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<?7eu7?J - journal NATIONAL NEWSPAPER tinfmiC] ? ? ac NNA SVSTIININC HEHIU - 1173 i CnAo&ta PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. 28376 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Year - $5.00 6 Months - $2.75 3 Months - $1.50 PAUL DiCKSON Publisher-Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager LAURIE TELFAIR Associate Editor MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor MARTY VEGA Reporter Second Class Postage at Raeford, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23.1975 As We See It. by Laurie Telfair The arrest of five Hoke High students for possession of marijuana shocked some people who were apparently living in a dream world. Despite the loud and clear warnings for several years from law enforcement officials that drugs were indeed being used by youngsters in Hoke County, it seems that some parents still didn't believe it. And they reacted somewhat angrily when confronted with the evidence. * One woman reportedly told high school principal Allen Edwards that she thought there wouldn't be a drug problem because the school has a dress code. (And that twisted bit of illogic could be the topic of another editorial.) Another person demanded to know why there was drug usage this year, Edward's first year here as principal. This, of course, implied that there had never been any drug usage before, a notion the person would have had to discard quickly if he had talked to law enforcement officials, or school officials or even to former students. Edwards is to be commended for his awareness of what is going on at the school and his willingness to take the proper legal action. No one likes to see headlines such as "students charged with marijuana."- But perhaps this will shake some from their "it can't happen here" attitude and make them more aware of conditions as they are. ******* According to the Sampson County newspaper, the residents of Garland are irritated because, despite the leash law. unpenned and unleashed dogs are still a nuisance. A delegation of 200 or so met with the town commissioners and requested enforcement of the town ordinance. Commissioners promised to try to enforce the law, according to the report. Raeford residents who pushed for passage of a leash law may remember that an ordinance alone doesn't confine does. And the city, without a dog warden or a truck, is in the position of "tryinc" to enforce the law. Maybe some of the public employment funds the city is going to receive could be used to hire a doe warden Browsing in the files of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday . January 19, 1950 The United States mail between Aberdeen, Kaeford and Fayetteville began moving by truck on Monday of this week when a "Star" route began operation and replaced the mail service provided by the jitney of the Aberdeen and Rocklish railroad for many years. W. Lamont Brown, Fighth district supervisor for the 1950 census, said this week lhat an office has been opened in Lexington and that he is ready to receive applications for about 400 jobs. Sgt. Martin I . Webb, of the local National Guard, battery, will leave tomorrow for Camp Gordon. Georgia, where he will attend the Army's advanced school for radio equipment. Funeral service for Mrs. J.A. Greene. Sr. was conducted at the Kaeford Presbyterian Church at three o'clock last Sunday afternoon by the pastor. The Rev. W.B. Hcyward. Persons driving with 1949 plates are subject to arrest after midnight January 31. During the last six years the people of North Carolina have received more funds from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis than they have contributed. Dried milk and additional hutter lias been delivered to the county storeroom lor use in the school lunchrooms. 15 years ago Thursday. January 21,1960 Death struck twice in the family of F.ldon A. Martin, local Johnson Cotton CoMpanv manager, recently, when the husbands of two of his sisters died within a week. Jack Autry of Belk - Hensdale has been named the first winner of a pri/c set up by the Chamber of Commcicc honoring the "Clerk of the Month" from a Raelord Store. From Rockfish News: C.A. Monroe was out with the Nail Keg group last week and with A.L. tong, Alfred Berry and O.L. Townscnd to keep conversation going they seemed to be having a good session last Saturday. Sixty members of the Raeford Presbyterian Men of the church heard Robert A. C.ustafson, Bible teacher at Flora MacDonald College speak on a subject derived from the Sermon on the Mount, Tuesday evening. "Sounds like a good thing for the community I can't wait to take the family swimming in the pool." These were some of the comments heard following