Area Incidents
Police Investigate Rape
Local police received a call at
4:15 a.m. Jan. 2 from a woman
here who said she had been raped.
According to reports, she told
police that her home was broken
into by an unknown intruder who
molested her.
The woman was not otherwise
injured by her attacker, police said.
The incident is under investigation.
Police report that a complaint
was received from Gary Mouney on
Jan. I at 2:45 p.m. Mouney told
police that someone had removed
two bags of coal from Hoke
Concrete Works on Wilmuth Ave.
The value was estimated at $9 and
the matter is still under investiga
tion.
Alberta Adams. 510 W. bth
Ave.. Raeford. reported to police
Dec. 28 that someone had removed
a Midland C.B. radio from her
locked car. She told police that the
car was still locked when she
discovered the theft. The value of
the radio is unknown.
Deputies have investigated a
number of thefts in the county in
the last week.
Reginald Lydell McRae. 20. Rt.
!. Raeford. was charged with
breaking and entering and larceny
in connection with the Dec. 24 theft
of an automobile transmission from
a garage on Rt. 3. deputies said.
The transmission belonged to
Earnest Black of Red Springs and
was in an old school bus that was
used for storage. Deputies said the
value of the transmission was
estimated at $145.
On Dec. 30. the theft of a black
and white television, worth S125.
was reported at the Rt. 1. Raeford
mobile home of Alan King. Depu
ties said the thieves gained entry
into the home through a front
window .
The theft of a Sb.000 automobile
was reported to deputies on Jan. 1 .
Pregin Johnson of Elizabethtown
told deputies that he was cutting
pulpwood in the woods off Rural
Paved Road 1003 at the time of the
theft. He carried off a load of wood
in another vehicle, and his car was
missing when he returned, accord
ing to a report. He told deputies he
Allen Dossenbach
Jaycees Induct Five
The Raeford Javcees held their
fourth orientation of the Jaycee
year, inducting five new members
into the organization Monday.
Alan Dossenbach. district
director for district "D". led the
orientation ceremony and swore in
the newest members of the Raeford
Jaycees bringing the total member
sh i_p count to 5>1. On May first.
I1)-7, the Raet'ord Jaycees had a
total of 23 members on the roster.
I he members inducted in the
orientation ceremony were: John
Nixon. Kenneth Weston, Charles
Davis Jr.. Larry Calloway, and
John Blanehard.
Social Security
Promise Renewed
The thousands of people in the
Fayetteville area who get social
security benefits have a renewed
promise from the Federal Govern#
ment that those monthly checks
will keep coming in the months and
years ahead, Lawton Rogers, social
security assistant district manager
in Fayetteville. said in a special
release.
New legislation will provide ad
ditional income to assure the
financial stability of the social
security system well into the next
century. The added revenues will
come from increases in both the
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In September 1977. the average
daily patient census in VA hospitals
was 74,435 persons, the Veterans
Administration reported.
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social security tax rate and the
"wage base" -- the maximum
earnings on which the social securi
ty taxes are collected in a year.
"Nobody likes to see taxes go
up." said Rogers, "but the new
revenues offer solid reassurance to
the 34 million people in this
country who are getting social
security checks now. Their pay
ments simply could not have con
tinued beyond the next few years
without additional income to the
system."
On wages of SI 0.000 a year, the
social security tax bill will be $605
in 1978 -- only S20 more than the
S585 payable on the same income
this year 1977. In 1979 and 1980.
the social security tax on SI 0,000 in
earnings will be SM3.
The tax burden will be heavier on
those in higher wage brakets
because more of their income will
be taxable for social security BUT
their benefits will also be higher
because they will be figured on
a higher average. These increases
also go to make up the deficits that
have been incurred in the past few
years where new benefit categories
were added to the program, such as
disabled widows ages 50 to 60.
student's benefits ages 18 to 22.
etc.
Other changes to the social
security program will be covered in
future articles in this newspaper.
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later saw the vehicle in Fayetteville.
It was a 1975 Montecarlo with
license plate JDA-888.
The Department of Transporta
tion building on Rt. 3 here was
again the target of thieves who
broke the lock on the rear gate Dec.
30 and stole about S13 in money
and drink bottles from snack
machines in the building, deputies
said.
Items valued at S8b0 were taken
from a mobile home on Rt. 1.
Raeford on Dec. 24. Deputies said
the trailer belonged to Kay Martin,
and among the items missing were:
a dog house, two air-conditioners, a
tape player and speakers, and a
record player and speakers.
A .22 caliber automatic and a
small amount of cash were taken
from the mobile home of George
Hollingsworth. Sr. on Dec. 31,
deputies said. The home is located
on U.S. 401 north. Thieves did $5
damage to a screen when gaining
entry to the home, deputies said.
