x The Hoke County News - Established 1928
VOLUME LXXI NUMBER 20 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1979
Around
Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The weather is just like fall and
should remain this way for the
remainder of the week. The days
are sunny but not too hot and the
nights are right for sleeping with
the thermometer dropping into the
50s.
The rains have stopped since the
nine inches that came with David
last week. The forecast is for zero
amount of rain.
Perfect wather for golf and
football.
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The Hoke High Bucks travel to
Pine Forest this Friday night after
coming off with an impressive win
over South View at the local
stadium last Friday night. This
should be a tough one for the
Bucks' and we all hope they can
? keep up the winning way.
Rne Forest defeated Sanderson
of Raleigh last Friday night.
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The News-Journal is publishing a
t special section on September 20 on
the Grand Opening of The Bank of
Raeford. The advertising depart
ment has tried to reach everyone
and give them a chance to be in this
section but as will usually happen,
someone is missed. So if you would
V like to be in this section please call
today (Thursday) so you can be
included.
We will make up and print the
section on Friday. Sept. 14, so
please let us know right away if you
have been missed,
It We are not trying to sell you. just
giving you an opportunity if you
want to be in the section.
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Walter Coley was by the office
last week and wanted to know who
' told me the drug store in the
shopping center was closed on
Labor Day. I told him it was
mentioned as being closed when we
were commenting on who was open
or closed. Walter said that it was
open and we regret the information
I we had was not true but since the
article came out after the Labor
Day holiday I don't believe that it
hurt business any that day.
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H Harvey Warlick, operator and
owner of the local Hoke Exchange,
was a winner at the Senior Golf
tournament held at Burlington over
the weekend. This is according to a
write-up in a daily paper and
appeared in the Monday's edition.
^ Warlick was by the office Mon
day and said he didn't know he had
won because his scoring for the
. two-days wasn't as good as a
champion would shoot.
The score will not appear in this
column but 1 am sure Harvey will
^ be glad to tell you about it if you
will go out to the Hoke Exchange
on the Laurinburg Highway.
Ernest Campbell was by the
office Monday and was showing me
| a little book that his grandfather.
John Black, kept his records in for
his blacksmith shop. The dates in
the book were for the year 1904.
According to Ernest the shop was
located on the lot across the Red
Springs highway from the A & P
I store. The shop must have been
next to the old McLean Campbell
home. This is where Mrs. Charlie
Baker now lives.
Of course most of the prices
wouldn't mean much to us today
but for shoeing a mule (4 feet) the
price was SI. 00. You couldn't buy
* a second-handed shoe today for a
dollar, much less four of them and
have them Dut on a horse or mule.
Then the price of milk wasn't
SI. 12 a half gallon.
Time marches on.
The following letter is self-ex
planatory:
Dear Sam:
We. the members of the board of
^ directors, of the American Lung
Association of North Carolina.
Mid-State Region, would like tn
take this opportunity to thank the
people of Hoke County for their
lupport to our Flea Market and
Bake Sale this past Saturday. As a
direct result of your generosity we
b raised S800.00 to be used to combat
(See AROUND TOWN, page 14)
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Joint Meeting On Downtown Restoration Set
Council Acts On Sewage Plan, Gas
COUNCIL CHAMBER DECORATIONS -- Recently acquired large-size replicas of the seals of the State of
North Carolina and City of Raeford hang behind Raeford city officials in the City Council chamber of City
Hall. The picture was taken during Monday night's regular meeting of the City Council for September. L-R
-Councilmen Vardell Hedgpeth, Jr., Bob Gentry and Sam Morris, City Manager Ron Matthews, Mayor John
K. McNeill. Jr., Councilmen Graham Clark and Benny McLeod, and City Attorney Palmer Willcox.
Budget Stretched To Limit
The Raeford City Council
adopted on the first of two required
readings a proposed city ordinance
providing for a franchise for 20
more years with North Carolina
Natural Gas Corp. to provide gas to
Raeford customers.
The ordinance, however, would
permit either the town or the gas
company to reconsider the contract
every five years to determine
whether changes had occurred that
affected the fuel situation.
The ordinance will receive the
final reading at the council's
regular meeting of Oct. 1. The
ordinance would renew the original
franchise which was granted June
3. 1957. NCNG has been delivering
gas under this franchise since
October 1959.
In other business, on a sug
gestion by Mayor John K. McNeill,
Jr., a meeting was scheduled at 8
p.m. that day on restoration of the
downtown area and establishment
of a multipurpose development
center.
CENTER
The center would provide Sand
hills Community College and Fay
etteville Technical Institute sub
stations for adults' classes other
than night sessions; a place for
training workers in whatever skills
Board Approves T eachers
In its September session Monday
night the Hoke County Board of
Education approved assignments of
six teachers, three teacher aides
and a secretary, and addressed a
variety of issues ranging from fuel
conservation to services for the
handicapped.
