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The
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The 20th issue of our 83rd year
RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA
25 CENTS
Wednesday, August 28,1991
Sixth escapee caught Thursday on Vass Road
The sole remaining escapee from a jailbreak
last week was captured at a Vass Road home
Thursday.
Bruce Harris, 23, was caught when deputies
went back to the home north of Raeford to repair
a door that had been kicked in during the initial
search for six men who escaped the Hoke County
Jail.
A member of Harris’ family had requested the
Sheriff’s Department fix the door, said interim
Sheriff Frank Grumpier. When deputies went to
the house, they found Harris and his girlfriend.
Harris was arrested and returned to Hoke County
Jail.
Deputies said they had checked the house for
Harris each day after the jail break.
Harris had apparently tried to remove a telltale
tattoo of a spider web from his upper left cheek.
Det. Jimmy Riley said he knew Harris on sight
anyway.
“1 know Bruce,” he said. “I’ve been chasing
him since he was about eight years old.”
Raeford man knifed at turkey plant
A Raeford man was cut in the face by a fellow
turkey plant employee Monday night.
Michael Allen, 28, an employee of House of
Raeford Farms, Inc., was injured when Dickey
Ray Sturdivant of Route 1, Raeford allegedly cut
him with a knife, Raeford Police Chief James
Murdock said.
“It apparently stemmed from a domestic type
situation,” he said.
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Eight more apply
for sheriff’s job
In all, 16 applied as deadline passed
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Reminder
Raeford Police Sgt. Greg Thomas holds a poster re- schools are back in session. Capt. Dick McNeill pre
minding drivers to watch out for young children now that pares to nail the poster to a utility pole on Main Street.
Festival coioking contest to feature
new turkey recipes, old favorites
While five contestants battle it out
for top honors in the stale turkey cook
ing contest which kicks off the Turkey
Festival in Raeford, festival-goers are
encouraged to Uy some of the tasty treats
the North Carolina Turkey Federation
will have on hand.
Two favorites from past festivals—
grilled turkey tenderloin and Carolina
turkey pizza—will be available to all
those whose mouths wateras they watch
the cooks do their stuff.
Plus, samples of the national prize
winning recipe, curried turkey twist, will
be on hand. Curried turkey twist is a
uniquely flavored pasta salad with tur
key breast and fresh vegetables.
Five contestants—Angela S. Bond
ofWilkesboro, Pi-YuHuangofRaleigh,
Sue H. Sherman of Hurdle Mills, Cloise
C. Williams of Statesville and Vickie
Wyaltof Shelby—will be competing for
$1,500 in prize money. The top recipe
gets $800.
Bond will cook “Angela’s Mexican
Dip,” Huang will cook “Turkey
Teriyaki,” Sherman will cook “Marvel
ous Grilled Turkey,” Williams will cook
‘Turkey Cutlets Supreme,” and Wyatt
will prepare “Turkey Fruit Salad.”
This year’s judges are: Edie Low, an
editor of The Leader in Charlotte; Dix
Harper with WRAL-TV in Raleigh;
Elizabeth K. Norfleet, publisher of Taste
Full in Wilmington; and Beth Tartan,
food editor of Winston-Salem Journal.
Festival sponsors sought
With the N.C. Turkey Festival only a
few weeks away, organizers are trying
to finalize their fundraising efforts.
Any business wishing to become a
sponsor should call Diana Pressley at
the Raeford-Hoke Chamber of Com
merce at 875-5929 or Marvin Lynne
Maxwell at home at 875-3818.
So far, the following businesses and
industries have become sponsors (upt-
dated lists will be printed in upcoming
editions of The News-Journal):
Clayton Brooks
Heilig-Mcycrs Furniture
Mellon’s Heating and Air Conditioning
Hoke Cable, Inc.
