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The Hoke County News - Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXVll NO. 28 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA S5 PER YEAR THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1 S 1973
Around
Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The weather took on a winter spell
over the weekend. The thermometer
dropped below freezing Saturday and
Sunday nights. Monday the weather
took a warming trend.
?? The fuel shortage has caused many
people to begin measures to save fuel.
Car pools are being formed in the
industrial plants, heat is being kept at
68 to 70 degrees and some have cut
speed back to 50 mph.
According to reports gas rationing
may start by the first of the year. 1 hope
that something can be worked out so
that this doesn't come to pass. I still
remember the rationing of World War 11
days and it was not for the best.
So think of ways you can conserve
fuel and maybe things will work out for
the best.
The following is published in the
interest of the Fund started by the
Hoke County High School Library:
"Last Spring the young people of
Hoke County lost a dear friend in Neill
James Blue. Several of his friends
wanted to "do something'' to remember
him and finally it was decided to start a
"Neill James Blue Memorial Collection"
the Hoke County High School
Library. His family and friends have
donated funds to initiate the collection
which will be used to purchase books on
two of Neill's favorite subjects (and
those of the young people he
loved)-sports and poetry. It is hoped
that this collection will be a fitting
tribute to the memory of a man who
gave his support, devotion and love to
young people. He looked forward to
sports events at the high school as much
as any parent of a player and was one of
the biggest boosters of the players and
the coaches.
"Neill was a lover of poetry. He often
quoted passages from poetry he had
read and enjoyed. He felt that life must
be shared and whenever he was able to
share a smile, a poem, or _a happy
thought, he was happy. Kven when Neill
was in great pain, he thought of others.
His cheery "Have a good day" carried
with it the feeling that the recipient
would indeed have a better day after
hearing from Neill.
t "The Neill James Blue Memorial
? collection will be used for the benefit of
those young people that Neill dearly
loved. Individuals wishing to contribute
to this collection may do so by calling
875-5360 or by contacting Hoke
County High School Library."
Sincerely,
Fran Solomon,
Librarian
Hoke County High School
Raz Autry, Principal
Undercover Agent Buys Drugs;
Eight Suspects Rounded Up
Collins Store
Will Close
Collins Department Store is closing
after 34 years in Raeford. According to
Jack Sisk, executive vice president of
the Collins Co., the firm wants all future
stores to be about 30,000 square feet
and the Raeford facility is much smaller
than this.
He said the current Main Street
facility would require a large cash
outlay to update, remodel and replace
fixtures and "We would still have a
small store."
Sisk announced J. I. Hubbard, store
manager, would transfer as manager of
another Collins Store to be announced
in the future. Hubbard has been with
the firm 27 years. Sisk also stated all
employees had been offered transfers
but Hubbard was the only one to
accept.
Final closing date will depend on how
quickly merchandise moves during close
out sales but will be no later than the
first of the year, said Sisk. All store
fixtures will also be sold.
Buck McPhaul, owner of the building,
reports on definite news on a new
tenant for the two - story 45 feet by
100 feet building.
Fall Injures
Miss Bounds
A teenaged Raeford girl was reported
in critical condition by personnel at
Cape Fear Valley Hospital Wednesday
morning. Debbie Bounds suffered head
injuries in a fall from a horse Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Bounds, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Bobby C. Bounds of College Drive,
was riding on a horse with Cindy
Connell, 14, along a dirt path behind
Fdenborough Center. The horse
apparently was cantering when Miss
Bounds fell to the ground.
Shortly after the accident Lewis C.
Cunningham of Raeford stopped at the
scene, placed the girls in his car and
took them to the Raeford Police
Department.
See FALL, Page 11
F our Get 18 Months
Four Raeford men were handed
sentences of 18 months as youthful
offenders in district court Friday after
being convicted of petty larceny. The
shoplifting spur occurred during recent
weeks.
Bennie Lee Williams, 17. Rt. 1. was
convicted on five counts of petty
larceny. He was charged with taking a
pair of pants valued at $16 from B.C.
Iploore's, an album valued at S4.79 from
Macks Variety and Fashions, two
albums valued at $9.85 from Super
Dollar, a man's hat valued at $5.95 from
Joe Sugar's, and a billfold containing
money and valuable papers valued at
$50 belonging to Mary Brady.
Randy Kmanuel Blue. 16, Rt. I, was
convicted ol taking two albums valued
at S9.58 from Super Dollar, a man's hat
valued at S6IS0 from Joe Sugar's, and a
record album valued at S4.79 from
Macks Variety and Fashion.
Curtis Lee Williams, 16, Rt. 1, was
convicted of taking a man's hat valued
at S7 from Joe Sugar's and two tapes
and two candy bars valued at S4.76
from Macks Variety and Fashion.
Charles Campbell, 19, Rt. 2, was
convicted of taking one pair of pants
valued at S8.88 from Macks Variety and
Fashion.
