The Hoke County News - Established 1928
VOLUME LXX1I NUMBER 7 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA
In Proposed 1980-81 Budget Report
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The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905
$8 PER YEAR THURSDAY. JUNE 12. 1980
No Hike In Hoke Tax Rate
Seen Needed
J Around
Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
Rtuntoa notes:
A classmate from the 1935 diss
who attended the reunion of 197S
and again in 1980 is Annie Ruth
Alexander Langis. Annie Ruth now
lives in Massachusetts and comes
by the office about even- time she is
in town visiting her mother. Mrs.
W.L. Alexander. She is also look
%ing forward to the 1985 reunion.
Someone informed me Monday
morning that Carrie Hall Duke,
whom I mentioned in this column
last week, had a slight heart attack
last week but was <k>ing fine at this
time. Hope she will be up and
about before too long.
Maybe more notes later on about
the reunion.
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' Someone came by the office this
week and was telling me that if yvu
really wanted to know about in
flation just go to a hospital. This
person had a bill dated in 1962 and
the room and board for a dav was
$9.50.
Another bill dated last week
showed room and board at the
same hospital $1 13.00 per day.
. Yes. if things keep going up. it
'will be impossible to go to the
hospital because you will be sicker
when vou leave, after receiving the
bill.
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Robert Gatlin was by the office
last week and was telling me about
he and his wife's trip to Mt. Holly
to visit the Leo Fullers. As most of
the older folks here know . Leo was
Vborn and raised in Hoke County
and graduated from Raeford High
School in the late 1920s. Leo was a
star in football and baseball. He
played third base on the 1929 team
that won the Eastern Champion
ship and lost to Shelby in the state
finals.
He is in the retail furniture
business, but his son. Jim, looks
after the business most of the time
?as Leo is semi - retired. Robert said
he takes Thr Neva Journal and
must read every word in it. because
he could tell him things about
Raeford that he didn't know and
this is hard to do.
Leo lived as a young man in the
home now owned by Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Sellars on N. Main Street. He
and his wife. Julia, lived in the
home now occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Fugene Matherly on Mag
f^noiia Street.
v According to Gatlin. Leo is in
fine health and he staved three days
with him and talked about old
times in Raeford and Hoke County.
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The following letter *as received
last week:
Dear Mr. Morris:
?l am sending u?u a list of the
members of the Class of lSt3t? from
Hoke County High School and
would like to ask it you can suggest
any way we might have a class
reunion. Son?ewhere among my old
papers. 1 recently came upon this
list of my classmates and realized
that 1 have not seen most of them
since the night we walked across
the stage and were awarded our
diplomas.
^ Would it be appropriate to ask
9you to print the class roll in your
column in 7>e Nry*-s-Jo*inniJ and
request that anyone who would be
interested in locating class mem
bers. or anyone who is a class
member to send in their present
address? I know of several of this
list who are deceased, but do not
have any account of how many are
still living.
I shall appreciate any sugges
tions or any assistance vou can give
GIRLS:
Jean Andrews. Helen Barring
ton. Louise Bevan. Myrtle Capps.
Elizabeth Crowley. Elizabeth Car
rie. Mary Anne Currie. Elizabeth
Davis. Sallie Davis. Linda Mae
Dixon. Rachel Dixon, Rnra Ep
stein. Edna Lentz. Florence Anita
Q (See AROUND TOWN, page 11)
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Crop Land Photographed From Air
The crop land on Hoke County
farms was photographed from the
air Friday for thelJ.y Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service.
John Currin. ASCS Hoke County
manager, said the work was done
primarily to determine tobacco -
production acreage.
Crews throughout the state have
been doing similar aerial photo
graphing of the other counties.
lumn said before the Hoke
picture - taking crew took oft"
Friday morning from Raeford
Airport that photographing the
county would take 4 to 6 noun that
day, depending on weather con
ditons.
The photography team consisted
of the photographer. Kenneth
Goetze of Raleigh, and the ob
server. Mark Thompson of Oxford.
Goetze is a Guilford College stu
dent and Thompson a Duke Uni
versity student, and they are work
ing for ASCS this summer to earn
money to help pay tor their college
educations.
The plane used for the work is a
single - engine Cessna and the pikH
was Brad Walker of Hillsborough,
who formerly worked for ASCS and
now flies for the federal agency on
private contract.
Currin and Walter Thomas,
chief field assistant for the Hoke
ASCS. were at the airport with the
members of the aerial photo crew .
Currin said the crew was doing
the same work he had to do on the
ground but the aerial photog
raphing didn't completely replace
the ground work. He said he wx>uld
have to follow up on the ground
when defects showed up in the
photos.
The county's crop land was
photographed from the air in I9TJ
for the first time and in l*i"N as an
experiment to see whether it would
work.
