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The Hoke County News - Established 1928 * The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXV1II NO. 18 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA SS PER YEAR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1973
Around Town
By Sam C. Morris
The weather for the past few weeks
has been about as hot as I can
remember. The humidity has been high
and when you are out of doors it seems
that you are walking through a haze.
Maybe with the hurricaine season upon
us, cooler weather will be in store
before long.
1 understand from the grapevine that
a certain man called City Hall recently
and was complaining about the trash
truck knocking down his clothes line
and also the loss of the lid to his garbage
can. It seems that John Gaddy listened
to the complaint and then told the man
he was very fortunate as he not only
lost the lid to his can but also the
garbage can too. So maybe everyone has
trouble with garbage.
Kay handed me Bill Bailey's weather
chart last Friday and I commented that
it was still August. She said that she
informed Bill the same thirig when he
handed it to her. but Bill said that it
would not rain before midnight. Now if
this keeps up we might have to change
Bill's name.
Raz Autry and Joe Upchurch, who
make up the tournament committee for
the Arabia Golf Club, announce that the
member-guest will be held September
22 / 23. It will include meal and prizes.
Raz says that the meal will not be steak.
Joe will be in charge of getting someone
to cater the meal. If anyone has any
suggestions about the tournament feel
free to let Raz or Joe know. The meal
will be served down at the pond and
cabin. I 'veryone will have to bring chairs
if they want to sit down to eat. The
deadline for entries will be Saturday.
September 15th.
If school is going to start in late
August as it did this year 1 think that
school officials should start thinking
about air conditioning all school rooms
in the state. It is impossible to
accomplish a job when the temperature
is up in the 90's. The teachers can't
teach and a child can't keep his mind on
the lessons under these conditions.
I know that it will cost to do this, but
if the hot weather continues look at the
amount of money that is being spent
without accomplishing anything.
Where there is a will there is a way.
NEW TAX SUPER VISOR - Hoke County superior Court Clerk b'.E. Smith swears
in Tax Supervisor James T. Wilkerson Tuesday mom.ng Wilkerson, a 24-year-old
Hoke County native and 1967 graduate of Hoke High School, attended Sandhills
Community College and Wingate Junior College with emphasis on business
education. He was employed by Burlington Industries two years in Raeford and
two years in Garksville, Va. as a planner in division samples manufacturing. He is
married to the former Ann Richards, also a Hoke County native, who works at the
Bank of Raeford.
REGISTER OF DEEDS - Hoke County Oerk of superior court E. E. Smith twean
in Roger Dixon who replace* Interim Register of Deeds J. E. GuOedge. Dixon
formerly was supervisor of the county food stamp program. Gulledge retired in
June and was replaced by Mrs. Martha Clark who died one month after taking the
oath of office.
ABC Profits
Help County
An audit of the Hoke County ABC
Store accounts as of June 30 this year
shows store profits enriching the pounty
coffers by $52,925. This money goes to
the general fund and is used for annual
county budget expenditures. This is an
increase of almost S600 over last years
figure.
Liquor sales for 1972-73 totaled
$554,578 with gross profits of
5214,345. After deducting operating
and general expenses the ABC profits
were $63,865. Of this amount ten
percent ($6,386) went to law
enforcement fund and seven percent
(54,470) to education and research
fund. The law enforcement fund
supports the ABC law enforcement
program and the education and research
fund goes to Sandhills Mental Health
Center.
During the past ten years ABC
payments to the county government
have ranged from a high of $70,000 to a
low of $44,209.
Hoke To Get
Impact Aid
Hoke County schools will receive
$10,990 in impact aid for 1973-74
school year as a result of recent court
action brought against the Nixon
administration by several states and
Cumberland and Onslow Counties,
reports State School Superintendent
Craig Phillips.
Hoke County draws impact aid for
students whose parents who are
employed by the military but do not
live on a military base. For each of these
students the federal government
provides one-fourth of the national
average per pupil expenditure.
D.D. Abernethy, Hoke school
superintendent, said he believes these
recently released funds are based on
1972-73 enrollment. He said the county
system received a portion of 68 percent
of entitlement last year and he assumes
the newest payment will be a portion of
the remainder due.
Alert Employee And PIN
Help Authorities Nab Men
Preliminary hearings are scheduled in
district court Friday for four Hoke
County men charged with breaking,
entering, larceny and receiving stolen
property in connection with an incident
at Upchurch Junior High School last
week.
Three of the lour were released on
S2,000 bond. They are Albert Lee
Smith, 21. Stonewall Township;
Dwayne T. McNeill, 19, Raeford: and
Gregory Jordan, 18, Rt. I. A fourth
suspect Robert L. McNeill, 20, of Rt. I.
was being held in jail Monday in lieu of
$2,000 bond. Authorities say he is also
wanted by the U.S. Marine Corps for
being absent without leave.
A combination of an alert pawn shop
employee and modern police equipment
enabled Cumberland County authorities
to nab three of the four men in less than
seven hours after the breakin was
reported to the Hoke County Sheriffs
Department. All stolen items were
recovered.
