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No.47Vol.ll2
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Wednesday, January 24,2018
Grumpier enters race for sheriff
Former Raeford police chief says public service runs in his family
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
Former Raeford Police Department Chief
Kemp Grumpier announced this week he plans
to file to run for election to the office of Hoke
County sheriff.
Grumpier has served in law enforcement for
more than 30 years, beginning with decades of
service with the North Carolina Highway Patrol
and followed by more than five years of leading
the Raeford Police Department. Grumpier retired
from that position in August 2017.
The idea of running for sheriff has been with
him for a much longer time than that. He’s thought
about it ever since he was in high school, Grum
pier said.
“My family’s been in public service since 1960.
Law enforcement is not a career, it’s a calling,
and I’ve been doing it for so long and I’m still so
young - I’m not even 60 yet -1 really feel like I
still have a lot to offer the community,” he said.
Grumpier said his reason for running for the
office is about giving Hoke citizens an opportunity
for change.
“I don’t want to run because the sheriff’s been a
bad sheriff—he’s been a good sheriff He’s a good
man. (Sheriff candidate Darin) Bronson’s a good
man. Between the three of us and our law enforce
ment experience, I think we have the opportunity
to offer Hoke County citizens something they
haven’t had in a while. Some people want change.
I’d like to be that change. If people want to know
what that change is, they have to tell me,” Grum
pier said.
(See CRUMPLER, page 10)
8 to be inducted into Hoke High Athletic Hall of Fame
Dockery
By Hal Nunn
Sports writer
Langdon
The 7th class of the Hoke
County High School Athletic Hall
of Fame will be inducted this
Friday night during a banquet at
West Hoke Middle School.
Inductees are Santes Beatty,
Hollingsworth
Class of 1993; Donielle “Dezi”
Dockery, Class of 1987; Wil
liam Howard Kershaw Sr., Class
of 1970; Glenn Langdon, Coach
1969; Michael Morrisey, Class of
1989; and Winfred Winston, Class
of 1987. The Roll of Honor in
ductees are the late Jimmy James
Sr., band director, and William
James Morrisey
Kershaw Sr. from Upchurch High.
The Legacy Award will go to Wil
liam E. Hollingsworth Sr., from
Upchurch High School.
Beatty
Kershaw
Inductees
Santes Beatty was a 1993
graduate of Hoke County High
School where he excelled in the
classroom and on the athletic field.
He played football, basketball
and baseball, earning the Antler
Award his sophomore and senior
years. He served as co-captain in
all three sports and was respected
by teammates and coaches for his
leadership ability and his com
petitiveness. Beatty lettered three
Winston
years in football, and earned the
Iron Buck his junior and senior
years. He led the 1991 team to the
second round of the state play
offs. Beatty was All Conference
his junior and senior years, won
the Best Back Award in 1991 and
Most Valuable Player in
(See INDUCTEES, page 5)
House survives 160 years, and now apparent arson attempt
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
AnnaRosaHoback says she saw teens runningfrom the woods behind this house.
AnnaRosa Hoback was walk
ing her dogs on East Edinbor-
ough Avenue the evening of
December 16 when she spotted
four teenagers running from the
woods behind an empty house
she owns. They ran from the
fenced-in yard of the house,
located at 423 East Edinborough
Avenue, going toward the sports
fields across the street just be
hind the Old Armory building,
she recalled.
“Eive minutes later, the police
call me and tell me that the
house is on fire,” she said.
Over a month later, the case
is still open and investigators
are searching for clues. Hoback
is hopeful that someone in the
community might have informa
tion that could help find whoever
is responsible for the fire.
The house and its outbuild
ings are historic properties,
Hoback said. It was built in
1858, long before Raeford or
Hoke County even existed. The
historic home still has many of
its original features, including
hardwood floors, old fireplaces
and a wide covered front porch.
Before the fire, it also had
two original outbuildings in the
fenced-in yard that backs up to
forested land off of East Donald
son Avenue. The fire completely
destroyed the two outbuildings,
including boxes of items that
Hoback had stored there.
“Unfortunately I have to go
and demolish everything, so it’s
history disappearing,” she said.
The house itself survived, but
the intense heat from the blaze
melted part of the brand-new
siding, broke windows and even
warped the old ceiling inside the
kitchen, Hoback said.
The house has been empty
and on the market for sale for
about two years. Hoback in
tended to use the property as an
investment and poured thou
sands of dollars into fixing it up.
However, she didn’t have insur
ance on the house, and now has
had to reduce the asking price to
account for the damage.
(See EIRE, page 6)
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(See OTHER STUEF, page 4)
McPhatter
Elder Artie Mae Carthens McPhatter, the wife
of the late Neil McPhatter, Hoke County’s first
black County Commissioner, died last week at the
age of 93.
McPhatter was a steadfast member of the Hoke
County community and worked as a team with
her husband, former Hoke County Commissioner
Ellen McNeill said.
“I have known Mrs. McPhatter for more than
50 years, and she always set an example that other
women should strive to emulate. Proverbs Chapter
31 could have her picture with it. Truly, she was a loving, kind and gener
ous person. She was wise and always had an encouraging word for oth
ers,” McNeill said.
(See MCPHATTER, page 9)
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