the public meeting on the Civic Swimming Poole last Friday. O.K. pop, you crank I'M drive' * Th# Christian Scisncs Monitor _ by Marty Vega Cats Clearly Contrary There are all kinds of reasons why Kmf .I*' W1"l! '? enter a cat ' ll!eir ca,s- 'hat is. Not the people (at shows do serve a purpose since there are ? lot of people who like cats and enjoy cats, and want to see cats." the same way people will stop and peer ?mo a baby carriage passing on P?e "'"'?People will stop and admire a Secms a -Kood 'hing to display' ?a,S a"d pul ,hem oft So. for the first time, I entered1* cat Show. Not me. my cat. And. now as the date of the show approaches, and a stiff eo paid. I get nothing hut tesistance Irom the contestant. He ret uses to submit to a hath Me rolls in the dirt constantly Tweetv is determined to make himself as duty and foul as can he lor the big event. He has rejected every fabric sample he has seen as the material for the curtains in his cage. Nothing meets with ins approval. mi16,!,'1'1!115" 10 S"hmil 3 Pedicure, the last time it was attempted, he Puppy Creek Philosph er Dear editor a mce " sn u?ders,and "? 'here's sort of rvsn! , between the Democratic .n g'"s and Republican Piesident Ford see w'10 can get credit for cutting taxes this year to tight the recess,on \,r Ford Unts ,0 gfve a 10 billion - dollar rebate to tax pavers and Congress is working on a ' slightly about'a' tT" B?'h would come ,0 H'74 income tax'. re,Und on >?u' InI trying ?mes like ,|?s the country needs complete harmony without partisan bickering and I have figured oui plan to achieve it. onlvT5"'," tver>h?dy knows, not ha e ,a.'recession hut we also have mHation lfs a two ? pronged aP?r.d" "*? "? ??<' ? Therefore I have come up with a re I '?n j Ford give mo a 10 per cent ?lund. and to keep peace and quiet in too ICn lel ( on8'?s give me one f,?h,W,behen ,akeM' F?'d-s refund and as an At'^h?" V SfWnd,ng ? a* ft? r!sn ? same hme. I will take fheTu re,Urd and sock " away in the bank to hglu inflation. wav'"wht>nu d0ing ,hings half ? way What have we gained if we whip inflation and wind up with more wind"0"' ?' 'i! W< Whip '"Oation and up With a depression? As any economist will tell you we've got m thenfobnanriVf 3' 'he S3mC "me 10 do the answer re,unds a'" However, there's no use being shnn agh.ed ahKiu, this. Too long I ate we depended on Washington to do 8 lf ,wo ,a* '"funds from Washington will get the ball rolling in two ? pronged battle, think how still loca'levef""'1"" could be ,dded on the Why don't Hoke County official, join m this recession - inflation fight and g,ve me two tax refunds0 What's the school hung on? The town" Why can't the state legislature m Raleigh get in on it too0 . ,ve ??' '? "op this notion of depending entirely on Washington If <wc> check, from up there Z l," think how much seven or eight from down here will help. V Yours faithfully J.A. fled with the clippers and escaped to the roof where he deposited the instrument which threatened his claws. For that you can he sure there was no TV, even though it was the night for 'Wild Kingdom'. As the big day appio?hes, Twcety refuses to concentrate <m his lesson. I think he is planning to run away from home. The groundrules are really very simple. 'There will be no tibbons for you if you spit, hiss, or growl at the judges. ( laws will remain retracted at all times. Purring would be nice, but if you can't biing yourself to, at least make an effort to look pleasant and good natured'. The only response to this is a angry glare. If only cats could talk, maybe then we would find out why the idea of being in a show is so unappealing. Maybe they would tell us thev do not care to be hauled off to a strange place, being confined for hours in a cage ridiculously fitted out with organdy and lace. They might tell us they do not care to be stared at by the general public and then, having tire indignity of being presented in a ring where a handful of total strangers pick them up and examine every inch of their bodies, and address them by their names, as though the) were acquaintances. And then they might tell us these show aie only pioductsof their owners' vanity and are imposed on cats with no regard for feline feelings. Ilmm. Maybe it's just as well cats don't talk. Head 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (".od was in Christ recounciling the world unto himself ... and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5: lh) An estranged couple and then lawyers were before the judge to leceive his decision on the custody of their six ? year ? old son. After much heated wrangling, the judge finally lurned to the little lad, sitting so forlornly near his mother, "Which one of your parents do you wish to live with, my boy''" he asked, kindly. All was silent and suddenly the youngster burst into tears. Then in broken tones, he sobbes: "I ?