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SAM C.MORRIS
MRS. PAUL DICKSON
MARTY VEGA
SUZANNE APUN
Second Class Posugc at Raeford, N.C.
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General Muf
SocM; Editor
Reporter
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1977
Handcuffs on energy agency
After all the talk about the urgency of the energy crisis, Americans
once again are being left with the impression that not enough is
being done about it in Washington. Both houses of Congress now
have passed a bill to establish a new Department of Energy, but their
treatment of the proposed agency seems designed to erode its
powers.
The House of Representatives, for example, has just refused to
give the head of the new department authority to set natural gas
rates. And concurrently, a Monitor survey indicates that President
Carter's proposal for a standby tax on gasoline likewise will not earn
approval on Capitol Hill.
Congress has its reasons for going slow and setting up safeguards
on the Energy Department's scope and powers. It has some
reservations about Mr. Schlesinger as the President's new energy
"czar," dating back to earlier experiences with him. And there may
be some justification for its reluctance to give one man in one
department complete sway over so vast a problem as nationwide
energy.
But the other side of this coin is that handcuffing the Energy
Department with restrictions is scarcely the way to get the necessary
quick action in improving the energy situation. A weak Energy
Department, in short, would be ill equipped to come to grips with
such problems as how to deal with natural gas, gasoline, and other
fuels which are basic ingredients of the overall energy crisis. And if a
new Energy Department emerges without adequate powers to do its
enormously complex job, then the United States will be little better
off than before.
Both the House and Senate are well aware of the urgency, of
course. And there is little opposition to the idea of a single
department to coordinate the nation's energy activities. Where the
rub comes is in Congress's reservations about granting powers that it
regards as too sweeping or unclear, as in the case of natural gas
pricing.
This certainly is the proper time to be raising and debating
questions about the new department's role. But Congress should be
careful, at the same time, not to unduly shackle or emasculate the
agency whose purpose it is to get the country rolling on the
imperative quest for an energy solution. Action and movement, not
just handcuffs, are needed. -- Christian Science Monitor
C all agh aii's call
A new warning to the white mi
and Rhodesia to change theujwlici q ^ ^ ^ Commonwcalth
Britain's Prime Minister Cag-^ made a vigorous plea to
conference in London, th t block the path of negotiated
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means of winning freedom be prove^ g Britain feels about the
His comments left no doubt now wrej j most of Mr.
situation in southern but by United States officials
Callaghan'sCommonwwUh^neagu ^ Jttlcmcnt Df Rhodesia
working jointly with the Bnteh tc 8 f e and war, of
?'Today more than ever before .the ** ^ balance .. Mr.
racial harmony or wU1 ?he minorities of southern
Callaghan pointed out. Which pam
Africa choose? ? . ~aa-a -that the cornerstone
-I would like to make clc"?? * unshakabie belief in the rights of
of our policy is our deep-sea regardless of color and
the individual and in the capacity of all ?mJuai respect."
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of The NewirJoornal
25 years ago
Tharaday, Jane 12, 1952
The heat wave that moved into
Hoke County on Wednesday of last
week also brought with it destruc
tion in the form of a hail storm that
in some cases caused over a 50%
loss of crops.
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Ten local girls have entered the
"Miss Hoke County" beauty
pageant to be held at the armory on
Friday, June 27, by the Raeford
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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The State Highway Commission
completed 10.20 miles of new
paving in Hoke County during the
month of May, Commissioner
George S. Coble of Lexington
reported today.
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Sunday morning the local guard
unit will depart for their annual two
? weeks training at Camp Stewart,
Ga.
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1 5 years ago
Thursday, June 14, 1962
Local business leaders this week
reported "a strong possibility" that
the now Shuttered Priebe Poultry
Plant might soon reopen under new
management.
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Free summer recreation for
children in three different .age
groups gets underway next Mon
day, June 18. and will continue
through August 17, Director
George Wood announced this
week.
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Lawrence McNeill, C.L.
Thomas, Bernard Bray and Tom
McBryde will attend the World's
Fair in Seattle. Wash, next week as
part of the Wachovia Agribusiness
Caravan.
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State Softball Commissioner Jim
Day announced this week that
Raeford has been selected to host
the district Slow Pitch Softball
Tournament in the latter part of
July.
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Tha Chnatian Scwoc? Mon?o<
Need Info Fast
ofBJ^?a pte*--The subjcct
P "U^alo Springs came up recent
question is, how did this
area get such a name?
Some of us were under the
?mre???nr thlt buff*lo didn't
come this far east. Buffalo were
only out in the plains.
