The
ews
Journal
Hoke County's newspaper since 1907
No. 18 Vol. 92
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Wednesday, August 4,1999
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Around Town
By Sam C. Morris
Contributing Editor
I expect that July of 1999
will go down as a record set
ting month. Last week the heat
index was over 105 degrees
for the entire week. Sunday
afternoon my thermometer
registered 102 degrees. The
thunder storm last week
knocked out power in Raeford
and also flooded many build
ings and streets. On my side of
the city we received over an
inch of rain in about 30 min
utes.
The forecast for the remain
der of the week, Wednesday
through Saturday, calls for the
highs to be in the high 80s and
low 90s. The lows at night
will be in the high 60s or low
70s. There is a chance of rain
on Thursday. Of course this
time of year showers come up
in many places.
I was sorry to hear Sunday
of the death of Christiana
McFadyen Campbell of Aus
tralia. She was the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. William
M. McFadyen of Hoke County
and the sister of the late Neill
L. McFadyen and Lena Blue
Woodard. She graduated from
Raeford High School in the
late 1920s or early 1930s.
{See AROUND, page 12A)
Man still missing, family offers $1,000
By Pat Wilson
Editor
The family of John Edward
Butler Jr. is awfully worried
about him. He has been missing
since around midnight Wednes
day, July 28 and the family is
offering a $1,000 reward.
Butler, who is 52, was last
seen going to bed at his home at
3050 Pittman Grove Church
Road in eastern Hoke County.
He lives there with his mother,
Cecelia Ingram.
Butler is described as suffer
ing from post traumatic stress
syndrome as well as emphysema.
A disabled veteran, he has a pros
thetic leg, having lost the limb
from a land mine in the Vietnam
War.
Butler is of black heritage,
stands about six feet and weighs
about 160 pounds. He has me
dium brown skin tone.
Mrs. Ingram is appealing to
Lemonade stand beats the heat
Taking advanuge of 100-degree-plus weather, Trey and Hannah, children of Dooie and Deana Leach, offer
passersby homemade lemonade at their home on Edinborough Avenue last week. They reported brisk
business.
City donates lot to local Habitat
By Kristin Guthrie
Staff writer
Showing support to the local
Raeford/Hoke Habitat for Hu
manity chapter, the City Council
agreed Monday night to give a
parcel of City-owned property to
the non-profit organization.
On behalf of Habitat, the Rev.
John Hinkle approached the
Council during its regular
monthly meeting and requested
that the City donate any surplus
property to the efforts of Habitat.
Reassuring the Council that it
can legally give this property to
Habitat, City Attorney Palmer
Wilcox gave the Council the go-
ahead to appropriate any prop
erty they do not need.
After debatingseveral possible
lots behind the in-City fire sta
tion and water tank off Prospect
Avenue, the Council agreed
unanimously to donate a lot on
East 5th Street in that area. Habi
tat plans to use the lot to build a
moderate house for someone in
need of adequate housing. The
organization is currently well
underway in the construction of
its first housing project.
Also at the meeting, Hinkle
announced that Habitat recently
hired a new executive director.
Hendrix honored as state’s
Southeastern Farmer of Year
Alison Dunham, who will handle
the affairs of the local chapter.
In other residential business,
the City annexed the properties
of Felipe Madrigal and Mr. and
Mrs. James L. Blue. Madgrial’s
property is located at 284 Wallace
McLean Road, while the Blues
live at 822 Green Street.
The Council tabled another
request for annexation after ques
tioning the detai Is of the petition.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lupo re
quested that their property at 1209
East Prospect Avenue be annexed
into the City, but apparently the
Lupos own two parcels of land
(See COUNCIL, page 12A)
Earl Hendrix, a second gen
eration farmer who has been
farming for 43 years, has been
named the Lancaster/Sunbelt
Expo Southeastern Farmer of the
Year for North Carolina for 1999.
Hendrix is one of eight out
standing farmers, representing
eight Southeastern states, from
whose ranks the 1999 Lancaster/
Sunbelt Expo Southeastern
Farmer of the Year will be cho
sen.
Hendrix, who was chosen in
judging conducted by the North
Carolina Farm Bureau, was
nominated by Farm Bureau of
ficer Robert Wright of Raeford.
As the North Carolina winner,
Hendrix receives a $1,500 cash
award. The Lancaster/Sunbelt
Expo Southeastern Farmer of the
Year winner, who will be an
nounced on October 19 at a lun
cheon during the opening day of
the Sunbelt Expo, will receive an
additional $12,500 cash award.
