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VOLUME LXVII NO. 47 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S5 PER YEAR THURSDAY. MARCH 28. 1974
Parent Head Gives End Of Year Assessment,
"IEA Increases Indian Youth Participation"
Around Town
By Sam C. Morris
^The annual Bar-B-Que put on each
spring by the Hoke High School Key
Club will be Thursday night from 5:00
to 7:30 o'clock at the Gibson Cafeteria.
The Key Club is sponsored by Kiwanis
International ahd raises funds for
projects to help the school. The money
this year will be used to put up
basketball goals at the school. So, buy a
$2.00 ticket from a Key Club member
or a Kiwanian.
Joan Moses who is a member of the
Horse Show committee of the Raeford
Woman's Club brought in the following
and asked that it be run in this column.
"A special instruction class is being
offered to anyone interested in entering
the six open classes of the RWC Horse
Show. This will be taught by Clarence
English at his home on Old 401
Saturday, March 30, at 2 p.m. It is not
necessary to take your horse. Mr.
English will lecture and demonstrate
using one of his horses.
"This is being sponsored by the Horse
Show Committee of the RWC in hopes
that it will encourage our local people
to take part in the horse show."
A new way to raise money for a
worthy cause can pop up at any time. I
haven't heard of the following that was
in the door of the office Tuesday
morning. There was no signature to the
announcement.
"The Weight Watchers of North
Carolina lost weight for the Heart Fund
during the month of February. Ten
cents a pound was donated to the heart
fund for each pound the members lost
during February. The Raeford Weight
Watchers were proud to donate a check
for $5.02 to the Hoke County Heart
Fund representing 50 pounds lost."
This is what is known as "Killing two
birds with one stone."
The following letter was received this
week from Ralph Plummer of the
Wayside Community. I think that it is
self-explanatory:
Dear Sam:
* The Gideons, which is an
International Christian Business Men's
Organization that places bibles and
testaments in hotels, motels, prisons,
doctors' offices, air lerminals, railway
stations, bus stations, hospitals, schools,
etc., will be reporting to approximately
sixty-five churches in the Hoke and
Cumberland County area at the eleven
o'clock hour on March 31, 1974.
Included in these churches will be
Ashley Heights Baptist, Bethel
Presbyterian, Ephesus Baptist, First
Baptist of Raeford, Parker's United
Methodist, Raeford Presbyterian, Sandy
Grove Methodist, Second Baptist.
Shiloh Presbyterian, Tabernacle Baptist
and Evangelical Methodist, all of Floke
County.
Since November, 1965, bibles have
been placed in the Hoke County jail.
North Carolina Prison at McCain, all the
rooms in McCain Sanitorium, all the
doctors' offices and all motel rooms in
the county. Also, New Testaments have
been given to all nurses and fifth grade
students in the county schools since
1965.
The Gideons appreciate the
cooperation we have received from the
pastors and laymen of Hoke County,
that has made this possible.
Sincerely,
Ralph Plummer
Member of Gideon International
A county-wide collection of old
magazines to benefit the Hoke County
library is being sponsored by the Pearl
S. Cole Sunday School Class of the
Raeford United Methodist Church. The
magazines will be collected at the
church Monday and Tuesday, April I
and 2. So, now is a golden opportunity
to get rid of old magazines.
The following letter is
seir-explanatory:
"The Hoke County High School
.Chorus and Chorale would like to
impress its appreciation to the citizens
of Hoke County for your support in our
performance of Schubert's Mass In G.
With your encouragement, your show of
enthusiasm, your hospitality to the East
Carolina University Orchestral ensemble
and help in preparations for practice, all
our efforts were a joy."
Cissy Moses
Wood Rites
Conducted
Funeral rites for Thaddcus Graham
Wood, 87, who died March 21, were
conducted Friday at Galatia
Presbyterian Church by the Revs.
Russell Fleming and John C. Ropp.
Burial was in the church cemetery.
Wood moved with his family to Hoke
County in 1901 from Johnson County.
His parents, the late Young Wood and
Metaliza Barefoot Wood, ran a grist mill
in the county. Wood was among the
first to grow tobacco in Hoke County.
He farmed in Rockfish Community.
Wood was married to the late Flora
Monroe Wood, a Hoke County native.
He was a member of the Galatia
Presbyterian Church and the oldest
Hoke County member of the Woodmen
of the World.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs.
