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The Hoke County News - Established 1928
VOLUME LXXIIl NUMBER 39 RAEFORD, HOKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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The Hoke County Journal ? Established 1905
S8 PKR YEAR THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 1982
Around
\ Town
BY SAM C. MORRIS
The snow and ice is still around
as this is being written Monday
afternoon. The temperature is in
the 40s, but op the north side of
buildings and trees things are still
covered with the snow and ice. The
old saying is, that when the snow
9 continues to stay around, it is
waiting for another snow. The
forecast so far doesn't show this to
be true.
Did you ever stop to think about
how long that the ice and snow
stays on Elwood Avenue. The two
blocks beside the old Page Trust
Building and The Bank of Raeford
building keep the sun from hitting
these spots. The city street depart
? ment covered it with sand and this
makes for safer driving.
1 believed more people fell in the
ice this year than ever before. Some
were hurt, but others were either
lucky or had enough clothing on to
add as padding so they were just
embarrassed.
The paper's photographer did a
good job of getting some excellent
pictures which will appear else
where in the paper. Yes, snow and
? ice make for pretty pictures, but it
? is always good to see it leave.
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The item in this column last
?week about the comment of Eddie
Baker brought forth some talk
from some of the boys in blue.
Dale Teal, next to Jake Austin,
the number one fan of the Tar
? Heel>;, came forth with this state
ment.
Teal said, "It would be just like
Eddie not to know the difference
between football and basketball."
1 will make no comment.
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Politics is warming up. and with
two more and maybe three filing for
county commissioner, we are
0 assured of a race.
The filing deadline is at noon
February 1 and there is room on the
ballot for many more candidates.
So if you haven't gotten your feet
wet in the political ring, then now is
the time.
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^ After saying here last week to go
^ and list your property, lo and
behold the roads became icy and it
was almost impossible to get to the
tax listing office.
The tax listers are on duty, so
before the deadline and the long
lines, go by this week and get this
off your mind.
List now and save the penalty.
The change in the time you buy
your state auto tags, may have
made you forget about the city tags.
They are now on sale at the city hall
and they must be displayed before
February 15, 1982. The price will
go up after that date, so be sure to
get yours today. This means a fine,
of course.
Every year the basketball in the
ACC seems to get better. With the
no. one and two teams in the nation
from (he ACC, it is the best ever
this year.
Tickets are impossible to obtain
but most of the games either on TV
or radio. Nice for the cold winter
night if the wife doesn't have a
? special program coming on at that
t?me.
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Most people had just as well get
prepared for a Sunday afternoon of
, football. The Super Bowl is on this
Sunday and will run until about
eight o'clock Sunday night.
The game will take over many of
prime time shows and this will
not be popular with some of the
viewers. Anyway, most of the men
can take over the TV this weekend.
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During this cold weather, after
your heat has been off, the sweetest
sound is to hear the heater fire up
and the fan start pulling the heat
: ^.through the house. I should know,
^it happened to me this week.
For County Area Water System Funds
Board OKs Pre- application Filing
Council Endorses
'Jump Rope'
The Governor's Council on Phy
sical Fitness and Health has en
dorsed "Jump Rope tor Heart." a
program of physical education for
school students, which is sponsored
by the American Alliance for
Health. Physical Education. Re
creation and Dance, and the
American Heart Association. The
endorsement was announced by
Robert S. Boal. Raleigh. Council
Chairman.
Last year over 20.000 students in
313 schools participated for the
first time in North Carolina. Na
tionally. over one million students
in 6.000 schools jumped for Heart.
Physical educators have found
that rope jumping helps to develop
endurance, motor coordination,
balance, and self confidence as well
as being a form of cardiovascular
conditioning which can be con
tinued through adulthood. In addi
tion. the Jump Rope .for Heart
program encourages teamwork to
ward reaching a goal. In March, in
conjunction with National Physical
Education and Sports Week, young
people in the program will give
public demonstrations of the skills
and tricks they have learned and
will solicit contributions for these
events as donations to their local
Heart Association .
Jaycees Holding Jelly Sales
For the eighth consecutive year.
Jaycees all across North Carolina
will once again be selling jars of
grape jelly. State Jelly Sale Chair
man. Mike Sherrill of the Asheboro
Jaycees. has announced that this
year's sale will be conducted during
Jaycee Week. January 17th through
January 23rd. Proceeds from the
Annual Jelly Sale go to the North
Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in
Chapel Hill which opened in Feb
ruary. 1981.
In addition to providing total
patient care, the Burn Center staff
conducts burn related research,
maintains a skin bank and teaches
In style for the weather... This dog sport inn a scarf is standing on Old Farm
Road.
Democratic
Primary
Guaranteed
The filing of Tom Howell of
Raeford and John Balfour of
Antioch as candidates for the
Board of Hoke County Commis
sioners Monday guaranteed a
Democratic primary contest in
May.
Three seats will be filled by the
voters, and the two other incum
bents -- James A. Hunt and Mabel
Riley -* filed earlier. Balfour,
chairman of the board, is the other
incumbent whose term expires in
December. The other commis
sioners -- Neill McPhatter and
Danny DeVane -- were reelected to
new four-year terms in the Novem
ber 1980 general election.
