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HENRY L. BLUE
BILL LINDAU
MRS. PAUL DICKSON
SAM C.MORRIS
THURSDAY. MAY 6. 1982
Low-cost prevention
: The low-cost program for spaying and neutering dogs and cats
rates support.
The program, initiated in Hoke County last week, aims solely to
cut down substantially, if not eliminate, the county's problem of
? strays.
About 2.000 homeless dogs and cats are killed, though humanely.
? every year, in the county dog pound. These are animals who have
picked up and not claimed within two weeks by owners. These are
the dogs and cats, some still puppies and kittens, that pet owners
couldn't keep after their pets gave birth to them.
Animals are put out to sink or swim on their own because many
people feel that at least they'll have a chance to live, whereas sending
them to the dog pound gives them no chance at all. The spaying
program sets a fee -- S15 for the operation for a cat. $30 for a dog,
which range about $30 lower than the average fee charged by a
veterinarian. The difference between what the pet owner pays and
what the veterinarian normally charges is paid by the Friends of
Animals, based in New York.
The newly formed Hoke- Raeford Humane Society is looking for
donations and trying to raise money to help the private Society is
looking for donations and trying to raise money to help the private
Friends of Animals pay the difference regularly.
The spaying and neutering program also will subsidize operations
of pet owners w ho can't afford to pay even the reduced costs,
(Interested pet owners are advised to call Mrs. Sheryl McGinnis.
telephone 875-3283, home; 875-8861. office: or write to her address
-- Rt. 4, Box 410C. Raeford.)
The present controls on pets consist of requiring ow ners to have
their animals inoculated against rabies, bear identification, and.
commonly, be prevented from running at large off the owners'
property.
, Another important control added can be the new spaying
i program.
It rates support, from the standpoint of humanity, to the animals
and people, and of economics.
-BL
Crude victory
From The Men- York Times
Though it means only that a dismal economic situation has
become a little less dismal and though White House exuberance over
the announcement rings false, there is still reason to cheer the news
that the Consumer Price Index actually dropped in March at an
annual rate of 3.3 percent.
It was the first monthly decline in the index since 1%5 and the
deepest since 1953. Although the decline may turn out to be a
one-month miracle, it reflects a broader slowdown in inflation.
Consumer prices in recent months have risen at annual rates of
between 3 and 3 percent, a marked improvement over the rates of 12
to 14 percent not so long ago. Barring unforeseen calamity, the
moderation should hold at least until the anticipated recovery later
this year.
The germane question, however, is "so what?" Although inflation
has fallen faster and further than analysts expected, the reason is a
nasty, old-fashioned recession, with the accompanying waste in
people's lives and industrial resources.
The White House would prefer to forget how much the recession
and reduced inflation are sides of the same coin. Larry Speakes, the
President's spokesman, sought to take credit for the good news on
Friday, tracing it to "our consistent economic policy, which has cut
the rate of increase in Federal spending, our support of a stable
monetary policy and our policy of non-intervention in the
marketplace." That was a curious statement from a White House
that keeps on insisting that its economic policy won't even begin to
have real effect until July. If the Reagan Administration wants to
take credit for reducing inflation, it also has to take the blame for
the recession.
It was President Reagan's stubborn insistence on a multi-year tax
cut that forced the Federal Reserve Board to attack inflation by
engineering a slowdown. Foi4 the past year, tight monetary policy
and the resulting high interest rates have been Washington's only
anti-inflation policy.
No one questions the power of a recession to beat back inflation.
But that is a crude victory and a costly one, especially for the 9
million thrown out of work in the process. Nor will the victory
necessarily last. The next recovery, whenever it comes, will begin
with less inflation than the last, but prices will still be under strong
pressure from labor costs. Wage demands are likely to push them up
by 5 to ft percent a year after the recession, even assuming a strong
rebound in productivity.
The challenge for economic policy has been to achieve price
stability without recession and to sustain that victory during
prolonged economic growth. That was Mr. Reagan's promise as he
sought the Presidency. The goal remains as elusive as ever.
Bad gun bill
From The Christian Science Monitor
An aide to Congressman Peter Rodino voices the sentiments of
many Americans when he says that the House should not be
stampeded into holding hearings on a gun control law now working
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its way through the US Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee
approved that legislation -- the so-called McClure-Volkmer bill -- by
a 13-3 vote. The McClure-Volkmer bill does have some beneficial
aspects. But it would also gut the landmark 1968 Gun Control Act.
On the one hand, the measure would provide for a 14-day waiting
period during which a potential handgun buyer could be subjected to
a criminal records check.
The measure would also extend the minimum federal prison
sentence for using a handgun in the commission of a crime from one
to two years.
On the other hand, the Senate bill would:
?Allow mail order sales now barred.
?Allow for the private sale of handguns by dealers, now
prohibited.
?Totally exempt many retailers and dealers from registration
procedures.
