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Clie cYlew^ - journal 1 MT1MULJ1IWMKR rwi nan sen KM MSTAMHM WWO-1I7I ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Ratford, N. C. 28376 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Yeer - S4.00 6 Months - S2.2S 3 Months - SI.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher-Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager LAURIE TELFAIR Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second -Clan Pottage Paid at Raeford, N. C. Your Award - Winning Community Newspaper "It is better tu light one candle,than to curse the darkness" Lesson From North Carolina I thought maybe it was the beard, and the long hair. Or the striped bell ? bottoms and square - toe mod boots. It could have been that "Yankee" address on my driver's license with the crewcut picture that doesn't even look like me. And when I said i was a newspaper columnist, I swear he half sneered. I was nice, cooperative and honest about the whole thing. Really. I agreed that I was "probably" going loo fast. I didn't argue. I tried to explain that I'd been used to fast driving on the Michigan freeways and wasn't really paying any attention to the 65 limit. 1 even told him I was glad he stopped me and I sure wouldn't do it again and wouldn't he consider letting me off with a warning? Trooper W. C. Saunders just kept right on writing the North Carolina Uniform Traffic Ticket. It was the Sunday after Christmas a patented gold ? and ? blue Carolina morning, glorious, balmy, full of that "everything's right with the world" smell. We were driving between grandmothers one in ? Lexington, N. C., and the other in Spartanburg, S. C. - on Intercalate 85, a major North ? South traffic spine. Friends told us the trip would take three hours, but I'd ligtiicd on two and one ? half because of light traffic and "you know how you nudge 'cr on up there when traffic's light and the conditions arc gi>od." I was nudging all right. Trooper Saunders really shocked me I nevci saw Inm parked by the road. I didn't even see him fall in behind me. Never looked in the rear ? view mirror. The first thing I noticed was his blinking blue "eye" over my left shoulder. Beryl and the kids were shocked, too. Well, maybe not Beryl. She'd had to warn me a couple limes about "too fast, don't vou think." Trooper Saunaers invited me back to his car. It sure wasn't just to "set a spell." He showed me his VASCAR machine which clocks and records how fast you arc going. I was doing 77 in a 65 ? mile zone. Twelve measly lU.tle.old miles too fast, I thought. I told him my story. His machine and steadily writing hand told me his. He also explained that I would have to follow him right then and there into Magistrate R. W. Terrell's office in Gastonia to pay my fine or make other arrangements. I asked turn how much it was going to be and he said, by law, lie wasn't peimilted to tell me. but we'd find out soon enough. As I got back into out cat. Beryl asked. "Well0" "He was a real smait mouth," I said defensively, lie wasn't. He really had been very nice, as a matter of fact, but I was mad. At who? Everybody. In my mind I even blamed North Carolina for having such good roads that youi speed slips up on you before you rcqli/e it. They never catch those guys I really see speeding 90 miles an hour. I blamed Detroit for making cars with 120 on the speedometer. Why don't they make them to go 65 and that's all? I was blaming the trooper's wife and kids for bugging him at breakfast.... "You know whose fault it is, don't you?" Beryl asked in a way that answered the question. I paid the S24 fine and the friendlv magistrate wanted to chat about the snowy Detroit Lions ? Minnesota Viking game he'd seen on television and was it really that cold? The trooper and the magistrate weren't evil ogres, making a killing off a notorious "speed trap." They were jut worried about motorists killing each other off. Trooper Saunders didn't want to pull me over. But lie also didn't want to have to pull some crumpled kids' bodies out of the wreck with some crumpled Christmas packages. He didn't care if my beard and hair hung down to my waist. I could have been wearing sec - through pink foi all lie cared. My address and profession didn't mallei. To him a car is a car each one capable of killing and maiming and crippling. Each one cupabk' of going