School News Martha Pecora Gels Degree From UINC-W Martha Ruth Pecora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Pecora of Raeford has received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Sociology, with a concentration in Criminal Justice. Miss Pecora made the Dean's List in her final semester with a grade average of 4.0. Tammy Loeklear Makes Dean's List Tammy Loeklear, who waA a 1982 graduate from Hoke Higfc, made the Dean's List at Kings Col lege in Charlotte for the Winter Semester. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Loeklear Jr. of Raeford and is a secretarial science major. Tammy maintained a 3.0 grade average. Carolyn Wilburn On Peace Dean's List Carolyn Elizabeth Wilburn is among 72 young women, including at least one local resident, that has been named to the fall semester Dean's List at Peace College. Carolyn is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Connell of 533 College Dr., Raeford. She is a sophomore at Peace and a 1981 graduate of Hoke County High School. To be eligible for the Dean's List at Peace a student must maintain a grade-point average of 3.30 out of a possible 4.0, receive passing grades in all subjects and carry at least 12 hours of course work. Peace is a Presbyterian junior college for women which offers associate degrees in liberal arts, business and music. JAN. '83 W IvNDAT nUDAT 3 umimrmi Smoked Sausage Whole Potatoes w / Cheese Sauce Green Beans & Rolls flgp^esauce Cake ? P izza Tossed Salad Buttered Corn Peanut Butter Delight) Milk ? Beef-A-Ronl Cheese Wedge Steamed Cabbage Cornbread Cookie Milk * Terlyakl Chicken Steamed Rice Stir Fry Vegetables Fruit Fantasy Almond Cookie Mi! DMtramDu Vegetable Beef Soup Crackers Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich 10Fish Fillet on Bun Whole Potatoes w/ Cheese Sauce Slaw Chilled Pears Milk "lacos Shredded Lettuce Che?se Buttered Corn Hot Rolls Milk Spaghetti Cheese Wedge Steamed Cabbage Apple Crisp Rolls Milk tt Fried Chicken Rice/Gravy Buttered June Peas Fruit Cheese Biscuit Milk ^Vegetable Beef Soup Crackers Peanut Butter & Jell Sandwich Apple Milk 'Country Style Steak Rice/Cravy Green Beans Fruit Rolls Milk Cheeseburger French Fries, Catsup Fruit Cookie Milk l\jnagna Steamed Cabbage Fruit Jello Rolls Milk l?Barbecue Chicken Fluffy Potatoes June Peas x Rolls Milk *lVegetable Beef Soup Crackers Peanut Butter & Jell Sandwich Fruit Milk **Pork Pattie Green Beans Candied Sweet Potatoes Rolls Milk **ot Dog on Bun French Fries, Catsup Baked Beans Fruit Milk '^paghett I Cheese Wedge Steamed Cabbage Rolls Cookie Milk at mm salami Survey Shows Most Seniors Like School Most senior high school students in North Carolina's public schools are busy with their course work and find the 12th grade to be a valuable educational experience. That's the conclusion of a legislative study committee who studied the significance of the final year of high school and will report its findings to the 1983 Genera] Assembly. Their report includes the preliminary results of a recent survey from the Controller's Of fice of the State Board of Educa tion. According to the preliminary results of the survey, most students take a full course load in the 12th grade. Ninety-five percent of the seniors responding to the survey were carrying four or more courses in their senior year; 79% were tak ing five or more courses. To take a full course load is the norm at most North Carolina high schools. At 86% of high schools, a typical senior is enrolled in five or jnorc courses; at 97 r# of the high schools, a typical senior is enrolled in four or more courses. North Carolina requires a total of 18 courses for high school graduation. The survey found that 51?7o of the seniors must take three or more courses in their senior year to complete the minimum state re quirements for graduation. Most community and technical colleges have agreements with local school systems permitting high school students to take community college courses that count toward high school graduation. Sav Yen . Sow t The State Board of Education's survey revealed that about 125 high schools have 484 students enrolled in community colleges. They