-1 - want - to - live with both of them!" The husband and wife looked at each other, their eyes filled with (cars. Obviously, they had thought more of then own differences and desires than the lad's feelings. The husband had a hurried conference with his lawyer and wife. Then, taking the child's hand, they went up to the judge and told him they had decided to become reconciled. Christ came into the world to reconcile the world unto Himself. When persons form a new relationship with God, they will also form new and better relationships with family, employers, and friends. PRAYF.R: O Lord, help us to bring peace to some heart this day. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Peace will come to the world as peace comes to our homes. - copyright - THF. UPPF.R ROOM -Herbert P. Wood. Toronto, Ontario, Canada Bicentenneal Notes Fact, Folklore Mingle In History Of The Area (Reprinted from the Hoke County Golden Jubilee souvenir program-1961) As a county, Hoke it young and vigorous - hiving been organized in 1911 a good 248 years after the State's first county, Albemarle, was created by the Lords Proprietors. But while the county is "young", the land is old and rich with the accumulated legends of fact and fancy, history and myth. It is appropriate, then, that as we celebrate the Jubilee year of the county's organization, we look back to an earlier time when our sturdy forbears - white, Indian and Negro - carved out the shape of the land that we know so well today. Beginnings The two main tribes that lived in this section were the Choctaws and the Tuscaroras. There are a number of places in Hoke County were evidence of Indian villages have been found, although the Indian population here was not large. At several places around Montrose and in and near the Ft. Bragg reservation, pieces of pottery, arrowheads, tomahawks and com stones have been unearthed. A road running from the Raeford ? Vass road to Highway 401, that cuts through June Johnson's farm, was said by old people years ago to be an Indian path. Mrs. W.B. Mclauchlin said her grandfather told her Daniel Boone came through on the path. The Yadkin road, coming from Cross Creek country (now Fayetteville) and going through Hoke County to Pinehurst and to the west was one of the great buffalo trails. The Indian trails were practically identical with the buffalo trails and the settlers followed the Indian trails. The Indians living in Hoke County today, some contend, descended from Sir Walter Raleigh's l-ost Colony. What happened to the Lost Colony is an unanswerable question but some believe 'they mingled with the natives and that the present-day Lumbee Indians are their descendants. A nerm:?nent influ*n<?# <\f his been the pretention of place names tuch at Lumbee and Quewhiffle. Old deeds belonging to Lacy McFadyen of Montrose show that Quewhiffle used to be called lnquewhiffle. The name came from a creek by that name and in Indian language means crooked spoon. Lending some credence to the theory that survivors of the Lost Colony drifted upstate in this directjon is the fact that when the first white people came to the area between Big and Little Raft Swamp, the vicinity of the present Antioch community, they found a settlement there. While these natives possessed Indian characteristics, they spoke English and practiced many of the arts of civilization. Land was held in common among them until it became necessary to obtain grants from the King of England. A grant from George II to. William Fort in 1748 was deeded to Henry O'Berry of White's Lost Colony. Even from the present ? day names in Hoke County. it is evident that the early settlers'were Scotch. It is not known when the first Scotch settled in the Cape Fear section but some were there when the province was separated into North and South Carolina in 1729. In 1736, when Alexander Clark came over with a shipload of immigrants he reported a good many Scotch already settled in Cumberland County. But the greatest emigration of the Scotch to Carolina followed their defeat at Culloden in 1746 in their effort to throw off the English yoke. Many who are homeless were pardoned on condition they come to America after taking the oath of allegiance to His Majesty, King George II. This oath, the fact they lost everything they had been fighting for in favor of Prince Charles against Prince George and that they borrowed money for their passage to America made Tories out of some of them and neutrals out of more. They first located in the territory now included in Hoke, Bladen. Cumberland, Sampson, Moore, Robeson, Richmond, Anson, Montgomery, Harnett, Lee