THK NEWS-JOURNAL PAGE 4 GIVE TO Till- IINITKD H!NO RAEFORD. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, l8 Noill J. lu AGENT t.H m Phone 87M709 P. O. Box 124 Raeford, N. C. 28376 Winter Hits Sandhills Area The Sandhills area got taste of winter's approach Monday when wind, snow aitd torrential rains made those who were scheduled for i night appointment wish they didn't have to go. Rain began to fall around 5 p.m. and continued, accompanied by wind, throughout the night. Raeford's snow, some of which fell around day break for early risers to enjoy, was gone by the time it struck the There are 68 countries of the free world that belong to the World Association of Girl Cuides and Girl Scouts. Total membership is 5 12 million. r:iin-soaked ground. Those living in the McCain and Montrose section, however, found a while blanket on their housetops, lawns and automobiles when they started oul for work Tuesday momma. A number of Hoke County people who traveled to Samarcand for the district Community Development Awards Night, Monday, drove through snowfall most of the way home, according to reports. Snowfall before Thanksgiving in this area is a rarity. It is still five weeks before the so-called first day of winter falls on Dec. 21. flB WW Soon Now... It Will B Cold Enough To Enjoy Winter Clothes. Bring Yours In For Professional Dry Cleaning That Keeps Clothes New Looking CHECK YOUR CLOSETS NOW AND BRING US THE COATS, SUITS, SWEATERS, ETC. YOU PLAN TO WEAR SOON CITY CLEANERS WILL MAKE THEM LOOK LIKE NEW AGAIN Phone 875-21 19 122 W. Edinborough Ave. 1 1- l nt a - - I Jir'X luoot: n LOOKS HOOD - AVtv Christmas decorations have been received by the Chamber of Commerce. This scroll was installed this week "just to see how it looks and to determine how high or how low the red and silver ornaments should be hung. The Chamber is sponsoring a drive to raise funds to pay for the decorations. A total of $.1,000 is needed, according to franklin Teal, chairntan. Contributions can be made to any CUC director. Civic clubs are also assisting in raising the funds. '5W WHAT5 ! J WHAT at HOKE HIGH By Gwen Anderson It looks like ole man winter has finally made the scene and he's here to slay. The Raeford Bucks wound up their l8 season Friday night at home against the number one team, the Sanfurd SENIOR CITIZENS "1 ' . V M l r r d Yellow Jackets. Our boys really nuile a supreme effort bul were overcome, ii-b. Vtith the end of our football season, sludenls are anxiously looking ahead to basketball season. Practice has begun to mold the boys into another great winning loam. The III IS Mixed Chorus purticipaled in the Music Festival of Renaissance and Baroque Works al the Univcisily of North Caiohna al Chapel Kill Friday. The chorus sang with approximately fourteen oilier choruses and performed two numbers themselves. Several outstanding choruses sang lor the enjoy men! of the students. The HIIS Band traveled to Chapel Hill Saturday for the Band Day at the Carolina -Virginia game. Most of the activities were rained oul but it was a great day Dr. R.B.Wilkins Former Raeford Physician Dies Dr. Robert Bruce Wilkins. 84, of Durham, who once practiced medicine in Raeford, died at his home Saturday. He interned in Fayeltcvillc, practiced in Frwin and came to Raeford in 191 5, remaining here for several years. He serves as captain in World War II, and later moved to New York where lie specialized in O p t h a I m o I ogy and Otolaryngology. He retired from practice in Durham in t'f5, after more than 50 years of practice. Surviving are his wife, the former Marguerite Mason of Winston-Salem; one son. Dr. R. Mason Wilkins of Durham; one daughter. Miss Marguerite Davis Wilkins of Geneva, Switzerland; one brother, John A. Wilkins of Gastonia; two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Holy of Faison and Miss Bettie Wilkins of Fayeltcvillc. The couple silting next to us was served a mosf unusual, bul appetizing dish. The long table we shared with them and perhaps seventy oilier people was one of several that filled the large Salzburg hall where amateur lyrolcan groups were performing I heir delightful folk music and dances. I was intrigued by the couple's order. Since they were obviously Austrians, I addressed them in my faltering but undaunted German, adding what I assumed to be a Bavarian accent. "What do you call that?" I wanted to know, glancing at the food the waitress had set before them. My question met with blank stares. They weren't hostile, nor indifferent - no, it was obvious they hadn't understood me. Surely my German isn't that had, I asked myself! So I tried again with the same result. Once more, this time pointing to their food, I asked slowly and distinctly and without any attempt at accent. When it was obvious that we slill were not communicating, I smiled an emharasscd smile and turned away. As I