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.25 ^llxe. 4^Yl&w& The Hoke County News - Established 1928 VOLUME LXXU NUMBER 4 R AFFORD. HOKE COU STY, NORTH CAROUN \ I - 3-oumciL IS' The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 $8 PER \ EAR THURSDAY. M AY 22. 1*80 Around 1 Town BY SAMC.MOHRIS Robert Gatltn hasn't b?n around so far this *?k. so it will be impossible for me to give wu the correct number of inches of ran so far this week. We heard Sunday at church that it had rained between .03 and .05 inches ^ When 1 went to the golf course Sunday afternoon it didn't seem to me they had even had that much around Arabia. It has been cloudy Monday but very little rain had fallen as we were writing this column. Of course every little bit helps. ? ? ? The clerk, of the election board. %ose Sturgeon, was by the office Monday morning and had a letter from the State Board of Elections stating that ballots were being printed for a second primary . The race will be for State Auditor and will be on Tuesday. June 3. 1 imagine that a closer look will be taken at what party a candidate belongs to in the future. This election would not be needed if a Rebublican had not run on the ^temocratic ticket in the pnmarv What was the name of that cartoon that used to be in the paper? "Strange as it Seems." * ? * 1 did not hear the evidence or will not say whether the verdict was right or wrong last week in Tampa. Ra. but I wtll say that it does not ^tive anyone the right to kill or destroy property with which ever way they felt. it seems the only way that people think a wrong can be corrected ts with another wrong act. The N.C. State track meet was held at Hoke High stadium last Friday afternoon and night. It so liappened that Hoke High didn't Wave any to qualify tor the meet. I can not be sure, but feel that this is the first time in many \ears that Hoke High School was not in the finals. Anyway the meet made the daily papers and helped put Raeford vut the map again. ? ? * A The Hoke County Com missioners and the Raeford City Council will be burning extra oil lor the next month trying to come up with budgets for next year. It seems to be a time when the same thing happens every year. The heads of agencies and department^ all want more money, raises tor their employees, and that their department is the most important of all. a Then along come the taxpayer* ^nd they want the budget cut. add more services and reduce taxes. This is taking place tn even state and county and city in the nation and also in the national capitol where the Federal budget ts being formulated. Yes. the midnight oil *ill run out if everyone comes aw j\ pleased The Hoke Count\ Chorus and Chorale will present their jnnual Spring Concert Jt Hoke High School on Friday night. Mav 22. You could not he in a betttr place than listening to these talented singers. ? * ? ^ An article in a magazine that was *ead by this writer over the weekend opened my eyes con cerning the scandals that ha*e been happening at colleges and uni versities across the country. It was about the grade fixing to get an athlete enrolled or to keep him eligible to play at a school It seems from the article that it is not only the coaches that want the fixes, but also high school per ^onnel. along with parents of some of these students. The article well written and should be read by everyone that condemns coaches at school. ? ? ? Don't forget that the graduation issue comes out week after next, so H you haven't been contacted, call the newspaper office and Ann jlffiMi nil be by to help yum with an ^4 for the int. BLOOD DGSO&S ? TWf mf tkr peopte mho *uimmtrrrrd to jpi?<r hkunJ V-MrJtn lu rfcr SWmuMp ? Jtur^bnt Umittri MrtkaJat Church arr >*???* *?tv (mi >4r Jumor mMts W wui RrgiumnJ Smrst Bokhtc Medhn. In ih<r ti*rgrummJ a \mmcy Hicks of thr RortvrJ Phmt of Burlington -if trfi is DtrMtr Smith of fW Rmetonl pjlmmt of F+bcrge. Inc. rhf itt?in d Richmond o/ Bmhmgtom's R+tfonJ phmu. Slomday s BI"*>JmoMr mn was spomsomd by F^brrgr's R+rtord pimmt. The plant s MtwMtfxriwnu Jxdr .Mvmd*y ttfrrrmoom tkmikind tkr pwyfr of (fcr community ???