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Volume LXXIX Number 5
Thursday, May 21,1987 CENTS
County OKs phase one of solid waste program
By Sally Jamir
News-Journal Staff Writer
Hoke County Commissioners on Mon
day took action to ease sanitation problems
in the area when they unanimously passed
the first phase of the Solid Waste Collec
tion Program.
The program seeks to reduce the amount
of solid waste in the county by the use of
compactor sites before waste is disposed of
in landfill areas.
Speaking for the program was Claud
“Buck” O’Shields Jr., consultant with the
firm of Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan
Inc. of Wilmington.
O’Shields said the program would initial
ly partially replace many of the “green
box” sites which are currently used for
waste collection.
O’Shields said the program would pro
tect the environment for residents by mak
ing sure toxic materials from various kinds
of waste will not endanger water supplies.
“The key to all of it is protecting the
groundwater,” O’Sheilds said.
He said some communities (such as
Hoke County) are reaching a crisis situa
tion in which landfill areas will reach their
full capacity in only a few years.
The program calls for the installation of
five compactor sites to be installed within
the next four years and the gradual elimina
tion of most of the green box sites.
The first phase of the program will cost a
projected $179,951 and provide for the site,
two compactors, a hopper, container, land
and electrical hook up.
This phase will provide for employees,
utility fees, supplies and equipment.
The total amount for the first phase of
the program is $250,751. The figure would
be offset by the use of $70,800 which may
be provided by local option funds from the
Community Development Block Grant, if
awarded to the county.
During the meeting, commissioners ap
proved of the Grant application, including
a $50,000 cash match figure.
Before approving the program proposal
Chairman Wyatt Upchurch said that the
public needed to be educated on the matter
of the solid waste collection program.
Cowan urged Commissioners to take a
definite direction in the matter.
Commissioner Cleo Bratcher said that it
was time for action to be taken concerning
waste collection.
Cowan said that with the program being
established, two compactors would be in
stalled and operational by Jan. 1, 1988.
In other business, commissioners passed
an ordinance regulating parlors, health
salons and clubs.
County Attorney Duncan McFadyen
said the ordinance will regulate the
establishment of the parlors as well as how
the businesses are run.
Commissioner Tom Howell noted that
there was no opposition to the ordinance
during the public hearing held on the or
dinance earlier that evening.
In additional business, commissioners
approved a revision to the Hoke County
Subdivision regulations.
The revision is a procedural change on
how to get a minor subdivision approved
and changes the size of a this subdivision
from five acres to a piece of land of any
size.
During the public hearing held for public
comment on the revision, various questions
were fielded by commissioners, Cowan and
McFadyen.
Arts Festival
Students kick up their heeis in the Mexican Hat Dance last Thursday at
J. W. McLauchlin School. The elementary school joined others in the
county in their celebration of the cultural arts festival this month. The
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festival honors students ’ abilities in the arts, inviting the entire communi
ty to enjoy music, dance and visual arts in the schools.
School board adopts
statement to assure
equal access funding
By Sally Jamir
News-Journal Staff Writer
Members of the Hoke County
Board of Education voted last
week to pass a statement of
assurances instead of a com
parability policy as a method of in
suring that all school children have
an equal chance at state and local
funding sources.
The statement is included with
funding applications when the
schools ask for state financial sup
port, such as the Education Con
solidation and Improvement Act
Chapter 1 program.
During the board’s monthly
meeting. Bob Marley of the N.C.
Department of Public Instruction,
was present to advise them as to
what might be appropriate to
“make certain that all children got
appropriations from state and
local” funding.
He stressed that the board needs
to make sure that this distribution
of funds should be on an equal, or
equitable basis, considering the
needs of the students involved,
rather than distributing resources
on a per capita (per student) basis.
“How you do it is up to you”,
Marley said, referring to the
equitability issue of funds distribu
tion. “I’m not here to suggest what
the board ought to do.”
Marley said that he knew of in
stances where schools in other
states had misused Chapter 1
funds.
Dr. Ginny Hayes, associate
(See SCHOOL, page 13)
Horticulture program proposed
by local Education Foundation
Numerous break-ins reported in city, county
Numerous thefts were reported
in the area recently, according to
records at the Hoke County
Sheriff’s Department.
Records say Mae Belle Mor
rison, Arabia Road, reported that
someone took an air conditioning
unit from her home sometime bet
ween 3 p.m.. May 2and 3:20 p.m..
May 4.
The air conditioner, worth
$1,000, was taken from a window
at the residence.
June McFadyen, Route 2,
Raeford, reported that someone
broke into her residence sometime
between 9 a.m. and 10:30 p.m..
May 10.
Records say the subject took the
screen off the window, opened the
window and entered the dwelling
and removed a 12 gauge shotgun.
Records say the gun was later
recovered.
Magaline Jacobs, Route 1, Red
Springs, reported that someone
broke into her residence sometime
between 9 a.m. and 12:45 p.m..
May 10.
