<~Vlew6 - journal 02/toiittU PRESS ASSOCIATION Published hvery Thursday at Racford, N. C. 28376 119 W. hi wood Avenue Subscription Rates In Advance Per Year - *5.00 6 Months - $2.75 3 Months - $1.50 PAUL DICKSON PuMiaher-hditor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager LAURIh ThLFAIR Associate hditor MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society hditor MARTY VEGA Reporter Second Class Postage at Kaeford. N. C. THURSDAY. FE BRUARY 13. 1975 As We See It by Laurie Telfair In the last couple of weeks, an informally-organized group has called attention to the critical need here for housing for those with low incomes. * They are spearheaded by a social services case worker who must deal every day with the effects of squalid living conditions. She presented some compelling arguments to the city council for the necessity of those who already have decent housing to help get it for those who don't. Cioing right to the pocketbook. she pointed out that poor housing costs tax dollars. Children who are never warm a winter of their life fall prey to an unnecessarily large number of respiratory diseases. Their medical bills are paid out of tax funds, which costs money in the short run. In the long run. the all-too frequent cases of permanent disability of damaged, scarred lungs takes another bite by changing a potential taxpayer into a permanent dependent. She also noted that children raised in overcrowded rooms with little or no sanitary facilities enter the public school system with all the other more fortunate children. A concern for sanitation is another reason to become involved in the quest for housing. An additional reason, of course, is the simple humanitarian desire to help another person. In the last few days, several programs have been publicized that will fund rent subsidies to make up the difference between what the renter can pay and the fair market value of the housing unit. This is apparently a good program, as it provides ineentative for builders or groups to rent to those with low incomes. But. unfortunately, it apparently doesn't apply to Hoke County because we have no units here to rent. An attorney told the city council that he had been involved for several weeks in searching for a decent home for a youngster and his guardian who recently lost their home in a fire. Although they have enough income to rent a home, the lawyer said, no suitable home can be located. If it is difficult for someone with funds to find a home, you can imagine how impossible it is for those without money. Low-rent housing is for those who are living in old buses, in shanties with half a roof and no window panes, who have lost their jobs and then their mobile homes. The idea of providing something for nothing, or nearly nothing, is offensive to many people, but the lady makes a good case for why it must be done. Browsing in the files of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday. February 9, 1950 Such is the reputation of Robbins Cloth Mills. Inc. in this section that citizens and businessmen of all descriptions all over Raeford and Hoke County this week hailed the news of their recent purchase of a mill site here with elation and much hope for the future of the town and county. R.B. Lewis, president of the Raeford Chamber of Commerce. Inc.. said this week that the addition of the Robbins Cloth Mills to the number of industrial and manufacturing concerns of Hoke County would be one of the greatest boosts the county could have in the nature of heavier payrolls. A opossum hunt was under way in ? daylight and for from the woods, here Tuesday morning. Police Chief H.M Meeks was Master of the Hunt.although he was not master of the hounds present A U.S. supervisor of narcotics declared in Durham Monday that North Carolina has the reputation of being the "capital of illegal narcotic dealing in this section of the United States."*, * * * From Poole's Medley: The largest fish I have caught was in Tluimas' Pond on Drowning C reek li was caught with hook baited with a worm and evidently the fish tried to hook the thing and got hooked It weighed 11 pounds 1. Irvin Hubbatd. manager of the Collins Department Store here since I''46. left last week to take over management of the Collins store in l.ake City. S C. 15 years ago Thursday. February 11. I960 The swimming pool planned by the Hoke Swimming association is a practical certainty for this spring. J.D. McMillian. temporary president of the association,said yesterday. All three men's club of the Raeford churches will have a joint meeting Monday. March 14. and Governor Luther Hodges will address the group Raeford telephone users will soon have a lot of new numerals to learn. Those who have handily dialed three or four digits all these many years may want to invest in finger guards for they will be dialing seven digets soon, according to J.C. Coley. manager of the Carolina Telepltone and Telegraph Company. 