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The 46th issue of our 85th year RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA 25 CENTS Wednesday, February 23,1994 Woman burning trash dies after housecoat catches fire An elderly Raeford woman died after her housecoat caught on fire while she was trying to bum trash behind her Scotland Avenue home, the woman’s sister said Monday. Ollie Jordan, 74, of 223 Scotland Ave., had gone out to burn some trash Thursday morning when her housecoat ignited, Thelma McAllister said. “She started screamingand her son heard her. She wasn’t too far from her doorstep,” she said. Jordan’s son, “Pete,” came out side, saw the flames, and called for help. “You’re in a shock to see somebody in a blaze if it’s not your mama,” said McAllister. “Pete didn’t know what to do.” McAllister said Jordan’s niece, Mary Ann Turner, was by Jordan’s side as they waited for an ambulance. “Mary Ann said Ollie kept telling her she was all right, and to take care of Pete. She had to be in shock.” Jordan was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, then transported to a bum center in Chapel Hill where she died Thurs day evening at 4:30 p.m. A funeral service was held Tuesday at Silver Grove Missionary Baptist Church. Man wounded in shooting Fred McMillan Jr., 48, of Lot 11, Alpine Mobile Home Park, was shot in his stom ach and leg Thursday night in a dark, wooded lot behind the trailer park. Detec tive Lt. Bob Conerly Jr. of the Hoke County Sheriff’s Department said Monday. Clara E. Faircloth, also of Lot 11, Al pine Mobile Home Park, told a deputy that McMillan had been talking on the phone, after which, she .said, .she and McMillan then got into a car and drove to the lot. There, McMillan apparently got out of the car and was talking with someone when (See FIRFL page 6) A,' rc* Waiting for a goal Andy Sunkel catches a toss from his brother on a sunny Friday afternoon. Andy and his brother, Marty, who live on Old Maxton Road, say they are looking forward to having a basketball goal in their yard soon. Hoke gets child-abuse-prevention grant The N.C. Children’s Trust fund recently mariled Hoke County a $50,OCK) valentine. The county will use the grant, received on Valentine’s Day, to begin “Child Focus,” a program to prevent child abuse through an education program for teen par ents, including the fathers. The program will include a weekend- long conference in May, support groups and continuing education. “Hoke C'ounty really has some sad, sad numbers on child abuse,” county grant writer Jennifer Morris said, citing a 44 percent rise — from 187 to 270— in the number of child abuse reports received by the county Department of Social Services from 1092-93. Facilitated through Hoke County Schools’ Student Support Services office, the $51,226 grant — with a total value of nearly S80,()0() including in-kind services — aims to address child abuse before it begins. “You’ve got to grab the atten tion of folks who might be jeopar dizing themselves and their children,” Morris ,said. “We want to make this like a splash — here you go, here’s what we’re doing.” The initial conference, she said, should reach 120 of the about 300 eligible teen parents in the county. Grant funds and Aid to Families with Dependent (’hildren monies will provide transportation and child care for the young parents to attend the conference, to be held away from Hoke County. Morris said she feels making the confer ence an event, with seminars, nametags — the works — will make it a more important and memorable event in the parents’ lives. When they return to Hoke County, they will attend parenting skills workshops — each contain ing seven seminars — conducted by a team of trainers at five locations around the county. Morris said the county is working with the local mini,sters’ council to seek help from churches to provide locations. By going through churches throughout the county, she said, “We want to make sure all racial communities are reached.” Any eligible teen would be welcome to Officers encourage citizens to stay aware l,aw enforcement officials interacted with Hoke Against Drugs members at their monthly meeting Thursday night and encouraged them to keep the upper hand on drug abuse tind distribution in Raetord and Hoke County. Raeford police Detective Mack High showed areas high lighted on a map where drug-related arrests have been made within the city. In an interview after the meeting, High said,“The majority of street dealing in our area is just outside the city. Street dealing inside the city is pretty low key, and that's wheie we want to keep it.' High said Raelord does not appear to have any one hardest hit area, although the Robin Heights Park area off 7th Street holds one of the highest potentials for drug-dealing activity. High encouraged citizens to “make life hard on drug dealers” by reporting any suspicious activity. He emphasized that reports may be made anonymously, and that checking out suspected drug activity is the best way of keeping it under arntrol. I loke County Sheriff Wayne Byrd named Scurlock School Regina Carpenter thanks detective Mack High. Ro.ad and Silver City as two areas in the county especially plagued by drugs and drug dealing due to their being den.sely populated. “People and drugs are the two things that work together,” Byrd said after the meeting. He said drugs (See H.A.D., page 8) Calloway set to graduate Steven Calloway will have a chance tograduate from highschool this spring after all. Calloway’s mother, Mary D)ve, said he began attending CaKurv (’hristian Academy in Southern Pines Feb. 15. He will be able to graduate there at commencement exercises to be held June ('allowa\ was suspended from Hoke C'ounty High School, where he was a .senior, for the rest ol the school year on Jan. I .T I le turned in his pocketknife, which he said he mistakenly took to school that day, during a random weapons search. Calloway u.ses the knife at his after school job at an automobile body (See CALLOWAY, page .