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- journal The Hoke County News - Established 1928 The Hoke County Journal - Established 1905 VOLUME LXXII NUMBER 30 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLIN A SB PER YEAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980 By Hoke Commissioners Fund Voted To Continue PA Program | t ^ ? ? ? ? * Around Town BY SAM C. MORRIS The rain came over the weekend, but yours truly didn't want to see it this time. Once again I got wet at a football game. The forecast is for more rain this week and for the temperatures to be in the 40s and 50s. Yes, winter has arrived. ;? | The following letter was received | last week, but too late for public ^ ation: Sam: a Would appreciate your putting notice in N-J about Adult High School Diploma program. Thank you, I The Adult High School Program is a joint venture of Sandhills ?Pommunity College and the Hoke j County Board of Education to meet the needs of the adults in Hoke j County. In order to enroll, an adult must j be at least 18 years old and out of school for one or more years, unless permission is granted by the Super intendent of Hoke County Schools. They must also have proof of satisfactorily completing the eighth ^^rade or be able to perform on the Plinth grade level. The course consists of the re quired units of study. It would take six quarters to complete the course by attending two nights per week. A person who has completed the 10th grade could complete the course in one year. The cost will be $5.00 registra tion and the other odds and ends, pencils, paper etc. that go along ^with school. ^ The registration started Tuesday at 6:30 at Hoke High School. If you are interested, you can contact Eleanor Gentry at 875-4846 j) or 875-2156. Ex 27 between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. So if you want a high school t diploma bring S5.00 and your Social Security number to the high ? school . Eleanor Gentry * * ? The following letter is self-ex planatory; Dear Mr. Morris: Through your news media we would like to express our sincere appreciation to the many volun teers who helped with the Bake Sale for the American Lung Association of N.C., Mid-State Region on Saturday. November 1 . ^ To those who baked and contri buted items for the Bake Sale, to those who volunteered their time to help at the sale on Saturday morning and to the many people who made purchases, we extend our gratitude. Proceeds amounted to $217.00 which will be most helpful in our patient service work in the local area. ^ To you, Mr. Morris, our thanks ^or calling attention to this project with your excellent publicity. Cordially yours. Mary Jane V. Knight (Mrs.) Regional Director ? ? ? The city street department had better be ready to haul leaves from the residents of the city. I don't Relieve leaves have ever fallen as Vieavy as they did last Saturday night. The wind was blowing and with the leaves wet and heavy, they covered the ground in a hurry. If folks would bag their leaves or rake them to the edge of their yards, it would help the department in removing them. If possible, please keep them out of the gutters, because they will stop up the drains. Most of the football bowl games for the holidays have been chosen and the basketball season is about to begin. This doesn't mean that the football games will disappear from the television because the pro season goes on into January. So just take it easy for a couple of more months and then the wives can take .over the tube. V?:' , TELLTALE SIGN ?? Raeford was one of 100 North Carolina cities named a Governor 's Community of Excellence last month, and last week received two signs carrying the title. With the sign at Raeford s city limits on the U.S. 401 South bypass are. L-R. the Rev. Billy Beaver, president of the RaeJ'ortl-Hoke County Chamber of Commerce; Raeford Mayor John K. McNeill. Jr.: and Ear! Fowler, manager of the chamber, which sponsored the project to get the award this year and will sponsor it annually. The other sign is on the same highway tit the northern city limits, and the city will order others from the state for the east and west city borders on N.C. 211. A total of 420 North Carolina cities of 15.000 or fewer population were eligible to seek the awards but only 100 qualified. To qualify a city must meet basic criteria required by new industry. A Community of Excellence will get prior consideration from state government industry hunters when an industry is interested in establishing a plant in the state. [Staff photo by Bill Linda u\. Downtown Revitalization Meeting Monday A meeting on the efforts and plans for revitalizing downtown Raeford will be held Monday at 7 p.m. in the City Council chambers of City Hall for everyone concerned with saving the downtown area. City Manager Ron Matthews and Earl Fowler, manager of the Rae Jord-Hoke Chamber of Commerce, in their joint announcement issued Monday, described the meeting as "very important." It has been called by city and chamber officials and members of the chamber's Downtown Revitali zation Committee. The future of downtown, parti cularly the businesses and other property bounded in Main Street on the west. Central Avenue on the south. Racket Alley on the east, and Elwood Avenue on th<; north, will be discussed. The area has been designated as Phase 1 of the loial Downtown Revitalization ef fort. "We want to explore and talk about i he possibility of the City of Raetord applying for a Community Development Small Cities grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development which, when put with City and local private funds, will expedite and assure success in our Downtown Revitali/ation effort." News- Journal Press Day Set For Tuesday The News-Journal will be pub lished a day early next week -- on Tuesday -- because of the Thanks giving holiday. The office will be closed all day Thursday. Thanksgiving day. Because of the earlier press time, news and advertising intended for publication in the November 27 edition should be in The News Journal office a day earlier than usual. All advertising and news ma terial should be in the office by noon Monday. Pictures should