Hoke ASCS
Bj Thomas R. Burgcu
Appraisal ntctlttrj for fannen
making dtauter claims, USDA
polnto out-Producers participating
in the upland cotton, feed grain,
and wheat programs who plan to
abandon crops planted on allot
ment acreage and damaged by
natural disaster should have the
crops appraised before putting the
land to other use, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture has
announced.
Under the Agriculture and Con
sumer Protection Act of 1973 a
producer may qualify for a special
feed grain, cotton, or wheat
payment when a natural disaster
causes crop damage.
Department officials advise a
producer whose allotment land is
struck by a disaster to follow this
procedure: -Report the disaster
damage to the county ASCS office.
-Before putting the crop or land to
another use, have an ASCS official
or his designated representative
appraise the damage. -After the
appraisal is completed the acreage
will be released by ASCS for other
uses.
If the producer should decide to
harvest the damaged crop after it is
appraised, he must report the
harvested production to the county
ASCS office. If after appraisal he
grazes and then harvests the
appraised crop eligibility for pay
ment purposes will be determined
on the basis of the higher of the
appraised production or the actual
harvested production.
1976 Upland cotton loan
program-The 1976 preliminary
base loan rate for middling 1-inch
upland cotton (micronaire 3.5-4.9),
at average location was announced
October 30, 1975, at 37.12 cents
per pound net weight. The 1976
program loan difference between
middling 1-inch "*? strict low
middling 1 1/16 iiic'.-J will t" 180
points per pound (1.80 cents).
Thus, the preliminary base loan
rate for 1976-crop strict low
middling 1 1/16 inches will be
38.92 cents per pound, and the
accompanying schedule of pre
miums and discounts for grade and
staple length for upland cotton is
based on this rate. The accompany
ing schedule of micronaire differ
ences will also apply to 1976-crop
upland cotton.
Minor revisions were made in the
1976 location differential because
of increased transportation costs.
The 1976 location differentials
maintain a reasonable relationship
between production areas and help
assure fair loan values for cotton as
to location. A schedule showing
base loan rates for strict low
middling 1 1/16 inches (micronaire
3.5-4.9), net weight, at each
approved warehouse location will
be issued soon.
14 Years Community Service
.1976 J HOKE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD
ft
WE FINANCE ALL
? Good Credit ? Bod Credit ? No Credit
MAKE PER MO.
1972 GRAN PRIX .... $79
1973 JAVELIN $69
1967 PONTIAC Firebird $39
1974 MUSTANG II .... $63
1972 LUV Pickup 957
1973 NOVA 974
1972 AUDI 4 dr $79
1974 OATSUN 210 .... $99
196? M.G. GT $97
197* r.AMARO $99
1974 FORD Courier ... $78
1971 CHARGER $63
1971 CHEVELLES.S. . $63
FINANCING EXAMPLE
1969 CHIVaif. 2 dr.. HT.
Total price including tax
710.65. 37 payment! at
29.00 p?r mo. Finance
charges 329.27. Total note
1073 00.
NOTE!
Down payment! on the*e
can range from $19 to
$300 with App. credit.
Annual percentage rate
2140.
SPECIAL
1971 CAMARO
$57 Per Month
SPORTS CARS
1971 FIAT 990 Spider
1 96i 124 SPIDER
1974 SAAB Sonnett
1973 TRIUMPH Spitfire
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FIAT
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Corner Of
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time! Set includes %
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and matching wedding
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U R M I T U R E
112 HARRIS AVENUE RAEF0RD, N. C.
DANCERS ?? Linda Currie and Susan Bounds. Ann Clark School of Dance
students, will be featured in the Spring Dance Concert on May 21.
Dance Concert Mav 21
Anne McNeill o" <>e An.. Dark
Schools of Dance will present her
students in a Spring Concert of
Dance Friday, May 21, at Up
church School auditorium in Rae
ford.
Curtain time is 8:00 p.m. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
Proceeds from the sale of tickets
($1.50 adults. $.50 children) will be
donated to the March of Dimes.
Tickets will be available at the
door.
Performing in the program will
be dancers from Raeford and from
some of the other areas where Miss
McNeill teaches. Students will
range from the precocious pre-bal
let groups to the more advanced
senior groups. The concert will
encompass a variety of dance forms
ranging from ballet and jazz
through modern and tap.
Some of the numbers to be
presented include: "Knights in
White Satin" "Pas ae trois"
(classical ballet), "It's Today" (a
precision line tap), and "Deutsche
Tanze" (a character ballet).
This is the school's first season in
the Raeford area. Miss McNeill,
originally from Raeford. has been
very pleased with the response in
Raeford and with the progress of
her students. The concert con
cludes the season but the school
will re-open in September with
plans to en.arge so that Miss
McNeill will be able to accept more
students. There will still be a
limited enrollment I ut eventually
Miss McNeill hopes to be able to
accept everyone ? ho is interested.
