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lia 'TLcwa - journal NATIONAL NIWSFAHK PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C." 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Year - $4.00 6 Months - $2.25 3 Months - $1.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher SAM C. MORRIS General Manager JIM TAYLOR Editor MRS. LUCY GRAY PEEBLES Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Stcond-CUtt Postage Paid it Raeford, N, C. Your ward-Wlnnlng Community Newspaper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1988 CHIEF NOT AT FAULT Undeserved Black Eye The Town of Raeford, its chief of police, and a private citizen were embarrassed last week by an incident which came to light at the monthly meeting of the town board. The citizen, Ralph Pandure, complained to the board that Chief of Police L. W. Stanton presented several bills against him, from the town, and demanded payment. The action, Pandure contended, was the result of a run-in between him and Chief Stanton. That diffi culty occurred, Pandure said, when Chief Stanton and Assistant Chief Sam Motley arrived at the Pandure residence on North Jackson Street in response to a telephone call from Mrs. Pandure in what her husband described as a domestic argument. Pandure confided that in anger he demanded that Chief Stanton get off his property, that the chief left, and that he later returned with a bill for $12.50 for a privil ege license to operate a livery stable, and $15 town fee for two colts which Pandure keeps at a stable he leases on Harris Avenue. The total bill was for $27.50. Pandure also revealed that his most recent water bill had an added charge for sewer service, although there is no sewer tap at the "barn. His contention was that Chief Stanton acted in spite, and on the face of things, it would seem that such an impression would be justi fied. Pandure was not unreason able, and appeared to hold no malice toward Chief Stanton. On the other hand, Chief Stanton was most reasonable in responding to our editor's questions about the matter, and while his point of view contradicted that of Pandure, it did not disagree with the basic elements of the situation. Following the encounter with Pandure at his (Pandure's) resi dence, the chief did not go back to town hall, he said, and dig up the bills against Pandure. Rather, he said, he had been carrying them in his pocket since last August and had been catching the dickens for not having collected them. The newspaper account of Pan dure's appearance at town hall suggested that Chief Stanton "later went to Pandure's barn"' and de manded that it be opened for his inspection. Actually, the chief says, he went to the barn the fol lowing day, explained to Pandure that he was not upset about their encounter the previous day, and presented the bill, advising Pan dure he would have to pay it, or appear before town council at its February meeting. After hearing both Pandure's and Chief Stantion's sides of the story, we are convinced that neither were at fault, really, for a rather perplexing and disturb ing occurrence. Pandure acted no differently than the average husband would act under similar circumstances, and Chief Stanton, rather than reacting in spite, merely followed what amounted to orders from his supporters in town government in presenting the bills and demanding that they be paid. Therein is the answer to the whole dilemma, and the cause of all the embarrassment Chief Stanton is not the tax col lector, or the bill collector, for the Town of Raeford, or should not be. This additional "duty" has been imposed upon him, and he was kind enough not to grumble about it He should have refused to do it. but Stanton is a man who considerably tries to fulfill the duties of his office. To send the chief of police, or any officer, to collect a bill, or to demand payment of same, Is an injustice to the officer, and amounts to downright intimidation of the citizen to whom the bill is presented. It should be be neath the dignity of an officer to serve as bill collector. His job Is to enforce the law. Indeed, the only "papers" a town police man is required to serve is a warrant.. He does not deliver civil papers, which are handled by the sheriffs office. Without a doubt, the chief of police is an effective bill col lector, and no wonder. To the average citizen, his presentation of a bill would have the same ef fect as a court order for pay ment, for the average citizen does not know the intricacies of law, and undoubtedly would conclude that if the bill were not paid, he would be in trouble with the law. That is Intimidation, because legally the town has no recourse in collecting its bills that is not available to the private merchant The mails are a quite effective means of getting bills delivered, and the town should distribute its bills by mail. If payment is overdue, again the mails should be used, or the telephone, and the police department ought not be in any way Involved not even when civil action is contemplated or concluded, for it is the duty of the sheriff to serve such papers. "Thus, Chief Stanton took it on the chin for following the Instructions of somebody at town hall. If the town board has