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Raeford Native Leads Maryland Team Reservists Inventory City Assets I A tour-man team of an Army Reserve company based in River dale, Md.. spent last Wednesday. Thursday and Friday in Raeford taking an inventory of all the city government's equipment and faci lities. for the state. The leader of the team, part of the 450th Civil Affairs Co.. is a Raeford native -- Start' Sgt. Johnnie Long, son of Mrs. Retha D. Ix>ng of Raeford. He's now living in ) Washington. D.C., teaching -- as his civilian job -- special education to handicapped students. Long is a 1966 graduate of Upchurch High School (now Upchurch Junior High) and of the University of the District of Columbia. At Up church. besides doing his class work, he played varsity basketball. The other members of the CA team are: Sp5 Phillip Stevens, also a graduate of the University of I D.C., and employed outside his Army Reserve duty as a computer programmer for the State Depart ment in Washineton. -Cpl. George Butler, a Morgan State University graduate, who is a microbiologist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, working in Washington. D.C., is his civilian job. He lives in Laurel. Md.. near Washington. ?- Start' Sgt. John Plourdc a ) native of Brooklyn. N.Y.. a New York University engineering gra duate whose civilian work is in the engineering department of the federal Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. Officially the work they were doing is a Fixed Assets Inventory, which the state requires be made in all towns in the state. Long explained Thursday that the men were getting a system to keep up with the fixed assets, from office furniture and equipment to piping and the water treatment plant, for examples. He said the inventory goes with the state re quirement that each town be accountable to the state for its assets. The team came from the District of Columbia to Ft. Bragg, first, since the inventory is being done in conjunction with the 82nd Airborne Division. Long said one copy of the inventory would be given to the Region N Council of Government office in Lumberton for the state government; another, to the 82nd Airborne; and another to the 450th CA Company. He said another four-man team was doing the inventory for Max ton, and a three-man team for Pembroke. Both teams are with the 450th. Long's team was doing an inventory for Laurinburg this week. In Raeford, the team's primary contacts were Assistant city Mana ger and Public Works Supt. Bill Sellars and City Finance Officer Helen Huffman. (City Manager Ron Matthews, under going treat ment at Moore Memorial Hospital, was unavailable last week, as was Mayor John K. McNeill. Jr., who works in Raleigh during the week in the hours when the CA team was making the inventory.) Request State To Hold Hearing * Commissioners Back McCain Operation * r?C B?ard of Hoke County Commissioners Monday night bv a unanimous vote adopted a resolu "on. saying the boardsuPrSrt?i continuing operation of McCain Hospital and requested state of ficials to hold a public hearing on reasonsP? Cl?S,ng f?r econom> Copies of the resolution are be ^ State James Huntl ,he ) pta,e department of Human Resources, and the legislative com mittee concerned. The Raeford City Council Mon savinTTh1"8 ad?Pted a resolution ^aying the council disagreed with the reported decision to close the 3nd also called for a public hearing before a final deci sion is made. HoE'8!)L,Pe?ple; includin8 McCain Hospital employees, and Earl > HotiCrr mana8cr of 'he Raeford Hoke County Chamber of Com appeared at the hearing, hp h h W? L,t>ld ,he commissioners he didn t know the other people HiHe. CTmg and ,hey Probably p , t know he was coming Fowler told the commissioners the chamber objects to the proposed closing on the basis of current in formation published, which he . called 'naccurate. He said there > fU be no objection if accurate information should show the clos ing is feasible. ,h?McCain HosP'Ial ^aff people in the group individually gave the commissioners this information. CpS:? de,ails' abou' ?" -- Ninety-five percent of the tuberculosis patients came to Mc Cain because treatment at other . hospitals failed. McCain is still eet ? ting patients from other hospitals ,h^?IWenuy'fivc of ,he Patients there now have nowhere else to go JiiJL C no money and are not eligible to receive Medicaid or Medicare payments. nlann-wet|l,l?nS 0PP0sin8 the planned closing and bearing 5,000 signatures have been mailed to state officials including members ol the General Assembly. ) Signatures of people throughout the state who oppose the closing are still being gathered. According to McCain staff peo ple s information quoted at the meeting, the hospital was to be closed by October: all patients ?e? to be moved out by September 30. (Last week, however, a ??freeze" directive was issued by the state TB Control Office, stopping all phasing-out activity for the time > InhnW ^cCai" Administrator John Watson informed The News reP'yin8 to a ques tion. The original, unofficial in struction was the hospital's 100 beds were to be reduced to 50.) John Balfour, chairman of the t^r'[of County Commissioners, said that not providing the public with information about the pro posed closing was "very poor ) state rela,'ons" on ,he Part of the Fowler said the inaccuracies about the hospital were contained in a news report published in The News & Observer of March 10, referring to savings that could be made by closing the hospital. The report about McCain was on a list of state programs the governor submitted to the chairmen of the General Assembly's appropria tions committees. The publication of the report was the first public notice that the closing of the hospital was to be considered. The commissioners also were told Monday night, by another member of the McCain staff, that five other hospitals were being studied for suitability for treating tuberculosis patients. These, she said, include Craven County Hospital at New Bern, a hospital in Hendersonville, and one at Flet cher, (near Hendersonville). The others were not identified by the speaker. Another member of the staff told the commissioners TB is not completely under control in the state and that the McCain Hospital "got quite a number" of children from Whiteville. APPOINTMENTS In other business, the board ap pointed Tom Cameron, Clio Brat cher and Tony Pate as the county members of the nine-member Raeford-Hoke County Blue Rib bon Airport Study Commission. The commission will study the Raeford Airport essentially to determine its