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? 2S The Hoke County News - Established 1928 VOLUME LXX NUMBER 5 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA journal 25 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1978 Around Town BY SAM C. MORRIS As this is oeing written Tuesday morning, May 30 my ballot is in the box and all 1 can do now is await the returns tonight. It matters not who wins or loses; I know that my vote is something no one can take away from me. If the elected official does wrong, then I feel that Sam Morris can cuss and discuss his actions with anyone. Did you vote? You have very few things left you can do without the government telling you how, so if we don't cxercise this one, we may wake up one day and find it gone. Then only death remains. ?** When did you celebrate Memo rial Day? It comes on May 30 but it is changed around now to fit the pattern of a long weekend. Every holiday has been changed to Mon day except Christmas, Thanks giving and Independence Day. We hate to mention it, because it could happen, but if everyone's birthday was moved to Monday, it could mean another long weekend. Of course some of us don't take every holiday and so it is hard for us to keep up with, when certain days are being observed. The old saying of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", could be changed this day and time to "All play and no work leaves too much time to get in trouble". Lacy Hair, who was one of the Judges that won nomination in the first primary for our district was by the office last week and said that he had been appointed to fill out the term of Judge George Stuhl who retired. Lacy said he would be sworn in Thursday morning. June 1 by Judge Maurice Braswell at the Cumber land County Courthouse in Fay ^ etteville. This appointment should ^ help the other judges in the district court, and with vacation time just around the corner, it will help solve that problem. As most of you know, Judge Hair has no opposition in the November general election. *** Last Saturday this writer went by the Raeford Post Office and wanted to pick up some 2-cent stamps to go with the 13-cent stamps that would be left over and could be used to mail a letter this week. Acting Postmaster Billy Monroe waited on me and informed me that they had sold out of 2-cent stamps, but that he was looking for some in the mail. Now Billy opened the door and 1 told him the price of stamps would go up again before the ones he wanted arrived by mail. Of course the reason this was said was because it took over a week for a letter to come from Fayetteville to Raeford the week before. He didn't make any comment, just looked at me. We started talking about something else and I left in a few minutes to try and find a box for the postmaster. On my return to the office he Psaid he had found some 2-cent stamps so my problem was solved for the next week or so. On relating this story to the publisher, he was telling me about the millions of 16-cent stamps that the post office department had printed up and since the price was 1 raised to 15 cents they didn't know what to do with them. The publisher said he heard or ' read where if it was a private business and was concerned about saving money, they would sell the 16-cent stamp for 15 cents until they were used up. Now this sounds like a solution to all those stamps, but after thinking about it for a while, 1 believe that would cost more money than destroying the stamps and printing new stamps. If someone came in the post office and asked for a 16 cents stamp, then what would the clerk charge them? Of course the way things are in the postal department these days, it would run into overtime before an answer to this situation could be straightened out. It might even detail a meeting of the board and this would almost cause another slice of taxpayers' money. ? So you see this could become more serious than you think, so just destroy the stamps and get new ones before the price increases again. *** The graduation section which appears every year in The News Journal will be published next week. Hoke Vote Lightest In Memory -A_ _A A A * J- a 1LT HOKE HEALTH FAIR - Hoke County Rescue Squad Member David Webb explains equipment to students at the first annual Hoke County Health Fair, held in the armory here last Wednesday. Hundreds of local school children, as well as other interested people, attended the fair. In all, 18 local agencies participated, filling the armory with exhibits. Mini Bike Director Named A project director has been named for the mini bike alter native program that will be implemented here soon, Bill Altman. secretary of the local National Youth Projects Using Mini Bikes (NYPUM) said. Conrad Hollingsworth , a Hoke County man, was named to the Dart-time position. Hollingsworth will provide counseling and teach the youths involved in the program how to care for and use the mini bikes. He said he recently attended a workshop in Charlotte designed to orient the project director to the program. "We are still trying to get the program together." he said. The mini bikes have not arrived yet. although delivery is expected around the first of July. Hollingsworth said they hope to use the fairgrounds as a place to store and use the bikes, but that plan has not been approved yet. "About