The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 1 Hoke was respected for his service as a Confederate Civil War officer Hoke’s History Confederate soldier Robert Frederick Hoke to take over management of the family’s cotton died at age 75, a year after he was honored by mills and iron works; he was 17 at the time. as reported by The News-Journal having North Carolina’s 99th county named He was 24 when he joined the Confederate after him. Army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant It was Hoke’s performance as a soldier that in Co. C of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers. The News-Journal was founded in 1905 and was here for earned him the respect of North Carolinians. As a member of the 33rd North Carolina Regi- Hoke County’s entire history. ment, he was promoted first to major and then to lt. col. He led the regiment in numerous For this publication we pored through all of our microfilm, battles, including fights at Hanover Courthouse bound books and electronic media to bring you the highlights and Second Manassas. Hoke did not hold a rank for long before of that history, year by year. his next advancement. He was promoted to colonel in the 21st North Carolina in August, and in January he made brigadier general for his performance at Fredericksburg. In the Credits Staff winter of 1962-63 he served with Gen. Robert Contributors to this publication are Pat Allen Wilson — Editor/Writer E. Lee and was wounded at Chancellorsville. Jordan Jacobs, Karen Hough, James Pope, Catharin Shepard—Writer He fought as a major general in Richmond Lynette Dial, Joyce Monroe, Stephen Pate, Cary A. Wilson—Assistant during the South’s last efforts. Barbara Buie, James Pope, Cary A. Wilson, Hal Nunn—Sales His regiment was hardest hit at Bentonville, the Rev. Dennis Lamm, Ellen McNeill, Wendy Tredway—Sales and a weary Hoke surrendered when orders Rudee Orians, John Kelly Sr., Lincoln Robin Huffman—Design, Ads came down to do so. With the loss of family holdings follow- Graham, and John C. Kelly Jr. Sheila Black—Bookkeeping General Robert F. Hoke Special thanks to the Hoke County Ken MacDonald—Publisher ing the war, Hoke moved to the mountains of Public Library and the Raeford-Hoke Robert Dickson—President Hoke was born in Lincolnton on May western North Carolina and panned for gold. Museum. – Pat Allen Wilson 1837. His father, an attorney, ran for governor Later, he became involved in iron mining near in 1844 but died of a heart attack before the Chapel Hill. Eventually he directed the Atlantic campaign ended. Coastline Railroad and served as president of Hoke was a cadet at Kentucky Military In- Home Life Insurance Co. of Raleigh. He died stitute when his father died, and he dropped out July 3, 1912 and is buried in Raleigh. Happy Birthday Hoke County 1911 - 2011 Welcome to Freedom Congratulations100 Years Old

No. 01 Vol. 106 If it happened, it’s news to us and Mobility ... Reporting RAEFORD & HOKE COUNTY 75¢ Board opposes charter N.C . school bill Hoke ProposedCounty! legislation will hurt public schools, Hoke schoolWednesday, board March 16,says 2011 BY TORI HAMBY Staff Writer cation unanimously passed a resolu- A bill that proposes to lift the tion at a meeting last week askin the news of Raeford schools will also receive funds for state cap on the number of cha the state House of Representatives g schools and send more public dol- to vote against Senate Bill 8—al certain programs—such as He rter known as the Charter School Act Start, JROTC and free and reduced verely hurt the type of services we lars to those schools could harm so ad provide our students.” Scooters • Power Chairs • Hand Controls the future of public education, say of 2011. The act would abolish th lunch—even though they aren’t that serve many children who com county school offi state’s 100-school cap and no longerlegally required to provide those The bill also calls for the c e services. ation of a charter schools’ oversigh from socio-economically depressed The Hoke County cials. Board of Edu require that schools enroll at re- families and have no charter schools.e 65 students. “This bill is an attack on pub- commission but does not require least the membership of public schoolst He said these districts cannot affor - Under the proposed law, charter lic education,” said Hoke Cou & Hoke County offi cials. to have funds for services such as Schools Superintendent Fredd nty d Williamson. “This bill could se- Williamson told the board that free and reduced lunch taken a 400 ie the bill particularly hurts districts The law would also allow way.char- riders expected like Hoke County Schools—areas ter schools to take funds from public school system accounts Deck Lifts • Wheel Chair Lifts • Ramps for Horse Park event (See SCHOOLS, page 4A) Advanced and Olympian level riders from around the nation will be converging on Carolina Horsetop riders and horses will be Park for the Southern Pines Horsecompeting for prize money in for more than Trials March 25-27 in one of the the advanced levels. most exciting displays of eques- “As once again the fi trian prowess the sport offers. on the PRO Tour, this year’s rst stop Southern Pines Horse Trials will Taking place over three full days, the Southern Pines Horse be even bigger and better, featur- Trials is free for spectators and ing many great additions for both offers not only a glimpse into a competitors and spectators,” said Stair Lifts • Lift Chairs • Service Jane Murray, Executive Director popular equestrian event but also a family fun weekend with Kid at the Carolina Horse Park. “This Zone and food and retail vendors.is certainly one of the Park’s highlight events.” For the second year in a row, 100 years the trials will be the inaugural A standout social feature of event for the annual Professionalthe trials is the exclusive din- Riders Organization (PRO) Tour ner and dancing event, Britches series. and Bling, held at the Caro- lina Horse Park Saturday night. More than 400 of this season’s Dressed in everything from jeans Batteries & much more! (See HORSES, page 7A) House of Raeford caseOlympian-level on riders willway be competing overto three U.S.days at the Ca Supreme Court

BY TORI HAMBY rolina Horse Park in west Hoke. (Contributed) Staff Writer tion from federal charges that stem House of Raeford offi from 14 instances of discharging un- fi le a petition with the cialsU.S. planSupreme to treated wastewater into the Raefordlaws but on the same city laws. Court after the 4th Circuit Court of sewage treatment between 2005 “House of Raeford Farms asked ’s the Court of Appeals to determine mine if federal prosecution should Appeals dismissed the company’s 2006 constituted double jeopardy. and Company attorneys claim that the that, under the Constitution, it shouldbe considered double jeopardy, but case, claiming that it did not ha stayed its mandate while the com- clearing the way for federal pros- jurisdiction, court documents say. plant has already been punished for not be prosecuted based on the same ve events for which it already pa pany petitioned for a rehearing. Th ecutors to proceed with their case The company asked the appeals violating city laws by paying almost against the company. fi nes,” said company offi petition was denied last month. court to determine whether prosecu-$1 million in fi id e House of Raeford offi nes. formal statement. cials in a Company offi They claim that the federal charg- cials were hoping hoping to stop criminal proceed- cials are es are not based on separate federal The appeals court dismissed that the appeals court would stay This Week the case in October claiming tha its mandate once again while the ings that stem from 14 violations of it didn’t have jurisdiction to dete Supreme Court considers wheth the Clean Water Act. A grand jury t to hear the case. However, the court indicted the company on the charge $100 ��������������� er 1st Pl in December 2009. ace ���������������� r- issued its mandate late last week, � Day camp takes local s (910) 875-2121 The News-Journal’s The indictment claims that I Love Hoke County Bumper Sticker Contest (See SUPREME COURT, page )

Sabrina and Anna belle Polites kids into the outdoors Centennial Beard Contest BY Its sprispp ngtingg meme splenpleplp dor!! TORI HAMBY Staff Writer and participate in sports and $75 2nd Place $5 other fun summer activities. updated with a new twist 0 33rd Placee Hoke County kids interested in experiencing the outdoors The Rev. Elle Graham and Sylvia McAllister T he people are nice ! Tom Squire his wife Juanita will be holding ...our veterans this summer will have the op- ! Want to portunity to attend a day camp their day camp, Camp Holy help your fa- fi ve participants, but a photograph o Th ree i win where they can learn to swim Ground, for its second year. vorite char- a clean-shaven face is not required for f bumper sticker “It’s a program where we ity earn some this category. The prize in this category contest (See CAMP, page 5A) money? It is as has been raised to $400 for the winning page 2B easy as hiding charity. Individual prizes will remain Calendar ...... 2B your razor for at $200 in the longest beard and most Classifi original beard contests. Individual en- eds ...... 7B The Hoke County Centennia little while. Court ...... 3A Committee is hosting a “Warm Chin trants may also participate in the best Publishers of al overall judges’ choice selection. Deaths ...... 3A for Charity” contest where the best s Editorials ...... 2A overall judges’ choice selection will be The Old-Fashioned Family Fun

Legals ...... 5-6B awarded to the non-profi Night will be held on Friday, April 15 at the Hoke High School Raz Autry Screech ...... 4A that has the most contestants t organization come to um and will feature fi Sports ...... 6A the Old-Fashioned Family Fun Night Stadi- with a beard. There must be at least imately 9 p.m. The reworkscontest judgingat approx- Worship ...... 3B begin at 6 p.m. on the performance st 10302 Fayetteville Rd. • Fayetteville, NC 28304 will We’re on the web at (See BEARDS, page 4A) www.thenews-journal.com Shepard joins News-Journal age. Read by 4,500 each week BY TORI HAMBY Staff Writer part of a small Catharin Lawrence Shepard will southern town,” be joining The News-Journal staff as Shepard said. “I Phone: (910) 904-1700 • Fax: (910) 904-6800 a reporter. think that the Willie Wynn, chapter 17 commander of the Disabled American Veter- A Raeford native and 2001 graduatekind of com- ans, honors Home Foods manager David McNeill and the rest of the of Hoke High School, Shepard said she grocery store’s staff for 100 percent employee participat munity where chapter’s raffl e ticket fundraiser. Money from the fundraiser will is excited to return to her hometow everyone knows serve her community. She also internedeveryone is dy- help support disabled veterans and their families. (Tori Hamby Photo n to ion in the for The News-Journal while comple ing out and I look forward to bein her senior year of college. part of that again.” go to ting g a Toll Free 1-877-822-6462 ) “I really enjoyed the sense of being Shepard graduated from the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Pembro www.ezryder4you2.com www.thenews-journal.com (See REPORTER, page 4A) ke County of Hoke

Tony Hunt James Leach Ellen McNeill Jean Powell Robert Wright Tim Johnson Linda Revels Chairman Vice-Chairman Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner County Manager County Clerk

William Fields Garvin Ferguson County Attorney Finance Officer HOKE COUNTY DEPARTMENT HEADS Back Row: Robert Harvell, Inspections; Steve Billings, Information Technology; Don Woods, Senior Services; Daphne Dudley, Tax Collector; Carole Taitt, Literacy Council; Hubert Peterkin, Sheriff; Cynthia Oxendine, Health Department; Caroline Shook, Elections; Jennie Gibson, Tax Assessor; Amanda Ward, License Plate Agency; Nancy Thornton, HATS; Dennis Baxley, Public Works; Don Russell, Solid Waste; Front ABC BOARD Row: William Fields, Attorney; David Jackson, Parks & Recreation; Della Sweat, Social Services; Sheila Brown-Evans, Library; Jimmy Stewart, Cleo Bratcher, Jr. Samuel Graham Emergency Communications; Linda Revels, Clerk to the Board; Tim Johnson, County Manager; Conrad Garrison, Planner; Jimmy Warner, Wayne Ashburn Soil Conservation; Keith Walters, Cooperative Extension; Letitia Edens, Human Resources; Jimmy Carthens, Animal Control.

RAEFORD-HOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION HOKE COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD LRCOG TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Alfred K. Leach, Jr. Wyatt Upchurch Gene Carter Ireni Autry Marie Daniel Terraine Francois Donald Porter Mike Wood Tim Johnson William Hollingsworth Mike Wood Tim Johnson Mary Neil King Betty Locklear Isabelle McDougald Tony Hunt Jean F. McPhail Anna McPhatter Jean Powell FOUR COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES Gwen Southerland LRCOG SCATTERED HOUSING Shirley Hart Jackie Hunt Chavis Adrian Lowery James Leach Linda Revels HOKE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD Stella Edens L.S. Brock Jesse Timmons HOKE ADVISORY BOARD FOR AREA AGENCY ON AGING Joe Alston James F. Baker Gilbert Johnson Cathy Brown Don Woods Mary McCollum Joyce Griffin Kathryn McPhatter Billie Edens Jacqueline Chavis Tasha Oldham Bleevna Melvin Alvin Walker Mike Locklear Rodney Fairley Jamie Dover INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES & POLLUTION CONTROL Tony Hunt James Leach FINANCING AUTHORITY HOKE COUNTY JUVENILE CRIME PREVENTION COMMISSION Anthony Oxendine Edwin McNeill John Pope Hubert Peterkin Freddie Williamson Archie Jackson HOKE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD Leland Strother Edith Best Walter Blue Michael Dummett Tim Johnson Kristy Newton Harold Brock Julian J. Johnson III Maggie Hunt William Fields Della Sweat Robert Smith Ronald Tillman Russell Locklear Livingston Lyons William Purdie Brandi McPherson James Leach Don Woods John Whiteford Jones BROWNSFIELD COMMITTEE Jim Hedgpeth Tom Landry Noran Sanford Ellen McNeill Freda Porter Dennis Baxley Ed Clark Regina Joe Cathy Brown SANDHILLS MENTAL HEALTH, INC. BOARD Don Russell Jeff Eudy Garvin Ferguson Randy Jones Cynthia Oxendine Shirley Smith Shirley Hard Catherine McPhatter Jean Powell Anna McPhatter David Jackson Martha Beatty Renate Dahlin Peggy Melvin Tom Squires Betty Perkins SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE SOUTHEASTERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Richard Fergison Jean Barbour Charlotte Kelly James Cunningham Linda Revels Tony Hunt Jackie Lynch BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT SENIOR SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD Don Neeham Steve Connell John King Jessie Williams Joyce Blackburn Kimberly Kelly Alvin Walker Ralph Allen Shirley Rush Evelyn Price David Jackson Keith Walters Kirk Lowery Patsy Fowler Betsy Bailey Gloria Koliba James Leach Margaret Kelly Anne Oglesby HOKE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS Rachel Locklear Roosevelt Daniel William Hales Gloria Hill Robert Va ughn Brenda O. Jacobs HOKE COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY BOARD HOKE COUNTY BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES John Joseph Tom Bryant Freddy L. Johnson, Sr., Chad Hodgen Carl Pevia Gwen Booker, Ellen McNeill George Marr Tim Johnson Ellen McNeill Brenda Branch Todd Wood Mike Wood Ex-Officio Members HOKE COUNTY HEALTH BOARD Jimmy Stewart Tricia McKnight Chris Jacobsen Mark Posey Joanne Lee Susan Balfour Candace Pierce Charles Allen Robert Wright Mark Griffies Kenneth Booker Brenda Woriax Vance McGougan The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 3 Tracing Hoke’s History Through The News-Journal Hoke County has never been without We began going through newspapers that caught our fancy. We particularly we found painful or thought our readers a weekly newspaper. Established in 1905, on microfilm at the Raeford Public Li- concentrated on items of history and items might find offensive. Racial bias is some- when Raeford was incorporated, Facts brary and through bound books of news- that reflected cultural changes. times clearly evident, particularly during and Figures was published. A subsequent papers kept at The News-Journal office. We found some years were missing and the early years. These articles speak of newspaper was called The Hoke County Some of the newspapers we found online. then there were the weeks when nothing the times and we cannot change the way Journal, and for a brief period a second Newspapers prior to January 1918 have seemed noteworthy so we just skipped it was, just hope lessons were learned. newspaper, called The Hoke County been lost. Starting with January 3, 1918, that week and went on to the next. –Pat Allen Wilson, Editor News, existed. The two papers merged, we selected an article or articles from Remaining true to journalistic ethics as thus The News-Journal. each week – either headliners or a topic outlined today, we did not shy from topics Years for which we found information are solid black. 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 1912 1922 1932 1942 1952 1962 1972 1982 1992 2002 1913 1923 1933 1943 1953 1963 1973 1983 1993 2003 1914 1924 1934 1944 1954 1964 1974 1984 1994 2004 1915 1925 1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 1916 1926 1936 1946 1956 1966 1976 1986 1996 2006 1917 1927 1937 1947 1957 1967 1977 1987 1997 2007 1918 1928 1938 1948 1958 1968 1978 1988 1998 2008 1919 1929 1939 1949 1959 1969 1979 1989 1999 2009 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 For a few years, we found only partial coverage.

three stories high. April 12 – On the first Monday in April, 1918 1919 Nov. 4 - A letter to the editor concerning the county commissioners and the school board Jan. 3 – There were 11,607 bales of cotton Dec. 4 – News & Junk: Two of the stills the poisoning of a dog notes the loss of confidence in meet in joint session. The question of the school ginned in Hoke County prior to Dec. 13, 1917 sheriff captured in November are good copper one’s neighbor is worse than the loss of the dog. expense is discussed and the school budget as compared to 7,752 ginned by Dec. 13, 1916. ones. Nov. 25 - Raeford Hardware Co. is already is presented. From what we learn, there is no Jan. 10 - The annual report regarding mileage dressed in holiday attire. It is very pretty. likelihood of a reduction in taxes. The rate will and expenses allowed county commissioners: Dec. 2 – Make Chisholm says if outgoes are be about the same as it was last year. J.C. Thomas, chairman, paid $60.20 last year; 1920 taxable, he is “ruint.” May 17 – Mssers. J.D. Niven and Bennett Cox Louis Parker, 51.80; Jesse Gibson, $51.80. Dec. 9 – Since the rebuilding has begun on buy Mr. M.S. McDiarmid’s grocery business on Feb. 5 – The school authorities have a truck Fayetteville Road and a good deal of rain has Main Street. Feb. 6 – Commissioners order the 1917 poll to bring children to school (and we hope take tax of $17 to be returned to D.A. Currie because fallen, it is well nigh impossible to travel it. The May 24 – Some fishermen catch a 7-ft. al- them back home). road is mirey, the road has been built up several ligator in Opie Odum’s mill pond in St. Pauls. he is a cripple. Epstein’s Dept. Store has bought out Mrs. May 16 – Neill M. McKeithan of Dundarrach feet higher close up to the bridges and a car is set July 5 – Ku Klux Klan, in full hooded regalia, Mary Belle’s store. on end to cross them. And while concrete bridges go to the home of the McPhersons, Indian tenant advertises a good farm or buggy horse in good Feb. 12 – Broadus Utley playfully snapped condition, will sell for a reasonable price. will be built sometime, some safer temporary farmers, who run a two-horse farm about three an unloaded pistol, or so he thought, in Miss arrangements should be made.’ miles west of Wagram. “Klan activities are May 23 – Raeford High School graduates Lelia Causey’s face with the result that the young seven: Roland Earle Blue, Mabel Marie Gatlin, Dec. 23 – The A&R depot at Wagram, a confined to that section of Scotland County, the lady has a painful wound in her face just below store, the post office and a large lot of cotton rest of the county being bitterly opposed to the James Leland Nesbit, Georgia Willie Wright, the right eye. Arthur Archibald Campbell, Margaret Dubley burned at Wagram Monday night. The origin KKK. They have allegedly beaten some mulatto May 27 – The streets should be sprinkled all of the fire is not known. women and Negro men. McPherson asked for McLean and Alice Ava Rackley. over and it should be done at night. May 30 – Edgar Hall announces his candi- police protection and believes there is more June 3 – A number of people attend what trouble to come.” The man he asked for help is dacy for sheriff. is thought to be the last service of Long Street June 6 –F.A. Wishart, superintendent of 1921 believed to be a member of the KKK. Church. But it is announced another service will Aug. 16 – Construction of a colored high roads, indicts his boss, L.T. Brown, for plowing be held there the last Sunday in August. July 28 – “It was carried in the daily papers into a road. Wishart blithely explains, “But he yesterday that Camp Bragg is to be discontinued school, located a mile north of town, begins. June 10 – Mr. W.L. Floyd opens a café in Another colored high school is at Bowmore. broke the law.” Raeford. Aug. 1. It is said the government will pay for the July 4 – Gov. Bickett proclaims a call to prayer land within the camp boundaries when money Nov. 8 – Angus Dobbin in Quewhiffle Town- June 24 – An all-around bad man is on trial: ship, above Timberland, is shot in the heart for victory in battle for our troops. George Allen is convicted of multiple crimes is available. We do not know that the news is Aug. 22 – Carson Chason dies of his battle authentic but we give it as we receive it.” and dies. Charlie Clark, Will Booth, Nelson after he threatened, assaulted and attempted to Alexander and Judge Roper were to be held, wounds. bribe voters. One of his victims is an old man Oct. 20 – A few nights ago, some vandals Prof. J.M. McBryde is severely wounded threw bottles or brickbats through the plate glass but Roper escaped. crippled with rheumatism and arthritis. Nov. 22 – Mr. E.F. Powell of Whiteville is in France. Sept. 2 – (Road rage even then! ) A.P. Spell, in the cold drink wagon belonging to Messrs. Aug. 29 – The first bales of cotton of the McQuage and King doing about $25 damage. badly injured in a two-car collision with A.K. attorney from Red Springs, is shot after a car Currie at the intersection of Prospect and Fulton. season in Cumberland County are sold by Joe collision with a South Carolina man who left the That was wicked. Walston to the Tolar Hart Mill for 32 cents a …”He was brought to Hotel Raeford and Drs. scene. Someone came along and took Spell to Brown and Geddie did all they could for him… It pound. Walston was paid $165.76 for the cotton the hospital and also looked after the two young and $34.65 for the seed. is probable that Mr. Powell did not see Mr. Currie, sons he had with him. 1923 at least in time to avoid a collision; that is true Sept. 26 – The Food Administration urges Sept. 9 – Raeford School opens with 331 April 5 - On Saturday, March 23, as shadows people to increase food production in 1919 as it of both drivers or it wouldn’t have occurred. It students. Mrs. Mollie Sinclair is in charge of began to gather, God sent his death messenger seems to be one of those unavoidable accidents means so much for the success of the war. the dormitory but there are not enough rooms. and removed from our midst Miss Loula Currie, Oct. 24 – The influenza epidemic reaches that could not be prevented.” Mr. Powell died Sept. 16 – Mr. W.F. Walters has brick on his daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Currie. She in Highsmith Hospital at 9 o’clock that night. such alarming proportions that the mayor calls lot not only to erect a building but to make it was in her 37th year of age. a mass meeting to discuss ways to combat it. Nov. 29 – The splendid residence of Mr. and 4 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Hoke is best of all worlds RaefoRd-Hoke We in God-blessed Hoke County have ing sites, but soldiers and their families live a uniqueness not shared by many places in among us. We are host to businesses and North Carolina. industries that saw the promise and made Chamber of Commerce One can drive through almost any sec- their homes here. tion of the county and view farm fields Culturally, we represent Americana, and as far as the eye can see. The beauty of each culture makes unique contributions to white fields of white, snow-like cotton this place they call home. In Hoke you will Congratulations Hoke County! bolls; green, glistening soybean plants; find the friendliness of a small town and or golden leaves of tobacco cannot be places with the beguiling names of Rockfish, surpassed. Arabia, Puppy Creek, Dundarrach, Antioch 100 Years Old Yet, these Hoke sandhills also boast com- and Quewhiffle. 401 Sand Company Harvest Comm. Family Worship Mother Evelyn Price munities teeming with residential growth; Some here consider Hoke one of the best A&R Railroad Hawk Eye Elementary Primary Health Choice Inc Hoke is one of the fastest growing counties kept secrets in North Carolina. Perhaps the Aberdeen Coca Cola Hedgpeth Farms & Greenhouse Progress Energy Raeford Animal Clinic in the state – even in the nation. best part of all is that this “secret” is located Aging Outreach Service Hillcrest Scurlock Water System American Legion Post 20` Jean Hodges Raeford Aviation In western Hoke, horse country has just minutes from cities and their attractions American Medical Response Hoke Area Transit Raeford Collision Center moved from nearby Moore County to our and is close to the major transportation cor- Raz Autry Hoke Cotton Warehouse Raeford Eye Clinic fair county. Fort Bragg swells us with pride ridors. In Hoke, we think we have the best Autumn Care Hoke County ABC Store Raeford Family Care Center as we are home to not only U.S. Army train- of all worlds. Averette Engineering Co., P.A. Hoke County Board of Education Raeford Farms & Lawns Barbee Pharmacy Mart Hoke County Civic League Raeford Hardware Mrs. T.B. Upchurch was destroyed by fire, and Bayonet Hoke County Farm Bureau Raeford Hoke Habitat for Humanity the family had a close call to escape with their 1925 BB & T Hoke County High School Raeford Masonic Lodge #306 lives. There was no water and firefighters were Jan. 17 – Tom McFadyen drove his coupe Martha Beatty Hoke County Native American Raeford News. Com barely able to save nearby buildings. into the A&R bus as he turned into Main Street Blue Springs CDC Hoke County Offices Raeford Oil Dec. 6 – The T.B. Upchurches wrote a letter from Central Avenue. The accident is blamed Bo’s Supermarket #11 Hoke County Parks & Recreations Raeford Pediatrics of thanks to people who helped them after the on poor lights and a thick, fine rain. Brewer’s Automotive Finishes Hoke Partnership for Children Raeford Presbyterian Church fire and invited them to a banquet when their Feb. 12 – Locals: A farmer in Sampson Judge Richard Brown Hoke County Public Library Raeford Salvage new home is finished. County kills a hog weighing nearly 1,100 pounds. Buie Funeral Home Hoke County Rescue Squad Raeford-Hoke Museum, Inc. Dec. 13 – Archie Gibson, 20, “a young man Feb. 19 – Kiwanis Club is seeking paved roads Building Blocks Early Education Hoke County Senior Services Red Door Homes of Fayetteville of promise” dies and is buried at Shiloh. for Hoke. The county has gotten less than a mile Amy Bullock, CPA Hoke County Veterans Service Relay for Life Dec. 20 - Pension checks for Confederate of pavement from the millions that have recently Burlington Industries Hoke Emergency Liaison Program Rockfish Christian Academy veterans are now being distributed by the Clerk been spent for paving in the state. Butterball Hoke Family Medical RockFish Church of the Superior Court Wm. L. Poole. March 12 – D.C. McLeod, a Lillington man, Theresa Byrd Hoke Reading Literacy Council Rockfish Motor Sports reared in Hoke, wrote an ode to Rockfish Creek. Calico Corner Home Food Rockfish Outdoor Center March 19 – The bitterest municipal fight ever Cape Fear Farm Credit House of Raeford Rockfish-Hoke Elementary 1924 known in the history of the town was fought Cape Fear Valley Health System Howell Drug Dr. John Ropp Jan. 17 – While riding in a sidecar of a mo- in 1905. Carolina Horse Park Imark Insurance Sandhills Community College torcycle, James C., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. March 26 - The Hoke County Journal de- Carolina Turf Judge Regina Joe Sand Hoke Early College M.B. McBryde of Antioch, is instantly killed scribes the battle to make Hoke a county some Carpenters Painting & Remodeling Johnson Company Sandy Grove Elementary School when the motorcycle collides with a wagon at a 14 years ago. When J.W. McLauchlin introduced Gene Carter Johnson Concrete Co Scotia Village curve in the road. the bill that established Hoke, he was sick and Century Link Jordan Clinic Scotland Health Care Systems June 19 – Ed. Note: This was the week that with a sore throat . The speech left him with Children’s Developmental Center George and Charlotta King Scottish Food Sys. KFC the National Guard was called out in anticipation permanent throat trouble. City Of Raeford Sarah Leach Scurlock Elementary of a disturbance that local law enforcement might April 2 - Cotton baling dropped by a half. Comfort Heating & Air Inc Liberty Home Care Sherra’s Sweet Sensation not have been able to handle. It appears there was There were 18,684 bales in 1923 and 9,195 in Connell Real Estate Lippard’s Auto Parts & Equipment Shuller Ferris Lindstrom & Assoc a senseless act followed by a senseless reaction 1924. Crumpler Funeral Home Low Country BBQ and Catering Karen Smith, MD PA that was followed by a senseless write-up in the April 6 – Local News: Quite a number of Daisy Patch Florist LRCOG Solid Rock United Pentacostal Hoke County Journal, published by D. Scott farmers are finding cooperative borrowing as Daphne’s Tax Service Lumbee River EMC Southern Health Care Poole. Excerpts in quotation marks are as they helpful as cooperative marketing. Days Inn Judge William McIlwain Southmoore Heating & Cooling appeared in the HCJ. “Not often are the good April 16 – The city passes an ordinance Don Steed Elementary School McLauchlin Elm. School Tom Squier people stirred as they were Monday when a brute forbidding the building on property that abuts East Hoke Middle School Mrs. Ellen McNeill State Farm Insurance Negro laid hands on beautiful and accomplished, a sewer line. Edinborough Restaurant Memories Made Eas;y Straighten-Up Orthodontics and loved because she is lovable, daughter whose June 4 – The high school granted 15 diplo- Exit Realty 1st Class II Merrill Lynch Stevens Insurance Agency parents are some of the best people in the country mas and one certificate. Some medals were also EZ Ryder KML, Inc. Mid Atlantic Insurance Sun Path Products whose home is near Montrose.” The unnamed handed out. Family Chiropractic Care, Inc Mid South Vending T B Upchurch Inc. woman sat on a log waiting for the mailman and June 11 – The proprietors of three filling sta- FCI Mt Piscah Baptist Church Teal Oil Co. was allegedly seized by the neck but got away tions advertise that they will do business for cash Family Florist #2 Mountaire Farms of N.C., Inc. Total Women’s Care OBGYN from her attacker and ran to her home. Three only: Main Street, Central and Auto Inn. People Joseph Farmer National Guard US Cellular EZ Wireless Negro men found the man and turned him over are too careless about paying what they owe. Fidelity Bank NC Cooperative Extension Unilever HPC USA to officers. “Soon the news of the capture spread July 9 – The cannery offers a market for First Impressions NC Turkey Festival Universal Pawn & Sports and in a short time the town was filled with sul- cow peas in the fall and for beets and collards FirstHealth of the Carolinas New Century Bank South University of N. C. at Pembroke len, indignant men and there were indications in the late fall. Five Points Pet Resort News Journal Upchurch Elementary School of revenge. Governor Morrison, as a precaution, July 30 – Mr. A.J. Fuller is erecting a filling Floors To Go No. 1 China Buffet Upland Trace Golf Course ordered the local military under Capt. Poole to station on his corner lot, Main Street and Har- Friendly Reminders, Inc Norris Storage Bldg./Carports Village Family Dental assist the sheriff in keeping order. The crowd ris Avenue. N C Defense Business Assoc Waccamaw Transport dispersed and a second wire at 11 o’clock called A heavy rain washed out crops and corn was Harold and Peggy Gillis West Hoke Elementary the company off duty. The sheriff and a strong blown over and broken off. Going Your Way Open Arms West Hoke Middle School guard of deputies remained on duty all night. Aug. 6 – Sanatorium, N.C. - The mountains Grace Baptist Church Paraclete XP/Sky Venture While they have strong provocation, and the and the Sandhill country offer a wonderful cli- Gabriella’s Restaurant Parnell Oil Co. Willcox, McFadyen, Fields & Sutherland wretch is within the grasp of the law, we hope mate for the cure of (TB)… The state sanatorium H&H Construction Pennsylvania Transformer Technology Wayne Willis they will restrain their just indignation … His cares for 182 white patients and 60 colored ones… H&R Block Sheriff Hubert Peterkin Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wright own race seems as indignant as the white people.” Six months is usually the shortest time in which Hallmark Realty Jean Powell Dec. 25 – “The Economy Grocery Co. has a patient may be safely returned to active life… a beautiful Christmas dress.” There is no medicine to cure TB… Only right 101 N. Main Street • Raeford, NC 28376 living will do it. (910) 875-5929 • raefordhokechamber.com The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 5 Aug. 27 – The B.L. Lucas Co., incorporated Sept. 30 – Jesse Lee, father of 12 children, builders and contractors, will go out of business it will serve three months on the road for making is said after the present contracts are completed. whiskey. We understand now Mr. Lucas thinks of going Oct. 7 – County Farm Demonstration Agent to Florida. L.B. Brandon has had shipped into Hoke County, Sept. 17 – Mr. Ed Jordan of Arabia lost not for fattening purposes, a car load of hogs. Many only his barn set fire by lightning last week but Hoke farmers have corn, which is hard to sell for a horse, wagon, two mules, a buggy, all his grain, cash, so they will sell pork. forage and farm implements. Oct. 14 – The hard surface road between Sept. 24 – Caption under a photo of a young Aberdeen and Raeford is complete except for man – Evangelist Carl E. Gaddy, who begins culverts, etc. a tent meeting in Raeford tomorrow night. Nov. 4 – The fine farm home of Mr. M.A. Friends have written that he is a good, zealous Chisholm went up in smoke at about five o’clock man but to us he is a stranger, and we make this Sunday morning. It was clearly the work of an announcement by request. If he succeeds in incendiary as the mules in the barn had been driving the Devil out of anybody’s life, we wish turned out and the gate latched. The barn and him Godspeed. its contents were almost destroyed when the Sept. 31 – As Mr. G.C. Ammons’ son was fire was discovered and the home was burning turning into his home in the mill village Saturday inside. The Chisholms were visiting in Moore night after the show, a car driven by two men County at the time. from Carthage drove into his car and several of Nov. 11 – About six weeks ago, Ernest and his children were cut by more or less broken glass. Albert Faircloth stole an automobile and 600 One of the Carthage men was thrown through pounds of tobacco from B.P. Saunders of Ashley the window and badly lacerated about the head. Heights. They were arrested, posted bail, and Oct. 15 – Mr. Charlie McInnis had his wrist will be tried on Tuesday. (broken) by a kick of a Ford car a few days ago. Nov. 18 – Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jordan were Oct. 22 – We meant to tell you Mr. Charley seriously hurt in an accident. Their auto ran into a McInnis got his arm broke cranking his Ford last car parked alongside the road during a heavy fog. week and we left out the word broke. Dec. 2-Mr. Martin McKeithan killed three Mill Prong House – Maybe the oldest house in Hoke, the early Federal style hogs last week that weighed 315, 316 and 327 pounds. house was built around 1802 by John Gilchrist. The land it sets on was part of 1926 Dec. 23 – The Bank of Raeford building now a King’s grant to James Lowery and Henry O’Berry. Col. Archibald acquired Jan. 14 – Mr. Tom Culbreth lost a Peace Dollar has steam heat and is now very comfortable. the land sometime in the 19th century, and he and Ellen McEachern reared 10 when he fell on the street the night of the fire. children in the home. The house, in Hoke near Wagram, was located on a major Jan. 28 – Farm Agent Brandon ordered 60 thoroughfare originally called Old Post Road. bushels of Lespedeza seed last week. Mr. E. R. 1929 Pickler of Ashley Heights takes 20 bushels of Jan. 25 – Twenty thousand pounds of TNT instead of train. rain, the county has high levels of water, which these. He is the largest individual purchaser. arrive for use on farms, in order to rid areas of June 21 – A Raeford girl wins big prize in a is good for farmers. Feb. 11 – Rockfish is the host of an Old Fid- tree stumps. Madri Gras Parade in Greensboro. Oct. 11 – Prison officials along with county dlers’ Music Convention. Feb. 1 – Bad weather fails to prevent a high June 28 – A rifle match held on Hoke County/ commissioners decide to begin to work prisoners Feb. 18 - An awful accident occurs as success- yield in cotton. Fort Bragg area for all surrounding National on cleaning and maintaining roads. ful farmer L.W McCormick was killed instantly Feb. 15 – A tobacco specialist comes here to Guard units. Oct. 18 – A man is placed on bond of $1,000 while using TNT to blast away stumps. teach farmers more efficient ways of growing July 5 – Neil Smith Blue, a prominent Raeford after being arrested for creating fake checks March 4 – Due to excessive poaching of the quality tobacco. citizen who helped in the building of Aberdeen worth hundreds of dollars. creature, Raeford’s Grey Squirrel population has March 1 – More than 7,630 lbs. of poultry and Rockfish railroads after the Civil War and Oct. 25 – Raeford High School boys organize nearly been wiped out. ships from Raeford to markets. who turned over 11,000 acres of land to the a school orchestra. March 11 – Town authorities purchase a lot March 8 – Seven young men survive a government for the Fort Bragg Reservation, dies Nov. 1 – County commissioners makes it adjoining the Carolina Telegraph and Telephone car crash into the side of a bridge near Hoke- while attending church service. against the law to fish in county ponds using Co. on Main Street in order to build a new City Cumberland line. July 12 – The State Highway Patrol becomes nets instead of poles. Hall. March 15 – Hoke deputy sheriff foils prison- active in Hoke County for the first time. Nov. 8 – Hoke County’s two newspaper March 18 – Movement has risen in county ers’ attempt to escape through tampering with July 19 – Hoke County and surrounding areas companies, the Hoke County News and the Hoke government to create a county high school in jail locks. are now being supplied with plenty amounts of County Journal, combine to create one sole news which pupils from all townships of the county March 29 – Prominent Raeford attorney electricity as contract is signed between Carolina coverer, The News-Journal. could attend. E.S. Smith dies. Power Company and the Raeford Manufactur- Nov. 15 – School teachers host the first ever April 15 – A study concludes that crop yield The State Department of Transportation looks ing Company. educational banquet. of Hoke County has risen steadily and that 1925 into building a highway to St. Pauls. July 29 – After a long and speedy chase Nov. 22 – John L. McFadyen, a long-time was the largest yet. April 5 – From a survey, Raeford farmers through Rockfish, Deputy W.R. Barrington resident of Raeford and Spanish War veteran, April 22 – Two men are ordered not to be seen learn they space their cotton rows too far apart arrests a drunk driver. dies suddenly Wednesday. in Hoke, Cumberland or Robeson counties for compared to other coastal farmers. Aug. 2 – Local farmers are greatly pleased Nov. 29 – As a local man was driving home the next two years because of activities involved April 12 – Bob Usher is arrested for illegal with new and very high selling prices for tobacco. from Person County, he hit and killed a wild with making illegal whiskey. Otherwise, they manufacturing and procession of whiskey found Aug. 9 – Hoke County Board of Education turkey with his car. Noticing the bird was only will serve two years in Wayne County working between the Parker place and the Fort Bragg sets official dates for county schools to open for slightly bruised, he and his family had a Thanks- on the roads. reservation. new school years. giving Day turkey dinner later that night. April 29 – Local News: Mrs. J.D. Tapp is fur- April 19 – Raeford’s National Guard unit Aug. 16 – Two people are arrested for at- Dec. 6 – The Education Board is well in bud- nishing Raeford Drug Co. with fresh buttermilk is praised for receiving high rankings from the tempting to steal chickens from one of the many get, even being able to donate an old, abandoned of very fine quality, an uncommonly good drink. Coastal Artillery Corps. chicken houses of the State Sanatorium. school to local Boy Scouts and selecting a site May 20 – Rural Policeman Barrington April 26 – After a most successful and peace- Aug. 23 – The Battery Guard of Raeford for a “Colored” school. captured a young white man named Wilson ful winter season, Hoke County Jail is practically leaves for extensive training at Camp Perry, Ohio. Dec. 13 – Police officers bust two illegal liquor and a copper still he was running on Drowning empty with few prisoners. Aug. 30 – Hoke County establishes official stills near the Hoke/Robeson line. Creek. Wilson is also wanted in Moore County May 17 – Raeford High School’s baseball books to be read in its high schools. for stealing cars. team competes in the Eastern Championship Sept. 6 – County Police Officers go on a Aug. 26 – The state Board of Health is holding game against Clayton. They win the champion- day-long fishing trip. 1930 a clinic for children on tonsils and adenoids at ship in a tense battle. Sept. 13 – The Town of Raeford raises suf- Jan. 3 – Austin Cotton Gin is destroyed by the Raeford Presbyterian Church. May 24 – A study tells Hoke parents that milk ficient funds to build new street near the Oil Mill. fire on Christmas Day with “the fire boys having Sept. 9 – Short Item: The trains in town now is directly related to a child’s school performance. Sept. 20 – Wild, mad dog, thought to have to leave warm beds and dreams of Santa Claus.” run about half time. May 31 – After a grievous loss to Western rabies, is captured in streets of Raeford after at- The gin and contents were destroyed but the Sept. 23 – N.C. McFadyen, who was for champs, Raeford High, however, still remains tacking and biting many other local dogs. cotton and seed houses were spared. The gin is four years, prior to 1915, Raeford postmaster, state champion runners-up. Sept. 27 – Hoke County Schools receive much the second to burn on the site. was sentenced to three years in federal prison June 14 – Raeford begins to ship dewberries needed government funds and aid. Jan. 10 – Five of 13 mallard ducks stay on in Fayetteville. and other products to New York by motor truck Oct. 4 – After a long week of drenching 6 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial the farm of D.C. Newton in Antioch and decide July 4 – Sargon pills cure whatever ails you, to cast their lot with a flock of tame ducks, run- according to their ads. The ad this week features

