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^he ^ S^umal lAl Af^CMTItfN association Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. Subscription Rates In Advance per Year - $4.00 6 Monthe - $2.25 3 Morrthe - $1.25 PAUL DICKSON Editor-Publisher SAM C. MORRIS General Manager JIM TAYLOR Associate Editor MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second-cltss postage paid at Raeford. N. C. Your Award-Winning Community Newepcper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1963 Food For Lion That Name Comes Up Again There is still considerable spec ulation as to whom the Republicans will nominate next year and again the name of Richard M. Nixon has appeared on the scene. General Eisenhower, in a na tionally televised interview last week, indicated that he thought Nixon was the kind of fellow the GOP was looking for, although he said it in different words. He also said that Sen. Barry Gold- water is a mighty popular man, but he wonders if the people who say they’re for him because he is a "conservative" really know what tfiey mean by "conservative." The Democrats should be jubilant that Nixon is again con sidered a front runner for the Republican nomination, although polls show him far less popular than Goldwater. Nixon was a hard man to beat in 1960, but in our opinion would be much easier to whip in 1964, because now he not only is a once-defeated candidate for president, but also lost the bid for governor in his home state. Generally, the electorate doesn’t go with a loser, as witness the political history of Thomas E. Dewey and Adlai Stevenson. Yet there is a good possibility that Nixon will end up with the nomination. We have never con sidered that Goldwater, for all his popularity in the South and in the West, was thoroughly popu lar in the Republican party. Still, he may gain enough popularity to win the nomination between now and tile Republican convention next summer. Governor Rockefeller, who is ,an avowed candidate, prob ably is more popular with the GOP rank and file, but we doubt also that he can muster the strength needed for nomination, largely be cause of the scandal created by his divorce and remarriage. Had those events not occurred, we believe it would have been Rocke feller, and not Goldwater, far out front in the race for the nomina tion. Whoever the Republicans nomi nate, they will be throwing him to the lions, for from where we sit, it looks as if Kennedy will win the election by a margin more substantial than in 1960. True, he has lost favor in the South, which conceivably could go Re publican in 1964, but this loss has been more than offset by gains elsewhere. For one thing, Kennedy has al most solid support among Negroes. He also has tiie bi g city vote, the labor vote, the Catholic vote and the Jewish vote, which in themselves are almost enough to elect a president. Then, too, he has history on his side. It is a historical fact that with rare exceptions a president gains in power after his first term, unless his first four years have been catastrophic, as was the case with Herbert Hoover. We don’t believe Kennedy has made that many mistakes, for all the hustle and bustle about the civil rights issue, and we predict far in advance that he will be the next president of theUnitedStat^. United Fund The Hoke United Fund stands some $1,200 short of its campaign goal and predictions are that when tile total is in, it will still be $800 to $1,000 sh^rt of the $18,- 950 it set out to collect in mid- October. their employes, and this seems to be where the trouble is. As of last week, the commercial divi sion had reported $2,023 toward a goal of $3,623 and was about of public education and we believe This is the second time in the fund’s history that it has failed to meet its campaign goal. For that reason, we n^ to take a look at why it failed. Certainly not because the in dustrial division fell down on the job. Nor the public employes — including largely school teachers and the like. Both these divi sions have surpassed their goals, with the Industrial division alone exceeding its goal by more than $1,000. 70 per cent complete. At that rate, the division will be about $800 short of its goal -- which is about how far short the entire campaign will end up. We have talked to people on the streets and they attribute the fact that the downtown area is short in botii the United Fund and the airport projects to "tight mon ey.’’ We fail to see that the economy is off that much. There is another reason, but we haven’t yet figured out what it is. Three other divisions, however, are dragging tiieir feet. As of last week, professionals and in dividuals had reported only $676 against a goal o f $1,783 and county areas had reported $526 against a goal of $1,392. The latter appeared certain to attain its goal l^ause the sanitorium at McCain was to turn in about $700 to tiiat division. The professional and individual division was es timated 50 per cent complete, which will leave it somewhat short of its goal. That leaves the commercial di vision, which includes the down town business establishments and Presumably if money is tight with the businessman it also is tight with the individual, yet the employes at Raeford Worsted con tributed more than $7,000 to the drive, an average of $5.64 per employe, and a good percentage of the mill’s employes don’t even live in Hoke County. U. S. Rubber averaged over $5 per employe and had 100 per cent participa tion. , Charity begins at home, it is said. It also Is a fact that charity is a problem for the homefolks and we ought to do a little better Job of providing for it. “Boss, Do You Want To See Government Get Ahead Of Private Enterprise?** 100 Years Afo HEi m • .• j Sherman Joins Grant; {Major Battle Planned IS- ‘•-.r-a'v * *|Ma kVMMAKTIQiil I By Jim Taylor Close Chase With A For Newspaper editors through out the land are on a first- name basis with the great and near-great when wrltlr^ head lines. The reason, of course, is that the headline Is a difficult thing to write because space Is restricted and much must be said or Implied with an economy of words.. Thus, today’s President Kennedy is “JFK," Senator Goldwater Is "Barry," Governor Rocke feller Is “Rocky," and Ni kita Khrushchev Is just plain “K." Applying this sort of famili arity to happenings of die past, see how many of the follow ing headlines from history you can Identify. did the editor of a large metro politan newspaper several years ago when he wired Instr uctions to a young corres pondent. An airplane occupied by several distinguished scientists went down somewhere In New foundland and all die major newspapers rushed corres pondents to die scene to write about the search for the ex pedition. Foul weadier set In and the search was delayed. The young correspondent tired of writing mundane accounts of the disaster, so he cabled a colorful lead to his story one day. FDR WINS 3RD GO REDS SLAY NICK ABE ORATES IN PA JH INKS PACT MARTY BOLTS 1940 1918 1863 1776 1517 ROME 1492 - CHRIS LANDS CRAFT 33 - JC GETS X In case you missed one, here are die translations: 1940 - - Roosevelt elected to third term as president 1918 - - Bolshevists murder Czar Nicholas of Russia. 1863 - - Abraham Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address. 1776 - - John Hancock Is first signer of Declaration of Independence. 1517 - - Martin Ludier launches die Protestant Revolu tion. 1492 - - Christopher Colum bus discovers America. 33 • - Jesus Christ Is cruci fied. I don't mean to be sacrlUglous in the last example. Neither "God sat alone on a New foundland mounulntop today," he wired, "and onlyHe knew die fate of the nine downed scient ists." "Forget die scientists," wired the editor, “Get Inter view with God." « • • About die best headlinel ever read appeared in one of the Chicago newspapers a few years back when s Lonely Hearts swindler was sentenced to a long term In die Illinois State Penitentiary at headline reiid: Joliet. The ROMEO GOES TO JOUET • • • Editors are forever getting strange and sometimes amusing letters to the editor. I've re ceived a few In my time. Several years ago I was managing editor of die afternoon NOVLMBER 10-21 PUPPY CREEI^ PHILOSOPHER Philosopher Tries To Decide Whether We Should Go Ahead With Moon Project By Lon K. Savage - General William Tecumseh Sherman, the hard line Federal fighter who had helped win the Vicksburg campaign, came marching Into die area ofphat- tanooga, Tenru, ICX) years ago dlls week to help win a new campaign. His arrival was enough to do that, too. For Sherman came at die head of four crack Fed eral divisions, veterans of Vicksburg. They had come all the way from Memphis and they arrived at a time when their strength spelled the difference between idctory and defeat. Sherman’s men swelled the forces at Chattanooga under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to 60,000. There was the Army of the Cumberland under George H. Thomas, the army that had been beaten at Chlckamauga; there was the army of "Fighting Joe" Hooker which had come a-running from Virginia to Chattanooga; now there was Sherman’s army of the Tennessee. Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg once had nearly 60,000 troops, too, but he had wasted fully a fourth of them. Before Sherman’s arrival, Bragg had sent 15,000 men under James Longstreet to Knoxville to beat down a little Federal Army there. Now, Bragg found himself outnumbered 60,000 to 40,000. other generals, and by next morning, Sherman’s men were on the march for battle. Grant’s plaia were taH follows: he would send Sherman around behind Chattanooga to the east where he could cut off Longstreet and be in a position to strike Bragg’s left at Mis sionary Ridge. Hooker and his Easterners were to strike Bragg’s right at Lookout Mountain. Thomas’ Army of the Cumberland was to hold the center, keeping pres sure against Bragg while Thomas and Hooker advanced. Longstreet Attacks Grant Acts Fast Grant fully realized his ad vantage and hastened to capitalize on It. Sherman re ported to Grant on November 15; Grant immediately explain ed his plans to Sherman and his While Grant’s men moved Into attack formation, Longstreet was busy In his little campaign against Knoxville. Even as Sherman arrived at Chatta nooga, Longstreet arrived at Loudon, Tenn., 90 miles to die north. There he crossed the Holston River and moved on the army of Gen. Ambrose E. Burn side. Grant wired Burnside to "hold Longstreet In check," and Burnside acted accordingly. He withdrew slowly before Long- street’s advance, pulling back towards Knoxville. On November 15, Longstreet caught up with a portion of Burnside’s army at Campbell’s Station, 15 miles soudi of Knox ville, and attacked. Burnside repulsed the attack long enough to get his army back to the city’s defenses.. Longstreet came on. and began a siege of the city. Time was passing - - and that was what Grant wanted. It allowed him to organize one of the great battles of the Civil War. Next week; Lincoln’s Gettys burg Address. paper In Statesville when a young reporter wrote a glowing account of a liquor car chase in Iredell County. He told how the officer chased the car up Highway 117 and he quoted the officer as saying: "We went up die road at 100 miles an hour. I couldn’t gain on the-liquor car and he couldn’t gain on me. Finally, he ran out of gas and I caught him." Several days after the story appeared In the paper, there came a letter to the editor, obviously written by a back woodsman. It said: "Read that piece about the liquor car chase and I know just how that officer felt. "Tve been laid up a spell and hadn’t been fox hunting for mondis until the other night. I took die dogs out and turned them loose, dien I found my self a seat on a stump up on the side of the hllL Pretty soon the dogs jumped a fox and run him up the hollow past me. I got so excited that I jumped up and took out after the fox. "Well, sir, upthehoUowwe went, and It was just like that officer chasing that liquor car. I couldn’t gain on the fox and the fox couldn’t gain on me ... and I was so close to him. If I could of just crooked my finger rd have caught him." Cliff Blue's Tar Heel People & Issues NATIONAL RETARDED CHILDREN'S WIIK DICK PHILLIPS- The ap pointment of James Dickson Phillips, 41, a former Fayette ville and Laurlnburg attqrney h iJban of the University of North Carolina Law School should meet with approval throughout the state. Several years ago when Dick was practicing law In Fayette ville with Terry Sanford and Donald McCoy, the late Superior Court Judge W. A. Leland Mc- Kelthan talked with us about the outstanding ability and the superb manner In which Dick Phillips prepared and presented his cases. We are delighted to see him moving on up In the profession In which he ex cels. COMMUNITY COLLEGE- We have long been an advocate of community colleges and It pleased us greatly last week when the voters of Moore County approved the $1,million bond Issue to establish one In the sandhills by a vote of 4,913 to 710 or almost a 7-to-l ma jority. We have long felt that If North Carolina Is golra to provide education beyond me high school for its boys and girls to die extent diat our youth can really take advantage of It that it will have to be through a system similar to the comprenenslve Community College as outlined by the 1963 Act on Higher Education. The community colleges, operating without dormitories and the trills that go with the senior colleges can provide the first two years of college train ing at about one-third the cost to the state of what it would Dear edltar: A man In town stopped me the odier day and said, “Say, you’re always expressing an opinion, tell me, should theUnited States proceed wldi Its plans to put a man on the moon?" I’ll give you my opinion very frankly. First, as I under- stand It, and 1 don’t mind saying the way I understand some si tuations has no bearing on what the true situations are, here Russia and us were all set for a race to the moon and Russia ups and calls the game off. And as I furdicr understand It, the scientists In charge of the moon project irgue that whedier Russia tries for the moon or not has no bearing on what we do, that getting to die moon Is worth what It’ll cost. Now while I’ve always felt a man shouldn’t rush head-long Into plowing, marrying or on Jupltor for half of that, and