1>ela Mclnnis and Mrs. louise Reynold
of Raeford, Mrs. Hazel Smith of Red
Springs, and Mrs. Margaret Newton of
Fayetteville; a son, James G. Wood of
Raeford; a sister, Mrs. Ullie Wood of
Rockfish;two brothers, Martin L and J.
E. Wood of Rockfish; 12 grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren.
Students Suffer
Minor Injuries
No serious injuries resulted from a
school bus accident about a mile from
South Hoke School last Friday morning,
reports George W. Wood, South Hufcc
principal.
All children on (he bus were taken to
Dr. R.M. Jordan's office following the
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Flue Leaf
Allotment
Changed
The Federal Agriculture Stabilization
and Conservation Service (ASC'S) has
dropped flue-cured tobacco acreage
allotments as a condition for a farmer
receiving price supports at market time.
Tom Burgess, Hoke County ASC'S
executive director, said the regulatory
change was made Monday in an "effort
to get more tobacco produced."
Tobacco poundage quotas remain in
effect and farmers will still receive price
supports for 110 percent of their
effective poundage quota. Burgess said.
No change has been made in the law
providing for acreage-poundage
allotments.
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BIKE CUNIC PLANNED-from left. Mrs. Bill Moses. Raeford Woman's Club: Phil Ricks. 4-H sponsor; Leonard Wiggins, police
chief; and Brenda Abrams, 4-H sponsor, pick out a spot for registration stickers to be placed on bicycles The stickers will be
issued free of charge following a bicycle safety, inspection, and registration program scheduled to begin in county schools in
April. The R WC Education Dept. police, and County 4-H office are sponsoring the program.
County-wide Bicycle Safety
Program Begins In April
A bicycle safely and registration
program sponsored by the Raeford
Woman's Club Education Department,
the Raeford Police Department and
Hoke County 4-H clubs begins in Hoke
County schools in April.
The program will kick off with school
instruction in bicycle safety by means
of lectures, films, printed materials and
a safety test, with an instruction class
for adults one evening in April.
After the school term ends, a bicycle
inspection and registration clinic is
planned where registered bicycles will
Faculties
Play Ball
The Upchurch Junior High School
faculty challenged the Hoke High
School faculty to a basketball game.
The game will take place at 7:30 p.m.
tonight, Thursday, at the Upchurch
School gym. Admission will be 75 cents
per person. . Proceeds will go to
Upchurch School's athletic program.
be issued a registration and
identification sticker to be permanently
affixed to the bicycle.
Following the county-wide
registration clinic, a bicycle rodeo will
be held for all students and adults who
pass the bicycle safety test, the bicycle
inspection, and have registered bicycles.
Leonard Wiggins, Raeford police
.chief, noted that the registration
-stickers will provide recorded proof of
ownership of bicycles and will
discourage bicycle thefts.
There will be no charge for
participation in the program.
All materials for the program are
being furnished by the Modern
Woodman of America, the N. C. Dept.
of Motor Vehicles, Good Year Tire and
.Rubber Co.. Bicycle Institute of
America, N. C. Extension Service,
Schwinn Bicycle Company, and the
Carolina Motor Club.
The Raeford City Council has voted
to pay half the costs for registration
forms and stickers. ?
Community leaders are scheduled to
meet in an organizational meeting
Tuesday at 9:30 in the Federal Building
Conference Room.
OTY REIMBURSED-Plctured Is the city's sewage treatment plant, one project on which the city It to receive federal grant of
$119,800 in reimbursement funds. The Envbvnmental Protection Agency made the funds available after Congress ruled that
federal funds should be available for 50 percent of the total cost 0/ such projects Instead of the JO percent rule in effect when
the project was begun. Other projects on which the city applied for reimbursement funds include the 1969 enlargement of the
plant by 1.5 million gallons per day, and the 1971 construction of intercepter sewer lines used mainly to supply water and
sewer service to Knit-Awav, Inc.
James R. Riley
Riley Joins
Hoke Force
A former Raeford policeman began
Monday as a Hoke County deputy
sheriff. James R. Riley, who left the
Raeford force in March. 1973, after
more than two years service, is a 1959
Hoke High School graduate.
The Hoke County native worked at
Proctor Silex in Southern Pines after
leaving the city department. Earlier he
operated a service station grocery on
U.S. 401 North and 401 bypass.
