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Imar, South Carolina. It 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 Howgr^, Zinn, professor of political^ University: " . . . At enlightened citizens, they know the diffc and justice, betwee , what is right These two items American automobi delight in conjuring and claw and hoof give to their product thus be tough and le some recent reseai savage image the .pussycat. The research, dc Institute for Highs that 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 - covered concrete wall caused damage costing S815 to repair. The former director of the National Highway Safety ureau, Dr. William Haddor Jr., terprets this as meaning American cars \tre to "delicate." That's a delicate (.interpretation. Even a real pussycat could fare better in a 10 inph collision. Newsday n the files Th# N?ws-Journal March IS, I94S Evander II. McNeill, prominent business man and farmer of Raeford, died at about nine o'clock last night alter an illness of about two years. He was 77. **?* Pfc. John D. Slubbs of Rockfish has been awarded the combat infantryman's badge for participation in action against the enemy with the 88th Division in Italy. Pvt. Clayton Buoyer has completed basic training at Camp Rlanding. 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. Ca. and is at home on furlough. He will report back to Fort Meade. Md. T-5 Matho D. Cunningham, ?on 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 sisters, "Rum and Coca Cola." was written for and about site 232nd Coast Artillery while it ?M serving in Trinidad, British West Mies. ???? Jl grain should be top ^dteacd at once with 61 to 3! pounds of soluble nitrogen pc acre, says AS. Knowlcs county agent. Sgt. and Mrs. Jolui K McNeill, Jr., of Greenville, S.C left Tuesday after several day visit with his parents here. J Larry McNeill, son ot Mr. and Mrs. J.L. McNeill, was named winner of the annual 1 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 at a state health conference in Greenville Thursday 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 Irom the studio of a TV station in Richmond, Va., for a demonstration and explanation of the tool. A/2C Bobby Lundy. kin of Mr. and Mrs. A J. Lundy. who is stationed in Korea, has been promoted to A/1C. He is expected home soon. K.D. Lowe entered Moore County Hospital last Thursday. 5 years ago March 18.1965 Sadie Culbreth McLean (Mrs. H.R.) has been chosen by the Home Demonstration Club County Council and ihc Chaminadc 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 the 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 Speaking of unpopular wars 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 by using 148 three ? men crews at a cost of SI 2,367.00 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 flies. 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 507; paper products; 16c? cans; 6% plastic containers; 69? bottles and jars and 139? miscellaneous (this included washing machines, old refrigerators, dead animals and the like). The same survey found thai 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 of 21 and 35 litter twice as much as men 35 to 50 and three times as much as those 50 and older. Furthermore, lame families are more inclined to litte small families and small ? town dwellers ar more apt to litter. Forty ? eight billion| proof cans and twenty billion nondegradable are tbjowp av eight eauaes of litter 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" since he would send the notice to the offender with the violation checked and signed with his initials O.P. He often notices. r he said properly; sweeping t gutter; without a ing lot ;eep their ive ? in *etuse to ds; litter car; and having |t the same jbert Stipe of ated out that in there are smenity fcocietfcs"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 I know more horrible than beautification is beautify. Just One Thing After Another Uv/ r.rl People do a lot of complaining and fault - finding. Loti of timet they get impatient and out of torts with the world at a whole. Whenever that happens, we 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 troubles he had had during the past year. He wound up by saying: "I tell you right now, preacher; it's enough to make a man lose his religion." And very quietly, Mr. Howard told him: "Seems to me, Jim, it's enough to make a man use hit religion." Mrs. S. C. Woodard of ceton was telling us the er day about the Boyette ? lace wedding which'took ce several years ago in the jtceton Baptist Church. b?he Rev. A.R. Creech Sfiformed the ceremony. He Kti pastor of both the bride igftd 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 luve been the cause of a lot of trouble in this world. Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that our country would be a whole lot better otl if we got rid of all the women we have here, were it not for the fact that this would mean stag-nation." There was a concerted groan on the part of his listeners. Men have been thot and killed for lets than that. From Nora Lillington King, of Warrenton, comes a little note which reads as follows: "Enclosed is 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. P RS VRYPRFCTMN 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 Cut Creek is near Elizabeth City. 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^c 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''" 1 asked. "It*:' 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 lie 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 shirts and went with him. I left my socks like they were. A man ought to retain some shred of inner freedom in a world beset with grinding conformity. You know what, he's on to something big. This man whose name I can't mention until we get his secret patented has 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 to yt Congress to appropriate some money for some sdentilic research. Out there somewhere there's boudd to be some undiscovered illness just waiting to be cured by this new remedy, and there are very lew 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 hoursc.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. CLIFF BLUE ... People & Issues GOLDWATER -- U.S. senator Barry Goldwater did iome mighty plain talking in lis interview several days ago. rtis candid statements were remindful of his plain talk in he years preceding his tomination for president in 1964. We have to disagree with Barry Goldwater on many ssues but we always regarded lim as a very honest and rorthright man. He was a forceful candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination, but mce he was nominated he became a very weak candidate tor the office. In 1964 Nixon supported Barry for the GOP Presidential tomination and four years ater Barry supported Nixon. In view of the close elationship between the two op GOP leaders the following quotation taken from Barry's free swinging interview is quite nteresting: "Finch goes all tver the place on civil rights. He's here today and there :omorrow and back here the text day and I imagine Finch tas a pretty hard time knowing vhat to do. Nixon's always teen that way, but he's a lelluva lot better than he was." STATESMANSHIP -? For iiany years we have heard the laying: A statesman is a dead politician. After reading Congressman Rich Preyer's speech before the Greensboro Rotary Club about the bill which he proposes to co ? sponsor along with Rep. Nick Galifianakis of Durham we can see rays of statesmanship coming from 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 for a way out of the turmoil in which much of the nation finds itself today. If Rich Preyer and Nick Galifianakis can plant the seed for a solution to our integrated school problems North Carolina and the nation will owe these two congressmen a debt of gratitude. UNDERGROUND UTILITIES -? Shearon Harris, CP&L President says that if his company replaced its overhead electric systems with underground, the investment required would be so great that the price of electric service would more than triple. MARCH 20 -- Friday March 20 at 12 o'clock noon will be the deadline for candidates to file for the State Legislature, County and Township offices We have not noticed quite the yearning among the politicians to run for public office this year as in some of the years heretofore. For 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 for State ? Senator in some of the districts is almost like running for congress which is both lime ? consuming and costly. However, the enumeration lor 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. Co mme n t i ng on the proposal, one Protestant layman was heard to say that it appeared to him that the several denominations better settle their divisions and differences before trying to bring together 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 1972. 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 McGLACIIY, JR. -- State Senator Hector McGeachy, Jr. of I ayettcville 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. Tire population of America' living veterans rose durin 1969 from 26,7000,000 to ai estimated 27,300,000 as o December 31, 1969, accordmi to the VA. The Vet 1 II v * C ? I Administration is in its orientation and < efforts to encouraj veterans and scrvio apply for government WIW'WK'WWWi'W/ STORIES BEHIND WORDS by William 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 describe the position of any person in the spotlight of public attention. 9W4 - journal ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. 28376 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Year - S4.00 6 Months - S2.25 3 Months - SI.25 PAUL DICKSON PtisUsher-Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager LAURIE TELFAIR Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Second-Clan Postuge Paid at Kset'ord, N. C. Your Award - Winning Community Newspaper "It is better to light one candle than to etirse the darkness" THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1970
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