^) Residents assured board hears hog farm fears attend the workshops, Morris said. Workshop topics will include parenting skills, information on nutrition, child development and effective discipline. “We hope this sort of program can be implemented across the .state,” Morris .said. “We can e.ssentially become a model for the rest of the state.” Ideas for the program came out of community needs seen by employees of the county school system, DSS and health depart ment, Morris said. “C’hild abuse prevention has got to be from the community, and I think that’s what made the people in Raleigh sit up and take notice we want so much involvement from the community', ” she said. A bout 15 citizens who live neara hog farm being con structed on Pendergrass Road came to Monday night’s com missioners’ meeting expecting to find themselves on the agenda. But instead, they found themselves waiting to be officially heard once again. The group had attended the Feb. 7 meeting hoping to see the hog farm issue addressed then and asked to be placed on Monday’s agenda. Board Chairman L. E. McLaughlin Jr. told the Five Points area residents “we understand your concerns” and County Manager Mike Wood explained the board has nothing to add because it has no control over hog farms. The farm in question is being built by Clinton-based Dogwood Farms, which has several other operations in North Carolina. The company isasubsidiary of Lundy’s Hog Market. Wood said the board has put the issue into the hands of the commit tee appointed Feb. 7 to address hog farms coming into Hoke County. 'Fhe committee consists of agricul turists and developers as well as a health specialist and one other citi zen. Wood said the committee would meet with the concerned residents as soon as possible. Wanda Barnett, who lives one- half mile from the rising swine farm, suggested there be at least one person living in the area placed on the committee ‘to keep the smell in the nose of the committee.” .She and her husband, Curti.s, have an 11-year-old daughter. Shannon, whose allergies and asthma they claim would be worsened by air borne pathogenic organisms, grain and dust from the farm. The Barnetts are part of a newly organized groupof Five Points area citizens who call themselves Hoke Organized for People and Environ ment. ('urtis Barnett said H.O.P.E. has about 25 members. He said the smell and air quality are only part of their beef about the hog opera tion - they also worry about dis ease and groundwater pollution stem ning from the huge lagoon that IS designed to hold hog urine, feces, and afterbirths. But Leonard Hubbard, who bought tlv Find where the Pendergrass Road tami is going up, said Tuesday, “It s not gonna bother anybody like they think it is.” He said the farm, which will raise several hundred hogs, w'as approved by the Environmental Protection zVgency before he bought the land. Hubbaid said several million dollars will he put into making the new farm “a nice outfit” with “the most modern equipment.” He added that the lagoon will be lined to prevent .seepage into groundwa ter and streams. Rezoning application invites controversy Neighbors of a Davis Bridge Road salvage yard came to the meeting expressing their di.scon- (See (’(")MM1SS1()NERS, page 5) Building inspeolnr hired Hoke ('ounty has gained a new staff member. Ralph Allen “Jack" Fdlis, 51, ot Route Raeford, began his new post as building inspector in the county inspectionsdepartment Feb, 14, county manager Mike Wood said .Monday. Ellis is res[x)nsible for inspecting construction ol new dwellings in the county. The building inspector posi tion was previously held by Simon Moore. Wood said Frllis will be paid at a beginning salary of S2(I,KK4 a year I His was previously in the running tor the building inspector position last spring, when some county commis sioners were accused of pressuring planniru; directiir Karen Burd to “hire the right person " for the post, \t that time, the inspections department was under her authority 1 he inspections department later w as scp.irated Iroin the planning com mission, which has since been slated, along with Biiid's[>osiiion. tor an April di.ssolution Around Town By Sam C. Morris The weather went Itom winter to summer in a few days, l.ast week I was writing about ice knocking out electric ity and this week records have been broken for warm weather. Sunday the 74- high wasa record iit Raleigh Durh.im airport. Wehavehad seven day sol above normal temperatures Monday the tern perature wasagam in the 7l)s But things w ill change! The forecast calls tor a low piessure front to move into the area this week For Wednesday and 1 hursday we will .see highs in the 5(ls and lows in the .4()s. On Friday the high will be in the high -IDs and the low w ill be in the M)s Saturday the high w ill be in the 40s and the low in the 20s. There is a chance ot ram on Wednesday and Fnivlay, * 4v « * * On the Sunday after the electricity had been off for five hours on the prev i- ous t ridav, members of my Sunday School Class were reminiscing about the “gr'oil old days '■ Many were talking about getting up m the cold and building tires Bill Southein said he could re member when they didn't lock a door at their house, either d'lv oi night He said It would be gooil to see th.ri ag lin. Bi'bby McBrvde asked Bill if he re membered getting up at three o'clock to go to the bathroom He said going out in the cold to I small house behind the bam, wasn't the "eood old days.” es, we can all reinmisce about days gone by, but w e can't just hav e the goyxl thinus and thiow away the bad. I believe that most of us regret some of the things that are hap|x:ning in our country today, but when we take the progress that has helped our living conditions and com pare them with the “good old days,” then most of us will want to remain with the (See AROUND, page 4)
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