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The Hoke County News - Established 1928
VOLUME LXXII NUMBER 2 RAEFORD. HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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THURSDAY. MAY 8. 1980
Around
Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
This column is being written on
Monday afternoon long before the
polh will open or close. We expect
to be an early voter at Raeford
Precinct No. 1 on Tuesday morn
ing.
I don't make predictions about
^elections as I am not a mind reader
rand from talking with many people
thc first of the week they still
haven't made up their minds about
who they would vote for in many
races. The comment from most of
these people is that they don't like
any of the candidates and would
end up voting for what they think
would be the lesser of the two or
more evils.
The election is very quite and
fcmost times this leads to a surprise
finish.
The forecast is for perfect
weather so this shouldn't give
anyone an excuse tor staying away
from the polls. As has been said
many limes in this column "if you
don't vote, then keep your mouth
shut about how the government is
being run."
? Jimmy James, director of bands
for the Hoke County Schools, made
his annual visit by the otTice this
week and asked that the newspaper
do him a favor. Of course most of
y\Hi already know what James is
wanting but to make him feci
happy I will *?i\e lorth the following
information.
The Hoke County High School
jthaml will be in concert at the
WMacDonald Gym on Thursday
night. May 8. 1980. The program
will kickotV at 8:00 o'clock sharp.
James states that the price ot
admission for the concert should lit
everyone's pocketbook even during
this inflation peri?>d. The price of
admission is KRHK.
So go out and listen to the music
from these musicians as some will
be playing for the last time for
Hoke Hi?>h.
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Every once and awhile you will
hear someone say that they would
like to go hack to the "good old
days." Now last Sunday morning at
the Raeforil Presbyterian Church
the Rev. Mr, Meeks ol the Fureka
Presbyterian Church near Carthage
Qfidn't make any bones about not
^anting to go back to those days.
He stated that if anyone that made
that statement had been born on a
one-horse farm in Arkat.sas they
would know what he meant. Paying
a high price tor butter or milk
didn't hurt him at all these days, he
said, because he milked a cow for
so many years, that he shook hands
with one finger lor almost half his
life
Now I was never on a farm in
{^Arkansas but the chore ol milking
a cow was a part of most you people
here in Hoke County many years
ago Of course all farmers had cows
but many people here in Raeford
had barns behind their homes and
milking the cow was something you
had to do and it was just the wav of
life.
When telling the above to some
JLneiuls recently, they agreed with
Vne preacher. One man said it was a
lot nicer to get up in the morning
and go to the batlm>oni inside and
use hot water for a bath, rather
than washing your face with pump
water and then goitik: down the
path to the outhouse.
Yes we have raised our standards
of living but as Mr Meeks said we
need to raise the "quality of our
lives."
I agreed 100%.
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The classes of 19.14-35 of Rae
ford High Sch?M>l will hold a
reunion on Mav .11. If you are a
member of either of these classes
how about contacting your class
chairman if you plan to attend.
Thev would like to make final
plans.
In Tuesday's Democratic Primary, Complete, Unofficial Returns Show
McPhatter, DeVane Renominated
First For Education Projects
Raeford Club
Wins State Honors
The Raeford Junior Woman's
Club received the state junior
woman's top honor in one division
and two second-place awards in two
others last week during the annual
convention of the North Carolina
Federation of Women's Clubs in
Asheville.
The Raeford Club received the
first-place Silver Award in educa
tion, in the Division of School
Priorities and Scholarships.
It was the club's first statewide
award for all-JWC work on its own.
In 1977 it received the statewide
Margaret Moore Bonner Award for
maintaining a good working rela
tionship with the Raeford Woman's
Club.
The Raeford Junior Woman's
Club last week also was announced
as having placed second in Volun
teers in Public Schools and in the
Performing Arts Division.
The club won the Silver Award
for its work in the Hoke County
school system, including the Camp
bell Soup program, tools tor educa
tion. volunteers in the reading
program, for giving SI. 000 to the
Hoke County Children's Center,
and for awarding two scholarships
a year to Hoke County High School
seniors.
The Volunteers in Public Schools
award is a special one. give tor
over-all work in education.
