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<7lewa - journal >5^ ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. 28376 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Year - S4.00 6 Monthi - S2.25 3 Months - SI.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher-Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager LAURIE TELFAIR Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor Svcond -Class Postage Paid at KaHord. N. ('. Your Award - Winning Community Newspaper "It is better to light one.candle than to airsc the darkness" THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1970 Blinding violence There are signs of a heading up of violence in America from which all parties must desist. The issues of the moment, calling for a decisive use of intelligence rather than further emotional response, are: Countervioknce by authorities and citizenry - At Kent State University in Ohio, four white students were killed by National Guardsmen. At Jackson, Miss., two black students were killed and 11 injured by city and highway police gunfire. In New York City, construction workers methodically bullied and beat up students, the police allegedly doing little to intervene. In Boston, police were called to stem a series of noisy all-night student street parties and allegedly wont on a brutal repressive rampage. Provocativeness of student action - Referring to the Boston event, a city official said "some policemen used the occasion to work off their frustration and anger by engaging in random acts of punishment and torment." There is, of course, no way of measuring the degree bully instincts and a sense of outrage against students may similarly be aroused in the minds of many Americans. Surely the dangers of outside response were pointed up at Kent State. Fortunately, there has been a decided shift from confrontation to orderly protest, campaigning, and lobbying by the nation's young. This trend must continue or the students will, willingly or not, become parties to still further violence. At the same time, just as in Ohio, New York City, and Boston, the guard or police forces are being brought to heel by investigations and public response, so there needs to be throughout the nation restraint on police overreaction. Apparent double standard for blacks - The lesser hue and cry over the slaying of six blacks at Augusta. Ga., compared with the response to the white Kent State dead, has intensified the feeling among blacks that a double standard exists in American justice. At Augusta and Jackson, it is not certain as yet whether the police response was justified. In any event, it would be prudent for federal authorities to investigate not only the Kent State incident, but any and every disturbance involving gunfire, police, and groups of protesting citizens or students, black or white. This should be done not simply to find out instances of overreaction, but to protest the instruments of authority from further distrust. Depending on where one stands, the finger of blame for mob violence tends to point in different directions - the war in Vietnam, student insolence, repressive builyism, unwillingness of officials to listen to dissent. And what does this accusatory exercise accomplish? More violence. It is time for Americans to reason together. Processing the conclusion of the Vietnam war will not be helped by intemperance. Thus both student provocativeness and citizen counterviolence are blind influences, which only compound confusion over precisely what America should do in Indo-China. -The Christian Science Monitor Conservation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare It was noted by the American Farm Bureau federation that in the United States one farmer now produces food enough for 45 people, compared to ' 5 in 1948. Browsing in the files of Jhm Nows-Journal 30 years ago May 16, 1940 John B Cameron of Raeford was elccted chairman of the Hoke County Democratic Executive Committee at its meeting Saturday in the courthouse following the County Democratic convention. He succeeds J B. Thomas, who had served as chairman for ten years and who declined to seek reelcction. ? ??? Mrs. Jesse Gibson has donated an acre of land for the high school cafeteria garden. Clint Parrish has agreed to furnish stock to work the garden and NY A will furnish the labor. J.W. Dowd will be in charge. ? ??? When the registration books closed in Hoke County's ten prccincts last Saturday there were approximately 2,500 voters on them, according to W.L. Poole, chairman of the county board of elcclion. ???? 