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The Hoke County News - Established 1928
VOLUME LXX1 NUMBER 43 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Also Acts On Recreation Pay , Reappraisal Contract
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The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
S8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 , 1 980
Board Aids Program For
Handicapped
Around
Town
Y BY SAM C.MORRIS
1 will be glad when the winter is
gone and "Spring has Sprung."
The past few mornings have been
too cold for me. Anyway the
forecast is for warmer weather the
remainder of the week.
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A The following letter is self -
explanatory:
A Letter To The Public:
We thank God for the many
gifts of love" and which we have
been blessed these past few
months, and for the "joy of
success."
We thank the local and area
merchants, dealers, and individ
uals who donated merchandise to
make our Raffles and our Turkey
%)inner and Bazaar successful.
We thank the staff members of
The News-Journal and WSHB for
the publicity extended on our
behalf.
Also, we thank the parents and
friends for contributing both
material gifts and so many hours
working tirelessly with us. We enjoy
your fellowship, getting to know
you. as we participate in each
yoject.
* And, of course, we applaud the
Hoke High Chorus, Chorale and
Band, and the Upchurch Chorus
and Band, and Mrs. Mary Archie
McNeill, Mrs. Linda Huff, and Mr.
Jimmy James! Together they make
such beautiful music! We do
appreciate their dedicated efforts in
striving for achievement.
We thank each and everyone of
you so very much, and look forward
io continuing our relationship.
Sincerely.
Executive Board Members.
1979-80
Hoke County
Music Booster Association
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This letter was received last week
after an item in this column
yncerning Raeford Institute and
wlaj. M. McR. McLauchlin ap
peared a couple of weeks ago. The
writer is the son of Mrs. Beatrice
McLauchlin of Charlotte and the
late H.C. McLauchlin. The Mc
Lauchlins lived in the house where
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Upchurch now
stay on N. Main Street.
Hugh McLauchlin graduated
from Hoke County High School in
the early 1940s and is well - known
^y the older settlers of this com
mumity.
The letter follows:
Dear Sam:
You do not hear from me often,
but 1 keep up with Raeford through
the paper and in particular through
your marvelous column.
Your last column about the
Raeford Institute refers to Mur
doch McRae McLauchlin. and 1
<?im sure this must be my cousin.
Enclosed is a letter he wrote from
Davidson College some forty years
before the advertisement referred
to in your column. I hope you will
find it interesting.
Who ever copied this letter
originally believed it was written to
his cousin, Archibald, who did
have a sister. Sarah, and a brother,
Neill. However, the third para
graph suggests it was written to a
, female cousin who could have been
either Mary Ann or my Great Aunt
Catherine, both of whom had
brothers named Neill and sisters
named Sarah.
To help you follow this con
nection. 1 am also enclosing a copy
of our family tree which was
prepared by William McLauchlin.
son of Murdoch McRae Mc
Lauchlin.
Please do not ever stop writing
''lour column. 1 enjoy it thoroughly,
riease give my best w ishes to all my
Raeford friends.
Hugh C. McLauchlin
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This letter from Frank Jeter. Jr.
is self-explanatory:
Dear Sam:
As you see. we continue to get
some coverage on Art Gore's good
M:. (See AROUND TOWN, page 15)
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DEADLINE DA Y ?? The people in this line are waiting I heir turn early Friday afternoon to huy their I9H0 state
motor vehicle license tags. The deadline for showing the old ones was midnight that day. The picture was taken
from the front lawn of Raeford Presbyterian Church looking toward the license agency office, behind the trees in
the left background. Other people were waiting in vehicles parked on Edin borough Avenue at the left beyond the
picture.
In Off-duty Policeman 's, Richard Fields ' Cases
The Hoke County commis
sioners at their mid-month meeting
Monday night approved a pay
range of $12,500 to $14,500 a year
for the Hoke County recreation
director, voted an extra $2,000 for
the rest of the fiscal year to meet
increased travel expenses for a pro
gram for the handicapped, and
granted the county's reappraisal
contract to Allen Appraisal, Inc.,
of Laurinburg.
