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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. 1982
Explanation
Part of last week's Raeford City Council meeting explained
indirectly the difference between privately owned housing and the
land planned for it and publicly financed housing on land to be
provided by a public agency.
The subject came up during the council's consideration of a City
Planning Board recommendation that the subdivision plans for an
apartment project in the North Fulton Street area be approved. The
project last year drew opposition from home owners of the area
because the apartments will be open to low-income people on the
federal rent subsidy program. In this program, the government pays
the difference in rent between the owner asks and what the
prospective tenant can pay.
In the past, property owners of another area adjoining Raeford
successfully opposed proposals to establish federal government
financed housing for low-income people in their neighborhood.
The North Fulton Street project, however, is a different matter.
The land for the apartment sites is privately owned, and the
apartments will be built and financed by private funds and also will
be managed by the owner. The only role the federal government will
have in the project is the role of provider of financial help to the
tenant for paying the rent.
Under the American free-enterprise system, the original property
owner had the right to sell his land to whomever was willing to pay
the price, regardless of the feelings of owners of adjoining property.
The buyer, also, has the right to use the property for any purpose he
chooses, so long as the use complies with the city zoning ordinance,
regardless of how owners of adjoining property feel.
As far as the subdivision plan for the project was concerned, the
planning board had found it met the city's requirements for
subdivision. Consequently the only action the council had to take
was to accept the recommendation, thus approving the plan; or
reject it. If the council had rejected the recommendation it would
have had to give a reason or reasons for rejecting.
In that situation, property owners fearing what their neighbor
hood might become can do nothing more than appeal to the owner of
the property not to sell. But the owner has the right to decide.
That's the way the free-enterprise system works.
-BL
Letter To The Editor
Pa blisfcer
Editor
P rod actio a Sayervtaor
Aaodale Editor
Society Editor
. . Coatrlkatiaj Editor
Editor. The News-Journal.
Winston Smith's crime was un
forgivable. Alter an adult lifetime
of rigid self discipline, adhering to
the dictates of "Big Brother", he
had erred in succumbing to the
natural instincts of a young man.
He fell in love with Julia. And with
the normal instincts of a young
woman. Julia fell in love with
Winston. This proved to be fatal to
them both. For as George Orwell
has so brilliantly pointed out in his
prophetic (?) and powerful classic.
"1984", the party must smash the
last impulse of love, the last flicker
of individuality.
And so after their apprehension
and incarceration, following by the
inevitable beatings, sadistic torture
and starvation, reduced to the state
of mental vegetables. Winston even
denounced Julia, the one he loved.
He meekly conceded that he had
finally won the victory over himself.
HE LOVED BIG BROTHER.
As alt governments, including
our own, become increasingly more
oppresive, all for our own benefit,
of course, occasionally even the
establishment media will rather
facetiously make reference to "Big
Brother". And yet we had better
begin to understand the mentality
of an oligarchy with an insatiable
lust for power that brings 1984
closer every day. For. as Orwell
makes clear, when O'Brien, the
merciless interrogator of the then
battered Winston arrogantly spells
it out, "If you want a picture of the
future, imagine a boot stamping on
a human face ... forever".
I suppose our Polish friends
could tell Americans something
about that, this New Year's Day of
1982.
Lynn Batson
5521 Wrightsville Ave.
Wilmington. N.C. 28403
I Browsing in the files 1
of The Now?-Journal|
25 years ago
Thursday, January 10, 1957
John W. Flannery was installed
as 1957 president of the Raeford
Kiwanis Club at the weekly meeting
Thursday night.
* * *
A delegation of citizens of Little
River Township with former Coun
ty Commissioner John William
Smith as their spokesman appeared
before the Hoke County Commis
sioners at their monthly meeting
Monday and made a formal request
to have the township annexed to
Moore County. The Hoke board
approved the request "with re
gret."
? * *
Coach Floyd Wilson's Hoke High
boys basketball team got their first
victory of the season over Eliza
bethtown here Tuesday night, 40
42, while the girls took their first
beating of the season 77-56, in two
non-conference contests.
15 years ago
Thursday, J an nary 12, 1967
Raeford town officials were left
in a somewhat of a tizzy this month
when they learned that expensive
sewer and water lines must be laid
to the site of Hoke County's new
elementary school on Bethel Road.