The club's other second-place
award for its production in 1979 of
"Spring for Sure."
The Rockingham club, which
placed second to the Raeford club
in the district, was judged the
winner in the Performing Arts
Division.
Jane Britt and Betty Williamson
of the Raeford club attended the
convention.
The convention opened April 28.
and the awards were presented at
the banquet May 1.
AT CIVIC LEAGUE BANQUET ? Show,, at Friday night s annual
Banuuet of the Hoke County Civic League are. LR. the guest speaker.
District of Columbia Congressman Walter E Fauntroy: Jimmy Morrisey.
president of the Hoke County Chapter of the Sationai Association for the
Adwmcement of Colored People. Sewnth District Congressman Charles
Rose of Fayettexille: and the Rew James L. Glenn, president of the Civic
League and pastor of Freedom Chapel AME Zion Church. |5/uf / photo by
Henry Blue |
By Hoke County Commissioners At Regular Meeting
Centennial Balance Allowed For Shelter
The Hoke County Commis
sioners Monday granted a request
of the county Bicentennial Com
mission to permit use of the
unspent portion of the county's
grant to help pay for establishment
of a recreational shelter in Mc
Lauchlin Park.
The commissioners at their first
Monday meeting for May adopted
a motion to this effect. The
commissioners March 22. 1976.
granted the Centennial commission
S4.(XX) for use in connection with
the Hoke County part of the
national Bicentennial celebration.
The City of Raeford and the
Raeford Kiwanis Club each contri
buted to the original fund.
1 he unspent county money
amounts to $8%.50. The city's
unspent share is $224.(W. and the
Kiwanis Club's. $56.05.
County Manager James Martin
told the commissioners the park
shelter would cost more than the
unspent Bicentennial money.
HIGHWAY HEARING
The Raeford-Hoke County
Chamber of Commerce will repre
sent Hoke County at the May 7
State highway public session at 71st
High School on the 11 -mile pro
posed widening of U.S. 401 be
tween Raeford and eastern Cum
berland County.
John Balfour, chairman of the
board of county commissioners,
suggested, after chamber manager
Earl Fowler offered to do whatever
the commissioners wanted the
chamber to do at the meeting, that
Fowler "play it by ear" at the
meeting.
Fowler told the commissioners
the chamber had information in
addition to what was presented for
Hoke County at the area highway
public hearing in Southern Pines
last month.
Balfour told the commissioners
earlier Monday he planned to
attend the hearing at 71st.
Fowler said he would do at the
meeting "whatever the situation
calls for."
Most of the 11 miles proposed lor
tour-laning are in Hoke County.
The project would connect the
western end of the present four-la fl
ing with the intersection of U.S.
401 bypass and business east of
Raeford.
HOSPITAL EXPENSES
The commissioners adopted a
motion to accept a $1,750 State
Department of Human Resources
grant to help eligible patients meet
delinquent payments on hospital
bills. The fund will be administered
by the county Health Department
and will provide up to 5350 per
patient, at no cost to the county.
MEETINGS
The commissioners set ~:30 p.m.
as the starting time for the May 19
public hearing on proposed uses of
federal revenue-sharing funds for
the county. The hearing will be
held in the Courthouse.
They named Balfour as the
county board's voting delegate at
the Spring Legislative Conference
scheduled tor May 30 in Raleigh.
Balfour advised that a public
hearing on a proposed regulation
on use of flashlights on deer after
II p.m. will be held Thursday at
?:30 p.m. in the Courthouse.
The commissioners voted S10 for
expenses for a Hoke County repre
sentative to attend the state Safety
Awards Banquet May 15 at Lum
berton. The county is scheduled to
receive a Safety Award from the
State Labor Department then. The
principal speaker will be John
Brooks, state labor commissioner.
The banquet will be held in the Red
Carpet Inn.
BOLL WEEVILS
The State Agricultural Extension
Service will try to eliminate boll
weevils from Hoke County, starting
June 1. with love.
Hoke Extension Chairman Wen
dell Young didn't put it that wav.
(See COMMISSIONS RS. pace !2>
For Low-income Housing Project
County wide Authority Sought For Unit
The Raeford City Council Mon
day night voted to request intro
duction in the General Assembly
local legislation to expand the
jurisdiction of the Raeford Housing
Authority to cover the entire coun
ty.
