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VOLUME XXXI NUMBER 1 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1979
Around 1 By Rescinding Action In Tenure Case
I Town
I BY SAM C. MORRIS
Last week in this column was an
|em about the county convention
of the Democratic party. The date
in the item was wrong and should
have read Saturday, May 19 at
noon.
So change the date on your
calendar to Saturday, May 19 at
knoon in the courthouse.
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The following letter was received
this week.
Dear Sam:
The Woman's Club again needs
Help in planning for some special
Hoke County children to go to
camp this summer. Last year 32
children were sent to Camp Monroe
for one week through generous
contributions from Hoke County
People. The children were those
^hose families could not afford to
send them and who needed the
guidance of loving adults.
Our goal for this summer is to send
24 children to camp, an impossible
task without the help of the
community. If you have readers
^>ho would like to contribute to this
project, they may call me or send a
check to Mrs. Alfred K. Leach,
College Drive.
The Woman's Club is always
grateful to you at The News-Journal
for good help and publicity you give
Knd the interest you always show in
ur projects. Thank you for any
help you can give this tpedal
undertaking.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Clyde Knox
President. Raeford Woman's Club
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While going through the files for
items for 25 years ago, one was that
the Hoke County United Fund was
organized 25 years ago this week.
During those years the fund has
helped many causes and has also
^helped many people that were in
need or had been burned out that
never received any public notice.
During these 25 years the United
Fund has paid 100% except for the
past few years. This has caused
Ajncern to many of us here in Hoke
?)unty.
While reading the article that
appeared in the issues of April 29,
1954. the following paragraph
caught my eye and 1 wonder if this
uld be the cause of the let down
the fund drives. The paragraph
is as follows: ,
"Purpose of the organization is
to provide an opportunity for
people of the county to give
systematically and through one
Mganization to charitable organ
nations. Through the United Fund
a person may give to a particular
charity or tunds will be allotted on
a basis of need by local directors to
the several charitable organizations
participating. By giving through
^ie United Fund in one drive a
yvar. individuals may budget their
giving and all at once or on a
regular payment plan."
Now the above was followed in
the county for a number of years
with the exception of just a few
drives from organizations that
wouldn't join the United Fund. But
here in recent years it seems that
there is a drive going on almost
every other week. If this is what the
people want, then the United Fund
will continue to come up short of its
Mai. This will make it impossible
for a budget to be made by
participating organizations.
In talking with Gene Carter,
president of the Hoke United
Fund, he said that it would be a
Ifsaster to the Scouts. Red Cross,
etc. if the organization would
disband. This is true, but if they
can't get the money to operate, this
is also a disaster.
The local board of directors here
with other interested citizens
Vice in the past month. They are
at a loss as to what they can do.
They need your help and advice.
They will meet again in a week or so
to make plans as to what to do this
year.
^lf you have some suggestions to
Wer see Gene Carter, president or
any of the following directors:
Danny DeVane, James Cunnina
ham. Robert Taylor, Tom Howell.
Earl Fowler. Jerry McNair,
Ralph Huff, Kay Thomas. Henry
Dial, Onnie Dudley. Bob Gentry
^id Mrs. John Balfour.
See them today!
Teacher Law Apparently Violated
For 1979 - 80
Crumpler Kiwanis
Lieutenant-governor
Uordan Franklin (Frank)
Crumpler, president of the Raeford
Kiwanis Club, was elected 1979-80
lieutenant-governor of Kiwanis
District Four Thursday night at
Buie's Creek during the annual
district meeting.
This also means he will become
district governor for 1980-81 auto
matically.
Crumpler will succeed as lieuten
ant-governor Graham Creech of the
Fayetteville club in October
when the officers for the new year
are installed. Creech will take office
as district governor.
District Four is composed of
clubs in Angier, Cumberland
County, Dunn, Fairmont, Laurin
burg, Lillington, Lumberton, Pem
broke, the Southern Pines area.
Red Springs, Rockingham and
Sanford.
Crumpler is the fourth member
of the Raeford club to have been
elected district lieutenant
governor. The others are Clyde
Upchurch, Tommy Upchurch, Bob
Lewis, and J.B. Thomas.
Crumpler is owner and manager
of Crumpler Funeral Home, which
he opened in Raeford in 1960, and
owner of Crumpler Funeral Service
of Parkton, which he opened this
year.
He has been serving since I960 as
Hoke County coroner. He was
reelected last November to a new
four-year term.
He has served as Hoke County
chairman of the New March of
Dimes and the American Cancer
Society.
Crumpler is a member of First
Baptist Church of Raeford and has
served on the church board of
deacons and taught Sunday school.
He is a Mason and a member of
the Cumberland County Shrine
Club, the Woodmen of the World,
and the Loyal Order of Moose.
