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15 The Hoke County News - Established 1928 VOLUME LXXI NUMBER 31 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA - journal 25 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1979 Around Town BY SAM C. MORRIS The weather was Fine for the ?ekend, but we had about three itches of rain Sunday night. This is Ifficial as it came from Robert iatlin. Gatlin was in the office Monday morning and was telling be that his pond was out of its '?nks and that it was so bad he puldn't get to his boat house. He kated that more rain fell north of lie city than fell in Raeford. The forecast is for cooler weather t>r the remainder of the week. Thanksgiving Day was quiet in laeford and I believe most people we a big meal and rested during Se day. Of course the Christmas uradcs and tootball games were patched by many people on tele rjsion. A number ot places were Hosed on Friday also, but many of lis started the old grind after the turkey day off. Now it is almost "hristmas time. While on the subject of Christ as, we noticed that the Christmas ..lights have been put in place and I were turned on after Thanksgiving. These lights are Financed by the merchants and the street depart ment of the city puts them up every rar. These decorations are real ex pensive and help give the city a ^Christmas look, so when you are ^shopping mention them to the 'merchants and show your appre ciation for the decorations. w * * * i The annual Pancake Supper sponsored by the Raeford Kiwanis Club will be held on Friday night, December 7 at the Gibson Cafe ^teria starting at Five o'clock. The flfay has been changed from the ^ usual Thursday date so everyone should take notice of this change. If you need tickets you can purchase them from any Kiwanian lor from Key Club members at the high school. All proceeds will go to |pcal civic projects. ? * ? Ever since the day 1 started blaying golf I have always wanted ' hit a golf ball out of sight. Well. kt Thanksgiving morning at trabia Golf Course, mv wish came fue, on the first tee 1 drove the ball id it went out of sight. Of course a eavy fog was so you couldn't see venty feet beyond the tee. but the all went out of sight down the reway. So a little fog can help Jme times. Mrs. Thelma Vann, nee Thelma shnson. native of Raeford who pw lives in California, called her lece. Agnes Mae Campbell to tell Wr that she had the Raeford lanksgiving spirit with a cooked llouse of Raeford turkey that she jrchased there. She wanted the eople at the House of Raeford ?urkcy Plant to know how good it hs. Recently Ken Witherspoon. di tor of the department of social jrvices was talking to me about irlping needy families at Christmas Ina wanted to know how this was landled in the county. 1 informed Mm that many times 1 mentioned this column that people try to go ^trough one agency so that every jne can be helped at Christmas 'me. rThis week I received the follow ing letter from Ken and think that everyone should try to go through nis department if they want to aid in individual or a family. The letter is as follows: tar Sam. With Thanksgiving behind us. f thoughts are now directed ards the Christmas season with of its joy and celebration, everal individuals and churches *ve already contacted the de hlment about sharing their re kirces with those less fortunate jdividuals in Hoke County. [Since this is my first Christmas th the department, 1 believe that would be a good idea with your listance if we could communicate h the community what the AROUND TOWN, page 15) | For Work In Pest-eradication Program Hoke Second In 14-county Tobacco Competition A A A A A A A A A A A A A * * * In National 4-H Exhibit Allen Sandy's Photo To Represent State A picture by Allen Sandy of Racford has been chosen to repre sent North Carolina in the sixth annual National 4-H Exhibit spon sored by Eastman Kodak Com pany. In recognition ot his participa tion. he will receive a speaicl Kodak Centennial Medallion for excel lence in amateur photography as a part of the company's celebration ol" its 100th anniversary in 1980. Made up of no more than four pictures from each state, the exhibit is being shown for the first time at the annual 4-H Congress in Chicago, this week will be on display at the National 4-H Center in Washington, D.C.. next year. The 4-H'ers is represented by "And the Spirit Fills the Darkness of the Heavens." He also attended the 1978 National 4-H Congress. Exhibit photos have been se lected by the cooperative extension service in each state. Kodak has printed and mounted the photos lor the national display, affixing a seal of recognition and will give each 4-H'er represented an en larged print. 