'It s a nice little ornament for the living room while Kissinger is here* The Christian Science Monitor How Committees Work By Henry W. Oxen dine In the course of an average legislative session hundreds of hilisand resolutions may he introduced, on hundreds of different subjects and thousands of detailed problems. The individual legislator can hardly read every bill, and certainly cannot possibly study them all carefully. Yet he must vote on each bill and therefore has a major problem of knowing how to cast his vote responsibly. Legislatures meet this piohlcm in pail through the committee system. There arc approximately 41 such standing committees in the I""*? House of Representatives and 2K in the Senate. The President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, are responsible for appointing these committees. Legislators arc asked to submit their first, second and third preferences of committees of their inteiest. The practice of both houses is to adopt a schedule of the various Puppy Creek Philospher Dear editor I was watching the evening news on TV the other night, well, they call it the evening news but actually it's just part of the evening news; it's the news that happened close to where the network had a camera that day. 01 news that didn't play out before a cameia ciew could get there; anyway the part of the news that interested me that night was a repoit that ihc San Francisco school boa id had decided to discontinue all junior high and senior high school spoils. That's right, football, basketball, baseball, track, marbles -- everything would be discontinued to sa\e money. Now what the San Francisco school hoard does is none of my business. I've got my hands full out here on this Bermuda grass farm. hut. like the economic advisors who convinced President Ford three months ago thai the way to solve the country's problems was to save and stop spending, only to reveise themselves and say no, the way to do it is for everybody to spend more and create jobs. 1 wonder if those school tiustees were looking far enough down the road? I mean, without junioi high football, how can you develop any players for a senior high team? Without a senior high team, how can you have any college teams' And without any college teams, where would piofessional teams get any players'1 The same goes for baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, swimming, etc. Without thinking, the San Francisco school hoard is about to undermine the very foundation ol society. I have a notion that by the time this gets into print the howl of protest beginning with cheerleaders in San Francisco, not to mention the coaches (how many coaches would be satisfied with a teacher's salary ') and spreading like wildfire across the nation will have convinced the board of trustees they didn't realize the magnitude of their decision. Vou throw thousands of coaches out of work, ruin the business of helmet makers, shoulder pad people, uniform makeis. etc.. not to mention destioying half of television's revenue in the fall and winter, and you've just given the recession one more shove toward a depression. Some people say Congress isn't responsive enough to the will of the people but you don't see Congress pulling a stunt like that. It hasn't got time Too busy investigating things. Yours faithfully. J.A. committee meetings. Most of them are scheduled during the mornings of Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, except the "money" committees (Appro pi iat ion and Finance) which usually meet in the afternoons following daily sessions. The procedure followed is less formal than that in the sessions of the General Assembly. A quorum consits of a majority of the committee membcis. The chairman ordinarily recognizes the introducer of the bill so it can be fully explained. Sometimes it in voted on immediately: other times there is considerable discussion. A bill may be referred to a subcommittee lot lurthei study - or an amendment or a substitute bill may be considered, according to the sentiment expressed at the meeting. Frequently poisons otliei than legislators wish to appear before a committee to support or oppose a bill Public heaiings are not rout inch held on each bill, but will usually be scheduled by ihe committee chairman upon request of committee members or other inteiestcd persons. Oidinarily committee meetings are open to the public and to the news media. Rules of both houses provide for a clerk to take minutes and maintain records according to the requirements of the chairman. Some major committees are provided assistance b> the Institute of Government and b\ the Fiscal Research Division. When a bill has been rcponcd to the main body, the committee's jurisdiction over the bill ends. When the bill comes up for consideration on the floor, however, the committee chanman is expected to explain the bill, m delegate this duty to anothei committee, ot to the sponsor of the bill. Only one ol these three members may move formally to end debate and bung the matter to a vote. Committees which include Representatives of the J? I st District Henry W. Oxendinc -- Base Budget. Corrections. 