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15< <D, e - journal 15< The Hoke County News - Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXVI1 NO. 34 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA S5 PER YEAR THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1974 I Around Town Bv Sam C. Morris From alt forecasts, the outlook for a fair and warm Christmas is not the best. As I write this on Friday morning, it is raining and the chance of rain for tonight is HO per cent. Snow is falling in the northern section of the country and it is bad weather all the way to the California coast. This weather should be with us the first of the week. However the weather, remember that the Spirit of Christmas can be with you no matter what Ihc weather is. The Depaitment of Social Services will be open Monday (Dec. 23) and if you would like to aid a needy family, go by and talk to a worker in this office. If you do, I know you will have a happier Christmas. Tlie Bicentennial .notes last week, written by Mrs. Pauline McFadycn, nee Pauline Freeman, brought back memories to this writer. I can't remember the Christmas she said I disposed of the paregoric, hut I can recall many days playing with the people in our neighborhood. In the article she mentioned many people, but I was the only oik that was pinpointed on ihe scene today. So. I will identify a few others, both living and dead. Tile grandfather was B.K. Gatlin and this family lived in the house now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Warren Pate. Uncle llallie was H.L. Gatltn. who lived in the house where Mr. and Mrs. Julian King now live. Hie cousins were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Gatlin. who were H.L.. Jr., Robert and Marion. I don't believe that Mary Flelen (Mrs. Neil Senter) was horn at this time. Mr. and Mrs. W.F.. Freeman, the parents of Pauline, lived in the home, now the residence of Mrs. M.L McKeitlian. on Magnolia Street. In this family were four daughters. Pauline. Marguerite. Hallie and Frances Jean. Living nexldoor in a white wooden house was Bruce Morris and family. The house was located where U.S. Brock. Jr.. now lives. At the time she was writing about, approximately 1020 or 21, three children were in the Morris family. Margaret. Sam and Bruce. Jr. Another brother. James, was born in 1024. So. this ts why I would have been playing with tile girls on Christmas day. Of all the parent^ and grandparents and also the aunts, only one is now living, and that is Mrs W.F. Freeman. She resides on West Donaldson Avenue. I bring these names out because many people now living in Raeford will now place the living with the dead and can read the article in this week's paper and know some of the ones mentioned. The article was very interesting to me. and I know it should have been to others older than this writer. Thanks. Pauline, for taking time to go back and bring back memories to some of us. This wtil ho (lie last column for ihis year, so I take this opportunity to wish for all the readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New N ear. It Was A Plane The strange object that seemed to hover over Raeford Thursday evening was probably just an airplane bucking a strong headwind, according to an air traffic controller in Fayetteville. The airplane, or whatever, with two bright lights flashing, could be seen aboul 5 .!() about lour mdes northeast of Raeford. Traffic along U.S. 401 by-pass slowed to watch and several vehicles stopped along the shoulder of the road. A spokesman at the control tower at Grannis Field in Fayetteville explained that what motorists saw was most likely a twin - engincd plane that flew at aboul thai hour over the Raeford airport It was Hying directly into a strong wind ai about 4400 feet, the controller said, and this would give the appearance that the plane was not moving. aww^i.' ? L-*rr xr>\.r . ? i. ? LIVINC TREK - Members of Brownie Troop 352 pose around the t iring Christmas Tree planted last year by older Scouts. Kront row left to right are l.isa Bissett. Lisa Williams. Revis Ann I.orctte. Stephanie Parker. Kim Bounds. Kim Summers. Sally McLean. Julie I'ann. Noel James, and Linda (Hissotn. Back row. Cissie Kdens. Laura Lynn Stone. Ansley Belcher. Cynthia (iibson. Sue l ilcn H'erse, Kim Huffman and Kim Parker. The Brownies left "presents" of gift-wnappixl dirt at the base of the tree. Teen Shoplifters To Get Taste Of Jail, Small Doses The thelt of a pack of Kool cigarets valued at i2 cents will cost a young Raeford youth his freedom for the next four weekends under the terms of his sentence in District court Friday. Vernon Singlelary. 16. of Rt. 2. Raeford. pleaded guilty to Judge Joseph I.. Dupree of sltoplifting the cigarets from the A&P store. Judge Dupree handed Singletary a six month teim suspended for two years and placed him on probation for two years. A special condition of the sentence is he is to report to the county jail for the next four weekends from 6 P.M. Friday until 0 P.M. Sunday. Another tcenaprr found himself with the same sentence Friday, after admitting to shoplifting. Michael Dean Chapman. 