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15< *tDt e *"7'2ew6 - journal * The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1 905 VOLUME I.XVII NO. I RAEFORI), HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA S5 PER YEAR THURSDAY. MAY 11,1972 Around Town By SAM C MORRIS The ictums of the primary last Saturday night still have most voters wondering what happened. It was not only in Hoke County, but all over the slate. Iii the presidential race Conservative George Wallace received over 50% of the vote in North Carolina. This is not so surprising as people have bcen**o upset with seht>ols, war and busing. Now in other races in the state most of the candidates supported were from the liberal side of the parly Now something else is the small turnout in Hoke County and all over North Carolina. With as many races, which rflclude white, black and red men and women, we had Imped for a record vote in Hoke County. As chairman of the election board Scott Poole said, "very disappointing." The weather was perfect so maybe people left for the beach or went fishing and said the devil with the government. We don't find anything worth voting for anyway. Time can tell a lot of these things. As we have always said in the column if you don't vote, keep your mouth shut about how the government is run. ? * ! The Raeford Lions Club was very successful at the Arabia Golf Course last weekend. The top winner was Bill Lent/., local aolfcr. Hoke High will hold llicit Athletic Banquet on Tuesday. May l(>. front (> 50 - 9 p.m. Tickets may he purchased from any booster member for S2. Parents of athletes and all Buck suppoiters are encouraged to attend. County Studied Four members of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission have been in Hoke County for three days this week evaluating the factors which have contributed to successful desegregation in the public schools. The evaluation uam is licadiu v\ Miss Caroline Davis and includes Mrs. Betty Stratford. James Corey and Rodney Cash They have visited schools throughout the county and discussed desegregation hi the schools with the administration, faculty, students and parents. Jack Riley To Be Guest Speaker At Chamber Dinner Guest speaker at the 25th Annual Kacford Hoke Chamber of Commerce Dinner to be held at 7 p.m.. May 15. will be Jack Riley, member of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States agribusiness and rural development committee. The dinner will be prepared and served b\ the 411 Clubs at tie W.l . Gibson Cafeteria in Hoke High. NewU elected officers and directors of the Chamber of Commerce will be installed at the dinner. They are president. Sam C. Morris; vice presidents. William Poole and lid Brown; secretary - treasurer. Freddie Williams. Directors appointed lor a three - year term are Graham Clark. Bobby Conoly William Poole and Freddie Williams. Past presidents of the Chamber of Commerce will be recognized and special music for the evening will be presented b> the Hoke llmh Chorale, directed b\ Mrs. Neil McNeill. Ciuesi speakei Jack Riley is a native of Dunn, where he finished high school. He graduated in journalism at the University of North Carolina and worked on the staffs of the Dunn Dispatch. The Graphic in Nashville. Tenn. and the Raleigh News and Obscrvci. He later serv .' with the Marine Corps as an artilleiy officer. After that he taught journalism ai the University of North Carolina and served on the Board of Governors ol the University Press and as a faculty member of the Publications Board. He is currently serving as a member of the presidential board of advisors of Campbell College. Riley also served as publicity director for Carolina Power and Light Co., and is now the chairman of the public relations and membership committee and a member of the board of directors of the Southern States Industrial Council The public is invited to the dinner and program. Tickets may be obtained from the Chamber of Commerce office for S3. tl Jark Hi lev Gubernatorial Runoffs Possible In Both Parties Runoffs may he indicated in both the GOP and the Democratic races for gubernatorial nominations, former stale Sen. Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles headed the six man field, but fell short of the magic 50 percent majority in Saturday's voting. He collected 4 5 percent of the vote to lead his major opponent. Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor, who finished with 37 percent. In Hoke County Bowles finished ahead of Taylor with 1,568 votes to Taylor's 1.164. In a news conference called Monday Taylor said that his plans are still not clear concerning a runoff. He said that if he alone were involved in the decision. "I would say without hesitation that I was calling for a runoff." But lie went on to explain that it involves many other people and also the future of the state so lie was carefully weighing all of the factors. "I fiankly do not think that Suturdav s election amounts to a mandate .1 have advised my staff this morning to continue on the assumption that we're still in the race." In Hoke Counts Reginald Hawkins, a black Charlotte dentist finished with 104 votes. Wilbur who aimed at the "big boys" finished with 1>K votes. The two other candidates on the Democratic ballot. Gene Leggett and A?b. V K Dickson finished in the county with 38 and 21. The battle for the number one office in the slate was even lighter in the Republican party with Rocky Mount businessman Jim Gardner tailing just shy of the required SO.I percent of the total (See RI NOFFS Page I St Voter Turnout Small In Hoke Rose Sweeps 7th District Charlie Rose came oul ahead in Hoke County as he did all across the 7th Congressional District in the battle for the democratic nomination for Congress. He collected 1.1 10 votes in Hoke over a second place finish for Doran Berry with 948. Hector McGcachy came in last in the county with 686. Rose's share of votes throughout the entire district hovered just around 50 per cent, but he fell short of a clear majority when the final votes were counted. Both Berry and McGeachy finished with about equal shares of the district's votes. Rose nearly swept the entire district in Saturday's voting, finishing first everywhere except in his home county of Cumberland. There Berry finished first, but Rose was a close second, with only 11 2 votes behind. Rose said he was "deeply moved by the strong support he got throughout the district." If he showed any weakness throughout the district, it was in his own county. In other counties of the 7th district he had strong leads, including New Hanover County, the home of retiring Rep. Alton Lention. whom Rose had opposed two years ago. Rose's biggest strength came in Robeson County, where he finished nearly 3,000 votes ahead of the combined totals of his opponents. In Hoke County, where Berry was counting on a lot of his strength. Rose still came out the victor, gaining much support in the rural precincts of the c^linty. This contest probably drew the most interest of all in the 7th District counties, with all three contenders being Fayetleville lawyers. They waged a spirited campaign for the scat being vacated by Alton Lennon and the vote was expected to be close. Rose's opposing Lennon two years ago served to make hm moro-familiar -throughout the distric' and gave him the jump on his challengers this year. The 32 ? year ? old candidate, the youngest of the three, had previously served as the chief prosecutor for the District courts of the Hoke ? Cumberland District. COUNTING - Precinct workers and registrars in Raeford No. 2 begin the long process of counting the votes after Saturday's primary election. Pictured (from left) arc Mrs. Graham Monroe. Mrs. R. A. Ma the son. Mrs. Rebecca Childress, Jake Austin, Mrs. J. H'. McPhaul and Hugh Lowe. Hoke Loses Seat In 21st District The race for the 21 si District of the N. C. General Assembly saw veteran representative (jus Spctos of Maxum and the Rev. Joy Johnson of Fairmont leading the votes. Newcomer Frank White of Pembroke, a former Robeson County Commissioner ran a strong third in the race. Neil MeFAdyen, veteran representative who was seeking a seventh consecutive House term, was defeated by several hundred votes in the district and finished fourth. Mc Fad yen led the votes in his home county. Hoke, by finishing with 1,662"';But he was strongly beaten in Robeson County, and thus Hoke lost the scat in the Mouse lor the first time in recent history, and put all three members ot the 21 si House Delegation in Robeson County. Joy Johnson and Gus Spcros finished in Hoke with a near tic - Johnson commanding 3 more votes for a 1,184 finish to Spcro's 1,181. Mrs. Mary Odom, a Wagrani schoolteacher who had served one legislative term, ran fifth in the eight candidate field and was also eliminated. She came in for a strong fourth place showing in Hoke, however, with 1,069. Next was Frank S. White with 966, followed by Tracy Britt, 315; T*.mmy Dial, 246 and C. A. Brown Jr., with 160. Hoke County To Begin Food Stamp Program The Food Stamp Program will open officially in Hoke County on July 1. 