#? supptMitmg ihr Mwin Mmm/ program. \Stoff piotm by BUI Lindtiu] Commissioners Act At Mid-month Meeting $12,000 For Landfill, Vehicle The Board of Hoke County Com missioners in its mid-month meeting Monday night approved SI 2.000 from federal revenue sharing f-jnds to provide more money for the landfill operation and for repairs to landfill equip ment. a crawler. The repairs were estimated to COM up to Si 0.000. The commissioners also granted a request for a tax release by Raeford Auto Co.. and acted on an insol\ent-ta\ list. They decided to meet Thursday, starting at 10 a.m.. to work on the county budget for fiscal 1 980-8 1 . They also set for June 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Courthouse a public hearing on federal revenue-sharing and other funds for the new year s budget . The commissioners also adopted a motion approving a proposal tor landscaping at the County Health Center. Immediately preceding the open ing of the regular meeting in the commissioners' conference room, a public hearing on proposed uses of county federal revenue- sharing funds for the no* fiscal year *as held in the Courthouse. It lasted about five minutes. In other business, board chair man John Balfour. with Commis sioner Danny DeVane agreeing, said he believed an arcument over payment of a repair bill between garage operator John Roper and Jim Henley was not the concern ot the commissioners. Balfour pointed out that, though Henley is operator ot the Hoke Counts Am bulance Service, lie is as such an us dependent contractor wtth the count> . -1 he repairs concerned a private vehicle not used in the am bulance service. Balfour said that he felt the commissioners had no control over what an independent contractor did as a private actwity. The board took no action. Commissioner Mabel Kile* brought the matter up because, she said, she was asked to. She said she had talked with Roper and Henley about the matter and that she had telephone calls from many people about it. The meeting with the public hearing lasted two hours. /* a Ju J*or number *tiJ he. L-R. im coslum e. f\Jtv King. P*rkrr CttJey. Ann G/mvr. Jen niter Austin. Kim Hardin. uW Can<Jym Wi/bmrm. |rt?M by Allen Sitnth.] Songs, Dances From Broadway Hit Musicals Hoke High Spring Choral Concert Friday 1 he Hoke County Htgh School Choral Department *ill present its annual spring concert Friday esen tng at S in the Macdonald Gymna tortum. lhis performance, titled "A Saiuit To Broadway," ?ill be similar to the past r*o spring programs prevented by the Chorus and Chorale in that several Broad - ? a\ and root ion -picture m usjcats *iH he viluted. The program has been Jn ided into four major NCv^uences. t*o interludes., and a rvtresh men i -filled mtermcv.sn.Ht. The first sequence will tmohe popular vdectKws from Irving Ber lin's "" Annie Get Your Gun" ?hich include "tXnn What Comes Natr" ally." "1 G?y The Sun In The Morning." and "Colonel Buffalo Bill" Featured sokwsts are Kim Hardin. Jimmy Ste*art. Mike Cook. Rene Sessotm, and Rusry Huff, and a group of eight dancers and characters abo ?dl perform. Selections from "South Pacific" ? ill constnute the second sequence and *ill feature loan Frazier singing "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Oit Of My Hair" and Allen Sandy singing "Younger Than Spring Time? This salute ?ilt ako include a ca-4 ol 1" dancers and a special performance by the popular Hoke High Barberstup Ensemble singing There Is Nothing Like A Dame." The Music of the famous jazz pianist. "Fats" Walter, wifl be featured in the program's second major dntun * wh the salute of the musical " Am't Mrsbehanw " The (*?putar selections ?? elude "Honey Suckle Rose? and "The Jomm Is Jumpw ." Mayor wteJv ?1 be Tonja WJhiw. Thomas Gikkha. Bernard Bridges, and Aaron Laie along mith^mne dancers, actors, and singers. The popular Richard ftftn Tnv of JUmcen L R Jennifer Austin. Ki> w Hardin. an J Cynthia Braicht-r b% Allen Sd?<Ai musical "?Cinderella" will he ?yjluted as the programs final sequence- and mill feature Kim Hann as Cinderella and Trey Brock as the prmce- Mus*cal selections include "[>? I Lo*e You Because You're Beautiful" and "Ten Mm utes Ap> " The interludes. mhich haw been placed burnetii the major musicaK rnwhe sekctkws from "AH That la/i." "The Panama Game." and "The Chorus Lme " Soloists in elude Allen Sandy. Tim Sessoms. Meredith Kersham. and Boh Wm *CT. The mam king hours ot enthu siastic preparation by the over 110 Chora and Chorale mtmhtis are sure to nake "A Salute To Brovhrvr" one of the finest high school choral programs to North Carolina. Everyone who attends is assured of a mm enjoyable expert James Kelly- will be one of tke accompanists. | Photo b\ Allen Sandy \. US 401 Hearing June 11 Here The Division of Highways of the North Carolina Department of Transportation will conduct a pub lic meeting on the proposed widen ing of US 401 in Cumberland and Hoke counties. The informal, ooen- forum meet ing will be held on Wednesday. June 1 1 . from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from t> p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Hoke