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HOKE CO ON CO in order to collect them. 5 feet long, black with dim white stripes over ROBES Jan. 24 – A Kiwanis joke backfires when the cross sections of its body and it had a short, blunt speaker is a minister who proceeds to preach a tail. It was found in his hen house. No one could 211 sermon. Some members get hot under the collar identify it. Could it be a chicken snake? and “the fur flies” before it is revealed that it was July 25 - Dr. Laughinghouse, state Health all just a trick. Officer, talked about pellagra at the courthouse. Hoke County was Valentine’s Jan. 31 – Old man winter, assuming a fatherly Aug. 15 – The News-Journal is now all mood, tucks Raeford in bed under a blanket of home-owned since Paul Dickson bought out snow. R.L. Eastham in a deal that includes the old Day gift to its citizens Feb. 7 – John A. Cameron is paroled from Journal plant. prison. He killed Raeford Police Chief P.C. Oates. Aug. 22 – A second pellagra clinic is held in Glenn County’s 100th birthday? long and hard. There were only dirt roads, See “Murders Most Foul” elsewhere in this issue. Raeford. There were 54 patients at the first one. Well, almost. and trips to the county seats took two days Feb. 21 – Marvin Gillis, assisting with road- Aug. 29 – Hoke farmers are bringing truck Hoke might have been named for a each way. At the same time, business lead- work, burns himself painfully when he lights loads of cattle from the Valley in Virginia, where North Carolina governor instead of a ers worried that customers were drawn to a cigarette and his clothes are saturated with drought is so bad there is no chance of making hay. Confederate general. the Cumberland and Robeson cities. The gasoline. His injuries are not serious. Sept. 5 – The tax rate is $1.04. Commissioners Feb. 28 – Robert Cole allegedly steals a car weren’t able to reduce the rate because of taking Leaders fought for six years before the Bank of Raeford had been established in and runs down a boy and his pony. Dan Newton, over the school’s debts. General Assembly established a county 1903, and its officers and customers alike 13, is dead at the scene as is the pony. Oct. 12 – The store owned by J.S. Maultsby in called Hoke out of parts of Robeson and were concerned about future growth. A March 7 – “On the historic banks of Puppy Montrose burned in a fire caused by an electrical Cumberland counties. common complaint was that tax revenues Creek, some 150 men of the masculine gender short. The stock was a total loss but firefighters Cumberland County Senator John Wil- for schools, roads and other improvements (more or less) assembled to celebrate an already were able to save a service station nearby. liamson McLauchlin was the leader in the were spent in areas more heavily populated famous fish fry and stew.” Sept. 19 – A family suit involving a man who movement. Among his backers were the than in the rural areas that became Hoke. March 14 – John Arthur Hendrix, 2, son of died after setting fire to spilled gasoline while he founder and president of the Aberdeen and As Hoke took shape, Quewhiffle, Raeford, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Hendrix of Stonewall Town- worked for the state is being heard by the State Rockfish railway, John Blue. Little River and McLauchlin townships ship, died of burns he received when he and his Industrial Commission. The proposed naming of a new county were formed from Cumberland County four-year-old brother stopped by an outhouse Sept. 26 – Raeford Cotton Mills is to be that housed straw. The straw caught on fire and auctioned. after Governor Robert Glenn, who served and Blue Springs, Antioch and Stonewall the little boy was trapped inside. His mother Oct. 3 – Advertisement: It’s as easy and from 1905-07, was political as he held the townships were formed from Robeson. pulled him from the burning building and was natural to enjoy the fragrant mildness of a Camel office when the first bill was enacted. Jeptha Peele and W.T. Covington were also burned. cigarette as it is to admire beauty when you see it. Although McLauchlin had some power- appointed by the governor to meet with March 21 – The Sanatorium treated 1,037 Oct. 10 – A local girl meets tragic death ful friends supporting his move to break Cumberland and Robeson commissioners patients last year at a cost of $2.20 per person within an hour after being hit by a speeding car. away from two county seats that were an to lay out the boundaries. per day. Oct. 17 – A man contacts a state entomolo- inconvenient distance from what is now The new county held 268,000 acres March 28 – T.B. Upchurch writes from Hot gist after finding a mysterious beetle that he nor Hoke, he faced some powerful opposition with a population of 10,000. Springs, Ark., where he is recuperating, that anyone else in his part of the state has ever seen from Cumberland’s leaders. McLauchlin’s Cumberland was congenial after the people should grow more vegetables and food- before, which gave off a terrible odor and was first effort failed and he and the Hoke transaction took place, perhaps because stuffs that are edible as the only crops he saw as eating his store products. It is later determined to he drove west were cotton fields. be the Carabid Beetle, a native to the northern U.S. delegates tried again in 1909, this time Hoke took over a portion of its debts April 4 – The elections board is named: J.S. Oct. 24 – Raeford Cotton Mills is sold to an choosing the name Hoke after one of the along with the land. However, some of Johnson and Ryan McBryde, Democrats; and attorney from Wilmington for $25,000, with him South’s heroes, Confederate Major General the citizens of what had been proposed as B.L. Cox, Republican. being the only bidder for the property. Robert Frederick Hoke. Robeson County said Hoke had taken the April 11 – The Raeford Theatre sustained a Oct. 31 – 8,875 bales of cotton were ginned in Some Robesonians came up with the only valuable property in Robeson. Hoke’s great deal of damage when film caught on fire. the county, compared to last year’s 5,274. Local proposal that a new county be called North new officers were to be appointed by the April 18 – A moratorium on catching certain prophets predict around 13,000 bales next year. Robeson County, but both the proposals governor, but he refused to do so until a fish is declared because of spawning season. Nov. 7 – Raeford football fan wins College were voted down. primary was held. The first county officials Fishermen are not to keep crappie, perch, bream Game Predictions contest held by the Fayetteville By the time 1911 rolled around, sup- were W.B. McQueen, clerk of court; J. Hec- or bass. Observer by only missing the actual scores of porters of a county named Hoke had tor Smith, register of deeds; Edgar Hall, April 25 – Census figures show Raeford has the six games by 41 points. a population of 1,302. Nov. 14 – Oscar Scull of Raeford was nearly gained much support due to the fact that sheriff; treasurer, W.J. McRaney; county May 2 – There are 739 people in Little River killed from a punctured artery and severe cuts the naming would be a tribute to a man per- commissioners, J.W. Johnson (chairman), Township as compared to a 621 count in 1920. delivered to him by his large hog after entering ceived to be one of the state’s most beloved S.J. Cameron and J. A. McPhaul; coroner, May 9 – A small dog, belonging to R.L. Dixon, the pin to feed it. citizens. Armed with petitions that held the Dr. A.P. Dickson; surveyor, J.W. McFadyen; went mad and bit three of his children. It also bit Nov. 21 – One of the greatest strides in manu- signatures of a vast majority of the area’s superintendent of education, Professor J.W. a mule and killed a number of chickens before facturing in Hoke County in a long time occurs residents, Senator McLauchlin introduced McGoogan; state senator, J.W. Johnson; jumping in bed with the baby. All the Dixons as Upchurch Milling Company installs modern Senate Bill #33 in January. board of education, N.A. McDonald, John and a neighboring child are taking painful shots feed, grinding, and mixing plants, which greatly The Senate passed the bill first, and on A. Hodgin and Neil McKinnon; and state as is the mule. out-process the old and now obsolete plants. the evening of February 14 there was a representative, Thomas McBryde. May 16 – The county agent urges people to Nov. 28 – Hoke County faces a cotton steal- Valentine spirit among House members. Construction of the courthouse took a eat their chickens as the market price is so low. ing epidemic as two prominent farmers have They voted 56 to 30 to form the state’s year, and offices were rented for officials. May 23 – Thirty-four graduate from Flora over 1,500 pounds of cotton total stolen from Macdonald; one is from China. their fields. 99th county. Old Raeford was located at what was May 30 – Fifty-five graduate from Hoke High. Dec. 5 – Frank Graham, president of the The Raleigh Observer reported on Feb- known as the old swimming hole. John June 13 – The county’s population increased UNC system, comes to speak to an interested ruary 22 that Hoke had gotten its valentine. McRae and A.A. Williford operated a by 25 percent since 1920. Hoke’s 1930 popula- audience at the high school. He was invited by The bill was enacted into law on February turpentine distillery and general store tion is 14,242 the Raeford Woman’s Club. 17 and became effective April 3, 1911. respectively. Each took a syllable from his June 20 – Little Miss Margie McKenzie, 7, Dec. 12 – The county loses bid for new Thousands of Hoke citizens swarmed into name and came up with the name Raeford daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey McKenzie of highway construction job from the government. Raeford to celebrate. for the post office they established. Shannon, sang on WPTF radio in Raleigh and Dec. 19 – While destroying a still, Deputies For years, citizens of Hoke had com- Raeford, a cotton field in just 1898, was was a hit . Barrington and McNeil are unexpectedly visited plained that the trip to Fayetteville or made the county seat. June 27 – Hoke farmer W.T. Covington is by State Prohibition Agents who had planned to Lumberton on business matters was too being recognized for his work in sculpting. raid the same still. A possible shoot-out was then The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 7 avoided as one of the agents called off the raid to bed in Hoke and wake up in Cumberland. Dr. Hector McClean. The medical college oper- Oct. 30 – The Ladies Shoppe moves into the after recognizing Barrington. Feb. 20 - An editorial states that Hoke would ated from 1866 until 1872. Bluemont Hotel. Dec. 26 – The Presbyterian Church of Raeford lose if the state takes over county roads. Clinics in Hoke schools find a large percent- Nov. 6 – Local artist W.T. Covington presents holds a Christmas Carol Service, which saw Feb. 27 – Hoke farmers consider growing age of students have defective teeth and abcesses. a bust he made of J.W. McLauchlin to be placed huge crowds and was proclaimed to be “One of sweet potatoes as part of diversification and May 15 – The “heroes of the 60s” or veterans in the courthouse. the finest Christmas services ever remembered improvement. of the Civil War were honored during a memo- Nov. 13 – No active cases of TB were reported in Raeford. March 6 – Commissioners make plans to rial service. in white children in grades one through three. widen and improve Old Wire Road. May 22 - The Raeford Post Office posts a More than 400 students were tested. March 13 – The Ellis Williamson Post of the bulletin that solicits more space. Nov. 20 – The President’s organization on 1931 American Legion is active; the first social of the May 29 – Hoke High School graduates 29 Unemployment Relief urges people to give to Jan. 2 – A man is killed during the holidays season is a shad roast. students. the local Unemployment Emergency Committee. when his car is struck by a locomotive on the March 20 – A fire of unknown origin causes June 5 – There are two reported cases of Nov. 27 – Stonewall Township residents post Rockfish Railroad. brings down a brooder house belonging to typhoid fever in Hoke. a notice regarding trespassing. Written permis- Jan. 9 – A Hoke County man files a patent Alfred Cole. The house, equipment and 200 June 12 – The boll weevil is already out in sion of the property owner is required. It has 25 on his invention of a new type air heater, which chicks were lost. cotton fields. Farmers are urged to fight it “from signatures. many believe to be a huge success. March 27 – Gen. Pershing’s Experiences, now on out.” Dec. 4 – Raeford third graders write what Jan. 16 – Hoke and Scotland deputies are a column, will appear in installments in The June 19 – Watermelon is to be the big sum- they know about Indians: “The Indians were very absolved in the shooting death of Jim Brigman News-Journal April 10. mer crop here. tall. Their skin was reddish brown and their eyes in Scotland County after officers go to his sister’s April 3 – Paul Dezerne is found guilty of hit June 26 – Hoke’s most prominent citizen, were black and sparkling. Their hair was very home to arrest him for making whiskey. The and run but not guilty of sideswiping a car that James Williamson McLauchlin, passes at age 85. black and straight.” – Jean Graham ruling was self-defense. went off the road and into a barn that collapsed, He was instrumental in Hoke becoming a county. Dec. 11 – Two notables visit Hoke: Dusty Jan. 23 – A tobacco cooperative is getting killing four people. July 3 – The crusade against diphtheria Cook, outfielder of the New York Yankees and into shape fast. April 10 – A mechanical pitcher in the begins. More than 2,000 receive typhoid vac- teammate of Babe Ruth, visited with Clyde Jan. 30 – The Rev. John R. Miller, a Baptist, McNeill Wholesale House is attracting a lot of cinations. Upchurch and the two of them went hunting. carries with him a purple egg with stripes on it attention, particularly from the old timers. July 10 – Farmers are told to pack their wa- Helen Kane, co-star of “Whoopee,” with Eddie laid by a Rhode Island Red. The good minister April 17 – John Williamson McLauchlin, termelons well so they will make it to market. Cantor, consulted with Raeford doctors. She believes it is a sign of good times ahead. considered the father of Hoke County, celebrates July 17 – Unlike dire predictions, the boll said Raeford is “one of the prettiest towns she Feb. 6 – More than 60 Presbyterian ministers his 85th birthday. weevil infestation in Hoke may be light, and has seen in the state.” gather to pray, particularly that funds for feeding April 24 – Maggie Covington, 16, is fatally the watermelon season is predicted to be bright. Dec. 18 – Sheriff Hodgin and deputies raided the poor and needy do not run out. shot by accident, by her brother, who thought the July 24 – The state equalization board sets a small but well-equipped still below Antioch in Feb. 13 – The Brookings Institute recom- gun he was holding was unloaded. teacher allotments: White: Hoke High has eight, the loft of a house. Henry McNeill was arrested mends 12 counties consolidate for more efficient May 1 – Essay written by a grade school and 29 elementary; colored, 43; Indian, 2. and sentenced to four months of road work. government. Hoke and Cumberland should youngster: “The Cat Bird is a bird. He is neither July 31 – Battery F and 1st Battalion Combat consolidate with Fayetteville as the county too large nor too small. He is black and white. Train return home from Ft. Moultrie, S.C. Lieu- seat. (Bear in mind Hoke originated as the 99th His bill is yellow. His nest is made of sticks, straw tenant Colonel and officers say it was the most 1940 county because it was hard for folks here to get to and other soft stuff. The mother bird lays three successful training ever held. Jan. 11 – There is a high rate of syphilis in Fayetteville to do their business with the county.) eggs in it.” – William Howard Aug. 7 – A moderate drought was broken by Hoke; many babies are born with the disease The reaction of one resident is that he might go May 8 – A tenant house that burned was a severe storm that brought wind and lightning, Jan. 18 – The Williamsport, Pennsylvania Edinboro Medical School’s office occupied by particularly hard on corn crops. Wind blew down pro baseball team returns to Raeford for their a barn on N.B. Blue’s farm, flattening it on top of spring practice in March and April. his mules. The mules survived with only minor Feb. 1 – An ambulance carrying a corpse hits cuts and bruises. a mule-pulled wagon on the Aberdeen-Raeford Celebrating Hoke County’s Aug. 14 – Businessman E.B. McNeill is cho- Road near Montrose. There are no injuries except sen president of Bank of Raeford. He replaces for bruises to the mule. The driver of the ambu- J.W. McLauchlin. lance is charged with driving under the influence. 100 years of growth. Aug. 21 – J.H. Austin is the first Boy Scout Feb. 8 – A truck-trailer loaded with 150 in the county to earn the rank of Eagle. Georgia hogs crashes through a barricade at a Aug. 28 – Six barns, all filled with high grade bridge protection job on the Fayetteville Highway. tobacco, were recently burned. Explosions were The truck plunges nose first into Beaver Creek heard coming from some of them. Sheriff Hodgin at McNeills Mill. The truck runs over Caswell rescued one man, Alton Potter, who was asleep Reinhardt, a construction worker from South in a burning barn that belonged to J.M. Downer. Carolina. More than half the hogs were killed Sept. 4 – The opening of schools is delayed or injured so severely they had to be put down. two weeks because children are needed to har- Feb. 15 – Even though flagmen were posted vest crops and because the trucks (buses) need at the bridge where a construction worker was more attention. killed, there is another wreck with no injuries re- Sept. 11 – Two snake stories: Miss Loyd Tapp ported. A warrant has been issued for J.A. Niven, found a water moccasin in her upstairs bedroom. who exited his vehicle and assaulted a flagman. Mrs. D.P. Brown’s grandson found a four foot Feb. 22 – Nathaniel Bryant and William long snake that measured 12 inches around, had Young are put to death for the slaying of Tom 10 rattles and a button; she killed it with a hoe. Moore, 34, when they attempted to rob John Sept. 18 –Baucom’s has new, fall Sunday- Maultsby’s store and filling station at Montrose Go-to-Meeting hats for 98 cents. last March. The men maintained until their death Sept. 25 – South Carolina law makes it a that they had not been in Hoke County at the time misdemeanor to grow tobacco in 1932; that is, of the killing. The execution was delayed once providing three-fourths of the cotton-growing for a more thorough investigation. states follow suit. As Hoke County celebrates 100 years, we also Feb. 29 – Downtown businessmen meet in Oct. 2 – Sheriff’s deputies raided three stills, Town Hall and decide to make pamphlets extol- look back at almost 100 years of serving Hoke one in Little River Township and two in Que- county and the rest of rural America. While ling the virtues of Raeford. whiffle. They arrested two men in Little River. March 7 – William Harris of Hoke County we are proud of our past, we are focused on Oct. 9 – Mr. and Mrs. Lee Maultsby barely High wins a Future Farmers of America speak- your future. Call us. We’re the experts. escape with their lives when their Montrose home ing contest. He addresses forest conservation burns to the ground. in the U.S. Financing available for: Oct. 16 – Cotton proves itself king with March 14 – Sam Marshall’s case is thrown out • Land & Farms • Homes & Construction prices rising sharply. Tobacco prices are lower of court because his charge, removing manure this year than last. • Equipment • Recreational Property “Where your interest pays dividends!” from a stable after the first of the year, is found Oct. 23 – The number of farmers who have not to be a crime. 331 South Main Street, Raeford, NC full ownership of their farms has increased by March 21 – In May 1905, a help house on 10.7 percent from 1920. Hoke has 392 fully www.CapeFearFarmCredit.com | 910.875.6181 the Raeford Institute burns. It was Sunday and owned farms. Preacher Mercer had announced his text but he 8 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial was left alone because the congregation went to members are A. McEachern, Thomas B. Lester the county line. Sept. 25 – Three men are charged with steal- the fire. – F. Scott Poole and Floyd Monroe. Physician is Dr. Robert L. Feb. 27 – Robert Graham was sentenced to ing and selling 1,400 lbs. of seed cotton. March 28 – The Kiwanis will stage a minstrel Murray and appeal agent is Arthur D. Gore. three months of roadwork for snatching the gun Oct. 16- Deposits of the Bank of Raeford show. Proceeds will be used for underprivileged Oct. 17 – It is rumored that the Ft. Bragg of Highway Patrolmen Joe Murrill. top $1,000,000. children. reservation wants to take in more of Hoke County March 5 – The county is seeking a higher Oct. 30 – Children are told they can take April 4 – More than 20 cases involving liquor than it has already taken. Another report is that tire allotment. In the meantime, two soldiers are part in national defense by joining the American are tried in Recorder’s Court. barracks to house Negro troops is to be built indicted for tire theft. Red Cross. April 11 – Stores will close for the Williams- several miles from Raeford. March 6 – The Williamsport Grays, during Nov. 6 – The National Guard Armory is port Gray’s game with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Oct. 24 – Selective Service has 1,395 men their spring training exhibition games, will play leased by the Federal Works Agency and will April 18 – Candidates filing for local offices between the ages of 21 and 35 registered for five of them in Raeford. be used as a USO recreation center for soldiers. in the May 25 primary here number 26. the draft. March 13 – Gus Parker of near Rockfish is Nov. 20 – Hoke farmers are urged to collect April 25 – Julian Samuel Johnson, largest Oct. 31 - Steven Atkins of Shannon is the first seriously hurt when his vehicle, which he was scrap metal for defense use. planter in Hoke, dies shortly before his 48th to have his number drawn for the draft. driving on the A&R railroad tracks, is struck Dec. 4 – New bridges are promised over birthday. He served as a town commissioner, Nov. 7 – Hoke voters cast their ballots by a train. Hwy 15-A at opposite ends of the county over was chair of the Board of Elections and owner overwhelmingly to return F.D. Roosevelt to the March 20 – The well at Rockfish School is the Lumber River and Rockfish Creek. of a gin and fertilizer and feed sales. He was Presidency. dug deeper and they have water after two months Dec. 11- There will be no Christmas lights president of Johnson Co. insurance. Nov. 14 – An 18-year-old prisoner, George of a dry spell. this season in order to save on power. A gala day May 2 – Peggy Bethune dreams she is fleeing Kelly, strikes jailer W.E. Blue over the head with April 3 – Albert McNeill is killed instantly is planned, however, in conjunction with “scrap from a fire and awakens to smoke n the house. a milk bottle and escapes, hiding in the woods and Harry Daniels drowns when their car crashes iron collection” day. Soot in the fireplace is on fire, and all in the house for three hours before he is apprehended. through the railing of Blue’s Bridge over Rockfish flee before flames spread. Nov. 21 – The prodigal son returns: Cyrus Creek on the Raeford-Vass Road. McNeill was May 9 – Work on the Fayetteville Road is Hobson ran away from home and joined a car- hit by the bridge railing, which penned Daniels 1942 complete except for a bridge, where concrete nival when he was 15. Twenty-two years later in the car. It took two hours to pull the car from Jan. 8 – Fire strikes twice at the Hoke Chev- needs to set. he returns to a father, J.L. Hobson, who does the swollen creek. rolet Building. No vehicles are damaged. May 16 – The graduating class of Hoke High not recognize him. Among his adventures, the April 10 – The Army Day memorial is held at Jan.15 – Fire destroys the Raeford Power is awarded 54 diplomas. younger Hobson became a lion tamer. He decided Longstreet Church on the Ft. Bragg reservation. Plant. Carson Bundles, night operator, escapes May 23 – Census figures show Hoke to have to return when a lion under his charge escaped April 24 – After Sister Shaw Maynor, 18, by diving through a window into the creek on a population of 15,074 in 1940, a gain of 329 over and killed a spectator. went home to her mother after a quarrel with which the hydro-plant is built after an explosion the 1930 census. Dec. 5 – A Chapel Hill professor tells teachers her husband Oscar Maynor, 23, he shot her and ripped the plant. Electricity generated was used May 30 – Raeford is chosen to be the site of at Hoke High that a course of study is needed then beat her with his single barrel shotgun until by Upchurch Milling and Storage and Hoke Oil the Lumbee River Membership Corp. whereby students will learn to use their hands the barrel bent, neighbors say. Maynor then went and Fertilizer and some rural residences. June 6 – The Hoke County Chapter of the as well as their minds. into the woods, killing himself. His widow is The program, “Scrap the Japs with Scrap,” American Red Cross is in urgent need of war Dec. 12 – National Guardsman Robert Wood- expected to live. brought in 700,000 pounds of scrap iron. relief funds. The goal is $800, and only $12 has cox decides, while his unit is deployed to South May 8 – Gov. J. Melville Broughton will ad- Jan. 22 – The Army asks that rifles, helmets, been collected. Carolina, to come home to Hoke for a little while. dress Hoke High’s 53 graduating seniors. uniforms, etc. taken as souvenirs during the Battle June 13 – D. Lacy McBryde begs England not He borrows the colonel’s car without asking and May 15 – Gov. Broughton says the outcome of the Carolina maneuvers be returned. to sink the ship his brother is on when he returns is welcomed when he arrives here by the law. of the war in Europe depends on skills, training Jan. 29 – With the sugar shortage expected from Scotland. There is no concern that the Dec. 19 - D. Scott Poole believes gambling is and faith of the victorious. to get worse, it is recommended that farmers Germans will sink the liner, but the allies could a sin and playing the market is considered gam- May 22 – A driver was killed and his com- grow sugar in the form of sorghum for molasses. do so and blame it on Germany, MyBryde says. bling, not doing business. However, he regrets panion critically injured when his truck broke Feb. 5 – Dr. R.A. Matheson is expected to June 20 – The Cumberland County Bar somewhat that he did not invest in cotton futures. through the pavement above a washout at Lake come home to Raeford to resume his practice Assoc. condemns D. Lacy McBryde’s letter as Dec. 26 – David A. Smith of Smith’s Radio Rim. A Miami-New York bus followed the after his discharge from the Army. “unamerican.” Service gives notice that he will no longer ser- truck into the washout and 11 passengers were Feb. 12 – Boy Scout Week is celebrated. July 25 – Several are convicted of stealing vice car radios, thinks home radios are more hurt. The bus driver’s heroic efforts saved his Sponsored by the Raeford Kiwanis, Troop 1 was watermelons from R.D. Strother of Quewhiffle important, especially in view of the present passengers. He held the emergency brake to formed in spring of 1929. Scouts are playing a and D.A. Williams of Blue Springs. world situation. keep the bus from sliding into the waters of the part in the defense of this country. Aug. 1 – Wild dogs will be shot at Ft. Bragg. stream while his 16 passengers scrambled to Feb. 19 – Walter Barrington was at Pearl Some are running in packs of five or six. safety through a broken window. He left the bus Harbor on Dec. 7 and hopes to be home for a Aug. 8 – The Rural Electrification allots 1941 only seconds before the pond dam gave way and brief leave before his transfer to Boston, Mass. the Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp. Jan. 1 – Sonny Parks, son of Mr. and Mrs. the bus was tossed several hundred yards into Feb. 26 – Ninety-two white families sign up $428,000 for the construction of 450 miles of George W. Parks of Raeford, is the winner of the rushing waters. to care for 171 white children in Wilmington in power lines in Hoke, Robeson, Scotland and The News-Journal’s baby contest, making him T.B. Upchurch Jr. submitted a camouflaged, case of attack, and 26 colored families sign to Cumberland counties. Baby King of Hoke County. bullet-proof helmet he designed and patented take 53 colored children. School buses will pick Aug. 15 – The Raeford Library has 1,765 Jan. 8 – Only six passenger car tires, five tubes to the Army. up the children if it comes to that. books. and eight truck tires are allowed this month for May 29 – Hoke landowners are lagging in March 5 – County commissioners order all Aug. 29 – Harvey R. Baucom is convicted Hoke, according to the Tire Rationing Board, signing up for the maneuver program which drafted men classified 1B on account of gonor- of manslaughter in the shooting death of his made up of F.P. Sexton, J.B. Thomas and Ryan gives the Army permission to train on their land. rheal infection to be treated for the disease at brother-in-law, George Thompson. Baucom is McBryde. June 12 - Rockfish Creek is not polluted and the county clinic. sentenced of five to seven years in the state prison. Jan. 9 – Mattresses are being made in the is fit to swim in; signs posted indicating such March 12 – Because so many people living Judge J. Paul Frizzell says he hopes Baucom National Guard Amory. Nearly 500 have been were done by vandals. in Hoke get their mail at rural route addresses gets along well. made and 700 more will be made. Those who July 10 – The dam on the pond owned by that are served by post offices in other counties, Sept. 5 – Some units of the North Carolina receive the mattresses are required to pay $1. Clyde Upchurch burst for the third time. The those counties are getting Hoke’s share of tire Guard are expected to mobilize September Jan. 16 – B.H. Hutchinson, drivers’ license breaks are attributed to muskrats. allotments. For instance, in Allendale Town- 16. This includes the 252nd Coast Artillery of examiner for Hoke, Scotland, Robeson, Lee, July 24 – Hoke is to have a full-time rural ship, eight cars are shown when the number Raeford. Harnett and Johnston counties, issued 10,448 policeman come September. W.R. Barrington, should be 96. Sept. 12 – Capt. William F. Poole is being permits and refused 1,363 to those who didn’t Raeford’s police chief, takes the job. March 19 – Bank of Raeford is offering a promoted to the rank of major and will be reas- pass the tests. Aug. 7 – The Raeford-Vass Road is to be $25 war bond to Hoke’s best Victory Garden. signed. He commanded Battery F for the past Jan. 23 – Schools are expected to reopen closed to civilian traffic for several days due to March 26 – Paul Davis is given six months 16 years. Capt. Julian H. Blue will take over as Jan. 28 after they were closed down due to an a large-scale maneuver by the Army. on the road for stealing a pistol. Battery F commander. influenza and cold outbreak among teachers. Aug. 21 – Zebulon V. Pate, 75, president of April 2 – Three Boy Scouts earn the Eagle Sept. 19 – Tommie Upchurch receives a pat- Jan. 30 – The jury is deadlocked in the trial five of the largest businesses and manufacturing rank: William Lawrence Poole Jr., Hal Clark ent on his invention of a rail crossing designed to of Arthur Ray Patterson, a Ft. Bragg soldier concerns in the country, dies. and George White. decrease wear on railroad crossties where they responsible for the death of Charles Milhizer in Aug. 28 – Five are convicted of hunting deer April 9 – A forest fire that burns several thou- meet the rail. The A&R Railroad has tested a car-truck crash. Patterson will be tried again at night and are fined $500 and court costs. sands of acres spreads from Ft. Bragg onto 1,600 some of the cushions three miles out of Raeford. in April. Sept. 11 – Aircraft warnings’ stations in Hoke acres of private land in Little River Township. Oct. 3 – The Raeford Board of Aldermen Feb. 13 – When completed, the Lumbee are ready to go. Five are on the reservation and Landowners lose timber, outhouses, a farmhouse, adopted a resolution of regret on the passing of River Electric Corp. will serve 2,000 customers the other five are manned by civilians. fences and tobacco seedlings. town policeman A.M. Howell. in four counties. Sept. 18 – A highway guide directing a April 16 – John McFadyen is reported miss- Oct. 10 – Young men ages 21-35 are to register Feb. 20 – L.A. Rivenbank, school mechanic, convoy in downtown Raeford was run over by ing after his boat was torpedoed and went down for selective military service. Hoke draft board was injured in a wreck on Highway 15A near a civilian car. about 200 miles east of New York. The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 9 April 23 – The United Daughters of the Nov. 12 – An article addresses “a colored man Confederacy will not put flags on the graves of who makes it good.” J.C. McLauchlin, son of J.D. Confederate soldiers this year but will instead McLauchlin, worked his way through college in use the money to buy war bonds. New York, taught in a Mississippi college and Luella Harrington turned 100 too April 30 – It is War Bond Pledge Week in eventually became Dean of Agriculture at A&T Luella Har- major league baseball team and when North Carolina. Every home is to be canvassed College in Greensboro. rington has Dr. Mae Jemison became the first female and Hoke’s May quota s $8,000. Nov. 19 – Old silk and nylon hose are needed lived through African-American astronaut in space. May 7 – The A&R depot is to be converted in the production of war materials. into a center for soldiers. Dec. 3 – Lt. (jg) Currie, son of Mr. and Mrs. all of Hoke As a young girl, Harrington worked May 14 – Survey results show that 41 percent D. Scott Currie, is credited with shooting down County’s his- as a field hand and also earned money as of Hoke’s cars are accredited to other counties. three Japanese planes in the Pacific war zone. tory, with a a babysitter and housekeeper. She later May 21 – The names of 310 Hoke men serv- Dec. 10 – Carl Morris, who has been a town month to spare. worked in a fish market, making 25 cents ing in the military are recorded with Selective commissioner since 1931, is chosen to fill out She celebrated a day. She also worked at the Open Arms Service. (The N-J lists all the names.) the unexpired term of G.W. Brown as Raeford’s her 100th birth- nursing home. It was her dream to own May 28 – Vehicles traveling on rationed tires mayor. day February her own home, but because money was obtained through government rationing boards Dec. 17 – Hoke farmers vote to continue 15, just before tight, she purchased one brick block each cannot be used to transfer voters to the polls. cotton marketing quotas. the county joins in celebrating Hoke week until she had enough blocks to build June 4 – In “Timberland News,” Julius Jordan Dec. 24 – The Raeford Fire Company’s 57 County’s own centennial. Harrington has her house. is at home for a two week vacation. He will return members vote to retain Harry Green as chief. to college in Atlanta and expects to graduate in Dec. 31 – Hoke’s cotton crop this year exceeds witnessed the Great Depression, World Harrington is still mentally sharp, active February with a degree in dentistry. last year’s crop by 2,226 bales. War I and World War II, the Korean War and is the oldest member of the Silver Grove June 11 – There is severe hail damage to crops and Vietnam. During her life, she has seen Missionary Baptist Church in Raeford. She in Quewhiffle and Little River townships. Light- America led by 18 different presidents, from gave birth to one daughter, who passed ning strikes the barn of A.N. Clark, destroying 1943 President William Howard Taft in 1909-13 away in 2001. She has eight grandchildren, it and the stock inside. Jan. 6 – David H. Hodgin chairs the Hoke to current president Barack Obama. She 10 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great- June 18 – In “Timberland News,” Arch Tapp polio campaign. was there when Jackie Robinson became grandchildren. planted posts with stock wire stretched from one Jan. 13 – Capt. T.B. Lester is expected to be the first African-American to play on a post to another for his beans to run on. Lightning dismissed from an Army hospital after fracturing struck one of the posts, ran down the wire and a leg bone while on maneuvers at Ft. Bliss, Texas. burned the bean runners. Feb. 4 - With Our Boys in the Service: The June 25 – Lonnie Guin, 41, dies of typhus following Hoke County Boys (white) are inducted fever. at Ft. Bragg Friday, January 29: William M. July 2 - More than 40,000 lbs. of scrap rub- Davis, William H. McBryde, James H. Ferguson, ber are collected in Hoke; 20,000 more sought. Edward H. Taylor, John D. McPhaul, Eugene July 23 – W.C. Lee is having Raeford Café Watson, Paul L. Davis, Raymond L. Clark, remodeled to house a modern café. Wade D. Pittman, Robert Locklear. A number July 30 – Related to the war: Waste fats are of boys reporting that same day are rejected for needed to make explosives; old tires cause a big physical reasons. increase in fatal accidents. Air Raid Warnings for Raeford – Warning Aug. 6 – One volunteer and 30 Hoke draftees Signal: A series of repeated short blasts on the are inducted into the Army; three volunteers fire siren. This will be the warning for an actual enlist in the Navy. raid or for a practice alert. If at night, it means a Aug.13 - Hoke is subject to the May Act, complete and instant blackout. All clear signal: which makes prostitution near Army facilities One long blast of the siren. a federal crime. Feb. 11 - With Our Boys in Service: Lt. (j.g.) Aug. 20 – Hoke Countians are asked to sell Ben Currie is awarded a medal for heroism 400,000 lbs. of scrap in a week. Cotton gins are against the Japanese. collection centers. An excerpt from a letter sent by Lt. Paul Aug. 27 – Sales of beer, ales and rubbing Dickson says, “Col. Lewis mailed me a clip- alcohol are restricted on weekends. ping yesterday about William McFadyen, first Sept. 3 – Eugene Bill of Bill’s Service Station I’d heard about their getting him (and I don’t allegedly shot and killed Johnny Harris when he believe they have). The good men go, it seems refused to leave the premises. Bill was charged … William’s death is the closest (the war) has and was out on bail when Johnny Harris’s fa- come to me. I so well remember his brilliance Luella Harrington as a young lady. ther walked into the station and shot and killed … his cussedness at times and the fact that he Eugene Bill and his mother, Nellie Bill, and his wouldn’t stay put. He undoubtedly would have sister, Estelle Bill Wilson. W. Alec Harris then done something brilliant in a literary way and They shared birthdays with Hoke turned himself in. yet what more can a man attain than the privilege Readers may recognize a relative or Fuller, Graham Bradley Gainey, Etta Sept. 10 – An Army tank crashes through of dying for his country.” more in these records taken from the Hoke Louise Gibson, Albert McArthur Guin, the bridge over a swollen Rockfish Creek. The Feb. 25 - Blackouts are set for this week: New County Register of Deeds Office: Susan McLendon Gulledge, Fred Hadley, load capacity of the bridge is four tons and the air raid signals will be tested. Lorena Belle Andrews, Lacy Bar- Marcellus Hadley, Mary Alice Hagins, Lily tank weighs 28 tons. Three soldiers escape; a March 4 – Raeford Girl Scouts collect excess fourth one drowns. rett Adcox, Amanda Jane Black, Lula Agnes Harrell, Clayton Hendrix, Thelma wire hangers. Jaquetta Blue, Sadie Mae Blue, Monnie Mae Holt, Edward Woodrow Huggins, Sept. 17 – The Kiwanis entertain 150 soldiers March 11 – The Hoke County Farm Bureau with a fish fry completes their permanent organization. N.H.G. Blue, Johnnie C. Brigman, Laurie D. John McDiarmid McNeill, Vinson Walles Sept. 24 – A farm machinery rationing board Balfour is president. Brooks, Harriet Annie Brown, Emma Viv- McNeill, Archibald Floyd McPhaul, Hazel is named for the county. Ryan McBryde is named to the state board ian Collins, Elizabeth Cromartie, Charles McPherson, Harry McRae, Neill Archie Oct. 1 – Three buses full of soldiers crash of education. Angus Currie, Robert Angustus Currie, McRae, Jesse E. Mudd, Blanch Elizabeth together on Hwy. 211 two miles west of Raeford. March 18 – Hoke County Red Cross drive Willie Brown Currie, Lillian Saphrona Musselwhite and Odell Oldham. The wreck causes 17 soldiers to be hurt, none is lagging. Blackout was definitely a success. Faircloth, Wade Hampton Faircloth, Leo seriously. April 8 – Observers at the Sanatorium N.C. Oct. 8 – Eleven are killed and 18 are hurt near Post will be called upon to maintain a 24-hour St. Pauls when a gas tanker explodes and burns watch. Price and Rationing Board. Julian Johnson. The cow was injured. after it strikes a Queen City bus. The truck driver April 15 – The municipal election is quiet. May 6 - Camp Mackall, the country’s first May 20 – The Wartime Rationing Guide said he had swerved to avoid hitting a wagon Only 16 votes are cast. Carl Morris is elected large-scale training post for paratroopers, is announces Stamp No. 12 in War Ration Book 1 filled with cotton. mayor. dedicated to Pvt. John Thomas Mackall, a is good for 5 lbs. of sugar until May 31. Oct. 22 – All farm trucks must be registered. April 22 – Judge Willie Brown McQueen is paratrooper from Ohio. May 26 – Raeford and Hoke County welcome Oct. 29 – Because of a shortage of fertilizer, found dead at age 67. May 13 - Respected colored woman Odessa members of the N.C. State Ginners’ Assoc. especially nitrogen, farmers are urged to plant April 29 - All eating places are required to McMillan is killed by lightning when she went conference. soil restoring crops such as legumes. file menus with the price clerk of the local War after a cow on the McFadyen Farm belonging to June 3 – Canned milk is now rationed. 10 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial June 10– An Army plane crashes near Red wrote he is “doing well.” Springs while on its way to Maxton Air Base. 1944 Feb. 1 – Sgt. Joe Hancock is Twenty-four soldiers die. Jan. 20 – Alex Harris, 48, will die in the gas killed in action in France, and Pvt. June 24 – News of our Men and Women in chamber tomorrow for the January 1943 slaying Raymond E. Zimmerman is a POW Uniform – Mr. and Mrs. D. Scott Currie receive of Mrs. E.A. Bill and her three children. of the Germans. a cablegram from their son, Lt. David Scott Cur- Aug. 17 – Pvt. Howard Lindsay is the victim Feb. 8 – Food Stamps will now rie, stating that he has landed safely overseas. of friendly fire in France. expire in four months. July 1 – 450 residents, colored and white, Aug. 24 – Dundarrach’s Donald McRacken Feb. 15 – Sailor Horace Williams attend canning classes following a food conser- is killed in action in France. is missing in action. vation workshop. Capt. J.W. Barbour is badly wounded in the Mrs. H.A. Cameron is named A group of 30 Negroes are sent to Ft. Bragg South Pacific. His brother Stewart G. Barbour chairman of the local Red Cross drive. for induction. has been a POW of the Japanese since Wake Feb. 22 – Hoke Polio Fund doubles A public cannery is operating at Hoke High. Island was overrun. quota. July 15 – James Gordon Currie is promoted Aug. 31 – Safety training classes are given March 1 – Lt. Eldred Helton, previ- to major at the age of 24, possibly making him at Edinburgh Mills. ously MIA, is reported to be a POW the youngest major in the Army. Sept. 7 –A ban on children assemblage is of the Germans. July 22 - The Work or Fight Committee lifted, allowing Hoke’s youth to go to school. The March 8 – Upchurch Milling Co. assigns W.R. Barrington as special war officer ban was in effect because of a polio outbreak. will buy surplus eggs from farmers. for Hoke. Sept. 14 – Several people are hurt, none seri- March 15 – The Allies dropped July 29 – Heavy rain and hail damage crops ously, when an Aberdeen and Rockfish motor … liquid fire on Tokyo Saturday and in East Hoke. bus crashed into the rear end of a parked troop it was left a flaming intern. I suppose Aug. 5 – The Hoke budget for the upcoming train in Raeford. some folks might term that given them year is set at $126,560.25. Cpl. Raynor C. Hair, formerly listed as miss- what they deserve. -Poole’s Medley, Aug. 12 – Hoke County whites and Indians ing in action, was killed in France. D. Scott Poole are given pre-induction exams at Ft. Bragg: Sept. 21 – The tire situation is acute in Hoke. March 29 – Hoke Parents-Teachers James Locklear, James W. Dickerson, Julius Tires are rationed. Assoc. collects clothing for distribu- Alex Brigman, Daniel Festus Tally Jr., Edward Sept. 28 - Raeford native Dr. Archibald tion overseas. Sorrell Smith, James Jones, Alton Rosser Holder, Alexander McFadyen, medical missionary to April 5 – PFC Lonnie Teal, 21, is Foster Ammons and Arthur Richard Skipper. missing in action in Europe. Lewis and Tommy Upchurch ready to go to China, dies suddenly at age 67. church. Sept. 9 – Third war loan drive – for invasion Oct. 15 – Pvt. Eugene Johnson dies in combat The Rockfish swimming hole is starts. “It’s up to us now.” – editorial on the in Germany. given to the county. front page. April 12 – Marine PFC Albert Oct. 26 – Club women approve plans for a Army Air Base. Sept. 16 – Hoke citizens purchase $59,450 in youth center in Raeford. Smoak is killed at Iwo Jima. war bonds during first 6 and _ days, 26 percent April 19 – PFC J. Lonnie Teal Jr. is killed in Sept. 6 – Flora Macdonald College begins Nov. 2 – “When Ft. Bragg took 90,000 acres of its 50th year. of war loan quota. land out of Hoke’s taxables, it reduced the taxable action in Germany. Sept. 23 – Hoke falls behind in its drive April 26 – War Bonds and Stamps sold by Sept. 12 – Mrs. Bill Wright is rushed to hos- property some $3 million, it has been estimated, pital after accidently eating a rat biscuit, thinking toward $209,000 third war loan quota – as did and all through that property sand-clay roads had Hoke children help buy a trainer plane for the most of the country. U.S. Army Air Force. it was a war-rationed treat. been built, and at the county’s expense. Most of Sept. 19 – SSgt. Howard Pope, a POW of the For the first time since sugar rationing cut the citizens found homes in other counties so May 3 – Clarence P. Kinlaw receives a medi- off the bootleggers supply of a vital ingredient cal discharge from the Navy and is back in the Japanese since 1942, is liberated. the population was less. The county was a small Oct. 4 – There is some question about who of stump-hole whiskey, county officers raid two one to start with, but Ft. Bragg may be a refuge, jewelry business. large blind tiger stills located in an isolated area May 10 – Mrs. P.P. McCain, 52, of Sanato- was the first mayor of this town, but George a ‘high tower’ for all of us some day.” – Poole’s Edgerton was the first mayor of Raeford. He of Quewhiffle Creek. A white man and a Negro Medley, D. Scott Poole rium, is chosen 1945 North Carolina Mother are charged. It is believed the ‘shine was sold to of the year. was a mule dealer. He left Raeford in 1905 soon Nov. 9 – A record voter turnout in Hoke goes after I arrived, but I did not run him off. – Poole’s soldiers for both money and sugar. 11-1 for President Roosevelt. May 17 – Hoke Concrete Co. receives a Sept. 30 - Hoke High, hit by wartime con- war permit to install new equipment, can make Medley, D. Scott Poole. Nov. 16 – Frank Wright, Negro, is sentenced Harvey Warlick and Zeb McDaniel open a ditions, opens with 122 less students than the to 20 years for burning a barn. 12,000 concrete blocks per day. year before. May 24 – Pilot Lt. Eldred Helton, U.S. Army farm supply store here. Willie McVicker, white, is given a two-year Oct. 18 – The war fund drive is doing poorly; Oct. 7 – The county goes 12 percent over suspended sentence and three years probation for Air Force, has been liberated from a German bond quota at $233,000. POW camp, his family learned. only 30% of quota is reached. assault with a pistol on Jack McKenzie. Oct. 25 – Sheriff James Story of Guilford Oct. 14 – It is reported 230,000 Tar Heels are Nov. 23 – Sam and Spec Morris are promoted Belk-Hensdale will open a store in Raeford serving in the Armed Forces. June 1. County is accidently shot in the head and chest to 1st lieutenants. by buckshot and died while deer hunting here. Oct. 21 – Brownie, the pooch who served as Nov. 30 – 531 school children, participating May 31 – Three “little stills” get three “little Camp Mackall service club mascot, is lost in fines.” Nov. 8 – Neill McFadyen doubles his corn in a contest, pick 697,341 pounds of cotton. yield by changing seed; North Carolina State Raeford, having gone AWOL. Winners are Mildousin white, Macedonia Indian PFC Clinton C. Hall has been liberated from Oct. 28 – A New Jersey soldier praises the a Nazi POW camp. College supplied the new seed, Hybrid Ten- and Burlington Negro schools. Cash prizes are nessee Ten. hospitality of Raeford and the USO here. awarded. June 7 – N.L. McFadyen is sworn in as Nov. 4 - Cotton ginning in Hoke increases; Raeford’s mayor. Nov. 15 – An editorial urges residents continue Dec. 14 – In this present war, no other county to find room in their homes for soldiers and their 10,061 bales are reported this year. in the state has a larger percentage of commis- June 14 – A War Bond rally is planned with Nov. 11 – Hoke County has almost 700 boys Group Army Personnel to present a “great families as they did during the war. sioned officers than Hoke. - Poole’s Medley, D. Nov. 22 – Fire destroys the cotton seed house in the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Scott Poole program.” Nov. 18 – The Army asks for maneuver rights June 21 – Cotton is blooming early this year. at Oakdale Gin. Firefighters are credited with Dec. 21 – Ardis E. Graham, Negro, is killed saving the gin. in Quewhiffle Township. in action in France. June 28 – Relatives learn that Capt. W. Mark Nov. 25 – A glider crash at Camp Mackall Currie was lost when a Japanese ship was torpe- Nov. 29 – Construction of a new colored kills four, injures 14 during training. doed by an Allied submarine this past October. school is to begin soon. The concrete block Dec. 2 – Ground-air maneuvers call for July 12 - There seems to be no letup of troop building will replace Upchurch High. blackouts in rural towns of this area Dec. 6 and 1945 movement by the A&R Railway. They go both Dec. 4 – More than half of Hoke’s young 7. A test blackout is held. Jan. 4 – Pilot Lt. Eldred Helton, U.S. Army ways, - Poole’s Medley men drafted for military service were rejected. Dec. 9 – Hoke Red Cross unit makes 150 Air Force, has been missing from air action over July 26 – Lt. Paul McCain Jr. is declared dead Commissioners held a stormy session, dis- gift boxes for soldiers in camp hospitals for Germany since Dec. 17. His brother, Lt. Lawrence by the War Dept. He was lost in the Straits of agreeing on which roads should have priority Christmas. Helton, also a pilot, was killed June 1 while on Dover July 8, 1944. for resurfacing. N.A. Balfour resigned from the Dec. 16 – The governor submits plans for the a training mission in Arkansas. Aug. 9 – Editorial: Sterilization is the best board because Raeford-Rockfish was not given consolidation of Negro schools. Jan. 11 – PFC Clinton “Jack” Hall and cure for mental illness, prevents mental defectives first priority. Dec. 23 – Alex Harris, killer of three members SSgt. Daniel E. Chason are missing in action in from producing more like themselves. Dec. 20 – There were 7749 bales of cotton of the Bill family Aug. 27, is to die in the gas Germany, and Sgt. Henry E. Deaton is killed in Aug. 16 – Sailor Horace Williams is now ginned in Hoke County from the crop of 1945 chamber Jan. 28. action in France. listed as killed in action. prior to Dec. 1 compared to 14,976 bales ginned Dec. 30 – News of our Men and Women in Jan. 18 – Ft. Bragg has a seaplane base at Gasoline and fuel oil released from rationing. prior to Dec. 1, 1944. Uniform: Edwin McDuffie is wounded in action Mott Lake. Aug.23 – Edinburgh Mills is to make peace- Dec. 27 – Sugar rationing will continue. in Italy but expected to return to duty. A Hoke family hears from their son, who is time materials now. a POW in Japan; SSgt. Stewart Gordon Barbour Training is suspended at Laurinburg-Maxton The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 11 purchases the Bluemont Beauty Shop from Mrs. 1946 Harry Green. Jan. 3 – A pound jar of peanut butter sells Aug. 8 – The War Dept. announces that Camp for 30 cents at Pender Quality Food Store. You Mackall will continue as a subpost of Ft. Bragg. could also buy two lettuce heads for 23 cents, a Aug. 15 –Upchurch Milling and Storage Co. 16-count box of tea bags for 11 cents or a cake is completely destroyed by fire early Monday of Lux toilet soap for seven cents. morning. The alarm sounded at 6:30 a.m. but by Jan. 10 – Joint funeral services are held for a this time the fire was out of control. Firefighters mother and daughter. Sarah Catherine Holt, 86, prevent flames from spreading to the ice and and her daughter, Mrs. Rufus Sanders, 54, died emergency power plant in the rear of the build- at the same time, Holt in Raeford and Sanders ing behind the fire wall. It is believed the fire in Fayetteville. started by spontaneous combustion. Damage is Mules are involved in two wrecks. A mule estimated at $75,000 to $100,000. dies when the wagon it was pulling is hit from Aug. 22 – Sugar is still scarce and homemak- behind by a car. A runaway mule pulling a wagon ers are warned to treat it as if it were gold dust. causes two cars to collide and one hit the wagon, Aug. 29 – Veterans who wish to apply for slightly injuring the mule. the money they have coming under the recently Jan. 17 – Full page ad for clothes’ drive: passed bill authorizing terminal leave pay for NEEDED for the naked, ragged and destitute enlisted men may obtain blanks and assistance surviving victims of the war-torn allied countries in filling them out at the sheriff’s office. Marion of Europe Maxwell is doing this free of charge, and Clara Feb. 7 – The county will rebuild a baseball Mae Gibson at Hoke Auto Co. will notarize park at the Armory; Ellis Williamson American them for free. Legion Post will lease it. Sept. 5 – Hoke’s 750 white veterans are Feb. 14 - The Solid Fuels Administration invited to dinner and to “the biggest postwar declares Hoke as one of the areas in which the Clarence P. Kinlaw took a leave of absence from the jewelry business to rally” sponsored by Ellis Williamson American coal shortage has become an emergency. A serve in World War II. Here, he is shown in his store in the late 1930s or Legion Post #20. supply is to be shipped here. Striking miners early 1940s. Sept. 19 – Lt. Tom McLauchlin is seriously are blamed for the shortage. injured in an accident near Camp Polk, Louisiana, Feb. 21 – Quail restocking has taken place where he is stationed. His injuries consist of a since the hunting season ended. Hoke has had broken jawbone, teeth knocked out and skull on David Hendrix, and to a considerable extent. into North Carolina from an area where infantile injuries. His mother, Mrs. H.C. McLauchlin, seven prosecutions for illegal hunting. April 25 - Miss Jane Pratt of Raeford is chosen paralysis is present in epidemic form will be Feb. 28 – The Lumbee River Electric Coop- reports he is conscious and has passed the crisis. to serve the remainder of the unexpired term of quarantined immediately, the State Board of Sept. 26 – A Ft. Bragg soldier is shot and in erative is adding 230 miles of lines. Most of the 8th District Congressman William O. Burgin, Health announces. new customers have been waiting for power since serious condition at Bill’s Roadhouse and Service who died. She is the first woman Congressman Fort Bragg is now under the command of Station. No charges yet. 1940-41 when the war stopped all construction. in North Carolina. the 4th Army. March 7 – George W. Russell, 25, who had Oct. 3– Bill Wright is under a $500 continu- May 2 – School News by K.A. MacDonald: June 20 – The government authorizes the ous bond following the shooting of a Ft. Bragg recently been discharged from the Navy, dies in a Ashemont School presented the operetta, “A Day purchase of supplies to build a new freezer one-car crash at Rockfish Bridge on Hwy. 15-A. soldier at his place of business, Bill’s. The soldier in Flowerdom.” The children played to a well- locker plant here. Construction is to begin within is said to be recovering. March 14 –Hoke’s tobacco allocation this filled auditorium and all enjoyed it thoroughly. 10 days. year is 4,454 acres. Nov. 7 – Hoke has a heavy voter turnout May 9 – Newspaper filler: If you want more June 27 – Carolina Power & Light lines are considering it was an off-year. March 21 – State Highway Patrolmen inspect soap, keep turning in more used fats. going up at a rate of 15 miles per month. 21 buses of Hoke Schools and find them generally Nov. 14 – The goal of $30,000 to build a new May 16 – The Rural Electrification puts in July 4 – The county is to have a fire warden. Raeford Baptist Church is nearer after a fund to be in good condition. 2,135 miles of new power lines in Hoke. July 11 – Editorial: We’re Nice Folks: Did March 28 – Merchants announce Wednesday drive raises $4,000. The Timberland Post Office is to be closed it ever occur to you that the United States never Nov. 21 – A record corn crop is expected for afternoon closing: Bank of Raeford, McLauchlin and mail will be delivered from the Raeford invaded any Country? And we rarely ever forced Co., Baucom Appliance Co., Raeford Dry Clean- North Carolina. post office. any of the Nations in Latin America to behave Nov. 28 – Dr. Paul P. McCain, president of ers, Home Food Market, City Grocery, Raeford May 30 – On the third day of April, 1911, – not even Mexico when it rampaged. Great, Grocery and Raeford Hardware Co. all TB hospitals in North Carolina, is killed in a the new county of Hoke began functioning. It big-hearted old Uncle Sam has engaged in wars Raleigh car wreck. He was the foremost author- April 4 - Miss Sally Ray had a serious fall was a very windy day, the wind strong from the this century to help out people who have been yesterday, suffering a fracture of the shoulder. ity on TB, and McCain, formerly Sanatorium, south, but several thousand people assembled. attacked by human devils. is named after him at a later date. Services were She fell down the steps at the grocery store of There was a big picnic dinner on tables on the July 25 – A 17-year-old highway employee J.E. Conoly and Son at about 10:30 yesterday held at Sanatorium. school campus and several trenches full of BBQ dies at the intersection of Duffie and Molatto Dec. 5 – N.H.G. Balfour, outgoing commis- morning. She is a patient at Highsmith Hospital beef and pork down in the pines near where the roads when he is thrown from a truck. Lerew in Fayetteville. sioner chair, is honored by the county. F. Knox grammar school is now. - Poole’s Medley Cain’s skull is crushed when the truck’s steering Watson succeeds him as chair. April 11 – Last night there was a cutting in June 6 – Diplomas are awarded to 34 at gear malfunctions and the vehicle hits a power the town of Raeford and, of all places, in the Dec. 13 – Raeford Elementary will present Hoke High. pole guy wire. an operetta, “The Guiding Star,” for the PTA. Bank of Raeford. David Chason used a knife June 13 – All persons under 16 who come Aug. 1 – Mrs. Katie McBryde McPhaul Happy Congratulations Hoke County! th 8025 Turnpike Road P.O. Box 2077 100 Raeford, NC 910-875-4154 Birthday Dr. Barry O. Shoffner, Pastor International Textile Group Hoke 100 Turnpike Road Raeford, NC 28376 Fax: (910) 904-1942 Buffalo Springs County! www.itg-global.com Missionary Baptist Church 12 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Dec. 19 – Kiwanis pays tribute to the late Dr. McCain, a Kiwanian who exemplified the motto, “We build.” A walk through the Raeford of my youth Dec. 24 – The folks at Montrose have a dinner to bid farewell to Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell and Mr. By John Kelly Sr. past Hoke High School through a section of returned along the same track. The tracks and Mrs. Fred Riley. The town of Raeford began as a com- woods to the street which passed in front of and capsules created a staccato beat as the munity on the southern edge of Cumberland the theater owner’s home and on to school. I system ran throughout the store. A thudding County where a general store and a gristmill recall that the McIntyre and Scurlock homes sound was produced which sounded much 1947 were located. The larger Raeford community were the two buildings being constructed like cars running over the expansion joints Jan. 2 – Raeford Drug Co. changes heads was formed during the waning days of the entirely of cinder blocks. in highways when the capsule dropped into again when Tom Cameron and William Howell nineteenth century. It is the county seat of Mr. Alexander operated the local A and place on its buy the business from Mitchell Epstein, who had Hoke County, created in 1911 from portions P (Atlantic and Pacific Tea) Store. The A and return. There owned the business for about 90 days. Epstein of Robeson and Cumberland counties. The P chain now exists as Super Fresh Stores. are historic bought it from G.W. Hutchinson, who bought it growth of the area required a more centrally There were two grocers located on the North sites where from L.E. Reaves. Jan. 9 – Rep. Jane Pratt, first woman in Con- located seat of government rather than hav- side of Main Street between Baucom’s and this kind of gress, 8th District, ends her career when C.B. ing to travel to Lumbertton and Fayetteville. the Hotel. Progressive was one of the two system can Deane is sworn in. She was elected last year to The economy of the area was based on and we shopped there on occasion. still be found, fill in for W.O. Burgin, who died while in office. cotton production and supplying the needs The Raeford doctors were special friends, but most have She had served as secretary to him and to three of farmers who were engaged in cotton beyond the medical care they provided. Dr. b e e n r e - congressmen from the district. growing activities. The town is served by O’Briant checked out books from the library placed with Jan. 16 – Belk-Hensdale starts their pre- two major roads, U.S. Route 401 (0ld 15-A), for me as blacks were barred from using the an advanced inventory sale. Men’s all-leather boots are $4.98. a major north-south route, and State Route facility. Dr Smith, the local dentist, allowed generation of Jan. 23 – Archie Lee Wall joined his wife in 211. The route of the Aberdeen and Rockfish our family to come to his office for dental cash register. death after their Jan. 13 wreck. She died a few Railroad passes through Raeford while run- care long before blacks regularly sought W e hours after he drove their car into the path of an oncoming truck. ning from Aberdeen to Fayetteville, and the dental care. shopped at Jan. 30 – W.R. Barrington, 56, former com- Laurinburg and Southern Railroad, which Theater attendance was a part of my Home Food missioner, U.S. commissioner, Hoke deputy, extended its line from Wagram to a terminal weekly routine as we climbed to the balcony Market (John Raeford chief of police, and justice of the peace, in Raeford. assigned to blacks for movie viewing. There K. McNeill); dies after an extended illness. Most of the business activity took place was a second set of stairs to the balcony on the many folks Feb. 6 – The Cabin Service Station, owned by along Main Street with other establish- east side of the building. I was told that it was A young John C. Kelly s h o p p e d C.J. Connell, was gutted by flames that started ments located to the North and South of for Native Americans, but I don’t remember there because from an oil fire inside the building. The store Main Street, or along the routes into or out ever seeing them in the balcony. The usual fee he would “carry you on his books.” This stock was a total loss of town. Fertilizer and farm implement for attending was ten cents. There was a candy created a considerable overhead for manage- Feb. 13 – The Lumbee River Rural Electric establishments were usually a part of one of and novelty store housed in a streetcar-like ment, as some customers never paid their Co-op plans to spend $40,000 to build a ware- house and office here. the hardware or farmers’ supply activities. building on the lot near the theater. bills. They were either unable to pay or Feb. 20 – Rep. C.B. Deane gives his first The Cotton Mill, Upchurch Milling Com- Graham’s Gulf Station across from Blue- elected not to pay. Management seemed to speech before Congress. He says the health pany, and Hoke Oil and Fertilizer Company mont Hotel was a favorite place to visit. Each have been philosophical about the problems of young people has reached a new low and were the major commercial enterprises. week they gave away free comic strips. We created for the store’s balance sheet. attributed this to a lack of health and hospital A cotton-loading platform was located also turned in soda bottles for either a penny There was a huge sawdust pile on the facilities. He calls for more federal aid to same. between Upchurch Milling Company and or a nickel depending on the size. The State right side of Route 211 east leaving Raeford Feb. 27 – Raeford graded and high school the railroad tracks. Lester’s Dairy, Morris Highway Patrolman usually parked his car going toward Red Springs. We passed this teachers agree to dress windows in downtown Livery Stable, and the Lumberyard were on the street in a space in front of the service pile each time we left our home and headed Raeford to advertise the American Red Cross. east of town. station. Elk Restaurant was located next to uptown to the business district. We must The annual Red Cross drive has just begun. I have memories of my trips to town: the the service station across from the hotel. have made some comment about the pile, March 6 – Freddy Kilowatt says “kite flyers are always safety wise. They stay clear of ‘lectric statues of the deer atop the Gulf Oil service There was a machine/repair shop located which suggested to our father that we might wires, and fly in open skies.” station, the Bluemont Hotel where the bus to the rear-side of the service station near like to climb it. We were admonished never March 13 – The Johnson Co. begins operation station was located, Rose’s 5 and 10 cent the railroad tracks. The operator of the shop to climb a sawdust pile lest we risk being of a seed cleaning plant located across from the store, the theater, and a host of grocery and was also connected to the funeral business trapped beneath the sawdust in an area where gin in Oakdale one mile southeast of Raeford. hardware stores. There was an establishment in Raeford. I think he worked with the Buie a fire was burning. The plant cleans, de-lints and treats cotton seed. which always had its windows covered by Funeral establishment in some capacity. We were told that fires were sometimes March 20 – Dr. H.S. Willis is to succeed green shades. I was told that it was a funeral When the alligator in Upchurch’s pond was set to these piles but were smothered by the Dr. P.P. McCain, who was killed in an accident parlor. I visited the post office, located in the killed, it was brought to this shop. I don’t addition of more sawdust atop the burning in Raleigh Nov. 5, as superintendent of the TB Bank Building, on a regular basis; visits to recall why he was brought to this location. mass. This created what appeared as a solid Sanatorium in west Hoke. the bank were less frequent. Lundy’s Shoe We shopped at Israel Mann for shoes mass of sawdust, but burning from the inside March 27 – Virginia Wilson, extension specialist in food and nutrition, is going to show Repair Shop and the Newspaper office were and dress suits and Baucom’s Cash Store created a hollow cone, which might collapse homemakers how to make yeast breads. on Elwood Avenue, around the corner from for our school clothing. Our first electric when weight was added to the surface. This April 3 – A gambling game of “skin” causing Miss Lizzie Nivens’ Millinery. Dr Mathe- refrigerator, a Frigidaire, came from was enough warning as we passed the pile an argument ends abruptly when LeRoy Shaw is son’s office was the medical facility that my Baucom’s Cash Store. I enjoyed visiting but never climbed it. shot to death. Robert Smith is being held. family visited during the early years. I knew Baucoms for it utilized a mechanical device The Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad April 10 – The Lumbee River REA is autho- where Dr. Brown’s office was located, but no other store used. There may have been passed about one hundred yards from our rized to provide electrical service to 830 families. I never visited it. I was always impressed a similar system in McLauchlin Company house on a route to Fayetteville and then The cooperative currently serves 2,000 members. with the size of McLauchlin Company; it Store, I never visited enough to be certain, to Fort Bragg. The railroad operated two April 17 – The News-Journal publishes baby appeared to cover an entire block. It was a but I don’t think they utilized this kind of trains and a jitney daily except Sunday. photos of nine graduating seniors. One is Luke grocery store, a hardware store, a clothing system. The device used a unique method The trains hauled freight while the jitney McNeill. April 24 – W.L. “Will” Tugwell, formerly of store, and a supplier of other items needed of collecting payment and returning the carried mail and passengers. We knew the Raeford, dies when his tow truck and the car he by a farming family. The hardware store customer’s receipt and change. The office trains and jitney were approaching as they was towing struck an oil rig and burns in Virginia. between Home Food Market and the Rexall was located toward the rear of the store and always tooted a whistle at a crossing about He operated an automobile service here. Drug Store was torn down after I came to all transactions were sent to the office in cap- a mile from our house. (The crossing is near May 1 – A fountain at the TB Sanatorium is Raeford in 1936. sules attached to metal spring-like tracks to the cemetery where Rufus and Mary Kelly dedicated to the memory of Dr. P.P. McCain Sr., The route taken as we walked to school be finalized. These tracks ran continuously are buried.) The Laurinburg and Southern head of the TB hospital system who was killed took us up Main Street, past the Log Cabin from each department to the office. Change is a second rail line which reached Raeford in a car wreck last year, and to his son Lt. P.P. service station and the Presbyterian church, and receipts were placed in the capsule and by a more easterly route. McCain Jr., who was killed in action while in the Army Air Force during the war. The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 13 May 8 - The Rev. Bailey Heyward is the new gave the baby’s body to a cousin and told him to under a $500 bond but put back in jail pending under bond following the coroner’s inquest into minister at Raeford Presbyterian Church and bury it in the church cemetery. The cousin was the outcome of a coroner’s inquest. McKay’s death. preached his first sermon last Sunday. afraid to go in the cemetery at night so he dug a March 11 - Nathaniel Leslie, 45, dies after The district semi-pro baseball tournament May 15 – The semi-pro baseball league begins hole in the ground in the woods and placed the allegedly being shot by his brother-in-law, Luke starts at the Raeford Armory ball park. the Peach Belt playoffs. In the league are Raeford, baby in it. The man who later found the child Thomas, at Leslie’s home. Coroner W.L. Roper July 8 - Moore-Hoke County health officer Dr. Southern Pines, Hamlet, Laurinburg, Aberdeen thought liquor was being buried and went dig- sets Thomas’ bond at $2,000. J.W. Willcox reports there have been no cases of and Bennettsville. ging come daylight. March 18 - A Raeford man dies and seven polio in Hoke County despite a recent outbreak May 26 – Hoke High graduates 47 seniors. Nov. 13 – Rockfish School is undergoing a others are injured in a car accident in Fayetteville. of the disease in Moore County. Speaker at ceremony is Rep. Charles B. Deanne. mumps epidemic. Fifty-two absences are blamed Donald Newton reportedly dies instantly when July 15 - Dr. H. Hodgins, chairman of the Elizabeth Parker was valedictorian. on the disease. his car collides with a Greyhound bus, while the Hoke County chapter of the National Founda- June 5 – W.L. Poole is sworn in as the new Nov. 20 – A large industry that flourished in seven passengers in Newton’s car sustain injuries tion for Infantile Paralysis, calls a meeting of mayor. Hoke is brought to an abrupt halt. The business of varying seriousness. concerned residents discussing a polio epidemic June 12 – That’s Rich column has this: “Saw had two 500 gallon vats for manufacturing and March 25 - A possibly rabid dog enters the in North Carolina. a sign on a truck: Old Rose Distributing Co. But thirty-six 300 gallon storage vats. The 24/7 dry goods store of Israel Mann and is shot by July 22 - Hoke County men between the surely they don’t have that much call for old roses.” operation churned out 350-500 gallons of liquor Chief of Police H.M. Meeks. ages of 18-25 are ordered by President Truman June 19 – James C. Lentz just finished mor- per day until Sheriff D.H. Hodgin put a stop to it. April 1 - The American Wringer Co. signs to register for the draft. tician’s school and is taking over McDiarmid Nov. 27 – Ten men are indicted for operat- a contract with the Hoke County Development Hail, rain and strong wind destroy or dam- Funeral Home. He will operate under the name ing the gigantic illicit distillery published in last Corp. agreeing to build a rubber thread plant age many farmers’ crops and outbuildings in James C. Lentz Mortuary. week’s issue. in Raeford. Hoke County. June 26 – Eight gamblers find themselves in Dec. 4 – Staff Sgt. Daniel E. Chason is given April 8 - A dozen candidates file to run for July 29 -The county health board passes Recorders Court. Found guilty, they were each a hero’s burial in Lumber Bridge. He was killed office in Hoke County, seeking to fill a number a Polio Ordinance prohibiting children from ordered to pay court costs and $5 except the man in action in Belgium on December 1, 1944. of positions including five seats on the county participating in any kind of congregation or on whose premises the gambling took place was Sanatorium Post Office is to be renamed Mc- commission board. gathering in an effort to stop the disease from charged $10. Cain after Dr. P.P. McCain Sr., who was killed in April 15 - Judge McDiarmid finds Fred Ty- spreading. F.C. McPhaul Jr., 5, is taken to Duke July 17 – A night prowler found himself fined a car wreck a year ago. Dr. McCain was super- son and Herbert Parks guilty of assaulting each hospital with Hoke County’s third confirmed and given a suspended sentence and another man intendent of all TB hospitals in North Carolina. other with deadly weapons during a knife fight. case of polio in the 1948 outbreak. was fined and sentenced for breaking prohibi- Dec. 11 – Hoke farmers are told that cotton Tyson and Parks are sentenced “to the road” for Aug. 5 - Doctors report a drop in the number tion laws. is the most logical cash crop to help them make six months, sentence suspended on payment of of daily reported cases of polio, renewing hope July 24 – Twin State Warehouse in Fairmont up some of the $645,000 loss farmers will suf- costs and each other’s medical expenses. that the state’s worst polio epidemic is beginning advises farmers to sell their tobacco early for fer from the 28% reduction in 1948 flue-cured April 22 - The Hoke Cotton Harvesting Corp. to decline. the best prices. tobacco acreage allotments. buys the county’s first home owned and operated Aug. 12 - Bobby Zackery, 19 months, son of Aug. 14 – The body of Rephew Shaw is found Dec. 18 – The American Wringer Co. of cotton picker. Owners J.L. Warner, J.A. Roper, Sgt. and Mrs. R.D. Zackery, is the first Raeford on Highway 15A, and an autopsy showed his heart Rhode Island will open a plant here if there is A.R. Currie and Hallie Blythe hope to use the child diagnosed with polio in 1948. Violations had burst and he had probably been run over by community support. machine to assist other farmers in harvesting of the Polio Ordinance result in a fine of $50 or an auto. No other clues were found. Dec. 25 – The Raeford Kiwanians eat lightly their crops. 30 days in jail. Schools are set to open Sept. 9 if Aug. 22 – Judge Chester Morris sentences at their regular meeting and use the money saved April 29 - About 1,800 paratroopers with the epidemic permits. Robert Hamilton to 24 years in the state pen for ($60) for CARE to feed people in war-scarred the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Aug. 19 - Welders Lory Long, 28, and Lacy shooting his wife at their home on June 13. He Europe. Army stage the world’s largest peacetime para- David Pearce, 25, are burned by steam in a boiler pled guilty to second degree murder. chute jump over the Fort Bragg reservation. One room accident at the Hoke Oil and Fertilizer Aug. 29 – The cemetery is a disgrace, and paratrooper is reportedly sideswiped in the air by Co. They are later discharged from the hospital graves are overgrown with grass and weeds. 1948 a cargo parachute while another trooper’s main after recovering. Sept. 4 - Cotton is being harvested, and gins Jan 1. - The town commissioners accept police parachute fails to open, but both men escape Aug. 26 - Judge Q.K. Nimocks decides to are starting operations. chief W.J. McQuage’s resignation and appoint without injury. allow a special Saturday vote on the sale of beer Sept. 11 – Irish potatoes were not a good Officer H.M. Meeks chief of police. May 6 - The Raeford Rebels baseball team and wine in Hoke County. crop this year but sweet potatoes are doing fine. Jan. 8 - About 50 people attend a meeting at takes on the Southern Pines team in the first game R.B. Lewis is elected president of the Cham- Sept. 18 – Mr. and Mrs. Paul (Grace Jones) the Raeford Chamber of Commerce, forming played under the donation-funded Armory Park ber of Commerce. Sides announce the birthday of a daughter. Mr. a proposed corporation contracting with the baseball field’s new lights. Sept. 2 - Hoke County boards of education and Mrs. Talmadge (Audrey Cothran) Bobbit American Wringer Co. The board of directors May 20 - Hoke County resident John Henry and health lift the ban on gatherings that went have a new son. names the new business the Hoke County De- Plummer Jr., 33, is killed by a lightning strike into effect July 27 due to the polio epidemic, Sept. 25 – Recorder’s Court has a busy day velopment Corp. on his farm near Timberland. allowing schools to open on Sept. 15. with 24 cases dealing with liquor, cars, bad Jan. 15 - Troy Whitehead of the White-Tex May 27 - Citizens circulate a petition sup- Hoke County voters choose to outlaw the checks, cussing and fighting. cotton mill announces plans to double the plant’s porting a vote on whether to allow beer and wine legal sale of beer and wine in the county’s special Oct. 2– Southern cotton farmers had $12 mil- size. The mill plans to employ up to 300 workers. sales in Hoke County, with petitioners hoping to Saturday poll. lion in losses in 1945-46 and are urged to prevent Jan. 22 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club calls on stop the sale of beer. Sept. 9 - Game wardens catch four men hunt- fires beginning in the fields. Rocks, metal, and the county Board of Commissioners to reconsider June 3 - J. Fulford McMillan, W. Marshall ing in closed season and without license during matches can cause fires once they are in the gin. allowing Moore County access to Hoke County’s Thomas, John William Smith and Julian H. a crackdown on game violators. Oct. 9 – State troopers were kept busy yester- hospital and clinic help funds. Wright are elected to the county Board of Com- Sept. 16- Representatives from the Carolina day with four accidents in one day, one resulting Jan. 29 - The Ellis Williamson American missioners, while incumbent F. Knox Watson Telephone Co. urge local subscribers to report in a fatality. A Brooklyn man had stopped to Legion post and the Hoke County High School retains his seat. service outages in response to a letter of complaint fix a flat tire and was getting a spare out of his Key Club join forces to raise about $8,000 in June 10 - The Raeford Garden Club presents a written by the Raeford Chamber of Commerce. trunk when he was struck from behind. He died funding for lighting at the local ball park. community performance of “Fun For You” at the Sept. 23 - Willie J. McPhaul is charged with two days later. Feb. 5 - Lumbee River Electric Membership Hoke County High School auditorium, including allegedly killing Jesse Jackson in Blue Springs Oct. 16 – Three layday hunters were fined Corp. announces its construction program bring- impersonations and door prizes. township and held without bond as law enforce- and had their licenses revoked for hunting and ing electricity to more of the county will move June 17 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club spon- ment officers interview witnesses and seek a bagging three deer. faster thanks to quicker shipments of conductors sors a project to dust Hoke County with DDT to motive for the shooting. Oct. 23 – James Bledsoe, 33, who says he is and transformers. The cooperative serves more control flies, mosquitoes and other pests. Duster Sept. 30 - The Hoke County High School a vampire is charged with assault with a deadly than 3,000 customers. airplane operator Clyde Christopher advises Bucks football team takes on Rowland High in weapon with intent to kill (there is no arrest term Feb. 12 - Fuel is scarce in Hoke County after residents to leave their windows and doors open the first night time football game ever played for being a vampire). He is alleged to have slashed much of the state receives heavy snowfall. during dusting. in Raeford. two men with a pocket knife and then drinking Feb. 19 - The Boy Scouts and North Carolina June 24 - Coroner W.L. Roper and a jury hold Oct. 7 - A Charlotte firm takes on construc- their blood. Lemire Locklear had 75 stitches to Council of Churches collect more than 2,000 lbs. an inquest into the death of Evaline McKay, 22, tion of an office and warehouse building for the close his wounds, and James Cobb had 51. of clothing for the Church World Service Center. who was found dead in a field nine miles north Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp. near Oct. 30 – It’s a long way from the cotton fields, Feb. 26 - Richard McPhatter allegedly shoots of Raeford. Robert Woodcox, Zenios Hanes and Red Springs. but Hoke Congressman C.B. Deane says there South Carolina native Leo Steele twice in the Thomas Tate and wife were arrested and held in Oct. 14 - Seven Hoke County men are drafted are jobs available at the U.S. Atomic Energy abdomen with a .45-caliber automatic pistol connection with the case. into the U.S. Army by the Selective Service Commission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. following a reported disagreement. Steele is hos- July 1 - Law enforcement officials report board. They are the first in the county to be Nov. 6 - The body of an infant is found buried pitalized while McPhatter is held without bond. that Florence Tate confessed to killing Evaline called under the new draft law, which includes in the woods on Turnpike Road near Mountain March 4 - Leo Steele dies at a Fayetteville McKay, 22, with a knife over a domestic dispute. all men between the ages of 19 and 25 who are Grove Church. The story unfolds like this: A hospital from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted Tate’s husband, Thomas Tate, along with Rob- not veterans and unmarried. woman gave birth to a stillborn one night and by Richard McPhatter. McPhatter is released ert Woodcox and Zenios Hanes are also held Oct. 21 - Town employee Marion Blue, 50, is 14 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial killed near his home. Richard Kelly, Blue’s son- the General Assembly due to illness. McBryde its quota in a polio fundraising drive. attempted in the county as part of a statewide in-law, is arrested in connection to the murder. served as a senator for 15 years. Feb. 10 - Eight men are fined for selling illegal effort to grather information from farmers to The board of trustees at Flora Macdonald Dec. 30 - The Raeford Methodist Church alcohol in Hoke County. establish wheat and cotton acreage allotments. Academy selects Halbert McNair Jones of burns to the ground in less than an hour. The Feb. 17 - The National Guard unit was reas- The Lumbee River Electric Membership Laurinburg as acting president of the school, fire begins shortly before noon and also damages signed from the 677th Antiaircraft battalion to Corp. plans to build an additional 400 miles of succeeding Dr. H.G. Bedinger. windows on the courthouse next door. the 130th Antiaircraft battalion and also assigned line through a $450,000 grant. Oct. 28 - About a dozen people seek to The Hoke County Democratic Committee to the 30th Infantry division. April 28 - W.R. Tillman Jr., 34, and Watson improve the condition of the Raeford cemetery. selects J. Benton Thomas to succeed Senator Feb. 24 - Hoke County merchants and the Faircloth, 45, both farmers of Cumberland Nov. 4 - Hoke County voters choose Harry Ryan McBryde. Raeford Chamber of Commerce partner to create County, drown in Upchurch’s pond while fishing. Truman for president over candidates Thomas a “dollar days” weekend sale. May 5 - Antioch Presbyterian Church Dewey, Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond. March 3 - H.E. Vernon of Caswell County dedicates its new educational building during Nov. 11 - Mrs. Neil A. McDonald of the 1949 assumes his duties as the Hoke County farm the regular morning worship hour. Raeford Woman’s Club is named chairman of Jan. 6 - Officers seek former convict Buddy agent, replacing A.S. Knowles. The county Board of Education reorganizes the 1948 Christmas Seal Sale in Hoke County. Barrett, 40, for allegedly shooting Charlie Mc- The Hoke County High School girls’ basket- and selects district committees. K.A. MacDonald Nov. 18 - The Hoke County Farm Bureau Dougald with buckshot in a fight near the Ed ball team makes it to the finals in the American is re-elected as superintendent of schools. seeks to increase its membership with a booth Buie funeral home. Legion high school basketball tournament. May 12 - Mayor William Poole proclaims in front of the Bank of Raeford. A gunman holds up the Scottish Bank at March 10 - The American Red Cross begins May 15 as opening day for the Clean Up Paint Up Nov. 25 - Upchurch School pays tribute to T.B Pembroke, escaping with about $9,000 in cash. its fundraising drive. Fund chairman Israel Mann Fix Up Program, calling on all city departments Upchurch, hanging a portrait of the late benefac- Three Robeson County men are arrested in encourages donors to give generously. and residents to take an active part in supporting tor of the school for black children. connection with the armed robbery, the third March 17 - Hoke County corn growers gather clean living conditions in town. Dec. 2 - Hoke County joins 52 other North discovered in a cabin in Hoke County. at the Little River community house to view a May 19 - Hoke County farmers enroll in a Carolina counties in donating farm produce for Jan. 13 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club installs film, “More Corn Per Acre,” telling the story of corn-growing contest between North Carolina overseas relief agencies through the Friendship its officers for 1949 at the club’s regular supper corn production in North Carolina. and Virginia, hoping to increase corn yields. Train program. and meeting at the high school cafeteria. Robert March 24 - W.F. Walters, 81, dies of a cere- May 26 - Three Army officers die and an Dec. 9 - Local officials hold memorial ser- Gatlin is installed as president of the club. bral hemorrhage. Walters was one of the oldest enlisted man is seriously injured in a car accident vices for Dr. Paul P. McCain at the Central North The Presbyterian Church begins conducting continuous residents of Raeford still living. near Raeford. Capt. Benjamin McElhinney Jr., Carolina Tuberculosis Sanatorium at McCain, three months of music worship programs Sunday March 31 - Mildred McMillan is charged with 28, 1st Lt. Lawrence D. Raymand Jr., 28, and unveiling a portrait of the late doctor. evenings under the direction of Flora McDonald assaulting Roland Ray with a deadly weapon warrant officer Merle G. Maxson, 39, died. Re- More than 600 stockholders of the Laurinburg College, with the congregation taking part in with intent to kill. Ray was reportedly seriously cruit Johnny D. Cherry, 17, was seriously injured. Production Credit Association hold their annual the singing. injured. McMillan was held under $200 bond. The public buildings bill authorizes Raeford meeting in the Hoke County courthouse. Jan. 20 - Floyd Cameron allegedly cuts the April 7 - The Birmingham Black Barons, to have a post office and federal building but Dec. 16 - Uzell Jones of Quewhiffle township throat of John Edward Burke in Quewhiffle town- world championship baseball team in the Negro does not provide any money to construct the is arrested and held without bond in connection ship. Burke is taken to Moore County Hospital. League, play the Asheville Blues in Armory park. $85,000 facility. with the shooting death of Flora Belle Ander- Jan. 27 - Uzell Jones is convicted of the April 14 - As many as 1,000 women with June 2 - Law enforcement officers arrested son. Jones is suspected of allegedly violating murder of Flora Belle Anderson of Quewhiffle the Women of Robeson Baptist Association visit two men on charges of operating whiskey stills in the corpse. and sentenced to death in the gas chamber. Jones Raeford for their annual meeting. the Antioch township. Wilford McNeill and Roy Dec. 23 - Hoke County native and state appeals the case. April 21 - The Hoke County Agricultural As- Dial pled guilty and were sentenced to 60 days Senator Ryan McBryde III quits his position with Feb. 3 - The March of Dimes seeks to double sociation conducts one of the largest farm surveys each or payment of a $25 fine and court costs.

