Special Olympics
Claudine Jones of J. W. Turlington School receiving her gold medal front
George May nor. She won her potato race. May nor is a former Hoke High
and East Carolina University basketball star. He graduated from Hoke in
1975 and Iron, ECU in I WO.
SOME AWARD WINNERS -- L-R. Martin Evans. Adam Ransom and
Marvin Evans ( Martin's brother \ Were among the award winners in
Thursday 's Special Olympics. Martin Evans placed first in a 50-yard dash
and second in a 220-yard dash. Ransom won a 50 and a 220. and Marvin
Evans won a 220 and a running long jump. They were on an Upchurch
Junior High School team in the meet.
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Heading for rhi' finish line in a 220 dash.
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Ohi' the point o rai l's underway. The trick is to cover the distance faster
than anybody else without dropping the potato.
Lunch break al the Special Olympics.
Area Incidents
Hoke Man Charged With Rape
A Hoke County man was being
held under S50.000 bond Tuesday
on a charge of first-degree rape in a
sexual attack on his b-year-old
daughter, the Sheriff s Department
reported.
The defendant was identified as
Bobby Louis Green. 24. of Rt. 2.
Box 4%, Raeford. Lisenby Trailer
Park.
The Sheriff s Department re
ceived a call May 11 from the
Fayetteville Police Department say
ing the child was at Cape Fear
Valley Hospital.
Sheriff s deputies quoted the
child as saying her father had
committed a sexual act. The report
says Green was in custody outside
the hospital and was taken to the
Hoke County Jail by Hoke officers.
The report says the child had to
undergo surgery for the injury but
had returned home since then.
Her mother. Mrs. Dail Green,
was quoted as saying she found the
child, Samantha, lying on a bed.
bleeding.
Other cases reported to the
department follow.
Willie Scurlock. Rt. 1. Lumber
Bridge, reported May 3 someone
broke into his house and stole a
television set, a scanner, a CB
radio, a chain saw, and a .22
caliber rifle.
Sandra Holcomb of Box 238.
Raeford. reported S 1. 825 worth ot
personal property stolen by some
one who broke into her home May
b. The missing property consists of
a microwave oven, a 12-guage
shotgun, a portable color television
set. a black-and-white TV set. a
stereo and two speakers, a Polaroid
camera and a guitar.
Raeford Police Chief Leonard
Wiggins reported the following
complaints received by police.
The Pantry on East Central
Avenue reported a man took a
SI. 45 bottle of wine from a cooler
and started walking out without
paying for it. When the clerk called
to him. he dropped the bottle and
he ran. The bottle broke.
John Wesley McLean reported
Sunday someone entered his pool
room on South Main Street, broke
into a pool table and a juke box and
stole S15 in quarters. The thief also
stole a S30 jacket from the pool
rtxim .
Robert Billinger reported Tues
day someone stole the battery and
cable valued at S60 from his car
while it was parked at the Hoke
County Health Department. He
was working at House of Raeford at
the time.
College News
Two students from Hoke Coun
ty received degrees from Wake
Forest University May 17. They
were among about 1,025 students
who graduated during commence
ment exercises at the university.
They are George McCown King,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George
M. King of 28376 McMillan St..
Raeford, and Tony Lee Littrell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lit
trell of Rt. 1, Red Springs.
King and Littrell graduated
from the Babcock Graduate
School of Management and receiv
ed Master of Business Administra
tion degrees.
They did their undergraduate
study at UNC-Chapel Hill.
King received the B.A. degree in
English and political science.
Blaine Sutton recently was in
ducted into the Pi Kappa Phi social
fraternity at UNC-W and has been
elected to the office of secretary
for next year. In addition, he was
also selected to attend the fraterni
ty's national convention this sum
mer at the University of Virginia.
Blaine, who is an intermediate -
education major, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Sutton.
Six Raeford area residents were
among the 322 students who
received their bachelor degrees
May 8 from Pembroke State
University at the university's 42nd
annual commencement.
The degrees and their major
fields of study:
Bachelor of Science -- Audre> P
Joanne Bundy, special education
and Judith Christine Cothran,
elementary education (Grades 4-9).
Bachelor of Arts - David Ran
dall Allen, political science; Mark
L. Madden, sociology; and Teresa
Carol Tucker, English education.
Bachelor of Science in Applied
Science -- Brenda Kay Gardner,
business administration.
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