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VOLUME LXVII NO. 41 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA SS PER YEAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1974
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I Around Town
By Sam C. Morris
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the Hoke County Library
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kind of help it will be built.
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w?k:eCe'Ved 'he f?ll0Win8 le?? last
"Dear Sam:
CluhZ". 'hOUfh ',he Raeford Kiwan.s
fist bas completed "S celebration of its
' : y years, we have many fond
memor.es ol the past and among these
are our association with The
News-Journal. As we have looked back
recent ^"*1 h"d lhe oecasion 10 do in
t k we are impressed with the
bv The n""1 imadC lo our immunity
by The News-Journal and its Staff.
C o,i 3 reCenl K,wanis meeting, Robert
Gatlm was reporting on the many ways
had been af" News-??"mal Staff
been of assistance to our club in
recent weeks. As we seek to Lkcou"
community a better place, we alute
dTorU?* f?r assisling us in our
Sincerely
( Graham A. Pope
President, Kiwanis Club
bok ,rom the other s.de ttwhen you
Club has done so much for the peoDle
SO yelX "?^ ^'? ?W
have been acco^liCshe0d by'the fine
me'mtoT"'""0" iS ,0? numerous <"
say0rnk^'hlnkSf0r ,aking,i?
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tvery weekend brings the gas
shortage home to more people. The lone
ines at all stations Saturday showed
that people didn't know when they
would get any gas y
I made a trip to Louisburg Sunday
and only one gas station was pumping
50 to"fin8 ' 30?,m'lc tr'P- Tramc waf
50 to 60 percent down and speeds were
under 55 MPH. If ,hings 1?'?'
every weekend like the last two "?
three, the best place to be Sunday is at
lute h , TT 'he best P|ace lo be is
at the church of your choice.
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fisgsnsas
approximately ten cents. Activilies are
in .hZ i, permanent list will be kept
children whZonZbu'ted <o?h
SherifFs Office
Gets New Line
A second phone line has
been installed at the Hoke
County Sheriffs office. Sheriff
D. M. Barrington said the new
line would be used primarily
for outgoing calls, but that if
the listed number, 875-2844,
was busy, persons calling the
Sheriffs Department could dial
the new number, 87* 5111.
Correction
The News-Journal erred last week in
reporting Judge Joseph E. Dupree
sentenced Alton Odum, Rt. 2, to 18
months in prison for public intoxication
and resisting, obstructing and delaying
an officer. The sentence actually was six
months suspended 18 months upon
payment of $100 fine and costs.
Odum appealed the case to superior
court where the state took nol pros on
the resisting, obstructing and delaying
charge and for public intoxication
Odum received 30 days suspended 12
months which presiding Superior Court
Judge Donald L. Smith said would be
reduced to 20 days in compliance with
the law.
Speros Filed
Representative Gus Speros,
Democrat, 21st District of Robeson,
Hoke and Scotland Counties, filed
today for re-election to one of the seats
in the North Carolina House of
Representatives.
Speros is now serving his third term
in the House and is chairman of the
Conservation and Development
Committee of the House.
He is the third incumbent and fourth
candidate to announce his candidacy for
one of the three seats from the district.
Incumbents Rep. Joy Johnson.
Democrat from Fairmont, and Rep.
Henry W. Oxendine, Democrat from
Pembroke, filed earlier, as did David R.
Parnell, Democrat of Parkton.
Balfour Files
John Balfour became the second
incumbent county commissioner to file
for reelection. Balfour who was
originally appointed commissioner by
the Democratic Party Executive
Committee to fill the unexpired term of
Herman Gillis, is seeking his third
four-year term in office.
The Hoke County farmer was
recognized last year with a first place
award for producing the highest quality
cotton in the state.
He is a member of the Stonewall
Volunteer Fire Department board of
directors.
He is past chairman of Southern
National Bank board of directors and is
director of Production Credit
Association where he served as associate
director for a number of years.
In 1966 Balfour was chosen to enter
the outstanding young man of America
Biography. The Hoke High School
graduate attended Presbyterian Junior
College and High Point College.
The deacon of the Lumber Bridge
Presbyterian Church is married to the
former Joan Harlow of New Bern and
they have one child, John Jr., 15.
Mabel Riley Sparks Bids
* With Monday's primary election filing
deadline fast approaching, the
democratic process purred along at a
quickened pace this week sparked by
Mrs. Kermit (Mabel) Riley's bid for one
of three county commissioners' scats to
be filled in the 1974 elections.
This is the female auto mechanic's
second start for a position on the
county's governing body With two seats
open in the 1972 primary election, she
polled third highest votes in a field of
seven candidates.
Deadline nears
Chief of Police Leonard
Wiggins announced that checks
will be set up at different
points in Kaeford Monday to
check for compliance with the
city car tag requirement for
city residents.
Deadline for purchasing the
city tags without a penalty is
midnight Friday. The tags may
be purchased for SI at the City
Water Department. Only city
residents are required to
display the tags on their cars.