Scars Catalog Store of Raeford
Carolina Power and Light
Lumbee River Electric Membership
Corporation
J&L Clover Farms
Enviro-Chem Company
McDonald’s Tire and Recapping
Miller’s Garage
T&L Auto Pans
Auto Parts and Equipment
Lafayette Motors
Stewart Olds Nissan
Raeford Eye Clinic— Dr. Charles Inman
Ulyssee Hood
Dr. R.G. Townsend
Dr. Ramnik Zola
Western Auto Associate Store
J’s Restaurant
Edinborough Restaurant
Kinlaw’s Jewelry Store
Raeford Playschool — Jean Holland
Carolina Turf
Raeford Oil Company
Price-Rite Building Supply
N.C. Arts Council
Carolina Telphone and Telegraph
Milliccnt Gibson Diehl, Attorney
Jean Powell, District Attorney
Hoke Colton Warehouse and Storage
Company
Sdother Land Surveying
Hoke Rubber Products
Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Carter
Cape Fear Farm Credit
J.H. Austin Insurance Agency
Kay Thomas Properties
Raeford Salvage Company
Souitiem National Banx
(Sec SPONSORS, page 3)
Special guest at the event is Julie
Bowman, winner of the National Teen
Turkey Lovers’ Recipe Contest. Bow
man is a 16-year old at Millbrook High
School in Raleigh.
If you think your turkey recipe can
compete with the best in the slate, you
can enter next year’s turkey cooking
contest.
Send your recipe with your name,
address and phone number to:
Emmie S. Whitley, Chair
NC Turkey Cooking Contest
4020 Barrett Drive
Suite 102
Raleigh, NC 27609
Each recipe must use at least one
pound fresh or fully cooked turkey meat
and must serve 4 to 8 people. Beyond
that, almost anything goes, from soup to
salad to the barbecue grill.
Recipes will be judged first by read-
(See COOK, page 6)
E ight more people applied for the job of
sheriff of Hoke County between Wednes
day and Friday at 5 p.m., the deadline for
applications.
A total of 16 people applied for the job.
Eddie Allen, Debbie Brewer, Daniel D. Brock,
Wayne Byrd, Frank Grumpier, James Holt,
Weaver Patterson and’Jimmy Riley were the final
applicants for the post.
• “Why not?” asked Eddie Allen, a 12-year
deputy in the department. “I have everything to
gain and nothing to lose, the way 1 look at it.”
Allen said his experience in the department
ranges widely; “I’ve answered calls, worked the
jail, worked the couns, served civil process,” he
said. “A little bit of everything except detective.”
Though not carrying the title of Chief Deputy,
Allen performs much the same duties Alex
Norton did when he was appointed sheriff in
1988 upon Sheriff Dave Barrington’s retirement.
Allen woipld not say what changes, if any, he
would make in the department if he got the job.
“It’s too early to say anything right now,” he
said. “The view is a little bit different from the
bottom looking up than from the top looking
down.”
• Daniel Brock, director of load management
for Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp.,
says he misses law enforcement.
“The main thing is, I love law enforcement,”
Brock, once a Hoke County deputy, said. “Our
system may not be perfect, but it’s the only one
we’ve got and someone’s got to work at it.”
Brock served as a deputy about a year and a
half, moving from the jail to road deputy. He has
worked with Lumbee River for 14 years, he said,
often dealing with complaints from the public.
“1 know there’s a lot of problems, but 1 don’t
see anything that can’t be worked out,” he said.
He said the department needs restructuring so
deputies are working in their best areas, but
declined to mention specific changes: “I wouldn’t
know that until after 1 got in there.”
Brock graduates today with a four-year busi
ness administration degree from Methodist
College.
• Wayne Byrd, who lost to Nonon in the
Democratic primary last year, said he planned to
run for sheriff in 1994 anyway.
“All this did was just move my running time
up three years,” he said.
“I owed it to myself to put my name in the
pot,” Byrd said.
He said the department needs strong leadership
able to keep its head above internal friction and
outside pressure.
“Sometimes I think that some of our govern
ment employees kind of want to make sugges
tions that are not right to a department manager,”
he said.
“You’re going to have to do what is best,” he
said.
He said his goal was to work with the depart
ment staff, not “clean house.”
“The people down there have not ever worked
for me,” he said. “I don’t know what kind of job
they would do for me.”
“It’s not fair for me to (comment on) what
those people did for Alex Norton.”
“Maybe I would give them a different incen
tive than Alex.”
Byrd’s main goal is to do more for less.
