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NCAE Plans
New Award
Educator* from acroa* the Mate are
now being screened at the local level for
the fust Human Relations Award.
The award, to be presented by the
North Carolina Association of
Educators, will be given Apr! 13 at the
NCAE convention in Greensboro.
Nominees are being selected by
NCAE local units now and will compete
next at the district level. Local
association president Mrs. Cohildra
Lyons announced the award in Hoke
County.
To be eligible for nomination, an
educator must have "engendered a
climate of compatibility, positive
feelings and actions and humanness" in
his school.
Police Report
Few Incidents
City police investigated several minor
skirmishes at the Hoke-Pinecrest
basketball game Friday night, but no
arrests were made.
Raeford Police Chief Leonard Wiggins
said one Pine crest fan reported he had
been cut but would not swear out a
warrant charging the offense. Wiggins
said he did not see any injury and that
the man indicated it was a scratch.
Police arrested Bertha Lee McLean
Saturday and charged her with
shoplifting at the A&P.
PLANS - P'und raising chairman for the proposed library, R.B. Lewis points out the site to Dr. Larrv Wheeler, state
Bicentennial chairman of community projects, and county co-chairman Carson Davis Jr. (left.) Dr. Wheeler met with the '
Bicentennial steering committee last week.
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Kiwanis Hear Contrasts
Of Raeford Old And New
A project to tape record recollections
of the county's past got underway
Thursday as Robert Gatlin spoke to the
Kiwanis Club.
The recordings are to be placed in the
Heritage room of the Bicentennial
library.
Gatlin and his brother, H.L. Gatlin,
are leading the Heritage portion of the
Bicentennial celebration.
Gatlin used early maps of Raeford
and Hoke County to illustrate his talk.
Using "Raeford Old and New" as his
theme, Gatlin contrasted many of the
changes over the years.
"We have a modern jailhouse now,"
Gatlin said, "But I remember the
caliboose or the old guard house."
The small building stood near the
railroad tracks approximately where one
of the entrances to the shopping center
parking lot is now, he said. This was
where constables Lindsey and Oats
might have locked someone up, Gatlin
recalled.
Oats was shot to death about 1910
on Main Street as he tried to arrest
someone for public disorder, Gatlin
said.
One of Gatlin's most vivid memories
was of the fire in 1925 that destroyed a
half block of Main Street.
It was December 30, 1925, Gatlin
recalled. The fire was discovered about
9:30 and was not extinguished until
after I ajn.
Main Street in 1925 was somewhat
different from today, Gatlin explained.
Hoke Drug was in the building the
barber and beauty shops now occupy.
The jewelry shop was in its present
location and the lobby of the hotel
occupied the present site of Hoke
Drugs.
Several merchantile stores also were
located in that block.
The fire began around a potbellied
stove in one of the two stores located in
the present Sugar's building, Gatlin said.
Someone noticed the fire and
sounded the alarm, located on the wall
of the tallest building in town, the
Farmer's Furnishing Building.
"Well, if you wanted to take a census
of Raeford. just turn in a fire alarm,"
Gatlin said. "Every one came."
The city fire department consisted
then of a Republic hose wagon with a
chemical tank on it, which was stored in
someone's garage.
The hose wagon was brought and
hooked to a hydrant, Gatlin remembers,
and the stream of water spurted only
about 15-20 feet.
"About that time, the whole front of
Hoke Merchantile blew out, exploded,"
' Gatlin recalled. The explosion broke
windows across the street and one
woman suffered a broken arm from the
blast. The fire spread.
"We began to call in other towns.
Fayetteville came and hooked up at the
flour mill, Gatlin said. Red Springs fire
department, as well as fire fighters from
Pinehursl and other surrounding towns
came to help fight the fire that was
sweeping through downtown Raeford.
"We had six lines of water going for
two hours and fifteen or twenty
minutes and we never gave out of
water," Gatlin recalls.
He went with his father into Farmers
Furnishing store to place papers in the
fireproof vault.
"I got one rack of clothes and turned
old Henry, that was the dray horse, out
of his stall. That was all that was saved,"
Gatlin said.
He estimated that the fire loss totaled
S75-80.000 in 1925. Only the grocery
store; now Devanes, was left unburned
on that portion of Main Street.
In the earlier part of his talk, Gatlin
noted that Raeford was laid out by
Hector Smith and J.W. McLauchlin with
portions of the town in two counties -
Cumberland and Robeson. The Robeson
county line ran through the present
Hoke site, down Maxwell Street,
through Hoke Oil and Concrete and
down past McLauchlin's Chapel.
The line divided the Blue and
McLauchlin land from that of the
McLeans, Gatlin said. He said he did not
know why the town limits included two
counties.
On tire map, Gatlin pointed out the
new loop that is being built to connect
the two sections of NC 211 and bypass
the city. Gatlin said the new road is
expected to be completed by next
summer.
College News
Miriam K. Ropp has been named to
the dean's honor list at the University of
South Carolina.
Students must achieve a grade point
average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale to
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Miss Ropp, a student in the college of
education, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Ropp of Raeford.
Four Hoke County students earned
spots on the dean's list recently at
Meredith College.
They are Mary Lynn Currie, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Currie, 840 E.
Prospect Ave.; Julie Ann KicWighter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
Kicklighter. of Raeford; Linda Kaye
Teal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Teal, 312 Jackson St.; and Ann Swindell
Upchurch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Upchurch, 711 N. Main St.
For a student lo be named to the
dean's list at Meredith, she must have a
semester grade average of at least 3.2
out of a possible 4.0 and must have
completed a minimum of 12 semester
hours and passed all courses.
Martha C. Staton, a math major,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomai Earl
Staton, ;715 E." Donaldson Ave.,
one of 249 students at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro who
made all A's on courses completed
during the first semester.
Altogether, one other UNC-C student
from Hoke County attained the dean's
list during the first semester. She is
Evelyn M. Brown, a health education
and child development major, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon W. Brown Jr
813 N. Main St.. Raeford.
To make the dean's list at UNC-G,
students must earn a grade point ratio
of 3.5 <* better. They also must be
taking at least 12 semester hours of
graded couraework, excluding physical
education activity courses.