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Harnett County News
Published Continuously Since 1919
THURSDAY, JULY 5.1979
TWENTY CENTS
Susan Who?
Library Staffer Relates biterestiiig Facts About New Dollar’s Namesake
[Editor’s Notet Monday
marked the debut of the new
Susan B. Anthony dollaz colaa.
So tax, they have been met with
mixed reactkma at beat, ranging
from "cute” to “ugly” and
“convenient” to “nnlsaiice.”
The most distressing comments,
though, have been "Who Is
Susan B. Anthony?” Harnett
County library staffer ' Paula
MofBtt agreed to shed a little
light on the life of this remark*
able woman, the Qrst to adorn
American cnrreney.]
by Paula Moffit
' A new coin was introduced this
week to the public for circula-
tion-the Susan B. Anthony
dollar.
The coin, with the obverse side
bearing the profile of l^s
Anthony and the reverse side
the symbolic eagle of Apollo 11,
is larger than a quarter but
smaller than a fifty cents piece.
It is a copper-nickel clad coin
like all U.S. coins valued at 10
cents or greater. This compo
sition has many advantages,
such as superior surface wear
and apperarance and relatively
low cost to produce. Also,
because of the unique clectricai
resistivity and density of the
laminate, it is very difficult to
counterfeit or slug.
The reasoning for the
substitution of the dollar coin for
the note is that it eliminates the
need for removal of worn and
tom bills from drculation. It
reduces mistakes resulting from
new currency being stuck toge
ther or being mixed denomi
nation.
The new coin reduces teller
verification time and speeds up
teller transactions, while it
reduces customer waiting time.
It also eliminates jamitdng of
currency counting machines.
For the retailers, the new one
dollar coins will save time and
reduce errors at the cash
register.. They are also easily
withdrawn and dropped into the
cash register, whereas doliar
bills must be placed and
straightened. The coins are
quickly counted and handled
and easy to separate by size.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Susan B. Anthony was a great
American who devoted her life
to securing the tight of women
to vote. She stood firm on the
belief that equality is the tight
of every citizen, not the privi-
ledge of a few.
Bom in Adams, Mass, in 1820,
Miss Anthony was r^ed in a
family of Hicksrte Quakers.
These people were often the
backbone of liberal thought and
action in nineteenth century
America.
She was fund-raiser and
'president of the local chapter of
the Daughters of Temperence,
one of the only organizations'
open to women, and to them she
delivered her first public
speech.
When she was refusetl)
permission to speak at a mass-i
meeting of the Sons of Temper
ence, being told that women^'
were there only "to listen and'
learn,” she walked out to
become the organizer of the first
Woman’s' State Temperence
Society in New York.
Miss Anthony was a strong-
vdlled person who didn’t give up
easily. She often spoke up for
working women and their
plight, yet she was denied a
delegate’s seat at the 1869
Convention of the National
Labor Union.
One trying moment came to
her when at the first Women’s
Rights convention in 1866, her
life-long family friend, author
Frederick Douglass and his
male uti-slavery advocates
announced that women must
wait and be patient because this
was‘Negro’s hour. ”
This statement was a bitter
blow for Miss Anthony because
she had also worked for anti
slavery. It was her dream that
all citizens would have the right
to vote, black and white, male
and female. .
The non-citizen status of
women bothered Miss Anthony
the most, and led her to the
legal event for which she is best
known: The case of the United
States vs. Susan 6. Anthony.
Throughout 1872, she had been
urging delegates of the suffrage
convention to test the theory
that the Fourteenth Amendment
did not exclude women frofn
voting. Reading a newspaper
plea urging all citizens to
register to vote, she did not see
anything indicating that the vote
was intended for men only.
On Nov. 1 she led a group of
women to register to vote in
Rochester, N.Y., armed with the
14th Amendment and the state
election law which she read as
proof that the text did not
prohibit women from voting.
The same 16 women returned to
the polls on Nov. 5 and voted.