Hoke Reading
The Hoke County Chapter of the
International Reading Association
will hold a meeting January 26 in
the Upchurch School Library at 3
p.m.
The speaker is Dr. Penny Smith
from High Point, who is the
1981 -82 North Carolina Teacher of
the Year.
She received her B.A. from the
University of Houston in 19b- and
her Ph.D. from Rice University in
1980.
Her academic honors include the
following: member of Phi Kappa
Phi National Honorary Fraternity.
Rice University Fellow, and a
University of Houston Teaching
Assistantship.
Dr. Smith is president of the
Asheboro Association of Educa
tors.
Hoke County Schools Closed Three Days
Storm Brings Rain , Ice , Snow
Last week's weather of rain
followed by sleet and sub-freezing
weather, then snow kept schools
closed the rest of the week after
January 13, and caused some
businesses to stay closed Friday.
County goyernmert employees
were allowed to go home at 3 p.m.
Thursday soon after the snow
started falling, and the offices
reopened at 10 a.m. Friday, later
than usual.
Raeford city government offices
had a late opening Friday, starting
the business day at 10 a.m. also,
but lost no time Thursday. Some
county employees stayed on their
jobs the full day Thursday. County
Manager James Martin said, de
spite the opportunity given them of
going home early. The road condi
tions caused by the weather also
cancelled Friday's regular session
of Hoke County District Court.
The snowfall, the first of the
winter, measured two inches on the
official gauge in Raeford, Robert
Gatlin, local weather observer for
the National Weather Service, re
ported.
He said amount was the equiva
lent of .3 inch of water, at the
officially used ratio of six inches of
snow amounting to an inch of rain.
The snowfall followed a quarter
inch of rain, for a total equivalent
ot .6 inch of rain on Raeford for the
week.
The subfreezing temperatures
between the rain and the snow were
enough to make driving and even
walking hazardous, but they, came
no more than 10 degrees of the
January 11 all time record for
Raeford of 4 degrees above zero.
Gatlin reported his official ther
mometer showed the lowest daily
temperatures were 14 degrees on
January 12, then 24 the next day.
and 31 on Thursday before drop
ping to 18 on Friday. Saturday's
low was 29 degrees, but Sunday it
was 15. and Monday 14.
City employees were busy Friday
sanding and clearing streets, easing
the traveling problem.
basic burn management and pre
vention to rescue squads, emer
gency room personnel and other
health professionals throughout the
state.
"Thanks to the generosity of
thousands of people who have
bought jelly from Jaycees. the
North Carolina Jaycees have con
tributed over S4 lb. 000. 00 to the
twenty-three bed burn facility."
Sherrill said. Individual jars of the
jelly will again be soid torSl .(X) and
any additional contributions can be
made through your local Jaycee
chapter.
Group Chapter To Meet
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Dr. Penny Smith [right] of High Point, will speak at the Hoke Comity IRA
meeting.
The Hoke County commissioners
Monday night authorized filing of a
pre-application with. the U.S. Far
mers Home Administration to
determine the availability ot state
and federal loan and grant funds
for a county area water system.
The action was taken during the
commissioners' regular mid-month
meeting.
The authorization was given to
Koonce. Noble & Associates in
reference to a plan that would
provide a system costing about S3. 3
million. It was one of four plans the
firm presented to the commis
sioners at their December 7 meet
ing. Action was postponed to allow
time for the commissioners to study
them.
The most expensive would cost
about S7 million. The extra cost
would involve the county s building
and maintaining its own water
supply and treatment plant. The
plan approved provides lor the
county purchasing w ater, it it could
be done at a reasonable price which
means a county-built treatment
plant would not be necessary.
Lacv Koonce. a co-owner ot the
planning firm, informed the com
missioners that their approval of
filing the pre-application lets
FmH A know the commissioners are
interested in having a water system
project .
He said that under the financing,
the FmH A would provide up to 50
percent. the state 25 per
cent. and the county would put up
the remainder, through issuing and
selling general-obligation county
bonds.
Koonce recommended, before
the commissioners acted, that
Hoke file the pre-application. This
will be done before March 31.
The commissioners also were
informed that retired civil engineer
Robert Gatlin had drawn up a
proposal, after doing extensive
research, tor a lake ot about 2H0
acres to serve as a water supply.
The lake would be formed between
Richardson and Rockfish creeks.
The company's project engineer.
David Upchurch. said the proposal
was to buy water, however, till the
project reached the expansion
stage. , ,
In other business, the majority ot
the commissioners voted to provide
S5(X) from county funds tor the
Hoke County Semi-Pro Baseball
Association. The dissenting vote
was cast by Commissioner Mabel
Rilev. She said in advance that she
was all for getting the team started
but could not. in gi>od science,
approve spending taxpayers money
to help it. She said she's be glad to
give monev trom her own pocket
and to cook hot dogs tor the ball
games, however.
The motion adopted provides
that the fund will be handled
through the Hoke C ountv Parks
and Recreation Commission.
Jimmy Conoly. general manager
(See BOARD Ok>. pace 1 1 )
On Old Farm Road Friday.