be in the olfice by that time also. Film that will have to be processed should be in the office by noon Fridav. COTTON'S DOWN ?? This truck dropped 25 of the 58 bales of cotton it was carrying from Raeford to Charlotte about 3 p.m. November 12 when the load apparently shifted as the truck was turning right from Central Avenue onto South Main Street. The bales, weighing 350 to 600 pounds each, were reloaded, however, in about 30 minutes, and driver Claude Bennett [Skeeter] Jones of Raeford. resumed the trip. The cotton is owned by Farm Chemical. No damage was done and no one was hurt. At the bales in the center of the picture are Raeford Police Set. Rodney Collins, who had just gotten off duty when the accident happened, and Jones | center]. [Staff photo by Pam Frederick .1 4 The Hoke County commissioners Monday night adopted motions to provide for continuation of a physician's assistant program, cor rect misconceptions about the pur pose of the Ambulance Service, and accept a state grant of $8,000 for land record management. In other business the board also adopted motions: ??Appointing Barbara Buie, David Purcell, and J.D. McAllister to Youth Service Task Force. The appointments increase the mem bership to 15 from 12 people. -Nominating Josephine Hall as a member of the Regional Older Adults Advisory Council. The commissioners adopted a motion tabling appointment of a county resident to the Raeford Board of Zoning Adjustment till they could learn whether the county member could be appointed from among people living outside the Raeford city zoning area. The area includes the land lying within the city limits and one mile beyond. Appointments of county mem bers have been made previously from among people living outside the city limits but within the one-mile zoning area adjoining them. The move to correct misconcep tions about the ambulance service's job was stimulated by Commis sioner Mabel Riley's report that she has received many telephone calls showing the existence of false impressions. She said the calls essentially show that the callers believe the ambulance service is free because it receives a county subsidy and consequently they are surprised when they are billed for transportation - for medical treat ment. The commissioners agreed that Hoke County people should be informed specifically that the Am bulance Service charges for its services, and that its primary job is to handle emergencies. Mrs. Riley said callers seemed to believe the Ambulance Service was a taxi service. The service is owned privately and operates under a contract with the county government. The county provides it with an annual subsidy to cover expenses which can't be met by the income the service receives from people who use it. The commissioners adopted a motion made by Commissioner Danny DeVane to enlighten the general public through explana tions published in I he Mews-Jour nal. The motion provides that County Manager James Martin work with the newspaper's repre sentative in preparing the material for publication. Lloyd Home, administrator of the Hoke County Health Depart ment. explained to the commis sioners the need for continuing the physician's assistant services. It was reported at the November 3 meeting that the County Board of Education had been providing funds for the PA program, since physician's assistants working in it provided examinations for stu dents, including those on athletic teams, covers ball games and practice sessions, and supervise the trainer. The school board, how ever, did not provide money for this purpose in its current fiscal year's budget, the commissioners were informed at their November 3 meeting. They considered the re quest at that meeting for funds to continue the program since it would have to be dropped soon unless they were provided. Home told the commissioners Monday night discontinuance "would hurt us drastically," espe cially in the Tuesday and Thurs day, the "big" clinic days, and two months of appointments, most of them for children and older wo men, would have to be cut out. The commissioners adopted a motion authorizing the county manager to appropriate S4.000 to continue the program till June 30. the end of the current fiscal year. The commissioners during the meeting also approved a contract between the health department and Division of Medical Assistance of the State Department of Human Resources. They also approved an advance, repayable to the county, on exp penses for Bill Niven, county coordinator for the federal Emer gency Management Administra tion. to participate in a federal Emergency Management Institute December 3-12 on radio-logical emergency training. The meeting will be held in Las Vegas. Nev. The federal agency will pay the ex penses of the people attending from the individual states. In other business, the commis sioners adopted a resolution au thorizing the advertising of an offer to purchase property in Quewhiffle Township. j&iV 7-;-. ? ? RETIREE HONORED -- Raeford Postmaster Joseph Carver (left) presents Malcolm McNeill a retirement certificate in recognition of McNeill's 35 years of government service, much of it with the Raeford Post Office. Kathi Lewis, right, on behalf of the Raeford postal employees, presented McNeill a watch honoring him on his recent retirement as a rural letter carrie r The picture was taken Thursday morning at the post office hy Pant Frederick of The News-Journal staff. Government Offices Set Holiday Closings Hoke County, Raeford city and state government offices will be closed for the Thanksgiving holi days two days besides the custo mary weekend next week. Hoke County schools will close for the holidays at the end of classes November 26. They'll reopen for classes the following Monday morning. Federal government offices and the Raeford Post Office will be i closed Thanksgiving Day only, reopening November 28 for busi ness as usual. County and city government offices, and the landfill, will be closed Thanksgiving Day and No vember 28. The landfill will reopen Saturday, November 29. Most businesses, including The News-Journal, will be closed Thanksgiving Day.
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