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The Hoke County News - Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
VOLUME LXVll NO. 51 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA SS PER YEAR THLRSDAY. APRIL 25. 1974
Around Town
By Sam C. Mortis
The primary election is only two
weeks away and the candidates are out
shaking hands and passing out cards to
voters at a fast clip. I haven't seen any
of the major candidates, like the ones
running for the Senate, in the county,
but the district candidates have been
around in large numbers.
I haven't heard much talk about any
of the races except the race for county
commissioners. The ballot has ten
names listed and everything was real
quiet until the firemen had a meeting
last week. Since that time, more and
more people seem to have taken an
interest in this race. 1 think that this is
good for the voters, as many of them
have had their eyes opened as to what is
going on in the county, government.
Most of the time all of us sit back and
let things run without ever putting any
thought into what is happening. I
understand the firemen were meeting
again Monday night, so maybe other
things will be before us before election
day.
1 care not who you vote for, but if
you don't vote, don't complain about
the way the country, state or county is
being governed.
Last Saturday afternoon I was
t playing golf at Arabia Golf Course in a
foursome composed of Tom McBryde,
^ Frank Teal, Harvey Warlick and myself.
Harvey and I were playing McBryde and
Teal. On the 15th hole 1 hit my tee shot
and hit a water pipe on the end of the
tee which is used to water the tees and
greens in that area. When Harvey started
to hit his tee, McBryde told him to hit
the water pipe like his partner. He
missed the water pipe, but a flock of
birds came flying over the course as his
ball started down the fairway, and the
ball hit one of the birds and killed it.
Of course, McBryde or Teal would
not give Harvey a birdie on this shot. If
you have a doubt about this story, see
any of the other three of the foursome.
The gas situation seems to be back to
normal at most stations in the county.
Of course, the price is up compared to a
year ago, and 1 suspect if the
government had stayed out of the
problem the situation would never have
^rtten like it was in February.
Just like meat, when the price is
right, you can find about anything you
want.
The weather is real nice with the days
being warm, but warm nights are needed
for crops to burst forth from the
ground. From all indications, most
farmers are planting cotton or have
finished
Hoke Firemen Fuel Campaign;
Group Endorses Candidates
Banquet Honors
All Star Seniors
Ninety - three graduating Hoke High
School Seniors were honored at the
second annual senior all star banquet at
Gibson Cafeteria April 11.
Awards were presented to five areas:
vocational, business, band, chorus and
chorale, and service. Teachers
nominated students for the awards. The
nominees were then screened by a
committee which submitted
recommendations for final selection.
Charlene Averitte, Queen Esther
Hollingsworth, Kristi Frahm, Brenda
Farrow, Beth Wood and Debbie Little
were presented the super star award for
contributions over and beyond the call
of duty to the school. Super stars must
receive four nominations from four
different areas or clubs.
In the vocational area, the all star
award went to Mitchel Walters. The
textiles award was presented to Carolyn
McKoy.
The Business all star award went to
Barbara Ross with Distributive
Education club awards presented to
Shirley Poe and James Jones. The
Industrial cooperative training award
recipient was Debbie Little.
lite band all star award went to Kristi
Frahm and choral all star awards were
presented to Lester Southern, Julia
Kicklighter and Beth Wood.
Evelyn Earnest was the recipient of
the service all star award, with EKOH
awards going to Queen Esther
Hollingsworth and Evelyn Earnest;
student in action for education awards
were presented to Brenda Farrow and
Kathy Newton; the pep club award was
presented to Debbie Little, library club
awards went to Debbie Little, Linda
Davis. Herbert Turner, Benny Nash,
Shirley Poe and Susie Carter.
Photography Club awards were
presented to Jerres A. Rowland, Earnest
Sutton and Eddie Inman.
All-Star certificates of Merit for
recognition of outstanding seniors for
their contributions were presented to
Donald Plummer, Bernice Bratcher,
Annette Currie, Lydia Farmer, Eddie
Inman, Julie Kicklighter, Swanda
McCormick, Shirley Poe, Veronica
Singletary, and Kathy Newton.
Certificate of Merit winners received at
least three nominations from three
different areas or clubs.
In addition to the award winners,
See BANQUET. Page 12
RWC Semi-Centennial
Celebration Plans Aired
Members of the Raeford Woman's
Club (RWC) will celebrate the club's
fiftieth anniversary at a 7 p.m. banquet
at the Southern Pines Country Club
Tuesday.