All were soon arrested and
pleaded guilty to voting. They
were placed under bail of SSOO
and ordered to appear before
the Albany court where Miss
Anthony’s bail was raised to
$1,000.
Miss Anthony was prepared for
these actions and those about to
follow. She spent months before
the trial speaJdng in 29 post
office districts of the county on
the subject, “Is h a crime for a
U.S. citizen to vote?”
The trial, held in June 1873,
was a mockery of justice. The
judge was newly appointed by a
senator known to be an adver
sary of the women’s cause. The
judge declared that Miss
Anthony was not competent to
testify in her own case and was
not protected by law and did not
have the ri^t to vote. He
refused to have the jury polled,
but rather dismissed them. '
He asked her if she had
anything to say before sentence
was passed. She replied, with
many interruptions from the
judge, “Failing to get this
justice-justice, even to get a trial
by jury not of my peers-I ask not
leniency at your hands.’’
The sentence of the court was
to pay a fine of $100 and the cost
of the prosecution. Miss
anthony refused to pay the fine.
She never did pay the fine, but
for 33 more years continued
speaking, writing and coun
seling her followers, who
carried on her work and secured
passage of the 19th Amendment
in 1920.
Miss Anthony never waivered
in her effort to gun the vote and
to record for history the many
events of the women’s move
ment. Today she is honored by
being the first American
woman, rather than a symix^c
woman, to appear on .the
circulating coinage of our
nation.
Board Hears Road Requests From Women
HONORED FOR LONG AND DISTING
UISHED SERVICE — These four women
were presented with certificates of
appreciation at the Monday meethig of the
Harnett County Board of Commlsslooers.
Retiring from the county offices on June 30
were: [from left] Mrs. Lillian Smith, after 17
years in the Clvfl Defense office; Mrs. Lottie
Patterson, after 35 years in the Tax
Supervisor’s office: Mrs. Alice Smincke, 33
years at the Tax Collector’s office; and Mrs.
Rachel Blanchard, after SO years at the
Auditor’s office. Mrs. Patterson was given
her 35 year pin; Mrs. Blanchard was
presented a 30 year pin. Fellow employees
gathered afterwards at a party in the county
office building to say good-bye to the women,
who received high praise for commissioners.
Tax Supervisor Thomas Allen, and Tax
Collector Earl Jones. [Photo by Lud Uzzle.]
Four women from the
Churchland area between Buies
and Erwin approached
the county board Monday
morning to ask that action be
taken to improve the roads in
their housing development.
The board and department of
transportation representative
Taylor told the women that the
roads, at this point, are neither
the state’s nor the county’s
Responsibility. ' V
The state, Taylor explained,
will maintain their roa& once
they are accepted on to the
state ^stem. But they are in
such poor shape, they won’t
meet state standards for
acceptance until they are
repaired.
‘‘The drainage and the
pavement’s all tom to pieces,”
siud Taylor, ”and there are
large potholes.”
The cost to get the roads in
shape would be approximately
$50,000 per mile. The stretch of
road the women live on is about
a half mile in length.
“We cannot afford $25,000.
There are 10 to 12 homes there.
That would be $2,000 each, and
we just can’t afford it," said
Elaine Chance.
The women .'aid they had
been petitioning the highway
department for several years to
improve the drainage systems,
.which flood over inlo the yards
when it rains, and the potholes
in the roads which knock their
cars out of alignment.
Commissioners told the wo-
men-Betty Thompson, Elaine
Chance, Kathy McNeill and Ella
McLean-that they should first
contact the developers of the
plan, and then the Farmers'
Home Administration for aid.
This is not a real unique
situation,” said chairman Jesse
Alphin. “It’s all over the
county. We’re willing to
approve a petition to have the
street added to the state
system-we already have. The
/ problem is with the state and
your developers.”.
The women said they had not
yet approached the develop-
ers-Fred McCall, Jake Lamb,
John WQboume and Currin and
Dorman-to ask for help.
