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The Hoke County News - Established 1928
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VOLUME LXXI NUMBER 7 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY. JUNE 14, 1979
Around
Town
BY SAM C.MORRIS
The weather Tuesday morning
(early) felt like Spring rather than
summer. The temperature was in
the 50s and short sleeves didn't feel
too good. The weekend was hot and
most folks were able to get out and
enjoy themselves. There is always
something to mar a weekend and
the reported drownings in the state
should give cause for everyone to
^ think of safety when swimming and
boating.
The forecast is for fine weather to
continue with a chance of rain
maybe Thursday or Friday.
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> From all reports the graduation
>exercises at Hoke High School went
off in fine style. A senior breakfast
Sunday morning started the ac
tivities and this was followed by
recognition for seniors at their local
churches.
I The big moment for the seniors
came at four o'clock Sunday after
noon when graduation exercises
were held in the stadium at the high
school .
Congratulations to these young
people and may they have success
I in the years ahead.
All schools in the county will
close this week and this means for
the next couple of months most of
. us should bew are of children in the
streets and on the highways.
We became accustomed to them
being in school during certain
hours and forget to observe as
much as we should.
So as you drive around for the
. next few months, please drive
carefully. You should at all times,
but we all become careless at times.
The life that is saved could be your
child ? Remember.
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The Rev. R.E.L. Moser of
Burlington was by the office last
week and we had a nice chat for a
tew minutes. He had been attend
ing the Methodist College in Fay
etteville and stopped in Raeford
while going through town to see old
, friends. The Rev. Mr. Moser was
pastor of the Raeford United
Methodist Church here for a
number of years.
He and 1 had something in
common, so to say, as our daugh
ters finished Hoke High together in
l%7 and then went to Greensboro
J to college. Sarah, my daughter, to
UNC-G and Phyllis, his daughter,
to Greensboro College.
Lee. as he was called, was also
president of the Raeford Kiwanis
club and was a vivial softball player
and fan.
1 You don't realize that people
who have lived here for many years
and made numerous friends don't
have any way of knowing what has
taken piace in a span of ten years,
(maybe they should take The
News-Journal) Lee didn't know that
I Jessie Bright Ferguson or Dr. Julius
Jordan had passed away. These
were just two instances that he
mentioned.
It was nice to see the preacher
and hope that he will come by the
next time he is in town.
Mayor John K. Mcneill. who" is
also an elder in the Raeford
presbyterian Church, represented
the church at the Synod of North
Carolina last week in Raleigh. Now
' McNeill is a man of few words and
when asked how the crowd was at
the meeting by Dr. John Ropp last
Sunday night, he had just a few
words to say. The answer was
"Sober".
The publisher asked me last
week if I had seen a write - up of a
couple of deaths in the daily papers
and if they were people who used to
live in Raeford and Hoke County.
^ The two people were Willard A.
Huggins and Mildred Peele
Cameron.
He called me later in the week
and said that the Willard Huggins
that used to live here had the
middle initial of "G" rather than
i "A" so he was certain that this was
a different Willard Huggins.
Now the other. Mildred Peele
Cameron, could be the person that
lived here for many years and
finished high school here. The
family lived at the corner of W.
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S/GA/ -- Ths phrase in red paint was found on the Reeford Post Officer lobby's floor at 5:30 a.m. Friday by the
first employee reporting for work for the day. Acting Postmaster Billy Mvnroe reported the painting to Hoke
County Schools Supt. Raz A utry. A bout 10 a. m. Friday, maintenance men from the Hoke County school system
cleaned the floor, and Autry and Hoke County High School Principal Earl Oxendine, checked the results of the
cleaning. The painting apparently constitutes defacing federal government property, and conviction carries a
penalty of a fine or a jail term or both, Monroe said.
Father Imports Local Turkey Products
Melvin Mayer shown during police
service.
German Visitor
Studying
Business
Thomas Kohnke of Hamburg,
Germany, is in Raeford studying
the House of Raeford operations,
especially sales, to learn the ways
Americans conduct the poultry
business.
He is the son of John Kohnke.
Germany's foremost importer of
poultry and wild game. Thomas
Kohnke. who will be 23 on Thurs
day. will become head of his
father's business, Ferdinand L.
Friedrich of Hamburg, when his
father retires.
Kohnke's hostess. Mrs. Evelyn
Manning, also will celebrate her
birthday Thursday. (She doesn't
mind revealing she was born in
1932).
Kohnke is a guest in the Man
nings' home. 804 E. Donaldson
Ave.. Raeford. during his stay in
Raeford. He arrived in town June 5
for six weeks of study. Mrs.
Manning's husband, Ed. is House
of Raeford's director of Marketing.
House of Raeford ships the Kohnke
company about 100.000 pounds of
turkey parts per week.
While he is studying the poultry
operations Thomas Kohnke also
will be learning the English lan
guage of the poultry business. He
learned to speak English in seven
years of study of the language in
high school, but the poultry busi
ness. like the sciences and medi
cine. has its own vocabulary which
is different from regular conversa
tional English.
Thomas Kohnke is on his second
visit to the United States. He was
here last vear attending the House
of Raeford's annual conference for
its buyers and attended the 1979
conference held at Fox Fire Coun
try Club east of Pinehurst the
weekend before last. j
Kohnke arrived in the United
States from Germany May 27 with
his parents. They visited Disney
Land and Sea World in Florida,
among other places, before the
younger Kohnke left for Raeford.
His parents returned home June 3.
Kohnke attended school in Ger
many 13 years, the equivalent of
full high school and two years of
college in the United States. Then
he worked three years in a bank,
artd has been in business with his
father a year and a half.
Sam, Raeford Bulldog,
Has 14 Pups
Sam. a Raetord bulldog, gave
birth to 14 puppies between noon
and midnight Monday or early
Tuesday morning.