All present RWC members, their
guests, charter members, past presidents
Rose's Mobile Office
Visits Hoke Friday
Congressman Charlie Rose's Seventh
Congressional District Mobile Office,
manned by Rip Collins, Congressnir.il
Rose's administrative assistant and
representative in the district, will be
parked near the Raeford Post Office, 10
a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday.
NEW PRINCIPAL - Allen Edwardt, choten to head Hoke High School next year,
tun h Raeford Monday and met educators and the pren. The Goldtboro native
comet to Hoke High School from a three-year principalship at Benvenue Middle
School at Rocky Mount (NJ Photo)
and members of the Chaminade Music
Club and their guests will be welcome.
The program based on club history
will be presented by RWC members.
Mrs. Crawford Thomas Jr., RWC
president elect, has listed the 16 living
charter club members. Eighty - one
names were on the original charter.
Listed are Mrs. Alan McGee, Mrs. J.W.
Walker, Mrs. R. Murray, Mrs. J.K.
McNeill Sr., Mrs. Hugh Lowe, Mrs. Doug
McLeod, Mrs. A.K. Stevens and Mrs.
J.M. Stackhouse,
Also Mrs. Clyde Upchurch Sr., Mrs.
LB. Brandon, Mrs. H.A. Cameron, Mrs.
Kate B. Covington, Mrs. W.F.. Freeman,
Mrs. R.B. Lewis, Mrs. J.A. McGoogan,
and Mrs. P.P. McCain.
High School
Head Hired
Allen Edwards, a 28 - year - old
Goldsboro native, has been selected new
Hoke High School principal. For the
past three years he served as principal of
Benevenue Middle School (7th and 8th
grades).
The East Carolina alumnus said, "The
school facilities in Hoke County are
unequaled among rural school systems I
have seen elsewhere in the state.
"I am impressed with the facilities
and look forward to continuing
programs developed up to this time.
What changes do come will come
slowly.
"I believe schools exist for the
welfare of the students and I plan to
involve students, faculty and others in
developing a program for the 1974-75
year. All suggestions will be
appreciated."
Edwards hold bachelors and masters
degrees and a superintendant's
certificate from ECU. He is a former
high school physical education teacher
and baseball and basketball coach. He
served as assistant principal at Garner
High School and Northern Nash High
School. He worked in adult education in
Pitt and Nash Technical Institutes.
His honors include deans list, honor
roll, "Who's Who in American
Universities and Colleges - 1967", 1971
State Student Council Congress
representative of North Carolina
Association of Educators (NCAE), twicc
delegate to NCAE and 1973 and 1974
speaker at national convention.
He was president of Phi bpdlon
Kappa professional fraternity and
See HIRED, Page 12
PUDDLE? - City residents living in the Harris Avenue-Dickson Street area are
familiar with sights such as the one pictured above. This yard on W. Edinborough
Avenue was flooded during rains in February, 1973. State maintained roads in the
Dickson Street and Harris Avenue areas have no curbing and glittering to provide
drainage for the area.
Gaddy Writes State For
Highway Improvements
City manager John Gaddy has written
a letter to the North Carolina State
Highway Departmertt concerning
drainage problems along stale
maintained streets within Raeford city
limits. The letter, the latest in a series of
communications between the state and
the city on the problem, follows an
April 3 visit by State Highway
Department Engineer*William Rosser,
who made an inspection of the area.
Gaddy said the original request for
state help went in in September 1963,
and again in 1966. The state has
received an updated costs estimate on
the problem recently as October, 1973,
stating the project will now cost
approximately $59,000.
Gaddy explained his latest move:
"Due to the many requests from
residents living on state system streets in
Raeford for some help in receiving
deplorable situations caused by the
State Highway Department's lack of
constructive action after being
requested by the City of Raeford to
help in alleviating drainage and curbing
problems, I have submitted the
following letter to Mr. H.H. Jordan, our
Division Engineer:
Dear Mr. Jordan:
The City Council has requested that
the Department of Transportation be
advised of the necessity of drainage and
curb and gutter on state system streets
located within the city limits of the City
of Raeford in Hoke County, N.C.
I realize that Hoke County and the
City of Raeford was omitted from the
Governor's Seven Year Highway
Improvement Program list, but since
some of the City's requests were
initiated as early as 1965, I feel some
consideration should be given to
improvements in our area.
