District Court
Man Tells Of Kidnaping In Court
A Raeford man was found guilty
of DUI by District Court Judge
Joseph Dupree here Friday after he
testified that he was forced to
consume a "pill" and a fifth of
liquor by a person holding a knife
at his throat.
George S. Crawford, Lewis St.,
Raeford, testified that he was on
his way home on Dec. 10, and
stopped to help some Ft. Bragg
soldiers who were stranded on the
side of the road that goes through
the Ft. Bragg Reservation from
Southern Pines.
He testified that on their way to
Raeford, one of the soldiers put
knife to his back and took his
billfold and told him that he was
going to take them to South
Carolina.
He said after a while the soldier
handed him a "pill" and told him
to take it and drink a bottle of
liquor.
"They said to keep drinking." he
said.
Crawford said he woke up some
where between Bowmore and Five
Points and was "so drunk, I didn't
know where 1 was."
Crawford admitted that he knew
that he got into his car and tried to
drive to find help and was eventual
ly stopped by Trooper C.A. Ben
nett.
He said the soldiers took $120
from his billford.
Crawford's attorney. Palmer
Willcox, said Crawford did not
willfully drive his car because he
did not know where he was and was
going for help.
Assistant District Attorney Dun
acan McFadyen claimed that Craw
ford admitted to getting into his car
to find help, and did not report the
incident.
Dupree found Crawford guilty
and sentenced him to 90 days,
suspended for 12 months and
ordered him not to drive for 12
months except for limited driving
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privileges and lined him 5150 and
costs.
Blood alcohol content was re
corded as .30.
In other cases, Charles W.
Phillips. Jr., Rt. 3, Raeford, plea
ded guilty to speeding in excess of
100 MPH and was sentenced to 60
days, suspended and ordered not to
drive for 12 months except for
limited driving privileges and was
fined $100 and costs.
Lee Ervin Smith, Rockingham,
pleaded guilty to driving while his
license was revoked and was sen
tenced to four months, suspended
for two years, and ordered not to
drive until licensed to do so and
fined $200 and costs.
Joe Ingram Parker, Fyetteville.
pleaded guilty to exceeding a safe
speed and was fined costs.
William Harley Thompson. Sr..
Rockingham, pleaded guilty to no
financial responsibility and was
sentenced to 60 days, suspended
and fined $50 and costs.
Marvin Lawrence Rhoden. Ft.
Bragg, pleaded guilty to speeding
69 in a 55 MPH zone and was
sentenced to 30 days, suspended
and fined $15 and costs.
James Lewis Holt, Rt. 1, Rae
ford. pleaded guilty to speeding 68
in a 55 MPH zone and was fined
$10 and costs.
Edmond Frederick Baddour,
Laurinburg. pleaded guilty to
speeding 67 in a 55 MPH zone and
prayer for judgement was con
tinued for two yeah upon payment
of costs.
David Ryan Locklear, Rt. 1,
Pembroke, pleaded guilty to ex
ceeding a safe speed, and was fined
costs.
Earl Jr. Dockery, Rt. 3, Raeford.
pleaded guilty to speeding 100 in a
55 MPH zone and reckless driving
and was sentenced to six months,
suspended for two years and was
ordered not to drive for 12 months
and was fined $250 and costs.
Ronnie Carrol Craven Concord,
pleaded guilty to speeding 66 in a
55 MPH zone and prayer for judg
ment was continued for two years
upon payment of costs.
Freddie Gilchrist. Rt. 1, Red
Springs, pleaded guilty to speeding
51 in a 35 MPH zone and driving
left of center and was sentenced to
30 days, suspended and fined $10
and costs.
Johnny Gaston Clark. Fairmont,
pleaded guilty to driving while his
license was revoked and was sen
tenced to four months, suspended
for two years, and ordered not to
drive until licensed to do so and
fined $200 and costs.
Michael Vance Poplin, Albe
marle, pleaded guilty to exceeding
a safe speed, and was fined costs.