authorized the policy of the police department serving as a collecting agency, or directed that It be thus in volved, it should immediately res cind the order. If Town Manager Ed Williams, or any other official of the town government, has In stigated the policy, it ought to be stopped Immediately. Any other difficulty between Pandure and Chief Stanton would have been resolved, we are con vinced, by an apology and a hand shake on the part of both and we have encountered no unwilling ness on the part of either to do just that We understand Pan dure's consternation. We under stand Chief Stanton's position. And we blame the entire unfortunate incident directly on whoever sendj Chief Stanton out to collect bills for the town. TALES OF THE RED BERETS l: jim Taylor 1 Rube Scores Winning Run 11 Ml Eulogies sometimes are run In the columns to the left of this space, but this week,! pre fer to personal my comments about Colonel William Law rence (Rube) Poole. Not that I was all that close to him. I was not privy, to his counsel and knew him for far too short a time to qualify as his biographer. But I knew him well by repu tation, which sometimes is the mark of a great man, some times not. Bad reputations often can be discounted, but when you encounter a person about whom no man speaks evil, you have met most re markable individual, indeed. Colonel Poole was that sort .of man. He was unique among us respected by all who knew him, loved by all who knew him well. They number in the hundreds in Raeford and Hoke County perhaps in the thousand? for this remarkable man touched the lives of Just about every youngster whoever threw a baseball, except those of re cent generations, and they were richer for the experience. He was an avid baseball fan as well as player, coach and manager and it Is said he could observe a 10-year-old kid ambling down the sidewalk and tell you if the lad would be able to play good baseball when he grew up. He was a soldier, a veteran of both world wars a first sergeant in the first, a lieu tenant colonel In the second and was promoted to colonel just before his retirement from the National Guard. He was more than a soldier. He wai a gentle practloner of the art of war -- a commander who neither drank, smoked, nor cursed, but was able to enjoy the sometimes ribald life of the .arriJon. He was. in character, far above it. yet he was very much a part of it, a sort of leaser Lee whose paternal guardianship of his men in spired soldiers to dare errant comrades to not step back In 'ine. When the Raeford National Guard unit was called into fed eral service In 1940, Colonel Poole, then a captain, was their commander.' Immediately, he was promoted to major and placed in command of the bat talion of which the local unit was a part. Later, he was elevated to the rank of lieutenant colonel and became commander of a mili tary post In Fort Myers, Fla., while his battalion of "home folks" shipped out totheCarib bean, and thence to combat zones in Europe and elsewhere. On many occasions, his neighbors elected him to posi tions of responsibility. He was mayor of Raeford, clerk of Hoke Superior Court, chair man of the county board ol elections, commander of the American Legion post an elder In Raeford Presbyterian Church. Before the days of paid coach es In high school athletics, he coached theRaefordHigh School football and baseball teams. In summer, he coached (managed) the Raeford semiprofesslonal baseball team, and sometimes teams of youngsters who played sandlot engagements with teams from other towns. On the baseball diamond, he was regarded as a crafty stra tegist, a scholar of the game, a never-say-dle leader who would beat you with his head when his players talents were not capable. "We used to play the Raeford team coached by Colonel Poole," a St. Pauls man told me last week. "You couldn't beat him. We sometimes out hit them, outpitched them out ran them, but Rube always out scored us." Several years ago. the citi zens of Raeford staged "Rube Poole Day," bringing In some of his baseball cronies of his younger days, whooping it up for a day, then sending the colonel North to take in several major league games. The colonel enjoyed it, they say, but seemed glad to get back home. :-x-xxx-x.x.:::::wSi The nickname "Rube," ac quired by Colonel Poole In his baseball playing days at the University of North Carolina, where he was a catcher, and in the tough semiprofessional league around Raeford, was one of affection, rather than scorn. A "rube," in baseball and carnival lingo, is a country boy, a "hick," an "oaf." Col onel Poole was none of these. He was, however, a gangling, rawboned nun whose sandy hair and oversize ears gave him a noticeable appearance, as did the physical features of two other "Rubes" of baseball fame Rube Waddell and Rube Walker. I did not know him as most men In Raeford knew him. He was an old man when I first came to Hoke County almost Ave years ago. Within a few months after my arrival, he lost a leg to disease, retired to his home on Prospect Ave nue and wasn't seen downtown much after that. On several occasions, I went with others to his home and enjoyed tremendously his con servation with my companions. He was by