The penalty for not
displaying a city tag is SS plus
the cost of a tag.
Mrs. Riley, molher of four grown
boys, says, "I want no discrimination
based on sex or race in hiring and pay
policies for county employees."
The Hoke County native stresses, "I
think people in outlying areas need the
same quality protection as those in
town. We need more and better paid
See MABEL. Page 12
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MABEL RILEY
LONG LINES- Waiting seems to be the only thing to do these days as deadlines
approach for car tag buyers. About 35 people waited in a winding line at the
License Plate Office Tuesday morning to buy state tags before the Friday midnight
deadline. Frances Greene. Vehicle Registration branch manager said she sold
approximately 600 to 700 car tags Tuesday and estimated her overall sales this year
at 13,000 to 14,000.
Forum On Land Use
The sixth Hoke Forum session will be
at 7:30 p.m. February 21 at the
Raeford ? Hoke Civic Center. The topic
will be "Land use. How is it going to
affect you"? Guest speakers for the
session will be James R. Hinkley,
assistant State Planning officer for
Natural Resources and president of the
N.C. chapter of the Institute of
Planners, and C. Earl Leiniger, associate
professor of philosophy and religion at
Mars Hill College.
Moderator for the evening will be
Wendell Young, County Farm Agent.
The local resident panel will consist
of Alfred Leach, general manager of
Farm Chemicals. Inc.: Julian Wright.
Real Estate dealer; Mrs. C.L. Thomas
Jr., Homemaker and member of the
Racford Woman's Club; and F.O. Clark,
soil conservationist.
Hinkley received his B.S. degree in
geography at the University of Florida.
Gainesville, Fla.. in 1959. Since then he
has attended the Masters Program in
urban geography at the University of
Minneapolis, Minn.; received certificates
in city and county management from
the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and in management
development programs from the Office
of State Personnel. N.C. Department of
Administration.
He has worked as a planner for the
central area office, and director of the
coastal area office. Division of
Community Planning N.C. Department
of Conservation and Development;
model cities coordinator for the state
planning task force, N.C. Department of
Administration; and assistant state
planning officer for natural resources.
Office of State Planning.
The 40-year-old native of Reading,
Penn., is a member of the American
Institute of Planners and president of
the N.C. chapter. He is a member of the
American Society of planning officials.
Hinkley was awarded the
distinguished service award from the
Washington Jaycees. and the
community service award by the
Washington City Council. He was named
one of the five outstanding young men
of North Carolina for 1968. by the N.
C. Jaycees and the N. C. National Bank.
Dr. Leininger received his B.A. degree
from Oklahoma Baptist University and
his B.D. and Th. D. degrees from
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He served as associate pastor in
Oklahoma and pastor in Kentucky while
teaching at Kentucky Stale University
James R. Hinkle r
Dr. C. Earl Leininger
and Catherine Spalding College.
Louisville, Ky.; before going to Mars
Hill College in 1968.
He teaches philosophy courses and
basic religion at Mars Hill and
participates in the interdisciplinary
human society program.
Dr. Leininger has served on standing
and ad hoc committees including
chairing the college's self-study program
in 1969. He is chairman ol the
committee on values, setccd on the
college appeals board, and is advisor to
student organization including the
student senate and student government.
Stations Try
Many Plans
No Official Action Taken
With the gasoline shortage becoming
a daily fact of life for area motorists,
local service station owners are trying a
variety of unofficial rationing programs.
No official action has been taken by
slate or local governments to make any
of the systems mandatory.
When gasoline is available most
retailers limit hours they pump gas and
many also set a maximum sale limit of
$2 or S3 (see chart). The situation was
most evident Saturday when motorists
lined up at local stations to buy gas to
tide them over until Monday because
most area stations are closed on Sunday.
Cars waiting for gas at Hugh's Texaco
and Alignment, Campus Avenue and
Eight Homeless;
1 Hospitalized
Two recent fires in Hoke County
have rendered a family of eight
homeless and one man in Highsmith
Rainey Hospital suffing from burns.
Hillcresl Fire Department answered a
call to the Raywell Parker residence on
Country Club Road connecting
Fayetteville Road and Rockfish Road at
1:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Chief W.E. McNeil said the blaze had
engulfed the house before firemen
arrived and termed it a total loss. Mr.
and Mrs. Parker, their five children and
Mrs. Parker's mother, Flemita Grace,
residents of the dwelling were
reportedly awakened by a neighbor and
escaped front the house before firemen
arrived.
McNeill said the cause of the fire had
not been determined.
German Harp. 219 S. Stewart St. was
burned in a propane gas explosion at his
residence at 5 :45 p.m. Sunday. Raeford
Fire Department Chief Crawford
Thomas said the explosion occurred
when Harp lit a match because a gas
stove had been disconnected earlier but
the gas was still on.