County commissioner's room in the Hoke County Court House Annex. Interested citizens are encourag ed to attend the meeting and ask questions and make comments on the proposed project. Current plans call for improving US 401 from the end of the existing four-lane section near 71st High School in Cumberland County to the eastern intersection of the US 401 By pass and US 401 Business in Hoke County. One alternative being studied calls for widening to four lanes the existing II miles of L'S 401 m Cumberland and Hoke counties. Another alternative calls tor re locating a portion of I S 401. The relocation would mute US 401 near "1st High School, extend it south ward around N.C. Fish Hatchers and connect it with L'S 401 near Cliftdale Road (Secondary Road 1400). The L'S 401 project is included in the state's l*<b0-}*r? Transportation Improvement Program. Right-of *a\ acquisition is scheduled for fiscal 1W with construction ex pected to begin in fiscal l^M provided necessary funding vs avail able. Statements pertaining to the I S 401 project ma\ be submitted after the public meeting to T.L. Waters Ma nager of the Planning and Research Branch. Division of Highways. NCDOT. P.O. Box 25201. Raleigh. NC 2~MI. For Democratic Nomination One Contest On Hoke Runoff Ballot Hoke County Democrats will \ote in another primary June 3 but in only one contest, to help choose the party's nominee for state auditor. June 3 is the date tor the runoff primary but all Hoke's races were >ettled in the May 6 balloting In the runoff for the state auditor's nomination are State Sen. Ed Renfrow of Johnston County and Bill Chestnut. Pem broke State Uni\ersity finance of ficer and a former ma\or of Ma\ ton. The State board of Elections allowed Chestnut, the runnerup in the Slav 6 contest of three can didates. to call the runoff \* hen it \aid all \otes cast in the latter primar> would be counted a> of ficial. The state board made this deci sion though the state attorney general's office expressed its of ficial opinion that the third-place finisher. J.t B Dav is of Car\. had been ineligible to run in the Democratic primary, and. therefore, the vote> he received should not be counted. Davis learned after the primarv that he was still registered a> a Republican though he had decided to switch to the Democratic partv some time ago but could not recall whether he had changed his registration. Davis received I5~.43l votes, enough to prevent Renfrow from getting the large enough matoritv needed to give him the nomination in the first primarv. He received 251.61"" votes, and Chest nutt I5".45l. The state board's vote or the motion to count Davis' \otes as of fictal was 4-1 with board chairman R Kenneth Babb ot NVtnsion Salem casting the vole again*; the motion In Hoke Countv Chestnut sot 1.416. Davis and Renfrew 6! J votes in the \lav f- nnmarv Dismisses Detective Hoke County Sheriffs Depart ment Detects e James Peterkin. 37, suspended from duty March 24. has been discharged effective the end of May. Sheriff David Bar rington announced last *eek. Barnngton said he was dismiss ing Peterkin for "conduct unbecoming^ police officer and for not carrying out the duties of a sworn police officer. Peterkin's suspension in March *as pending the findings of a State Bureau of Investigation inquiry in to thefts of electrical wire. Harrington last week declined to discuss Peterkin's status in relation to the SBI report. He indicated it would be up to District Attorney Ed Grannis to deckle whether a charge would be filed. Wire has been reported stolen in Hoke, Robeson and Scotland counties. Earlier this month, four men were bound over in Hoke District Court for grand jury ac lion on ..harges m connection *:;rt ihe then Feb 1? of 2.400 teet or Carolina Power A. Light to *ire valued at Sl.9~9 Vnother man waived preliminary hearing on a change, and a sixth ?as awaiting preliminary hearing Peterkin in repK to a repv>rter's question last \*eek regarding the allegation* quoted three Bible verses, and said the sheriff refused to let him look at the SBl report, and that there wis more to the matter than the report contains The quotation* trom the Bible are: "'Though *halt not raise a false report, put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unright eous witness;" Whoso ptnli slandereth his neighbor. hMH will cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer." and "He made a pit and digged it. and ? fallen Mo the ditcn which he male". Tike latter, he said, was the most IfOrtM of the verses he quoted.
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