Aruritos Jones, Pinehurst, plead
ed guilty to speeding 65 in a 55
MPH zone and prayer for judgment
was continued for two years upon
payment of costs.
Ephrom Isacc Crosby. Rt. 1,
Raeford, pleaded guilty to driving
without a license and was sentenced
to 30 days, suspended and fined
$25 and costs.
Willie Hampton. Jr.. Fayette
ville, pleaded guilty to driving with
a blood alcohol reading of .10 and
was sentenced to 90 days, suspend
ed for 12 months, and ordered not
to drive for 12 months except for
limited driving privileges and was
fined $150 and costs.
Harry Dan Parker. Fayetteville,
pleaded guilty to driving 65 in a 55
MPH zone and prayer for judgment
was continued for two years upon
payment of costs.
Charles Greer Crowder, Donald
son Ave., Raeford. pleaded guilty
to exceeding a safe speed and was
fined costs.
Johnny Johnson, Rt. 1, Red
Springs, pleaded guilty to speeding
68 in a 55 MPH zone and prayer for
judgment was continued for two
years upon payment of costs.
Norman Wayne Eaton. Mocks
ville. pleaded guilty to exceeding a
safe speed and was fined costs.
Fredick Ray Locklear, Pem
broke, pleaded guilty to speeding
65 in a 55 MPH zone and prayer for
judgment was continued upon pay
ment of costs.
Jerold McAllister. P.O. Box 489,
Raeford, pleaded guilty to speeding
61 in a 35 MPH zone and. was
sentenced to 30 days, suspended
and ordered not to drive for 30 days
except for limited driving privileges
and was fined $25 and costs.
Larry Smith. Ft. Bragg, pleaded
guilty to speeding 65 in a 55 MPH
zone and was sentenced to 30 days,
suspended and fined $10 and costs.
David Coy Page. Fairmont,
pleaded guilty to speeding 65 in a
>5 MPH zone and prayer for judg
ment was continued upon payment
of costs.
Carl Edgar Brock. Green St..
Raeford, pleaded guilty to speeding
67 in a 55 MPH zone and prayer for
judgment was continued upon pay
ment of costs.
James Matheson Holmes, P.O.
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Box 482, Raeford, was found guilty
of DUI and was sentenced to 90
days, suspended for 12 months,
and ordered not to drive for 12
months, and was fined $150 and
costs. Holmes gave notice of
appeal.
Carrie Eula Tyson, Raleigh,
pleaded guilty to speeding 68 in a
55 MPH zone, and prayer for judg
ment was continued upon payment
of costs.
Gary Lee Adkins, Stewart St.,
Raeford, pleaded no contest to
greater than reasonable speed and
was fined costs.
Vanaster Singletary, Rt. 2,
Raeford, pleaded guilty to DUI.
second offense, and was sentenced
to six months, suspended for two
years, and placed on probation for
two years and was ordered not to
drive for two years and was fined
S250 and costs.
John Wesley Hill, Wagram,
pleaded guilty to DUI, third of
fense, and was sentenced to 18
months, suspended for three and
one half years and placed on pro
bation for three and one half years
and ordered not to drive until
licensed to do so and fined $500
and costs.
Harrison Southerland, Rt. 1,
Raeford, pleaded guilty to a stop
light violation and DUI and was
sentenced to six months, suspended
for two years, and placed on pro
bation for two years and ordered
not to drive for 18 months and was
fined $150 and costs. He also
pleaded guilty to speeding 90 in a
45 MPH zone and reckless driving
and was sentenced to 90 days,
suspended for two years, and
placed on probation for two years
and fined $100 and costs. The
latter sentence is to begin at the
expiration of the previous one.
Norman Warren Johnson. Ft.
Bragg, pleaded guilty to driving
while his license was revoked and
was sentenced to eight months,
suspended for two years and placed
on probation for two years and
ordered not to drive until licensed
to do so and was fined $200 and
costs.