A memo circulated within the Reagan administration reportedly
argues that the bill would represent a "serious setback for law
enforcement and for the safety of our citizens. . . ."The
administration, however. 'continues to support the measure.
Surely, after all the tragedies of recent years resulting from gun
misuse, is there any reason to emasculate the Gun Control Act of
1968?
The House Judiciary Committee would be amply justified in
proceeding very slowly in considering such a dubious measure.
It's a SmalF^^ orld
by Bill Lindau
A guy asked me the other day
why I didn't go to the political rally
barbecue.
"Cause you can't eat pork?" he
asked.
Sure, I can eat pork. I told him.
Not often, though. 1 eat it about as
often as 1 eat tenderloin steak. 1
feel like the guy who came into a
supermarket, looked at the beef,
then the prices, and picked up a
package.
"I'm not gonna eat it." he
informed the butcher. "I'm just
gonna take it out and smell it every
morning before I go to work."
But this is getting off the track,
which is traditional with this
practice.
I feel free to eat pork. I also eat
meat on Fridays. And when Wake
Forest plays Southern Methodist,
or Notre Dame plays St. Andrews, 1
don't care who wins. (That's bor
rowed from the definition of an
atheist: guy who watches Notre
Dame play Southern Methodist
and doesn't care who wins.)
The real reason I didn't go to the
barbecue rally is I was just too darn
lazy.
? ? ?
Larry Cheek had some twisted
proverbs (or whatever you call
them) in one of his FayettevlUe
Times columns the other dav. Like
Puppy Creek
the guy who bought an island full of
terns, and he wanted to get rid of
them. So he got a bunch of rocks.
And he didn't quit throwing them
till he had left no tern unstoned.
Betsy threw this one at me the
other day.
A guy named Will Famy was a
great pitcher. But he had one
weakness. He liked to have a few
beers before a ball game.
One day he had his few beers and
went out on the mound and started
pitching. He walked the first
batter. Then he walked the second
batter. Then he walked the third.
And the fourth. And the fifth.
After the game was over and the
players were leaving the stadium,
one of Will Famy's opponents
noticed a billboard advertising a
brand of suds.
Pointing to the sign, he informed
his wife, "That's the beer that
made Will Famy walk us."
? * *
Some time when you have time
on your hand waiting to see
someone or go somewhere and
don't want to do the usual time
killing things, try solving this
riddle:
You know the sound of two
hands clapping. What's the sound
of one hand clapping?
Philosopher
household applitfhce that sputters
out just after the warranty expires
has ever been built by a worker on
his coffee break. Nor has it been,
after playing out. ever half-way
fixed by a repairman while he was
on a coffee break.
And what's more important,
most of the big problems Congress
wrestles with and can't solve are
solved easily dozens of times at
almost any coffee break you hap
pen to sit in on. Secretary of State
Alexander Haig could save hund
reds of thousands of dollars, thou
sands of hours of flying time and all
that wear and tear on his airplanes
and himself if. instead of shuttling
around the globe he'd just drop in
on a coffee break in Raeford or any
other place except Washington.
In Washington, they don't solve
problems at coffee breaks, they
invent new ones.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Dear editor:
According to an article I read in
the paper the other day a Washing
ton research group says "the
average American worker will have
to work two hours and 44 minutes
of each workday to pay his part of
this year's taxes."
What I want to know is can I
keep a record each day of my time
spent working and turn that into
the IRS every April 15 instead of a
check? If my report showed I'd
worked more than two hours and
44 minutes a day could I get a
refund?
Furthermore, can you count
coffee breaks as work time? If so,
there are millions of coffee drinkers
in the country who, if they put their
minds to it, could stretch their
breaks out to cover their entire tax
liability and be in line for a refund
too.
Don't ever belittle the worth of
coffee breaks. Remember, no
CLIFF BLUE . . .
People & Issues
PRESIDENT REAGAN ...
President Reagan in his speech to
the nation Thursday night called
for an amendment to the U.S.
Constitution to balance the
budget. This is a long over-due call
and should have been in effect
after World War 11!
The proposed amendment will
not be easy come by after all these
years of liberal spending with little
thought about balancing the
budget and who would pay the bill.
Balancing the budget is an issue
that sometime must be faced up to
and the sooner the better.
However, when that time comes
there will be some loud cries as to
why Congress and Presidents let
such a debt build up in days of pro
sperity!
BRIGHT NOTE. ..One bright
note about North Carolina govern
ment, it appears that the State's
tourist industry hit $2.7 billion in
1981. Top countries in the tourist
industry include Mecklenburg,
$388,504 million; Wake County.
$249,673 million; Buncombe
S18S.8S6 million; Guilford,
$180,999 million; Forsyth,
$147,007 million and Dare
$141,513 million.
