Area Incidents
Shooting Suspect Held
? A man was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon with intent to
kill in connection with the shooting
.of James Edward Singletary, Rt. 4,
Raeford, Friday, Jan. 23, at the
Jiome of Earnest Jackson of Rt. 4,
Raeford.
Charged for the offense was Otis
C. Galbreth, Rt. 4, Raeford.
Singletary was reported in satis
factory condition.
In other incidents, James S.
Faircloth, Rt. 3, Raeford, reported
that someone took a .32 pistol from
his truck while it was parked in his
yard sometime Friday, Jan. 16. The
gun was valued at $80.
Lee Jones, Rt. 3, Raeford,
reported that someone took a
washpot valued at $25 sometime
Saturday, Jan. 24. The washpot
was later recovered by authorities.
A break-in while the family was
away was reported to police last
Wednesday morning at 835 E.
Prospect St.
The home of A.W. Wood was
apparently entered through a rear
window and a color television, desk
calculator, and a silver coin collec
tion are reported stolen. The loss is
listed as $772.53, accprding to
police.
In other incidents, McRae's
Grocery on St. Pauls Dr. was
entered sometime between 11:15
P.M. Jan. 21 and 12:20 A.M. the
next morning and a portable
television valued at S25 was stolen.
Entry was apparently made by
removing window glass, police said.
Oral Dukes, Rt. 2, Box 77,
Raeford complained to police his
car was entered while parked in the
Heilig-Meyers lot Saturday between
noon and 5 P.M. and a Dyne tape
player worth $25 was stolen. The
car had been left unlocked, police
said.
Thirty One True Bills
Found By Grand Jury
The Hoke County Grand Jury
returned 31 true bills Tuesday
afternoon and returned one desig
nated as not being a true bill
because of insufficient evidence.
All of the cases that were
scheduled to be brought before the
grand jury were found to be true
bills except for a larceny charge
against Tommy Barnes; charges of
breaking and entering and larceny
against Benjamin Ray; Louis Hor
ton charged with armed robbery;
Reginald McRae for a distribution
of marijuana charge; Matthew
Sanders for an assault with a
deadly weapon inflicting serious
injury charge; and Abraham Mc
Gee for an assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill charge.
These cases will appear before
the grand jury at a later date.
Added to the list that went before
the grand jury were: Leon Miller,
forgery; Charles Quick, forgery and
uttering; Richard Owen Johnson,
escape; and Harold Gene Brooks,
assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill inflicting serious
injury.
While addressing the grand jury,
Superior Court Judge James H. Pou
Bailey thanked them for their
service to the county and later
made reference to Hoke County
Sheriff D.M. Barrington.
"He is one of the best two or
three sheriffs in the state of North
Carolina. Dave Barrington is a man
for you to rely on," he said.
He then told the members that
he would be willing to help them
anytime if they felt they needed it
for any reason before he released
them for the term.
Income Ceiling Rises
On Reduced Price Meal
Families with higher income are
eligible for school lunches at a
?reduced price, according to a new
federal law, and the same law also
gives school officials more authority
in checking the validity of parents'
tincome statements when they apply
for the program, according to
officials here.
The new regulation gives the
families who are experiencing
strikes, lay-offs and unemployment
a right to apply for the free or
reduced lunch.
Application forms will be sent to
parents on request or a visit to the
Heilig-Meyers
Earnings Rise
Helig-Meyers Company an
nounced increases in revenues and
earnings for the third quarter
ended Dec. 31, 1975. On revenues
of S14.8 million, earnings for the
third quarter were $1,128,214, or
51 cents per share compared with
revenues of $11.3 million and
earnings of $616,954 or 28 cents
per share for the corresponding
period last year.
For the nine months ended Dec.
31. 1975, revenues and earnings
were the highest of any nine month
rariod in the company's history.
Total revenues increased by 20.0
per cent to $37.5 million from
$31.3 million last year, and net
income increased by 42.0 per cent
t? $2,587,804 from $1,822,548.
Earnings per share rose to $1.17
per share compared to the 83 cents
per share results for the same
period last year.
CP&L
Earnings Slip
Carolina Power & Light Co.
reported that its earnings for the
year ending Dec. 31 were $2.70 per
share of common stock, down from
$2.73 for the 12 months ending
Sept. 10.
Shearon Harris, president of
CP&L, noted that the drop in
earnings occurred in spite of the 12
per cent interim retail rate increase
which the company implemented in
August in North Carolina and in
September in South Carolina.
The company had earnings of
* $2.21 per share in 1974 and $2.58
in 1973.
Describing 1974 as a year when
earnings were severely depressed,,
Harris cautioned that the company'
? still has a long way to go to regain
its financial health.
He compared CP&L to a person
who, after being seriously ill in the
hospital, has now improved enough
to be released for a period of
convalescence at home.
school will be acceptable.