1()72. The Dept. of Social Services employed an eligibility specialist the last of April to begin transferring those households that wish to participate in order that they may start purchasing stamps early in July. Families and individuals who get monthly public assistance checks are not required to come in to make application for the stamps. Letters arc being mailed to them with a form to fill in indicating if they want the stamps. When the forms are returned to the DSS the families will be certified since their eligibility is already determined in public assistance records. Identification and purchase cards will be mailed to them after they are certified. Heads of households who do not get public assistance checks will have to apply for Food Stamps, but they must apply by appointment. The DSS urges those who do not get checks and want the stamps to call telephone number 875-3367 or 875-3772 for appointments to make applications. The office of the DSS is not equipped to handle crowds of people, and this is the reason it will be necessary for non - assistance families to make application for stamps by appointment. It is also necessary, in order to avoid a long waiting period, for them to bring verification of all income in the home from any source. Verification of living expenses such as shelter (rent) or house payments, fuel, electric and water bills, medical bills, and other monthly expenses should also be brought in by the person applying. Pa\ roll deductions must be verified. A schedule that will help non assistance families to determine their eligibility for food stamps may be seen below. The number in the family and the income will determine the amount of free stamps given a family. SCHEDULE MONTHLY COUPON ALLOTMENTS AND PURCHASE REQUIREMENTS 48 STATES Eor a household of I 2 3 4 Person Persons Persons Person The monthly coupon alltoment is ? S32 $60 S8K S108 And the monthly purchase requirement is - MONTHLY NET INCOME 0 lo Sio.oo so SO SO SO s:ot.> s i 1 0 0 S30 lo S.W.'II 4 4 4 4 S40 to S40.90 6 7 7 7 $50 l.i S50.90 8 10 10 10 S60 lo $60.00 10 13 13 13 S70 lo S7O.0Q i: 15 15 16 $80 lo .*>'> 14 18 10 10 S>K) lo SO0.0O 16 31 31 21 $100 lo SlOO.oq 18 33 34 35 S110 to SI COM X) 36 37 38 si:o io si 30.00 ?* T 30 30 31 Si 30 to si 30.00 34 31 33 34 S 140 lo SI47.00 35 34 36 37 SIS0 ti?SI60.09 36 36 40 41 SI 70 lo SI 80 0.) 36 43 46 47 si oo io s:oo oo 48 53 53 s:io io s::oo9 54 58 50 (See FOOD STAMPS Page I5? Incumbents Win Seats All of the incumbents were re ? elected in Saturday's primary in the local races for Board of Commissioners and Board of Education. Seven candidates had filed for each of the boards, with all five scats open on the Board of Ijducalion and 'wo out of five scats open fin the Board of County Commissioners. Incumbent Tom McBrvdc collected the most votes throughout the 13 precincts in Hoke for a total of 1,908 votes. He was running for a second term on the county board, after having been originally appointed to fill an unexpired term on the board. McBryde is the owner of Raeford Lumber Company. Coming in second was J.A. Webb who finished with 1,130 votes for re ? election to the board. He has been on the board for the past 14 years and is a retired farmer from Qucwhiffle. He was the first in the counts to file for this election. In third place >vas Mrs. J.K. Riley, a Hoke native and an auto mechanic, with 769. Next was Carson l)av?s Jr., who collected 596 of the total. He is a Hoke native in the real estate and construction business. Hillman Edens finished next with 397. He has been a Hoke resident for six years, having moved here from Robeson County, and owns an electrical business. H.P. Smith, a Qucwhiffle farmer and real estate businessman, finished next with 345. In last place was Lina Angstadt, a legal secretary in Raeford with 166. Newcomers. Sara Leach and William Poole Sr.. seeking scats on the Board of Education were both defeated in Saturday's election as the five incumbents were re ? elected to office. Mrs. Leach, a teacher in the office clerk school which is administered by the Sandhills Community came in last place with 1,368 votes. Kiwams president William Poole Jr. collected 1.5 11 for a sixth place finish Re ? elected to the board with 2,051 was W.L. Howell, owner of Howell's Drug Store Coming in next was Robert L Gibson, a lifetime resident of Antioch Community with 1.867. Also re - elected with a thud place finish was 1).R. Huff Jr., who has served on the board for 20 years and is presently serving as chairman. Wilton Wood collected 1.759 votes lor re ? election to the board. He is a lite insurance agent and resident of Rockfish Community . Also elected with the fewest number of votes among the five members was Riles Jordan, who finished with 1.688. He has been a resident of Hoke since 1960 and is a physician. Bonds Approved Hoke County voters approved a SI 50 million bond issue for clean water projects and a separate S2 million issue for construction of a state zoo The bonds gained approval across the state, although the /no bond met substantial opposition In Hoke County, the water bonds passed with 2.237 votes for and 712 against The zoo bond had 1.867 votes cast for