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VOLUME LXXII NUMBER 26 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA $8 PER YEAR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1980
For Pre-Hospital Treatment Of Heart Attack Victims
State Asked For Emergency Program
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Around
1 Town
BY SAM C.MORRIS
The rain came Sunday, but
otherwise the weather has been
perfect. The mornings are cool and
then the temperature goes up dur
ing the day and it makes you forget
about the hot summer.
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The perfect weather is good for
the ingatherings that are being held
at the various churches these days.
I went down to Antioch last Thurs
day and it was good to see Eloise
McLauchlin out and around again
after slipping and breaking an arm
and a leg. The Rev. and Mrs.
George Cheney were also at the in
gathering and it was good to see
0hem.
As the event starts at about
eleven o'clock and runs until about
two in the afternoon, it is hard to
estimate how many people attend
ed the ingathering. People were in
attendance from both Red Springs
and Raeford and everyone seemed
to be having a fine time eating
barbecue and chicken salad, but
the seeing of old friends was the
Miighlight of the day.
Now it will be Shiloh and Bethel,
just to name a few.
Don't forget the fried chicken
dinner Friday night, Oct. 24 at the
Gibson Cafeteria. It will begin at
five p.m. and is sponsored by the
Hoke County Music Booster Club.
Go out and help this worthy pro
ject.
The State-Carolina football
game at Chapel Hill last Saturday
was attended by the largest crowd
to ever attend a game at Chapel
Hill. This game has turned into a
rivalry that surpasses the old
Virginia-Carolina or the Duke
Carolina games during the 1930s
?ind 1940s.
Sunday morning Walter Coley,
local Carolina booster, said that
the game was dull. I stated that I
had rather win a dull game, than to
lose an exciting game. Yes. Walter
smiled, and nodded, yes.
The largest crowd to ever see a
football game in the South, accor
ding to the TV announcer, was at
Knoxville, Tenn. last Saturday for
the game between Alabama and
Tennessee. There vsere over 96,000
fans in attendance.
If you were watching the game
you could see boats docked beside
the stadium where people had
come up or down the Tennessee
River for the game. A good way to
stay off the highway.
The Raeford Kiwanis Club's 1st
golf tournament attracted 96
golfers and this should build up in
the years to come. The time for
preparation was short and this can
be taken care of for next year. Of
course the rain was not as bad at
Arabia as it was in Raeford and
from all reports, no one got ex
tremely wet.
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The talk around town about the
sale at the armory a couple of
weeks ago may be blown out of
sight, but from all indications the
"price was right" on most of the
articles. That is the sale was very
successful with the antiques in
great demand. Supply and demand
Jvill control prices!
The story last week about the
new shopping center was good
news to the people of Hoke Coun
ty. I would raise the question of
what local business is going to
move, to go into the ccnter. What
we need is new businesses and not
any more businesses leaving Main
?Street.
(See AROUND TOWN, page 13)
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Governor's Leadership Workshops Here
Hoke Women Participate In Conference
Some 100 Hoke County business
and professional women participat
ed' October 15 in the county
Governor's Conference on Leader
ship Development for Women. It
was held in Raeford United Meth
odist Church. Attendance was by
invitation.
The conferences, for the state's
counties, are being cosponsored by
the North Carolina Council on the
Status of Women.
Their purpose include providing
training in leadership and manage
ment development, encouraging
personal development for the parti
cipants; and encourage followup
activities in leadership training
through volunteer efforts of con
ferees on the local level.
The conference consisted of four
workshops. Gloria Williams of the
staff of the Hoke County school
system and Sandhills Community
College, was a guest leader of the
workshop titled, "Are you thinking
of changing directions?toward
work or school?" The others were
Jack Frenald, director of admis
sions of Fayetteville Technical In
stitute, and Pat Graham of Ft.
Bragg Civilian Personnel Office.
The other workshop subjects and
their leaders were: women's legal
rights -- Dena S. Lingle, a Fayette
ville attorney; "Believe in Yourself"
-- Jane McPhaul of Southern Pines,
a member of the Sandhills Com
munity College administration; and
consumer education, covering in
surance. banking, credit, savings,
and complaints -- Jean Wohler. an
attorney in the state attorney
general's office's Consumer Protec
tion Division.
Mrs. McPhaul's husband. John,
is a direct descendent of the
founders of McPhaul's Mill, the
grist mill built in what is now Hoke
County years before the Revolu
tionary War--John McPhaul and
his wife, Anne Perkins McPhaul.
The present John McPhaul is a
native of Hoke County and is a
Pinehurst businessman.
The guest speaker at the lun
cheon was Juanita M. Bryant of
Boonville. executive director of the
County Governor's Conferences on
Leadership. Mrs. Bryant also is
president elect of the General
(international) Federation of Wo
men's Clubs. In connection with
the leadership conferences, she is
working as coordinator with the
North Carolina Council on the
Status of Women for the work
shops.
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Women participating in the conference listening to guest speaker Juanitu Bryant.
Other guests were Judity Laws,
staff assistant for Seventh District
Congressman Charlie Rose of Fay
etteville; and Vonna Viglione. re
gional director of the State Council
on the Status of Women.
The afternoon session which
followed lunch was devoted to a
discussion, led by workshop
leaders, of "where we go from
here."
conferences are:
Create public awareness of the
necessity for leadership develop
ment and citizen leadership re
sponsibility.
Identify and define leadership.
Every individual has leadership
potential. Conferees are led in
identifying their current leadership
behaviour and further developing
their leadership potential.
Stimulate leadership training
through identification and use of
resources at the organizational,
local, regional, state, and national
levels both in the public and private
sectors.
