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* 25" ewe leivA * The Hoke County News - Established 1928 VOLUME LXXI NUMBER 16 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA - journal The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1979 ? Around Town BY SAM C.MORRIS ^ The weather last week was hot in ?oke County. The temperature reached 102 degrees last Thrusday ! after reaching 101 degrees on Wednesday. Then it turned around and Monday morning the thermometer registered about 56 degrees. ? We still haven't had enough rain and from reports by folks who have [ the measuring devices we received ! only two tenths of an inch last ! Saturday night. Anyway if we can't do anything | about the weather, we can write ^Fnd talk about it these days. * * * The Hoke Countv Music Booster Club is selling tickets for a raffle to be held Friday. August 31 at four d^m. in front of the new bank building on South Main Street. There are many prizes and they all consist of high price gasoline. So see a booster member and maybe you can spend the Labor Day weekend out of town and ride for ^ree! ? * * Mrs. Charles Stone, who lives on Magnolia Street, called last week and was telling me of an unusual ^hing that happened at their home, i hey were on vacation for a week recently and when they returned home they found a bicycle in their backyard and after inquiring around couldn't find the owner. Mary said that she called the police and that they picked the "icycle up and carried it to the police station where they found out it had been stolen. It was returned to the rightful owner. Now most of you readers are saying by this time what is so unusual about that. Well later in ^H)ie week the person or persons who had left the bicycle at the Stone's house must have come back for it because they went off with Mary's child's bicycle. So now she is out of a bicycle. So the moral to this story is. ? Don't leave your bicycle where someone can walk off with it." A telephone call last week from Johnny S'oung. formerly of Rae Jwrd. was to inform me that he had rlow completed his education and had graduated from McKenzie Junior College in Tennessee with a degree in Business Science with a 2.Q average. He said that he was working for Ajte Hertz Truck Leasing Corpora tion in Chattanooga. Tenn. Johnny is married and has two children and sends regards to all his friends here. Later in the week a letter arrived from Johnny which said: Dear Mr. Morris: Per our telephone conservation this past Tuesday evening. I would like for you to include this photo graph if possible. It was so good to talk with someone back home. Maybe we can visit the next time my family and I ^isit Raeford. ? Cordially yours Johnny Young Here is the picture: ?MB ? iH * * * Don't forget the Kiwanis Club Softball Tournament that is going on at Armory Park. Games are scheduled through Friday night. Billy Colston, athletic director at Hoke High School was by the office this week and was promoting the sale of football season tickets. He also told me that Kathy McMillan, local track star would V>mpete in the World Cup games (Sec AROUND TOWN, page 14) At Monthly Meeting Board Subjects: Teachers, Pupil Transfers ? ' f T f T For Raeford Election Of Nov. 6 Filing Period For City Candidates Set Candidates for mayor and Rae ford city councilmen can file for the November municipal election at noon September 14, the Hoke County Board of Elections advised last week. The deadline for filing is noon October 5. The books for registration of voters for the city election will close October 8. The voters will elect people to the City Council's five seats. The election of the mayor is separate from the council elections. Election Registrars and judges of Hoke County's 13 precincts were appointed August 7. They are, with the registrar listed first and the judges next: Allendale Precinct -- Dorothy M. Farrow, Sallie Liles, Jesse James Locklear. Antioch -? Martha L. Miller. Landon Goodman. Margaret Bald win. Blue Springs -? Leroy Horsley, Charlotte Kelly, Robert Taylor. Buchan -- Gilbert McGregor, Geneva Joy, Elease Strother. McCain --James R. Nixon, Elsie Teal, Ruby Cameron, Puppy Creek -- Louise Plummer, Cleva M. Newton, Almeta Smith. Raeford No. 1 -- Richard Norris, Christana Howell, Charles E. Morrison. Raeford No. 2 -- Mary P. Matherty, Sara Maxwell, Rebecca Childress. Raeford No. 3 -- Mary Frances Conoly, Bettie J. Davis, Mary E. Barefoot. Raeford No. 4 -- Carl A. For All Students Edwards. Mary King. Frances Gordon. Raeford No. 5 -- Pinkston Simmons. Mary K. Thomas, James C. Graham. Rockfish ? Edith H. Ray. Irene B. Grant. Hattie I. Chason. Stonewall -- Ethel Hayes. Shirley C. Maxwell, Martha E. Jackson. SMITH REUNION ? Lonnie Smith | seated . right] celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday at his home in the Wayside Community, and members of his family gave him a surprise birthday party. The occasion also became a Smith family reunion, and over 100 people attended. Here are the visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith is the lady next to him. and Kirk Parker, their lifelong friend, is seated at the left. Immunization Proof Required The new state immunization law says all school students must pre sent proof of immunization against the six specified diseases on or before the start of the 1980-81 school year or be expelled, Lloyd Home, Hoke County health direc tor, reminded parents Tuesday. The diseases are polio, measles, rubella (German measles), diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. He said parents should receive notification this fall whether their children need to get one of more inoculations. The notification should be received from the school the child will attend. County Schools Supt. Raz Autry said school principals have been alerted to the change and will be enforcing the requirements begin ning with the 1980-81 school year. Autry said notifications to parents would be mailed during the 1979-80 school year and that im munization records would be reviewed closely so all children would be in compliance. "The coming school year, 1979-80, will be a good time for those who need protection to get it, either from a family doctor or from the local health department. "Autry and Home said. Home said the new law, which went into effect last July 1, is designed to eliminate the possibili ty of serious outbreaks of childhood diseases among school populations. "We are looking at maybe 200,000 students in all grades across the state who are not fully protected against the six diseases," he said. Beginning students for years have been required to get the pro tection. Measles vaccination. however, wasn't required until 1971, and rubella in 1977, so there are many junior and senior high school students moving up through the grades without full protection. Home said. "Since 1973", he added, "elementary schools have demand ed immunization records of all kindergarten and first-grade youngsters, so our lower grades are in good shape except for transfers". "Many times school records from distant states do not arrive with immunization records attach ed." Chief Reminds Motorists Of Parking Rules Raeford Police Chief Leonard Wiggins reminded motorists Tues day of the two-hour parking limit on some streets in the downtown area. He also reminded them it's a violation of a city ordinance to park on a street with the driver's side of the car next to the curb. Signs stating the two-hour park ing limits are posted, as are signs on the sides of streets where parking is prohibited any time of the day. Wiggins said the two-hour park ing limit affects both sides of Main Street from Edinborough Avenue to Central Avenue; and one side each of Elwood, from Stewart to Magnolia; and on Edinborough from Stewart to Magnolia. The officer said parking on the "wrong" side of the street not only violates the city code but a state traffic law as well, namely the one forbidding driving left of the center line of the highway. Wiggins pointed out that, to park on the left side of a street a motorist must drive left of the center line. The officer said a $1 fine is the penalty for each violation of the city parking ordinance. If the fine is not paid by the date specified on the citation, he said, a warrant is issued, and that requires an appearance in court, which is considerably more expensive ? $2/ is the minimum penalty imposed on a finding of guilty of the offense. Wiggins said the police depart ment issues 10 to 20 parking tickets a week, for violation of the two hour limit. Eight were issued between August 6 and August 10, and four on Monday, he said. None were issued Saturday, he said, but Saturday is a very light day for parking violations in Raeford. Preliminaries To Start Of Neu> Year Teachers Report To Schools Next Week Preliminaries to the opening of the Hoke County Schools for the new academic year September 5 will start next week with teachers reporting to their schools Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday. A countywide meeting of educa tors is scheduled for Thursday, and staff development sessions August 24. 27 and 28. This will be followed by three days of vacation, the regular weekend, and the Labor Dav holiday. This year, no orientation day for students is scheduled preceding me first full day of classes. The remainder of the calendar for the 1979-80 school year follows. Sept. 28 ? NCAE meeting Oct. 17 ? End first six weeks , Oct. 24 ? Report cards go out Oct. 26 - Parent -teacher confer ence Nov. 22. 