1. ducat ion. Highei Fducation. Insurance. Judiciary III. Human Resources. Joy J Johnson - Chairman. Human Resources: Corrections. Appropriations. Institution foi Blind and Deaf. Fducation. Alcoholic Beveiages. David R Parnell Agricultuic. Military and Veterans. Public Cnlmcs. Rules. Finance. Bicentennial Notes Those Were The Days . . (ran I tvee of hive) By Pauline McFadyen Sometimes when the weather was' warm Mother would send the cook to the fence with a large tray of hot lunch, but it was hard to enjoy that good food with so many little droolers watching. So many of us lived within just a few blocks of the school that I nevei understood why we couldn't run home for a hot lunch. Now all during the first grade 1 loved school and my teachers, but I was horrified at doing anything wrong. But I really disgraced myself in the second grade. I got two demerits! Ten demerits meant a visit to the principal's office. One morning in class I whispered three words to William Covington who sat behind mc. He had brought a little pink hiithdav candle to school and had it out on the desk or in his hand. I put my hand over my mouth and whispered, "what is it?" Miss Womack looked at me and said. "Two demerits". Why. I just felt I couldn't go home. I really worried myself sick over this and didn'j tell it until I had to take my report card home. 1 had done well in my work. Why I had tripped almost every one in my class by spelling eleven correctly (no one else put an "e" first). I could read as well as anyone, but the shame of that "demerits - ?" at the bottom of my teport card went with me aII year. I surely didn't get any dcmetils in the third grade. 1 was in complete awe of Miss Maude Miller, a large German woman who wore a middy blouse and skirt every day of the year without a coal no mattci how cold it got. She always wore short sleeves and we could see the muscles in her arms, she cut Iter nails tn points. We would raise our hands for the lesson assignment and she would come to our desks and mark it in oui books with those nails. She only had to pinch one person for misbehaving. That settled the class for the year. Some of the boys in this grade were fourteen years old and couldn't get into our small desks. They sat in straight chairs by the heater. They liked to bring in wood and keep the fire going. They weiv almost ready to farm anyway. The things that I remember about the fourth grade are very few. One morning my teacher started up the steps to set on the stage during chapel and a heel came off her shoe. She sent 3 pupil to Mrs. Keaves on Main Street to get nu some more shoes. Too, I remember the principal came to the room one day during class and called a boy to the front of the room and whipped him. I was horrified. Another impression was the great delight in Valentine's Day. I never found out who gave me one pretty Valentine. But the biggest excitement of the year was the birth of my baby sister. I was staying at Grandma's and my young aunt ran ahead of nte to school and told the teacher before I got there. We moved to the new school when 1 was in the fifth grade. Now the new school was the building that burned. It stood where the first grades are now. We walked over to the school taking all books and supplies. Now we had separate deks. By the time I reached the seventh grade I had lost about all interest in learning. There were other things. There were hoys. Miss Mayme McKeithan had a room full of active, lively youngsters. We now spent most of our time trying to get out of work. We learned early that we could argue with Miss Mayme, so of course we Baptists argued the method of baptizing since she was a Presbyterian, any time we had & test or Itaid problems. The large boys liked to tease. One day Boots Graham told her he was going to drop English. She took a long time explaining that he couldn't do this when he stood and dropped his English book. One big old boy wrote the preamble to the constitution perfectly on his test. Miss Mayme was suspicious so she called on Itime to recite it. He stood and fumbled around and finally said. "We, the people". He didn't know another word. Continued Next Week OPINION POLL-The Sandhill Citizen in Aberdeen and The Robbins Re and in Robhins conducted a Public Public Opinion Poll last week. We print the results here because Moore County is in many ways a pretty typical Tar Heel County, about average in population, and pretty typical of the state from a political make-up. All its county elected officials are Democrats except two of the three county commissioners. However, in 1^72 it voted strongly for Nixon. Holshouser and Helms. In ll?74 it swung hack heavily Demociaiic. Here are the questions and the answers 1. What kind of a job do you feel Piesident Cord is doing? ANSWCRS Good I tv <. Average 45' . Poor 4l>';. 