ten kids will be involved in the program initial ly." Altman said. The program can handle a maximum of 29 kids. Three years ago, the N.C. General Assembly passed a law requiring that status offenders young people charged with crimes that an adult would not be charged with, such as truan cy or running away from home be placed in community-based alternative programs rather than in one of the state's five training schools. Due to lack of funding, implementation of the law was postponed until July 1 of this year. The NYPUM program here initially met with adverse re action. "The people just don't have a knowledge of the purpose of the program," Altman said. The program is to provide counseling for and teach re sponsibility to children who may be headed for serious trouble. Along with the fun of riding the mini bike, they will be counsel ed and taught how to care for the machines. Candidates for the program will be referred by David Kel lum, juvenile court counselor. He will choose status offenders whom he feels may be diverted from more trouble later through immediate counseling. The law says that by July 1, comunities must have an alter native program, and with the $5300 budget the county had to work with, the mini bike pro gram was about the only one Hoke County could afford, Alt man explained. "All of the funds come from the state?there is no federal funding involved," Altman said. "The state is trying to obtain some federal funds, but until it does. Hoke will only (See MINI BIKE, Page 14) Burlington Announces Pay Raises Burlington Industries this week announced upward wage adjust ments for its production employees, effective July 17, and the addition of another paid holiday to the employee benefit package. The wage and benefit increase will affect some 47,000 production employees at operations in 10 states. Employees will be notified of their individual rate of increase, which will vary to some degree among the company's 20 manu facturing divisions. The last general increase for Burlington employees was in June, 1977. Slain Man's Car Found In County The charred remains of a 1969 Ford belonging to Glenn Currie Gibson, a Hoke County man found slain in South Carolina about three weeks ago. has ben recovered in Hoke County, Sheriff Dave Bar rington said Tuesday. The car had ben set afire but did not burn completely, Barrington said. From evidence around the site, Barrington determined that the car had been placed there since the last rain. The engine and tags were missing. The car was located by a Hoke County farmer May 26 in the lower end of the county in a wooded area, the sheriff said. Gibson was found dead near Dillon. S.C. earlier this month. He reportedly left on a fishing trip March 30, and Sheriff Barrington said he had not been reported missing. Gibson was supposedly seen in the Raeford area as recently as April 23. The investigation into his death is continuing. The results of an autopsy have not yet been released. Plans Underway For Halfway House For Women Alcoholics An organization representing five counties in this area, including Hoke, is currently working to establish a halfway Patrols Intensify Due To Break-Ins A rash of break-ins in the area surrounding Sixth Avenue has resulted in intensified patrols by police throughout residential areas of the city. Raeford Police Chief Leonard Wiggins said Tuesday. "We will intensify patrol efforts even if it means the men have to give up off duty time," Wiggins said. In the last four weeks, at least seven break-ins and a larceny have been investigated by police in that general area. Police believe the crimes were committed by one person. "We think we know who is doing this. We lifted some good prints from the Upchurch residence this afternoon." Wiggins said Tuesday. "I would like to encourage citizens within the city limits to be on the watch for suspicious looking characters in their nieghborhoods. Even though we are intensifying our patrol, we cannot see behind homes and around bushes and shrubs where someone might hide. Call the police about anyone who doesn't appear to belong in your neighborhood," Wiggins said. The police telephone number is 875-4251. One of the homes victimized was the Bill Upchurch residence, 1 17 Sixth Ave., which has been broken into three times. On Monday, the larceny of fishing equipment valued at about $1,500 was reported. The equipment was taken from the back porch of the home. A break-in had occurred there only two weeks earlier. Tuesday, when Mrs. Upchurch returned to work after having lunch at home, she received a telephone call from Chief Wiggins telling her of a third incident there. Glass had been broken from a rear door and the door had been unlocked, apparently only moments after Mrs. Upchurch had left the resi dence. Chief Wiggins said. Wiggins explained that he dis covered the break-in as a result of a call telling police of a suspicious character in the neighborhood. Nothing has been found missing. A Winchester 30-30 lever action rifle valued at S139 was taken from the home of Edith Best, 720 Cameron St., Raeford, on May 29. May 24. Clyde Upchurch. 