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Lumbee River Electric Member
ship Corporation's board of direc
tors have named Mrs. J.M. An
drews of Hoke County to fill the
unexpired term of her late hus
band, Judge Junius M. Andrews,
who was president of the Co-op at
the time of his death in November.
? ? ?
Mrs. Agnes E. Page, supervisor
of instruction for Hoke County
Schools, and teachers from grades
1-12 will present the "New Math"
at PTA on Monday night, January
16, at 7:45 o'clock in Raeford
Elementary Auditorium.
CLIFF BLUE . . .
People & Issues
EVOLUTION. ..In recent days
we have been reading right much
about Arkansas' creation law which
was struck down by a Federal Judge
who ruled that it violates the U.S.
Constitution in separation of
church and state. The judge called
the law. which requires the teach
ing of creation science to balance
evolution theories, "an effort to
introduce the biblical version of
creation into the public school
system."
Many years ago. in the middle
1920's, Rep. D. Scott Poole of
Hoke County introduced a bill in
the N.C. House of Representatives
to prohibit the teaching of evolu
tion in public schools. It gained
right much support but failed to
pass after college professors and
some newspapers opposed it. Poole
was editor of the Hoke County
Journal in Raeford.
The next year, in Dayton, Ten
nessee, a young man by the name of
John T. Scopes was indicted for
teaching evolution in the Dayton
High School, followed by a famous
court trial.
William Jennings Bryan, who
had been three times the Demo
cratic nominee for president, vol
unteered to prosecute Scopes.
Bryan's entry brought another
famous lawyer into the trial to
defend Scopes. Clarence Darrow,
the nation's most famous criminal
defense lawyer.
Dayton was a little country town
but newspapers from throughout
the United States and foreign
countries sent reporters to cover the
trial.
Bryan said: "No. my friends, no
court, and no jury, great or small,
is going to destroy the issue
between the believer and the un
believer."
At the conclusion of Bryan's
plea, fundamentalist and evolu
tionist. broke into applaus".
Dudley Field Malone. a defense
lawyer, in a stirring speech, an
swered Bryan, declaring that truth
must always and eventually prevail.
After spending many hours in
preparing his decision. Judge Raul
ston ruled that the expert's testi
mony could not go to the jury. It
was allowed to go into the record
for the higher courts in affidavit
form.
Some years later, my recollection
is that it was ruled unconstitu
tional.
Bryan died in Dayton, Tennessee
a few days after the trial. We doubt
that any court will decide the case
of evolution with lasting finality.
Any person who wants to claim
that he sprung from a monkey or
baboon, may do so but as a
protestant presbyterian, 1 cling to
the Genesis story as revealed in the
Bible.
S & W CAFETERIA. ..We note
that the S & W Cafeteria in
Charlotte closed last Friday be
cause it was losing 550,000 a year.
We remember the S & W Cafeteria
in Raleigh when it was the most
popular eating place in the capitol
city. It has been closed since the
late 1960's. At one time the S & W
Cafeterias were located in several of
the top cities in North Carolina
from Atlanta to Washington. John
Sherrill was president of the Char
lotte-based cafeterias.
SAM C. MORRIS... My long
time friend from our neighboring
town of Raeford, retired as manag
ing editor of The News-Journal with
the beginning of the New Year, a
position which he held for 41 years
with the newspaper, serving since
1935, except for five years active
military duty in WW II.
Morris will continue to write his
"Around Town" column on the
passing scenes. Morris was greatly
surprised when the newspaper em
ployees and many others in town
and from other places gathered to
honor him and hollered "Sur
prise!"
MILLIONAIRES ... We have
been reading in the papers about
how to become a millionaire for
"$166.67" a month. In 1982 it may
sound possible and inviting!
Back in the 1930's in the days of
the Great Depression. $166.67 per
month was far more than most
people made. Times change and we
hope many will attempt to save for
their senior years.
Puppy Creek Philosopher
Dear editor:
Sometimes it looks like U.S.
foreign policy is designed to teach a
lesson to every country except ours.
For example, two years ago we
shut off grain sales to Russia when
she invaded Afghanistan and it
sure taught her a lesson. It taught
her that if she couldn't buy grain
from American farmers she could
buy it from Canada, Argentina,
etc.