Roy Lee Monroe, Jr., Rt. 1,
Shannon, pleaded guilty to reckless
driving and was sentenced to 60
days, suspended and fined $50 and
costs.
Kenneth James Enoch, Ft.
Bragg, pleaded guilty to possession
of marijuana and was sentenced to
90 days, suspended anf fined $150
and costs.
Larry Dean Locklear, Rt. 1,
Shannon, pleaded guilty to non
support and after the court hear the
case, was found not guilty.
George Lee Smith, Rt. 1, Lum
ber Bridge, pleaded not guilty to
non-support and was ordered to
pay $15 per week support after a 60
day sentence was suspended for two
years and he was placed on pro
bation for two years.
Neal James Gilchrist, Rt. 1. Red
Springs, was found guilty of tres
passing.
Hilton T. Ferguson, Pinehurst,
fileaded guilty to a hunting vio
ation and was sentenced to 30
days, suspended for 12 months and
was fined costs.
Thomas Lee McCrimmon, Rt. 1,
Raeford, pleaded guilty to assault
with a deadly weapon and prayer
for judgment was continued and he
was placed on probation for two
years upon payment of costs.
Lerveirne Blue, Raeford, was
found not guilty of worthless check.
Clarence Mcintosh, Rt. 1,
Raeford, was found guilty of ob
structing an officer and was sen
tenced to 30 days, suspended and
fined $35 and costs.
No probable cause was found
against Curly Chavis for two counts
of receiving, but probable cause
was found for charges of breaking
and entering and larceny and he
was bound over to Superior Court,
for action by the grand jury.
Charles Handon, Rt. 1, Raeford,
pleaded guilty to two counts of
worthless checks and was sentenced
to 90 days, suspended for two
years, and fined $130.86 restitution
and costs.
Timothy Nelson Parrish, Depart
ment of Correction, McCain,
pleaded guilty to escape and was
sentenced to 90 days to run con
currently with his previous
sentence.
Joe Lee McNeill, Raeford, plead
ed guilty to worthless check and
was sentenced to 30 days, suspend
ed and Fined $40.15 restitution and
costs.
SCSNews
The venerable plow is steadily
yielding ground to a more modern
way of farming: minimum tillage
and related methods. Indeed, a
USDA study predicts that by the
year 2010. American farmers will
practice conventional tillage meth
ods on only 5 per cent of our
cropland. Many names have been
coined to describe local variations
of minimum tillage, including
wheel ? track planting, zero tillage,
crop ? residue planting, and slot
planting, among others. By what
ever name, this modern method of
planting enables farmers to obtain
good crop yields while providing a
complete soil cover that retains
moisture and prevents erosion.
Minimum tillage gained its
initial impetus after World War II
as farmers began feeling the pinch
of chronic labor shortages. Anxious
to complete planting on time,
enterprising farmers began learn
ing how to save time and labor by
planting row crops in narrow strips
of soil cut open by a coulter blade
or chisel; the narrow seedbed was
then compacted by the tractor's
wheels. Variations and refinements
have come with the passing years.
Today's minimum tillage farmer
plants a winter cover crop, typically
rye. after the fall harvest. In the
spring, he kills the rye with
herbicides, then seeds the main
crop into the resultant mulch with a
special planter. Not a furrow is
Lye or chemical drain cleaning
products can be very damaging to
garbage disposers. So avoid using
commercial drain cleaners in
drains that contain disposers, ad
vises Kathryn Wooten, extension
home equipment specialist, North
Carolina State University.
Disposers really don't need to be
cleaned, she adds. They are perma
nently lubricated and self-cleaning,
if used regularly.
turned, nor does the farmer need to
re - enter the field until harvest
time, when he begins the cycle anew.
Plowless farming is now under
way on more than six million acres
in this country, and expanding
rapidly. Minimum tillage methods
are not without their problems,
however. Insects once held in check
by deep plowing tend to thrive in
undisturbed soil and mulch. Farm
ers who fail to anticipate this
problem and to select the proper
insecticides, court disaster. Fur
thermore, herbicide applications
must be made on a precisely timed
basis to establish enough mulch to
check erosion, yet not smother the
seedlings.