54 seniors were presented their diplomas at Hoke High School graduation exercises Friday night by NB. Blue, chairman of the county board of education. Luke Powell, road engineer in Hoke and Robeson Countta, stated ytsterday that th? work of widemri| Highway IS-A from Raeford to Laurinburg was started this wwk. T.T Bctts. division highway engineer in Fayctteville, has announced that work will begin in June on the new 550,000 highway underpass at the Aberdeen and Rockfish crossing on the Fayetteville road about II miles from Raeford. Advertising for votes for Congress in the Democratic Pnmary are Congressman W.O. Burgin, C.B. Deane, Giles Y. Newton and Bob Steele, III. ? ??? Bill Upchurch left Sunday for Dover, Delaware, to join J.C. Clark, who is manager of a baseball team there. 15 years ago May 19,1955 Following a trip to Raleigh and conversations with the local government commission by Mayor Alfred Cole and Town Commissioner Tom Cameron this week the town board is expected to decide at a meeting tonight to ask the voters of Raeford to approve a S60.000 bond issue for increasing the water and sewer facilities of the town. *??? John Morgan reported to the Chamber of Commerce directors that the local plant of Amerotron now employs over 1100 persons. The directors voted to send Martin Baumprtner, manager, to the Chamber of Commerce school in Chapel Hill. Angus Currie met with the board and outlined plans for Clean-Up week next week. Men of the Raeford Presbyterian Church entertained their families at a picnic supper Wednesday night. They were entertained by a quartet consisting of W.L. Poole, Make and Martin McKeithan, and Glenn Clark. June Johnson also showed some color films of members of the church on various occasions. ? ? ** Judge T.O. Moses heard 32 cases in Recorder's court Tuesday. 5 years ago May 20,1965 The Raeford . Hoke Chamber of Commerce will run a list of high school students available for "odd jobs" during the summer, Jim Fout, manager, has announced. Mrs. Mary Kemp Thomas of Raeford last week became the "first graduate" of Sandhills Community College when she received the North Carolina High School equivalency certificate. . ???? Hoke County will be included in "Project Headttart" this summer and 300 children of the county will receive pre ? school instruction in six centers, it was announced this week by Jim Fout. director of the Hoke Community Action Program. Christopher Robin, Pooh Stay Young For Readers By Laurie Telfair "Edward Bear came downstairs, bump. bump, bump on the back of his head., It was. as far as he knew, the only way to come downstairs Sometimes he thought there might be another way if only he could stop bumping long enough to think of it." (From "Winnie-the-Pooh") And so. Edward Bear, better known as Winnie-the-Pooh. came into the lives of readers all over the world. And A A Milne, the author, classified as a minor playwright and novelist by encyclopedia, gained a place in literature. "Winnie-the-Pooh' . nd Milne's other children's books have oeen translated into many languages, including a version in Latin. Milne began his series of children's peoms and stories out to desperation on a rainy vacation He. his wife and their three-year-old son, Christopher Robin - who was called Billy Moon by the family had taken a house in Northern Wales with friends for a month With the house full of family friends and guests, Milne recalled in his autobiography, he felt a need to get away, so he pleaded urgent artistic inspiration and retreated to the summer house to write He had urged by a friend to try something for children but had not done so. However, now he had to write something and it was raining anyway. During the eleven days it rained, he wrote eleven sets of verses, which were first published in 1926 in the English humor magazine "Punch ' and published later in his first book of verses for children "When We Were Ver\ Young." Two years later. "Winnie-the-Pooh" was published which brought to life the nursery animals of his young son The next year "Now We Are Six" was published and in 1928, when Christopher Robin was seven years old. Winnie-the-Pooh Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga. Roo and all the other animals are put aside for more grown-up things in "The House at Pooh Corner" The Pooh books were a great success, and the Milne's were Hooded with admiring letters from all over the world. Tourists came to the house to see the real Christopher Robin and his stufTed animals. With this, Milne said he would give up writing for children at least until he was a grandfather. He also wrote plays and novels for adults and was an assistant editor of "Punch" for many years. Pooh has retained it's popularity through the years and has become a fad among teen agers and older readers as well as a favorite of children. Walt Disney, never one to let a fad go by unanimated, produced several Winnie-the-Pooh features. The essential character of the original Ernest Shepard illustrations were retained in the Disney movies, but most Pooh purists frowned on the liberties taken with the stories Disney's Pooh-bear just wasn't the real thing. I saw a children's theatre production of one of the Pooh stories done very successfuly in Columbus, Ga., once you became used to an English teddy