?mar, South Carolina,
suggested the blame for such demented
acts must be shared by our national
leaders, especially those who have been
talking equivocally about the
Government's commitment to the
equality of all its citizens. The editorial
singled out Senator Thurmond and Vice
President Agnew, who, it said, "have
been playing with matches in public for
some time now, and yet they want us to
know immediately and for the record
that if there is one thing they deplore
it's fire."
Beside it was an article entitled "One
Way of Saying 'No More Death'," which
applauded, with reservations, the anti -
war protesters who have invaded draft
centers and ransacked defense ?
companies' offices to dramatize their
conviction that when life is at stake,'
marching is not enough. The article
approvingly quoted Hov
professor of politica
University: "... At
enlightened citizens i
they know the diffc
and justice, betwee|
, what is right ..
These two items
American automob:
delight in conjuring
and claw and hoof v
give to their produc
thus be tough and li
some recent resea
savage image the
.pussycat.
The research, doi
Institute for High
that eve
lat
Mr. Agnew and Senator Thurmond,
though we wouldn't equate them, may
have said things that encouraged some
of their listeners to violence. Such
people are easily encouraged. They are.
after, all every bit as self - righteously
zealous as the people who rip up draft
offices. They believe they know the
difference "between what is legal and
what is right."
Which has always been our difficulty
understanding how anyone can advocate
setting the individual conscience above
the law. We don't say the law is always
wise, just or moral, but if you excuse
the office - ransackers then you must
also pardon the race warriors, and after
them the people who set bombs in
public buildings, and eventually anyone
else who can claim a veneer of morality
for his whims.
We appreciate that what the Post
?sts because all that bold and beautiful
:et metal work crumbles like so much
foil. For example, the 10 mph
Impact of one car into a plywood -
JM|Cpv?*"*H concrete wall caused damage
1^4 posting S815 to repair. The former
director of the National Highway Safety
wgaBureau, Dr. William Haddon Jr..
??interprets this as meaning American cars
Bare to "delicate." That's a delicate
iAp interpretation.
UK Even a real pussycat could fare better
wm* in a 10 mnh <?nlliciAn
n the files
Th? Nows-Journal
March IS, 1945
E van de r H. McNeill,
prominent business man and
farmer of Raeford, died at
about nine o'clock last night
after an illness of about two
years. He was 77.
Pfc. John D. Stubbs ol
Rock fish has been awarded I he
combat infantryman's badge
for participation in action
against (he enemy with (lie
88th Division in Italy.
Pvt. Clayton Buoycr has
completed basic training at
Camp Blanding. Ha., and is
spending a furlough with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Buoyer, after which he will
report to Fort Meade. Md.
Pvt. Dan Campbell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Campbell,
has completed his basic
training at Camp Wheeler. Ga.
and is at home on furlough. He
will report back to Fori Meade.
Md.
T-5 Matho D. Cunningham,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R.C.
Cunningham, who is serving in
Italy, was recently awarded the
Good Conduct Medal.
#???
A release from New York
reports that the song being
made popular by the Andrews
rfsteit, "Rum and Coca Cola,"
was written for and about lite
2S2nd Coast Artillery while it
was servirg in Trinidad, British
Wsat Indies.
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Small grain should be top
Pressed at once with 61 to 32
pounds of soluble nitrogen per
acre, says A.S. Knowles,
county agent.
Sgt. and Mrs. Jolui K.
McNeill, Jr., of Greenville. S.C.
left Tuesday after several days
visit with his parents here.
15 years ago
March 17. 1955
Two local residents were
seen on television in the past
week. Rep. Harry Greene
appeared in a telecast of the
legislature in session and had
the privilege of escorting Gen.
Kenneth C. Royall to the
speaker's stand when the
general paid the lawmakers a
visit. Greene well knows just
how much Royall did in saving
this county's land from the
Army year before last. . The
other telecast, the one we
couldn't see. was yesterday
afternoon when Lewis
Upchurch, inventor and
manufacturer of the
Soak-O-Ho, eight purpose
garden tool, appeared from the
studio of a TV station in
Richmond, Va., for a
demonstration and explanation
of the tool.
A/2C Bobby Lundy. son of
Mr. and Mrs. AJ. Lundy. who
is stationed in Korea, has 'seen
promoted to A/1C. He is
expected home soon.