Science will help remedy these
and other problems related to
minimum tillage farming, a con
cept recently cited as a "truly basic
change in the history of our
agriculture." Minimum tillage un
questionably saves farmers time,
labor, and money. Its long term
benefits, however, may well lie not
in farm economics but in conser
vation. For the unturned soil,
protected bv its layer of mulch, can
retain 50 per cent more soil,
moistue than a plowed field, and
cut erosion and runoff on sloping
fields by up to 90 per cent. This is
good news in these times of
environmental awareness and con
sequent social constraints. Not only
can minimum tillage help save a
life - sustaining resource - it can
also greatly abate the critical
problem of pollution and siltation
of our waterways. It is an idea
whose time has come.
The above information on mini
mum tillage was taken from an
editorial in the February 1976
Agriculture Research magazine. If
you desire any additional informa
tion on mimimum tillage, please
contact your district Conserva
tionist, Soil Conservation Service,
in Raeford.
ACADEMY GRADUATE - Army
M/Sgt. Billy R. Martin, whose
wife. Mary Sue. lives on Rt. 1.
Raeford, was graduated from the
Army Sergeants Major Academy
Jan. 22 at Ft. Bliss. Tex. The
22-week course at the academy
prepares selected noncommis
sioned officers for positions of
greater responsibility. Sgt. Martin
entered the Army in 1957 and wast
last stationed at Ft. Stewart. Ga.
Service Personnel ,
Army Pvt. Anthony McLeod, 20,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John W.
McLeod, Raeford. on Jan. 22
ompleted nine weeks of advanced
individual training at the U.S.
Army Infantry Training Center. Ft.
Polk, La.
He received general training as a
light weapons infantryman and as a
mortar and recoilless rifle crew
man, in addition to specialized
weapons instruction.
Pvt.McLeod entered the Army
last September and completed
basic training at Ft. Jackson. S.C.
A 1974 graduate of Hoke County
High School, the private attended
Sandhills College in Southern
Pines. Before entering the Army,
the private was employed by Bur
lington Industries in Raeford.
Farm Items
By
Hoke County
Agricultural Extension Agents
Crop producers should take a
close look at costs before deciding
on the type of crops to plant this
year. Several of the economists at
North Carolina State University did
some figuring on variable costs for
producing various crops. They
came up with the following:
$208.80 per acre for cotton,
soybeans $68.80 and corn $103.90.
The returns to management and
fixed resources in cotton would be
$94.20 if you produced a 500 lb.
bale and sold it for 55 cents per
pound. A 25 bushel soybean yield
would give a return of $56.20 if sold
at $5.00 per bushel. Corn that
produced 70 bushels and sold for
$2.65 per bushel would return
$81.60.
You should decide what you can
do on your farm and make your
own management decision.
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Federal funds for the trial boll
weevil eradication program in the
Virginia-Carolinas area are in
cluded in the fiscal year budget
proposed by President Ford. The
proposed funds total $1.7 million
for a first year operational phase.
The funds must now be approved
by Congress and would be channel
ed through USDA's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service.
Plans for the trial program call for
states and producers in the area to
share in the costs.
The summary of the N.C. Cotton
Variety Tests were received from*
Glenn Toomey's office on the tests
at Dundarrach and in Northamp
ton County. Here the top yielding
variety was McNair 3,036; second
was Stoneville 504; third wa#
McNair 612; and a tie for fourth
with Delta Pine 652 and Coker 304.
A complete listing of yields,
gining per cent and micronaire is
available from the County Agent's
office.
LIVESTOCK INCOME
North Carolina's leading livestock
producing county is Duplin. It leads
in the production of broilers and
hogs and ranks third in eggs. Wilkes
County, with its large egg and broiler
industries, ranks second ahead of
Chatham, Moore and Union
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