COUNCIL TAKES OATH The Jive members of the Raeford City Council were administered the oath of office
hv Hoke County Clerk of Court Juanita Edmund at the board 's regular meeting Monday night. Left to right, the
councilmen are: Bobby Gentry. Sam Morris. Graham Clark. Benny McLeod. and newcomer Vardell Hedgpeth.
The board members were elected on Nov. ti.
MA YOR SWORN IN -- Raeford Mayor J. K. McNeill. Jr. takes the oath of
office from Hoke County Clerk of Court Juanita Edmund in a ceremony
held at the city council's regular meeting Monday night. The mayor was
elected to a fifth term in the Nov. S municipal elections. He ran unopposed.
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see how other towns deal with the
problem.
The board voted to have a
classification study done to deter
mine what local industries are
paying for positions comparable to
those held by city employees. The
study will cost between S400 and
S450. the council was told.
The board was informed by the
city manager that it will cost
between S7.000 and 58.000 to pave,
curb and gutter and light the new
city parking lot between Elwood
Ave. and Edinborough Ave.
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Literacy
Meeting
All persons interested in literacy
are invited to a meeting Friday,
Dec. 9, at 10:30 a.m., in the
Conference Room of the Hoke
County Public Library.
Topic of the meeting will be the
importance of a literacy council to
the local movement, in which
volunteers are trained to teach
adults to read on an each-one-teach
-one basis.
A literacy council would serve as
a coordinating body and insure the
effort's success. Federal grants
have been obtained by St. Pauls
and Laurinburg for use in their
literacy programs.
"Statistics show that a third of
the Hoke County population can
not read, and we certainly need
some special effort here," says Mrs.
Reba Holmes, VISTA Volunteer in
Literacy for Hoke County.
Also present at the meeting will
be Rev. Bob Mangum of the
Robeson County Church and Com
munity Center and others of his
staff who have worked in Hoke
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| Deaths |
And
| Funerals j
L.A. Lentz, Jr.
L.A. Lentz, Jr.. 78. of 1112 W.
Garner Road in Garner, formerly
of Raeford. died Sunday. He was a
retired vice president of North
Carolina National Bank.
A native of Stanly County. Lentz
worked in banks in St. Pauls and
Red Springs in Robeson County
and in Fayetteville before moving to
Raleigh.
In 1936, he helped organize the
Raleigh Industrial Bank and served
as its vice president and cashier
until 1946. That year it became a
full commercial bank and Lentz
was elected president.
In 1952, the bank changed its
name to First National Bank of
Raleigh and Lentz was named
chairman of the board. Through a
series of mergers, the bank became
part of NCNB.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Sally Mitchner Lentz; son L.A.
Lentz. Ill of Raleigh; stepson, John
C. Broughton of Raleigh; sister,
Mrs. OUie Bennett of Charlotte;
and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 3
p.m. Monday at the Brown- Wynne
Funeral Home chapel in Raleigh.
Burial was in Montlawn Memorial
Park.
Mrs. Mary Davis Graham
Mrs. Mary Davis Graham. 84, of
b08 Columbia Ave., Lumberton,
died Nov. 29 in Highland House
Nursing Home in Fayetteville after
an extended illness.
Funeral services were conducted
Dec. 1 at the East Lumberton
Baptist Church, with Rev. Norman
A. Wheeler and Rev. William H.
Ginn officiating. Burial was in the
New Hollywood Cemetery.
She is survived by four sons. Paul
Graham of Lumberton. Charles of
Southern Pines, Sgt. John Graham
USAF of Charleston, and Starr of
Springfield; eight daughters, Mrs.
EulaTate, Mrs. Felix Phillips and
Mrs. Harry Dew of Raeford. Mrs.
Sadie Tyler of Lumberton. Mrs.
John Averitt of Fayetteville. Mrs.
James Phillips of Lumberton. Mrs.
John Hinson and Mrs. Robert
Marks of Beaufort; two sisters,
Mrs. Ela Suggs and Mrs. Mattie
Taylor of St. Pauls; 48 grand
children; and 61 great - grand
children.