K.I). Lowe entered Moore
County Hospital last Thursday.
Larry McNeill, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J.L. McNeill, was
named winner of I he annual
NS& I k e r Casey award in
ceremonies at the McCallie
School in Chattanooga. Tenn.,
last week. The award is one of
the highest a cadet may achieve
at McCallie.
T.C. Jones, principal of the
Mildouson School and district
governor of Ruritan,
represented Ruritan Clubs al a
state health conference in
Greenville Thursday
5 years ago
March 18. 1965
Sadie Culbreth McLean
(Mrs. H.R.) Ijas been chosen by
the Home Demonstration Club
County Council and the
Chaminade Music Club to be
Hoke County's nominee for
the North Carolina "Mother of
the Year".
Sergeant First Class Roger
W. Dixon was honored at the
18th anniversary banquet of
the local National Guard unit
last Saturday night for 16 years
of outstanding service as the
units administrative and supply
technician. In addition to
members of I lie unit, all his
former company and battalion
commanders were present. The
unit was federally recognized
on March 10. 1947.
Floyd A. Monroe, 79. died
last Thursday at his home on
Raeford, Route two.
Speaking of unpopular wars
v.
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Taxpayers Chi
Million Dollar
By Laurie Telfair
While reading over some
material on beautification
given to my by Miss Josephine
Hall, county representative to
the Governor's Committee on
Beautification, I came upon
i yw to keep
highways clean by using
148 three - men crews at a cost
of SI2,367.00 a crew. In Hoke
County, it cost S20.000 a year
to clean highways. That is a lot
of S50 littering fines.
One cubic foot of exposed
garbage will breed 70,000 Hies.
A highway research board of
the National Academy of Cities
ran a study recently on litter.
In North Carolina the Research
Triangle Institute took part .
Litter, they found, is
composed of 50 9? paper
products; 169? cans; 69? plastic
containers; 69? bottles and jars
and 139? miscellaneous (this
included washing machines, old
refrigerators, dead animals and
the like).
The same survey found tlut
during every-30 days, there are
1,304 pieces of litter discarded
to each highway mile.
A Gallup poll tried to find
out who littered - which
turned out to be almost
everyone at one time or
another. They found no
marked distinction in ethnic
groups or religious or economic
groups. There was, however, a
significant difference in sex
and age. Men, it was found
litter twice as much as women
And men between the ages ol
21 and 35 litter twice as much
as men 35 to 50 and three
times as much as those 50 anc
older.
Furthermore, large familie<
are more inclined to littel1
small families and run
small ? town dwellers ar^j
more apt to litter.
Forty ? eight billionj
proof cans and twenty
billion nondegradable
are
' eight mum of Utter which San
! Antonio beautification council
passed out to about 100
reporters who would then
submit reports of violations to
the council.
Number 2 on the list was
! "Curb gutter needs cleaning".
Schnable said he got this
nickname "Old Push Broom"
1 since he would send the notice
to the offender with the
violation checked and signed
with his initials O.P. He often
? lakes a push broom and cleans
notices,
r he said
properly;
sweeping
t gutter;
without a
ing lot
;eep their
ive - in
lel'use to
ids; litter
car; and having
t the same
bert Stipe of
ted out that in
there are
__ local smenity
fcocietJbi and' beautification
groups not one uses the word
"beautification" in its title.
The nearest equivalent to the
Beautification Committees in
this country are the "Civic
Trust" groups, he said. Perhaps
this illustrates that one doesn't
make one thing beautiful by
making another ugly. For while
"beautification" may clean our
countryside, it litter the
language. Perhaps the only
word 1 know more horrible
than beautification is beautify.
STORIES
BEHIND |
WORDS I
by I
Will.am S. Penfield
In The Limelight
The forerunner of the theater's electric spotlight was a lamp
that burned lime with an oxyhdrogen flame. The flame produced
a brilliant light that was concentrated by a lens.
The light was projected, in a small circle, to that part of the
stage where the most important action was taking place.
From the use of lime in producing it, the light was called
"limelight." Actors and actresses on whom this light was cast
were literally "in the limelight."