The action on the recreation
director's pay was taken after
W.K. Morgan, Jr., chairman of
the County Recreation Commis
sion, discussed the commission's
original recommendations
--$14,500 annually for the director
and $10,700 for the athletic or
assistant director.
Commissioner Danny DeVane
said the pay range would allow
flexibility in negotiations. The pro
posal for the range was approved
at the regular February meeting by
John Balfour, chairman of the
board of county commissioners, as
well as DeVane, who had proposed
it, but the matter was tabled for
further study.
The commissioners decided not
to act on the recommendation of
the higher pay for the assistant or
athletic director till after the new
director is appointed. The appoint
ment is scheduled to be made
March 23, to fill the vacancy
created by the resignation in
2 Not Guilty Of Assaulting Each Other
Hoke County District Court
Judge Joseph E. Dupree Friday
found Raeford Policeman James
Lee Madden and Richard Dale
Fields innocent of the assault
charges they had filed against each
other.
The judge said after hearing 1 1
witnesses testify that if a third party
had filed the charges. "I'd lax each
a fine and costs."
Judge Dupree said earlier he
wasn't accusing anyone of anything
but "if Mr. Fields by using his
mouth. ..brought on a confronta
tion with an officer who is off duty,
if that officer in the first instance
slapped Mr. Fields, and of this and
all that transpired, the high court
has held that Mr. Fields is just as
guilty" as he who struck the blow.
Madden and Fields had pleaded
not guilty.
The trials, consolidated, took
about an hour and SO minutes.
Each testified he had acted in
self defense in the incident last
Dec. 28 outside the County Super
market on Rockfish Road about
two miles east of Raeford. Madden
testified he was off duty at the time
with three other officers also off
duty -- Hoke County Deputies
Sheriff J.R. Riley and C.R. Wilson
and Raeford Policeman Weaver
Patterson -- and Riley's stepson,
Chris. The three other officers
testified in support of Madden's
testimony to the affect that Fields
had called Madden a vulgar name
in the store, then later attacked
Madden as Madden was sitting in a
Orchestra Concert
At Upchurch Thursday
The place for the North Carolina
Chamber Orchestra concert of
Thursday night has been changed
to the Upchurch Junior High
School auditorium from Hoke
County High Schools gymna
torium.
But the Friday morning concert
will be held in the Hoke High
gymnatorium as originally sche
duled.
The Thursday night concert will
start at 8 o'clock, and the Friday
morning program at 10:15. The
Friday morning concert is for
students in grades four through six
of the Hoke County Schools.
Bloch's "Suite Hebraique." per
formed by violist Phyllis Weins
Sandgren. and the "Winter" move
ment from Vivaldi's "The Four
Seasons." performed by violinist
Suzanne Kelly, will highlight the
concert on Thursday, Artistic Di
rector and Conductor John Gosling
recently announced.
The remainder of the concert will
be Cimarosa's Overture to "11
Matrimonio Segreto." "Mozart's
"Divertimento No. 2 in D Major."
and selections from "West Side
Story" by Bernstein.
Ms. Sandgren has been a mem
ber of the N.C. Symphony since
1977. A student of Hu^h Partridge
at Wichita State University, she
also studied under Lillian Fuchs
and Samuel Rhoads at the Aspen
Music Festival. She appeared as
soloist with the Wichita Symphony
in 1972 and was a soloist with the
Aspen Music Festival Orchestra in
1975.
Ms. Kelly has been a member of
the violin section of the North
Carolina Symphony Orchestra
since 1972. She is a graduate of the
Interlochen Arts Academy where
she studied with Joseph Knitzer.
She received her bachelor's degree
in music from the University of
Illinois, with violin studies under
Paul Roland. She has been a
member of the Sante Fe Opera
orchestra for eight summers and
has played with the New Orleans
Symphony and the Canadian Na
tional Ballet orchestra.
Now in his eighth season as
artistic director and conductor ot
the North Carolina Symphony.
John Gosling led the orchestra in it
premiere concerts in New York's
Carnegie Hall in 1977, Washing
ton's John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts in April 1978.
and in Chicago's Orchestra Hall in
October 1978.
