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VOLUME LXVIH NUMBER 43 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1977
Around
Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The weather seems to have
settled down and turned into a
regular winter. The weekend was
about normal and many got out for
the first time this year. The forecast
is for nice weather the remainder of
the week.
According to a couple of car
toons in papers last week, forecast
ers were giving the weather report
and signing off with the remark,
"This forecast has a 70% chance of
being wrong."
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The Hoke High School Booster
*Club is sponsoring a golf tourna
ment at Arabia Gold Course on
Saturday and Sunday, March 19
& 20. This will open tournament
play at the course for this year.
The price for competing in the
tournament is S12.00 and all
proceeds will go to aid the Booster
Club with their projects at Hoke
High and Upchurch School.
If you would like to be a
participant in this event, get in
touch with Raz Autry at the Board
of Education building, Don Steed
at Hoke County High School or
Noah Hendrix, president of the
boosters. You could call the Arabia
Golf Club and leave your name and
one of the above will get in touch
with you.
* * *
I in? S u axley of the Raeford
Lwns Club was by the office
Monday and handed me the follow
ing note:
"The Raeford Lions Club will
, 5a#ve their annual Eye Will Drive
Saturday, February 26th from 9:00
a m until 4;?0 p.m Location for
fILS? 1 ?^Ve wi" be at the
bdenborough Shopping Center "
> ?kNcW are not f?n?l'ar with
is a P?3?* of Lions
International to remove your eyes
at death so that they can be placed
in a blind person and restore sight
to him. 6
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crumpler of
the local funeral home have passed
courses and are certified to remove
eyes for the Hoke County area
So if you would like to make
someone see after your death, go by
detaUs?PP'n8 Center for """P'ete
The forms must be filled out
correctly or you will be wasting your
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Last week in this column Mrs.
Archie Walters asked that 1 men
tion about the Class Reunion for
rC,a^ e?OUmy H'8h SchoGl Class
of 1952. She called this week and
said all but five of the class had
been located, but would like to try
through this column to locate these
live people.
This we will try to do by putting
their names below. They are- Biliv
Ray McCormick. Gordon L
Adams. Douglas Dixon. Irene
Lane, and Betty Jean Culbreth
It you know the whereabouts of
any of these, please contact Venetia
falters at telephone number 875
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Robert Gatlin. rain chart expert
tor this paper, was by the office last
week and told a joke, which he said
he heard at the coffee session.
Becky Jones and Marty Vega were
the audience for Gatlin and Yours
Iruly was keeping a close ear in
case it was too rough for mixed
company.
After a couple of interruptions of
people coming in to buy papers.
Gatlin finished the joke. Becky
looked at Marty and no laughter
came from either. One of them did
say they would grade the joke
C-minus.
I don't know the rule of thumb
for grading jokes, but as someone
said on television. "Gatlin. you laid
an egg."
Sr. Citizens
. Meet Mar. 1
The Raeford Senior Citizens
Friendship Club will meet Tuesday
March 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the
Raeford Methodist Church.
The program on house plant*
by a sP?*kcr from
Sandhills Community College.
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FAMILIAR SIGNS ?? Notices of lowered thermostats are becoming
familiar signs to shoppers these energy-conscious days. It is now mandatory
for stores to keep the heat down.
Next Year,
It Will Be Different!
Weary workers at the Raeford
Division of Motor Vehicles Office
are enjoying the rest after last
week's madhouse and plans are
being made to avoid a repeat of the
frenzy next year.
People were still waiting last
Wednesday morning, a day after
the deadline, to renew their
automobile registrations. Some of
them were unwilling to get in the
endless lines of the past days, or
were in them and still couldn't get
served before closing.
On both Monday and Tuesday
last week, the DMV office took in
529,000. The previous Friday
transactions totaled $24,000. Sat
urday, the office was closed to the
dismay of many.
Chamber of Commerce manager
Dayna Pate (the Chamber operates
the local office) estimated that
85-90 per cent of the business was
out-of-county residents.
Mrs. Pate pointed out that the
Bordeaux DMV office was per
manently closed last year, leaving
Cumberland County with only one
licensing office and hundreds of
Cumberland residents descended
on the Raeford office.