Magistrates Court
The following cases were heard
by the magistrates: Roscoe
Woodell, Pembroke, driving left of
center, fined costs; Jerry Tillman,
Rt. 1, Shannon, speeding 65 in a 55
MPH zone, $5, costs; Levem
Kershaw, Rt. 1, Raeford, stop sign
violation, fined costs; William E.
Hutchens, Trinity, 70 in a 55 MPH
zone $10, costs; Ira L. Mount Jr.,
Fayetteville, 66 in a 55 MPH zone,
$10, costs; James T. McCoy, 524 E.
Fifth St., Raeford, 66 in a 55 MPH
zone, S10, costs; Luon S. Bass,
Raeford, excessive speed, fined
costs.
Albert G. Ayers Jr., Aberdeen,
70 in a 55 MPH zone $10, costs;
John L. Cecil, Rt. 1, Raeford,
equipment violation, fined costs;
Linda S. Ray, Rt. 2, Raeford, stop
light violation, fined costs; John E.
Forbes, Lumber Bridge, stop light
violation, fined costs; John M.
Lussier, Ft. Bragg, 66 in a 55 MPH
zone, $10, costs; George A.
Kessner, Fayetteville, 65 in a 55
MPH zone, $5, costs; Andrew
Currie Jr., St. Pauls, stop light
violation, fined costs.
Michael R. Cagle, Gastonia, 68
in a 55 MPH zone, $10, costs:
Warren H. Edman, Pinehurst, 60
in a 45 MPH zone, $10, costs; Cary
C. McMillan, Wagram, 66 in a 55
MPH zone, $10, costs; Joseph H.
Tillman, Rt. 2, Raeford, 55 in a 45
MPH zone, $5, costs; William L.
Evans, Rt. 1, Raeford, public
drunkenness, $5, costs; Richard
Ellis, Raeford, public drunken
ness, sentenced to two days;
Richard L. Bernhard, Southern
Pines, 66 in a 55 MPH zone, $10,
costs; Dennis L. Branson, 205
Stewart St. Raeford, public
drunkenness, fined costs; Tnomas
C. Campbell, Bridgeport, Conn.,
stop light violation, fined costs;
William M. Collins, Wilmington,
fishing violation, fined costs.
Robert E. Dockery, Ft. Bragg,
70 in a 55 MPH zone, $10, costs;
Timothy J. Lingelbach, Lumber
Bridge, 64 in a 55 MPH zone, $5,
costs; Joshua W. McMillan, Rt. 2,
Red Springs, inspection violation,
fined costs; Gerald Ottley, Ken
Gons, N.Y., 65 in a 55 MPH zone,
$5, costs; William D. Phillips, 205
Stewart St., Raeford, public
drunkenness, fined costs; Willie
Purcell, Pinehurst, 65 in a 55 MPH
zone, $5, costs; John E. Jones, Rt.
3, Raeford, driving without a
license, $25, costs; Hazel H.
Wariax, Rt. 4 Raeford, inspection
violation, fined costs; Alton R.
White, 405 E. Donaldson Ave.
Raeford, 65 in a 55 MPH zone, $5,
costs.
Beulah B. Watson, Rt. 1,
Raeford, starting violation, fined
costs; Jerry Williams, Rt. 1,
Raeford, equipment violation,
fined costs; Walter E. Webb,
Fayetteville, 55, in a 45 MPH zone,
$5 costs; Robert E. Trotter,
Gastonia, 68 in a 55 MPH zone,
$10, costs; Helen C. Thomas, Rt.
1, Raeford, passing violation, $10,
costs; James Willie Sanders, Rt. 1,
Raeford, 58 in a 45 MPH zone,
$10, costs; Willie J. Ray, Rt. 1,
Raeford, public drunkenness, fined
costs; Cleo Patterson, Aberdeen. 65
in a 55 MPH zone, $5, costs.
Ernestine Mack, McCain, 65, in
a 55 MPH zone, $5, costs; Donald
L. McCray, Ft. Bragg, 67 in a 55
MPH zone. $10, costs; Donald E.
Long, Rt. 1, Lumber Bridge,
excessive speed, fined costs; Bobby
M. Lowery, Rt. 3, Raeford, 69 in a
55 MPH zone, $10, costs; Pamela
D. Douglas, Jamestown, 67 in a 55
MPH zone, $10, costs; Verna A.
Cunningham, Rt. 1, Raeford,
driving left of center, fined costs;
Frank Cox, Rt. 3, Raeford, public
drunkenness, fined costs; James C.
