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The ews Journal The 15th issue of our S3rd yeiir RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA 25 CENTS Wednesday, July 24,1991 Move to new middle schools delayed until Oct. 21 Hoke County’s two new middle schools will not be ready when school stans August 26. In fact, if things go as planned, they won’t open until October 21. The School Board voted to delay the opening of the schools at last night’s board meeting. The decision came after school otficials met with building contractors for the two schools Thursday. School officials learned how far behind con struction was on the two schools, then decided to move their opening date back. But Superintendent Bill Harrison hopes things don’t go as planned; he’d like to see the schcxtls open scKiner. That’s why officials decided on setting the opening date so late in the semester; it gives officials time to move the date up if construction finishes sooner than expected. “1 think dial setting the date and getting in earlier would be a whole loi more positive than setting a date and having to move it back,” he said. He said he hoped the move, which will come in the middle of the school semester, will involve the whole community. “We feel that with the new leadership in the (See SCHOOL, page 5) County residents get first taste of zoning ‘‘There’s ninety-sLx acres ri^hi next to my lot ami someone could come ri}>ht in and put a ho^ farm right next to mv house"—Albert Bahoric i David Woodcox objects to zoning plan C ounty and planning otficials were pleased w'ith the first pub lic meeting held on zoning in Hoke County, but not some citivens. Hoke’s county commissioners held die meeting—intended loe.splain pro- posedzoninglawsioihepuMie Mon day night at Rockfi.>h’s Volunteer Fire r.)epartmient. Two more like meetings will be held in coming w'eeks. Supporters say zoning will protect landowners from neighboring uses which would interfere with the use of their own land or lower its iiumket value. ■‘We’re trying to keep like areas with like areas,” Patric Zimmer, Hoke’s plan ning director, told a ciowd ol between 60 and 75 residents of western Hoke County. There are eight types of land use allowed in the proposed zoning ordi nance, Zimmei explainnj; msidential/ agricultural, two kinds of lesidential, multi-family residential, mobile home parks, highway cominetcial, iieighrMrr hood business and industrial Each type has restrictions as to what uses can and cannot be made on land so zoned, he said. For instance, no heavy industry can go onto a piece of land zoneo tof nisi dential use. People who would like to use their land in a way not allow ed because of the way it has been zoned may have three alternatives, Zimmer and Agnes Wanman, a state official in the area Community Development office in Fayetteville, said. Conditional use If allowed by the zoning district, the land owner may seek a conditional use pennit. The land owner must go before the Planning and Development Commis sion with his request m an open hearing; the land owiiei s neighbors may attend the hearing and voice iheir approval or opposition; the PDC then makes a recommendation to county commission ers, who decide. “Conditional use is called that be cause they can set conditions,” Wanman said. If the land owner violates those conditions, the count) hasihe aiiihoTity to rescind the conditional use A conditional usehearng‘‘allowsihe adjacent landowners to have a say,” Zimmer said In a residential/agriculiuial district, for instance. Class B trailers (single- wides) are allowed only as a conditional use. ■'ll you wanted to pul ill a Class B you (See ZONING, page 12) sS^- J / -f' Fire break Stonewall Volunteer fireman Jimmy Maxwell takes a break from fighting a house fire in near-100 degree heaf Monday The house, off Haire Rd , caught fire mid afternoon but flames were extinguished by farm workers nearby (See related photo page 12.) Decision on sheriff delayed once more Two mur(l(‘r trials on Iiold loo The decision of whcihcr Alex Nonon will remain in his office as sheriff of Hoke County may not come until some time in August As of Monday aftciiiooii, [3onald W. Stephens, the Suix-rioi Coim Judge from Raleigh who has tried the case, slil 1 had not received a transcript he requested of the iriarsproceedings, a couii official said. District Attorney Jean Powell, who, along with County Aitomcy Duncan McFadyen, brought the petition to remove Norton before the court, said she had not received a eopy of the transcript either Stephens made it clear in open court he particularly wished to rc view what Norton said on die stand early in the trial; some wiiiies.ses' icstimony appeared to coniradict Norton’s. Murder trials on hold Powell further said couil watch eiscan