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General Assembly speaks at the annual Hoke June 30 - A 14-year-old accused of house- County Farm Bureau rally and fish fry. breaking escapes from Morrison Training School Nov. 10 - Matthew J. Graham, a black youth and was later caught by law enforcement officers. charged with attempted breaking and entering July 7 - Former Senator Ryan McBryde, 62, with intent to commit a felony, is found not guilty dies in Highsmith Hospital after leaving the by Judge Henry McDiarmid. The state had no General Assembly due to illness. McBryde was witness who saw Graham attempt to break into a prominent religious, civic and political leader the house. Although the state did offer some in Hoke County. evidence from Harry Dees’ bloodhounds, the The county Board of Commissioners raises judge was not convinced. the tax rate from $1.10 to $1.25 per $100 valuation. Nov. 17 - Former Marine and Raeford native July 14 - A Catholic Church opens in Red Paul Saunders is badly burned while rescuing a Springs for a two-week revival. The chaplain, child from a burning building. Father John Roueche, served as a chaplain in A jury finds Manley H. Grooms guilty of the Army for five years during World War II. manslaughter in connection with the shooting Annie Black Lindsey McFadyen and grandchildren July 28 - The Hoke County National Guard of Fronzo Jackson. unit of 104 men spend two weeks at Camp Nov. 24 - Dr. M.S. Woodson is named the next Stewart in Georgia for the annual unit service president of Flora Macdonald College. encampment. Dec. 1 - County Production and Marketing telephone service. County voters to re-register to be eligible to vote. Aug. 4 - The Raeford Presbyterian Church Administration committee members begin pre- Feb. 23 - The Raeford Chamber of Commerce May 11 - Soldier Robert Green is charged with hosts the Council of the Presbyterian Youth paring for the national cotton marketing quota holds its annual meeting, selecting R.B. Lewis speeding at 90 miles an hour and sentenced to Fellowship annual Vesper Conference. referendum held across the United States. About as president. six months on the roads, suspended on payment Aug. 11 - The Raeford Chamber of Commerce 2,000 Hoke County cotton farmers are expected March 2 - The community fundraising effort of a $100 fine and court costs. holds its annual meeting at the courthouse to to be able to vote. begins for the American Red Cross with Hoke May 18 - More than 2,500 Hoke County elect its directors. Dec. 8 - The principals of the county schools County chairman Clyde Upchurch seeking to residents register to vote in elections. Aug. 18 - The state of North Carolina receives for whites are in favor of insurance for students raise $1,728. Katie Belle Wooten is found guilty of pros- approximately 54,164 acres of land set aside attending school. The policy covers children March 9 - In an effort to combat roadway titution and sentenced to serve two years in the for wildlife conservation by the Secretary of for any accidental injuries sustained while on fatalities, the state Highway Patrol begins state prison. the Interior. school property. marking the sites of fatal accidents with red, May 25 - The boll weevil threat to cotton Aug. 25 - The Raeford Lions Club receives Dec. 15 - The 1949 cotton crop proves larger three-foot numerals. farmers is the worst in 25 years, according to its charter from the district governor, Charles than the 1948 crop, but North Carolina fell far March 16 - The Robbins Mills plant an- entomologist George of Jones of North Carolina E. Kirchner, during a ceremony and banquet behind in producing cotton. nounces plans to employ about 100 people in a State Extension Service. at the armory. Dec. 22 - Uzell Jones, 36, a black man of “throwing” plant that twists rayon yarn before June 1 - A class of 39 seniors graduates from Sept. 1 - Marcus Cecil Dew, a local civic, Quewhiffle township, is executed in the gas it is woven. Hoke County High School. church and business leader, dies following a chamber after being convicted of the murder of March 23 - Hoke County High School Neither candidate for the U.S. Senate receives car accident. Flora Belle Anderson. Prison records reportedly students participate in safe driving testing and a majority vote in the primary, and the state Highway Commissioner George Coble an- stated that Jones, father of 11 children, “had the instruction by the safety engineer of the Farm Board of Elections orders a second primary vote. nounces 70.8 miles of Hoke County roads will mental development of a n11-year-old.” Bureau insurance companies. June 8 - The Raeford Baptist Church cel- be paved along with more than 1,400 miles of Dec. 29 - Raeford voters cast ballots sup- March 30 - Army Sgt. Thomas J. Childers ebrates its 50th anniversary with a dinner and other roads in North Carolina. porting bonds for improving water, street and dies from injuries suffered in a vehicle accident address by Dr. J. Clyde Turner. Sept. 8 - The Raeford Rebels baseball team sewage facilities. south of Raeford. Census data shows 2,024 people living in defeat Aberdeen and earn a trip to the finals in April 6 - Garth Waddell Wade, a black man in Raeford and a total of 15,609 in Hoke County. the Sand Clay league. jail on charges of forgery, escapes for the second June 15 - The Laurinburg and Southern Fletcher Clark, Indian, is charged with violat- 1950 time while jailer Harry Dees is sleeping. Wade Railroad gives up the mail contract on service ing the landlord and tenant act, pleading guilty Jan. 5 - Walter Duncan “Preacher Man” is accused of breaking into a grocery store and between Raeford, Wagram and Laurinburg after to leaving his crop after having contracted to Brown, owner and operator of the Raeford stealing $25 after his escape. 40 years of continuous service. gather it. Judge Henry McDiarmid orders him Hardware Co., plans to move the business into Sheriff and police officials raid Bill’s Club June 22 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club visits to return to the farm and gather the crop. Archie the former Bruce store and tear down the old and the Farmer’s Restaurant, discovering as- Camp Tom Upchurch, the new camp of the Cape Locklear, Indian, charged with aiding and abet- Raeford Hardware building on Main Street. sorted alcoholic beverages and several illegal Fear Area council of the Boy Scouts of America. ting Clark by letting him use his wagon to move Jan. 12 - Plans are tentatively in place to run gambling devices. June 29 - Willis Smith defeats Frank Graham with and a house to move to, is required to pay U.S. “super-highway” 301 through Raeford. April 13 - The Aberdeen and Rockfish in a second primary to claim the Senate Demo- the court costs. Jan. 19 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club hears Railroad Co.’s passenger, mail and express bus, cratic nomination. Sept. 15 - Alcoholics Anonymous makes from Vernon D. Herbert of Fayetteville, district known as the “jitney,” takes its last trip as the July 6 - The dam at the Raeford Power and plans to organize a group and hold an open director of the Federal Social Security Admin- railroad discontinues local passenger service. Manufacturing Co. at Lake Upchurch breaks meeting at the courthouse. istration. Raeford is chosen as the site of 15 grain stor- due to seepage around the concrete. About 50 A group of Hoke County representatives visit The A&P chain of grocery stores publishes an age bins ordered by the state of North Carolina feet of the dam washed away. state Highway Commissioner George Coble and ad fighting against allegations that A&P violates Production and Marketing administration. July 13 - Wilmer McDonald opens the first request the roads in Little River township be anti-trust laws. April 20 - E.O. Wilson, manager of Bill’s laundry operation in Raeford, the Raeford Clean- included in a paving project. Coble reportedly Jan. 26 - The March of Dimes fundraising Club, is sentenced to 90 days and a $25 fine on ers and Laundry Service. agreed to restore the 4.2 miles of paving that was campaign raises $800 to help victims of polio. charges of possessing slot machines and violat- not included and an additional 3.1 miles of paving. Feb. 2 - Robbins Cloth Mills, Inc. acquires ing prohibition laws. H.L. McMinis, operator Sept. 22 - An x-ray machine is available in the title to the former White-Tex mill in Raeford of the Farmer’s Restaurant, is also charged with 1951 front of the bank for people seeking to undergo after a long negotiation. violating prohibition and sentenced to one year on Jan. 4 - Raymond Deberry, 21, identified tuberculosis screenings. Ernest Stallings of Johnston County assumes the roads, with sentence suspended on payment as a Negro, is arrested on charges of allegedly Sept. 29 - The Carolina Telephone and Tele- his duties as the new farm agent in Hoke County. of a $250 fine and court costs and two years of assaulting Helen Barrington, a white woman, graph Co. installs an office in Raeford managing Feb. 9 - The plan to pave the road from Raeford good behavior. with alleged intent to commit rape. Police officer the applications for service the company has to Vass falls through. April 27 - The local National Guard unit visits Harry Dees reported that Deberry allegedly got on file. Feb. 16 - The state Rural Electrification Fort Bragg to practice with live ammunition. into Barrington’s car while it was stopped in front Oct. 6 - Members of the Business and Profes- Authority writes to a group of about 240 people May 4 - Flora Macdonald College holds its of the Hoke Drug Co. sional Women’s Club celebrate National Business in Raeford who expressed interest in forming a annual May Day celebration with Betty McLean Jan. 11 - The town commission votes to and Professional Women’s Week from Oct. 9-16. telephone cooperative, suggesting performing a acting as May Queen. expand and improve the town water, sewer and Oct.13 - A fire destroys Carter’s tobacco ware- countywide survey to determine the demand for The state Board of Elections requires all Hoke streets using $200,000 in bonds, if residents are 16 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Chief Harry Dees to begin strict enforcement The town board votes to charge a $10 fee for of an ordinance requiring businesses to pay an damaging street signs. annual privelege fee. Oct. 11 - Heston Rose and his two blood- The Robbins Mills rayon plant ramps up hounds track and recover a lost child in Scotland production with a total of 300 workers employed County. and more expected to be hired. Cafe owner Charlie Flynn, identified as July 12 - The Raeford Lions’ Club inducts 14 “colored,” allegedly shoots and kills Ben- new members at the annual fish fry. nie Murchison, identified as “colored,” after July 19 - The state Highway Commission Murchinson allegedly pulls a knife at the cafe. completes 21 additional miles of paving in Flynn is released under $1,000 bond. Bystander Hoke County. John Singletary, identified as “colored,” report- County extension agent E.M. Stallings re- edly runs around the neighborhoood after the ports boll weevils in 62 percent of the county’s shooting and enters the home of Police Chief untreated cotton fields and 21 percent in treated Harry Dees. Dees gets out of bed and shoots cotton fields. Singletary in the leg, but reportedly Singletary July 26 - Cooper’s Super Market opens on is not seriously wounded. Main Street in downtown Raeford. Oct. 18 - John Singletary is held under $500 Aug. 2 - Public accountant for the town of bond on charges of breaking and entering after Raeford James Williams reports a substantial he allegedly entered the home of Police Chief tax rate increase may be necessary for the town Harry Dees and was shot in the leg. to remain financially sound. Raeford’s new $28,000 sewage disposal plant Aug. 9 - The Raeford town board discusses begins operating this week, offering service to whether to issue $30,000 in bonds for water an additional 5,000 people. School children saved war bonds in 1942-43 to supplement the $130,000 issue, for which a Oct. 25 - William G. McAllister, identified willing and if the Local Government Commis- March 29 - The Raeford Business and Pro- deficit already exists. A tax rate of $2.75 per $100 as “colored,” is found guilty of leaving a tractor sion allows. fessional Women’s Club meets to hear Charles valuation may be necessary, accountant James and trailer parked on a highway at night without Jan. 18 - The Selective Services board releases Hostetler, local lawyer, as guest speaker. Williams suggests. lights, causing a traffic accident. McAllister is the names of the 30 Hoke County men drafted April 5 - Raeford voters choose M.H. Gatlin, Aug. 16 - The school system urges parents sentenced to 90 days, suspended on payment into the Army through the service since 1949. J.W. McPhaul, B.B. Lewis and J.H. Blue to serve of children entering school for the first time to of costs. Of the 30 men, 11 are white and 19 are black. as town commissioners. have their child have a physical exam before Nov. 1 - Town residents vote unanimously to Jan. 25 - Edwin Johnson, charged with assault April 12 - Work starts on a new Cooper beginning classes. issue an additional $30,000 in bonds for extend- with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting Foods store on Main Street at the corner of Willie English Jr., 36, is charged with alleg- ing and enlarging the waterworks service. serious bodily harm, is found guilty by a jury Edinborough Avenue. edly raping a 13-year-old girl. English is held The state Department of Public Instruction and sentenced to 10 years in prison. April 19 - The Davidson College Male Chorus without bond. The following week he is found refuses to approve any plan by the county for Feb. 1 - The March of Dimes fundraising performs this week at the Raeford Presbyterian guilty and sentenced to no less than 18 months an addition to the Raeford Graded School, and campaign strives to raise money to help children Church. and no more than three years in prison. the school board moves forward with contracts with polio. May 3 - School board chairman answers ques- Aug. 23 - Hoke County completes 10 ad- for work on the two other school improvement Feb. 8 - The Raeford community joins in cel- tions about the local school bond issue during a ditional miles of road paving under the bond projects included in the bond issue from May ebrating the World Day of Prayer with businesses public meeting at the courthouse. issue program. of 1951. closing their doors for an hour in the afternoon. May 10 - Hoke County voters pass a $275,000 Aug. 30 - The county Production and Mar- Nov. 8 - The Raeford town Board of Com- Highway commissioner George Coble and bond referendum for local school construction. keting Administration committee urges cotton missioners sets the tax rate at $1.50 per $100 engineers meet with the Hoke County Board of May 17 - Ozell Beatty is sentenced to two farmers not to take too low a price on their 1951 valuation. Commissioners and add 62 more miles of road years on the roads by Judge Henry McDiarmid crop and suggests considering government loans Nov. 15 - The Raeford Chamber of Commerce to be paved. after facing charges of being drunk and dis- if needed. plans a Christmas parade, with local businesses Feb. 15 - Former Senator William Umstead orderly, disturbing religious worship, fighting Sept. 6 - School board Chairman Robert invited to participate. addresses the annual Fellowship Banquet of his wife at church and destruction of personal Gatlin explains that construction is not yet North Carolina Gov. Kerr Scott speaks to the Cape Fear Area Council of Boy Scouts of property at the county jail. underway on school improvements because the the Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp. America. The McLauchlin Co. announces the sale of board seeks to secure bids for all three projects meeting, supporting the spread of rural telephone Feb. 22 - Weldon McDonald and John its grocery store to the Cole Feed and Seed Co. before proceeding. service. McLean are charged with breaking and enter- of Elizabethtown. Sept. 6 - Judge R. Hunt Parker orders Bolton’s Nov. 22 - Postmaster Lacy Clark requests ing a store and stealing money intended for the Matthew McRae Jr., described as a “colored Place padlocked on evidence from sworn affida- the Raeford Post Office patrons’ cooperation March of Dimes. lad,” allegedly admits to setting fire to several vits that it was used for illegal drinking. in preparing Christmas mail by prepaying March 1 - Russell Cagle, identified as a barns belonging to Clyde Upchurch. The 10-year- Sept. 12 - Bob Murray and Lauchlin Mac- postage, clearly addressing mail and adding a “colored soldier,” turns himself in to police old, as indicated by school records, is sentenced Donald install street names on Raeford street return address. authorities in Washington, D.C. on a murder to the Morrison Training School at Hoffman for corners, a project funded by the Raeford Chamber Nov. 29 - The Raeford Lions’ Club holds a charge in Hoke County. He was charged with detention “as the authorities think he needs it or of Commerce. Robert Gatlin plans to release toy drive, collecting used toys to repair for use the murder of John Black in 1944. until he reaches his majority.” a town map showing the street number of all at Christmas. Fearing a rabies epidemic following a number May 24 - Robbins Heights, a 130-unit housing town lots. The U.S. Post Office plans to add Dec. 6 - The Baptist Church congregation of cases of the disease, the Hoke County Board development on the north side of East Prospect two more employees and begin mail delivery dedicates the church this week. The church was of Health declares a dog quarantine, requiring Ave., is ready for residents to move in. service in town. constructed in 1947. dog owners to confine their dogs. May 31 - Hoke County High School awards Corp. John Banks of the U.S. Army, identi- Dec. 13 - The Raeford Chamber of Com- March 8 - The county commissioners and degrees to 50 students this week. fied as “colored,” is allegedly shot and killed by merce holds a Christmas parade on Main Street Board of Education face a school space shortage June 7 - The local National Guard unit Pvt. Joe Brooks, identified as “colored.” Brooks welcoming Santa Claus to town. due to the increasing number of children at the completes its required training for the year at is incarcerated at Fort Bragg. The Raeford Chamber of Commerce selects Raeford Graded School. Fort Bragg. Sept. 19 - The U.S. Post Office announces mail Neill McDonald to serve as its next president. A coroner’s jury rules that Hugh Jones, 32, June 14 - The Raeford commissioners unani- delivery service to Raeford homes will begin by Dec. 20 - The Hoke County 4-H starts a pure- died after allegedly being shot by his wife, Ruthie mously repeal a $1 monthly sewer fee and hike Oct. 1. Mailboxes bearing the occupant’s name bred pig chain with a Sears-Roebuck Foundation Jones. Jones was held without bond. water rates by one-third.The minimum monthly are for sale by the Raeford Boy Scout troop. sponsored purchase of eight pigs, distributed to Raeford voters turn out in support of a bill is $2. Sept. 27 - Postmaster Lacy Clark signs a lease local 4-H members. $180,000 bond issue for streets, water and sewer Riley Moore Jordan receives his Doctor of with C.K. Thomas, J.L. McNeill and Younger F. Dec. 27 - Hoke County is named among the improvements. Medicine degree from Wake Forest. Snead for constructing a post office on a Main top third of all cotton producing counties in the March 15 - The Board of Education requests June 21 - Boll weevils appear in greater num- Street lot. Local efforts to get a government state, with 12,698 bales. a $275,000 bond to build additional classrooms bers during Extension Service crop inspections. building have thus far failed, and the existing for Hoke County children. June 28 - Raeford police raid Bolton’s, a fill- property lease with the Bank of Raeford expires March 22 - An additional 52 men are expected ing station to the south of town, and discover 21 the following year. 1952 to be drafted into the Army from Hoke County, pints of illegal alcohol. Oct. 4 - Demolition begins on the old Raeford Jan. 3 - The Raeford post office prepares to exhausting the draft board’s 1-A candidates. The Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co. Hardware building on Main Street, which was move into its new building on the west side of Law enforcement officers break up a gam- spends more than $60,000 to improve and expand built in 1903 by Marcus Dew. It was the only North Main Street. bling game at Bill’s Club east of Raeford and its Raeford facilities. frame building in the downtown business section. Jan. 10 - The Kiwanis Club installs its 1952 discover illegal alcohol. July 5 - The Raeford town board orders Police Work also begins on the town’s new post office. officers at its meeting. Marion Gatlin is named The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 17 president with John McPhaul as vice president. Commerce - the Jaycees - hold their first meeting in a domestic disturbance north of Red Springs. tobacco across Hoke County, with as much as Jan. 17 - Raeford police officer J.W. Stanton this week at the Benton Thomas pond. Officers arrest James Allen Hammond in con- 50-60 percent of the crop estimated damaged resigns from his job following an informal hear- March 20 - The Jaycees begin a roadway nection with the case. or destroyed. ing by the mayor and two board members. Stanton improvement program by planting shrubs and May 1 - The Aberdeen-Raeford Little League June 19 - Funeral services are held for Raeford is charged with obtaining money under false seeding grass along Raeford roads. Baseball holds tryouts for the two Raeford squads native 1st Lt. William McFadyen, a bombadier on pretense, bribery and malfeasance in office. He March 27 - Robeson County officials request that will take part in the baseball season. About a B-25, after the remains of his plane are found is later cleared of all charges after Judge Henry 50 Hoke County men to serve as jurors in the 70 boys report to try out. near New Guinea. McDiarmid finds no probable cause in the cause. trial of four alleged Ku Klux Klan charged under May 8 - The Raeford Television Company The Hoke County Health Department holds The March of Dimes starts its annual fund- an 1868 statute forbidding membership in secret opens for business in the post office building an immunization program to give shots for diph- raising effort with a variety show at Hoke County political organizations. next to town hall. Owner Dodson Lowder and theria, whooping cough and tetanus. High School. Cpl. Dexter Holland of Raeford helps main- manager Martin Webb offer the Hallicrafters June 26 - The Raeford Jaycees presents the Jan. 24 - Farm agent E.M. Stallings leaves tain Army aircraft in Korea as an airframe line of television and radio sets and the Necchi Miss Hoke County pageant, with contestants his job with the county to enter the farm supply mechanic in the 79th Ordnance Battalion. Sgt. line of sewing machines. sponsored by local businesses. business. C. J. McNeill returns home from a year in Korea May 15 - Raeford receives a new sanitation July 3 - Dr. Riley Jordan starts practicing Jan. 31 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club names J. serving with the 7th Signal Co. Message Center. truck with garbage collection unit, purchased medicine in Raeford with Dr. R.A. Matheson. Lawrence McNeill “Man of the Year” for 1951. April 3 - A jury of Raeford men is unable from North Carolina Equipment Co. of Raleigh. Mary Sue Upchurch is crowned the first Feb. 7 - William Lamont of West Donaldson to reach a verdict in the case of four alleged Ku May 22 - Hoke County tops its fundraising Miss Hoke County in the first Raeford Jaycees Ave. reports his car stolen and later recovers it Klux Klan members. The judge rules a mistrial. goal for the American Cancer Society by col- beauty pageant. from the lot of an automotible dealer in Fay- April 10 - Stuart Moore is charged with lecting more than $850. July 10 - Worth McCall is charged with assault etteville. assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill May 29 - The Lumbee River Electric Mem- on a female with intent to commit rape inflict- Feb. 14 - The Hoke County fundraiser for and held under a $5,000 bond. bership Corp. receives a $670,000 loan for system ing serious bodily injury and released under a the March of Dimes exceeds its goal by more The Hoke County Board of Commissioners improvments and extending line service to new $15,000 bond to await trial. than $2,000. vote to employ John Potter as the county’s next members. Lacy McRae, 19, is accused of allegedly Feb. 21 - “Look” magazine rates Raeford farm agent. Hoke County High School conferrs degrees raping a 7-year-old girl. as “good” in a survey of vice conditions. The April 17 - More than 230 Home Demon- to 57 graduates at commencement exercises. July 24 - Maggie McNeill, 30, identified as survey is published in an article titled “Battle stration Club women and visitors attend the June 5 - About 1,500 voters turn out and cast “colored,” dies after being run over by Samuel Against Sin.” annual district federation meeting at the Raeford ballots for county and state contenders, including James Purcell, driving his 1941 Ford coach. A Feb. 28 - James Edwards, 19, and Rufus Methodist Church. T.O. Moses for county recorder and William B. coroner ruled that Purcell was not to blame. Edwards, 17, are arrested for allegedly raping a Turkalina Farms Inc. announces plans to Umstead for governor. Sheriff D.H. Hodgin and Police Chief Harry 13-year-old girl and being an accessory to the operate a turkey processing freezing plant in The Raeford town board authorizes the em- Dees discover a 10,000 gallon illegal alcohol fact. Both are held without bond. Raeford. The plant plans to employ 30 people. ployment of a black farm agent and clerk under still and destroy it. March 6 - Angus Keith is injured when his car April 24 - James Spencer Edwards, 19, is the “North Carolina Accepts the Challenge” July 31 - Airman Second Class John Franklin is hit by a train on the Laurinburg and Southern found guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl and movement to improve the conditions and incomes Niven, 18, a Raeford native, dies in an air crash track south of Raeford. sentenced to six to eight years in state prison. Ed- of the farm population. in Japan when his aircraft crashes after taking Robbins Mills holds a meeting prior to wards appeals the ruling. Charges were dropped June 12 - The state Highway Commission off from Ashiya Air Force Base. establish a Little League team, sponsored by against Edwards’ brother, Rufus Edwards, who adds another 10 miles of paving on Hoke Aug. 7 - A windstorm nearly demolishes the the company. had been charged as an accessory to rape. County roads. drive-in movie theater west of town. The theater March 13 - The Raeford Junior Chamber of Frazier Lowry dies of knife wounds sustained A hailstorm badly damages many acres of was forced to close due to the damage. Happy 100th Birthday Congratulations Hoke County! Hoke County! Straighten-Up 1911-2011 Orthodontics Committment to Excellence Dr. John Mark Griffies Retired Military •Board Certified American Board of Orthodontics •Member of American Cleft Palate Association •Providing High Quality Dentistry & Orthodontics for 26 Years •Children & Adults - Most All Dental Insurance Accepted Mayor •Delta Dental & United Concordia Provider John K. McNeill III new patients welcoMe City Councilmen Robert L. Conoly, John Jordan, 301 Birch street • Raeford, nc Mary Neil King, Shelley Wilburn, 878-5796 Wayne Willis 18 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial The Aberdeen-Raeford Little League All- struction work at Raeford Graded School did Stars advance in the district championship not take place. playoffs. Nov. 27 - Raeford Postmaster Lacy Clark dies Aug. 14 - The Aberdeen-Raeford Little at the age of 67 after a brief illness. League All-Stars team wins the District 5 cham- Dec. 4 - The rat control program, already in Murders most foul pionship but lose in the statewide tournament. effect in Raeford, goes into effect this month for Aug. 21 - Carolina Power and Light Co. the entire county after county commissioners In 1912, the year after Hoke was born, home and stayed in a secret chamber. The installs a 100,000-horsepower turbine at its also approve the program. a man named P.C. Oates died; he was the large, dark red brick home, still standing, Lumberton plant to help generate electricity Members of the Army Corps of Engineers county’s first known murder victim. is located on North Main Street. for the area. visit Raeford and survey parts of Hoke County Oates was Raeford’s police chief. While Cameron turned himself in to Raeford Worth McCall, charged with assault on a for what could potentially be future Fort Bragg discharging his duties, he arrested John A. authorities on November 17, 1928 after female with intent to commit rape inflicting expansion. Cameron, a man whose land holdings were 14 years of freedom. During this time he serious bodily injury, is released this week when Dec. 11 - Congressman C.B. Deane announc- a grand jury rules there is not enough evidence es that the Army intends to buy more land in a in the part of Hoke that is now Ft. Bragg, had become a prominent and prosperous for the case to be tried. corridor between Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall. for being drunk and threw him in jail. This businessman in Sylacauga, Alabama. He Aug. 28 - A group of 40 Hoke County men Dec. 18 - The Hoke County Board of Com- was in August 1912. was returned to prison but appealed his travel to Fayetteville to serve on the case of an missioners and the town and county committee A humiliated Cameron vowed to get sentence and won. He was paroled February illegal lottery operation in Cumberland County. on the Army corridor land acquisition call a mass revenge on Oates, and he did so by mur- 4, 1929, and came back to Raeford to live. Sept. 4 - Hoke County schools open for the meeting of all citizens and property owners to dering the chief on Raeford’s Main Street. In appeals for clemency, it turns out 1952-53 school year with a record number of learn more about preventing property from being Cameron waited between two stores, the that Cameron had given $10,000 to Oates’ students at J.W. McLauchlin Elementary and taken by the Army. N.S. Blue Store and the McKeithan Market, family. Hoke County High School. Dec. 25 - An Army representative agrees at a with a weapon and ambushed Oates. The Irony Sept. 11 - The county Board of Commission- Washington, D.C. conference with Hoke County dying victim fell on the sidewalk in front ers approves requests for six new public roads in representatives to restudy the plan to take 50,000 In December of 1979 the bones of one the Raeford area. acres of land from the county to establish a cor- of the two stores and Cameron got in the of Cameron’s sons, Leon, were found in Federal alcohol agents and state ABC officers ridor between Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall. buggy that had brought him into town and his backyard in Timberland; he had been arrest Brantley Allen, 38, and Daniel Peterson, went home. missing for 35 years. 25, during a raid. The agents confiscate a vehicle Sheriff Edgar Hall arrested Cameron, Leon’s wife confessed to killing him in and an amount of tax-paid whiskey. 1953 and a judge sentenced him to life in prison. one of the most gruesome crimes in Hoke Sept. 18 - R. Pearson Lambert, 52, is charged Jan. 1 – Dentist Julius Jordan is the new Cameron was imprisoned in Raleigh but County. Winnie McNeill Cameron had cut with having incestuous relations with one of his president of Raeford Kiwanis. escaped on December 21, 1914 after serv- her husband into pieces and dropped them daughters and with ravishing and having carnal Jan. 8 – The Bank of Raeford enters its 50th ing less than a year of a 20-year sentence. in the outhouse. After her confession, she knowledge with another against her will. He year of business. Original officers were John Blue, Some say he returned at times to his Raeford killed herself. was held without bond. His daughter Mildred president; George A. Graham and J.C. Thomas, Lambert Chavis was charged with having in- vice presidents; John W. Moore, cashier; A.W.E. cestuous relations with her father and held under Capel, J.A. Blue, W.J. Upchurch, J.A. McPhaul, to be the tube or barrel, the recoil mechanism, July 23 – Seven people are killed in a head-on a $2,500 bond. and N.S. Blue, board of directors. and big trucks with spades and a lot of hydraulic collision, five of them Blue Springs teenagers: Sept. 25 - The stockholders of the Hoke Jan. 15 – The county’s first traffic death of devices. The barrel by itself took one car. I don’t James William Blue, John Archie Blue, Billy County Development Corp. declare a six percent 1953 occurrs when Sam Swan, 50, dies from believe there is room enough in this part of the Joe Clark, Robert Easterling, and Robert Neill dividend and elect new officers at the annual injuries suffered in an accident at the intersection state to shoot it, much less in Hoke County. Currie. Two Smithfield men are also killed in meeting. of Fulton and Sixth avenues. April 2 – A group of Hoke leaders intent on the accident on the Laurinburg Road three and Oct. 2 - H.H. Burnett, 25, of Virginia is held Jan. 29 – Raeford doctors think Hoke is having fighting Army’s plans to take some 44,370 acres one half miles south of Raeford. under a $4,500 bond for allegedly running over a mild epidemic of influenza. of Hoke land travel to Washington, D.C. and July 30 – Tar Heel farmers feel the effects of and killing Pearl Shipman, 71, of Raeford. Feb. 5 – The Christmas Seal sale raises promise to report to residents at a public meeting. drought. Soil is described as “dry” to “very dry.” Oct. 9 - Raeford Mayor W.L. Poole joins the $1,788.03 in 1952. Seals help fund research and April 16 – A wire service message, source Aug. 6 – The Fayetteville Observer publishes state governor in declaring this week National treatment for tuberculosis. unknown, states prospects of the Army acquir- an editorial advocating Ft. Bragg’s expansion Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, dedi- Feb. 12 – Ninth grader Leon Cameron Jr. ing thousands of acres of land in Hoke lessened into Hoke County. cating the city government to making an effort attains the coveted Eagle Scout award. when it was learned that an influential Senate Aug. 13 – A fat man weighing 702 pounds in employing people with physical handicaps Feb. 19 – County commissioners approve a - Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson - may is on exhibit in Raeford for a small amount of and recognizing the work already done by those new route of 15-A which would come in by the fight the plan. Ferguson is the ranking Republican silver donation. with handicaps. present cutoff north of town to a point just west member of the Senate appropriations committee Aug. 20 – Raeford Theater presents The Oct. 16 - The Hoke County Farm Bureau of Jess Dunlap’s station and then curve south, and a member of its sub-committee on military Bowery Boys in “Loose in London.” requests immediate steps be taken to stabilize crossing 211 with an overpass west of the Raeford appropriations. Sept. 3 – Five young vandals, ages 14-19, are cotton prices so farmers can earn a reasonable Oil Co. tanks then proceeding to its present route April 23 – The American Farm Bureau Fed- told to bring their parents to court. profit from their crop this year. The crop is of 15-A at the Bolton property south of Raeford. eration opposes Ft. Bragg’s taking of Hoke land. Sept. 10 – The city board authorizes the expected to be more than a million bales short Feb. 26 – State College has this hint for farm April 30 – Rockfish and Ashley Heights lose paving of Fifth Ave. from Fulton St. to Stewart nationwide. homemakers: Make down instead of up. The their post offices. Street, Stewart Street from Seventh Ave. to Oct. 23 - T.B. Upchurch Jr. of Raeford is plastered or painted look is not attractive. The May 7 – A charging bull leaves David Hendrix Donaldson Ave., Edinborough Ave. from Stewart reelected to serve another term as president of natural look is what we want. with cuts and bruises. to Jackson St., and Jackson St. from Donaldson the North Carolina Cotton Growers Association. March 5 – The county board takes steps to May 21- Forty-seven members of Hoke High to Central Ave. Oct. 30 - The Hoke County Sheriff’s Office stop illegal drink sales by hiring a rural deputy. senior class get diplomas and hear a preacher’s Sept. 17 – Bon Mart of Raeford features the apprehends four men accused of moonshining March 12 – Hoke leaders and Army officials sermon. enlarger bra for the girl with the small bust for and destroys five stills. Arrested were Preston will meet to discuss rumors that Ft. Bragg wants May 28 – Ellen Koonce and C.J. Benner Jr. $2.50. No pads. No foolers. No puffs. Jones, Prentiss Monroe, David McRae and 50,000 acres of Hoke land. The southward ex- are Hoke High’s top students. Oct. 1 - A 1953 Hoke farm census reveals Jayson Armstrong. pansion between Ft. Bragg and Camp Mackall June 4 – Alfred Cole takes office as Raeford’s 158,903 farm acres. Harvesting is done on Turkalina Farms turkey plant announces it is would allow for a reservation big enough for firing mayor. 651,198 acres while 9,807 people live on farms employing 100 workers in the area, processing guns with ranges up to 40 miles. Estimated cost June 8 – Ads: A new Packard Clipper sells and 84 of the farms had telephones in 1952. 50,000 pounds of turkey a day. of acquiring the land through condemnation and for $2707 at North State Motor Co. Census reports indicated 786 milk cows, 623 Nov. 6 - Hoke County voters cast ballots in the purchase is $85 average price per acre. June 25 – Mayor Alfred Cole crowns his beef cattle, 887 hogs, and 38,651 hens and pul- presidential election, selecting Adlai Stevenson March 19 – Hoke leaders learn that it is Ft. daughter Sarah Jane Cole, who was chosen lets of laying age. over Dwight D. Eisenhower by a margin of 1,761 Bragg’s intent to acquire 44,373 acres of the Miss Raeford II. Oct. 15 – Want ad: For sale Model A two- votes to 616 votes, although Eisenhower claimed county’s land for a corridor from the post to July 9 – T.B. Upchurch Jr. and the House door sedan, everything in good condition, $75. enough support elsewhere to win the race. Camp Mackall. agriculture commissioner head a delegation Oct. 22 - Bobby Baker, 5, is recovering after Nov. 13 - The Raeford town board members March 26 – Editor’s addenda: People along from the N.C. Promotion Committee in Wash- having been run over by a wagon hauling a ton vow to cooperate with the health department the corridor and all the way from Aberdeen to ington to testify before the a sub-committee of of corn. to wage a one-year war against the local rat Fayetteville got a good look at one of the reasons the House Agriculture Committee to oppose Oct. 29 – “No Corridor” reads the headline. population. Ft. Bragg wants Hoke land Tuesday when the a move by Western cotton interests to change The Army drops plans to buy 49,000 acres in Nov. 20 - County Superintendent Kenneth Aberdeen & Rockfish hauled one of Army’s 280 basis of cotton allotments for next year in a way Hoke, will take 2,781 in Cumberland County. MacDonald and Hoke High Principal W.T. millimeter guns down its main line. Took four flat that could cost North Carolina cotton growers Nov. 5- The county board requests the State Gibson Jr. address the county Parent-Teacher cars to haul the four major components appearing 90,000 acres of cotton. Highway Commission proceed at once with Association and discuss why the planned con- The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 19 the paving of roads in the area which the Army lina” contest for 1954. proposed to take now that the takeover threat is Feb. 11 – Dundarrach and Arabia communi- over. Work on the roads had been postponed. ties are to get telephone service. Nov. 12 – The sheriff busts his 34th still Feb. 18 – Raeford businesses offer a three- of the year near the road to Duffy’s Station to day Dollar Sales event. Nylon hose are 2 for $1. Lilly’s Chapel School. Officers confiscate 200 Feb. 25 – The Hoke Trading Co. in Bowmore gallons of liquor and 3,000 gallons of still beer is entered and a safe stolen. (liquor in process). March 4 – More than 1,000 are expected Nov. 19 – Funeral services with full mili- at Farm Day to be held at Hoke County High tary rites are held for 1st Lt. David Leon Cook School. The need for a permanent farm program (USAF), who was killed in Korea on June 2, 1951. was emphasized. He and his six brothers served in World War II. March 18 - Members of Godwin, Spring Nov. 26 – More than 5,000 attend Raeford’s Lake and Raeford Lions Club meet to hear big parade and festival. The parade features Carbine Williams, inventor of the Army carbine 2,000 participants. rifle, speak. Dec. 15 – Two more traffic fatalities bring the March 25 – Claudine Hodgin, a junior at number of highway deaths to 15. Joseph Wesley, Hoke County High School, is named All-State 43, principal of Shaw colored school and pastor in basketball. of two churches, is the 15th fatality. April 8 – The Hoke County unit of the Na- Dec. 24 – The sawmill of A.V. Sanders, on tional Guard, Battery A of the 130th Anti-Aircraft the northwest of Raeford, is destroyed by a fire Battalion, commanded by Capt. Edwin Newton, of unknown origin. receives a Superior rating. Dec. 31 – Edgar Hall, Hoke’s first sheriff, dies. April 15 – Extensive roadwork is planned for Hoke that includes the widening and repaving of Hwy 15-A. 1954 April 22 - Raeford Theater shows “Give a Jan. 7 – The town board votes for new lights Girl a Break” with Marge and Gower Champion of the mercury-vapor type on Main Street. and Debbie Reynolds. Jan. 14 – Raeford businessman Israel Mann April 29 – A clean up, fix up, paint up week is new Kiwanis president. is planned by the city. Jan. 21 – Charlie Gales is sentenced to die May 6 – A student driver is given a suspended for the gun barrel clubbing death of his wife in sentence and ordered to pay medical costs of a cotton field while his children and a neighbor Mose Graham after he caused the bus to backfire were present. Said Gales, “Don’t have mercy. I’ve and scare Graham’s mule, causing him to be hurt. got what I want.” His case was appealed but he May 13 – Free inspections are made by car lost. Later the governor commuted his sentence dealers here. to life in prison. May 20 - Police Chief J.H. Dees resigns and Feb. 4 - Raeford enters CP&L’s “Finer Caro- J.S. Poole is serving as acting chief. Happy 100th Hoke County! People First Hoke CountySheriff Hubert A. 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* * * * * www.RainbowPeds.net * * * * * The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 21 off the road. preopening cartoon show for the kids is planned. Jan. 27 – School dime cards go home with Sept. 1 – Schools are to open Sept. 8, the first Hoke school children from the March of Dimes time in recent years white, colored and Indian drive. Slots in the card are to hold dime donations. schools have opened at the same time. Feb. 3 – Truman B. Austin is Kiwanis Man Sept. 8 – Town voters approve 16-1 two bond of the Year based on his work on the town board issues totaling $60,000 for improvements to the and his work on street improvements. water and sewer systems. Feb. 17 – Claudine Hodgin scores 46 points The county board made plans for a new health in the Hoke girls’ basketball 65-64 victory over center on East Central Ave. alongside the Armory. Tabor City. Sept. 22 – Raeford’s Charles Hostetler will Feb. 24 - U.S. Rubber Co. buys Para Thread head the 12th District Bar Assoc., made up of Co. plant in Hoke. Hoke and Cumberland counties. March 3 – Robbins Mills is Amerotron after Sept. 29 – Mass TB testing for the eastern merger. Syllables of Textron, American Woolen states would include Hoke. and Robbins Mills form the name. Oct. 13 – Amerotron expansion will add 200 Younger Snead Jr. becomes Eagle Scout. new employees. March 10 – Historical markers are unveiled: Oct. 20 – John A. McGoogan, 71, Hoke’s the Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads and Edinbor- first schools superintendent, dies. He was also ough Medical College. the county tax assessor and supervisor, county March 24 – Dr. Riley Jordan announces Dr. treasurer, and was hired as county auditor and Men of Hq. Co., 2nd Medium Tank Co., 196th Armor, N.C. National Guard sport Robert F. Jones of Greenville, S.C. will join his tax supervisor on July 1, 1927, a position he held practice in Raeford. until his death. beards for Hoke County’s 50th birthday. April 7- Amerotron plans expansion. Nov. 3 – An employee of Social Security will May 27 – J.P. Stevens buys 41 percent of Nov. 11 – Local sales of vehicle tags go on April 14- Patrolman W.T. “Bill” Herbin is be here the fourth Wednesday of each month. Robbins stock. sale here. the only highway patrolman on duty as the other Nov. 17 – The Hoke County ginning report June 3 – For an off-year, voting is heavy; Nov. 18 – The Scottish Log Rolling District two resigned. Later he is joined by Patrolman indicates a decline of 18 percent, or 1,268 bales, 2,000 cast their votes. of Woodmen of the Word celebrates its 50th Joe Dupree. from last year. June 17 – Hoke farmers who sell wheat need anniversary. April 21 – David Scott Poole, 96, former Nov. 24 – The Dundarrach Trading Co. cot- a marketing card to identify that the wheat is Nov. 25 – Hoke County Recorders Court legislator, columnist and editor, dies. ton gin is completely destroyed by fire despite penalty free. clears a record 78 cases November 24. 1028 children get polio vaccine. the efforts of firefighters from five neighboring June 24 – A booster club is formed to help the Dec. 2 – A storekeeper near Lobelia, in Little April 28 – Parker United Methodist Church, towns. Damage to buildings and equipment is athletics program at Hoke County High School. River Township, is shot in the back during a rob- 44 years old, is dedicated. Members met at Glen estimated at $40,000 and cotton bale loss was July 1 – Neill McFadyen Jr. attains the Eagle bery and is left in critical condition. A 17-year-old Acre Schoolhouse until the church was built. estimated at $16,800. A warehouse was also Scout rank. youth confesses to the crime. May 12 – “Man Without a Star” is showing destroyed. July 8 – County board raises the tax rate to Dec. 9 – C.E. Autry is sworn in as the first at the Raeford Theater. It stars Kirk Douglas Dec. 15 – Hoke cotton farmers vote over- $1.15 per $100 valuation. Raeford constable. and Jeanne Crain. Tim Holt is on at the Raeford whelmingly in favor of cotton marketing quotas. July 15 – Construction is begun by John K. Dec. 16 – Cotton production in Hoke this Drive-In. Dec. 22 – Fires during the week before McNeill of two brick and cinder block buildings year is the lowest in the state. 7,834 bales are May 19 – J.W. McLauchlin School holds its Christmas leave five families without food, in his lot facing the west side of Main Street ginned in Hoke. annual May Day exercises. The children were shelter or clothing. One woman lost her life when facing Raeford Furniture. This is the first new Dec. 23 – For the fourth time in a year, Hoke well-trained and costumed. her clothing caught on fire. construction since McLauchlin Co. built the Trading Co., five miles south of Raeford, is bro- May 26 – Textron American hopes to boost Dec. 29 - Response of people in county to building now occupied by Cooper’s Super Market ken into. A 17-year-old confessed to the crime. its annual sales volume by half a billion dollars help fire victims is “great.” Market several years ago. Dec. 30 – Adam Lee Crisco, 70, dies of a in the next five years by further expansion of its July 29 – Robbins Mills Inc. reports a loss heart attack on Elwood Ave. His brother Arlie nontextile business. A net profit of $10 million of $3,791,759 in the first six months of the year Crisco died of a heart attack on the street a few is expected this year. 1956 as opposed to last year’s gain of $49,978 during years earlier. June 2 – Mrs. Leo Little is the director of a Jan. 5 - In “Arabia News,” the Ruritan installs that time frame. newly formed club for teenagers. officers: Whiteford Jones, president; Jesse Lee, Aug. 5 – Robbins Mills Inc. is to become June 9 – Cotton and tobacco land is being vice president; John Glisson, treasurer; and part of a huge textile combination, American measured for acreage compliance. Carl McKenzie, secretary. Supper was served 1955 June 16 – A severe hail and wind storm dam- Woolen Co. and Textron. Textron bought J.P. Jan. 6 – Segregation: The word coming this by Arabia Home Demonstration Club members. Stevens’ shares. ages crops in south and east Hoke. Some crops Jan. 12 – The year begins tragically when way is that the leadership of the General As- are a total loss. Aug. 12 – Thieves take off with 150 sticks sembly from the east feel strongly that the 1955 an 80-year-old woman’s clothing caught on fire of tobacco from the farm of H.M. Meeks in June 23 – An estimate of hail and wind loss from her fireplace. She died and her home was General Assembly should speak its mind in clear on June 11 was $40,000 to 70 farms. Another Quewhiffle. Such thievery is hard to trace. and unequivocal language regarding segregation destroyed. A 16-year-old boy was struck by a August 19 – It is requested that Hoke be lesser hail storm hit June 22. car and injured. in the public schools. These leaders are reported June 30 – Western Auto Assoc. will open a declared a disaster area because of drought. to feel that the U.S. Supreme Court … have their Jan. 19 – Auditor J.W. McPhaul says only Sept. 9 – Hoke’s 12 colored schools are new store on Main St. in the location previously 25 percent of Hoke residents had listed their ears very definitely attuned to public reactions occupied by The News-Journal. expected to open with an attendance of 2,000. as to the Courts historic decision and that plain taxable property with the deadline coming up White schools opened on Sept. 2 and Indian July 6 – Hoke’s tax rate is expected to increase in two weeks. language from the N.C. General Assembly ac- by five cents - $1.20 per $100 valuation. schools will open Sept. 26. curately presenting the state’s viewpoint will not Jan. 26 – The Chamber’s Distinguished Sept. 16 – A school bus is involved in a slight July 14 – Co. A, 130th Tank Battalion, which Service Award goes to Ray E. Chandler for go unnoticed by the robe-clad men making up is changed from an anti-aircraft unit to a tank accident on the road between Five Points and the highest judicial court in America and likely his service in several areas to include youth Ashley Heights. No injuries are reported. unit, received an M-14 tank, unloaded from an leadership. the world, before they hand down their decree Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad car. Sept. 23 – The community is saddened at the telling how their anti-segregation decree is to Harry A. Greene is Kiwanis Man of the Year tragic death of Dr. and Mrs. David M. Tuttle, July 28 – Raeford Theater closes after 20 based on his service in many areas. be carried out. While this view may not have years of operation. who fell to their deaths over a mountain falls the view of Governor Hodgins, who seemed to A father and son are killed in a three-way near Brevard. She is the daughter of H.A. and Aug. 4 – Angus C. Keith retires after serving accident on Hwy 15-A involving a Trailways bus. endorse…to do and say nothing until after the as a rural mail carrier for 42 years. Florrie Cameron. They were the parents of two Superior Court acted, the thinking of the eastern Feb. 2 – A tourist is killed in a wreck on young children. Aug. 18 – Hoke and Moore officials agree that Hwy 15-A east of Raeford, just a short distance legislators is likely to prevail. - Tarheel People students of Little River Township will continue Oct. 7 – T.B. Upchurch is reelected head of & Issues, Cliff Blue from where a father and son died a week earlier. the N.C. Cotton Growers Assoc. to attend Moore County schools for the next two Feb. 9 – Marion H. Gatlin, furniture dealer, is Jan. 13 – Hoke sees its first traffic fatality years. Little River Township is separated from Oct. 14 – A Macks five and dime opens in of the year when two men lose their lives in a named president of the Chamber of Commerce. the new McNeill Bldg. Hoke by the Ft. Bragg military reservation, and Feb. 16 – McCain Hospital, a prison sana- tractor-trailer-car collision 4 _ miles south of youngsters have attended schools in Moore for Oct. 21 – Although there is considerable Raeford on Hwy 15-A. The dead are Charles torium housing 139 TB patients, is dedicated. damage from Hurricane Hazel, Hoke is spared the past 25 years. March 1 - Thirty-one visited poultry farms M. McNeill and Junior Knight. Aug. 25 – Raeford Theater, after repairs and the worst of it. There are more than a hundred Jan. 20 – Highway patrolmen will be at the in Pender County to get ideas on the business. insurance claims. renovations to accommodate Cinemascope and March 8 – Hoke High girls’ basketball team, sheriff’s office from 9-10 a.m. every day except Vista-Vision, reopens under new management Oct. 28 – John D. Currie, 25, is killed when Sunday to inspect out-of-state cars for North led by forward Janet Guin, wins their third Fay- his ring catches on machinery and he is pulled on Sept. 1.The opening movie is “Girl Rush” etteville tournament crown. Carolina registration. Regulations do not permit with Rosalind Russell and Fernando Lamas. A into a gin at Lumber River Gin Co. the officers to spend more than an hour a day March 15 – The American Legion Ellis

The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 23 Williamson Post plans to build a pool here and Sept. 13 – Hoke Schools open with a 136 Scrivens, is charged with assaulting a female with vised summer recreation for people ages 6-18. plans to raise $20,000 for the project. student increase. There are 3,431 in the 19 schools intent to commit rape. Artis was arrested after The program cost is estimated at about $2,500. March 29 – Jane Roper, 55, dies of burns or divisions this year as compared to 3,295 on law enforcement officers conducted a manhunt April 25 - Marshall Williams, 18, drowns she received when flames were ignited from an opening day of the previous year. seeking him. while swimming in an irrigation water hole oil stove. Her husband was badly burned. The Sept. 27 – The school board is told the people Jan. 17 - Roscoe Artis pleads guilty to assault- during a 90-degree heat wave. heavily populated section of North Raeford where of Little River Township, cut off from the rest of ing a female with intent to commit rape. He was May 2 - Harriet McCall, charged with alleg- they lived has no fire protection. Hoke by the military reservation, are considering sentenced to serve not less than 12 nor more than edly assaulting her husband, pleads guilty and April 5 – The News-Journal publishes its own leaving Hoke for Moore County. Their children 15 years in prison and assigned to hard labor. is sentenced to six months in jail, suspended photo for the first time. It is of a home demon- attend Moore schools as it is a 40-mile drive to The Hoke County Rural Fire Department on payment of $100 and costs and five years of stration club dinner. All the ladies have on hats. the nearest school in Hoke. anounces plans for fire equipment and telephone good behavior. April 12 – School board and county com- W.J. McQuage resigns as Raeford’s police numbers to be called in case of emergency. May 16 - Willis Nettles, 26, is found dead on missioners meet, and commissioners are told chief. Jan. 24 - Raeford doctors announce the com- a smouldering mattress in his home by neighbors the schools budget will go up for the upcoming Oct. 4 –Starting Oct. 15, the town board plans munity is in the grip of a viral infection epidemic who broke into his house after seeing the smoke. fiscal year. to seize property from those who owe back taxes. with as many as 84 students at the high school Hoke County accountant John W. McPhaul April 17 – Leon Cameron Jr. wins a Navy Oct. 11 – A CROP (Christian Rural Over- reporting out sick in a single day. releases a summary of his budget for the county’s scholarship to Duke University. seas Program) drive is set to collect food for Jan. 31 - Three Upchurch School teachers die $24 million tax valuation, which is 40 cents lower April 24 – A Robeson County man is jailed the hungry. in a car wreck along with a Laurinburg bricklayer. than previously expected. The 90-cent tax rate under charges he drove at 100 MPH, collided Oct. 18 – County and town officers catch Sudie Mae Truzerls, Wilhelmenia Davis Hardie, is suggested for the county’s budget. with a state patrol car and left the scene without moonshiners in the act when they uncover a Richard Simon McLean and Albert McIver die May 23 - Dr. C.C. Applewhite, Dr. J.W.R. reporting an accident. large ‘shine operation on the Raeford-Rockfish of injuries sustained in the head-on collission. Norton, Dr. Julius Jordan and Mrs. John A. May 3- A man who caused an accident in Road about five miles from town. Feb. 7 - The Hoke County commissioners ask McGoogan dedicate the Hoke County Health which a father and son were killed receives a Oct. 25 - Hoke representatives and those Congress to allow tobacco farmers placing their Center in memory of John A. McGoogan. 10-year sentence for each death. from local phone companies meet with state alloted acres in the acreage reserve program or June 6 - John F. Campbell is named the new May 10 – The single shot voting law applies utilities officials to determine if phone service soil bank to be paid for the tobacco not grown president of the Raeford Chamber of Com- to Hoke although not to every county in the should be provided to McCain to Raeford or at the rate of 50 percent of parity, rather than at merce at the annual chamber Board of Directors state. The law requires that where more than Aberdeen or both. the current rate of 18 cents per pound. meeting. one position is to be filled, such as on the county Nov. 1 - A fire truck, with the capacity to carry Feb. 14 - Two Rockingham men who worked Hoke County High School confers degrees board of commissioners, a voter must vote for 500 gallons of water, is bought for the Rural Fire as painters on the county schools are charged to 53 graduates at the 1957 graduation exercises. as many candidates as there are seats to have Dept. It will be kept at Town Hall. with stealing about $350 worth of paint from June 20 - The A&P Tea Co. plans to bring a his vote counted. Nov. 15 – A census report shows 5,928 bales the West Elementary School. new grocery store to Raeford as Roy Purser of May 17 – The school board approves plans of cotton ginned in Hoke from the crop of 1956 Feb. 21 - The Raeford Jaycees honor president Raleigh buys the McKeithan residential property for a West Hoke School on Turnpike Road and as of Nov. 1 as compared to 5,892 ginned the Bion Brewer with the Distinguished Service on South Main Street with intent to build a store for an addition to the J.W. McLauchlin School same time last year. Award and present the first Outstanding Young there and lease it to the company. in Raeford. Nov. 22 – An estimated 150 joined the Hoke Farmer award to D.R. Huff Jr. June 27 - The county Board of Commissioners May 24 – June Hall is valedictorian, and County Farm Bureau. Christine McRae, 25, identified as “colored,” sets the tax rate at 90 cents per $100 valuation Tommy Harris is salutatorian at Hoke High. Nov. 29 – A tentative date for union demands is charged with the alleged murder of her four- based on a $23.1 million valuation. The entire May 31 - The county board sets a tax rate of at the Priebe-Pietrus Poultry Co. plant is Dec. 14. year-old son, Jerry. An autopsy report describes county budget is set at $178,110, while the school $1.30 per $100 valuation for fiscal year ’57, a five Wrecks kill two on Hoke highways, bringing the cause of death as “brain hemorrhage caused board budget for the year is set at $94,358. cents hike over the previous year. the traffic fatality number to 11 this year. by blows.” The child was reportedly treated for Hoke County is assigned one of 120 un- June 7 – Pacific Mills, a member company Dec. 6 - Douglas McPhaul is named chairman burns to his hands the week before his death. marked Highway Patrol cars, marking the first of Burlington Industries, takes over Amerotron of the new county board. Feb. 28 - General manager L.D. Coates of the time in more than two years that unmarked plant here. The death of a man who had just been com- Priebe-Pietrus Poultry Co. announces company cars will patrol the highways as a result of a bill June 14 – Estimated school building needs missioned a 2nd Lt. in the Army and was on employees will vote on whether they should be enacted in the state General Assembly. are $500,000. It is pointed out that Hoke spends his way to report for duty brings Hoke’s traffic represented by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters July 4 - The Raeford town tax rate is set at a lot less on building and repairs than surround- fatality number this year to 13. A man injured and Butchers of America. $1.05 per $100 valuation, based on a $6 million ing counties. in a previous wreck dies. March 7 - Dr. Perry Odom, a chiropractor, property valuation. This was a decrease from the June 21 – A McCain man dies when he Dec. 20 - Two more traffic deaths, one of them is arrested and charged with allegedly assault- 1956 tax levy of $1.50 per $100 valuation, based attempted to repair an elevator at the TB Sana- a little 7-year-old girl running to catch her school ing with intent to commit rape against Verna on a $4 million property valuation. torium and gets his head caught between the bus, brings the number of Hoke’s fatalities to 15. Stanton, the wife of Police Chief L.W. Stanton. The Flora Macdonald College trustees file elevator and the floor. Raeford Baptist Church’s entry in the Stanton reportedly sought to have the sheriff’’s suit to prevent the school from merging with June 28 – Raeford Bakery in the Raeford Christmas Parade, entitled The Holy Bible, is office make the arrest due to his personal con- any other institution. The Presbyterian Synod Hotel bakes a 131-pound cake to celebrate its the leading float. nection, but the sheriff was absent from the of North Carolina accepted earlier this week a first anniversary and will share it with customers. Dec. 27 – A tenant farming family of 11 office at the time. motion directing trustees of Flora Macdonald, July 5 – Pacific Mills promises town officials has four of their members in jail or doing road March 14 - A majority of the employees at Peace College and Presbyterian Junior College it will be a good neighbor. work over the Christmas holiday. Not happy the Priebe-Pietrus Poultry Co. vote in favor of to execute an agreement of consolidation. Lau- Burlington Mills is to be the target of Textile with this situation, The News-Journal writes a representation by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters rinburg was selected as the site of the proposed Workers Union of America and the AFL-CIO. scathing editorial condemning the system that and Butcher Workers of North America. merged college. July 12 – The new health center on East landed the father and three of his young sons in The county commissioners of Hoke and July 11 - The Hoke County ASC office con- Central is to be dedicated to John A. McGoogan. trouble with the law. Moore counties hold a joint meeting and agree tinues making soil bank payments on wheat, July 19- The cotton crop prospects are the to allow Moore County to annex the Little River cotton and tobacco. The payments began in the best in several years, farmers are told. Moisture Township. last week of June. A total of $89,337 has been conditions are said to be excellent. 1957 March 21 - The Chamber of Commerce paid out to local farmers. July 26 – Hoke farmers agree to remove Jan. 3 - Law enforcement officers go to destroy prepares for a meeting regarding the plan to July 18 - The Raeford Chamber of Commerce 247 acres from production under the 1956 Soil a moonshine still near McNeill’s pond and run “Keep Raeford Ahead.” Board of Directors agree on a contract with Phil Bank Program. across two men allegedly in the process of mak- March 28 - William “Bill” Clark, salesman at B. Rieg to be the first full-time professional man- Aug. 2 – For the second year in a row, all ing moonshine. The officers chase the subjects the Raeford Lumber Co., is elected president of ager at the Chamber. Rieg, from Fayetteville, was Hoke schools will open at the same time - Indian, but are unable to capture them. Frank Jones and the Raeford Jaycees, succeeding J. Bion Brewer. extensively interviewed before the board voted white and colored. Hugh Carter are later charged with violating the April 4 - Harriet McCall, 52, is charged with unanimously to offer him the position. Aug. 9 – County commissioners meet with prohiition laws. allegedly stabbing her husband of 35 years, Rufus July 25 - Heavy rainfall this week brings members of a rural firefighting committee and Jan. 10 - John W. Flannery is installed as McCall. McCall survived the injury and report- much needed relief to suffering crops throughout take the first step of establishing fire protection for president of the Raeford Kiwanis Club. edly asked police to release his wife from prison. the county, with up to nearly two inches of rain rural communities by pledging matching funds. The people of Little River Township, with April 11 - Educators, supporters and guests reported in a single night. Many crops have Aug. 16 – Money is available and plans are former county Commissioner John Smith as celebrate the National Education Association’s already been damaged by the dry weather. made to pave all the streets in Raeford. their leader, request to have the township annexed centennial in Raeford. The Hoke County school board sets Sept. 5 as Aug. 23 – Hoke Oil & Fertilizer Co. an- to Moore County. The Hoke County board ap- April 18 - The countywide tax valuation opening day for the public schools, marking the nounces the building of a new housing develop- proved the request “with regret.” Reasons cited project appraises local taxpayers’ property second year that all segregated schools begin on ment in Raeford. Westside Heights will be located included the fact that the Fort Bragg reservation values, using standards approved by a county the same day. The board also agrees that action near the water plant and north of Sunset Hills. has separated the township from the rest of the commission committee. is necessary to deal with the problem of school Aug. 30 – A Hoke High booster club is formed county for many years. The Raeford Kiwanis Club begins planning overcrowding. to sell season tickets to finance athletic programs. Roscoe Artis, sometimes known as Roscoe a two-month program of organized and super- Aug. 1 - L.D. Coats, manager of the Priebe- 24 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Pietrus Poulty Co., announces that the parent alleged victim of the attack, Linda Mack, was company has signed a contract with the Amal- sentenced to 30 days in woman’s prison for gamated Butchers and Meat Cutters for four contempt of court. Mack reportedly lied under plants, including the Raeford plant. The contracts oath regarding the date of her marriage. Raeford’s downtown gin cover operations in Arkansas, Iowa and Concord, Trial begins in the case of Dr. Perry Odom, N.C. Pay scales are set to rise to $1.09 for women a local chiropractor charged with assault with and $1.15 for men. intent to rape Verna Stanton, wife of Police Chief Raeford Gin, located on South Main The gin fell on hard times during the Aug. 8 - A venereal disease survey of the L.W. Stanton. Street, began operations in the fall of 1925. Depression when shares fell, and the gin entire population of Hoke County is planned Aug. 29 - Woodrow Jackson of Smithfield is The principal stockholder was E.L. McNair received a new charter. The gin was leased by the Hoke County Health Department, the served with three warrants in charges brought of Laurinburg, who was president of the cor- to Marshall Thomas briefly in 1945. The North Carolina Board of Health and the U.S. against him including assault with a deadly poration. Marshall Thomas was secretary charter was suspended Feb. 1, 1946 and Public Health Service. The survey is expected to weapon, assault with intent to commit rape and and treasurer. Other stockholders were E.H. reinstated Nov. 9 of that same year. The take three weeks and will be completed through the larceny of jewelry valued at $200. He was Evans of Laurinburg, John McDiarmid, reason for the suspension was failure to teams working the streets on Saturdays and going released on a $5,000 bond. from house to house in the county, taking small The jury seated for the trial of Dr. Perry Lewis Parker and J.W. McLauchlin. pay a $10 fee. blood samples from each person who agrees to Odom deliberates for less than five minutes this Bookkeeper was Younger Snead Sr. Hoke Oil and Fertilizer Company be part of the survey. week before finding him not guilty of assault The gin was one of the best equipped in bought interests in the company and gained The Hoke County commissioners witness on a female. Earlier in the day, Judge Malcolm the country, according to him. The steel control in 1947 until its last year of opera- the pouring out of about 200 gallons of non-tax- Seawell reduced the charge from assault with structure held “the very best” equipment tion in 1965. paid liquor of various descriptions. The liquor intent to commit rape to simple assault. that cost $45,000. He recalls ginning 131 Marshall Thomas and brother J.B. represented about a year’s worth of seized bottles Sept. 5 - Raeford district principal W.T. bales in one day. Wagons filled with cotton leased the gin in 1947 and operated it for brought in as evidence for the recorder’s court. Gibson reports both schools in Raeford showed sometimes lined up Harris Avenue back many years. Later, J.B. McLeod, son-in-law The liquor is poured out into the street gutter sizable increases in opening day enrollment over to the Laurinburg Highway waiting to get of J.B., operated the gin. next to the courthouse. opening day of 1956. to the gin. King cotton fell from its throne in Aug. 15 - James McRae, 4, is taken to the Sept. 12 - The Longstreet Presbyterian Other early employees were Lucy the South and the need for cotton gins hospital this week after being hit by a Pure Oil Church celebrates its 200th anniversary. More Co. truck from Aberdeen. The child is reported to than 400 people attended the service at the McNeill, Harvey Cole, A.R. Currie, Julian dwindled. Raeford Gin ginned its last bale be in fair condition at Moore Memorial Hospital. church, located on the Fort Bragg reservation. Wright, Buck McPhaul and Rufus Kelly. in 1965, and the building remained empty Sheriff D.H. Hodgin reports that the investiga- Sept. 19 - The town commissioners discuss a T.B. Lester was the next bookkeeper, fol- until it was dismantled in 1971. tion is underway. letter from Dr. Perry Odom, local chiropractor, lowed by D.C. Cox. Aug. 22 - A mistrial is declared in the case addressed to the town and the town’s attorney. of Rufus McRae, charged with manslaughter Odom demands the discharge of Police Chief in the fatal beating of his wife’s child. McRae’s L.W. Stanton or the publication of a public apol- intend to sue the town or Stanton. tion laws. While the jailer was away from the jail, case and that of Christine McRae, also charged ogy to him by Stanton, and says he will sue the Sept. 26 - Raeford Police Department Officer Smith called from the jail and asked him to quiet with manslaughter, are continued to November. town for Stanton’s having assaulted him unless G.G. Faircloth allegedly enters the cellblock at the other prisoners, but at the time Faircloth and Roscoe McMillian, charged with rape, is one of these actions is taken. The board defers the county jail this week and beats a prisoner. Officer Marvin Grissom entered the cellblock, given a six-month sentence for simple assault, action to the next meeting, but a letter from Odom Faircloth reportedly says that he locked up Jettie Smith was speaking loudly and indecently. When suspended on payment of costs of court. The to The News-Journal states that Odom does not Hood Smith, 47, identified as “colored,” to be Smith did not respond to orders to stop, Faircloth charged with driving drunk and violating prohibi- reportedly entered the cell, where Smith allegedly

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The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 25 assaulted him before the officer hit Smith on the Sheriff Dave Hodgin takes out a warrant on in school bonds from the county head with a blackjack and then continued to hit Nathaniel Graham in connection with the death of commission. The money, repre- him. The case will go to court. his wife, Naomi McPhaul Graham. An autoposy senting a 25-cent tax rate increase, The Raeford Baptist Church breaks ground on report reveals that Graham died due to non-fatal would be set aside for a new high a new education building, including a basement, blows to the head and exposure to severe cold. school facility. new classrooms and an assembly hall. Dec. 26 - Little River Township prepares to be March 27 - Clara Frierson Oct. 3 - James M. Horner, 32, and Billy Gordy, annexed into Moore County. The move is likely is found guilty of assault with a 29, of Fayetteville are charged with manslaughter to have little effect on Hoke County, officials say. deadly weapon after witnesses tes- in connection with the death of Sarah Moultrie tify in court that she attacked Sara Quick Lindsay, Hoke County resident. Peterkin with a coal shovel during Oct. 10 - The J.M. McGougan family receives 1958 a disupte at a church society meet- the Master Farm Family award from the Progres- Jan. 9 - The state drops the case against ing. The sentence was suspended sive Farmer Magazine and the North Carolina Christine and Rufus McRae, accused of man- on payment of $75 for the hospital Agricultural Extension Service. The award is slaughter in connection with the death of their bill. Frierson allegedly assaulted given to six families in the state every four years. son Jerry, 4. The prosecutor takes a “nol pros Peterkin during a dispute about The award is presented at a ceremony at the farm. with leave,” meaning the case can be reopened who would be elected a delegate Oct. 17 - Robert Lovette, 17, and John Carter, in the event new evidence appears. The child to a missionary conference. 18, appear in court to answer multiple charges in a died after being burned and beaten, according Mary Cummings charges six series of break-ins and thefts in the county. Carter to an autopsy report. men of the McCain area with and Lovette reportedly confessed to breaking Jan. 23 - Mamie Harris is charged with rape. Cummings reports that into Hoke High School, Matherly’s Pool Room abandoning, neglecting and failing to care for while walking home from the Martha Reynolds holds the reins during one of and the Mildouson School, allegedly stealing her four minor children. Judge Harry Greene After Hours Club, the men took Hoke’s wagon train trips. cash and objects. Each receives a sentence of sentences her to a year in the woman’s prison her into the woods and raped her. two years, suspended for probation of two years. in Raleigh. The children are taken into custody In custody in relation to the case May 29 - The Priebe-Pietrus Poultry Co. will Oct. 24 - The body of Bradley McDowell by the county welfare department. are James Harris, 20, Willie Ross, 27 and David resume operation under L.G. Frahm, new plant Norton is discovered in Hodgin Pond at Antioch, Jan. 30 - Kenneth A. MacDonald is named Jones, 18, who are held without bond. manager, the company announces. The plant about 75 yards from where his boat is found, Man of the Year by the Raeford Kiwanis Club at April 3 - James Harris, 20, Willie Ross, 27 will operate three days a week and move up after searchers spend two days looking for him. the organization’s annual awards night and ban- and David Jones, 18, plead not guilty to a charge to full-time operation as orders for production Jettie Hood Smith pleads not guilty to driving quet. The award was presented by Robert Gatlin. of rape in recorder’s court. The case is sent to increase. Raymond Maxwell continues as plant a car while under the influence of alcohol and North Carolina Gov. Luther H. Hodges tours county Superior Court. The other three suspects superintendent. assaulting a law enforcement officer while in the the Raeford Pacific Mills plant and speaks to a have not been apprehended. June 5 - About 2,600 Hoke County voters line of duty. Smith is found guilty on all three group of local farmers, businessmen and families April 10 - Hoke County Board of Elections turn out to accept $920,000 in school bonds for counts and a one year sentence is suspended on at Hoke County High School. Hodges addresses Chairman W.L. Poole approves a petition re- construction of a new high school. The voters payment of $150 and costs. the local campaign to improve and support the questing a liquor referendum on the same day choose not to allow the legal sale of alcohol in Oct. 31 - The Goodall-Sanford plant at Hot farm economy. as the May 31 Democratic primary election. The the county Springs transfers to Raeford Worsted Corp. and Feb. 6 - The Raeford Jaycees presents Angus referendum will allow people to vote whether A group of 61 seniors receive diplomas from will add new equipment to increase the produc- Currie with the Distinguished Service Award to have a legally-controlled store for the sale Hoke County High School at spring graduation tion of the plant, with employment expected to at the annual awards ceremony. The Outstand- of alcoholic beverages or whether to remain a exercises. Dr. Bruce Whitakers, president of increase in the future. ing Young Farmer Award is presented to John dry county. Chowan College, presents the commencement Nov. 7 - The hunt is on for the killer of two Balfour. April 17 - The Hoke County Recreation address. North Carolina Highway patrolmen. The subject Feb. 13 - For the second year, Hoke County Program Inc. is formed this week as an entity to June 12 - Floyd Blue and Malloy Whitley is suspected to have stopped and bought gasoline High School leads the state in the percentage of seek $3,000 to continue the successful summer plead not guilty to charges of assault with a deadly at a Raeford filling station before traveling to high school graduates pursuing higher education recreation program for local youth. The previous weapon causing serious injury and pain. Blue is Tennessee and abandoning the stolen vehicle. at colleges, universities and technical schools, summer program saw hundreds of young people found guilty of simple assault, with sentence of Nov. 14 - The North Carolina Utilities Com- Superintendent K.A. MacDonald announces. participate in supervised activities. 30 days on the roads suspended for payment of mission suspends the higher rates applied for by In 1957, more than 70 percent of Hoke High April 24 - The McCain Sanatorium celebrates a $10 fine. Whitley is found guilty of simple as- Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co. until a graduates went on to pursue further academic its 50th anniversary this week. The hospital pays sault and sentenced to six months on the roads, December hearing. or career training. tribute to its workers and founders. The sanato- suspended for payment of a $25 fine. Nov. 21 - Roscoe Wilson, 4, reportedly runs Feb. 20 - A meningitis case at Hoke County rium was the first of its kind founded in the state. June 19 - Racing, speeding and illegal whiskey in front of a car driven by Ruth Levi and is taken High School causes Principal W.T. Gibson Jr. to May 1 - James Harris, 20, Willie Ross, 27 and are involved in a fatal wreck on N.C. Highway to Cape Fear Valley Hospital. His condition is provide all students with sulfa tablets intended to David Jones, 18, enter a guilty plea of assault on 211 that kills one and injures others. Theodore not critical and no charges are filed. protect them from the disease. Student William a female in county Superior Court. Harris recives McNeill, 42, was fatally injured when he crashed Nov. 28 - The United Fund campaign to raise Edmunds was taken to Robeson Hospital this a sentence of 18 months on the roads and Ross his car into the rear of a car belonging to a family money for good causes reaches 80 percent of its week and diagnosed with meningitis. receives a sentence of two years on the roads. having a picnic on the roadside. Flying metal also $8,325 goal. Feb. 27 - Over 15,000 bags of sugar are scat- Jones is sentenced to one year on the roads, but injures the owner of the other car, Wayne Cashatt. Dec. 5 - Raeford and Hoke County represen- tered along Highway 401 when a cargo truck runs the court considers probation for Jones because June 26 - Patsy Jean Cameron is named tatives agree to pool resources and purchase a off the road and overturns. The driver reports of his youth. Miss Hoke County at the third annual beauty two-way radio system for the police and sheriff that his truck was sideswiped by another truck May 8 - The Hoke County Board of Commis- pageant. Each of the girls appear in a bathing offices. The cost of the complete system is $640, traveling in the opposite direction. sioners adopts a fiscal year budget of $176,390, suit, evening gown and talent competition at the and it offers six units in the system, four mobile March 6 - Robert Barbour visits with the with a 93-cent tax rate. The tax is 3 cents higher Jaycee-sponsored event. units and two base stations. Raeford town board and the Community Coun- than the previous year due to the loss of about July 3 - The News-Journal subscription rates The Raeford Chamber of Commerce and the cil, discussing a plan to support the organized $800,000 valuation when Little River township are raised to $4 a year to compensate for the rise Raeford Jaycees present the annual Christmas growth of Raeford. Barbour, a member of the was annexed to Moore County. The budget is in the cost of newsprint and the extra expense of parade, expected to be the largest yet with two City Planning Division of the state Board of about $1,700 less than the prior year. publishing photographs. bands and 25 floats. Conservation and Development, suggests a plan The Raeford tax rate remains the same, $1.05 Dr. A.L. O’Briant is appointed Hoke County Dec. 12 - Paratrooper Robert Ridgeway is that would help increase parking space, location per $100 valuation, as it was in 1957. The Raeford health officer succeeding Dr. J.W. Wilcox. pulled out of his carrier plane over Hoke County of throughfares, prevention of slum areas and commissioners approve a budget of $130,010 for O’Briant has practiced medicine in Hoke County and landed near the Oakdale gin on the farm of planning for future development. the fiscal year. since 1938. Clyde Upchurch Sr. Ridgeway landed safely and March 13 - Elmer Parnell, manager of Home May 15 - A fire at the Raeford Auto Co. July 10 - Patsy Jean Cameron travels to was the guest of the Upchurch family for lunch Furniture Co., announces that a group of local severely burns a mechanic and damages the Charlotte to compete in the Miss North Carolina before returning to Fort Bragg. businessmen have obtained financial backing facility. A gas line leak in a truck undergoing beauty pageant after winning the title of Miss The Raeford Chamber of Commerce submits for a Raeford credit bureau. Included in the repairs sparked a fire when workers placed a Hoke County. The Raeford Young Men’s Club a plan to raise farm income. The immediate committee are W.L. Howell Jr., J.W. Canaday lamp underneath the vehicle. Fred Garrett suf- sponsors her in the contest. goal for 1958 is to add another $1 million to the and Homer McGuinn. The group had difficulty fered second and third degree burns and was July 17 - Hoke County is classified as a county’s farm income through cooperation be- finding financing for the venture for about two taken to Cape Fear Valley Hospital. military zone of the new civil defense plan put in tween local companies, farmers and farm agents. years but eventually worked out a deal through May 22 - A group of local citizens hold a place at the request of Gov. Luther Hodges. The Dec. 19 - Nine people are sentenced for membership fees and the Raeford Chamber of meeting planning opposition to the establishment county will accept evacuees from other counties stealing a total of more than 200 bushels of corn. Commerce. of legal liquor stores in Hoke County. The com- in the event of an air attack. County officials also Sentences of 90 days are suspended in all cases March 20 - The Hoke County Board of Edu- mittee, chaired by T.B. Upchurch, urges everyone learn of the method of evacuating Hoke County on payment of a small fine and costs. cation votes unanimously to request $920,000 concerned with the issue to attend. in the event of such an emergency. 26 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial July 24 - An early morning fire at a home desegregation. competitive races removes most Hoke County parts of the county. Schools are shut down and near Raeford destroys the farm tenant dwelling Sept. 25 - A young couple arguing over voters’ interest in voting in the general election businesses close. and badly burns Hester Deberry, daughter of marital troubles were arrested for fighting this this week, as the county has the lowest voter Dec. 18 - Long-time Hoke County Schools Ed Deberry. The house is destroyed in the fire week. Betty Sinclair, wife of Walter G. Sinclair, turnout to the polls in a decade. Fewer than 700 Superintendent K.A. MacDonald announces he and local residents donate clothing and other as- a soldier at Fort Bragg, reportedly attempted to people cast votes in the election. will retire this year. The school board selects sistance to the family. Faulty wiring is identified hang herself in the Hoke County jail, according Nov. 13 - The Raeford Chamber of Commerce Hoke County High School Principal W.T. Gibson as the cause of the fire. to sheriff’s reports. Sinclair was charged with and sponsors a clean-up day in town, calling the event Jr. as his replacement. July 31 - Edwin Johnson, 33, a U.S. Navy pled guilty to simple assault against his wife and “Company’s Comin’.” Committee Chairman Dec. 25 - Joe Oxendine is taken to the hospital veteran, is killed while attempting to escape from received 30 days suspended on payment of a $10 C.P. Kinlaw and the Raeford Woman’s Club after being shot five times allegedly by a friend, a road gang. In 1951, Johnson was sentenced to 12 fine and court costs. worked together to create suggestions about how Junior Goodman, at Goodman’s home. The two years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon Oct. 2 - The Hoke County United Fund drive to improve the town’s appearance. The recom- were reportedly drinking. Oxendine is reported with intent to kill and a companion charge of as- begins this week with a goal of raising $12,000 mendations include cutting grass along the sides in serious condition while Goodman is charged sault with a deadly weapon. Johnson and another for charitable causes. Campaign chairman Paul of the streets and in vacant lots. with assault with a deadly weapon with intent prisoner reportedly ran from the road crew and Dickson announces a kick-off supper. Nov. 20 - The Hoke County Board of Com- to kill, larceny of an automobile and a previous Johnson was killed by a guard. Oct. 9 - County school Superintendent K.A. missioners employ additional tax workers for the charge of manufacturing of whiskey. Aug. 7 - Montgomery Dairy’s new fortified MacDonald meets with school committe Chair- county tax collector’s office to assist in cracking milk claims that it “supplies practically all your man A.H. McPhaul and Hoke County High down on property owners who have not paid daily vitamin and mineral needs.” School principal W.T. Gibson to discuss plans their taxes. The collectors will assist in making 1959 Aug. 14 - Raymond McNeill, identified as for the new Hoke County High School facility. contacts and property seizures as necessary. Jan. 8 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club installs J.H. “colored,” dies from a gunshot wound to the face The plans arrive this week from Architect T.T. Nov. 27 - Caldwell Hollingsworth is found not Austin as president succeeding Charles Hostetler. at a nightclub north of Raeford. McNeill was al- Haynes of Southern Pines. guilty in the shooting death of Raymond McNeill Other officers installed by Benton Thomas are legedly shot by Carwell Hollingsworth, operator Oct. 16 - The Hoke County United Fund on the night of Aug. 8. Hollingsworth, charged Clyde Upchurch Jr., vice president and A.H. of the Ace High Club, during an argument over reports collecting pledges exceeding its goal with murder, was found not guilty by a jury in McPhaul, secretary and treasurer. a pig’s foot. Hollingsworth is held without bond. of $12,000. The amount includes a donation of about half an hour. The killing was declared at The Raeford town board seeks federal aid to Aug. 21 - Charles McCartney, a wandering $8,000 from the 1,400 workers of Pacific Mills. the time to be the culmination of an argument build a government-required sewage disposal evangelist known as “The Goat Man,” visits Oct. 23 - The A&P supermarket advertises over a pig’s foot. plant at the cost of $450,000. A survey of the area’s Raeford in a wagon pulled by his team of goats. T-bone steaks for 95 cents per pound, a 10-pound Dec. 4 - Dr. Julius Jordan is elected perma- streams revealed pollution in the water, signaling Aug. 28 - Local law enforcement officers warn bag of potatoes for 49 cents, a four-pound bag of nent chairman of the new Hoke County Board that the present sewage disposal plant for the farmers of night-owl tobacco thieves operating in apples for 29 cents and a dozen glazed donuts of Commissioners at their meeting this week. town is inadequate. Engineer Richard Moore the county. Farmers report losing as much as 500 for 33 cents. Sworn in by Clerk of Superior Court M.D. Yates of Asheboro draws up plans for the new plant. pounds of tobacco from their barns to thieves. Oct. 30 - The Raeford town board plans to are Jordan, J.H. Blue, C.C. Conoly, J.A. Webb Jan. 15 - John A. McCoy, a prisoner working Sept. 4 - The Raeford Chamber of Commerce improve the local water system by adding an and Lacy McNeill. on the roadway on U.S. Highway 401, is struck by announces a membership drive. President Dr. old backup pump to improve water pressure The Raeford Theatre premieres Cecil B. a vehicle driven by Livio Virgil Zanotti of Miami. Riley Jordan urgers local business, industry and and supply. The demand for water increases as DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” for a Witnesses report Zanotti narrowly misses hitting professional individuals to join the chamber. the Pacific Mills plant, the town’s largest water seven-day engagement. a flagman before running into McCoy. McCoy is Sept. 18 - More than 180 children enroll in customer, increases production. The plant’s water Dec. 11 - Hoke County experiences the larg- taken to the hospital with a broken leg and severe first grade in Hoke County’s white schools this bill is often as much as $2,000 a month. est snowfall many have seen in decades, with cuts while Zanotti is charged with careless and month as the national and state debate rages over Nov. 6 - Lack of impending issues and drifts of 10 inches or more reported in some reckless driving. ngratulatio Hok ial o ns e County Centenn C Hoke County! Raeford Eye Clinic 404 S. Main St. • Raeford, NC Your “On-Sight” Facility We are proud (910) 875-5114 to be a part 100 of your History! CliniC Years Hours Mon. - Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. - 12

Charles T. Inman, O.D. Unilever HPC NA Suzanne W. Balfour, Optician Raeford Plant The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 27 members instruct the town attorney to confer ules will allow all postal patrons in the area to with the local General Assembly representative. receive first-class mail overnight. The mail must The Hoke County Board of Commissioners be deposited in the larger offices prior to 5 p.m. These folks lived in three centuries pass a resolution authorizing the sale of $920,000 and in smaller offices before the final dispatch in bonds for a new high school. Local voters of the day. They are a people of kindred spirit who late 1920s. When her husband died in 1955, passed the issue in a special vote the previous year. Mayor Alfred Cole states “We are seeking to inspired others. They had perseverance, she took over the business. The mother of March 12 - Carole Ann Marshall of McCain help Raeford grow,” as the town board welcomes were strong in body and character, loved four children, she thought she had to feed is killed instantly in a car wreck this week as she two new members and three returning members family, friends and community, and had a every person who came to her home. De- and three other girls return to Greensboro College to its first post-election meeting. The Clerk of strong faith in God. Most lived lives that scribed as a brave woman, she was a few from a shopping trip in Chapel Hill. Also killed Superior Court swears in J.D. McMillian and touched three centuries. months short of her 100th birthday when is her roommate, Edna Childress, of Virginia. Clyde Upchurch Jr. as new members and also John McKinnion was born April 8, 1892 she passed away on April 4, 1998. March 19 - The Raeford town board meets swears in Marion Gatlin, John K. McNeill and with workmen from the North Carolina Natural Angus Currie, who have previously served on in South Carolina to parents who were a Margaret Cameron Keith was born on Gas Co. to investigate locating the trunk lines the board. The outgoing members were A.V. blacksmith and a cook. He became a farmer July 9, 1893 to Samuel Johnson and Mar- for gas service in the town. Charles Hostetler Sanders and Tom Cameron. and self-employed carpenter, and he and garet McKeithan Cameron. Her family was represents the Carolina Power and Light Co. and June 11 - Hoke County school board members his wife of 74 years, Ollierena, reared 11 one of those transplanted when Ft. Bragg Donald McCol discusses how to safely install award contracts totalling $838,995 for construc- children. At age 107 he was honored as took their land in 1918. As a young woman, the lines without risk of explosion. The town tion of a new high school and work at Scurlock the oldest living Mason in North Carolina. she accompanied her father to Raleigh to board approves appointing a safety inspector to School, Hawkeye School and Upchurch High He was described as a gentleman of real witness firsthand the birth of Hoke County. oversee the project. School. Bids are awarded to A.G. Carter, Speros character who inspired others. He died at She married Angus Calvin Keith on Janu- March 26 - Local farmer Tom Holland shoots Construction Co. and Ballou Construction Co. age 109. ary 15, 1919 in Sandy Grove Presbyterian his wife in the leg, wounding her severely while The work is expected be completed in time for A country woman, Nancy Ray did a lot Church, now on the Fort Bragg reservation. five of the couple’s 14 children look on. Son the 1961 school year. Rickey Holland reported wrestling with his father June 18 - Mayor Alfred Cole announces a of walking. She walked to another’s home Aquilla McPhatter Jones was the only for control of the shotgun after his mother was long-needed improvement in the town’s sewage to do housework and then walked home child of Deacon and Roberta McPhatter. shot. Holland is held without bail in the county disposal system. The town awarded a bid of to care for three sons. Born in Rockfish to She worked as a welder in the Brooklyn jail while his wife’s condition remains critical $13,977 to Outen Brothers Ditching Co. to add former slaves Neill and Ann McNeill Ray, Navy Yard during World War II for $50 a at a hospital. sewer lines in the southwest section of Raeford, she was one of 12 children. During her week, sending much of her money to her April 2 - Mrs. Tom Holland’s leg is amputated with work scheduled to begin quickly. Cole also more than 111 years of living, she never left family in Hoke County. Born April 5, 1904, after she is shot by her husband at near point- announced adding a fourth police officer to the the county. Neighboring children enjoyed she survived a stroke to live well past 100 blank range. The only reason Holland, who was town’s staff, with Charlie Proctor scheduled to the tea cakes she baked and stored in a years old. “I prayed a lot,” she said on her drinking, gave for the shooting was that his wife report for work July 1. pillowcase to keep flies away. A Sunday 100 birthday before bursting into song: had been away from home all day, Sheriff D.H. June 25 - D.R. Huff, a farmer in Quewhiffle, is school teacher for many years at St. Peter “Lord, hold my hand while I run this race.” Hodgin says. Holland remains in jail. allegedly assaulted by three trespassers, identified April 16 - Tom Holland pleads guilty of a as “negro.” Huff told police that he discovered Missionary Baptist Church, her advice to Maggie Rucker believed “if you sow charge of assault with a deadly weapon and not Maggie Lee Watson, Junior Watson and Marie youth was to remember their raising and good seeds, you will reap good seeds.” guilty to the accompanying charge of intending McMillan picking blackberries on his property, to be nice to others. She and her husband, Booker T. Rucker, to kill his wife when he shot her in the leg. Judge and the three beat him with a shoe when he told The Rev. Isaiah Locklear was the lived in Duffie for 40 years. The mother Harry Green allows bond at $5,000. them to leave. The two women are found guilty founding pastor of South Hoke Baptist of six is an excellent cook who mothered April 23 - Lola McNeill is found guilty of of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to Church. When called to preach in 1928, he everyone else’s children. Those children assault on Mary McLauchlin and sentenced to six months in prison, suspended on payment of thought preaching was a burden but those recall her as beautiful and energetic but six months in prison, suspended on the payment a $30 fine and court costs, while Junior Watson, thoughts soon turned to joy. He preached mostly they remember her love. of a $58 hospital bill, a $50 fine and court costs. also found guilty in court, is sentenced to six his last sermon when he was 100. He was Alexander McQueen was 113 years She is required to be on good behavior for two months on the roads, suspended on payment of 101 when he passed away on June 10, 2001. old on Sept. 23, 1982. A blacksmith and years. She is also found not guilty of assault on a $30 fine and court costs. Jasper McLauchlin. July 2 - Hoke County experiences a 103-de- “There is no greater life than a life lived a farmer, he was the son of former slaves. April 30 - The Hoke County National Guard gree day this week as about an inch of rain falls for the Lord,” he said. He remembers being so poor that the reorganizes at Fort Bragg for a four-day shake- on dry crops. The severe rain and hail storms Pauline Terry Buie came to Hoke in family didn’t even have plates to eat from down training session. The unit, previously caused some slight crop damage but most farms 1913 with her family. She married Ed Buie, or mattresses to sleep on. He worked on organized as the 130th Tank Battalion is now escaped unharmed. and they opened Buie Funeral Home in the the courthouse when it was built in 1911. the 2nd Battalion of the 196th Armor Regiment, July 9 - Digging holes to collect rainwater for 30th Infantry Division. farm irrigation has saved Hoke County farmers May 14 - Hoke County High School increases $200-300 for every $100 investment this year, Jan. 22 - Livio Virgil Zanotti receives a one- not take off again. grades required for graduation, set to begin in the local Soil Conservation Service reports. year sentence on the roads for being droswy while Feb. 12 - Raeford needs a hospital to promote 1961. Students will be required to carry a 77 Using the rainwater has especially been helpful at the wheel of his vehicle and running into a further growth, hospital investigation com- or C average on 18 units of classes in order to in the Quewhiffle section of the county, agent prisoner on road detail. The sentence is suspended mittee Chairman Charles Hostetler tells the graduate. A special diploma will be issued for Furman Clark says. on payment of a $50 fine and court costs. Raeford Chamber of Commerce. The directors those who do not maintain a C average, giving July 16 - An alleged dispute over a girl at the Carpenter Willie Parks is killed after fall- make plans for a committee to promote the the student credit for completing 16 units with Chatterbox hangout leads to a Robeson County ing from a wall of a home under construction construction. less than a C average. The state minimum to youth being stabbed in the stomach. Police near Raeford and striking his head on concrete. Feb. 19 - The Rockfish 4-H Club plants pine graduate is 16 units. Chief Lawrence Stanton reports that Bethel Lee Worker Bill Smith reports seeing Parks fall from seedlings on school grounds with the help of May 21 - The U.S. Rubber Company opens its Bennett and Rufus Johnson, both of Robeson the wall of a home into the concrete flooring of director P.S. White. Farm agent Frank Williams new Raeford Warehouse this month, according to County, were arguing over a girl near Griffin’s the basement of the in-progress home. Parks dies instructs the students in planting. supervisor Ralph Plummer. The warehouse con- Bar-B-Que on Harris Avenue. Bennett allegedly of his injuries at a Fayetteville hospital. Feb. 26 - Funds are allocated to Hoke County tains 5,000 square-feet of space for storage and stabbed Johnson and ran from police before being Jan. 29 - J.D. McMillian is awarded the Ra- for driver education courses in public schools in was filled within only a few days, officials said. captured at his home. He is held without bail on eford Jaycees Distinguished Service Award for an effort to make roadways safer. Superintendent The Board of Education advertises for bids a charge of assault with a deadly weapon causing 1958 at the annual banquet held at McLauchlin K.A. MacDonald says he hopes to get the school on a plan to build two new county schools using serious pain and injury. School. Bobby Gibson receives the Outstanding program underway this year. $920,000 voters approved last year for the project. Raeford Pacific Mills plant workers Ernest Young Farmer award. March 5 - Charles Wallin of the Hill Direc- May 28 - Hoke County Schools retiring teach- Paul Atkinson and William Leroy McAllister Feb. 5 - The Raeford Kiwanis Club names the tory Co. of Virginia begins preliminary work ers and county Superintendent K.A. MacDonald die in a car wreck near Fairmont, while worker Rev. W.B. Heyward “Man of the Year” for 1958. on a Raeford city directory for the community. are honored at a surprise ceremony. MacDonald, Atlas Ned Bullock is taken to Robeson Memo- The reverend accepts the award on behalf of all The directory will list all residents alphabetically planning to retire this year, served as superinten- rial Hospital with a fractured skull and other the clergymen in town. The award is presented with street addresses and telephone numbers. dent of schools for a quarter of a century. internal injuries. at the annual club banquet. The list will also include whether homes are June 4 - Mail service improvements designed July 23 - John Henry McNeill, 10, identified A National Guard airplane flown by Major rented or owned. to guarantee next-day first-class delivery for about as “negro,” reportedly runs into the road on U.S. J.B. Mullineaux and Lt. J.W. Lipscomb experi- The Raeford town board discusses staggering 1.6 million people in the state are announced Highway 401 and is killed by an oncoming car. ences engine trouble and makes a safe landing member terms and implementing longer terms through Raeford postmaster D.C. Cox. Residents The child’s older brother, Prentiss Jr., reports to on Wire Road. The helicopter sent to assist the so that the situation will not arise that an entirely are assurred that barring occasional distribution police that the two were gathering soft drink pilots also experienced engine trouble and could new board should serve the town. The board errors and mechanical failures, revised sched- bottles on the side of the road and did not see the 28 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial

