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Volume LXXIX Number 8
RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA
25 CENTS
Thursday, June 11,1987
Possible EDA grant brightens treatment planfs future
By Sally Jamir
News-Journal Staff Writer
The future of the Hoke County
water treatment plant looks
brighter because of good chances
of getting an Economic Develop
ment Administration grant, accor
ding to a city official.
City Manager Tom Phillips said
this week that “things look pretty
good” for securing a $450,000 plus
grant which would contribute
greatly to the completion of phase
one of a five-phase plant improve
ment program.
Phillips said that last winter
Congress reenacted legislation
which would make it possible for
communities to get EDA funds for
improvements to employment-
related projects.
The county and city have
already received funds from an
EDA grant which enabled the
Economic Development Commis
sion to do a study of possible in
dustrial park sites in the area.
The current grant which the city
is applying for requires that three
criteria be met, Phillips said.
Initially there must be funds
available for the potential reci
pient, he said. Then, the develop
ment project must enable a local
industry to provide additional jobs
in the county, he said. In addition,
there must be a coordinated effort
between this industry and the city.
The Faberge plant was used as
the target industry in filing the pre
application in April, Phillips said.
The pre-applications are screened
and accepted if they meet the
general requirements. “Historical
ly, once these requirements are
met, we have a pretty good chance
of getting funds,” Phillips said.
The pre-application included a
statement of needs, a cost estimate
and project budget and an
economic description of the area,
he said.
A pre-application stated that
land was available for industrial
expansion but not the utilities to
satisfy the needs.
In the case of Faberge, Phillips
said, more employment can be
provided if additional sewage
treatment is available to the in
dustry.
Recently, EDA gave the city the
go-ahead for submitting an ap
plication for funds. The deadline
for submission is May 25. City and
industry officials have been hurry
ing to acquire the vital statistics for
use in the application.
The application process starts in
the EDA in Raleigh, Phillips said.
After a review, a federal EDA
representative takes the applica
tion to the EDA southeast regional
office in Atlanta. There it is looked
over jointly by federal represen
tatives and the regional staff.
At this time, he said, an overall
Economic Development program
is decided on for the region.
After review in Atlanta, the ap
plication will go to the national
EDA office in Washington, D.C,
Phillips said. The review process in
D.C. is the final stage of applica
tion before a funding list is made
and then announced to the reci
pients through their federal
representatives in the fall.
Shots fired
at motorist
A Raeford man was the victim of an unprovoked
shooting incident last Friday while driving on a road
toward Rockfish, according to Hoke County Sheriff’s
Department records.
Troy Reed, Route 4, Raeford, reported that so
meone shot into his vehicle while he was driving on RP
1418 toward Hardin’s store sometime between 7:13
p.m. and 7:18 p.m.
Reed said in the report that while driving he had
passed a small blue car with two males in it. The car
then passed his car on RP 1418 just before reaching the
Price Rite Supply Co. building.
The report stated that Reed heard two shots as the
car passed him and at that time felt a sting in his left
shoulder.
Reed said he continued to the store where he asked
Grady Hardin to call the Sheriff’s Department and the
ambulance service.
Joshua Brown answered the call and stated that
Reed said he didn’t know who the men in the car were
and that he hadn’t had trouble with anyone lately.
In another shooting incident, Scott Leroy Foushee,
Floyd Monroe Road, Raeford, reported that someone
shot at him while he was jogging toward the Arabia
Golf Club from the Twin Bridges area at 4:45 p.m.,
June 3.
According to records, Foushee said that three males
and one female driving a late model Chevy Chevette
passed him and shot three times at him.
The car then turned around and headed toward
Rockfish, records say.
In an unrelated incident, Linda Lancaster O’Berry,
Route 3, Raeford, reported that someone took a card
board box of jewelry belonging to her on May 19.
Records say that O’Berry planned to transport the
jewelry, worth $20,000, to a Fayetteville bank.
The box, containing bracelets, necklaces and other
jewelry items, was discovered missing at 5 p.m. and
was not found in her car or her residence. The last time
the box was secure was at 4 p.m.
Alvin Walker, of Raeford, reported that someone
broke into his residence on South Hoke Road across
from Piney Grove Church sometime between 8 a.m.
and 7 p.m., June 2.
Records say someone broke out the window of the
door on the back side of the house, vandalized the in
side of the dwelling and stole $1,050 worth of jewelry .