Approved for teacher positions
were Georgia K. Garner, mathe
matics. Upchurch; Dallas R. Allen,
English and history, Turlington;
Queen E. Hollingsworth, interim
librarian. South Hoke; Donna M.
Bullock, art. gifted exceptional
children, all schools; Joyce
Simpson, fifth grade subjects,
Turlington; and Ernest Cantrell,
teacher/ coach replacing the re
cently resigned Steven Dubis at
Hoke High.
Aides assigned were Willie M.
Artis and Shirley Harrington, ex
ceptional children program, Up
church; and Kimberly Oxendine,
primary reading. South Hoke.
Approved as secretary at Hoke
High was Camilla McNeill.
Schools Superintendent G. Raz
Autry. after reporting that all had
gone well the first day of school
despite the stormy weather, again
asked the board for instructions as
to how and when to pay the annual
teacher supplements. There seems
to be some problem in finding the
necessary funds with which to pay
the supplements this year.
Autry is asking for a S200
supplement for each teacher
eligible to receive it. It is the
board's decision to make, and that
decision was not made, or not
announced, at Monday's meeting.
Teacher aides, however, will get
their S200 each in November,
according to Autry. Aides' sup
plements are paid directly from
state money.
The N.C. General Assembly
recently enacted a salary schedule
for aides, but prescribed only
55,100 a year for them. Hoke had
some who were already making
more than that. Autry said all aides
now start at $478 per month,
whereas in the past it was $450.
The 1979 supplement for aides
applies, though, only to those who
will have been in the system for a
full year in November.
In the matter of fuel conservation
and cost effectiveness, a project is
being considered by the board to
convert at least the four schools in
the city from oil to natural gas
heating systems. This is based on
gas being less expensive than oil at
the present time. Cost of the
conversion was given by Autry as
$35,000. North Carolina has ad
vised that the current difference in
cost of the fuels is expected to
remain as it is for at least the next
five years.
Board member Bill Cameron
asked what about using a gas - and
- oil combination system so that
"we can use whichever fuel is the
cheaper and more available at a
given time."
After some discussion, the board
elected to continue with the present
oil - burning setup at least for a
while, because of the expense of
switching over and the consensus
that "no one can accurately predict
the future anyway."
There was discussion of the
necessity for installing graded
access ramps for the handicapped
at J.W. Turlington, Upchurch, and
other places where access is not
easy for them. Autry said the cost
of building the ramps will be
approximately SI 5,000.
"We were already talking about
money we don't even have, and now
we're adding another S15.000 to it.
"But this (installing the ramps)
is something we must do." he said,
explaining that Public Law 94142
requires it.
"What that law did not require."
he said, "the North Carolina
General Assembly has made into a
requirement, stating that "all
schools must make everything as
accessible to the handicapped as it
is to other students."
"In six years as your superin
tendent," Autry said to the board,
"I have asked you on only one
occasion to amend the budget. I
usually try to stay within whatever
budget 1 am given. But this looks
like another occasion."
Chairman Riley M. Jordan asked
Autry if any lateral transfers of
money from other, perhaps less
important, budgeted items could
be effected. Autry said. "Not now.
All the items as they stand are firm
and essential, in my view. The 'rob
Peter to pay Paul' technique does
not seem workable at this point."
Autry said the emergency fund
normally maintained at 5100,000 is
now down to only some $50,000.
That fund must be maintained, he
said, for such things as boiler
repairs in case of a blowout, and
other unexpected crises that have a
way of coming up.
The board voted four to one to
offer the "principal's house" on
Harris Avenue at auction sale on
the courthouse steps as soon as the
attorney can make the arrange
ments. The one "no" vote was cast
by Bill Cameron, who said he
thinks this is not the "best way to
dispose of the property." Cameron
said he feels a fair market price for
the house will not be obtained at an
auction sale with the school board
as the seller.
At this meeting was one execu
tive session during which the news
media representative present had to
leave the room.
At First Official Meeting
Industry Authority Officers Elected
The members of Hoke County's
newest governmental unit were
sworn into office, then held their
first official meeting Thursday
night in the Courthouse Annex.
Named the Hoke County Indus
trial Facilities and Pollution Con
trol Financing Authority, it is
composed of seven members ap
pointed by the county commis
sioners last month.
The agenda followed at this first
meeting was one of. first, an
orientation to the purpose of the
Authority's establishment: second,
discussion of its responsibilities and
functions; and third, the election 6f
officers from the appointed mem
bership and other officials at the
nomination and vote of the Author
ity under its initially elected chair
man.
After County Attorney Duncan
McFadyen had read aloud the
bylaws of the Authority and the
bylaws had been adopted by the
Authority in session, under Ro
berts' Rules of Order procedures
the officers were elected to one-year
terms as follows:
Chairman. Robert L. Gibson.