4,000 students. The number is up by more than 400 students from the previous year. The Raeford town board discusses whether to charge people more for water services if White Oak School they live outside the town limits. Angus Currie made a motion to add a 50 percent charge for out-of-town water customers, but the motion is defeated in a vote. Sept. 24 - The state announces the “point” system for driving records, with points accruing for each convicted offense. Offenses and penalties include five points for passing a stopped school bus, four points for reckless driving, three for failure to yield the right of way and two for a moving violation. Collecting 12 points within two years leads to a license suspension. Oct. 1 - Al Stanley, manager of Lumberton Hannah Springs radio station WTSB, applies to the Federal taught from 1950 un- Communications Commission for a permit to til the school closed. operate a radio station in Raeford. The standard broadcast facility will broadcast for 17 hours a day under his request, with antenna for the new station located eight miles east of Raeford city limits on U.S. 401. Dan Melvin, 24, dies after being shot at the White Oak School, constructed in 1926 “Sunset Park” dance hall. Fred Currie and Ralph Warren are arrested on charges related to the death. Another man, Egypt Morgan, is severely injured by a knife at the same night club, with Bobby Lee Leach charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. All men involved are identified as “colored.” Oct. 7 - The Raeford Jaycees sponsor a Hoke County fair at the National Guard Armory. Exhibitors from all over the county arrive to showcase crops, vegetables, canning, flowers, youth work and more. Oct. 15 - Work on a sewer system line raises a stink in town this week as the open line begins piping sewage into Peddler’s Branch. The Raeford town board plans a vote on a $480,000 improve- ment on water and sewer systems. Oct. 22 - The United Fund drive seeks to raise $15,000 for community services and programs. The program kicks off this week with a luncheon at the McLauchlin School. Oct. 29 - Southern Bank’s attempt at bring- ing a branch to Raeford is disapproved by the Comptroller of Currency. The Levi Brewer family - he wanted his children to have an education. Nov. 5 - Michael Phillips, 2, identified as “colored,” is killed instantly when struck by a car on U.S. 401. Police reports suggest he wandered Students after dedication of the monument into the road while walking with his family. Police do not choose to bring charges against car coming. McNeill’s death is ruled an accident. her on the head. Presbyterian Church to examine the needs of the driver, Sherman Leach. July 30 - Thomas McRae and Leland Stewart, Three Hoke County youths are seriously local youth in preparation for the White House Nov. 19 - Postmaster Charles R. Lee offers identified as “colored,” are arrested on charges injured when the driver of their car ran off the Conference on Children and Youth. Among his resignation, denied by his superiors, in the stemming from an apparent drag race involving road in Quewhiffle township. Grady Vanhoy, 16, the suggestions and concerns raised were that face of charges of embezzlement in excess of a stolen car. McRae is found guilty of engaing James Pope, 16 and Larry Pope, 14, were taken children need more discipline and responsibil- $1,000 of government funds. in speed competition with another vehicle, driv- to the hospital with head injuries after the vehicle ity, with parents taking greater responsibility in Nov. 26 - Essie Mae McLaurin, identified ing with no operator’s license, and careless and struck several trees. spending time with their youths. Rev. Kermit as “colored,” pleads guilty to manslaughter in reckless driving, while Stewart is found guilty Work is completed on the town’s natural Wheeler states that the church has lost its place the killing of Russell McKeithan on Aug. 8. of engaging in speed competition, driving with gas lines as an addition to the available Raeford of centrality as one of the guiding forces in the She is sentenced to three to five years in prison, expired operator’s license, speeding over 75 miles utilities. Representatives of the Natural Gas Co. lives of young people. suspended on the condition that the defendant an hour and careless and reckless driving. Both appear before the town board to inform them of Aug. 27 - Melvin Roper, 31, identified as observe an 11 p.m. curfew for a year and refrain men are sentenced to several years on the roads. the completion of the work. “negro” and reportedly “known as feeble-minded from using any intoxicating beverages and remain The two reportedly raced down Main Street at Aug. 13 - Essie Mae McLaurin, identified in his home community of Five Points,” is alleg- on probation for five years. 75 miles an hour to 100 miles an hour where as “colored,” allegedly shoots to death Russell edly struck over the head and killed by a county Dec. 3 - Ralph Warren is acquitted of mur- Stewart, driving a car reported stolen in Moore McKeithan, identified as “colored,” as the man merchant for stealing a slice of bologna. Onslow der and a similar charge against Fred Currie is County, lost control and ran into a fire hydrant. reportedly attempted to break into her house Rorie, identified as “white,” was reportedly dismissed in the shooting death of Dan Melvin. Linda Furmage, 9, is electrocuted while try- through a window. McLaurin is released under slicing meat for customers at his service station Tom Holland, accused of shooting his wife ing to connect a television set at her home in the a $2,000 bond. at Five Points when Roper took a slice of the and causing her to lose her left leg during a do- Lumber Bridge community. Her parents were John Wesley McPhaul, 17, identified as “col- bologna after being told to put it down. Accord- mestic dispute, appears in court with his wife. away from the house when the accident occurred. ored,” survives being shot in the hip and right ing to Raeford Police Department Officer D.J. Representation for the family told the court the Aug. 6 - Vernie Melvin, charged with assault leg during a dispute over a girl at Miller’s Grill, Jones, Rorie then picked up a tire iron and struck situation at home was much improved and that on his wife, turns himself in after being miss- also known as “Sloppy Joe’s.” Willie Davis, 30, Roper over the head. Roper died at home after Holland was needed in the home to help look after ing from the county for a month. Melvin is held identified as “colored,” is arrested on charges of the incident. Rorie is charged with manslaughter the children. Holland pleads guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and is sentenced to two years under a $2,000 bond. His wife was unconscious assault with a deadly weapon causing serious and released under a $1,000 bond. in prison, sentence suspended on condition that in Cape Fear Valley Hospital for two weeks and pain and injury and released on a $500 bond. Sept. 10 - Hoke County Schools report the he be on probation for five years and must obey blind for three weeks after Melvin allegedly hit Aug. 20 - More than 35 people gather at the first-ever total school enrollment of more than The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 29 all laws and support his wife and children while of his step-daughter in Rockingham in 1946. experiencing power outages. Carolina Power Mildouson asked to close the school, but many remaining gainfully employed. Willie Davis, identified as “colored,” is found and Light Co. sends out repair workers to fix Rockfish residents opposed the idea of closing A four-vehicle collision seriously injures Mrs. guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and the problems. the Rockfish school. Ashemont residents were C.D. Jackson of Raeford and her baby son, Kent, sentenced to two years on the roads. Johnnie The Hoke County Development Association also not in favor of closing the Ashemont school. just north of Raeford. Both were thrown from the Melvin is found guilty of assault with a deadly holds an awards banquet for community lead- April 21 - The Hoke County Board of Com- car when it was struck by a Mack tractor-trailer. weapon causing serious pain and injury and is ers in all areas of business and interests. The missioners estimates the tax rate will be about Dec. 10 - Raeford voters pass almost a half sentenced to two years on the roads. Wayside community won for making the most $1.20 per $100 valuation as property values million dollars indebtedness to finance improve- Jan. 21 - The Raeford community holds overall progress. continue to rise in the county. Real estate valuates ments in water supply and sewage disposal. The a public meeting regarding the possibility of March 10 - Dr. Riley M. Jordan receives the rose almost $500,000 in the county during 1959, Raeford town board approves an additional planning a swimming pool at a cost of $22,500 Raeford Jaycees Distinguished Service Award county accountant J.W. McPhaul announces. charge of 50 percent to out-of-town water rates. with $12,000 for the bath house, fencing and land for his work in the community as a doctor and April 28 - Dr. R.A. Matheson dies at his home Dec. 17 - The Galatia Presbyterian Church costs. The membership fee for 1960 is set at $15. a citizen. in Raeford. Matheson served in France during burns this week with little saved from the nearly Jan. 28 - An influenza-type ailment in Hoke The Hoke County Board of Education World War I and attended the University of 100-year-old building. Faculty connections to a County schools causes mass absences from passes a resolution that the board will accept into North Carolina after returning home. He was a new gas furnace are believed to be the cause of classrooms. Dr. R.A. Matheson says the number Raeford’s white schools children from any com- member of many local organizations and served the fire. The church was founded in 1825. of cases has “reached epidemic proportions.” munity school where people of the community as a local doctor for many years. Dec. 31 - Two men are shot Christmas Eve Feb. 4 - The Hoke County Board of Com- seek to close the local school. A Pepsi-Cola ad announces the new 16-ounce in Hoke County, one in an argument over a missioners discontinues the county’s rural police March 17 - Patrons of Ashemont School of size glass Pepsi bottle. cow pasture and another in a domestic dispute. department, effective in March of 1960. At the Quewhiffle township discuss closing the rural May 5 - The Hoke County Board of Education Sanford Jacobs is allegedly shot in both feet by same time provision was made for the appoint- seven-grade school and sending the students to decides that the Ashemont and Rockfish Elemen- L.J. Locklear over whether he could keep some ment of deputies for the county Sheriff’s Office. McLauchlin Elementary School in Raeford. The tary schools will operate through the next school cows in his pasture, while George Cunningham Feb. 11 - Earl Hendrix is named Young reportedly heated discussion centered around year after considering whether to consolidate the is allegedly shot in the arm by Mitchell McCall. Farmer of the Year by the Raeford Jaycees and the young children having to ride the bus 50 to 60 schools with McLauchlin Elementary. Farmer’s Club of Hoke County. The ceremonial miles to school every day. The Galatia Presbyterian Church congrega- banquet is held at Hoke County High School. March 24 - Foster McBryde Jr. and Sam tion and pastor holds a groundbreaking ceremony 1960 Feb. 18 - The Tar Heel Development Associa- Spencer are arrested and charged with liquor for the new church to replace the nearly 100-year- Jan. 7 - Members of Raeford’s town board vote tion, a three-county group dedicated to promoting law violations by sheriff’s deputies following a old building that burned . The Galatia Church unanimously in favor of creating an industrial growth in the southeast including Hoke County, raid on a still near the Rockfish Creek bridge. was originally founded in 1825. park in the southeast corner of the town. The plans to establish an industrial education center March 31 - The 1960 Census starts taking May 12 - Preliminary U.S. Census figures proposal comes from Lindsay Cox, representa- among other plans for developing the area. count this week of all U.S. residents. Mrs. Mary for the county are not as high as some officials tive of the state’s department of conservation and Feb. 25 - Textile workers are likely to see a McKenzie is serving as crew leader for Hoke expected. The Hoke County population is development community planning department. wage raise at Raeford plants, including the Pacific County, with herself and numerators undergo- 16,363, compared to 1950, when the county had Jan. 14 - A jury deliberates two hours before Division of Burlington Industries. The average ing special training in preparation for taking a population of 15,607, and 1940, which showed finding Onslow Rorie guilty of assault with a wage prior to the change, $1.49 an hour, will go the count. a population of 14,937. deadly weapon in the August death of Milton up to $1.56 an hour. April 7 - The Hoke County Board of Educa- May 19 - Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Roper. He was sentenced to not less than 18 March 3 - Hoke County receives about five tion holds heated discussions on whether to close Co. announces that all telephone numbers in nor more than 24 months in prison. Rorie was inches of snow, followed by a topping of sleet the three elementary schools outside of Raeford Raeford will change to conform to a national, previously convicted of having carnal knowledge and freezing rain, breaking trees and power and bring students to the McLauchlin Elemen- uniform system now being adopted by the lines across the county. Raeford residents report tary school for the rest of the year. Residents of telephone industry. The Raeford exchange is Downtown RaefoRD taqueria el tio #2 Hoke County 106 e. Central ave. 1911-2011 Raeford, nC (910) 848-8100

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Officers report that Hollingsworth was announce they will begin checking driver’s beaten by two men near Antioch. He report- surpassed its $16,000 fundraising goal for the thrown from the vehicle. licenses to make sure people are not driving edly suffered a broken jaw and lacerations and year with more than a 10 percent margin. The Dec. 22 - A multi-car wreck kills Stewart without authorization. contusions. Sheriff’s deputies charge “June Bug” money is provided to worthy charities. Peters, a Chicago tourist, when the car he is June 2 - Hoke County High School graduates Locklear and Fairley Chavis in connection with Nov. 10 - Hoke County voters go to the polls driving collides head-on with an automobile 57 seniors at the spring commencement exer- the incident. in record numbers giving John F. Kennedy more containing three Fort Bragg soldiers. Six other cises, with speaker Dr. Ralph Brimley, director Hoke County Schools open for the school than a three-to-one local victory over Republican wrecks occur this week, five of which are alleged of Public Relations and Extension at Eastern year with a record number of students enrolled candidate Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. to be the result of drunk drivers. Carolina College in Greenville. in classes. Voters also elect Democratic governor candidate Ira L. Poole, married name Mrs. Luke Bet- June 9 - The Raeford swimming pool opens Sept. 8 - The United Fund Board of Directors Terry Sanford. hune, retires from her position as Hoke County this week amid a streak of hot weather. Mem- meets and adopts a $16,000 budget to assist local Walter J. Moore of Fayetteville is charged librarian after serving 23 years with the county. berships are sold for $150 a year with fees $15 worthy causes. The budget this year includes with aiding, abetting and assisting in the escape She saw the library grow from 3,000 volumes a month. The dues go to pay lifeguards and the $400 to help finance the x-ray unit operated by of Charles Porter and George West from the to more than 15,000 volumes during her years membership cost will go to pay for the original the Hoke County health center. The directors Hoke County jail this week. Moore, a turn-key with the facility. cost of the pool. request that funded programs account for how at the jail, allegedly allowed the two to escape. Dec. 29 - Three Hoke County homes are June 16 - Hoke County voters select Terry the money is being spent. He is found guilty and sentenced to a year on destroyed by fire this week. Floyd Monroe, Sanford as the Democratic candidate for the Sept. 15 - The Powell Bill funds for street and the roads. He pled not guilty and chose to appeal Palestine Matthews and J.L. Blackmon lose their governorship. roadway repair total $11,049 for work in Raeford. the decision. homes during the Christmas holiday weekend The Raeford Chamber of Commerce votes The money will be used to pave or otherwise Nov. 17 - Angus Currie resigns from the unanimously to change the name to the Raeford- improve Raeford roads. Raeford Board of Commissioners after taking Hoke County Chamber of Commerce. Sept. 22 - The Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear a position with the Scottish Bank of China 1961 July 7 - The Red Cross Bloodmobile visits Studies agrees to send out a traveling science Grove, with his resignation effective Nov. 15. Jan. 5 - The Raeford Furniture Co. closes Raeford this week to seek blood donations to demonstration-lecture program to Hoke County The vacancy is scheduled to be filled next month. its doors after 46 years of commercial service. build up the blood bank. High School for a week to instruct the students in Billy Ray Scott, 12, is reportedly accidentally The store property is sold to Niven Appliance July 14 - Voters at the Democratic National chemistry, physics and general science classes. shot while holding a gun for his brother, Johnny, Co. The furniture store was started by W.E. Convention select John F. Kennedy as the Demo- Sept. 29 - The first traffic fatality in downtown who was leaving to attend a turkey shoot. Of- Freeman, a depot agent, who bought stock from cratic candidate for the presidency. Raeford in several years occurs this week when ficers believe Scott accidentally pulled the trigger C.S. O’Neill, who operated a furniture store in July 21 - The county Board of Education Linda Jean Smith, 3, is run over on Main Street on the gun and shot himself. Scott died at his the present Niven Appliance Building location. grants a group of seventh graders from Rockfish by a tractor-trailer loaded with tobacco. Her family’s home. The Raeford Furniture Building was constructed Elementary the right to attend the McLauchlin mother, Mrs. Daniel Hewie Smith, was walking Nov. 24 - William Barnes, identified as “In- after the December 1925 fire that completely Elementary School even though the majority of to the Raeford Lumber Co. yard with a friend dian,” pleads guilty to the first degree murder of destroyed that section of downtown Raeford. Rockfish families protested the idea originally. and her children when the little girl reportedly Wilford McNeill, identified as “Indian,” and is Jan. 12 - Cynthia Rowland, 13, is sent to the July 28 -The town erects a new water tank ran across the road in front of the truck. sentenced to serve life in state prison by Judge hospial with a confirmed case of meningitis. on Dickson Street, which “looks more and more Oct. 13 - A lightweight, tropical men’s wear Donald Yates. Doctors warn parents of other children at Raeford like a guided missile with its nose pointed toward fabric produced locally will hit the spotlight A local group begins preparing to celebrate Elementary School to be on the lookout for any Saturn and beyond.” The tower is still under nationally as the Raeford Worsted Co. ramps Hoke County’s Golden Jubilee, with the 50th sign of the disease in their own children. construction. up promotion of the blended Dacron material anniversary of the county’s charter set for 1961. Jan. 19 - Robert Rogers, 46, identified as Aug. 4 - The county receives more than 7 known as Raeford 2/80. Themes and slogans Dec. 1 - The Raeford-Hoke Chamber of “colored,” allegedly robs the A&P Tea Company inches of rain in a two-day period when Tropical include “Screen Out the Heat and Look Smart Commerce and the town and county commis- grocery store escaping with about $20 worth Storm Brenda passes over. The rain is a much as the Devil with Raeford 2/80s.” sioners gather to honor local businesses including of hams. Rogers is caught and arrested within needed relief to the dry conditions, but some Oct. 20 - Twice-convicted felon Conley Pacific Mills, Priebe Poultry Co., Hoke Oil and hours of the alleged early-morning theft with wind damage is reported in the county. Spencer Hayes, being held for trial in November Fertilizer Co., U.S. Rubber and Upchurch Mill- the assistance of a bloodhound from McCain. Aug. 11 - William Barnes is arrested on a on charges of breaking and entering and larceny, ing Co. among others at a ceremony focused on Rogers was reportedly out of work for a year. charge of first degree murder in connection reportedly saws through a barred window at the local industry. Fort Bragg soldier Robert Weldon Young, with the shooting death of Wilford McNeill near Hoke County jail and escapes. The hacksaw Dec. 8 - Hoke County’s Golden Jubilee is driver of a vehicle that took the life of Stewart Antioch this week. blades were allegedly smuggled in by a Marine scheduled for May 14-19 in 1961, with plans Peters in December, is charged with manslaugh- Aug. 18 - The Raeford Rural Fire Department from Camp Lejeune, according to Hayes. Hayes to open with a religious service at the Armory ter and placed under a $3,000 bond. saves a house belonging to Ken McNeill from fire. is recaptured and additionally charged with baseball park, followed by the presentation of a Jan. 26 - R.B. Lewis is awarded the Kiwanis The house on his property reportedly caught on escaping from jail while officials search for his historical pageant on the five nights afterward. Club’s “Hoke County’s Outstanding Citizen” fire in a bedroom. The family attempted to put accomplice. The Raeford Board of Commissioners elects recognition at the annual club meeting and La- out the fire on their own with little success, but Oct. 27 - A mobile x-ray unit is available for Carlton E. Niven to fill the unexpired term of dies’ Night. The award is usually called the Man the department was able to extinguish the flames. free chest x-rays as a screening for tuberculosis. Angus Currie as a town commissioner. The of the Year award, but the club sought to honor Aug. 25 - The Hoke County Board of Edu- The visit is sponsored by the Raeford Jaycees. board then unanimously votes to remove the Lewis’ long-term accomplishments in the area, cation votes to assign 53 students of Ashemont Response from locals causes lines at the location ladder on the town’s new water tower to prevent award presenter Tom Cameron said. School to Raeford schools. Although Ashemont on Main Street. people from climbing on it. Feb. 2 - The Hoke County Golden Jubilee School supporters lobbied to keep the school Nov. 3 - Four weekend wrecks cause injuries Dec. 15 - Hoke County suffers its first reported committee seeks family members of the families open, the group of students represents about half to four people, one listed as “critical,” and dam- vehicle wreck fatality in several years when listed on records in the courthouse in 1911: Ad- Congratulations Hoke County! 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McDonald was the town and county of certain Conoly, Covington, Cromartie, Culbreth, Currie, brother of William James McDonald, critically items of federal surplus Davis, Dickson, Ellis, Fuller, Ferguson, Gatlin, injured and still hospitalized as a result of an equipment signed out to Gibson, Gillis, Graham, Guin, Hall, Hampton, accident earlier in the year. the Health Center. The ar- Hargroves, Harris, Hobson, Hodgin, Holt, March 30 -The Hoke County commissioners rangement was known and Johnson, Jones, Keith, King, Kinlaw, Lamont, account for a $102,216 general fund total, with had been approved by the Livingston, Maultsby, Maxwell, McBryde, $22,608 in special funds, $39,608 in welfare state officials in charge of McCraney, McDougald, McDonald, McDuffie, funds and $34,979 in health funds. distributing the federal sur- McEachern, McFadyen, McFirt, McGill, April 6 - The Hoke County and Raeford plus property and was used McGoogan, Mcinnis, McKeithan, McKinnon, boards agree to split the cost of bringing a new for sanitation purposes McLauchlin, McLean, McLeod, McMillian, radio receiver so local law enforcement officials related to the public health McNair, McNeill, McPhail, McPhaul, McPher- can communicate freely with the highway patrol. programs of the health son, McQueen, McRae, Monroe, Moore, Morris, April 13 - Daniel F. Ferguson, identified as center, Hostetler says. Newton, Nisbet, Niven, parker, Patterson, Pickler, “negro,” is arrested and charged with homicide June 22 - Hoke voters Plummer, Poole, Pratt, Purcell, Reaves, Ray, in connection with the shooting death of Elijah circulate a petition for a Rhodes, Seate, Sexton, Stubbs, Shaw, Sinclair, Hamilton of Raeford. proposed special tax levy Stephens, Thomas, Tolar, Townsend, Upchurch, April 20 - A coroner’s jury finds “no prob- to help support the Hoke Walters, watson, Williams, Williamson, Wil- able cause” to charge James William McDonald County library. Otherwise, liford, Winecoff, Wood and Wright. with manslaughter in the March death of Johnny supporters argue the library Feb. 9 - James Lee Locklear, 46, dies this Sams. McDonald himself was critically injured will have insufficient fund- week following a car wreck on Wire Road near in the wreck. ing to open six days a week Antioch. Locklear reportedly lost control of his April 27 - Plans for the Golden Jubilee con- and maintain an adequate vehicle and crashed into a tree, becoming the tinue with the Old Raeford Chapter of the Jubilee full-time staff. county’s first traffic fatality in 1961. Belles preparing their costumes for a pageant June 29 - Raeford The Hoke County commissioners accept ac- and promenades on Main Street. businessmen J.L McNeill, countant J.W. McPhaul’s resignation as McPhaul May 4 - Four incumbents, including Mayor Tom McBryde and J.H. seeks to go into business. The board members Alfred Cole, are voted out of office on the town Blue travel to Mississippi, choose T.B. Lester, the county’s third accountant board this week as Raeford voters head to the Louisiana and Texas on a in its 50 years. polls for the local elections. Only J.D. Millian seven-day agri-business Feb. 16 - Michael Barlow, 12, is accidentally and John K. McNeill Jr. remain on the board tour sponsored by Wacho- Mary K. Brady and two small patients at the TB sana- killed when a rifle he was handling discharged. following the election. via Bank. torium, later named McCain Hospital The other family members reportedly believed May 11 - The Golden Jubilee celebration of July 6 - Two people are the gun he was playing with was unloaded, ac- Hoke County’s 50th anniversary kicks off this killed and three are injured murdering his wife and sentenced to eight years in cording to a family friend. week with a parade, beauty pageant, observance over the holiday weekend. Green Locklear state prison. Judge Henry McKinnon later found Hoke County’s farm income generated more in the county churches and pageant about the surrenders himself voluntarily after allegedly Daniel Ferguson, charged with second-degree than an additional $400,000 in total sales in 1960 county’s history. shooting and killing his wife, Frances Locklear, murder of Elijah Hamilton, not guilty on basis than in 1959, according to a summary by county Kelly Devane Edwards, 13, identified as “ne- in front of their children. Franklin Gene Holt, 20, of self-defense. Agricultural Agent W.C. Williford. gro,” dies of a broken neck after being struck by dies in a car accident. Three others are injured Aug. 31 - M.D. Kennedy, an airman from Pope Feb. 23 - Dan Ferguson dies of his injuries a car. Edwards was reportedly walking across the in several car wrecks. Air Force Base, pleads guilty to manslaughter of sustained in a wreck south of Raeford earlier this street after leaving his school bus when he was July 13 - The News-Journal announces a tran- a child crossing the road after leaving a school month. The driver of the car Ferguson was riding struck. Highway Patrolman E.G. Inman arrested sition to offset printing, a revolutionary process bus. The airman is sentenced to 3-5 years in in, Needham McBryde, is charged with reckless M.D. Kelly of Pope Air Force Base on charges that uses photographic negatives of a newspaper prison with sentence suspended for a three-year driving. F.K. Watson Jr., 17, also dies this week in of manslaughter, reckless driving and failing to page to create a plate for printing. The equipment probation and court costs. a wreck that seriously injures Edward Currie, 16. stop for a stopped school bus. costs $60,000. The News-Journal reports it is the Sept. 7 - The Raeford town board opens bids Hoke County leads the state in number of May 19 - The Golden Jubilee Queen, Rose- first newspaper in the state to use the method. for the purchase and installation of a civil defense/ serious forest fires in 1961. Fires have already mary Cameron, a junior at Hoke County High July 20 - Michael Robert Sutton, 9, of Wrights- fire alarm siren, but Town Clerk Charles Mor- consumed more than 2,000 acres of forest in School, salutes the crowds at the celebration ville Beach, dies after being hit by a car while rison says it will be some time before the order the county since Jan. 1. honoring Hoke County’s heritage. Gov. Terry riding his bicycle. The driver, assistant home can be placed. The issue must first be approved March 2 - The News-Journal publisher Paul Sanford crowned the queen and addressed the agent for the county Mary Lou Roman, collapses by the civil defense headquarters in Raleigh. Dickson announces the appointment of Peter B. audience, applauding the community’s plan to while attempting to aid the child and is taken Sept. 14 - The Hoke County Fair comes Young as editor and Sam C. Morris as general improve life in rural areas. to the hospital. The event is ruled an accident. to Raeford this week with a midway, games, manager of the Raeford News-Journal. May 26 - Gordon Crumpler is sworn into A severe storm hits Hoke County and does miniature golf course and many exhibits and March 9 - Hoke County High School football office as county coroner, replacing Dr. William up to $1 million damage to local crops. Farm competitions for local farmers and 4-H students. star Johnny Howard Sams is killed in a traffic ac- Barry, who resigned the previous month. Crum- and business leaders appeal to the government to One of the biggest problems is getting men to cident this week. Two other Hoke High students, pler is the director of a local funeral home and declare the hardest hit areas Emergency Areas. bring in their exhibits, while the women do a Charles David Baker and James McDonald, are ambulance service. The designation would allow them to access good job of showing up with items for display, also injured. More than 500 people attended June 1 - Law officers use dynamite to blow up federal aid and state relief measures. Locals are agent W.C. Williford says. The News-Journal Sams’ funeral, with the football teammates a massive 800-gallon moonshine still discovered asked to donate food, clothing or other needed publishes a special section with information serving as pallbearers. this week and arrest two men in connection items for those suffering a substantial loss. about the event. March 16 - Hoke County shoppers show with the still. John Henry Davis, 37, and Hugh July 27 - The dog warden reports having Sept. 28 - The Raeford town board discusses mixed feelings towards a proposal by Terry Lowry, 37, are charged with violating the pro- killed 330 dogs in just three months, with more with town engineer Richard Moore drawing up Sanford to create a 3 percent food tax, with mon- hibition laws. than 100 complaints registered through the health plans for a conventional, lagoon-based sewer ies collected going toward expanding education Hoke County High School graduates 74 department or sheriff’s office. system. A $100,000 federal grant would provide in the state. students at the spring commencement exercises. Aug. 3 - Hoke County farmers begin selling for the lagoon, as the existing lagoon “went March 23 - Hoke County High School The address is presented by Dr. Voight Cromer, tobacco at Fairmont and Lumberton markets, septic” on Labor Day “for no apparent reason.” Principal Dewey Huggins tells members of the president of Lenoir-Rhyne College. buoyed by reports of good prices in the Georgia- Rosa Lee Baldwin confesses to killing her Raeford Kiwanis Club that there is a definite June 8 - A delegation of Hoke County men Florida markets. Farmers are expected to sell husband, James Lee Baldwin, with a shotgun. correlation between grades at the school and testify before a House committee in opposition about 3.5 million pounds of tobacco. Baldwin is arrested on charges of murder. student scores on the college board exams. The to a propsal to create a new Congressional district Aug. 10 - The United States Department of Oct. 5 - Priebe Poultry temporarily shuts down grading standards at the school are still strict, that would match Democrat Paul Kitchin against Agriculture declares the county an Emergency its turkey killing line after a financial crisis. The and despite three prominent local athletes having Republican Charles Raper Jonas. The change Area and authorizes farmers to make production company reportedly experienced a cash shortage difficulty getting into college, it may be due to would mean placing Hoke County in the 7th emergency loans to help with expenses following and lenders refused additional money against the colleges raising their standards. Congressional District. a severe storm earlier in the summer. inventory of frozen turkeys on hand. The poultry The Hoke County Golden Jubilee committee June 15 - What attorney Charles Hostetler Aug. 17 - Hoke County law officers destroy market appears to be generally depressed, but begins circulating wooden nickels, with each calls “an unfortunate misunderstanding” tempo- two 400-gallon capacity stills in Antioch town- plant manger Leonard Frahm says the line will representing a 5-cent donation to the festival. rarily costs the Hoke County Health Department ship. Arrested at the scene are John Westley be ready to return to business in a few days. Four people die and others are injured in a its eligibility to receive federal surplus property. Brigman, 43, and Charles Junior Locklear, 29. Oct. 12 - Priebe Poultry resumes operations at series of car accidents in Hoke County. David A federal auditor from the Department of Health, Aug. 24 - Green Locklear is convicted of the Raeford plant with all of the company’s 135 32 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Only a few farms will have an emergency source that a countywide ABC election will be held May of electric power. Furnaces which depend upon 26 in conjunction with the regular primary voting. electricity to operate the controls supplying the A total of 631 signatures out of more than 800 D. Scott Poole printed fuel to the furnace and to operate the fan forcing were checked and found to be valid. the heated air throughout the house electric ranges April 5 - The Hoke County Commissioners will be useless until power can be restored.” approve a tentative budget that totals $228,068, a first newspaper in Hoke figure that “holds the line” on the present tax rate of $1.25 per $100 of valuation. The increase in D. Scott Poole first passed through this following year, Dickson bought The Hoke 1962 valuation this year was due to property improve- area in 1902. The next time he came here, County Journal and merged the two papers Jan. 4 - The Hoke County commissioners ments and more accurate listing. he established a newspaper. to become The News-Journal. vote unanimously in favor of a minimum Civil April 12 - “Down East Faces,” an art exhibit The first issue of Facts and Figures, set Dickson bought a Linotype from The Defense progam to be financed out of available created by North Carolina artist Jack Berkman, revenues in the contingency fund. Alfred Cole, is set to be displayed at downtown Raeford busi- by hand, was published March 30, 1905. Greensboro Daily News and began publish- nesses. The artwork features portraits of the Hoke was not yet a county and Raeford ing the newspaper in Raeford with the help long-time defense director for the county, sought to resign in November but responded favorably Wilmington City Council at work, a woman was only four years old. of John Russell and Fulford McMillan. eating a donut, a teenage girl with her cat and Poole published a newspaper for several Their office was located on Edinborough to suggestions that he withdraw his resignation. The urgency of the situation is amplified by a others. The exhibit is sponsored by the fine years before he moved to Wendell and Avenue. In the 1930s, the paper was moved letter from the state Civil Defense headquarters arts department of the Woman’s Club and The began a newspaper there. to Main Street. that in the future, the federal government will New-Journal with the cooperation of the mer- Fred P. Johnson then published Facts and After Dickson’s death in November send architect and engineers to survey and mark chant’s division of the Raeford-Hoke Chamber Figures, and its name was changed to The 1935, his widow, Annie Barnes Dickson, private buildings that might be used as fallout of Commerce. Hoke County Journal after Hoke became with help, took over publication of The shelters. April 19 - Sheriff Dave Hodgin, 65, decides a county. Fred’s father, J.W. Johnson, and News-Journal. Her son Paul Dickson Jr. Jan. 11 - Hoke County farmers learn more not to run for a final term in office after his family about the all-risk Federal Crop Insurance opposes his candidacy in the position he held for other men incorporated the newspaper helped until he and co-worker Sam Morris nearly four consecutive decades. Five candidates on September 3, 1913. Bion J. Butler was left for the National Guard in 1940. program this week as three U.S. Department of Agriculture agents arrive to add interested enter the field to seek the office. named editor. Mrs. Dickson continued to keep the April 26 - Raeford ranks second in the amount Poole returned to Raeford to resume paper alive until Dickson and Morris parties to the list of farms covered by the insur- ance. Many farmers, hurt badly by the previous of money donated to the sustaining gifts division operation of The Hoke County Journal in returned, and Dickson became editor and year’s million-dollar storm damage, are eager of the Moore Memorial Hospital building fund, January 1915. publisher January 31, 1946. to participate. just behind Southern Pines. A total of 44 firms For a short period, Hoke County had In 1955 the paper was moved to 119 West Preston McPhaul, 19, pleads guilty to the rape and individuals in the county have pledged a total two newspapers. Paul Dickson of Raeford Elwood Avenue. Many changes have taken of a Raeford woman and is sentenced to life in of $6,440, while similar pledges from Southern and R.L. Eastham of Red Springs part- place since that time but the newspaper is prison. His cousin, Wesley McPhaul, charged Pines amounted to $6,732. nered to publish The Hoke County News still at that location. with being an accessory to the rape, tendered a May 3 - Prohibitionists from many county churches meet this week at the Raeford Methodist in 1928 and printed it in Red Springs. The guilty plea to the lesser offense of forcible tres- pass. He received a two-year suspended sentence. Church to organize the “dry” vote for the May Jan. 18 - A five-year-old boy is hospitalized 26 election against a proposal to establish legal control of alcohol with an ABC store. Raeford-based workers returning to work this for 11 North Carolina counties informs the this week after being struck by a car in front of his home. Joe McLaughlin reportedly rode his May 10 - The Raeford town commissioners week. Some payroll checks and other payments Hoke-Raeford Parent-Teacher Association that approve a tentative $210,000 budget that will bounced during the two-week period the plant elaborate fallout shelters are nice but not abso- bicycle into the road in front of the vehicle. John Willie Pearson, charged with rape of raise the tax rate 12 cents per $100 valuation to had to shut down. lutely necessary. “Whether it’s an expensive and a new high of $1.17. The increase came in the Oct. 19 - County Health Director Dr. Clifton luxurious shelter, or one you dig yourself, the a Raeford woman, is found not guilty by a jury after three hours of deliberation. debt service fund that jumped from $36,000 in Davenport reports a case of diptheria and urges point is to get a mass of material between you 1961 to $60,000 in 1962 in anticipation of the parents to immunize their children. The victim, and the enemy radiation. Three inches of lead Jan. 25 - Israel Mann is honored by the Kiwanis Club as Man of the Year. The Jewish, sale of $315,000 worth of bonds authorized by a 4-year-old boy, is quarantined along with the will do it, or 24 inches of concrete, or three feet voters for a sewage treatment plant. seven other children living in the same household. of closely-packed dirt. The average home offers Lithuanian immigrant from a small village called Kretinga opened his store in Raeford in 1926 May 17 - Hoke County Democrats rename Oct. 26 - An experimental sewage lagoon on little protection,” retired Army officer Victor Sam Morris as party chairman in a meeting U.S. 401 is bulldozed this week, putting an end Harris says. after coming to Hoke County. Feb. 8 - Riley Barrett dies after reportedly held following the biennial county convention to the project that at one time promised to give Nov. 30 - The Civil Defense provides a at the courthouse. the town a modern disposal system at a bargain special mention of managing waste following a walking in front of a vehicle driven by Leroy Kensel, 20, a soldier at Fort Bragg. Three others Proponents and opponents of the controlled cost. The project now ended, the sewage instead nuclear attack. “Where radioactive fallout does sale of legal alcohol in the county hold events and returns to being delivered into Rockfish Creek. not present a hazard, temporary pit toilets may were injured this week in county car accidents. Feb. 15 - Sheriff Dave Hodgin, who has elect officers to lead committees supporting their Nov. 2 - Two men, identified as “negro,” are be constructed in a yard area or an existing privy respective viewpoints ahead of a vote on the issue. arrested on charges connected with an attack on may be used.” served in the position for 37 consecutive years, announces he will run one final time to reclaim May 24 - Bankrupt Priebe Poultry closes its Sadie Jordan, 43, identified as “white.” Preston Dec. 7 - A truck runs into a train this week Raeford operation this week, leaving about 125 McPhaul and Wesley McPhaul are arrested on the Hoke-Moore County line, derailing the the office. Hodgin is Hoke County’s second sheriff, with the first being the late Edgar Hall. men and women out of work. The new crisis for and held. locomotive and badly damaging the McNair the company came as a result of the lease on the Hoke County, transferred by the state Gen- Farm truck. The drivers walked away from the March 1 - Checks owed Priebe Poultry employees for back pay fail to arrive this week plant, held by Bonner Thomason of Fayetteville, eral Assembly into District 7, meets Rep. Alton accident unharmed. The truck driver reportedly expiring June 1. Some turkey growers are still Lennon, representative of the 7th district. Hoke failed to stop at the train crossing. as had been promised by Chicago attorney Harry Ash, the court-appointed receiver for the owed money for their work. County belongs in the 7th District, not the former Dec. 14 -The Hoke County Board of Commis- May 31 - A record number of voters turn out 8th District, Lennon tells voters. sioners seek to meet with a leading civil defense bankrupt interstate poultry corporation. Ash now says the checks will be mailed next week; they to cast votes with seven out of 11 precincts in Nov. 9 - Hoke High Class of 1959 valedic- expert in Raleigh to discuss the possibility of a the county supporting the legal sale of alcohol torian Sadie Chambers dies in an automobile defense program in the county. Long-time Hoke arrive on schedule. March 8 - Petitions begin circulating in the through an ABC store. Voters also select Dave accident near Gastonia. The 20-year-old of County Civil Defense Director Alfred Cole Barrington for Sheriff, Ed Smith for Clerk of Quewhiffle township becomes the 11th Hoke resigned from the position the previous month. county regarding a vote on allowing a licensed ABC store to set up shop. The petitions must Court and Eli Shankle for the Board of County County person to die on the roadways in 1961. Dec. 21 - Local National Guard unit, the 2nd Commissioners. Nov. 16 - Two Hoke County teenagers die this Medium Tank Battalion, gains a new commander carry the names of 15 percent of registered vot- ers in the county to qualify for a vote, according June 7 - Priebe Poultry officially closes this week as the result of a car wreck and an accident this year as Lt. Col. T.B. Lester steps in to take week with all forms of operation discontinued by with a gun. Clarence Odom Jr. is killed in a car over from Lt. Col. William Lamont Jr. Lester has to state statute. March 15 - A petition with more than 800 sig- Chicago attorney Harry Ash, the court-appointed wreck in Southern Pines when he loses control been a member of the National Guard since 1932. trustee in bankruptcy. Manager Leonard Frahm of his car, and Patricia Ann Capel, 13, dies when Col. Wallace Dawson of the state Civil De- natures calling for an ABC election is delivered to the Board of Elections, ensuring that a vote says that about 125 workers at the plant have been Wayne Kivett, 15, and Jeremy Dial, playing with a fense headquarters tells Hoke commissioners that notified of complete termination of employment. supposedly unloaded gun, accidentally shoot her. a bomb dropped on Fort Bragg will not cause on the issue will be called. Only 405 signatures were required to call the election. The plant brought in about $500,000 in payroll Army officials at Fort Bragg deny a wide- fallout in Hoke County for at least an hour. The every year. spread rumor that the military post plans to commissioners will seek public input on how to March 22 - Col. Robert J. MacDonald tells the Raeford Kiwanis Club that the Army has already Retired school administrator K.A. MacDon- acquire more land in Hoke County. The public proceed in developing a civil defense program. ald is unanimously selected to lead the ABC information officer reports that no one has Dec. 28 - An N.C. Civil Defense lesson sug- secured maneuver rights on 22,000 acres of land in the area, out of a total 28,000 areas requested. board with William Lamont Jr. and Jimmy surveyed additional land, contrary to rumors. gests “In an emergency it can be assumed that Conoly selected as members for a two-year and Nov. 23 - A Civil Defense Area Director electric power from your regular source will fail. March 29 - The Board of Elections announces The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 33 one-year term. The Attorney General’s office location of the liquor store would be “an undue The town’s new civil defense siren is “out Hoke County. Final certification in the nation’s is investigating whether the 1901 Raeford town hardship on us.” The merchants also express of whack,” and only a very few shelter spaces capital will make the county eligible for a wide charter, which states that an ABC store “could concern over the location - right across the street are found in the county that offer acceptable variety of special federal programs designed not be located within the corporate limits of the from Hoke County High School and next to a protection from a nuclear attack without further to raise the standard of living in Hoke County. town of Raeford,” would effectively prohibit the popular teenage hangout. modification, according to Hoke Civil Defense Sept. 6 - The Raeford town board discusses store. The board eventually chooses to locate the The county Board of Commissioners with- Director Alfred Cole. whether grocery stores selling wine are violating store just outside the city limits. draws $28,500 from the reserve fund for capital Aug. 2 - J. Lawrence McNeill, chairman of the law. Town attorney H.D. Harrison Jr. says June 14 - Local business leaders report improvements at the Hawk Eye Indian School, a special Chamber of Commerce committee, that the A&P is in compliance with the state law, a strong possibility that a syndicate of area the Burlington School and the Upchurch School. announces that $100,000 worth of stock will be but the question is the validity of a local charter agribusinessmen have agreed to purchase the July 12 - Group retail sales figures as compiled sold in a development corporation that will lease prohibiting town or county commissioners to Priebe Poultry plant and reopen it under new by the N.C. Department of Revenue show Hoke a deep freeze storage facility to Raeford Turkey grant a liquor license. management, provided the community fund the County lagging behind other counties in the area. Farms, Inc. The announcement comes the same Sept. 13 - Volunteers prepare to host the construction of a deep-freeze unit. July 19 - Foster McBryde Jr., reportedly week that U.S. Rubber announces it will build a annual Hoke County Fair amid concerns that June 21 - The local corporation soon expects despondent over a separation from his wife Nel- warehouse for storage. it may be the last one held, due to low farmer to set up shop and finance the construction of a lie, holds two officers at bay with a pistol before The first truckload of legal liquor to be sold participation and the N.C. Department of Agri- deep freeze unit at the former Priebe Poultry being subdued. Raeford Police Chief Lawrence arrives this week at the ABC store. culture moving to end the tax exempt status of the plant, according to Tom Cameron. A Chamber Stanton sustained rib injuries, with Sheriff’-elect Aug. 9 - The ABC store opens in Hoke County Jaycees’ Fair Association unless Hoke farmers of Commerce committee is working to provide Dave Barrington narrowly missing a bullet. for the first time this week and makes $800 gross provide three exhibits and 27 different divisions. financing for the project. Herbie Evans, Marvin McBryde is sent to Chapel Hill for treatment of on the first day of operation. Upcoming on the Sept. 20 - The Elk Restaurant, a landmark Johnson, D.J. Murray and Sherwood Stone have head injuries and a psychiatric evaluation and will ABC board agenda is a list of local inebriates for early morning patrons, is sold to Charlie conditionally agreed to puchase and operate be charged with assault with a deadly weapon, who will be denied sale and the possibility that Daramus, who purchases it from Tony Drake. the plant. resisting arrest, carrying a conealed weapon and wine will be sold in some local grocery stores. Drake suffered a serious heart attack but is June 28 - The Hoke ABC board signs a bind- assaulting officers. Foster McBryde Jr. is found guilty of resisting recuperating in the hospital. ing verbal agreement with realtor John Wright A savage hail storm batters sections of Al- arrest, assaulting an officer, carrying a concealed Oct. 4 - Raeford Turkey Farms, Inc. introduces for construction of a liquor store on U.S. 401 next lendale and Blue Springs townships, causing weapon and assault with a deadly weapon. He for the first time the “House of Raeford” label and to the Tastee-Freeze, just outside the Raeford an estimated $200,000 in damage to the area. receives two years on the roads, suspended on name for its premium turkeys. The local business city limits. But the storm knocked the edge off a dry spell, payment of a $200 fine, court costs and five years leaders plan to meet next week to discuss a Hoke Turkeys move down the line once again at county agent W.C. Williford says. of good behavior. Development Corp. the former Priebe Poultry plant, now known as Beatrice Morrison, 25, dies due to “acute Aug. 16 - A truckload of wine is delivered Oct. 18 - Lt. Col. T.B. Lester resigns as the Raeford Turkey Farms Inc., after being closed alcohol intoxication,” according to county to the A&P grocery store on Main Street with commanding officer of the 2nd Medium Tank for several weeks due to the former company’s coroner Frank Crumpler. The coroner suspects store personnel declining to comment except to Battalion. He steps down after more than 30 years bankruptcy. Plant manager Leonard Frahm that Morrison had been drinking moonshine. say that the wine would go on sale immediately. service in the National Guard and U.S. Army. asks area citizens to submit names for the three July 26 - One person is killed and six injured Aug. 23 - Hoke County Schools prepare to Lt. Col. Paul Dickson steps in as the new leader. brands of turkeys that will be processed there. on Hoke County roads in a series of vehicle handle a flood of more than 5,000 students as the Oct. 25 - A front-page editorial writes: “No More than 100 employees are back on the job. wrecks this week. Charles S. Outlaw, 22, of Pink end of summer vacation rolls around. matter how the words are sugar-coated, the July 5 - About seven merchants stand with Hill dies en route to the hospital. Outlaw is the Aug. 30 - The office of Gov. 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The street chased high in a tree by a dog. American) and Hawk Eye (Indian) will graduate us for years, regardless of the outcome of the bond issue was passed by only three votes, and March 14 – A 12-year-old boy loses three 165. Nancy Bray and Jean Brock are valedictorian Cuban crisis.” the water and sewer bond was turned down fingers of his right hand and is burned by bits of and salutatorian, respectively, of Hoke High. Nov. 22 - Phil Ellis of the N.C. Traffic Safety by the same amount of votes. The town plans explosive when he finds a grenade and it explodes Upchurch’s top student is Marilyn Murchison. Council addresses the local Parent-Teacher another vote. in his hand. Later, he sues the U.S. Government, May 30 – A Hoke County drifter, the victim Association to say that sudden death or serious Jan. 10 – “If you like ‘em solid, sure-footed saying he pulled the pin because a soldier told of a hit and run at Five Points, is identified as injury on the highway is a problem that can be and quick, Fairlane’s your kind of car,” reads him it was harmless. Leon Dunton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. solved “and we know how to solve it.” Among a Ford ad. March 21 – Blue Springs folks build their The county may have to bury him. the suggestions he proposes are a chemical test Jan. 17 - The front page has a photo of little own community center at a cost of $2,800 with June 6 – Commissioners request a raise for to determine drunkenness, more highway pa- Annie Belle Smith wearing a 9-ft. boa named much of the labor contributed. themselves in the upcoming budget. trolmen for better law enforcement, more strict Hitler around her neck like a scarf. Hitler, de- March 28 – Burlington Industries announces June 13 - Brenda Strother of Ashley Heights is licenses for young drivers, more traffic engineers scribed as playful, belongs to Donnie Smith. a profit sharing plan to its employees. the winner out of 100 contestants who designed and court reform. Jan. 24 – Methodist College student Lela Mae April 4 – Commissioners are looking at a and made their own dresses. Her white brocade Nov. 29 - A Superior Court jury deliberates Croom died when the car she was a passenger in budget that calls for a tax hike of three cents. party dress with scoop neckline has a fitted for two hours before returning a not guilty verdict skidded on ice and crashed into a tree on Hwy. April 11 – Southern National Bank is to build bodice and pleated skirt. for Foster McBryde Jr., charged with resisting 401 northeast of Raeford. Herman Locklear, a branch office on the corner of Elwood Ave. June 20 – A caption under a photo reads arrest, assaulting an officer and assault with a 24, died of a blood clot after a car he was a and N. Main St. “Watermelon Mann” and shows department deadly weapon. McBryde appealed the previ- passenger in crashed. His death brings Hoke’s April 18 – A fallout shelter is proposed by store owner Israel Mann passing out pieces of ous conviction. traffic fatalities to two. Sam Morris and Alfred Cole. watermelon to youngsters. Dec. 6 - A wave of fires believed to be the Jan. 31 – The city drops the idea of a sewer Hoke County will be part of a gigantic mili- June 27 – A house is moved from Campus work of arsonists burn over 500 acres of Hoke and water bond vote. tary maneuver, Swift Strike III, this summer. Street to make way for a new Raeford Savings timber and destroy the Hoke Exchange feed mill. Feb. 7 – With 2,000 cases of the flu, an April 25 – Floyd Wilson resigned as Hoke and Loan Assoc. building. Additional fires in Antioch and Allendale kept epidemic is reported. High’s football coach and athletic director amid Raeford’s post office number is 28376 (as if the rural fire department busy. Feb. 14 – The Highway Patrol, ABC agents, a cloud of controversy. you didn’t know). Dec. 20 - James Hall is charged with incest federal ATU agents and the sheriff’s depart- May 2 – A strong movement to have all July 4 – John Pecora is named Hoke High’s against his 17-year-old daughter, but the state ment raid 25 homes and arrest 25 people for Hoke mail delivered by the Raeford post office football coach and athletic director, and J. Ed prosecutor chooses to take a nol prosse with leave, having illegal liquor to sell. Sheriff’s deputies is underway. Williams of Dunn is the new city manager. meaning that the state is dropping the case but also dynamite a 450-gal. still found in Antioch. In the city election, only one new candidate July 11 – Miss Rosemary Cameron is named reserving the right to take it back up. Feb. 21 – Doctors Harry McLean and Riley is on the ballot. Hoke Watermelon Queen. Dec. 27 - About 300 town voters are expected Jordan say Hoke needs its own hospital after May 9 – Raeford is one of nine communities July 18 – Clyde Teal sells the service station to return to the town hall polls to cast their vote McLean treats an elderly woman with pneumonia in which heavy and light artillery, machine guns, side of Teal Oil Co. to his brother Franklin Teal, for or against $150,000 street and water bonds and cannot find a hospital room for her. “Finally, bazookas, tanks, etc. will be set up on Main Street who will operate it as Teal Service Station. that will go to match a similar sum from the I gave her what medication I could and left her on Armed Forces Day. 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Now the rural fire truck is out of gas church, probably East Freedom, who was ward Mason snuggled against her shoulder. and money too. asked to deliver the Morning Prayer. His One of the persons she interacted with Aug. 15 - Charlie Brown, guerilla leader of 1964 prayer was appropriate, but his closing was was her Aunt Caroline Wall. Aunt Caroline the Army’s Swift Strike, has been hiding in plain Jan. 2 – A rash of accidents keeps local of- different. Instead of the customary “Amen” reached over and pinched the child’s cheek sight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Upchurch ficers busy. There is one fatality. and said, “You are a pretty child.” The child Jr. He was captured but escaped to regroup and closing, he ended his prayer with “yours Jan. 9 – Sheriff Dave Barrington asks for an truly, Ben Ray.” replied, “You are ugly.” attack forces headquartered in Hope Mills. additional deputy. Later in the year he got two. Aug. 22 – Two men are charged with killing It may have been that he was ahead of Aunt Caroline then asked Grandma, Jan. 16 – Two cases of meningitis are reported “What did he say?” Grandma’s response their wives: one is an ax murder that crushed a in Hoke. the times in personalizing his prayer. skull, and the other is a murder by shotgun blast Jan. 23 – Thieves raid the county office was “I don’t know.” to the neck. Both men are later convicted; one building for a second time but came away empty Goufa Dust Grandma’s response was correct espe- gets life and the other gets 25 years. handed. An arrest is made later. “Goufa dust” is an earthen material that cially since the child’s assessment was not Sept. 5 – Two men are killed when their 1956 Jan. 30 – Work begins on plans for a new is taken from cemeteries and is believed an objective one. Lincoln roared through a stop sign and smashed post office. into an embankment. Dead are Carl Sarvis, 40, of to have special powers. An individual Feb. 6 – Plans for a perpetual care cemetery wanting to effect certain changes would The Swamp Thing Southern Pines and James Kimball Jr., 29, of Vass. at Sunset Hills are halted after residents protest. Sept. 12 - The Bucks, under the coaching of take his goufa dust and sprinkle it about. The northernmost of three swamps in Feb. 27 – Volunteer firefighters vehemently the Bowmore Community is known as the John Pecora, new to the job, won their opener protest a “poor” rating given by the state. Towns- The individual against whom the action in the last minutes of the game. Final score was people rally behind their firefighters. was taken is helpless against its intended Big Middle Swamp, and passes behind the Bucks 14, Lumberton 7. March 5 - County commissioners end a free power unless he had a potion to counteract site of Aunt Fannie Priest’s home. Fallen Sept. 19 – Dave H. Hodgin was 33 when he handout program to needy families. For three its effects. logs made up a portion of a footpath through ran for Hoke sheriff and won. He held the job for months 11, staple items were given out. the water-filled swamp. We were told never 34 years. Now retired, he was never injured but March 12 – President Johnson’s income tax to venture into that area, because the swamp recalls a time of danger when he was escorting Master has gone to Heaven cuts will mean $676,680 to Hoke citizens. One of the slaves who served a family was filled with “things.” On occasions, we two prisoners to Death Row, and one carried a March 26 – Sheriff Dave Barrington wins could hear one of the “things” let out a low knife that had been slipped to him. He thinks he by performing household duties returned to the Distinguished Service Award from the Jr. the kitchen after visiting the living quarters bellowing noise. In spite of the cautions, our did not get the knife in his back because a burly Chamber of Commerce. Raeford policeman decided to ride in the back section of the home. “Master has gone to childhood curiosity got the better of us more April 2 - Three Raeford policemen, Sam than once, but we never saw the “thing.” with the prisoners. Motley, Harvey Young and J.C. Barrington, heaven; he’s dead, and he’s gone to heaven,” Sept. 26 – A five-year-old girl is credited are honored for saving the life of a Main Street she announced. Another slave spoke up Several years later, a group of curiosity with saving her “feeble” grandmother from a woman by carrying her from her burning home. and said, “I don’t think so. Master was a seekers gathered on U.S. 401 at the point fire that gutted a seven-room house where 25 April 23 – Hoke schools’ proposed budget is man who always prepared for his journeys, where the highway passes through the Big people lived. Except for the grandmother, the the highest ever at $189,658. and I don’t think he prepared for going to Middle Swamp. A huge animal had tried adults were working in the fields. April 30 – Hoke High Principal Dewey Hug- to cross the road by crawling through a Oct. 3 – Mrs. J.L. Warner, a third grade teacher heaven. In all my years I never heard him gins resigns after five years. pray the first time.” culvert underneath the highway and had at McLauchlin School, is named Teacher of the May 28 – The new Hoke High principal is gotten wedged in the small space. It would Year by the Raeford Woman’s Club. Donald D. Abernathy. let out the kind of bellow we associated Oct. 10 – R.B. Lewis, former fire chief and June 18 – Raeford merchandisers protest The perception of a child volunteer firefighter who retired after 34 years, Grandma told the story of an event, with the “swamp thing.” increased fees for privilege licenses. The town The huge thing was an alligator from reminisces as he sits behind the wheel of a 1926 council turns a deaf ear. which took place at Walls Chapel Church. LaFrance fire engine. June 25 – County commissioners approve an She took her young son to church with her. the swamp that had to be destroyed. Oct. 17 – Sheriff Dave Barrington and Deputy appraisal for tax revaluation purposes. Jesse Lee spent the weekend in the woods in July 9 - The county health director tells town McLauchlin Township and nabbed three men councilmen the town will have to stop using the for making ‘shine and blew up three stills. Oct. 29 – Fire Chief J.D. McMillan warns circumstantial evidence. town dump on Rockfish Creek. “thrill seekers” to stay away from fire scenes Jan. 28 – Raeford’s new airport is com- Oct. 24 – Albert McLeod, 45, was struck July 16 - Raeford Savings & Loan moves to and killed by a train near the head of Upchurch or get ticketed. pleted and ready for inspection. The runway a new location on Campus Ave. Nov. 5 - County commissioners vote to runs roughly north and south and is 3,600 ft. Pond. The train was traveling about 30 mph and July 23 - James R. Fout Jr. will manage the was coming out of a curve when the engineer participate in the free food program in winter long and 100 ft. wide and will accommodate Chamber of Commerce. months only. twin-engine planes. saw McLeod sitting on a crosstie with his head Aug. 13 – The local unit of the National slumped forward. Nov. 19 – Hoke Superior Court opens a one- Feb. 4 – Farace Oxendine, Hawk Eye School’s Guard will drill once a month instead of weekly. week criminal term with three murder trials on basketball and baseball coach, is shot and killed Oct. 31 – Wage employees of the Raeford A West Elwood Ave. site is chosen for a new Worsted plant will be given a pay increase of the docket. at a grocery store in Robeson County. His cousin post office. Dec.3 - Raeford Medical Group, with three is charged with his murder. approximately five cents per hour. Aug. 20 - Charlie Morrison is appointed Nov. 7 – U.S. Rubber promises pay raises. doctors, opens a clinic on Campus Avenue. Feb. 18 – Farmer John Balfour, a member of permanent postmaster of Raeford. Dec. 10 - Eli Shankle is reelected chairman the Hoke board of commissioners, receives the Nov. 14 – Dave Barrington, the youngest Sept. 3 – The first African American is quietly sheriff in North Carolina at age 29, is the son of county commissioners. Jaycees’ Distinguished Service Award. Grover admitted to an all-white school, McLauchlin Dec. 17 – Willie Junior Smith and Rudy Owens is named Man of the Year. of a Hoke deputy and jailer and was born in an Elementary. apartment occupied by the Barrington family Clegg Bruton of Moore County are convicted of Feb. 25 – Forest fires last year burned 941 State Highway Patrolman Bill Herbin is the slaying of State Trooper Bill Herbin. Only a acres. Most were caused by debris fires that got above the jail. murdered during a routine traffic stop. Two men Nov. 21 – A Raeford man, Angus Thompson, plea of mercy from the jury saves the men from out of control. were convicted in December; one’s conviction the gas chamber. A prank caller has called in three wrecks gets 30 days for beating his 11-year-old stepson was overturned. and making him drink from a hog trough. Dec. 24 - Plans for a half-million dollar golf with arriving officers, ambulances, etc. finding Sept. 24 – The Bucks upset mighty Rock- and country club are announced. no accidents. Nov. 28 – Hoke holds a memorial service for ingham 13-0. slain President John F. Kennedy. March 4 – A flu outbreak is near the epidemic Oct. 1 - Veteran state highway patrolman stage. Student absences because of flu number City employees get a raise. Joe Dupree resigns to run for judge of Hoke Dec. 5 – Cemeteries give the city headaches, 1965 430. Recorders Court, an office he won. March 11 – Hoke and Cumberland counties, one involves a commercial cemetery whose own- Oct. 8 - State Highway Patrolman Jimmy Jan. 7 – A state inspector says Hoke’s jail ers want water piped to it. The other is outside “barely” passes the test, and a new jail should placed together in the 12th Judicial District, Mayo is assigned to Hoke. will be the first of six districts to test legislated the city limits but within the mile jurisdiction Oct. 15 - Hoke County Agent W.Y. Young be planned. where zoning can be controlled by the city and Jan. 14 – Teen vandals damage Raeford court reform. The first court session will be wins the distinguished service award from the Dec. 1, 1966. neighbors don’t want it. National Assoc. of Agricultural agents. Methodist Church. Dec. 12. - Steve Hedgpeth is named “top dog” Raeford merchant Jesse A. Baucom dies. March 18 - Police and court officials plan a Oct. 22 – Hoke Schools Superintendent W.T. crackdown on excessive speeders. One speed- of the Bucks’ 1963 football squad. Gibson Jr. says 12 additional school rooms are Jan. 21 – Rudy Clegg Bruton, convicted of Dec. 19 – Free food is handed out to 300 murdering State Trooper W.T. Herbin in August, ing case involved a high speed chase that was needed and urged voters to approve the school clocked at 120 MPH as the driver sped toward needy families. referendum. seeks an appeal. He said he was convicted on 36 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial fifth traffic fatality when his Volkswagen is pul- McLauchlin Elementary School, where fire had verized by an 18-wheeler near the Big Star Truck wiped out six classrooms and a library. Stop on Hwy. 401, the scene of many accidents. March 31 – The first of many public meetings Hwy 401 marker July 22 – The Raeford National Guard unit on rural fire protection is set for April 6. A plan is designated a priority unit for call-up in event to establish rural fire districts came about from of a national emergency. the public sessions. July 29 – Someone turned stop signs at Bur- April 7 – The town board is told it would honors slain trooper lington Crossroads in south Hoke. As a result, take $1 million to provide the town’s water and a serious wreck occurs and three people are sewer needs. injured, one critically. April 21 – Fire districts are set up in a dozen drunkenness, and of Willie Junior Smith, Aug. 5 – Headstart integration is ordered. The rural areas, and plans are made to form volunteer 26, for having no operator’s license. A U.S. government threatens to withhold financial fire departments. At the end of the year, five fire fourth man in the car was Rudy Clegg aid to all Hoke schools. departments were either in operation or being Bruton, 22. All were from Taylortown in The tobacco crop is off 50 percent and may organized. Moore County. mean a 50 percent loss to Hoke farmers. April 28 – Work begins on a new vocational Smith fled across the cornfield, Herbin Aug. 12 – The county is declared an “emer- shop and band room at Hoke High; it was com- in pursuit. Indications are Herbin fired a gency” area because of excessive rain, and pleted in the fall. warning shot. He was overpowered by loans with three percent interest are available May 12 – School transfers more than doubled Bruton and Smith in the field, according to farmers. when students were given a choice of which to testimony. Aug. 19 – As a result of undercover activity, school they wanted to attend. Choices were an ABC raid nets 12 bootleggers who face 32 mostly African Americans choosing to go to Allan and Reaves drove away, leaving charges. previously all-white or predominantly white the two younger men to fend for themselves. Aug. 26 – While Hoke’s integration plan is schools. Every available law officer in the region in place and expected to be okayed, the U.S. May 26 – Hoke receives a grant to begin a was alerted to help in the search for Herbin’s government lags on making a decision of ap- Headstart preschool, anti-poverty program here. killer or killers. They found the Chevrolet , proval or disapproval. Jerry Cummings, 27, charged with murdering W.T. Herbin with Allan sitting inside, on Raeford-Vass Sept. 23 – The federal government finally his uncle, escapes from the Hoke jail. He is found State Patrolman W.T. Herbin died on a Road inside the Fort Bragg reservation. agrees that Hoke’s plan spells desegregation in in Georgia, returned, and given a life sentence hot, sweltering day in August more than 45 Reaves was located later, and Smith and the schools. after conviction. years ago in a cornfield in east Hoke County. Bruton were found in bed in Taylortown. Meanwhile, a young Philip Kelton has quietly June 2 - Hoke schools graduate 208 seniors. It was a senseless murder that followed All four men were held under first degree integrated McLauchlin Elementary School. June 9 – Plans for a new county jail are modi- a routine traffic stop. Sept. 30 – Raeford will add another well at fied when it is found the jail would cost more than murder charges without bail, but charges a cost of $15,000 to its dwindling water supply. the $100,000 authorized by a bond referendum. Herbin, who was 34, had been a patrol- against Reaves and Allan were dropped. June 23 – Six classrooms and library construc- man for 14 years - most of that time spent in In December, Smith and Bruton were con- tion are underway at McLauchlin Elementary Hoke County – when his life was brutally victed of first degree murder by an all-male 1966 and are put to use shortly after school starts. taken August 31, 1964. He had stopped four jury in Bladen County. The jury deliber- Jan. 6 –The year’s first traffic fatality occurs June 30 – The state Highway Patrol begins men in a black 1957 Chevrolet at about 3 ated two hours and 15 minutes before the when the brakes on farmer D.W. Gillis’ truck fail, using radar guns and stops 70 speeders in a p.m. on a Sunday eight miles from Raeford verdict. The duo escaped the death penalty sending him careening into the side of a heavily week’s time. on Hwy. 401. A fellow state trooper and because the jury recommended mercy, and loaded tobacco rig three miles south of Raeford. July 7 – A small tornado dips down in the friend, Joe E. Dupree, drove by, slowing life sentences were handed down. Bruton Jan. 13 – A NC State University poll shows Five Points community and damages farms, down and briefly turning his siren on. appealed and the state Supreme Court over- Hoke to be the fifth fastest growing county in the buildings and trees, but no injuries are reported. Herbin waved him on. state with a population of 18,788 as determined July 14 – An agriculture census shows fewer turned his verdict, saying he was convicted farms in Hoke. In five years the number of farms That night another patrolman, E.W. on insufficient evidence. by a 1965 census. The state legislature meets in special ses- has dropped from 1,011 to 600. Coen, found Herbin’s body. He had been A Greensboro native, Herbin left a July 21 – Dangerous Drowning Creek takes badly beaten with his own weapon and shot sion to reapportion both houses of the General widow and a 13-year-old daughter. Assembly. its second victim of the year. in the face four times. Herbin’s body was returned to Greens- Jan. 20 – Hoke, Robeson and Scotland coun- Hillcrest Fire Department gets the state’s According to testimony, Herbin was boro for burial. Governor Terry Sanford at- ties are to remain in the same House district with highest rating. serving warrants for the misdemeanor tended the service. The Hwy. 401 overpass four seats allotted. July 28 – Hoke’s crops are burning. There is arrests of Albert Reaves, 48, and his in Raeford bears a dedication marker in the Jan. 27 – The school board and commis- an urgent need for rain. brother-in-law, Willie Allan, 60, for public state trooper’s name. sioners disagree over where to locate a new A third drowning occurs when a young man elementary school. dies in a farm pond near the Moore-Hoke line. Feb. 3 - Kiwanis name Clyde Upchurch Jr. Aug. 4 – A tax on the sale of packaged beer Fayetteville on Hwy. 401 Bypass. May 27 – Hoke’s plan for desegregating public Man of the Year. would bring the county $20,000 if voters approve. March 25 – Hoke budget requests are up by schools did not meet federal approval. Specific The worst blizzard in a century paralyzes T.B. Lester is named county manager. $67,308 from ’64. All departments asked for reasons were not spelled out. the South, including Hoke, when snow storm Aug. 11 – Record prices are paid for tobacco. more money, bringing the total proposed budget June 3 – The state Supreme Court reversed follows snow storm. Aug. 18 – The U.S. Commissioner of Educa- up to $365,659. the murder conviction of Rudy Clegg Bruton, Feb. 10 – Commissioners again refuse to tion tentatively approves Hoke’s desegregation April 1 – Hoke is one of 17 counties in the 23, in the slaying of State Trooper W.E. Herbin endorse the school board’s plan to buy a 30-acre plan calling for freedom of choice but indicates state to be eligible for 100 percent poverty aid. last August. The state said there was insufficient site across from Bethel Rd. for a new elementary it will have to produce more transfers. April 8 – For the first time since 1901, the evidence. Bruton said at no time did he enter the school. Aug. 25 – Realtor and commissioner Har- town annexes property. The town limits move cornfield where Herbin’s body was found. Wil- Feb. 17 – Former commissioner chairman old Gillis is indicted on charges he embezzled east, taking in nine of 12 landowners who said lie Junior Smith was also convicted but did not T.D. “Doug” McPhaul dies when he crosses $14,000 from a client. He later received a sus- they did not want to be annexed. appeal. Both men had been given life sentences. the road to retrieve a Sunday newspaper and is pended one-year sentence. April 15 – The town’s newest residents by Five men are found guilty of tobacco barn struck by a car. Sept. 1 – Beer and light wine off-premise annexation are vocal about their desire not to thefts. Feb. 24 - Pvt. Jerome McCormick becomes sales are approved 3-2 by voters. be in Raeford. June 17 – Commissioners launch plans for Hoke County’s first fatality of the war in Vietnam. Sept. 8 – Commissioners veto the sale of beer The school board studies desegregation plans. a new jail. March 3 – State inspectors say Hoke’s jail is and light wine on Sundays. April 22 – Thirteen candidates file for the Postal delivery schedules are revised to give unfit for human habitation. Sept. 22 – A new town ordinance aims to town board. Mayor H.R. McLean is unopposed. patrons better service. Without the approval of commissioners, the eliminate the consumption of beer and wine May 6 – R. Palmer Wilcox and Franklin Teal June 24 – The town budget is expanded school board closes a deal to buy 30 acres of land in public. win town board seats. They join incumbents John without a tax hike. adjacent to Hoke High. Oct. 6 – A Total Community Development K. McNeill Jr., C.P. Kinlaw and J.D. McMillan. July 1 – A cloudburst in the middle of the night March 10 - Hoke receives $419,230 in fed- plan calls for the establishing of an industrial park. May 13 – Sixty Negro students ask for school drops six inches of rain in three hours and floods eral funds for use in the county’s five non-white Oct. 13 – A Sandhills Community Action transfers. Six have asked to be assigned to Hawk a square-mile area of Hoke’s best farmland. schools. Program (SCAP) releases a survey showing the Eye School for Indians, and 54 want to go to July 8 – The Hoke tax valuation process is March 17 – The $650,000 jail and bond issues scope of poverty here. previously all-white schools. halfway done, and it appears property values are approved by a 4-1 majority. Oct. 27 – Commissioners delay a hunt for May 20 – Hoke gets federal aid for Headstart will be up considerably. March 24 - School officials allott insurance industry because money was not appropriated program; 300 preschoolers are enrolled. July 15 – A 20-year-old man becomes Hoke’s money and other funds to rebuild a portion of in the budget. The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 37 Ashemont wins the Community Develop- May 18 – County commissioners raise taxes Area Development Assoc., made up of Hoke, situation, decide the causes are uniquely psy- ment Award. by 10 cents, advancing the rate to $1.38 per Moore, Montgomery, Lee and Richmond chological. Nov. 10 – A three-car accident on Rockfish $100 valuation to help pay for schools and jail counties. Rockfish wins in the rural non-farm Two young men are killed when their car Road kills three men, bringing Hoke’s total traffic bond money. division of SADA. slammed into a Greyhound bus at the intersec- fatalities this year to 12. May 25 – Southeastern Economic Develop- Nov. 23 – A stop sign knocked down at the tion of East Prospect and Hwy. 401 Business. Nov.17 – Judge Coy Brewer is named 12th ment Commission - a 10 county organization intersection of Bethel Road and State RPR 1149 April 4 – There have been six traffic fatalities Judicial District (Cumberland and Hoke) chief including Hoke – is organized, and Hoke’s Jim is to blame for a two-car accident that killed a in Hoke since the beginning of the year. judge. Fout, Chamber of Commerce manager, is named 17-year-old and seriously injured a mother and April 11 – The 2nd Battalion, 252nd Armor Nov. 24 – Four youths die in Ashley Heights first president, her son. is called to quell rioting in Wilmington follow- when flames engulfed the tent they are sleeping June 1 – More than 2,500 acres of cotton is Nov. 30 – Hoke High’s school band, under ing the murder of civil rights leader Dr. Martin in. David Womble, Harry Duke Pickler, Clarkson plowed up again this year after wet, cool weather the direction of Jimmy James, participates in Luther King Jr. Allen, Harry Teal Jr. and John Crissman were on destroys the crop. parades in Monroe and Charlotte and wins high April 18 – With voter registration nearly at an overnight campout when their campfire spread More than 200 seniors graduate from praise for both performances. end, 4262 voters sign up. to the tent. Only Teal escapes with minor burns. Hoke’s three high schools, Hawk Eye, Hoke Dec. 7 – The war in Vietnam takes the life of April 25 – Ralph Huff of the Ashley Heights Nov. 31 – A new elementary school will and Upchurch. Marine 1st Lt. Samuel Warlick. In his last letter community receives an appointment to the U.S. cost $605,000. June 8 - Commissioners authorize a fire tax to his parents, he wrote of his pride in his men Air Force Academy. Dec. 15 – Forty-three Raeford National Guard for Puppy Creek and Rockfish fire districts. and the Marine Corps. Town voters approve a $770,000 bond issue recruits will go on active duty come January. June 15 – Ella Sanders, 105, believed to be W.T. “Hoot” Gibson, schools superintendent, to improve wastewater collection and improve- Dec. 22 – Raeford’s canine postman retires Hoke’s oldest person, dies. She was born into dies of a heart attack in his home. The school ments. after 46,800 miles. Duke, a brown boxer, followed slavery and was the mother of 13 children. board says he left the school system “in good May 9 – Town manager Ed Williams resigns, mailman Tommy Macko (not his owner) for five June 29 - The third annual wagon train makes shape.” and the city board passes anti-riot measures giv- years as he made his rounds. Duke somehow the 25-mile trip across the Ft. Bragg reservation Dec. 14 – Donald Abernethy, former Hoke ing the mayor the right to impose a curfew and knew when it was a weekend and didn’t show from Raeford to Little River Township in Moore High principal, is named superintendent of declare a state of emergency. up then. Duke was forced into retirement when County, camps out two days, then returns to schools. May 16 – Cpl. Kenneth Wayne Floyd be- his owners moved. Raeford. There are 60 wagons and 150 riders Dec. 23 – Two weeks after his death, the new comes the third Hoke Countian to die in combat Dec. 27 – A Hoke survey shows the price of on horseback. Bethel Road School is named for “Hoot” Gibson. in Vietnam. food increased $60 per family over last year’s July 6 – Raeford Presbyterian, Raeford Dec. 30 – African-American citizens plan a May 30 – The federal government is initiating costs. Methodist and First Baptist churches allowed voter registration drive. Every voter is required administrative action against Hoke for failure their classrooms to be used by McLauchlin to register in 1968. to comply with the civil rights act of 1964. The Elementary students while the school is being county has failed adequately planning for the 1967 renovated following a fire Oct. 31, 1964 that de- elimination of a dual school system. Jan. 5 - Marine Pvt. W.J. Bennet, former Hoke stroyed six classrooms. First and second graders 1968 June 6 – The school board votes to wipe out High wrestling and football standout, is credited returned to McLauchlin after renovations were Jan. 4 – Under state law, the slate must be the dual school system; Hoke is to have only with saving the life of a woman involved in a completed. Second and third graders are waiting wiped clean and all voters must register this year. one high school. traffic accident by crawling into the wreckage for the completion of the Bethel Road School, Jan. 11 – A blast of winter brings sleet and June 13 – Engineers are instructed to proceed where she was trapped and giving her mouth- which should be finished in November. the flu to Hoke. with a comprehensive study of water-sewer to-mouth respiration. G.R. “Raz” Autry is named Hoke High The just completed 16-classroom W.T. Gibson needs in Hoke. Jan. 12 – Water and sewer woes, to the tune principal. junior high school, located near Hoke High, is July 4 – The school board adopts a resolu- of $1 million, continue to plague the town board. July 13 - The town board backs the mayor already overcrowded. tion to totally integrate grades 6-12 this fall and Jan. 19 – Building permits in Raeford num- on having police crack down on youngsters who Jan. 18 – The Marine Corps awards four to consolidate the three high schools into one. bered 63 in 1966 compared to 30 the year before. violate bicycle riding laws. medals to 1st Lt. Sam Warwick, who was killed It is feared the county’s corn crop is lost due Jan. 26 – After protests from downtown July 20 - Members of Parker UMC object to in action in Vietnam in November. to drought. merchants about a lot the Chamber bought for a the proposed building of a drag strip across from Sp4 Horace Stogner Jr., a 1966 graduate of July 18 – Hoke will share a $1.3 million grant new office building on Harris Ave., the chamber the church at Hwy. 401. Hoke High, is awarded three medals for his ac- with three other counties in an effort to keep rents an office downtown, next to City Cleaners. July 27 – A federal school team is to study tions in Vietnam. people emigrating from the counties. Feb. 2 – W.L. “Rube” Poole is named Kiwanis Hoke’s school integration plan. Jan. 25 – At least a dozen deer have been Plans for a private school at Rockfish fail Man of the Year in recognition of his work with Aug. 3 – Burlington Industries announces killed by vehicles as the animals attempt to cross because the number of students fall short of the young people. wage increases. Hwy. 211 at McCain since deer season began. state’s enrollment requirements. Feb. 9 – Sheriff Dave Barrington reports Aug. 10 – A sewerage survey indicates the Ra- Feb. 1 – The late W.T. Gibson, superintendent July 25 – Raeford receives a $338,250 grant that stills and moonshine making have been eford wastewater treatment plant is overloaded, of schools at the time of his death, is honored as to apply toward $1 million wastewater treat- substantially reduced since an ABC store was and it looks like an expansion can’t be avoided. Kiwanis Man of the Year. ment plant improvements and sewer lines. The located here. Sheriff Dave Barrington may be prosecuted Feb. 8 – Not satisfied with the progress Hoke remainder of the work will be done by bonds Feb. 23 – The state announces that Hwy. 211 for killing a 7-ft. alligator found near Antioch. schools are making in desegregation, the U.S. approved by voters. between Raeford and Aberdeen will be widened Aug. 17 – A federal government team government is threatening to cut off federal Aug. 1 – Raeford is “dead as a doornail” as and the highway will be rerouted to the rear of suggests the immediate integration of most of funding. Burlington’s two plants here, Raeford Worsted the hospital at McCain. Hoke’s schools. Feb. 15 - A large blood donor turnout saves and Pacific Mills Dyeing, close this week for March 9 – Bids are taken for the county’s Aug. 31 – Hoke schools open for some 5,000 Hoke from being removed from the Red Cross annual summer vacation. Some 1600 employees new jail, which is torn down later in the year students while the school board works on integra- blood program. Some 212 pints are collected. are involved. with prisoners housed in Scotland County while tion plans other than the “freedom of choice” plan. Feb. 22 – The federal government has soft- Aug. 8 – John D. Gaddy, former town manager work on the new jail takes place. Sept. 7 – The North Raeford Fire Department ened somewhat on its threat to cut funding if at Bessemer City, replaces town manager J. Ed March 23 – Tourist trade brought $385,000 has a building and a fire truck and is almost ready Hoke schools do not end the “dual system” of Williams, who left to become town manager to the local economy in 1966. to start operations. education. Guidelines are being sent out. of Erwin. April 6 – The cost of educating a student is Sept. 14 - Hwy. 211 is to be rerouted so that it Feb. 29 – Three federal anti-poverty pro- The county names a human relations council higher in Hoke than in neighboring counties and passes McCain Sanatorium to the rear. grams are aimed at Hoke to help cure economic consisting of three members of each race, white, the state as a whole. The per-pupil cost in Hoke Oct. 5 - Raeford’s quarterhorse show is ex- problems. colored and Indian. is $383.70. The state average is $368.78. pected to get an A rating with eight world class March 7 – A new voting precinct, Raeford Aug. 15 – Soybeans is becoming Hoke’s April 20 – Israel Mann, Raeford merchant, winners showing. #5, is carved from Raeford #1 and Raeford #2. biggest crop. becomes the first North Carolinian to earn the Oct. 12- A brooding sow mauls a 71-year- The new precinct is north of town. Upchurch Aug. 22 – Bus problems are ironed out after Shofar Award, the highest Jewish award for work old farmer who had entered her pen to remove High will be the polling place of Raeford #5. two days when Hoke Schools opened on a fully with Boy Scouts. four dead pigs. March 14 – School officials are baffled as integrated basis for seven grades. April 27 – A young family of three is wiped Oct. 19 – Hoke United Fund hopes to raise to why more than half a dozen first graders at Aug. 29 – Hoke Schools have met the out when their compact car is struck by a tractor- $22,000. Upchurch School fall asleep in the classroom requirements of the Civil Rights Law of 1964 trailer. The driver of the truck is also killed. Nov. 2 – The North Carolina Sanatorium at and are hard to awaken. and opened without threats to lose federal aid. May 4 – Gilbert McGregor, one of the best McCain has a new 300-bed addition called the March 21 – A cat gives birth to 10 kittens; a Grades six through 12 are integrated this year high school basketball players in the country, Brooks Wing. car and train collide, seriously injuring a man; a and one through five will be integrated this receives 150 scholarship offers and settles on Nov. 9 – The town board approves a $950,000 family of seven loses their home; and the sleeping coming school year. Wake Forest. sewer bond issue, ending a year-long debate. first graders at Upchurch are not anything to get Sept. 19 – One man was killed and eight are May 11 – Hoke High students “take over” Nov. 16 – Wayside and Rockfish claim top worried about. injured in a two-car collision, bringing Hoke’s city hall for a day, with a student sitting in for development awards. Wayside is declared the March 28 – The sleeping first graders receive number of traffic fatalities this year to nine. One each town official. winner of the farm community of the Sandhills national attention, and psychologists study the of the cars carried a gunshot victim and was be- HOKE COUNTY CIVIC LEAGUE