loo fast. It didn't matter whether it was I 2, 22 or 42 miles an hour too fast. All are against the law and the signs are posted everywhere, telling you so. It cost mc S24 to slow down maybe the first time I really slowed down in the entire surging decade and thought about speed. Maybe it will.be the best lesson I learned in the Sixties. It redefined "limit" for me. It means "to live." I hope you'll meet your Trooper Saunders sometime soon. But don't blame him. Thank him. By Bob Talbert. Del mil Fret- I'ress, as reprinted in The Mews and Observer. Browsing in the files of Tho Nows-Journal 25 years ago February 1, 1945 Word was received here Friday by Mrs. Joe Hancock tliat her husband. Sergeant Joe Hancock, had been killed in action in France. She had previously been notified that iie had been missing in action. Sgt. Hancock was serving with the 45th Division in Seventh Army. He was the son of Mr and Mrs. W.S. Hancock of Greensboro and the husband of tlie former Margaret Morris of Raeford. Pfc. Ralph D. Parks of Shannon writes that he has safely arrived in England. Cpls. Eugene R. Seaford and Joseph M. Pickler have returned to Camp Chaffee, Ark., after spending several days furlough with tlteir parents. C.E. Morrison, U.S. Navy, who has just returned from 18 months in the Pacific, and Mrs. Morrison, the former Rosa Brown, spent a few days with Mrs. G.W. Brown. Thomas F. Davis, Jr., seaman aecond class, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Davis, spent the week end at home. Families of boys going into service should turn in their ration books within five days after they are inducted. Reuben Dubose, district manager of Carolina Power A Light Co., said tlse company would cooperate fully witn the War Production Board's "ferown-ottt" order which i effective Feb. I and la help Rretch the country's lltin supply of coal. ? ?? Becoming Star Scouts at a Court of Honor last Thursday were Joe Gulledge, Jr., Buddy Blue, Milton Mann, Jimmy Sinclair, Paul Johnson, Neill McNeill and Bobby McNeill. ? ?? Showing at the Raeford Theatre, "Fighting Seabees," starring John Wayne. ? ?? Pender's advertises fine Florida grapefruit, 3 for 20 cents. 15 years ago February 3, 1955 Earle Edwards, new football coach at N.C. State College, was the main speaker at a regular dinner meeting of the Hoke County State College Club Monday night at the J.B. Thomas pond. Forty-two were present. ??? J.W. Bowman is a patient at Moore County Hospital. ??? The sixth annual Eesentation of the Raeford wanis Club's "Man of the Year" award fcas made to Truman B. Austin at the annual "Ladies Night" last Thursday. Austin, in the dirt moving and grading business here since the war, is a member of the town board and commander of the American Legion post. A Baptist, his (lobbies include auail hunting and driving speed boats. ??? At the Kiwanis meeting Lt. Gov. J. Benton Thomas awarded 25-year service pins to Dr. R.L. Murray. Dr. R.A. Matheson. Israel Mann and D.H. Hodgin. Mr. and. Mrs. Paul De/erne spent the weekend in Chapel Hill. ? ?? Jimmy White of UNC, Chapel Hill, spent the weekend with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dean White John McLauchlin of Davidson College, spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. H.C. McLauchlin. 5 years ago February 4, 1965 The county commissioners have rejected the ABC board's request to purchase the ABC store building, being rented at a cost of S250 per month. Harold Gillis, local realtor and vice chairman of the county commissioners, has been selected as the Kiwanis Club's "Citizen of the Year." Sgt. Major Paul Burnett retired as sergeant, major of tlie second brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, after over 23 years of service. Married to the former Briggs Wood of Raeford. Burnett lives on North Main Street. Farace Oxendine. basketball coach at Hawk Eye School, was slain Sunday afternoon by a slwtgun blast at Cooler Bug Lowery's store in Raft Swamp Township of Robeson County. Recorder's Court Judge Joe Dupree this week cracked down on habitual offenders. W.L. Poole is a patient at Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville. Murph Davis is home from N.C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Gentlemen prefer blondes, bat marry brunettes /At Carolina Dog Shows Let Dog Loyers See The Best By Laurie Telfair A big season is coming up lor