4 H KODAK HONOR RAH FORD YOUTH - This photo by Allen Sandy "I RaeJ'ord Inn I been chosen to represent North Carolina in the sixth annual National 4-H Photo Exhibit sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company. In recognition of ' his participation, he will receive a special Kodak Centennial Medallion for excellence in amateur photography as a part of the company 's celebration of its lllfhh anniversary in 19X0. Another of Sandy's photos won national honors and was used for the cover illustration ot tin edition ot the national 4-H magazine. AWARDS FOR HOKE ?? Larry Lock/ear. Hoke County Agricultural Extension Service farm agent, displays the awards the county received Nov. 2D in Raleigh for Hoke farmers and other agriculture-related people in the R-9-P tobacco pest eradication program for the past year. Lock/ear is holding the $350 check and the Silver A ward plaque of the TUCO Division of The Upjohn Co. for the county 's placing second in H-coumy Area C of the statewide Disc for Dolalrs. and the Stale Agricultural Extension Service GuUh/n Award for completing the first three steps of the R-9-P program with at least 99 percent of the county 's tobacco farmers and others connected with agriculture participating Dinners Celebrate Plant's Safety Mark The Burlington Menswear Dye ing Plant at Raeford celebrated Nov. 21 its safety record of having dont through 5 million consecutive working hours without suffering an accident serious enough to keep a single employee off the job. This amounted to a total of 2.144 working days. The plant management cele brated by being host to four dinners to its employees and visiting special guests. The latter included man agement office people of the neighboring Raeford Plant of Burlington Menswear; former Raeford Plant manager Jack Bradford, now a Burlington group manager based at the Clarksville. Va.. plant, and an other staff representative from Clarksville; and Charlie Crocker. Burlington Industries corporate safety engineer based at the com pany's headquarters in Greens boro. Crocker and Bradford were among the speakers at the 12:30 p.m. dinner, which was for half the Dyeing Plant's employees working un the first shift, and guests from outside the plant. The other employees of the first shift had dinner at 11 a.m. The other dinners were at 3 a.m. for the third shift at b p.m. for the second. The plant's supervisors made up the serving team for the dinners. F. Gilbert (Gib) Bernhardt, the manager of the Dyeing Plant, was the official host. Pictures taken during the dinner are on page 13. Hoke County's tobacco farmers and others associated with the county's tobacco production have brought the county a prize of $350 a Silver Award plaque and an award for participation the past year in a tobacco-pest elimination program. The Silver Award and check were made to the county for placing second in 14-county Area C in the Disc for Dollars. It was held in conjunction with the R-9-P pro gram to eliminate pests from all tlue-cured tobacco lands in the state. The program was sponsored by The Upjohn Co.'s TUCO Divi sion, manufacturer of Enide 50w herbicide for tobacco. The Exten sion Service cooperated. The awards were won in Cate gory II, which is for counties with at least 1,500 acres and no more than 4,000 acres in flue-cured production. Hoke had about 2,200 acres in tobacco production the past year. The participation award was given by the North Carolina State University Agricultural Extension Service because all Hoke County tobacco farmers and Extension Homemakers clubs and agricul ture-related businesses participat ed. The awards were presented Nov. 20 at State University in Raleigh during the Research on Wheels Review. They were received for Hoke by Larry Locklear. county Extension farm agent for crop production. Other Hoke people also attended the meeting. The R-9-P is a campaign to reduce nine important pests that afflict tobacco: the diseases root knot. mosaic, brown spot, and vein banding; the insects hornworns, budworms and flea beetles; and weeds. The participation award of the Extension Service is based on the percentage completion by a county of the first four steps in the R-9-P program: ?Cut or shred tobacco stalks immediately after harvest is com pleted. --Disc or plow out stubbles within the same day. --Disc again two weeks later. --Seed a winter crop on the tobacco land. The counties Hoke competed with in Area C are Anson. Chat ham. Durham, Gates. Halifax. Hertford, Lee. Montgomery. Moore. Northampton. Orange. Richmond, and Scotland. The Community Plan for R-9-P involves neighbors working