In other business, the board:
* Opted to readvertise for
bids on the county's first
machines. At the bid opening at
-10 ajn. Mondayr'-onlyA one
qompany-Valtec of Tulsa, Okla
homa submitted a sealed bid for
the 22 machines the county
plans to buy.
The Valtec bid will be left
sealed untQ the August 6
meeting of the board. If there
are no other bids at that time,
it will be opened anyway.
The Valtec Tally Box, a
computerized unit that counts
and stores hand-marked bal
lots, was recommended almost
unanimously by a team of
registrars and judges from the
Harnett Board of Elections.
•Adopted a new personnel
policy which will put county
employees on a 40 hour week
and which incorporates many
policies the board has adopted
since the last set of policies was
adopted.
(^unty employees have been
on a 37Vi hour work week for
several years.
“The forty-hour week is more
compatible with the functions
„of. the, private^ sector, of Jihe
economy," 'comment!^''Jesse
Alphin. “I think it might be
more acceptable to the people
who pick up the bill, the
taxpayers."
Ambulance workers are on a
56 hour week, and law enforce-'
ment employees are on a 60
hour week under the new
pdicy.
Mileage for county emplo
yees is increased fium 16 cents
to 17 cents in the policy-
•Agreed to send a letter of '
intent to purchase liability
insurance for county employees
fium the Republic Insurance
Company of Dallas, Texas.
The letter is not a commit
ment to buy the policy.
County Manager Jack Brock
recommended that if the policy
is taken, it should be taken as a
whole packet at a rate of $30
per he^.
Brock expressed his reserva
tions about the insurance. “Are
we opening the door for
lawsuit^ If you've got it, do
■you carie’if you’re sued? I don’t
know,” he said.
He added on the other hand,
tht the mental health board had
been sued on at least two
occasions, that the board of
education bad also been sued.
Most counties, he said, are
taking liability insurance on
their employees
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Local BPW Gets New Officers
The IMn^n Business and
Professional Women’s Club bad
a good beginning'when the first
meeting of the year was held at
the home of the president, Mrs.
Charlotte Renn.
A covered dish meal was
featured at the meeting as
plans for activities during the
year was discussed.
Club members plan to
jupport the Fourth of July
Festival planned by the lilling-
ton Chamber of Commerce.
Carolyn Johnson, first vice
president, announced she had
presented the BPW scholar
ship to Karen Sawyer, gradu
ate of Harnett Central High
School.
Mrs. Charlotte Renn and
Mrs." Sirens Byrd will be
delegates to the National BPW
meeting in Boston in July.
The theme for BPW for the
/ear is “Decade for Decision:
Together We Aspire, Together
We Achieve."
In addition to a strong focus
on international issues, their
impact on women and on going
programs such as individual
development plans and young
career women, BPW programs
for the new year will deal with
issues important to working
women;
Health and retirement plans.
sex-stereotyping in education
and the. changing nature of
family life.
New dub officers and
committee chairmen are:
President - Charlotte Reno;
Ist vice president, Carolyn
Johnson; &d vice president,
Dorothea Stewart; secretary,
Ruth Knight; treasurer,
Daphine Crews; parliamentari
an, Dr. Theo Strum.
Program Chairman, Carolyn
Johnson; Foundation chairman,
Margaret Randall; legislative
chairman. Flora J. MQtoo;
public relations chairman.
Ester Johnson; finance chair
man, Cramer Davis; Yoimg
Careerist chairman, Dorothea
Stewart: membership chair
man, Sirena Byrd; and calendar
chairman, Elizabeth L. Mat
thews.
I
Accidents
Reported
An accident involving two
out-of-town motorists was re
ported by the Lillington Police
Department on June 29.
Investigated by Officer Qyde
Pate, the aeddent occured on
South Main Street and involved
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THE NEW OFFICERS, eommittee chairmen
of the lillington Business and Professional
Wmben’s Club are, I'T: Sirena Byrd,
membership; Flora J. Milton, legislation;
Dorothea L. Stewart, second vice president:
Carolyn T. Johnson, first vice president;
Qiariotte L. Renn, president; Ruth J.
