Space Ship Lands Here , Brings Yule Joy To Kids
The space ship Christmas present as it looks on the outside, with the youngsters Dale Teal made it for .
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Robbie Thorn, Harold Teal, and Todd and Chris Davis in their Eagle.
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A "space ship" landed in
Raeford Christmas Eve, and four
people about the size of the
movie's Extra Terrestrial could be
seen moving around in it.
The ship and the ETs turned out
to be a Christmas present made by
Dale Teal for his nephews, Robbie
Thorn, Harold Teal, and Todd
and Chris Davis.
. The ship is big enough for the
boys to get into, though it can't
take them to the moon and t>ck or
even down the street.
Dale Teal made the craftin his
spare time, from wood, st-el and
masonite.
He said he'd been heaing all
about ET and Battlestar QJactica
and whatever," and I justgot the
idea. "Those kids are int? all of
that space stuff."
Teal, whose regular job is that
of Hoke Auto Co. business
manager, worked nights building
the ship in the company garage. He
assembled the craft from plans he
drew and christened it The Eagle as'
it resembles the craft whose name
he borrowed, the American ship
which landed on the moon.
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Hoke Emergency Agency
Gets F ederal Check
Hoke County's Emergency
Management Agency office has
been allocated SI 1,665 of the $1.2
million authorized for the state in
the 1983 federal budget under the
Emergency Management Assis
tance Program.
The allocations for the state and
the breakdown for each county
were announced last week by
Heman R. Clark, secretary of the
State Department of Crime Con
trol and Public Safety.
The EMA, a federal agency, is
the former Office of Civil Defense.
Tom Pugh, director of the State
Division of Emergency Manage
ment, said "This year we will ap
portion $846,906 among the 76
counties which applied to par
ticipate in the program. That is
$79,153 more than the 1982 alloca
tion to the counties. In addition,
this represents 69 percent of the
total allocation, an increase over
last year's percentage."
"We are working hard in
Raleigh to increase the counties'
share of this money," Pugh added,
"because we realize their needs are
great."
The federal assistance program
is designed to encourage local
governments to employ profes
sional staffs to design and ad
minister their comprehensive pro
grams of management of com
munitywide emergencies, including
natural and man-made disasters.
Each county provides matching
funds to add to the federal money.
William Niven, county EMA
coordinator, said last week that the
county contributes about half the
total annual budget for tie agency.
The county pays the Dtal but is
reimbursed by the fedoal govern
ment for about half, Nven said.
He said the county agency re
quested $30,579 from the county
for the 1982-83 budget, about the
same as for 1981-82. The budget
year for the federal agencies runs
from October 1 to September 30 of
the next year.
In reference to funds, Niven said
the county got ai additional
S2.899 federal fund to be added to
the 1982 budget. He explained that
surplus funds intended but not us
ed by counties for one reason or
another are divided among the
other counties witk active pro
grams.
Niven said the money is used to
pay his and secretary Joye
McNeill's salaries and the office
expenses, includinf the costs of
travel on agency business.
The federal agency allocates
money ' through the state for
distribution to county EMAs, he
said.
Last August, Niven received
from C. Dan Isom, an official of
the State Division of Emergencyy
Management, a letter commending
him and Mrs. McNeill "on the
outstanding task of ^ac
complishing" :he Emergency
Operations Plan for Nuclear Civil
Protection Planning for Hoke
County.
Isom added, "It is apparent that
much time and effort was expend
ed by the Hoke County Emergency
Management Agency. Hoke Coun
ty was in fact the first Host County
to fully utilize the illustrative
model as intended."
During the past year the work
listed in the county statement to
the state office and carried out in
cluded:
- Update Hoke Emergency
Operations Plan for War.
- Conduct shelter-management
and damage-assessment courses.
- Attempt to upgrade com
munications hardware after com
pleting a Community Development
plant.
- Conduct Radiological Defense
Exercises in March and May.
- Conduct a tornado warning
drill in conjunction with the coun
ty school system.
- Conduct a table-top exercise
(in management of emergencies).
- Hold a course for county
emergency services (law enforce
ment, fire protection, ambulance
and rescue) on handling of hazar
dous materials spilled in accidents.
-- Attend quarterly meetings of
the County Firemen's Association
and monthly meetings of the
Rescue Squad.
-- Attend RADEF refresher
course in Raleigh.
Niven said the county's
emergency services would use their
equipment and, in event of a
nuclear bomb attack or nuclear fis
sion accident, the EMA has
designated shelters throughout the
county, many of them at McCain,
and radiation detection equip
ment. Food and other necessary
supplies for the people can be
delivered to the shelter quickly
after the alert is made. He said that
in addition to the activities listed in
the 1981-82 plan, the county EMA
office conducted natural-disaster
exercises in 1981 on two occasions.
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CHRISTMAS LUNCH -- //oAre County employees and county commissioners are shown at the Christmas
Lunch held last week before the county offices closed for the holidays.
LAW For laypersons
Last summer a large daily
newspaper published an account of
a successful college president who
suddenly disappeared. He was not
kidnapped and held for ransom or
murdered and thrown in a ditch to
be discovered later.
He had left his home and family
on his own free will. He sent a let
ter to his elderly mother and
father, telling them to leave him
out of their wills. He wrote short
notes to the college's trustees and
his colleagues to tell them that he
had resigned his position.
Lastly, he wrote a note to his
wife, explaining where she could
find all of his assets and telling her
that he would use their credit cards
for a month or so and then tear
them up.
There was absolutely no
evidence that he left in order to
escape some criminal charge, such
as embezzlement; he had apparent
ly just left to start all over again in
a new style of life.
Anaak| he had left per
manently and would not return
despite his wife's appeals to come
home, what could his wife do to
carry on her life?
She knew what checking and
savings accounts he had, what real
property he had, and what life in
surance policies he had, but how
could she get to them?
Unless he had given an ap
propriately worded power of at
torney, she could not get money
out of his checking account or sav
ings account and she could not sell
his property.
If he were not dead, his life in
surance company would not want
to pay off on his life insurance
policies. His wife was in a real
"pickle"!
The college president's wife was
not in a unique situation. People
do disappear, and often no one
knows whether they are still alive
or dead. Jiirfmy Hoffa is an exam
ple of a person who has disap
peared, and his body has never
been found. No one knows for
sure exactly what happened to
him, but he left a wife who needed
his support.
Certainly, some type of legisla
tion is needed to take care of a per
son's Financial matters when he
disappears. Not only is there a
need to conserve his assets, but
there is also a need to distribute
them in a manner which will sup
port his family.
North Carolina has answered
this need by enacting Chapter 28,
entitled "Estate of Missing Per
sons," which provides for the
preserving of a missing person's
estate and for supporting his
dependants while he is gone.
McNeill Promoted
Marine Pfc. Kenneth N.
McNeill, son of Julia M. McNeill
of Route 3, Box 71, Raeford, N.C.
has been promoted to his present
rank while serving with the 1st
Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine
Corp* Air Station, Futenma, on
Okinawa.