togeth er forming a united team to fight the tobacco pests, the Extension Service report on the program says. Jaycees To Sell 1 he Raetord Jaycees are partici pating in a state project selling Accent magazine. I he publication is on sale at The Decor Center. Avery Connell Agency, and The Party Shop, and Jaycees. will be selling the maga zines Friday afternoon and Satur day in downtown Raeford. Musical Comedy Chosen For 1980 Production Club To Give 'Little Mary Sunshine' Who is the girl that is "the sun shine of the sun", with a smile for one and all, is a bit old-fashioned, is the foster daughter of Chief Brown Bear - chief of the Kadotas (a tribe of two!), and the darling off all the Colorado forest rangers? Why, it's "Little Mary Sunshine", of course! The Raeford Junior Woman's Club is proud to announce that the musical "Little Mary Sunshine" has been selected to be presented as its spring production of 1980. This is a delightful musical by Rick Besoyan which is a take-off on many of the Jeannette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy movies of the early 1930s. It was first presented on Broad wav in 1959 2 Found Dead In Car A man and a woman were found dead about 7:40 a.m. Nov. 21 in a gray Buick parked in a field on the farm of Mrs. W.T. Everleigh in Antioch Township, the Hoke County Sheriffs Department re ported. The deaths were caused ap parently by carbon monoxide but the bodies were sent to Chapel Hill for autopsies to be made by the state chief medical examiner s of fice to determlae the causes specifically, the report says. The victims were identified as Samuel Willis Haywood. 29. of Rt. 1, Red Springs, and Mary C. McLean. 23. of Rt. 1, Shannon. A sheriffs officer found the bodies after he went to the farm in response to a call to the department made at 7:30 a.m. by Mrs. Everleigh that a car containing a man and a woman was in the field. The investigating officer found the car's lights on. The car was identified as Hay wood's. with an all-star cast which included Jeannette MacDonald as the lead character. The performances are scheduled for March 21-22 and 28-29 in the Hoke County High School gym torium. The price of a ticket is $4. Auditions for the roles of Mary Potts, (Little Mary Sunshine), "Big Jim" Warington, Billy Jester, Chief Brown Bear, Nancy Twinkle, Fleet Foot, Yellow Feather, General Oscar Fairfax, Ernestine von Liebedich, the young ladies from the Eastchester Finishing School, gentlemen of the United States forest rangers, dancers and singers will be held the nights of Dec. 4 and b, from 8 till 10:30 in the Fellowship Hall of Raeford Presbyterian Church. Everyone of any age is en couraged to try out. Everyone who plans to audition is advised to be prepared to sing one song of his or her choice, a song which shows the individual's vocal range and capabilities. An accompanist will be provided each evening. Because the practice schedule will be very demanding, it is asked that only those people who are tru ly dedicated to committing themselves to long hours of work, Saturday morning dance practices, and constant demands of their minds and strength are asked to audition. The chairman for the musical will be Chris Watkins, who directed last year's production of "Spring for Sure!" "The minute 1 read the libretto of this musical 1 knew that this was the one to follow the hit, 'Spring for Sure!' says Wakins. "The music is delightful and a real challenge to the normal singer. The characters are very real and as fun ny as the ones we created in last year's musical hit. 1 feel sure that the people of Raeford and the sur rounding area will be as delighted with 'Little Mary Sunshine' as 1 am!" Little Mary is the owner of the Colorado Inn, high in the Rocky Mountains, early in this century. Although she is poor and the government is going to take away her land and inn if she cannot raise the money for the mortgage. Mary is always cheery. Her foster father, Chief Brown Bear, lives with her at the inn. As a child, Mary lost her way while berry picking and was found by the savage Kadota In dians. The chief raised the young child and has stayed with her all through the year even though the tribe has dwindled down to only two Indians. The forest rangers of the area love Mary dearly and have named her "Little Mary Sunshine" because of her constant happiness and merriment. Captain "Big Jim" Warington is particularly fond of Mary but is shy about tell ing Mary of his love. The inn is kept occupied by the prim and proper girls ot the Eastchester Finishing School. These girls have been taught to (See PRODUCTION, page I 5)
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