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VOLUME LXVII NO. 24 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S5 PER YEAR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1973
Around Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
I
William Clark, FHA Supervisor, was
somewhat upset recently when his
office received a money order in the
amount of S82.00 for a payment and no
name was in the envelope. The letter
was mailed to the FHA office from the
Raeford Post Office on September 29,
1973. The number on the money order
is 162714S5048. If anyone has mailed a
money order to the FHA during this
time check your receipt and then go to
the office if it is your number and get
this matter fixed.
I believe it will be worked out when
the person receives a notice that he or
she is a payment overdue.
Maybe Bill Bailey doesn't want to
draw a chart this month, as no rain has
fallen to speak of. Now Bill even though
your garden is over for the year,
remember that forest fires could cause
considerable damage in the county, so
let's have some rain.
I had been told by a Republican
friend of mine that US 401 would be
four laned during this administration.
Last week the Highway Commission
met in Raleigh and dumped the 401
project that had been put on the board
by the Democrats. Now I know that my
Vfriend will have an answer to this, just as
'Agnew had one for the nation Monday
night.
Last weekend Mary Alice and I
decided to visit our daughter, Sarah, at
Virginia Beach, Va. I talked to Sarah on
the phone one night and received
directions on how to get to her
apartment. I took down the directions
but guess I didn't put everything in the
right order.
i spent two weeks at Virginia Beach
in the late 30's with the National Guard
at Fort Story, and in the 40's spent
three months at Fort Monroe, so 1 guess
this left an impression that 1 knew all
about Virginia Beach. I was in for a
great surprise.
The Tidewater section of Virginia
must be one of the fastest growing
places in the country. With highways
opening in every direction and bypasses
and clover leafs built up to turn you
around, a person sure must stay in the
correct lane to get anywhere. It seemed
to me that any road would take you to
Portsmouth, Norfolk or Virginia Beach
and I am sure they will but my
directions were for one certain
Interstate highway and 1 missed the
turn.
After two hours of driving through
Portsmouth, then through the tunnel to
Norfolk, I finally arrived at Virginia
Beach and decided to stop and ask
directions. The service station
attendant didn't know where the
apartments were located but 1 called my
daughter's number and the attendant
told her where we were located and she
related to him where she lived. The
attendant started telling me how to get
to the apartment and once again my
mind didn't seem to grasp what he was
saying. 1 called again and told Sarah to
meet me at a certain place we both
knew. She did and led me to her
apartment.
After unloading the car she asked
Mary Alice and myself what happened.
We told her of the route we took to get
to her apartment. She said that was the
? way a crazy person would take. She was
right because I was nearly crazy driving
bumper to bumper in three lanes of
traffic. Anyway we arrived back in
Raeford Sunday and enjoyed our stay
with Sarah.
The moral to this story is that a
North Carolina country boy has no
business traveling with his wife in
Tidewater, Virginia.
Local Hunters Assist At Crash Site
Plans Draw
Objections
bo?d U"?nnOUnfd joint meeting of the
r j? y commissioners and
board of education was held Mondav
sSfiMBtetaai
" " 'ta J
,?e P[?P"ty on Wooley Street was
ritli ^ fd of educa|ion by R H
GatUn earlier this year. Gatlin said "the'
land was sold without written
restnctions but with the understand
and moral obligation it was to be
of eduction ?,he S?,e U$e ?f ,he board
,tf'a'lin P?"15 out he doubts Wooley
fraff r C?U ade1uate|y handle the
traffic generated by placing the
proposed education buildings
He reports the commissioners were
E:"'; ?? Objecuons. Co^
board kenl ,h> " the ^ool
D n ak ^ mmmes of the meeting,
wa^' "T5V- schooJ superintendent
Bond Posted
In Shooting
sAfin"^5', T, was Pleased on
5 2,000 bond Friday charged with
assault with a deadly weapon with
Henru the ?Ci?of
a^ ^O a^VndaT' 3,30 ?f HiUCreSt
Odom who was shot in the left arm
and chest was taken to Cape Fear Valley
Hospital and later transferred to NC
Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill,
ii jF8ed with the shooting which
Rofd hy ,GOk ri'a0e 41 ^ Rockfilh'
Road home is Donald Earl Smith, 27.
's ^heduled to appear in district
court November 26.