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ? L-R. Kenny Goetze. Mark Thompson, pilot Brad Walker. John Currin. and
Walter Thomas are shown with the plane at Raefbrd Airport Friday morning shortly before Goetze. Thompson
and Walker took oft to take aerial photographs of Hoke County farms crop land for the U.S. Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Ser\-ice. Currin is Hoke County manager, and Thomas, chief field assistant in
Hoke for the ASCS.
Students Sought
For Census Work
The U.S. Census Bureau is
looking for college students and
soon - to-be college graduates to
work as temporary enumerators in
the I'WJO Census operations.
Enumerators will be going door to
door in their own communities to
interview residents who did not
Free Lunches Slated
The Hoke County School Food
Service will offer a free Summer
Feeding Program for all children
ages 19 and under.
No child shall be discriminated
against because of race. sex. cv?k?r
or national origin.
Lunches will be served in all the
cafeterias with the exception of
J.W. McLauchlin. They will also
be served in the following churches;
St. Peter's Baptist. Center Grove
Baptist. Laurel Hill Baptist, and
Hoke County Holiness.
The program will begin June 23
and end Aug. 8. The serving time
will be 1 1 :30 a.m. until 12:30 p!m.
daily except for July 4th. no lunch
will be served that day.
AII lunches must be eaten in the
lunchroom or at the church sites.
Burlington Announces Raises
Burlington Industrie* today an
nounce! upward wage adjustments
tor its 46.000 production employees
in 10 states.
The wage increase will become
effective during the week of June
15.
"Percentages will vary to some
degree among our various divisions
since they are different types of
operations." according to Charles
A. McLendon. executive vice presi
dent.
Burlington's last general increase
tor wage employees was in July
W"N. The 1^80 adjustment will be
the 12th increase by Burlington in
the past 11 years.
Bill Woundedy Effort Fails
return census questionnaire by mail
and assist with the completion of
these questionnaires.
Applicants must take a written,
job - related test and complete a
paid training session before be
ginning work. Employees will be
paid on a piece - rate basis designed
to \ield S4 per hour for the average
worker. Jobs will last three to six
weeks.
To apply, call the toll - free
census recruiting number which is
1-800-t*32-033b for North Carolina.
Students may also contact the
Census Office in the city nearest
their homes. Here is the address
and telephone number of your local
Census Office: 512-514 Hav Street.
Fayetteville. 28301. (91*)) 323-53%:
Or call your local Employment
Security Commission.
Hearings June 20
In Alleged Sex Assault
Preliminary hearings for two
teenagers on charges of first -
degree rape have been rescheduled
for June 20. and bonds were
reduced to SI .000 for each.
A 15 - year - old boy accused of
participating in the alleged assault
has been ftwd from custody of
juvenile authorities and is to appear
in Juvenile Court for a hearing.
The name of the 15 - year ? old
* as not made public because he is a
juvenile.
Warrants charging the felony
were issued Thursday by Raeford
Mice Sgt. J.J. McNeill against
Tonv Hollingsworth. 1 7, of 215 N.
Dickson St.. and Cleveland Hatter
son. 16. of 322 St. Pauls Dr..
Raeford. after the atack was re
ported earlier the same day.
Police Chief Leonard Wiggins
said the assault allegedly occurred
June 3 on a 17 - year - old girl while
she was visiting at Patterson's
home.
Judge Dupree first set the bonds
for the youths Friday at $50,000
each, then later reduced them to
the current level. The defendants
were released later Friday after the
surety bonds were posted for their
appearance in court for the
hearings.
Woman Tries To Save Duck's Life
Somebody last week Willed one
duck and bounded her male com
panion so badly he couldn't feed
himself, and had to be put to sleep.
A woman telephoned I h* Nws
Jourmti Friday that the ducks had
been swimming in Jones's Pond on
the farm of T.C. Jones near Pirt
man Grove Baptist Church for at
least a month that she knows of.
but she doesn't know who ?f
anyone owns them. She said she
lives near the Jones farm.
"The children loved to see them
swimming." she said. She asked
that her name not be used.
She said she saw the wounded
duck, its bill bent, walking near
her house Thursday. She .said she
called the Raeford Animal Clinic
and was informed a veterinarian
wasn't available at the time but
was advised to feed the duck with a
medicine dropper or a bottle, and
thts she tried to do. though it was
difficult.
She said the duck had been
wounded by possibly a BB or other
kind of pellet-firing gun.
The woman notified the
Sheriffs Department Friday after
being advised by a reporter, since
the killing and maiming apparently
constituted cruelty to animals. She
said she was informed the county
animal warden would be sent to
her house to see what he could do
tor the bird.