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Thursday morning
She's owned by Kemp Crumpler
of Harris Avenue.
The pups' father is a Red Springs
bulldog named Ring, owned by
Bobby Hedgpeth. a brother of
Steve and Raeford City Council
man Vardell Hedgpeth Jr.
Sam is about 2 Vj years old. and
this is her first litter.
The first two pups arrived pretty
quickly.
When Sam had produced six by
3 p.m.. the Crumplers thought she
was through.
Kemp Crumpler. meanwhile,
had gone to his mortuary class at
Fayetteville Technical Institute. .
But shortly after he was notified
that two more arrived.
By about 10 p.m. Monday. Sam
had given birth to 10. The
Crumplers again thought she was
finished.
Tuesday morning, she was
showing lively evidence to show she
hadn't been.
A bulldog's litter averages four to
six pups.
IT'S OPEN -- The Hoke Medical Complex on 1 V.C. 211 at the southern edge of Raeford is open. Dr. Robert G.
Townsend.Jr. physician, and Dr. Robert McCloud, optometrist, have their offices there now. The new building
also has space for two more physicians. Dr. Townsend moved from 124 E. Central Ave., and Dr. McCloud, from
5 13 Harris A ve.
Missing Magistrate
Sought By SBI
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A local magistrate is being
sought by the State Bureau of
Investigation on charges of em
bezzlement after $900 in court
funds was discovered missing
Friday.
Melvin Mayer. -14. former city
police officer, is believed to have
boarded a military plane from
Cherry Point Marine Corps Air
Station enroute to California after
taking a bus from Fayetteville to
Cherry Point.
Mayer's automobile was found
near a Fayetteville bus station
Saturday afternoon, and State
Bureau of Investigation agents
confiscated a briefcase containing
records of the magistrate's trans
actions from the deserted car.
The search for Mayer began
Saturday after Judge Joseph F.
Dupree of Raeford obtained a
warrant charging Mayer with
taking S900 received by the
magistrate May 22 as a cash bond
for a defendant identified as Kevin
I. Jones.
The discrepancy was discovered
Friday when Dupree checked the
files for a record of the defendant's
bond and could find none,
although the man's wife had posted
a $900 bond some two weeks
earlier.
Mayer left his wife and children
behind when he left Raeford. He
was suspended from all duties
Saturday night by Chief District
Court judge Derb Carter until
investigators can conduct an audit
of fund handled by the magistrate.
Police Chief Leonard Wiggins
said that Mayer telephoned Police
Sgt. J.J. McNeill, a friend. Sat
urday afternoon, telling McNeill he
was in San Diego. Cal. and
planning to fly to the Orient.
Mayer was appointed to the
position as magistrate eight months
ago by Resident Superior Court
Judge Maurice Braswell. He had
retired from the U.S. Army after 20
years of service before joining the
police-department in I97t>.
Hoke People Victims
Truck Driver Bound
Over In 3 Deaths
William Minor Pegram. 34. of
Creedmore. N.C.. has been bound
over for Moore County Grand Jury
action on three charges of involun
tary manslaughter in the traffic
deaths February 21 of three Hoke
County people.
He also has been given a six
months sentence suspended tor 12
months on payment of a fine of
SI 00 and court costs on a finding of
guilty of careless and reckless
driving. The charge was filed in
connection with the fatal accident.
Pegram has appealed to Moore
County Superior Court from the
Moore District Court judgment on
the driving charge.
Probable cause lor the man
slaughter charges was found by
District Court Judge Walter Lamp
ley of Rockingham, who also
imposed the terms on the other
charge, after a preliminary hearing
in the court at Carthage. I ho trial
of Pegram on the careless-ami
reckless driving charge . and the
hearing on the manslaughter
charges were held the week of Mav
Bertha M. Johnson. Willie
Wilson McMillan. 54. and Katie B
McMillan. 52. all ol Rt. 3. Rae
lord. were killed when the car in
which they were riding was struck
headon by a tractor-trailer Pcgram
was driving. The accident hap
pened about 4:30 p.m. in log on
U.S. 15-501 about a mile south ol
Aberdeen, the investigating officer.
State Trooper C.A. Todd has
reported.
Todd said his investigation show
ed the truck apparently was ai
templing to pass another vehicle as
the Hoke County people's auto was
approaching from the opposite
direction.
McBryde Injured
When Hit By Car
Calvin Foster McBryde, 48, was
injured critically about 12:40 a.m.
Sunday when he was struck by a car
on U.S. 401 about three miles north
of Raeford, State Trooper Louis
Rector reported.
He quoted witnesses as saying
McBryde darted into the p.ith of
the auto.
Rector said one of the witnesses,
Kenneth Frederick of 314 Crawford
St., Raeford, told him the accident
happened while he and McBryde
were rounding up some hogs which
had left McBryde's land nearby.
The officer said the other witness
was Herman McGill of 818 Carolina
Dr., Raeford, Rector said McGill
reported he was driving behind the
other car when McBryde ran into
the path of the latter.
Rector said the car which struck
McBryde was being driven north b>
PFC Paul Carter Battle, 28, of
Pope Air Force Base. The officer
said McBryde suffered shock after
the accident happened. Battle was
tr o.i ted at Womack Army Hospital
at Ft. Bragg and released later.
Rector said.
He reported McBryde's head
struck the car's windshield and one
of McBryde's legs was broken by
the collision.
The officer said McBryde was
admitted to Cape Fear Valley
Hospital in Fayettcvillc.
Rector said no charge was filed
in the accident.
He said he found skid marks of
Battle's tires ran 64 feet back from
the point where Battle's car was
stopped, showing Battle had tried to
avoid hitting McBryde.