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^he ^yiew^ • RIAL Ili PR ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeiord, N. C. Subscr4)tion Rates In Advance Ptr Year - $4.00 6 Months - $2.25 3 Months - $1.25 PAUL DICKSON Editor-Publisher SAM C. MORRIS General Manager JIM TAYLOR Associate Editor MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second-class postage paid at Raeford, N. C. Your Award-Winning Community Newspaper ^Gad! Did You See The Ed SvUivan Show 100 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1964 A CHALLENGE The Cigarette Scare Just how much effect the sur geon general’s report on smok ing Is going to have remains to be seen, but early reports indi cate a lot more people are smoking a whole lot less. There also is evidence that the swear- off won't last. Cigarette sales have dropped as much as 25 per cent in some areas In the four weeks since the report was made public; how ever, the Department of Commerce is predicting a "slight increase" in total cigarette sales this year. One thing is certain: science, industry and agriculture must team up to meet the challenge of the smoking scare or Hoke County and all of North Carolina will suffer economically. Tobacco is a major source of farm income in Hoke County. Last year, it accounted for about 30 pftr -cent of all farm income in the county, which, including govern ment payments, was $9,394,917. Tobacco accounted for $2,805,191 of that amount. The county pro duced almost 5 million pounds on about 24,000 acres. Tobacco, of course, is of tre mendous importance to North Carolina. It’s nearly half of the state’s cash farm receipts and North Carolina factories turn out 61 per cent of the nation’s cigaret tes. We have 120,000 farm fami lies growing tobacco on 450,000 acres in 86 of our 100 counties. As the largest tobacco-producing state. North Carolina proportion ately contributes to more than $2 billion in annual federal tobacco tax revenues and more than $1 Learning Institute Sherman's Men fium, Sack Meridian, Miss. billion in state and local tobacco taxes throughout the nation. It is natural, then, that North Carolina’s leaders are interested In a solution to the dilemma the state faces. The answer seems to be in scientific study. We must somehow come up with a formula which removes the stigma of "harmful to health" from tobacco products. That, apparently, is just what is going to happen. There already is strong talk of the government teaming with the tobacco industry to build a research center to study the problem, probably somewhere in North Carolina. A month after the report, these developments also have been pub licized: —Cigarette tax officials in many states say the cutback in smoking will be only ‘|temporary." --Advertising executives report "no decline" in cigarette ad reve nue. --Land prices in the tobacco belt have gone up, not down, but some growers fear there will be a drastic cut in acreage next year. In fact, the principal upshot of the year-long study by the surgeon general’s committee looks like still more study, not less smoking. But make no mistake about it, the tobacco industry faces a se rious challenge. It also has a re sponsibility to prove the commit tee’s claims false or to provide a remedy for the alleged hazard to health. We expect the industry to be equal to the challenge. TMI CHAM«rn By Jim Taylor Governor Terry Sanford is con tinuing his war against poverty and ignorance, despite the fact that his tenure of office is nearing its end. Earlier this month, the gover nor joined with five other North Carolinians in forming the Learn ing Institute of North Carolina (LINC). The institute is to be a research and development center unlike any now existing in the country, combining the chief edu cational forces of the entire state in an effort to find ways of im proving learning. Joining Sanford in founding LINC were Dallas Herring, chairman of the State Board of Education; Char les F. Carroll, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction; Wil liam Friday, president of the Uni versity of North Carolina; Douglas Knight, president of Duke Univer sity, and Bill Archie, director of the Board of Higher Education. As the governor said, LINC ought to delve into the very center of the problem of learning, to try to find why some children do well and some don’t. For a long time we’ve maintained that the children who don’t learn arc at fault, but we ought really to look to ourselves and our systems for some of the blame. This might mean new teaching methods, new approaches, and most certainly is going to put the spotlight on, community faults outside the schools. LINC will have a few demon stration projects, such as the North Carolina Advancement School, which was announced earlier this year