The motion, adopted at the
council's regular monthly meeting
for May. is another step toward
obtaining housing for low - income
Hoke County people with the help
of federal funds.
The Authority's present juris
diction covers Raeford and 10 miles
beyond in all directions. It leaves
parts of the council outside the
agency's jurisdiction.
The council adopted the motion
after City Attorney Palmer Willcox
told the council a U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban De
401 Widening Session
Planned For Raeford
I he plans for the widening to
tour lanes ol U.S. 401 between
Raeford and Fayetteville will be on
view in Raeford at a date to be
arranged. John Balfour, chairman
of the Board of Hoke County
Commissioners, said Friday.
He said the separate session for
Hoke County was being arranged in
response to a request made to
Chamber's Dinner Set
The annual dinner of the Rae
ford-Hoke County Chamber of
Comn>ercc will be held Tuesday,
starting at 6:30 p.m. in Gibson
(Cafeteria of Hoke County High
I School and is open to the public.
Reservations may be made by
ling the chamber -office.
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The guest speaker will be Wil
liam E. Graham. Jr., of Raleigh,
senior vice president and general
counsel of Carolina Power & Light
Co.
During the meeting the cham
ber's officers and directors tor
1980-81 will be installed.
Martha C. Hollers of Candor, a
member of the State Board of
Transportation. Mrs. Hollers re
presents the area which included
Hoke County.
Hoke County Commissioners
and others had expressed objection
to the two sessions of the meeting
being scheduled in Cumberland
County, at 71st High School, at the
eastern end of the project, though
most of the 11 miles of the project
are in Hoke County.
The meeting, termed an informal
public hearing, was scheduled for
1 st High on May 7 in two sessions:
1 1 a.m. to 4 p.m.. and 6-8 p.m.
The Hoke County meeting will be
an addition to these. Balfour said it
probably would be held in the Hoke
commissioners' conference room.
The project runs from the U.S.
401 bypass and 401 business yest of
Raeford to the present four-lane
401 east of 7lst High.
velopment representative advised
the city to take that method. Hl'D
is the federal agency that helps
finance low - income housing.
The council and Hoke County
commissioners originally wanted
ihe housing authority to act as a
joint city-county agency, but Will
cox said the law allows combina
tions only of county-and-countv
and city-and-city. but not city-and
county.
The Authority was revived last
winter as the first step toward
obtaining federal help to establish
the housing for the low-income
people. The council approved the
revival after hearing a report that
low - rent housing was needed for
Hoke County elderly people. The
housing project plan, however, will
include low ? income families as
well as elderly, in compliance with
federal law.
In other business, the council set
for 7:30 p.m. June 2 a public
hearing on a preliminary longrange
Thoroughfare Plan for a mad
system prepared by the State
Department of Transportation.
The hearing will be held in the
council chambers at the start of the
council's regular monthly meeting
The council's action approved a
recommendation of the City Plan
ning Board that the hearing be
scheduled. The hearing also was
asked by the State DOT.
The Thoroughfare Plan is sub
ject to final approval by the State
Board of Transportation.
The council also in a separate
action decided the city would keep
issuing the metal Raeford plates tor
the front end of motor vehicles
owned b> city residents, instead of
changing to the decals that are
fixed to windshields. Councilman
Bob Gentn said decals are hard to
see and. on the other hand, the old.
front - end metal plates are easy to
read, and that he's proud to show
his when he is traveling out ot town
l~he council agreed to leave the
cu\-tag svstem as it is. as. tor one
reason, the city would make no
money from selling the decals. lit
doesn't from selling the metal
tags).
The council heard a request from
Karl Fowler, manager of the
Raeford Hoke County Chamber ot
Commerce, that the city provide
the chamber with $>.100 in fiscal
1980-81 The chamber is asking the
county commissioners for $10. .MX)
for the new fiscal year he said.
City Manager Ron Matthews
told the councilmen other requests
tor city funds for the new fiscal year
have been received: S500 from the
National Guard, and $4,300 from
the Hoke County Rescue Squad.