The breakin which occurred during
the night of August 29 was reported to
the Hoke Sheriffs Department at 7:40
a.m. August 30. Deputy Sheriffs George
Brown and James I . Lamont
investigated. They received a list of
missing items and serial numbers. The
items, valued at about SI,200 were
three typewriters, three adding
machines, six cassette tape players, a
portable television, six headphones, a
carpet sweeper and some hand tools.
The list was broadcast over the I'olice
Information Network (PIN) to law
enforcement agencies throughout the
state.
Later that same day Cumberland
County authorities received a call from
a pawn shop, on Bragg Boulevard, that
some men who were attempting to
pawn adding machines and typewriters
were acting suspiciously. Cumberland
County law enforcement officers went
to the pawn shop and arrested Smith,
Jordan and Dwayne McNeill. Hoke
County authorities were notified at
2:45 p.m. Robert McNeill was arrested
Sunday by Hoke County Deputies
Harvey Young and Chester Bolton.
BLIND CORNER - Shrub at corner of Fulton Street and Donaldson Avenue
obstructs view of cross traffic. Photo was taken from car traveling north on Fulton
with bush on right side of vehicle. Another bush on comer on left of car creates a
similar hazardous condition for drivers, passengers and pedestrians.
Recreation Study
Requested Again
At their regular monthly meeting
Tuesday the board of county
commissioners decided to re apply for
federal funds to assist in a recreation
master plan study for the county.
If approved the program will be
conducted under the N. C. Department
of Natural and Fconomic Resources
Division of Community Services.
Total county cost of the study for a
long range recreation plan would be
SI,517 with the federal government
supplying a grant of more than S2.000
for the study.
This same study was applied for
earlier this year and denied because of
lack of federal funds for the project.
In other action the commissioners
agreed to transfer one year employment
credit from Moore County to Hoke
County for Mrs. Francis Parks of the
Hoke County Health Center. County
Manager T. B. Lester explained
transferring the 1943-44 credit would
enable Mrs. 1'arks to retire about Oct. 1.
The board approved placing two
Concentrated Employment Program
(Oi l') trainees providing Lester could
fine a suitable job for them without
hindering the operations of county
government. The CKP program will pay
the trainees $1.80 an hour for the first
26 weeks with expectations the county
would hire the workers after that. But
the county is not required to hire them.
Some commissioners expressed concern
that it would be difficult to find a
county department where workers now
employed would have the time to train
CKP people.
Also approved at the meeting was
allocation of S341.80 for forest fire
control. This coupled with a S883.20
credit brings total additional funds for
fire control to SI,225. Also passed was
payment of S2S0 for training the new
food stamp supervisor and expenditure
of S250 for two desks and S75 for a
chair for county offices.
The commissioners reappointed A. H.
McPhaul to the jury commission and
witnessed swearing in of Roger Dixon as
register of deeds and James T. Wilkerson
as tax supervisor.
No mention was made of the former
register of deeds the late Mrs. Martha
Clark and no discussion was held
concerning discrepency in salary paid to
Mrs. Clark in comparison with salary
paid to her predecessor and successor.
Commissioners authorised Lester to
sign revenue sharing reports, and
received a report on revenue sharing
trust fund which showed SI93.357 in
unappropriated funds.
Commissioners approved
amendments to the budget which
balanced under expended and over
expended funds. Reports were
presented to the board by Farmers
Home Administration representatives,
county extension and home agents and
senior citizens director. The tax
collector's report indicated S204.892
was collected in July and August.
Board members discussed land
acquisition for new county office
building and some commissioners said
they had inspected Wooley Street
property belonging to the Board of
Education. They felt it might be
possible to place both county building
and school board building on the
smallest plot belonging to the board of
education. The same architect is
drawing plans for both buildings and
commissioners felt a final decision must
await recommended plans.
Council Meets
The Raeford City Council held a
regular monthly meeting Monday.
Present were representatives from
Hayes-Howell Associates architects of
Southern Pines who discussed plans for
building garage and equipment sheds for
the city. The buildings are to be funded
from revenue sharing funds.
The council authorized Hayes-Howell
Associates architects to proceed with
preliminary building plans for a new
garage and equipment sheds.
No other discussions were conducted
and no members of the community or
organizations appeared before the
council.
Man Jailed
A Hoke County man is being held in
lieu of $5,000 bond on charges of
assault with intent to commit rape.
Melvin McLauchlin, 22, Rt. 1, Box 418.
was arrested at his home Tuesday and
booked at 2:45 a.m. by Deputy Sheriffs
Harvey Young and Chester Bolton.
The complainant Shelia Mitchell, also
of Rt. 1. reported the incident to
authorities by phone Monday night.
Allegedly she. McLauchlin and another
couple were parked in a car on a dirt
road in the North Raeford area when
the assault took place.
City Election Set
For Nov. Ballot
Three
Waive
Hearing
Three Hoke County men charged in
connection with the August 17
kidnapping of a 75-year old salesman
waived preliminary hearing in district
court Friday and were bound over to
superior court for action by the grand
jury.
Held in the Hoke County jail on
SSO,000 bond each are Gregory Scriven,
Walter Lee Harris and Curtis Leverne
Baldwin of Stonewall Township. They
are charged with kidnapping, larceny of
an automobile and highway robbery.