(See SHOTS, page 11)
Tracks
The setting sun illuminates the rails of train tracks leading out of town.
Around Town
By Sam Morris
Firefighters Association endorses
centralized communications system
The weather in North Carolina
and Hoke County is hotter than it
is in Texas. They were having rain
about every day while we were
there, and this kept the
temperatures in the 80s. It was
hard to realize that no rain had
fallen in Hoke County while we
were away from home.
The forecast calls for rain Tues
day night or early Wednesday
morning. A cold front will come
through after the rain and the
temperatures will be in the 80s.
Now this is my kind of weather.
* * «
Don’t forget the “We The Peo
ple” celebration to be held in
Raeford on July 4th. A picnic, free
entertainment and a drama will be
featured at this event.
This celebration is being spon
sored by the Constitutional Biccn-
tinnial Committee of Hoke. Most
of the time we don’t think about
what our Constitution means to
us. Just think, if we didn’t have it,
1 couldn’t be writing this column
and you might not be given the
chance to read any newspaper.
So mark your calendar for this
event. More details will appear in
(See AROUND, page 11)
The Hoke County Firefighters
Association has publicily stated
that it is in favor of establishing a
central communications system.
Association, President Johnny
Baker said this week that 11 of the
association’s 12 fire departments
voted to support a central system
during a quarterly meeting on June
4. The Hoke County Firefighters
Association was known as The
Hoke County Firemens Associa
tion before it changed its name
during last week’s meeting.
Currently, there are two emer
gency communications systems in
Hoke County - one for Raeford
residents and the other for those
living outside the city limits.
“Our system is completely out
dated,” Baker said.
The communications system was
“efficient” 20 years ago when the
county had four fire departments,
according to Baker. Since that
time, the population of the county
has grown and the number of
departments has risen to 12.
“We’re getting more calls
now,” Baker said. “We probably
get 10 times more calls than we did
20 years ago.”
Baker said the association also
voted to support the system “due
to the overload of the county jailer
who must double as a dispatcher.
“We want someone on the radio
seven days a week, 24 hours a
day,” he said.
Baker said the third reason The
Firefighters Association has gone
public in its support of a central
communications system is to in
form citizens that a centralized
communications system is not the
only reason a county tax increase is
under consideration.
“The misconception of the
general public is that a proposed
3-cent tax increase is only for a
(See FIRE, page 11)
Migrant summer school to begin
By Sally Jamir
News-Journal Staff Writer
The migrant education project
will be ending its 21st year June 30,
and the migrant summer school
will be starting soon.
Throughout the school year the
migrant school gives academic and
enrichment instruction to children
of families who move from place
to place in order to find employ
ment in agriculture, fishing or
related industries.
Hoke County furnishes pro
grams for some of the thousands
of migrant children that live in the
country. The programs are design
ed to provide equal educational
opportunities for these children so
that they may better understand
their self-worth and develop their
abilities to the fullest.
“They like having someone to
listen to them and at the same time
get a need met,” said Deborah
Cook, migrant tutor at Turlington
school. “The program allows this
to happen when it may not happen
in any other sense.”
Cook works with the regular
curriculum teacher in developing
certain skills, according to
Associate Superintendent Dr. Gin-
ny Hayes.
“She will work on a one-to-one
basis or in groups of two or
three,” Hayes said.
There are 61 students during the
(See MIGRANT, page 11)
Representative Bill Hefner will
make the announcement to Hoke
County, if the grant is awarded,
Phillips said.
The EDA funding source was
used in the early 70s when the
treatment plant was first built.
Phillips said that a primary
reason that the EDA grant was ap
plied for now is that the review
process and funds distribution is
quicker than that for the En
vironmental Protection Agency
grants.
However, he said, the city has
plans to take advantage of EDA
grants in the future.
Phase one of the treatment plant
improvement program includes
replacement of the grit chamber
and degreaser, sludge handling im
provement and the addition of two
primary clarifier tanks, Phillips
said.
These tanks will improve the
quality of the water which comes
out of the plants and increase the
water volume which the plant is
able to handle.
A total of $662,000 will be used
for improvements to the waste
treatment plant, Phillips said.
Most of these funds, $457,200 will
come from the EDA grant and
$40,000 will be provided through
Senate Bill II monies.
