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VOLUME LXXII NUMBER 8 RAFFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA $8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980
By Hoke County Commissioners
$3,251,064 Budget, $1.01 Tax Rate Adopted
Around
Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The following letter was sent in
for use in this column and concerns
"Bill Heyward Day" at the Raeford
Presbyterian Church. An article
elsewhere in the paper will tell who
and why Bill Heyward is being
honored.
Dear Sam:
% The Session of the Raeford
^Presbyterian Church appointed a
committee to arrange a "Bill
Heyward Day" in recognition and
appreciation of his service to our
church and community during his
pastorate (1947-1%4). The com
mittee has made arrangements for
this day. The Heywards will be
honored on June 22. 1980 during
the Morning Worship Service.
Following the Morning Worship
-Service, our Church will host a
*picnic on the grounds. The com
mittee and members of our congre
gation extend to all friends of the
Heywards a special invitation to
join us with their food basket for a
great day of fellowship. Of course,
we welcome everyone to our Morn
ing Worship Service.
Bill, Sarah (his son, Nat, and
family) will arrive in Raeford, June
20, 1980 and will depart to Florida,
^Monday morning.
The Committee:
Dick and Jessie Neelev
Harold and Peggy Gillis
Buck and Johnnie McPhaul
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As most of you have observed,
the weather hasn't been mentioned
in this column for the past two or
three weeks. Now since that time,
^we haven't had any rain so let's see
^if this will bring rain.
Mary Alice and 1 went to the
mountains for a day or two last
week and then spent the weekend
with our son, John in Greenville,
S.C.
While in Greenville, I called the
McKeithan family. Cousin Make.
%and Nora Mae and we went by to
see them. They were nice enough to
invite us for lunch Saturday and it
was nice to meet their two children.
Mac McKeithan, the son, is a
chip off the old block. He is a star
baseball, football and you name it
player and was to pitch for the
Greenville American Legion team
that night. Ann, the daughter, has
the McKeithan eyes and is a very
pretty girl or maybe 1 should say
^young lady.
It is always good to visit one of
the children, but when you kill two
birds with one stone, it is much
better. The drive back Sunday
didn't seem so far.
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The following is from the
"Around Town" column of the
Harnett County News, Lillington,
and is written by Steve Plummer, a
Hoke County native, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Plummer of the
Wayside Community. We think it
will be of interest to our readers.
"In reading my hometown
paper. The News-Journal from
Hoke County, last week. I came
across an article that I know holds
a lot of interest for a lot of local
people.
"The article was about1 the Hoke
High School athletic banquet,
which was dedicated this year to
retiring athletic director John Pe
cora.
"John, as I have mentioned here
several times before, is a former
Erwin resident who is still re
membered as being one of the best
football coaches the school ever
had.
"Well, he is retiring now, after
%being one of the best football
coaches Raeford ever had. After 10
years as head coach, he was
promoted to a fulltime post as
athletic director, the first fulltime
director the school has ever had.
"A health problem that required
major, open-heart surgery last year
forced him to the showers, and the
banquet gave everyone in Raeford a
chance to thank him for a distin
(Sm AROUND TOWN. pa?e 9)
In School Food Service Shotv
5 Hoke Managers Win 8 State Awards
Eight awards, including the fore
most. were won last week by Hoke
County school lunchroom man
agers in the Culinary Arts Show of
the North Carolina Food Service
Association.
The show was held in Charlotte
Thursday through Saturday.
The foremost honor, the Ralph
Eaton School Lunch Award, was
won by Mrs. Gayle Ellis, manager
of the Hoke County High School
lunchroom. She also won second -
place awards for salad and/or
soup, and for desserts.
First - place trophies were won by
Mrs. lsabelle Smith, for breakfast,
and Mrs. Druelter McLeod for her
sandwich plate.
Mrs. Jean McPhatter and Mrs.
Juanita Clark won second - place
awards. Mrs. McPhatter in the
competition for meat/vegetable
plates, and Mrs. Clark, for
breakfast and for lunch.
Mrs. Smith is lunchroom man
ager for South Hoke School, Mrs.
McPhatter for J.W. Turlington.
Mrs. Clark for Upchurch Junior
High, and Mrs McLeod for Scur
lock.
