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Wear your turkey
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Friday
Volume LXXIX Number 20
RAEFORD. NORTH CAROLINA
25 CENTS
Thursday, September 3,1987
Money focus of Hefner meeting here
U.S. Congressman Bill Hefner
fields questions during a town
meeting last Wednesday in the
Hoke Courthouse.
Around Town
By Sam Morris
Boxer to be
grand marshal
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
“Bonecrusher” Smith is to be
Grand Marshal of the Third
Annual Turkey Festival Parade
on Thursday, September 17. He
is to attend events on the first
day of the Festival and will be
driven in a special car from
Joseph’s Roadster Limosine
Service by Joseph Smith of
Fayetteville.
Former WBA Heavyweight
Champ, James Smith now lives
in the Anderson Creek com
munity in Harnett county. He
owns a mobile home park and
moving company near Sanford,
and has retired from boxing.
By June Lancaster
News-Journal Staff Writer
About 50 Hoke County
residents attended an old-
fashioned town meeting held by
Democratic Rep. W.G. (Bill)
Hefner last Wednesday in the
courthouse.
Hefner has represented the
Eighth Congressional District,
which includes Hoke County, since
1982.
The congressman fielded ques
tions on a variety of subjects in
cluding the federal budget, defense
spending, social issues and the
Middle East.
On the budget, Hefner said he
thinks Congress is serious about
wanting to balance the budget. He
said, “1 would like to balance the
budget.” Hefner said he knows the
American people are interested in a
balanced budget but don’t realize
how difficult it is to do that.
“The first thing you’d have to
do,” Hefner said, “is to cut the
military drastically.”
Hefner serves on the defense
sub-committee and said, “1 vote
strongly for defense. We have a
responsibility to defend the coun
try.”
Hefner said 30 per cent of the
federal budget is for defense but
no military installation or equip
ment is carried as equity for budget
purposes.
A member of the audience said,
“Cut everything but defense.”
Hefner said the problem
becomes, “What can be cut?”
“I wish I had a solution to solve
the deficit,” said Hefner.
Hefner condemned this ad
ministration’s handling of the
budget. He said, “This administra
tion has accumulated more debt
than was accumulated by all the
presidents from George Washing
ton to Jimmy Carter.”
Asked where he stands on line-
item veto power for the president,
Hefner said, “There’s an awful lot
of room for an awful lot of
mischief if you give a president
line-item veto power.”
Arts, crafts festival feature
The weather has finally cooled
off, but don’t turn off the air con
ditioner, because we may still have
hot weather in September. The
rain Monday was needed and as
one farmer stated Monday after
noon, the soybeans were taking it
in, drop by drop.
The forecast for the remainder
of the week is for the temperature
to be in the 80s during the day and
dropping down into the 60s at
night. Now this is just fine for the
opening of the high school and col
lege football season.
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A reminder for members of the
Constitutional Bicentennial Com
mittee of Hoke. The September
meeting will be held the second
Monday in September at the office
of the chairman, Glenn Langdon.
TIh- office is located on the Aber
deen cntoir. The change in date is
due to the Labor Day holiday.
Mark your calendar, Monday,
Sept. 14 at 5 p.m.
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Also, get your plans made for
the upcoming N.C. Turkey
Festival here in Hoke County. The
event will start Thursday,
September 17 with Governor Jim
Martin as the guest speaker.
The schedule of events will be
published soon, so cut out the
schedule and support this event.
Last week an item in this column
was about the close call Jimmy
Conoly and his grandson, Ricky
Jones had with an alligator at Lake
Waccaniaw. From all reports Joe
Upchurch on a trip to Charleston,
S.C. last week was able to secure
(See AROUND, page 16)
By Pat Allen Wilson
Artisans and craftsmen from
this county, other parts of the
state, and even from out of state
will be showing and selling their
works during the North Carolina
Turkey Festival in Raeford.
