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The Hoke County News- Established 1928 ihe Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME I.XVIl NO. 14 RAEFORU, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA S3 PER YEA'' THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1972
Around Town
By SAM C. MORRIS
The Club Championship will be played
Saturday and Sunday, August 12 and 13
at the Arabia Golf Course according to an
announcement by Raz Autry,
tournament chairman. Tee off time will
be from 1 to 3 pjn. The cost will be
S3.00 and all awards will be trophies. Raz
said that he must know by Thursday,
August 10th if you are going to play.
So if you arc a member at Arabia and
like tournament golf get in touch with
Raz Autry.
Last week the Raeford Fire
Department was "ailed out and it was a
false alarm. 1 can't understand why
anyone would call and say something is
on fire and disturb the entire group of
volunteer firemen who are called out
enough anyway. This is not a joking
matter and someone could get in serious
trouble if caught.
Crawford Thomas, fire chief, also
stated that firemen couldn't get to the
scene because of the sightseers following
the fire truck. This is also against the law
and could get someone in trouble. So if
you must go to every fire wait until the
firemen have arrived. You cannot be of
any help and you could get in the way.
The firemen are doing a good job and
the pay is for free, so give them a free
hand to do their work.
Every year Long's Bait and Tackle
Shop puts on a fishing contest and gives
prizes to the winners. The winners for
this year were announced last week and
are as follows:
Bass, 9 lbs. 10 ozs. - Joe Holt.
Jack, 3 lbs. 15 ozs. - Clyde Upchurch,
Jr.
Bream, 24 dts. ? Mabel Riley
Robin, 23 ozs. ? Lee Moss.
Crappie, 11 ozs. ? Lonnie Hendrix.
Congratulations to all these fishermen.
The Democrats finally found a running
mate for Senator George McGovern and
can now get down to a hard campaign.
They have had the headlines for the past
couple of weeks and I believe the
Republicans enjoyed every minute of it.
The Republicans will have a
convention in a couple of weeks but it
should be quiet unless the hippies get out
of control.
Vets Hold Cook-Out
Chapter 17 of the Disabled American
Veterans will hold a cook ? out at the lot
of Bargain Motors next Monday night,
Aug. 14, at 7:30 pjn.
Commander Jake Gurley urges all
members and other disabled veterans to
attend.
Commissioners Amend Budget To
Supplement Ambulance Service
Man Arrested
Oh Rape Charge
A 21-year-old Hoke County man was
arrested for the rape of a young Raeford
woman last Wedn-?H-iy afternoon.
Joint investigations by the Hoke
Sheriffs Dept. and the Raeford City
Police led to the arrest of Junior Lee
Washington. Rt. I, Red Springs, on a
kidnapping charge and two counts of
rape.
Mrs. Patncia H. Adams, 22,716 Harris
Ave., told authorities that a young man
had come to her house Tuesday morning
and questioned her about some
landscaping of her property. She said he
asked her when her husband would be
home so they could discuss it further.
She told authorities that the man came
back the next morning and discussed the
landscaping again and then asked her for
a glass of water. She said the man
accepted the glass of water from her
while he was outside her front door and
then allegedly pushed his way into the
house and drew a knife on her and raped
her.
It is alleged that he then forced her at
knifepoint to drive him about five miles
out of town and again raped her
The location of the second assault
was reported to be off U. S. 401 South,
near the Scotland County line.
Arrest of Washington was made at his
home about 1 p.m. after Mrs. Adamatold
authorities the type of car he had been
driving.
Mrs. Adams said she cooperated with
the man because she was afraid he might
harm her or tier two children who were in
the house at the time the alleged incident
occurred.
Washington is being held in the Hoke
County Jail without privilege of bond
pending preliminary hearing on Sept. 1 in
District Court. He faces additional
charges of breaking, entering and larceny
in the incident.
Raeford Police Chief James H. Lamont
said this was the first reported incident of
rape to occur in the city.
League Meets
The Raeford Merchants bowling league
will meet at 8 pan. tonight, Thursday,
Aug. 10, at the Hoke Civic Center.
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Fire Guts Section
Of Upchurch Mill
Fire broke out in the IJpchurch Milling
Co. twice Tuesday and caused extensive
damage in the glue flour mill, a three
floor section of the building located off
Main Street..
Possible cause of the blaze was
attributed to lightning striking the
building, according to Tom Cameron of
Upchurch Milling. He said ligh' Ing had
struck machinery in the building several
times recently and that it had been
lightning early Tuesday morning when
the fire began at 5 a.m.
The section of the mill that burned was
used to grind and sift a low grade wheat
flour for industrial purposes. Cameron
said the equipment that was destroyed
was "a very minor part of the operation
and it was a total loss."
Cameron said Upchurch "had
considered taking that part of the mill
out" and that the glue flour mill would
probably not be reconstructed. He did
not know what would be done with the
section of the building itself, which was
still standing.