expect to wait at least until January before the start of the tri als of two highK public i/cd mur ders. Two suspects in tlic murder of Tom Cameron, a rcspc'cicd Hoke County businessman, have yet even to be indicted. Powell said she would have called the ca.sc bed'ore the Iasi Grand Jury, which dclennnies w hcihcr felony ca.ses will Ivtiied, but a chief witnc.ss in the case, a Stale Bureau of Investigation agent, was not available. Powell said the process is necessarily a slow one. “Youju.st don’t go in and try to try' these cases by the seal of your pants,” she said. The I wo suspects, William Me Nalt and Tyrone Williams, arc still in llokc County Jail without bond. Cameron was lound Ix'aien to death March 21 near a pond on nonhem Hoke land he co-owned. In the other ca.se. nine men su.>pected in die murdei ol Ld Hairis, a fonnci Hoke (.ouniy deicclivc. ate also still mjail jwan ing tiial. Harris w as gunned down in die dcHjrway ol his home the mgln of April 4. (Sec TRIALS, page 6) Phone fraud targets some in Hoke Someone has been making long distance phone calls and charging them to phone customers in the Raeford area. “We’ve had a number of them re(xiried to us said Zan Monroe, a manager at Carolina Telephone in Fayetteville Hie phone-call thieves call the operator from, for instance, a public phone booth posing as someone whose name they picked out of a phone btHtk, Monroe said. I hey say they would like to make a long distance phone call and charge it to their number. Tfiey have the operator call the number, hoping the person’s wife or child will answer the phone. The operator then asks, at the caller s request, it that second number will autho rize a long distiince call made on another phone The person who answers the phone often thinks a family member really needs to make the call when, in fact, it’s only a fraud, Monroe said. A long distance call, to New York, for example, is later billed to the phone num ber; by then, it’s too late. “We’re taking measures to try to track these people down,” Monroe said. "We think we’re on the trail of where some of these calls are coming from,” he said. "We’re suspecting that it’s coming out of the Fayetteville area.” The rash ol phone Irauds has popped up lately in the Fayetteville calling area; Raeford's 875 exchange is listed in the phone book, causing some area customers to get conned. Anyone can be a target; the frauds appear to pick names out of a phone book at random, Monroe said. “I’ve even had two or three attempts made on my number,” he said. (See FRAUD, page 4) ‘‘Sister Dolly’ leaving Around Town After seven years of ministry here, ■Sister Delores Click is leaving St Eli/akill’s CaiJiolic Church and the Raeford area She is accepting a new assignment in Baltimore, Md Click was the first pastoral admin istrator in the Catholic Church’s Ra leigh Duxese She was also active in community affairs, serving as president of the Raeford Ministerial Association, and w nil Hospice. Meals on Wheels and the newly lonncd H.E.L.P. orgam/auon. Click has been assigned to Our Lady of Fatima Church in Baltimore. Parishioners arc planning a farewell paity lor her Sunday, July 28 from 2-4 p.m. at tfic Raeford Civic Center, with a brief program at 3. The community is invited. Sr. Delores Click By Sam C. Morris The weather did wann up last week and continues into this week. Monday and Tuesday die tem()eraturcs were in the high 90s and tlic lows at night were in the high 70s. Wc have hud some rain in tltc couniy but it is in spots. On Mon day it rained in Ashley Heighus and Montrose early in the afternoon and later in the afternoon it rained in tlie .Arabia seciionofilie couniy, Wc haven’t had much rain around Raeford The forecasicaJls tor the heat w ave to slowly leave us starling Wednesday it will be in die low 90s during the day and in the low 70s at night. On Friday and Saiiirdav the higlw will he in theSOsand die lows will be in die 60s. We could have rain Wednesday and Thursday. * * * From all reports the farmers arc pleased w iih the price of tobacco on the Border and Eastern belt. The average pnee is running near S160 per hundred pounds. It seems dial the price will in crease as die belter tobacco comes to die market in several weeks. * * * In recent weeks vvhen the television newscasters started talking about Hoke Couniy, you could expect something bad would come next. I.ast week on TV came news ol skyiliving at the Raeford Airport. It was a two pan senes and show cd people preparing to skydi vc and al.so showed one of me TV rcjxrrters jumping wiih a member of the Golden Knights (if Fort Bragg 'Then on anodicr occasion a report was given on die castle at Rockfish. A news story about the place was also in (See AROUND, page 6)
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