. S? we need to find out fast. (This
?s very important) Does ?yb<Sy
name? W BufflUo brings got its
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""J hcre hopping mad
over the announcement from
Wwhtngton that the public works
grMts got turned down. Again
little more than that.
turi^Vther,*?pliCants were
SSS whT ** can't under
How does the government decide
who gets funded? What is the
fonnJa used? Everyone want To
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
According to the U.S. Depart
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Just because I don't grow anv
wheat is no reason why I c??t
matter any more than
a Congressman who adds on his
SSc"c''mt7c?
a^^??r-&;hrre,ahd
upon the water and it will return a
hundred-fold," could have a mod
ern version: "Cast you wheat upon
Illfi .m*rk*tand some smart guys
mil Cents worth of 't and
make a 60 cent loaf of bread out of
nf?s is '^e taking 40 cents worth
of cotton and making a S10 shirt
steel and makios a SS 000
automobi'c. H., like taking a S?SS
SS7 oon ??' t0r and mak?ng a
It's nS ?a0J,greSSman out of him.
StitfanH L1 an ex" Secretary of
?ii out of hS'nS *
m??Ple b,a?e aJl this on the
middle-man. As I understand it. in
the case of wheat, the middle-men
g^we^oTh b?Wetn the wh?t
in tJttm and the
some shrewd people to be able to
squeeze from the middle and come
out on the top only. You can't do it
with an orange.
tn I*"*55 the onljr answer to this is
Inn I3?"' ?wn "heat, grind it up
?dom?ke own breVd You&
fwng to run mto trouble though
when you try to make that plastic
stuff to wrap it in. P
Times have changed. Nowadays
iSlEiS* bread UP?" the
water it s likely to hit an oil slick
SSJE.1**!? it'snSre
owifthem rCpa,r aPP,Un?? than
a ?ifthef 1 fid' "A )ul <* wine.
Yours faithfully
J. A.
The answer is the government
has devised a very equitable formu
la based on the number of syllables
in the town's name. Two syilahle
applications are given the highest
priorities. This is why Whiteville,
Red Springs, Fairmont, etc., got
their money.
But there is another factor the
government considers. The syl
lables must also spell separate
words taken independently.
This is why Raeford was ineligi
ble for funding. Lumberton, al
though it is a three-syllable appli
cant. received more points because
Lumber uses more letters to make a
word.
Unfortunately, Raeford cannot
make a word, no matter if you go
across down or sideways on the
scrabble board. Neither will Hoke
County.
The only word you could make
from Raeford would be ford, which
could be a noun or a verb. You
have to specify in the application
whether you are using it as a noun
or a verb.
Of course, after the government
gets all of the names down on the
scrabble board, it might turn out
there is some extra money left over.
When this happens, then the
government will review the county
applications to see if there is
anything deserving. If they find
something which sounds deserving,
then they will look for something
irregular.
Like Buffalo Springs.
Read Ephesians 4:1 1-16
"We are to grow up in every way
into him who is the head, into
Christ." (Ephesians 4:15 RSV)
Near our home in California,
several neighbors had tall redwood
trees in their yards. Some of our
most exciting boyish adventures
involved climbing to the tops of
those trees.
One particular tree nearly
reached the sky. My little brother
and 1 started climbing it one day,
and as we approached the top it
started swaying. I climbed on, but
he became less adventurous. To try
to coax him on, I called out, "Come
on up. Boy, you can really see far
up here. 1 can even see Japan!"
It was a childish imagination,
and I have since matured, I trust. I
no longer climb trees, nor do I
pretend to be able to see around the
circumference of the earth.
But sometimes I wonder just how
mature I have actually become.
When I look at Christ and then
consider my own life, I see bow far I
have yet to go. I'm still struggling
to conquer my pride, my fear of
rejection, my selnsh ambitions. But
I haven't given up. I'm still trying.
And one day, praise God. I shall
reach the full stature of Jesus Christ
and become one with God.
PRAYER: Help me, O God, to put
away my childish ways. May I
seek to grow up in every way into
Christ my Lord. Ever keep before
me that coal of maturity in
Christ. In His name. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The highest goal of Ufe is to be
one with Christ.
copyright - THE UPPER ROOM
Tames O. Whitfield
(Fort Collins, Colorado)
Several bills have been intro
duced in the Congress this year to
create a Consumer Protection
Agency. The formation of such an
agency at the federal level has the
tuppqrt of the Carter Adminis
tration and is expected to be
strongly backed in Congress.
In 1974, when 1 campaigned for
the Senate, I said I felt that the
consumer needed some protection
by a national agency. During my
first year in the Senate in 19/5, a
bill to create such an agency was
introduced and 1 voted for it.
Now, I am beginning to have
reservations.
After watching the Washington
bureaucracy at close hand for the
past two and one - half years, I have
about decided that we have all of
the bureaucracy we need or can
stand. This proposed agency could
easily wind up as another unre
sponsive federal boondoggle.
On consumer protection, I feel
that my record is good. When 1 was
Attorney General of North Caro
lina, we started the State Consumer
Protection Agency within the
Justice Department. This became
one of the busiest agencies in State
Government, as citizens brought
hundreds of complaints of alleged
mistreatment in the market place.