"We are just not equipped to
handle that many people. We had
four girls working but the office is
so small they were getting in each
other's way, trying to work around
the counter. A lot of people
couldn't understand why we
weren't open on Saturday. You
can't just decide you're going to
open Saturday. You have got to get
permission from the state to change
hours, it has all got to be approved
in advance," she said.
The Chamber manager said next
year the office would be open on
Saturday and possibly the hours
may be expanded. She said opening
at 7 a.m. and closing later in the
evening would help working
people.
The Raeford office processed
nearly 3,000 more transactions
since Jan. 3 this year than during
the same six week period last year,
but the total amount of money
taken in was nearly the same. Total
sales from Jan. 3 - Feb. 16 this year
have totaled S290.000. Last year
through Feb. 16 it was 5289,000.
Mrs. Pate explained that last
year there were more customers
with higher licensing fees, such as
truck owners.
The Chamber receives forty cents
on each transaction, so the office
will make at least $1,200 more this
year.
' Moore Water Plan
Opposition Growing
Fish Fry
Cancelled
Because of the energy crisis,
the fish fry sponsored by the
Hoke County Law Enforce
ment Association scheduled
Saturday, Feb. 26 has been
cancelled.
Anyone who has already
purchased a ticket may obtain
a refund from the officer who
sold the ticket.
Want A
Flu Shot?
Swine flu shots for the elderly or
chronically ill are again available
from the county health department
beginning this week.
Revised consent forms, which >
spell out additional risks associated
with the vaccine, were received
from the State Department of
Health. Only the bivalent vaccine,
which protects against both swine
flu and Type A-Victoria flu, will be
administered. The moratorium on
the monovalent vaccine, which is
given to healthy persons under age
65, is still in effect.
No special times have been
scheduled for the shots, acting
health center director Susan Mc
Kenzie said, because there is little
likelihood that many people will
ask for the shot.
The health center is open
Tuesday through Friday from 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is closed on
Mondays due to the energy crisis.
Trooper
Leaving
Highway Patrol trooper C.A.
Bennett has been transferred to
Jacksonville. N.C. (Onslow Coun
ty). effective Mar. 1.
Bennett. 33. has been in Hoke
County for the past eight years. He
will be joining Troop B. District
111. He had requested the move.
Bennett will be replaced by Louis
Rector, who will graduate from the
academy Mar. 4.
The trooper said he would be
sorry to leave Hoke County because
of the excellent working relation
ship he had with the other law
enforcement agencies and the
rescue squad.
"The people here have been very
nice and 1 just can't praise the work
the resuce squad does enough.
They have been a great help to the
Patrol." Bennett said.
The new assignment will put him
closer to his home town of Aurora.
County commissioners agreed to request a full report from Moore
County officials on the impact of the new sewage disposal plant and
the proposed water treatment plant in the southern portion of that
county after representatives of a citizens' group argued Tuesday that
the plans could threaten the environment in Hoke County.
Warren Pate, a Raeford attorney, and Jay Carter, a biologist and
Sierra Club member from Moore County, told commissioners that
they were representing the Committee of Concerned Citizens, a
group of private citizens in Moore, Hoke, Scotland and Robeson
counties, who are alarmed that the two projects may harm
communities downstream on Drowning Creek.
I he sewage disposal plant,
which is nearing completion,
has been constructed south of
Pine Bluff near U.S. 1 at
Drowning Creek. On March 29,
Moore residents will vote on a
water bonds issue to finance a
water system for Aberdeen,
Southern Pines and other com
munnities in the southern
portion of the county.
Carter said that because the
sewage plant was approved in
1973 before the stricter En
vironmental Protection Agency
(EPA) regulations went into
effect, a complete study should
be done now. He said the
sewage plant has a capacity to
treat 6.6 million gallons of
sewage a day. He said the new
water plant, if approved, will
take seven million gallons of
water daily out of Drowning
Creek when in full use.
"The flow of the creek has
been measured at 37.5 million
gallons on low-flow days. The
engineers used data from 1946
to 1967. Yet the flow got down
to only 15 million gallons in
1968. There may be enough
water to dilute the sewage but if
they take out that much water
for the water treatment plant it
could become a serious eco
logical concern," Carter said.