All four men were committed to the
custody of the commissioner of
correction for treatment and
supervision.
KIDNAPERS - Flanked by deputy drtrtffs thrtt vounx to
far August 17 kkbmptng *rmrd eommon *? robbery of A. M.Rf*moj
mjptttevilk and Dum art thown being etcorttd from the oomt* the
Ujrthouu for trial Tueiday. The convicted yoW***. from kft. Walter La*
Ijrn, curtii Lawm Baldwin and Gregory Scrlven (N-J Photo)
OR UG RAID -Hoke County jail uas a busy place 1 uesday evening during uQtg rata wmtn uemmtu jrum uuegeu unutr cover
purchases of ISO, cocaine and HmfffSw. Shown in jail booking area are, from left. Deputy Sheriff Chester Bolton. Raeford
Patrolman John McNeill. Deputy J.R. Young, suspect Kenneth A. McLauchlin, and SB1 agent /back to camera) and suspect
Joseph Stanton. Door in background leads to sally port where the patrol cars drive through electrically operated overhead grate
ioors so area is completely enclosed before suspects are let out of vehicles. (N-J Photo)
Woman Enters Guilty Plea,
Sentenced To 22 Years
A Raeford woman was sentenced to
22 years in prison in superior court
Tuesday after pleading guilty to second
degree murder in the pistol slaying of a
Dundarrach man last June.
The victim Barbara Alexander Smith,
30, was shot once in the abdomen with
a .22 caliber pistol and died at Cape
Fear Valley Hospital 12 hours later.
During presentence questioning Mrs.
Louise Walker told Chief Superior Court
Two Quit
County
The resignation of two more deputy
sheriffs was announced this week by
Sheriff D M Barrington.
The resignations leave the Sheriffs
Department with only half of its
authorized six road deputies. One of the
resigning men is joining the Raeford
Police Department which will bring that
force up to full strength.
The resignation of Geroge Brown, a
deputy since June 1972, is effective
November 25. He will begin work on
the Raeford police force December I
replacing Chester Price who resigned for
health reasons.
Brown who says he is changing jobs
for shorter hours and more pay will
draw the same starting salary ($6,800)
from the city that he receives from the
county after almost 17 months.
The resignation of Bolton, a county
deputy sincc last June, is effective
December 10. He is leaving to join a
newly formed banking and aviation
coriipany in Bogalusa, La. as crew chief
and co pilot.
Judge F.. Maurice Braswell she was not
satisfied with the services of her court
appointed attorney Chief Public
Defender Sol Cherry.
Mrs. Walker said she had requested a
number of character witnesses be
subpoenaed and none of them were in
court. Cherry told the judge he had
subpoenaed the witnesses "last week
but have not had time to check and see
if they were returned." Braswell
questioned Mrs. Walker further and
pointed out the addresses she had given
were not complete but he would ask
deputies to locate the witnesses. They
were able to do so and several character
witnesses appeared later in the day to
testify.
During the discussion Mrs. Walker
pointed out to Judge Braswell she had
been in jail "six months."
In other action three young men
entered guilty pleas to kidnapping and
robbing a 75-year-old Fayetteville
salesman AM. Rouse on August 17.
Judge Brasewell deferred sentencing of
Gregory Scriven, 17, Walter Lee Harris,
19, and Curtis Baldwin, 21.
Scriven is being sent to Western
Correctional Center for presentence
diagnostic testing and is scheduled to be
returned to Hoke County for sentencing
within 60 to 90 days.
Sentencing for Harris and Baldwin
was deferred until today to allow their
attorney to contact witnesses in the
case. The defendants have not taken the
stand. Sheriff DAI. Barrington testified
and Rouse showed the scars from rope
cuts to the judge, attorneys and district
attorney in the judges chambers.
A Fayetteville man was found
innocent of murder by a jury of five
women and seven men Wednesday
morning. John Edward Bethune, 26.
Thanksgiving Service Slated
The Raeford Ministers' Association
and the Churches of the community
announce a community wide
Thanksgiving service to be held
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the First
Baptist Church.
The Rev. Herman Winberry, pastor of
the Raeford United Methodist Church
and president of the Ministers'
Association, will be the main speaker.
Other ministers taking p?t kn the
service will be: the Rev. Jack Mansfield,
First Baptist Church; the Rev. Bill O.inn,
Evangelical Methodist Church; and the
Rev. Lewis Jolly, Second Baptist
Church.
An offering for the benefit of
projects of the Ministers' Association
will be received.
AD persons in the community are
welcome to attend and participate in
the community wide service of
Thanksgiving.
was tried in connection with the
December 1972 shooting of Johnny
Daniel Fairley of the Oil Mill Section.
The shooting took place in the home
See 22 YF.ARS, Page 11
Youth Case
Settled Here
At a juvenile court preliminary
hearing Friday Judge Joseph E. Dupree
ruled a 14-year-old boy was not to be
tried for murder as an adult in the
November 1 shooting death of a man in
his mid twenties.