During last year’s festival, 80
booths were filled and Teresa
Marion, chairman of the arts and
crafts committee, said last month
that she expects that many par
ticipants this year.
The booths will be set up on
Main Street on Saturday,
September 19, from 10 a.m. until 5
p.m.
In addition to displaying their
works, artists will also be com
peting among themselves for
awards. Each participant will
select three to five items for judg
ing to be done by Appalachian
State University professor Mary
Prather, who teaches ceramics;
and Martha Smith, a high school
art teacher at Sylva.
There will be cash prizes of $150,
$200 and a purchase award of
$300.
Among the displays will be oil
Convocation Speakers
Hoke County School Superintendent Dr. Bob Nelson with Ruth Curtis,
region four teacher of the year (left) and Cynthia Zeger, North Carolina
teacher of the year.
Rep. DeVane reviews
legislative session
paintings by Jimmy James, former
band director at Hoke County
High School.
Faye Kicklighter, who created
Faye’s Arts and Crafts out of her
Raeford home workshop, will be
displaying for the first time during
this year’s festival. Among her
items will be colorful wooden,
hand-painted turkeys.
Marion and her committee of
Denise Wallace, Eleanor Gentry
and Ingrid Madden invite festival
goers to make visits to the arts and
crafts booths part of their
itinerary.
Teachers
encouraged
By June Lancaster
News-Journal Staff Writer
The North Carolina Teacher of
the Year, Cynthia Zeger of
Salisbury, inspired the faculty,
staff and administrators of the
Hoke County School system in a
motivational speech at their annual
education convocation last week.
Zeger told her audience,
“Educators hold the future of
America in their hands.”
She reminded school system
employees that when school
started on Monday they had, “180
(See EDUCATION, page 16)
By June Lancaster
News-Journal Staff Writer
After an unusually long session
of the General Assembly, Rep.
Danny DeVane is glad to be back
in Hoke County.
In an interview this week,
DeVane responded to some ques
tions of local interest.
Asked about the $40,500 in pork
barrel funds received in Hoke
County this year, DeVane said that
was about average for small coun
ties.
Asked specifically about the
$7,500 appropriated for central
communications system equipment
that the county had hoped would
amount to $25,000, DeVane said
the county was lucky to get what it
did.
He said it might not be a popular
thing for him to say, but central
communications should probably
have been an outright appropria
tion by the city and county.
He said pork barrel funds had
been cut back the last two years
and there is a lot of talk about cut
ting pork barrel out completely.
Concerning efforts to re
establish a satellite community col
lege program in Hoke County,
DeVane said it will take a lot of
community support.
He said Robert Bone, legislative
liaison between the Department of
Community Colleges and the
General Assembly are working on
the matter.
On the local level, DeVane said
there needs to be a meeting of the
minds between the county and the
higher education board. “Local
officials,” he said, “have to set the
goals and chart the course.”
DeVane responded to questions
on the anticipated split in Hoke
County’s judicial district by saying
next year’s short session of the
General Assembly will look at it
Rep. Danny DeVane
again.
He said he had asked the Ad
ministrative Office of the Court to
look at what would be involved in
combining Hoke and Scotland for
all judicial purposes, or putting
Hoke back with Cumberland.
DeVane said 80 per cent of his
time in the General Assembly is
spent in committee meetings. This
session DeVane was chairman of
the water and air committee. He
also served on the committee for
justice and public safety.
He was vice chairman of both
the health and judiciary commit,
tees. He also served on the wildlife
and the employment security com-
(See DeVANE, page 16)
‘Strut Your Stuffin’ Friday
Friday, September 4, is the of
ficial Wear Your Turkey T-Shirt
Day in Raeford and Hoke County.
Citizens are encouraged to wear
their 1987 blue shirts with the
“Strut Your Stuffin’’ logo to show
support for the upcoming North
Carolina Turkey Festival.
