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Ote eicd - journal NATIONAL NIWSMMR PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. mie 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Year - $4.00 6 Months - $2.25 3 Months - $1.25 PAUL DICKSON Publither Editor SAM C.MORRIS General Manager MRS. LUCY GRAY PEEBLES Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second-CUia PotUf Paid at Kaaford. N, C. Your A ward-Winning Community Newspaper 'ioirre twins. Fi 'om u distance you look like a two-headed donkey' THURSDAY. JANUARY 16, 1969 Hoke is well represented The luncheon for the legislative members from our district given last Wednesday by the Hoke-Raeford Chamber of Commerce left little doubt with those attending that we will be well represented this year in Raleigh. The remarks made by the four representatives, R. D. McMillan, N. L. McFadyen, R. L. Campbell and Gus Speros put forth that they were representing the district rather than any individual county. Our two senators, N. H. McGeachy and John T. Henley were unable to attend but from the experience this county had with them at the last session of the General Assembly we can expect the same from them. All remarks were ably made but what Rep. Campbell had to say concerning his trips to Raeford and Hoke County during the primary speaks well for our citizens. He recalled that during the campaign he came to the county and outside of Rep. McFadyen he knew only one other person in the county. The representative said he went from store to store and stopped people on the , street and not one person seemed offended with him. The feeling for the people of Hoke County will also be at the top with me, he said and everyone at the luncheon could tell that he meant it. The above instance speaks very highly of our citizens and goes a long ways to help the town and county. Our representatives have pledged to do everything they can for our citizens and we feel that they sincerely mean it. They request that the people let them know what they should do on the major issues and they will try to get it accomplished. We the people of Hoke County should also pledge our support to our representatives and let them know what we want them to do. We say to them 'Best of luck! -SCM Where is our sense of purpose? The principal thing that may be said of 1968 is that it was not a particularly felicitous year. It was a year of .tragedy. Mine, s-uiiiuaiun OMU builliauiwiiun. "S. had continuing prosperity for most people - accompanied by growing domestic dissension. In Viet Nam, U.S. observers spoke optimistically about the military situation. At the same time, the patience of the American public with the war appeared to come to an end. For better or for worse, this country's armed opposition to communism in Southeast Asia may be terminated in the not-too-distant future. It will seem to many, in looking back over the past year, that much of our trouble stems from a confusion of philosophies and labels - a confusion that has existed for a long time, but in 1968 reached a climax. The confusion is well typified in the career of Mr. Johnson as President. He went into office with the near unanimous support of the people. He carried out his pledge. An unprecedented wave of social legislation became law. Untold billions of federal dollars have been committed to programs of health and welfare, education, urban rehabilitation, a broad war on poverty and environmental improvement. All of these things have been produced under the label of liberalism. In fact, liberalism has become nearly synonymous with the outpouring of governmental tax funds and broad expansion of government powers. This in itself is perhaps the most confusing and contradictory phenomenon of our times. Historically, liberalism is the antithesis of authoritarian government. Many reasons have been given for Mr. Johnson's eclipse in popularity, of which the Viet Nam war ranks high. Yet. he brought into full flower the highly popular philosophy of government responsibility for solving social and economic problems. Some call it the welfare state. There is no reason to doubt that Mr. Johnson was sincerely striving to give the people what they thought they wanted. Measured by legislation, he was largely successful. Logically, he should have looked forward to tranquility and strong support. Instead, he got riots. Before the end of his first full term as an elected President of the United States, he fell so low in popular esteem he was compelled to announce that he would not be a candidate for reelection. It is difficult to believe the Viet Nam war is wholly accountable for the sudden reversal of Mr. Johnson's politcal fortunes. His misfortune - if it may be called that - could be a symptom of national confusion in a day when love of country is considered juvenile by many, patriotism corny, and Presidents are chosen on the strength of their ability to keep everybody happy. The decline in Mr. Johnson's popularity accelerated when the cost, both in inflation and taxes, of the government's increasing dominance began to be felt. As a new President prepares to take office, we hear a great deal about the task before him of "bringing the country together." Judgment is being withheld until people can see how he performs. Perhaps it might be well in the coming months for the people to look inward and judge themselves. Our country will become what the people make it. Unless