A family of one qualifies if
income is from $3,231 to $5,040
two, from $4,241 to $6,620; three
from $5,251 to $8,200; four, from
$6,261 to $9,770; five, from $7,191
to $11,210; six, from $8,111 to
$12,650; seven, from $8,951 to
$13,970; eight, from $9,791 to
$15,280; nine, from $10,551 to
$16,460; ten, from $11,311 to
$17,640; eleven, from $12,061 to
$18,820; twelve, from $12,811 to
$20,000.
KITTY ANTICS - Peter, a short haired tabby who resembles a Manx since she
is tailless, is shown at her Holly Park home. In the background is the 1974
Cadillac which is the center of the catnapping controversy.
Choosy Customers
Cats Covet Cadillac
Cats on Covington Street prefer
the elegant distinction of a Cadillac
for resting, but tell - tale footprints
have sent the car owner, cat owner,
police, and even the dog warden into
a dispute over the cat-napping.
The ruckus centers on Mrs. Willa
McDuffie's four cats, who are the
cause of several complaints to the
police made by the McDuffie's next
door neighbor, Ted Bates.
"He (Bates) came beating on the
door at one o'clock Sunday morning,
then he got the police to come out",
Mrs. McDuffie said.
'They were climbing on his
S9.000 Cadillac and putting paw
prints on it. There's no scratches on
it, my husband looked at it. J.C.
Barrington (police officer) said cats
oome under the leash law, but I
checked the ordinance and it's not
true. My husband told Roy Guin,
the dog warden, to come pick up the
cats, but I wouldn't let him take
them", Mrs. McDuffie said.
"Mr. Bates came up to the
courthouse and tried to get a warrant
on the cats, but 1 told him I'd file a
warrant against his dog for scratching
around our shrubbery",she said.
"I guess I'll have to give them
away, but I'm not letting anybody
take them where they'll be put to
sleep for experiments", she said.
Barrington said Tuesday he "might
have said something about the leash
law", but added he now thinks cats
are not included.
Chief Wiggins said it was not a
police matter since cats are not
subject to any ordinance about
confinement.
"We've got horses, dogs, pigs,
sheep on the books, but nothing
about cats", he said.
Mrs. Bates said she and her
husband had tried talking to Mrs.
McDuffie about the problem without
"How would you like to drive all
over town with cat marks on your
car, they walk up the windshield and
all over the vinyl top?"
Mrs. Bates said the car is kept
inside the garage at all times, and she
wouldn't mind if the cats chose the
other car. There are no doors to the
garage to keep the cats away.
"We love pets as good as the next
person, but we bought it new and it
was expensive. The way we look at
it, you've got a right to protect your
property", she said.
"My husband told her (Mrs.
McDuffie) he would take it to small
claims court, he was having to wash
the car so much. We put a cover on it
now", she said.
Dog warden Roy Guin said
Tuesday he would "rather not
comment" on the whole matter.
"Her husband told one of the
policemen for me to come get the
cats, I'd rather not say which one,"
Guin said.
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County Planners Study
Costs Of State Offer
A proposed planning assistance
program to be paid out of federal
and state aid with some local funds
was outlined to the county planning
board at their monthly meeting
Monday night, but board members
want to study other options before
endorsine the project.
The program, which is available
under a contract with the Depart
ment of Natural and Economic
Resources, would help develop a
zoning ordinance, subdivision
regulations, and make available
technical assistance with planning
and management questions.
Assistance on preparing a mobile
home ordinance is also offered in
the contract, but the board noted
the price of the project could be cut
bv SI .000 by eliminating that item.
Total program cost was de
scribed as S.j.000, with $4,800 in
federal or state contributions and
S3,200 as local share.
Raeford Man
District
Winner
William Kenneth Davis of Rae
ford is one of four winners in the
district's 1976 competition for Met
ropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions, it was announced by
East Carc 'ina University.
Davis, a student of Dr. Clyde
Hiss of the East Carolina voice
faculty, will compete with singers
from four other southeastern dis
tricts in regional auditions in
Atlanta later this year. Winners at
the Atlanta auditions will be eligi
ble to compete in semi-final and
final national auditions to be held
in m
Local costs are required to be
paid in two installments, the first
payment on Oct. 1, and the second
Feb. 1, 1977. The contract runs for
the 1976-77 fiscal year, but the
length of the program is listed as 15
months.
Other options discussed at the
meeting were having the planning
board undertake the project entire
ly, or have the program done by the
Council of Governments if the price
is competitive.
Having private enterprise per
form the work was deemed to be
too expensive, and the cost was
estimated at double that of the
Department of Natural and Econo
mic Resources proposal.
In other business, Jim Dought
ery, planner with the Department
of Natural and Economic Resour
ces who is compiling a land use
survey under a similar grant,
briefed members on progress of his
work, and also reported the appli
cation for community development
funds was submitted Jan. 13.
County planner Lester Simpson
reminded the board that the consti
tutional amendment allowing in
dustrial revenue bonds, defeated
several years ago, will again be on
the ballot this year and he recom
mended passage of the amend
ment.
Cookie Sale Continuing
The Girl Scout annual cookie
sale is continuing now through Feb.
