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* The Hoke County News - Established 1928
VOLUME LXX1 NUMBER 28 RAEFORD, H<J>KE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
*8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1979
Around
Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
For the past few mornings it has
.*-oeen winter weather in Hoke
a County. The frost Monday morning
, was like a light snow. The car
| windows were covered and you
needed a scraper to be able to get to
work if you left home in the early
^morning hours.
? The forecast is for warmer days
>. the remainder of the week.
Last Friday we received ap
^ proximately 20 wrong number calls
Hfct the office. The number here is
2121 and it seems that anyone
calling 2131 or 2141 was coming in
| on our line.
i We can't see how the telephone
.. strike could have anything to do
? with this, but then we are not an
^xpert in the workings of the
telephone.
Tilings have been better this
week so maybe the trouble has been
jj repaired.
| Anyway we didn't think that
, someone could get their finger in
|^he wrong hole that many times!
The rain last Friday stopped the
harvest of soybeans for a day or so,
but we can't believe that farmers
?Could have harvested anymore
beans than in the past two weeks.
The combines have been busy
> and when you look at the size of
them you wonder where all the
beans they harvest can be put.
In my younger days the highways
i^were crowded with wagons hauling
^cotton, but these days there are
more acres of soybeans in the
county than cotton.
Times change, but still marches
A telephone call recently came
from Mrs. Ella M. Traywick from
the Methodist Home in Durham.
She was telling me about an old
railroad ticket that she had that
was used by her grandfather during
Mhe Civil War. Now most of you
older folks remember Mrs. Tray
wick as writer of the Arabia News
some years ago.
I asked Mrs. Traywick to send a
copy of the ticket and she did along
with the following letter.
"Dear Mr. Morris:
"I'm sending you the best
I photostat copy of my grandfather's
last ticket he purchased during the
* Civil War 1863 (7th Oct).
"Hope it's clear enough that you
$ can read it clearly. The office lady
^iat made this copy says: why,
w'eldon is my home town. Could 1
make a ticket too? Yes. 1 told her.
go ahead.
"A little excerpt aside from the
ticket, my grandmother McFadden
. lived above Sandy Grove Church
tnd cooked for the unit of Calvary
Upldiers of Sherman's Army. They
camped under a large oak tree at
Sandy Grove Church. They left her
an old horse to farm with when they
J left. Mrs. Ella M. Traywick."
Below is a copy of the ticket:
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{* '.WELDON TO WILMINGTON.
^Thanks Mrs. Traywick for the
letter and the copy of the ticket. It
was also good to talk with you on
the telephone. To some of the folks
J* ho might not know, Sandy Grove
Hylethoaist Church is still in use
low Arabia. I believe most of the
Uy of McFadden now spell their
ame McFadyen.
There is a great deal of history in
' e County that is put up in the
that should be brought out so
it could be recorded like this
d ticket. If you will notice
. McFadden changed trains two
mes between Richmond and
(See AROUND TOWN, page 13)
At Public Hearings On Community Development Program
Meeting
On Housing Sought
The Board of Hoke County
Commissioners Monday at the
board's regular monthly meeting
adopted a motion to arrange a joint
meeting with Raeford city officials
at public hearings on applying for a
federal housing grant for improving
housing.
County Manager James Martin
was asked to meet with City
Manager Ron Matthews to find
dates convenient for both the
county board and city council.
The hearings will be held to get
private citizens' views on what city
and county needs are in housing
and also in water and sewer
services.
The meetings also will determine
whether the county will go into the
project alone, or jointly with the
city; and how much of a grant will
be applied tor.
The board's action came after
the commissioners heard Samuel
Sally, community Development
specialist of the Fayetteviile re
Sonal field office of the State
epartment of Natural Resources
and Community Development, ex
plain changes made for the fiscal
year 1980 in requirements for
qualification for Community De
velopment funds for housing
improvements. The funds are pro
vided by the federal Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
A point system is used, with at least
200 points required to get approval
of funds for housing improvements
alone. Applications also may be
made for funds for a compre
hensive program, which also could
include recreation projects, among
others outside strictly housing pro
grams.
The commissioners are interest
ed in the housing program.
Sally was accompanied to the
meeting by John Holmes, the
former CD specialist who has been
promoted to regional housing
specialist at the Fayetteville office.
Holmes has worked periodically in
Hoke County since 1976 on Com
munity Development with Bill
Altman, Hoke County Community
Development director. Holmes also
contributed some information to
the commissioners on the housing
program at Monday's meeting.
RESCUE
AMBULANCE EQUIPMENT
In other business, the com
missioners adopted a motion
authorizing the county manager to
contract with the Lumber River
Council of Governments toward
applying for state Emergency
Medical Service funds of $2,8/5 for
equipment. The state agency pays
75 per cent and local sources the
remainder on a grant.
PERSONNEL
The commissioners adopted a
motion not to reclassify before July
1, 1980, nursing and a clerk's
positions in the County Health
Department. The changes were
asked by department Administra
tor Lloyd P. Home so the
employees would be eligible for
needed pay raises.
