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The Hoke County News- Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXV11I NO. IS R AFFORD. HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA S5 IM R Yl \R THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1973
Around Town
By Sam C. Morris
Eur man Clark was by the office
Monday and said that he and his wife
had just returned from a trip to the New
England states. While in New Hampshire
they visited with Harry and Helen Birch
who left Raeford in 1964 for that state.
Harry was head of the U.S. Rubber
Want, now Tex-Elastic, for a number of
years. He was a worker in the church
and a hard worker in the Chamber of
Commerce.
He wrote a short note to me which
follows:
"Dear Sam:
We have spent the last 2 days asking
the Eurman Clark's about our
acquaintances in Raeford.
We did enjoy catching up on
happenings since we left for New
Hampshire in 1964. We would again like
to express our appreciation for the
many kindnesses shown to us while we
were there, and to wish our many
friends the best of everything.
Sincerely
Harry and Helen Birch"
The Birch's address is 20 Bradstreet Rd.,
Hampton, N.H. 03842.
The Raeford Kiwanis Club wants to
thank all the people of the county that
helped make the recent Softball
tournament a success. The club, donated
SSOO to the Upchurch School athletic
I field from the profits of the
tournament. Recently the club donated
i 1000 to help with the building of three
new tennis courts at the high school.
There are now five courts at the school
and are in use most of the time.
1 would like to commend the club for
these donations and would like to say
that this club has helped Raeford and
Hoke County for the many years it has
been in existence. 1 know that all
citizens would like to know about these
donations and if you run into a
Kiwanian give him a pat on the back.
Don't forget the Mclnnis Clan
reunion at Dundarrach Presbyterian
Church Sunday, August 19. The program
starts at 11 a.m. and lunch picnic style,
will be served on the grounds beginning
at I p.m. So if you belong to the clan or
are a friend of the clan, fill your basket
with food and join the fellowship.
Two Are Hit
With Gunfire
One man is in Southeastern General
Hospital in Lumberton with three bullet
wounds in the abdomen and a second
man was treated and released at the
same hospital for two gunshot wounds
of the left leg and one in the left side
following an altercation Saturday near
Davis' Bridge, report Hoke County
deputies.
Hudell Hammonds was reported in
satisfactory condition Wednesday
morning by hospital personnel. The
other wounded man is Tracy Locklear
Jr. of Stonewall Township.
The shooting allegedly occurred about
7 p.m. and were reported to Scotland
County authorities by hospital
personnel. The report was then relayed
to the Hoke County Sheriff's
Department. Investigation by Deputies
Harvey Young and Alex Norton
indicates Donald Lowery went into
Mildred Boahns' home near Davis"
bridge, talked to Locklear and then
invited him outside.
As Locklear stepped off the porch
Lowery allegedly shot him three times
See GlINFIRK. Paee 15
Register Of Deeds Named
Roger Dixon, 317 Idinborough Ave.,
has been appointed the new Hoke
County register of deeds. He will replace
Mrs. Martha McKenzie Clark who held
the post only one month prior to her
death.
Dixon is presently the supervisor of
the Hoke County lood Stamp Program.
He will assume the register of deeds
position Sept. I. lor Id years, Dixon
was unit administrator for the National
Guard Armory in Raeford and served as
staff administrative specialist for three
years.
He was selected from among eight
applicants after the Hoke County board
of county commissioners held
interviews I riday. Dixon said he
expected the administrative part of the
job to be similar those positions he has
Ik held, and expects to learn the "new
1 routine" of the office ftom J Jr.
Gulledge. now serving as interim register
of deeds.
Dixon is married to the former
Kathleen Looper of Hoke County. Tliey
have three children, Douglas of New
Teens Sentenced For Kidnapping
Teen Dies,
Youth Held
A Five Points youth is being held in
Hoke County Jail without bond on
murder charges following the shooting
death of a Cameron Heights youth
Saturday night.
Fdward Leona Neely, 19, died at
Moore Memorial Hospital about four
hours after being shot in the left chest
with a 12 gauge single barrelled shotgun
during an altercation at Joe McNeill's
residence on the H. B. Nixon Farm at
Five Points.
A preliminary hearing un the murder
charge is scheduled in district court
August 24 for Lewis Melvin Roper, 17.
Investigating officers report some
men were arguing at the McNeill
residence and Roper left and later
returned with a shotgun. They say
Neely alighted from a car apparently in
an attempt to keep Roper from going
into the house with the gun.