The phrase was picked up from theater parlance and used to
descnbe the position of any person in the spotlight of public
attention.
Puppy
Creek
Philosopher
Dear editar:
A neighbor of mine came by
yesterday and said he wanted
to take me to town to meet a
man who has invented
something we both could make
some money out of, and sin^o I
was out of newspapers at the
time I agreed to go.
"But first," he said, "you'd
better change shirts."
"What's the matter, what's
wrong with this one?" I asked.
"It's got mud and grease all
over it."
"So what? Don't you know
the Supreme Court has ruled
that if a shirt has redeeming
social significance it doesn't
make any difference if it's
dirty?"
But since he insisted this was
an important meeting and since
there weren't any college kids
around to picket me for
yielding to the pressures of the
establishment, I changed shirt:
and went with him. I left my
socks like they were. A mar
ought to retain some shred of
inner freedom in a world beset
with grinding conformity.
You know what, he's on tc
something big. This man whose
name I can't mention until we
get his secret patented ha:
invented a brand new remedy
and all we need now to clean
up is to find a brand new
illness it'll cure.
If you'd like to be cut in on
it, all you have to do is use
your influence if you
remember where you left it tc
yt Congress to appropriate
some money for some
sdfentific research.
Out there somewhere there':
bourt.d to be some
undiscovered illneu inn
waiting tu be cured by this new
remedy, and there are very few
television programs that'd be
hurt much by adding one more
commercial to promote the
stuff.
Personally I think it's a great
idea. Science has been dragging
its feet too long, uncovering
new diseases nobody ever
heard of before and then
spending endless hours trying
to find a remedy for them,
when the way to do it is to
invent the remedy and then go
out and find the desease.
I know some people are
going to say,aw, you're getting
the cart before the bourse, but
they probably- never heard of a
car with the engine in the rear
or a great man who stood
behind a woman.
Yours faithfully.
J. A.
Just One Thing
After Another
Bv Carl Goerch
reopte do a lot ol
complaining and fault - finding
Lota of times they gel
impatient and out of torts wit!
the world at a whole.
Whenever that happens, w<
often think of what the Rev
BJ. Howard of Orange County
said several years ago.
A man came to Mr. Howard
and told him of all the trouble!
he had had during the pan
year. He wound up by saying:
"I tell you right now, preacher
it's enough to make a man losr
his religion."
Ana very quietly, Mr
Howard told him: "Seems tc
me, Jim, it's enough to make i
man use his religion."
rs. S. C. Woodard of
ceton was telling us the
er day about the Boyette ?
allace wedding which'took
ce several years ago in the
nceton Baptist Church.
js^The Rev. A.R Creech
?Stormed the ceremony. He
pastor of both the bride
groom. He also was equally
related to them. The groom's
grandmother was the minister's
father's sister. The bride's
grandfather was the minister's
mother's brother.
The bride and groom were
Miss Melva Pearl Boyette and
Mr. Ray Wallace.
Dr. Roscoe McMillan was
speaking to the Eighth District
Medical Association when he
made a statement something
like this:
"Women are all right, but
they certainly have been the
caute of q lot of trouble in this
world. Sometimes I'm inclined
to believe that our country
would be a whole lot better oft
if we got rid of all the women
we have here, were it not for
the fact that this would mean
stagnation."
There was a concerted groan
on the part of his listeners.
Men have been shot and Killed
for leu than that.
From Nora Lillington King,
of Warrenton, comes a little
note which reads as follows:
"Enclosed ii a puzzle which
you may like to use. I believe
your readers will be interested
in it. Here it is:
"With the insertion of a
vowel in the proper place (the
same vowel each time) you will
find that you liave an
inscription which was found
with the Ten Commandments
over an old church door. First,
of course, you must decide on
what vowel to use. Then it will
be necessary to Fit that vowel
into its proper place in the two
lines.
PRSVRYPRFCTMN
VRKPTHSPECPTSTN
Frog Level is the name of a
community down in Pitt
County. Monkey Bottom is the
name by which a section of
Winston ? Salem is known. And
(pardon us) Stinking Gut Creek
is near Elizabeth City.
CUFF BLUE ? ? ?
People & Issues
GOLDWATER .. us
Senator Harry Goldwater did
some nughty plain talking in
his interview several days ago.