we are ready to accept a dictatorship, we should cease expecting the President of the United States to be all things to all men. He is a fellow citizen filling one of the world's toughest and most dangerous jobs. In the long run, the President can but reflect the philosophy and purpose of the people. We should not ask the new President to perform like a monkey on a stick. We should ask, what is our philosophy? Do we believe in a government of laws? Do we believe in local initiative? Do we believe in the responsibilities, as well as the rights and liberties of the individual? Do we believe in the American system? The future of the country depends on our answers to these questions. The man in the White House cannot answer them for us. Nineteen hundred and sixty-nine may prove to be a year of testing of people, not a President - people who sadly need a renewed sense of purpose based on the ideals and principles of self - government. The faculty of the University of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering assisted the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City. Guatemala, in developing a regional center for sanitary engineering education in Central America and Panama. Sixteen officers of the U.S. Army have been assigned to duty as graduate students in radiological health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health Six officers in the U S Public Health Service also have been in the program. About 80 per cent of the financial support of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill comes from non-state sources. The Institute for Environmental Health Studies at the University of North Carolina involves seven departments on the Chapel Hill campus and one department at N.C. State University in Raleigh. mo fl , if -v.-..- v. ' j- r. . Y sr-i. J 5. fi'w v ..:;: .- . Ik Arti. ScmctjlMir- YOU AND THE By William Friday, President University of North Carolina UNIVERSITY AC WADTU PA Dm IUA V Wl nvii ill vnnvhiiin The University of North Carolina's educational tele vision service, begun in 1955, will emerge in 11169 as an even greater university resource which will have a significant potential in meeting the State's growing educational requirement!. Since 1955, the University has operated an educational television station, WUNC-TV, Channel 4, Chapel Hill, serving the central area of the State. WUND-TV Columbia, Channel 2, was added in 1965, enlarging coverage to the eastern part of the State. NETWORK EXPANDED Three new transmitters in the western part of the State were added to the ETV Net work in the fall of 1967, cover ing a big area of western and piedmont North Carolina. The stations added in 1967 all UHF (ultra-high fre quency) channels are WUNE TV, Linville, Channel 17; WUNF-TV, Asheville, Chan nel 33; and WUNG-TV, Con cord, Channel 68. These studios and transmit ters are providing program ming to 78 per cent of North Carolina's more than 5.000,000 citizens, televised instruction to 78,000 students in the public schools, and the broadcast of public events of State-wide importance. The 1967 General Assembly appropriated S1.8S6.nnn to ex tend the network further to Winston-Salem, Wilmington, Farmi ille-Kinston. and Frank lin area. When completed. 90 per rent of the population of the State will have educational television service, additional thousands of school children will rereiie inntruction plan ned by the State Department of Public Inatructton, and citizens will hear the Gover nor's messages, apeclal ses aions of the General Assembly, and view many other major occasions in the life of the State. INSCHOOL COURSES In addition to the University and network programming, in school education courses to the public schools televised by the University stations are produced in cooperation with the State' Department of Public Instruction. Five such courses are being offered again this year; eighth grade mathematics, ninth grade physical science, tenth grade world history, eleventh grade U. S. history, and pri mary science. Along with the In-school courses, the five transmitters carry simultaneous program ming from the three campus studies at North Carolina State at Raleigh, the Univer sity at Greensboro, and the University at Chapel Hill. Among the instructional cn'irses offered last year were "Social History of the United States."; "Adult Farmer Edu cation"; "Basic Concrete Ter minology"; "Basic Electricity "Electronics)"; "English: Fact or Fancy"; "Developing Com munications Skills (Industrial Training)"; and "New Ap proaches to Production, Engi neering and Management." One of the most popular of the University's educational television programs la North Carolina "News Conference," televised each Monday night at 7 p.m. The moderator is Richard Hatch, Chief of the Raleigh Bureau of United Press International, who Is Joined by news reporters and editora from across the State in Interviewing those best informed on the top news stories each week. Among those interviewed in recent months have been Governor Robert W. Scott, former Governor Dan K. Moore, and others prominent in the life of our State. NEW DEVELOPMENTS In commenting on new developments in University educational TV during 1969, Henry W. Lewis, vice president-university relations, who is in charge of ETV for the fourfold University, said: "The most significant pro graming change in the New Year will be the initiation of a live series of national net work