Items stolen from Willis Produce
QMarket on Highway 211 east were
recovered on the night of Jan. 2 in
the woods behind the market,
deputies said. A deputy on patrol
discovered the break-in not long
after it had occurred, and the
thieves apparently left the mer
chandise in the woods in their haste
to escape. In all. about SI 4 in beer,
cigarettes and meat was involved,
the report said.
F atalities
Continue
To Decline
Traffic fatalities for last year
totaled four in the county and one
in the city. This figure represents a
decline of over 50 per cent since last
year.
Eleven persons were killed on
Hoke County highways during
1976. with three of those deaths
occurring in the city and eight
outside city limits. The 1977 total is
the lowest number of traffic fatali
ties in a least ten years.
The following accidents claimed
lives during 1977:
An accident that occurred Jan. 3,
1977 resulted in the death of
Mamie Smith. 62. of Maxton. She
died Jan. 23 from injuries sustained
when the car in which she was a
passenger went out of control on an
icy bridge on the Scotland- Hoke
County line on Highway 15-501.
William Rashaan McEachern, 6,
Rt. 1. Box 656. Red Springs, died
Apr. 13 on a rural road when he
darted in front of an on-coming
car.
Clester Oxendine, b2. Rt. 1, Box
60. Cameron, was killed ^instantly
in an accident on Highway 211
Sept. 9 six miles west of Raeford.
The pick-up truck he was driving
skidded on a rain-slick highway
and collided with a car driven by
Brian C. Whitaker. 25, Greens
boro. Catherine Blue, 72. of 214
W. Prospect Avenue. Raeford. was
% also seriously injured in the wreck.
A Raeford man was struck and
killed while checking under the
hood of his stalled vehicle Oct. 16
at 7:10 a.m. Jerry Gordon McRae.
23. Rt. 3 Box 519. Raeford. was
killed when John Mac Sellars. 44,
of College Park, Md.. swerved to
avoid an on-coming car in his lane.
The fifth fatality occurred when
Linda Louise Culberth. 63. of 215
F.. Burke St.. Dunn, failed to stop
for a stop sign and was hit by a
Department of Transportation
truck driven by Bryce Newton
Owen. 56. Box 513, Robbins.
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DESERTED Downtown Raeford looked a bit like a ghost town Monday as many businesses and offices were
closed for the New Year holiday.
Farm Bureau Recommends ?
Tobacco Allotment Option
The North Carolina Farm
Bureau Federation has recommen
ded that flue - cured tobacco
growers be given the option in 1978
of planting up to 110 percent of
their acreage allotment if they
agree not to harvest the bottom
four leaves.
"The other alternative." accord
ing to John Sledge, Farm Bureau
president, "would be for growers to
plant 100 percent of their allotment
and harvest all leaves produced."
The Farm Bureau action,
recommended by the organization's
Flue ? Cured Tobacco Advisory
Committee, and approved by the
board of directors meeting in
Raleigh on last Thursday, came in
response to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Task Force recom
mendations modifying the price
support eligibility provisions for
tlue-cured tobacco.
"While concurring with the need
to make some positive changes to
reduce the amount of lower stalk
tobacco under loan and improve
f our export sales," Sledge said, "the
tobacco committee and board of
directors felt that 110 percent of
acreage allotments would be
adequate and would provide suf
ficient incentive to growers to
participate in the program."
He indicated there was strong
committee sentiment that strict
enforcement and compliance would
be necessary for such a program to
be successful.
FfRE -? An early- morning blaze severely damaged the mobile office of
Southern Planning and Construction Jan 2., The office was owned by
Crawford Thomas and Jeff Davis
Fire Strikes Local Office
The first tire of the new year
occurred early Monday morning
when a blaze broke out in the
mobile office of Southern Planning
and Construction.
Neighbors reported the tire at
3:25 a.m.. according to North
Raeford Fire Chief George Baker.
Baker says the blaze probably
started around the kitchen area,
but a cause has not been deter
mined.
The trailer, located off Turnpike
Road, contained a radio base unit,
important papers and blueprints as
well as office furniture. The
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provided vocational rehabilitation
training to 811,000 disabled veter
and since the program was autho
rized in 1944.
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amount ot damage is unknown at
this time.
The trailer was un-occupied. and
there were no injuries.
Sledge said it was the Farm
Bureau's belief that USDA's
proposal permitting the planting of
120 percent of allotment could
result in overproduction and the
possiblity of marketing abuses.
Under the proposed USDA
change, which will be published in
the Federal Register, growers could
plant up to 120 percent of the farm
acreage allotment and receive price
support if they agree not to harvest
the four lower leaves of each stalk.
Producers who do not agree must
plant no more than 100 percent of
their allotments to be eligible for
price support.
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