The local sponsors of the Hoke
conference were Farm Chemicals.
J mini to Bryant addressing the conference. Sean-d. L R - Gloria Williams
and Ktiv Thomas.
Inc.. Faberge. Inc.. and House of
Raeford.
Members of the conference steer
ing committee were Sarah Leach
and Kav Ihomas. cochairmen: and
Vonna Viglione. Joan Baltour. Jess
Neeley. Mary Kemp Thomas.
Emma Minis. Charlotte Kelly. Ken
Witherspoon. Llovd Home! Don
Steed. Nancy Hicks. Jodi Willis.
Anna Peele. Ellen Willis, and Delia
May nor.
The committee gave special
thanks to the Raeford church.
Raetord Woman's Club and Rae
ford Junior Woman's Club for their
help with the conference.
Hoke County Has Exhibit At State Fair
The Hoke County Agricultural
Extension Service. Soil and Water
Conservation. Parks and Recrea
tion and county school departments
lean Water- A Communiti| Affair
have an exhibit this week in the
North Carolina State Fair in Ra
leigh.
The exhibit entered in the Com
munity Development Division.
Education Building, adopts the
theme "Clean Water - A Com
munity Affair."
Hoke exhibit at State Fair. (Photo by Sam Warren).
On an eight-loot map of Hoke
County complete with hills, bays,
and actual flowing streams, a
comparison is made between good
and poor waste management and
conservation practices. One stream
shows pollution by untreated in
dustrial waste, soil erosion on
cropland and Fort Bragg Reserva
tion. and waste-laden runoff from a
swine operation. The other stream
is clear due to proper industrial
waste treatment, good soil conser
vation practices, and swine lagoon
waste treatment. These practices
have a direct effect on the com
munity environment and standard
of living.
Those assisting with the exhibit
were Kloise Carter. Willie Feather
stone. Vernon Hubbard, jimmy
Johnson. John E. McGougan. Ann
Pate, Anna Pcelc. Lenwood Simp
son. W.H. Turner. Hilton Villincs.
Sam Warren and Steven Williams.
We encourage anyone who can to
visit the exhibit in Raleigh or later
in Raeford if we can find a
temporary display site.
Bloodmobile Visit
The American Red Cross Blood -
mobile will visit Raeford Tuesday
stopping at Raeford United Metho
dist Church, from noon till 5:30
p.m. to receive donations.
Donors from the Hoke County
areas outside Raeford and from
downtown Raeford arc especially
sought.
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The Board of Hoke County
Commissioners Monday night
voted to urge the state to establish
an Advanced Life Support program
in Hoke County.
The program would authorize
trained technicians to provide in
emergencies intravenous treatment
for victims of heart attacks on the
spot without having to get them to a
hospital First.
"Die request that the commis
sioners make the plea to the state
was made by Jim Henley, owner of
the Hoke County Ambulance Ser
vice.
Henley told the commissioners
the Advanced Life Support pro
gram wouldn't increase the ambu
lance service's profits, but would
give heart attack patients a chance
to survive, which is now "practical
ly nil."
He explained at an earlier meet
ing and also Monday night that a
proposed program needs sponsor
ship of a hospital for the state to
establish a county program but if a
local doctor sponsored it. hospital
sponsorship would come. He said
local doctor sponsorship could be
obtained.
Henley explained that the Hoke
Ambulance Service's Emergency
Medical Technicians would be
trained to administer the emer
gency procedure, the primary pur
pose of which is to reduce chances
of a patient's going into shock and
prevent patient's blood vessels from
collapsing. He explained that from
the moment of heart arrest, the
ambulance staff has only four to six
minutes to get the patient to a
hospital for treatment before irre
versable brain damage occurs, and
he pointed out that the closest
hospital is about a 25-minute drive
from Raeford.
Henley asked the commissioners
to write as strong a letter as
possible to the state, asking that an
exception be made in the state
policy, which eliminates Hoke from
getting a state Advanced Life
Support program, because the
county has no hospital within its
borders.
RELOCATE
In other business, the board
adopted a motion accepting the
recommendations of a commission
ers' committee that the county
Emergency- Management Admini
stration (formerly Civil Defense
and Civil Preparedness) be trans
ferred back to the Old County
Office Building, with the County
Department of Parks and Recrea
tion in the same building sharing
the EMA's secretary.
Bill Niven. county EMA coordi
nator. in the discussion that pre
ceded adoption of the motion, said
that in view of the volume of work
his office has periodically and
expects to receive, in new plans,
from the federal government, "1
would like to have priority on her
when 1 need her. and no questions
asked."
The EMA office was moved from
the old County Office Building in
late 1972 to the building also
occupied by the state driver's
license examiner's office. The
building is on West Donaldson
Avenue just off West Prospect
Avenue.
Niven told the commissioners,
the EMA would have less room in
the old County Office Building
than it has now and that since
moving nearly eight years ago it has
acquired radiation detection de
vices. for which storage space will
be needed.
Replying to a commissioner's
question. Niven also said the EMA
secretary's is a fulltime position.
Ann Pate, director of the Parks
and Recreation Department, has
asked the commissioners for se
cretarial help. Currently a parttime
secretary is working for the depart
ment. The state reimburses 25 per
cent of the secretary' salary.
Though the position is fulltime
under the federal guidelines, funds
for fulltime work currently aren't
available, Niven explained.
Niven in making his observations
told the commissioners he was not
fighting the relocation of his office
and would do all he could do to
make the move work. He added,
however, that the county building
location presents a noise problem
for his program.
IMPROVING PROPERTY
The commissioners also adopted
a motion to table a proposal that
(See BOARD, page 7)