Emanuel Love
Emanuel Love. 67. of Raeford.
died Nov. 28. Funeral services were
held Dec. 4 at Piney Grove
Missionary Baptist Church by Dr.
Roosevelt Holmes. Interment was
at Silver Grove Cemetery.
Surviving are his father. M.L.
Love of Raeford; four sisters. Mrs.
Bertha Bratcher and Mrs. Callie
Buie. both of Raeford; Mrs. Mag
gie Reid of Brooklyn, N.Y. and
Mrs. Hattie Galbreth of Bridge
port, Conn.; one brother. Daniel
Love of Long Island. New York;
two brothers-in-law, one sister-in
law. six nieces. 1 1 nephews. 40
great nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers included Spencer
Morris. Mann McCall, Walter
Blue. E.J. Hollingsworth, Wendall
Singletary and John Bratcher.
Health Agency Application
Placed On Public View
Cardinal Health Agency's pro
posed application for full designa
tion as a health systems agency was
Filaced on public view for 30 days
ollowing a public meeting in
Lumberton on Nov. 30.
Final approval of the agency's
Annual Implementation Plan was
postponed by the Cardinal board
pending review by the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare
(DHEW) Region IV office in
Atlanta.
In other business, the board
approved a SI. 28 million addition
to Southeastern General Hospital
here, extended the approvals given
in 1976 for construction on two
nursing home projects in Cumber
land County, and endorsed the
concept of a pilot comprehensive
stroke center program sponsored
by the North Carolina Heart Asso
ciation.
Cardinal has been conditionally
designated by DHEW since July,
1976. The agency has been review
ing capital expenditure projects for
health care to determine if they
qualify for reimbursement under
Medicare and Medicard. Cardinal
recommendations presently go on
to state and federal officials for
final action.
When Cardinal becomes fully
designated, the board will have
final review authority as well as
planning and development respon
sibilities.
The application for full designa
tion will be available for public
examination in the Cardinal office.
202 West 27th Street, Lumberton,
through December. Citizen com
ments in writing are invited, espe
cially on the qualifications and
composition of the board of direc
tors.
The National Health Planning
and Resources Development Act of
1974 requires the Cardinal board to
have a majority of health care
consumers plus at least 40 percent
health care providers representing
physicians, institutions, health in
surers and others. There must also
m i u
be public officials on the board.
The Cardinal board may revise
the application in the light of
comments received when it con
siders approving the application for
submission to DHEW in Jan. 1978.
The Annual Implementation
Plan will become a part of the
application when it is approved by
tne board. The long-range Health
Systems Plan, already adopted, is
also a part of the application.
Southeastern General Hospital
has plans to construct a four-story
building to house the purchasing
and data processing departments,
air conditioning and electrical
equipment and some 26.000 square
feet of general and specialized
storage.
Section 1 122 of the Social Securi
ty Act requires that such projects
be reviewed if any part of the
expenditure is to be reimbursed
under Medicare and Medicaid. The
purpose is to insure that federal
funds are not used to support
unnecessary expenditures for
health care equipment of facilities.
The new owners of Whispering
Pines Nursing Home in Fayetteville
and proponents of a new facility in
Cumberland County, called
Bethesda Nursing Home, gained
Section 1122 approval in Nov.
Approval is for one year. The board
gave both sponsors an additional 90
days to get their projects underway.
The N.C. Heart Association
made a formal presentation to the
Cardinal board in October, seeking
endorsement of a pilot program
concept to attack the high incid
ence of cerebrovascular disease
(stroke) in the area. The associa
tion anticipates that the program
would be funded by DHEW.
Cardinal's health service area is
composed of 15 southeastern North
Carolina counties, from Pender.
New Hanover and Brunswick on
the coast to Anson and Montgo
mery in the west and including
Moore. Harnett and Sampson
counties to the north.
The National Health Planninp
DECORA TING ?? The ladies in Clerk of Superior Court s office are getting
the Christmas spirit. Putting the final touches on the tree are | left to right]
Evelyn McMillan. Sarah Hodges and Marie McNeill.