He said the firm did not yet have an
estimate of damages.
The first call came into the Raeford
Fire Dept. from the Charlotte Observer
delivery man, after he spotted flames in
the building while making his rounds
about 5 a.m. CalB were relayed to North
Raeford and Hillcrest Fire Departments,
and within minutes a large turnout of
volunteer firemen were at the scene of
the blaze.
Flames were controlled within about
an hour, reported assistant Fire Chief Neil
McDonald, but the building was still
smouldering at mid-morning and small
flames were still breaking out.
The second major break-out occurred
about 2:15 Tuesday afternoon, when
flames could again be observed shooting
high out of the same section of the
building. One truck and volunteers from
the Raeford Fire Dept. had remained on
the scene since early that morning,
helping to control the flames, but when
the second major flare-up occurred, the
sirens again blew in the Raeford and
North Raeford Districts and additional
See FIRF.. Page 1 3
Road Paving
Project OK'd
The North Carolina State Highway
Commission has allocated Hoke County
more than 514,000 for one secondary
road construction project, it was
announced this week.
The project will involve the paving of
nearly a mile of SR 1108. a road in the
Antioch section of the county. The part
which will be graded and paved stretches
from Hender's Road to the Burlington
Road. SR 1108 is known as the R.
Newton Road.
Approval of the project was voted at
the regular August meeting of the
Highway Commission held in
Hendersonville.
Black-Out Caused
By Trouble In Line
The 25 minute power black-out in
Raeford and Hoke County Tuesday,
afternoon was due to line trouble in the
Red Springs substation, according to I d
Chappell. representative of Carolina
Power and Light Company.
Power went out at I 2.43 p.m. and was
restored at 1:08. There was some
speculation that the black-out was
somehow related to the fire at the
Upchurch Milling Co. which continued
throughout Tuesday, but Chappell said
the causes were roughly the same as those
that caused the black-out a few weeks
ago.
The Hoke County Board of
Commissioners voted to amend the
1972-73 fiscal year budget to increase the
amount of money appropriated the
ambulance service in Hoke County. The
figure was raised from S 1.500 to $3,500.
A request for financial assistance was
presented the commissioners at their
regular monthly meeting Monday
morning by Danny Morrison, operator of
Morrison's Ambulance Service, who told
the commissioners he is having trouble
collecting bills from the services he
provides.
Out of 32 trips made last month. Ik
told the board, only two fares were
collected. He said he would like to sell
the business to the county and operate it
for a salary. "You'd be surprised how
many people just don't pay their bills,"
Morrison remarked. "I've taken people as
far away as Duke Hospital and never
collected fares from them."
Chairman of the board T.C. Jones said
the county is "not in a position to buv
out the company, but we want to he'
we can figure out a way to do it."
County manager T.B. Lester pon..
out that if the revenue sharing bill now
under consideration in the U.S. Senate is
passed, additional funds will be opened
up to supplement the ambulance service,
but until then, the county has limited
funds to work with.
Commissioner Ralph Barnhart pointed
out that state law requires the county to
provide an ambulance service, so the
board had no alternative but to help as
much as it could.
Morrison requested an additional
$5,000 in supplementary funds from the
county, but all that was available was an
additional $3,500.
The commissioners also amended the
budget to increase the salaries for the
K .^fprd list taker and the food stamp
eligibility specialist. Also added to the
budget was a fund for operating the
County Highway Office Building on
Donaldson Ave. The building had
formerly been run by the State Highway
Dept.. but had been recently turned over
to the county. Included in the $5,000
fund is maintenance, electricity, water,
fuel, supplies, insurance and installation
of a heater and air conditioner. A low bid
from Raeford Heating and Plumbing for
installation of the heating and air
conditioning units was also approved
Monday.
Amendments to the budget will also
provide $1,000 for painting of the cell
block in the county jail and $2,500 for
installation of new doors in the
courthouse and additional repairs.
Julian Barnes from the Hoke County
farm Bureau also appeared before the
commissioners to request the board to
approve a resolution concerning
revaluation of farm lands in the county.
The resolution, which the Farm Bureau
hopes to present to the state legislature
for adoption as a law calls for "objective
analysis of the classification, appraisal,
valuation, assessment and taxation of
farmland... to prevent the forced
conversion of farmland toother uses."
Barnes said the present method of
taxing farmland, which is based on the
value of its highest and best use or sales
value, will force the selling of productive
farmland against the wishes of the
owners.
He expressed concern that taxes "were
being raised out of reach." He said the
farm lobbyists will make a big push to get
the resolution through in 1973. and
wanted the wounty to back the
resolution.
Chairman Jones pointed out that the
See BUDGET, Page 13
Road Paving Bid Approved
City To Begin Six Projects
The Raeford City Council accepted a
bid for paving and resurfacing more than
6,000 feet of city streets at their regular
"monthly meeting Monday night.