so fordi, until we get the cost down to say a measley billion dollars a planet. moon-shooting, that It’s wiser and easier and more comfort able to take your time oneldier task, still I don't know enou^ about the fruits of outer space to say we shouldn't spend 40 billion dollars to explore It. But 1 wu just thlnklqg. Say we spend 40 bUllon and get to the moon but don’t And quite what we were looking for, that the fiin, aa diey say al^t moun tain cllmblqs.wu getting diere, not staying mere. All right. Here we’ve got all dlls money Invested, we might as well try some other planet. The next planet, like next year’s crop, may always look better than the current one. Now naturally the flrst trip, like the Arst model of a new airplane, coeu a lot more than dioae that follow, so we’ll as sume that we can land a man on Venus for half as much, one Well, since man can’t Imagine an end of a lack of an end to space, scientists have esti mated there are countless bil lions of planets In the universe, and maybe some more uni verses outside of this one. But just for the sake of simple arldimedc, say there are a bU llon explorable planets out there waiting for us to put a man on. At one billion doUars a planet, diat’s a blUion-bllllon doUars. I would write die Agures out In numerals, but 1 don’t know how to do It and anyway I doubt If you have enough zeroes In the News-Journal printing plant to swing It. As you can see, my answer to the question, Should we put a man on the moon. Is a clear- cut, emphatic I don’t know. Yours faithfully, J. A. require at die senior four-year Institutions. And, the cost wlU be less than one-third to the parents. Operating under thedUectlon and supervision of the State Board of Education, headed by the able Dallas Her ring, you can rest assured diatquallty educa tion will be oAere^ DR. READY—Dr. I. E.Ready of Raleigh has been named head of the new Deoartment of Com munity Colleges, Technical In stitutes and Industrial Educa tion Centers of die State Board of Education. Dr. Rdfdy who Is one of the top men In education In North Carolina will also continue as head of the Curriculum Study Comission, ^fore coming to Raleigh to work with the State Board of Education some years ago. Dr. Ready, a native of South Carolina, was superin tendent of Roanoke Rapids schools and also held educa tional positions In Charlotte. He Is highly regarded as emi nently quallAed man to direct and assist with the community college program. DALL.\S HERRING- Speak ing of education and educators. we have long regarded Dallas Herring of Rose Hill, who Is chairman of the State Board of Education, as one ofjthe really outstanding men In the educa- ' tional field In the state today. . In speaking, he often quotes from the late Walter Hines Page on subjects dealing with educa tion. Dallas Herring’s speech- ^ es and writings remind us of Page’s efforts In behalf of education In North Carolina 60 years ago. Dallas, who makes his llviiTg operating a casket factory In Rose Hill, would make a fine president for some university or college. But we suspect he can serve his state as a whole better by assisting as a layman and serving as a member of the Board of High er EducaAon and as Chairman of the State Board of Education. UNUSUAL ADVERTISEMENT The Commercial and Industrial Bank of Fayetteville did the un usual a few days ago. To commemorate Its 25th anniver sary it had published as a sup plement to the Fayettvllle Ob server, the October 31, 1938 Issue of the Fayetteville Obser ver Iri Its entirety, which carried the opening advertise ment of the bank. Top news of that Issue was the terror throughout the nation which had been brought about by Orson Wells radio ’’For^ Invasion Broadcast." The broadcast, which caused terror and hysteria, was the talk of the i nation with many Tar Heel people becoming upset The Observer whldi now prints more pages than any other Tar Heel afternoon paper carried eight pages In Its Oct. 31, 1938 edition. STRONG--As Stoator Strong edges farther towards the main stream of GOP politics In North Carolina, speculation Is that he may be planning to wldi- draw from the ministry since he has applied for license as as Insurance agent GUILFORD—Last week Win ston-Salem citizens over- whelminrty approved a $10.5 million bond Issue to finance annexation of 13.7 square miles of suburbia. Moore County voted $4 million for high school and community college bonds. But Guilford turned thumbs down on tl4.5 million forwat^r and sewage bonds. Joe Hunt said following the 1962 election that the Guilford voters were mad. Looks to us like they may still be mad, and maybe rightfully so. They teem to be against more spend ing and Increased taxes, to say the least. AMERICAN EDUCATION 7l WEEK
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