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2A THE NEWS-JOURNAL Racford. N.C. Mav 31. 2000 Viewpoints Grandchildren are forever The fi\ e-year-old granddaughter walked in the bedroom of her grand parents. she said, "Granddaddy, were you on the ark with Noah?" Startled, he replied. “No honey. 1 wasn't on the ark with Noah." "Then why didn't you drowm?" I was enjoying such humor when I passed Wayne Collier Elementary school, on my way to see my young est granddaughter pi ay softba 11. There were a lots of places 1 preferred to be rather than at a softball game. Neither is ballet high on my list, needless to say 1 have been attending the final performance for 15 years. These are your grandchildren. Grandchildren can do a lot of things with grandpar ents. My three have me wrapped around their little fingers. All three of my grandchildren went to Wayne Collier School. My oldest used me any w ay she pleased for show and tel 1. On one occasion when she was in the third grade, she insisted that 1 come to her room and make 32 wooden rein deer. Naturally 1 showed up. The fol lowing year she decided that it would be nice of if 1 made peach ice cream for the entire class. Which 1 did. When she turned 16 and her father talked to me about buying her a car, 1 told him 1 did not believe a youngster needed a car until they were 18 years old. You guessed it, 1 bought her a car when she turned 16. Unfortunately it lasted only four weeks. While driving in Hope Mills on a wet night, a car in front suddenly stopped... she rammed into the back and destroyed her car. Thank fully she wasn't hurt. 1 preached to anyone who would listen, “1 told you so.’’ After four weeks 1 rounded up the money and bought her another. The 1993 Mus tang did well and she drove it care fully. Asher 12th year started coming to a close and the next step in her life was showing on the horizon, 1 knew it would be time to purchase another car. Her grandmother, who can squeeze a dollar, came through. 1 needed help on this one. Since 1 have two more coming along and the price of cars keeps going up, 1 can see a blessing in the mule and wagon. Be sides people would look good on a Sunday afternoon going downtown, dressed to a tee, riding on a high seat wagon, pulled by a mule — although a mule this day and time would prob ably cost as much as a car. Remember they don't use gas. Now 1 can understand that grand- A View from the Country Raz Autry children can love grandparents more when they buy them cars, but all of us grandparents prayed our grandchil dren will love us just as much for things we give them other than the monetary. It has been a wonderful experience, I just hope the peach crop holds up along with me until I can get the other two on their way, I must confess their mother, who is a won derful mother and doesn't mind using tough love when needed, has been patient with me when I preached to them, “stand in your own shoes, you are judged by the company you keep — and my kicker, it is a long ways over fool’shill; some folks make it and some don't." Pandy has told them all of this, but she let’s me say it again. I would say something about their father, but since he is my son, I had better not brag on him too much; I will let his mother do that. Parting thought A cowboy rode into town and stopped at the saloon to quench his thirst. Unfortunately, the locals al ways had a habit of picking on new comers. When he finished, he found that his horse had been stolen. He strode back i nto the bar, 11 ipped his gun into the air, and caught it above his head without even looking. “Who stole my horse?" he demanded forcefully, firing a shot into the ceil ing. No one answered. “I’m going to have myself another drink and if my horse ain't back out side by the time I’m finished,” he said menacingly,“rmgonnadowhatldid back in Texas and I don’t want to have to do what I done back in Texas.” Some of the locals shifted rest lessly. He had another drink, walked out side and found that his horse was back. He saddled up and started to ride out of town. One of the patrons wandered out of the saloon and felt brave enough to ask. “Say, pardner, what happened back in Texas? ” The cowboy turned back and said, “I had to walk home." Letters to Editor policy The News Journal welcomes letters to the Eiditor and enaiurages readers to express their opinioas. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. The street address and phone number will not be pub lished, but are required so we may verify authenticity. The name of the writer and the town the writer is from will be pub lished at the end of the letter. We reserve the right to edit letters for grammar, :is well as those that exored 300 words. We will not pub lish letters that we consider to be in poor taste or slanderous. In some cases we may add an editor’s note as a post script when we believe a cor rection, explanation or amplification is warranted. We may also, at our discretion, limit the number of times an individual writer may submit a letter for publication. 