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From The
POLICE
BLOTTER
Police discovered evidence
of a break-m at Prince's
Seafood Market on South Main
Street early Wednesday
morning.
Officers found that a rear
window of the building had
been broken and $145 in cash
had been stolen. Also missing
was a small pistol which had
been taken from the store.
According to Chief L. W.
Stanton the case is still under
investigation.
According to the Raeford
Police Dept., two unidentified
children have been vandalizing
vacant houses in Robbins
Heights and on East 6th Street.
In addition to this
destruction of private
property, local youths have
been destroying stop signs and
street markers at an
unprecedented late.
Chief Stanton has
announced that when these
vandals are apprehended their
parents will be held responsible
and prosecuted.
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NEW YORK In real terms,
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liability insurame actually has
declined, the Insurance Infor
mation Institute reports. Based
on the median national family
iiuonie in eath of the respective
years, the cost was equal to l.SH
per cent cjf annual income in
1947 and to 103 per cent of
annual intome in l7.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 20. 19
MM. SCOUTS - Cirl Seoul day last Saturday was a big succe ss, according to leaden. It began at 10:30 a.m. with I parade down
Main Street. Jlie parade was for girls, but this little boy either had a girl friend or a sister in the line-up and he kept pace from
beginning to end.
First Transcontinental Railroad
Set Off Nationwide Celebration
'The last rail is laid, the last
spike driven," a telegraph key
clicked. 'The Pacific railroad n
completed."
The news from Promontory,
Utah, on May 10, 1869,
thrilled the Nation. Bells rang
in Washington, D. C. A
magnetic ball dropped from I
pole atop the Capitol dome. A
four-mile-long parade wound
through Chicago. "San
Francisco annexes the United
States!'" California boasted.
From coast to coast, cannon
Tire hailed the linking of two
rail lines at Promontory-one
from the Missouri River and
the other from Sacramento,
California. The first
transcontinental railroad was
complete.
Legislation signed by
President Abraham Lincoln on
July 1, 1862, authorized the
Union Pacific Railroad
Company to build westward
from the Missouri and the
Central Pacific eastward from
Sacramento, the National
Geographic Society says.
The companies faced
identical problems: Too few
laborers and too many Indians.
Both lines filled the labor
shortage in colorful fashion.
Union Pacific hired Irish
immigrants, ex-convicts, and
war veterans. Central Pacific
imported pig-tailed Chinese
from Canton. Criticized for
using such puny-looking
workmen, construction boss
Charles Crocker retorted,
"They built the Great Wall of
China, didn't they?"
Hostile Indians posed a more
delicate difficulty.
Central Pacific found an
ingenious solution. Collis P.
Huntington, one of the
company's "Big Four," later
explained:
"We gave the old chiefs a
pass each, good on the
passenger cars, and we told our
men to let the common Indians
ride on the freight cars
whenever they saw fit."
Union Pacific's tactics
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proved less successful. As
General William T. Sherman
recalled, the crews futilely
tried to distribute "enough
whisky to kill all the Indians
within 300 miles."
After feverish work across
Sierra granite and Nevada flats,
the two lines met in western
Utah in early 1869. Neither
admitted it. Anxious for
government land and loans that
accrued with each mile laid,
the crews kept construct-ing-right
past each other for
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HOKE HIGH
By Debbie Anderson
This week is the beginning
of many of the spring sports at
H.H.S.
The Hoke High baseball
team started a new season, but
their first game against Massey
Hill was cancelled because of
the weather. The Bucks
traveled to Rockingham,
Friday to bat against the
Rockets. The Rockets stole
past the Bucks 4-2.
The track team traveled to
St. Andrews for their first meet
against the Launnburg Fighting
Scots. The Scots came out on
top but the Bucks returned
home with 8 first places, 2
second places, and 3 third
places. The first home meet
will be Thursday as the Bucks
play host to the Hamlet Red
Rams and the Lumberton
Pirates.
The Hoke High Chorale
under the direction of Mrs.
Neill A. McNeill, performed
Sunday night at the Brownson
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Rival crews traded pot shots,
rolled boulders at each other,
and blasted opposing grades.
Then Congress intervened. ,
The companies finally
agreed to meet at the shack
town of Promontory. The
ceremony, a historian reported
was a "scene of low comedy"
where "oratory and whisky
flowed in about equal
amounts."
A raucous audience of
crewmen and spectators
Memorial Presbyterian Church
in Southern Pines. The Chorale
along with the Raeford Boy's
Choir presented a sacred
concert.
Some members of the
EKOH annual staff
accompanied by Mrs. Al
Bruketa and Mr. Jerry
Thompson went to
Winston-Salem Tuesday, to
watch the publishing
procedures of a yearbook. This
will help the annual staff to
understand all the work that
goes into publishing a
yearbook.
Be sure to go out to the
Hoke High Gym, Friday night
at 7:30 for the Beta Club
Talent Show. Admission is:
Adults $.75; Students S.S0;
and Freshmen $.25.
Hurricane Tragedies
NEW YORK Eighteen
Americans lent their lives in
hurricanes in 1967, the Insur
ance Information Institute re
ports. Hurricanes have killed
more than 5.000 persons in ihe
last 50 years, including 1,836 in
1928, the worst year on record.
