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NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
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PRESS
ASSOCIATION
Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N.C. 28376
119 W. Elwood Avenue
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PAUL DICKSON Publisher-Editor
SAM C. MORRIS General Manager
LAURIE TELFAIR Associate Editor
MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor
Second Class Postage at Raeford, N. C.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1974
As We See It.
By Laurie Telfair
At the risk of acquiring the name of being a pretty trashy newspaper,
I can't resist adding an editorial comment to the several recent news
stories on the city and county trash problems.
The county has been in the garbage business now for the past couple
of years, and, from general appearances and according to the county
sanitarian, the cleanliness of the countyside has shown a marked
improvement.
Not that the container system has been without its problems,
however. A recent equipment breakdown left the containers
overflowing for several days and complaints were hurled at the county
manager and sanitarian like week-old orange peels.
Since then, several steps have been taken to improve the situation.
First, the truck was repaired and the containers and sites were given a
good clean-up. Service the past week or so has been maintained
apparently on schedule.
Also the additional containers authorized by the county should help
relieve some of the overflow.
And finally, a hint of competition just might improve matters.
Another garbage collection firm has expressed interest in getting the
county collection contract and is expected to meet with the
commissioners on Monday. Whether or not they can offer any
improvements remains to be seen but, it is one of the tenets of free
enterprise that competition, itself, improves. We'll see.
The city's trash problems have been spotlighted recently also, by the
roving Polaroid of the local Keep N.C. Beautiful chapter. Photos taken
of downtown businesses a couple of Sundays ago, showed a somewhat
less than attractive backside.
The problem seems to be two-fold: the type of containers used to
hold commercial trash and the city pick-up.
Some merchants say they can't get the trash picked up adequately by
the city. One store manager said he had to have the trash hauled away
with his own truck.
But the main problem seems to come from the open bins used by
many of the businesses. Keep N.C. Beautiful urges switching to the
dumpster type of container and this would seem to be a good idea.
However, in order to do this, the city will have to purchase a new
truck that will empty the dumpsters. According to city manager John
Gaddy, the funds to buy a truck have been included in the last two
budgets and have been switched by the city council to other projects
each year. An ordinance suggested by Gaddy to require merchants to
purchase the dumpsters was accordingly sidelined.
Of course, the council is not, willy-nilly, disregarding the problem.
The 560,000 in the budget earmarked for the truck was used to help
make an unexpected 5252,500 payment on the city's water expansion
project.
So, until the method of trash collection is improved, the only other
solution is greater care on the part of the city's merchants to insure that
the area behind their stores are neat and are not an eyesore.
The State Board of Transportation will meet Friday in Asheboro to
formally approve the new highway projects. Hopefully, the plans to
four-lane 401 will be on the list. Long time county residents might be
forgiven if they view the project with a touch of cynicism - its been
promised before. But we're optimistic. Maybe this time, the project will
really come to pass and four lanes of concrete will stretch from here to
Fayetteville in the foreseeable future. The meeting at 9 a.m. is open to
the public.
Letter To The Editor
Dear Editor:
During the past two years, Hoke
High's varsity football team has had
some bad luck in having a winning
season. However, the players this year
will need the county's support to help
them make the season. The previous
two years, the Bucks had a winning
season, good players, and good support.
The past two years, the Bucks with bad
records of 2-8-0- and 3-7-0, have had
very poor support.
Everyone wants to be on the winning
bandwagons. Everyone loves a winner
and is fully behind the team that wins
games, but when the luck gets tough,
where are the fans? They have more
important things to do. This poor
support hurts the morale 6f the players
even more than losing the pme. Tire
team spirit drops, and the true meaning
of the game is lost.
The Bucks, with a score of 19-8,
defeating Red Springs in the first game
has a good start on their season this
year. The team has the attitude and the
potential to carry them to the playoffs
this year. The coaches have taken a
different approach to tlie team and the
practices this season. Their hopes for a
strong team and a winning season are
just as high as the players. 1 am sure the
fans feel the same, but the support will
be needed through thick or thin.
