16 THE NEWS-JOURNAL
Around
Rieford, N.C
October 20, IW
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Joe Dupree and his wife, Helen,
of Raleigh stopped by the house Fri
day for a visit. They had come to
Hoke County to get a load of pine
straw to use on their yard. They were
both in good health and they wanted
to know all the news that hadn’t been
published in The News-Journal.
It was hard to realize that they had
been retired for ten years. Of course,
Mary Alice and 1 have been retired
for 12 years. It was good to recall old
times with the Duprees and to brag
about what our children had done
since finishing school.
They didn't get any pine straw
because of the recent rains, so 1 look
for them to return to Raeford before
long.
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The death of Bill Smith last week
brought back memories of many
years ago. Bill was bom and grew up
in the Blue Springs Community of
Hoke County. In the late 1930s and
before entering service in 1940, most
of us young men would assemble at
Graham’s Service Station at night
after returning from our dates. 1 can
remember Bill, James T. Blue and a
Williams' man always stopping by
after dating young ladies of the
Dundarrach-Arabia section of the
county. How times have gone by!
As 1 sat in church at his funeral
and heard the preacher talk about the
close family ties of Bill Smith’s fam
ily, I saw the brothers, sisters, cous
ins, etc. in the pews. I thought about
what is happening to our society that
keeps many from having these same
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Give a hoot.
Don’t pollute.
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including the Raeford United Meth
odist Church, which will have its
Happy Hobby Harvest. So go out
and attend all the ingatherings and
other church events.
family ties as this family. 1 believe
that many of our problems in society
today would be solved if this could
once again be the first priority of our
people.
Bill Smith and his wife Irene, stood
for and by the principles of a family
unit. Theirchildren have shown what
this has meant to them.
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As this is written on Monday af
ternoon the World Series between
the Toronto Blue Jays and the Phila
delphia I’hillies stands at one victory
for each team. These games were
played in the Blue Jays’ park and the
next three games will be played in
Philadelphia. The split should favor
the Phillies, but Atlanta was in the
same position and then lost two
games in Atlanta.
So before this column appears
again, we will have a winner in the
series. I will not pick on this one!
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I attended the open meeting of the
Raeford-Hoke Chamber of Com
merce at the Hoke County Public
Library last Tuesday night, October
12. Most of the directors were in
attendance and they had an agenda
to present to the public. The sad
thing is that only a handful of people
turned out for the meeting. The pro
gram went on schedule and many
things were presented to those in
attendance.
There was a time for questions
from the floor and these were dis
cussed and some of the proposals
were taken under consideration by
the officers and directors.
The good thing is that this is a start
and I believe that the directors want
input from the citizens of the county.
They will have more open meetings
and they al.so will invite the mem
bers to any of their meetings.
Thanks should be given to Patty
Webb, president, and to Helen
Huffman, director in charge, for the
agenda and the way things were pre
sented. So be sure to attend the next
open meeting.
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There wa.sn’t a football game at
Chapel Hill last Saturday, but the
Carolina Tar Heels did right well in
Atlanta. Hope they can do the same
at Virginia this weekend.
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