Clark, Rt. 2, Raeford, 67 in a 55
MPH zone, $10, costs.
Thomas A. Blake, Ramseur, 66
in a 55 MPH zone, $10, costs;
Millard P. Barnette. Asheboro, 65
in a 55 MPH zone, $5, costs;
Lonnie Teal, Laurinburg, worthless
check, $8 restitution, costs; Larry
Bain, Rt. 1, Lumber Bridge,
worthless check, $44 restitution,
costs.
General Fund
Up Again
March 1976 net General Fund
collection amounted to $144.7
million as compared with $140.8
million collected in March 1975,
and increase of $3.9 million, or
2.80 per cent.
For the first nine months of the
current fiscal year, net General
Fund collections were $1.1788
billion compared with $1.1306
billion for the first nine months of
the 1974-75 fiscal year, an increase
of $48.2 million or 4.26 per cent.
March net Highway Fund col
lections amounted to $36.1 million
compared with $25.9 million col
lected in March, 1975, an increase
of $10.2 million, of 39.14 per cent.
Gasoline tax receipts amounted to
$21.9 million compared with $19.1
million collected ui March, 1975,
an increase of $2.8 million, or
15.00 per cent.
Net Highway Fund collections
for the first nine months of the
current fiscal year were $300.6
million as compared with $281.6
million collected during the first
nine months of the 1974-75 fiscal
year, an increase of $19.0 million,
or 6.77 per cent. Gasoline Tax
Collections for this nine month
period were $206.3 million
AUCTION
Going Out Of Business Service Station Liquidation
Equipment - Machines - Fixtures - Stock
Lassiter's Exxon
Main St. Wagram, N. C.
Wednesday May 19th at 11 a.m.
Partial Listing
8il0ft outside ice houte tell contained freezer unit Ignition parts t cabinet
3 toft drink coin vending machines 100's of new oil t air filters
Like new automatic tire charter Heater t radiator hoses
National Cash Register Motor oil
ft. outside metal storage building Automobile additives
Pullman vacumn machine Sun voltage I amperage tester
W in. drive Ingersol-Rand air wrench Potato chip/candy/nab coin vending machine
Electric butting machine Cigarette coin vending machines
Misc. lacks Remaining inventory and stock normally found in service
2 glass show cases station business. Many other items too numerous to hi.
Metal desk t secretarial chair Cash or food check. We reserve right to add or delete Items
2 battery chargers
270gal. oil drum w/stand J. Martin Haywood, Auctioneer Rockingham N.C.
Electric sump pump Liquidator - Real Estate Broker Tel. ?iM97-27?7
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Literacy Council Hears
Speaker From Ghana
By Pam Wllllama
The Hoke County Literacy
Council met Monday. May at the
Cameron Heights Community
Center. Guest Speaker was Paul
Baffour Addae ot Ghana, who has
been working with the Robeson
County Church and Community
Center and in this area for about a
year and a half.
Addae's talk was based on his
experiences working with non
readers in Robeson County. He
stressed the importance of publicity
and making the activities of the
Literacy Council known throughout
the county.
He spent the Saturday before the
meeting in Hoke County getting
acquainted with the previous activi
ties of the Literacy Council and
inviting persons to the meeting.
Three of those who responded were
Mrs. Mary K. Thomas, Sister
Louise Thomas, and Sister Hattie
McRae. The support of churches
can be of primary importance in
insuring the success of the literacy
effort in Hoke County.
Publicity of meetings and work
shops by word of mouth was
stressed as well as having notices
appear in the newspaper and on the
radio. Mention was made of the
success of an on-the-street passing
out of flyers before the last
workshop by Mrs. Helen Locklear
and Mrs. Nina ' 'orrissey. Also
termed successful as a radio
appearance by co-ci -man Anna
Clark with C.D. Bounds on an
early morning telephone talk show
on WSHB.
Addae also emphasized the need
for a fund drive. Money could be
used to pay mileage of tutors
working with students, to pay a
person to act as a liaison between
tutors, students and the Literacy
Council, and to provide books and
materials for tutors and students who
could not absolutely pay for their
own.
Letting county agencies know of
the Literacy Council's activities is
also of primary importance, ac
cording to Addae. Willie Feather
stone, of the county extension
office, offered to take back the
information he learned at last
week's meeting. Ric Barnes, who
does publicity for the Robeson
County Center, was also at the
meeting.
Copies of a proposed constitution
for the organization were passed
out by Mrs. Kay Thomas. This was
devised by herself and Mrs. Sarah
McNeill as they had been in
structed to do at the Council's last
meeting in March. Those present
decided to wait until the next
meeting, Thursday, June 2, at 3:30
p.m., also at Cameron Heights
Community Center, for official
acceptance of the document.