Commissioners Danny DeVane
Council OKs Purchase Of New Truck
The Raeford City Council
Monday night at its regular
meeting for October approved bids
by Carolina Waste, Inc., of
Hamlet to sell the city a residential
garbage truck for 551,087, and by
Lumberton Machine, Inc., a sludge
tank body for $4,200.
City Manager Ron Matthews
told the council the new truck,
which can handle tree limbs and
similar street debris, as well as
garbage, will cut the expense of
collections, which are now made by
a total of two trucks and six men.
Matthews said delivery of the new
truck will be made in about 90
days.
The council also adopted a
motion making The Bank of
Raeford the central depository for
municipal funds for two years
starting Jan. 1. The Southern
National Bank, which has been the
depository for 22 months, and The
Bahk of Raeford submitted pro
posals for the new period.
Matthews said before the council
acted that in view of the similarity
of the proposals and the excellent
service the city has enjoyed in the
past years from both banks, he was
recommending that the bid pro
posal of The Bank of Raeford be
accepted by the council for the next
two years.
He also said the council should
reconsider the arrangement at the
end of the two ? year period and
consider rotating the depository
between the two banks.
In other business, the council
approved adding a total of five
street lights on residential streets.
Four will be installed in the vicinity
of 907 and 1011 E. Donaldson
Ave., a section annexed May 7 to
the city; and the other at 1002 N.
Magnolia Street.
The council authorized Mat
thews to enter into a contract
among the city, Hoke County and
Koonce. Boble, & Associates, Inc.,
of Lumberton. to do enpineering
and topographic work on a site for
a new city - county landfill site for
S2.500. The city will pay S625,
which is 25 per cent of the cost. The
work will include making test
borings.
Earlier Monday the county
commissioners authorized County
Manager James Martin to enter
into the contract for the county.
The council adopted a motion to
change the name of Knit Away
Drive to Faberge Boulevard. Knit
Away Drive has been the name
used for the entrance ? exit street at
the Summerfield textile plant. The
plant closed in the winter of 1978,
and Faberge moved into the build
ing the following fall.
The change in name was made
on the request of the Faberge
management.
At Schools Feb. 21-22
-/V. C. Little Symphony To Perform
The North Carolina Little
Symphony will give two programs
in Hoke County schools in Feb
ruary, the Hoke County Chapter of
the North Carolina Symphony So
ciety announced this week.
The first will be held Feb. 21,
starting at 8 p.m., at Hoke County
High School. It will be for adults,
and, free of charge, for Hoke
County junior and senior high
school students.
Mrs. Mary Mclnnis Dies
Mrs. Mary Catherine Mclnnis
died Tuesday morning in Moore
Memorial Hospital at Pinehurst.
She was 94.
The funeral services will be
conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at
Galatia Presbyterian Church by
Dr. David Sutton and Dr. John
Ropp. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are her sons, Thomas,
Daniel F. and Smith Mclnnis of
Raeford, Angus C. Mclnnis of
Wagram, and James E. Mclnnis of
Fayetteville; her daughter, Mrs.
Mary Catherine Hare of Charlotte;
13 grandchildren; six great grand
children; and her sisters, Mrs.
Sallie Mclnnis of Wagram, Mrs.
Lelia Oliver of Fairmont, and Mrs.
Annie Russell of Rocky Mount.
The family was to receive friends
and relatives between 7 p.m. and 9
.m. Wednesday at Crumpler
uneral Home in Raeford.
For many years, Mrs. Mclnnis
Mrs. Mary Mclnnis
wrote the Rockfish community
news column for The News
Journal.
The other will be held the
morning of Feb. 22 for Hoke
students of the fourth through sixth
grades.
The chapter announcement said
the chapter also will try to arrange
a "discovery" program of the Little
Symphony, for younger students.
The chapter's board of directors
voted to sponsor Little Symphony
programs this school year though
the county board of education this
year is unable to contribute to help
pay the $3,800 expenses. The
county commissioners Monday au
thorized $500 and Bicentennial
funds to help.
The chapter will try to raise the
rest of the money from donations
from businesses and other or
ganizations, and from the sale of
memberships.
The campaign to obtain dona
tions was started this week.
The Feb. 21 concert will offer
classic and semiclassic selections.
The program: Cimarosa -- Over
ture to II matriominio segreto;
Mozart -- Divertimento No. 2 in D
Major, K.131; Dvorak -- Romance
in F Major for Violin and
Orchestra, Opus 11 (Paul Golds
berry will be the violinist); Vivaldi
-- "Winter" from The Four Seasons
(Suzanne Kelly); and Leonard
Bernstein -- Selections from West
Side Story.