Carolina dog fanciers with an important dog show circuit starting next week and another in March. The Carolina winter circuit will begin with an all - breed dog show in Winston-Salem Feb. 13. in Charlotte, Feb. 14; in Greenville. S.C. Feb. 15 and end in Spartanburg, S.C. on Feb. 16. In March, the Tarheel circuit will start off in Roanoak, Va., Mar. 16 with all ? breed and obdience; Danville, Va., Mar. 17 all - breed; Greensboro, Mar. 18, all - breed; Burlington, Mar. 19, all ? breed and obedience; Durham, Mar. 20, all - breed and obedience; Raleigh, Mar. 21, all ? breed and obedience and Fayettcvillc, Mar. 22, all - breed. A circuit draws a good many champions among dogdom to tire area and thus makes it a better show for the interested bystanders as they can see a number of the well ? known dogs from throughout the country. These canine celebrctics arc usually handled in the ring by professionals. Grooming a dog to perfection and then parading it around a 40 fool ring may not be a common vocation but it is a business, none - the - less, for the score or more professional handlers who attend any given show. Fees for their service usually range from S30 to S50 or more a show, plus entry fees, boarding and grooming fees. For the dog owner who can afford it. the prioc of a professional is often worth it, iiowcver. No dog meets the standard of its breed perfectly, so the trick is to show off its good points while calling the least amount of attention to its faults. It is in this that professional knowledge can make the difference between a good dog and a champion. Most of the dogs shown, however, arc exhibited by their owners, and there are a number of champions who have been handled exclusively__Jby -a member of the family. Many youngsters show their dogs and most shows hold two special classes for junior showmen. These are divided into a class for 8 to 12 year olds and one for youngsters 13 to 16. Winners in these classes can acquire points entitling them to show for lop prizes at the Westminister Kennel Club show in New York City. Young handlers may also show their dogs in the regular classes and lltere is at least one champion, a Labrador Retreivcr, who has been shown to his championship by the teen-agers in his family. Any dog that is registered with live American Kennel Club may be entered in a dog show if it is more than 6 monihs old. However, the number of pets that arc also successful show dogs is very small. This is not to say that a show dog can't be a good pet, though. The difference lies in the closeness the pet and the show dog come to the breed standard, which is established by AKC. For those who arc considering buying a pedigreed pet, a dog show is a good place to stait looking, for there you cjn see animals in the breed thai represent the standard. You may see some very good dogs and some very bad ones and it is best to be able to tell the difference before you buy. Of course, the typical fancier bitten with the dog show urge bought his pot first, then become interested in the breed and went from there. Obedience trails offer a means of competition for owners of pet dogs who can't make it in the show ring. There arc three levels of training in obedience representing the three degrees given by AKC. The first is Companion Dog. CD: the next level is Companion Dog lixcellcnt; and the highest degree in I'tility Dog UD. Tlicre are obedience training clubs all over the US which train newcomers to the sport and also sponsor trials. In this area, classes arc available thiec times a year in Fayelicvillc and once a year in Southern Pines. The kids really come out well in obedience, often walking off with lite top prizes. Some 4-H clubs even have their own training clubs and sponsor matches. For those interested in dogs, the next two months offer a good chance to see some good dogs and maybe get into a new hobby. STORIES BEHIND WORDS by William S. Penfleld TAWnnv Etheldreda, an Anglian princess, founded a monastery in 673 on the Isle of Ely and became the monastery's first abbess. In ,timc the town that was to become Ely, England, sprang up around the monastery. Centuries later, Etheldreda, or Audrey as she had been popularly called, became the patron saint of Fly. A fair was held annuallv on October 17 in her honor. Many flashy articles were sold at the fair, but the most popular was a lace necklet called "St. Audrey's lace." By running the words together, "St. Audrey s lace was shortened to "tawdry lace," and "tawdry" became associated with anything gaudy or showy. * 5? Philosopher Deat editar: All governments from town* to cities to states and on up to Washington, arc always looking for newviurcrs of tax revenue and I have just found one in a newspaper that blew across my face as I stepped out tlte back door the oilier morning and which I pulled off fast as no man in his right mind will go out my back door blindfolded on account of that loose board. It's the second one from the top. Or was yesterday. Another one may be loose by now. According to it, South Vietnam has been charging and we'va been paying 10 to 13 million dollar! a year in taxea on property such aa food and supplies and ammunition we've got stored there to defend the country against North Vietnam. People talk about those backward Asian countries but somebody over there ain't so dumb. Whoever thought up llse idea of taxing us for helping them is a genius But I don't see why we can't learn from tlie mysterious East and use this idea ourselves. For example, take lug most big highways are in great part by the Federal government. All right. IT a highway comet through a county, why can't the county tax the highway? It may sound preposterous, but why not ughways. financed follow ihc Asian mind and send Washington a bill and see what happens? Who knows, if it reaches ihe same office that's paying U. S. taxes in South Vietnam we might get a clieck back in the next mail. If it works, t lie lid is off. There are Federal projects and buildings all over the nation, every town has a post office ~ say, there's an idea. Tax the post office. Tax Ihe welfare office. Tax tlac Red Cross. Tax tire Internal offices Tax the state legislature. Tax the Governor's mansion. The field is unlimited. Yours faithfully. J. A. Just One Thing After Another By Ctrl Goerch Note to the telephone company: In your Raleigh directory you have the name of Bane lilted with the reference: "Bane, tee alio Bain." The only thing we could find under the lining of Bain waa "Bain, aee alio Bane." Some yeara ago we had a radio aula broadcaat on Fayetteville Street in Raleigh in which we gave away a dollar for every right answer to queationa asked of peaaeraby. A young lade came up to the microphone one Saturday and we aaked her to aupply the laat name when we gave her the firit name and the middle name of a very famoui per ion. "Well, I'll try," ahe laid with a giggle. "All right; here we go. Hia first name woa John and hia middle name waa Paul. Wliat waa Ilia laat name?" Site thought for a moment and then taid: "I'm afraid 1 don't know. I don't believe I ever heard of tlte man. However, if you want me to make a wild guess, I'll do so." We told Iter to go ahead. "How about Jones?" she aaked, with another giggle. We gave her a dollar, and she told us after the broadcast that it was a guess pure and simple. Mrs. L.W. Kidd of Stalesville tent us a society item which appeared in The Stalesville Landmark. Part of it reads like this: "The bride's mother wore a black crepe dress, trimmed in velvet, and the bridegroom's mother wore a cut (lie wedding cake, which was served with punch and decorated sandwiches. Mrs. Donald Key poured punch." Punch was all right, of course, but with the bridegroom's mother dressed like that, we think that something a little stronger than punch should have been served. Mr. Joseph Inscoe of Castalia sent this in and the more I read it the better I like it: The Rest of tlte Road By Don Blanding If tlte rest of the road is half as good As the half that has gone before I'll swing along with the singing heart Ana pray the Lord for more. I ease my bones at the Halfway House And turn my remembering gaze From tlte twisting paths that my feet have sought To tlte new untrodden ways. How long? How far? How hard? How fine? How heavy or light the load? If it's half as good as the half I've known Here's Hail! ... to the rest of the road. CUFF BLUE ? ? ? People & Issues JUDICIAL CONTESTS ...It is not likely that a gicat deal of interest will be created in the state ? wide contests in North Carolina in 1970. although the opportunity will be there for contests for some of the Slate Supreme Court Justices as well as three of the Judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Also, there