resources
Board. Wallace is president of the
Conservation Council of North Carolina.
He is serving in one of the five public ? at
- large positions.
Dr. Davis was appointed to fill the
for a physicia
position reserved for a physician and
Braughler was named as a person having
experience in water and air pollution
control activities and being actively
connected with a local health board.
Dickson was named as a member
knowledgable in ground water resources
and not connected with any industry or
political unit that may fall under the
See DICKSON, Page 7
United Fund Nears Goal
With Burlington Effort
The highly successful drive at
Burlington Industries last week put the
United Fund within sight of its goal.
Burlington workers in the two plants
donated a total of $8,652.96, almost half
the Fund goal of 518,171.11. The Dye
plant turned in $2356.15 and the
Racford plant contributed 56,296.81.
The Fund now totals $16,671.91 ? or
SI ,500 short of its goal.
Sam Morris, Fund treasurer said he
expected the goal to be reached.
"There are enough people who still
haven't contributed that could take it
over the top," he said.
Another large contribution during the
week came from Raeford Turkey Farms
for a total of $912.60.
McCain workers donated a total of
$468.10.
Most of the large industries have now
reported, Morris said, but many of the
merchants and individual contributors
still have envelopes out.
Knit-Away, Inc. will not participate in
the community drive this year,according
to Steve Clutter, personnel manager at
the plant and a director of the United
Funa.
The Fund provides revenue for a dozen
agencies in the county. Included in these
are most of the organizations for Hoke
County young people, as well as the
county recreation program. If the goal is
met this year, the Girl Scouts will receive
S3,000 and the Boy Scouti will receive a
total of $4,500. This money is spent
primarily on council fees for the two
organizations.
The county 4-H Clubs will be given a
total of $937 for their program this year
and the community recreation program
will get $500 to supplement city and
county funds.
Other programs that benefit children
here include the Crippled Children's
Fund, and a fund for needy school
children.
Other community agencies that depend
on the United Fund are the Hoke County
Rescue Squad, the senior ptizens dubs,
the oommunity development fund, the
Red Cross, the White Cane and Carolina
United, which includes national
organizations such as the USO.
The goal this year is less than that of
last year, reflecting a reduction in such
things as the recreation fund.
Grand Jury Recommends
RepairsAt Hoke Schools
The Hoke County grand jury
recommended repairs at two county
schools in a report to Superior Court
Judge Edward B. Clark after touring
several of the schools and the jail.
At McLauchlin School, the grand
jurors noted that the hall ceiling and the
door on the north side of the building
needed repairs. They recommended that
the bathrooms be deodorized.
The lunch room was in good condition,
according to the report.
Upchurch School contains almost
twice the number of students it was
designed for, the report says.
"This school hiss facilities for 700
students but has an enrollment of 1350.
The school shows a definite need for
enlargement and the addition of more
bathroom facilities."
The grand jury found electrical fixtures
with exposed wires in one bathroom at
Upchurch and also noted that the water
from leaking pipes stood on the floor.
"In the eighth grade boys bathroom,
See GRAND JURY. Page 7
A mistrial was declared by Judge
Edward B. Clark in the Johnny Scott -
Freddie Revels trial in Superior Court
Tuesday and Joe Scott, lather of one of
the dependents, is under investigation for
tampering with the jury.
A special venire will be selected from
another county to hear the case during
the April term.
Judge Clark made his ruling just after
the lunch recess after questioning Joe
Scott.
Scott said he did buy lunch at Coles
for one of the jurors, R. B. Upchurch, but
denied speaking to him about the case or
making any threats. He said he did not
know that Upchurch was serving on the
jury that was to try his son.
"He was trying tu gel his lunch on
credil and I felt sorry for him and bought
it," Scott told the judge. "I don't know
where you got your news, Judge, but I
sure didn't say anything to him."
Judge Clark ordered Upchurch
withdrawn from the case and declared a
mistrial. Johnny Scott and Revels arc
accused of the theft of about $8,000
worth of golf equipment from Arabia
Coif Course last August.
District Solicitor Jack Thompson
moved that the case be heard in April by
a special venire from another county, and
the judge granted the motion despite the
objections of defense counsel Chub
Seawell.
"As for you, Mr. Scott," Judge Clark
said, "This matter is under investigation.
You will not be held at this time but I do
not know what will be the outcome of
this investigation. 1 say this lo you, that
any intimidations or any threats to Mr.
Upchurch will be noted."
Sheriff D. M. Barrington said that his
department was conn acting an
investigation to see if any warrants should
be drawn for jury tampering.
The selection of the jury occupied
most of the morning Tuesday and 22
prospective jurors were excused by the
defense and the prosecution before the
jury was agreed upon. After the jury was
empaneled, the court was recessed for
lunch.
The Scott - Revels case was brought
directly to the grand jury in November
without the usual preliminary hearing,
partly in an effort to prevent intimidation
of witnesses.
Class Of '36
Plans Reunion
Even though they don't have any
records tu prove it. the Hoke High Class
of 1936 did graduate and they are
planning a class reunion in April to
commemorate the event.
Mrs. Louise Sawyer, who is in charge
of the project, said that because of the
lack of records, she is having difficulty in
getting a list of the graduates for that
year.
The county board of education, for
some reason, docs not have any record on
that class, she said. And the 1936 volume
of The News-Journal, which would
contain a list of the graduates, is also
missing, general manager Sam Morris said.
Mrs. Sawyer said thai the 1936 class
was the first class lo graduate from (he
new high school building, which is now
Racford Llcmenlary School. It was also
the last class that was allowed to graduate
at the end of the eleventh grade, she said.
Some of the students returned the ncxi
year lo the twelfth grade and were listed
with the graduates of 1937 while others
who took some senior courses lhat yea'
were not listed as graduates.