His candid statements were
remindful of his plain talk in
'he years preceding |iis
Jg?nallun for president in
We have to disagree with
Barry Goldwater on many
issues but we always regarded
aSk 3 Wry hon"' an?J
forthright man. He was a
forcetul candidate for the GOP
Presidential nomination, but
once he was nominated he
f 3^Very weak candidate
for the office.
In 1964 Nixon supported
Barry lor the GOP Presidential
nomination and four years
ater Barry supported Nixon
In v.ew of the close
tnn'rnD1,1' between the two
top GOP leaders the following
quotation taken from Barry's
tree swinging interview is quite
St81, "Fmch all
over the place on civil rights.
tomn e '^day and ,here
?err;?W 3!3d, back l,ere
h? ?, y and 1 ima8,ne I'inch
has a pretty hard time knowing
been k d?" NlXOn'S alwayf
been that way, but he's a
STatccii ',Cr ,ha" he was "
STATESMANSHIP - For
?"y yeAars we have heard the
y g A statesman is a dead
Politician. After reading
Congressman Rich Preyer's
speech before the Greensboro
uClub aboul lhe bill
wnich he proposes to co ?
sponsor along with Rep. \,ck
Gahfianakis of Durham we can
"e rays of statesmanship
coming Horn the cultured but
modest freshman congressman
we believe that his proposed
unitary school bill which has
claimed the interest of
President Nixon and his
advisers may provide the seed
lor a way out of the turmoil in
which much of the nation finds
itself today. If Rich Preyer and
?Mck Gahfianakis can plant the
seed for a solution to our
\orTred , Scho?' Prob'ems
?North Carolina and the nation
will owe. these two
congressmen a debt of
gratitude.
U N D E R G R O I! \ h
CP&II' p'ES t" Shearon Harris.
t-fiL President says that if his
company replaced its overhead
elect ric systems with'
underground, the investment
required would be so great that
the price of electric service
would more than triple.
iFriday March
-u a 12 O clock noon will be
he deadline for candidates to
hie lor the State Legislature,
County and Township offices.'
e have not noticed quite the
yearning among the politicians
to run lor public office this
year as in some of the years
heretofore. '
Por one thing in most of the
State House and Senate races
the candidates must run in
more than one county whereas
until recently the House
districts, were confined to one
county. Running 4"or State -
Senator in some of the districts
is almost like running lor
congress which is both time -
consuming and costly.
However, the renumeration for
House and Senate members is
far better than it was only a
few years ago.
CHURCH UNION -- Last
week in Saint Louis, Mo.,
representatives of nine
Protestant denominations
approved a plan, which if
carried out by the several
individual denominations,
would create before the end of
the decade the biggest
Protestant church in the world.
Commenting on the
proposal, one Protestant
layman was heard to say that it
appeared to him that the
several denominations belter
settle their divisions and
differences before trying to
bring togeth.e.r....nine groups of*
varying beliefs and creeds.
ALABAMA -- Former
Governor George Wallace is a
candidate to regain the
governor's office in Alabama,
preliminary, we feel to seeking
the presidency in 1072. A
Wallace victory in Alabama will
pose a far greater problem for
Nixon in 1972 than it will for
the Democrats. We suspect that
Nixon's Postmaster General,
William M. Blount of Alabama
will be spearheading a drive
behind the scenes to provide
ample financial backing for
Wallace's primary opponent --
Governor Albert Brewer, a one
? time protege of Wallace.
HFCTOR McGLACHY, JR.
State Senator Hector
McGeachy, Jr. of Fayetteville
and president pro - tempore of
the Senate has announced his
candidacy for a fifth term in
the Senate from the 14th
District The feeling is growing
that McGeachy will be running
for statewide office in 1972 ??
probably for lieutenant
governor. John T. Henley who
also represents the 14th district
in the State Senate is expected
to seek re ? election. Henley is
now serving as Governor
Scott's reorganization to state
government chief.
Tlie population of America's
living veterans rove during
1969 from 26,7000,000 to an
estimated 27,300,000 as of
December 31, 1969, accordma
to tlie VA.
The Veterans
Administration is intensifying
its orientation and counseling
efforts to encourage more
veterans and servicemen to
apply for government benefits.
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