The Hoke County Civic League was organized to to ensure a more equitable rep- resentation for the minority community. Through a strong coalition formed among all of the races who worked together, the Legue was successful in bringing about the In 1974 Dr. M. H. Wil- election of Hoke County’s first minorities: Mrs. Ruth McNair to the Board of Education and Dr. N. W. McPhatter to the Board of Commission. liams and about 12 The League promotes community growth and advancement through economic ministers and several Dr. B. O. Shoffner, development that strengthens and enhances the potential of business in Hoke Coun- President ty. Further, the League focuses on “Building up the Whole Man” and encourages in- laypersons of local dustry, self-reliance, general improvement, along with spiritual and moral adavance- churches established ment. Strong emphasis is given to the promotion of an awareness of governmental services and participation in the election process. Members of the Hoke County the Hoke County Civic Civic League are asked to work with their churches, community organizations and League. The League agencies, and to attend worship services dedicated to serving man as we serve God. has only had seven FIRST BLACKS IN HOKE COUNTY TO BE ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE presidents: Dr. Wil- First Row: L-R J.D. McAllister, 1st Black in- terim Supt. Hoke Co. Schools,1st Black liams, Mr. Walter Blue, Dr. M. Rouse, Jr., Chairman, Board of Education; Vera Hol- Vice-President lingsworth, 1st Black Clerk of Court; Ellen Rev. J. L. Glenn, Rev. McNeill, 1st Black Female Co. Commissioner; Jim Davis, 1st Black Sheriff. Second Row: Dr. W. K. Mitchell, (inter- N.W. McPhatter, 1st Black Co. Commissioner; Onnie Dudley, 1st Black Register of Deeds; im), Dr. J. W. Gorham, Judge Regina Joe, 1st Black District Court Judge; Dr. Mary K. Thomas, 1st Female Presi- Dr. Mary K. Thomas dent Hoke Co. Civic League, Senior Tar Heel Legis Delegate. Third Row: James Leach, and currently Dr. B. O. 1st Black Chairman Hoke Co. Commissioner; Clyde A. Thomas Jr., 1st Black City Council- Shoffner man; and Ruth McNair, 1st Black Board of Education(not pictured).

HOKE COUNTY MISSIONARY UNION Established March 1975 Christ in Every Home

Past Presidents

Sister Retha Long Hardimon 9/24/89 – 9/23/96

Sister Clara Davis 9/24/96 – 1/13/01

Sister Patricia McKinnon-McKeller 1/12/01-1/12/08

Sister Annie Y. McKinnon A mind thorough which Christ thinks Minister Yulla P. Hines First President 3/75 – 9/89 A heart through which Christ loves Presidency began 1/08 – Current A voice through which Christ speaks A hand through which Christ helps OBJECTIVES:OBJECTIVES: SHAW SHAW UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY, FOREIGN FOREIGN MISSIONS, MISSIONS, STATE STATE MISSIONS, MISSIONS CENTRAL, CENTRAL CHILDREN’S CHILDREN’S HOME, HOME, AND THE J. J. JOHNSON BAPTIST ASSEMBLY AND THE J. J. JOHNSON BAPTIST ASSEMBLY TheThe Missionary Missionary Circle Circle consists consists of ofthe the Youth Youth Department, Department, Young Young Adult Adult Department Department and and the the Senior Senior Department Department

The Hoke County Missionary Union meets quarterly and rotates among its member churches Buffalo Springs, CenterThe Hoke Grove, County Laurel Missionary Hill, Lewis Union Chapel meets West, quarterly Mount and Pisgah, rotates Rock among Hill, its Shady member Grove churches and Silver Grove Buffalo Springs, Center Grove, Laurel Hill, Lewis Chapel West, Mount Pisgah, Rock Hill, Shady Grove and Silver Grove The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 39 ing driven to a Fayetteville hospital. that were being transported from Virginia to be In the first two issues of The Sept.26 – Hoke is declared a disaster area released in Hamlet. Five birds are killed, four are Raeford News-Journal of the because of drought. Farmers are eligible for injured and the remainder fly away, presumably 1970s, the decade of the 1960s emergency farm loans. back to Virginia. is referred to as “The Sizzling Oct. 3 – A racial incident is averted by “cool April 17 - A contract is let for a new Hoke Sixties,” “The Serious Sixties,” heads” after a carload of white youths harassed High stadium. and “The Earthquake Decade.” some colored youths following a Hoke High foot- April 25 – Mr. and Mrs. John Scott Poole Jan. 8 - Janet Hollingsworth, ball game, according to Sheriff Dave Barrington. announce the birth of a daughter, Edna Holiday, a student at Upchurch School, is Oct. 10 – The Chamber of Commerce in- on March 22. the winner of a portable Pana- creases its membership from 84 to 129 following May 1 - Raeford Turkey Farms, Inc. is sonic television in Howell Drug’s Jim Fout’s resignation as manager. He said he enlarged. Boy and Girl Contest. quit because funds were all gone. May 8 – John K. McNeill is reelected Ra- Jan. 15 – An editorial on de- Oct. 17 – Horace Stogner Jr., twice wounded eford’s mayor. segregation states that in “one of in Vietnam, is going back for another tour in the May 15 – Sp4 John M. Pratt, 21, is killed by the last strongholds of segregated war-torn country because he believes in the cause. friendly fire in Vietnam. He is the fourth youth schools, Mississippi, where there Oct. 24 – The Wayside community of 135 to die in Vietnam. Jerome McCormick, Samuel is deep reluctance to comply with families is, for the second year in a row, the Warlick and Kenneth Floyd died. the Supreme Court’s speedup winner of the Hoke County Community De- May 23 – The county’s ad valorem tax rate from a ‘deliberate’ pace to de- velopment service award. Wayside completed a is increased by seven cents to $1.45 per $100. segregation now … that which fire station, redecorated the community building May 29 – Burlington Worsted Plants an- has had to come has come. The and initiated clean-up and beautification to earn nounces a wage increase. United States cannot counte- this year’s award. June 12 - Town commissioners raise taxes nance racial discrimination in Nov. 7 – Hoke County voters go Democratic by 13 cents; the tax rate is $1.30. the public schools if its idealism in a record voter turnout with 4,527 casting A hail storm causes heavy damage to crops. is to endure.” their ballots. June 19 – Crop loss is high from heavy rain. At A&P, T-bone or Porter- Nov. 14 – A High Point man and his daughter Cotton, soybeans and tobacco plants suffer. house steaks are $1.19 a pound. die as the result of a pick-up accident at McCain. June 26 – Tobacco crop loss by hail and rain Jan. 22 – In a front page Dec. 12 – Lt. Col. Paul Dickson retires as com- is estimated at a million dollars. photo, Mrs. Lee Cameron, Hoke mander of 2nd Battalion, 252nd Armor National July 3 – Tex-Elastic Corporation buys County librarian, shows some of Guard unit, which he had commanded since Oct. Uniroyal Plant. the shelving in the local library 1, 1962. A World War II veteran, he organized July 31 – Workers at Raeford Turkey Plant purchased with monies donated the battalion as an artillery battery in 1947, and complain, want higher wages. to the Hoke County Library These ladies were residents of Hoke when the county the first enlistee was Clarence Willis, who is Aug. 7 – The pedestrian death of a nine-year- Memorial Fund, The ‘Library was formed. From left, Isabel Atkins, Mary Williams, the only remaining member of the original unit. old boy marks the 5th traffic fatality in Hoke. O Fund.’ The ‘O’ stands for Julia Atkins Kelly with daughter Pauline on her lap. Major Edwin D. Newton assumes command. Aug. 14 – Speed leads to Hoke’s sixth traffic “opportunity,” and also refers to Dec. 19 – Three people are killed at a cross- fatality. money the library “owes.” roads in the Ashemont community. Aug. 21 – Deadly head-on collision on Hwy. Jan. 29 – A refrigerator truck carrying 9,000 in the county for 1970. 401 brings Hoke’s fatality rate to nine. lbs. of meat overturned onto its side on NC 401 March 26 – Judge Joseph Dupree says district Aug. 28 – Hoke’s dual school system ends. north of Raeford. No meat was spilled. court “will not be used as a collection agency” The system is one of the first in the state with Feb. 5 – Fayetteville Attorney Charlie Rose and will not collect bad checks. 1969 Gospel group Hopper Brothers and Connie Jan. 2 - D.H. Hodgin, former sheriff, dies a significant non-white population to complete III files for candidate in the Democratic primary de-segregation measures. for the U.S. House of Representatives. will sing at Raeford Foursquare Gospel Church at age 73. He was Hoke’s top law officer from for Easter Sunday. 1928 until 1962. Sept. 11 – Students and parents complain Feb. 12 – Hoke Co. farm income is up $2.5 about busing. Superintendent explains complexi- million for 1969 from 1968. April 2 – Youngsters from the “trainable Jan. 9 – Israel Mann’s store is sold to a Red retarded” class at McLauchlin School are shown Springs man, and the store is expected to reopen ties of busing. Feb. 19 – The Hoke Co. Health Department, Sept. 18 – Hoke High stadium, the site of located in a building constructed 14 years ago, resting in a photo after an Easter egg hunt. in two weeks. Mann came to this country from April 9 – Joe Lowery, son of the Rev. and Lithuania 43 years ago. He opened the Main several football games, is completely paid for. is running out of room for patients. Sept. 25 – A fake doctor makes the rounds X-rated Swedish film “Fanny Hill” is show- Mrs. Joseph Lowery of Raeford, is home with Street store in 1925. his parents after serving two years in the Marine Jan. 16 – West Hoke, Cameron Village in Hoke attempting to sell a cure-all medication. ing at Town & Country Cinema in Aberdeen. Oct. 2 – Marine 2nd Lt. Sam Warlick is Coming next is Alfred Hitchcock’s “Topaz.” Corps and being wounded in Vietnam. and Scurlock communities receive grants for April 16 – Four of the youths charged in the improvements. posthumously awarded Vietnam’s highest medal, Feb. 26 – Garbage and trash heaped beside the National Order of Vietnam. He was killed in the road or dumped in the woods and fields is a recent break-ins in Raeford were brought before Jan. 23 – Burlington Industries will pay the District Court. One was sentenced to 18 months $120,000 necessary to make the expansion of action in Vietnam in November 1967. problem in Hoke that is growing daily. Oct. 23 – A man is shot three times at The Belk Hensdale advertises a closing out sale. suspended for 3 _ years with 3 _ years probation. the Raeford Sewage Disposal Plant a reality. April 23 – Four lanes are planned for U.S. Jan. 30 – Willie J. McQueen becomes Hoke’s Record Room in downtown Raeford by a mer- “Our lease expires soon! … In Raeford: Thank chant after he held a knife to her sister. you for years of loyal shopping.” The store moves 401, the highway commissioner says. first fatality of the year when his car leaves the April 30 – A woman who said she took out highway, flies through the air, and hits a tree on Nov. 6 – Hoke voters reject an optional one- to Red Springs. cent sales tax. Voter turnout is small. March 5 – Three persons are being held a warrant charging her husband with abandon- a rural paved road at Duffy Station. ment and non-support of their children because Feb. 6 – Charles Hottel, civic and church Nov. 20 – Sol Cherry is appointed the first without bond in the murder of 36-year-old public defender for District 12, which includes Henry G. Monroe, who was found shot, stabbed, she was mad at him was jailed for the day by leader, is named Kiwanis Man of the Year. Judge Dupree. Feb. 13 – The first still to be uncovered this Hoke. beaten and with his clothes ripped off beside Nov. 27 – The Puppy Creek Philosopher Old Maxton Road. The sheriff reports that the May 7 – Light turnout for the Board of year is located about one mile from Rockfish Commissioners election as only 2,300 citizens on Dundarrach Road. Whoever had set up the thinks the U.S. government should create a Dept. slaying appeared to have occurred in the Sydney of Humor with full cabinet status. Townsend home after Monroe was found in bed cast ballots. whiskey still used surplus food meant for use by An editorial cartoon shows flags at half- low income families. Dec. 4 – The city council cracks down on with Townsend’s wife. The coroner reports that two-hour parking violations. Monroe died from a blow to the back of his head. mast in memory of those killed at Kent State A new stadium is proposed for Hoke High. University. Feb. 20 – Cumberland and Hoke officials Dec. 11 – A tractor and car collide on a bridge In August, Townsend and Darnell McMillan will in Antioch, killing a man and bringing Hoke’s be sentenced to prison for eight to ten years after May 14 – “In Vietnam, it becomes increas- form a law and order committee to seek funds to ingly evident that victory is not an option,” states upgrade local law enforcement agencies. traffic fatalities to 13 for the year. pleading to manslaughter. They were originally Dec. 25 – Cuts in checks for families with charged with murder. a News-Journal editorial. Feb. 27 – A stadium committee comes up May 21 – A Fayetteville city ordinance against with a plan for a $30,000 stadium. dependent children are an unwelcome Christ- March 12 – Roy Jackson, commander of mas gift. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9160, states in profanity is ruled unconstitutional. March 13 – Housing and industry are seen Born to a former slave, Mrs. Manda Jackson as the county’s primary needs. a letter to the editor that the demonstrations in Washington, D.C. by the Vietnam Moratorium of Raeford celebrates her birthday, which may March 27 – The town of Raeford is soon to be her 100th. She remembers her birthday as become the city of Raeford. 1970 committee on Nov. 15, 1969 did not succeed in altering public opinion. “We’ve got to renew being 1870, but letters from her home county April 3 – A six-year-old boy is killed when Jan. 1 – An editorial cartoon shows an old in South Carolina indicate she may have been he trips and rolls under a moving school bus at long-haired guitar-toting folkie proclaiming our spirit of Patriotism through this great land of ours.” born as late as 1874. South Hoke Elementary. “Oh, no … not another generation gap” as a May 28 – The Lumbee Farms poultry pro- April 10 – An accident on Hwy. 401 south young “The ‘70s” comes running up proclaiming March 19 – Two teenagers died in a head-on collision near Montrose in the first traffic fatalities cessing plant opens in Lumber Bridge. of Raeford releases almost 200 homing pigeons Happy New Year. June 4 – A Ft. Bragg soldier, E6 Victor Marti- 40 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Aug. 13 – Town & Country Cinema in Southern Pines is showing “Airport” with Burt 1971 Lancaster and Dean Martin. Next week will be Jan. 7 - The Puppy Creek Philosopher says an Dundarrach born in 1911 too “Chisum,” starring John Wayne. Sunrise Cinema Less than three weeks after Dundarrach A petition bearing 22 of the town’s environmentalist is someone who found out in will show GP-rated “Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love the last two years what the word ecology means. received its charter to become a town in 50 plus residents asked that Dundarrach You” and “Dark Shadows.” Robeson County, its citizens found them- remain chartered. Legislators honored Jan. 7 - Commissioners agree to apply money A bicycling band of youngsters, “The Phan- from the one-cent tax revenue to a garbage dis- selves in Hoke County. that request, but General Assembly action tom Carolinas,” camped overnight in the park posal system, city-county recreation program, Dundarrach was the center for rural is required before the government can be behind McLauchlin School as part of a tour and toward keeping personal and property life in the area when it was incorporated activated. from Charlotte to Charleston sponsored by the taxes down. on February 24, 1911. Legislative action For a time, in 1940-49, a jitney, or a Metropolitan New York Council’s American Jan. 21 – The old Raeford Gin, whose opera- created Hoke out of parts of Robeson and “doodle bug” as it was sometimes called, Youth Hostels. tions began in 1925, is dismantled. Cumberland counties, effective April 13, went through Dundarrach twice a day, at 10 Aug. 20 – Smallpox shots will not be given Rockfish Water System is officially turned on. out at the Health Department until Oct. 1 due to Feb. 11 – An 86-year-old man pools his and 1911. a.m. and 5 p.m., on its way to Fayetteville. the high incidence of sores and mosquito bites, At that time, the little crossroads town Tickets were 25 cents for adults and 10 his 77-year-old brother’s Social Security checks as well as cases of measles and chicken pox. to pay a fine after the elder brother is convicted boasted a saw mill, grist mill and cotton cents for children. The jitney is in Ft. Bragg, Aug. 27 – Allen’s Ltd. advertises that “May- gin and the Dundarrach Trading Company. California now, and the depot belongs to of making moonshine. fair Slacks are all man… and there’s nothing a Feb. 25 – Hoke’s official population from the The trading post was a country version the Dundarrach Historical Society. woman likes better!” 1970 Census was 16,436 people. of Sears & Roebuck, a grocery, and feed The history of the trading company was, Sept. 3 – A Raeford man’s hand was partially March 10 – A tornado touches down in and farm supply store, all rolled into one. to a great degree, the history of Dundarrach. severed by equipment at the Kelly-Springfield Timberland destroying a home; the occupant Country folks could buy everything from Z.V. Pate of Laurel Hill purchased the store plant in Fayetteville where he worked. was away. shoes to 100-pound bags of flour. Custom- in 1911. Edgar Hall, Hoke’s first sheriff, Sept. 10 – Spec. Earl Dew, 21 of Raeford, May 13 – Postal rates go up; stamp prices ers purchased dry goods, appliances, food, owned an interest in the store. He sold his was killed in a rocket attack in Na Trang, the rise from six cents to eight cents. sixth serviceman from Hoke County killed in May 27 – Peddler’s Branch is contaminated drugs, fertilizer, baled hay, washing boards, interest in 1915 to Jesse Gibson, who had Vietnam. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dew, mule bits, bagged corn, butter molds, plows managed the store. In 1940 Gibson sold his by a break in a sewer line. he was in the country for a total of 13 months June 3 – More than a third of ninth grade and more. They could also cash checks, buy interest back to the Pate family, who still when he was killed, after having returned from hunting and fishing licenses, transfer car owns the building. students at Hoke High are found to have health leave in July. problems severe enough to warrant further titles, get documents notarized and make The building was constructed in two Sept. 17 – S/Sgt. Henry Hardin Jr. of Route medical attention. Problems range from heart phone calls as at one time the company had parts connected by a covered breezeway. 3, Raeford, was shot and killed at his home. His murmurs to anemia. the only telephone in town. The office served as a place for church father-in-law, Neil David Baker, is being held July 1 - Bob Gentry is named personnel man- The gin burned in 1955 and there are services until the Dundarrach Presbyterian without bond. He would be acquitted. “I never ager at the Raeford Plant of Burlington Worsteds. only homes, a church, fire station and empty Church was built in 1906 (or thereabouts). did anything I hated to do worse than that, but I July 8 - The state agrees to build a road to buildings in Dundarrach proper now. Norman A. McInnis, brother of the mayor, believe I was protecting my life and that of my the county landfill. family,” said Baker. “You could not reason with Aug. 19 – A one-car crash on Highway 401 Dundarrach is located in the south- worked at the Trading Company for 40 him when he got into a rage.” eastern part of Hoke on St. Pauls and Old years, beginning in 1911. Tom Jones man- kills three in a family. It followed a car and Oct. 1 – “I guess all of us are digging our 18-wheeler crash two weeks earlier that also Wire roads. It is laid out in a perfect square aged it from 1955 until 1984, when the graves every day but some do it faster,” Judge with one mile in each direction, and the Trading Company closed. It later housed killed three. Ten have been killed on that highway Joe Dupree says after finding no probable cause since the beginning of the year. Two more died Aberdeen & Rockfish Railway depot is a multi-business and an antique store. It that Neil David Baker murdered his son-in-law. in a crash a few months later. Hoke ended the in the middle. stands empty now. Baker said he was defending his family when he year with 27 traffic fatalities compared to 10 the L.A. McGinnis was Dundarrach’s first Near to Dundarrach was a grade and shot his son-in-law Staff Sgt. William Hardin Jr. previous year. mayor. Commissioners were Edgar Hall, high school named in memory of three Oct. 8 - A grant of $89,240 is awarded Hoke Nov. 4 – Around Town announces the Hoke Jesse Gibson, M.C. McMillan and L.B. young men who died in World War II: schools under the emergency school assistance County Selective Service office is open two days Smith. One of the earliest residents was Grover McMillan, Charlie McDougal and act. The money will be used to help eliminate a week for young men to register for the draft. racial segregation and discrimination by new or Dec. 2 – The Hoke Agricultural Extension Col. Alexander McMillan, the first Master Carson D. Chason. Mildouson was formed expanded activities. Mason in Hoke County. by combining syllables from the three Service publishes information on how to protect Oct. 15 – The Green Beret held its first sports farm animals from fallout in event of a nuclear It is unclear when the governing body men’s names. The school burned down a parachute jump at Raeford Airport. ceased to exist, but the town almost lost few years back. attack. Oct. 29 – Hoke social workers are told a Dec. 16 – Three Knit-Away executives, two its charter in April 1971; House Bill 867 Dundarrach was named by early Scotch family aid plan is needed. Skyrocketing costs from Raeford, are killed when their plane crashes would have abolished the town. Many of settlers. In Gaelic, it means “oak hill.” The for social and medical programs are making a near the Charlotte Airport. The pilot also died. its residents weren’t even aware the town Gaelic pronunciation is “Dun-dark” but federally-financed family program necessary. was chartered. Hoke residents call it “Dun-dar-ick.” Nov. 5 – The Hoke High Bucks earn the Southeastern Conference crown after downing Bowman 14-7. Coach John Pecora is named 1972 Coach of the Year. Jan. 6 – State health officials approve the nez of the 82nd Airborne, is killed in a car-truck with asymmetrical roofs and use of open space. county’s landfill site. Final arrangements between collision on U.S. 401 South near Bowmore. However, not all of the homes in the area are Nov. 11 – A boy, 3, and a girl, 5, both crying, are found alongside the road at Davis Bridge the city and the county are yet to be ironed out. June 11 – Head Start begins its fifth year expected to be of that type.” The Raeford project Jan. 13 – Rain, slick roads and excessive speed in Hoke. has been described in professional magazines. where they had been dumped by a man who offered them candy and told them he would take are blamed for four wrecks that killed one person The sign for Sugar’s Men’s Shop was put in June 16 – The city council asks for federal and left another seriously injured. Lack of a seat place on the new store in the old Belks-Hensdale aid to add paved runways and runway lighting them to their mothers. The children were taken to their homes but could not describe the man belt was blamed for the death. building. to the city airport. Firefighters put out a blaze in Tylertown while June 18 – Hoke schools superintendant June 23 – The new air pollution law – prohibi- who took them. Nov. 18 – An explosion and fire tore out the a woman fought them with a hatchet and broken Donald Abernathy appeared before the state tion on open burning – should not cause local bottle. She had set the fire herself and was taken Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational industries too many problems. front of a mobile home in Ponderosa Pines. The trailer’s occupant was in the yard when the blast to Dorthea Dix for a mental examination. Opportunity to report on steps toward total inte- June 30 – Knit-Away will begin construction Jan. 20 – The Rev. Donald N. Hicks receives a gration. “Integration is working well. We have on a knitting/textile plant in Raeford which will occurred but was not hurt. Dec. 3 – Cadet Paul Currie, son of Mr. and flat no to his request for a permit to make a home had no racial disturbance.” employ 300-350 people. in which former convicts can be rehabilitated. June 25 – “Million dollar rain” falls on county Aug. 6 – Esso runs a full-page ad for new Big Mrs. David Scott Currie, was in the Macy’s parade in New York City on Thanksgiving Day. Jan. 28 – The Federal Aviation Authority gives in time to avert major crop disaster. It comes too Plus, “the lowest-lead, highest-octane gasoline the city an impressive loan toward improvements late to save some corn. … to help clean the air. There are 83,000,000 He is a member of the West Point Glee Club, and they performed during the parade. to the Raeford Airport. Later, this loan becomes June 2 – A wreck on Highway 211 ended the cars on the road today. What we’ve done is to problematic when the city tries to sell the airport lighthearted pursuit of a newly married couple. make Big Plus an anti-pollution gasoline that 9 Dec. 10 – A thief or thieves entered Joe Sugar’s Men’s Store through a skylight and took to a private investor. June 9 – Students from North Carolina State out of 10 drivers of today’s cars can use without Feb. 3 – A mistrial is declared in the case of University architectural school design low-cost worrying about engine knock…. Why we didn’t merchandise. Dec. 17 – Burlington Industries gives one- Johnny Scott and Freddie Revels Jr., accused of homes being built in a subdivision off Vass Road take out all the lead. We could have, of course. stealing $8,000 in equipment from Arabia Golf near the Northwest Water Supply water tower. But engine testing shows that some lead is needed week vacations to its employees plus Christmas bonuses. Course. Scott’s father is accused of tampering “All of the designs so far have been modernistic, to prevent valve damage.” because he had lunch with a member of the jury. The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 41 The pair is later found guilty. has reached an all-time high in Hoke with a vacant homes and empty sheds. Aug. 24 – Fifty trash containers are placed Feb. 10 – Two companies vie for a permit to primary coming up. June 22 - An empty brick home is the latest around the county at collection sites. do a countywide trash pickup. April 20 – The Raeford Jaycees selected in a rash of arsons in the county. Aug. 31 – Hoke is designated as a Rede- Feb. 17 – Three grocery stores were broken Raz Autry as deserving of the Distinguished The Sunset Branch of the Bank of Raeford velopment Area County by the Southeastern into and robbed, according to reports. Robbed Service award. was robbed by an armed man. Economic Development Commission, and this were Little Giant on Harris Avenue, Tuckers April 27 – A woman who is thrown from June 29 – Knit-Away expands its Raeford means individuals and organizations are eligible Grocery in Robbins Heights and Harrell’s her car when it overturns becomes Hoke’s fifth plant to the tune of $3.5 million. for funds to improve employment and economic Grocery on Prospect Avenue. Mostly cash and fatality of the year. Ruth Ballard Jones, 22, died July 6 – About 350 signed up for Food Stamps, conditions in the county. cigarettes were taken. on Hwy. 211 east of Raeford. and some of them are pictured waiting in line at Sept. 7 – In Hoke, expenditures for students Feb. 24 – A car crashed into the plate glass May 4 – Paul Dickson III, 30, son of The Dept. of Social Services are above average. window of Joe Sugar’s on Main Street. No News-Journal publisher, is killed in Fayetteville July 13 – A $750,000 water bond issue is Sept. 14 – Crops harvested in Hoke increase injuries, except the mannequins looked a bit after being hit by an out-of-control car. The three passed. It will save the average consumer $26 a despite the loss in acreage, according to a farm roughed up. people in the car that struck him also died. month, according to the city manager. census report. March 2 - Knit-Away Inc. held a fashion May 11 – Despite a large number of registered July 20 – Youngsters die on the highways. Sept. 21 – An expanded free breakfast pro- show to highlight what’s new in fashion. At- voters, the turnout for the primary was small. An 8-year-old boy is killed when he rode his gram is instituted at South Hoke Elementary, tendees were told Knit-Away has 865 workers It is announced Hoke will begin a Food Stamp bike into the path of an oncoming car on Hwy. bringing to 300 the number of meals served out and a planned expansion by the end of the year. program July 1 of this year. 211. A 4-year-old girl was killed when the car of 435 enrolled students. March 9 – Hog cholera is discovered on the May 17 – The city and Burlington Mills agree she was in smashed head-on into a tow truck on Sept. 28 – Hoke High Class of ’59 dedicates a James Potter farm, leading to the slaughter of that the city should annex the plant and its 100 the Duffie-Wagram Road. sun dial to the memory of three classmates killed 1,200-1,400 hogs. Hogs within a mile radius are acres. This will bring $9.5 million in assessed July 27 – A 16-year-old took a break from in vehicle accidents: Paul Dickson III, Sadie Lee killed to be on the safe side. property value to the city. working in the tobacco field and was taking a Chambers and Clifton Murdock “Pete” Brown. March 16 – Two youths - one a sophomore at May 24 – Hoke’s residents will pay two cents dip in a drainage pond when he drowned. It is The sundial is placed in the Hoke High courtyard. Hoke High - are charged with a brutal slaying in less in ad valorem taxes as the rate goes down to the second drowning in Hoke this summer; the Oct. 5 - Johnny Scott and Freddie Revels Jr. the Arabia community. Stanley Adcox, 51, was $1.48 per $100 of assessed value. other victim was a six-year-old boy. are found not guilty of stealing liquor and cash beaten and stabbed and died of multiple skull May 31 – Sam Morris had this tale in his Raeford’s ad valorem tax rate fell by 15 cents, from the ABC liquor store during an April 22 fractures in his driveway. “Around Town” column: Tom McGill repaired thanks to the annexation of Burlington Mills. break-in. March 23 – The city’s new backhoe collides and sold sewing machines, which he delivered Aug. 3 – A third drowning is reported in Oct. 12 – Two accidents leave one dead and with a Holly Farms truck in town. The only injury by horse and wagon. His horse could be quite Hoke when the body of Lewis King, 45, is nine injured. The accidents occurred at McCain is to the truck’s feelings because the backhoe stubborn and balked on the way to a delivery. Mr. found in a pond behind the Samuel Leonard on Highways 211 West and 401 North. came out without a scratch and the truck had McGill had a shocking machine on his wagon Training School. Oct. 19 – Plans are made for Edinborough $3,000 in damages. and touched it to the horse as a hint to get mov- Aug. 10 – Commissioners amended the Shopping Center, named after Edinborough March 30 – A Fayetteville woman found a ing. Unfortunately for them both, the horse just budget to supplement the ambulance service. Medical College, which was chartered in the area pigeon with a red band on its leg on Hwy. 211 keeled over dead. Out of 32 trips made last month, only two bills in 1867. The site is at Harris Ave. and Main St. and asks the owner to come forward. June 7 – Joyce McKenzie wins an award for were paid, they were told. A Raeford woman, 28, dies saving a young April 6 – With the new landfill in opera- having the highest grades among Upchurch Jr. Aug. 17 – James Roy McGougan, 16, and child from a burning house on Saunders Street tion, commissioners have launched a clean-up High students. Glenn Cummings, 22, were both sentenced for Extension. The woman threw the child out a campaign. June 15 – An arsonist continues to leave the murder of Stanley Adcox of Arabia on March window but was not able to get out herself. April 13 – The number of registered voters destruction around the country. The targets are 8. No reason for the brutal murder was given. Oct. 26 – A copias from the column of Sam

Serving The Great People Happy Birthday of Hoke County Since 1947 Hoke County! Serving Our Seniors With Open Arms Howell Drug Open Arms Tom Howell, Pharmacist Retirement Center 311 Teal Drive Raeford, NC 612 Health Drive (910) 875-3365 Raeford, NC Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. 875-3949 Closed Sunday 42 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Hawkeye School began at Jacob’s Point By Lynette Dial a lunchroom large enough to accommodate the high school grades once the state allotted When Elisha Dial moved to Hoke County for a high school teacher. In previous years, in 1916, there were no Indian schools in the Indian students who pursued a high school southeastern part of the county. Having quit education had to travel to Robeson County to school at an early age to help his father tend receive one. That year the school opened with their acreage, he desired better for his own the name “Consolidated Indian School,” under children. So four years later, he approached the leadership of principal James H. Dial. The Superintendent W. P. Hawfield about a school dream that their children could live at home for the Indian children in that area. Dial was and still receive an adequate education was charged, by Hawfield, with the task of finding finally realized by Indian parents Elisha Dial, 20 Indian children to attend school. Rising to Rodney Locklear and Levi Brewer. the challenge, as he always did, Dial found 30 It wasn’t long before the first high school children and a teacher. graduation took place at the new school. The As a result, a one-room vacant building at graduating class of 1955 consisted of three Jacob’s Point was designated as a school for the students: Winford Rogers, Johnny Branch Indian children to attend. From that time until and James Anderson Maynor. It was led by principal Spurgeon M. Bullard, who saw the the 1933-34 school year, the attendance grew to The Levi Brewer family - he wanted his children to have an education. the point of overflow, with more students than school through two more name changes and one teacher could teach. Many of the children the addition of a new school gymnasium. In who attend school there walked three or more miles to attend the school, the 1954–55 school year, the name changed are still from the Indian including all of the Dial children. again to the Hoke County Indian School. community. However, Macedonia was another Indian school that In 1959, Principal Bullard’s last year there, something has been had been established in the southwestern part a teacher named Lew Barton suggested the different, since the day of the county. However, that one-room school school choose its own name, a name it could be the name “Hawkeye” building burned around 1933, leaving those proud of. He suggested “Hawkeye.” The name was removed from the Indian students to be transported to Robeson was sanctioned by the school committee and school’s walls. It is as County for some years because Hoke County unanimously agreed upon by the faculty, staff if the soaring spirit of had nowhere else for them to go. Seeing the need and students. the Hawk, which had for something to be done about the lack of space Overwhelmingly, everyone agrees that it inspired the students and facilities for Indian children, Dial found was the adoption of the Hawkeye name and the and connected the com- himself returning to the Hoke County Board Hawk as mascot that was responsible for the munity, took flight on of Education for another request. This time, new school spirit that infected everyone. They the very day that its with the support of parents, Rodney Locklear even decided to vote on school colors, choosing namesake was removed and Levi Brewer, he requested a consolidation green and white as their selection. Enveloped by from the school’s walls. Betty Lou’s freshmen girls. of the two Indian schools, and a larger, more the Hawkeye spirit as well, Coach Bobby Dean On June 22, 2007, the Hoke County Board adequate building to house the combined Brayboy organized the first Indian boys’ and of Education was again approached by Indian students. But there were no funds available to girls’ basketball teams in Hoke County. Then parents with a request relating to the school. grant the request, and a consolidation would school spirit tripled when Hawkeye was ac- This time, instead of three representatives, the be much farther down the road. cepted into the Tri-County Indian High School Lumbee Indian Community filled the meeting In the meantime, the Indian communities Athletic Conference. Following the Hawk’s room to overflow capacity with the request that worked together, donating their time, labor and lead, Coach Forace Oxendine expanded the the school’s former name of Hawkeye (the name resources to help secure more space for their school’s athletic program to include baseball. chosen by their people) be reinstated, once children to be educated. As a result, the Antioch When the Hawkeye teams began winning and for all. Realizing, for the first time, what Indian School was built in 1935 to replace old championships and trophies, the Indian people the school name really meant to the Lumbee Jacob’s Point. It was a two-room school build- of Hoke County realized that they had acquired people, the School Board voted unanimously ing that housed grades 1-8. The teachers there more than a decent school and education for to overturn the former decision, reinstating the were Kinlaw Jacobs, Mary Lee Goins, James their children. They had acquired an identity; name Hawkeye…We patiently await the return they were Hawkeye! E. Dial, Mary Liza Locklear, Eleanor Dial, of the soaring spirit of the Hawk! Hanging out before the prom. Wilson Chavis and Georgeanna Dial. Newman Oxendine followed S.M. Bullard Yet, it would do so without the proud name Another school was built to replace the old as principal and preceded Earl Hughes Ox- of Hawkeye Macedonia School as well; it too housed grades endine. Mr. Hughes, as he was affectionately which unified 1-8. The teachers there were Carrie Moore Dial, called by the students, was principal at the time the Indian Libby Bryant, Johnny Bullard, Jessie Bell Cha- of desegregation. In the 1968-69 school year, people of this vis, Libby Hunt and Cattie Bell Bullard. Both Hoke County Board of Education decided county inspir- buildings were built on new sites which were to implement a countywide consolidation of ing them to more accessible to the Indian families. Perform- schools. Once again the school would house become their ing a double function, they served as schools only the younger grades; and once again it best: doc- during the week and churches on Sunday. would suffer through another name change. tors, lawyers, Seventeen years elapsed between Dial’s When the doors of the school opened that businessmen, request for consolidation with a better school year, its students were attending South Hoke teachers, even and its accomplishment. Elementary School. politicians In 1952, a new, modern school was built at The school has remained an elementary received an the intersection of Bethel and Antioch roads. school since that time, with many progressive e d u c a t i o n This location, being an equal distance from both changes having been made to enhance the facil- and their first the Indian communities and their schools, was ity. There have been additions of new classrooms glimpse of the perfect spot. The new building provided and a media center. Even a larger cafeteria the possibili- everything the Indian students needed: up-to- has been built to accommodate the growing ties within its date furniture, good bathroom facilities, and number of students. The majority of students doors. Miss Mary Lee’s class The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 43 Morris: To any lawyer to execute and return lauded for his managing and budgeting abilities, page features a sign from Gore’s Grocery and Oct. 18 - A U.S. Air Force UH-1N helicopter within 30 days: (Sundays excepted). You are soybean and tobacco production practices and Service Station on Shannon Road that reads “Out crash midday Monday in the woods at the Dick hereby commanded to take the body of MAT- mechanized harvesting techniques. Gas Thank You.” Neely farm near 401 kills two servicemembers. THEW JOHNSON if to be found in your county March 1 – A still in Puppy Creek is destroyed. July 12 - An advertisement from Carolina Local hunters assist the injured at the crash. and have him before me or some other justice of It is the first still to be found this year. Last year, Telephone-United Telephone System asks “Why Oct. 25 - A 9-year-old boy is killed when peace in and for said county to answer ALEX- only one was uncovered. not two telephone lines? You solved your trans- a grain truck driven by his mother overturns at ANDER MCLAUCHLIN in a plea of debt of March 8 – The Army’s support of the Hoke portation problems with two cars… your TV Rural Road 1143 near the Robeson and Hoke 50 cents due by account. Herein fail not. Given health clinic will end this month, and about half problems with two TVs. Solve your communica- county line. The vehicle had swerved side to under my hand and seal the 9th day of March the services now offered will also end. tion problems with two lines. Just call your local side due to a shifting load of corn. 1864. S/D.L. Taylor, Justice of the Peace March 15 – Commissioners, in an attempt business office.” Nov. 1 - Firings of 13 employees at the Of- Nov. 2 – Sam Morris alluded to the ground- to stay in compliance with state laws regulating July 19 - The drive to rid Hoke County of fice of Youth Development coupled with public breaking of the Continental Yarn Corporation public meetings, will be posting notices of special abandoned and junked cars is still underway, allegations of misconduct and incompetency may in Rockfish. Rockfish citizens worked hard to meetings at least two days prior. reported the Raeford Kiwanis Club and the lead to lawsuits filed against the state. make it happen. March 22 – The health center crisis is tempo- Raeford Woman’s Club. A 16-year-old girl died after being shot in the Nov. 9 – For the first time in Hoke history, vot- rarily relieved with the hiring of a former Army A Bruce Lee movie, “The Chinese Con- face with a .12-gauge shotgun at a home near ers went Republican in the presidential election. doctor. The Army’s domestic action program that nection,” is playing at the Sunrise in Southern Lake Elizabeth Road outside of Raeford. An Nov. 16 – An editorial cartoon shows Nixon provided a doctor to the health clinic was ended Pines, says an ad. 18-year-old is held. opening a gift box from U.S. voters containing due to a shortage of physicians in the military. July 26 - Berder Niven has been forced to Nov. 8 - Spokesman for WSHB radio station a Superman’s suit. “Just what I always wanted,” March 29 – The General Assembly is con- close his service station on North Main Street said the station had not been transmitting since he says. sidering a new charter for Raeford The current because of the gasoline shortage. The station has 6 p.m. Tuesday due to a transformer blow-out. Nov. 23 – In what may be a landmark case, one, drawn up in 1901 when Raeford was mostly operated since 1946. An independent retailer, Nov. 15 - Undercover buys of LSD, cocaine Junior Lee Washington, 22, is given a sentence of a part of Cumberland County, allows people to Niven switched from Esso in 1970. and marijuana result in the arrest of eight suspects. death by gas for raping Patricia Adams, 22, twice work off their unpaid taxes. Aug. 2 - Meat prices up, supply down. Nov. 22 - Two found guilty in the attack of a on Aug. 2. He was given life for kidnapping her April 5 – Police Chief John Lamont and three Wholesalers cut beef orders by as much as 90 75-year-old Fayetteville man are sentenced to 35 and her two children and 10 years for breaking officers walk off the job following a dispute be- percent the next week and “feel they will have years. “I have seen the wounds of the victim and and entering. Washington is black and Adams tween City Manager John Gaddy and Lamont. no beef to sell next week.” it is amazing and fantastic he did not die… The is white. She testified he told her he wanted “an Gaddy refuses to reinstate Lamont. Aug. 9 - Funeral services are held for Hoke evidence shows this was a panned crime by minds uppity white chick.” Washington appealed. April 12 – A St. Joseph aspirin bottle of 100 County Register of Deeds Martha McKenzie bent on crime… it shows in the planning this Nov. 30 – A portable building that housed two sells for 19 cents at Valu-Mart. Clark, 47, who died suddenly at her home. was an ambush… The public at large is entitled classrooms was burned and investigators suspect April 19 – The school board, pending state Aug. 16 – A Five Points 19-year-old man to protection…” said Judge Maurice Braswell. arson. Other buildings were damaged by flames. approval, is to buy 14.38 acres south of Harris was being held without bond on murder charges Nov. 29 - Pump after pump dribbled to the Dec. 7 – A three-roll foil or paper rack of Ave. to be the site of the new board of educa- following the shotgun shooting death of a Cam- last drops of gas throughout Hoke County during wrapping paper sells for 29 cents at Valu-Mart. tion building. eron Heights 17-year-old youth at a Five Points the past week. Dec. 14 – City and county coffers are enriched April 26 – Hoke deputies will see larger residence. Four teens are sentenced after plead- Hoke County Rescue Squad purchases a by $170,000 in federal revenue sharing. Raeford paychecks in the future as commissioners au- ing guilty to kidnapping of a 12-year-old Hoke new Hurst Rescue Tool, known popularly as receives $40,705 and Hoke gets $129,107. thorize raises to stave off a possible shortage in County girl in May. the “Jaws of Life.” Dec. 21 – The 1973 General Assembly will the department. The city police force is up to its Aug. 23 - A witness testifies someone paid Dec. 6 - With one Hoke deputy sheriff hos- consider closing the Samuel Leonard Training authorized strength under acting chief Leonard him $500 to say he had lied at a trial in which pitalized with tuberculosis, it is revealed that it School in McCain. Wiggins. two were convicted of breaking and entering and is possible some prisoners at the county jail may Dec. 28 – Farmers want their farmland May 3 – The Rev. Elias Rogers of Antioch larceny at the Arabia Golf Club. The witness have been exposed to TB. assessed on use, not market value, they tell is charged with interfering with federal officers said the alleged bribe took place at the office Dec. 13 - Two masked people reportedly commissioners. while they searched a Robeson County home of a Carthage attorney. In the courtroom, the pull off an armed robbery at Wayside Grocery. where two truckloads of documents were taken attorney burst out that “that is the biggest lie I’ve Dec. 20 - The Raeford City Council votes after Indians took over the Bureau of Indian ever heard in a courthouse. I hope the sheriff not to use lights in Christmas decorations for 1973 Affairs in Washington. didn’t put it in your mouth.” the city this year in accordance with President Jan. 4 – Motorists on Hwy. 211 at Antioch are May 10 – The library board asks the school A 75-year old Fayetteville man is found alive Nixon’s wishes that cities and people cut down on being beaten or shot and robbed while stopped board to give land at the corner of N. Main and bound and gagged near his car suffering from outdoor decorative lighting to conserve energy. for a sign at Old Wire Road and Hwy. 211. Donaldson for a new library while commissioner exposure and dehydration after having been The public expressed a difference of opinion: Jan. 11 - Katie Burns, 60, and Billie Jo Davis, are told it will cost $380,000-480,000 for a new kidnapped four days earlier. Two teenagers and “I can’t understand it,” said one woman. “Why 3, are killed when the brakes on a car fail and library building. one 21-year-old from Stonewall Township are couldn’t we have lights just an hour or so the week it slams into an A& R Railway train at FSI at May 17 – Hoke High’s female athletes win charged. before Christmas. My kids are getting real blue Dundarrach. Four others are injured and penned their second consecutive girls’ state track cham- Aug. 30 - A Family Dollar store opens on about not getting to see the pretty lights this year.” in the vehicle. All are Duffie residents. pionship. Kathy McMillian broke a record with Main Street. Dec. 27 - Cars go hungry; Hoke sans gas. Jan. 18 – Eight policemen have resigned her broad jump of 17’7”. Sept. 6 - Hoke county schools will receive from the Raeford department, three joining May 24 – A 7-year-old boy is shot in the left $11,000 in impact aid for this school year, as a the sheriff’s department, in the last 15 months. eye and died after a rifle his father thought was result of recent court action against the Nixon 1974 Some officers cite long hours and low pay. The empty discharges . administration, for students whose parents are Jan. 10 – Raeford Turkey Farms announces a department is left with four employees, includ- May 31 – Foster homes for teens in Hoke are employed by the military but not living on a major plant expansion. The project is expected to ing the chief. needed as is evident when no place is available military base. double production in two or three years. Jan. 25 – R.B. Lewis is described in The after a 13-year-old and a 15-year old have no “Paper Moon,” with Ryan and Tatum O’Neal, Jan. 17 – Samuel Leonard Training School News-Journal as “energetic” and cited for his place to go after their father is imprisoned for is being held over at the Cardinal in Fayetteville. at McCain is to close by Feb. 10. community work when he retires as president killing their mother. Sunrise in Southern Pines is showing “Scream Jan. 24 – Former Hoke High principal George of Bank of Raeford, the county’s oldest bank, June 7 – Commissioners decide county offices Blacula Scream.” “Raz” Autry will be superintendent of schools. after 53 years at the post. should take priority over a new library building. Sept. 13 - Law enforcement plans a crack- Jan. 31 – Kiwanis Club honors Benny Feb. 1 - Bobby Strother receives the Outstand- June 14 – A B.C. Moore department store is down on trail and mini-bike operators who use McLeod as Man of the Year. ing Young Farmer award from the Jaycees. Jaycee coming to Raeford. the vehicles beside roads and highways. Feb. 7 - Accidents claim five lives on Hwy. of the Year is William McDonald. June 21 – Two military policemen stationed Sept. 20 - One of those convicted in the 401 North in a week’s time. Feb. 8 – Six inches plus of rain fell during a at Ft. Bragg are arrested for growing marijuana. break-in of the Arabia Golf Course clubhouse Feb. 21 – Youthful offenders will begin 12-hour period and overflowed creeks, washed June 28 - Leonard “Zeke” Wiggins is named in 1971 leads law enforcement on a high-speed arriving at Sandhills Youth Center, formerly out road shoulders, undermined road beds and police chief. chase through the county, at speeds of up to Samuel Leonard Training School, on March 1. inundated streets, highways and yards. At one Six bovine farm animals were killed in a 100 miles per hour. The vehicle was fired upon The center will not be fenced and there are no point, Prospect Ave. Extension was under two lightning strike at the Ralph Wiggins farm on three times. armed guards. feet of water. N.C. 211 near Lake Elizabeth Road. The animals Sept. 27 - An editorial cartoon comments on Feb. 28 – An odd-even gas plan implemented Hoke High Principal Raz Autry is Kiwanis were found burned by the charge, huddled close Vice-President Spiro Agnew’s troubles. by the governor is adopted in Hoke in view of Man of the Year. to a pine tree. Two weeks earlier, three sows were Oct. 4 - The board of education agrees to let the current energy crisis. Feb. 15 – The weather continues to dominate killed by lightning on a farm near Timberland. county commissioners use 2.5 acres of board of March 7 – Commissioners up deputies’ pay the news. Eight to ten inches of snow is blown July 5 - “Out of Gas,” “No Regular,” “No education land on Wooley Street for construction at the request of Sheriff Dave Barrington. by high winds and Hoke is paralyzed. Gas” and similar hand-printed signs begin to of a new county office building. Knit-Away helps employees survive the Feb. 22 – FHA Farm Family of the Year is the appear at the county service stations as monthly Oct. 11 - Two 500-gallon stills are destroyed energy crisis by providing a bus for each 12- Bobby Strother family of Five Points. Strother is gasoline allocations run out. A photo on the front in a raid in the Antioch township. hour shift. 44 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial March 14 – The board of elections wants the E.E. Smith, clerk of court since 1962, dies. but no injuries are reported. Jan. 29 – A study conducted by N.C. State county to provide them with office space. Sept. 19 – Burlington Apparel Fabric’s April 3 - Deputy George McGuire is cleared University indicates only 45 percent of Hoke’s March 21 – Dave Barrington hires two new worsted plant reduces its staff by 32 employees. in the March 6 shooting death of Angus Thomp- population thinks the county is becoming a deputies, James Peterkin, black, and Elisha Dial, Sept. 26 – Two soldiers are killed in a wreck son after a coroner’s jury deliberated less than better place to live. Indian. James R. Riley, white, joins the force a in the Twin Bridges area, bringing the number five minutes. Feb, 12 - Hoke High’s Kathy McMillan set little later. of traffic fatalities in Hoke to 13. April 24 – Jessie Lockey, 25, pleads guilty a long jump record at the Mason-Dixon games March 28 – The Indian Education Program Oct. 3 – The city and merchants start a trash and receives two consecutive life sentences for in Kentucky by jumping 20’11.5”. notes Indian participation in extracurricular clean-up after complaints from Keep North the murders of W.T. and Mary Lee McAllister Feb. 19 – Hoke’s farm income fell by $1.5 activities is increasing. Four Indian girls are Carolina Beautiful Committee. on Oct. 19, 1974. million from the previous year. A switch from trying out for the cheerleading squad. Oct. 10 – The four-laning of Hwy. 401 May 15 – Hoke High girls win the state track cotton to soybean production is blamed. April 4 – Commissioners consider drawings between Fayetteville and Raeford is approved title again as Olympics’ hopeful Kathy McMillan March 4 – Burlington Industries invests $5 of a proposed county office building to go on but not funded. breaks records. million in new equipment to add 150 new jobs. Wooley Street that could cost a half-million. Oct. 17 – Robert Williams, 70, a feed dealer, May 29 – School officials consider a new March 11 – Knit-Away lays off 200 personnel. April 11 – Half of the court cases involve is found dead in his home, where he operated dress code after a Superior Court judge rules in April 1- Hoke residents begin a pre-Fourth driving under the influence (DUI). his business. He’d been bound and struck on the favor of an 11th grader’s suit charging he was bicentennial celebration of the nation’s birthday. April 18 – Russell Davis, Hoke High graduate head, but a heart attack appears to be the cause of harassed about the length of his hair. The Raeford-Fayetteville-Ft. Bragg telephone and sophomore basketball star of the Louisburg death. Robbery is thought to be the motive except July 3 – Raeford merchants advertise their exchanges merge. Hurricanes, is the first junior college athlete in a large amount of cash is found in a bedroom. third annual town-wide yard sale. April 8 – Robert Banks Lewis, retired presi- North Carolina and in the history to make the Oct. 24 – W.T. McAllister, school board can- July 10 - Hoke High athlete Kathy McMillan dent of Bank of Raeford, civic leader and one of All-American team for junior colleges. didate, and his wife, Mary Lee, Scurlock School jumps 21’7” to win first place honors for the U.S. the founders of Raeford Fire Dept., also serving April 25 – The Hoke County Firemen’s manager, shot numerous times, die in their home. women’s team in track and field championships as fire chief, dies at age 82. Assoc. stokes a fire when they endorse three of Jesse L. Luckie, 25, a former boyfriend of their in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Three Raeford men, Wilfred Thomas Wal- the ten commissioner Democratic candidates: daughter’s, is charged. July 31 – Two families from Raeford perish ters, 43, Edward Earl Andrews, 28, and Robert A. Mabel Riley, James Albert Hunt and Woodrow The same day the McAllisters are murdered, when their private plane crashes in a swamp near Barefoot, 31, die in a van-tractor-trailer accident “Woody” Wilson. “Vote to save lives” reads two of their nephews are killed in an accident on Darien, Georgia: Hillman and Geneva Edens on Prospect Avenue in Raeford. their ad. Hwy. 401 Bypass that takes the lives of three. and their 8-year-old daughter, Cynthia Kaye, April 22 – Superintendent of Schools Raz May 2 – The Raeford Woman’s Club con- Hoke’s traffic fatalities rises to 16. and Mr. and Mrs. Odell Melton. Autry presents a budget plan that would hike tributes $3,000 for the library fund. Nov. 7 – A $1.25 million bond referendum Aug. 14 – The groundbreaking for the Bicen- the share of the county to more than $275,000. May 9 – In a light turnout, voters support two for expansion and improvement to Hoke schools tennial Library is held amidst a holiday spirit. April 29 – Olympic hopeful Kathy McMillan of the firefighters’ recommended commissioners, is passed. Oct. 16 – John D. Gaddy, 51, pleading no con- breaks the long jump record again by jumping Hunt and Riley. Nov. 14 – Hoke Dept. of Social Services Di- test, receives a four-year suspended sentence for 22 ft. May 16 – The Hoke High girls’ track and rector Ben Niblock says 43 children with special misappropriating city funds and is fined $2000. May 6 – Commissioners increase county field team win the state championship for the needs have been identified. He resigns from his position of city mayor. meetings to twice a month. third time. Nov. 21 – Open Arms Rest Home plans to Three people die in a two-car collision on May 13 - The ’77 year budget calls for no May 23 – The state Division of School Plan- expand. Old Maxton Road. One of the vehicles goes into tax hike. ning recommends discontinuing the Raeford Nov. 28 – A man is critically injured when a 15’ deep water canal. May 20 – The Chamber of Commerce hears Elementary School building for educational his car strikes a train on West Prospect Ave. Hoke High athlete Kathy McMillan shat- that a solid economy gain is ahead. purposes. Dec. 5- The state proposes to build a road ters records when she jumps 21’ 2 3/4” at Pan Kathy McMillan leads the Hoke High girls’ May 30 – The city drops the tax rate 23 percent between Hwy. 211 West and Hwy. 401 near the American games in Mexico City. track team to their fifth straight first place. after a transfer of $58,000 from a capital revenue Thomasville subdivision. Nov. 6 – A citizens’ campaign petitions the Adult magazines are banned where beer is fund balance carryover. Hoke sheriff David Barrington travels to New city to rehire John Gaddy in some capacity. served. June 6 – The school board decides to ask for Jersey to look into the disappearance of Brenda Raeford voters return John K. McNeill as May 27 – Seven citizens, led by fired deputy a $3 million bond referendum on November’s Jones, who hasn’t been seen since Nov. 4. Her mayor. Councilmen are Sam Morris, Graham Elisha Dial, attempt to remove through civil ac- ballot for school expansion and upgrades. husband, Rodney Jones, killed himself in New Clark, Benny McLeod, Crawford Thomas and tion Dave Barrington from office based on his June 13 – Two men rob the ABC store at Jersey Nov. 16. David Lovette. alleged misconduct. gunpoint and were arrested shortly after. Dec. 12 – The state claims Hoke owes thou- Nov. 20 - The city council votes unanimously June 3 – A Superior Court judge rejects Bar- June 20 – A Fayetteville man is dead after his sands for prison care. not to rehire John Gaddy as city manager in spite rington ouster attempt. vehicle is found upside down in Rockfish Creek Dec. 19 – Hoke’s 14th traffic fatality occurs of the signatures of 300 residents and appeals of June 10 – Grocers ask the county to lift a ban east of Raeford. He is Hoke’s ninth traffic fatality. when a young man on a weekend pass from upstanding citizens, to include the police chief. on the sale of beer on Sundays. June 27 – The sheriff’s department padlocked prison is killed in a two-car collision on Hwy. Nov. 27 – Widows are victims when a flim- June 17 – Kathy McMillan leaps 22’3” to the Adult Club in Silver City after an officer 211 West 13 miles from Raeford. flam is successful at several homes. A woman is break the American record in Olympic trials investigating complaints of noise was hit with Dec. 26 – A wreck in the city on Central admitted to each home after extending a $20 bill despite a muscle injury. a shotgun pellet and bottles and rocks were Ave. that kills one is Hoke’s 14th traffic fatality. for a debt owed the widow’s husband. Then she June 24 – Kathy McMillan is headed to the thrown at deputies. manages to sneak money from the victim’s purse. Olympics. July 4 – A dismissed teacher, charging racial Dec. 4 – The county contributes $50,000 July 8 – As part of the bicentennial celebra- discrimination, files suit against the school board 1975 toward the cost of a new Armory. tion, Raeford-Hoke’s new library is dedicated. and superintendent Raz Autry. Jan. 9 - Almost 340 employees, an entire Dec. 18 – No Christmas bonuses for county July 29 – Kathy McMillan, 18, brings home July 11 – The Court of Appeals upholds Judge shift, at Raeford Turkey Farms is laid off due to a workers. an Olympic silver medal in the long jump in Joe Dupree’s decision that three juveniles be shortage of live turkeys. The cutback is expected The Chamber of Commerce is told by Jim Montreal. Her winning jump was 21’10 _”. tried as adults. The youths, ages 14 and 15, are to be temporary. Bernstein, chief of rural health care of the N.C. The N.C. League of Municipalities calls the charged with the 1973 kidnapping and assault of Jan. 16 – A 51-year-old New Jersey man fell Dept. of Human Resource, that a hospital is not Raeford fire station on Main Street a fire trap. two 14-year-old girls. Four older youths received 115 feet to his death as he was painting Raeford’s realistic but more doctors are needed. Aug. 5 – Billy Colston, Kathy’s coach, and life sentences in the case. water tower on Dickson St. the athlete credit each other for her victory on Aug. 1 – County commissioners gave their Jan. 30 – Ashwell Harward is named Kiwanis Kathy McMillan Day. approval of a $1,246 million school bond ref- Man of the Year. 1976 Aug. 19 – Commissioners deadlock on a vote erendum. Feb. 20 – Few senior citizens show up for Jan. 1 – The landmark Raeford Hotel, in a to ban beer sales on Sunday. Aug. 8 – Mortgage loans are down in Hoke the free hot lunch program’s initiation in the state of deterioration, closes for repairs. Sept. 2 – Hoke gets $460,000 in HUD money as the tightening of the mortgage market is felt. Cameron Heights community center. Sheriff Dave Barrington says the jail had for community development. Aug. 15 – Hoke High junior Kathy McMillian Feb. 27 - Health worker Jessie Nicholson is a record number of inmates over the holidays Sept. 9 – Tennis courts in McLauchlin Park breaks a Junior Olympics’ record in the broad pistol-whipped, shot and left for dead when she - 25 in all. are open. jump by jumping 19’9”. gets lost in the McCain area and happens upon Jan. 8 –The city council requests the Raeford Sept. 16 - Department store owner Danny Aug. 22 – The corrections office, located in a break-in in progress. She walks a half mile to and Fayetteville phone exchanges be linked in DeVane wins Democratic nominee for commis- McCain, is moved to Fayetteville. Highway 211 for help. Four men are charged. an extended service agreement. sioner over Charlie Pendergrass. Aug. 27 – Residents are vocal but divided March 20 – Elwood Avenue is Raeford’s Jan. 15 - Robert Drumwright of Graham is Sept. 23 – Commissioners reject the county- about the county’s proposed leash law. newly designated one-way street. named city manager. wide sale of beer on Sundays by a 3-2 vote. Sept. 12 – Hoke’s 11th traffic fatality occurs March 27 – A tornado hopscotches across J.H. “Buck” Blue, former commissioner and Sept. 30 - City voters approve a $200,000 when a 23-year-old mother of three is killed on the county, first dropping down near Drowning National Guard commander, dies. bond issue to build a new fire station. Hwy. 401 near Big Star Truck Stop, the scene Creek in western Hoke and finally delivering Jan. 22 – Indians turned out in force to protest Nov. 11 – Hardee’s announces plans to bring of frequent accidents. The wreck involved three a parting shot in the east near the Cumberland the firing of deputy Elisha Dial by Sheriff Dave a restaurant here. vehicles, one an 18-wheeler. County line. Damage is estimated at $100,000 Barrington. Nov. 25 – A special federal census of Hoke The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 45 County nears an end. May 5 – Sandhills Mental Health Center An editorial calls for free school lunches reveals plans to open a facility in Hoke and for all. expand services. Ed Buie was an entrepreneur Dec. 2 – Raeford Municipal Airport gets the May 19 – Not guilty is the verdict a Hoke go-ahead for expansion. Fifteen acres will be Superior Court jury handed down to one of three added for aircraft parking. men charged with killing Robert Leslie Brooks who loved church, community Dec. 9 – Hoke gained 1,970 people over the at his Rockfish store Dec. 23 during a holdup. 1970 census. Population is now 18,406. Charges against the other two are later dropped. By Barbara Buie the business – “We strive to deserve your More than 200 cases jam the District Court The Hillcrest fire station is damaged when a Ed Buie was born in Harnett County confidence.” docket. firefighter attempts to drive out of the building on March 15, 1886 and died on November The story goes that while working Dec. 23 – Hoke High Coach Billy Colston is before opening the door. 1, 1955. Exactly when he moved to Hoke for Mack McDiarmid, owner of a local named N.C. Coach of the Year. May 26 – An Aberdeen & Rockfish railway County is unknown to this writer as is much funeral home, McDiarmid purchased a Dec. 30 - Tarheel Turkey Hatchery of Raeford plan for a lumber yard in the city is opposed by of his life before 1917. new hearse and Buie bought the old one. loses a turkey house and $5,487 in tom breeder Raeford councilmen, who ask the zoning board Buie’s early entrepreneurship is evi- turkeys (about 300). not to approve it. But Nuncy remembers when a mule and June 9 – Commissioners look into an ordi- dent by the number of businesses he was a wagon served as the hearse and bodies nance that would ban massage parlors. involved in possibly before the 1920s and were picked up from the sanatorium and 1977 June 16 – The county budget tops $3 million into1930s. His son James Edward (Nuncy), “buried with a quick prayer from Papa.” Jan. 6 - County commissioners agree to ask while the city budget calls for a two cents tax hike. born in 1918 and currently residing in In April1 936 Buie purchased a used the state legislature to exempt Hoke from brown June 23 – The city zoning board approves Charlotte, remembers them well. There Kissel hearse from The Sayers & Scovill bagging laws, thus halting the sale of beer in A&R railway’s request for a log loading yard . was always farming. At one point, Buie was Company and in 1941 Buie bought a Buick restaurants on Sundays throughout the county. June 30 – Hoke’s schools score low on the in the sawmill business and it is believed hearse from them with an insurance value Jan. 13 - The city helps the parking situation National Teacher Examinations; they rank 132 that he stayed in this until the late 1940s of $600. By 1950, the hearse was a Cadillac by creating an off-street parking area off W. out of 145 schools in the state. or early 1950s. He ran a café just off Main insured at $3,000. For all his hard work, Ed Elwood Ave. July 7 – Vandals lose 10,000 gallons of gas Street where his wife, Pauline Terry Buie, Jan. 20 - Area restaurants vow to fight beer at Raeford Oil Co.’s propane storage site. The Buie never rewarded himself with a new situation is described as potentially dangerous. did the cooking. Stew beef and rice was car or a new hearse. ban on Sundays. Feb. 3 – Propane supplies in Hoke are critical. July 14 – Mounds of garbage pile up after the signature dish at the café and Nuncy A successful business was not Buie’s the changeover to a new trash disposal service. still declares it the best ever served. Buie only contribution to Hoke County. He was Schools are particularly hit hard. Feb. 10 – County begins a four-day, 32-hour July 28 – Hoke’s crop losses are put at $3 was also in barbering and for a short while involved in his church and community. He work week in response to Gov. Jim Hunt’s appeal million following one of the severest droughts operated a “pressing club.” shares credit for bringing a second high for energy conservation. on record. Buie Funeral Home, located on Vass school to Hoke County and is named as Hadley-Peoples Manufacturing Co. textile Aug. 11 – A study sponsored by the Chamber Road, is his most lasting legacy. For four a trustee on the cornerstone of the early mills in Rockfish shut down, putting 90 people of Commerce recommends a city and county generations Ed Buie’s motto has guided McLauchlin Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church. out of work. government merger. Feb. 17 - Farm income in Hoke did an upturn Orlando “Tubby” Smith joins the Hoke High in 1976. faculty as head basketball coach. He later went Letter carriers picket the post office, charging on to lead Kentucky to the NCAA championship. the postmaster with harassment and taking over Aug. 25 – School opens a week late so that the work of union members. tobacco crops can be harvested. Previous Haven Inc. Congratulates March 3 - A suit filed against the city, charging The Hoke County Mental Health Clinic negligence after a teenaged motorcyclist crashed opens its doors. th into the gate barring traffic from moving through Sept. 1 – Four hog rustlers are rounded up Hoke County’s 100 Birthday the school on Bethel Road during school hours, after deputies stake out Raeford Livestock Co.. is dismissed. Sept. 8 – McCain Prison receives a $3 million March 10 – Commissioners learn that county grant for renovations and expansion. salaries fall below the state guide. Sept. 29 – Uptown Restaurant owners close March 17 – Burlington Menswear drops its the dining facility down charging financial woes fourth shift. A change in product mix requires and harassment by the city. fewer yarn manufacturing operations. Oct. 27 – The Hoke Parks & Recreation March 24 – A Greensboro-based firm pro- Commission is seeking land on which to build ceeds with plans to build a 40-unit complex on a county park. Hwy. 401 Bypass in Raeford. Nov. 3 – The main section of Hoke High is April 7 – A two-block stretch of West Elwood dedicated as the K.A. MacDonald Memorial Avenue loses its one-way status to the relief of Building. The late superintendent worked for city commuters. the school system from 1935 to 1959. April 21 – The Burlington Industries textile Nov. 10 – Newcomer Vardell Hedgpeth is mill is emptied after a bomb hoax. The threat is elected to the city council. repeated the following week. Nov. 24 – The County Line Plaza on Hwy. 401