did, I heard I lie woman say in the precise, clipped accent of the British: "I think the Gentian gentleman was asking about our food, but I'm not sure." I had been so sure they were Austrian and they were equally certain about me. And we were all wrong. How deceiving appearances can be. How difficult it is to be really suic when we set oul to identify someone on the basis of what we have assumed he would he like. If, for example, you were given the responsibility of surveying your neighborhood in t five-block radius to determine the number of Christians residing there, at first glance it would seem a relatively simple task. You'd simply go door-to-door, asking people if they arc Christians -a little embarassing, perhaps, but not difficult. But, hold on a minute: you were instructed to find out how many are Christians, not how many say they are. That's something quite different and much more difficult. In fact, it's impossible, for how can you really determine who is a Christian and who isn't? If you were checking on tuberculosis, you could give everyone an x-ray. Or if you arc checking on heart disease, an electrocardiogram. Or if poor eyesight, an eye-chart. Hut what tests can you use to determine a person's commitment to Jesus Christ? The writer of I John gives us some guidelines by which we may measure Christian commitment, although these are intended primarily for the evaluation of our own faith. The Nows-Journal NOW OFFERS YOU 5l)DSy(i3? ON NEW OR RENEWED SUBSCRIPTIONS ...If You re 65 Or Over UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS BIG SAVINGS ON I rai.fori). n. c r ALL r ASIllUn r AUIULO : ROBROY FLANNELS: ReflcHensdale Special Price! Refular trie syioo $00 The News - Journal : ( 111 ( KS SOLIDS Reg. 2.99 ,1.99 WOOLENS ( III ( KS 1WF.I l)S SOLIDS Reg. 3.99 NOW 2.88 yd. KETTLECLOTH NFW FXCI I ING PRIMS SOLID 1 OM S SVI Kortrel Polyester 50 Fine Cotton USE YOUR BELK CHARGE CARD 1.99 not that of others. The writer lays down a general principle: God is light and where there is darkness in someone's life there is separation from God. Well, that's all very fine, John, but rather vague and unspecific. Can't we be more precise than that? So John becomes more specific and perhaps we would have preferred dial he had remained vague: First, "...If we walk in the light, we have fellowship with one another". (I John 1 :7) One cannot be close to God and separated from Ins fellow men. Scecondy, a Christian acknowledges his sin and need for God's mercy. (I John I :K-IU). One sure indication of "darkness" in a person's life is his assumption that, because he does this or doesn't do that, he is a "pretty good fellow" in God's sight. Thiid, a C hristian is one who keeps the commandments of Cluisl. Jesus himself said litis (John 14:2.1). Finally, "He who abides in him ought to walk in the same wa he walked". (I John 2:o) There needs lo be some likeness between the way he lived his life and the manner in which we live ours. None of these, John makes clear, depends much upon words: "II we say ... and do not ..." If one wants to be really sure, we will look, not so much to what is said, as to what is done. MEN IN THE SERVICE MKV.WJTKHY II I-: Airman Jerry W . Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. truest Lee of Rl. 2, Lumbcrton has completed basic tiaining at lackland A I B, l ex. He has been assigned to the Air Force Technical Training Center at Shcppard A IB, Tex., for specialized schooling in aircraft maintenance. Airman Lee is a graduate of Orrum (N.C.) High School. Airman William F. French of 204 W. 2.?id St., Lumbcrton, has been graduated with honors at Lowry Al It, Colo., from the training course lor LJ. S. Air force supply inventory specialists. Airman French is being assigned lo Osan AH, Korea, for duty with the Pacific Air Forces. A I ''ot graduate of Lunihcrton High School, he received an as.MH.iatc degree from kings College, Charlotte. Marvin I. His, 21', son ol I liomas I . I His, Walland, lenn., has been piomoted lo Army sergeant, liisl class. He is serving in Vietnam with I lie Phu I am Signal Battalion. Sgt. Fllis is a transmitter repairman in the battalion. His wile, Carolyn, lives al 1 15 W. Donaldson Ave., Raeford. Town Appeals To Residents About Garbage Town residents who wish to have leaf piles removed fiom their lawns are asked to keep them separated from other debris, especially brick and stones, John Caddy, town manager announced. Solid uncrushable substances are damaging to expensive equipment, he ooinled out. It has also been an annual request that people not their leaves in the gutter when they ire likely to wish down in a clutter tn sewer unci. This cm also cause costs to rise In ik. K.nif.tioa w- 14 Oepiflment. Leaves should be piled on the edge of the resident's front liwn until they can be picked up by town employees. I1ICC1 ntiM inuil pile 'here i