then extremely hard of hearing, so many of their words were wasted, and the conversations usually evolved Into recitation of baseball stories about Raeford. His sense of hearing was poor, but his mind was sharp as a tack, right up until the day of his death, February 8, week ago. at the age of 80. His funeral was held Friday. His friends and admirers gath ered at the church, sang a few songs, heard a few psalms, then laid him to rest beside his be loved Miss Irma. And somewhere up there a tobacco-chewing angel in base ball spikes and warmup jacket stood at the third base of Heaven and waved Rube Poole home. Corn, America's treat food (lft to the world, goes by many names. The Dutch, Hungarians, and French sometimes call corn "Turkish wheat." The Turks call It "Egyptian corn," and Egyptian aay "Syrian corn." 1 Philosopher Finds Odd News Takes Mind Off Tribulations Many German medical schools have departments of balneology that Instruct students in the the rapeutic uses of spring ater baths. Dear edltar: The world is so crammed full of news lately nobody is able to keep up with a tenth of it, and two thirds of the part he can keep up with is so unreliable a man with a good television set and plenty of time to watch It Is likely to come out of his house every morning more misin formed than a man with a bust ed picture tube. Consequently, I decided to get my mind off the current trials and tribulations for few hours and think about an odd news item I read in a newspaper a couple of weeks no and which I have been toying within the back of my head ever since. According to it, a food pro cessor has come up with an ar tificial turkey. He mixes a lot of proteins and such stuff, blends it together, shapes It up, and according to people who have tasted It, you can't tell It from real turkey meat. However, and this is the point I've been thinking about, to help sell It, the inventor in cludes a plastic wish-bone In each package. Outside of maybe' hideaway headlights on my tractor, I can't think of anything more fun thn coming up on a plastic wish-bone while munching on a piece of artificial turkey while watching a taped soapopera on television. This is a strange world we' re llvinj In. Only last night I heard a politician on television making a speech he wrote him self. He Just barely got through makinv it and I Just barely got through listening to it. There may be something to say, after all, for synthetic turkey, plastic wish-bones and ghost-written speeches. Tours faithfully. J. A- CLIFF BLUE . . . People & Issues 3 friViri?"" l.w..T.rt.r.'y.'y-'yT'r?T-yt 4 an TERRY SANKORD While Terry Sanford ha derided not to run (or the I'nited States Senate against Senator Lrvin in 1961, his stirring about In the Interest of becoming a candi date has not dimmed his po litical future in the least. Hla recent activity In sur veying the political situation has brought him back Into focus. Like other governors before him, Terry Sanford did not go out of office at the height of his popularity by any means. However, time has eraaed much of the criticism directed to ward him largely due to the tax on food and his 1960 support of John F. Kennedy for the presi dential nomination. Barring unforseen obstacles, Terry Sanford Is almost rer tain to be a candidate (or state wide office - either governor or I'nl ted States Senator, In 1972 and during the next four years you ran expect that he will constantly be moving about over North Carolina keeping his (encea mended. General feeling has been that Sanford would not he able to unseat the veteran Senator Er vln if he decided to make the race, and many loyal Sanford supporters are happy that the former governor has decided against making the try at this time. But most pleased of all Is North Carolina 'a senior sen ator and popular conservative statesman. STATE SUPERINTENDENT For the first time within our memory, the people of North Carolina will select through a primary and general election the state superintendent of pub lic Instruction, While the state superintendent has been an elec tive office under the state con stitution, for all practical pur poses It has been an appointive position, (or our recent super intendents have first been ap pointed without a vote of the people and then reelected with out opposition. However, we cannot belabor the practice, for we have had able and forward looking state superintendents of public instruction who have served the state well - and Dr. Charles Carroll Is a good ex ample. Three able and capable men art now seeking the position through the Democratic pri mary Dr. Raymond A. stone, president of Sandhills Commun ity College near Southern Pines; Dr. Craig Phillips, administra tive vice president of the Rich ardson Foundation In Greens lorn and J. Everett Miller, as sistant state superintendent of public instruction, BILL JAMES When Dr. Bill James ran for Congress against CharlleJonas (our years apo, he put up a powerful light, and while defeated, came out with a good many more votes than most people thought he would. Commenting on Dr. James' entry Into the political arena an In, this time as a can didate to retain a seat In the State Senate, the Laurlnhur; Exchange has this to say: "We