Leach elected
co-chairperson
of Cornhusldn
Virginia Susan Leach, a
Meredith College student and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
K. Leach of College Drive,
Raeford, has been elected co
chairperson of Cornhuskin' for
next year's junior class in student
elections held recently at the
women's college.
Cornhuskin' is an annual com
petition between classes and facul
ty. It includes skits, songs, tall
tales, a parade, as well as corn
husking and apple bobbing.
Miss Leach is a member of the
Granddaughters' Club and has
served on the tennis team.
Meredith, founded in 1891 by
North Carolina Baptists, is the
largest private college for women
in the southeastern United States.
Signing up
This Turlington teacher who is
assisted by a parent helped
others in signing up more than
130 students to take part in
Saturday's Jump Rope for
Heart.
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Jumping the cause
These second, third and fourth graders from West Jump Rope For Heart activities. The students are
Hoke, Scurlock and J. W. McLauchlin schools join competing at l/pchurch Junior High School,
together to raise money during last Saturday's
Six Hoke students chosen
to attend Governor's school
Six Hoke County High School
students have been chosen to at
tend the 1984 session of the Gover
nor's Schools.
There are two of these schools.
Governor's School West is located
at Salem College in Winston
Salem. Governor's School East is
located at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College in Laurin
burg.
Four students will attend the ses
sion at St. Andrews.
Linda Alice Glisson, daughter of
John and Alice Glisson, Route 5,
Box 40, Raeford, was chosen for
dance.
Kelly Grayson Chalaire,
daughter of Eugene and Mary
Chalaire of 114 Birch Circle,
Raeford, was chosen for choral
music.
Arnold Graham Miller, son of
Carlos and Joyce Miller, Route 1,
Box 25F, Red Springs, was chosen
for instrumental music.
Robert Andrew Sizemore, son
of Robert and Rosemary
Sizemore, Route 3, Box 85,
Raeford, was chosen for
mathematics.
The two students who will at
tend the session at Salem College
are Sharon Noel Jones, daughter
of Robert and Barbara Jones of
645 Oak Dale Gin Road, Raeford,
for English and John Michael Sap
penfield, son of Mary Sappenfield,
408 E. Donaldson Avenue,
Raeford and Gerald Sappenfield,
Old Farm Road, Raeford, for
English.
So. Hoke students have
an 'egg-citing' time
More than 75 fourth grade
students participated in an egg
drop experiment at South Hoke
School on April 10.
The experiment involved the
students in utilizing the scientific
method. Students had to protect a
raw egg so that it would remain in
one piece when dropped more than
30 feet.
Creative and uniquely designed
containers added interest and color
to the experiment as they fell
through the air from more than 30
feet.
Hank Richards, Principal, Steve
McNeill, and George Drawhorne
carried out the experiment in the
school gymnasium as "Egg-Cited"
fourth grade students and teachers
looked on.
Laughter filled the gymnasium
and climaxed the experiment when
Principal, Hank Richards, Assis
tant Principal, Cohildia Lyons and
Reading Teacher, Steve McNeill
showed up with containers they
thought would work.
The outcome was scrambled
eggs and a burst of laughter from
the crowd!
Two fourth grade students,
Ralph Slate and Roman Jacobs
from Jerry Oxendine's science
classes, were very successful in
designing containers that protected
their eggs from breaking.
The experiment was one of
many demonstrations shared by
the Hoke County Science
Demonstration teacher, Carol
Jackson.
North Carolina women ac
counted for nearly 51?/o of the in
crease in the civilian labor force in
the last decade. Almost 400,000
women entered the labor force be
tween 1970 and 1980 in North
Carolina. This growth in percen
tage of women working was
somewhat smaller than the growth
for the nation, primarily because
of North Carolina's historically
high !abor force participation rate
for women.
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Best containers
Ralph Slate (front) and Roman Jacobs (front left) were successful in
designing cartons which kept eggs from breaking during the South Hoke
experiment. The students are members of Jerry Oxendine's (back right)
fourth grade science classes. They are pictured here with science
demonstration teacher Carol Jackson (back left). ,
McLean takes part in Navy exercise
McLean, son of Herbert and Em
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School News
Andrea Shaw wins
NC writing contest
Andrea Shaw, a senior at Hoke
County High School, won first
place in the Woman's Club State
Arts Festival on March 24 in
Charlotte. Her essay on "The
Social Security Problem" took
first place in the non-fiction
literature division.