You are familiar with the drainage
problem in the Harris Avenue - Dickson
Street area. We have approximately 60
School bus trips on Dickson Street each
day. The City of Raeford request the
D.O.T. (Department of Transportation)
to consider again the widening and
curbing of Dickson Street between
Highway 211 and 401 Business with the
Dedas Selected
Virgil A. Dedas, 807 E. Donaldson
Ave., a University of Kentucky doctoral
student in German, has been selected
for a Fulbright-Hays scholarship to
study at the University of Vienna,
Austria, during the 1974-75 academic
year.
The Raeford resident plans to study
medieval German literature at Vienna.
He is a teaching assistant in the UK
Department of German Languages and
Literatures.
Dedas earned his B. A. in foreign
languages from Wofford College,
Spartanburg. S. C., and his M. A. in
Qerman from the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He will be accompanied to Austria by
his wife, the former Margot Duysen,
Pelham Manor, N. Y., a history graduate
of Mount Holyoke College Mrs. Dedas
received her M. A. degree in American
history from the University of North
Carolina.
proper drainage included for the safety
of our residents.
On 401 Business, between Highland
Street and the House of Raeford Turkey
Processing plant, we have numerous
complaints from residents requesting
something be done to alleviate the
problem of water standing along the
edge of the Highway. Also, the Turkey
Plant is in the process of a S550.000
See GADDY. Page 13
Man Jailed
A High Point man is being held in
Hoke County jail without bond on
chargcs of first degree burglary.
Commey Walls, 31, is charged in
connection with a 4:30 a.m. incident
Sunday in which he allegedly pried the
latch from a door and entered the home
of Gennie Mae Morrison, Rt. I, who
reportedly woke and saw him standing
near her bed.
Walls is scheduled to appear in
District Court Friday.
Night Bike Clinic
Scheduled Monday
A bicycle safety clinic jointly
sponsored by Woman's Club Education
Department, Raeford Police
Department and county 4-H, will be
conducted 7:30 p.m. Monday at Hoke
Civic Center for adults and children of
Hoke County who attend private
schools.
Temperature of the county
commissioners race rose Monday
evening as the Hoke County Firemen's
Association stoked the campaign fires
by publicly endorsing three of the ten
Democratic candidates for the county
board in the May 7 primary election.
With six of the eight county
volunteer fire chiefs present and voting
the secret ballot election ended with
Mabel Riley as fist choice, Woody
Wilson hot on her trail in second place
and James Albert Hunt inching out
Danny McCollum by one vote for third.
Before voting began platforms of the
ten Democratic and one Republican
candidates were discussed at Monday's
meeting. The firemen discussed the
platforms and other information
gleaned earlier through conversations
with each of the candidates and with
men in the fire departments.
Grady Peeler, association president,
said, "We have to approach this with an
open mind. We are interested with the
county as a whole not just with the fire
departments. We are not opposed to the
library receiving funds."
Peeler also reported talking to one of
Congressman Charles Rose's
administrative assistants in Rose's
Fayetteville office and requesting an
investigation into handling of revenue
sharing funds in Hoke County.
Peeler, said, "1 strongly encourage
every fireman and supporters of the
rural fire departments to visit Rip
Collins, Rose's travelling assistant, and
talk to him about this problem at the
post office parking lot Friday from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m."
Julian Barnes, Rockfish chief,
advised, "When we vote we all have to
go along with the majority. If we don't
keep an open mind we could tear up our
association."
Peeler said. "We are not here to make
enemies. Our prime concern is to save
lives."
Mrs. Riley said Tuesday, "I
appreciate all the firemen are doing for
the county and appreciate their support.
I think the firemen have a valid
grievance. I've been for the fire
departments all along and I know they
need help. First things should come
first. 1 know how much the county
needs rural fire departments. I also feel
we need more law enforcement help in
the county."
Wilson said. "1 am very pleased with
the three candidates the association
picked. I promise I'll support the
departments as much as 1 can. I feel the
county should be ready to help anyone
or group who puts in time, effort,
money and even risks their lives for the
welfare of the community."
Hunt asserted, "I really appreciate
the support of the Firemen's
Association and I'll use my past
experience in the community to support
See FIREMEN, Page 12
Sales Tax Collections
The March report from the State of
North Carolina Dept. of Revenue listed
the net collections in Hoke County for
the local one percent sales and use tax
as SI5,028.61.
UK'UtS OFF TO A I/STRIA-Vtgil Dedas, 807 ? Donaldson Ave., a doctoral
student In German at the University of Kentucky, will spend the 1974-75 academic
year at the University of Vienna, Austria, as a hulbright-Hays scholar. His wife,
Margot. knows German and will accompany him to Europe.