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- journal The Hoke County News - Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXXI NUMBER 37 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1980 In Resolution On Federal Fund Program Board Asks Revenue- sharing Extension Around Town BY SAM C. MORRIS The weather is cold and the snow that was predicted came early Saturday morning. It was hard for me to believe that snow was on my car when I went out to pick up the paper that morning. When I went up the street later in the morning Jimmy Conoly said that the snow had covered the ground around 3:30 a.m. Robert VJatlin said that the snow was so heavy according to reports that the highway men were called out and that some of the crew were talking about the snow at the coffee shop that morning. Of course the early morning snow is a big disappointment to the ladies of the newspaper composing room. All day Friday they were calling the front office and asking Pam if it was snowing. Once when |>ome rain fell. Pam called and said it was snowing, and it sounded like a stampede of cattle coming to the front to see the snow. Bad luck ladies, but maybe next time. The forecast is for cold weather all week. * * * 0 Have you listed your taxes or purchased your 1980 license tag. If not. now is the time for the wait is not long at all. Can't you remember the picture last year of the long lines in the bitter cold weather waiting to purchase tags. The way to elimi nate the wait is to buy now and of course this will also aid the people in the license office. You must have tags to ride so get A^iem now. Also you must list your property or you will be penalized. * * * A nice letter came last week from the Rev. Zane Gray Norton of Charlotte. Thanks Zane Gray. ? ? * ^ Whenever you think that Rae ford is a bad place to live, might be because you haven't lived anywhere else. The writer of the following letter in a few short sentences tells what Raeford has meant to her and her husband. Thanks for the letter and we will print it to let our readers share your thoughts about Raeford. The letter follows: f "Dear Mr. Morris; "As the year comes to a close we would like to thank you and your staff for all that you have done for us this year. Our people love to see their pictures in the news and look forward to the "paper" on Wed. "The wonderful Town of Rae ford has made our work so much easier over the years that we have been here. Everyone, young and ?>ld. treat our people so special. Not only people like our beloved Mrs. Freeman. Mrs. McGoogan and other home town people but also our residents from other areas. Each one has come to call Raeford home. "John and I could never say thank you to everyone in Raeford enough. Being transplants we can truly say. 'Raeford is our town.' " "Sincerely Kathy Leandro." A, "P.S. My maiden name is ^Morris! Maybe we're kin." In case some don't know John and Kathy Leandro own and operate the Open Arms Rest Home. This is the type of letter I like to use in my column. We might be kin Kathy because we both love the Town of Raeford. Office Needs The Hoke County Parks and Recreation Commission needs shoe boxes with lids, paper towel tubes and L'eggs containers for children's craft classes. If transportation is a problem and you have any of the above items, please give us a call and pick ^up time will be arranged. The Board of Hoke County Commissioners Monday adopted a resolution calling for re-enactment of a form of federal aid known as General Revenue Sharing. The program is due to end on Sept. 30 and will have to be reauthorized during the current session of Congress. The commissioners acted on the resolution during their regular meeting for January. General Revenue Sharing was started in 1972 with passage of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act. It is a program of federal aid which allows counties and munici palities to receive a portion of the federal income tax, based on a formula which takes into account the population, tax effort, and several other factors related to each county. General Revenue Sharing is an "entitlement" program, which means that the county does not have to apply to receive its share of the money. Because of the pro gram's simplicity, no required application or review procedure, it has the lowest administrative cost On Jan, 21 of any of the federal aid programs, using less than 1% of its Congressional allotment in admin istrative costs. The program was begun in an attempt to relieve the burden of financing services on those gov ernments which traditionally rely on a more aggressive form of revenue, such as the property tax. Hoke County has received more than $2, 505, 693 in General Revenue Sharing funds since the beginning of the program. Should the program not be renewed, the commissioners will be forced to decide whether to cut back on services which have been provided with the funds, or continue the service with an increase in the property tax to support the revenue loss. In Hoke County, the General Revenue Sharing funds are cur rently being used for Tax Mapping. Rescue Squad and Ambulance Service, Fire Departments. Land fill, Recreation and School Capital