Roper reportedly shot once in the air
before he allegedly shot Neely in the
chest. The incident occurred sometime
between 11:30 p.m. Saturday and I
a.m. Sunday.
INCHING ALONG - Traffic jams continue to form on West k'lwood Avenue during
busiest times of day. In one block traffic enters from Main and Magnolia Avenues,
County Office Building, Post Office, The News - Journal and Southern National
Bank parking lots and two alleys. Frequently vehicles head into these areas and
back onto street while turning around. AII this adds to the congestion.
County Governing Body
Budget Increase Slight
C Of C Board
Votes No Stand
During the regular monthly meeting
of the Raeford - Hoke Chamber of
Commerce board of directors meeting
Tuesday, board members voted the
Chamber would not lake an active role
in the statewide Nov. 6 referendum for
the sale and consumption of mixed
beverages, but would leave the decision
of "how to vote" up to each individual.
The board discussed industrial
activity in the area. Knit - Away's new
40,000 square leet of warehouse should
be completed in early fall: dues and
membership, the Chamber has twenty
new members so far this year; merchant
activities, the opening of I denborough
Center sometime in September which
will house a B. C. Moore's, an A & 1'
Food Store and a Mack's Store which
opened Saturday; and the location of
the new firms. Super Dollar and f amily
Dollar. Work already begun on
upcoming promotions, including
Christmas events, was also discussed.
It was reported a dentist had shown
See C OF C, Page IS
The current Hoke County budget
indicates a $45,000 increase over last
year. Budget for the governing body
showed less than SI.000 increase over
last year since the county
commissioners did not vote pay raises
for themselves or Clerk to the Board.
T.B. Lester. Commissioners receive $30
a month. T.C. Jones, chairman. S40 a
month, and Lester as clerk earns-sl .200
annually. The increase is distributed
among auditing, travel, supplies and
dues expense hikes for the year.
Lester's salary as county manager and
accountant was raised $685 front
$12,515 annually to 513,200.
The $31,200 tax listing budget
included a $13,433 increase over last
year with the greatest portion to pay
$8,000 to $10,000 salary for the new
tax supervisor.
In the past this position was filled by
Lester but the state ruled an individual
may not hold more than two
constitutional postions and Lester had
to vacate the lax supervisor position.
Lester's clerk to the board job is not
considered a constitutional postion.
Remainder of the $13,000 increase
includes raising salary of Mary Matherly
assistant lax supervisor, from $6,000 to
$6,500. Also included is $3,600 for a
newly created clerk position for the
final nine months of the fiscal year.
County plans to fill this position when
court house offices are moved to the
present board of education building.
Also included is increasing total salaries
for all list takers from $3,500 to
$5,500.
$1,000 was budgeted for professional
services. The same amount was
budgeted last year but none was spent.
Macks Store Opens Here
Schools Hit
Two Hoke County schools were
vandali/ed this week. West Hoke School
had two incidences of theft of building
materials. August 7, between 5:10 p.m.
and 7:30 a.m. August 8, six packages of
shingles valued at S36.00 were
discovered missing. Iriday night, six
sheets of plywood were reportedly
taken. The building materials were being
used to build two new buildings on the
school premises according to Woodrow
Westall. school principal.
Farl H. Oxendine, principal at
Upchurch School, reported two
breakins at tliat school. Both times, a
lock had been broken off a door setting
off a burglar alaim. Oxendine said no
other damage had been done to the
building. The breakins occurred August
1 and AugiM 8. Nothing was taken
from the building.
Macks Stores, Raeford. was the
fourth store to be opened b> the chain.
The store originally opened in ll)27 by
O.T. Sloan, who is now President of the
Macks chain, was 2,500 square feet and
occupied the building adjoining the old
Page Trust Company on Main Street. In
October 1954. Macks moved into the
McNeill Building, doubling its size to
5.000 square feet. The building was
constructed for the McNeills and Macks;
and the arrangement has been
complementary to both.
The Raeford Macks Store has been
successful because of support from the
people of Hoke County. Due to this
support. Macks is moving again and
again more than doubling its space when
the firm formally opens their 13,200
square teet department store in
Kdenborough Center, today.
Hours of the new store are Monday
through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
and Sunday from I a.m. to 6 p.m.
Ron Corrado. former manager of the
company's downtown Raeford unit will
manage the new store. He and his wife.
Norma reside in Raeford with their two
children.
Myron D. Cross, former assistant
manager of the Shallotte store is
assistant manager. Cross, his wife, and
one child reside in Raeford.
Also serving as assistant manager is
Tom West who lives in l ayetteville with
l\is wife Deborah.