'"othf county incidents three chain
saws valued at $954 were reported
stolen Sunday from an old school bus in
home" JCSSie McPhe"??'s Antioch
Foster McBryde Jr., Rt. 1, reported a
storage house broken into and $629
Sunday" taken from a freezer on
hom^ry Danids' S,onewaJI Township
home was entered October 8 and one
television was taken, another destroyed
and a door and two locks were
See BOND, Page 15
Revels Appeals
New Conviction
Freddie Revels Jr., Richmond
Advancement Center, Rockingham
received 12 months in district court
Friday after being convicted of
speeding, failure to stop for a blue light
and siren, driving without a license and
four counts of stop sign violations
Revels gave notice of appeal and
appeal bond was set at $5 000
c T,h' charges stemmed from a
September 16 incident in which Revels
?d. ^Trooper C. A. Bennett on a
high speed chase through Hoke County
after Bennett tried to stop the Revels
car for speeding.
The state took nol pros on a
companion charge of assault with a
deadly weapon.
The sentence is to begin at the end of
a sentence Revels is serving after being
convicted of the August 1971 breaking
and entering and larceny of Arabia Golf
Club^ He was home on leave from prison
at the time of the Sept. 16 incident
Opening Marks 50th Birthday
On Wednesday, the 66 Moore's stores
began celebrating the chain's SOth
anniversary with store - wide savings and
values for the entire family. The firm's
newest store is scheduled to open in
Raeford's Edenborough Center today.
Fifty years ago in Wadesboro,
Beauregard Crawford Moore opened the
first B. C. Moore department store, a
move which began a growing chain
which now includes 66 stores in four
Southeastern states. He was later joined
in his business venture by four sons and
a nephew.
Early in the formative years buying
^offices, warehouses and accounting
T facilities were developed. Warehouses
and buying offices were originally
located in Wadesboro, Cheraw, S. C.,
. and Timmonsville, S. C. Later, they
were centralized with more extensive
Swtrehouses and buying offices in
Cheraw, S. C., and Cordele, Ga.
Corporate offices and accounting
facilities are located in Cheraw, and
Wadesboro.
B. C. Moore & Sons, Inc. handles the
retail merchandising in the four states,
while Moore Brothers, Inc. with
headquarters in Cheraw and Cordele
serve as buying and distribution centers.
Cheraw serves the Carolina stores while
Cordele serves the 21 stores in Georgia
and Alabama.
Present company officers are A. Rae
Moore, chairman of the board; James C.
Crawford Jr., president; J. G. Owens,
executive vice president; W. C. Moore,
vice pretfdent; Carl Wise, vice president;
Jack Hartley, treasurer; and Carl
Bennett, secretary. W. Bryan Moore, a
primary force behind building of this
department itore empire, is past
chairman of the board and presently
serves as consultant.
CHOPPER REMNANTS - Twisted, burned section of U. S. Air Force helicopter i fuselage lies silently in Hoke County woods
following mid day crash of aircraft Monday. One serviceman died in crash. Another expired later at Womack Army Hospital. A
third was transferred to the U. S. Army's bum treatment center at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. Three others were hospitalized with
injuries. Pieces of craft were spread over a wide area and although most paint was scorched from fuselage, numerals are still
barely visible on side of chopper. Local hunters, among first at scene, fought blaze, made fire break and helped carry injured to
other helicopters for transportation to Womack. Craft from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida reportedly was participating in
Brass Key II, U. S. Readiness Command's annual joint forces demonstration of capabilities of modem firepower and maneuver
in air - ground operations. (N-J Photo)
Heather Lee Walker
Miss North Carolina
Shopping
Center
Opens
Among officials scheduled to be
present at today's opening of
Edenborough Center is Miss North
Carolina, Heather Lee Walker. Miss
Walker along with North Hills, Inc.,
Laurinburg and Southern Railroad and
other officials, will perform the ribbon
cutting ceremony and visit with
shoppers throughout the center for
about an hour after the opening
according to Harold Gillis, Raeford ?
Hoke Chamber of Commerce manager.
The Opening is scheduled to begin at
8:45 a.m. with a prayer by the Rev.
Heripan Winberry, Raeford Ministerial
Association president. The welcome, by
T. C. Jones, Hoke County
Commissioners' chairman, John K.