The low bid of $23,212.88 came from
Lee Paving Co., a firm from Sanford, N.
C. Another bid was also received on the
project from Crowell Construction Co. in
Lumberton.
The project will entail resurfacing of
four Racford str cts, new paving of two
additional streets and installation of a
curb and gutter on one street.
The sections to be resurfaced are hast
Fdinborough, from Jackson to the
cemetery; Central Avenue, from Magnolia
to the railroad; Sixth Avenue, from
Saunders to Forrest; and Grant Avenue,
from Saunders to Forrest.
New paving projects are slated for
McLean, from Prospect to Seventh and
Lumber Plant Street, from Magnolia to
Main.
A 30-inch curb and gutter will be
installed on Fast Fdinborough Avenue,
from Crawford to Jackson. The area to be
serviced by the project covers
approximately 2,800 linear feet.
City manager John Caddy said work
on the road projects is expected to be
underway soon.
The council also held two public
? hearings on annexations of property to
the city, with no objections to either. The
hearings concerned Burlington Industries
and the Bethel Road apartment building
owned by Joe McLeod! Both annexations
were requested by the owners.
4 The council also accepted six bids for
the sale of some surplus equipment
belonging to the city.
Two Ford dumptrucks, one a 1959
model and the other a 1963 meodel were
?old to Fd Ucbers from Traveler Systems,
along with a 1954 garbage packer. The
bids on the dumptrucks were for $79.10
and $63.10. The garbage packer brought
a high bid of $376.10.
Sold to Highway 64 Auto Sales and
Salvage from Wake Forest were an old
Case tractor for $32.07 and a bush-hog
mower for $37.07.
Aberdeen Sand and Gravel purchased a
D-7 bulldozer for $1,255.
The council passed & motion to request
permission from the State Highway
Commission to plant some low flowering
shrubs on the median strip on Main
Street. Mrs. Fvelyn Manning, chairman of
the Governor's Beautification Project,
appeared before the council Monday
night to request the measure. Funds for
purchase of the plants were provided by
the Raeford Jaycees.
A motion authorizing the City Manager
to make application for a Federal grant
from the F.conomic Development Assn.
for help in the water works improvement
project was also approved by the City
Council.
Discussing the project with the council
was Richard Moore from Moore, Gardner
and Assoc., from Asheboro, the Raeford
city engineers. Funds will also be
requested from the state from the Clean
Water Bond issue, passed by a general
state-wide vote in the May primary
Raeford attorney Phil Diehl spoke to
the council on behalf of the North
Raeford Fire District about their concern
over the annexation of Burlington
Industries. Diehl informed the council of
possible problems arising from the
annexation, since Burlington formerly
belonged to the North Raeford Fire
District and paid taxes to the district. No
definite action was taken by the council.
The council also agreed to change the
September meeting from the 5th to the
11th due to the Labor Day holiday.
Food Stamps Reach 460 Families;
More In Hoke Believed Eligible
In its' first month of operation in Hoke
County, the food stamp program has
already reached some 460 families, and a
total of 580 are expected to be certified
by the end of the second month.
food stamp supervisor Roger W. Dixon
said the number now receiving aid
through food stamps already represents
200 more families than were receiving
surplus food before the stamp program
began on July I. Dixon said the
requirements for eligibility for stamps are
"far less stringent. Under the surplus food
program only the resl poverty families
were eligible for help."
Dixon feels that at least a couple
hundred more Hoke families are eligible
for the stamp*. "We're not reaching
everyone that we can right now. Many
people think that if they have any kind of
income at all they would not be eligible,
but this is not the case. Many families
with two or three children and only one
person working can be certified for the
stamps."
Dixon said persons wishing to
determine if they are eligible should call
the food stamp office for an
appointment. "So far." he said, "only 36
households have been denied stamps
because of excess income ."
The Department of Social Services has
been working on certifying families for
the stamps since the beginning of May.
although the actual sale did not begin
until July I.
The total amount paid out in stamps
during the first month of the program
was $44,187, which reached 1,940
persons in the county. The amount paid
by the recipients for the stamps was
$14,547.25. The difference between the
two figures represented "bonus" coupons
totaline $29,639.75.
The "bonus" paid out to families
?eceiving the stamps is made up by the
US Department of Agriculture. The
program does not cost the county
anything and they get a one cent sales tax
on the money received in payment for
the stamps. The program was made
possible by the Federal Food Stamp Act
of 1964. which was set up to give extra
buying power to low - income families.
Stamps may be used for all food items
except imported goods. Fxccptions to
See STAMPS. Page 13
A UTOPIA TION - Robert Strother harvest! his tobacco crop with the help of a new
automatic harvester. The farm is located in the Quewhiffle section of the county.