when the state received a $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. In addition, an $80,000 grant from the federal government will make it possible for LINC^ hold a series of conferences in volving top educators to help plan the Advancement School and LINC, We applaud the establishment of LINC, which together with the N. C. Fund may go a long way toward developing the sort of public school system we need. And what we need Is a system second to none. WEST POINT, MISS., TIMES LEADER: "To many people, the best and easiest solution to any public problem is to get some special law, or ‘benefit’ from the government. The pattern normally Is to . . .cry for help . . .de manding some law or regulation.. When that phase of the action has arrived, those In authority can call for a new bureau to enforce the new laws or carry out the new benefit being enacted—which In turn calls for new taxes and new federal employees to staff the bureau. Under the above pattern, Washington bureaucracy has grown to over two million, and taxes have skyrocketed." Sunday afternoon I visited with friends In the home of a Robeson County widow whose husband had recently died. In the household were three foster children, one of them a bright three-year-old girl. She ex plained the passing of her foster father this wayi "You know where my daddy is?” ••No," . ^ •’He’s with Jesus, sleeping up a storm.^’ The little girl and I became friends during the next hour and I learned from her mother that she^s always coming up with such quips. Everytime she goes to church, her mother says, she talks about scratching the dirt off daddy and taking him home. Death is inevitable and birth is an accident, yet we take birth for granted and try to dodge death, even though we know it’s inescapable. I have never understood why we fear the Grim Reaper -- not if we believe that we are taught from childhood. Less civilized societies accept it and look forward to it. Like the early American Indians, who sent the dear departed to the Happy Hunting Ground. But for us. death is a time of sorrow. Why should It be, when in death we attain a peace and dignity we never knew in life? Somehow, T suppose, we just don’t care for sleeping up a storm. Back home there was this fellow who always had his nose in somebody else’s business. He was a terribly Inquisitive fellow. When he met a stranger. he had to know where he came from and who his father was; where he was going and how long he expected to stay. One time this fellow took a trip to New York City. He’d never been outsideHenry Coun ty before and he had quite a time gawking at the skyscrapers and such. He was in the vicinity of Times Square when a cortege passed, holding up traffic at the busy Intersection. The fellow from home was standing beside a tall New Yorker, who, attache case in hand, was chomping at the bit to get across the street. The country yokel nudged him and inquired; ’’Who’s dead?" Old Doctor Braswell back home used to tell abouthis first patient — a colored woman in his hometown in Georgia —who didn’t make the grade. Doc finished his Internship and came back home, where his father set him up in an office and gave him a horse and buggy. Doc hung out his shingle and waited for days, but notasingle patient came. Finally a young Negro boy came running and summoned the doctor. “Granny’s powerful sick," he said, “They said they didn’t want you, but all the other doctors are out of town." Doc jumped in his buggy, lashed at *e horse, and sped up the hill. When he entered the sickroom, family and neigh bors stood around the walls, humming and chanting and pray ing and rocking their babies in their arms. Doc took one look at the ancient woman on the bed and knew immediately that she was dying. “I’d better do some thing for her,’ he thought, "or BOYlSUTS ‘HiiBVtRtY PI PPY CREEK PHILOSOPHER Philosopher Mulls Over The Problem Of Who’s Qualified To Be A Senator Dear edltar; Since I’m not acquainted with politics lnOhlo--I’mnotavenup on politics right here in this part of North Carolina—I’m not aseumlng to tell the people aetronaut Glenn, announced h a was running for coverage in that atate, but I waa Intereeted in some thlnge I read after that astronaut Glenn, announced he was running for the United States Senate. What Intereated me waa the claim by some Ohio papers that ho haan't had the proper training to be a Senator. This got me to thinking, what la the proper training for a Senator? and the mors I thought the less I concluded. It Is a field apparently nobody has ex plored, and if a young man came to you and said he was interested in training to be a Senator, what would you tell him? I’m not up on these matters, but I doubt if there’s a college or university in the country offering a course in