9, according to county chairman
Mrs. David Russell.
Five varieties of cookies are
available for ordering from Scouts,
who are knocking on doors in their
largest fund raising project of the
year. Proceeds are used to purchase
equipment, expand programs, and
maintain and develop camps and
other property.
Each troop also received a bonus
for each box sold to help finance
their own projects and community
programs.
If you haven't been contacted,
call 875-3184 after 3:30 p.m. to
place an order.
RAEFORD
SAVINGS & LOAN
DEPENDABLE
COURTEOUS
SAFE
PAYING HIGH DIVIDENDS
AND
MAKING HOME LOANS
WE ARE
OPEN
SATURDAYS
9 to 12
RAEFORD
Savings & Loan Assn.
NOTICE OF STATE ELECTION
to be held on Tuesday, March 23,1976
in the
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
on the question of amendments
to the Constitution of
North Carolina
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the qualified voters of HOKE
County that the General Assembly of North Carolina has called a
State election to be held in each County of the State of North
Carolina on Tuesday, March 23, 1976 at which the question of
amending the Constitution of North Carolina will be submitted as
follows: -?
QUESTION #1
FOR or AGAINST constitutional amendment to permit the
General Assembly to enact general laws to authorize the State,
counties, cities or towns, and other State and local governmental
entities to issue revenue bonds to finance or refinance for any such
governmental entity or any nonprofit private corporation, regardless
of any church or religious relationship, the cost of acquiring,
constructing and financing health care facility projects, such bonds
to be payable from the revenues, gross or net, of any such projects
and any other health care facilities of any such governmental entity
or nonprofit private corporation pledged therefor.
QUESTION M2
FOR or AGAINST constitutional amendment to permit the
General Assembly to enact general laws to authorize counties to
create authorities to issue revenue bonds to finance, but not to
refinance, the cost of capital projects consisting of industrial,
manufacturing and pollution control facilities for industry and
pollution control facilities for public utilities, and to refund such
bonds, such bonds to be secured by and payable only from revenue
or property derived from private parties and in no event to be
secured by or payable from any public moneys whatsoever.
The submission of the Constitutional Amendments have been
authorized by Chapters 641 and 826, respectively, of the 1975
Session Laws of North Carolina, subiect to a favorable vote of a
majority of the qualified voters of the State who shall vote on each
question (amendment) in said election.
The polls for said election will be open from 6:30 A.M. to 7:30
P.M.; provided, however, that at voting places at which voting
machines are used the County Board of Elections may permit the
polls to remain open until 8:30 P.M.
Absentee ballots will be allowed in said election.
In accordance with the general laws of the State of North
Carolina, the times and places for registration and the names of the
elections officials will be determined by the authorized officers of the
County and information with reference thereto and as to the location
of the voting places may be obtained from the County Board of
Elections. Qualified voters who are not certain whether they are
registered for this election should contact the County Board of
Elections.
Dated this 21 day of January. 1976.
- ? Harold Brock
Chairman, County Board of Elections
RABIES
Hoke County Dog Vaccination Clinics
North Carolina Rabies Law slates that all dogs over four months of age shall be vaccinated against
rabies. Failure to have your dog vaccinated for rabies is a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be
subject to a fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court (G. S. 106-387).
VACCINATION FEE OF S2.S0 PER DOG
THE THREE YEAR VACCINE WILL BE GIVEN BY
DR. K. \l LEWIS. VETERINARIAN
TOWNSHIP LOCATION TIME
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1976
Antioch McNeill's Service Station 10:00? 10:30
Antioch Gore's Service Station '0:30?11:00
Stonewall Dundarrach Trading Company li 00-11:30
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1976
McLauchlin Brown Hendrix Service Station 10:00? '0:30
McLauchlin Brooks Store. Rockfish 10:30?J i 00
McLauchlin Wayside Service Station 11:00 - 11
McLauchlin Newton's Service Station 11:30?12:00
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1976
Raeford Tyler Town. McCallum Texaco Station 10:00?10:30
Raeford McNeill's Grocery Store. 401 South 10:30? 11:30
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1976
Quewhiffle Lee Moss Pure Oil Station, Buchan Farm 10:00? 11:00
Quewhiffle Five Points. Calloway's Station 11:00?11:30
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1976
Quewhiffle Parks Grill. Montrose 10:00?10:30
Quewhiffle Byrd's Grocery, Ashley Heights 10:30?11:00
Blue Springs West Hoke School 11:00 ? 11:30
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1976
Raeford National Guard Armory 3:00? 5:00
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1976
Allendale McCormick's Station, Duffie 10:00?10:30
Blue Springs South Hoke School (Hawk Eye) 10:30 - 11:00
Blue Springs Hoke Trading Company. Bowmore 11:00 - 11:30
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1976
Raeford National Guard Armory 10:00?11:00
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1976
Raeford National Guard Armory 3:00? 5:00
Archie Clark, Dog Warden
HOKE COUNTY HEALTH CENTER
Raeford, N. C. 28376