are attending 540 courses. Eighty-one percent of the courses are being taken by seniors for credit towards high school gradua tion. In almost all instances, students pay the tuition for com munity college courses. The average number of high school courses taken concurrent with community college courses was 4.8. Malloy At Academy Prep Terence Malloy's name should have been included in the item in the 1982 news highlights about the Hoke County students receiving appointments to service schools. Malloy is attending the U.S. Naval Academy's prep school at Newport, R.I., preparing to enter the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Malloy, Jr., of Raeford. Enviro-Chem Co. EXTERMINATORS ' Household Pest Control 120 W. EDINBOROUGH AVE. Jim Conoly OFFICE 875 8146 RAEFORD, N.C. EXTERMINATOR HOME 864 2314 Long Beach Office 278 9669 Sidney Mansfield, Exterminator Choose from Defender* , Raiders of the Last Ark* , and Swor dquest* . Only Atari* keeps bringing home smash hits like ^ these. Star Rald?r?l!> , E.T.? r??. 37.88 31.88 ACK Mon.-Thur. #-7 Frl.-Sat. 9-9 Sun. 1-9 fill ilioHHiyh Ctntv W? ford. N.C. ?? 1 Brian C. Whitaker Whitaker Garners Diving Rating Brian C. Whitaker, grandson of Mrs. Julian H. Blue, Sr. of Raeford, and Dr. Shirley B. Whitaker of Greensboro, has been awarded the highest instructional rating in the sport diving industry by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors. As a P. A. D.I. Master Instruc tor, Mr. Whitaker holds specialty instructor ratings in rescue diving, underwater photography, equip ment repair, night diving, search and recovery, deep diving, research, and wreck diving and has been active in the United States, Mexico and Canada. He is a 1970 graduate of Hoke County High School, an alumnus of UNC-Chapel Hill, and has a masters degree, cum laude, from Gordon-Conwt.! Seminary in Boston, Massachusetts. He is at tending Harvard University in Ad ministration and Management and is employed by Northeast Scuba, Danvers, MA. During the past 10 years, I 250,000 people have been killed in I alcohol-related highway accidents / in North Carolina. 12 Local Students Make PSU Dean's List A total of 192 students made the Dean's List at Pembroke State University during the fall semester, it has been announced by Chancellor Paul R. Givens. A grade poing average of 3.6 for a minimum of 12 semester hours is required to make the Dean's Li^t. Students hail from 40 cities in North Carolina. Lumberton leads with 34 students, followed by Fayetteville with 33, Pembroke with 16, Raeford 12, Red Springs 10 and Laurinburg 9. From Raeford, these students made the Dean's List: Carolyn C. Ashley, Jennifer Forrest Austin, Mary Lowery Burnett, Mary B. Eanes, Jacklyn Kicklighter, Robert 1 Bryant Lancaster; Ronald Lee Matthews Jr., Margaret Marsh Musselwhite, Tracy Lynn Parker, Ella Mae Ranson, Marian Salutz Roth and Blaine Gil Sutton. State Internships On Tap For Students Thought about a summer job? If you're a college student from Hoke County, home for the holidays, you may already be thinking about your plans for this coming summer. If so, you just might be eligible for one of 115 state government internships which will be available in 17 dif ferent state departments. Students will work for 10 weeks, beginning June 1 to August S, and earn approximately $ ISO per week. In addition to a 40-hour work week, students attend weekly seminars and tours to learn more about state government. Most internships are in the Raleigh area, but some are available in other areas of the state. To be eligible for an internship, a student must either be attending a North Carolina college, universi ty, community college or technical institute or be a North Carolina resident attending an equivalent out-of-state institution. College and university students must have completed their sophomore year while students in a two-year technical program must ( have completed one year of study. Information about the specific projects, the application guidelines and the selection process has been sent to career placement offices at every post -secondary educational institution. The application deadline is February 1 1 and