“The county, as small as it is, cannot afford all
the goods and services it needs,” he said.
First on Byrd’s list is “getting someone in that
(See APPLY, page 5)
Sheriff case continues today
The case of the state versus Alex
Norton—in which a judge has already
removed Norton from the office of Hoke
County sheriff—continues this morning
as that same judge hears motions from
Norton’s lawyers in Raleigh.
Judge Donald W. Stephens and law
yers in the case agreed to meeial 10a.m.
today at Wake County Courthouse in
Raleigh to hear motions made by Randy
Gregory and Ed Pone, Norton’s law
yers.
Gregory and Pone moved to ask
Stephens to overturn his own decision to
remove Norton on several bases: that the
case was unconstitutional, that facts in
the case didn’t bear out the charges, that
facts didn’t indicate a law had been
broken.
The motion further requests if
Stephens does not decide to overturn his
own decision—made August 5 in
Raeford—that he grant Norton a brand
new trial.
After an 11-day mial, Stephens re
moved Norton from office for wrong
fully ordering courtpapers to bechanged
and for failing to charge an employee
with a felony. He dropped seven other
charges. The charges had been brought
by District Attorney Jean Powell and
County Attorney Duncan McFadyen.
A second motion by Norton’s law
yers asks that the judge make Hoke
County pay their fees.
The motion cites a law, McFadyen
said, which states if the officer—
Norton—prevails, the county must pay
his legal costs.
Though Norton was ousted from of
fice on the basis of two charges, his
(See COMMISSION, page 4)
Good Samaritan returns
purse, money to owner
The woman who lost her purse said
it was the worst trip to the beach in her
life; the Hoke County “good Samari
tan” who returned the purse a week
later made the experience a little bet
ter.
Pal McDonell of Greensboro was
headed to the beach Saturday, August
17, with a friend, Jim Dutton, her
four-year old daughter Lauren and her
collie, when the car’s engine blew out
in a small Columbus County town,
leaving the four stranded.
While her friend called for a rental
car, McDonell sal near a diesel pump
in some shade, she said. When a rental
car was arranged, the four headed on
to the beach, leaving McDonell’spurse
behind.
McDonell realized the mistake
about 10 to 15 miles down the road;
when they relumed to the gas station,
the purse was gone.
McDonell and friends continued
on to the beach anyway, where she
caught the flu and spent almost the
whole week in bed and worrying Hur
ricane Bob would wipe them out.
“We figured that would be next,”
she said.
When she got back home, she found
three messages on her answ ering ma
chine that her purse had been found.
Hoke County resident Roy Lee
Harris had been driving past the same
Phillips 66 station when he saw a
friend pumping gas. He stopped in to
(See GOOD, page 3)
Around Town
By Sam C. Morris
The weather the first of the week felt
like the fal 1 season was with us. The high
temperatures on Monday was in the 70s.
The light rain was not enough to slop
most outdoor activities.
The forecast calls for the summer
weather to return by Wednesday. The
high temperature for Thursday through
Saturday will be in the 90s and the lows
at night will be in the 70s. We could have
more rain on Saturday.
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As 1 backed out of my driveway
Monday morning 1 had to stop for two
school buses to go by on the street. It
diKsn’i seem any time since school was
out and now it is starting again for an
other year. '
Please be sure to wafth out for chil
dren wailing for the buses. It is not too
bad this month, but by the first of Oc
tober It will be darker and the children
will be hard U) see. The clock doesn’t
change until the last week of October, so
It will be gelling light later and later each
morning.
If you must get to work by a certain
dme, then plan to leave earlier because
of the buses on the highways. The life
you save may be a child of your friend.
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1 attended the ground-breaking for
the Fayetteville Transformer Company
last Tuesday morning. Many of the
county, city and civic leaders were on
hand to welcome Ravi and Shashi
Rahangdale to this part of the state.
The building will be bullion a tractof
land in the Wayside community and it
was formerly owned by D.K. and D.B.
Parker. Dan Ralley, also a native of
Hoke County, will construct the build
ing for the company. RaUey said that the
building should be completed by the
first of the year.
Let s hope that this is just the start of
(See AROUND, page 9)