The ultra modern department store
See MACKS, Page 15
Meeting Set
The Raeford City Council will meet
today at 4 p.m. at City Hall to complete
the acceptance of a state grant of over
$93,000 from funds made available
through the Clean Wa'er Bond Act.
The funds match those received
earlier in the year under the same grant
program for city and county water
system improvements and expansions.
Family Dollar Opens Soon
York City, Roger Jr. of New Orleans,
and Mrs. Lawrence I orrester of
Archdale.
ROGER DIXON
Leon Levine, president of l amily
Dollar Stores. Inc., a discount
department store chain with
headquarters in Charlotte. North
Carolina, announced that the company's
new store on Main Street will have
10,464 square feet of selling area with
grand opening scheduled soon.
The store will carry a complete line
of merchandise for home and family at
discount prices, including men's,
women's, boys' girls' and infants'
wearing apparel, shoes, handbags,
jewelry, sheets, pillowcases, blankets,
bedspreads, curtains, health and beauty
aids, stationery, school supplies, candy,
toys, housewares, hardware, paint and
automotive supplies.
The company operates a chain of 166
stores in North Carolina, South
Carolina. Georgia, Tennessee and
Virginia. Starting with a single Charlotte
store in 1959, the company has grown
into a major regional chain with
hundreds of employees and utilizing
approximately one million square feet
of selling area.
The firm operates 100.000 square
feet of warehouse distribution centers in
Charlotte, from which new merchandise
is shipped daily.
Ixpcrienced buyers, headed by vice
president Sherman Levine, shops major
internalional markets to assure offering
the best values.
Lewis Levine. executive vice
president, attributes the growth and
success to massive buying power
offering customers a fine selection of
quality merchandise at lowest possible
prices. He says growth has also been
helped by maintaining attractive,
spacious and well-lit stores, providing a
pleasant atmosphere for shopping.
The Raeford store is part of the
major new expansion planned for this
year. The company believes that the
Hoke County area has potential for
growth and progress, and is proud to
become a part of its business
community, f amily Dollar Stores looks
forward to serving the thousands of
people in this area.
Since f amily Dollar Stores employs
local people whenever possible, anyone
interested in employment at the
Raeford store should write the
Personnel Director, family Dollar
Stores, P 0 Box 8348. Charlotte, N. C.
28208.
Hitchhiking
Man Robbed
Scotland County deputy sheriffs
reported to Hoke County Friday that
Harry Lee Horn Jr.. Camp Lejeune. said
he was hitchhiking on U.S. 401 bypass
between the caution light at Raeford
and Hilltop Station when three men
gave him a ride about 12:30 a.m.
Friday. Horn claims the men threatened
him and robbed him. When the robbers
realised Horn only had S2 they made
him get behind a large tree while they
drove away.
August 9 Marvin S. Scull. Rt. 1, told
authorities someone broke the rear
window of his trailer with a utensil used
to water his dog. The thieves also broke
into a storage shed by prying off a lock
and broke a window in an abandoned
van used for storage. Missing were 10
steak knives, three bottles of alcoholic
beverages. a 22 rifle, and assorted
groceries. Loss attributed to theft and
damage was estimated at SI33. The
incident occured between Aug. 1 and 9.
Willie Blue, Rt. 2, Box 26-A. reported
a tape player and speaker valued at S85
were taken from his home between 7
p.m. and midnight Sunday. Thieves
apparently gained entry by breaking a
latch on the kitchen door.
The I .C. Duncan home. Rt. 2 Box
58, was reportedly entered Sunday
between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. by thieves
who removed a screen from a window.
Missing was S27.50 in coins.
Reportedly a screen and fan were
removed from a window in Louise
Nichols' Stonewall Township home
Sunday between 10:30 a.m. and 6:20
p.m. Missing were sheets and a coat.
In superior court Monday four young
people who could have received life in
prison weie sentenced to much lesset
terms by Judge Harry I t'anaday after
they pleaded guilty to kidnapping a
12-year-old Hoke County girl May 20
Two of the convicted teenageis
receiving 25 to 30 years were Kenneth
Andrew Jackson. 16, a Hoke County
native who lived in Washington, D.C,
prior to the kidnapping, and his half
brother Freddie Leach alias McLaughlin.
17. also of Washington.
Sentenced to 15 to 20 years each
were Tina Joyce Clark alias Rose Sixina.
17, originally from Wheeling, W.Va..
and Shirley Jane HerltJi. 16. who
according to Maryland authorities ran
away from the Department of
Corrections group home in Baltimore
May 12 or 13.
