Shelter Being Restudied
City and County officials are
"back to the drawing board" this
week after a $126,000 animal
shelter-landfill equipment facilit>
plan was rejected by both boards
last Tuesday night.
Plans now are to let the animal
shelter committee, made up of city
and county board members, find a
"cheaper"construction method.
County Manager James Martin
said Tuesday the committee was
now working out a time to get
together to discuss a new "plan of
action."
According to Martin, the boards
have not "completely rejected"
the plan drawn up by the Laurin
burg architectural firm Jordan,
Snowden and McVicker.
"The committee may come up
with a modified version of that
plan," Martin said.
"They are looking for alter
natives. I am not sure what the>
will be at this point," he added.
"I think there are less expensive
ways of construction than w hat we
have here," Commission Chair
man John Balfour said durine the
Tuesday night meeting.
"1 am for building a better
facility than what we have, but I
am not going to vote to spend that
kind of money," Commissioner
Wyatt Upchurch said.
Following a 45 minute executive
session, both boards unanimously
decided to reject the $126,000
plan.
"It is really much too expensive
as it stands right now," Upchurch
said
"I think our committee should
look at othei alternatives," Up
church added
The $126,000 plan calls tor a
2,220 square foot animal shelter
and a 1.797 square foot storage
and landfill equipment shed
building.
Hoke-Raeford Humane Society
Director Jack McGinuis. who
presented an estimated $25,000
animal shelter facility plan to the
commissioners over four months
ago, blames the "extreme
expense" on the landfill building.
"We feel a large pan of the
higher cost seems to be tacked on
to the equipment slied and not the
animal shelter," McGinnis said
during the meeting.
McGinnis's plan called for "a
great deal of the work" on the
facility to be done by local
volunteers and school vocational
education classes.
"I think it would be a lot
cheaper that way," McGinnis told
the commissioners.
In other business, the commis
sioners approved new boundaries
for the Tylertown fire district.
Descriptions of the new boun
daries will be sent to the state In
surance Rating Commission for
approval.
If the Tylertown boundaries are
approved by the insurance com
mission, it could mean reduced fire
insurance premiums for
homeowners in the area, Martin
said.
At present, the Tylertown
district is the only one not rated
within the county.
"We are trying to remedy that
by approving these boundaries,"
Balfour said.
Hoke Unemployment Rate Climbs
After a significant decrease in
the number of unemployed
residents last month, Hoke Coun
ty's jobless rate for October
jumped to 11.8%, increasing b\
1.6?7o over September's average,
according to figures released rues
day by the North Carolina
Employment Securitv Commis
sion.
In addition, there were fewer
Hoke residents among the labor
force during the month despite the
increased unemployment.
During October. 970 Hoke
"I think the increase can best be
attributed to seasonal layoffs,"
Hoke Employment Security Com
mission employee Debbie Farmer
said Tuesday.
According to Farmer, industries
within the county ure using the
"rotating" layoff system during
the Christmas holiday.
"Most of these will be tem
porary layoffs." Farmer said.
Farmer also attributed a portion
ot the increase to the decline in
construction work being done dur
ing the winter months.
residents were among the ranks ol
the unemployed with a labor force
of 8.230.
In September theie were 120
fewer jobless, or 860 unemployed
workers out of a labor force of
8.450.
The October jobless rate is also
1.5ro above the 1982 figures loi
the same period.
Figures show that Hoke's
unemployed rate held at 10. 3? o in
1982 with 820 unemployed
residents and a labor l orce of
7.970.
Heavy load
law enforcement officers loaded an unidentified truck night. I.ocal lav*- officials estimated that the 26 hales
with the VN2 pounds of evidence they confiscated from would he valued at $800,000. (Photo by Pam
the twin-engine Piper-Aztec that landed with a full Frederick )
marijuana cargo at the Raeford Airport Saturday
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found nothing, Hoke Detective Ed
Harris said.
Although the pilot was not
found, officers confiscated the
plane and its contents.
According to Harris, the
passenger scats had been removed
from the plane, and nine fuel tanks
had been installed in the craft.
There were four tanks in each
wing and one in the nose of the
plane, Harris said.
The seats had been removed to
apparently provide storage space
for the 26 compressed bales of
marijuana.
Barrington said the plane was
registered to a Mid-South Airliner
C ompany in Memphis, Tennessee.
"They arc a brokerage firm that
buys and sells planes," Barrington
said.
"We are checking their records
to see if anything turns up," Barr
ington said.
"The investigation is most
definitely continuing. We will just
have to wait and see what turns &
up," Barrington said.
. . . Governor Ponders
(Continued from page 1A)
Co/ort said that the appoint
ment would lake time but things
should continue to "run
smoothly."
"The governor is not going to
make this appointment in haste.
He considers this to be one of the
most important decisions he
makes," Cozort said.
"He will not do it until he is ab
solutely satisfied that he has all the
information he needs and is sure he
has the right man for the job,"
Cozort said.
Although the appointment
might not be made for three or
four weeks, Cozort said that the
governor's office was "moving as
fast as we can."
"The Governor feels that is is
important to take the time and find
out as much as we can," he said, ij
"This must be done right,"
Cozort added.
. Literacy Saved
(Continued from page 1A)
"We pay for gas mileage when
we can. We use some of the money
to recruit new volunteers and
students, and we use the remaining
funds for materials," Buie said.
"We have to have those
materials to keep students and
volunteers around." Buie said.
Even with the additional money,
Buie said things might be tight.
"We will be able to maintain our
same level of service, but we will
have to be real tight with our
mone> ," Buie said.
Without the commissioner's
S5.000 "commitment to literacy",
Buie and the litcracv board were
planning to "cut back" services in
order to sta\ in business.
"Alicr December. we were go
ing to open our doors three davs a
week and cut ba?.k on our stall to
survive." Bute said
"We would have tried to con
tinue as total Volunteers," Bute
added
"Woi king that wa> would have
been difficult . h n I would like to
think thai we could have done it,"
Buie said.
"Thanks to the commissioners
we won't have to lind out," Buie
noted.
At present, the literacy council is
back on its | eel and "striving for
reading abilit> ."
Buie belie\es that the commit
ment the commissioners made to
literacy kept the council from
eventually d\ing out in Hoke
Cou ntv.
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