23 - Thanksgiving Dec. 3 - End second six weeks Dec. 10 - Report cards go out Dec. 24 - Jan. 1 ? Christmas holiday and winter vacation Jan. I J - hnd semester Jan. 24. 25 - Workday Jan. 30 ? Report cards go out Feb. 1 ? Parent-teacher confer ence Mar. 10 ? End fourth six weeks Mar. 17 ? Report cards go out Apr. 4. 7. 8 ? Vacation and holidays Apr. 24 - End fifth six weeks May 1 - Report cards go out May 2 ? Parent-teacher confer ence June 6 - Last day - pupils June 9. 10. 11 - Extra days (one-halt day on June It) June 1 1-18 ? Vacation June 19 ? Lieu of Memorial Day Faberge Makes CP Donation August A. Zitzmann, general manager of the Raeford plant of Faberge. Inc., Tuesday presented a "sizable donation" to tne Raeford Jaycettes for their Cerebral Palsy Campaign, it was reported. In a session that lasted just under four hours Monday night, the Hoke County Board of Education ruled on an appeal of a school-placement decision, selected and assigned 12 teachers and 14 substitute teachers for the Hoke County school system, addressed some fine points in a new state law governing gasoline con servation in public school opera tions. and announced the school schedule for the upcoming year. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leach of P.O. Box 272. Aberdeen, appeared before the board personally to appeal the board's ruling of July 12 that their 5-year-old son. Brian, may not be released from Hoke County's school jurisdiction to attend kindergarten in Moore County. The Leaches stressed that they each work in Moore, all their relatives are in Moore, and only with the child attending school in Moore will the program "work out right" for them, referring speci fically to the mother's being able to transport the child to and from school and to care for him con sistently in the course of her normal working day. (She works at an Aberdeen day nursery) Board member Mina Townsend told the Leaches she "sympathized with them" in their situation, and the concern of other members was evident around the table. But board Chairman Riley Jordan re minded Leach that the board is responsible only for providing an education for the child and cannot be expected also to provide after hours care. Leach responded that he was asking for nothing of the kind but only the release of the child to the Moore County system so that he (Leach) could exercise his own responsibility toward the child's safety and well-being before and after school. After a 40-minute executive ses sion during which news reporters and the Leaches were asked to wait outside, the board voted to grant a one-year "hardship'' release for the Leach child and also for another child. Ken Moser, whose case had not been introduced or discussed at the meeting prior to the executive session. The Leaches were advised by the board to "work something out" during the one-year period, as such a concession may not again be made. In addition. Schools Super intendent Raz Autry was instructed to prepare and mail letters to each of the two families on August 14 to that effect. In personnel actions, the board approved 12 teachers recommend ed by Autry for positions in the Hoke school system after reviewing their credentials and references. They are Catherine Walls, a teach er of the exceptional and mentally handicapped, Hoke High: Roger Dale Edwards, physical education. Hoke High; Virginia Bowen Smith. School grade. South Hoke; Eliza beth Postel. librarian, Turlington; Gloria Feltman. EMH. Turlington; Linda L. Duncans, sixth grade, Turlington; Donald V. Rose, second grade. West Hoke; Marie C. Brown, librarian, McLauchlin; Carol Tolin, eighth grade. Up church; Michael Glenn Sutton, biology and assistant football coach, Hoke High; Vicki S. Wiles, Spanish. Hoke High; and Miriam Ropp McNeill, music. South Hoke and West Hoke. Fourteen substitute teachers were also assigned. Meeting or exceeding the minimum qualifica tions and approved by the board were Mary Alexander, Cathy Ellis. Debbie Hollingsworth. Ruby Good man, Keith Hickman. Doris Mc Neill. Brendila Leslie. Patricia Mayes. Wanda McClendon, Emma McKinzie, Linda Williams, Deb orah Wright. Jessie Marie Cobb, and Cynthia L. Hardman. In the teacher-selection process, some emphasis was placed on whether the prospective teacher lives in or outside Hoke County. While that factor was not used as a criterion this year. Chairman Jordan said that he felt the board should "encourage" Hoke teachers being residents of Hoke, that in his opinion teachers who live outside the county "just do not have the interests of Hoke children at heart." The situation is better now than it used to be, Jordan said, but must continue to improve. He said that in 1977 more than 50 per cent of the county's teaching staff lived outside the county. Of the 12 teachers assigned in (See MFFTING, page 14)
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