don't have much idea what Bill James' chances are in his rare for the State Sen ate, One tiling we can say (or the Hamlet surgeon. He came to battle and it Is likely other candidates will know tliey were In a contest in the end regard less of the outcome. Bill did such a thorough Jot. of runnln; for Congress two years ago he may still he able toutilresome of his old campaign signs. Oc casionally you will still see one mailed to a tree In counties to the west of Scotland." PAT TAVLOR More and more it appears that H. Pat Taylor Jr. of Wadesboro will win the Democratic nomination (or lieutenant governor without a contest. If he does. It will be the (Irst time In many, many years that the nomination for the state's number twoposltlon has gone uncontested. While not a great deal of interest Is man ifest In races for lieutenant governor, there are usually al most as many candidates for the numher two office as (or the governor's o.'dce. GEORGE WALLACE Willie George Wallacewlll receive lots o( votes in North Carolina and throughout the nation, most peo ple seem to think that his entry Into the presidential sweep stakes will do much to Insure the reelection of President Johnson something that the former A lata ma governorlsout to prevent. While Wallace will receive much support In North Carolina we do not feel that he will he able to carry the state. However, he will hardly encoun ter much difficulty in securing the 10,000 names necessary to get his name on the state'spre-sldt-ntlal lallot, FILLING DEADLINES Fil ing deadline (or state offices Is February 23 and for county of (ices March 22, three weeks earlier than heretofore. SENATOR SAM ERVIN SAYS WASHINGTON In recent weeks, the president has made three major economic state ments giving his recommenda tions on the Budget, the economy, and our balance of payments situation. These messages with sup porting data total more than a thousand pages. These docu ments show what most Ameri cans already know and that Is that our country has overspent its Income and apparently plans to continue that policy. In turn, we are finding that such a policy and our world wide com mitments are having a serious effect upon the strength of the dollar. One gathers from these pon derous compilations of statis tics that our country is much in the same predicament d.at a man finds himself in when he consistently overspends his current income. He finds money harder to borrow, he finds cred itors seeking more security, and he begins to protest that he Is able to meet all of his obligations if his creditors will permit him to borrow more money. This is revealed in the budget presented to Congress in a table which analyzes the public debt, past, present, and future. As of the end of the fiscal year, the budget reveals that the public debt Issued by the treasury stood at $326 billion for fiscal 1969. Analyzing the fiscal 1963 deficit on the basis of estimated treasury borrow ing reveals that the deficit will be nearly $12 billion, assuming Congress accepts its spending and tax proposals. However, this deficit esti mate is based upon the assump tion that Congress will end its opposition to the president's $13.9 billion increase in in come taxes. Thus as the mat ter stands at the opening of the consideration of the new Budget. Congress is faced with spending proposals that exceed presently authorised revenues by about $24 billion. Any analysis of the new Bud get shows that it departs from the old concept Americans have used to jud federal cpendi tures and revenues. The new budget Include trust funds for Social Security and other fed eral programs of like nature. Traditionally, these trust funds have been excluded from the regular budget presented to Congress. Trust revenues for fiscal 1)69 are estimated to provide a surplus of several billions of dollars to offset expenditures in the traditional departmental and agency ac counts, and thus the $8 billion deficit which the fiscal 1969 budget reveals rises to $11.8 billion under the yardstick used until this year, still this as sumes a tax increase. One of the difficulties in ana lyzing budgets is that circum stances arise quickly in a peri lous world to outdate them. Letter To Editor The News-Journal Raeford North Carolina To the Editor; The Hoke County Chapter and its many volunteer workers are deeply grateful lor the "extra" effort put forth by you (oiks In helping us make this one of the finest Blood Mobile visits since the operation began In Hoke County ( years ago. Your fine editorial and your human In terest articles were appre ciated and the comments heard today at the Blood Mobile visit were very complimentary to you. We were adequately staffed by volunteer and professional workers hut the hugh turnout of donors at the beginning o( the operation made It necessary (or many people to wait in line too long and we will correct this on May 17, when we will do a better job of scheduling our donors. I feel sure that the many people in Hoke County who are recipients of Red Cross Elood Join me In sa;. me to you, "Thank you very much for all )oudid." Cl)d Iprhurch Jr. Chapter Chairman Hoke Lount Cha ter American National Red Cross
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