Library News
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The following is a list of the new
books received this week by the
Sandhill Regional Library System
and distributed among member
county libraries. They may be
requested from the Hoke County
Library and its bookmobile.
FICTION:
"The Sunset Gang" by Warren
Adler;,
"Winning" by Robin Brancato;
"The Ice Age" by Margaret
Drabble;
"Villas Rifles" by Lewis Patten;
"Nobody's Perfect" by Donald
| E. Westlake.
! FACT:
"Small Blessings" by Celestine
! Sibley;
"1977 Medical and Health
Annual";
"Climates of Hunger" by Reid
A. Bryson;
"Feeling Fine" by Art Ulene;
"Heavy Equipment Repair" by
Herbert L. Nichols;
"The Do-It-Yourself Custom
Van Book" by Franklynn Peterson;
and Resources Development Act of
1974 has effected the establishment
of more than 200 health systems
agencies like Cardinal across the
country. There are six in North
Carolina.
Each is funded by DHEW. Each
has a local governing body with a
majority of health care consumers
in the membership.
All meetings of the Cardinal
board and its committees are open
to the public. The board will meet
at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Jan. 4. 1978
to take Final action on the full
designation application and the
Annual Implementation Plan.
LEGALS
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
TWO-WAY RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS
EQUIPMENT
Pursuant to G.S. 143-129, sealed
proposals endorsed "Two-Way
Radio Communications Equip
ment" to be furnished to the City of
Raeford Fire Department, Rae
ford, North Carolina, until 2:00
p.m. on December 19, 1977, at 1
which time they will be publicly
opened and read. Instructions for
submitting bids and complete
specifications for the equipment,
supplies, or services desired may be t
obtained at the office of the City
Manager during regular office
hours. The City Reserves the right
to reject any and all proposals.
Robert G. Drumwright
City Manager
12-5-77
NOTE: 5% Bid deposit Require
ments ? G.S. 143-129.
32C
NOTICE OF SERVICE
OF PROCESS
BY PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
HOKE COUNTY
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
CAROLYN S. OVERTON.
Plaintiff
v.
HAROLD T. OVERTON.
Defendant
TO HAROLD T. OVERTON:
TAKE NOTICE that a pleading
seeking relief against you has been
filed in the above entitled action.
The nature of the relief being
sought is as follows: ?
Absolute divorce on the grounds
of more than one (1) year separa
tion.
You are required to make de
fense to such pleading not later
than the 20th day of January, 1978,
and upon your failure to do so the
party seeking service against you
will apply to the Court for the relief
sought.
This the 8 day of December,
1977.
R. PALMER WILLCOX.
Attorney for Plaintiff
P.O. Box 126
Raeford. North Carolina 28376
WILLCOX & McFADYEN
Attorneys At Law
Raeford, N.C.
32-34C
CREDITOR S NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
HOKE COUNTY
The undersigned, having quali
fied as Executrix of the Estate of
Glenn W. Wood, deceased, late of
Hoke County, this is to notify all
persons having claims against said
Estate to present them to the
undersigned on or before the 17th
day of May, 1978, or this Notice
will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All person indebted to
said Estate will please make
immediate payment to the under
signed.
This, the 17th day of November,
1977.
Lillian C. Wood
Center Drive
Raeford, North Carolina 28376
MOSES, DIEHL & PATE, P. A.,
Attorneys
127 W. Edinborough Avenue
Raeford, North Carolina 28376
29-32C
EXECUTOR S NOTICE
IN THE GENERAL COURT
OF JUSTICE
SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
HOKE COUNTY
Having qualified as Executrix of
the estate of T.B. Lester, Jr. of
Hoke County, North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said
T.B. Lester, Jr. to present them to
the undersigned within 6 months 4
from date of th^ publication of this
notice or same vill be pleaded in
bar of their reco -sry. All persons t
indebted to said estate please make
immediate payment.
This the 14th day of November,
1977.
Lorena A. Lester
Donaldson Ave.,
Raeford, N.C. 28376
29-32C