bear drawling Georgia accents. The directors, who had adapted the stories to play form, had had the decency to leave the stories unchanged It was an entrancing production Some of the poems from the two books of verses have also been set to music. Milne, who was born in 1882, died in 19S6 He didn't write any more of his children's stories even after he became a grandfather. His son, Christopher Robin served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and then became the manager of a bookshop in Dartmouth, England. He is now 49 The story-book Christopher Robin (or maybe that is the real Christopher Robin) remains a small boy who lives at the edge of a forest with his animal companions, to be discovered with each generation of children. STORIES BEHIND WORDS by William S. Penficld The "corned" in corned Deef does not refer to any of the cereal grains In general nor to Indian maize In par ticular -- the things that the word "corn" denotes. One has to go back to an early meaning of "corn" to get the meaning of corned." "Corn" used to denote a large particle, or coarse grain, of anything. Large grains of salt were called "corns of salt." Beef that was preserved by putting It In water and pouring ooarse salt on top of It was called "corned beef." A little Latin can go a long way in building one's vocabulary. One can learn one basic Latin word, and, by adding prefixes, make several more words. Some prefixes and their meanings are: De (off or away), in or im (in or Into), ex (out of or away from), re (again or back) and trans (across, beyond or through). A basic word Is "port," from "portare" ? to c*rry( bring or take. Combining "port" and the prefixes results In the follow ing words: Import (to bring In), export (to carry cway from), deport (to send away), report (to bring back, in regard to In formation) and transport (to carry or send across). Creeif Philosopher Dear editor: When you open up a big daily newspaper you never know what you're going to find, excusing the front page, and I was flipping through one which turned up out here yesterday when I ran across a picture of a turtle, his head sticking out as he inched up a hill, hanging on the wall behind some official's desk with the motto under it: "You never get anywhere without sticking your neck out." I got to thinking about this and you know what, how far in the last million years have turtles gotten? On another page I fiund a report of a ipcech made by a ttudent leader who said the purpose of all the college demonstrations is to "turn this country around." I guns if the Atlantic and the Pacific seaboards swapped positions it'd be all right, but you see I've got this fireplace out here on this Bermuda grass farm with a chimney that works fine when the wind is out of the north but smokes when it's out of the south, which is all right because with i south wind blowing 1 don't need a tire, but if the students are going to make the wind blow south in the winter Of course, what they iMin I guess is that they're going to turn people around, bur I'm not sure about that either. What I mean is. from ap esthetic standpoint, most of us don't look any better coming than going. Say. speaking of students, I'm all for their drive to clean up the en viornmcnt everywhere except where they've been demonstrating; when they run out of litter in the cities I've gut some out here ready to be picked up. but I was just thinking, hav? you noticed that in their drive to eliminate the causes of'fitter, such as throw-away cam and bottles, they've been picketing sodawatcr plants, nut breweries? Them kids ain't eo dumb. Yours faithfully -Just One Thing After Another By Carl Gocrch Every one* in ? while you'll ?e? a newspaper or magazine article about aome prominent individual giving a Itat of hit ten favorite books. I've teen any number of tuch licit but don't recall ever having come acros a tingle one that didn't include "Tom Sawyer." A number of yeara ago Alex CD. Noe, vicar of St. Thomai Church at Bath, who wat at well known at the church, ten) ut this' poem that he lud written. It wat good then and is jutt at appropriate now. Bill knew that he had troublet. And I knew I had mine: And to wc took them out one day. And hung them on a line ?? That all might tee and ?ympathize, And pity mc and Bill; And know we'd had an twful time, In climbing up the hill. And then we atked tome other folkt. To air their worriet too; And aee by contrast alt the : k>ud i. That we'd been fighting through. But when the line wat tanging full, Of worriet large and tmaJI; We found that our troublet ivere. The lightest of them all. And then we slipped out late at night. And sneaked theni off the line: For he was so ashamed of his. And I ashamed of mine. * ? ? The Mid-West Paper Sales Ltd., of Winnipeg, publishes a house magazine called "Papyrus.R" A recent issue contained this bit of a gem: "Hint to young wives: if your husband refuses to wipe dishes, claiming that it is not a man's iob. politely reach for the Bible and read from II Kings 21: 13. "And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipcth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.' "Further comment will not be necessary." A friend of ours was walking along the streets of Fayetteville on a Sunday morning when he saw a stalled car on the street. It had a Hat tire, and a rather stout man was busily engaged in trying to change wheels. He had on a black suit and it was getting liberally sprinkled with dust. "Brother." said our friend in a jovial tone of voice. 