Records say the subject came
through the window at the porch
and removed $136 cash from under
the rug in the bedroom.
Records say Dorothy Jones,
Route 1, Shannon, reported that
someone broke into her residence
sometime between 8 a.m.. May 12
and 8:45 a.m.. May 14.
The subject forced open the
back door and entered, pulled
items out of the closets and took
$26 in cash including eight to ten
silver dollars dating from 1922.
Records say damage to the door
was worth $150.
Willard F. Page, Jones Road,
Raeford, reported that someone
had vandalized the mailbox at his
residence at 3 a.m.. May 17.
Records say someone had
removed the mailbox, worth $50,
from the pole at his dwelling on
RP 1426.
According to records Tony Ray
Jones, Route 4, Raeford, reported
that someone vandalized the
mailbox at Dundee Farms
sometime between 6 p.m.. May 14
(See BREAK-INS, page 3)
The Hoke Higher Education
Foundation is proposing the crea
tion of a one-year, certificate-
producing horticulture program.
The reasons for the choice of this
field as a first step in strengthening
vocational training here are impor
tant indicators of the foundation’s
concern for Hoke County.
“People who farm really love to
see thing grow” said Jimmy Mat
thews during a meeting to discuss
why and how Hoke might push for
this program.
The agricultural incomes in
Hoke County are now limited to a
few large farmers and the few peo
ple who are needed to help them
run machinery. The workers in
Matthew’s greenhouse had taken
time off recently to set tobacco,
but there is really no full-time far
ming work for them.
Learning new tasks that could
qualify workers for jobs in
greenhouses, grass maintenance
and nurseries would help people
Woodward challenges chamber
Motivational speaker Kirk
Woodward last Tuesday
chalitmged members of the
Racford-Hoke Chamber of
Commerce to take a close look
at their organization and the
community it serves. Wood-
vwurd was the keynote speaker at
the chamberannual banquet
at the National Guard Ar
mory.
“When you look out at the
community, do you know where
they are coming from?” Wood
ward asked. “What does the
community sec when it looks at
the chamber?”
Woodward, the owner of
Peofde Centered Programs, a
human resource development
company headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, is no stranger to
chambers of commerce. At one
time he served as the member
ship director for the West Texas
O^ber of Commerce, the
largest regional chamber of
commerce in the United States,
Recently he has spoken at ban
quets in Rocky Mount, Troy,
Ohio and Marion, Iowa.
In order to increase member
ship in the local chamber,
Woodward said it is important
to know what kind of people
you need in the organization.
“You need people who will
be excited about the work at
hand,” Woodward said.
He told the chamber to en
courage prospective members to
become involved in the work of
the community and said the
Turkey Festival is a good place
to begin.
“If you can’t find something
that|s exciting in the Turkey
Festival, something is wrong
with you,” he said. “Get in
volved in the program 100. per
cent.”
Woodward said that it’s im
portant to have a local chamber
that encompasses both old and
new ideas.
Also during the banquet, the
chamber installed its first
female president, Alice Glisson.
Glisson called the presidency
“One of the greatest challenges
of my life” and promised to
“strive to make this one of the
best communities in the state.”
“No one person stands
alone,” Glisson said. “As a
team we can be the movers and
shakers who get things done.”
Other new officers installed
Tuesday evening were; Mary
Archie McNeill, first vice presi
dent; Larry Bullard, second vice
president: and Kevin Davis,
secretary/treasurer. New direc
tors installed were Bobby Britt,
Elizabeth Burgess, Kevin Davis,
Vardell Hedgpeth and Brown
Hendrix Jr.
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Kirk Woodward
who have no job skills that are
marketable. The turn from pro
duction of row crops to poultry
and sod is evident in Hoke County.
The soil is good here for produc
tion of turf and shrubs. A new era
of farming is not far in the future.
Recognizing the realities of the
high rates of illiteracy in this coun
ty, the foundation recognized hor
ticulture as a hands-on field that
could utilize the skills and energy
of people who might not attempt
further education because of poor
reading skills.
Another consideration for the
decision to support creation of the
horticulture program is that Hoke
County High School has graduates
each year who need this program.
Some of the local students enter
the two-year program at the main
campus of Sandhills Community
College. Danny McGougan, hor
ticulture instructor at Hoke High,
said that the job prospects of a cer-
(See PROGRAM, page 3)
Around Town
By Sam Morris
The calendar date for summer is
June 21. The 90-degree
temperature Monday forgot to
look at the calendar. It seems that
summer has came a month early. It
was in the 80s Sunday and the
forecast is for more 90 - degree
weather Tuesday (as this column is
being written on Monday night).
We could get some rain on
Wednesday, but the hot weather
will continue. The rest of the week
calls for temperatures to be in the
80s during the day and in the 60s
during the night.
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A pair of eye glasses, found in
the parking lot of Heritage Federal
was turned into the office Mon
day. If you will describe them, you
can pick them up at The News-
Journal office.
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A good crowd turned out for the
(See AROUND, page 3)