Dupree ordered the youth placed in
custody of the Board of Youth
Development until he reaches 18 or
until the board sees fit to discharge him.
The victim, was James F.arl Bornhell
alias, James Earl Barnhill, James L.
Yancey, James Lee Yancey, George
Green and James Moore.
Testimony at the hearing indicated
the dead man had been "slapping the
juvenile around" prior to the shooting.
Bornhell, according to testimony,
escaped from thi Harnett Youth Center
about six weeks before the shooting and
had a record of auto larceny and escape
convictions dating back to 1967. The
incident occurred in the Bowmore
section.
Present at the hearing were the
juvenile, his parents, his sister, one
additional witness. Kenneth Glussman,
assistant public defender, David Fox,
assistant district attorney, D.M.
Barrington, Hoke County sheriff, and
Howard Culbreth, juvenile probation
officer.
Need Early
N-J Items
News items and advertising for the
November 22 edition of The
Newt-Joumal should reach the N-J
office is soon as possible with final ad
deadline set Monday.
Early submission of items is
requested because next week's edition
will be printed on T uesday Instead of
Wednesday because of the Thanksgiving
holiday on Thuraday.
Members of the SBl, Hoke County
Sheriffs Department and Raeford
Police Department loaded into squad
cars and fanned out across the city and
county Tuesday evening in a drug raid
which stemmed from alleged undercover
buys of LSD, cocaine and marijuana.
In all, seven men and one juvenile
were picked up and charged with
felonious possession and distribution of
a controlled substance. Two of the
suspects were charged with more than
one count and the rest with one count
each. All but the juvenile are scheduled
to appear in January superior court
session.
Arrested and released on $5,000
bond were Earl Leslie Jr., 22, Rt. 1 Box
341; Edward L. Wright, 47, 511 E.
Sixth Ave.; and the juvenile who is
scheduled to appear for juvenile hearing
Friday.
Remaining in jail Wednesday morning
in lieu of $5,000 bond were Archie F.
Bristow, 24, Rt. 2; Joseph Stanton, 22,
Rt. 2; Kenneth A. McLauchlin, 19, (two
counts of distribution) Rt. 1; and
Ronald Charles Stone, 22, 329 N. Main
St. Held in lieu of $10,000 bond is
Larry Pittman, 26, (two counts of
possession and two of distribution) Rt.2
Box 243.
Sheriff D.M. Barrington reports the
undercover agent has been working in
the area since the first of October. One
suspect is still being sought, another left
town before the raid and one buy was
arranged in Hoke County but the
transaction took place in Scotland
County removing the alleged crime from
Hoke jurisdiction. McLauchlin was
picked up on warrants. The others were
arrested on capias issued on sealed
indictments from the grand jury which
was in session Tuesday.
The jail was a tempest of activity
Tuesday evening with suspects being
unloaded from patrol cars in the sally
port and ushered into the booking
room. Rights were read, suspects frisked
and fingerprinted, pockets emptied,
pictures taken and questions asked. SBl
agents checked and double checked
paper work. Law enforcement officers
picked up capias and left in search of
other suspects.
Noise abounded with call signs and
messages crackling over the radio and
walkie talkies. Not too long after the
first suspects were brought in the phone
calls began-relatives asking questions
about bond and court dates.
One deputy answered a call at 8:55
p.m. "No mam, not right now. Someone
is talking to him...No mam, someone
here is talking to him. Yes mam, we'll
give him his medicine. O.K. mam." He
hung up. The phone rang again at 8:56
- and so the night continued.
In the meantime people began
straggling through the front door to ask
the same questions that were coming
over the phone.
"Is my son here?"
"He's in the back. As far as I know
his bond is set at $5,000. He is charged
with selling drugs."
"Did you find some drugs?"
"I m not the one who searched him.
He's charged with selling drugs to an
undercover agent."
"How did they know it was my son?
1 don t believe it. Somebody probably
sold it and gave his name. That is what
happened. Just because he is in college
and trying to make something of
himself."
Some of the women who were
seeking information cried audibly and
could be heard back where the booking
procedures were underway. Others
stood with silent tears running down
their faces.
In the meantime the parade of
suspects continued. Some forearms were
checked apparently for telltale marks.
Knives found on suspects were turned
in. So were other personal belongings.
Attempts were made to reach Judge
Derb Carter to get permission to release
the juvenile on bond because he was ill.
Carter could not be reached so District
Attorney Jack Thompson was contacted
and approved the plan.
Clerk of Superior Court E.F.. Smith
came in to approve a property bond to
release one of the prisoners. A taw
enforcement officer in the rear shouted,
"Who was the last one to be
printed?" "1 need to send two men to
Southern Pines."
"Are you going to FayettevMe to
pick him up?"
Suspects were moved about, mum
wearing knit hats, others bare IwM,
See DRUGS, Pap 11