telecasts." Beginning this month. Vice President Lewis announced, the five university television stations will form a part of the nation's new live inter connected network of public television stations. The new network was arranged by the Corporation for Public Broad casting, the American Tele phone and Telegraph Com pany, National Educational Television (N.E.T.), the Na tional Association of Educa tional Broadcasters, and other organizations. In the past, Mr. Lewis explained, there have been occasional live interconnected retwork programs on Univer sity Television, but most N ET. programs were broad cast from video tape shipped ti us. The new interconnected network will initially be In operation five nights a week Sunday through Thursday 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Most of the pro grams on University Television during those hours will come from the network line. NETWORK PROGRAMS Among the top-ranking net work programs are the "NET Journal," which features docu mentaries, special reports, and programs on the most pressing issues of our times; "NET Festival," a weekly telecast of the best in art, music and dance; and "NET Play house," a program of television dramas, feature films and stage productions, produced in the United States and abroad. Other network program! deal with consumer reports, news interpretation by mem bers of The New York Times staff, public affairs, advances in medicine and science, and topics that have practical application in our daily lives. Studios are located at the University of North Carolina In Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greene boro, and North Carolina State University at Raleigh. tUIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIII IIMIIIIIIIIMMINIIIinMlllllll UIMIIfltllllMIMIIItllllllllllltlMIIIIMIIMIIIIMItlltlllllllMMMIIIIIIIIIllMIIIIIMIIIMM 1 1 3 Puppy Creek Philosopher i Dear editai : I don't like to be considered as being against progress, as i mailer of fact I've always wanted a tractor with disap earing headlights and a car that'd run for ten years on one small block of atomic energy, with tires that grew thicker instead of thinner and a hood thal'd re-shape itself every year to keep up with the stylet, so don't get me wrong when I question a space scientist i peculiar argument in fasor of exploring list moon. According to his argument which I read in a newspaper last night, going to the moon is exactly as important as Columbus' discovers of America, and the people who are questioning the 24 billion dollars it look to get there are the same type of people who questioned the few thousand dollar! it look lo get Columbus across the ocean and back. Understand, I think we ought to keep on exploring space and I think the three astronauts who made it to the moon and back are genuine lieroei. but you reckon the human race will get the same return on the moon trip as it did on the Columbus trip? Twenty thousand dollars to open up America was I good investment, but 24 billion to open up the moon? Have you seen the pictures of that ait-less ball of rock? Or. as one of the avtronuals put it. that "big bunch of nothing"? The moon has spacious skies ail right but it's short on fruited plains. I'm afraid the spice scientists are using the wrong arguments. They're going lo have to go beyond the moon and find something belter before they're up on the same financial level Is C olumbus If Queen Isabella had taken a mortgjgc on everything Columbus discovered and all his heir! and assigns, do you have any idea what she'd be worth today? She tailed to do it. though, and Washington wound up with the mortgage. Yoiiis faithfullv. J A lllllllllllllllltllllHMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHNIIIIIIIIIIIIHHHUllll Just One Thing After Another By Carl Cuerch This is one of John Bragaw't stories and whether it h actually true or not. it it a good siory. If I were operating a itore I think I should like to employ lite young lady clerk someone was telling me about the other night, he relates. One of these very important ladies who know' everything there it to be known - we will call her Mrs. Lallapaloosa -entered a store and approached the glove counter. "Let'i tee tome of your black kid gloves," the laid with an imperiouiair. "These are not the latett ttyle, are they?" the asked the girl who brought out the gloves. "Oh, yes, Madam. We have had them in stock only two days," replied lite young lady. Well, the fashion notet in last night's paper lay black kidi have tan stitches and vice versa." The salesgirl'! eyci sparkled and without a moment'! hesitation she said, "Oh, you tee, Vice versa' it French for 'one button,' and that it what these are." Whereupon Mrs. L. bought three pairs. Looking through an old newspaper (1843) we came across the following account recently: AtRIAL VOYAGE Mr. John Wise, the Aeronaut, gives notice through The Lancaster Intelligencer, in an article over his own signature, that in the summer of 1844 he shall endeavor to make an aerial voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. He says: "Having from a long experience in aerostatics been convinced that a regular current of air is blowing all the time from W. to t. with a velocity of from 20 to 40 miles perhour, according to its height from the earth, I leel confident that a trip ucrosi the Atlantic will not be attended with as much real danger ui by lite common mode of transition." Hit