The woman said she wanted to
do everything she could to save the
duck's life because he was making
such a great effort to live. "I want
to give him a chance," she said.
However, a veterinarian was
quoted as saying there was little
that could be done for a duck with
that kind of wound. Synthetic bills
have been made experimentally to
replace damaged bills but it is not
known whether one would have
served satisfactorily on the duck.
William Hales, the animal warden,
said Monday the duck had to be
put to sleep Friday because his
lower bill had been destroyed so he
couldn't eat or drink.
The woman said she called The
\ews-Journal because she wanted
to bring to people's attention this
brutality that had happened.** It's
terrible people are so ignorant,"
she said of whoever is responsible
for shooting the ducks.
The other duck was found dead
at the pond by a fisherman, she
said.
JVo* 'I mlu-Mmrt'But 'Valu*~Mmrt'
Variety Wholesalers
To Buy Drug Chain
Variety WbofcaJerv Inc.. board
chairman and president John W.
Pope has announced plans to
purchase the 115 stores of a firm
based in Hamesbtirg. Miss.
The firm. Value-Mart. Inc.. is
not to be confused with Valu-Mart.
a chain of four stores owned by
C.B. Drug Co. of Hamburg. N.C.
Owe of the Valu-Mart stores is on
Main Street. Raefocd
The report published elsewhere
last weekend left the impression
that the purchase plan concerned
Valu-Mart, because of the simi
larity between the names.
Value-Mart. Inc., operates
stores in seven states but none in
North Carolina.
(See VALU-MART, page 11)
The present level of Hoke
County's services can be maintain
ed in the new fiscal war at the
current tax rate of SI. 01 per S100
and "We believe the proposed
budget is fiscally sound." says
County manager James. E. Martin
in the report of the county budget
proposed for 1980-81.
The new fiscal year will start Julv
1.
Martin reports in his message to
the commissioners that the revenue
anticipated from the property tax
in 1980-81 is computed on an
approximate assessed value total
ing $180 million at an estimated 92
per cent collection rate. The assess
ed value of taxable property
in the county for the past year's
revenue from the tax was Sl74
million. The return from the tax for
the new year is estimated at
Sl.b72.5b0. The past year's total
through this month is estimated at
SI. 7 million.
The budget proposed for 1 *>80-8 1
provides for a 10 per cent cost-of
living pay raise for most county
employees, and several additional
adjustments in salaries.
The county manager's salary for
the current year is S21.348. and
the budget proposal recommends it
be left that wav for 1980-81.
The proposed budget recom
mends that the pay for the county
commissioners be set up on a basis
of SI 75 per month for the chairman
and SI 25 monthly for each of the
other commissioners, an allowance
of S50 per day each for meetings
and conferences outside the county
that commissioners attend, and an
increase in travel allowances to
SI 00 from $60 per month for the
chairman, and to S85 from S50 for
the commissioners. The chairman's
current pay is S2.100 and the other
commissioner's SI. 500 per year
each.
The proposed budget provisions
include S3. 251. 06-1 operating funds
for all departments, compared with
S2. 847.32b estimated through this
month for the current fiscal year,
which will end June 30. in the
general fund.
Other provisions are: S840.444 in
special appropriations, compared
with S8U.5"N for the present year.
The special appropriations include
S"'01.824 for current expenses for
the school svstem. compared with
St>o4.80t> tor 1^-80.
? SI 15.b23 for county and school
system debt service.
? S40.315 for school capital
outlay (new construction and
equipment), compared with
S22.000 tor 19~9-80. The board of
education had requested S92.015
tor the new fiscal year. Martin,
however, was quoted by County
Schools Supt. Ra/ Autrv at last
week's school board meeting tor
May as saying he would try to get as
much from the federal revenue
sharing funds as possible for the
schools.
The proposed budget shows
$409,042 in federal revenue-shar
ing funds for 19}*0-81 compared
with S4b"\b"\J. The new year's total
includes about S194.000 in funds
previously budgeted but not spent.
Martin says in his report.
l he proposed budget also recom
mends S49.500tor five new cruisers
for the Sheriffs Department, at a
cost of S8.500 per car less a total of
SI.500 in trade-in allowances.
Generally, county departmental
requests include an increase for
mileage expenses for private ve
hicles driven on county business, to
21 cents from 1" cents per mile,
because of the increasing cost of
gasoline. Martin's report says. In
most cases, however, the amount
budgeted for travel is unchanged
from the current year.
The report also contains these
statements in reference to 1980-81
budget items, among others:
-- Planning, a new department
subject to approval of an applica
tion for a grant from the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
?? Public buildings: increase for
utilities and supplies.
-- Sheriff: increase for auto
expense and supplies.
- Jail: increase tor Jooo. supplies
and an additional cook.