Mrs. Thomas sketched the devel
opment of the Literacy Council
from its beginning. The Council is
an outgrowth of the C itizens United
for the Improvement of Reading, a
project of the Learning Institute of
North Carolina. Mrs. Thomas is
co-chairman of Hoke Citizens
United.
The committee appointed by
Mrs. Thomas divided itself into two
emphases: the needs ot children
and the needs of non-reading
adults. LINC figures show that
there are three thousand adult
non-readers in Hoke County.
Mary Nusser of The Lumber
River Council of Governments told
the committee about successful
activities of the Robeson County
Church and Community Center,
which is using the Laubach
'Each-One-Teach-One' Method to
reach non-reading adults in Rob
eson County. Bill Caedel of the
Center described how volunteers
could be trained at 10-hour work
shops to go out and work with
non-readers on a one-to-one basis.
A public meeting was held inform
ingcounty citizens of this program.
This spring, three workshops
have been conducted and over JO
volunteers have been trained, some
from Scotland, Robeson, and
Cumberland Counties, who are
now applying their expertise in
their own counties.
Caedel and Doris Hines, also of
the Center, have conducted the
workshops. Martha A. Lane, lit
eracy worker for Lutheran Church
Women United, whose territory is
the United States and Canada,
assisted Caedel in the first work
shop in February at the Raeford
Methodist Church.
Miss Lane suggested that a
logical outgrowth in the effort to
help adults to read would be the
formation of a Hoke County
Literacy Council, which would
sponsor succeeding workshops and
act as a clearinghouse for informa
tion to the tutors and students.
Two workshops in March and
April at the South Hoke Commun
ity Center and Cameron Heights
Community Center were held under
the auspices of the Literacy Coun
cil, which was formed in March.
At last week's meeting, Eddie
Coleman, who supervises adult
basic education classes conducted
by Sandhills Community College,
and Steven Benkosky, of the Hoke
County Office of the Employment
Security Commission and also
chairman of the Hoke County
A.B.E. Advisory Committee, com
mended the Literacy Council on its
activities thus far.
Coleman stated that a number of
literacy groups in North Carolina
have been started and have failed
without going as far as ours has. "If
one out of ten of the students,
worked with by volunteers," it was
said, "goes on to enter a formal
adult basic education class or gets a
job because he can now fill out his
own application, the literacy effort
in Hoke County has been a
success."
The group decided to plan
another literacy workshop "when
we know who wants to be trained."
Persons wishing to register for a
workshop can call the Hoke County
Library at 875-2502. The library
will also take a list of people who
wish to learn to read on an
each-one-teach-one basis.
It was also emphasized at the
meeting that a literacy workshop
could be held in any community
wishing to sponsor one.
The Literacy Council then ad
journed until its next meeting on
June 2.
More Service Workers
In Hoke Countv
In Hoke County, a larger
proportion of the work force than
ever before is engaged in providing
services rather than products.
For a number of years, service
businesses have been playing an
ever - expanding role in the local
economy. As in many other parts of
the country, they have been
responsible for most of the new job
opportunities that have opened up.
The Labor Department's statis
tics tell the story. They show that
nearly 7 out of every 10 American
workers are now employed in
service industries, as compared
with 4 out of 10 at the end of World
War II.
In the services category are
people engaged in retail trade,
communications, insurance, busi
ness and repair services, entertain
ment, banking, education, health
care, government and the like.
The production workers are
those employed in manufacturing,
construction, mining, agriculture,
forestry and fisheries.
The Figures for Hoke County
show that approximately 49 percent
of the worWng force are now in
service - related occupations and 51
percent in production jobs. It
represents a marked transition
from earlier years.
In 1970, by way of comparison,
45 percent in the local area were
found to be in services and 55*
percent in production work.
As for the nation as a whole, the
latest Figures show 68 percent in
services and, in the State of North
Carolina, 56 percent. *
The dramatic growth in the
service industries is attributed to
the rising output per worker in the
production industries, due pri
marily to automation. With
machines substituting for men, it
meant that fewer people were
needed to turn out the required
volume of goods.
However, instead of the massive
unemployment that had been
feared with the advent of auto
mation, it did not happen except in
times of depression.
The economy boomed and the
population as a whole became more
affluent. With the growing pros
perity the demand for services
increased and new industries came
into being, providing more jobs
than had existed previously.
Community Calendar
Tuesday, May 11, 1976 ? The ABE Class of Cameron Heights
Center will attend a Sandhill's Achievement Program at 7:00
P.M. at Sandhill'^ Community College.
Thursday, May 13, J976 ? The Kiwanis Club will meet at 6:30
P.M. at the Civic Center.
Monday, May 17, 1976 ? The Jr. Woman's Club will meet at
7:45 P.M. at the Civic Center.