DRUNKEN DRIVERS.. .With
the many wrecks and deaths on the
highway, we feel that driving under
the influence of intoxicating
beverages, beer, wine or liquor, is
the cause of the majority of ac
cidents and deaths. A University of
North Carolina poll shows that 69
percent of those polled said that
the courts are not strict enough in
the sentencing of the drunk
drivers; 63 percent of those inter
viewed said DUI offenders should
have their licenses revoked for one
conviction, and another 30 percent
said licenses should be revoked
after the second offense. N.C. law
makes revocation mandatory after
the third offense.
TAXES... In Congress all kinds
of tax proposals surface: Here are
two we take from The Wall Street
Journal:
"An intellectual groundswell is
washing over Washington for the
notion of a greatly simplified tax
system with a single rate and few
deductions if any. Nobody expects
it to take the town by storm soon,
but support for it crosses party and
ideologican lines. Citizens Choice,
a conservative, business oriented
group, sponsored a seminar on it.
The liberal journal New Republic
is interested: says publisher James
Classman; "We'll be writing about
it in the future."
"Some say interest was whipped
up by the 1981 tax act, which load
ed the code with many tax breaks.
Flat -rate-tax advocates want to
reverse the trend to a narrow tax
base and high rates by expanding
the base and cutting rates drastical
ly. Rep. Hance, Democrat, of
Texas, Sam Grassley (Republican
of Iowa) and others sponsor bills
calling for a Treasury study of the
idea. But Tom Bell of Citizens
Choice says it could take three
years of work to pass a flat-rate
tax.
HAWLEY POOLE. ..Hawlcy
Poole, former State Representative
and State Senator from Moore
County, died last week at the age
of 92. He was also a member of the
N.C. Board of Agriculture from
1937-75. He had been a member of
the UNC Board of Trustees at
Chapel Hill, and a Director of the
Tri-State peach growers society,
and a former president of the N.C.
Peach Growers Council and a rul
ing elder in the West End
Presbyterian Church since 1935.
He was an outstanding man and
leader.
NUCLEAR BOMBS... We read
much about "nuclear bombs"
these days and we think more
should be done against the idea.
We think that people of the
United States should sign petitions
and send them to President Reagan
and let him know that we are not
satisfied with his idea to build ad
ditional "nuclear" weapons to
match the Russians, if it can be
helped!
We think President Reagan in a
letter to Leonid Brezhnev should
say something like this: "You have
enough nuclear weapons to protect
your country in every way possi
ble, and so do we in the United
States, but we don't want to use
them.
"Let's get together and have a
face to face talk as soon as you can
do so.
"We would like to work out an
agreement to the extent that you
can see everything in our weapon
pile, and we can see everything in
your weapon pile. Our doors will
be wffl? open to you, if you will do
the same with us."
E row sing in the files I
of The News-Journa^
25 years ago
Thursday, May 2, 1957
Sam Homewood, chairman of
the Kiwanis-led community drive
for funds for a summer recreation
program for young people from six
through 18 years of age, said
tonight that SI 775 of the S2500
goal had already been raised and
that the drive would be completed
within another week.
* ? *
Harriet Suzanne Cameron, a
senior at Hoke County High School
who wants to enter the teaching
profession, got a boost toward her
goal today when she received a
National Merit Scholarship.
? ? *
Fifteen contestants turned out
late Wednesday for Raeford's first
Teenage Road-E-O sponsored by
the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
? ? ?
From Rockflsh Newt:
They have some good stout
foreign made nail kegs at the Wood
Store now, which will come in
handy next fall. Full of nails they'd
be hard to move in and out now,
but there are lots of crates.
* * *
Civil Defense leaders and chair
men in Raeford held a meeting at
the courthouse Friday night with
T.C. Davis, Jr., new Raeford CD
director, presiding.
? ? *
Fire alarm about 5:30 Friday
afternoon called firemen to the city
water plant on Dickson St. Nothing
is there to burn but a new motor
had caught Fire shortly after being
put in operation.
15 years ago
Thursday, May 4, 1967
Hoke County Commissioners
voted in favor of proposed legisla
tion which would increase the
North Carolina Sales tax from 3 to
4 percent on sales.
* ? ?
Gilbert McGregor, Jr. Hoke
High School basketball star, has
signed a basketball grant-in-aid
with Wake Forest College in Win
ston-Salem.
* ? *
An estimated 1500 spectators
including exhibitors, turned out for
the third annual Raeford Woman's
Club Horse Show here Friday and
Saturday apparently assuring Fi
nancial success of the event.
* ? ?
Hoke Drug Co. is holding a
grand opening this week and its
new location next door to the
former store.
* * *
All principals were re-elected for
all Hoke County schools at the
Board of Education's meeting
Monday night.
* ? *
Fifty spots remain open in the
second annual Raeford Lions Club
Golf Tournament on tap Saturday
and Sunday at Arabia Golf Club,
but the field is filling fast, a
tournament official said Tuesday.
* ? *
Hoke County's director of Civil
Defense, Alfred Cole, has been
named "Director of the Month,"
by the North Carolina Civil Defense
office.
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