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^he ^yiew^ • ^^umal Qa/ioSiiia PRESS ASSOCIATIOM Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. 2837* Subscription Rates In Advance Ptr Yaor - $4.0Q 6 Months - $2.25 3 Months . $1.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher SAM C. MORRIS General Manager JIM TAYLOR Editor MRS. tJAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second-class postage paid at Raeford, N. C. Your Award-Winning Comrmjnlty Newspaper THURSDAY. APRIL 15, 1965 FEDERAL FUNDS How To Spend The Money Hoke County Schools stand to in herit huge sums of money from the state and federal governments to bolster their building program and provide educational opportunities for students fromJow income fam ilies. The school boa\d, currently faced with perplexVg desegre gation problems, will soon go into the matter of how the\ funds will be spent. We think they ought to wisely consider how our school system will best benefit from the extra money. The county stands to receive some $224,000 in federal funds from the Elementary and Second ary Education Act signed Sunday by E resident Johnson. This .\ct appropriated some $1.3 billion to schools to provide educational op portunities to students from low- income families. Hoke County, which by other yardsticks is an impoverished countx. will qualify for a huge sum because, by fed eral figures, about a third of its students come from families whose Income is less than $2,000 a year. Actually, according to school of ficials, the figureprobably is clos er to 50 per cent, but that is of no concern. Federal guidelines as to how the money may be spent have not been handed down, and the local program will not be formulated until they are. However, when the time comes, the county board of edu cation. with Gibson’s guidance, will establish the plan and submit it for state and f^eral approval. We are told now that the money may be spent for library facili ties; books and other printed mat ter; classroom equipment; shop equipment; teachers in certain fields, and, in approved cases, the construction of classro.oms. It is doubtful, at this point, that $224,000 can be wisely spent to provide these essentials unless the federal guidelines authorize the provision of certain physical com forts the impoverished students need. Certainly, we feel that it ought to authorize the purchase of shoes and other clothing and ought to provide free lunches, and per haps breakfast, for many of the children. The sum of $224,000 will buy a lot of textbooks and equip a lot of classrooms and shops, but the impoverished children will bene fit only indirectly from these im provements. In fact, they will benefit no more than all students, for the equipment would be placed in general use. If the president's program is to have the desired effect of enabling poor children to attend school, it ought to provide some of the things they lack — including clothing and food — which would place them on something like a par with less unfortunate students. The oppor tunity to learn is available to rich and poor alike in our schools. It is the lack of incentive, and phys ical hardships, which thwart the education of our impoverished stu dents. Word from Washington is that this is the first of several doles and we are led to expect that similar appropriations will be made next year and the next. If they are of an amount equal to that we probably will receive this year, the board ofeducation willbe hard put to spend the money un less federal requirements allow us to alleviate the poverty, in a real way, that is the millstone around these students' necks. Of course, that poverty is being attacked from other angles. The federal government already sub sidizes our school lunch program, enabling us to provide free lunches for some students. The Economic Opportunity Act promises to underwrite 100 per cent of the county's $303,663.43 community action program because the per capita income in the county is less than $750. As for the state bond money, of which our share is some $400,000, the board of education ought to take a long look at what is likely to happen to our schools within the next few years before they spend the greater part of the funds to improve schools which may not exist as they are today two or three years from now. T rouble A town employe was seriously stabbed Friday night at a well- known Negro “night club” just north of Ae town limits. Such incidents are not unusual in Hoke County where assault with a dead ly weapon is a common offense, but we think authorities should take a long look at the number which have occurred at this par ticular club during the past 12 months. Sheriff Dave Barrington says die club, operated by George Hol lingsworth, is a “trouble spot." Seldom does a week end pass in which deputies are not sum moned to the club, he said. Last week end, they made three trips diere including that Involving the stabbing. “During the past year there has been one murder at the club, and I don’t know how many serious assaults," Sheriff Barrington said. “There have been shootings, cuttings, and all