Congratulations on Contact us at Precioushaven.com or call (910) 868-6092 or (910) 306-6117. Years 100 520 E. Central Avenue Raeford, NC Hoke County! 875-5161 46 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial is declared a total loss after an early morning fire. the treatment of TB is still uncertain after a Feb. 1 – Dr. Marcus R. Smith, retired dentist, Rockfish Colored School for 24 years and was Dec. 8 – The city signs a 12-year lease with study that recommends the hospital be used for receives the Kiwanis Citizenship Man of the the last teacher to instruct in a one-room school. Gene Thacker for airport facilities. At a later a different function. Year award. Sept. 6 - The county board approves the meeting, the action is rescinded. May 18 – Ronald Lee Matthews of Goldsboro Feb. 8 - District Court Judge Joseph E. Dupree alternate route around Raeford. Dec. 22 – Hoke Schools are approved for the is named city manager following the March pleads guilty to DUI. He had blown a .15 on a Sept. 20 – Three are injured in a car-ambu- Community Act , a community-schools project. resignation of Robert Drumwright. breathalyzer test. Dupree returns to the bench. lance collision on Hwy. 211 west of Raeford. The Don Steed is coordinator. May 25 – Military and FAA officials consider Feb. 15 – Snow and ice black out much of ambulance was transporting two people who had Dec. 29 – City merchants report a busy modifying the MOA. Hoke. A lineman is injured when he touches a been hurt in an accident just a half hour before. Christmas. June 8 – The U.S. Parachute Team trains at live wire and falls 20 feet while attempting to Sept. 27 – The Bank of Raeford’s open house Raeford Municipal Airport. restore power. for its new building on South Main drew 1,100. Raeford Manufacturing Corporation is buy- Feb. 22 – The worst snowstorm since 1927 The bank opened its doors on May 16, 1903. 1978 ing Summerfield Industries plant, opening in the brings everything to a standstill in Hoke. Oct. 4 – Former mayor H.R. “Hooch” Jan. 5 - Bladen County native James Earl fall and hiring 300 workers. March 1 – The 1978 farm income in Hoke McLean dies. He was born in Robeson County Martin is chosen county manager upon the death June 15 – The proposed county budget calls tops $20 million. in 1891 before it became part of Hoke. A World of T.B. Lester, Hoke’s first manager. for a five cents hike in ad valorem taxes, raising March 8 – Upchurch Milling & Storage War I veteran, he also played pro baseball. Jane Sellars is chosen the first Miss Raeford, the rate to 97 cents per $100 valuation. Co. is being dismantled. The first building was Oct. 11 – Twins Richard Lee and Albert Lee sponsored by the Jaycees, while Julie Kicklighter Raeford Elementary School is renamed after erected in 1914 and destroyed by fire in 1946. Smith died when flames swept through their old of Raeford was chosen Miss Raleigh. James W. Turlington, 39-year employee of Hoke The original building was a corn and flour mill. frame house near Dundarrach. Their 17-year-old Jan. 12 – The city is forced, on the threat of Schools. He spent 18 years at Raeford Elementary. March 15 – Sheriff Dave Barrington, a jailer brother escaped. losing funds for airport expansion, to lease part Hoke High graduates 318. and a prisoner are all hurt in a fight at the jail. Nov. 8 – Ella Traywick writes Sam Morris of the Raeford Municipal Airport to private enter- The first woman EMT, Judy Ferguson, joins March 29 – The state Dept. of Transportation for his Around Town column, “My Grandmother prise. As a result, a contract is signed with Vance Hoke Rescue. is improving a part of Shaw Town Road after McFadden lived above Sandy Grove Church Aircraft Sales to conduct training and sales. June 22 – The county rescinds its proposed citizens begged for the repairs for eight years. and cooked for the unit of Cavalry soldiers of Jan. 26 – T.B. Lester is awarded posthumously tax hike after citizens’ outcry. The work had been held up because of problems Sherman’s Army . They camped under an old Kiwanis Man of the Year. He was the Hoke June 29 – The city changes its zoning laws to getting right-of-way. oak at the church. When they left, they left her County manager until his death last fall. He had accommodate Raeford Manufacturing Corp., the April 5 – Arson is suspected in three fires a horse with which to raise crops.” worked for the county since 1961. industry moving into the Summerfield location. at Hoke High. Nov. 14 – The ministerial alliance sponsors Under the Dept. of Transportation’s latest July 20 – The Raeford Evangelical Methodist April 12 – An adolescent attempts to nab a a Thanksgiving service for every race, creed seven-year plan, Hwy. 401 from Fayetteville to Church Quiz Team wins a national Bible quiz woman’s young child at their home after striking or color. the 401 Bypass is to be widened. contest. her on the head. Nov. 21 – Hoke comes in second in a 14-coun- Feb. 2 – Winds up to 80 MPH rip through Aug. 10 – Four youngsters, ages 7 months to May 3 – Jim and Linda Hinley are awarded ty competition to rid farms of tobacco pests. Hoke turning over mobile homes, lifting roofs, 3 years, and a young father were killed in three a five-year ambulance contract by the county to Dec. 13 – A mother is jailed because she can- downing trees and causing power outages. Mc- different traffic accidents this year. Another replace Spring Lake Ambulance Service. not get her two teenage daughters to go to school. Cain Hospital loses part of the roof of its main young adult was killed in a fourth wreck this year. May 10 – The city council asks for a feasibil- Dec. 20 – The bones of a man, Edward Leon building. No injuries are reported. Test scores indicate Hoke’s students fall below ity study to take trucks off city streets and route Cameron, whose wife said he left her 35 years Feb. 16 – The Puppy Creek Philosopher fig- the state average. them around the city. ago, are found in her backyard. A day after the ures the Arabs oilmen are pulling money out of Aug. 17 – The SBI alerts the sheriff that toxic May 17 – A Maxton man becomes Hoke’s fifth bones were found, Winnie McNeill Cameron, a hole in the ground over there and it goes into chemicals (PCB) had been dumped along North traffic fatality of the year when his car plunges 69, was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun a hole in the ground over here. Carolina roads, particularly on the Ft. Bragg into Rockfish Creek and he drowns. wound. She left a note saying she had killed Feb. 23 – Summerfield Industries, Hoke’s reservation inside Hoke boundaries. June 7 – Citing inflation, the city adopts a her husband. second largest employer, closes, idling 600 work- Sept. 14 – The school board votes to end budget with a three cents tax hike. The tax rate ers. The need for double knit fabrics declined junior high football. is 60 cents per $100 valuation. while materials’ prices skyrocketed. Oct. 5 – The Federal Aviation Administration A reception at City Hall honors five local 1980 March 2 – Former Raeford city manager compromises on the MOA and rejects Army Vietnam veterans: John Leandro, Eddie H. Allen Jan. 3 – David Scull of Raeford heats the Red John Gaddy, who resigned in 1975 after being plans to lower the military flying floor to 500 Jr., John D. Melton, William Tommy Connell Springs Piggly Wiggly store where he works convicted on three counts of misappropriating feet. The FAA suggests 1,500 feet. and James Lee Madden. with hot air that would have been expelled to the city funds, receives a pardon from Gov. Jim Hunt. Work on restoring the historic Mill Prong June 14 – Melvin Mayer is missing and a $900 outside. He uses 100 degree heat from the com- March 9 – When cotton was king in Hoke House is begun. cash bond is also missing. Mayer gives himself pressor room to bring the store temperature up. and the streets were laid out by surveyor Hec- McCain Hospital is to remain a TB facility. up and is charged. Jan. 10 – Hoke schools budgeted for a new tor Smith, it was determined that they be wide Oct. 19 – Work begins at the Faberge plant Sam, a Raeford bulldog, gives birth to 14 pups. computer to be compatible with the state educa- enough for a two-horse wagon to turn around (Raeford Manufacturing Corp.), producing the June 21 – A baby boy, born Feb. 2 weighing tion board’s computers. without backing up, says Robert Gatlin. new Farah Fawcett-Majors line. 1 _ pounds, is doing well. Jan. 17 – Predictions are that Hoke will have March 16 – Farm income figures from last Oct. 26 – Medical Services Clinic – for June 28 – Raeford’s Sally Austin wins the a population of 23,400 in 1990. summer’s drought are released. The drop was the treatment of after-hour patients – opens on state women’s golf title. Jan. 24 – The city is going after a federal from $19 million in 1976 to $16.5 million in 1977. Campus Avenue. July 19 – A Rockfish Road one-car accident grant for wastewater treatment improvements and March 23 – The state names a 60-mile Nov. 2 – Work begins on the new Bank of claims the lives of a man and his wife, but their seeks support of the city’s top three industries. section of the Lumber River that borders Hoke Raeford on South Main Street. two young sons survive with injuries that are Jan. 31 – To the man who says it takes more and Scotland counties as North Carolina’s first Nov. 30 – A Hoke jail inmate sets fire to his not serious. energy to make alcohol out of grain than the River Trail. cell twice in one morning. July 26 – The News-Journal is not notified of alcohol itself yields, the Puppy Creek Philosopher March 30 – Congressman Charlie Rose says Dec. 7 – Hoke Sheriff Dave Barrington asks school board meetings, a violation of the open has this to say, “It is a good thing that that expert he will help Raeford, by filing a suit if needed, for more help, says his deputies are working 60- meetings law. wasn’t operating 50 years ago or he would have stop a Military Operations Area from being hour shifts not including court time. Aug. 2 – Hoke seeks payment for acreage the proved that it takes more grain to feed a mule charted in the skies over Hoke. Dec. 14 – Upchurch Junior High will keep its U.S. government took while developing Ft. Bragg than the mule can produce pulling a plow, thus April 6 – City council approves a six-member football team, the school board decides. under the federal Payment-in-Lieu-of-Taxes Act. making farming mathematically impossible.” revitalization committee as well as an $11,000 Helen S. Barrington, 81, is honored for her Hoke was formed in 1911 with 286,000 acres. Feb. 7 – Commissioners are told that compli- study of downtown to be conducted through NC 31 years of service in the court system. The government took 92,000 acres in 1918-23 ance with a federal heating guideline leaves much State University. when Bragg was formed. In 1958, Hoke had to of the courthouse too cold to work in. April 20 - Citizens voice concerns at a public transfer Little River Township (20,000 acres) to Feb. 14 – The farm income in 1979 is esti- hearing about a proposed Military Operations 1979 Moore County because it was effectively cut off mated at $20,869,468. Area (MOA) being charted in the skies over Jan. 11 – Only 11 students fail competency from the rest of the county. Feb. 21 – A headline reads: 2 not guilty of Hoke. They are told an environmental impact tests administered by the state. Schools Super- Aug. 9 – Commissioners voted to table a assaulting each other. study would have to be conducted first and that intendent Raz Autry is elated. county thoroughfare plan because of concerns Feb. 28 – The second story of the two-story the military will be required to follow FAA Jan. 18 – District Court Judge Joseph E. that a route would take traffic away from Austin House on Edinborough Ave. burns. The regulations and will not be flying over Raeford. Dupree is temporarily removed from office until downtown. (When the plan was approved and owner says he will restore it. Precious antiques April 27 – Congressman Charlie Rose asks the results of a DUI charge are determined. The implemented much later, the argument was that were on the second story. the Pentagon to drop MOA plans. judge was charged after he was involved in an traffic, especially trucks, needed to be taken off March 6 - Hoke gets 11 inches of snow and May 4 – Voted in as a Democratic nominee, accident. Main Street.) sleet. Mabel Riley is assured a commissioner seat, mak- Jan. 25 – Dentist Dr. Julius F. Jordan, local Aug. 23 –Faberge is expanding. March 13 – Hoke High students and staff ing her the first woman to sit on the county board. civic leader and former county official, dies at Aug. 30 – Daisy Smith Quevedo dies at age came through with 114 pints of blood for the May 11 – The fate of McCain Hospital for the age of 59. 82. She taught seven grades in the one-room Bloodmobile. The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 47 March 20 – President Carter’s call for massive funds for low income housing for Hoke people. mer operator Paul Rose’s claim that a hangar built ditch, hit a barbed wire fence and slid 100 feet. cuts in spending could mean a half million dollar April 24 – Art in the Park celebrates the arts by him at the Raeford Airport belongs to him. Warrants are awaiting Evans’ recovery; he is in loss in revenue sharing for Hoke. in McLauchlin Park. June 5 – A Food Town supermarket is to open serious condition at Cape Fear Valley. March 27 – A toll-free number is set up so May 1 – A warehouse filled with two tons of in Raeford in a year. The grocery store will hire July 17 – A Puppy Creek woman is frustrated that folks outside the Raeford calling area can hay on Wilmouth Ave. is completely destroyed 50 personnel part-time and full-time. that she can’t reach the military to report low- contact the sheriff’s office in case of emergencies. by fire. Nearby buildings were damaged. July 3 – Preliminary reports of the 1980 flying helicopters over her property. The aircraft April 3 – A 6-month-old girl dies when fire May 8 – The Raeford Junior Woman’s Club census show Hoke County with a population of reportedly flew just over the treetops. The Army swept through the home. Her parents were able wins state honors including the top award in the 19,463 – a gain of 18.4 percent over 1970. Figures responds after she contacts Congressman Charlie to get three other young children out but could education field. show Raeford gained 24 people since the last Rose’s office. not get to the baby’s crib. May 15 – Darlene Clark, fourth grade teacher census, a figure City Manager Ron Matthews Icesonnia Horsley wins two golds and one April 10 – The Dept. of Housing and Urban at South Hoke, is named Teacher of the Year. finds hard to believe. Raeford’s population is bronze in track at the AAU Southeastern Region Development rejects Hoke’s bid to continue com- May 22 – An editorial cartoon depicts a group now 3,204, the census shows. III Junior Olympics but can’t compete in the na- munity development and turned down a request of exhausted men pushing a Chrysler and Uncle July 10 – William Fort Evans, 28, was clocked tional Olympics because she is, at 12, too young. for $400,000, saying other places were needier. Sam is offering the driver: “Here’s another half at 100 mph on Main Street. He led officers on a July 24 – A dozen men born in 1960 registered April 17 – The city council and the Indian billion to keep the car going.” high speed chase until he wrecked near Oakdale for the national draft in the first three hours. Housing Authority are working together to get May 29 – A Superior Court judge rejected for- Gin when he lost control on a curve, jumped a July 31 – Ft. Bragg announced low-level Parker United Methodist Church celebrates 100 years Parker’s Chapel was organized on Janu- Divinity School to pastor it. These students, ist Church, Myra Morgani, who played the • Parker Methodist Church was dedicated ary 29, 1911 by the Rev. J.W. Bradley, who Henry Gventer and Clay Morgan, lived in piano, Jane Ruggles who taught the youth on May 1, 1955. was then pastor of the Raeford Circuit of the the community in an apartment furnished and led the choir, and Jaxie Knowles, who • The first funeral in the old building was Methodist Protestant Church. This organiza- by the church. led the choir. Church members who have that of Fletcher Parker and the last funeral tional meeting took place in Glen Acre School At the Annual Conference in 1966, the used their talent through musical ministry was that of W.P. Parker. House, which was located about one quarter church became a part of the Hoke Charge, are Alma P. Lovette, Myra Mott Bomba, • The first funeral in the new church was mile west of the present church building. The sharing a pastor with Sandy Grove Methodist Thomas McFadyen, “Miss Eula” Lunsford, that of Elmer Shrewbridge. members continued to use this School House Church and continues to be on this charge Frances Sullivan, Delaine Peckham McDon- • The first wedding in the old church was for services until the first church was built. to the present. Also in 1966, construction ald, Billy Baxley, and Alma Lee Simpson. Mary Parker and J.S. Mott on June 18, 1924. The first trustees of the church were on a parsonage on Bethel Road was started Parker UMC continues its proud tradition of • The only two weddings after that Louis Parker, Gary B. Parker, Hugh Haire to house the ministers for the churches. The joyful singing with its choir and congregation. were those of Ralph Plummer and Louise and Thomas Hobson. These men purchased Bethel Road parsonage was sold in 2006. Ministers are: McFadyen on October 20, 1945 and Salley one and one-fourth acres of land from J.H. In 1939 with the merging of the Method- RaefordCharge: McMillan and Carl Nunnemaker in 1947. and Sarah K. Townsend in 1913 and made ist Episcopal Church, Methodist Protestant J.W. Bradley 1911-1913 • The first wedding in the new church was plans for the first church building. With the Church and Methodist Episcopal Church E.B. Craven 1913-1914 Beatrice Haire and B.B. Cole on September men of the church and community furnish- South, Parker’s Chapel became Parker S.T. Moyle 1914-1915 10, 1951. The latest wedding is that of Becky ing the timber and doing the work, the first Methodist Church. The Methodist Church J.T. Draper 1915-1917 Plummer and Russell Rutland on February building was completed and dedicated about and the Evangelical United Brethren Church B.P. Robinson 1917-1921 18, 1984. 1915, with the name Parker’s Chapel being combined to become the United Methodist J.H. Frizzelle 1921-1924 • Nancy Parker, Ina Parker, Mamie Phil- given to it. Church in 1968. N.C. Yearly 1924-1928 lips, and Lucy Hobson purchased the first The church made progress under the Original charter members of Parker’s W.F. Trawick 1928-1932 piano for Parker’s Chapel. leadership of each of its ministers and Chapel were Louis Parker, Harvie L.Hobson, B.H. Houston 1932-1935 • The first organ in the new church was members. After some 20-25 years, the first Nancy Parker, Mary C. Hobson, Gary B. E.R. Cleggg 1935-1939 donated and played by Thomas McFadyen. building began needing repairs. During the Parker, John T. McVicker, Mollie Parker, E.C. Crawford 1939-1943 Mary Eliza Haire was the first organist for ministry of the Rev. E.R. Clegg, a build- Pat Moore, Henry P. Parker, Mary Haire, W.L. Maness 1943-1947 Parker’s Chapel. ing fund was started and during the early W.P. Parker, Maggie Haire, John L. Hobson, P.O. Lee 1947-1953 • For the first revival service in Parker’s ministry of the Rev. E.C. Crawford, about William Haire, Maggie B. Lindsay, Malcolm Parkton Charge Chapel, the men of the church sawed logs 1940, the old building was remodeled and Haire, Alice A. Carter, John B. Haire, John N.P. Edens 1953-1957 and placed boards on them for pews because two Sunday school rooms were added. The B. McVicker, Hugh Haire and G. Thomas C.B. Long 1957-1960 the church was not finished. need for a new building became evident Hobson. Mr. Johnson 1960-1961 • Josh Parker gave the pews for Parker’s and Rev. Crawford started another building The first trustees of Parker’s Chapel were Henry Gventer 1961-1964 Chapel. fund, which continued to grow each year Louis Parker, Hugh Haire, Gary B, Parker Clay Morgan 1964-1967 • Mr. Hugh Haire gave the floor for from the proceeds realized from the annual and Thomas Hobson. Hoke Charge Parker’s Chapel. Harvest Day and from the gifts of members Superintendents of Sunday school are O.V. Elkins 1967-1969 • C.B. Parker was the first superintendent and friends. Under the leadership of the Rev. Gary B. Parker, Jimmy Clark, Louis Parker, Berry Barbour 1969-1972 of Sunday School. W.L. Maness, the membership of the church David Scull, Hugh Haire, Ralph Plummer, Gordon Ruggles 1972-1975 • The cost of the new church and furnish- and the building fund continued to increase. Jimmy Plummer, John Plummer, Dan Dees Charles Litzenberger 1975-1978 ings was a little more than $20,000. Early in 1949, under the leadership of and Agnes Clark. T.D. Hoogerland 1978-1982 • In the late 1940s, Bible School was the Rev. P.O. Lee and the members of the Russell Knowles 1982-1986 cancelled because of a polio epidemic. Building Committee, and with a $1500 Music Ministry A.J. Eure 1986-1993 • The funerals of Mr. Hugh Haire and Mr. donation from the Duke Endowment, the Since 1911, the family of Parker United Larry Patrick 1993-1996 Gus Phillips were conducted on the same day. present church was begun. Louis Parker, who Methodist Church has loved praising God Donald Shields 1996-2000 • Because of planes from Pope Field (later died before the new church was completed, through joyous singing. The congregation has Mike Nelson 2000-2004 Pope Air Force Base) breaking the sound purchased the land for the new church from been led by church members, friends, and Willie Frizzelle 2004-2005 barrier, some windowpanes were broken in Preacher Alex Whitty. The first service in the wives of ministers who gave much love Richard C. Jackson 20005-2009 the church. They were replaced with panes the new building was held on December 18, to the choirs and the congregation. Among Charles Herring 2009-Nov 2009 of a different pattern. The current stained 1949, under the direction of Rev. Lee with the those remembered are Sue Bowell, organist, Dennis Lamm Dec 2009 – present glass windows were added during a major Rev. B.P. Robinson doing the preaching on and Jim Wilkes, who led the singing. Others renovation in 1995. the subject, “The Never Changing Christ.” are Molly G. Parker, who played the pump Interesting Facts about the Church • Of the many Veterans buried in our At the Annual Conference in 1962, the organ while Gary B. Parker led the singing, cemetery, one is from the Civil War. church became the Parker Church Charge “Miss Alice” Upchurch, who came with • Parker’s Church was dedicated about and was appointed students from Duke Mrs. P.O. Lee from Raeford United Method- 1915. 48 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial flights are being flown near the Raeford com- kept her sense of humor when Barry Nixon paid food services office would hurt the schools’ July 9 – Burlington Industries employees munity. his property taxes for 1978, ‘79 and ‘80 with a need for finances. donate 257 pints of blood when the Red Cross Aug. 7 – The Army gives out phone numbers cart full of pennies. “Just so people pay, we don’t Feb. 19 – A 77-year-old northeast Hoke Bloodmobile stops by. for complaints of low-flying aircraft. mind how they bring it,” she said. woman dies after a tornado picked up the mobile July 23 - Heavy rain brings down trees and Aug. 14 – High winds hit the Raeford Airport Nov. 20 – Raeford is one of 100 cities to home she was in and dropped it 15-20 feet away branches, also downing a mile long stretch of and destroy one plane, damage four others. be designated as a Governor’s Community of from the cinder blocks it was on. More property power lines and disrupting power for some. Aug. 21 – Fire destroys three tobacco barns Excellence. damage occurred as the tornado moved east. Heavy lightning accompanied the rain and set on the Earl Hendrix farm, burning up 10,000 Nov. 27 – Hoke High volleyball standout Farmer Bobby Wright is named to replace fires, burning down one house. pounds of tobacco and damaging a nearby grain Terri Tyler is named to the All-Region and All the vacancy left by Dr. Riley Jordan. July 30 – Kathy McMillan Ray, 1976 Olympic silo conveyor system and a two-ton truck filled Regions X volley team in the National Junior Feb. 26 – St. Joseph in the Pines of Southern silver medal winner from Hoke, wins the long with tobacco. The cause of the fire is unknown. College Athletic Assoc. She is a sophomore at Pines plans a Hospice service here. jump competition during the National Sports Aug. 28 – A petition signed by 35 residents Chowan College. March 5 – With the appraisal of county prop- Festival at Syracuse, New York. Now a resident of the Holly Park subdivision opposes plans Dec. 4 - The A&R Railroad Depot is to be erty 75 percent complete, most residents will see of Clarksville, Tennessee, Mrs. Ray jumped for low-income housing on land adjoining the decorated and used as a Santa House, sponsored the value of their property double. 20 _ feet. subdivision. by the Raeford Merchants Assoc. March 12 – Food Town plans a store in Tobacco in 1981 is bringing higher prices, Sept. 4 – The county board thwarts any Dec. 11 – A 20-year-old man and a 15-year- Raeford. up $43 per 100 pounds from 1980. chances of a low-income/elderly complex being old were accidently shot with the same bullet March 19 – A man kills himself in a wooded Aug. 6 – John L. Parker, 42, a Fayetteville built near the Holly Parks subdivision. from a gun that had reportedly been stolen by area by dousing gas on his body and igniting it. roofing contractor, trips and falls backward Sept. 11 – State Trooper K.W. Weston just the juvenile. It went off when the juvenile put it The fire spreads through the woods and burned into 220-volt power lines while working on the happened to be at the right place at the right time under a car seat, hitting the juvenile in the leg a greenhouse. roof of Upchurch Junior High School. He dies to save the life of 14-year-old Keith J. Grantham, and hand then traveling through a speaker before McCain Hospital for the treatment of TB and immediately. who had fallen from the back of a moving truck hitting the other. other lung diseases, threatened with closing, is Aug. 13 - Judge Joe Dupree finds no probable and was having seizures. His cruiser was behind Dec. 18 – The Raeford Community Choir’s needed, according to hospital administrators. cause in the murder trial of four men. He did, the truck. 60 members will present the Handel’s “Messiah” A military pilot is killed and his passenger however, order them to pay funeral expenses for Sept. 18 – Hoke law officers destroyed 4,000 in the sanctuary of Raeford Presbyterian Church. injured when a plane that had just released sky- the two victims, who were killed at the Hour pounds of marijuana either growing or harvested Dec. 25 – Hoke County ambulance crews divers crashed at Raeford Municipal Airport. Glass Club. in South Hoke. Nine Wilkes County people are and rescue members learned how to rappel and April 2 – Governor James Hunt has been Aug. 20 – Hoke liquor sales in 1980-81 charged. how to rescue patients from high places. Teachers asked to intervene on behalf of McCain Hospital. are down. Commissioners postpone action on Sept. 25 – Three Hoke men, Matt Thompkins, were Special Forces Seventh Group, C Company, April 9 – Brady Turley, custodian at Turling- Sunday beer sales. Hervey Jackson, and Delton Harden, were ocean 2nd Battalion. ton School, says he was fired because of his letter Sept. 10 - The Raeford Savings and Loan Co. fishing about 40 miles southeast of Wilmington to the editor published in The News-Journal. is merging with the Heritage Federal Savings when they saw evidence of a boat wreck, then April 16 – McCain Hospital is facing cuts, and Loan Assoc., becoming United Carolina faintly saw a hand waving over the breakers. They 1981 not foreclosure, Hoke residents are told. Bancshares Corp. Current bank employees will were able to rescue two men in water-logged life Jan. 1 - Hoke commissioners pay $50,000 April 30 – Harold Gillis is the new chair of retain their jobs. jackets, but a third man had died when the boat for land on Main Street on which to build a new Hoke Democrats An after-hours medical clinic is closing but went down. county office building and possibly a courthouse May 7 – The county accepts Burlington local doctors plan a new, private, after-hours plan. Oct. 2 – The new county offices on South annex. The property acquisition includes Raeford Industries’ offer of land for a ballpark near the Sept. 24 - Hoke’s Sunday beer and wine sales Magnolia St. are dedicated to Thomas B. Lester Motor Co. Body Shop. Hwy. 401 Bypass overpass. ban, passed Aug. 10, is repealed by a 3-2 vote. Jr., the county’s first manager. He served in several Jan. 8 – Burlington Industries offers the May 14 – Brady Turley, who said he was fired Sales are allowed for off-premises consumption. other capacities until Hoke adopted the county county 6.7 acres, located across from Raeford as Turlington School custodian because of a let- Oct. 1 - A school bus leaves the road and manager type of government in 1966. He died Oil Co., for a park. ter he wrote to The News-Journal, is given a job overturns, injuring 34 students, none seriously. at age 65 in 1977. Jan 15 – Senior citizens age 60 and older with county schools’ maintenance group after Oct. 8 – Following the county’s example, Oct. 9 – The city asks the county to join in are eligible for lunches at Hoke High. The cost he and Superintendent Raz Autry meet and talk. the city votes to drop a ban on beer and wine the operation of the Raeford Municipal Airport. is $1.25. May 21 – Raeford native Eliza Jane Pratt, the sales on Sunday. The county says no. Jan. 22 –The state attorney general’s office is first and only North Carolina woman to serve Oct. 15 – An $11,000 grant is awarded for the Oct. 16 – The U.S. Economic Development asked to rule whether or not two appointments to in Congress, dies. She had been chosen to fill restoration and preservation of the Mill Prong Administration gives the city $750,000 toward the ABC Board made during a closed executive the unexpired term of Congressman William House, built in 1790 and expanded in 1830. improvements to the wastewater treatment plant. session are valid. Burgin in 1946 and served until his term ended Oct. 22 - Commissioners vote to accept a Oct. 23 – The county asks the state for an Jan. 29 – The appointments of A.K. Leach in 1947. She was Burgin’s secretary at the time $67,439 bid for a computer replacement system. advanced life support program to help save the and Ivery McNair to the ABC Board are valid of his death. Oct. 29 – Ground is broken for the new Na- lives of heart patients. in spite of being made during a secret meeting. June 4 – McLauchlin Elementary youngsters tional Guard Armory on the west side of Teal Dr. Oct. 30 – The Hoke High Marching Band The appointments, however, did flaunt North act out nursery rhymes. Nov. 5 – T. Joseph Upchurch is elected to the wins honors for the fourth consecutive week. At Carolina’s open meetings law. June 11 – Turlington sixth-graders raise city council, unseating Sam Morris. the latest meet, the band is rated superior; they Feb. 5 – Dr. Riley Jordan, who chaired the $1,234.57 to buy a caracal lynx to donate to the Nov. 12 – Raeford Mayor John K. McNeill also won best band, best drum and best color school board, resigns. He is concerned that his N.C. Zoo at Asheboro. is elected to serve on the N.C. League of Mu- guard.The band is directed by Jimmy James. stand against the ABC Board’s secret appoint- June 25 – Hoke and Scotland counties are nicipalities board. Nov. 6 – The city and county agree to hire a ments and his opposition to the city’s turning placed together in a new 21st Congressional Nov. 19- Carol Ronaltor, who teaches train- planner and set up a planning board. down of a rezoning request that would make District due to the General Assembly Redis- able, handicapped youngsters, is named Hoke Nov. 13 - Tax collector Elizabeth Livingston way for an office building to house schools’ tricting Act. Schools Teacher of the year. Congratulations Hoke County! Total Women’s Care OB/GYN H Caring for every aspect of women’s healthcare — We ACCepT MOsT from puberty to menopause INsuRANCes Dr. Delores L. Johnson, MD, INCLuDING F.A.C.O.G. 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May 6 – Proposed uses for McCain Hospital Nov. 11 – Commissioner Robert “Bob” Gen- include a therapeutic center for alcohol and drug try says the city-county pound is OK even though abusers. the county’s health department says conditions May 13 – No decision will be made on Mc- are inhumane. Cain Hospital until state officials have met with Nov. 18 – State and federal agencies will a Hoke study group. fund 95 percent of airport improvements but the May 20 – Commissioners OK four programs Federal Aviation has concerns about the jump to help at-risk children before they enter the court school being operated so near the parachutists’ system as offenders. landing zone. May 27 – Hoke High graduates 313. Nov. 25 – A Tarheel Turkey Hatcheries’ tom The McCain Hospital situation is on hold turkey weighing 50 pounds was sent to President until the ’83 legislature meets. Ronald Reagan, but he did not end up on the June 3 – Thomas C. Gilcrist Jr. is selected to presidential table; his life was spared. go to the West Point Military Academy. Dec. 2 – History fact: J.H. Austin was elected June 10 – A proposed budget would hike the mayor of Raeford in 1913, and a year later the ad valorem tax rate to 72 cents per $100 valuation. town began preparing for water and sewer service. June 17 - Because property valuations went The project was completed in 1916. up some 35 percent, most taxpayers will pay a Dec. 9 – Three masked men tie up a night higher rate even at a reduced tax rate. About 100 watchman and torch Nashville Music, one of citizens appear before commissioners to protest. three nightclubs owned by Brady Locklear. The The Sinclair house on Edinborough Ave. was the home of John T. and Eliza June 24 - An undercover sting nets 18 people men are frightened away before they could ignite Blue Sinclair and here they reared six children. Built in 1887, the dwelling charged in drug cases. a second club they had drenched in gasoline. began as a two-room cottage with no running water or plumbing. Today July 1 – Commissioners pass a $3.7 million Dec. 16 – Schools superintendent Raz Autry it is the site of the Robert Gentry Post Office. budget with a 70 cents tax rate. has announced his retirement, and a search is July 8 – Hoke schools ask the county for underway for a replacement. more money. Dec. 23 – The sun shone on the Christmas July 15 – Hoke received $255,500 for water parade, but a public performance by the Upchurch construction under the N.C. Clean Water Bond Jr. High Chorus had to be cancelled because of Act. the children’s bad behavior. July 22 – The state Elections Board will not Dec. 30 – Low income housing construction allow James Peterkin Jr. a runoff in the sheriff at Wooley St. and at Fulton St. is set to begin race against opponent Dave Barrington. Peterkin next month. failed to prove his case that there was a conspiracy against him. July 29 – After a traffic collision pushes her 1983 car into Mott Lake and it lands upside down, a Jan. 6 – Customers protest when a cable re- woman’s body is recovered. alignment left out the public television channel. Aug. 5 – The city is giving notice to House of The server promises to restore it. Raeford and Faberge that they have until Nov. 1 Jan. 13 - House of Raeford is fined $30,000 to get a pre-treatment in place or share penalties for discharging sewer in Rockfish Creek, and the the state would impose on Raeford. city is giving the plant until March 31 to comply Aug. 12 – Hoke is allocated $45,000 in local, with regulations. state and federal monies for child care. Jan. 20 – A petition seeks to oust the board of Aug. 19 - Commissioners support a plan by directors of Lumbee River Electric Membership the Lumbee to build 51 units of housing for the Corp. because, an action group says, they spent elderly in the South Hoke-Rockfish area. Later too much for personal expenses. on, financial cuts torpedo that idea. Jan. 27 – A study committee recommends Aug. 26 - J. Scott Poole has praise for Leroy the county keep the financially strapped private Horsley signing on 1,000 voters but says he is ambulance firm it pays an annual $60,000 to Eliza Sinclair letting him go from the election board because provide service in Hoke. he made too many errors in that capacity. Feb. 3 – Southern National Bank agrees to sell Sept. 9 – Most Hoke students are testing the Pilot building and adjoining lot to the county Dec. 3 – Christmas sales in Raeford termed ing Food Stamps. above the state average. for needed additional office space for $128,062. good, better than last year’s sales. Feb. 18 – W.E. “Gene” Carter leaves the Bank Sept. 16 – Twenty-three students are moved Feb. 10 – Hoke commissioners agree to Dec. 31 - Raeford stores report Yule business of Raeford presidency, which is taken over by because of rapid growth and classroom over- increase the contract for a private ambulance was “good to fantastic.” Robert “Bobby” Conoly. crowding. firm from $64,000 to $105,436. Feb. 25 – Clarence P. Kinlaw is named Ra- Sept. 23 – The threat of a sewer showdown House of Raeford begins construction of its eford Man of the Year. eases as House of Raeford cooperates with Ra- own wastewater treatment plant. 1982 March 4 – Hoke had a 19-inch rainfall in eford in cutting back on waste discharge. Feb. 17 – The Federal Aviation Authority Sept. 30 – The public is incensed and seeks says zoning is needed around Raeford’s airport Jan. 7 - The county will pay one-fourth of three months. legislation that will make it harder for child mo- to allow for future expansion. the $40,000 needed to extend a sewer line to March 11 – The two brothers involved in a lesters to get by with rape. A suit was dismissed Feb. 24 - The Lumbee River EMC attorney Tarheel Hatcheries. February assault are given suspended sentences because a six-year-old could not say that her father advises the board have a recall election but Jan. 14 – Temperatures drop to 4 degrees with and ordered to pay restitution to the injured penetrated her. The little girl had been taken to they refuse. a wind chill factor of 15 below zero. officers. the hospital with profuse bleeding. March 3 – A five-year-old girl, left alone Jan. 21 – A storm brings rain, ice and snow; March 18 – South and West Hoke and Oct. 7 – Anthony McQueen, who is 113, gets while her parents were at work, dies when her school is out for three days. McLauchlin schools are changed to K-4 grades. special recognition by the state. trailer home burns. Jan. 28 – Three deputies are among the five March 25 – The Raeford-Hoke Shopping Oct. 14 – A weekend search for Florence March 10 – The city council votes that a radio hurt during a DUI arrest attempt near Scurlock Center is ready for construction. R. McCray fails to turn up anything. She went be in operation to keep pilots informed during School. Maj. Jimmy Riley is bitten on the cheek in April 1 - The Hoke County Rescue Squad missing Aug. 1 jumping operations at the airport. Jump school an affray that got out of hand after a mob formed. made 272 calls last year. Oct. 21 – McCain Hospital’s fate is still owner Gene Thacker disagrees. Feb. 4 – Seven stores are barred from accept- Arts 82 begins with a downtown parade. 50 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial March 17 – The Federal Aviation Administra- animal shelter at the county landfill site. schools be replaced at a cost of $10 million. tenure program. tion says a radio is not required. The committee Sept. 15 – PCB and lead-laced soil from three Feb. 16 – Mary Jane Waddell Bention, at Aug. 2 - Hoke spent $700 for bird repellent assigned to study airport operations doesn’t contaminated sites in Hoke will be taken to a 107, remembers dirt roads and lots of trees and but the pigeons continue to make the courthouse change its stance. South Carolina hazardous waste disposal site. farms where Raeford now stands. their home. Under a court order, April 28 is set as a recall Sept. 22 – The county votes to join the city Feb. 23 – Sandhills Community College is Aug. 9 - The city gives a nod of approval for voting date for the Lumbee River EMC if 10 and support a Hoke-Raeford airport. seeking citizens’ input to determine if a college a third funeral home. percent of customers sign a petition. Sept. 29 – McCain TB Sanatorium closes its satellite should be put here. Aug. 16 – For the second year in a row, the March 24 – A North Carolina prison hospital doors to make way for a 300-bed prison hospital. March 1 – Former city councilman Marion city and county lose out on Community Block is proposed for McCain, the state’s last TB treat- Most employees will remain. Gatlin is named Kiwanis Man of the Year. Development grants. ment sanatorium. Oct. 13 – The Lumbee River EMC action March 8 - A plan to sell mixed drinks in Aug. 30 – A new program is underway to The Lumbee River EMC board votes to group resurfaces, vowing again to unseat the Hoke is in the works. help raise Hoke students’ CAT scores. ignore a Superior Court order to set a recall vote, current board. However, three of the board’s March 15 – A 15-mile high speed chase Sept. 6 - An ambulance carrying a patient changes by-laws. directors are returned by voters and the action ended with Hoke detective Jimmy Riley’s car with chest pains flips and tosses the patient and March 31 – Lisa McLean, a sixth grader at group’s leader quits. being struck twice, causing $2,000 in damages her husband from the vehicle. The man dies of Turlington School, is Hoke’s spelling champ. Oct. 27 – A federally subsidized housing and earning Ricky Jerome Gillian, 22, of Fay- his injuries.. April 7 – County and city representatives program for low income residents is planned etteville, 14 charges that include assault with a Sept. 13 – The Chamber of Commerce agrees meet regarding construction of a dog pound. for a five- acre area off South Main. deadly weapon. to pool its resources with local government April 14- Robert A. Nelson of Alamance Nov. 10 – City Manager Ron Matthews March 22 - Sandhills Community College toward industrial development. County is named schools superintendent. resigns. okays the UCB Bank building on Main Street Sept. 20 – An increase in enrollment has The city gives House of Raeford a reprieve Incumbents are returned as councilmen for a possible satellite. school officials worried. on the $30,000 fine imposed last month because in a city election. Mayor John K. McNeill ran March 29 – A study committee determined Sept. 27 – A parachutist dies after his chute the plant is building its own wastewater treat- unopposed. Turlington School should close and Upchurch Jr. fails to open. It is the second jump fatality this ment plant. Nov. 17 – Hazardous dump sites in McCain High to be gradually replaced by new buildings. year at the Raeford airport. April 21 – Lumbee River EMC directors and Ashley Heights are expected to be clear next April 5 – Rehab funds are sought for the Oct. 4 – Rockfish Creek flooding results in reject a petitioners’ request for a recall vote a week. The dismantling of battery casings and the Tylertown community. 800 feet of sewer line being crushed. second time. salvaging transformers containing contaminated April 12 – Retail sales brought in $4.5 million Oct. 12 - Hoke Auto Company is closing April 28 – An action committee says it does oil are blamed for the contamination, which is more in ’83 than the previous year, according to after 52 years. not have the financial resources to continue its costing the Goldsboro business owner $10,000. the N.C. Dept. of Revenue. Oct.18 – Over a million gallons a day more of efforts to oust the Lumbee River EMC board. Nov. 24 – A Sandhills Community College April 19 – Thomas A. Phillips of Troy is wastewater is flowing into the wastewater treat- May 5 - A legislative committee orders the satellite is eyed for Hoke. named Raeford’s new manager. ment plant than is being sold to water customers, closing of McCain as a TB sanatorium and re- Dec. 1 – Marijuana valued at $800,000 April 26 – A school needs study group makes a study shows. quests it be reopened as a prison hospital. is found on a plane that flew into the Raeford its recommendations. Tied to the package is an Oct. 25 – The shortage of foster homes is May 12 – A Blue Ribbon study committee Airport. “urgent” need for a $2.5 million bond issue. critical here. recommends a landing zone for jumpers be Dec. 8 – The investigation of a marijuana- May 3 – The first annual Hoke Heritage Nov. 1 – Authorities are looking into pos- moved _ mile east of the airport. Jump school filled plane continues with investigators checking Hobnob, later to become the N.C. Turkey Festival, sible food stamp misuse and emergency energy owner Gene Thacker disagrees. out-of-town suspects. has big events on tap. help fraud. May 19 – McCain Sanatorium is considered Dec. 15 – A long-range facilities planning May 10 – Gene Paul Thacker, parachute jump Nov. 8 – Former teacher of the year Evelyn for a Veterans Administration hospital. committee zeroes in on Turlington School as school owner, is in jail, charged with trafficking Baker is fired by the school board. May 26 – Faberge is planning an expansion “old and over-filled with students.” $14 million in cocaine. At Thacker’s request the Nov. 15 – Hoke High’s JROTC program has of the plant that would create 50-100 jobs. Dec. 22 – Warren Pate is chosen for the Dis- sheriff’s department is investigating the sabotage a money crisis. Health officials are looking at three sites in the trict Judge seat vacated by Joe Dupree. of two of his planes. The consequences could Nov. 29 – The Chamber of Commerce eyes Ashley Heights and McCain areas where caustic During a break-in at the Hoke Rescue Squad have been deadly if the sabotage had not been the depot downtown as a possible office; A&R and carcinogens chemicals have been dumped. building, the only things taken are photos of a found before takeoff. Railroad donates it to the Chamber. June 9 - Cleanup of low to mid-levels of plane crash that happened six months ago about May 17 – Friends bail out Gene Paul Thacker, Dec. 6 – For the first time in 10 years, a bank PBC-laced and lead contaminated sites at Ashley a mile from the Raeford Airport. who has charges against him in Florida. is robbed. Three men are arrested for robbing Heights and McCain begins. Dec. 29 – Businessman William D. Morrison A study indicates a college in the former UCB United Carolina Bank. June 16 – A fourth dangerous dump site - this is found dead by a customer in Morrison’s Gro- building is not practical. Commissioner James Albert Hunt is given one on state-owned property - is being looked at cery on Harris Ave. He was shot several times May 24 – A woman and two men are given a two-year sentence for writing bad checks and where it is believed oil from electrical transform- and robbery appears to be the motive. stiff sentences, a total of 68 years, for robbing a for a probation violation. ers and acid from batteries was poured. Davis Bridge convenience store clerk and kid- Dec. 13 – A year later, no arrest has been June 30 – More PCB sites are found in west napping her and taking her out in the country, made in the shooting death of William Daniel Hoke, raising the number of contaminated sites 1984 where one raped her. Morrison in his convenience store on Harris Ave. to five. Jan. 5 - A state report says the Hoke jail May 31 – Hoke High teacher Robert Taylor Dec. 20 – Construction of a $1. 6 million nurs- Commissioner James Hunt is jailed for failure does not meet health and dietary standards. took his own life, according to the sheriff, after ing home, Autumn Care, is given a green light. to appear in court on worthless check charges. Sheriff Dave Barrington says the jail is more commerce in child porn charges were filed The 401 widening project is back on track. July 7 – The school board fights to keep Hoke than adequate. against him became public. Dec. 27 – Mobile classrooms at Turlington High’s Army JROTC program. Jan. 12 – Public demand could put the Hwy. June 7 – Hoke Countians learned federal School are in violation of the city’s ordinances. July 14 - County commissioners vote against 401 widening back on track after it was shuffled funds are available for the four-lane Hwy. 401 funding for Hoke High’s JROTC program. to a later year on the Dept. of Transportation Plan. project. July 28 – “Pork barrel” funds are earmarked Jan. 19 – Site work has begun on Burlington’s June 14 – The city hikes taxes by one cent. 1985 to renovate the Mill Prong House, a 181-year-old expansion that includes new, state-of-the-art Robert Lee Doby, owner of Doby’s Funeral Jan. 3 – As reported by Sam Morris in Hoke landmark. equipment, and a $4 million yarn preparation Home, is given a five-year suspended sentence “Around Town,” the weather is unbelievable Aug. 4 – House of Raeford is given an Oct. 1 and warehouse. for selling insurance without a license. with records being broken across the state. deadline to complete its wastewater plant. Jan. 26 – State and local authorities are look- June 21 – The new Airport Commission Temperatures have risen to the 70s. Commissioner James A. Hunt is to be given a ing into illegal toxic waste disposal sites on Hwy. cancels leases. Jan. 10 - Judge D.P. Herrington orders the suspended sentence on condition he resign from 401, one behind Virgil’s Restaurant and another June 28- The county passes an interim budget county to build a new courthouse, calling the the county commission board. near the Big Star Truck Stop. The sites are said while awaiting state decisions on funding. conditions “deplorable from a maintenance Aug. 11 – The county landfill site is eyed for to contain PCBs and lead. Later, the levels are July 5 - Jump school owner Gene Paul Thacker point of view.” an animal shelter location. determined to be safe. turns himself in to Florida, where he is wanted Jan. 17 – The deer, sculpted by W.T. Coving- There is no money for courthouse renovations Feb. 2 – The state Dept. of Community Re- on trafficking in cocaine charges. ton, that have been atop Graham’s Gulf Station because the funds went to Mill Prong House sources and Development has lifted a six-year July 12 – Camp Mackall is expanding but and Elk Restaurant for more than 50 years are renovations. sewer moratorium that prevented industrial isn’t looking to get land from Hoke. coming down. Aug. 18 – County commissioners levy a _ development. Existing industries were adding to The state has approved $67,500 to rehab the Jan. 24 – The county could lose $400,000 in cent sales tax and also agree to fund Hoke High’s the pollution, and after Burlington and Faberge courthouse. federal funding if an Affirmative Action Plan is JROTC program. built pre-treatment plants, House of Raeford is July 19 – The new county budget has a 7.5 not filed. One has not been filed for 15 years. Aug. 25 - Cherokee Indian Missionary School urged to do the same. The city has spent more percent rise in ad valorem taxes. Jan. 31 - Sheriff’s statistics show most break- of Hoke County opens with 14 students. than $1 million to upgrade its wastewater treat- Unless discharges in Rockfish Creek are ins go unsolved. Last year, 430 were reported Sept. 4 –Joseph E. Dupree, District Court ment plant. halted, Raeford could face a sewer moratorium and 335 are unsolved. judge since 1966, announces his retirement. Feb. 9 – The state planning engineer and an again. Feb. 7 – Commissioners have asked the N.C. Sept. 8 – Commissioners agree to build a new architect recommend Upchurch and Turlington July 26 – The county is trying for a teacher Utilities Commission to establish a direct phone The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 51 Promises broken, a promise kept The victory in getting Hoke’s es- from his home by authorities sev- tablishment as a county was tarnished eral times but he always went back. when just nine years later Fort Bragg When asked why he kept returning began taking land for expansion of the to his home, he said his “master” had military post. given him the land when slavery was By the time the U.S. government abolished. ended its land grab in 1923, Hoke had “I promised him I would never leave 194,000 acres, down 92,000 from its it,” the old man said. original 286,000 acres. And so he was allowed to keep his Most of Hoke’s residents on the land promise until he was too old to care targeted to become part of Fort Bragg for himself. In fact, when the military left willingly, taking the money offered held their mock battles near his home, them, packing up their belongings, and he was taken to Longstreet Church for moving to Raeford or elsewhere. Some his own safety. balked at the move and the homes they During the land transfer, Little did not want to leave were loaded onto River Township with its 20,000 acres flatbed trucks and pulled to the edge was separated from the rest of Hoke. of the reservation where they were Fort Bragg promised to maintain the dumped. Vass-Raeford Road so Little River At least two churches, Longstreet people could do business in Raeford. and Sandy Grove, were left behind. However, military officials reneged Post officials did not destroy them as on this promise; not only was the they did the homes but kept them up, road allowed to deteriorate but it was occasionally opening the doors for wor- sometimes closed because of military ship services. Both are on the National practice maneuvers. Register of Historic Places. Some years later, Hoke gave Little There was one lone resident who River to Moore County, thus losing This photo was made in 1919 when Ft. Bragg took almost a third of Hoke land. Here was allowed to stay. He was removed another 20,000 in acreage. the acreage is being cleared for training.

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303 S. Magnolia St. • Raeford, NC • (910) 875-3480 52 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial link between Raeford and Fayetteville. they worked many hours overtime without pay. his duties, in October. July 17 – The weather is in the news. A twister Feb. 14 – Commissioners seek a Commu- Hoke County farmers had their best crops Dec. 19 - The Register of Deeds office moves hit and the heat wave damages crops and poultry. nity Development Block Grant to revitalize ever until hail and rain beat up about 100 acres to the old Bank of Raeford while the courthouse Aug. 7 – Hoke Rubber begins production. Tylertown. on 12-14 farms. is being renovated. Aug. 14 – Hoke’s Child Support Enforcement Feb. 21 – John G. Balfour is Kiwanis Man Aug. 8 – Ethelyn Baker must go, the school Dec. 26 – Telephone subscribers with 875 Program is ranked 10th in the state. of the Year. board says of the teacher, and a Superior Court numbers receive ballots to vote whether or not Aug. 21 – Mayor John K. McNeill challenges Feb. 28 – Dept. of Social Services took three judge agrees, citing her employment performance they want extended area service to Fayetteville mayors of surrounding towns to a Mayors Derby young children from their home because of severe as inadequate. Baker becomes a columnist for with no long distance charges. during the N.C. Turkey Festival. abuse and neglect. The News-Journal. Aug. 28 – School starts with more than 5,000 March 7 - Hoke High will house classes of the Aug. 15 – For the third consecutive year, students enrolled. Sandhills Community College satellite. the county was turned down for Community 1986 Sept. 4 – Grand Ol’ Opry comedian Jerry March 14 – Carolina Telephone would have Block Development Grant funds that would have Jan. 2 – The county is spending $600,000 Clower kicks off the N.C. Turkey Festival. a revenue increase of $1.75 million the first year revitalized Tylertown. to renovate the courthouse. Oct. 9 – A change in zoning is approved for if a Raeford-Fayetteville direct line is approved. School redistricting that calls for some Jan. 9 – An editorial states Hoke’s economic a proposed nursing home. March 21 – Circus of the Stars, a Very Special students to change schools has their parents future depends on a positive vote for extended Oct. 16 – Autumn Care proposes to build a Arts Festival, was sponsored by the Hoke County “up in arms.” area phone service from Raeford to Fayetteville. new nursing home. Exceptional Children’s Program and Arts for the Aug. 22 – The state is investigating an old Opponents fear growth. Oct. 23 – Burlington Industries remains Handicapped. community dump behind Koppers Company at Jan. 16 – Men working on state-owned prop- optimistic despite the President’s veto of the A UH-60A Blackhawk helicopter crashes Ashley Heights for possible toxic contamination. erty at McCain discover the decomposed bodies Textile Enforcement and Apparel Trade En- on Ft. Bragg in Hoke County, killing 12 soldiers Aug. 29 – Two nursing homes seek to come of two women, who had been shot to death at forcement Act. aboard. Investigators are looking into why the to Hoke County, but there has been almost a different times. Oct. 30 – Tylertown Fire Dept. seeks finan- accident happened. year’s holdup. Autumn Care and Britthaven Jan. 23 - John G. Balfour announces he will cial help. March 28 – Direct line telephone service want to build here. not seek reelection to the county commissioner Nov. 13 – A Hoke school bus is involved in between Raeford and Fayetteville is tied to Hoke’s Sept. 5 – County commissioners are against board he has served for 24 years. an accident involving a truck and a car on Hwy. economic future, commissioners are told. a proposed hazardous waste treatment plant in The skeletal remains found among pine trees 211. Students are not hurt. April 4 – Raeford’s city council votes to Scotland County. at McCain are identified as Marie Puryear, 22, Nov. 27 – The newly renovated courthouse change the length of terms for future council The CAT scores of Hoke students have moved and her sister Teresa Annette Puryear, 15, both of is rededicated. members. The top two vote getters would serve up and are above the national average. Raleigh. Edward Lee Cummings, 42, of Willow Dec. 11 – Local farmers are eligible for four-year terms and the other election winners Sept. 12 – City councilmen give City Manager Springs is charged with their murders. disaster assistance. would get two-year terms, thus staggering Tom Phillips permission to establish a Downtown Jan. 30 – Citizens vote in favor of extended Dec. 18 – JRA Industries is to buy out Spanco elections. Revitalization Commission. phone service 3 to 1. Industries. April 11 – The school board votes unani- Sept. 19 – The county receives a federal grant Feb. 13 – A cockfight raid turns up 200 par- Dec. 25 – A new land use plan is to be con- mously for a middle school structure. of $25,000 to study whether or not an industrial ticipants off Highway 15-501 near the Scotland sidered in 1987. April 18 – The N.C. Turkey Festival will open park is feasable. County line. Officers make 150 arrests. with a turkey cooking contest. Sept. 26 – Thousands flock to Raeford for Feb. 20 – The city promises to curb the smell April 25 – Residents are asked to clean up to the first annual N.C. Turkey Festival. coming from the wastewater treatment plant. 1987 help with industry recruitment. Oct. 3 – Students at Upchurch Jr. High visit Feb. 27 – Rep. Danny DeVane is Kiwanis Jan. 1 – Mary Archie McNeill is recognized May 2 – Like the shootout at OK Corral, two historic churches and sites around the county. Citizen of the Year. for her community service with the first annual men shot at each other until one was dead. It Oct. 10 – A 22-year-old Raeford man hangs March 6 – A man who is charged with setting Nancy Susan Reynolds award. In 1983 she was was over a bag of marijuana that Gary Michael himself with his socks while in a detoxification two fires at Food Lion and was sent to a mental named Volunteer of the Year by Gov. Hunt. Lomack, 27, lost his life. Jonathan Ray, 22, is cell. The State Bureau of Investigation is looking institution in Raleigh escapes, steals a van and Jan. 8 – Hoke Drug Co. on Main Street went accused, but charges are later dropped. into the matter. drives home to Hoke. out of business at the end of the year. The company May 9 – Special children had their Special Oct. 17 – Most of the 300 attending a public March 13 – North Carolina Rubber Products dates back to 1911 when it opened as McPherson Olympics Field Day. meeting regarding extended area phone service is the latest industry to come to Hoke and will Bros. Drug Co. Howell Drug Co. - across the May 16 - Hoke students’ achievement tests are in favor of calling toll-free from Raeford. bring 20 new jobs here. street - bought the prescription file and inventory. rise to a national norm. Those opposed are concerned about future March 20 – Arson is suspected in the burning Jan. 15 - Nine Hoke industries provided May 23 – The proposed county budget of rate hikes. of a room at Hoke High. 784 additional employees in 1985, according $6.47 million would raise ad valorem taxes by A tour bus bringing Raeford senior citizens April 3 – A reward is offered for the arrest to a study. seven cents. back from the Amish country in Pennsylvania of whoever set fire to a classroom at Hoke High Jan. 23 – Funding is sought for the planned May 30 – The trial of Gene Paul Thacker, wrecked on I-95 in Virginia, injuring the driver and later broke into a food locker at the school Hoke Regional Water System. former Golden Knight and operator of a jump and a passenger. and destroyed food. Jan. 29 – Raeford Postmaster Joe Carver school at the Raeford-Hoke Airport, accused of Oct. 24 - A mobile home was destroyed by April 10 – A special District session is held leaves his position for a job in the postal depart- drug trafficking in Florida, begins. flames and arriving firefighters find a man inside for the trials of those caught in a cockfight raid ment in Fayetteville. June 6 – Thacker is cleared after 15 minutes the back door who is burned beyond recognition. in February. Feb. 5 – A Committee of 100 is formed to of jury deliberation. An investigation is ongoing. April 17 – The county’s share of the water help in Hoke economic development. June 13 - Fire district taxes rise in Tylertown, Oct. 31 - A man working in a church thrift funds will help eliminate the odor coming from Feb. 12 – DWI cases flood the court docket. Crestline and Pine Hill. shop is clubbed. Raeford’s wastewater treatment plant. Feb. 26 – McLauchlin Hardware and Lock June 20 – Hoke commissioners decide to pare Nov. 7 – In Montrose, a son is shot by his April 24 – The Raeford-Hoke Economic Co. opens its doors after seven months. The store the ad valorem tax rate proposed in the FY1985- father while attempting to keep the older man Development Commission and the Chamber on Main Street burned and there are no plans to 86 budget by taking four cents off. from going hunting while drunk. of Commerce move their offices into the Depot. build at the old site. June 27 – Of 11 people who spoke at a public Nov. 14 – The Dept. of Social Services is May 1 - The community begins its Diamond March 5 – County commissioners okay new hearing regarding the proposed budget, only two investigating 105 cases of food stamp fraud. Parks Jubilee celebration of Hoke’s 75th birthday. subdivision regulations, designed to stop serious were against a seven cents property tax hike. Grocery and Exxon is barred from taking food May 8 – The Diamond Jubilee Celebration problems caused by rapid growth. July 4 – The final county budget carries a stamps after paying $60 for $73 in food stamps, features fireworks, a parade, the giving away of March 12 – A 100-bed medium security six cents tax hike. an act called “discounting.” a diamond valued at $4,000 and more. prison will be built adjacent to the McCain July 11 – The school board debates how Nov. 21 – Don Steed, Hoke schools finance May 15 – Hoke native Art Gore reveals the Correctional facility. much to charge Sandhills Community College manager, is named District 9 Administrator of the sculpture he made for Hoke’s Diamond Jubilee. March 26 – A site in western Hoke is selected for power and maintenance of Hoke High while Year by the N.C. Assoc. of Educational Personnel. It can be seen in the Hoke County Courthouse. for two group homes for the mentally retarded. SCC’s classes are held there. Nov. 28 - The District Attorney is looking into May 22 – A tornado drops down in Hoke and Raeford had vetoed a rezoning change that would July 18 – Commissioners may have broken the a “jailhouse” lawsuit in which a man claims he injures five people, destroys six mobile homes. allow a facility in city limits. open meetings law when they went into a closed was beaten by deputies while being held. June 12 – The county reinstates the 10 cents April 9 – Hoke Literacy Council Director session to discuss pay raises for themselves. Dec. 5 – The cost of a new middle school fire tax. Barbara Buie, who is also president of the N.C. July 25 – Recorded violence indicates a will be $8 million, commissioners learn, and June 26 – A committee is formed to initiate Literacy Assoc., is appointed to the Governor’s woman cut her husband; a husband slashed his courthouse renovations are to begin Jan. 2 at a action on four-laning Hwy. 401 from Fayetteville Commission on Literacy. wife’s throat and the hand of her friend; and a cost of $375,315. to Raeford. April 30 – A cellmate of Edward Lee Cum- 16-year-old hit her father with a bottle after her Dec. 12 – The A&R Railroad depot restora- July 3 – Hoke commissioners passed a budget mings, 42, testified Cummings told him he had uncle held her down and her father beat her with tion project receives a $6,500 grant. of almost $6 million retaining the tax rate at three murdered two sisters, Karen Marie Puryear and an extension cord. No injuries were fatal. Sharon Graham, 21, of Autry St. receives cents per $100 valuation. Teresa Puryear, in 1985. The bodies were found Aug.1 – Three deputies file suit against the a suspended sentence for biting Hoke Deputy July 10 – Flames destroyed Jimmy’s Exxon in shallow graves. sheriff, county manager and county claiming Clarence Patterson, while he was discharging on Hwy. 401. Arson is suspected. May 14 – Edward Lee Cummings is found The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 53 guilty of murdering Karen Marie Puryear and if corporal punishment is administered to their is sentenced to death. child. Karen Robbins is named new postmaster. Aug. 27 - Hoke receives a half million dol- May 26 - Residents and local officials push lar grant to rehab 40 homes in the Tylertown for a speed-up of the widening of Hwy. 401 from community. Fayetteville to the Raeford bypass. Sept. 3 - Boxer James “Bonecrusher” Smith June 4 – Dundarrach Presbyterian Church, 82 is to be grand marshal of the N.C. Turkey Fes- years old, dedicates a new steeple. The church’s tival parade. pastor, the Rev. Ben Ferguson, says he and the Sept. 10 – A washing machine that wouldn’t church are the same age. stop rotating even after it was unplugged turns June 18 – Residents are vocal about a proposed out to have a deadly rattlesnake in its works. three cent hike in the upcoming county budget. Sept. 17 – Hoke’s volunteer rescue service Commissioners listen and work on cutting the is 20 years old. Ideal for weight loss and muscle toning proposed budget. Its New York owner says he may give the Hoke High graduates 278 seniors. Raeford Hotel apartments a facelift. We specialize in group fitness June 25 – Extended area phone service begins; Sept. 24 – The N.C. Turkey Festival draws Hoke residents can call Fayetteville toll-free. 40,000 visitors. Schools • Recreation Centers • Company Incentives July 2 – Commissioners pass a budget with Oct. 1 – A drug bust nets 47 people. no tax increase. The rate is 81 cents per $100 Oct. 8 – Two restaurants, BBQ Hut and Pizza valuation. Villa, open. July 9 – The Olympic torch is carried through Oct. 15 – The court redistricting law was Hoke. Two Irish lads visiting here carry it as do designed so that minorities have a better chance several Hoke residents. at attaining judgeships. July 16 – Hoke County’s Judicial District is Oct. 22 – The county passes a junkyard 25% to be split. The Superior court will be District ordinance that calls for, among other require- off 16A and encompass Hoke and Scotland counties. ments, a 6-ft. fence. When you District Court will remain in the 12th Judicial Oct. 29 – Burlington Industries is to add 100 mention this ad. District and encompass Hoke and Cumberland new employees. counties. Nov. 12 - Estimates for improvements to July 23 – Raz Autry and Marshall Parks Raeford’s wastewater treatment plant are $1.2 report bumper peach crops. million. Aug. 6 – The Chamber of Commerce asks Nov. 26 – Two doctors are leaving Raeford - the county to regulate junk yards. Dr. Riley Jordan and Dr. George “Chip” Barth. Aug. 13 – Burlington Industries is streamlin- Dec. 3 – A committee is to take a second ing its operations and will let some employees go. look at the court redistricting law. Raeford residents report improvement in the The first citation is issued under the new waste treatment plant odors. junkyard ordinance. th Aug. 20 – A revised school board policy on Dec. 10 – Firefighters save the old Page Bootcamp W orkout Happy 100 Hoke County! corporal punishment outlines specific guidelines building at the intersection of Main St. and West including one that requires parents be notified Elwod Ave. Hoke County Native Americans Club