role in the future economic development of Hoke County. It will work in coopera tion with the city and county governments. The chamber of commerce has appointed its three members, and the Raeford City Council is to ap point the three others. Mrs. Wood Passes Exam Mrs. Sarah Moses Wood of Raeford was notified recently she has passed the state pharmacy board examination which she took in January. Mrs. Wood is a graduate of the School of Pharmacy of the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is employed as a phar macist at Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville. Civil Affairs men doing paper work Thursday morning in City Hull. L-R. Sp 5 Phillip Stevens, Cpl. George Butler, ami Staff Sgt. Johnnie Long, the team leader. Long, who lives in Washington. D.C.. now. is a native of Rueford. \StuJf photo.) UdKBMH Preparing far inventory-taking: L-R. Cpl. George Butler, Ruefbrd City Finance Officer Helen Huffman. Staff Sgt. John Plourde. unci Raeford Assistant City Manager Bill Sellars in Sellars's office March 11. [ Staff photo. ) From the Superintendent's Desk by Raz Aulrv OUCH! There is no way 1 can continue the saga of the confused man who is alone in a house he knows very little about. Nevertheless, there is one little incident I must relate to prove a point, the point being that friendship is sorely tested in trying situations. While Ireni was in the hospital 1 learned very quickly that if I didn't impose on my friends I would starve to death. The decision to im pose was the real beginning of my test of friendship. Bashfulness has never been one of my traits. Being fully conscious of this, 1 proceeded to invite myself to the Jack Tucker's for dinner. Jack and Ola Rae have been close friends of the Autry's for many years. I don't mean pseudo friends. 1 mean friends who hang with you when the going gets tough. Therefore, I felt perfectly at ease when 1 invited myself for dinner. I knew Ola Rae was a wonderful cook. Her collard greens and hog jowls would rate with the best of them. Jack was glad to have me come because he constantly com plains about having to eat sardines and crackers. Ola Rae did herself proud. On that long dining room table was stew beef and dumplings, chicken stew and dumplings, field peas, corn, cabbage, sweet potatoes, biscuits, cornbread, gravy, and store-bought cake for dessert. I tried to gain back in one meal the sixteen pounds I had lost. As 1 reached for my third help ing of chicken and dumplings, the chair 1 was sitting on just sort of disintegrated. I have always been pretty adept on my feet but there was no way possible a 54-year-old man could be adept under these circumstances. My safety was my first concern but 1 could not escape the embar rassment of destroying a prized chair simply because 1 was too heavy, or the chair was too fragile. (No one would admit either.) My head and rib section hit the back of the cupboard. While I was sitting there, stunned, Ola Rae yelled, "Look what he has done to my chair," and in a higher pitch, "Did he break the cupboard?" I believe I did state earlier that she is one of my true friends. To make matters worse, as I staggered out the door, holding my head, 1 tripped over the rug, bumped my aching head on the Jim Conoly Gary Conoly Ken Conoly EXTERMINATOR EXTERMINATOR EXTERMINATOR Enviro-Chevn Co. EXTERMINATORS Household Pest Control 120 W. EDINBOROUGH AVE. OFFICE 875-8146 WAEFORD, N.C. HOME 875-4419 door, stepped on the cat's tail, got bit by the dog, and wound up backing my car into the ditch. The only reason I didn't fall in the swimming pool was because it had a fence around it. Requests Public Hearing Council Opposes McCain Closing Members of the Raeford City Council in a special meeting Mon day morning formally expressed disagreement with a state commit tee proposal that McCain Hospital be closed. The council requested a public hearing on the proposal be held before official action is taken. The expression of disagreement and the request for the hearing were contained in a resolution adopted by the council members. The motion to adopt the resolution was made by Councilman Sam Morris and was seconded by Mayor Pro Tern Graham Clark. Council man Bennie McLeod also voted in favor of adopting the motion. Earl Fowler, manager of the Raeford-Hoke County Chamber of Commerce, told the council and Mayor John K. McNeill. Jr.. that he wanted to send a copy of the resolution with a package of infor mation gathered by the Raeford Hoke chamber about the hospital to proper state authorities. He said information published about the hospital by The News cfc Observer of Raleigh was inaccurate and that he challenged it. Fowler said the chamber is requesting of the state that "nothing more but that accurate information be gath ered." Fowler was referring to the newspaper's report of March 10 quoting figures regarding the num bers of patients the hospital serves and the hospital's budget. (Also see the separate story about the hospital on the front page of today's edition of The News-Jour nal. J He said that he feels "the majority of the people in Hoke County feel that accurate infor mation has not been published." and that if the hospital is closed the state "should not use inaccu rate information to close it." Clark suggested that the cham ber's information and copies of the council's resolution be sent to Hoke County's representatives in the General Assembly: State Sen. Sam. Noble and State Reps. Horace Locklear. William C. Gav, and David Parnell. The complete text of the coun cil's resolution follows. WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina many years ago recogniz ed the need for control and treatment of tuberculosis and other pulmonary diseases; and WHEREAS, the State filled this need by establishing the North Carolina Sanitorium System, pre sently known as the North Carolina Specialty Hospitals, of which Mc Cain Hospital serves our County; and WHEREAS, recent reports and trends indicate that McCain Hospi tal is scheduled to be closed in 1981 as recommended by the Specialty Hospital Task Force; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the members of the Governing Body of the City of Raeford. North Carolina, disa gree with the decision to close McCain Hospital and hereby re quest that a Public Hearing be held prior to a final decision concerning this matter. Upon motion by Councilman Sam Morris, seconded by Council man Graham Clark, the above Resolution was adopted on the 16th day of March. 1981 . BY; CITY OF RAEFORD John K. McNeill. 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