Baldwin is also under an additional
S5.000 bond on an older and unrelated
chage of assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill.
The trio is charged with kidnapping
A.M. Rouse of Fayetteville in Hoke
County Aug. 17, robbing him and
stealing his car. They allegedly
transported him into Robeson County.
Rouse was found bound with rope
four days later by Hoke County
authorities after his car was spotted on a
farm by 1-dgar McGougan.
Jordan Aids
Health Clinic
The Hoke County Health Center has
been able to implement some of the
recommendations made by Dr. Joseph
Mark before he left the center earlier
this year.
Dr. Riley Jordan has been hired at
S200 a month as medical consultant to
the clinic. Jordan signs orders for
administering medication for the various
clinics offers counseling in emergencies
after initial workups are performed at
the center and is responsible for patients
placed on chemotherapy for
tuberculosis control. He will also serve
as liaison between the Health Center
and prospective medical specialists to
man the clinic, if needed.
Mark had suggested doctors at
MaCain Sanitorium perform TB
screening but they were unable to
assume the duties and this phase of
work is being done by Dr. Jordan.
Mrs. Susan McKenzie, assistant to the
director, reports the State Board of
Health is awaiting detailed job
descriptions on various positions in the
clinic before approving reorganization.
The state board is encouraging the
county to continue seeking a full ? time
medical director for the clinic.
For the first time in two years the
Health Center staff is up to full strength
with an assistant director, three
registered nurses and two licensed
practical nurses. According to T. B.
Lester, county manager, Mrs. Frances
Parks, a center RN, may be retiring this
fall.
Raeford voters wfll elect a new slate
of city officials during the Nov. 6
elections. This is the first year city
elections are being run by the county
board of elections. The city requested
the county-run elections after the 1971
state legislature passed the uniform
municipal election law which allows
cities to choose between county run
elections or creating a city board of
elections.
According to Councilman Franklin
Teal, the city chose option of letting
county board of elections run the
elections because "they already had a
new voter registration and it was easier
and cheaper for the city than setting up
a new system."
The elections will be non-partisan,
and will be decided by plurality count.
Any ties will be decided by lot.
Scott Poole, chairman of the county
Board of F.lections. said the filing period
for city offices is from Sept. 14 through
Oct. 12 at the County Board of
Flections, 126 N. Main. Filing fee is SS
for city councilman and $25 for the
office of mayor. The November 6
elections will be regulated by the state
as in the past.
Kxpected on the ballots are four state
questions; a school bond, the clean
water bond, liquor by the drink, and a
proposed on constitutional amendments
according to Poole.
Polling places will be the same as for
county elections and the election
process is simplified because only one
set of voter registration books has to be
kept.
Mrs. J. S. Poole, permanent registrar
for the county Board of F.lections,
reminds voters that the deadline for
registration to vote in the November 6
election is October 8. Voters may
register at the Board of Flections office,
126 N. Main Monday, Wednesday or
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mrs. Poole
said the board sent approximately 350
letters this year to registered voters who
have not voted in the county since
1968, warning them their names would
be purged from the lists of legal voters.
More than 250 of those receiving
letters failed to comply with
instructions and have been removed
from the voting rolls. They must file
See ELECTION. Page 9
Shannon Man
Is Bound Over
In District Court Friday a Shannon
man was bound over to the Hoke
County superior court for action by the
grand jury after waiving preliminary
hearing on two charges of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill. Bond
was set at 52,500 for each charge.
Donald R. Lowery. Shannon, is
charged in connection with an August
11 incident in which he allegedly shot
Tracy J. Locklear Jr., Stonewall
Township, twice in the left leg and once
in the left side, and Hudell Hammons
three times in the abdomen with a small
calibcr pistol.
Lowery reportedly went to the home
of Mildred Boahns near Davis Bridge to
talk to Locklear and invited him
outside. As Locklear stepped from the
porch. Lowery allegedly fired.
Hammons was hit in the same incident.
David Scott Currie
Services Conducted
David Scott Currie. 86, retired
farmer, died in a Cumberland County
nursing home Monday night after an
illness of several months.
A Hoke County native, he was the
son of the late Hugh M. and Mary Holt
Currie. He was predeceased by his wife
of many years Emma Lee Gwaltney
Currie.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at Raeford
Presbyterian Church by the Rev. John
Ropp with interment in Raeford
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jack Pope, Jim
Williamson, Jim McBryde, Graham
Monroe, Henry Maxwell and Radford
Collins.
Survivors include three sons, David S.
Currie Jr. and James L. Currie of
Raeford, and Benjamin F. Currie of
Daytona Beach, Fla.; four brothers, Will
Currie of Fayetteville, Edwin Currie of
Front Royal, Vs., Neill Currie of
Savannah, Ga., and Robert Currie of
Broadway; three sisters, Mrs. C. C.
Burris and Mrs. Chatham Chancy of
DAVID SCOTT CURMB
Wingate and Mrs. Coy Muckle of
l-aitover, S. C.; ten grandchildren and
ten great - grandchildren. . W'hT%r,