Not only do I urge the fans' support
on the home ground, but also as the
team travels the road. The support is
needed at Clinton, Dunn, Pinecrest, and
Lumberton, just as it is at home. I urge
everyone to support the Bucks as much
as they can, no matter what the
outcome. As for myself, I hope the
Bucks have the best season ever, and I
plan to attend is many games as
possible.
Thank you,
Johnny Wright
'It's not much of a rumba ...
but fortunately we dance wel together'
Tt? CMMtan ScMnca MooKof
Frogs In Short Supply
By Marty Vega
In these inflationary times, you can't
pick up a paper without hearing about
some other shortage. Yet, it is the duty
of a responsible journalist to inform the
public, and in this spirit, I submit to
you the following information.
There is a serious frog shortage, no,
not here, but in Minnesota. This
alarming news was carried by a wire
service report carried in the papers last
week and state officials say the frog
population is down 90% from last year.
Now these are not the jumping frogs
who gain fame in the contests, but just
plain, everyday frogs, ordinary citizens
like you or I.
Faithful readers of this column will
remember the startling alligator talk
which was reported here three weeks
ago. However, this frog problem is
apparently unrelated to the alligators, at
least 1 have not yet uncovered any
evidence to link them. You may be sure
you will read about it here, first.
Good manners still exist in San
Francisco, even among the criminals. A
story in last week's papers reported how
a woman proprietor of a store refused
to hand over the money when a robber
announced a holdup. The man said,
"Don't you see this gun?" and the
woman replied, "I don't care, you're
not getting the money." The gunman
turned and left.
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
1 knew the times were out of joint
but I didn't know how far ? even if a
steer on the hoof does bring only 20
cents a pound at the ranch and S2 a
pound three months later at the
supermarket - until I read last night
what's happening in the newspaper
business.
According to it, one of Canada's
largest producers of newsprint, the
paper you print The News-Journal on,
has just raised its price S25 a ton.
making it the fourth raise this year and
bringing the pnce up to S260 a ton in
carload lots.
But what caused my mind to flip over
backwards was the response of another
paper company when it learned the
Canadian firm had upped the price.
"This is a highly competitive business,"
it said, "and if one goes up in price and
can make it stick, the other companies
usually follow."
You can see how far behind the times
I am. 1 didn't know that competition
now means you have to charge more
than the next guy to keep him from
getting all the business. This sounds like
I've got it backwards but that's exactly
what the paper company said. To meet
competition today you've got to raise
your price every time somebody else
does, particularly if he can make it
stick.
There's the point. If he can make it
stick. And with the psychology of
inflation what it is, he probably can.
Raise the price-who knows, the public
may grumble but still go ahead and shell
out. Let's everybody get ahead while we
can, then if a depression hits well be in
good shape.
Sooner or later somebody's going to
throw a monkey wrench into this
spiraling system, but the trouble is very
few companies are now making monkey
wrenches and the few that are made are
sky high and a man would have to think
twice before throwing one.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
Reminds me of the story of the man
returning home one night when he was
accosted by a gang of thieves demanding
his money. The man resisted and a
terrific battle ensued until the man was
finally downed and severely beaten.
When the thieves removed only one
dollar from the man's wallet, they
looked at their victim in amazement.
"Why did you put up such a fight for
only a dollar?"
"Oh", said the man, "I thought you
were after the $300 in my shoe".
CUFF BLUE...
People & Issues
SAYING IS BELlEVING!?...There is
an old fable that most people have
heard that seems quite appropriate for
the times. Here is the latest version:
There was an old man who lived by
the side of the road and sold hot dogs.
He worked from very early to very late
each day. and had no time to watch his
TV or read his newspaper. He worked
hard, was happy in his work-and he
made very good hot dogs. He had big
neon signs in front of his place, telling
how good his hot dogs were. He
greeted each customer cheerfully and
served them quickly, carefully, and with
a smile. He thanked each one for
coming. And the customers came and
brought their friends, and they bought
his hot dogs.