and 930 against. The water bonds were designed to help local governments meet the grow ing costs of developing water supplies and controlling pollution They were overwhelmingly approved throughout the stale with a better than a 2 - 1 margin Legislation authorizing the referendum specified that S50 million be distributed among the 100 counties, on a population basis, to help develop new water supplies (See BONDS. Page 15) San ford Leads Hoke Despite Terry Sanford's loss to Alabama Governor George C. Wallace in the North Carolina Presidential primary battle, he says he will go right on campaigning up to the Democratic nominating convention in July. The 54 - yeai old Duke University piesident and former state governor said he had no regrets about entering the state's first Presidential primary. In Hoke County Sanford gained a slur, victory ovei the Alabama governor, with a total of 1,461 to Wallace s 1,33*). He only carried 18 other counties of the 100 in the state. New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm came in next in Hoke with 105 votes, Edmund Muskie had a fourth place finish with x)3 and HenryM. Jackson came in last in the Democratic Prcsidenlial ballot with 24 Before Saturday's election. Sanford said that if he could not get his message across to the Democrats in his own state, he didn't see how he could get it across to the nation and to the nominating convention. Both Sanford and Chisholm had spent most of the week prioi to Saturday's election campaigning across the state, while Wallace had expended his efforts elsewhere. Across the state Wallace piled up 50 per cent of the democratic vote to 37 per cent for Sanford. Voter turnout was reported high across the stale as a whole, but in Hoke County less than 50 per cent of registered voters turned out. in spite of Saturday's warm, sunny temperatures and long polling hours. Chairman of Hoke County Board of Elections Scott Poole said that voter turnout had virtually diminished to alnnst nothing by I p.m. He said he was ' extremely disappointed" in the number of people who got out to vole and said it can really hurl a county the size of Hoke when so few people take the efforts to vote. Earlier lie lud expressed hopes that ovei 75 per cent of (be County's 6,376 registered voters would turn out. That Jiumbcr rcj .esents an all lime high number ol registered voters in the county. Wallace's victory in the state came just days after he won i ll 49 del'gales in Tennessee. He appeared certain to pick up at least 36 Democratic convention delegates committed to him on the first ballot in Miami Beach in July. Sanford will collect the remainder of the 64 delegates at slake in North Carolina. But Sanford said that he still had hopes of blossoming as a major compromise candidate should Hubert Humphrey and Son. George McGovern of South Dakota deadlock at the convention. He still plans to actively campaign lor the June 3 New Jersey contest, the only other primary he filed for. He also said his delegate hunting m non ? primary states is continuing and by July 10 when the Miami Beach convention opens, he expects to have accumulated more than the number he won here. Oil the Republican side, with only two names on the North Carolina primary ballot. President Nixon received no active opposition from California Rep I'aul N. McCloskey Jr.. who quit the primary battles alter filing for llie contest in this state. There were 32 Republican convention ballots at stake In llokc County with only 34 registered Republicans voting in Saturday's primary. Nixon collected 30 in his favor, to 4 for McCloskcv. Galifianakis Victor Rep. Nick Galifianakis has forced Sen. B f.vcrctl Jordan, the 4 year congressional veteran into a June 3 runotl election for North Carolina's Democratic senatorial nomination. Raleigh television executive Jesse Helms won the Republican nomination with ease by sweeping aside his two oDoonents. Galifianakis claimed an easy victory in Hoke, with 1.695 of the votes to second place Jordan's 1 .057 J K Brown finished next with 92 and 1 iigene Grace came in last with 68. Across the state. Galifianakis pulled one of the major upsets in recent North Carolina political history by besting Jordan by some 35.000 votes.but the 43 year ? old contender fell short of a majority by I 5.000. Sen. Jordan said that campaigning at a more leisurely pace hurt his campaign He said that if a runoff is definitely decided upon he intends "to set the record straight " With only 67 votes cast in Hoke tor the Republican senatorial race. Helms commanded 60 with James C Johnson Jr getting only 7 and William H. Booc.O. Offi ees Closed The FHA offices will be chwed Friday, May 12. while the employees attend the Farm f amily of the Year banquet in Shelby. Jake Vinson announced.