These and other tund requests
will be considered when the council
and city start work up a city budget
for the new year.
The first of two public hearings
on proposed uses of the city's
$100,000 in federal revenue -
sharing funds was held at the start
of the meeting, but no comments
were received from private citi/ens.
A date for the second hearing is to
(See COl'MTl. page I 21
tPrecinct-by?precinct tabulations
ot the unofficial. ci>mpletc returns
from l he primaries are on Pa tie 11.)
Danny DeVane and the Hex. Neil
McPhatter won renomination. and
virtual reelect ion. in Tuesday's
Democratic primary to their seats
on the Bi>ard ot Hoke County
Commissioners, complete, unotfi
eial returns from Hoke County's 13
precincts show.
Neither has Republican opposi
tion in the November general
election.
McPhatter led the field ot live
candidates, getting l.44h votes. ^
DeVane lolloped ?ith l.3~"l.
James P. (Jimmy) Plummer, Sr.. a
52-year-old Ri. 4. Raetord. farmer,
making his first run lor public
elective oil toe. ran third with I.AJb.
Jimmy Morrisey was tourth with
and-Julius Vanner was filth
with 221.
In other contests. Hoke County
Democratic majorities went to Gov.
Jim Hunt. Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green.
Congressman Charlie Rove. State
Insurance Commissioner John In
gram. State Reps. Robert E. Davis.
Horace Loeklear and David R.
Parnell: President Carter and State
Supt. ol' Public Instruction Craig
Phillips, lor rvnomjnations.
The county's Republican majori
ties were given to State Sen. 1.
Beverly Lake in the two-man
contest for the governor nomina
tion. and Ronald Reagan in the
presidential preference contest.
McPhatter and DeVane are run
ning lor their second four-year
terms. McPhatter was appointed to
the board in Januarv |M~t> to fill the
unexpired portion ol the term ot
J.A. Webb, vvho died in office.
McPhatter is the first black to serve
as a Hoke Counts commissioner.
He was elected, to his first lull term
the following November.
The two seats on the Iward ot
commissioners were the only ex
clusively Hoke County races on the
prtniarv ballot.
Hoke County 's turnout of Demo
crats was about oo percent ot the
total registration, according to the
totals in the three candidate contest
lor the nomination tor lieutenant
governor. A total ot .VWI Demo
crats voted m that contest. Green
got the county's majority, receiving
1,5"4 to lornicr House Speaker
Carl Stewart's Iand Clvde
Pullcv's 41.
Hits contest was chosen b\ The
\iws-j<'i4nntl writer to determine
the turnout ol Dcnnverats because
only one candidate could be no
minated. i1 he contests for the
commissioners' seats allowed each
voter io ballot lor two candidates).
Among the countv's registered
413 Republicans, the primarv tor
the nomination tor governor be
tween l ake, and C.J. Carstens ol
Avcrv County drew voters, which
amounts to about Is* percent ot the
registration
N. Johnston
Man New
Hoke Coach
Ihe Hoke County Board of
hducation Tuesday night accepted
C harles Bradshaw. coach at North
Johnston High Sch*xil in Johnsti>n
County the past five years. tor
employment as a teacher ?ho also
will be head football coach.
Ihe action fills the vacancy
created b\ the resignation ot Head
Coach Clyde tSoupv) Campbell,
who has been named head lootball
eoach for Lees-McRae College in
northwest North Carolina
Technically. Bradshaw was em
ployed as a teacher, since. Count\
Sch?*?ls Supt Ha/ \utry pointed
out to the board, the board does
not hire coaches. As Campbell's
successor, he will teach health and
physical education as Campbell
did. and will eoach in addition to
his teaching duties.
A press conference has been
scheduled for 1:30 p.m Thursday
in the otlice of Hoke High Principal
Lenwood Simpson to introduce the
new coach and provide details of
his background.
Autry read a letter written by a
former principal of Bradshaw
praising Bradshaw highly
He also read letters praising
Bradshaw \ wife. Martha, for her
work as a teacher of language arts
at Johnston Technical institute.
Mrs. Bradshaw was not named to a
teaching position here since no
(See M W COACH pajc 12)