and Scotland counties. CLIFF BLUE ... People & Issues JUDGE BAIl.F.Y ?? Superior Court Judge James H. Pou Bailey, who some months ago suggested ihat it would be well for committees of lay citizens to monitor the courts and make reports^ has come forward with another move to' make rhe courts more efficient. Some days before opening court in Cumberland County. Judge Bailey who runs his courts in a business and judicious - like manner ordered restrictions on continuances of cases and placed priority on jail cases. Here are regulations which Judge Bailey, who lives in Raleigh, mailed to Cumberland court officials in advance of his court in Eayetteville: -?Attorneys will not be called or sent lor unless they advise the court room clerk of their location and then only with ihe consent of the presiding judge. -Attorneys having cases on the calendar may be excused by the presiding judge. After the calendar is printed, only the judge may excuse attorney or witnesses of continued cases. -?No case will be continued on motion of the district attorney except of causes arising after the printed calendar is published. Attorneys should not accept employment unless satisfactory financial arrangements are to be concluded prior to the case being calendared for trial and the employment is established in sufficient time to allow thc_ attorney ample time for preparation. -Cases will not be continued either because of inadequate financial arrangements or inadequate preparation time. -Jail cases will be given absolute priority by ihe district attorney. No case in which a defendant is out on bond may be tried as long as anyone has been in jail 30 days or more awaiting trial unless the jail case has been continued at the request of the defense. Judge Bailey appears to be on the right tract in moving .toward a more efficient court system. Other judges would do well to take notice and move in the direction in which the Raleigh jurist is leading. LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANCE - We understand that U.S. Senator Jesse Helms turned back into the U.S. Treasury about SI40,0(K) of unspent funds allowed his office for administrative use. This reminds us of over ? generous funds which the Washington legislators vote themselves for legislative assistance. We think the offices of the Congressmen and the U.S. Senators would be a pretty good place to practice a little economy. If Senator Helms who seems to run a pretty good office in giving attention to constituent problems can turn back SI40,000 a year, it seems that the appropriations for the Washington legislators is digging too deep into the pockets of the hard ? pressed taxpayers. Take a congressman's office, so far as offices back home, we would think the district could be served far better if he had two people covering the district in an "office ? mobile" with the Congressman's name on it. Senators and congressmen have watts telephone lines to call hack to the district and state on without extra charge. If they would have a two ? way watts line so the constituents could call in on without charge it would bring legislators and the people closer together and could well eliminate considerable expense, of extra offices. Of course the senators and congressmen could not personally take anything like all the calls but their secretaries could and consult with the legislators for the proper answer. SPENDING If President Ford thinks he can out do the liberal Congressmen in recommending huge expenditures, he'd better prepare for a bombshell. About three years ago there, was talk of a 5% increase in social Security payments. President Nixon then suggested a 1091 increase. Then, conservative Wilbur Mills, wanting to run for President, broke out and said he was for a 20% increase. Mills suggestion prevailed, but it didn't make him president! Letter To The Editor I ditor: I would like to lake time out to thank The News Journal and W.S.H.B. for the fine coverage that they have done for the Hoke County Booster Club this year. 1974-75. Also I would like to thank tfie fine merchants for buying ads on our football programs through the years and for the fine people who join the booster club each year. It is people like this that makes the booster club ? success each year that we might help support the athletic program at Hoke County High School and Upchurch Jr. High School. It has been . a pleasure working as a Hoke County Booster Club President this year. We would like to have seen more people at our Booster Club meetings. We would just like to thank everyone for their support in the Booster Club this year. 4 Sincerely yours, Noah A. Hend* |J| Hoke County Booster Club President , ml
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