Rt. 1. Red Springs; vice chairman.
Marie C. Brown, Raeford;
treasurer. Charles Davis, Hoke
County finance officer; secretary.
James Martin, county manager;
and assistant secretary. Alita Lopez
the county manager's secretary.
The purpose of the Hoke County
Industrial Facilities and Pollution
Control Financing Authority is
threefold. According to the bylaws
of the Authority, it will: Aid in the
"financing of industrial and manu
facturing facilities for the purpose
of alleviating unemployment or
raising below-average manufactur
ing wages by financing industrial
and manufacturing facilities which
Erovide job opportunities or pay
etter wages than those prevalent
in the area, but only where there is
direct or indirect favorable impact
on employment commensurate with
the size and cost of the facilities;"
Aid in "financing pollution con
trol facilities for industry in connec
tion with manufacturing and indus
trial facilities and for public utili
ties. but only where there is an
improvement in the degree of
prevention or control of pollution
commensurate with the size and
cost of the facilities."
Conduct "any and all other
activities as shall from time to time
be found to be appropriate in
(See INDUSTRY, page 14)
TAKING OATH -- Clerk of Court Juanita Edmund fright ) administers
oath of office to members of Hoke County Industrial Facilities and Pollu
tion Control Financing Authority on September 6 here. In photo, L-R, are
Ralph Barnhart, Walter Blue, Robert Gibson (chairman), Marie Brown,
and Henry Dial Not in photo are members Ken McNeill and Robert
Gat I in.
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Hoke County needs; a 1,800 - seat
auditorium with a stage and a place
for a movie projector; senior
citizens' areas, a day care center;
and spaces for exhibits and possibly
for a market for farmers. The
center was suggested by the mayor
August 28 during a joint dinner
meeting of the City Council and the
Board of Hoke County Commis
sioners. Guest participants in
cluded Earl Fowler, manager of the
Raeford - Hoke County Chamber of
Commerce.
No official action has been taken
on the mayor's idea. McNeill
suggested Monday night a joint
meeting on this and downtown
restoration be held, with the
property owners especially, and the
board of county commissioners,
city council, downtown merchants
and Chamber of Commerce repre
sentatives participating.
City Manager Ron Matthews
suggested the joint meeting be held
the date of the regular City Council
meeting for October because the
council's agenda apparently will be
light for that meeting.
The council could meet at 7
p.m.. a half hour earlier than
usual, consequently, and the joint
meeting could follow at 8, since the
town business anticipated for the
agenda could be taken care of in
about an hour, he said.
REVISION
The City Council also Monday
night authorized action toward
revision of the town's 20 Facility
Plan for wastewater treatment,
necessary because Faberge, Inc.,
plant replaced Summerfteld In
dustries.
City Manager Ron Matthews
explained that where Summerfield
was pitting 1.8 million gallons of
wastewater daily into the town
sewage system, Faberge was
contributing 200,000 gallons daily.
Summerfield, a textile plant,
closed Feb. 6. 1978, and Faberge, a
manufacturer of deodorants, lo
tions. and other scent products,
opened last fall in the former
Summerfield buildings.
Technically, the council adopted
a resolution authorizing Matthews
and Mayor John K. McNeill, Jr., to
execute engineering contracts with
engineers Moore. Gardner & As
sociates, Inc.. of Asheboro to
prepare a revised plan. The two city
officials also are authorized by the
resolution to execute applications
for federal Environmental Protec
tion Agency and state grants for the
project.
The grants would be $17,286
from the federal and $2,881 from
the state agencies, and the town
would pay $2,881. Matthews ex
plained that the town would pay
only if the grants were issued.
PICKUP
In other action, the council
awarded Raeford Auto Co. ^ the
contract to provide the town with a
half - ton pickup truck at a cost of
$5,093. not including the state sales
tax.
Carr Toyota. Inc.. submitted a
bid for $'4,688.94. but the city
manager noted on the bid list sheet
the color was wrong and the wheel
base was smaller than the town
specifications called for.
The only other bid had been
submitted by Hoke Auto, to pro
vide the truck for $5,100. including
the state sales tax.
The council authorized adver
tising of bids on providing the town
with a new garbage truck for the
residential areas.
A called meeting of the council
with the City Planning Board was
scheduled for 7;30 p.m. Sept. 18to
discuss proposed rezoning for
property of Wyatt Upchurch across
the road from the radio station;
and the opening of a street for
Buddy Blue.
The council adopted a motion to
schedule a public sale of city
equipment for Oct. 13 starting at
10 a.m. at the City Garage, and
allowing the county administration
(See COUNCIL, page 14)
Bloodmobile
Here Monday
The American Red Cross Blood
mobile will be in Raeford Monday
from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
Raeford United Methodist Church.
The blood program workers are
aiming mainly at downtown Rae
ford for donations on this occasion.
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