Waiting on the train
Hoke County residents gather for the Incoming
train prior to 1920 at one of the Raeford Depots.
The building still stands and is located behind the
brick depot on Main Street. According to one
source, many residents used to receive liquor sup
plies on the train from Richmond. Perhaps that is
why such large crowds gathered. The owner of the
photograph, Mary Motherly, was not sure of Its
date or subject. Restoration project members are
searching for tales of the depot and old
photographs. Anyone with Information please con
tact The News- Journal.
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over the weekend visiting his
parents, Mayor and Mrs. J.K.
McNeill, Jr. I saw Jeff at church
Sunday and asked him if he had
received my message.
He said no, but what was the
message?
I told him 1 had asked his father
to tell him to get Clemson to
"clean up its athletic Dept."
Jeff just smiled and said that he
and the other Clemson folks were
thankful for Tulane.
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The final game of the NCAA
basketball tournament was all
anyone could ask for. I don't
believe that a movie script could
have been written that could have
been more exciting.
The unseeded team from
Villanova had too hotahand for
the Geofgfel&wn JiSW^When'you
only miss one shot in the second
half, it is hard for you to lose. The
79^o game shooting is almost
unbelievable.
This is good for college basket
ball for the underdog to win. There
is too much bad news associated
with college sports these days, and
it takes something like this win to
restore faith in the college sports
program.
Of course the losers say, "Wait
until next year!"
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Mary Matherly brought a pic
ture by the office recently of the
old A&R red depot across the track
from the old being restored. It
would seem that the picture was
taken in the early 1900s. The pic
ture appears on the page that this
column is continued on.
Look at the long dresses, the
hats and all the apparel that the
rtftn and women have oh iifthe pic- *
ture. They must be waiting for the
train to take some of them either to
Fayetteville or Aberdeen to catch
trains north or south.
We need to get the old depot of
fice space restored, so that the peo
ple who will be working there can
help to move Raeford and Hoke
County forward. It needs your
help. Have you made a donation to
the restoration? If not, then do so
today. Be a part of a working com
munity!
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"Ogopogo" is said to be a large
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...Teen pregnancies 4th in NC
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adding that 68.1 of the 1,000
deliver.
The reasons for teen pregnancy
are not self evident, according to
Sappenfield, school officials and
other Health Department person
nel.
"We have a number of pregnan
cies in school," Hoke High School
Guidance Counselor Dot Nelson
said.
The hardest part to understand
is that students do not come to get
counsel or aid until after they or
their girl friends are pregnant, said
Nelson.
"I can only remember one inci
dent of a student coming to me
before the fact," Nelson said.
Apparently, pregnant students
at Hoke High do not bother some
people.
"Strangely enough, people here
don't get too concerned. That's
not everybody, of course, but
nobody seems to think much about
it," Nelson said.
Ignorance is not the cause for
many school children getting preg
nant, according to Jody Willis
who, in co-ordination with the
Health Department, teaches
educational sessions on children
growing into adults, hygiene,
postponing sexual involvment and
sexuality.
Willis has been teaching courses
starting at grade six for about six
years, she said.
The courses start in the sixth
grade with sessions on what hap
pens to a child's body during
puberty, said Willis.
This year, she has also taught
classes to seventh graders about
postponing sexual involvement
with a special session for parents,
she said.
Few parents showed up for the
special two hour parent session,
she said.
Every year, all students in the
ninth grade receive information on
human sexuality, teenage pregnan
cy, anatomy and physiology, birth
control, child support and venereal
disease, said Willis.
Still, according to Nelson,
teenaged girls are turning up preg
nant.
"I have seen five or six this year
and I'm sure the other counselors
have seen that many," Nelson
said, adding that there are three
other counselors.
According to Willis, there are
two main reasons why high school
aged girls become involved in sex
ual activities.
"They all want something to
love," said Willis.
"A lot of them do it for their
boy friends," she added.
Help is available for girls who
are either sexually active and do
not want to become pregnant, or
for those who are already pregnant
and want to have healthy children,
health department officials say.
O.B.Gyn. clinics, family plan
ning sessions and birth control
methods are all offered at the
Hoke County Health Department.
Man charged for BBQ break-in
A 23-year-old Raeford man,
Calvin Graham, of Rt. 1, Box 526,
was in the Hoke County Jail Tues
day morning being held under
$5,000 bond for allegedly breaking
into a local business.
Graham, arrested on April 5,
was apparently caught trying to
break into J's Barbecue on Jones
Hill.
According to a report Tiled at the
Hoke County Sheriff's Depart
ment, Detective Weaver Patterson
arrived at the store about 5:09 a.m.
and saw Graham allegedly trying
to break a front window.
As Patterson approached the
suspect in his car, Graham turned
into the headlights giving the
detective a clear view of the man,
the report says-.
Patterson lost the man in a foot
chase that followed, but Graham
was found by Sgt. Rodney Collins
of the Raeford Police Department,
according to the report.
According to a statement by
Graham, he was not alone in the
alleged break-in attempt.
There were two unidentified
men with him,' said'Gtaham in the
statement.
According to Patterson's report,
there was S400 damage done to the
building.
An attempted larceny was
reported to the Sheriff's Depart
ment on March 30 by Buddy
Daniels.
According to Daniels, someone
took his lawn tractor and moved it
about 400 yards from his house,
offense reports say.
The tractor, valued at $1,537,
was recovered in a wheat field near
the victim's home, reports say.
Ethel McNeill reported her
mobile home broken into on
March 29.
According to reports, a
refrigerator valued at $550 was
taken from the trailer.
Nothing else was said missing,
reports say.
On the same day, Charlie Jr.
Locklear reported a welder taken
from his shop.
Locklear, of the South Hoke
area, reported that he had used the
welder the day before he
discovered it missing.
On April 1, Ronnie Lomack
reported a tape deck apparently
stolen from his car:
The deck was valued at $500,
reports show.
A vacuum cleaner belonging to
William Parish was taken from the
back of a truck in the Edenbourgh
Shopping Center, Raeford Police
Chief Leonard Wiggins reported.
Apparently stolen on April 8,
the cleaner was in a truck belong
ing to Nancy Davis, Wiggins said,
adding that the owner was shop
ping.
The vacuum was valued at
almost S600, said Wiggins.
A 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix was
damaged last Saturday at the
Raeford-Hoke Plaza.
According to Wiggins, the car
was broken into and half of the
"T-top" was taken.
The car belongs to Alvin Pear
son of Red Springs, said the chief.
The missing roof half was
valued at $140.
Two Raeford youths have been
charged with taking azaleas from
Hoke High School.
Michael Scott and Pamela
Hensley, both 17, have been charg
ed with larceny, according to Wig
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