Services growing at library
By Elizabeth Barges*
September was a busy time for
the Hoke County Public Library.
Our circulation has increased,
and we have enjoyed helping
1 students with reports and projects.
Our film service is growing. We
may order from tne State Library
films for public and school use.
Please let the library know if we
can order a film for you or your
organization.
With the generosity of the
Mayor, city manager, city council,
and the state Legislature, the Hoke
County Public Library has placed
an order for a new microfilm
reader/printer.
The reader /printer should arrive
around the middle of November.
Our microfilm collection will be
greatly enhanced by this piece of
equipment. Not only can one read
an article, but one can also make a
copy of the article for 10 cents.
Those interested in historical
research will surely appreciate this
fine service.
The library has quite a large
number of books for sale. The
hardbacks sell for twenty-five
cents and the paperbacks for five
cents.
Please stop in the foyer and look
in the baskets and the plantation
Library News
desk to see if any of the titles catch
your eye.
New books at library
These new books were received
this week by the Hoke County
Public Library, a member of the
Sandhill Regional Library System.
They are available at the public
library and bookmobile in
Raeford.
Adah Fact
Santmyer, Helen H., "The Experts
Speak", "Ohio Town"
Bender ly. Beryl, L., "Thinking
About Abortion"
Greenbaum, Dorothy, "Love
strong: A Woman Doctor's True
Story of Marriage & Medicine"
Adult Fiction
Adams, Alice, "Superior"
Belle, Pamela, "The Moon In The
Water"
DeBlasis, Celeste, "Wild Swan"
Forsyth, Frederick, "The Fourth
Protocol"
Schneider, Joyce A., "Stryker's
Children"
Wallace, Irving, "The Miracle"
Adah Fiction
Cohen, Anthea, "Angel Of
Vengeance"
Fast, Howard, "The Case of the
Murdered Mackenzie"
Harrison, Ray, "Why Kill Arthur
Potter"
Healy, J.F., "Blunt Darts"
Johnston, Velda, "Voice In The
Night"
Linscott, Gillian, "A Healthy
Body"
Neville, Susan, "The Invention Of
Flight"
Ormerod, Roger, "The Hanging
Doll Murder"
Polland, Madeleine A., "No Price
Too High"
Trollope, Joanna, "The Steps Of
The Sun"
Yorke, Margaret, "The Smooth
Face Of Evil"
Children's Fiction
Giff, Patricia R., "The Almost
Awful Play"
Heine, Helme, "The Most
Wonderful Egg In The World"
Henstra, Friso, "The Might Mizzl
ing Mouse and the Red Cabbage
House"
Hughes, Shirley, "Alfie Gives A
Hand"
Lexau, Joan M., "Come! Sit!
Stay!
1 Album benefits
lighthouse
Music with a North Carolina
theme had been compiled for an
album which will benefit the Cape
Hatteras Lighthouse. Arthur
Smith, Del Reeves, Billy "Crash"
Craddock, Oliver, Tommy Faile,
Dale Van Home, and Pete Peter -
^ son are among the artists who have
w contributed their songs at no cost.
"Carolina Sunshine", "Foggy
Mountain Breakdown", "Back to
Carolina", "Carolina Dreams",
and "My Carolina Home" are on
the album with many other
Carolina songs. Some titles are old
favorites, some are relatively new.
The album was introduced on
September 24 by Gov. James B.
Hunt and several of the artists at a
ceremony in the old Senate
Chamber of the North Carolina
Capitol in Raleigh. A marketing
plan which includes sales through
Food Lion Food Stores and
leading banks will be carried out.
Hice Music Company of
Charlotte, the new ojwner of the
Arthur Smith recording studio,
created the album. One hundred
percent of the sales will benefit the
Save the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Committee.
In 1982 school children in Hoke
County helped raise money for this
project, and thereby helped get
emergency measures in place. Ar
tificial seedweed is building dunes
and safeguarding the Lighthouse
until enough money is raised to
match a grant from the National
Park Service.
An expensive plan exists which
will better insure the Lighthouse's
safety.
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Giving a hand
Mrs. Rufus Kelly (center) lends some knitting advice
to another at the Bowmore Community Center. Mrs.
Kelly was one of the prime movers who got the center
opened.