Hoke County Native Americans Scholarship Fund Tona Jacobs, Chairman Della Maynor,Vice Chair Lynette Dial, Treasurer Don Woods, Treasurer Native American Dinner 2010 Native American Dinner 2009 Linda Revels, Clerk Front row L-R: Unella Rogers, Margaret Jones; back row Front row L-R: Patricia Jones Maynor, Anna Locklear Godwin, Della Woodrow Cooper, Member L-R: Charles Godwin, Anna Locklear Godwin, Roman Ja- Maynor, Unella Rogers, Bertha Tyler Hunt; back row L-R: Ronald Maynor, Rebecca O’Berry, Member cobs, Della Maynor, Russell Hunt, Rayburn Maynor, Ber- Billy Coxe, Linda Lowery Revels, Charles Godwin, Rayburn Maynor, Tony Tony Hunt, Member tha Tyler Hunt, Rebecca Jones O’Berry, not pictured, Velma Hunt, Russell Hunt, Richard Locklear Eunice Ann Lockear, Member Lowery Carter Jaqueline Hunt Chavis, Member gnition eco No First Native Americans Elected To Public Office 2011 Native Americans Elected To Public Office R w James Albert Hunt — Commissioner 1974 Tony Hunt, Chairman - Board of Commissioners Della Maynor — Register of Deeds 1976 - 2002 Della Maynor - Board of Education Dwight Oxendine — Board of Education 1990 - 1994 Linda Revels - District 11 Lumbee Tribe Representative LREMC Board of Directors — Elias Rogers 1967 Maggie Hunt - LREMC Board of Directors 1st Lumbee Tribe District II Representative — Mike NcNeill 1999 54 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial Maxway announces the store is closing. Jan. 14 – The deepest snow - 8 inches - since violating the city’s newly enacted junk ordinance. schools is halted because the insecticide applica- Dec. 17 – Edward Lee Cummings, 42, having 1973 fell on Hoke. March 10 – The state forbids Raeford from tion is of chemicals that will be banned shortly. been convicted of murdering sisters Karen and Jan. 21 - A police officer finds a fire at Hoke adding sewer taps until it is in compliance with April 21 – Monitoring wells are drilled at Teresa Puryear, receives a second death sentence. United Methodist Church. Classrooms are dam- state regulations. the site of The Pantry on Harris Ave. because Dec. 31 – A public hearing is set on the pro- aged and the church gets renovated. March 17 – Hoke High’s Marching Band is an underground gas tank is leaking. posed widening of Hwy. 401 between Fayetteville Jan. 28 - Kiwanis Man of the Year is Avery to play in the Gator Bowl. May 12 – A single-engine plane carrying a and the bypass near Raeford. Connell. March 24 – The city takes action on sewage pilot and four parachutists crashes on takeoff Feb. 4 - The city’s wastewater treatment plant plant problems, investigates House of Raeford from the Raeford Airport, injuring all. is out of compliance with state regulations and for possible illegal discharge. The school board shelves the middle school 1988 could face a moratorium on sewer hookups. March 31 - Construction will start April 12 concept because construction of new schools Jan. 7 – Dave Barrington announces he will Feb. 18 – A virus or viruses hit hundreds of on needed improvements to the city’s wastewater is slow. retire after 25 years as Hoke sheriff. Hoke residents and affects school attendance. treatment plant. May 19 – The Commission of School Facility Feb. 25 - L&S Salvage is found not guilty of April 14 – Work on Scurlock and South Hoke Needs awards Hoke $9.9 million for facilities’ They were farmers—quotes show Hoke’s agricultural orientation Corn will save the world just as it saved as fire, illness or death, the bell would be were low but there is not as much gross News-Journal, Nov. 4, 1944 the colonists. There are 30 bushels of corn for rung to summon neighbors. - Grandma’s income in soybeans as there is in cotton.” – Some are expecting bud worms to ruin every American. – Hoke Journal, Jan. 31, 1918 Family, compiled by John C. Kelly Sr., edited Hoke County agent Wendell Young in 1976 the corn crop of Hoke but they hardly will. The weather is alright for hog killing but by John Kelly Jr. Soldier of the Soil – Victory begins with Salt sprinkled in the buds of growing corn we are told it’s the wrong time of the moon. The behavior of farm mules – Mules knew the American farmer working long before will do away with these worms, even a hand- – Hoke Journal, Dec. 4, 1919 what the ringing farm bell meant. When the sunset (sunrise?) until long after nightfall. ful of dirt will check that damage. - Poole’s Lay-by time: There was a period during bell rang, some mules would turn around in Upon him falls the burden of feeding the Medley, July 4, 1946 the year when crops were no longer in need the middle of the row and head for the barn.- fighting forces… civilian population… and The boll weevil is totally destroying the of cultivation and a reduced amount of labor Grandma’s Family, compiled and edited by mouths in war-torn countries. - The News- cotton crop in places, and we are expecting was required from persons who normally John C. Kelly Journal, Oct. 5, 1944 to hear of a general onslaught any day now. worked in the fields. This could be called It is recommended team-hauled wood A man did as much plowing in 1868 as he - The Hoke Journal, August 6, 1925 the beginning of the harvesting season, but be used instead of railroad-hauled coal. did since at any time, but what that plowing The statesmen, the animals, the fowls, we called it “lay-by time.” A major activity Changes of fuel should be made. – Hoke produced is valued differently. I sold 1,600 the insects, and the cotton exchanges are all during this period was the “big meetings” County Journal, January 10, 1918 lbs. of average tobacco in 1930 for $80. I was determined that the farmers shall not pros- or revivals at nearby churches. It is recommended eggs be hauled by $30 poorer after selling than I was before I per. - The Hoke Journal, December 24, 1925 There was a large bell used to summon motor trucks. –Hoke Journal, July 1918 planted that crop. Three crops of tobacco, Thou shall cherish the soil and keep farm workers to and from the field. It was On the loss of $1.5 million in Hoke farm at least since the Civil War, have sold at an it. – Holy Bible also used as a distress signal. In cases such income from 1975 to 1976: “Cotton prices average of 7 cents a lb. - D. Scott Poole, The The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 55 needs here. all hit in one week. Nov. 29 – The historic James P. Smith House is championship. May 26 – A city well is closed down after the March 15 – McLauchlin School Principal destroyed by fire. Smith invented the Smith Plow. June 20 – Hoke’s 11 districts see a 47 percent discovery of benzene, a derivative of petroleum. Mitch Tyler is Principal of the Year. Dec. 6 – Senate Bill 2 will mean sweeping rise in fire taxes. June 9 – The city’s new budget features a March 22 - Child abuse and neglect charges changes (improvements) for Hoke schools. House of Raeford promises to comply with two-cent property tax increase. at South Hoke Day Care Center are substantiated Dec. 13 – A $4.3 million lawsuit relating to wastewater discharge requirements. June 23 – The county budget calls for a four- following a state day care investigation. jail conditions is filed against Sheriff Alex Norton June 27 – The turkey plant, city and a septic cent per $100 valuation increase on property Mar. 29 – The Ku Klux Klan marches through by a former inmate. service are fined in three separate environmental taxes. Raeford in a membership drive. Dec. 20 - Mitch Tyler is named principal violations. June 30 – A dedication ceremony for 204 April 5 – Main Street’s C.P. Kinlaw Jewelry of Hoke High. July 11 - The State Bureau is investigating low income houses in a tri-county area is held. marks its 50th year of business. Dec. 27 – A pretty but deadly ice storm hit after a riot ensued following the shooting of a July 7 – Raeford Hotel is bought by a phar- April 19 - Nine communities meet here to Hoke. 69-year-old man by a Hoke detective. About 200 macist who wants to remodel it. discuss military land use. were involved in the riot in Jones City that was July 14 – The N.C. Turkey Festival organiz- Commissioners approve the purchase of disbursed by tear gas. ers say the event will feature the nation’s longest property for two middle schools. 1990 July 18 – House of Raeford posts a $100,000 turkey submarine sandwich. April 26 – Raeford Aviation owner Gene Jan. 3 – Staggering increases in fuel oil and bond with the city to guarantee against violations. July 28 – Hoke native Ron Kirkley bikes Thacker offers the city $152,040 for Raeford produce has residents tightening their belts. City manager Tom Phillips rejects the bond. across the United States, beginning at Harper’s Municipal Airport. Jan. 10 – Developers say Hoke’s economic Aug. 1 – A restraining order stopping the Island, N.C. and ending at Seattle, Washington. May 3 – The sale of Faberge to Unilever falls future depends on schools and water. city from cutting off House of Raeford’s water Aug. 4 - Hundreds of workers strike at through but Faberge says it still plans expansion. Jan. 17 – Mayor John K. McNeill dies at age is issued after negotiations between the two House of Raeford protesting wages and work- May 10 – Two group homes for the mentally 69. He was Raeford’s mayor for 21 years and break down. ing conditions. handicapped, operated by Sandhills Mental before that a city councilman for 16 years. Aug. 8 – Commissioners approve bids for the Aug. 25 – Kentucky Fried Chicken opens its Health Center, will be built in Hoke. Jan. 24 – The U.S. Census Bureau is looking first phase of a 10-year, countywide water system. doors on Hwy. 401 Bypass. May 17 – Surveying begins on the Hoke for folks to count Hoke’s citizens. Aug. 15 – House of Raeford is found guilty of Sept. 15 – The fourth annual N.C. Turkey side of the Hwy. 401 widening project to the Jan. 31 – Fire ants are discovered in Hoke dumping wastewater into Peddlers Creek and is Festival begins. east of Raeford. County for the first time. fined $15,000. The state has no law that makes Sept. 22 – Commissioners refuse to sign for June 7 – A new wing of Hoke High is named A fungus is found growing in Peddlers Branch it a crime to dispense wastewater in such a man- Critical Needs Money until a meeting with the for Sarah Baucom, an English teacher. below the turkey processing plant. ner. Meanwhile, the city’s wastewater treatment school board is held and they are told how the June 14 – Hoke resident William Currie Feb. 7 – Councilman Bob Gentry is named capacity improves 20 percent because the plant money is to be spent. returns home after observing the massacre of Raeford’s mayor. is in compliance. Sept. 28 – Voters approve a $1.25 million bond students at Tiananmen Square. A student at Feb. 14 – Raeford Hoke Economic Devel- Aug. 22 – A half million dollar Community for construction of phase one of a countywide St. Andrews College, he had studied at Beijing oper Jim Grimes resigns after less than a year Block Development grant has been misused as water system and vote down liquor by the drink. since January. on the job. repairs to Tylertown homes are shoddy. Oct. 5 - The Rev. Jesse Jackson comes to Ra- June 21 – Commissioners pass a two-cent Feb. 21 – The state accuses the city and House Aug. 29 – The state is looking at revising pol- eford as a show of support for House of Raeford increase for the county budget. of Raeford with polluting Peddlers Creek. lution laws because of the House of Raeford case. employees who want to unionize. July 5 – Hoke-Raeford’s developer says Feb. 28 – The city is not sure why improve- Preliminary census figures show Raeford Oct. 12 – House of Raeford workers vote Hoke’s future depends on small businesses, ments to Raeford’s wastewater treatment plant has shrunk and Hoke did not grow as much as down unionization 420 to 391. existing industry. aren’t functioning up to expectations. expected. Oct. 26 – Two students had pistols at Hoke Aug. 2 – Some 1,500 inactive voters are March 7 - The county may take over a soon- Sept. 5 – An attorney will look at Schools High and another pulled a knife while he was purged from the registration rolls. to-be renovated, state-owned water system that Superintendent Bob Nelson’s actions after he fighting with a girl. Aug. 16 – Hoke is identified as one of the will save Hoke a million dollars. The well at changed plans for the construction of East Nov. 2 – A sweet potato that looks like a “hot spots” of growth by a Seattle researcher. McCain can produce 580,000 gallons of water, Hoke Middle School without consulting the nestling baby and weighs eight pounds is grown Aug. 23 –Chesebrough Ponds buys Faberge and the prison hospital, prison subsidiary and school board. by Mattie Smith. for $15 million.. Sandhills Youth Correctional facility would use Sept. 12 – The case is closed involving the Nov. 9 - With the demand for water increasing Aug. 30 – School officials learn that Hoke only half of that. shooting of a 69-year-old man by a deputy, and supply decreasing, the city decided to drill schools may lose accreditation if end-of-year March 14 – Burger King plans a Raeford causing a riot to ensue. The deputy acted in two new wells at a cost of $120,000. test results are not raised. restaurant. self-defense, according to the DA. Nov. 9 – A rape crisis center opens in the Sept. 6 – An auto theft ring in Arabia is broken Raeford needs doctors. Sept. 19 – An estimated 53,500 flocked to post office building but the director’s lack of up by DMV Enforcement. James Neal Souter is March 21 – The county landfill will be Raeford for the annual N.C. Turkey Festival. credentials are a concern. arrested and 56 cars are confiscated. abandoned in a year. Oct. 3 – The city says it can’t guarantee the Nov. 23 – Raeford’s Dr. Robert Townsend Sept. 13 – Hoke is chosen for 250 military The SBI is filing environmental law violations Army it will be able to provide sewer for an 801 is named N.C. Family Physician of the Year. units under the 801 housing project. They will against House of Raeford. housing project on Rockfish Road. Dec. 7 – Chief Deputy Alex Norton, sworn be built on Rockfish Road near Scurlock School. April 4 – All eyes are on Raeford as the state’s Oct. 10 – The school board forms a group to in upon the resignation of Dave Barrington, is Sept. 20 – A $3.35 million bond issue to fund first criminal environmental case goes to trial. decide the future of Upchurch Middle School. Hoke’s fourth sheriff. an elementary school in eastern Hoke is passed House of Raeford is accused of routing a pipe Oct. 17 - The Hoke-Robeson Drug Task Dec. 14 – The school board alters its plans and with only 13 percent of voters casting their ballots. from a waste holding tank to an area that drains Force says drug use is widespread in the area, decides to build two middle schools and convert Sept. 27 – The SBI says two fires that de- into Peddlers Creek. but the task force is making inroads into the Upchurch Jr. High into an elementary school. stroyed the auditorium at Upchurch Middle April 11 – Residents complain about the selling of drugs. Dec. 21 – The Share Your Christmas project School were deliberately set. odor coming from Raeford’s wastewater treat- Oct. 24 – House of Raeford takes its case did not fare as well this year as previously. Oct. 4 – Timothy Ray Earl of Lumber Bridge ment plant. against the city back to court, claims it was Dec. 28 – A Food Stamp fraud investigator is charged with setting the Upchurch School fires. April 18 – The school board rejects a site for fined illegally. A Superior Court judge dismisses is hired. Oct. 11 - In a dispute over water runoff be- a new school recommended by a site selection the case. tween neighbors, one of them shoots and kills a committee. The proposed site is a donation of Nov. 7 – Commissioners approve a land use man and injures her husband. 25 acres. plan that is the first step in county zoning. 1989 Oct. 18 – Raeford outlaws open burning. May 2 - Police Chief Vance L. Wiggins Nov. 14 – The water to the Raeford Hotel is Jan. 4 – Jean Powell is sworn in as the Hoke- Oct. 25 – Three Hoke boys, two teenagers, “Zeke” dies of a heart attack. cut off for nonpayment and tenants move out. Scotland Judicial District to become the state’s run off with the circus when it came to town in May 9 – Tarheel Turkey Hatcheries plans to The hotel later closes. first female DA. Sept. One, who is 20, returns when Hurricane expand and will add 22 new employees. Nov. 21 – Burlington lays off 50 workers. Jan. 11 – The Raeford Airport is closed be- Hugo threatens South Carolina. May 23 – The Raeford Auto Co. building, Nov. 28 – The widening to four lanes of Hwy. cause of a problematic drainage ditch. Nov. 1 – The state investigates the sewage called the only suitable place for judicial offices, 401 from Fayetteville to Hwy. 401 Bypass and Jan. 18 – Deputy Ed Harris is forced to resign found in Peddlers Branch. tests free of contaminants by the state after an Hwy. 401 Business will begin this coming year. after drugs in his custody turn up at Hoke High. Nov. 8 – Mayor John K. McNeill is returned old, leaking gas tank is removed. The state later Dec. 5 – Sheriff Alex Norton reorganizes Jan. 25 – Dr. Robert Townsend is Kiwanis to office. reverses its findings. his department. Citizen of the Year. Nov. 15 – The school board refuses to pay a June 6 – The Hoke High Bucks baseball team James E. Murdock is named police chief. Feb. 1 – The impending sale of Faberge calls construction company $63,000 for work on six goes to the state finals; two players sign with the Dec. 12 – The SBI investigates Sheriff Alex for expansion and will bring more jobs. schools because the projects were not completed Cincinnatti Reds. Norton, who is accused of altering documents. Feb. 8 – Dept. of Social Services opens a on time. House of Raeford is given an ultimatum: Dec. 19 – Louis Cunningham, the 69-year- Community Cupboard, an emergency food bank. Nov. 22 – The Dept. of Environment of Clean up or shut down. The city threatens to cut old man shot four times by Detective Jim Curtis, Feb. 15 – Dan’s Hair Design closes after more Health and Natural Resources is looking into off the poultry processing plant’s water if it doesn’t sues Hoke officials for $1 million. than 15 years in business. raw sewage in Peddlers Branch. The sewage is comply with wastewater discharge requirements. Dec. 26 – Conoly’s Exxon changes hands. Feb. 22 - High winds, thunderstorm and ice linked to House of Raeford. June 13 – The Bucks take the state basketball Charlie Daniels and son Brian take over. 56 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial scene. The brutal murder stuns the community. July 17 – The dilapidated Raeford Hotel may Fayetteville and highways 401 Bypass and 401 1991 April 3 – Two downtown buildings, Page be auctioned as the current owner is not meeting Business begins. Jan. 2 – Hoke is looking into suing the state Trust and the building that houses Candlestick his financial obligations regarding the building. Hoke is invited to join Cumberland and because of inequities in school funding; poor Crafts, are to be renovated for offices and housing. July 24 – The move to two new middle schools Bladen counties in a plan to turn trash from the counties get less. April 10 – The county is forced by the state is delayed until Oct. 21 because construction is three counties into fuel for DuPont’s Fayetteville Jan. 9 - The state lifts a moratorium on new to buy covered dinner plates for jail inmates at taking longer than expected. plant. taps into the city’s sewer system; the city can a cost of $50 each. Some Rockfish residents are not happy with Oct. 9 – Insurance money from the burning now add new businesses. April 17 - An Aberdeen & Rockfish train the proposed zoning plan, commissioners were of Upchurch School’s stage may go to buying A state report card says Hoke schools are derails, and no one is injured. told at a public hearing. Ditto from Quewhiffle new, badly needed buses. average. April 24 – Former Bucks baseball star John citizens. Oct. 16 – A recommended change to the zon- Jan. 16 – An all-night party is planned to keep Roper, now of the Charleston Wheelers, comes Aug. 7 – A Superior Court judge put Sheriff ing law passed earlier this year would shorten graduating seniors safe. home to shut out the Fayetteville Generals. Alex Norton out of office, citing seven wrongful the wait for mobile homes. Jan. 23 – Legislators announce funding cuts May 1 – State cuts and federal mandates may actions. Commissioners swear in Coroner Frank Oct. 30 – A 17-year-old defendant, angry to Hoke, whose leaders bemoan state and federal mean a 30 percent tax hike for county taxpayers. Crumpler as the new sheriff. at how much time he had spent in jail awaiting governments’ imposing costly programs on local May 8 - Schools say they need 13 percent Aug. 14 – A court decision backs up the trial, attacks a bailiff in court and gets 150 days governments that have to pay for them. more in the upcoming budget. county’s new junkyard ordinance but little did added to his term. Jan. 30 – Dr. Robert Nelson retires as schools May 15 – Nine men are indicted in the mur- commissioners know the county would be among Nov. 6 – County commissioners reject a land superintendent after eight years. der of Southern Pines Detective Ed Harris, 45, the first cited. Raeford issues a cease and desist use plan that would restrict development around Bobby Conoly is Kiwanis Man of the Year. murdered in his Hoke home. order regarding junked cars the county had military bases. Feb. 6 – The military lifts its moratorium on May 22 – A jail committee says the county parked next to the National Guard Armory. The The city agrees to give Turlington School military family housing and puts the Section 801 jail needs a $2 million addition. county quickly cleans up its act. space to Cooperative Extension and Veterans project to build 250 homes on Rockfish Road May 29 – Cousins Club, the South Hoke Aug. 21 – The county adopts a new zoning law. Services offices. back on track. scene of violence and alleged illegal activity, is Six men escape from jail, five of whom are Nov. 13 – Hoke schools is one of five systems Feb. 20 - Plans to convert the Raeford Auto padlocked. It is owned by fired deputy Elisha Dial. charged with the murder of Southern Pines De- named for possible takeover by the state if student Co. building into a courthouse annex are stalled Dr. William C. Harrison is picked from 22 tective Ed Harris at his home in Hoke. Five are performance doesn’t improve. as the state looks into possible contamination of applicants to lead schools. apprehended and the sixth man is caught later. The city again leases Raeford Municipal soil by an underground gas tank. June 19 – A homemade bi-plane crashed just Aug. 28 – Sixteen men have applied to fill Airport to Gene Thacker, who wants to buy the Feb. 27 – Arson is suspected in a fire at a north of Raeford Airport, killing the pilot, an the vacancy left by Alex Norton. The case of the airport. Airport commissioners can’t sell the trailer at Hoke High. Damage is estimated at Army Special Forces captain. state vs. Norton continues. land unless the Federal Aviation Administration $6,000. Three students are later charged. June 26 – Two parachutists walked away Sept. 4 – While the statewide trend for SAT approves it, and the FAA has yet to do so. March 6 – The city wastewater treatment after their main parachute as well as their reserve scores is for them to fall, Hoke’s SAT scores Nov. 20 – The Hoke High Bucks football plant needs $700,000 in repairs. chute failed to open. The pair, strapped together, jump by 23 points. squad takes the first round during state playoffs. March 13 – The state goes back on its promise landed in trees. Sept. 11 – Commissioners narrow the num- They defeated Smithfield-Selma 31-0 but lost a to pay $95,000 to the county after it took away A new business in Hoke, Wheeler’s Pallets, ber of men who want the sheriff’s job: Wayne close one to North Durham in the second round. its authority to tax inventories. recycles pallets. Byrd, Frank Crumpler (who is acting sheriff), Nov. 27 – Ground is broken for the new March 27 – Businessman Tom Cameron, 75, July 5 – A mother and son built a 60-ft. high Jim Madden and James Robertson. Rockfish Elementary School. is beaten to death and robbed while he was at dream castle like the one Ingeborg Katolik grew Sept. 18 – Wayne Byrd – not without his own Dec. 11 – The Heritage Village military a pond. Three men are seen running from the up in near Rockfish. Her son Gurgen Katolik did controversies - is sworn in as Hoke’s new sheriff. housing with 250 units will burden Hillcrest much of the construction. Oct. 2 – The four-laning of Hwy. 401 between Volunteer Fire Dept., firefighters say.

Safe Reliable Affordable www.lumbeeriver.com (910) 843-4131 Serving Our Community The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 57 Upchurch students were like family The dozen classrooms sitting in a long said. shotgun row were a rite of passage for the Raeford students of Upchurch High School, with the High School start of each fall semester bringing them one became Up- door closer to a diploma. church High James Pope traced a finger over a 1954 School in yearbook photo of the school building where 1936, re- he spent the early years of his life, recalling named for how students entered the door at one end as the local first graders and grew more excited as they family that moved down the hallway one classroom at d o n a t e d a time. many of the “When you got up here, you knew you materials for were about to go out the door,” he said, tapping the building’s the set of windows nearest the exit. construction. Upchurch has educated Hoke County But every- students for more than 90 years, enduring thing the name changes, repurposing and fires. The community original five-room school was built in 1920, worked to nearly half a century before black and white accomplish Hoke County children could sit next to one was threat- another and learn from the same teacher. ened when The first facility, built using donations, Up chu rch was called the Raeford Grade School or caught fire Raeford Colored School and taught students one day in The Upchurch Class of 1954 up to seventh grade. Children who previ- 1945. ously attended single-room schoolhouses Pope and his brothers lived less than a mile Attending Upchurch High School was Middle School. in the county consolidated into the new from the school and could see the smoke and a different experience from what many Even though their alma mater has grade school under the leadership of Rev. hear the commotion as the building burned. modern students know, Pope said. Teachers changed so much over the years, graduates P.P. Johnson, the first principal, and later For nearly a year, teachers like English often lodged in their students’ homes and the of Upchurch High School remain close. principal J.C. Bagget, Pope said. instructor Anna G. Smith held class in the children stayed together with their classmates The Upchurch High School alumni honor A group of dedicated local citizens Rockfish Grove and Silver Grove churches from first grade until graduation. the past by providing for the future through sought to expand the school and educate while the Board of Education purchased “You became a family,” he said. scholarships for deserving students. older students too. In 1930, the school added additional property and rebuilt the school The class of 1968 was the last to graduate “Upchurch over time has been a school grades 8-11 and principal David Scurlock in its current location. Principal A.S. Gaston from Upchurch High School, with principal to try to get the children to higher learning. took charge of the renamed Raeford High led the reopened Upchurch High in 1946 as David McAllister’s signature on their diplo- If you take that higher learning, you can School. Having a black high school in town a fully fledged 12-grade high school under mas. When Hoke County schools integrated go anyplace, but you must have it within was a “dream come true” for many, Pope the blue and gold banner of its eagle mascot. in 1968, the facility was converted to Upchuch yourself,” Pope said.

The state tightens sewage limits, but the city to pay an $8,000 debt owed by the manager, that will control nightclubs. June 3 – Hoke students scored higher on remains in compliance. James Ross, who is on probation for writing April 1 – Hoke’s zoning law has spurred standardized tests this year than in previous years. Dec. 18 – Lawmen from four agencies joined useless checks. housing development in the eastern part of the June 10 – Hoke students showed marked forces to arrest 13 drug dealers in Robeson and Feb. 5 – Duffie residents want the Renais- county, according to Ann Pate, Planning Board improvements in most areas on CAT scores. Hoke. sance Club closed, citing loud music until early chairman. June 17 – Rockfish residents say they don’t Dec. 25 – Students moved from Turlington morning hours, vulgar language and shots fired. April 8 - The county approves a drug sniffing want a subdivision there but the county approves and Upchurch schools to East and West Hoke Fire inspections are now mandatory for dog for the sheriff’s department. it anyway. middle schools on Hwy. 401 and Hwy. 211, Raeford businesses. April 15 – Rockfish Elementary will be June 24 – Tylertown Fire Dept. fights to re- respectively. Feb. 12 – The city-owned Raeford Airport Hoke’s only school with a majority of white main independent while the financially strapped needs $1.3 million in improvements, including students after attendance lines are drawn. firefighting unit faces possible absorption into adding 149 acres of land to its current 51 acres. April 22 – Ground is broken on a 250-unit other departments. 1992 Feb. 19 – Richard Condor and Aaron Plyler military home development under 801 Section July 1 – County taxpayers saw an eight cents Jan. 1 – A Main Street teen center called now represent four precincts in the state senate: housing. hike in taxes while city residents will not only Streamers opens. Puppy Creek, Rockfish, Buchan and McCain. A former inmate sues the county over an be paying county taxes but will also see a two Hoke’s teen pregnancy rate is 12 percent. They are guests at the Chamber of Commerce alleged sex assault that occurred while he was cents hike in city taxes. Jan. 8 – Candidate filing is delayed until leg- Legislative breakfast. in jail last year. July 15 – The state gives Hoke schools until islators have an opportunity to redistrict the state. Feb. 26 – A body and a skeleton are found in April 29 – Hoke signs a 21-year deal with 1995 to meet accreditation standards. Jan. 15 – The school board nixes the notion wooded areas. They are unidentified as is a third Bladen and Cumberland counties and an energy July 29 – Quewhiffle is home to the sport of of rebuilding the auditorium at Upchurch School. skeleton found earlier in the year. company to dispose of its recyclable trash. paintballing. The owner of Quinn Food Products on Hwy. March 4 – Sandhills Community College’s May 6 – The city and county agree to split A Superior Court judge says House of 401 Bypass blames a zoning miscue for stopping Hoke Center can move into Turlington School, the planning and development office. Raeford owes the city $50,000 in fines from him from expanding. When Hoke’s zoning law which is largely abandoned. May 13 – Kiwanis choose Wyatt Upchurch 1990. The poultry processing plant discharged went into effect in October of last year, the plant March 11 – Construction of Rockfish School Person of the Year. unauthorized waste into the city’s sewerage was not zoned industrial and now the owner can’t is halted because the land is found not suitable for May 20 - A non-profit medical clinic, staffed system thus causing the state to place Raeford put up another building. The owner says he lost septic tanks after the site is graded. Construction by four or five doctors, is set to open here. Hoke under a sewer tap moratorium. This created an potential customers at a loss of $680,000. Later, resumes after the county buys six additional acres. has been identified as in need of physicians. economic hardship for Raeford because no new commissioners quickly remedy the situation and The most recent body - found behind North May 27 – Kerry Morston of Southern Pines business could tap in. More than a year later, the the customers are recouped. Raeford Fire Dept. - is identified as a 20-year-old is found guilty in the shooting death of Southern plant wins an appeal. Jan. 29 – Deputies put Hoke’s only radio sta- Fayetteville man, who is believed to have been Pines drug officer Ed Harris. The shooting oc- Aug. 12 – The school board approves after- tion off the air when they confiscate equipment shot elsewhere. curred at Harris’ home in west Hoke. He was school day care. March 18 – Commissioners consider laws given a life sentence. Aug. 19 – Hoke commissioners vote to shore 58 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial up the new water system to cope with growth supposed to be completed entirely by the end public hearing, commissioners vote 3-2 to move subdivision at the intersection of Rockfish and before adding new lines. of 1994. the county planner’s job from under the control Camden roads. Overcrowded roads and traffic Aug. 26 – After weeks of wrangling for a Jan. 27 – Kay Thomas is named Kiwanis of the city-county planning board and make it congestion are two of the reasons for turning place to call home in Raeford, Hoke Family Citizen of the Year. accountable to the county manager. down the request. Medical Clinic finally signs a lease for offices Feb. 3 - Commissioners stop construction Aug. 25 - Raeford-Hoke Planning Com- Feb. 23 – A Hoke High senior who was on South Main. of a Five Points garbage collection center after mission Chairman Ann Pate resigns, the third suspended from school for the remainder of the Sept. 2 – Violent crimes increase in Hoke. neighbors voice concerns. The convenience official to do so this year. She cites differences of year for taking a weapon to school will be able to Property crimes also increase. center was eventually built. opinion with most of the commissioners. Later, graduate after all. Steven Calloway is attending Sept. 9 – Hoke commissioners approved Feb. 10 – Voters approve water bonds of planning board member Marcia Snow resigns, Mt. Calvary Christian Academy in Southern a 2,00,000-gallon water tank in the Wayside- more than $3 million to complete phase two of citing political differences with commissioners. Pines. The 17-year-old had forgotten to take his airport area. a planned countywide water system. She is followed by Glenn Crissman. pocket knife out of his pocket and turned it in The National Labor Relations Board gives Feb. 24 – Jackie Lynch is Kiwanis’ first Sept. 1 - School starts with an enrollment of to school authorities. The knife is used in his House of Raeford employees another opportunity female member. 5,398, which was more than anticipated. after-school job at an auto body shop. to vote on whether or not they want to unionize March 10 - Schools, jobs and infrastructure Sept. 8 – John Gregory Chisolm pleads guilty March 16 – The West Hoke Middle boys’ by setting aside a 1998 election when workers are the key issues facing the county, 400 people to murdering Ed Harris in 1991 in western Hoke basketball team sets an academic record. All rejected a union. House of Raeford is appealing. told commissioners at a public forum. and is given a life sentence. Harris was a drug players have grade averages of 90 or above. Sept. 23 – Development in the east end of March 17 – Wicked weather strikes twice as officer with the Southern Pines Police Dept. April 6 – Kay Thomas, 48, a realtor, com- the county stops as everyone waits for more fierce winds whip woods fires on one day and when he was shot in his home. More than one munity activist, leader and candidate for the N.C. available water. The state has a moratorium on then hurricane force winds damage buildings a man was involved. House, District 16, is killed and a friend seriously the Rockfish water system. few days later. Local telephone service to Red Springs is hurt after a wreck as they put up campaign signs. Sept. 30 – Faith was not enough to keep Hoke’s March 24 – Officials are concerned that okayed. April 13 – The city-county planning board is only radio station on the air, and the Rev. James Prison Legal Services may sue the county Sept. 27 – Heritage Village, the 250 unit officially dead, and the county created its own Ross is selling out. because the jail is overcrowded. PLS files a suit military housing project located on Rockfish planning board as did the city. Oct. 7 - The state lifts a moratorium on the a week later. Road, opens. April 20 – The county board votes to deny Rockfish water system. April 7 – A crowd tells the city council they Oct. 6 – Hoke commissioners revise the the city’s request to extend its extraterritorial Bernice McDougald, the mastermind in the don’t want to be annexed and the city has nothing junkyard ordinance to help junkyard owners jurisdiction to a mile outside of city limits. murder of Southern Pines Detective Ed Harris, to offer them. Raeford is looking into annexing stay in business. April 27 – A Days Inn hotel is to locate on is found guilty and receives a life sentence plus Shawtown and a small area off Prospect Ave. Oct. 13 - County commissioners vote 3-2 to Hwy. 401 Bypass. 60 years. His is the second conviction in the on the east, Thomasville and College Drive on abolish the city-county planning commission as May 4 – Wayne Byrd returns as Hoke sheriff, murder; six more men await trial. the west side, and a small tract behind Andy well as the planning director’s position. and Jean Hodges is voted in as a commissioner. Oct. 21 – The county stands by its zoning Anderson Mobile Homes. Annexation plans The county landfill closes and garbage is She is the second woman to serve on the county plan and refuses to rezone to allow a $5 mil- are later dropped. taken to Montgomery County. board, the first being Mabel Riley. lion strip mall to be built on Hwy. 401 near the April 14 - It will cost taxpayers an extra 15 Oct. 20 – William Earl McNatt is found May 11 – Capt. Suzanne Edwards becomes Cumberland County line. cents per $100 valuation to build a new 98-bed guilty of murdering prominent businessman the first woman to serve as Hoke’s chief jailer. Nov. 4 – Schools Superintendent Bill Har- capacity jail. Tom Cameron in March 1991 and receives a life June 1 – House of Raeford denies OSHA rison says the growth in east Hoke will require April 21 – Commissioners fire County Man- in prison sentence. James Harris entered a plea inspectors entrance to the plant because they more schools. ager Barry Reed, who had already resigned to bargain in the brutal beating of the 75-year-old have cameras. Nov. 18 – Peach Orchard residents consider a take another job in Person County. man, and Bruce Harris awaits trial. Hoke is one of five counties suing the state lawsuit to stop the installation of a cellular tower. April 28 - The oldest building in Raeford, a Remains of a man found in a wooded area for unequal spending in schools, attempting to Nov. 25 – The county buys land off Hwy. 401 depot built of long leaf pine in 1895-97, burns off Hwy. 211 west are believed to be those of change a policy that gives schools in high wealth for a waste transfer station. and arson is suspected. criminal Gwi Hwan Moon. counties more funding than those in low wealth Dec. 2 – The courtroom annex opens on Main May 5 – The city allows the county to join Nov. 3 - A bond issue of $300,000 is passed counties. Street. The county renovated the Raeford Auto its trash plan. thus funding the Sandhills Community College June 8 – The county’s proposed budget calls Co. building on North Main to house facilities. A grant will renovate 31 homes on Army Hoke Center. for a four cents property tax hike. Dec. 9 – A woman and her five-year-old Road in McCain. The county board agrees to improve the jail. June 15 – A gas main burst after being hit daughter are held captive and tortured over a May 19 – The Heilig Meyers store and a The city fined House of Raeford for releasing by a farm tractor and 30 residents of Crawford weekend by the woman’s former boyfriend. He warehouse at Main St. and Harris Ave. burn waste into Peddlers Creek in 1990,and a Superior Wright, Wallace McLean and Turnpike roads is arrested. at an estimated $1 million in damages. The 10 Court upheld those fines. However, the turkey area are forced to leave their homes. Dec. 16 – Commission chairman L.E. Hoke firefighting units, 11 from Cumberland plant wins an appeal. June 22 – Turlington School will serve as an McLaughlin issues a memo calling for a hiring County and two from Fayetteville work the blaze Nov. 24 – Ground is broken for a tri-county alternative high school in the future. freeze until Jan. 6 and some question whether to prevent it from spreading to downtown. Arson waste to energy project involving Hoke, Bladen June 29 – A man is accused of setting fire or not he had the authority to do so. is not suspected. and Cumberland counties. Recyclables and non- to a mobile home at Cope Road and Hwy. 211 Dec. 23 – A brawl courtroom scuffle occurs June 2 – The trial of a man charged with kill- combustibles will be separated and landfills will with six people sleeping inside. Three of the after two men involved in the Ed Harris murder ing Hoke businessman Tom Cameron in 1991 see 90 percent less waste. children are his. are sentenced. Leroy Medley and Terry Evans is postponed, and two more men are charged. Dec. 8 – A grant funds an alternative school July 6 – Cheryl Stearns, two-time women’s get 100 years each, and Medley acts out his anger Clyde McPhatter stamps go on sale at post study here for junior and high school students. overall world parachuting champion, is a resident at the sentence. A third man, Mitchel McNeill, offices across the nation. Raeford native McPhat- Dec. 15 – The county hires a grant writer. of Hoke. receives a 50-year sentence. The three had pled ter was the lead singer of The Drifters, a rhythm Dec. 22 – The family of L.C. Cunningham July 13 – A 10-passenger plane crashes in guilty. That brings to five the number of men and blues group that was popular in the ‘50s. He wins a $330,000 settlement in his shooting in July woods near Raeford Airport and burns. The sentenced for the 45-year-old detective’s murder. died in 1972. 1990 by a sheriff’s deputy. Cunningham survived two pilots aboard escape shortly before the plane Two more are to be arraigned. June 9 – Pregnancy tests on campus are the shooting but died a year later at age 69. bursts into flames. In two weeks, another plane available at Hoke High if they are requested. crashes near the airport. One of the pilots, Wil- June 16 – A task force attacks violence in liam O’Keefe, 38, who was in the first crash, is 1993 Hoke schools. 1994 aboard. Again, there are no injuries. Jan. 6 – Hoke’s only radio station is forced June 23 – Raeford’s AM radio station is back Jan. 5 – A $15 million House of Raeford July 27 – Almost all employees who walked off the air as deputies begin foreclosure pro- on the air under new ownership. facility is proposed for a site off Hwy. 20. off their jobs at House of Raeford are back at cedures. The station’s owner, the Rev. James June 30 – The new county budget calls for A Hoke detective says the remains of a man work. They wanted pay raises and complained Ross of Gospel Tabernacle Enterprises, owes a tax increase of five cents per $100 valuation. found shot to death 13 years ago are those of of working conditions that are detrimental to $93,000 in debts. Commissioners also voted 3-2 to give themselves missing soldier Richard James West Jr. their health. A deputy investigating a fight between party a raise. Jan. 12 – A rash of vacant buildings’ fires is Aug. 3 – The four lanes of Hwy. 401 between goers and party crashers broke his leg while he Hoke is parched by a summer drought. suspicious, firefighters say. Fayetteville and highways 401 Bypass and 401 was trying to break up the affray. July 14 – Upchurch Elementary, the county’s Jan. 19 – A deputy, responding to a domestic Business will be completed and should be opened Jan. 13 - Nilson Van & Storage is moving first year-round school, opens. dispute, shoots and kills a man with a knife who to traffic in September. to Hoke’s industrial park on Hwy. 401 east of Aug. 4 – Hoke’s attorney for 15 years, Duncan was lunging at officers and ran for one of them. Aug. 10 – Raeford’s 9-1-1 center is struck by Raeford, bringing 30 jobs with it. McFadyen resigns, citing policy differences. The man outlasted three doses of Mace and a lightning twice. A report card shows Hoke Schools’ tests are Aug. 11 – With county commissioners shot that was not fatal before being struck down. Aug. 17 – Hoke is given almost $400,000 improving overall. pitted against each other, a public hearing is Jan. 26 – John D. McAllister is named Ki- by the N.C. Dept. of Transportation to repave Jan. 20 – The widening of Hwy. 401 from set to determine the fate of a joint city-county wanis Hoke County Citizen of the Year. 11 roads. Fayetteville to highways 401 Bypass and Busi- planning board. Feb. 9 – Commissioners deny a rezoning Aug. 24 – The $2.5 million Hoke –Robeson ness is creating more accidents. The project is Aug. 18 – Unmoved by a large crowd at a request by a developer who wants to build a Gin Co. is under construction on Old Maxton The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 59 1995 Freedom Chapel, still standing, was first black church Jan. 4 – An 18-year-old Hoke High student goes on a New Year’s Eve killing rampage, Freedom Chapel Methodist Episcopal leaving five dead. He killed Jamie Hunter, 39, Zion Church was the first African Amer- and wife Debbie Hunter, 37, and paralyzed their ican church in Hoke County. Located at 15-year-old daughter Mary Ann at the Family the corner of Freedom and South Bethel Fun Arcade that the Hunters had just opened roads, the church still stands. in Puppy Creek. Tim Powell, 20, and Steve The congregation built a new church Locklear, 18, arcade patrons, were also killed. in 1977, and services continue to be held About two hours later he killed James Morrison, there. The bell from the original church 31, at the Zodiac Lounge on Vass Road. All of the victims were shot. Although he was later hangs beneath a cross in front of the new convicted of the murders, Rodriguez Ferguson church on New Freedom Road. It called did not get the death penalty. the congregation to worship in the 1880s. Jan. 11 – Two of Rodriguez Ferguson’s The original church was built of brothers are charged with conspiracy to com- horizontal wooden slats that are still in mit armed robbery in connection with the New good condition. White siding now covers Year’s Eve murders. the exterior. The building has been sold Jan. 18 – Hoke schools are put on a warning twice since the congregation moved The first Freedom Chapel AME Zion Church. status for the third consecutive year for low away. achievement performances. Jan. 25 – Franklin Roosevelt Teal is named Man of the Year by the Kiwanis. Walls Chapel Feb. 1 – Civic leader, educator, farmer Robert King Wall and Richard Graham or- Gatlin dies at age 85. ganized Walls Chapel Church more than Feb. 8 – A Stop the Violence march is led 125 years ago under an oak tree on the by Elle Graham to draw attention to escalat- site of the present church edifice. ing violence in Hoke. Eight people have been Three buildings, including the current murdered in a three-week period. edifice, have been built on the present Dr. William Harrison leaves as Hoke schools church site. The third building has been head to go to Orange County, and Don Steed becomes interim superintendent. modified three times. It is reported that Feb. 22 - The county denies a rezoning request at least one of the early buildings was that would allow a low-density subdivision near mysteriously destroyed by fire. Ft. Bragg. Officials at the post are concerned The Walls Chapel Church Cemetery, about encroachment that would hinder training also known as “Long Rest,” became the activities and perhaps eventually close the post. community cemetery when “Graham March 1 – A forklift operator dies on the job Graveyard” was closed in 1937. – Grand- at Chesebrough-Ponds. ma’s Family, compiled by John C. Kelly March 8 – North Carolina colleges and Sr., edited by John C. Kelly Jr. The bell at the new building is from the old church. universities accept Hoke High graduates at a high rate. March 29 – The cost of transferring prisoners to other counties and leasing space is draining Road. Twenty farmers in Hoke and Robeson and a student are injured. newly formed union have it out at labor hearings. the county, and a new jail must be built, the have pledged 10,000 acres of cotton for ginning. Oct. 26 – House of Raeford employees choose Commissioners put the proposed jail site on sheriff says. Sept. 7 – The county board officially adopts to go union with a 411-365 vote. hold as alternative sites are sought. April 5 – Domestic violence is epidemic in Hoke’s flag. Nov. 2 – House of Raeford files a complaint Dec. 14 - Upchurch Elementary is now an Hoke, according to statistics. Sept. 14 – A small plane crashes into Hwy. against the union, alleging illegalities in voting. all-year school. Students who do not want to go April 19 – Tax figures point to a need for 20, killing its pilot and injuring his passenger. Nov. 16 – The mother of two teens spends to classes year round may go to Scurlock. residents to shop in the county. Sept. 21 – Hoke is denied Smart Start funds five days in jail because of her children’s truancy. Dec. 21 – End-of-year test results show Hoke April 26 – Members of Russia’s Blue that will go to other counties. Nov. 23 – The county board makes plans falls below the state average Lightning parachute train with the U.S. Golden Sept. 28 – Hoke native Jo Northrop’s book, to build a new jail at a county-owned site on Dec. 28 – The National Labor Relations Board Knights at Raeford Airport. Country Matters, is published. Much is about her Hwy. 401. issues a complaint against House of Raeford. The May 3 – The state says Hoke’s financial woes life on a Hoke County farm. Northrop is blind. Nov. 30 – The turkey plant continues with plant is accused of using threats and intimidation are unprecedented in North Carolina. Commis- Oct. 12 – A school bus runs a stop sign and plans to expand. A new processing plant will to try to sway the Oct. 21 vote that resulted in a sioners are told, “You have no fund balance, slams into a log truck at the intersection of Old be near the existing plant. union being formed by plant workers. negative working capital and a low enterprise Maxton and Walter Gibson roads. The driver Dec. 7 – House of Raeford and the workers’ fund.” The jail project is put on hold because th Happy 100 Birthday Celebrating the Hoke County! Centennial of the

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Welfare Reform May 24 – Strong storms rip through the the one-year anniversary for the victims of the plan, about 178 Hoke food stamp recipients will county, and 12 roads are closed because of debris Puppy Creek Family Fun Center murders. “What lose their benefits the following month unless and downed trees. happened here changed our lives. People of Hoke they start working. May 31 – The entire staff of Hoke Parks & County should never forget it,” said Dodie Butler, County board discusses possibility of teen Recreation Department resigns suddenly. mother-in-law of victim Tim Powell. curfew. June 7 – A Ft. Bragg skydiver broke a world Jan. 10 – Hoke has an icy weekend. Jan. 15 - Hoke County is ranked first in record by jumping 331 times in 24 hours. Jan. 17 – J.R. “Dick” McNeill is named police population growth in N.C., according to Business June 14 – Hoke detective Lt. Bob Conerly chief, replacing J.E. Murdock, who died last year. North Carolina Magazine is wounded in the back and left paralyzed in a Jan. 24 – Columnist D.G. Martin argues that Jan. 22 - Hoke Board of Education distributes training accident. the first President Bush was correct in stopping surveys to parents concerning the possibility June 21 – Don Steed, an educator for 26 years, the Persian Gulf War when he did. “How long Congresswoman Jane Pratt, of year-round schools. When the surveys are will be superintendent of schools. He has held would we have had to stay in Iraq? What would North Carolina’s first female returned, the results are mixed. the interim position since February. have been our reaction … when snipers started member of Congress Jan. 29 - In a feature on county and city of- June 28 – The county approves a budget with shooting at American soldiers in the streets? ficials fighting the “drug problem,” Det. Mack a five cents tax hike. What if just one bomb had gone off in any one High is quoted as saying, “If the U.S. government July 5 – A complaint filed in 1994 alleging of the thousands of places that the occupying July 10 – Two murdered immigrants using can’t stop it from coming in, how are we going racial discrimination against Indians and blacks soldiers would be?” to stop it from being sold?” He is referring to was dropped after schools agreed to take steps aliases because they were here illegally create Jan. 31 – Sandy Grove and Long Street problems for law enforcement. limited manpower and limited money. to resolve concerns addressed in the complaint. churches, built by Hoke citizens but lost in Ft. Feb. 5 - Juan Vasquez Chavez, 40, was July 12 – Hoke High improved on end-of- July 24 – Traffic on East Elwood Ave. is Bragg’s land grab in 1918-23, are maintained rerouted when a truck that was over the height killed in an apparent hit-and-run incident on grade test scores. and open for services once a year. Rockfish Rd. July 19 – Hoke is the poorest county in the limit brought down a power line. Feb. 7 – County commissioners turn deaf ears July 31 – The 60-year-old Turlington School The county is battling the statewide teacher state, according to per capita figures released by to those who want liquor by the drink sales in shortage. the University of North Carolina. The per capita gymnasium is torn down. It had been condemned. Hoke by refusing to put it to the vote. Aug. 14 – The state delays naming a portion Feb. 19 - Storyteller “Granddaddy Junebug” income was $11,921 in 1993. Feb. 14 – Hoke County will start a “blue bag” is advertised as scheduled for a Black History The county rezones land to allow Triangle of Hwy. 401 after State Patrolman W.T, “Bill” recycling program. Herbin, who was brutally murdered in the line Month event at Mt. Calvary Church Fellowship Lumber to locate in east Hoke, bringing 250 jobs. Feb. 21 – The Hoke school system is one of Hall. Aug. 9 – Neil McFadyen dies at age 83. He of duty August 31, 1964. six in North Carolina that does not have state Aug. 21 – Raeford United Methodist Church Feb. 26 - Sprint advertisement encourages was a former city commissioner, mayor, school accreditation. getting Caller ID so you will know who or what is board member and House representative. catches on fire and flames are quickly extin- Feb. 28 – Four Burlington employees are guished, but the church has considerable smoke “lurking at the other end of your ringing phone.” Aug. 16 – The school board receives a charged with fraud after allegations they falsi- State Rep. John Nichols(R) files bill to stop $100,000 grant for its transition program for damage. The cause of the fire is blamed on an fied time cards. old electrical coffee pot. N.C. Daycare Commission from regulating out- exceptional children. March 6 – Hoke heroes - medically disabled door playground equipment at daycare centers. Aug. 23 – Burlington Industries cuts 125 jobs. Aug. 28 – Parents Without Partners helps Hoke deputy Bob Conerly, special education single parents over the humps. “They were getting ready to hire playground The marketplace forces layoffs. teacher Jim Curtis and forester Hunter Birckhead police…” says Nichols. Aug. 30 – On the average, Hoke’s SAT scores Sept. 4 - Habitat for Humanity has its first - will carry the Olympic torch. Conerly will bear meeting in Hoke. March 5 - FirstHealth of the Carolinas passes dropped 27 points from last year’s totals. the torch from his wheelchair. the final hurdle with city council allowing for Sept. 6 - County commissioners vote to Sept. 11 – Hurricane Fran hits with a fury, a March 13 – Hoke citizens who use the solid few injuries and no deaths,but extensive property construction of a “bigger and better family care lease a prefabricated jail to be placed next to waste landfill will be required to show ID cards center” on Teal Drive. the current jail. damage and power outages. to prove they are county residents. Sept. 18 – The Red Cross steps in to help. March 12 - Schools go year-round for K-8 Sept. 13 – Police officers patrolling the March 20 – A split hose from a truck used with a unanimous vote by the Hoke Board of campus of 1,748 students at Hoke High are a Sept. 25 – Allison J. Yount, 27, dies when her to fill up school buses spilled gasoline onto the wayward parachute slams her into a Mack truck Education. welcome sight to teachers, who sometimes fear Hoke High campus. Countryside Recreation Nightclub, known as for their safety. on Hwy. 401 near East Hoke Middle School. Rodriguez Ferguson pleads not guilty of Oct. 2 - A bond referendum may give Hoke “The Bayfield,” is temporarily closed by ALE Sept. 20 – Commissioners hear complaints killing five people on New Year’s Eve, 1995. agents and sheriff’s deputies under 1913 civil law, from Antioch residents about rusty water. The schools $21 million. March 27 – After seven years of negotiations, Oct. 16 – The Pieces of Eight amputee skydiv- allowing it to be declared a “public nuisance.” water comes from the county’s water system. Gene Thacker buys the Raeford Airport. Owner Elisha Dial is arrested for resistance, Sept. 27 – Police Chief James E. Murdock ing team makes a record-breaking tandem jump. April 10 – Hoke’s fund balance builds up; Oct. 23 – Henry Locklear, who served in allegedly threatening to release his dogs on depu- dies of a heart attack. tax collections also go up. ties. The resistance charge is thrown out in June. Oct. 4 - So far, 18 cases of rabies have been Vietnam, is honored as most decorated Lumbee April 17 – It took a jury less than 20 minutes veteran. March 19 - Someone smashed historic head- discovered, and health officials are concerned to find Eric Murillo, 46, guilty of the shooting stones in Phillipi Presbyterian Church Cemetery, that Hoke will join the state’s epidemic. Oct. 31 – Rodriguez Ferguson is back in death of his wife, Beth, a Cumberland County court attempting to have his statement that he forgetting the “older, more fragile” ones. Oct. 11 – The county’s budget is tight with school teacher. The defense had argued the March 26 - Amid a shower of glass bottles, no room for emergencies, officials say. murdered his victims thrown out. shooting was an accident. Nov. 6 – Smart Start begins in Hoke. police deputies quell a Robbins Heights riot that Oct. 18 – The jail budget is being eaten up A three-vehicle crash on Hwy. 211 West in began after response to a call of a suspicious faster than anticipated with 33 percent of funds Nov. 13 – Proponents of a $21 million school Timberland took the lives of three, one a two- bond referendum are happy that it passed with fly- person and shots fired. Six are arrested. gone in three months. year-old boy. April 2 - Letters to the editor argue for and Oct. 25 – A $900,000 Community Develop- ing colors and will ease classroom overcrowding. April 24 – Eric Murillo is given the death Nov. 20 – The Dept. of Social Services cracks against liquor by the drink sales. ment Block grant allows Southland Pine Needles sentence for killing his wife. April 9 - A photograph on the front page docu- of Fayetteville to build a plant at Ashley Heights. down on false ID use. May 15 – Hoke is to finally receive funding Nov. 27 – Arson is suspected in a fire at Oak- ments the Hale-Bopp comet visible in the night Nov. 15 – Hoke’s own Cheryl Stearns jumps to begin a Smart Start program. sky, as taken by Parkton resident Jim Skinner. 352 free-falls in 24 hours to break both men’s dale Gin that causes $40 to $50,000 in damage May 22 – A referendum for liquor by the to cotton alone. April 16 - The first-ever reported case of and women’s records. drink fails because it falls short of the number Legionnaire’s Disease puts a Raeford woman Nov. 22 – Turkey sales are on the rise, good Dec. 4 – Jean Hodges becomes the first of signatures needed on a petition. woman in Hoke history to chair the county board. in the hospital. news for Hoke’s turkey industries. May 29 – Schools appear to be making edu- April 23 - Ft. Bragg commander’s plan to Nov. 29 – A 50-year-old man dies in a barn Mike McNeill is tapped to be city manager cational gains as end-of-grade test scores rise. after serving as interim manager for six months. gate certain areas of the post draws fire from fire after he falls asleep with a cigarette. Leroy June 5 – Mike McNeill, head of public works, community leaders. Bragg officials met with Carthens’s death is the result of smoke inhalation. Dec. 11 - Statistics show crime is on the rise is interim manager after Tom Phillips leaves. in Hoke schools. city and county officials the following week. Dec. 6 – Rain, wind and other adverse weather June 12 – The Hoke school board goes to An archaeological excavation is in progress at conditions damage the cotton crop. Dec. 18 – The county fund balance is on Raleigh to lobby for more money. the rise. Mill Prong. A brick floor and fireplace foundation Dec. 13 – A survey of the Raeford Post Office June 19 – A new court system begins for has been unearthed. is mailed out to customers. Dec. 25 – A computer crash loses records of juveniles who are accused of committing non- more than $500,000 in bills. April 30 - A turkey escapee from the House Dec. 20 – The county’s reserves are still low, violent, misdemeanor crimes; they are tried by of Raeford is nabbed by police officers around but the auditor says Hoke is “on the right track.” their peers. 10:30 p.m. on Central Ave. The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 61 May 7 - Liquor by the drink passes in Hoke Oct. 1 - The Hoke County Library now offers Duke in the process. Hoke Countians remember and some arrests followed. County by 38 votes. Internet access. him as the head basketball coach at Hoke High Oct. 7 – The county took measures to develop May 14 - Two are charged in the 1995 murder Oct. 2 - The new county jail is almost from 1977-79. infrastructure plans in order to attract industry. of 18-year-old Armando “Tito” Nations. complete. April 1 - A four-hour workshop looks into Oct. 21 – The old Raeford Hotel on South May 21 - A propane leak at Cheseborough- Oct. 29 - A Raeford woman, Ella Mae Futrell, Hoke’s future, coming away with a sense of Main is in double trouble. Both foreclosure Ponds in Raeford prompts evacuation of 85 dies when a tractor-trailer collides with her Honda direction. and condemnation notices are posted on the employees. Accord on Mockingbird Hill Road. April 8 – Katie Roberson, 71, having un- front door. May 28 - Girl Scout leader pleads guilty in Nov. 5 - Teen curfew passes for county. dergone the loss of two teenage children in one Oct. 28 – Voter registration is up by almost cookie money scam. She is accused of embez- Nov.12 - Schools to upgrade computers. week, never lost her faith and writes Jesus’ name 2,000. zling $2,400 in cookie sales money. Nov. 19 - Kids at Jones Daycare spot an emu wherever she goes. Nov. 4 – Raeford #5 precinct sweeps Davis June 4 - Mayor ProTem Thomas “Joe” Up- running down the street. The bird is captured April 15 - John McKinnon, North Carolina’s in as Hoke’s first black sheriff. church dies. when its legs are hogtied by a Hoke County oldest Mason, celebrates his 106th birthday. A Superior Court judge found Deputy Frank June 11 - A 19-year-old House of Raeford Animal Control officer near Hwy. 401. April 29 –A letter writer says foster parent Hicks used “justifiable deadly physical force” employee has his hand severed in an accident at Nov. 26 - Jim Davis will challenge Sheriff pay is too low. when he shot David Sivak to death on Labor the plant, after it is tangled up in the evisceration Wayne Byrd for election. May 6 – Four incumbents are unseated in Day 1997. Hicks said he had acted in self defense department. The union filed a class-action suit “Operation Roundup” nets 21 arrests. the May primary that one man calls “the biggest when Sivak tried to run over him with his van. over conditions and the state investigated the White Tom Turkey from Tarheel Hatchery change I’ve seen in 20 years.” Jim Davis becomes Nov. 11 – Farm-City Week stresses the im- incident. His hand will be attached. of Raeford is Presidential Thanksgiving Turkey the first black sheriff and Vera Hollingsworth the portance of agribusiness. June 18 - Firefighters and rescue workers for 1997. first black Clerk of Superior Court. Nov. 18 – The county sets aside a reserve fund retrieve paratrooper Jill Murphy from 60 feet Dec. 3 - A 20-year-old Hoke resident con- May 13 – Some not happy with Jim Davis’ of $1.8 million for sewer projects in an effort to up in a pine tree after she has become entangled fesses to the murder of a 68-year-old man, tells win in the sheriff’s race in the May primary are attract industry. and passed out during a skydive. authorities where to find body in a field off Blue looking to have Wayne Gardner, chief deputy Nov. 25 – The state Board of Elections Hoke County dispatcher Melissa Bissett Springs Road. of the sheriff’s department, run in the general decertifies Jim Davis, who allegedly went into helps in the rescue of a woman from a burning Dec. 10 - Rodriguez Ferguson is sentenced to election as an unaffiliated candidate. voting areas of 11 precincts during voting hours. home after a trace of a 911 phone call with no five life sentences and an additional 9-12 years May 20 – Smith McInnis is given the N.C. He was to have been sworn in Dec. 7. one speaking at the other end. in prison for New Year’s 1994/1995 killings at Folk Heritage Award for keeping old-time fiddle Dec. 2 – Dollar General opens on Hwy. 401 June 25 - Lightning strikes twice in Hoke Puppy Creek Family Fun Center and Zodiac tunes alive. Bypass. over two days, destroying both Bea’s Motorcycle Lounge. May 27 – Hoke firefighters find the Robeson Dec. 9 – Bernice McPhatter, who has been Salvage and a house. Dec. 17 - Two-story home burns around 3:30 Community College Emergency Services Train- serving as interim county manager and finance July 2 – A drug hunt nets over half a million a.m. off Alex Baker Road. ing Center in Lumberton “as near the real thing director since Mike Wood resigned as manager, in marijuana off Ryan McBryde Road. Dec. 24 - Hoke DAV Chapter 17 brings as you can get.” is named county manager. July 9 - The crash of an Army Blackhawk Christmas cheer to vets at Autumn Care. June 3 - Supporters get Wayne Gardner’s Dec. 16 - The state Board of Elections votes in helicopter off Plank Road kills eight. “I could see Dec. 31 - Burglary ring believed busted. name on the sheriff’s race ballot as an unaffili- Raleigh to notify the county BOE to certify Jim his dog tag still around his neck,” said McCain ated candidate. Davis as sheriff. The state said Wayne Gardner Correctional officer Bryan Donaldson of the June 10 – Hoke’s first annual Relay for Life had not challenged Davis’ election. A meeting burned soldiers at the scene. 1998 raises $40,000 for cancer research. is set for Jan. 5 to hear grievances. July 16 - A fire chief’s wife is arrested for Jan. 7 – Jim Davis and incumbent Wayne Byrd June 17 - Sheriff candidate Jim Davis chal- Dec. 23 – The drama surrounding Davis’ missing fire department money - $10,900. file for the job of Hoke County sheriff. Davis is lenges the validity of Gardner’s name on the election as sheriff continues to unfold. The DA July 23 - Farmers remain “optimistic” despite the first black to file for the office. ballot and also calls for an FBI investigation of said Davis’ charges that threats were made on his hot, dry summer with temperatures above 100 Jan. 14 – Brittany Lynn Locklear, 5, is criminal activity in Hoke. life last summer were unfounded; Wayne Byrd’s degrees. snatched as she waited for her school bus. Her June 24 – Someone poisoned cows grazing son Robin Byrd is charged with setting fire to July 30 - House of Raeford is fined $3,150 kidnapper molested her and then drowned her in in a field and eight died. No clue as to whom. the yet-to-be occupied home of Davis’ campaign by state Dept. of Labor for the hand-severing an irrigation ditch. Searchers find her body the July 1 – Commissioners set the ad valorem tax manager Greg Thompson; and Davis is sworn in incident. next day and the investigation is on. rate for 1989-90 at 75 cents per $100 valuation. by Judge Warren Pate, who says, “The process An abandoned house on McFarland Blue Jan. 21 – The State Bureau of Investigation, July 8 – Drought and heat are taking a toll on has run its course and Davis has earned the right Road burns. Accelerants were found. the FBI’s Child Abduction and Serial Killers Unit farmers while firefighters are uneasy. to be sheriff of this county and all its citizens.” Aug. 6 - Outside the House of Raeford, work- work with the Hoke Sheriff’s Office who set up a July 15 – A world class equestrian park is ers protest for safety. “war room,” bring in dogs, give polygraph tests, under construction at Five Points in west Hoke. Aug.13 - Cartoon mocks Apple computers set up roadblocks and interview suspects in the July 22 – FirstHealth announces plans to 1999 as having to move corporate headquarters back Brittany Locklear case. No arrest. build a health facility here. Jan. 6 – The state Board of Elections clears into a garage after “completing one of biggest, Jan. 28 – Sheriff Wayne Byrd says if Brittany’s July 29 – The sheriff’s department makes a Jim Davis, Hoke’s new sheriff, of electioneer- saddest debacles in U.S. business history.” killer is caught, DNA will nail him. $5.8 million drug haul. ing charges. Aug. 20 - Hoke County Chief Jailer Al Feb. 4 - Frank Crumpler is Kiwanis Man Aug. 5 - Jim Davis is arrested in Maryland on Jan. 13 – Jim Davis asks for an extra $50,000 Schwarchbher is hired by the county to be the of the Year. charges as he attempts to carry a loaded handgun in his budget to give the sheriff’s office a facelift. new fire marshall “amidst a flame of mixed Twins Jonah and Joshua Pate of Raeford make on board an airplane. Charges are later dropped. Jan. 20 – On Main Street and in daylight, a emotions from county firefighters.” their mark in Hollywood. Aug. 12 – James Bernard McLean, 45, is man jumps into a woman’s car and cuts her on Aug. 27 - Gas prices are at a state average Feb. 11 – The election board sets a hearing murdered at the store he operated in Duffie. the face, forces her to drive elsewhere, cuts her of $1.18 a gallon. after Jim Davis’ residency is challenged by citizen John Edward “Boogie” Blue, 25, and Kish Aaron again and takes her cash. An editorial by N.C. Attorney Mike Easley Robert Vaughn. Harris, 23, are charged. Jan. 27 – Burlington Industries’ restructuring highlights concerns for parents about the Internet. The dam that overlooks Rockfish Road and Aug. 19 – Cameron Village residents in means 475 are out of their jobs. Sept. 3 - A Hoke County Sheriff’s Deputy holds back the two McLauchlin Lakes bursts but western Hoke are unhappy that the community Feb. 3 – Hoke asks the city for a sewer con- shoots and kills David Michael Sivak after a causes no problems. has been bumped from Phase II to Phase III of nection for Silver City residents. The city obliges. chase near the Hoke-Moore border. Feb. 18 - County commissioners reinstate the water project. Feb. 10 – Ernest Sutton is Kiwanis Citizen Sept. 10 - Family of David Michael Sivak public input sessions. Aug. 26 - The Carolina Bay complex is placed the Year. want more answers in the shooting incident. Feb. 25 – Jim Davis begins the first of charges under the care of the Nature Conservancy. Feb. 17 – Raeford Kiwanis celebrates 75 Sept. 17 - FirstHealth advertises the staff of he seems to hurl at random; he says his civil rights Sept. 2 – Hoke County Emergency Services years of service. their family care centers. have been violated. Director Al Schwarcbher says lessons were Feb. 24 – An editorial urges politics be kept Sept. 24 - A former Dept. of Corrections March 4 – After Jim Davis’s mother tells the learned even though Hurricane Bonnie veered out of Raeford-Hoke Economic Board. prison guard pleads guilty to selling drugs to election board her son has lived with her since at the last minute and did not do the damage March 3 – The Raeford-Hoke Crimestoppers an inmate. 1944, the board upholds his residency. Hoke was braced for. program is reactivated. Oct. 1 - Jury selection begins in the trial of March 11 – Commissioners vote against Sept. 9 – Hoke County’s attorney, Neil Yar- March 10 – A turn-of-the-century home on Rodriguez Ferguson for the New Year’s Eve allowing Sprint to erect two cellular towers in borough of Fayetteville, garners N.C. Attorney Wallace McLean Road goes up in flames. Every 1994 and New Year’s Day 1995 shooting spree western Hoke. In June, they give approval. of the Year. fire station in Hoke is called out to battle fires at the Puppy Creek Family Fun Game Room and March 18 – The Hoke County Law Enforce- Sept. 16 – The state board of elections says that spread throughout the county as they are Zodiac Lounge, which resulted in five deaths. ment Assoc. named Sherwood Allen Faircloth there were no improprieties reported in a letter whipped by winds. Defense attorneys seek to suppress Ferguson’s Officer of the Year. The wildlife officer died of to sheriff candidate Jim Davis and his campaign March 17 – Unifi’s closing leaves 143 without signed confession. cancer at the age of 41 and his wife accepted the manager Gregory Thompson. jobs. Oct. 8 - 250 households lose water for a day award for him. Sept. 23 – The N.C. Turkey Festival had March 24 – A city-county wastewater treat- after a subcontractor breaks water line while March 25 - Orlando “Tubby” Smith leads just wound down when skirmish took place. A ment pact provides sewer relief to the county. laying cable. Kentucky to the NCAA championship, trouncing Raeford policeman was attacked by a female March 31 – A civil lawsuit filed by the widow 62 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial and Midwest. governmental complex. June 9 – Hoke born and raised sculptor, Nov. 17 – An auditor says Hoke is in top shape photographer and author Art Gore, best known but does not uncover the fact that County Manager McCain Sanatorium was here for his sculpture in the Hoke Courthouse Bernice McPhatter is stealing from the county. lobby, dies. The bronze and marble statue shows Nov. 24 – Raeford Baptist Church celebrates a soldier’s hand emerging from a twisted mass its first 100 years. instrumental in wiping out TB of authentic World War II weapons and reaching Dec. 1 – The equestrian park at Five Points for the hand of a child. grooms for the Stoneybrook Steeplechase. tMcCain Sanatorium in Montrose in torium. The following year a post office June 16 – An 11-year-old girl goes missing Dec. 8 – House of Raeford is looking at an northwestern Hoke played a large role was established and the site was called from her South Hoke home. Dana Pevia turns expansion. in reducing the number of deaths from Sanatorium. up years later in the U.S. Consulate in Mexico Dec. 15 – Betty Smith is promoted to assis- tuberculosis in the United States. From 1915 to 1951, the sanatorium had with two children. Her boyfriend had forced her tant city manager as gratitude for her 31 years Land for the sanatorium was bought a training school for nurses. Young women to go to Mexico. of service. in late 1907, and the hospital was built the with TB that was under control could study June 23 – Raeford Presbyterian Church turns Dec. 22 – With a moratorium on private cemeteries, the county appoints a committee and following year. The choice of Montrose as and earn a two-year degree. Nurses were 100 years old. June 30 – The county adopts a $16.6 budget, begins to sort through its cemetery mess, count- a site for the hospital is thought to be the eligible for testing after they’d trained for paring taxes by a penny. ing 32 active and inactive graveyards in Hoke. doing of attorney Henry Page of Moore a year in a hospital in one of the fields of July 7 – Hoke picks up a $3 million grant for Dec. 29 – The county and others gear up for County, who was on the site selection pediatrics, surgery or obstetrics. water improvements. YK2 disaster that did not happen. committee. Few people wanted a TB In 1924, Dr. McCain became su- July 14 – The first Habitat for Humanity house sanatorium in their neighborhood, and perintendent. Considered the world’s goes up on Horace Walters Road. this beautiful pine-covered area with the foremost expert on lung diseases, Dr. July 21 – Hoke Elections Board members 2000 highest elevation for miles around was a McCain eventually oversaw all of North are sworn in with three representing three races: Jan. 5 – Albert Currie Road residents’ com- perfect choice. Carolina’s sanatoriums. He was killed in a Delbert Minshew is white, Roman Jacobs is plaints about the odor coming from R&W Farms The first patient was admitted in 1908, car wreck in Raleigh in late November of Lumbee Indian and Willie McCaskill Sr. is black. after fields are fertilized by chicken manure and the same year the sanatorium was built. 1946. Services were held at Sanatorium, July 28 – Commissioners okay funding for ground up, dead chickens are met with deaf ears. a sewer line that would connect the county to Water was hauled from barrels from the and the following year the hospital was Jan. 12 – The sheriff’s budget is overspent and Fayetteville PWC in Cumberland County. commissioners implement a hiring freeze even Bethune spring. In 1909, the hospital was given his name. Aug. 4 – Earl Hendrix is honored as the South- closed because of a dwindling water sup- In 1945, there were 750 patients in the though the HSO is short four deputies. Sheriff eastern Farmer of the Year for North Carolina. Jim Davis says the spending is necessary. ply. It reopened the following year. sanatorium. Among those were children Aug. 11 – Hoke’s teen pregnancy rate is the Superintendent Don Steed announces his In 1911, the same year Hoke became as McCain was the only TB sanatorium second highest in the state. retirement. a county, a new, state-of-the-art building in North Carolina to admit children. Aug. 18 – A task force targets the shortage Jan. 19 - Chief Deputy Hubert Peterkin and was erected with three windows per room; In 1915, the TB death rate was 156.4 of teachers here. three deputies quit the sheriff’s office. this allowed patients plenty of fresh air. per 100,000. In 1965, there were fewer Aug. 25 – G&N Construction renovates a Jan. 26 – The planning board denies a rezon- The first superintendent was Dr. James than six deaths per 100,000. house on North Stewart, a house that is later ing request for a nightclub that neighbors say Brooks of Greensboro, who was largely In late Sept. 1983, McCain TB Sana- moved to make way for a new jail. The construc- will be topless. tion crew is entirely female. responsible for the sanatorium’s existence. torium closed its doors to make way for A large snowstorm paralyzes Hoke, closes Sept. 1 – Sheriff Jim Davis garners grants schools, offices. Dr. L.B. McBrayer replaced him in 1914 a 300-bed prison hospital. McCain had of $220,000. with a young assistant, Dr. Paul P. McCain. succeeded in its mission and put itself Feb. 2 – Longtime Raeford physician Dr. Sept. 8 – A $6 million expansion project will Robert Townsend hangs up his stethoscope. A power plant was built in 1915, and out of business. almost double Hoke High’s space. Peterkin says he will run for sheriff in 2002. running water was pumped to the sana- Sept. 15 – Hurricane Floyd aims for Hoke. Feb. 9 – James H. “Jake” Austin is named Sept. 22 - Hoke was in the bull’s eye path of Kiwanis Citizen of the Year. Hurricane Floyd but it veered at the last minute, Feb, 16 – Thieves hold six people at gunpoint of David Sivak is dropped. A Hoke deputy was dents this year than last year and with increased sparing lives and property here. and terrorize them for two hours at Ashley cleared in the shooting death of her husband this expenses per student, asks for $238,000 from the Sept. 29 – Sheriff Jim Davis forms a Citizens Heights Transport. past December. county’s upcoming budget. Advisory Board. Feb. 23 – The hiring freeze imposed on the April 7 – The state Bureau of Investigation May 5 - Terrell McIntyre Day is proclaimed Oct. 6 – The city annexes the House of Raeford sheriff’s office is lifted. calls on the public to expose Brittany Lynn here and the basketball standout’s jersey is retired. poultry processing plant. March 8 – A 16-year-old Hoke High student Locklear’s killer. She was snatched as she waited May 19 – The planning board recommends Oct. 13 – The public has its say at a hearing receives a long-time suspension after he writes for her school bus, raped and killed. commissioners stop approving private cem- regarding the purchase of the 2,500 acre tract an English essay describing the murder of his April 14 – Bobcats have quietly made a eteries. in western Hoke that will be a habitat for the English teacher with whom he has had conflict. comeback in Hoke County. May 26 – Hoke’s Kathy McMillan, Olympic red-cockaded woodpecker. The land would be March 15 – A multi-million dollar shopping April 21 – Charlotte Kelly is tapped to lead silver medal winner in the broad jump, is inducted taken off Hoke’s tax rolls. center is planned for a site at the intersection of Democrats after Ben Haddon’s resignation. Had- into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Oct. 20 – Hoke High’s stadium is named after Hwys 401 Bypass and Business. don, who had been sanctioned, said he did not June 2 – Travis Wood, a seventh grader at former superintendent of schools Raz Autry. March 22 – A Holden Beach man sends like the direction the party was going. East Hoke Middle, is recognized as one of 15 top Nov. 10 – The county buys 22 acres of land Raeford Volunteer Fire Dept. a check after his April 28 – Hoke schools, facing 162 more stu- students in 15 states in the Southeast, Southwest on West Palmer with plans to build a Hoke life was saved by a stranger. His car, pulling a