Mrs. Sawyer asked that anyone who
had information on the 1936 class in
notify her.
Officials Handle Pretend Disaster For Civil Defense
EDITOR'S NOTE: In a civil defense
exercise held last week at the Armory,
community leaders practiced coping with
emergencies during a nuclear disaster.
In an improvised emergency operations
center at the Armory last week, we
listened as William Lamont, county civil
defense director, explained the situation
facing the county.
Gathered there were city and county
officials, and those who are responsible
for directing emergency services for the
county, such as the sheriff, police chief,
fire chief, public works personnel, a
doctor and the health department
director, the social services director and
others who had been assigned tasks in the
simulated emergency training exercise
In the past few weeks, Lamont told us.
International tensions had increased and
the border claihes between the Arab
states and Israel had been napped up. On
Jan. 16 there were several border clashes
between forces of the opposing nations.
The next day, all out war waa declared by
Ivaal and the Arabs. On Jan. 18. Israel
drove deep into Arab territory and the
Soviet Union inued a statement that
Israel must withdraw within 24 hours or
Russia would intervene. The United
States responded with the statement that
any intervention would be considered an
act of war.
On Jan. 19, a U.S. intelligence ship in
the Mediterranean was sunk and we
retaliated by sinking a Soviet ship. Two
days later, Russian paratroopers jumped
into Jerusalem and occupied the city and
the following day small nuclear weapons
were given to the Arabs by Russia.
On Jan. 23, Cario was destroyed by a
nuclear weapon from Israel and all United
States armed forces were put on alert.
At this point. La mom told us, the
county had begun preparing fur a possible
attack. The schools were closed on Jan.
24 and all public employees were put on
alert. Citizens were advised to prepare for
a possible attack and public shelters were
readied for use. Food and water was
stockpiled and telephones were installed
in shelters without phone service. All
public works, fire departments and other
emergency workers were alerted.
It was now 2:4S p.m. on Jan. 16. A
message wu delivered to the executive
table, at which were seated the county
commissioners, the mayor, school
superintendent, information officer and
state representative, that the Governor
had ordered Opcon 2.
This meant that an attack was
considered imminent and all emergency
plans were to be begun. Immediately, the
city and county governments issued a
warning to all residents to move to the
public shelters located in Raeford,
McCain and Leonard School.
At 3 p.m. the message came that the
United States was under attack. Reports
of a nuclear explosion were received and
radiological workers Joe Jenkins and
Franklin Teal located the blast between
Ellerbe and Mt.Gilead and began plotting
fallout arrival times.
About that time, those who were
providing emergency services were
swamped. The requests for action ranged
from a water main broken in Raeford to a
riot and panic. A traffic jam to the public
shelters developed, and in the meantime
200 students at Upchuxch School had to
be evacuated.
The turkey plant collapsed, tripping
about 150 workers and radiation levels
became critical. An Army transport plane
was reported to have crashed but there
was no help available.
A message was received from
Fayetteville aaying that persons there
were breaking into private homes and
taking food and clothing. That sort of
thing didn't develop to any great extent
here but crime went on at usual with
several breakins and an armed -robbery.
Too many people came to the shelters
in Raeford located at the courthouse, the
downtown churches, the pott office, the
armory, the turkey farm, Upchurch Feed
Mill, Southern National Bank, and
Burlington Mill. Shelter coordinator W.T.
McAllister had to get them transferred to
Leonard School or the Sanatorium before
radiation levels stopped all outside
movement.
A Trailways bus wrecked near McCain
but by then radiation levels were too
great to attempt rescue work. City and
county officials ordered all rescue
operations stopped.
It was a little after 4 p.m.
Jim Stegall, civil defense extension
instructor from Chapel Hill, stopped the
training problem then and we talked
about some of the things we had learned
during the training.
Stegall stressed that although a nuclear
attack had been used in the problem, the
training could apply to any disaster.
Perhaps the main need pointed up in
the exercise. Lamont said, was the lack of
a county wide communications network.
In most emergencies, telephones service
would be disrupted, and telephones are
about the only means of communications
in the county. The radios at the police
department and the sheriffs department
are not linked, nor are other services
linked by radio. And the commercial
emergency broadcast system that is
designed to give information to the public
Is In Fayetteville.
Lamont also noted that the courthouse
basement, which is designated as an
emergency operations center from which
rescue work recovery work would be
directed, is unusable.
The county eras found to have a
reserve of persons who had received
medical aelf ? help training since the
course is taught in high school each year,
however training for rescue workers in
radiation detection was requested.
Taking part in the exercise were James
Lamont, Leonard Wiggins, DM.
Barrington, Harvey Young, Monroe
Williams, Crawford Thomas, N'eill A.
McDonald. W.L. McNeill, Randall
Ashburn, W.C. Sellars, Malburn Edge,
James E. Chappcl, William Charles, Miss
Mabel McDonald, Gilbert Hettich, M.R.
Mills, Dr R.M. Jordan, W.T McAllister,
William McDonald, Joe Jenkins, Franklin
Teal, T.B Lester, Jr., William Lamont,
T.C. Jones, John Balfour, Ralph
Barnhart, J.A Webb, John K. McNeill,
Bennie McLeod, H.E. Garrison, Rep. Neill
L. McFadyen, Charles Morrison. Laurie
Telfair, C.P. Kinlaw, D.D. Abernethy,
G.R. Autry, Tom Burgess, Wendell S.
Young, J.D. Soles, Roger Dixon, Jimmy
F. Miller. George T. Carper, Billy
Barefoot and Chester Beasley.
Simulators who dirrected the pretend
emergencies were Palmer Willcox, Scott
Poole, C.R. Clark, Plummer Locklear,
Ralph Dodge, Jerry Goza and J.D.
McAllister.