sorts of affrays in wMch deadly weapons were used." We would assume from the rec ord of violence compiled at the club that it is rather loosely supervised. Hollingsworth, who is listed in police files as a “known bootlegger," has been con victed of bootlegging four times.in the past two years. Each time, he escaped with a suspended sen tence and fine. Perhaps it Is time the grand jury investigated the place. It has the authority to close it, if that action appears to be In die best Interest of the community. ‘TouVe Really Rolling Up Quite A Record** Week’s Summary Of Legislature By Jim Taylor What Color Is Her Hair? There Is an adage which says •‘gentlemen prefer blondes." Now comes scientific evidence which Indicates they are per haps wise in their choice. "The dark-haired American girl of today Is less passionate and far more cold-blooded and calculating than herfalr-halred counterpart." states an article In the May Issue of a popular magazine. * - But the article goes on to assert -- with those cold bru- nene statistics from Blue Cross. Phi Beta Kappa and others — diatdark-haired girls are healthier, smarter, better drivers, more successful in business, have better figures and more children. Moreover, most of them catch the man of their choice. But with all this array of virtue, says the article, diere’s still one warning for boys who marry brunettes. It comes from a well-known criminolo gist who has made a survey of murderesses. Look out for those dark- haired gals if you cross them! A blonde may blow her stack If you’re cheating, but the bru nette probably will slit your throat. Oh. well. Who can tell the blondes from the brunettes these days? • * * Personally. I don't put much stock In such statistics. For Instance, redheads are sup posed to be easily angered, but I have never known one with a violent temper. In fact, several redheads of my acquaintance are among the most docile people I know. I have oftenwondered, diough, why redheaded people resent being called ‘‘Red." while blond men seldom balk at being called "Whltey.” And have you ever heard a dark-haired man object to being called "Blacky?" I know that most people who are short In stature detest being called "Shorty" and other people with abnormal physical characteristics resent refer ences to their abnormality. Rotund people don’t like to be called "Fatty" and people on the slim side don’t appreciate "Skinny,” or "Slim." And abnormally tall people surely must get tired of people asking "How’s the weather up diere?’ I read about one such fellow who made It a practice, at cock tail parties, of dumping his drink in the Inquirer’s face and replying, "Raining." Several years ago diere was a piece In one of the maga zines about Wilson Mlzner, who was an Incurable gambler who’d bet on anything. One day he and some of his cronies were taking In the sights at Atlantic City when they no ticed a huge pair of feet stick ing out of a window, as if the owner were Inclining Inside the house. Immediately they began to wager huge sums on how tall the owner of the feet was. Guesses ranged up to slx-feet- seven. Mlzner, on the other hand, guessed four-feet-flve. They went Inside the building and woke the man up. Mlzner won the bet. for the man mea sured far less than five feet In height. In truth, hewas amldgetMlz- ner had installed In the apart ment house for the sole purpose of fleecing his pals. This was the same Mlzner who went to Alaska during the gold boom and made and lost several fortunes. One of his first ventures, as I recall, Involved buying the first stateside newspaper as It arrived by ship and hurrying into town, there to assemble prospectors at 50 cents a head to read the news to them. Mlzner eventually got a job as a weigher of gold dust In an Alaskan barrom and he Is said to have devised several Ingeni ous means of steallr^ the gold. First, he let his fingernails grow long, and every night he’d clean several dollars wordi of dust from under tfiem. Then he plastered his hair with g reese. and by rubbing his hands through his hair while handling the gold dust, he would accumu late enough to provide a lucra tive shampoo. Mlzner has a small rug, though, which was suj^osed to have yielded several Aousand worth of spilled gold dust when he washed It. The tale was rafter far fetched, because at the going rate of $36 an ounce, the rug would have had to contain rough ly a hundred pounds to have made Mlzner as wealthy as the magazine article cUimed. CAMILLA, GA., ENTER PRISE: “It may just be the seasons—but It certainly does not Indicate a healthy climate for free political action on fte part of fte people. When force Is substituted for reason, we have a dictatorship. The first act of all dlcutorlal govern ment Is to seize fte news media and jail all opposing thinkers. Mr. Castro has clesrly demon strated the technique for fte zllllonft time in this century for all to witness." (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the ninth of a strles of weak ly summarlea prepared by the legislative staff of the Inetttute of Government on the work of the North Carolina General As- aembly