McNeill Jr., Raeford mayor, and William
L. Poole, Jr., president of the Raeford -
Hoke Chamber of Commerce, is
followed by introduction of guests and
remarks by E. H. Evans Sr., president of
L & S, and Tom Bradshaw, vice
president of North Hills, Inc. Ribbon
Cutting ceremony follows.
Miss Walker, arrived in Raeford
Wednesday and was the guest of Mrs.
Arthur Gore and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Hosteller. She is a Hendersonville native
and a sophomore at Mars Hill College
whose hobbies include waterskiing and
horseback riding.
County Library Fund
Solicitors for the Hoke County
Bicentennial Library Fund collected
additional donations door - to - door
and passed out leaflets explaining the
goal of the Bicentennial Committee is to
raise $100,000 to match $200,000
county federal revenue sharing funds
pledged for the library.
The group hopes to construct the
new library by 1976 on corner of Main
Street and E. Donaldson Avenue on
land donated by the Hoke County
Board of Education.
No Serious Injuries
In School Bus Crash
Thirty-three people were injured,
none seriously, in a car-school bus
accident on Turnpike Road near West
Hoke School October 11. Thirty-one of
the injured were West Hoke School
student passengers on the bus and all
have returned to classes, according to
Woodrow H. Westall, West Hoke
principal.
Other injured included the bus driver
James Lloyd, car driver Glenda Ann
McLean, 18, of Raeford and a
nine-year-old passenger in Miss
McLean's vehicle, David Davis. They
were all treated and released.
Injured were transported from the
scene by Morrison's Ambulance Service,
the Hoke Rescue Squad and another
school bus. They were treated by
Doctors Riley Jordan and R.G.
Townsend at the Raeford Medical
Center.
The school bus and car collided on
Turnpike Road near the school at
about 8:10 a.m. Allegedly the car driven
by Miss McLean entered the highway
from a side road and crashed into the
left side of the bus.
The' impact sent the bus into a ditch
where it knocked over several mail
boxes. The bus reportedly teetered and
almost overturned but Lloyd was able
to keep the vehicle upright and return it
to the paved roadway.
State Trooper C.A. Bennett,
investigating officer, cited Miss McLean
for failure to yield right of way at a stop
sign and having no operator's license.
She is scheduled to appear in district
court November 2.
The car reportedly was a total loss
and damage to the school bus was
estimated at SI ,000.
Man Held On Drug Charge
A Washington, D. C., man was
arrested Saturday and charged with
attempting to obtain possession of a
controlled substance by
misrepresentation, fraud, forgery,
deception or subterfuge.
Franklin Campbell, 30, was still in
custody Monday on a $1,000 bond. He
was picked up after police reportedly
were called to Howell Rexall Drug Co.
to check a prescription Campbell had
allegedly tried to have filled. He is
scheduled to appear in district court
Friday.
Police arrested four Laurinburg men
Friday night on warrants charging the
four with affray. Thomas George
McNeill, 20, Robert McNeill, 20, Robert
F.arl McLaurin, 20, and Jimmy Steele,
16, were charged after a reported
disturbance at the football game.
An estimated $ 1,400 damage resulted
from a Monday morning wreck at
Prospect Avenue and Fulton Street. A
car driven by Juanita Fields Livingston,
Rt. 2, was reportedly traveling east on
Prospect Avenue when a car driven by
Marzetta Kemp Richardson, Raeford,
reportedly entered the intersection off
Fulton Street after running a stop sign.
Sherrill Richardson, 11, passenger in
the Richardson car, was taken to Moore
Homecoming
Hoke Schools will kick off their
homecoming celebration Friday at 2
p.m. with a pep rally for the Hoke High
and Upchurch School students at Hoke
High Stadium.
At 4:30 p.m., there will be a
Homecoming parade starting from Hoke
High and traveling down Harris Avenue
and along Main Street to Edinborough
Avenue. The parade will consist of
queen candidates, floats from each class
and the High School Band. Floats will
be judged at the High School following
See HOMECOMING, Page 15
Memorial Hospital and treated for
injuries. Mrs. Richardson was cited for
stop sign violation.
Damages to the Livingston car were
estimated at SI.000. Richardson car
damages were estimated at $400.