Thomas said there was little fire
damage to the house owned by Agnes
Mae Johnson but that some windows
were blown out, the ceiling in one room
was split, and parts of the outside walls
were blown as far as six inches off the
foundation.
Harp was taken to Highsmith Rainey
Hospital by Morrison Ambulance service
where he was termed in fair condition
Wednesday. No estimate of damages was
available.
Store Robbed
An undetermined amount of cash was
taken from the Little Giant Food Mart.
523 Harris Ave., in an armed robbery at
8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Police were called to the scene by
James McGregor, an employee of the
store, who said he had been robbed at
gun point by two men.
McGregor said one of the men took
bills from the cash drawer. The pair
reportedly fled on foot in different
directions after the robbery.
Police are investigating the incident.
Main Street, were backed up to
Magnolia Street. Those waiting to be
served at Conoly's Exxon. East Central
Avenue, formed a line down Racket
Ailey which stretched to Edinborough
Avenue. Similar conditions existed at
other stations, if they had gas.
Hugh Gardner, owner of Hugh's
Texaco, implemented a modified
Oregon rationing program Monday. He
pumps gas on even numbered days of
the month into cars bearing even
numbered license plates and on odd
numbered days to those having odd
numbered license plates.
He maintains a maximum sale limit of
S2 for compact cars and $3 for
full-sized vehicles.
He reports being able to keep pumps
open longer and says this plan has kept
long lines from forming at his station.
He said only one driver seemed upset
when told she could not buy gas until
the next day.
Last week Hugh tried selling gas with
a S2 minimum and S3 maximum limit,
but he reports, "This didn't work."
The problem with setting a minimum
sale limit is how to enforce it. What
does a station owner with a minimum
sale limit do when he has already
Federal energy chief William
E. Simon Tuesday prohibited
service stations from
discriminating against buyers
by selling gasoline only to
regular customers. A station
owner convicted of criminal
violation of this regulation
could be fined up to SS.000
with lesser penalties for civil
violations, reports the Federal
Energy Office.
pumped gas into a tank and the amount
is less than the minimum sale? Some
attendants feel they should charge the
minimum sale price.
Charles Little, Internal Revenue
Service petroleum coordinator in
Greensboro, says such practices are
illegal. "If a customer does not get $3
worth of gasoline but must pay $3, this
amounts to selling at an excessive price
and is a violation of price regulations."
"Also illegal." says Little, "are tie-in
agreements where a customer must buy
groceries, oil changes, grease jobs or so
forth in order to purchase gasoline.
Another illegal practice is charging
customers for a service that was
previously free-air, water and window
washing are a few examples."
One difficulty with modified Oregon
rationing plans stems from Sunday
closing of gasoline stations. For
example, cars with odd numbered
License plates would not be able to
purchase gasoline this Saturday, Sunday
or Monday. The following weekend the
same situation would confront cars with
even numbered tags.
The original plan, as implemented in
the stale of Oregon, allows gasoline to
be sold to all cars on Saturday to
See STATIONS. Paite 9
WEEKDAYS
SATURDAYS
Gas Station
services
a.m.-p.m.
pumps
a.m.
pumps
p.m.
limit
services
a.m.-p.m.
pumps
a.m.
pumps
p.m.
Averitt's Pure Oil
7-8:30
7 -out
S2
7-7
7 out
Clark's Gulf
7:30- 5:30
7:30 out
3:30?out
S2
7:30-5:30
7:30-out
3:30-out
Conoly's Exxon
7 6
7:30 -out
3-out
S3
7-6
7:30?out
3?out
Danny's Oil Co.
8 6
sales times v:
ry
none
8-6
sales times
vary
Graham Service
7 - 5:30
7-9/out
4 -5:30/ou
S2
7-5:30
7-9/out
4-5:30/out
Hugh's Texaco
8 6
8-out (ration plan)
S2/S3
8-6
8-out (rati
on plan)
Irion's
8- 5
8 5 p.m.
none
closed
closed
closed
Locklear Sunoco
8 6
when gas ava
lable
8 6
when gas av
ailable
Parks' Texaco
7-9
7-8
3- 5
S3
7-9
7-8
3-5
Travelers' Service
7-3'4
7 - out
none
7-3/4
7-out
Crumpler's Handy Mart
7:30 11
7:30-out
none
7:30-1 1
7.30-out
Pete's Exxon
8:30-6
Fri. 8:30 8
none
5-6
S2
8:30-8
none
5-6
GASOI.INF SAIMS SCHt.DUI.t-l.ocal stations, when they have gasoline, are
selling according to the above schedule. A veritt's ran out last Friday. Graham
Service, 103 S. Main St. will close February 17 through 21 for vacation. Hugh's
Texaco is using a modified Oregon rationing plan (sec story/. Irion's was out
Tuesday but expecting a gasoline delivery "anytime. " Travelers' daily allocation
usually sells out in about 90 minutes each morning. Crumpler's Handy Mart was out
Tuesday and had been for two days.