The founder of "Music from
Bear Valley." the music festival
held each year in California's High
Sierra mountains. Gosling was
educated at the Juilliard School
and the Catholic University ot
America. He also serves on the
Board of Directors of the Conduc
tors Guild of the American Sym
phony Orchestra League.
The symphony, which received
critical acclaim for its New York.
Washington and Chicago debuts,
it's the only major orchestra be
tween Atlanta and Washington.
D.C. Performing evening concerts
to adults and educational matinees
to N.C. school children, the sym
phony and its ensembles each year
travel over 19,000 miles and per
form to audiences numbering more
than a quarter of a million people.
This will be the only concert by
the North Carolina Symphony in
Raeford this year.
Tickets will be available at the
door at S6 for adults and S3 for
students, senior citizens and Sym
phony Society members.
car with the three other officers and
the boy.
The officers testified Madden got
out of the car after Fields punched
him in the mouth and that Fields
hit him three more times with his
fists before Madden acted in self
defense, punching Fields several
limes after Fields irippcd and fell.
The officers testified they had
gone to the store to get some steaks
after having been deer hunting and
I lint Fields entered the store while
I lies were there.
Fields testified he went to the
store, a quarter of a mile from his
home, to get a gallon of kerosene,
that he didn't say anything to the
officers, paid for the fuel and left.
He said after he got into his car.
Madden came to him and told him
that if Fields came to Raeford
Madden was going to watch every
thing Fields did. Fields said Mad
den called him a punk and jerked
the car door open after Fields had
started the motor.
Fields also testified Patterson
told him he also would watch
everything Fields did if Fields came
to Raeford.
At the start of the trials. Madden
testified he had arrested Fields in
November on a charge of posses
sion of marijuana.
One witness for Fields testified
they saw Madden holding Fields by
the shirt and another said he saw
Madden raise his fist at Fields
though he couldn't say whether he
hit Fields with his fist or open
hand.
Fields testified that after the
incident he felt he should do
something about it. so he walked
back to the store to find witnesses
who had seen the incident, to
prepare to get a warrant.
He said the officers' car pulled
over by the side of the road, and
Madden "got out of the car like a
wild man.' He said Madden struck
him first and that he acted in self
defense. He also said he had taken
off his coat but. contrary to what
testifying officers said, he didn't
remove his shirt, that Madden
grabbed it . and he slipped out of it .
Madden testified that in the first
incident, while he and the others
were in the store, he heard Fields
say something about some "pigs."
When he turned around, he said,
he found Fields staring at him.
Outside the store, he said. Fields
was sitting in Field's car with the
door open. He quoted Fields as
saying. "You S.O.B. I want you to
meet me somewhere in front of my
house."
Madden said, "I waved my
finger in front of his face and said.
'You punk. I'll meet you anywhere
you want."
Other testimony was Wilson and
Patterson took Madden by the
arms and drew him away from
Field's car. Patterson testified.
however, he merely placed a hand
on Madden's arm, but that Mad
den walked away without being
pulled.
Madden said after Fields left the
officers started leaving in the car
with Riley driving and were about
to enter the highway when Fields
appeared, walking toward them.
He and other officers testified
that Fields used the term "S O B."
again. Riley got out of the car.
asked whether Fields was talking to
him, and Fields replied he wasn't
that he was talking to "the S.O.B.
in the back seat."
Madden testified he rolled the
car window open, then Fields
punched him in the mouth, cutting
his lip.
Wilson testified he had held
Madden at first but then released
him after Fields punched Madden.
Replying to a question put by
Field's attorney. Neill Fleishman of
Fayetteville. Wilson said he wasn't
going to hold anyone while some
one was punching him out.
He and Madden testified Mad
den. with his hands down by his
side, walked toward Fields and
didn't strike back till Fields hit him
three more times. Then. Riley told
Madden. " That's enough." Rilev
testified. He quoted Fields as
saving after that. "I'll get even with
vou S.O.B.s."
Fleishman asked Riley why
didn't he drive off when he saw
Fields coming, and Riley replied he
couldn't. Earlier in his testimony
the officer said Fields crossed in
front of the car as he was
approaching.
In other testimony. Madden said
he hadn't been drinking. Wilson,
replying to a question also, said he
(Wilson) had had three to four
beers.