Winning lunchroom managers with awards: L-R. Mrs. McPhatler, Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Clark, ami Mrs. McLhmI.
The largest trophy on the table is the Ralph Eaton School Lunch Award by Mrs. EUis.
Ex-Raeford Pastor Hey ward To Be Honored
The Rev. Bill Heyward will be
honored Sunday by Raeford
Presbyterian Church for the ser
vices he did for the church and the
community while he was serving as
pastor from 1947 to 1964.
The occasion will be "Bill Hey
ward Day."
He and his wife will be given
recognition during the morning
worship service, and a picnic will be
held in his honor after the service.
The message at the morning
service will be brought by his son,
Nathaniel J. (Nat) Heyward, who
has been assisting in First Pres
byterian Church of Dunedin, Fla..
which the elder Heyward served as
pastor for 16 years till he retired
this year. Nat Heyward will be
accompnaied to Raeford by his wife
and their two children.
All the Heywards live in
Dunedin.
The arrangements for "Bill
Heyward Day" are being made by a
committee of Dick and Jessie
Neeley. Harold and Peggy Gillis,
and Buck and Johnnie Belle
McPhaul. The committee was
appointed by the Session of the
local church.
Seniors In Last-ditch Competency Tests
13 Failed Final State Exams
Thirteen of 14 Hoke County
High School seniors who took state
competency examinations in early
June failed to qualify for their high
school diplomas, and the other
failed to qualify because of another
deficiency.
Roy Maynor and Florence Co
hen. county schools directors of
instruction, reported the results
Tuesday.
For the seniors it was the fifth
104 Degrees
Monday; New
City Record
The highest temperature
reached on Monday set a new
record for the date. June 16, in
Raeford, Robert Gatlin, U.S.
Weather Bureau observer for
Hoke County, reported Tues
day.
He said the temperature
reached 104 degrees before the
day started cooling off.
effort of the past two school years to
pass both the reading and the
mathematics competency examina
tions. Passing the examinations is a
state requirement for a high school
diploma.
Of the 14 who took the examina
tions, eight were educable mentally
handicapped, another was handi
capped by a stroke during high
school years and was in the
Extended Day class, and another
had a learning disability.
Mrs. Cohen and Maynor re
ported one EMH student and the
learning-disabled student passed
the mathematics examinations but
not both, and the Extended Day
student passed reading after earlier
passing the mathematics examina
tion but failed to qualify for a
diploma because of another defi
ciency in the student's record.
Of the examinations given in
early June, 11 seniors took the
reading exam, 12 took the mathe
matics test, and some of each group
took both.
The setting of the competency
examinations in early June was an
effort to give the students a final
chance to receive diplomas at the
high school's June t> Commence
ment.
The passing grades for the
competency examinations are 87
for reading and 77 for mathe
matics.
Maynor said none of the edu
cable mentally handicapped in the
junior and senior grades has passed
both examinations, though some
have passed one.
Hoke High juniors and seniors
took competency examinations in
May, the juniors for the second
time and the seniors for the fourth
in the past two school years. They
were given for students who had
failed the earlier competency
exams.
In the May examinations. JO
percent of the 47 who took the
reading examination passed, and
41 percent of the 51 who took the
mathematics exam passed. Maynor
and Mrs. Cohen reported.
The May examinations were
giver the juniors and seniors who
had failed one or both of the
examinations given last fall. In
those. 82 percent of the 302
students taking the reading exam
ination. and 81 percent of the JOT
taking the mathematics examina
tion passed. These included all
seniors who had not passed one or
both of the first two tests given in
the W8-N school war.
The fall competency examina
tions were the first of their kind for
the juniors.
The seniors of the past year who
failed the competency examina
tions. as well as those with other
disqualifying deficiencies, received
certificates of attendance at the
June 6 Commencement, though not
official diplomas of graduation. As
far as the graduation ceremony w as
concerned, no distinction between
a student receiving an attendance
certificate and a student receiving a
diploma was announced publicly.
This is in accordance with a County
Board of Education policy, though
seniors who do not meet the
requirements for graduation do not
receive a regular diploma, though
they are allowed to participate in
the graduation exercises.
The Board of Hoke County
X7ed'T7<M08n?,y ni?h?