4 Write-in Votes Cast
Councilmen And
Mayor Reelected
A total of 125 votes, four of them
write-ins, were cast in the Raeford
city election Tuesday as Mayor
John K. McNeill, Jr., and the five
CENSUS MEETING - Mrs. Berline Graham (standing, left), a community service specialist with the U.S. Bureau
of Census office in Wilmington, talks Nov. 6 to heads and other members of Hoke County departments and agen
cies about recruiting qualified people as census takers in 1980. She also showed a film illustrating the uses for
community benefits the information gathered in a census serve, showing the importance of getting every person to
fill in census forms. Four-County Community Services is doing volunteer work with the census, in recruiting and
other activities, but cannot help take the census. Mrs. Graham can be contacted through Charles McKoy of Four
County Community Services in the Hoke County Office Building, Raeford. The meeting Mrs. Graham addressed
was held in the county office building.
current members of the City
Council were returned to office
without regular opposition.
The turnout amounted to about
10 per cent of the city's total
number of registered voters.
McNeill was reelected to his sixth
two - year term, and Councilmen
James (Benny) McLeod to his sixth.
Bob Gentry to his second regular
term, Sam Morris to his fourth,
Graham Clark, his sixth, and
Vardell Hedgpeth, Jr., his second.
A write-in vote was cast for J.
Fogarty and Buck Baxley each for
mayor, and Leonard Miller and
John Kay received a ballot each for
city councilmen. A write - in vote
for mayor was cast in Raeford
Precinct Nos. 2 and 4; and both
write - ins for councilmen, in
Raeford No. 2.
McNeill led the balloting, re
ceiving 123 votes: 40 in Raeford
No. 1, 71 in Raeford No. 2, and 12
in Raeford No. 4.
The other totals were, in Raeford
1, 2, and 4, in that order:
For Clark: 38-67-10 = 115
Gentry: 37-70-10 = 117
Hedgpeth: 37-70-13 = 120
McLeod: 36-71-11 = 118
Morris: 38-68-11 = 117
made the motion indicating the
raises would not be fair to the
county employees in other de
partments.
After DeVane made the motion
but before it was voted on. Home
told the commissioners "the
problem can't wait till July." He
said one health department work
er in another county is being paid
$14,400 though she has less ex
perience than anyone in the health
department.
Home said he'd hate to lose
someone with eight years' experi
ence, and that he tried for "1 10 per
cent work" out of the staff before
asking for raises, indicating the
employees were handling all the
work they can now.
Home said that, on Monday
morning, when he arrived at the
department he found 138 people
waiting for service, and the daily 10
a.m. "rush" still lay ahead.
Home said it's going to take two
people to replace the clerk (for
whom he had asked reclassifi
cation). He said she has to drive 40
miles to work from Fayetteville
every day, and that she could get a
similar public job in Fayetteville
with a salary increase and merit
raises.
The commissioners also adopted
a motion made by DeVane ap
proving reimbursement of not more
than $150 educational expense for
a CETA employee in the health
department as a laboratory tech
nician. Home said she needs to
have a basic course in biology.
The same motion turned down
requests for reimbursement of edu
cational expenses for two health
department nurses, who. Home
said, took extra at Pembroke State
University at their own expenses on
their own time, and without being
required to.
The commissioners in other ac
tion adopted a motion to put the
county "on the list" in a Memo
randum of Agreement with the
State Office of State Personnel for
development of a classification pay
plan for county employees. They
were informed it will take about a
year for the state agency to serve
Hoke, in view of the current length
of the waiting list.
OTHER BUSINESS
The commissioners also voted to
buy aerial photographs of Raeford
extending a mile beyond the city
limits, for $3,152. for tax mapping
purposes.
They also decided to ask for bids
on the work of re-evaluating private
real property for tax purposes. This
will be the re-evaluation required
by the state to be made by each
county every eight years by a
private, non - county organization.
The Hoke re - evaluation is due to
be completed in 1982.
The Bank of Raeford was de
clared the central depository for
county funds, in another motion
adopted by the commissioners.
Wendell S. Young. Hoke County
Agricultural Extension Service
chairman, told the commissioners a
Hoke County exhibit on county
resources will be on display at the
1980 State Fair in Raleigh.
He also reported cooperation had
been good on the part of the people
of Pine Hill, Scurlock, and South
Hoke communities in cleaning up
trash in a project guided by Willie
Featherstone. county Extension as
sociate agent.
He said the Mt. Grove Church
cemetery also has cleaned up in the
pr ' rt.
motion to enter into a joint contract
with Raeford to have test borings
made at prospective sites of the new
county landfill. The work will cost
about $2,500.
The commissioners authorized
spending of $500 and use by the
Hoke County chapter of the North
Carolina Symphony Society of
Bicentennial funds to help pay the
expense of having a North Carolina
Symphony concert given free of
charge to students.
One concert is scheduled for 8
p.m. Feb. 21, with junior and
senior high school students ad
mitted free of charge; and another,
on the morning of Feb. 22, for
students in the fourth through sixth
grades.
The Feb. 21 concert also is for
adults, who have paid by buying
memberships in the Hoke County
Chapter of the North Carolina
Symphony, or in other ways.
commissioners adopted a