17. "MO Green St., Raeford. admitted to stealing a sweater from Macks stoic and received the same sentence and probation period Chapman was also ordered to spend the next four weekends in the jail. In handing down the judgments. Dupree directed court costs he remitted, noting the presence of Single taiy's grandmother, and sa>ing n was not ins intention to have the patents 01 guardians he pcnali/cd. Chapman, who ts white, and Singletary. who is black, will he occupying the cell reseived for youthful offenders. Judge Dupree told the courtroom the cell will now be fully inteciated. Raeford Man Killed In One Car Crash A young Raeford man was killed Saturday night in a one car accident on Central Avenue. William Rufus Hayes, 20. of 702 Saunders Street, was dead when city police arrived at the scene. According to Raeford Police Chief Leonard Wiggins. Hayes was driving east Library Fund Gets Donation The Bicentennial Library fund was SH5 richer this week as a result of efforts by the home extension clubs. The money was donated from proceeds of the Christmas lour of three Raeford homes last week, sponsored by the extension homemakers. N-J To Print Early Again The News-Journal will be published a day early next week, however, because of the postal holiday. Jan. I. mailed copies should be received on Thursday as usual. All news items and advertising should be received by Monday to meet the early deadline. on Central Avenue ahout 10 50 p.m. when his car apparently left the road on the right just past the turkey plant. Hayes apparently jerked the auto back onto the road and lost control, crossing the street and running off the road on the tell. The 1069 Ford crashed down a 30 ? loot embankmet i and across a ditch before striking a tree. Wiggins said. He estimated the speed before the crash as SO mph in the 35 mph /one. This was the second traffic fatality in the city this yeat. To his know ledge, the police chief said, thete has been only one other fatal accident in the city tn the past decade. Turn Policy Set City police won't be in a hun> to write tickets foi turning right on red alter the first of the year. Rael'ord Police Chief Leonard Wiggins said. "If we see someone turn on red after the law goes out of effect, we'll probably stop them and give them a warning." he said. "Bui we won't be in a hurry to write out tickets." City manager John Caddy said he planned to ask the city council 10 enact an ordinance permitting a right turn on a red light within the city. Councilman Sam Morris said he intended to bring the matter up at the January counci meetina. Holiday Closings Board ot education will be closed Dec. 24 25. 26 City offices will close the afternoon ol Dec. 24 and will re-open Dec 27. Counts offices will i>c closed Dec. 24. 25.26. lite banks an l Raeford Savings and Loan will close Dec. 25 and 26. Most stores will Ite closed ("lu ist mas Day and will re-open Dec. 26. The News-Journal will be closed Dec. 25 and 26. Juvenile Sentenced A In teen year old boy was ordered Friday to undergo psychiatric evaluation alter admitting to breaking and enteiingand larceny allegations. Tire youth had been named in tire then of beer, crgaieis and money from Blanion's Grocery in Raeford by Police Officer Charles Campbell. Tire boy had told District Court Judge Joseph Dupree. who presided at the juvenile hearing, that he expected to be put on probation. Dupree ordered the youth placed in tire custody of the N.C. Hoard ol Youth Development to undergo psychiatric evaluation and treatment. Under the terms of the decree, the youth will remain a ward of the court until his eighteenth birthday. Money Given For Workshop The gas bill is paid and there is $75 in the bank for the shcltetcd workshop progiam. as the result ol several recent donations. Mis. Juamta l.dmund said that the gasoline bill had been paid through November and that the driver of the van that tianspoits county residents to the sheltered woikshop had been reimbursed for peisonal money site had spent to keep the van ioiling. The program is sponsoicd entncly by the Hoke County Association for the Developmental^ Disabled. Phone Cost May Rise Telephone rates may go up lot Noitli Carolina customers tl the increase asked for In the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co. wins approval. J.F. Havens, president of the utility, announced the company has l^ed with the state utilities commission for an increase in rates and miscellaneous charges. Havens cited inllationaiy costs have reduced company earnings to a low point, and a highei level is needed to attract the capital required to meet new service demands. Havens said the proposed increase would boost net income by S5.0 million annually. Carolina Telephone, seivcs about 3K0.CHKJ subscribers in a oS county atea in eastern North Carolina. Council Sets Speed Limits At a special meeting Tuesday, the city council voted to change speed limits on state-maintained roads and awarded a contract lot the purchase oi land!ill equipment. The council accepted the bid of ST8.12o.lH from North Carolina equipment Company for an International uactor-loadei. flu- bid included a S4.U00 trade-in on the I iractoi now at the land!ill. The city and county will split the cost with the county paying 75 per cent. The council also acted on a request from the state to set 55 mph