Senatorahlp. It’d be like trying to study for the Supreme Court. Another thing the papers said about Glenn was that he ahouldn'g try to start at the top, he ought to run for some leaser office first. I can see how a Senator could think a man ought to run for Congress first, and I can see how a Congress man could think ho ought to run for a atate office first, and I can see how a state official could aay he ought to run for s local office first, and how t local official could say he ought to stick a while longer with BY LON K. SAVAGE Meridian, Miss., a railroad center 150 miles east of Vicks burg, had become an Important supply depot for the Confederate army during the Civil War. Perhaps more Important, It had become a center of activity for Southern guerrillas who raided Union installations in the Deep South. But 100 years ago this week, Meridian, Miss., became a wasteland — sacked, looted, wrecked and burned by Union soldiers under General William Tecumseh Sherman. , Sherman would make his reputation for destruction with Southerners later that year in his famous march across Geor gia, but he gave a good preview of his warfare at Meridian. Sherman had set out from Vicksburg with 20,000 men on February 3 to destroy the rail roads there and, if things worked out well, to move on toward Selma or Mobile in Ala bama. His men easily beat down re sistance as they moved across the state. They passed through Jackson February 6 and ar rived at Meridian on the 14th. Outnumbered Confederates under Bishop Leonidas Polk withdrew. Then the Federals went to work. There were 10,000 of them at the job,'and they spent five days on it. Their objective was to destroy all that could be of use to the Confederate war effort, and they interpreted the objective literally. They tore up railroad tracks from 25 to 50 miles In all di rections, bending the tracks and burning the ties. Sixty- one bridges and culverts were burned. So were more than a mile of trestles. Turning on the buildings, the soldiers burned the town arsenal, two hotels, several factories, shops and store houses. Bales of cotton, tex tiles, foodstuffs and army equipment also went up in blaze. Sherman had ordered a lorce of cavalry to come down from Memphis and join him in a march into Alabama. But Con federate General Nathan Bed ford Forrest had Intercepted the Union cavalry as it moved south and in a sharp fight at Okolona sent it retreating in panic back to Memphis. Although outnum bered, Forrest had out- maneuvered and out-fought the Federals to win one of his most glorious victories. Without the cavalry support, Sherman turned his men west ward again and left the smoking ruins that marked Meridian. As his army headed back for Vicksburg, Negro slaves from throughout central Mississippi fell in behind the blue coated column and marched with them. Soon, Sherman noticed, there were "about ten miles of Ne groes’’ following his army — from 5,000 to 8,000 men, women and children marching they knew not where, except that they were marching away from slavery. Next week: A fight in Florida. Cliff Blue’s Tar Heel People & Issues they’ll think I don’t know any thing about medicine." He decided to give the woman a harmless pill. He called for a glass of water and it was brought. Just as he popped the pill into the old woman’s mouth, her eyeballs rolled back and she gasped her last. There was silence for a mo ment. Then an onlooker said; “Lawd, Lawd! Didn’t he kill her quick?” Gene Fowler, the ex-news paperman and noted biographer, used to tell about the trial of a Rocky Mountain guide who was convicted in an unusual murder trial. The guide had taken a hunt ing party of five far back into the Rockies. A blizzard blew up and the party was stranded. Weeks later one of them re turned, and that one was the guide. When the spring thaws came, search parties went into the hills to recover the bodies. They found only their bones and strong evidence of canni balism. The guide was brought to trial. He was found guilty. The judge who sentenc^ him said: "It gives me great pleasure to sentence you to hang by the neck until you are dead. There were only six Republicans in this county, and you . . .you dirty so-and-so . . .and you ate four of them.” BILLY GRAHAM—Someone said last week that Billy Gra ham’s decision to stick to preaching the gospel and not run for president was one of his wisest "decisions.’’ We agreb 100 per cent. We have long been a great admirer of Billy Graham. In fact we feel that he is one of our. greatest Americans. Laying politics and government aside, we would pick Graham as the Number One Tar Heel and the'Number One American. We have heard it said: "He is greatest who does the most good--goodness in the sight of the Lord." We feel that Billy Graham has done just about as much good- goodness in the sight of the Lord—as anyone we can think of. But had Billy Graham run for president, we feel that he would have been defeated rather badly, and in being defeated in a political campaign he would have lost much of his prestige and Influence as a preacher of the gospel. We need good men--and wom en— in politics, but we also need our very finest' in tne church. We are glad and happy that Billy has been led to the decision to stick to preaching and leave to others the work to be done and the battles to be fought in the rough and tumble of partisan candidates. GOP—It appears that the Re publican stock started tumbling when Charlie Jonas decided against running for governor last fall and that it has not been able to stop the decline in the weeks and months since. When ai person has been turned down and the people know about it, it is hard for him to be quite as attractive for the next would-be suitor. When Jonas decided against running for governor, others who might have been glad to take second or third place with the 8th district representative as the standard-bearer rapidly became disinterested. Rep. Bill Osteen said that he was not Interested. Jack Stlckley was trotted out as a prospect. After thinking about the prospects for several weeks, the former president of Lions International decided that he couldn’t carry the GOP flag in North Carolina this fall. With convention and primary time approaching, it would appear that the Republicans will find themselves in about the same shape they wer6 in in 1960 and the years before. It would now appear that Her man Saxon, State GOP chair man of Charlotte, orBobGavlii, 1960 GOP gubernatorial candl- . date, may be asked to oppose " Senator Charlie Strong in the May 30 1964 Republican pri mary. 8TH DISTRICT — It is beginning to look more and more like former Congressman ■* Charlie Deane of Rockingham may be a candidate for the Democratic nomination to oppose Jonas in November. If Deane can secure the nom ination without a big scuffle, he will probably get into the , race. If Mecklenburg wants to put up a strong man, the Rock ingham statesman will probably not make the race. ANGUS BARN—One of the state’s most successful night eating places went up in blazes last Friday morning when the Angus Barn, owned and op erated by Thad Eure Jr. and Charlie Winston, was burned to the ground. Lanterns, double- trees fashioned into lamps, horse collars, urns, ox yokes, old farm tools and other an tiques, collected from across North Carolina were part of the furnishings which went to make the Angus Barn so attractive and appealing. SCHOOL FEES—The 1965 General Assembly will probably not have a big surplus on hand to use to provide additional services and benefits for the people. To our way of thinking, ^ the next step in behalf of public ' education in North Carolina should be in the direction of eliminating the fees in the public schools. The schedule of fees in our public schools have grown up like topsy in recent years. To the low Income fa mlUea with several children, the fees are a real burden. We would hope that the 1965 General Assembly would be able to move to start alleviating the fee burden. We feel that it certainly has a bearing on the school drop out problem which is far too great in North Carolina. farming or barbering or what ever he’s doing, and while if I had thought farming was the first step toward becoming a Senator I’d never have taken it, still I doubt if this is the right system. I don’t know of any body who took up farming in order to qualify for public office, but I know several who took up public office to avoid farming. Yet getting back to the original subject, is Glenn qualified by training to be a Senator, I doubt it. When he was completing his third orbit of the earth and was getting ready to decide the split-second to pull the lever that’d return him to earth on target, what shape would he have been in if he’d had to refer the decision to a committee for ten months? Yours faithfully, J. A. STORIES BEHIND WORDS by William S. Penfleld FOURFLUSHER The word ’’fourflusher’’ was coined by stud poker players. In stud poker each player gets five cars, the first care face down and the others face up. T Sometimes all four of a player’s "up" cards are of the sam« suit If die card which was dealt face down is also of that suit', he has what is called a flush, a strong hand. * This situation lends itself to bluffing, for when he bets, tne other players do not know whether he has a flush or noL Players caught bluffing in this situation are called "fourflushers," rennlng they have only four cards of one suit. Hie name uas been applied to anyone who bluffs or pretends to be what he is not. I
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