of 1069. It la confined to discussions of matters of general interest and major Im portance. Early blrda abounded last week In the hutehouse as well as In nature's wonderlands garbed with spring. On Tues day a vital stage In the budget process was reached a week or so earlier than usual, when Chairmen White and ZoUlcoffer announced the membership of the Joint Appropriations Sub committee. And on Thursday the second annual N. C. State name change fracas was con cluded more than one full month ahead of the 1963 tlmeable. With few sharp controversies onstage or in the wings, with talk of a firm May 1 local bill deadline, and with little prospect of major tax legis lation to complicate budgeteer- Ing, It begins to appear that there may be some hope for adjournment in time for this year's commencement season. Last Wednesday evening, le gislators and state officials were treated to a lively round of clogging at the annual fish- fry sponsored by the State Em ployees' Association. APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE: Although SanU's knee Is getting a bit crowded, a few more hopefuls clambslged aboard last week (and surely there are more to come) hop ing to find their stockings filled when the ai^roprlations com mittees open their bag later in the session. Requests includ ed: $27,527 for development of Pettigrew state Park par tially as an historic site and partly for recreation; $32,500 to C & D for a forest fire con trol airplane for the Rocking ham District; $205,000 tor a library addition to Elizabeth City State College; $550,000 for land acquisition at Wes tern Carolina College; $6,000 to restore Fort Butler in Chero kee County; and a Beaufort County request tor $2,675.22 In gasoline tax refunds lost due to tardy filing. The Assembly's earlier ac tion In raising its own subslk- tence allowance seems to have prompted a gold rush. Off tor the Klondike this week are the General Assembly's employes (SB 190), the trustees of the State Library (SB 208), and the Dare Couety oomnUalORer* and board of educatloo (HB 455 and 466). Tha last three noted bills would peg aubsla- * tence allowances to the levels prescribed tor state boards and commissions. On tbs tax tldt, tbs wtek's tsks netted three new bills — ons to authorize tales tax re funds to sanitary districts (HB 418); another, to revise the Inheritance tax laws affecting life ineurance proceeds (HB 467); and • third to enlarge the list of oleomargarine Ingre- dlente not subject to the 10 cent per pound oleo tax (SB 211). Action on tax measures included an unfavorable report meted out by the Senate Fi nance Committee to the bill to allow taxpayers to credit over payments of estimated income ^ taxes against the following year's payments (SB 101). MANUFACTURERS AND LA BOR: H. B. 100, Representative Henry Hill's bill to raise the state minimum wage from 85 I cents to $1 per hour, sailed through the House Thursday on a voice vote after encounter ing only scattered opposi tion and Friday cleared the Senate with equal ease. In 1959 North Carolina be came the first Southern state to adopt a minimum wage law, and the act has been expanded by each succeedlngGeneral As sembly. At present 33 other states have such laws, 21 of which provide tor rates of $1 per hour or more. In some of these jurisdictions, such as Alaska and New Jersey, the state act calls tor a higher wage than the $1.25 an hour guaran teed by federal law tor em ployes engaged in or produc ing goods for interstate com merce. INDIAN TERRITORY: Indian affairs, of little con cern to most Eastern states, commanded unusual attention this week. On Tuesday a dele gation of the Eastern Band of Cherokees appeared before a joint meeting of the wildlife committees, on the warpath against the Wildlife Resources Commission which seems to be asserting unwelcome jurisdic tion over the hunting grounds. Their proposed bill. Introduced earlier this session (SB 39), would vest jurisdiction over reservation hunting and fishing regulations in the federal gov ernment. 100 YEARS AGO Lee’s Line Breaks; Richmond Is Taken PUPPY CREEK PHILOSOPHER Philospoher Finds World Geography Is Out Of Hand And Getting Worse WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH OUR STAND ON THIS, OR ANY OTHER ISSUE, WE INVITE YOU TO WRITE A LETTER •TO THE EDITOR. Dear editar: I was talking with a man In town who keeps up with such things as Geography and the Im pending crisis in foreign count ries, listening to him explain just what fte situation In Viet Nam Is, what North Viet Nam has done, what South Viet Nam has done, what our foreign policy there Is and what it ought to be, etc,I and to tell you the truth I was getting Dored to death, so I broke In on fte flow. "Say," I said, "I see that Upper Volta Is still on our side." "'Vhat’re you talking about?" he asked. ".Xothlng. especially. It’s just good to know that Upper Volta Is still on our side.” "Upper Volta? What’s that?" I knew I had him, but 1 didn’t press ft/ point, and came on home an» hunted up fte news paper I’d read the name In, to make sure 1 hadn't Imagined It. It’s true. There Is a country