1^^^ tlK (fUri«.-th!»rr t Copl*y News Service tiiii' IlMII Letters to the Editor Fiscal management, Hurricane Floyd equal two natural disasters, says candidate As a state and a nation we all shared the grief and suffering result ing from the Hurricane Floyd disas ter. We should thank those public and private agencies and individuals who worked so hard to help people put their lives back together. I am sure it will take years for some to rebuild their financial lives. ^ When Governor Hunt called an emergency session of the General As sembly in December of 1999, his in tentions were good. Our fellow citi zens were in peril and action needed to be taken by our leaders. Unfortu nately, the irresponsible management of your money is what I challenge. Governor Hunt and House and Senate Democrats shoved an $836 million appropriation through the Legislature threatening Republicans who asked that basic question, “How are we go ing to account for the spending?” GOP leaders have inferred that they were madetofeel like DarthVaderfor even asking the question! A John Locke Foundation letter dated November 22, 1999 (a month before the Legislators met) said “state spending will be far less than ex pected. The Hunt administration’s emergency request for $1.8 billion from Congress was inflated and its assumptions unrealistic.” Gov. Hunt established a private relief fund with his office dictating how the money would be spent. Of those funds Franklin County, in November of 1999, returned $36,631 to Hunt say ing “We do not have any unmet needs associated with damage from Hurricane Floyd.’ Other counties had to search for victims to spend the money on. Harnett, in November, had only three applications for this private money. Wake County offi cials launched a radio campaign to get the money spent and finally re ceived 49 requests for a share of $72,066 from “Hunt’s fund.” The SBA’s Disaster Area Diirector, Michael C. Allen, said back in Octo ber, “I’ve got a whole bunch of di saster loan officers out there in 19 disaster recovery centers and three mobile recovery centers with noth ing to do.” All this took place even before Hunt’s request for $836 bil lion in December.! Five months later, it was reported to lawmakers that only $127 million of the $836 million the Democrats budgeted has been spent. Of federal dollars two-thirds of the $2.2 billion (Locke had reported that the initial $1.8 billion was inflated) budgeted is still unspent. Hunt and the Democratic Gen eral Assembly should have allocated our money based only upon reliable fiscal data. Furthermore, they should have made sure that systems were in place to account for subsequent nec essary expenditures. This is not ‘What books should I take with me on vacation?’ 'Fhis time of the year we ask our selves what books we should take on vacation. Here are three suggestions of works by friends of mine who have “self- published” their work. Instead of find ing an agent or a publisher, they have organized and arranged for the edit ing, design, printing, and distribution of their own work. My first recommendation is “Lo cust Alley" a new novel by Don Evans, an editor at the Chapel Hill News. “Locust Alley” is a detective/mys tery story set in Richmond during the Civil War. Evans has constructed a very nice plot around an assassination attempt. By itself it would hold your attention. But what makes his book extraordinary is his genius in bring ing Civil War Richmond alive with characters and sub-plots from the Richmond constabulary, from its “red- light” district, its petty crime life, and Spirit of jubilee is alive The black church was born in the midst of turmoil, sorrow and extreme pain for both whites and blacks. Most African in America at that time did not desert their former masters during this time of depression and rebuilding and restoration. Most Africans in America remained in the South to hire out and help rebuild their former master’s plantations, businesses and, of course, cultivate their own fields. There was no time for hating, only time for forgiveness, working and celebrating freedom. The church was the only institu tion that Africans in America were in charge of From the black church came schools, colleges/universities, and various social clubs, and political forces. Our forefathers left us a legacy of pride and dignity founded upon spiritual life and values. One such val ue embraced by the black church is the spirit of jubilee. The good book says, "Andyeshall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall he a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his fam