The four, originally charged with
kidnapping, assault with a deadly
weapon, auto larceny and robbery, were
sentenced as regular youthful offenders
which means they will not be
considered for parole until one-fourth
of their sentences are served. The assault
charge was nol prossed by the state May
26. The auto larceny and robbery
charges were nol prossed in court
Monday.
By pleading guilty the youths
forfeited right to appeal the kidnapping
sentences, although some legal avenues
of review are open to them said their
attorney Kenneth Glusntan. public
defender.
Prior to sentencing Monday Chief
Deputy Sheriff Harvey Voung informed
the court Mrs. Fstella J. Thomas.
Stonewall Township, reported the night
of May 20 she had been beaten, choked,
robbed and her car driven away with her
daughter Patricia in the vehicle. He said
a doctor examined Mrs. Thomas and
verified die had marks on her throat and
suffered cuts.
Mrs. Thomas said she was giving the
four defendants a ride to Raeford from
Mrs. Irene McLaughlin's Antioch home
at the request of Mrs. McLaughlin
When Mrs. Thomas slopped the car on
Saunders Street I Extension, Jackson,
riding in the back seat of the vehicle,
looped a belt around her neck. Once
outside the car Mrs. Thomas was beaten,
dragged 67 feet by the belt and left
unconscious. When she came to she saw
her car leaving the scene, continued
Young.
Patricia Thomas told the court of Iter
experience in the car with the four
defendants who took her as far as
Rocky Mount where the incident ended
in an accident after a more than 100
mile per hour chase.
In a case heard Tuesday Lucille
Helms. North Main Street, and Willard
Lewis. Tangledvine Restaurant, each
received 18 months suspended three
years providing they not assault Johnny
Scott during the period of suspension
and that they pay court costs.
Mrs. Helms, originally charged with
assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill pleaded guilty to the lesset
included offense of assault with a
deadly weapon. A companion assault
with a deadly weapon charge against her
was nol prossed by the state. Lewis
pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly
weapon.
Scott testified that on the night of
July 20. Il>72 he was at the Tastee
freeze on U.S. 401 talking to Mrs.
Helms and Lewis about a dog shooting
case disposed of in district court. In that
case Scott was convicted of killing
Lewis' dog by shooting the animal.
Scott said he and Lewis fought and
See KIDNAPPING. Page 15
Dept. Budget Up
The City Street Department headed
by Dewey I-. In man. supervisor,
received a boost of SI9.946.70 in
appropriations according to this year's
city budget. The total streets
department allocation stands at
S81.234.72.
Most of the additional funds were
budgeted for salaries. Plus across the
board street department raises, three
new employees were hired. The
remaining department money is slated
to be spent on city street paving and
guttering.
Areas east of Main Street proposed
for paving and guttering work are along
Donaldson Avenue where work is now
ncaring completion on a section to
Jackson St.. on to. and including
Crawford St.. Jackson Street to
Prospect Avenue. Jackson Street from
Prospect Avenue to Seventh Avenue,
and the Adams Street tie-in to I Iwood
Avenue.
Locations for proposed work west of
Main Street are portions of I Iwood
Avenue and I dinborough Avenue from
Magnolia Street to Bethel Road, Central
Avenue from Magnolia Street to Wright
Street, and Sixth and Seventh Avenues
from Main Street to l ulton Street.
No tentative schedule for the work
was available, but City Manager John
daddy said those areas needing work
the most will be given priority.
Calvin F. McBryde Sr.
Services Held Wednesdav
Services for Calvin I osier McBrydc
Sr.. 78. life lime resident of Hoke
County were Wednesday at 4 p.m. at
the Raeford Presbyterian Church by the
Rev. John Ropp. Burial was in the
Raeford Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Chester Wade, l^cy
Hendrix, Benny McLcod, Dr. Riley
Jordan. Ronald Webb and Tom Jones.
McBrydc was born in the Bethel
community May 16. 1895. and has
farmed in Hoke County all his life. He
served as the Hoke County I orest
Warden until his retirement in I960. He
was enroute to Moore County Memorial
Hospital at the time of his death.
Survivors include his widow, Mary
Bell Clark McBryde, three daughters.
Mrs. Carolyn Cardwell of Madison, Mrs.
I loise Kinlaw of St. Paul, and Miss Mary
Black McBryde of Washington. D.C.;
one sister. Mrs. Pearl Love of Raeford,
and twelve grandchildren.
CA I. y/N hOSTh.R McBR YDt SR.