Knight,- secretary; D^thlne W. Crews,
treasurer; Cramer T. Davis, finanee
chairman; Elster Johnson, pnblie relations.
Not pietnred are Margaret Randall,
fonndatiMi; Elizabeth Matthews, calendar;
Theo Stnun, parliamentarian. [Photo by
Steve Plummer)
New Rotary Officers Installed
The lillington Rotary Cub
installed a new sated of officers
at their regular meeting June 28
at Speedy’s Restaurant.
On hand for the installation
ceremony was the past district
governor A. B. Johnson of
Dunn, current district secretary.
Johnson conducted the cere
mony, swearing in Glenn Hood
as the club’s new president,
replacing I^prold Uojd, who
assumed a poshioo on the board
of directors as past president.
The other new officers were
Dan Spangler, vice prerident
and -Larry Currin, secretary-
treasurer.
The officers are also serving as
members of the board of
directors. Other directors sworn
in Thursday, in addition to those
already mentioned, are Reid
Ross, Steve Skinner, Ray
Gilchrist and Roger Johnson.
A. B. Johnson also conducted
the induction ceremonies of the
two new members, Joe Boone
and Tom Edwards.
Noting that this year marks the
75th anniversary of Rotary
International, Hood emphasized
hts theme for the new year,
' ‘Rotary Effectiveness. ’ ’
Hood reflected on the influence
of the Rotary organization on his
own life, beginning with his
childhood when he first came
into contact with the group
through school-related
activities.
Hood said he would like to see
the local dub become more
visible in its community and
school projects and emphasized
the need for an active member
ship.
MBA Names Promotions
NEW ROTARY CLUB OFFICERS for
1979-80, installed last week, are 1-r, Larry
Currin, secretary-treasurer; Glenn Hood,
president; and Dsn Spangler, vice president.
[Photo by Dr. J.K. WlDifordi
Vincent B. Lane, t^ratora
‘manager of the Lillington plant
of MBAssociates, has been
promoted to divisional vice
president by Robert Main-
hardt, president and chief
executive officer at the firm’s
headquarters [p San Ramon,
Cal.
Lane is a pioneer in the
employment of passive radar
countermeasures for aircraft
protection and is well known
throughout the electronic war
fare community and in the
Assodation of Old Crows.
He resides with hb wife in
Raleigh.
Mainhardt also announced
that Eston E. Melton Jr. has
been named divisional vice
president for all manufacturing
operations of MBAssociates.
Melton is responsible for all
manufacturing operations at
San Ramon, Camden, Ark. and
lillington.
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Around
Town
—Bt STEVE FLUHMEB ““
BOOSTER MEET
The Trojan Boosters, the
athletic booster club for
Harnett Central High School,
wiU hold its monthly meeting
July 9 at 7:30 p.m. This
meeting will replace the
regularly scheduled meeting on
the first of the month.
The meeting wfll be held in
the school cafeteria. Club
president Rudy Brown invites
all persons who are interested
in the school’s athletic program
to attend.
Adoption of the club's
by-laws and projects for the
coming year will be the main
items of business.
BONANZA DAY
The Western Harnett Recre
ation Department will host a
Recreation Bonanza Day Satur
day and Sunday at Johnsonville
Elementary School on N.C.
highway 27.
Bob Edison, recreational
director for Western Harnett,
said several activities will be
held, including parachute exhi
bitions by the HALO team from
Fort Bragg. Jumps are sched
uled at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
A T-ball tournament wfll
begin at S a.m. and 10 a.m. The
championship game will be at S
p.m. At 9 a.m. will be the adult
horseshoe tournament, the
children’s bicycle rodeo will be
at 1 p.m. and the chOdren’s
turtle race will be at noon.
At 1 p.m. will be the high
school "Everything Goss" con
test, follow^ by the adult
version at 3 p.m. The events in
these unique contests will be
the same for both divisions,
with about five or six in each.
Possible events wiD be old
eggs collector, liigh stepping
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