Outlay. If the program is not renewed some current services would have to Council To Hear Waste Study Report The Raeford City Council Monday night scheduled a special meeting for 7 p.m. Jan. 21 to hear a report of the results of a study of industrial waste being dumped into the city sewer system, and recom mendations of steps, if any, in dustry and city should take. The report of the results of the study and the recommendations will be made by representatives of the engineering firm, Moore, Gardner & Associates of Asheboro. The city officials will assimilate the report, then decide what kind of policy, if any, should be established at the council's February meeting. The study was made to be sure that the city was complying with federal Environmental Protection Agency and State regulations regarding industrial waste disposal. Mayor John K. McNeill, Jr., and City Manager Ron Matthews visited each industry in connection with the industrial waste study during the Christmas period. The mayor was notified recently that the Moore, Gardner report should be ready about Jan. 21. The special meeting will be open FOR REELECTION - Danny DeVane filed Monday for reelec tion to the board of Hoke County Commissioners. He paid his filing fee with the County Board of Elections as a candidate for his second four-year term. The filing period for all candidates for North Carolina public offices opened Monday and will close at 5 p.m. Feb. 5. to the public. Monday night's meeting was the council's regular session for Jan uary. Among other business during the relatively brief session, the council adopted a resolution that a city - owned business machine, no longer used, be exchanged for a 15 - kilowatt generator owned by Hoke County but no longer needed by the county. The county commissioners Monday morning adopted a resolution approving the exchange. Mayor John K. McNeill Jr., during the meeting advised the councilmen he wanted them to think about the city's applying to Gov. Jim Hunt for Growth Center Status for the city. This is a program to help communities improve, with federal financial assistance, their attractions as sites for industries. The money is used to improve water and sewer systems and other facilities. After the regular meeting was adjourned, the council held an executive session for discussion of land acquisition at the municipal airport. S2, 500 FOR CIVIC CENTER ? The local plants of Burlington Menswear made a presentation of S2.500 recently to the Raeford Civic Center to help defrav costs of a new heating and air conditioning system. Managers Gib Bernhardt [left] of the Dyeing Plant and Cecil Bond [right] of the Raeford Plant made the presentation to David Smith [center], president of the civic center organization. be decreased or property taxes would have to be increased by 23 cents per $100 property evaluation to maintain the current level. LEGAL SERVICES In other business, the commis sioners adopted a motion to provide S832 for a year for the program giving legal help to Hoke County low- income people age 60 and older. The program is provided by the Lumbee River Legal Services, Inc., and Hoke and Scotland County would share a traveling attorney who would visit the clients in their homes, in hospitals, rest or nursing homes -- wherever they were living. The commissioners were asked for the financial help at their Dec. 17 mid-month meeting by Julian Pierce of the Lumbee River organi zation. He explained the program is educational and provides direct legal help with making wills, applying for Social Security and other benefits available to the older people. The county's share amounts to 12 '/a percent of the total required for the year's opera tion. The federal government will pay 75 percent and the other 12Vi percent will be made up by the county in "in-kind" services. John Balfour, chairman of the board of commissioners, told the other commissioners during the discussion of the program his in quiries showed the educational benefits alone were worth the S832 expense. On the advice of County Man ager James Martin, the commis sioners made the motion an amend ment to the county budget and the money be drawn for the contin gency fund. EMS COUNCIL The meeting's longest discussion concerned the appointments of Hoke County people to the Re gional Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council. Commissioner Mabel Riley ob jected to the Lumber River Council of Governments board appointing a Hoke County person to the board. She said, "COG has no right to make an appointment" involving Hoke County people, that this was SI, 000 DONATION ?? George Kitchens, [left] treasurer of House of Raeford Farms. Inc.. is pictured above presenting a check for SI. 000 to David Smith, chairman of the Hoke County Civic Center Committee. The donation is made to help with the cost of installing a new heating and air conditioning system for the Civic Center. Hoke Recreation Director Resigns Don Slaughter resigned Monday night as director of the Hoke County Parks and Recreation Com mission. He filed his resignation with the commission during the organiza tion's regular meeting. Slaughter will leave the position at the end of the working