ily. ” (Leviticus 25:10 KJ V). Jubilee is a Levitica Law that states, “every fiftieth year, Hebrew slaves were to be freed, alienated lands re- All Together Now Ray P. Owens turned and restored and the fields were left uncultivated." I am willing to bet that most Ameri cans do not know that the above scrip ture is inscribed on the Liberty Bell, and that the British and the American legal systems of bankruptcy laws come out of the jubilee tradition. Jubilee is a concept which advo cates justice, freedom, restoration, and reparation. One well-known teacher announced to everyone, that liis mis sion statement would be a statement of jubilee. He noted six provisions in his mis sion statement that is worthy of men tioning; (1) proclaiming good news to poor folk; (2) heal broken hearts; (3) proclaim liberty to the captives; (4) restore sight to the blind; (5) to free those who are oppressed; and (6) to proclaim the acceptable year of the D)rd. The spirit of jubilee is alive and well at Freedom Chapel Church as they celebrate 135 years actively liv ing and sharing this spirit. high Confederate government corrup tion. If you ever read “Gorky Park,” a detective story set in Cold War Mos cow, “Locust Alley” will remind you of the way in combines a good story with an intriguing setting and charac ters. “Locust Alley” has taken off in sales and is now available in many North Carolina bookstores. My second recommendation is “Flame-out” written and published by James Blackburn, one of the pros ecuting attorneys who helped put Spe cial Forces doctor Jeffrey MacDonald in jail for the murder of his wife and children at Fort Bragg more than 30 years ago. Blackburn later became one of the state’s best criminal defense attor neys, and then “llamed-out.” In a se vere depression, he deceived his cli ents and the courts. Ultimately, he went to jail and lost his license to practice law. “Flame-out” is Blackburn’s story of his fall and his crawling back, holding his family to gether, working as a waiter at the 42nd Street Oyster Bar in Raleigh, getting help from friends and doc tors. “Flame-out” is a lesson for al I of us that one of us or one of our loved ones could go off the deep end someday without warning. It is also a lesson that even when we have dotie terrible things, miracles are possible when we are able to face up to our failures and make a good future. “Flame-out” has just been pub lished, but it is already available at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. If your One on One D. G. Martin Quote of the Week The family of Michael Angelo Holmes, missing for almost a week and believed to have been found dead in a Hoke County pond Friday: "We ask, if it is foul play that the commu- rocket science, but is just good ac counting and stewardship of the tax payers’ dollars. Let’s do this. Let’s envision a new paradigm. One that government’s new and reduced role will be to administer justice while letting individuals and institutions (we already have for this purpose) administer compassion. Rather than give tax dollars to the IRS and NC Dept, of Revenue, why don’t we give that money directly to^the Red Cross, our churches, and agen cies that are better equipped to pro vide relief and account for their fi nances? Let’s work on that. Eddie Goodall Candidate for NC Senate local bookstore doesn’t have it, I bet they will get it for you. The third recommendation is “The Merchant of Venice.” It is not exactly new and not exactly a book. It is a small box full of the things a group will need to put on an abbrevi ated version of Shakespeare’s play — multiple copies of the script, direc tions about how to assign and read parts, a few props. If you have a group of family or friends on vacation, this activity can make for a terrific evening together. I have a special interest in the suc cess of this version of “The Merchant of Venice” because my family used an earlier version to help have a great vacation several years ago. And 1 think our experience encouraged the “au thor” Carl Martin (no kin to me) to make a commercial version. “The Merchant of Venice” is for sale at the on-line gift store of Eliza Taylor at www. e-liza.com. Also, the Regulator Bookshop in Durham has just started tocarry it. Your bookstore can probably get it for you, too, if you push them. And you can write Carl Martin directly at 1000 North Duke Street Apt #7 Durham, NC 27701. If you send him a check for $38.61, he tells me he will send you the entire “The Merchant of Venice” produc tion. nity help to see that justice is done so that no other family will have to go through what we’ve been through the last week and halt." The INewS -Journal I PfllKTEO WITH SGYINK Published every Wednesday by Dickson Press, Inc., Paul Dickson Pres. ' wntiTV 119 W. 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