We were able to help a lot of
individuals who would have had
nowhere else to turn, and we also
represented consumers before such
agencies as the Utilities Com
mission, where we were able to save
energy users some $400 million
dollars.
Last year, the Congress put an
additional weapon to protect con
sumers in the hands of the State
Attorneys General. One section of
the Anti ? Trust Bill which became
law in 1976 gave the State the
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
power to bring class actions in
behalf of consumers in cases where
companies were suspected of price
fixing.
So, I am very familiar with
consumers' concerns and the pro
tection that the general public
needs, and should have, but 1 am
afraid that a federal consumer
agency might be too far away from
the average citizen to give him
much help. The federal bureau
cracy 1 have observed is too often
either aloof from those with whom
it deals or else is busily engaged in
pestering people to death with nit ?
picking regulations.
It may be that it would be better
to leave the business of protecting
the consumer in the hands of the
several states. Many of the State
Attorneys General have already
established good records in this
field and, with increased support,
they could do an even better job. *
There is a strong feeling among
many members of Congress that
the federal bureaucracy has grown
too big. I share that feeling and I
am loathe to establish still another
bureau that could grow and grow
and grow as other agencies have in
the past. They start in a modest
way but they have a way of
expanding.
Right now, in Washington, we
need to cut spending and bring the
national budget back to sanity. The
President is committed to balanc
ing the budget, and that is certainly
one of my first priorities. Creating a
new agency, one of doubtful value
and one which would duplicate
efforts at the state level, would be
costly at the start and more and
more expensive in the future.
The consumer should have all
the protection he needs, but I now
question whether a new federal
bureau is the answer.
CLIFF BLUE...
People & Issues ||4
ROBERT MORGAN -- Senator
Robert Morgan is co- sponsoring in
the U.S. Senate a Constitutional
Amendment that would require the
United States to operate on a
balanced budget ?? just like North
Carolina, under the law must do.
Morgan's proposed Amendment
would provide that the U.S.
government be on a balanced
budget within four years from
adoption.
In North Carolina it is manda
tory upon the governor who is
Director of the budget, to see that
the state operates on a balanced
budget. If the General Assembly
spends more money than is coming
in under the revenue laws, it
is mandatory upon the governor to
cut spending, and salaries across
the board to bring spending into
balance with revenue.
We think Morgan's proposed
constitutional amendment is en
tirely reasonable and should be
passed on to the people through a
constitutional amendment for the
people to adopt.
Morgan's proposed amendment
would also provide: unless there is a
national emergency, that five
percent of the national debt be paid
off each year thereafter. The nation
would then be completely out of
debt at the end of the century.
But such a sound proposal, we
fear is too much to expect out of the
crowd in Washington from the way
they have been voting deficits
during the past quarter of a
century.
PRISONERS - We note that
Giv?, .blood
unto others.
Asyau
would have
them give
unto ^ou and
The American Red Croc*
bills to put a small number of Tar
Heel prison inmates to work on the
roads and highways appears to be
headed for passage in the House
and Senate. Many people have long
felt that there are no sound reasons
for able ? bodied prisoners not to
work on the roads as in by - gone
years, but under humane con
ditions.
RECALL -- The proposed Con
stitutional Amendment which
would permit the removal of all
elected officials through recall
elections squeezed by the House
constitutional committee last week
by an eight to seven vote. However,
the bill has a rough road to travel
before the people get an oppor
tunity to say "yes" or "no" on the
matter.
The "Recall Bill" was introduced
by Rep. David Bumgardner of
Gaston County and co-sponsored
by Reps. John Gamble of Lincoln '
and E. Graham Bell of Gaston. It
has the ear ? marks of a genuine
"people's bill" and sometimes the
legislators don't see eye - to ? eye
with "people's bills."
The "Recall Bill" would es
tablish a system whereby citizens
would be able to vote out all levels
of officials, from the governor on
down. The bill would require a
petition of 25 percent of the
number who voted for governor in
the proceeding election before a
recall elected could be slated. We
understand that North Carolina is
one of only 10 states in the union
without a recall provision.
We would hardly consider the
recall bill "must legislation" but we
are pleased that the House Con
stitutional Committee gave it a
favorable vote. The people could
vote on the matter with no
additional cost to the state election
since it would be a constitutional
amendment acted upon at the same
time that gubernatorial succession
is voted on.
ZERO BASED BUDGETING?
-- Another matter that we heard
right much talk about when the
General Assembly was convening,
and before, was "zero ? based
budgeting." Sometimes "solid and *
needed" legislation steps on too
many people's toes in taking away
unneeded positions. "Whose ox is
being gored" can have tremendous 4
effect on the passage of good and
needed legislation.
ALERT LEGISLATORS -? Now
is the time for alert and able
legislators to be on guard against
bad legislation. The bill recently
introduced which would allow the
governor to name additional mem
bers of the Wildlife Commission
might be listed in this category.