SSSrffira
present year s.
on^,,'?^80 bud8"' f?ed
on estimated revenues for the
entire year, which will end June
30. was $3,137,853.
Along the few changes the
commissioners made in County
Meager James Martin Vp^
P?ed budget was a 10 per cent
rawnd . 11.500 .djEtmtm
m,n"?"'s salary.
? rlfeS m i,?' ^commended
r^f0T"dKl 10 ??>?
*? b"^?
sioneiV mJi 8 5 comm'S
XTbLS? * m?rnth meetin8
The mi? inference ro?m.
followed a Zblic hi**-1"*
onhtChe,aSted ab?Ut 10
Z^ST* budget- h was
Courthouse ?f the
h^PV00"1"1'55'0"6" granted a
2?ftS? kLbrary ^
the R J? l.^?m ?ne 'tem to
the Bookmobile to continue the
through " the ?
y Camcron durine the
Mrs. Cameron
told the commissioners the
Bookmobile served 119 Hoke
County rural families.
During the mid - month
meeting in the discussion of the
J5M-.board cha"?*?
?^'^I^Z1uZnha'
?nty
HhS? trough the regional
ZZZ ?s. Another com
BSkmJE?8 thC discussion was
Bookmobiles in the state are
being phased out.
In making the motion to give
D.n"?v 5>V
ujnn) DeVane said the in
--inru,d uring Mart'ns
salary in line with the salaries of
a^rofCthen?ta"ana8erS in this
?Ms&j&sr,;
lo 'fire 'distHcts^The
revenue* taJ ratC and
sTdi!^ ,'k Shan?8 funds help
support the rural volunteer fire
departments. The approval of
the rR<tkr VhC districts brought
the Rockfish rate up from 6
cents per $100. The R^Tfi.h
qwstrtlh'mCnt h0** had re'
quested the increase. The other
districts already had a 10-cent
enm^* Hoke had asked the
commissioners to raise its rate
[o 15 cents per $100. antici
Ki,a'Ut off by Congress of
T^e comm?Ue ' Shari"? funds
1 ne commissioners were in
th?W<^??dJy night> however,"
that West Hoke believed now ii
(See TAX RATE, page 9)
Brads ha ic Named May 8, Resigned June 12
Hoke High Hunting Again For New Coach
Charles Bradshaw, appointed
Hoke County High School's head
football coach May 8, resigned
June 12 to become head coach at
Garner High School, seven miles
south of Raleigh.
Dr. Lenwood Simpson, Hoke
High's principal, said Monday
afternoon in reporting the resigna
tion, quoted Bradshaw as saying,
among the other reasons he was
resigning, that he wanted to go to
Garner as head coach. "Which,"
Simpson added, "he told me for the
first tim? was his first choice."
"We already have begun the
search for a new head football
coach," Simpson said.
He said Bradshaw came into his
office at 4:30 p.m. Thursday and
resigned, giving these other reasons
also: the difficulty he has had in
selling his home in Johnston Coun
ty; and his wife's inability to find a
job in this area.
Officially, the Hoke County
Board of Education accepted Brad
shaw May 8 for employment as a
health and physical education
teacher, since the board does not
hire coaches. Bradshaw was named
to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation earlier this spring of
Coach Clyde (Soupy) Campbell,
who left to return to Lees-McRae
College at Banner Elk as head
coach. Campbell is a graduate and
a former assistant grid coach of
Lees-McRae. >
Bradshaw, 32, was coming to
Hoke, a 4-A school, from South
Johnston High School, a 3-A
institution, after four years there as
head coach following four years as
an assistant football coach at
Jacksonville. N.C.. High.
Brack haw's wife is a language
arts teacher at Johnston Technical
Institute.
Bradshaw was one of 12 appli
cants interviewed before he was
chosen, and about 20 in all applied
for the Hoke job. Simpson said. He
said that in the new search for a
head coach some of the people
considered with Bradshaw and
some new applicants would be
talked to.
"I sincerely hope." Simpson
said, "to employ a man with good
credentials who is interested in
coming and staying for a period of
tin* necessary to give the football
program stability and success."
Of Bradshaw's resignation so
soon after Bradshaw was ap
pointed. Simpson said, "I regret
this happened, for the sake of the
students at the high school. I will
make cvety effort to see we employ
? r**1 that has their interest