OUTING ? Youngsters in the McLauchlin Elementary kindergarten class got an outing in the warm weather last
week to collect broomstraw for use in a project.
Area Incidents
Cross Burned After Shooting
Sheriff's deputies aie investigating
a shooting incident that allegedly led
to a cross burning at the home of a
Hoke County woman late last
Saturday nigh I.
A cross was burned in the yard of
Carrie Bell McBryde of Rt. I. Red
Springs, after four windows were
blown out by shots fired from .12
and .20 gauge shotguns, according to
Sheriff DM. Barrington.
Barringion said a similar shooting
incident occurred earlier in the week
at the McBryde home when a series
of shots were fired into the house
Thursday, Feb. 19, about 12:30
AA1. when McBryde was in the
house.
He said a juvenile had been
brought before the court on a
juvenile petition involving the
Reading Workshops
Certify 18 Tutors
Eighteen persons from a four -
county region received certification
as Laubach reading tutors during
workshops last weekend here.
The tutors, 12 of them Hoke
residents, received instruction in
the Laubach method, which utilizes
phonetic techniques taught by lay
men to adults who have been
unsuccessful learners in a class
room setting. It is a "one - to - one"
method of teaching.
The workshops were conducted
by Martha A. Lane, program
coordinator for Lutheran Church
women, and Bill Cadell, tutor
teacher from Robeson County
Church and Community Center in
Lumberton.
Future workshops to train vol
unteers are scheduled for March
29-31, and those interested in
participating should contact Citi
zens United for the Improvement of
Reading through the public library.
Chairman Kay Thomas an
nounced a meeting March 9 at 7:30
P.M. at the library to discuss
formation of a literacy council.
Materials, including workbooks
and reading aids, are available at
discounts to incorporated literacy
councils.
Postal Job Cuts Save
$200 Million In Year
The number of paid employees in
the Postal Service has been reduced
by nearly 15,000 positions from the
same period last year, the most
recent payroll reports of the Service
indicate.
The equivalent reduction in man
? years approximates a cost of
reduction of $200 million. Post
master General Benjamin F. Bailar
said.
Bailar announced the paid em
ployment reduction figure as pan
of his nationwide program to
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reduce postal costs by as much as
possible without cutting essential
postal services.
"The Postal Service is in a
financial bind and cannot foresee
any hope of immediate solution to
its operating deficit problem,"
Bailar said. "Faced with a SI.4
billion deficit, we are compelled to
do everything within our power to
reduce postal costs to the maxi
mum extent feasible."
Bailar said over 50 per cent of the
positions eliminated represent ca
reer positions, removed from the
rolls of the Postal Service by
attrition. The remaining positions
were casual and part-time posi
tions. he said.
As of Jan. 2, the most recent
reporting date, there were 699.650
paid employees on the Postal
Service payroll, compared to 714,
496 on that date a year ago.
weekly
M. Wood W Colcy
Seven million people are currently
being treated for backache. An odd
twist or a bad lift can wrench or
stretch a muscle beyond its normal
limit. To keep back muscles limber,
do bending exercises, padually
touching the toes, twisting the torso.
Lying on your back, draw up your
Knees to your chest several times to
strengthen back musics. Several
times a day. tighten the muscles in
your buttocks; jIso the abdominal
muscles. The* will both strengthen
the muscles and trim the f igure.
Your better health
it our concern
Hoke Drug Co.
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shooting on Thursday night.
Barrington said no one was in the
McBryde house when it was shot at
Saturday night. "This had nothing to
do with the Ku Klux Klan. It dealt
with an interracial marriage and
conflicts between the families
involved as far as my office is
concerned," said Barrington.
"As far as I know we do not and
have never had an active Klan in
Hoke County," said Barrington.
In other incidents. Tom Jones, of
Rt. I. Raeford. reported that a cabin
located on the Jessie Lee place was
broken into sometime Monday. Feb.
16. and $10 in damages were done to
a window. Nothing was reported
taken from the cabin according to
the report.
James Porter, Rt. 2 Raeford.
reported that someone took 62
bundles of roofing shingles from a
construction site near the Parker
Church sometime Wednesday. Feb.
18. The shingles were valued at $325.
Archie C. Davis Sr.. of Rt. I,
Lumber Bridge, complained that
someone took a garden tiller valued
at $100 from lib place sometime
Thursday, Feb. 19.
F.C. McPhaul. of Rt. I. Red
Springs, complained that someone
broke into his house and took meats
and vegetables from his freezer
valued at $73.37 sometime Friday.
Feb. 20.
John McMillan, of Rt. I, Raeford.
reported that someone broke into his
home sometime Sunday. Feb. 22.
and took two pistols valued at $250
and did SI00 in damages to his door.
Mrs. N. Morrison reported that
someone broke into the Masonic
Lodge near the caution in Raeford
and took a typewriter, radio, and
heater valued at S240 sometime
Thursday. Feb. I*>.
Joe Louis Moore. Rt. I. Raeford.
reported that someone beat his car
wjih an ax and did $500 in damages
sometime Saturday. Feb. 21.