Now Washington is going to cut
off caterpiller tractors, drill bits
and a lot of technical stuff because
of Russia's hand in Poland. Other
countries are grinning and rubbing
their hands.
One group that probably wishes
something else had been cut off a
lot earlier is some big city banks.
They've loaned the Communist
government of Poland millions of
dollars and can't get it back. Can't
even collect the interest.
In fact,. the Polish government
has asked for S350 million more in
loans to pay off the interest. I don't
know if the banks will be interest
ed, but if they are I'd like to get in
touch with them. If a person could
borrow money, then borrow more
to pay the interest every time it
comes due, he could live comfort
ably the rest of his life, although
from the looks of things Poland
wouldn't be the place to do it in.
If banks won't go for this, I have
hit on another idea you might say is
up on the international financial
level.
As I understand it, the economy
is sagging because people aren't
buying and the reason they aren't
buving is they're short of cash.
There's a remedy for this, provided
the Pose Office understands inter
national finances.
Say you'd like to help get the car
industry back on its feet by buying
a new car but don't have the down
payment. Go to the Post Office and
buy a money order equal to the
down payment and drive off in the
model of your choice. But, and
here's the revolutionary new idea,
buy the money order onthe install
ment plan at S2 a week from now
on.
Thus for a few dollars you can
buy a brand new car and get the
economy booming. If you don't
have a few dollars, embargo grain
and caterpillar tractors to Russia
and maybe that'll do it.
Your faithfully,
J. A.
Being a member of The Press for
any great length of time can make a
body drunk with power.
Just the other day, I cut Delia
Maynor's term of office in half. I
had the county register of deeds'
office among those up for election
this year.
She straightened me out not long
after the papers came off the press:
she's serving till 1984, at the least,
and won't have to run again till
then, if she wants another term.
I really didn't cut her term in
half on purpose, and wouldn't even
if I could. She was re-elected
without opposition in primary or
general election in 1980. Then, too,
in some other counties, practically
all the county offices have terms
running in the same periods of four
years - sheriff, clerk of court,
register of deeds, coroner, for
instance. This year, the sheriff s,
court, clerk's and coroner's offices
are up for election in Hoke. So are
three places on the board of
education and three on the board of
county commissioners. Better get
those in, though they're in a
different category. In the first
election story, 1 forgot to mention
the three school board places up for
election in November, since candi
dates for school board seats don't
run as members of any political
party, even if most of the voters
know what party they're in. They're
not listed on the ballots as Demo
crat, Republican, or whatever party
they belong to.
* * *
Speaking of political parties,
Charlie Justice, the UNC All
America tailback, had been out of
school and was in business in
Hendersonville back in the 1950s
when he decided to run for sheriff
of Henderson County. He was a
Democrat, and still is far as I
know, but when he went to sign up
he misunderstood the question.
The secretary asked him what
organization he was running in,
and he thought that meant who was
backing him, so he answered he
was running "independent," mean
ing he wasn't tied to anybody. So he
was put down as an Independent.
And that made him ineligible to
run in the Democratic primary,
which in those days before the
Republican uprising was the only
election that counted; the winner of
the Democratic nomination was a
cinch for election in the November
general election.
It's a Small W orld
by Bill Lindau
Mrs. Prevost of Hazelwood. next
door to Waynesville. remarked a (
day or two after Christmas: "Now I
know what 'The Thing is. 1 got it
for Christmas." ,
Mrs. Prevost is a. sister ot the
sreat All America tackle of 1933
who played for Duke. Freddy
Crawford. While he was in high
school Freddy used to stay in top
condition for football all y?a^
around by running up to the top of
Eagle's Nest Mountain which was
near his home in Hazelwood. It is
about three miles to the summit
and back to the Crawford home.
He also helped himself stay in
shape by training his German
shepherd to grab people trying to
break into the house. He had the
dog so he'd attack anybody who
tried to go in the house any way but
through the front door without
busting in.
Freddy would sneak up to a side
window of the house and try to
climb in. and the dog would attack
and fling him to the ground.