An additional $100,000 is
budgeted for water and sewer ex
tensions to a proposed industrial
site. _ -
County government will also be
approached to assest with some of
the funding, Phillips said.
Planning Board
hears grievances
Members of the Hoke County
Planning Board heard developers
and landowners grievances during
a board meeting last Tuesday.
The grievances resulted from
allegedly unfulfilled agreements
relating to the county’s subdivision
regulations.
The Twelve Oaks subdivision in
the northeast area of the county
was represented by David Averette
and resident landowners from
Fayetteville who want to live in the
subdivision.
Board members heard from
Averette who asked for a variance
on the paved roads section of the
regulations.
“The regulation requires paving
of 1500 feet with a density of 15
lots on it,” said board chairman
Brown Hendrix.
Landowners say that verbal
agreements were made between
them and Averettes deceased part
ner, Buster Hickman, saying that
the road in their section of the sub
division would be paved.
Averette said he recalled no such
agreement.
“Nothing is written, everything
is verbal,” said Hendrix, regarding
the agreements.
Currently, the regulations re
quire that the road be paved before
plots be recorded and before
building permits can be issued to
land owners.
Landowner Libby Hall said this
week that Averette had suggested
landowners contribute $1,000
toward the paving of the road.
Hall said she sees the suggestion
as an unreasonable one, particular
ly for resident Claude Huggins,
(See Board, page 11)
Man injured in accident
‘Jaws of life’ pries open jammed door
A Cleveland, S.C. man was in
jured in a two-vehicle accident last
Wednesday, according to a State
Highway Patrol spokesman.
Trooper Brent White reported
that Stan Wade Turner, 38, of
Cleveland, driving a 1987 Buick,
traveling on Prospect Avenue
toward U.S. 401 Business, failed to
stop for a stop sign and was broad
sided by an on-coming car.
Turner was hit at 10:40 a.m. by
a 1984 Chevrolet truck driven by
Charles Willis, 29, of Raeford.
Turner, charged with a stop sign
violation, was taken to Cape Fear
Valley Hospital.
The Hoke County Rescue Squad
was on the scene to assist in
getting Turner out of the car where
he had been trapped.
Squad members used a device
called a Hurst tool more widely
known as the “jaws of life,” a
spokesman said.
The tool was able to pry the
doors of the car open which had
become jammed in the accident, he
said.
A rams attachment was placed
inside the car in order to push out
the metal which was caved in, ac
cording to the spokesman.
He said the squad was able to get
Turner out of the car, into the am
bulance and to the hospital in less
than 15 minutes.
Runners sought
to carry torch
The U.S. Olympic Torch will
be coming through Hoke Coun
ty on Sunday, July 5, and local
volunteers are being sought to
participate in the torch run.
Applications for the run must
be in Raleigh this Friday, June
12. Local runners are encourag
ed to pick up applications at the
Chamber of Commerce Office
at the Depot on Main Street as
soon as possible.
The torch is scheduled to ar
rive in Hoke County via
Highway 211 at the Hoke-
Moore line at approximately
7:50 a.m. on Sunday rooming.
Runners will then carry the
torch down Highway 211,
through Ashley Heights and
McCain. The torch will then be
taken to a ceremony that has
been planned at the Hoke
County High School Stadium at
for 9:30 a.m. The torch will
then be carried to the Scotland
County line via U.S. Highway
401.
Runners interested in carry
ing the torch can sign up for any
distance ranging from one tenth
of a mile up to a full mile. The
fee for carrying the torch is $25,
regardless of the distance.
No age limit has been set for
participants, but runners must
be capable of running a
10-minute mile. The torch
weighs 3 lbs.
More than 8,000 runners are
expected to participate in the
run that kicks off the U.S.
Olympic Fcstival-*87. The
26-day, 2,800-mile run will
journey through more than 400
cities, towns and communities.
The route will bring the torch
within 50 miles of every North
Carolina resident.
The Olympic Festival Flame
will make its final stop Friday
evening, July 17, at Raleigh’s
Carter-Finley Stadium for the
opening ceremonies of U.S,
Olympic Festival-’87.
With the arrival of U.S.
Olympic Festival-’87, North
Carolina will witness the largest
and one of the greatest events in
the state’s history.
U.S. Olympic Festival-’87
will be held July 13-26 in
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill,
Cary and Greensboro, with
yachting at Henderson Point on
Kerr Lake.