materials should be sent to the Youth Involvement Office, 121 W. Jones St, Raleigh, 27611. \ For more information, contact Debby Bryant, internship coor dinator, Youth Involvement Of fice, 919-733-5966. F or Girl Scouts , It's Cookie Time The nation's youngest businesswomen will be out in force this week. The annual Pines of Carolina Girls Scout Council Cookie Sales begins January 21 and runs through February 6. In Raeford girls have been plan ning their marketing strategy. They'll be offering 7 varieties of cookies at $2.00 per box. The bakery gets 73 cents of this amount. The rest helps to support Girl Scouting in Pines of Carolina Council's 20 counties. For example, the profit from 552 boxes of Girl Scout cookies will buy a canoe. It takes 294 boxes to purchase a slide projector. Individual troops keep 25 cents per box for their own troop pro grams. When you purchase Girl Scout cookies you're contributing to the 4 Girl Scout program, as well as en joying some delicious eating. Order some cookies from your favorite Girl Scout or call 875-3881. Deaths And Funerals Robert R. Parks Robert Byron Parks, 71, of Rt. 1 Raeford, died Saturday at Moore Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst. The funeral was conducted Monday afternoon in Shiloh Presbyterian Church by the Rev. W.K. Fitch, Jr. Burial was in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Wilda Collins Parks, his sons, Robert and Billy Parks, both of Raeford, David Parks of Monroe, Allen Parks of Jacksonville, Fla., Clayton Parks of Laurinburg and Edwin Parks of West End; his daughters, Mrs. Carol Beaman of Candor, and Mrs. Nan Worrall of Star; his brothers, Chalmers, Mar shall and Julian Parks, all of Raeford, and R.W. Parks of Aber deen; his sisters, Mrs. Doris Byrd, Lumberton, Mrs. Kathleen Monroe, St. Pauls, Mrs. Lettie Lee Harris, Fayetteville, Mrs. Louise Layton, Jackson Springs, and Mrs. Thelma Layton, Albemarle; and 23 grandchildren. Powell Funeral Home in Southern Pines was in charge of the arrangements. Hartwell C. Monroe Hartwell Colon Monroe, 34, of Lumberton, died Friday night at home. Funeral services were held Sun day at 3 p.m. from McNeill Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by the Revs. B.V. Chelders, S.N. Lamb and Raymond Ellis. Burial was in the Tolarsville Baptist Church Cemetery at Route 1, St. Pauls. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Eula Mae Monroe of Lumberton, one sister, Mrs. Sue Polston of Raeford, two half sisters, Mrs. Cindy Owens of Fayetteville and Mrs. Dianne Hamilton of White Oak; one brother, Ed Monroe of Lumberton, two half brothers, Stewart Monroe of St. Pauls and Ray Monroe of White Oak. Mrs. Fannie Mcintosh The funeral for Mrs. Fannie Mcintosh was to be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Silver Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. W.K. Mitchell, with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Mcintosh, 96, died Friday. Buie Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Correction 4 The obituary on Peter S. Sawyer, who died December 16, inadvertently omitted the name of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Sawyer of Rt. 1, Aberdeen from the list of his survivors. Also, his mother advised, he worked in Kingston, N.Y., for a bulk cement company, not in Ashley Heights, and he did not a farm for an uncle as the obituary reported. Virginia Man Shoots Self Near Antioch Angus Clinton McDonald of Avondale, Va., was wounded in \ the left arm when his shotgun discharged accidentally about 12:30 p.m. December 28, as he was coming up the rear stairs of his mother's home at Antioch, the Hoke County Sheriff's Depart ment reported. McDonald was taken to Duke University Medical Center at Durham. His condition was termed satisfactory Monday after noon by a hospital spokesman. ^ The sheriff's department reported McDonald was struck in the left arm just below the elbow by a charge of No. 6 shot when the gun, a 12-gauge, went off. His mother, Mrs. Sarah McDonald, gave the information to the investigating officers. Mrs. McDonald's home is near Antioch Church.

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