The old man increased his wiener and
bun orders. He bought a bigger coffee
maker and ordered a bigger stove. He
was so busy that he could no longer
keep his own books, so he signed up an
accounting service.
Then something happened:
The young CPA was appalled. He
siad, "Haven't vou heard the news on
your TV? Haven't you read the papers
or the trade magazines? Don't you take
The Wall Street Journal? We pose on the
brink of a great depression; Inflation
rages out of control. There is an energy
crisis. There are food shortages and
gasoline will soon be rationed. There is
no confidence in Washington, the war
goes on in Ireland and may start again in
the Holy Land, and Russia wants to buy
more wheat. There is violence in our
cities and lawlessness in our towns. This
is no time to expand-not with the
automakers laying off thousands of
people!"
The old man thought of this, and said
to himself, "Well, this fellow's been to
college, he reads the papers and business
news, and talks to other businessmen,
and he ought to know."
So he reduced his wiener and bun
orders, cancelled his order for the new
stove, started closing two hours earlier,
turned his thermostat down to save on
fuel, and turned off his neon signs to
save energy.
And his hot dog sales fell almost
overnight. By the end of the month, his
business was off 30 percent.
"You're right, young fellow," tire old
man said to his CPA. 'The country is
starting into another great depression."
THOMAS ROAD CHURCH-Now to
get away from politics, inflation, and
other economic concerns. I would like
to relate an encouraging church story
written by Ken Ringle, correspondent
for the Washington Post-Los Angeles
Times News Service and printed in
newspapers carrying the service a few
weeks ago.
Thomas Road Baptist Church in
Lynchburg, Virginia, of which Jerry
Falwell is pastor, has been called "o*
' " " " ' la*
of the phenomena of the modern day
evangelical movement."
Now in its 18th year of steady
growth, it has in the past few years
fathered a 12 grade Christian academy,
a two-year Bible institute for adults, a
four-year liberal arts college and a
theological seminary.
The total student enrollment
numbers more than 3.000 and. as
Falwell said. "We teach patriotism,
discipline and love of mom and dad and
every professor is a Bible carrying
Christian."
The church's $10 million physical
plant is built around a sanctuary
designed to look like an ecclcstical
Monticello. The church lias 100 school
buses (with their own gas pumps) to
collect worshippers from every hill and
hollow within 50 miles of Lynchburg,
and its own airplane to bring the
students in from around the nation.
The church's television budget for its
"Old Time Gospel Hour" program alone
runs $2.5 million a year.
We were not aware of the churijl^
before reading the recent article aboutT
it. The church and its leadership musty*
certainly be attuned to the work of the
Lord, otherwise it would not have
"caught fire" so to speak as its great
work would attest to.
Just One Thing After Another
By Carl Goerch
Back in the days when I lived in
Washington, North Carolina most
families were proud if they owned one
car and most everybody walked to
work. There was a fellow named W.M.
Shoop who worked at the International
Harvester Company. Their place of
business was on Market Street between
Second and Third.
Shoop lived on Thirteenth Street,
east of Market-a matter of some ten
and a half or eleven blocks.
It was Saturday night. Cold and
raining. Very cold, very rainy.
Shoop was detained at the office
until nine-thirty.
As he locked the doors and started
home he thought of the long, cold walk.
Luck, however, was with him. A
friend driving by saw him, stopped,
hailed him, took him home.
Mrs. Shoop was at a neighbor's but
would be in at about ten.
Shoop stirred up the fire, put on
more coal, watched its beauty for a few
minutes, then took off his shoes, put on
his smoking jacket, lighted his pipe,
settled back into his easy chair to enjoy
the evening, relaxed, thought how good
life is
And then
Shoop straightened up and a rigor
passed through his frame.
He had left his car down at the store
parked just across the street!
As he told me the story afterwards he
closed with these words: "I put on my
shoes and coat and hat and got out of
that house and walked downtown as
fast as I could and got the car, hoping
like everything that I'd get back before
Mrs. Shoop got home and found out
what I had done."
If it's any satisfaction to you men-he
did!