Crumpler also is a member of the
Raeford Fire Department.
He is married and has three
children.
Crumpler was born in Sampson
County and is a graduate of Clinton
High School and the Cincinnati
College of Embalming. He served
his traineeship at Jernigan-Warren
Funeral Home in Fayetteville and
became a licensed mortician in
1956.
He also has completed the
University of North Carolina course
in emergency transportation of the
injured and a course in sterile
enucleation at Bowman Gray
School of Medicine in Winston
Salem.
Before opening the Raeford
funeral home, he worked with
Marks Funeral Home in Rocking
ham and Royal Funeral Home in
Clinton.
Frank Crumpler
Bond Financing
Plans Announced By
Burlington Industries
Burlington Industries has an
nounced plans to develop with state
industrial development agencies
and local governments the use of
industrial revenue bond financing
for portions of its future capital
spending programs.
Donald R. Hughes, corporate
executive vice president, said, "The
company is now proceeding to
institute industrial revenue bond
filings in the counties or cities
where we presently have plans to
spend as much as SI million over
the next 12 to 18 months. These
filings will include the majority of
the counties and cities where
Burlington plants are located."
Burlington will follow this
method of financing of major
capital projects in North and South
Carolina. Virginia, Georgia and
Tennessee.
"Such borrowing and the repay
ment of funds is completely guar
anteed by the company and im
poses no liability nor obligation on
the part of the city or county
authority, nor the taxpayers within
these geographical locations,"
Hughes said. "The city or county
merely serves as a vehicle by which
this type of financing can be carried
out.
"We think that this type of
cooperative financing is representa
tive of the effort by government and
business to preserve existing jobs
and provide new employment for
facilities which are being expand
ed. We have used this type of
financing on previous occasions
and its availability is always a
consideration as we develop our
capital spending programs."
One Dissenting Vote Cast On Motion
Board Awards Henleys
County Ambulance Contract
A five - year contract to provide
Hoke County with ambulance
service was awarded Thursday
morning to Jim and Linda Henley
of Raeford by the Board of Hoke
County Commissioners.
Under the general terms of the
contract, the service will be pro
vided for a subsidy paid by the
county of $50,000 a year; and
adjustments to the amount of the
subsidy would be determined each
year after the first year by the
national Consumer Price Index.
The basic rates charged for the
service will be S35 minimum, for
transportation of patients within a
mile of the city limits, and the
minimum and SI per mile for
carrying patients beyond a mile
from the city limits. '
Henley told the commissioners
they will have three ambulances in
the county, including one new one
which he and his wife are
acquiring. One of three will be held
in reserve for use if one of the
others developes mechanical
trouble, he said.
The majority of the commis
FATALITY -- A traffic accident Tuesday morning involving a
tractor-trailer and a car resulted in the fourth traffic fatality of the year.
Edgar Granvil Burchett. IS, died a few hours after the accident. This
picture shows the wreckage following the collision at a Dundarrach
intersection. Burchett was driving the car when the accident happened, the
State Highway Patrol reported.
Dundarrach Crash
Fatal To Youth
A Hoke County youth died
Tuesday morning only a few hours
after the car he was driving was
struck by a tractor - trailer on N.C.
20 about five miles east of Raeford.
The State Highway Patrol
reported Edgar Granvil Burchett,
18. of Rt. 1 Box 284, Shannon,
apparently failed to stop for a stop
sign at the intersection of N.C. 20
and State Road 1105 in Dun
darrach.
The truck's driver, Jonnie
Mitchell Patterson of Rocky
Mount, N.C., tried to turn his
vehicle to the right in an effort to
avoid a collision when the Burchett
car was pulled into the path of the
truck, State Trooper R.V. Lee, the
investigating officer, said.
The truck struck Burchett's car
in its passenger side, and the
impact pushed the car against a
stop sign in the roadway, then into
a power pole on the south shoulder
of the state road, in the parking lot
of a grain company, the officer
said.
The collision snapped the pole.
Burchett was taken by the Hoke
County Ambulance Service to Cape
Fear Valley Hospital in Fayette
ville. He died at about 11:15 a.m.
Lee said the accident happened at
about 8:30 a.m.
The truck's driver and his
passenger, John I. Baker, also of
Rocky Mount, were not injured in
the collision, he said.
The officer said the damages to
the car, a 1974 Plymouth, and to
the truck he estimated at a total of
about $3,000, and to the stop -
sign, utility pole and a transformer,
about S350.
Carolina Power & Light Co.
employees were at the scene to
handle the damaged power equip
(See CRASH, page 15)
Friendly Lunch Date
Ends Up In Court
James D. McAllister may have
thought he was carrying friendship
a bit too far when he was charged
with contempt of court for having
lunch with a friend last Friday.