Some county residents
are making a difference
By Sonya Falls
In every community there are
people who see a need for things to
be better or who hear a cry for help
that cannot be answered by
established agencies. These are the
people who often reach out to help
those in need, and they are the
ones who have the courage to ask,
"Why does it have to be this
way?"
In Hoke County, Barbara Buie
is one of those questioning per
sons.
Director of the Literacy Council
for six years, Buie spends most of
her waking hours absorbed in
teaching the illiterate, training
tutors to teach, or searching for
funds to keep the Council afloat.
She frets over her inadequate
budget and the future of Hoke
County and its illiterate citizens.
Illiteracy is a national problem,
and one that rests heavily in Hoke
County. We must educate these
people, Buie says, or "They will
drain us."
Illiteracy is one of the county's
largest drawbacks to .industries
locating here. She sees her pro
gram s? a possible cure for that
problem.
^^TfrSrtJtiand Countyr$tteT5otnrr~'
out, the literacy council is pro
moted in a special brochure design
ed to advertise that area for
locating industry. "Scotland has
grown by leaps and bounds," she
says, whereas Hoke remains stag
nent in its industrial development.
Buie wants to help industrial
recruitment through her program,
but she often feels stymied by lack
of funds.
The Council receives donations,
and few state funds.
A fish fry and a yearly canvass
ing of neighborhoods remain ma
jor fundraisers.
Buie spearheads these efforts
and any other project relating to
her program.
Each year, she hopes for addi
tional funds from local govern
mcnt, because she knows the peo
ple in vast need of the program are
not being seen.
"What we need is transporta
tion, for those people in outlying
areas, to the literacy center," she
said.
Still, faced with questions,
doubts and a tight budget, she
greets this year of instruction en
thusiastically with eight new
volunteers and perhaps, 30-35
students. Buie "prays a lot" and
hopes local and state officials will
see the need for increasing funds
for literacy.
"My biggest fear," she admits,
"is that we will begin to drain the
private sector of donations, and
then what?"
In the supportive private sector
is Ruth McNair, a retired nurse
who sees the literacy program as
"one of the best things that's hap
pened to Hoke County."
McNair, a nurse at McCain
hospital for 31 years, has given
countless hours of her own time to
this community.
Often, she has been asked to ad
minister nursing care to those too
ill to visit a doctor. Many times sfye
TTasjustTteTped,explainra-doctor*y~:""
"^instructions of-h^w to care for an
invalid at home..
Frequently, these "folks" have
difficulty reading instructions for
medication or following a doctor's
guidelines on proper medical care,
she said, noting a concern for a
strong literacy program.
Stroke victims and those suffer
ing from cancer have often sought
Mrs. McNair's medical expertise
and she always, "...tries to be
there for the family."
Through her church and her in
volvement in Eastern Star, she also
sees to needs, economic and social,
within her community. "This com
munity," according to McNair,
"will grow only through a combin
ed effort of leadership, black,
white and Indian."
Leadership and education are
also strong interests of Mary Kelly,
a resident of the Bowmore com
munity.
Kelly, who has lived in Hoke
County for 77 years, sees a need
for some sort of jobs training pro
gram here.
"It's too easy," she says, "to
accept welfare, when it pays more
than minimum wage."
There is an element in our socie
ty that needs to know how to do
those jobs not requiring many
skills or technical know-how.
This is a concern in the black
community that has to be address
ed, but Kelly says: "Who do we
ask? We don't know anybody,
who knows anybody, who knows
anybody, etc."
Although this may be a problem
with many people in achieving a
goal, Mrs. Kelly set out to meet
"those people who know
somebody" recently in a drive to
raise funds for the Bowmore Com
munity Center.
Frustrated by trying to raise
money in communities "where
there was no money," Kelly car
ried her campaign to "bankers,
merchants and farm agents" and
^KK thpse-pCTSons whorh "sRe f^lt '
were in a position JjQ.dQjiatt.to the _
Center.
The Center became a reality due
to Mrs. Kelly's and other efforts,
and today she can be found there,
on Thursday afternoons, teaching
crafts to senior citizens.
Employed as an instrutor with
Sandhills, she hopes for the
satellite college to become reality.
It would be "a wonderful possibili
ty for Hoke County."
Hoke County was recently
described in a Fayetteville
newspaper article as "having
grown up so poor."
Yet, when one considers giving,
caring citizens like Buie, McNair
and Kelly who donate so much of
their time to making this com
munity a better place, surely we are
rich in one area: humanity.
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