We know that for years you probably
have been worrying about how the size
of shoes-6,8,10,12 or whatever it may
be-has been determined. A friend of
ours recently brought in a clipping from
a trade journal which gives the
explanation, so from now on you can
quit worrying. Here it is:
"Why do we have shoes in 13 sizes?
Because in 1324 Edward II, an English
king, decreed that three barley corns
from the center of the ear, placed end
to end, equalled an inch. By careful
measurement it was found that 39
barely corns, end to end, equalled the
length of the longest foot. Since the
longest foot measured 13 inches, this
foot was called size 13, and other sizes
were graded down from the longest
normal foot at the rate of three sizes (or
three barky corns) to an inch. Thus
each variation between half-sizes and
full sizes represents one-sixth of an
inch-the variation between full sizes
being one-third of an inch. The width of
the shoe was determined in units of
one-sixth of an inch."
The following comes from an address
by Judge Frank Daniels at the opening
of the new courthouse in Coldsboro,
November 30. 1974:
"In 1787, in the County of Duplin,
two Negroes, brothers, were charged
with killing their master, March 15.
1787. They were brought to trial March
17, 1787, before the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Session and confessed their
guilt. The elder, who struck the blow,
was sentenced to be carried to the
Courthouse Square and their tied to a
stake and burned alive, and his ashes
scattered upon the ground. It was
adjudged that the younger brother be
committed to the custody of the
Sheriff, to be carried to the custody
gaol and there safely kept until the next
day, and then carried to the court
House Square, tied to a stake and have
his cars cut off, the letter 'M' burned on
his check, and one hundred lashes laid
on his bare back." .
Tliis is the only record of anyone evcri
having been burned at the stake in?
North Carolina that we know of.
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1949
The Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph company this week began the
installation of new equipment in their
Raeford office which will take care of
all applications for service the company
now has on file, W.W. Aycock, district
manager of Fayetteville, said yesterday.
Julian Wright has about finished work
on his self-service grocery store and
market on the l^urinburg Highway in
the Sunset Hills section and announces
in an advertisement on the back page of
the paper that it will open Tomorrow
under the management of Edwin A.
Mercer, who has been store manager of
the Pender store here for several years.
President Harry S. Truman will be
entertained at a luncheon at the Officers
Club at Fort Bragg October 4. during his
inspection visit to the nation's biggest
military reservation.
From Poole's Medley:
In time of the Civil War when clocks
stopped running there wa4 no one to
repair them, so everybody had a twelve
o'clock mark near a south door, a line
which showed when the sun reached the
zenith.
The mobile x-ray unit which has been
taking chest x-rays in the county since
the last week in August had only taken
3,605 x-rays up through Tuesday of
what officials hoped would be 1Q.OOO in
the county while the unit was tete.
John Lauchlin McLeod died at his
home here Monday morning. He was 77
years of age and had not been in good
.health for several years.
15 years ago
THURSDAY, OCTOBER I, 1959
Before an enthusiastic crowd of Buck
fans, the team from Hoke High scored a
28-7 victory over host Sanford Yellow
Jackets in the Hoke Teams first district
four victory.
At a called meeting of the town
board Mayor Alfred Cole expressed his
concern over the "seriousness of the
situation" in regard to the water supply
problem in Racford. i
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In an advertisement, the Bank of
Raeford was offering 3% interest on
savings.
James H. Maxwell, son of Boger F.
Maxwell, Aberdeen, recently was
promoted to specialist forer in Germany
where he is a member of the 47th
Medical Detachment.
Bobby L. Campbell, fireman USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy C. CampbeU
of 513 Green St., Raeford, serving
abroad the dock landing ship USS Fort
Marion, participated in an amphibious
training exercise in the Hawaiian
Islands, Sept. 14 to 23.
Hoke's first county-wide fair in many
years is just over a week away and
activity of those planning and
participating in it is approaching its
peak.
The Raeford Woman's Club will
hostesses to women teachers in Raeford
schools at the annual banquet for them
October . 8. at 7:00 p.m. at the
McLauchlin School, according to Mrs.
Marcus Smith, Chairman.