McAllister, who was a juror in
last week's session of superior
court, stopped at a local restaurant
for lunch. He ran into his friend.
Nelson Tyler, who had also been in
court, but on the opposite side of
the fence from McAllister. Tyler
was there to answer a charge of
drunk driving, second offense. It
just happened that McAllister sat
on the jury for Tyler's case.
But, while the incident might
have gone unnoticed, it just so
happened that Judge D. Marsh
McLelland. who was on the bench
last week, and his wife, were having
lunch with local attorney (and
attorney for Tyler) Phil Diehl and
prosecuting attorney Jean Powell.
Diehl said the judge's wife
spotted Tyler sitting across from
them in the restaurant and com
mented that she recognized him
from court. She also said that the
other man looked familiar to her,
Diehl said.
By the time court was resumed.
Judge McLelland had determined
that McAllister was, in fact, a juror
in the Tyler case, declared a
mis-trial and cited both men for
contempt of court. They were to
answer the contempt charge Wed
nesday afternoon before Judge
McLelland.
Tyler w ill face a second drunk -
driving charge in court this week,
and the case was tried last Friday
will probably be re-scheduled, a
source in the courthouse said.
Diehl said that Friday hadn't
been a very good day. anywav.
sioners also authorized County
Manager James Martin to sign over
to the Henleys the remaining two
months of the contract held by
Spring Lake Ambulance Service for
fiscal 1978-79. The contract runs to
June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
The latter was done after Henley
informed the commissioners he was
negotiating with the Spring Lake
company to assume the last two
months.
Both motions were made by
Commissioner Danny DeVane.
Commissioner Mabel Riley, who
had failed to obtain authorization
for an audit of the Spring Lake
firm's books, voted "no in the 3-1
majority favorable vote to let the
contract to the Henleys; and
abstained from voting to authorize
signing over the remaining period
of the Spring Lake contract.
Saying she was asking in behalf
of Hoke County, Mrs. Riley said,
"1 strongly object to a 5 - year
contract and a lot of other stipu
lations."
Earlier, Mrs. Riley said "only
(See CONTRACT, page 1 5)
by Caule Wasko
The local Board of Education
apparently violated the law last
week when it reversed a decision
on granting tenure to a
Turlington School teacher.
Ethylene Baker, a third -
grade teacher, was granted
tenure in the April 9 meeting. In
an April 23 meeting, the board
rescinded the action that
granted tenure, and, in a
separate motion, made by Bill
Cameron and seconded by Ruth
McNair, voted not to grant
tenure.
According to the law that
refers to principals' and teach
ers' contracts, a board cannot
rescind action on a teacher who
has been tenured for the be
ginning of the following school
term if the teacher has been
notified that tenure was
granted.
"Mr. Autry brought a letter
to the school April 10," Ms.
Baker said. She said the letter
explained that the board had
voted to tenure her for the
upcoming school year.
Following the board's action
April 23, Ms. Baker said she
learned of the board's decision
to deny tenure after a friend
read the account of the board
meeting in The News-Journal.
She said last Thursday that she
had a slip in her mailbox
notifying her that a registered
letter was at the post office for
her, and she thought perhaps
that letter would inform her of
the board's decision to revoke
tenure.
When asked if she intended
to take any action against the
board considering its recent
decision, she said she had no
comment to make. She said it
would be known when she made
a move, and that she "intended
to use the news media."
The tenure law that affects
Ms. Baker's situation reads, "If
the board votes to re-employ the
teacher and thus grant career
status at the beginning of the
next school year, and if it has
notified him of this decision, it
may not later rescind that action
but must proceed under the
provisions of the section for the
demotion or discharge of a
teacher if it decides to terminate
his employment."
All new teachers are con
sidered to be on probationary
status for the first three - year
period of their teaching career,
and at the end of three years,
the teacher may be tenured or
dismissed.
The board may also dismiss
any non - tenured teacher for
any reason during the first three
years.
If action is not taken on the
question of tenure at the end of
(See TtNURK . page 15)
Jobless
Decrease
Reported
Unemployment in Hoke County
declined in March from a figure of
9.5 percent to 9.1 percent, ac
cording to figures released by the
State Employment Security Com
mission.
Statewide, unemployment stood
at 4.8 percent, a decrease of .2 of a
percent from March. Nationally,
unemployment decreased from 6.4
percent to 6.1 percent, the figures
said.
Unemployment here was at 12.1
percent last March; therefore, this
year's figure represents an ap
Kreciable decrease from last
(arch's rate.
Employment traditionally in
creases here beginning in the spring
of the year as seasonal workers
return to farm work and the local
growing season begins.