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It was December 1952 when Hoke citi- Sanders, Harry Greene and Paul Dickson, zens learned that Ft. Bragg was about to get was headed by J.L. McNeill. a Christmas gift - at Hoke County’s expense. A lawyer was hired, retired Gen. Ken- The U.S. Government was planning neth Royall, the last Secretary of War under to create a corridor connecting Ft. Bragg President Truman and who was also a sup- with Camp Mackall. They were looking at porter of Republican President Eisenhower. taking acreage from Hoke a second time, He was perceived as a political ally and he and that would have been the death knell didn’t charge too much. for the county. The committee members began their The government had taken 92,000 acres assault, meeting with Army officials and in 1918-23 to expand Camp Bragg into Ft. making numerous trips to Washington. Bragg. Now they were looking into taking “We tried to have someone up there every 44,370 more. weekend,” Gatlin was quoted as saying. Plans were to slash through the county The Army tried to convince the Hoke north of Raeford, near Ashley Heights and County delegation their mission would through west Hoke. Quewhiffle would be suffer if they didn’t get the land, but Hoke isolated from the rest of the county just as wasn’t buying it. Little River Township had been isolated Uncle Sam was prepared to pay less than in the first land transfer. (And there went $100 an acre, about 66 percent of the value. another 20,000 acres when Hoke had to So sure of their victory, the Army had allo- transfer that township to Moore County) cated $6,047,337 to buy the land. The Hoke An estimated 2,300 people (432 families) committee thought it would cost more than would be transplanted. The irony of this is $22 million to compensate landowners, pay that many of these people had lost their land for the McCain Sanatorium, the state land some 30 years earlier during the first expan- surrounding the sanatorium, and roads and sion. Many were farmers, and the land was schools. considered to be some of the best acreage The Hoke committee tried to get the for growing tobacco in the county. Army interested in a sparsely settled section Hoke citizens were mostly kept in the of Harnett County to the northeast, but the dark about what was happening, but they Army said no. knew they had to mount a defense. “We are It was a low blow when Thomas A. fighting for the existence of our county and Young, assistant to the Secretary of the have no compromise or terms of surrender,” Army, announced the decision to buy the someone wrote. land. Said an angry McNeill, “I’ll eat every The first action was to contact Congress- grain of dirt you get out of Hoke County.” man C.B. Deane of Rockingham; the second On March 31, 1953, a final meeting was to call a meeting of Hoke residents was held with Undersecretary of the Army More than 1,000 citizens braved a cold Earl Johnson. In preparation, the delegates The presentation of this map saved the day. rain to present a united front. Some who worked all night on the floor of The News- of the sanatorium and even carried with “No Corridor.” lived in the area that was to be taken formed Journal to get together a map that showed them a resolution by the N.C. General As- The Fayetteville newspaper had pub- a landowners group. They were, to the best of in detail Hoke’s projected losses. sembly that opposed the land grab. lished an editorial voicing its approval of our knowledge, Horace Walters, John Parker, It may have been the map that saved The Army debated until that fall when the Hoke land purchase. What a bitter pill Dick Neely, Reuben Webb, Carl Riley, G.W. Hoke’s land. Royall heard by word of mouth that the to swallow when the Fayetteville paper Ray, Fulford McMillan, and Burnice Wil- The delegates had 20 minutes in which to Army had abandoned its plan for Hoke learned the Army would take 2,781 acres liams. Another committee, made up of C.L. make their case and every step was planned. land. The News-Journal published in 72 from Cumberland County instead. Thomas, Robert Gatlin, N.S.A. Balfour, A.V. They were accompanied by representatives point type on October 29, 1953 this headline, boat, struck an I-beam that had fallen in the road. for 20 acres outside of Raeford, goes to bid. June 7 – The county listens to concerns about wrong statute. The stranger told the stunned man to get out May 3 – Tom Squier gets the Extra Mile award new offices leaving downtown and kills plans July 26 – Johnny Butler, 53, a Vietnam veteran immediately; his car exploded just seconds later. and Ireni Autry is chosen to receive the Kay to build a $2.5 million complex just outside the who is mentally ill, has been missing a year. March 29 – Ground is broken for the Sandhills Thomas award at Volunteer Appreciation Night. city limits. He wandered away from his mother’s home on Community College Hoke Center. May 10 – Mitch Tyler is the schools’ new June 14 – The county’s oldest resident, Nancy Pittman Grove Church Road and has not been April 5 – Commissioners Charlie Daniel superintendent. Ray, dies at age 111. seen or heard from since. and Tony Hunt say the amount of unpaid taxes The News-Journal files a civil suit against The city offers to give the old, dilapidated Aug. 2 – A two-year-old locks himself in is excessive, totaling almost $242,000. the county after the paper is denied access to hotel on Main Street to the county. his parents’ car at their Heritage Village home April 12 – Tax Collector Judy Pittman says public records. June 28 – Hoke’s Emergency Services sets and dies from the heat. This is the first death of the tax collection department is doing its job, May 17 – Kristy McMillan Newton, defeating up a Raeford-Hoke website. that kind in Hoke County. After an investiga- and law restricts her from sending out overdue Raeford attorney Harry Southerland, is named July 5 – A rezoning request allows Federal tion, the parents are charged with involuntary notices until the year is up. The department also the winner in the District Attorney’s race for Express to build a warehouse here. manslaughter. does everything it can to work with delinquent Hoke and Scotland counties. She is the state’s The Five Points world class equestrian park Aug. 9 – Joan Lunden, TV’s “Good Morning taxpayers to avoid foreclosure. youngest DA. receives a $25,000 grant. America” host, skydives at the Raeford Airport. April 19 – Winnie, a boxer-bulldog mix, May 24 – Nature Conservancy buys 245 July 12 – The county declines the city’s gift Aug. 16 – A national drug task force breaks up wins a national hero’s award after she saved two acres off Stubby Oaks Road as a refuge for the of the old Raeford hotel. a drug smuggling ring that operated in Union and neighboring dogs from starvation. Each time she red-cockaded woodpecker, on the endangered A Superior Court judge dismisses The News- Hoke counties. Twenty-five people are arrested. was fed, she took her full food bowl across the list. The land is taken off the taxable list. Journal’s suit against the county charging that the Aug. 23 – Toxins from the closed county land- street and set it down in front of the garage door. May 31 – A petition is being circulated that county denied the newspaper access to public fill are found in county wells nearby. The county Her owner found two starving dogs in the garage. calls for planned county offices to remain in records. The N.C. Press Association lawyer for ignored warnings from the state in the past. April 26 – A new county complex, planned downtown Raeford. The News-Journal had filed the suit under the Aug. 30 – The owners of Open Arms plan 64 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial give a 21-gun salute to a comrade, Johnny Butler, whose remains were found after he went missing for more than a year. Lincoln Graham’s recollections of Bowmore Jan. 24 – John David McAllister is honored by having his name on the recent addition to Hoke (Written using notes provided by Lincoln I remember playing in the old cotton gin up wooden steps. I think it was constructed High. He spent 37 years as an educator and 12 Graham on 6-13-08) building as a child. Most of the machinery that way so that one entrance was for women years on the school board. was still in place, and there was a several and one was for men. Jan. 31 – Almost half of Hoke citizens are I am the fourth child and fourth son stories high building as seed house where Most of the people who lived in Bowmore living below the living income standard. born into a family of five boys and one girl, the seed went after the lint and seed were were kinfolk. I did not know how all were Feb. 7 – John Jordan is Hoke’s Citizen of children of Matthew and Katie McKeithan separated. related but the old folks would always say, the Year. Graham. I was born and grew up in Bow- Of course the gin was not operating when “They are kinfolk.” Raeford Mayor Bob Gentry announced work more, North Carolina during a time when I played there, and I do not know when its Uncle Peter and Aunt Margaret Love on a truck bypass will be constructed to the south and west of the city. many changes were looming on the horizon. operation ceased. My Father used the old were two of the “kinfolk” who lived on what Feb. 14 - Sheriff Jim Davis takes Brittany It was still a farming community but many seed house as a barn after the ginning opera- is now Graham Road. Locklear’s family in for questioning even though were beginning to move to other areas in tions were discontinued. Finally the ginning Uncle Tom McLauchlin always wore they had already been cleared of any involvement search of their niche in life. machinery was dismantled and removed white dress shirts and used an elastic band in the little girl’s 1995 death. There were several stores in Bowmore; from the buildings. That was a sad time. on each arm above his elbow to keep his Feb. 21 – The county mourns the loss of Tom and Minnie Graham McLauchlin I remember the old King Wall House as it sleeves from touching his hands. Uncle L.E. McLaughlin, commissioner since 1990 owned a store, a man named Parks owned was called in the early 1920s. The last family Tom owned a beautiful black horse, which and chairman of the board five times. He died a store at the corner of U.S. 401 and Gibson that I remember that lived there was a Mr. he used to pull his buggy. The harness and of cancer at the age of 78. Road, a Mr. Long operated a store near Robinson. I think my father called him Bud buggy were always clean and well polished. Feb. 28 – Raeford finalizes plans for its cen- where Bill McQuage eventually opened a Robinson. I knew a Johnny Robinson who Uncle John Dunk had a gray mare, tennial celebration to be held in 2005. March 7 – Citing sewer costs, the city puts store further north on U.S. 401, but the store used to come to visit my two older brothers which he used to pull his buggy. He was the brakes on expansion. we identify with most closely is the Buddy along with Mr. Jim McLeod’s oldest son as particular about the care and treatment March 14 – A budget crisis forces county Ellis store and filling station he opened when James. James McLeod used to work for “Old of his horse and buggy as was Uncle Tom. cutbacks. he returned to the area after living in New Man Long” who had a store in Bowmore. One of the stories I heard about Uncle John March 21 - Democrats choose former city York for a while. Mack Evans operated a He operated the store for a very short time. Dunk was that he decided to drive one of councilman Clyde Thomas Jr. to fill the late L.E. small confectionery near his home across Grandpa had a mule that did not pull a his cars, which was usually driven by one of McLaughlin’s commissioner seat, but commis- the street from Bowmore School where he plow as I can remember. He would hook her his boys. Unfortunately, Uncle John Dunk sioners split 2-2 on the nomination. catered mostly to schoolchildren. up to a one-horse wagon, which had seats in had taken one of his nips so the car ended March 28 – Low wealth counties come out on There was a blacksmith shop in Bowmore it, and we would go to the Sandhills to see up in a ditch. A passerby offered to help in top as Judge Howard Manning orders realloca- owned by Uncle Tom McLauchlin. Great Great Grandpa Peter and Great Grandma getting the car back on the road. His com- tion of money to aid students in poor counties. Hoke is the third fastest growing county in Grandpa Richard Graham owned a cotton Hester in this wagon. They would let my ment was “the car got in the ditch by itself the state. gin, which Grandpa Ed Graham probably cousin Thornton Priest and me sit on the so it can get out without help.” (If the story April 4 – A second vote to fill a county board operated for a period after Great Grandpa front bench and hold Old Ella’s reins while is true, I imagine the logic was generated vacancy fails, while Commissioner Charles V. Richard’s death. she took us to the Sandhills and back with by his “nip.”) Daniels’ service station business is boycotted by I remember Grandpa Ed and Grandma only a tug on the reins, which let her know After the farm economy began to decline a group because he did not cast a favorable vote Julia almost as well as if it was yesterday. we were ready to travel. during the 1920s people left Bowmore and for Clyde Thomas Jr. When my mother and father had to go The worst thing about our visit to went to Newport News, Va., and New York Hoke has four tense days as two men go on a someplace where it was not convenient to Grandpa’s was when Uncle Arlington would City looking for work. Many returned, some crime spree and shoot a Scotland County deputy have their children in tow, we were left at hold you and make you listen to his singing remained in the city and other relatives joined multiple times before they surrender. Grandma’s. She always had plenty of good and piano playing. His singing and playing them. After my retirement I came back to April 11 – Linda’s Child Care’s license is suspended after sexual abuse alleged. eats and there was plenty of fruit and nuts was real bad. But all in all, visiting Grandpa the area and made my home in Fayetteville, April 18 – Superior Court Clerk Vera Hol- in season. All were grown on their farm. and Grandma was fun. and rekindled strong social and religious ties lingsworth chooses Cleo Bratcher to fill the late Grandma was very strict about things that After Luke and Charlotte Purcell sepa- to Bowmore groups. L.E. McLaughlin’s county commissioner seat, we were told not to do, but if we behaved rated he moved to a house at the corner of I am now one of the senior members of thus ending a stalemate. properly she would give us anything we 401 and McNeill Farm Rd. He always grew our Graham and McLauchlin families, and April 25 – Charles Robin Byrd is convicted asked for. Grandpa liked to tease and he the best watermelons, and we loved to visit I am sharing these anecdotes related to our of setting fire to Greg Thompson’s house, is would play a little, and most of the time he and have him share his melons. family so that younger family members may given prison time. let Grandma provide the discipline, and if Walls Chapel Church was constructed of know how rich their heritage is. – Grandma’s May 9 – Cleo Bratcher is elected chairman you had not done as you were told she would wood and rested on brick pillars. The church Family, compiled by John C. Kelly Sr., edited of the county board. do a job on you. had two front entrances reached by walking by John C. Kelly Jr. May 16 – McKenzie Hicks and Ashley N. Davis are Hoke High’s valedictorian and salu- tatorian, respectively. May 23 – Raeford begins its 100th birthday to build a new $2 million complex. is expanding and will bring in 70-80 more jobs. Dec. 6 – The bones of Johnny Butler, 52 at celebration with a parade. Sept. 6 – The State Bureau of Investigation Oct. 18 – Alma DeLuca Pecora came to the time of his death, and missing since July a Boats are to be built in the old Unifi building in determines there is no corruption among local the United States from Italy on a ship with her year ago, are found by a hunter just a few yards Raeford, and the company begins moving but… officials as charged by Sheriff Jim Davis. family before her seventh birthday. The mother from Rockfish Road over Thanksgiving. Family May 30 – The school board meets in a The Hoke High stadium is dedicated to former of Coach John Pecora, she celebrates her 100th members are angry at Sheriff Jim Davis because special session to pare its budget at the request schools superintendent Raz Autry. birthday in Raeford. it was a week after the discovery that they were of the county. Sept. 20 - Schools superintendent Mitch Tyler Nov. 1 – David McLeod “Dave” Barrington, notified. June 6 – A state audit shows that federal grants holds public forums to hear what is wrong and Hoke sheriff for 25 years, dies at age 67. He was Dec. 20 – Jones Store in Raeford closes its for FY 1999-2000 budget were misused by the right with the school system. 28 years old when he took the oath in 1962, the doors. county. The money must be returned. Sept. 27 – The Mildouson School near youngest sheriff to be sworn in. Dec. 27 – Firefighters eat smoke on Christmas June 20 – Citizens speak out for more money Dundarrach goes up in flames. The school was Nov. 8 - Burlington Industries’ gift of $20,000 Day as a fire that was burning gift wrapping and for law enforcement. built in the 1920s on land donated by Z.V. Pate. will buy computers for Sandhills Community ribbons goes out of control. June 27 – Caring residents come through for It was named after Carson Chason, Charlie Mc- College’s Hoke Center. little Sammy Sosa and fund artificial eyes for the Dougald and Grover McMillan, who lost their Nov. 22 – The Blue Springs Development toddler, who lost his eyes to malignant tumors. lives in World War I. At the time the building Corp. asks to partner with Hoke County and is July 4 – The county moves forward with 2001 plans to build a new $3.5 million health center burned, it was leased by a church. turned down. Jan. 3 - Western Auto, serving customers for Oct. 4 – Citing air space dangers, commis- Nov. 29 – Two teachers receive minor injuries on West Palmer Street. 64 years, closes its doors. July 11 – Commissioners request an investiga- sioners say “no” to a cellular tower that would when they try to break up a fight among students Jan. 10 – A survey concludes demands on have been 1.3 miles from the Raeford Airport. on the Hoke High campus. Two students are tion into how grant money was spent. schools are increasing. July 18 – County Manager Bernice McPhatter Oct. 11 – Unilever Home and Personal Care charged. Jan. 17 – Marines gave up Christmas leave to The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 65 leads the way in wage increases while E-911 of- government shaken regarding two cases of Bush about Hoke “corruption,” calls for the Person of the Year by the Center for Entrepre- ficers check to see if she misused funds targeted misspent money that had to be returned, com- resignation of McPhatter and county attorney neurship at Methodist College. for E-911 . missioners Charlie Daniels and Bobby Wright Neil Yarborough. Nov. 21 – Burlington Industries files for July 25 – Commissioner James Leach says push for changes. Aug. 29 - Hoke’s regular auditor finds “gaps” Chapter 11 bankruptcy. commissioners – not McPhatter – are to blame for Aug. 15 – Schools get a $125,000 grant to in bank records that prevent him from completing The Five Points horse park gets a $200,000 the county having to return $93,000 plus interest establish a Community Technology Training the county’s audit. grant. in C.O.P.S. grant money. The Governor’s Crime Center Sept. 5 – County Manager Bernice McPhatter Nov. 28 – Tom Squier receives the 2001 Commission says that’s not the case. at West Hoke Middle School. holds her job without a contract to protect her Nancy Susan Williams award for race relations. Aug. 1 – E-911 money was misspent and must Aug. 22 – Commissioners ask for an outside from termination. Dec. 5 – The deal falls through and a boat be returned, an audit says. audit of the county’s finances. Sept. 12 – Hoke reacts with prayer for victims factory moves on to another port instead of Aug. 8 – With residents’ faith in county Sheriff Jim Davis writes President George of the terrorist attack on the twin towers of New relocating in Raeford. York City. Dec. 12 - Congressional state house and senate Sept. 19 – Spirits are lifted with the 17th redistricting plans delay election filing. annual N.C. Turkey Festival. In the second month of investigating allega- Sept. 26 – Volunteers return from helping in tions of embezzling by former county manager the World Trade Center’s catastrophe; firefighters Bernice McPhatter, an SBI probe interferes with collect $30,000. normal business. Oct. 3 – The community loses its oldest Dec. 19 – Shirley Rush, finance director citizen, Johnny McKinnon, who was 109. caught up in the probe of Bernice McPhatter Oct. 10 – Sandhills Community College and on leave with pay, is given a temporary job dedicates Upchurch Hall here, named for Wyatt as assistant transportation director. and Mary Upchurch who donated the land the Dec. 26 – Sheriff candidate Hubert Peterkin campus is on. is cleared of traffic violation charges made by Oct. 17 – County Manager Bernice McPhat- Sheriff Jim Davis. ter quits after being questioned about possible embezzlement. Former health center chief Don Womble is named interim manager, then quits. 2002 Sheriff Jim Davis cites for a traffic violation Jan. 2 - The county wants compensation for his opponent Hubert Peterkin, who used to be the revenue lost when 2,400 acres, known as the his chief deputy. Calloway Tract, is taken off the tax books as a Oct. 24 - Cleo Bratcher, Bernice McPhatter’s nature conservancy. brother, names himself as acting county manager. The county ranks high in Ft. Bragg’s land Oct. 31 - Five young brothers give up their use plan as Hoke applies to the prevention of vacation money to support terrorist attack vic- encroachment on the reservation that would tims’ families. compromise training there. Hoke Drug Co. dates back to 1911 when the McPherson Brothers Drug Co. Nov. 7 – Former schools superintendent Don Jan. 9 – A county audit finds credit card abuse opened in the C.J. Benner Building. In 1912 it was moved to the corner of Main Steed is named interim county manager. by 14 county employees and elected officials. and Elwood, and S.P. McPherson and Frank S. Blue renamed it Hoke Drug Co. Nov. 14 – Wyatt Upchurch is named Business Jan. 16 – Burlington eliminates 400 jobs.

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She was the first Native boundaries. Approximately 21,000 of Hoke’s off children and shoot into a crowd of young serving the Democratic party, helping to start American in the state to gain that office. acres is involved in restrictions. Fort Bragg men in Robbins Heights, killing one. Arrests the Raeford-Hoke Museum, teaching Sunday Dec. 25 – A shakedown of the county jail turns and state Dept. of Commerce authorities hope are made and it turns out the young man who school, working for United Way, and other civic up wine, weapons and other unsafe conditions. legislators will pass the JLUS into law in 2004. died was not the intended victim. involvement projects. Raeford Patrolman Ronnie Morrisey earns The JLUS was just one aspect of a two- Mike Wood is called back to be county July 17 – Hoke’s water supply is in pe due the J. Edgar Hoover Gold Medal. pronged approach to use Hoke land for its own manager. to drought. purposes. In partnership with the military, the Feb. 6 – Both county and city are losers in the July 24 – John G. Balfour, cotton farmer and Nature Conservancy was buying up land that $350,000 tax bill owed by Burlington Industries. former commissioner chair, dies. 2003 restricted development and provided habitats Feb. 13 – The sale of the Calloway Tract as a A Moore County judge removes James Leach, The state Dept. of Commerce and the military for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, nature preserve will eventually cost the county a county commissioner and a candidate for the had hoped to get the Joint Land Use Plan (JLUS) which greatly restricts training at Fort Bragg. $25 million. House, from being the executor of an elderly adopted by the state legislature this past April. Consisting of community leaders and local Feb. 20 – Raeford loses a police officer, and woman’s estate because of alleged misuse of But the plan, drawn up by the Fort Bragg/ volunteers, Hoke Preservation is studying ways the entire county loses a valuable member of the cash and property. Pope Air Force Base Regional Land Use Ad- to improve Hoke’s “no-win” situation to one of Hoke County Rescue Squad when Cliff Stauffer July 31 – James Leach withdraws from the visory Commission, never got to the General “win-win” for both Hoke and Bragg. is killed in a traffic accident. House race. Assembly - in part because of opposition from Both commissioners and Raeford’s city coun- Feb. 27 – State cuts, Medicaid deficits, tax Aug. 7 - Dr. Karen Smith is recognized for both Raeford and Hoke County officials who say cil passed a 17-point resolution outlining local losses are some of the reasons Hoke faces a her work with minority men. Hoke can’t bear to lose more land to restricted concerns and compensation requests that will budget shortfall. The sheriff and the county are at odds over development without compensation. be presented to the Fort Bragg/Pope Air Force March 6 - Once again the community is the repair of patrol cars. Davis says he doesn’t The JLUS calls for a buffer of land near and Base Regional Land Use Advisory Commission devastated by the loss of a valued citizen. Schools trust the county-contracted garage, says they around the borders of Fort Bragg, and most of for their consideration. Superintendent Mitch Tyler dies suddenly. Allen misappropriated funds. A&J Repairs refuses to that acreage is in Hoke. In response, Hoke and McPhatter conviction Strickland is named interim superintendent and return cars until bills are paid and the county pays. Raeford developed their own Hoke Preservation In November, a Cumberland County jury is later given the job permanently. County officials and the state Bar Associa- committee with a plan to stop the JLUS proceed- found former Hoke county manager Bernice The state demands corrective action after tion scrutinizes attorney Harry Southerland’s ings and work with the NCDOC and the military McPhatter guilty of embezzling and forgery and it receives the county audit seven months late handling of county foreclosures. to better serve both agencies. By the end of the uttering of nearly $270,000 of taxpayer money. and chides commissioners for not staying on Aug. 21 – After a 10-month investigation, year, it appeared a compromise could be reached She was sentenced to six to 8.4 years in prison top of things. former county manager Bernice McPhatter that would benefit both the military installations with no chance for probation. March 13 – A $2 million assisted living is indicted; investigators say she embezzled and Hoke citizens. After 10 hours and 25 minutes of deliberation, complex, Open Arms Retirement Center, opens. $269,000 over a nine-year period. The impact the JLUS would have here and the jury entered a unanimous verdict against March 20 – Commissioner Charlie Daniels Aug. 28 – The SBI is investigating allega- efforts by local leaders to look after the interests McPhatter, 47, who also formerly served as and Sheriff Jim Davis spar over the personal tions that ex-county attorney Harry Southerland of Hoke residents is our top story of the year. Hoke’s finance director. She had been indicted use of patrol cars. Months later the sheriff and misappropriated county funds for his own use. The second top story is the trial and conviction by a Hoke County Grand Jury in August 2002. commissioners reach a compromise. Sept. 4 - A press conference called by Sheriff of former county manager Bernice McPhatter District Attorney Kristy M. Newton said Hoke March 20 – Money that would help Sheriff Davis angers Brittany Locklear’s mother, who for embezzling almost $300,000 from Hoke officials gave McPhatter the most powerful Jim Davis establish a drug task force and outfit says he is just using her dead little girl to help taxpayers over a period of seven years. and prestigious position in the county, and she and train it is in limbo until the McPhatter con- get him reelected. Wayne Byrd said the same The choice for third top story is made up of “betrayed” them. troversy is over. a week prior. the problems and proposed solutions for Hoke’s McPhatter, who is serving her time in Central April 3 – Facing a $1 million shortfall, county Sept. 11 – In a delayed primary election, jail coupled with the escape of four prisoners Prison, a maximum security facility in Raleigh, commissioners hope to avoid a tax hike. Hubert Peterkin won the Democrat spot for who were later apprehended. stole from the county by simply writing checks April 10 – An eight-year class action civil Hoke sheriff. He will face Robert Crull as a One of the optimistic occurrences of 2003 out to herself and depositing them in her per- lawsuit initiated by Hoke is won. The state must Republican opponent. includes the furtherance in the courts of the sonal account from 1994 until her resignation give the same education to students in low wealth Vera Hollingsworth, who was the first Leandro vs. North Carolina low wealth educa- in October 2001. During a two-year period, she counties as it does to those in high wealth coun- African-American to be elected clerk of court, tion lawsuit ranking high as a top story, but a deposited more than $370,000 into her own ties. The state appeals. retains her seat. final decision on the state’s appeal has yet to be account - while making between $80,000 and April 17 – The historic McFadyen-McLauch- Sept. 18 – The elections board dismissed handed down. Also at the top are the promises $85,000 in annual salary. The checks she wrote, lin House will be home to a museum for the complaints by Christina Davis-McCoy claiming of Hoke’s participation in the state’s 21st Century signing commissioners’ and the former county history of Raeford and Hoke. election day violations. She appealed to the state, Community program and the stabilization of jobs manager’s name, ranged from $1,000 to $25,000. April 24 – The sheriff “fines” a deputy $1,000 who agreed with the county. at Burlington Industries after the company was McPhatter did not testify during her trial and his method of discipline gets the commission- Sept. 25 – The county, wishing to recover sold and pulled out of bankruptcy. and her attorney, Greg Thompson, presented ers’ attention. Later, the sheriff and the county losses from the alleged embezzlement of former Additionally, inroads were made into stopping no defense. During closing arguments, he said manager butt heads over the same issue. county manager Bernice McPhatter, submits a illegal drug trafficking within Hoke’s borders. evidence showed McPhatter had been “used” May 8 – Burlington Industries is denied a bond claim of almost $270,000. City and county officers worked together on 16 by the county. reduction in taxes by the Board of Equalization Oct. 2 – The city is no longer on the state’s drug raids and arrests including some described More than 35 witnesses - including former and Review. blacklist of sewerage violators. as kingpins. Early in January, Audrey Dean and current commissioners - testified in the trial May 15 – A Rockfish mother and her young Oct. 16 – Timothy Jordan and William McGirt, the owner of Ashley Heights Trucking, that was moved from Hoke because of pre-trial daughter, Angie Darnell and Logan, drown in Barefoot are found guilty of shooting Scotland was sentenced to more than 30 years in federal publicity here. a flood in West Virginia. County Detective Dan Scamperle several times prison following her conviction of running an McPhatter’s resignation on October 11, 2001 May 22 – Controversy continues to dog the while on a crime spree in March 2001. Barefoot, international drug trafficking operation. ended a 20-year career with the county that began sheriff. Chief Mack High accuses him of stalling 38, was sentenced to a minimum of 60 years These happenings are followed closely by when she was hired as a clerk. She resigned on a murder investigation, and Davis says he ques- in prison, and Jordan, 19, to a minimum of 52 stories of loss and gain: the loss of Raeford’s October 11, 2001 after some suspicious commis- tions the integrity of those who first investigated years. Barefoot later escaped from custody and beloved mayor of 13 years, Bob Gentry, to a sioners called for a “full and complete” audit, the Brittany Locklear murder, says he has a new was caught four days later. heart attack in October; the return to her family and one of the checks she had written to herself witness. Oct. 30 - The county orders an equipment from Mexico of Dana Pevia, who was 11 when was uncovered. Sheriff Davis is injured in a wreck on Hwy. audit before a new sheriff takes office. she was taken from her bus stop four years ago; Finance Director Shirley Rush was indicted 401 at the Hoke-Cumberland line, will be out of Nov. 6 – Hubert Peterkin wins over Repub- the activation and deployment to Fort Stewart, in August 2002 for accessory after the fact in work indefinitely. lican Robert Crull. Georgia of some approximately 450 troops of connection with the embezzlement because she May 29 - Attorney Harry Southerland refuses Nov. 20 – The Nature Conservancy buys land, the HHQ Co., 105th Engineer Battalion out of allegedly accepted a check from McPhatter to to pay the county the money he spent for a trip to 88.5 acres northeast of Raeford. Raeford, who are to leave in February in support replace the found check. She is still awaiting a D.C. he made after he was no longer a contracted Nov. 27 – The ladies at Mt. Elim make quilts of Operation Iraqi Freedom; and the resignation trial date on that charge. employee with the county. the old-fashioned way for charity. of Raeford Police Chief Mack High followed In December, McPhatter’s husband, Malcolm June 12 – The new museum opens its doors Dec. 4 - The swearing in of Hubert Peterkin by the appointment of his second in command, McPhatter, asked that she be compensated for to visitors. heralds a “new era” of law enforcement. Kevin Locklear, as police chief. more than $46,000 for annual leave and sick June 19 – Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Peter Dec. 11 – An ice storm drops limbs and trees days. Commissioners unanimously turned down Tycz II dies in a plane crash in Afghanistan. and kills power. Joint Land Use Study At a hearing in April, commissioners voted his request. June 26 – Overall, crime is up in Hoke; violent Dec. 18 – The loss of $500,000 creates a The county has been almost completely The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 67 compensated for the embezzled amount through Jan. 21 – Consultants tell Hoke to build a new in a high wealth or a low wealth county. at an influx of students from military families bonding and insurance. McPhatter was ordered jail as overcrowding and inadequate conditions Aug. 11 – The ABC scores show Hoke schools relocating to Fort Bragg and are attempting to by the court to pay $500 in restitution, repre- will only worsen as the population grows. are progressing. find room for them in the system. senting the amount of the insurance deductible. Jan. 28 – The city fines House of Raeford and Hoke schools will end their year-round That is why The News-Journal has identified Because of the embezzlement claim, county puts the plant under the supervision of the city’s schools; not all were on the program. the needs of the schools as the top story of 2005. insurance rates are expected to increase in July. public works director. Aug. 18 – Burlington’s civilian market suffers Coming in as close seconds are the “ag- Jail problems Feb. 4 – Nature Conservancy buys the rights from foreign competition, and 70 employees gressive building mode” of the county and the Problems with the Hoke County Detention to 689 acres bordering Ft. Bragg. The owners are laid off. renovation of downtown Raeford. Center are carried over into 2004 with a jail study will retain the property but development is Sept. 1 – The Hoke Health Center ground- Responding to pressure from state officials, commission formed by local leaders to “imme- restricted. The goal is to prevent the post from breaking is held. the county hashed out plans to expand the jail at a diately” address concerns about overcrowding encroachment. Sept. 8 – A 13-year-old kidnapped girl is cost of $7 million. The sheriff’s office will move and understaffing. Kiwanis name Tom Squier and Mike Lucas found in South Carolina after an Amber Alert from its cramped quarters behind the courthouse The N.C. Prisoner Legal Services said con- for honors. is issued. The man who kidnapped her, a family to a renovated health center on Central Avenue. ditions at the jail threaten the safety of inmates Feb. 11 – Two new schools at a cost of $19 friend, is charged. Meanwhile, construction of a new $2.8 million and the guards who supervise them. “Inadequate million are needed to keep pace with growth. Hoke’s SAT average slips 34 points in 2004. health center on Palmer Street is underway and staffing, coupled with seriously crowded condi- Feb. 18 – The county is to hire a planner to The Vietnam miniature Moving Wall with expected to be completed in February. County tions, has grave implications beyond the risk of help cope with growth. the names of the dead etched in stone comes commissioners have also made preliminary escapes from or violence within the jail. Jail Feb. 25 - The land use plan that would to Raeford. plans for a new recreation center at $2 million and detention inspection reports show that the provide a buffer against encroachment of Ft. Sept. 22 – A Vietnam veteran leaving after and a new agriculture center that is expected problems and deficiencies we observed during Bragg is shelved; the Pentagon prefers voluntary he volunteered at the Moving Wall on display to cost $4 million. Also in the plans are a new our tour are serious and long-standing,” Michael conservation measures. in Raeford is killed in an accident. The truck animal shelter. S. Hamden, executive director of the NCPL, March 3 - Local National Guardsmen deploy driver who caused the accident is Vietnamese. Main Street is still partially torn up as wrote of the facility that had begun housing to fight in war in Iraq. Sept. 29 – Senator David Weinstein prepares streetscape plans for a new look for downtown female inmates for the first time since the jail March 10 - A second Food Lion opens in a bill that would allow gambling at the annual are underway. After years of efforts to save the opened in 1967. Hoke, this one where cotton fields used to be, Stoneybrook Steeplechase. old and abandoned Raeford Hotel, the six-story Representatives of the state organization where Highways 401 Bypass and 401 Business Oct. 6 – The county gets half a million for historic building fell to the wrecking ball in early toured the local facility in early November fol- meet. new jobs. May and a vacant lot is left in its place. lowing a jailbreak of four inmates on October March 17 – The city approves the first phase of Oct. 13 - Sandhills Community College is Work on the $2.5 million streetscape includes 28, all of whom were subsequently recaptured. a $2 million streetscape for Raeford’s downtown. to expand here. Construction of a $1.5 million new sidewalks, curbs and gutters, landscaping, In the annex, site of the jailbreak, a booth was March 31 – In a low wealth lawsuit, a judge facility is to start this coming summer. the moving of electricity lines, burying of cable supposed to be monitored by a fourth jailer. It orders the state to give Hoke schools money. Oct. 20 – Hoke gets a $1 million grant to aid and TV lines and the resurfacing of streets over remained unmanned during the escape because April 7 – The state says it has no money to in development. The county is a 21st century a nine-month period. of continued understaffing, according to Hoke give to Hoke’s school system immediately. “poster child.” While county officials hope expected growth Sheriff Hubert Peterkin. While it was initially April 14 – Connie Chavis, mother of 5-year- Oct. 27 – The Raeford Post Office is dedicated in Hoke plus new tax valuations will pay for reported the escapees left through a window, in old Brittany Locklear, who was snatched from to the late Mayor Robert “Bob” Gentry. planned county buildings, there are no plans for reality, they had walked through an unlocked her bus stop Jan. 5, 1995, raped and murdered, William Glenn Barefoot, considered danger- new schools. Plans are to add 20 more mobile door. Peterkin blasted commissioners for not goes on the Montell Williams Show and is ous, escapes from custody, is facing 84 years in huts to accommodate the predicted influx. giving him the jailer slots he had asked for. subjected to hypnosis. prison time. Hoke’s school enrollment gains 500 per year, Commissioners have since allocated two more May 5 – John Mims, 81, Bataan Death March Nov. 3 – John K. McNeill III is chosen to be and at least 1,143 students will come to Hoke in jailer positions although Peterkin asked for four. survivor, who was also a POW of the Japanese Raeford’s mayor. the 2010-11 school year. Three of the escapees, Hector Noel Mojarro for four years, treks eight miles at the Death Nov. 10 – After a two-week manhunt, Bare- Jobs come, jobs go Frausto, 23; Christopher Damien Handon, 22; Memorial March in White Sands, New Mexico. foot is captured. In business news of the past year, Clean Burn and Steven Ray Locklear, 20, were apprehended His goal is to bring attention to the soldiers who Nov. 17 – Schools take a second look at the Fuels, LLC announced plans for a $100 million near Atlanta, Georgia and returned to Hoke after fought and died in the Philippines. calendar after teachers protest the end of year- ethanol-gas blending plant at the Hoke Regional more than a week of freedom. May 12 – The county’s jail expansion plan round schools here. Industrial Park on Highway 20 in Dundarrach. A fourth escapee, John Shannon Phillips, 32, will block off Edinborough Ave. Nov. 24 – Downtown development gets a A visit by county officials to one such plant in was apprehended the day after the escape when May 19 – Congressman Robin Hayes seeks to federal grant of $150,000. Illinois quelled fears that the operation would he allegedly attempted to shoplift a pair of shoes have the Raeford Post Office renamed in honor of Dec. 1 - A Hillcrest convenience store’s third be too odiferous for its neighbors. The proposed at a Raeford store. the late Robert “Bob” Gentry, Raeford’s mayor robbery in a year turns deadly, and a 53-year-old plant is expected to initially hire 100 employees. at the time of his death. disabled clerk is fired. The 1,400-acre industrial park was state Stay tuned... May 26 – Hoke planner Linda Revels be- Dec. 15 – McCain Correctional Hospital, This past year saw the beginning of con- certified in February. Owned by the Z.V. Pate comes the first Native American to head the picked from 500 prison hospitals, is named the struction of Hoke Landing, a shopping plaza family, the property is listed in a five-year option Southeastern Economic Development Com- nation’s top prison hospital. east of Raeford. Housing a MiCasita Mexican contract with the county for purchase. mission. Dec. 22 – A county cell phone audit prompts Restaurant, a Domino’s Pizza, a Subway, a On the employment downside, Burlington June 2 – The state Dept. of Public Instruc- changes. Excessive personal use is discovered. Family Dollar store, and a Chinese restaurant, announced layoffs of 200 employees in July, and tion drags its feet on Hoke’s request for an eight The city fines House of Raeford $13,000 the multi-million dollar Hoke Landing shopping Unilever announced in October 50 employees percent supplement for teachers last year. for a spill. The plant shuts down temporarily to center is to be completed on March 3, according would be let go. June 9 – A cockfight raid nets 150 men, avoid the waste from going in Rockfish Creek. to developer Joe Riddle. While some new business construction is women and children on Edinborough Road. Dec. 29 – Arson is suspected when a Christ- The new year also finds the city-owned former underway in the Raeford area, Lafayette Ford June 16 – Turlington Alternative School mas Eve fire razes Z.V. Pate warehouses on St. Bluemont/Raeford Hotel in the same condition closed its doors in January. Long-standing may expand to take in sixth graders, currently Pauls Road. as in 2003, still dilapidated and abandoned with Montrose Motorcross closed in western Hoke, is 7th-12th. both the city and the Downtown Revitalization but the 145-acre Wide Open Motorcross opened June 23 – A mega-site industrial park gets a Commission hoping someone will come along in southern Hoke. $40,000 boost from the Golden LEAF Founda- and renovate it. Bob Murphrey of N.C. Small 2005 House of Raeford’s Central Avenue poultry tion; the money would go toward purchase. Town Development told city councilmen the It took 10 years for Hoke Schools to win a class processing plant shut down for several days, leav- June 30 – Attorney Harry Southerland, a building, constructed in 1926, can and should be action victory in the courts for more financing ing 700 employees temporarily out of work. The member of the Hoke school board, is barred saved. “Renovating the hotel is more financially from the state for education. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture inspectors ordered the from practicing law in North Carolina. advantageous than tearing it down,” he said. The Supreme Court ruling in Leandro vs. closure of the plant because of conditions that July 14 – Unilever closes its aerosol division, North Carolina this year established the right could lead to bacteria contamination. The plant and 80 employees may face layoffs by February. of every child in the state to “the equal oppor- reopened after USDA and HOR worked out a 2004 July 21 – The state says the Raeford sewer tunity to receive a sound basic education.” That corrective action plan. plant needs to clean up its act. ruling underlined the responsibility of the state City officials, whose wastewater treatment Jan. 7 – City manager Mike McNeill retires. Upchurch Elementary becomes the first Hoke to ensure that end. plant problems were contributed to by House Jan. 14 – City and county support four key school to garner a School of Excellence award. Yet, 2005 ends with the students of Hoke of Raeford, they said, is also reporting the plant development projects to enhance economic and July 28 - State Superior Judge Howard Man- seeing few identifiable results from the ruling as as being cooperative. The city has been in com- living conditions here as a part of the 21st Century ning gives the state a two-week deadline to come the needed finances are slow in coming. A short- pliance with state requirements regarding plant Community Program. up with money for low wealth education. age of teachers continues in spite of programs operations for 10 consecutive months. Hoke senior citizen Evelyn Price is the Aug. 4 - The Supreme Court hands Hoke a designed to bring more qualified teachers into the Lumber River Agency Area on Aging Volunteer victory in the education lawsuit, says the state Other news highlights system. In addition, Hoke schools are looking City elections in November found a woman of the Year. must educate students equally, whether they are 68 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial elected to the city council for the first time in bills from the city, said they could not afford the Peterkin’s swearing-in ceremony. still on the table. Tim D’Annunzio, who planned history. Mary Neil King took a seat but another extra costs and they did not want any services School overcrowding to build the facility, left a commissioners’ meet- councilman, Julian H. “Buddy” Blue, died the offered by the city. They particularly wanted to Dr. Freddie Williamson became the first ing in frustration after presenting his request morning he was to be sworn in, leaving the coun- remain in the North Raeford Fire District as it is African-American Hoke schools superintendent for a conditional use for the facility and hearing cil with a vacant seat. Eddie McNeill retained closer to them than the Raeford Fire Department. on July 1. He continued changes made by Don residents complain about additional traffic and his council seat. City officials said by being in the city some Steed, who came out of retirement to serve as noise. Since then, he has taken some commis- John K. McNeill III was elected to the mayoral would save money. However, the annexation will interim superintendent for almost six months. sioners on a tour of such a facility in Colorado seat he had filled since he was appointed a year cost some newly annexed residents, particularly Hoke schools have grown at the rate of 500 in an effort to prove noise is not the problem as after Mayor Bob Gentry died. McNeill defeated those with larger homes, $100 or more per month. students annually for the last three years. A it was presented by residents. two opponents. Many of the city’s new residents are elderly and larger influx of students is expected as plans for D’Annunzio will take his proposed project Although two black female candidates were on fixed incomes and indicated they simply don’t expansion at Fort Bragg/Pope Air Force Base are before the commissioners again. not elected, they believe inroads were made have the money to pay additional taxes. implemented with Hoke serving as a “bedroom” Hoke’s county commissioners approved a by the under-represented African-American The annexation, cited as good urban plan- community. bid to construct the future 152-bed Hoke County community. ning, will bring an estimated annual $176,000 To help meet this need, the year was begun Detention Center. Mandated by state laws that January found Kristy McMillan Newton to the city’s coffers. with 20 additional mobile classrooms added to the current jail does not meet, the facility will beginning her second term as Hoke-Scotland Voting complaints alleviate overcrowding. cost $8.5 million. District 6A district attorney. Later in the year, In the May 2 primary, Democrats incumbent A new elementary school - to be named after Good news Regina McKinney Joe was sworn in to represent Jean Powell and newcomer Ellen McNeill were Steed - is planned on Philippi Church Road on Raeford’s downtown streetscape project Hoke and Scotland counties as the first female voted in as commissioners while a previous com- a 50-acre tract donated by Hoke farmer James was completed after many years of planning, African-American head public defender to be missioner, Tony Hunt, was returned to office. Bill Hendrix. With the approval by Hoke voters in and a celebration walk down a renovated Main appointed in the state. McMillan Newton had Cameron narrowly lost his bid for reelection and November of a $20 million school bond, plans Street took place on a cold day in November. As been the youngest DA. called for and was granted a recount. and designs are underway for a middle school hoped, businesses are beginning to move in. In A week after Hoke-Scotland Chief District After the recount, Cameron conceded defeat near Arabia. addition, 23 acres in the heart of Raeford made Court Judge Warren Pate announced his plans but later protested the distribution of the phony Williamson initiated renewed efforts to put the National Register of Historic Places. This to retire, Joe and Raeford attorney Russell Smith ballots, on the day of the primary, that urged Hoke High on the right track through the forma- encompasses 50 buildings that contribute to the each announced they would seek his bench seat voters to elect designated candidates. The ballots tion of a “dream team” staff at the school. Also historic character of the city. In June, the Tylertown Fire Department were strikingly similar to real ones. this year a new high school, called SandHoke, Still in the works are plans for a 572-acre merged with North Raeford Fire Department Even though the state Election Board’s at- that blends both high school and collegiate tract northwest of Raeford to be the state’s first after almost 36 years of Tylertown operating torney admitted the ballots did not fall under courses, was begun. “community forest.” The Conservation Fund has historically as Hoke County’s only minority election law guidelines, the state election boards Meanwhile, the school board has vowed to offered to sell the undeveloped land to the county volunteer fire department and as the smallest shrugged off Cameron’s complaint. He did not improve test composite scores for students and for $1 million in order to help restore habitats of fire district in the county. appeal but instead sought action against Sheriff ensure they pass a computer skills test required the vanishing long leaf pines. Hubert Peterkin, whose former administrative for graduation. The board approved a turn-around An Earth Day celebration in April opened the assistant, Lissa Jones, said she had made the plan for the high school and hopes to see a 10 first leg of the All-American Trail on the Fort 2006 ballots - 3,500 of them - for the Hoke County percent increase in student scores by mid-year. Bragg perimeter road that borders Hoke. The The top stories of Hoke-Raeford include ac- Civic League under the sheriff’s direction and on The state Department of Public Instruction is seven-mile hiking trail from McCain at King tions that tore at the fabric of the community. Yet county time and with paper paid for by the county. providing a consulting team toward that end. and Plank roads to Raeford Vass Road is the another story involves unified efforts on behalf When the complaint was presented to District A recent study shows that Hoke is at the bot- first leg of a 70-mile course planned through four of educating the children. Attorney Kristy Newton, she dismissed Jones’ tom in inability to pay for education and yet the counties that will someday encircle Fort Bragg. A forced annexation that brought 151 acres and Cameron’s charges as “frivolous” and “un- county ranks high in funding efforts. containing approximately 135 residences into substantiated” and said they were politically In other education advancement plans, Sand- the city limits pitted neighbor against neighbor, motivated. The sample ballots endorsed Peterkin. hills Community College Hoke Center broke 2007 church member against church member and Cameron later endorsed Peterkin’s opponent in ground to add a twin education building at the Jan. 3 – Regina “Gigi” Joe makes history left most residents in the annexed area angry the general election - write-in candidate Troy Hoke Center. The $1.7 million project should be when she is sworn in as district judge for Scotland- and upset. McDuffie, Peterkin’s former chief deputy who completed by the fall 2007 semester. Hoke counties. She is the first African-American Fake ballots that looked too much like the real left to become Red Springs’ police chief. Business, industry woman to serve in that capacity. thing distributed during the May primary may Cameron then took his complaint to the com- Plans are still on track for the $100 million Jan. 10 – The city council voted to fund water have changed the outcome of the election and missioners, who also took no action. Although ethanol plant in the Dundarrach community. system upgrades for the upcoming expansion of left some losing candidates outraged. Jones did not come through with a promised The county bought the land, and Clean Burn Burlington Industries. The water work will cost Meanwhile, Hoke got a new public schools copy of the marked ballot distributed at the Fuels has contracted for the engineering work $1.2 million. superintendent and, under his leadership, efforts polls, a similar one was downloaded from files to begin. The plant promises to bring about 100 Jan. 17 – Ground is broken for the Don Steed to make education advancements and boost test in the sheriff’s office. No person or organization jobs to Hoke. Elementary School on Philippi Church Road. The scores have begun. came forward to claim responsibility for the fake Burlington Industries is planning $7 million new school will accommodate 700 students from Annexation ballots, and Peterkin denied any involvement. in improvements with promises to bring 65 more kindergarten through the fifth grade. While some say the annexation of the Palmer In the primary, Peterkin defeated Charlie jobs to the plant this summer. The city paved Jan. 24 – County commissioners approve Street/College Drive area was long overdue, those Daniels, who chose not to seek reelection as the way by planning water improvements for the largest skydiving wind tunnel in the world in the designated area, still reeling from higher commissioner but ran for sheriff instead. Peterkin that expansion. on Hwy. 401 near the Cumberland County line. taxes imposed by the county and higher water soundly defeated both Daniels and McDuffie A recreational wind tunnel in eastern Hoke is Jan. 31 – Hoke school ABC scores are below and in a show of solidarity, Daniels attended Proudly Serving Raeford Since 1991 •Full Service Gas Station •24 Hour Towing •Minor Mechanic Work DanielS’ Congratulations ServiceHoke & Tradition Since 1960 Service Center County! 113 E. Central Ave. 875-3541 3799 Fayetteville Rd (910) 875-4145 848-0756 131 Harris Ave. • Raeford The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial 69 the state average, disappointing officials. places in the top five in the talent division. She – power lines and plaques. Domestic Violence Rockfish resident 1st Sgt. Keith A. Callahan is sang a country song, “Break It to Me Gently.” The year began with hundreds of area At least two murders in Hoke County last killed in Iraq. The father of three young children, July 4 – David Jackson was suddenly fired as residents angry over Progress Energy’s plan to year were directly related to domestic violence he is remembered as a hero. Parks & Recreation head and is just as swiftly seize private land to construct a 300-foot wide and a third case has gone unsolved. Feb. 7 – SSgt. Ronnie Lee, 26, is killed in ac- rehired after citizens show up at a commission- transmission line across the entire length of the In March, Alan Thomas stabbed his estranged tion in Iraq. He leaves a widow and two daughters. ers’ meeting to plead for his job. county. wife Linda Shaw-Thomas to death at the woman’s Feb. 14 – Commissioners, under court order, July 11 – A young mother of four and one of There was much speculation over the route’s Raeford home. After a brief manhunt, Thomas approve a 500-ft. radio tower near the Raeford her children dies in a collision with an 18-wheeler. final path, with the most outspoken critics say- turned himself in personally to Sheriff Hubert Airport. July 18 – Sixty-three dogs are rescued from ing the power line should have been built across Peterkin. He later received life in prison. Thomas Feb. 21 – Commissioners seek to block a home off Turnpike Road in west Hoke. The uninhabited areas of Fort Bragg north of Raeford. had a history of spousal abuse. Shaw-Thomas Fayetteville from annexing any part of Hoke owners are away. However, Progress Energy, which said the line was the media specialist at Hoke High. County by requesting legislative action to forbid July 25 – Victoriana “Vickie” Summers, was necessary to handle the growing population In April, Cherquito McDonald, 28, was shot such action. Legislators agree. award-winning reporter for The News-Journal of the area, chose a final route south of Raeford and killed outside her job at Burlington Industries Feb. 28 – Cpl. Montrel Shante McArn is the since 1999, is found dead in her home. She died through farmland and private land. in broad daylight right after her shift. The alleged first Hoke High graduate (class of 2003) to die of a massive stroke. Outraged landowners met on several occa- killer was boyfriend Jonathan Deon Melvin, 30, in the war in Iraq. Aug. 1 – The public will get to enjoy nature sions and hired a lawyer to help fight the utility of Alex Baker Road. According to authorities March 7 – Luke McNeill is rewarded with in a 532-acre tract of land set aside for that pur- giant. Survey crews from Progress Energy began Melvin was involved in a domestic dispute with the Order of the Longleaf Pine for documenting pose. The land, which borders Vass Road, will cutting down trees and surveying before the route McDonald at the time. Hoke’s history. be deeded to Hoke County. was approved by the state. Later in the year, Rosemary Wynn was found March 14 – The Children’s Developmental Aug. 8 – The county contemplates building The situation came to a head in August when dead in her home on East Lake Road. Sheriff Center for kids with special needs is threatened a wastewater treatment plant. hundreds of citizens crowded the boardroom at Hubert Peterkin named her husband, the Rev. by funding cuts. Aug. 15 – The Allendale Community Center the county offices to appeal to members of the Sam Wynn, as a person of interest in the case. March 28 – The mother of a West Hoke on Old Wire Road is renamed the Dr. W.A. utilities’ commission for an alternate route that A sworn affidavit by a detective said the Elementary pupil withdraws her daughter from McPhatter Community Center. McPhatter is a wouldn’t affect Hoke’s property owners. After home was filled with blood and that Rose Wynn the school and expresses anger that a warrant pastor and former commissioner. a final meeting in Raleigh, the state’s utilities’ was badly beaten, with black eyes and bruises. was taken out against her and her husband for Aug. 22 – Clean Burn Fuels clears the final commission decided in November to approve Peterkin called the death suspicious. her daughter’s absences. She says her daughter’s hurdle with a $35,000 loan to become an ethanol the project as well as Progress Energy’s route Later, however, the state medical examiner absences were excused and the school made a producing plant. for the line. released his findings to say the death was ac- mistake. The husband, a Golden Knights sky- Aug. 29 – Hoke High’s SAT scores see a As the year ends, landowners are still nego- cidental, clearing Sam Wynn, who’d gone on to diver, has been deployed during the school year. small gain. tiating with utilities’ officials over the price of become the district superintendent for the United April 4 – County commissioners, while com- Sept. 5 – Johnson Hall is dedicated for use the easements across their land. Progress Energy Methodist Church. Sheriff Peterkin refuses to piling a budget for the upcoming year, are told as Sandhills Early College’s classrooms. It is the can take owners to court and start condemnation close the case and took issue with the medical of the need to expand the water supply. latest addition to Sandhills Community College’s proceedings if the citizens refuse to sell. examiner’s findings. April 11 – Giovanni Davis, a Hoke High Hoke campus. A spokesperson from Progress Energy says Local turnover grad who is pursuing a successful acting career, Hoke is placed under water restrictions. the 230-kilovolt power line will help supply the The year brought a new county manager, returned to encourage students to follow their Sept. 12 - The city plans to annex 12 tracts of county’s electrical needs in the years to come. dreams. land in six areas with a total value of $3.4 million city manger and police chief in a shakeup that Not plaque-ated was more complicated than a baseball trade. April 18 – Staff Sgt. Casey Combs, 28, dies in phase two of its annexation plan. In August, the county’s first new school in in combat in Afghanistan. He leaves behind a Sept. 19 – Two school buses collide at the several years opened on Philippi Church Road. Police Chief Mike Dummett was sworn widow and a young son and daughter. intersection of Hwy. 401 and Oakdale Gin Road, However, most of the news articles that followed into office in April, replacing the ousted April 25 – A bus transporting East Hoke leaving 12 students slightly hurt. the opening of the Don Steed Elementary School Kevin Locklear. Dummett moved here from Middle students to school catches fire and burns at Oct. 3 – The N.C. Board of Public Account revolved around Commissioner James Leach’s Salisbury. the intersection of Rockfish and Philippi Church Examiners suspends Jame F. Baker, Hoke’s decision to take down a plaque just before the County Manager Mike Wood resigned roads. The bus driver gets kids off the bus in time auditor, for five years, citing errors, deficiencies school’s official opening. from his post mid-summer, with some saying to prevent injuries. and improperly submitted financial statements. Leach, who serves as chair of the board of he was forced out of his position. However, May 2 –Two centers opened: the Hawkeye Baker says he is working to correct things. commissioners, was displeased with the names Wood said he was merely retiring. Indian Cultural Center on Red Springs Road and Oct. 10 – Hoke schools meet federal read- on the plaque - which honored the board of the law enforcement center that now makes its ing target. Richard Douglas resigned as city manager, commissioners serving at the time the school taking a job in Selma for a higher salary. headquarters in the former health center. Growth and drought are straining the county’s was funded. Leach thought the plaque should May 9 – The Carolina Horse Park Founda- water system. contain the names of current board members Douglas has been replaced on an interim basis tion again requests a tax exemption from the Oct. 17 – Bill Cameron is named Southeast- Tony Hunt and Ellen McNeill. by Wood, who just finished his career across county. State and U.S. governments have already ern Farmer of the Year, chosen from farmers Leach had county public works director Den- the street at the county office. recognized the non-profit status of the world class in 10 states. nis Baxley enter the school and remove the $800 Tim Johnson was hired as the new county park, which encompasses 250 acres. Oct. 24 – Raeford joins the county and the plaque. News leaked and many citizens were manager, unanimously selected by the board May 16 – Regina Sutherland is the new city state in restricting water use. outraged, calling for an investigation. of commissioners with no controversy. attorney. It is the first time a woman has held Nov, 7 – Robbins Heights gets a $850,000 District Attorney Kristy Newton seized the the job. grant to rehab or tear down 18 homes. plaque from the county after Baxley put it in Sgt. Timothy P. Padgett, a Green Beret and Voters nix the land transfer tax that would storage. After a closed meeting, the board of volunteer firefighter with the Rockfish Fire Dept., have gone to fund schools and parks and rec- 2009 education decided not to pursue charges against The announcement that Hoke County may is killed in Afghanistan. reation projects. Leach, provided the plaque was returned to the May 23 – Fayetteville commercial developer Nov. 21 – Former President H. Bush, 83, jumps receive its first hospital dominated news’ head- school system. lines last year, leading to an epic battle between Joseph Riddle III buys 30 acres in Wayside, at in tandem here with a Golden Knights skydiver. After a statement was released by the school the intersection of Wayside Road and Hwy. 401. Nov. 28 - Hoke’s AIDS rate is higher than two health systems that rages on today. board’s attorney, the school system decided to Other big stories in 2009 were increased May 30 – The annual wagon train winds its the state average. allow a plaque honoring each board involved in way through Raeford for the 44 time Dec. 5 – A major shopping center that is crime in Raeford, Walmart’s construction, ap- construction, a total of four plaques in all, to be proval of a regional sewer plant and the grand June 6- A criminal complaint is filed against to contain a Walmart is approved by county placed at each new building. House of Raeford and five former employees commissioners. opening of the county’s new jail. after an undercover animal rights activist from Dec. 12 – World War II veterans tell stories Gas has its ups and downs However, just like in the national headlines, No one could have predicted the spike in gas Mercy for Animals videotaped incidents of abuse. the world is forgetting. health care dominated the headlines in the latter prices in September, after Hurricane Ike struck June 13 – The school board is asked to rename Dec 19 - Progress Energy has plans to put a part of the year. the Gulf Coast. Lines formed at pumps around South Hoke Elementary School to Hawk Eye, 230,000-volt power line through Hoke. In June, FirstHealth announced plans to build Raeford as panic buying set in. Fights were the name it held when the school was founded Dec. 26 – A Parents As Teachers program is a $35 million facility in Hoke County with eight reported and some stations even shut down as as a Native American school in the days of announced to help parents become better. beds and an eight-bed emergency room, imag- they ran out of gas. segregation. ing services and an outpatient operating room. The high gas prices, above three dollars for June 20 – Overall crime is up slightly as the FirstHealth submitted a second certificate of need most of the summer, affected businesses and county grows. The sheriff is given more deputies to build a separate outpatient surgery center on 2008 consumers as many cut spending and changed and jailers in the fiscal year 2007-08 budget. the same site. Two topics drew more attention, prompted their driving habits. However, just as quickly as June 27 – Hoke’s Jenna Walters, a Lumbee A week later, Cape Fear Valley Regional more conversation and stirred up more citizens it came, the price of gas retreated to the lowest Indian who won the Miss Fayetteville title, does Health System announced plans to build a $79 than any others over the last year in Hoke County it’s been since 2004. not take the Miss North Carolina crown but million hospital just over the Cumberland County 70 The News-Journal 2011 Hoke Centennial line that would include 41 inpatient beds, a 16- Raeford during a shift was not enough. • State officials announced McCain prison Although Cape Fear Valley is continuing bed emergency room, operating rooms and an The chief asked for not one but three officers hospital is slated for closure as part of budget cuts. with plans to build an ambulatory care center, obstetrics unit. and three cars to the tune of $207,087.99. • Mike Wood was named city manager after Health Pavilion Hoke, which will be located on The two health systems battled it out at an However, council members, citing the cost, resigning from his post as county manager. the proposed hospital site across from Paraclete August public hearing, with Hoke residents balked at making any decisions, tabling the • A woman was charged and convicted of will- Skyventure, the status of both hospitals remains divided over which plan to support. matter. fully trespassing upon or impeding the progress questionable. In November, the state approved certificates Walmart finally admitted it was building a of a public school bus after she entered the bus Kim Hausen, chief clerk with the state OAH, of need for both plans and FirstHealth announced store here and broke ground on the site in April to remove her eight-year-old daughter. Mindy said that unless one or both companies withdraw their plans to go ahead and build Hoke Regional after an historic house that stood on the plot of Brumfiel claimed the bus was driving recklessly. their appeals, the matter could remain tied up in Hospital on a site near the intersection of US 401 land burned to the ground. • Hoke County officials opened a $2.5 mil- court for three to five years. and South Parker Church Road. Still, it wasn’t until fall that Walmart officials lion recreation facility on NC 211 that became Although officials from both companies say Things went south when the two health admitted the growing construction site was a the new host of recreation sports. that discussions between the two companies have systems filed appeals to the state against their big box store. begun, neither has made a move to withdraw competitor’s plan, potentially tying up construc- Now, workers are putting up walls and the its appeals. tion in the legal system. FirstHealth filed its ap- retailer should be open by June of this year, im- 2010 Hoke County also became home to the east peal first, but claimed to only do so in advance proving Hoke County’s sales tax base. County Hospitals dominated Hoke County headlines coast’s largest ethanol manufacturing plant in of Cape Fear’s appeal and vowed to retract it if commissioners approved the construction of for the second year in a row as two local health 2010. Cape Fear retracted. a $19 million regional sewer plant that would care companies battled to build the county’s Cary-based Clean Burn Fuels built and began With plans to build by 2012 up in the air, bring sewer service to the highest density areas first hospital. operating its facility in Dundarrach, located about the hospital battle could be next year’s big story of the county. In 2010, the state approved plans for three miles southeast of Raeford. Ethanol, which as well. When the plant comes online in 2012, it will FirstHealth of the Carolinas to build an eight- is produced by fermenting and distilling grains, is Crime rose to unprecedented levels in Ra- be able to treat 2.5 million gallons of waste a day, bed, $32 million hospital and Cape Fear Valley blended with gasoline to produce a higher-octane eford and left the police chief asking the city eventually treating up to five million gallons. Health System to build a 41-bed, $92 million fuel that releases fewer harmful emissions into council for help. The plant will be built on Ellis Road near hospital, both off U.S. 401. the environment. A spree of violent crime, including a March Rockfish Creek and will be paid for with a Days before the deadline, FirstHealth is- When operating at full capacity, the $100 kidnapping and rape of a teenage girl at Burger combination of grants and loans. sued a news release publicly asking Cape Fear million facility will produce 60 million gallons King, an April armed robbery at CVS in which Hoke’s new jail is open. The $8.5 million,145- Valley officials to refrain from appealing the of ethanol per year and could expand to produce suspects armed with a machine gun stole narcot- bed facility features electronic locking systems certificate of need decision. Cape Fear Valley as many as 240 million gallons per year. ics at gunpoint, a May armed robbery at Wright and plenty of surveillance, making it more secure officials filed an appeal with the state Office of Only months after beginning operations in Realty and an August armed robbery at the Waffle than the county’s old facility. Administrative hearings just 30 minutes before August, Waccamaw Transport opened its facility House made headlines. Hoke County began housing federal and the October deadline. next to the ethanol plant. Waccamaw Transport Police Chief Mike Dummett met with the city state prisoners, generating nearly $800,000 in FirstHealth countered with its own appeal was the company chosen to haul the denatured council in September to try to get more officers additional revenue which will help the jail pay about 15 minutes later. FirstHealth also appealed ethanol to different cities across the east coast, and equipment. for itself. its own certificate of need decision due to a where it will be blended with gasoline and dis- Armed with stats that claimed violent crime The old jail was remodeled houses minimum- requirement that it give up 30 acute care beds tributed to gas stations. had risen by 74 percent since 2004, Dummett security inmates. from FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in told council members that two officers guarding Other big news stories in 2009 included: Pinehurst.

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Dear school we’re proud of you indeed Sweet memories we’ll retain, A Union School with grades 1-12 For all the long years yet to come The first principal of the school was Reverend T. P. Johnson These treasures shall remain. The second principal was Professor J. C. Bagget, Raeford Grade Our honor to the blue and gold School and Raeford Colored School 1927-1929 Raeford Colored School Grades 1-7 Which colors will never fade, W. T Fairley, principal Our pride for these dear old walls Upchurch 1929 Mr. David P. Scurlock, Principal Where training has been made. 1930-1936 Raeford High School Grades 1-11 1936 Named changed to Upchurch High School 1945 School destroyed by fire; classes held in Oh, Upchurch High! Dear Upchurch High! Rockfish Grove and Silver Grove churches We sing our praises to thee, High School 12th Grade added; Mr. A. S. Gaston, Principal Through all these years you’ve been so dear 1946 Rebuilt facility opened 1951 Mr. George Page, Principal We pledge our loyalty. 1968 Last class graduated; high schools integrated 1920 - 1968 Mr. John D. McAllister, Sr. was the last Upchurch Alumni and Friends principal of Upchurch High School Congratulations to the County of Hoke on its 100th Birthday Commissioner Ellen McNeill Family commitment, church and community involvement are important as I work to make Hoke County a better place to live for all

Four generations Willie and Ellen McNeill 1st row: Candace, Jon, Nick, Lillie Clark, DJ, Marcus; 2nd row: Myra, Ellen, Melissa and Pamela; 3rd row: Willie (5 of the 7 grand- children shown above.) Andrew and Darryl Jr., grandsons, and Naomi, great-granddaughter, not pictured. I firmly believe in community service and giving back. I am a member of the Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, the Hoke County Civic League, the Hoke County Missionary Union, 4-County Community Services Board of Directors, Shaw University Alumni Association, the Upchurch High School Alumni and Friends, the Raeford- Hoke Reading Literacy Council, the Raeford-Hoke Museum, the Raeford-Hoke Chamber of Commerce and other service organizations. I received the North Star Scholarship in the Fall of 1994 and Spring of 1995. During the Hoke County Union’s Shaw University/A.Y. McKinnon Banquet in August of 2008, I gave back the full scholarship amount to Shaw University. Dr Clarence Newsome, President of Shaw University received the $1,000 check. UPCHURCH Class of 1962 HIGH SCHOOL

Mr. G. A. Page, Jr., Upchurch High School Class of 1962 - Miss Emma J. Mims and Miss Anna G. Smith, Advisors Principal Mamie Lee Adams, Charlotte Allbrooks, Maxine Artis,Oscar Lee Baldwin, Ti-Yetta Black, Florence Butler, Den- nis Carpenter, Elizabeth Cherry, Ellen Louise Clark, Willie James Cooper, Erwin Jerome Daniels, Mary Helen Deborah Davis and Armden Davis, Mary Elizabeth Dobbins, Ada Lucille Dupree, Helen Rebecca Farmer, Johnny Farmer, Jr., Morris Farmer, Willie Louis Frierson, Eva Mae Gates, Annie Parthenia Gilchrist, Hazel Frances Gilchrist, Thurman Gilchrist, Moultrie, Mascots Mary Arnetta Graham, Louise Handon, Luvie Elnora Haynes, Marion Hollingsworth, Mary Louise Kershaw, Elvon Killens, Gladys Lloyd, Margaret Lois Mack, Jasper Melvin, George Melvin, Annie Linzie Monroe, Clyde The Upchurch Class of 1962 Moore, Preston Moore, Leerona Morris, Vera Leticia McCollum, Carrie Lee McCrimmon, Thomas McDougald, Winston McGill, Nellie Ann McGrit, Annie Patricia McKinnon, Edith Helen McKinnon, Tim McKoy, John C. is the first known class to McMillan, Leslie Lee McMillan, Cora Lucille McNair, Delois McNair, Theodore McNair, Thomas McNeil, Anglish McPhatter, Jr., Johnnie Mae McPhatter, Arlington McRae, Cleveland McRae, Ella Mae McRae, Gloria hold a reunion July 7, 1973. Montez McRae, Louise McRae, Thomas Parker, Jr., Benjamin Lee Powell, Ella Mae Purcell, Sarah Purcell, Esther Lee Ray, John David Ray, Patricia Ann Readdy, James Willie Roper, Clarence Leverne Ross, Ester Shaw, The Class of 1962 has held Dozier Cecolia Shields, Willie Sinclair, Algie Lee Singletary, Arlane Singletary, Lank Singletary, Shirley Diane Smith, Steven E. Swann, Annie Lee Thomas, Hazel N. Thomas, Louis Thomas, Williard Troy, Bertha Mae reunions in 1973, 1978, White 1982, 1987, 1993, 2004, 2007 and 2010. (The class does not meet the year of the Upchurch Alumni Reunion, which is held every three years.)

Reunion of 1993 Mamie Lou Sanders, Alma Graham, Elizabeth Cherry, Carrie McCrimmon, Annie Thomas, Parthe- nia Gilchrist, Hazel Thomas, Delois McNair; 2nd Row: C. C. Gibbs, Instructor, Willie Sinclair, John McCrimmon, Thomas Parker, Ellen Clark, Johnnie McPhatter, Oscar Baldwin, John C. McMillan, Louis Thomas, F. W. Caldwell, Instructor; 3rd Row: Patricia McKinnon, Winston McGill, James Willie Roper, Marion Hollingsworth, Tim McKoy, Steven Swan

The Eagles The class song in the tune of “He” was written by Parthenia Gilchrist

and Lucille McNair. Members of Class July 5, 2007 Thomas McDougald, Patricia McKinnon, Patricia Readdy, Lank Single- Class flower: White Carnation tary, Ellen Clark, Willard Troy, Mary Helen Davis, Mary Dobbins; 2nd row: Johnny McPhatter, Alma Graham, Parthenia Gilchrist, Ti-Yetta Colors: Navy and Black, Willie Sinclair, Thomas Parker, Mamie Adams; 3rd row: Winston McGill, Annie Thomas, Tim McCoy, Marion Hollingsworth, James Willie powder blue Roper, Algie Singletary, Louis Thomas For The Next 100 Years: A FirstHealth Hospital in Hoke

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