Willie Mae Liles. Rt. I. Raeford.
reported that someone took a .410
shotgun from her home sometime
Saturday. Feb. 21. The gun was
valued at $50.
Ijeopold k. Salzer.Rt. 2. Raeford.
reported that someone took a CB
radio valued at $100 from his truck
sometime Sunday. Feb. 22.
Richard Daniels. 512 t. Fifth
Ave., complained to police his home
was burglarized sometime between
3:30 P.M Monday and 12:15 A.M.
Tuesday. Listed as stolen are RCA
black and white 12 inch television.a
RCA eight track FM tape player, and
a .22 caliber nickel plated pistol,
with a total value of $23^. An
investigation is continuing.
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Freedom Of Press
Called Salvation
Calling it "the salvation of this
country' , freedom of the press to
report the truth must be as
vigorously guarded as freedom of
religion, Sam C. Morris, city
councilman and newspaperman
told the Kiwanis Club Thursday
night.
"Freedom of the press is one
thing that is the salvation of this
country. Today there are a lot of
things that want to stop freedom of
the press. They want to have closed
meetings. I'm not talking about
corporations, I'm talking about the
public's business, and your tax
dollars. Whenever they close from
the press, pretty soon they're going:
to stop freedom of speech. Next
thing they'll stop is freedom of
religion", Morris told the Kiwan
ians.
"I will say, for as long as I have
been in the newspaper business, 41
years, that we have tried to print
the truth. A lot of things we don't
want to, but it has to be done to be
fair. It's hard to do, because you
don't make friends. Just like Rev.
Mansfield preaching in the pulpit,
some people don't want to hear it.
The day we stop printing things
because somebody asks us to, is the
day you won't have a newspaper",
he said.
Morris outlined the early history
of publishing in the county,
beginning with the first newspaper,
"Facts and Figures', started in
1905 by D. Scott Poole, and
explained that news items in those
days were kept short and to the
point because of the time-consum
ing work of hand set type.
"Facts and Figures" was sold in
1911 to Fred Johnson, and in 1913
J.W. Johnson changed the name to
The Hoke County Journal and
established the Raeford Publishing
Co. In 1915. Poole bought the
paper back and published it until
1929. when Paul Dickson. Sr.
bought it after publishing a
newspaper that was printed in Red
Springs using linotype, modern
equipment at that time. The Hoke
County News and The Hoke County
Journal became The News-Journal.
The circulation of The News
Journal has grown to 3,500, after
becoming the first North Carolina
newspaper to begin "off-set", a
revolution in printing which elimin
ated the old hot metal type and was
a boon in cost-of-labor savings.
Grower Co-Op Meets
Mar. 3 In Lumberton
Flue - Cured Tobacco Co
operative Stabilization Corpo
ration, the grower CO-OP which
administers the price support pro
gram for tobacco, will hold its 18th
annual district meeting for District
#4 growers. This district includes
the following counties in the
NC-Border Belt: Anson. Rich
mond. Hoke. Scotland. Robeson.
Columbus. Brunswick. New Han
over. Bladen, and Cumberland.
District #4 Director James R. Pate
of Rowland, N.C.. and Fred G.
Bond, the CO-OP's General Man
ager. announced the meeting will
be held in the O.P. Owens
Agricultural Building, in Lum
berton. N.C., on March 3, be
ginning at 2:00 P.M.
The CO-OP's operational report
for the past year will be given.
Among the highlights of the
CO-OP's activities during 1975 was
the sale of the remaining inven
tories of the 1967 and 1968 crops
which resulted in net gains amount
ing to $18 million. Growers who
delivered tobacco to Stabilization
from the 1967 or 1968 crops will be
receiving their dividend checks
around the middle of February.
Reports will also be given by
representatives of Tobacco As
sociates. Inc.; Tobacco Growers'
Information Committee: USDA
Inspection (Grading) Service; and
other allied organizations and
agencies. Ample time will be
provided for discussion.
In a business session, members
will elect the director of represent
District #4 growers on Stabili
zation's Board of Directors for a 3 -
year term beginning May 28, 1976.
Stabilization's Advisory Committee
from each county in the district will
also be elected for this year.
Pate added. "Flue - cured
growers are urged to make every
effort to attend the Lumberton
meeting in order to get a better
understanding of the present and
future tobacco situation.
Deaths And
Funerals
Summie Daniels
The funeral for Summic Daniels,
73, who died Saturday. Feb. 21 .will
he held today (Thursday) at 3:00
P.M. at the Mountain Grove A.M.F.
Zion Church. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
FIRST PLACE- De De Graham of
Victory Temple Holiness Church
has crowned first place winner in a
Valentine Contest Feb. 14. Shown
is Miss Graham and her escort
Timothy C. Roper.
SECOND PLACE? Valery Gal
brelh was named second place
winner in the Valentine Contest at
Victory Temple Holiness Church.
She is shown with her escort Otis
Galbreth. her brother.
THIRD PLACE- Vanessa Huey
was third place winner in the
Victory Temple Holiness Church
Valentine Contest. She is shown
with her escort Anthony Singletary.
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