(See HENDRIX, page 12A)
the public to
help find her
son. She
thinks he is
in Cumber
land County
and said he
was possi
bly seen on
John Butler
Raeford Road there.
A state Search and Rescue
team looked for Butler until 2
a.m. yesterday morning but
turned up nothing, she said.
Soaring temperatures since
Butler disappeared have caused
his family additional concern.
(See MISSING, page 12A)
Storm kills power,
knocks out radios
By Jessica S. McDaniel
Staff writer
Lightning streaked across the
sky, followed immediately by
deafeningthunder. Massive wind
and rain swayed trees nearly to
the ground. This storm that swept
through Thursday afternoon left
Raeford and other parts of the
county without electricity, and
lightning nearly disabled emer
gency communications and the
Hoke Couhty Sheriff’s Office.
According to Carolina Power
and Light, 760 customers in
Raeford and 400 customers in
other parts of Hoke County lost
power due to the storm. The busi
ness district of Raeford, includ
ing TheNews-Journal office, lost
all power during this time. The
first call came in at 4:11 p.m.,
and service was restored to most
customers by 7 p.m.
According to A1 Sch warcbher,
director of emergency services,
lightning struck the emergency
services amateur radio anteima
at approximately 4:30 p.m. This
disabled the primary 911 sys
tem, EMS telephone system and
several pieces of computer equip
ment. Emergency services im
mediately began operating on
(See STORM, page 11 A)
Five now in race
for City Council
By Kristin Guthrie
Staff writer
Nearing the end of the filing
season for a position on the City
Council, the slate remains at five
candidates running for three seats
becoming vacant this Novem
ber. The terms of Earl McDuffie,
John Jordan and Clyde Thomas
will expire. The candidates vy
ing for a seat include current
Councilmen John Jordan and Earl
McDuffie and newcomers Eddie
Jim White and Gregory Johnson
and the most recent filer, James
Brent Clark,
Clark, 28, added his name to
the 1 ist of candidates for the Coun-
cil last Wednesday morning.
Moving to Raeford at the age of
nine after being born in
Fayetteville, Clark knows
the Navy when he was 21, but
returned a year and six months
ago to rekindle the life he loved
in Raeford.
Clarks works as a shift super
visor at Nanodyne Inc. in Maxton
and lives on Harris Avenue with
his wife Dyana and two daugh
ters, one who attends
McLaughlin and the other who
goes to Raeford Play School.
By joining the Council, Clark
seeks to serve his community
and make Raeford just as great
and even better for the two chil
dren he intends to rear in his
childhood home.
As for the other candiflates,
McDuffie, 67, claims the most
City Council experience of all
four candidates. His service in
cludes three terms as a City Coun
ci 1 member. McDuffie, a Raeford
Raeford as his home. He left for (See RACE, page IIA)
Gunshots injure five
in two incidents Sunday
By Jessica S. McDaniel
Staff writer
The first of August brought
more violence to Hoke County.
Two separate shooting incidents
occurred Sunday, according to
Captain Thomas Carlton, chief
detective of the Hoke County
Sheriff’s Office.
The first incident occurred at
2:05 a.m. There were several cars
parked at a social club on Alex
Baker Road when shooting be
gan, according to Carlton.
The two victims report they
heard the gunshots and began
running. Delton Wayne Graham,
25, of Raeford MHP, was shot in
the right upper thigh. Christo
pher Earl Campbell, also in early
20s, was shot in his right foot.
The victims had no knowl
edge of who shot them. Emer
gency services were called as
soon as the shooting began, but
both victims were taken to Cape
Fear Valley Medical Center in a
private vehicle before the ambu-
(See SHOT, page IIA)
Police: two admit to crimes
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A sketch of Hendrix
Raeford police have charged
two men in separate incidents
relatingtobouncing checks. One
of the mep is also charged with
breakingintotwocity businesses,
one in June and another in July.
Steve McKenzie, 25, Har
mony Heights MHP, faces two
counts of breaking and entering
and larceny and two counts of
forgery and uttering. Darrell
Maurice Haynes, 25, of Haire
Road, Shannon, is charged with
uttering forged papers.
McKenzie is charged with
breaking into Johnson Concrete
on June 12 and Economy Build-
(See ARRESTS, page IIA)