112 West Sixth Ave., reported the theft of five guns valued at about S927. Wiggins said the thief apparently climbed from the roof into a second story window. Missing were two 12-gauge shotguns, one 16 gauge shotgun, a 410 gauge single barrel shotgun and a Remington 30-06 model rifle. house for women alcoholics. Lyda Soles of Raeford has been elected chairman of the group, called RAHMM, Inc., which stands for Richmond, Anson, Hoke, Moore and Mon tgomery counties. She said some Hoke County people will be asked to serve on the group's board of directors in the next few weeks. The oreanization was started by interested women who are female alcoholic counsellors in Moore County, she explained. "Women are becoming more open about the problem," said Mrs. Soles. "There's a great demand in this area for this kind of facility. It would be a place where women could stay a few weeks or months until they feel relaxed enough to return to society." A similiar house, called Beth esda, is treating male alcoholics in Aberdeen. "When you bring a person into a halfway house, you put structure back into his life," said Gurney Baines, director of Bethesda. "Structure is usually missing from their lives and hopefully when it's added again, the incentive to achieve re sponsibility comes back." Bethesda has increased from a maximum of eight to 18 residents in the past five years. "Our residents are strongly encouraged to attend both in dividual and group counseling, along with religious counsel ing,' said Baines. "They are also encouraged to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meet ings both in the center and in other locations." The Aberdeen center is fund ed by federal matching grants, private donations and ABC revenue from the Moore County Commissioners. The Sandhills Mental Health Center also adds money for services rendered in referrals. Mrs. Soles said the halfway house for women would be based on essentially the same idea. "It would be a home-like setting for women who need a little more treatment but not hospitalization." she said. A committee met last week with officials of the U.S. De partment of Health, Education and Welfare and the Cardinal Health Agency, and Mrs. Soles said those agencies were very encouraging. "We hope to get state and federal funds for the project," she said. "HEW is primarily interested this year in programs that help children and females. Officials are going to send us forms so we can apply for funds." The group is asking for local contributions, too. Mrs. Soles said a site committee will be elected soon to determine where the halfway house should be located. The group wants to rent a house at first and perhaps (Sec HALFWAY HOUSE, Page 14) ,n jpite of fair weather, less than 15 percent of Hoke Coun ty s registered Democrats went to the polls in Tuesday's runoff election, making it the lightest turnout in memory, according to local political observers. Fewer than 850 voters cast ballots here in the election, and the returns were in by 8:30 . Tuesday night. The turnout was in marked contrast to the May 2 democratic primary, when over voted"0"1 ?f the e,ectorate The outcome in Hoke Countv was exactly opposite of the final results of the election. In the 21st District of Hoke, Robeson and Scotland counties, unofficial returns gave the vic tory to incumbent Horace Lock !var w n- margin of 383 v?t? fhTwr t?1 Gay for a seat in Ifives ?f RePrese"t Hoke County Democrats voted 2-to-l for Gay. The total 266 Gay"563: Locklear The two candidates ran re lative!) -quiet campaigns, using little advertising. David Parnell and Kobert Davis won two other House seats outright May 2. N.C. Insurance Commis sioner John Ingram pulled a major upset in defeating Char lotte businessman Luther Hodg es for the Democratic nomina tion for the U.S. Senate. State wide unofficial returns Tuesday night gave Ingram 53.9 percent of the vote. He will face incumbent Republican Jesse Helms in next November's gen eral election. . With 95 percent of the pre cincts reporting Tuesday night ilS3"1. !^d 232'709 v?tes to Hodges' 196,042. Ingram overcame a deficit of 1U percentage points to take the election, becoming the first candidate in 60 years to come trom so far behind to take a major state-wide race. k ^ai ^oke,County. Hodges won bv 439 to Ingram's 407. thev??phP?ilit^al observers said they felt the issue of Hodges' campaign financing may have !?rt,hl?- Hodges came under attack by Ingram because of some $400,060 in loans his campaign had taken. How can a man who is unemployed borrow $400 000 if he doesn't have bank con nections 0" Ingram asked re peatedly during the campaign. Ingram contended that Hodges was attempting to ouy the election and would represent banking interest if elected to the Senate. Hodges resigned as chairman of the board of North Carolina Nat ional Bank (NCNB) to run for the Senate. Other observers noted that Democrats who support Helms may have voted for Ingram to assure a definite contrast be tween the candidates in next November's election. Both Helms and Hodges are consider ed to be considerably more conservative than Ingram. In Hoke County, the returns were as follows: U. S. Senate absentee Allendale Antioch Blue Springs Buchan McCain Puppy Creek Raeford 1 Raeford 2 Raeford 3 Raeford 4 Raeford 5 Rockfish Stonewall TOTAL N.C. House absentee Allendale Antioch H. I. 4 23 6 21 19 28 28 8 16 33 39 32 16 56 57 99 48 17 35 53 73 24 19 9 22 32 29 439 407 G. L. 4 11 18 24 13 (Sec HO KF VOTE, Page 14)
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