day Jan. 18. He told The News-Journal he was going to work in Kingsport, Tenn., and would leave Raeford for Kings port soon after his last day of work here. Slaughter is a native of Kings port. He is 38. He went to work as Hoke parks and recreation director in June 1976 after serving in Henderson ville in a similar position. Slaughter is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hoke County Arts Council and the Advisory Board of the Hoke County Unit, Sandhills Mental Health Center, is district commissioner of the American Softball Association, Don Slaughter and chairman of the Hoke County Community Schools Advisory Board. He also is a member of Raeford United Methodist Church. Fire Destroys Utility Room; Family Unhurt A fire early Thursday destroyed a utility room and caused smoke damage to the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Clark at 401 E. Prospect Ave. but the family escaped injury. Raeford Assistant Fire Chief Robert Jackson report ed. He estimated the damage to the utility room at about S8.000. Jackson said the fire department, three blocks from the house, received the alarm at 12:12 a.m., and the firemen "knocked down" the blaze in a short time but stayed on the scene about an hour and a quarter altogether, spending the rest of the lime making sure the fire wouldn't flare up again. He said the Clarks and their children had gone to bed for the night before the fire was discover ed. Jackson said the utility room, which was behind the carport, was in flames and the fire was burning the roof when the firemen arrived. He s^iid the fire apparently started from a drier in tne utility room. The drier, a freezer and stored personal property were de stroyed by the fire, he added. Jackson said the odor of smoke would make the house uninhabit able temporarily. c^Unty comm?"?oners should do. She was referring to the appointment of Jim Henley, co manapr of the Hoke County Ambulance Service to fill a vacancy on the council. y r,nCrHmil5i?nCr Danny D?Vane replied, however, that he had known there was some opposition on the county board to the ap pointment but he had not known the extent of it and that he had planned to attend the COG meet mfdt1 h'h?ich th? ?PP?intment was made but wasn t able to. He also pointed out that the Advisory Council is just an advisory not a policy-making, group. . Later, witfi Un. Riley voting ' .the other commissioners adopted a motion by DeVane that Henley s appointment by COG be approved. Mrs. Riley said just before the vote was cast that "I hanHi Jl? "en|cy has all he can handle. She referred to his plans Cumberland County?0* ta Arno?nSBurUngton Industries nurse, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation from the council of Mrs. Floyd Crowder. My mAade the motion to appoint Ms. Arno. Earlier in the discussion, Mrs. Riley said the commissioners should appoint a woman and nurse to the bo?d. . DeVane had said in the discus sion of the other appointment that shouMe?enCy ?d,cal ^hnician should be appointed to the va cancy created by the leaving of Eric Allen, because Allen was an EMT In the discussion of Henley also! fh^wn? ? made a motion that asked?^C unty Rescue S<Iua<l be . subm,t t0 thc comm?" sioners a recommendation for Al len s vacancy. The commissioners ?doP* fd. l.he motion but later rescinded it and made the aD pomtments. p .innlrt action' thc commis sioners recommended to COG the appointment of Anna Peele, a Hoke County Agricultural Exten s'on bemce home economics agent. o the Regional Employment and c^raraftioPESTy L taxes on its property in Hoke County was denied brthe commissioners on grounds that the church has no immediate plans for building on the lot, consequently the commissioners could not make a tax release legally. Need For Computer Cited The Hoke County Board of Education Tuesday night adopted a motion to budget for 1980-81 a year s payment on a new buSLi machine computer the State De partment of Public Instruction wants local school systems to have to be compatible with a new state computer. Whether the fund, whose amount was not specified is used depends on whether the county commissioners approve the proposed school budget without cutting. The action was taken during the board s regular meeting for Jan uary after Bob Thornton of the Burroughs Co., the supplier of the state computer equipment, and County Schools Sunt, Raz Autrv explained the benefits. lry Essentially the board was told that the state would provide help tor local school units which bought the Burroughs models but not Tor units, like Hoke, if it used another type that wouldn't fit into the state system. Hoke currently is using a machine the school system bought about five years ago for $24,000 plus an S8.000 allowance for trade-in on the system's old equip ment. M F Thornton told the school board that the fcomplete price except for supplies is 547,236.31. without the trade-in allowance for the present k Autry e*r,,er told the board before introducing Thornton the cost with the trade-in allowance would be about 138,500. I*1. ,IUJ5?liei for two years would cost S1.500 to $2,500. Thornton (See COMPUTER, page 14)
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