'That's a hell of a way to spend a Sunday morning, isn't it?" The man straightened himself for a moment, gave a sigh and then said: "My friend, I am a minister of the Gospel, but I fell inclined to agree with you most enthusiastically." Oil BLUE ? ? ?? People & Issued OUTWEST - At a member Fd. if. ",te Board of H'?her Education it was our pleasure to visit the University of North Carolina at Asheville and We?ern CroUna University at Friday! ' JhUT9day "nd The lut time we visited f no* UNC ? Asheville m I960 when the institution was one of three "Jaunty colleges in the "ate the other two being at Charlotte and Wilmington. Our Western1" r'? | What no* r.m ,h L,he A,heW"e and the Institutions of higher learning have witnessed fisiu. grOW,h ,inCe our ,ut a I1*. "d,nin??tration at UNC ? Wife? P* U?wuhcaded by D< William E Highsmith who is the incumbent chancellor, and who appears to be doina an excellent job in his drive to ffif thf ?"??e*t unit of the UNC system a top-notch liberal ?fts institution. "The fundament,! aim of the University is to provide for Sff-I "nd ,ble itudents a ' eral education of high ssis: WC ? Asheville had its bejnning j? I927 when the Buncombe County Board of Education established the C* C?Un,y Junior ^llege for men and women as "mm "" publi,: "hu?l ,J' X" will 1955 thai verted nn' Cener?' Assembly voted an appropriation for the ;?,tu'ton ~ 55,000 if we remember correctly. The 1957 General Assembly gave greater \ZrV\the i""i,u,i?n The H?hfr Education Bill converted the institution to a 2!..ri7"?r e?IJe?e. The 1969 MM nr .u Vfmbly made it ? Rroul- Unive"'ty of North Si.""? ?r"""" Today. U\c . Asheville occupta its attractive campus on Sunset Mountain overlooking Asheville and has "" enfollment of ipproximatelV 1000 students. Highsmith says that he atoui'Tnn * ?,ld *row,h "f about 100 students each year lhat,^Lnej.'i Mmal ye,rl *nd hat the ultimate objective of the institution j, ,u ?gjvc "dcntl the best possible 3P2JL- ?*??* ?h?? ind ,'h tlk,Ucl *nd attitudes. ?nd that basic knowledge and e?u,i1Din?Kn| Which Wi" t*u ewuip them to pursue H*lsW,IU,,r lheir in^vW"?l and io f7lr,n *?cety. in n** Carolina known'* m.*"1 "Anally g"2" V Western Carolina JrSSltl !T ,ike t(L was '""ally known as East Carolina Teachers College. WCU has had remarkable growth in recent years and now has a fulltime equated enrollment of about 4.500 students. Until a year or two ago Dr. Paul Rcid served as President - and did an outstanding job. Since his retirement Dr. Alex S. Pow has been named president and appears to be guiding the institution with a firm hand on an even ? keel manner. WCU draws its students from 89 of North Carolina's 100 counties, from 27 other slates jind seven foreign countries Its student body today is approximately double what it was six short years ago. Last year there were 959 members of its graduation class. RAMSEY CLARK - We noted that a "Ramsey Clark for President in ,1972" movement has been started in Raleigh by an informal group which has been meeting for several months as a social gathering calling itself "effete snobs and others for Ramsey Clark for President." We would feel that most support for Clark would come from the Gene McCarthy type of supporters as Gene seems to be fading out of the picture since he decided against seeking rcnomination to the U.S. Senate. Frankly we don't expect Ramsey to gain as much support as Gene garnered in the 19 68 presidential primaries! JUDGES - A lew days ago we asked an eminent attorney who he considered the top superior court judges in the State. He thought awhile then mentioned Albert Cooper of Kinston, George Fountain of Tarboro, Walter Bone of Nashville (now retired) and the late Leo Kerr of Burlington who died a few weeks ago. We arc now going through a period when we need good, solid and capable judges who command the respect of the people! Banks in the United States process 20 billion checks a year. The Amazon River has 50,000 miles of navigable waterways, according to the National Geographic Society's book 'Exploring the Amazon." An occan-going freighter can sail 2,300 miles upriver and in some places find water beneath its keel deep enough to cover a 10 story building. The United States uses more than four billion pounds of cotton annually half for clothes.
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