Wilson testified Fields appeared
to be sw aying back and forth as he
was w alking toward the officers' car
and "in my opinion w as intoxicated
to some degree."
Later, however, the judge read a
statment he said was written bv Dr.
R.M. Jcrdan. a Raeford physician
saying the doctor had seen no
evidence of intoxication nor the
odor of alcohol on Fields when he
examined Fields following the inci
dents.
A witness who said she had
known Fields "all his life." said
that she saw no difference in Fields
when she saw him after the
incidents, from his appearance at
other times, "except that he was
beat up." The witness. Pauline
Pittman. said that Field s face was
swollen and bloody and that he had
no shirt on when she saw him after
the argument.
When Fleishman asked Wilson
why he and the other officers didn't
act officially at the scene, Wilson
(See NOT GUILTY, page 15)
January of Director Don
Slaughter. The athletic director,
Anne Howell Pate, receives a
salary of about $9,800 now.
Morgan told the commissioners
23 applications for the job had
been received by the commission,
from as far off as Pennsylvania
and Indiana. Speaking of the
salaries, Morgan told the commis
sioners the reason for asking
SI 4,500 is the commission cannot
now offer an applicant pay securi
ty
Replying to a question from a
commissioner also, Morgan said
there is a possibility that Mrs. Pate
would be appointed director,
which would leave the assistant or
athletic directorship to be filled,
and this was the reason the com
missioners postponed action on the
recommended $10,700 salary.
The commissioners voted the
County Association for the
Developmental Disabled an addi
tional $1,000 per quarter for the
last two quarters of the fiscal year,
which will end June 30, after hear
ing Judy Hendrix and Mrs.
Elizabeth Park, association
treasurer, report expenses for
operation and maintenance of the
van used to transport disabled
Hoke County people to the Scot
tish Crafts workshop in Laurin
burg had risen. Mrs. Park in
dicated the level of expense was at
the point ihat the program was en
dangered.
Ms. Hendrix is director of the
Hoke County Children's Center
but was appearing on behalf of the
association.
i ne contract tor reappraising
property in the county tor county
tax purposes is tor $85,000. Allen
and Southern Appraisal Co. of Sea
Level. N.C. submitted identical
bids last month. The commis
sioners interviewed a represen
tative of each company separately
at their l;cb. 4 meeting to make a
choice.
The vote to let the contract to
Allen was 3-2. on the first count,
but Balfour and Commissioner
James A. Hunt, who had cast the
"no" votes, changed 'heir votes to
"yes" to make the count
unanimous.
In other action, the commis
sioners adopted a resolution re
questing the State Department ot
Transportation tour-lane U.S. 401
north from Raeford to the existing
four-laning in Cumberland County
just beyond the Hoke border, near
71st High School. The resolution
will be presented at a DOT
highway meeting March 6 in
Southern Pines.
Earlier, the commissioners
adopted a motion authorizing the
Burroughs C o. to survey the coun
ty to determine what its needs in
reference to a computer are and
what the county is doing now.
Shelley Foster. Burroughs territory
manager lor tise counties in
cluding Hoke asked lor the
authorization. She explained this
was the second of the regular live
steps the company uses in discuss
ing a computer sale. The final step,
she said is the proposal, but none
of the steps cost a county anything.
The commissioners also adopted
a motion changing the name ot the
Hoke County Civil Preparedness
Agency to the Hoke County
Emergency Management \gencv.
Thev acted after Bill Niven, county
CP coordinator, informed them
the state had recommended the
change. He said the change in
name had been made b> the federal
agency and the change was sought
for the local organizations.
The commissioners also voted
Niven a $64 expense account to at
lend the meeting of the North
Carolina Association of local
Government Employee Safety Ot
ficials scheduled for Raleigh
March 6-7.
Fire Report
Sends Hunt
Home From Meet
Hoke County Commissioner
James Hunt left the mid-month
meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners Monday night after
saying he'd just been informed his
house was on fire.
He returned about 20 minutes
later, however, reporting a fire did
break out but it was some paper in
the chimney and had not ignited
wood of the house itself.