named Upper Volta, and Its president, Maurice Yameogo, has just made a visit to Wash ington and been given the full red carpet treatment, with a 21-gun salute and a parade. Now I haven’t taken a survey, but I’ll bet a subscription to The N'ew’s-Journal against a subscription to the New York Times that until Mr. Yameogo showed up in Washington and got his name In the papers and on television, there weren’t 100 people In the United States, In cluding teachers, professors, editors, politicians and owners of encyclopedias, who’d ever heard of Upper Volta. What this proves Is that re gardless of how well posted a man Is on world affairs, he can’t know' It all, there has to be a good part of the world he’s Ignorant of. In fact I doubt If there are a dozen people In the world who can sit down right now without any preparation and name all the countries on earth, and even among those who can It’s about like memorizing the names of all fte counties In the 50 states In the U. S. and knowing some thing about the Internal politics of each. Where geography got out of control was when we didn’t stop -with 13 colonies, and here we a re about to take on outer space. Yours faithfully. J. A. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia -- fte ftin, gray line ftat was fte last hope of fte Confederacy — was broken wide openlOOyears ago this month, never to M put back togefter again. And when It broke, all that ftat fte Confederacy had dread ed came to pass in swift suc cession: Petersburg, fte last Confederate stronghold, fell to Ulysses S. Grant’s assailants: Richmond, the capital of fte Confederacy, surrendered; and Lee’s army reeled off in a stumblim march to the west as the fabric of the Confederacy unraveled. The break came in a one- two-three attack by Grant’s 120,000-m8n army In fte clos ing days of March and the first days of April. Both presidents "Jefferson Davis In Richmond Abraham Lincoln at City Point just behind Grant’s lines —and a long roster of famous generals like Pickett, Long- street, Meade and Sheridan were on hand for the kill. Phil Sheridan with 13,000 cavalrymen opened the first part of the final Federal as sault March 29 by wheeling be hind Grant’s lines at Peters burg to the southwest, turning and plunging Into Lee’s right flank toward Dinwiddle Court House. Lee fought like a tiger to the last. He sent George Pic kett -- the man who had led the famous charge at Gettys burg " with 15,000 men to stop Sheridan’s assault, leav ing the rest of fte Southern line dangerously weak. Sheridan and Picket tangled March 30 and 31 in fte rain, and Lee’s gamble began to pay off. Pickett stopped Sheridan, then began driving him back. But the odds were too great. A full corps re-enforced Sheri dan, who renewed his assult next day. galloping downhls line on his black horse, waving his hat In a manner ftat had made him famous. The men In blue went forward Into the Battle of Five Forks, ripping Pickett's defenses to pieces. Suddenly Pickett’s line was gone, 2,500 men having fallen In battle and another 4,500 gone as prisoners of war. That was just the beginning. Grant knew Lee had weakened fte rest of his line to stop Sheridan, and now he. Grant, ordered his full army— fte whole mass of men ftat had been waiting for this day for nearly a year — to sweep forward. And forward they went all along the Petersburg line in the second part of the assault. The Confederates fought tooth and nail, but ftey were over whelmed. First, fte Federals broke ftrough at a single point; then ftey broke ftrough at another point, and then at an- ofter and another and another. Then they linked up, and fte whole Petersburg Unehad caved in. It was Sunday, April 2, and Jefferson Davis was In church in Richmond, when a m^senger arrived with word of the disaster. Davis hurried from fte church and that same after noon left Richmond with his cabinet and fte national archives on a special train for Danville, Va, That afternoon. General Ju- bal Early’s ragged arhiy marched through fte city to the west, and the word spread. Residents closed their doors and hurried from fte city, bund les atop their heads. Smiling but bewildered Negroes came out onto the streets. Confe derates set fire to factories to keep out the Federal hands, and the fire got out of hand; ftat night, the fire swept ftrough the city destroying nearly half of it. Beggars and bums and under world characters appeared, as ftey always do in disaster, and looting began. Liquor was found and all that ni^t riots and robbery continued, Illuminated by the flames that ravaged the city. Confederate Gen. Godfrey Weltzel surrendered the city to fte Federals next day, and President Lincoln came In to see the place that he had been trying to capture these past four years. He visited Davis’ home, sat in Davis’ chair, and the North went wild with vic tory. But Grant and Lee were not there. Lee stayed with his army, heading off to fte west In hopes of getting provisions with which to keep the fight going. Grant was heading west too, hard on Lee’s heels. Next week: War Ends.
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