ballon it 100 feet in diameter, giving a net ascending power of 25,000 pounds. A seaworthy bout it to be used for the car. the crew is to consist of an aeronaut, u navigator, and a scientific landman. In the tame paper it the note that in the counties of hdgecomb and Nath there are 5,094 white persons over 20 years of age. of whom 2,d3 1 can neither read nor write. Three big fires are reported in the paper: The wont fire in (he history of Wilmington visited that city last week. A small house caught afire and a hurricane blew tlie llames to adjoining structures until at one time it looked at though the entire city would be destroyed. More than two hundred houses were destroyed. The Railroad Company also suffered greatly. The depot buildings were destroyed and so were five locomotives and several can. A bridge, a mile from the city, wat burned by a flake carried thither by the wind. It it estimated that Ihe loss will be in excess of $300,000. On Friday night last the courthouse of Montgomery County with every book and paper belonging to the offices of the two clerks and register, was totally destroyed by fire. A destructive fire visited New Bern last Tuesday at 2 o'clock, p.m. Fanned by a wind of half-gale force, the flames spread along Craven Street and South Front Street. One Hundred and twenty buildings were destroyed, including 50 dwellings, 8 stores, 13 warehouses and numerous barm and other structures. IIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIINfllllllUIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIHUIIIHIIIIIUIIMH CLIFF BLUE... People & Issues 1 " J lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltNlllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIH TERRY - Whether Hubert Humphrey actually offered to recommend Terry Sanford for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee we are not quite sure, but we do feel that the former Tarheel governor stated his case well when he said: "I just felt that it'l not really where I ought to be spending my time. North Carolina il my primary interest and getting involved in a political organization on a nationwide basis in a professional capacity is just not what I should be doing, or, really what I am qualified to do." We are sure that Terry was advised by many of his Tarheel friends in addition to Margaret Rose, his astute wife, that hit future opportunities for political advancement and service would be greater in North Carolina than in heading up the ultra liberal Democratic National Committee. KLNM.DY MOVES - While Senator bdmund Muskie was demurring. Sen. I'd ward Kennedy moved in and in a lew short dayt won the post of Democratic Whip from Sen. Richard Long in Ihe U. S. Senate. By moving out when Ihe outlook for success did not look encouraging, and winning, Senator Kennedy has leap-frogged over both Humphrey and Muskie as the number one contender for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1972, and if we were asked lo make a prediction of who the Democratic nominee would be lor president - three and one-half years in advance we would say Senator Ld. Kennedy. We also predict that both Humphrey and Muskie will be vsiiia lor the nomination. ' HOVU.AND - with Taihecl lite being snuffed out on our roads and highways at a much taster rate than they are being claimed in Vietnam, no one can do what he would like in but credit mtt he given lo Ralph How land retiring Director ot the Motor Vehicles Department "with as good a record on highway salety as anyone could have hoped for," to quote the Charlotte Observer. Howland himself well staled the case when he said: "Until (lie public makes up its mind that it wants to reduce highway deaths, the slate and federal government! can do very little." The real question confronting the highway safety is: Are people willing to pay the cost of highway safely by supporting more stringent safety laws like mandatory suspension of driver's licenses for speeding and careless and reckless driving? But the Motor Vehicles Department must be the vanguard in our crusade for highway safety - pricking at the cunsciout of our people for the need for public support for measures designed to reduce massacre on our highways. ELECTORAL CHANCE Senator Muskie did not endear himself to many who are firm believers in the U. S. Constitution by attempting to get the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives to override Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey's constitutional right to twitch from Nixon to George Wallace. We do not argue that Dr. Bailey was right in twitching his vote. But this mutt be remembered: Dr. Bailey it not serving at a U. S. Senator; lie has not been candidate of major party for vice president and he is not now eying the presidential nomination in 1972 -factt which have a lol of bearing on what a man does and savi. Tilt PL'LBLO - By reading verses 6 and 7 of the 2tMh chapter of Genesis we can find rrciiy good precedent for ommander Bucher making a false statement lo secure the freedom of ihe Pueblo crew after eleven months of harassment and mistreatment. Genesis has this to say: "So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. Wlicn the men of t lie place asked him about his wife, he said. "She it mv sister": for he feared lo sa'v. "My wife." thinking, "lest ihe men of the place should kill me for tlie sake ot Rehekah":
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