Pate said that many people
who use the creek for fishing
and recreational purposes are
worried about the long - range
effects.
"It's right frightening, the
prospect of changing the Ph of
the water and fish kills. I'm not
saying that these things will
happen, but we're saying there
hasn't been enough study." he
said.
"We find it amazing that two
projects of this size with their
obvious intent to cause changes
in the land use have been able to
circumvent the preparation of
an environmental study,"
Carter said. He told commis
sioners there were alternatives
to the water plant at Drowning
Creek -- the present system
could be expanded or a creek at
Whispering Pines could be
developed as a water source.
Both men expressed concern
that present water quality
control regulations are difficult
to enforce and the stream could
suffer damage downstream.
They also argued that any harm
would affect other counties, not
Moore.
All four commissioners pres
ent (James Hunt was absent)
agreed to request a report from
Moore County officials, as well
as make inquiries with the N.C.
Department of Natural and
Economic Resources Water
Division and the EPA.
Inspection Fees
In other business Tuesday,
commissioners refused to re
duce the inspection fee to 55 for
the special switches to be
installed on water heaters and
air conditioners in Lumbee
River Electric Membership
Cooperative customer homes.
Ervin Currie, a LREMC
representative, requested an
adjustment so that all four
counties within the system
would set the same fee. Two
weeks ago, the Hoke board
agreed on a $7.50 inspection fee
after electrical inspector Jack
Ellis explained that they would
have to hire an additional
worker to get it done.
The co-op is installing the
switches with the consent of the
customer to cut peak load
demand during the summer
months and thereby decrease
the wholesale power demand.
The switches are activated by a
high frequency radio signal and
will automatically cut off air
conditioners for seven and one
half minutes during high
demand periods. Water heaters
may be automatically cut off for
2 - 3 hours.
The co-op estimates about
1.500 homes in Hoke County
will be equipped by this
summer. By law, the water
heater switches must be in
spected within 48 working hours
(See MOORE. Page b)
Extended Day Program Offers An Alternative
BY SUZANNE APLIN
It's 8 p.m. and school's out for
the day.
For the thirty-plus students in
Hoke High School's Extended Day
Program, the school day may last
from two hours to six hours and fall
any time between 1 p.m. and 8
p.m. Monday through Thursday,
Fridays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
According to John McMillan,
program director, the Extended
Day students are those young men
and women who for economic,
psychological, academic or various
other reasons cannot attend or
respond favorably to the regular
school program.
Harold Gillis, director of occupa
tional education, noted that this is
fcath a vocational and academic
program and is in essence a part of
the regular High School, maintain
ing all the privileges that normaj
day students have.
"We attend all the school pep
rallies." said teacher Mrs. Geral
dine Munn, "and, we have one
student who has expressed and
interest in the tennis team. The
only full-time Extended Day in
structor. Mrs. Munn went on to
explain, "these students are in this
program because they can't attend
regular school hours. For example,
many of them do night shift work
and just can't get up to make to
morning classes. Consequently we
don't have many participate in
extracurricular activjties."
As class projects the program has
organized occupational field trips
to study horticulture, for example.
Plans are now being made to visit
Grannis Field.
McMillan explained that these
students come together to study for
various reasons. He estimated that
60 percent of them work. Some are
recommended to the program for
discipline reasons. Occasionally
pregnant girls prefer to attend the
afternoon-evening sessions rather
than keep the regular schedule.
Some are on scholastic supension
from the regular classes for various
reasons. And some have missed too
much school to be able to keep up
with normal work for their grade.
However, admittance to the
program is not easy. A student may
apply for the program or be
recommended by his teacher and
then the application must be
approved by Principal Allen Ed
wards or Miss Emma Mims,
assistant principal. Edwards then
evaluates the student's academic
needs for graduation or require
ments to keep up with his class.
One of the aims of the program is
(See PROGRAM. Page 6)
EXTENDED DA Y ?? The Hoke High School Extended Day Program was started to help students who for various
reasons could not meet the more rigid requirements of the normal day classes at the high school. The main
objectives of the program are to help students keep up with their scholastic requirements and eventually to move
them back into the regualr classroom if possible. \Photo by S.H. Aplin )