You’ll be in distinguished com
pany while wearing your shirt of
patriotic colors. Priscilla Carson,
on a 4-H trip to Washington D.C.,
presented Senator Terry Sanford
with a ‘Strut Your Stuffin’ T-shirt.
Representative Bill Hefner was
also given one at an open meeting
he held here on August 26.
The shirts are printed in red,
white and blue in conjunction with
the 2(X)th birthday of the signing of
the Constitution, celebrated on
September 17, the day the turkey
festival opens.
Shirts are available at Festival
headquarters in the Depot. Sizes
are available for children from X
small to Large and in adult sizes
from Small to XX Large. The price
is $6.
T-shirts will be appropriate at
tire on businesses and schools, at
work and play. Expect to see blue
shirts everywhere.
Questioned about the possibility
of reinstating the draft, Hefner
said there is no sentiment in the
Congress for doing that. He fur
ther said he himself would support
conscription.
Jimmy Morrisey, president of
the Hoke County chapter of the
NAACP asked Hefner whether he
supported the District of Columbia
statehood bill.
Hefner said, “I’ve got to hear a
lot of argument to vote for two
senators for D.C.”
Hefner received several ques
tions on social issues and welfare-
related concerns.
In response to the question,
“What is being done for handicap
ped people?” Hefner said, “I have
supported legislation against
discrimination of the
handicapped.”
Hefner added, “This Congress
and administration seems to be
cutting funding for the handi
capped.’'
On the matter of medical care
for the elderly, Hefner said, “I’ve
always supported catastrophic in
surance.” He did say, however, “I
don’t believe in cradle to grave
welfare.”
Hefner is critical of the Presi
dent’s handling of the Persian Gulf
crisis. He said the House voted a
non-binding resolution to wait 60
(See HEFNER, page 12)
IT
Crafty
Local craftsman Faye Kicklighter paints the finishing touches on a turkey.
She creates her designs without patterns and does her own sawing and cut
ting. One of about 80 craftsmen and artisans to be featured at this year's
turkey festival, she also does oil paintings, quilting, macrame, crochet,
fabric painting and is beginning to do wood carvings.
Controversial
Work session held
on ordinances
By June Lancaster
News-Journal Staff Writer
In a work session Monday night
Hoke County commisssioners
studied two proposed ordinances,
one concerning junkyards and the
other, private roads. Both have
aroused a lot of interest in the
county.
About 35 citizens attended the
meeting but were not given an op
portunity to speak. Commission
chairman Wyatt Upchurch
reminded the audience a public
hearing on the proposed junkyard
ordinance is already set for
September 21 at 7 p.m.
The junkyard ordinance is
designed to regulate the operation
and maintenance of new and ex
isting junkyards and “automobile
graveyards” in the unincorporated
areas of Hoke County.
Under the ordinance it will be
unlawful to begin operation of a
junkyard within 300 feet of the
centerline of any public road,
within one-half mile of any school
or within a residential area.
Junkyards would have to be en
tirely surrounded by an eight foot
high fence.
Inspections of junkyards and
“automobile graveyards” would
be conducted twice a year by the
Hoke County Health Department
to ensure compliance.
The same prohibitions and re
quirements will exist for already
established businesses. They would
have twelve months from the effec
tive date of the ordinance to com
ply.
Commissioner Tom Howell rais
ed a question about pre-existing
businesses which might not be able
to totally comply with the or
dinance because of property
limitations. He said, “1 can’t see
putting someone out of business
because of property limitations.”
(See COMMISSIONERS, page 16)
The following Friday, spectators
at the Turkey Bowl at Hoke High
are asked to wear their shirts to
support the Bucks and to show
their Festival enthusiasm as Tom
Suiter visits. Suiter will be featur
ing the Turkey Bowl as his WRAL-
TV, Channel 5 “Game of the
Week.”
It should be noted that the
following businesses have bought
T-shirts for their employees:
Barbee’s Pharmacy, Edinborough
Restaurant, Lakeside Seafood,
Southern National Band and
United Carolina Bank.
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