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TOP N.C. TEACHER-Chosen at
the Year", Mrs. Ruby Murchlso
and congratulated by [L-R]
Superintendent, Fayetteville Clt;
Chairman, Board of Education,
N.C. Educal
Teacher ol
IMrs. Ruby Swinson Murch0
ison, has been named
"Teacher of the Year" in
North Carolina. She currently
lives in Fayetteville, N.C.
Mrs. Murchison, 42, a
veteran of 22 years in the
classroom, is a seventh-grade
teacher at Washington Drive
Junior High School in
Fayetteville. She has taught
lancuace arts and snrinl
i studies there for the past 14
years.
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I W.T. Brown, Assistant
y Schools; Dr. C.R. Edwards,
Fayetteville City Schools.
tors Select
the Year
She said that in her early
years she used the ruler a few
times to discipline pupils, but
found that counseling with the
individual and the parents was .
much better.
In accepting the award, she
said, -'This is more than an
individual honor. It is a tribute
to the teaching profession."
Craig Phillips, state superintendent
of public instruction,
described Mrs. Murchison
as "a creative, warm,
capable and competent teacher."
Mrs. Murchison previously
taught at elementary and
secondary schools in Bath,
Lillington, Linden, Fayetteville
and at Western Carolina
University Summer Demonstration
School in Cullowhee.
She received her bachelor's
and master's degrees from
A&T State. University in
Greensboro. The teacher of
the year award program is
sponsored jointly by the state
n l a. _r t a
ucpanmcni ui ruonc instruction
and the Association of
Classroom Teachers.
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Committee Organlz
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by James Smith
Special Correspondent
A committee of concerned
citizens was organized Tuesday
night during the regular
meeting of the East Neighbor
hood Council to check charges
that one of its members was
harassed by members of the
staff at Forsyth Memorial
HospitalMrs.
Mary Sloan Jones told
the council at its meeting that
she went to the hospital
Sunday for treatment and
?atterwards,?she asked sometelephone
in order to call a
community officer to take her
home.
Mrs. Jones said that she left
the emergency room in order
to use the phone and when she
returned, there were several
policemen at the entrance to
the emergency room.
Mrs. Velma Hopkins, president
of the council, said the
?committee was organized in
order to find out how patients
are cared for and treated at
hospital emergency rooms.
In another action, members
of the community listened to
members of the City Planning
Board and a representative
from 5th District Congressman
Steve L. NeaPs office
Rev. Joh
by James Smith
Special Correspondent
The Rev. Sylvester D.
Johnson was consecrated
General Bishop and chairman
of the general board of the
True Vine Pentecostal Holiness
Church last weekend and
the Rev. Jake J. Johnson was
consecrated as its co-bishop.
The ceremonies were held
at a service and dinner in the
Winston-Forsyth-Wake room
at the Holiday Inn North.
Bishop Johnson is the son of
the founder of the church and
Rev. Jake Johnson is the
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barges Ha
explain to them about a
proposed housing plan.
The tentative plan is
entitled Community Development
Project 1. The proposed
plan calls for a 100 acre area
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wnicn wouia oe marked tor
clearing and the construction
of homes.
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The East Neighborhood
Council is one of eight councils
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Political Put
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by James Smith
Special Correspondent
"I feel as though the
American people are ready for
another political party in the
world." .
That statement was made
recently during an interview
with G. Ray Motsinger, a
candidate for president of the
United States.
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ivioisinger is a memoer ot
the American. Party and says
that he. chose that party
because both the democratic
and republican parties have
raped the country. He feels
they have made'the government
become an enemy to the
hson Become
brother to the founder, the
l^te Bishop W.M. Johnson,
who started the church 29
years ago and was its
presiding bishop until his death
in July.
Before his father's death,
Bishop Sylvester Johnson
served as his father's assistant
at Macedonia, which is the
headquarters of the church.
The church is located on
Highway 158 at Kinard Drive.
He is also pastor of St. Hope
Temple in Martinsville, Va.
The local church movement
here also has churches
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irassment
which is set up along political
ward boundaries. Each of
those councils are subsidiaries
of a presidents council which
meets once a month to discuss
the concerns of all neighborhoods.
The presidents council was
approved as a citizens
representation by the Board of
Aldermen in March.
Hopeful Says
tv Needed
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people.
Although the American
Party^ has not endorsed any?
particular candidate, Motsinger
thinks he has a good
chance of winning the
nomination next June when
the American Party has its
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convention in aait Lake City,
Utah. During
the interview, he
. said if elected he would have a
new and different approach to
the present situation. "We are
all of one mind, and the
democrats and republicans
have programmed the American
people to hate. The
majority of the thinking has - See
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s Bishop
Bishop Johnson
throughout the states of North
and South Carolina, Virginia
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