Freddy used to do this five or six
times a day. It was hard on
Freddy's clothes and body, but
Freddy aijd the dog got a lot ot
exercise that way. and the dog got
in good shape to take fare of
burglars. It worked, too. I never
have heard of anybody successfully
breaking into Freddy Crawford's
house in Hazelwood. Hazelwood,
incidentally, had the distinction of
having produced two All American
football players, and both played
for Duke under Wallace Wade.
The other is Charles E (Bill)
Milner, who made the honor team
at guard in 1943 while he was at
Duke in the Navy's V-12 officer
training program.
The reason why both went to
Duke was both played their earlier ^
football at Waynesville Township "
High School, and the head coach
there was Carleton Weatherby, who
played tackle for Wade at Duke
regularly before graduating in
1929.
Weatherby, incidentally, used
Wade's double wingback formation
all the time he was head coach at
Waynesville. long after the double -
and single-wing went out of style in
favor of the "T" and its variations, \
the split - and winged-T. Weather
by's system, with the talent he
managed to have regularly worked
well, season after season.
Weatherby also had his boys use
the same set of plays, season after
season, so that practically every
coach whose team played Weather -
by's Mountaineers every season
were familiar with them. "Sure
they know them." Weatherby
would admit. "But they can't stop J
them."
One important reason for
Waynesville's success was the
Waynesville players wore their
opponents down with superior
physical condition. Though
Weatherby had good talent regu
larly it was not available in large
numbers. Consequently, he con
centrated on physical conditioning,
so that in a pinch a starter could -
play a whole game without sub- t
stitution. One of the 60-minute
men was Carl Setzer of Maggie
Valley, who played center at
Waynesville in 1949 and the early
'50s. Crawford and Milner very
probably were others.
Then there was the five people in
Graham County who voted for
Luther Hodges for governor in the
1956 election because they thought
they were voting for Brandon
Hodges. Brandon Hodges, the state
treasurer, had come to Graham
County campaigning for Luther but
the five people had gotten mixed
up.
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And then in the '50s also,
commissioners in one county voted
to fire the county farm agent. The
reason was he was suspected of
voting a split ticket in the general
election. The county attorney,
however, got wind of it and told
them they couldn't do that. So they
met later the same day and re-hired
him.
The agent didn't know what was
going on till he returned home.
When the commissioners were
meeting, he was in Chicago --
getting a national Distinguished
Service Award.
Christmas lingering in memory
brings to mind a sort of Christmas
story 1 heard in Waynesville about
1949 or '50. At the time, a song
titled, "The Thing", was popular.
It is a comic piece about a
horrifying "thing" that appeared,
from the sea, I think. The song
doesn't say what it is.
Speaking of good condition, the
paratroopers pride themselves on
being and staying in super physical Q
shape and being contemptuous of
pain as well. One story from Ft.
Bragg goes like this. The 82nd
Airborne men were out on their
customary daily long-distance run
before breakfast when one of them
stepped in a hole and fell to the
ground about four miles out. When
he didn't get back to his feet and
resume running, his platoon
sergeant asked him what the (
trouble was. "Broke my leg," the
trooper replied unemotionally. The
sergeant frowned, thought about
the matter a minute, then said:
"Okay, then just do 100 pushups
and crawl back to the barracks.'
Raul 1 Peter 2:13-17
I laughed when I saw the parrot
making a great fuss about getting
from its perch to the ground. It
seemed to be struggling so hard
and so much in vain. "Funny
bird," I said. "Come on! Why
don't you just fly?" Then the owner
told me that the wings of parrots
are clipped to keep them from
flying away.
I watched the parrot struggle -
swinging from one foot, turning
itself upside down, hanging on with
its beak, and finally falling and
lying dazed on the ground.
Now there was no laughter in me,
for the parrot had become a
symbol. It was like all those people
who appear to be free in our world.
but who have had their wings
clipped--by poverty, by lack of
education, by discrimination, by
insensitive persons. And we tend to
stand on the sidelines and say,
"Strange people! Why don't they
act the way the rest of us do?" But
as we say this, we show that we are
unaware of the pain and despair in
those who. like the parrot, appear 4
to be free but cannot fly.
PRAYER: Help us. God, to be
aware of those about us who need
understanding and love. In Jesus'
name. Amen.
THOUGH FOR THE DAY
What can I do today to allow
greater freedom for myself and
others?
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