Andrea is president of the
French club, a member of the ex
ecutive board for the Buckeye
Review, a member of the HOSTS
tutors and band. She has been in
ducted into the Society of
Distinguished High School
Students, Who's Who in
America's High Schools, and the
Hoke County High School Senior
Hall of Fame. She has represented
the high school as this year's Cen
tury III Leader, an Ambassador to
the 1982 High O'Brian Youth
Leadership Seminar, a represen
tative for Lumbee River to the
1982 North Carolina Youth Co-op
Camp and the 1983 Rural Electric
Youth Tour in Washington, D.C.
In addition to these ac
complishments, she has been a
candidate for Governor's School,
a 1983 Marshal and has been on
both the college preparatory A and
B honor rolls.
Editor's note: This essay was
judged a first place winner in
North Carolina in the non-fiction
category.
By Andrea Shaw
With the increasing number of
senior citizens approaching the age
of retirement, who will receive
Social Security? The dwindling
number of Americans that make
up the work force are faced with
the probability of entirely support
ing the Social Security System. The
problem facing our society in
America's Third Century is the
working people in their struggle
not only to support their families
but also to support the vast
number of elderly people depended
upon Sgcial Security .Jvlanyjpeople
can not afford to support retirees,
therefore, widening a gap between
the young and old.
The major factors contributing
to the problem began when the
Social Security Act was approved
in 1935. Its first intentions were
not to include everybody in its
limitations. Next, Social Security
was to be financed entirely from
contributions by employees and
their employers. The government
was to have no part in it. The last
factor was a pay-as-you-go" pro
gram in which payments were paid
to retired persons from payroll
taxes.
These three factors became
vulnerable to many changes that
were to come years later. When the
first Social Security checks were
issued in 1940, a rising birth rate
and an expanding economy
boosted the program. Payroll taxes
made a surplus in the budget.
Today, this has changed very
dramatically. A decline in the
Andrea Shaw
birthrate, inflation, and high
unemployment have contributed to
higher tax rates in order to prevent
the collapse of the Social Security
System.
Inflation affects the young and
old alike. Elderly people make up
12% of the population, yet they
will receive about 28 ?7o or $234
billion of the' 1984 fiscal budget.
As a result, the poverty rate among
the elderly is declining which is
about 15^0 today. Due to the in
crease in taxes, nearly one fourth
of all American families pay more
in Social Security taxes than in
federal taxes. This means that the
number of Social Security
beneficiaries is growing much
faster than the number of workers
on the work force. This problem
has posed great concern for many
young people. They are beginning
to ask if there will be Social Securi
ty when they reach the age of
retirement. Until the leaders of
America's Third Century act upon
this problem, there will be no hope
of having Social Security benefits
fo?-4bose who have worked very
long and hard." ?
The solution to this problem is
quite obvious and has been
overlooked for sometime. In order
to bail out the system, the rate of
taxes should not be increased. One
third of Social Security benefits
should be cut. Then, the age of
retirement should be raised from
65 to 68. Over a period of twelve
years beginning in the year 2000, as
much as $200 billion would be ac
cumulated. Many older Americans
are forced to retire against their
will in their early 60s. By allowing
them to work until their late 60s,
the revenue would build up which
will greatly aid the Social Security
System tremendously.
The problem facing the leaders
of America's Third Century is a
very important one that not only
affects the old but the young. In
order to insure ourselves of a
secure future, it is up to America's
Third Century Leaders: US.
Capps inducted in honorary fraternity
Laurie J. Capps, a junior from
Hoke County, was among students
at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro who were
recently inducted as charter
members of the new Zeta Chi
chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the na
tional honorary accounting frater
nity.
Miss Capps, a graduate of Hoke
County High School, is the
daughter of Agnes T. Dees of Rt.
2, Raeford.
Forty-two accounting majors at
UNC-G were inducted into the
fraternity at a recent ceremony
presided over by Dr. Richard Met
calf of Sarasota, Fla.
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