Riley is married to the former Joyce
Davis of Red Springs. They have one
daughter and reside at Rt. 1.
With the hiring of Riley the Hoke
County Sheriffs Department is at full
strength for the first time since last
summer.
City To Get
EPA Funds
Congressman Charlie Rose, (D-N.C.),
notified city officials that Raeford has
been approved to receive $119,800 in
federal Environmental Protection
Agency funds as reimbursement on
three city projects.
The city applied for the additional
funds in October 1973, after a
regulation allowing 30 percent federal
funding on sewage treatment projects
was amended to provide 50 percent
federal funding. The three projects on
which ihe city requested reimbursement
were the 1962 initial project to build
the present city sewage treatment plant;
the 1970 sewage plant expansion
project and the 1971 extension of water
and sewer lines to Knit-Away, Inc.
According to City Manager John
Gaddy the city applied for $3,865
additional funds on the original project,
$276,000 on the expansion project, and
$40,300 on the installation of
additional lines.
No breakdown into projects of the
$119,800 additional funds reportedly
approved for Raeford was given.
"The Indian education program is
extremely satisfactory. Student
involvement in extra curricular activities
has increased. Four Indian girls are
trying out for cheerleaders this year. In
past years we would only have one,"
comments Robert Taylor, Hoke County
head of the Indian Education Act (IEA)
Parents Commit tee.
In continuing his year end assessment
of the new program Taylor points out
Timothy Dial, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Dial, began in the high school
wrestling program during 1972-73
school year and had to drop out because
of lack of transportation.
This year IEA funds were used to
provide Dial's transportation for
practice and matches and he placed
second in his division in the state
wrestling tournament. "IEA gave
Timothy Dial a chance," points out
Taylor.
While neighboring counties are
experiencing problems in implementing
the federally funded program, Hoke
County Parents Committee and Board
of Education seem to be working well
together.
federal funding lor the first year of
the program amounted to $41,258.
Application for 1974-75 funds of
$48,850 has been sent to Washington
and a reply is expected soon.
Current year's funds were used to
order a $6,500 twenty-passenger bus
and to pay salaries for two full-time
employees, Louis Oxcndine, a home
visitor, and Elwood Hardin, a counselor.
Hoke Indian students were taken on a
field trip to the fall festival at the
Cherokee Indian Reservation. An
additional $2,400 purchased 20 musical
instruments for Indian students at
llpchurch School. Future plans call for
music tutoring to help Indian students
to calch up to peers in musical ability
and training.
Funds were also used to supply
books, audio visual equipment, recorded
Indian music, clothing, athletic
equipment and uniforms.
When the program was first discussed
Hoke County Indian students made it
clear at area meetings they did not want
ethnic history courses taught separately,
but wanted their heritage incorporated
into the total school program to avoid
segregating Indian students from other
students. In planning for next year, the
students re-emphasized this point.
Taylor comments, "Indian parents
are almost unanimous in supporting the
program especially the idea of involving
Indian students in extra curricular
activities. The bus will be most
important because most of these parents
work and are not available to provide
transportation. Some of the parents feel
we need more emphasis on an Indian
image building program. A cultural
enrichment phase of the program
including arts and crafts seminars is
planned for the future."
Drug Bust
Made Here
A Rockfish area resident was arrested
Tuesday and charged with two counts
of possession of a controlled substance
after law enforcement officers, armed
with a search warrant, raided his
residence.
Mark I . Bond, 21, Rt. 2, Box 372,
was booked at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and
bond was set at SI,000. The case is
scheduled in district court April S.
Sheriff D. M. Barrington said material
alleged to be marijuana and barbitals
were seized in the raid. He reports 30 to
40 capsules and tablets were found in
five or six bottles.
lirnest M. Buekcr, SBI agent from
f ayetteville, swore out the warrant on
Bond. Participating in the raid were
Hoke County Deputies Alex Norton,
George McGuire and James R. Riley;
Sheriff D. M. Barrington. Cumberland
County Deputy William H. Nichols and
SBI agents.
Meetings Set
The regular monthly meetings of the
Raeford City Council, Hoke County
Board of Commissioners and Hoke
County School Board arc scheduled
Monday.
The City Council meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Municiple Building. The County
Commissioners meet at 9 a.m. in the
Board of education conference room
and the School Board meets at 7:30
p.m. at the Board of education
building.