PERFECT - A cloudless sky and lighr winds made Jan. 7 perfect flying weather and nearly twenty planes were at the airport
about noon, waiting patiently for their pilots to take them aloft.
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BUSY - Crowds at the employment Security Commission here kept interviewers Martha Murphrcc licit) and Irene Urvant
busy until late afternoon. Due to the increase in applicants for unemployment compensation, the llokc County office will be
stafjed every Tuesday for an indefinite period.
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Doctors Set
For Seminar
Dr. Robert G. Townsend. Jr., and Dr.
Riley M. Jordan of Raeford are among
120 Tar Heel physicians who will hear
the latest information on high blood
pressure ? the silent disease which
affects over 500,000 North Carolinians.
A panel of 12 experts and the
participating doctors from across the
state will meet for an intensive two-day
Nonh Carolina Heart Association
Physician Hypertension Seminar
January 25 and 24 near Raleigh.
Improved detection and treatment of
high blood pressure are the goals of the
seminar and a continuing education
program. The doctors will instruct
hospital medical staffs in their own
communities on information they
received at the seminar.
Service News
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SP4 Steven Allen Harris has been
transferred to Frankfurt. Germany for
the remainder of his Army enlistment.
The specialist was formerly assigned
to the 8th Ordinance Company at Ft.
Bragg.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Bethea of Raeford.
Airman Ronnie Monroe has
completed 452 houis of a vehicle
technical course at Chanute AFB. III.
He will he stationed at Nellis AFB in
Nevada.
Airman Moniog, a 11'*7-4 graduate of
Hoke High, is the grandson of Delton
Momoe. Rt. 5. Red Springs.
Sclurfield Barracks. Hawaii -- Army
Stall Sergeant Benjamin McRae. son of
Mr and Mrs. Coston T. McRae. Rt. I.
1 umber Bridge, completed annual
training tests at Pohakuloa Tiaintng
Area. Hawaii.
Sgt McRae is a ladar section chief in
Headquartcis Battery, 5id Battalion of
the 25th Infantry Division's I5ih Field
Artillery ol Scholield Banacks.
The test detefmmed the unit's
combat leadiness.
Army Private Robert A. Graham. I(>.
son ol Mrs. Jacqueline I vans. Rt. I.
Lumber Bridge, completed eight weeks
of advanced individual training as an
armor reconnaissance specialist at the
U.S. Aimy Armor Center, Ft. Knov
Ky.
He leccived instiuction in the use of
\a:K?us kinds ot weapons, maintenance
ot armor vehicles, map reading,
communications, artillery adjustments
and mines and demolitions.
McCain Staffer
Trains At ECU
GREENVILLE-Eighteen employee;
Irom the North Carolina Department ot
Correction. Division of Prisons, are
enrolled in the Institute of Correctional
Administration at East Carolina
University.
Attending from Hoke is Jimmy D
Bullock. employed ai McCain
Correctional Center.
The Institute at ECU is conducted as
a training program for personnel in the
slate's prisons and correctional centers.
Participants are currently engaged u
lull . time studies in the area o
corrections and will continue thei
studies at ECU for the entire winte
quarter.
The Institute is sponsored by the
ECU Department of Social Work and
f'orrectional Services of the School of
Allied Health and Social Professions.
SCS Activities
F. O. Clark, Dittrict Consarvationist
Some of my earliest memories are of
hunting on our home farm. Hunters
from the town nearby often came by to
enjoy Dad's company and the abundant
farm wildlife.
But I recall, too, the time my father
asked two hunters to leave our farm
because they had not asked permission
to hunt. Dad never denied permission to
any hunter who first stopped at the
house. Yet he always insisted on
knowing who was on the farm and for
what purpose. I've hunted most years
since that time and have found that
Dad's displeasure with uninvited guests
is shared by most men who till the soil.
Today's farmer has more legal
backing in the control of trespass than
he had 40 years ago. Laws are more
restrictive on the sportsman and are
more widely publicized. Enforcement of
trespass laws is much improved.
Some farmers post their lands as a
means of encouraging sportsmen to ask
permission before going onto the land
to hunt or fish. Others feel that the
signs give them an additional legal
backing in trespasser control. This is
true in some states, but in others the
trespasser is subject to prosecution
whether the land is posted or not.
Basic in a posting is the landowner's
desire to know who is on the land. Also,
if damages result from the presence of
sportsmen, he wants to talk to those
responsible. Imagine the frustration of
the farmer who finds dead stock,
broken fences, or other mischief and
can't find out who did it.
I am sure it never occurred to my
father to charge a fee lor hunting or
fishing. Even today some farmers appear
reluctant to charge for access to
publicly owned crops of wild game.
Others, however, use fees as a means of
controlling the numbers of those who
want to hunt and fish on the farm. By
doing so, the farmer can better regulate
the harvest of wild animals to assure a
continued supply. A few farmers charge
as compensation for past or anticipated
property damages. Others charge a fee
to pay the cost of improving wildlife
habitat on the farm.
Farmers and ranchers produce the
hulk of the wildlife and much of the
fish that is harvested each year and
usually without undue expenditure of
their time or funds. But game
production is intentionally promoted by
thousands of farmers across the nation
who devote land and water to the
exclusive use of wildlife. These farmers
are protecting natural habitats of
squirrels, ducks, deer, and many other
game and nongamc species from damage
by livestock and olher agricultural
activities. And they are improving
additional thousands of acres by
providing food, cover, and water for the
use of wildlife. In this way they help
meet mounting pressures for hunting
and fishing opportunity.