will be several Superior Court Judges nominated on a district level but elected on a slate ? wide basis. State Supreme Court justices who will be up for reelection will be Chief Justice William H. Bobbin and Associate Justice Dan K. Moore. Moore will be running for the four - year unexpired term of the late Chief Justice Parker and Chief Justice Bobilt will be running for a new eight year tcim. The three new members of tire Court of Appeals who will face the voters this year arc liarl Vaughn, W. h.Grahunt, Jr., and R. A. licdrick. Hcdrick already lias primary opposition in the person of Superior Court Judge Harry O. Martin of Ashevillc who last week announced his candidacy. Two years ago Chief Judge Raymond Mallard of the Stale Court of Appeals was opposed in lIk Democratic primary bv Kidd Brewer of Raleigh. Mallard received 424.837 votes to 152,604 for Brewer. Judge Naomi F.. Morris was opposed in iIk primaiy by Walter C. Hoi ton. Judge Morris won in a close race receiving 283,345 votes in Holton's 260,385. Thus far we have heard of no opposition to Court of Appeals Judges Graham or Vaughn but between now and February 20 many things can happen. ASSEMBLY RAChS ...Indications arc that fewer State Representatives and Senators will be seeking reelection this year than usual. One reason that some arc electing to slay at home is that their records in favor of additional taxes for the public and pension funds and retroactive pay for themselves are issues that they prefci not to go before the people with at this particular time. LINDSAY WARRLN, JR. ...Lindsay Warren Jr.'s decision not to seek reelection will remove one of the ablest, if not the ablest member from the Senate. Lindsay is a man who has the courage of his convictions and vimetimes his convictions were not too popular with the people. For instance he voted against Last Carolina's name change to Last Carolina University and to oppose Last Carolina is about as popular in tltc hast as to support school busing to achieve integration. But after voting against elevating Last Carolina to "University" status in 1967 Lindsay was able to return to the Senate in 1968 without primary opposition! SEVENTY DISTRICT ...Willi C liar lie Rose III entry as a candidate I'm the Democratic nomination lor Congress in the Ninth District Rep. Alton Lennon will be lacing his first major opposition since he was elected to Congrcvs in 1956 by defeating the late I rtle Carlylc of Lumberlon. Rose has had a survey conducted to determine the feeling of the people on the major issues of the day. lie has just completed a term as State YDC President, lie is reported to have the backing of the Terry Sanford wing of the party. NINTH DIS'IRICI ... In the Ninth Congressional District Professor William P. Jackson, Jr. of Davidson College has elected to seek the Democratic nomination to carry the banner for the Democrats in the fall election against Charles K. Jonas, Jr., the "Mr. Republican" of Tar Heel politics. Jonas, first elected to Congress in 1952 has become so strong in his districts that in 1968 the IX'mocrals did not field a candidate for his place. In 1966 Jonas received 56,382 votes against Demoeial John (i. Plumides' 22,465 when the district was composed of Anson, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Richmond and Union counties. The District is now composed of Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and Wilkes counties. 1 he dapper Davidson political science professor is a brilliant young man and may well poll more votes than some feel that he will at this time. Sometimes sympathy goes to the underdog in political contests as evidenced by the suiprisingly strong showings made by Senator l.ugene McCarthy in presidential primaries in 1968. But like Sum Lrvin lor the Democrats in I lie slate. Charlie Jonas a proven- to be a powerful vole ? getter hi tire ninth district. IIICHI.R I.DLCA I ION. . . Some wag lias said "The Baptists have their Wake Purest: tlic Methodists have tlicir Duke University; the Presbyterians have tlicir Davidson College; and the tpisco palians huvetheir Malcolm X. Liberation University!" The Hopi Indians of Arizona spend 15 days in complex preparation for thejr famed Snake Dance, a prayer for rain, according to the National Geographic Society book, VaniehHtf Peoples of the Earth.
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