Police cited Nathaniel Alston, Rt. 2.
for unsafe movement after a Sunday
accident in which Alston reportedly
attempted to pass a car driven by
Douglas Duval Tunstall, Rt. 1, at the
intersection of Prospect and McMillian
Street as Tunstall reportedly tried to
make a left turn.
Damages were estimated at S200 to
the Alston car and S350 to the Tunstall
car. No injuries were reported.
Two servicemen died and four are
hospitalized with injuries following
crash of a UH-1N Air Force helicopter
on the Dick Neeley farm about noon
Monday. Quick action at the crash scene
by local men is credited with probably
saving the lives of some of the survivors.
Killed in the crash was Sgt. Billy R.
Essary (USAF) of Finley, Tenn. He was
a flight mechanic stationed at Eglin Aii
Force Base in Florida.
Pronounced dead at Womack Army
Hospital Monday was Lt. John Emerson
Kewer, (USA) 23, who resided in Spring
Lake but listed Alexandria, Va. as his
hometown. Kewer was a member of
Company B, 2nd battalion, Sth Special
Forces Group at Ft. Bragg.
Another Army man, S. Sgt. Elmer D.
Adams, 29, of Chesapeake, Va. and Ft.
Bragg, was reported in serious condition
following transfer from Womack to the
Army Burn Center at Ft. Sam Houston,
Tex.
Other injured, all Air Force personnel
listed in satisfactory condition at
Womack, are Maj. Robert J. F.llinger, Lt.
Terry G. Ohlemeir and SM Sgt. David
G. Smith.
SJiortly before the crash the downed
helicopter had completed participation
in Brass Key II, U.S. Readiness
Command's joint forces demonstration
at Ft. Bragg. The ill-fated craft and two
other helicopters flew over the section
of Hoke County between Ft. Bragg and
U.S. 401 in vicinity of Harmony Heights
Road.
Eye witnesses report the craft went
down in the woods of the Neeley farm
after making a sharp turn. Neeley says
he was in the house at the time and
heard nothing but did see smoke rising
from the woods and thought it was a
brush fire.
Earl Conoly and Chris Caddy, who
had been hunting in the area, were
riding in the back of a pickup truck
traveling south on 401 when they
spotted the three helicopters.
Gaddy, a marine home on leave from
Parris Island, S.C., reports the
helicopters were "flying low, going
north, over trees along 401. One of
them cut to the left and a second
chopper appeared to cut left too, but
went down in the trees. One of the
choppers landed in the plowed field and
the third one kept circling overhead
City Manager John Gaddy, who was
driving, turned the truck around and
drove through the plowed field to the
edge of the woods. Both Gaddy and
Conoly ran to the crash scene.
They, military personnel and other
hunters and local sawmill workers used
pine boughs and tops to put out the fire
which spread from the downed aircraft.
Using their hands and feet they cleared
a three-foot wide fire break between the
fire and the injured men. Young Gaddy
said the injured were some distance
from the wreckage.
The Gaddys said when they arrived at
the scene, one serviceman who
reportedly had suffered a broken leg in
the crash was attempting to put out the
flames, another was propped up against
a tree.
Conoly said most of the injured men
did not have boots on but all except
one still had clothing on their bodies.
The one who had only parts of his
trousers and his boots still on his body
reportedly asked hunters Jimmy Riley
and Johnny Melton to cut his boots off.
The injured men were placed on
stretchers from one of the other
helicopters and flown to Womack Army
Hospital at Ft. Bragg. First word of the
accident reached military authorities
when one of the helicopters readioed
the information to the military
reservation.
In the woods, a swath of broken trees
See CRASH, Page 15
RA Y VA VGHN THE REV. ARME ROBERTSON
SPECIA L SER VICES SET - The First Baptist Church of Raeford will hold special
evangelistic services October 21 ? 26. The meetings will start Sunday at II a.m.
Services will be each evening at 7:30 p.m. The guest singer will be Ray Vaughn,
from Decatur, Ga. Vaughn sang for the Don McNeill Breakfast Club over national
radio. The guest evangelist is the Rev. Arnit Robert ion, Greensboro, a well known
Baptist Evangelist who has aided Billy Graham In some crusades. Vaughn wUlgive a
7:15 p.m. solo concert each evening. The public Is welcome.