speed limns on state-maintained roads in the city. The speed limit will apply to a short section of street off Bethel Road. SR I14(>: to the section of 401 By-pass within the city . Teal Drive from the by-pass to Prospect Avenue: Sanders anil Stevens Sticet from Prospect to the city limits: and St. Pauls Dnvo. from about the creek to the cits limits. The state speed limit of 55 mph was reduced to 25 mph by the council on city-maintained Bethel Road. Stewart Sheet and West f ifth Avenue. Participation Is Panel Goal Members of the Bicentennial committee met recently for a bijinstorming session on ways to make the public more aware of the Bicentennial celebration. "Our objective loi the next lew months will be to orient people to the Bicentennial, what it is. what is to be accomplished, and how people can ioin in." Ins Davis, county co-chairman, said. Mis. Davis said the gioup will concentrate on speaking before local clubs and organizations. At the kiwanis Club meeting Dec. 1 2, Pauline Mcl adyen presented a leading of her original stories wtitten as pan of the heritage theme. Dr. Larry Wheelei. Hori/ons chauman of the state bicentennial committee, is scheduled to speak at the next meeting. I eh. I I Mrs. Davis said Dr. Wheeler will help plan the county's national registration. Registration with the national committee in Washington will entitle the county to a special I lag Anyone may attend the meetings ol the Hoke Bicentennial Committee, held the second Wednesday of every month at 415 Fulton Street. There will be no meeting tn January. Law May Alter Policing In Hoke Aftei i lie In si of die year, the county will face the difficulty imposed by lack of moncv on the one hand and. in the other, a new law limiting the number of hours in a week that policemen may work. Ilie I an l.ahoi Standards Act, a federal law that lor years has covered employees in private business, goes into effect lor public safety employees on Jan. I. The act sets a OO-houi-a-week or 240 hours in a 28-day period maximum on the time law enforcement officers and firemen work. After that, they must either be paid time and a half wanes or given compensatory time off. The new law will most affect the sheriff's department. "We have two choices." Sheriff D.M. Harrington said. "We will have to double our department or the county will have to accept inadequate police protection." The sheriff's department now includes eight deputies and three jailers. Prior to last Octobei. the sheriff explained, his men normally worked a 12-hour shift, six days a week. This totaled 72 hours a week, without any extra duty in court 01 an> emergency work. The work week averaged 80-85 hours, he said. Since October, when he began to experiment with the schedule to find ways to comply with the law, deputies have worked a bO-hour week, with ten hour shifts six days a week - if everything worked right. In addition, the off-days are rotated so that each man gets two days off in a row. However, the sheiiff explained. an\thing out ot the ordinary, such as a school that must be attended, a vacation ot illness, as well as major crimes that teouire seveial officers, will throw the entire schedule out of kilter. With the new schedule, he said, the county is not icceiving adequate police protection. "The county is not adequately covered." he said. "Twelve \ears ago. if I had had eight men. I could have covered it. Now that I have eight men, we have had a terrible rise in crime. We have more rapes, more murders, more armed robberies that must be investigated. We have to deal with drugs. "And. too. we check the doors of businesses in the county every night, sometimes twice. We also check the homes of people when the) go out of town. We try to check the houses of women who live alone out in the county. People need this and they get used to it." Harrington estimates that to meet the law and maintain police coverage, lie will need to double his department. "I need at least lb men on the toad and one more jailer." he said. "I can make do with 12 men and another jailer." By hiring eight new deputies and a jailer. Harrington said he could have four men on duty at all times and stay within the bO-houi limit. With the addition ol four deputies and a jailer, he would have three men to a shift. The costs ol meeting the law will be considerable. Base salaty is S7.000 and it takes another SbOO per person for equipment. In addition. Harrington said he would need two additional patrol cars, costing about Sb.000 each. He estimated thai the cost of meeting the minimum needs would be about S50.000 a yeai. "I'm not asking for this." Harrington said. "I'm saying this is what it will take to police the county and still keep the men under bO hours. According to county munagei T.B. Lester, no action can be taken until the next budget year. beginning in July. I 'mil then, he said. "We've got to try to live with it till we get to the next budget." 44This might cui down on some things." he said. "Like patiolling." Asked what would happen if the new schedule failed to keep deputies within the maximum work week. Lester said. "It'll ruin the county." Time oft can be granted to (See POl IC'INCi. Page II)
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