Teen-Age Thievery
NEW YORK Two out of
every three persons arrested for
car theft are under 18 years of
age, the Insurance Information
Institute reports. Although
many teen-agers are said to steal
cars for joy-rides, almost a third
of all recovered cars have been
stripped and badly damaged.
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greeted the customary
speeches. Then i golden
spike-now enshrined at
Stanford University-was
inserted into a hole punched in
a tie of California laurel.
Central Pacific'a Leland
Stanford iwung a silver sledge
at the spike-and missed.
The rowdy mob roared with
rude laughter.
Union Pacific's Thomas C.
Durant took his turn at the
sledge- and missed. Jhe
heckling grew louder.
More experienced hands
finally drove the spike into
place. As everyone cheered, the
Union Pacific's Pullman No.
119 and Central Pacific's
Jupiter touched cowcatchers
over the spike, uniting the
coasts.
From The
SHERIFF'S
BLOTTER
James L. McRae of Rt. I
Shannon has been charged with
a felony in the unlawful
burning of a tenant house
belonging to Alfred K. Leach.
According to the Sheriffs
department, McRae was in a
drunken state Satutday whin
he decided to burn some trash
inside the dwelling.
When he had finished
burning the trash it is alleged
that McRae decided to put the
building itself to the torch.
Insofar as it can be
determined at this lime, McRae
was alone in his efforts.
In connection with another
incident which was reported
Saturday night, Bennie Bandy
was charged with unlawfully
assaulting his wife, Janie
Bandy.
According to Sheriff Dave
Barrington, Raymond
Simmons of Rt. 1 Raeford
claimed that he shot himself in
the jawbone early Sunday
afternoon at his home.
When sheriffs deputies were
summoned to the scene,
Simmons explained that he and
some "friends" had been
scuffling with a loaded 38
revolver when the weapon fell
to the floor and went off.
mysteriously wounding him in
the cheek. The incident was
the result of a "playful"
quarrel.
The bullet lodged at the
back of Simmons' jawbone on
the nghthand side and had to
be removed. He was not
hospitalized for the injury
however.
No charges have been made
in connection with the mishap.
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NEW YORK Salety enRi
neers of the American Insurance
Association check the fire de
fenses of more than I. OOO cities
ever)' year, the Insurance Infor
mation Institute says. To make
cities saler. these insurance en
gineers observe me departments
in action, examine their equip
ment and city water supplies,
and check for fire hazards in
built-up areas.
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"Most of us die of
something;" L. P. Jacks has
written, "of disease, accident,
old age. But occasionally there
appears in our midst a man
who resolves to die for
something ... "(UP. Jacks.
The Inner Sentinal, Harper &
Bros., 1930).
Such a man was Jesus of
Nazareth. He did not die of
something so much as he died
for something. His death, tn gic
as it was, was not a tragedy,
but a triumph.
Still, we ask, why did Jesus
have to die?
Was it because he wanted to
die? Was it because God
desired his death? Was he
simply the helpless victim of a
terrible fate that overtook
him? These are important
questions , for how we answer
them tells us much about the
meaning of his death for us and
the significance of the cross for
our own lives.
A look into the garden of
Gethsemane on the night in
which he was betrayed may
give us some clue to these
dilemmas. We do not have to
guess what went through his
mind that night. Mark tells us
that he "began to be greatly
distressed and troubled.
(Mark 14:33) This may
surprise us for we may have
difficulty in envisioning that
Jesus could feel pain as we do,
could be troubled as we are,
could know the same inner
anguish that we know. Mark,
however, tells us plainly of his
struggle in Gethsemane and
records for us these revealing
words: "My heart is ready to
break with grief ; stop here and
stay awake" (Mark 14:34 -New
English Bible).
Why should Jesus feel his
heart filled with "grief?" These
mav have been some of the
troubling thoughts that
disturbed him that night: My
mission is at an end and yet so
much to do ...
My disciples seem to
understand so little myself and
my mission ....
One of my dearest friends
will betray me this night ....
Before me - the disgrace and
pain of the cross ..
Will this really fulfill the
mission for which I came?
Perhaps you can think of
others?
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Obviously, Jesus did not
seek death. There was in him
the same will to live common
to all of us. He did not seek
death any more than we
would. Yet, he knew how
closely death hovered over him
and how little time he had with
which to choose to either face
it or flee.
Jesus reached out to two
kinds of fellowship on that
crucial evening:
"And he took with him,
Peter and James and John ..."
"And he said to them, 'My
soul is very sorrowful ... remain
here and watch." '
Jesus, the most self .
sufficient man who ever lived,
reached out to human
fellowship that night. He faced
the terrible hour with his
friends, not asking them for
advice, but for their presence
in his time of need. Often it is
this same kind of human
fellowship that we are
challenged to give. We are not
asked to say something so
much as to be something, to
"stand by" with someone
when they need us.
He sought another
fellowship as well: "He fell on
the ground and prayed
"Abba, Father' ... Even in
these moments he could still
address God as "Father." No
matter how grim was the hour
before him, Jesus knew he
remained in the Father's hands.
From the fellowship of that
night there came the
reaffirmation of his
commitment to his mission: "
... not what I will, but what
thou wilt." (Mark 14:36 RSV)
There was only one way tliat
the "cup" could be taken from
him, to abandon his mission.
That was a price he would not
pay. His mission came first.
Not even death on i cross
could change that.
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