Despite present efforts of
management, the size of the annual
wildlife crop may vary widely.
Game crops are high or low and
hunting and fishing success good or
poor depending upon the weather and a
great many other factors.
Although good management cannot
gurantee abundance every year, it tends
to assure better crops from yeat lo year.
Farmers can get Federal cost - sharing
aid through the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Service
for selected habitat improvement
practices - such as planting food
patches, planting trees and shrubs, or
building ponds, marshes, and watering
places for wildlife.
Technical help for habitat
improvement on farm and other rural
lands is available through the Soil
Conservation Service and other Federal
and State agencies. Some agencies
provide materials such as fish for
stocking ponds, planting stock of trees
and shrubs, seeds. With the technical
and financial help now offered, farmers
are creating and improving wildlife
habitat at a growing rate. Sportsmen
who respect ihe landowner's rights and
property - and particularly those who
help pay for the wildlife improvements -
are increasingly welcome to harvest the
wildlife produced.
The above is a reprint from the I %7
Yearbook of Agriculture. If you need
more information or assistance please
come by your local Soil Conservation
Office in Raeford.
Lunacy' Hearings Criticized
District Court Judge Joseph !:.
Dupree called lor the stale legislature to
change existing procedures lor the
commitment hearings of mental
patients, commonly called "lunacy
hearings".
"It hurts me like hell to see these
people brought here," Dupree said
Friday after a hearing with a disturbed
20-year-old woman
Dupree expressed concern the
patients may he placed under greater
stress hv being required to make the trip
here instead of having rheir hearings in
Kaleigh.
Peisons who are uiitially committed
to Dorothea Dix hospital under a
petition approved by a judge must be
given another hearing before they can
lie committed for '>() days. Ar the. end
of that time, anoihcr hearing must be
held to extend the commitment to six
months.
Dupree cited a recent case of a
motliei of several children, who. when
brought from Raleigh, became highly
distraught.
"She came completely undone."
Duprce said. "She cried and cried the
whole time."
The judge also said taxpayer's money
could be saved by moving the hearings
to Raleigh.
"It costs the county lour tiips. The
deputy has to go get the patient, bring
him here, then drive him back, and
return. If the hearing weie held up
there, the deputy would only need
make two trips, to take all witnesses to
the hearing, and then luing them back."
Sheriff D.M. Barrington concurred
with Dupree's complaint of the expense.
"Figuring X5 miles each way, lhat's
about S22 in gas." I he sheriff said.
"And. figuring the lime involved, my
dentlfv is nut *t <?iithi "
Warning Made On Ad Scheme
Attorney General Rufus F.dmisten
Issued a warning Monday to
manufacturers anJ lawyers about an
invoice ? type advertising scheme which
may involve mail fraud.
"We're referring our records and
complaints on both firms to the Postal
Service immcdiaielyEdmisten said.
Edmtsten sard his office has received
complaints from recipients of the
notices from two publishing firms
seeking payment for services not
lendcred or ordered.
He named invoice solicitations from
Reid Publications International Ltd.,
Hong Kong, implying they owe S785
tor listing and advertising in
"Manufacturers Universal".
The lawyers notice was from
Directory Advertising Co., Wichita.
Kansas. The "cost" is S'M.40 per year.
The notices look like invoice
computer cards and advise the recipient
to "return lorm with check" lor listing
in an annual business and professional
directory.
"The notices could easily be mistaken
lor bills. Any attorney or businessman,
the firm's bookkeeper or secretary
could inadvertently pay the "hill" on
the assumption that there is an existing
obligation to pay. when such, of course,
is not the case." the Attorney General
said.
Hdmisten said the business practice is
an apparent violation of postal
regulations.
A case involving invoice solicitations
sent to North Carolina doctors was
referred to the Postal Service two
months ago.
Phone Firm Trims Plans
Carolina Telephone and Telegrapl
Company has announced a constructor
and expansion program of $61 million
for 1975.
J.F. Ilavcns. company president, saic
that this program is less than had been
planned earlier because of declining
housing starts and an expected lower
growth rate of telephones.
Construction expenditures will be
monitored closely. Havens said, and will
be increased when there is evidence of a
return to more normal growth rates,
v The budget represents an investment
of about $234,000 for each working
day of the year.
The United Telephone System, third
largest in the country, of which Carolina
Telephone is a member, will invest $340
million for new facilities during the year
in 21 states.
The largest item in the Carolina
Company's 1975 growth program will
be additions to local and long distance
outside plant facilities throughout the
company's area, which will require an
expenditure of $23.2 million.
A total of $18 million has been
allocated for additions to local and long
distance central office equipment.
Another large item of expense will
involve telephone statron apparatus,
associated wiring, and specially designed
systems for business customers - a total
of $16.6 million. Expenditures for land,
buildings, and general equipment will
amount to $2.6 million.
These expenditures arc expected to
increase Carolina Telephone's plant
investWnt to S546.4 million by the end
of 1775. It is anticipated that the
company will gain 1,754 long distance
circuits for a total of 71,208 circuit
miles in 1775, and approximately
50.000 telephones.
Locally, major expenditures by the
company for outside plant facilities and
central office equipment will include
S222.000 in Raeford.
Postal Jobs Open
The post office at Red Springs is
accepting applications lor two jobs, a
clerk - carrier and a' substitute rural q
carrier. Applications will be taken until ?
Jan. 20.