2. Do you in general approve of President Cord's recommendations to overcome inflation and recession? ANSWIRS Yes 27'*: No 5SM Undecided 15 >. .V What kind ot a job do you feel (iovernoi Holshouser is doing? ANSWI RS (iood 22' : Average 44'*: Poor 45' 4 .Do you favor Gove: nor Holshouser*s proposal to Repeal the Sales Tax on Cood' ANSWCRS Yes 44 . No 4.v . Undecided IS'/. 5 What kind of a job do you feel I .S Senator Jesse Helms, is doing'.' ANSWCRS (iood Average 5S'>; Poot 25''. CUFF BLUE ... People & Issues (>. Do you favor the Sunday closing of stores in Moore County? ANSWERS: Yes .W./; No 54'#: Undecided 7'#. 7. Who would you like to see the Republicans nominate for President in |97(>? Only Republicans asked to answer this question. ANSWERS: l ord 41'?: Rockefeller JU'T. Goldwater 14'#; Reagan 10^: Senator Howard Baker 4'#. 8. Who would you like to see the Demociats nominate for President in ll>7t?? Only Democrats asked to answer this question. ANSWERS: George Wallace 51'#: Senator Henry Jackson 29'#; Terry San ford I 2' /: Kennedy 4 '#; McCovern 2'V: Harry Byrd 2'#. I M) people participated in the poll-a much larger percentage population-wise than participated in the Harris and Gallup polls. However, this was a non-scientific poll and anyone was free to participate. LEGISLATIVE COST- Big government is not only mush-rooming in Washington but light here in North Carolina the General Assembly is running a close race, percentage-wise at least. According to a recent Associated Press article, in the past ten years the seven times. The ll>(?5-(>7 General Assembly cost the State SI.5 million to operate. Ten years later the Geneial Assembly's budget for 1975-77 is expected for the first time to pass the 510 million mark. This milestone comes when legislative leaders-speaking about other state agencies-have called for austerity. It should be remembered that in the past ten years the State's revenues have only tripled whereas the State legislature is costing the taxpayers seven times what it cost 10 vears ago. The legislators doubled then salaries last year from S2.400 per year to 54.800 per year, says the Associated Press. But that is not their only income. Members get a "per diem" expense allowance of S245 per ^eck while the legislature is in session. State Rep. John Stevens of Buncombe who is chairman of. the House Rules Committee estimates that each legislator will receive S20.000 in salary and expenses during his two-yeai term. Nothing is likely to be done about the mushrooming cost of State Government in Raleigh, although Rep C. Kitchen Josey. House majority leadei of Halifax County says: "I don't think people really get their money's worih from any government program. And. it we're going to cut the budgets ot othci Mate agencies. I think we ought to cut ours, too." The question in Has there been any real effort in recent ycais to hold down the cost of government? It has grown almosi like Topsy' S20.0CX) for a two vcai term in ihe Genera! Assembly.mav entice some of the would-be Ntaicvinen back home to oHci t lie 11 soivitcC Read Luke 4 4(1-44 He laid his hand on them one In one and cured them. (Luke 4 40 Nl B) Seveial women were rutting on a bench watting then turn lot treatment at a Christian hospital in West Africa. One of them had come from hei village a hundred and fifty miles aw ay; another had traveled a hundred miles; and a thud, about fifty miles. A missionary who knew ihal government hospitals were not far from then homes asked them why they had come so fai when they could have got the same mcdietng from one of these hospitals One of the women replied. "Yes. the medicine may be the same, hut the hands are different." In the mission hospital they found that, in addition to the healing medicine they needed, there was an atmosphere of love and sympathetic understanding This made (he difference, made it woithwhile to travel so fai lor treatment. It in always love that makes all the Jilleicnee in what we do foi others. PR A VI K 0 I oid and Master, help us always to he ready to lespond to any appeal to help others in need, but guide us to help with that love and understanding which makes all the difference. In Thy spini.help us to pray Thou hast taught us. "Our I athei who ait in heaven, hallowed he thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will he done on earth as it is in heaven Citve us this day our daily hiead. And foigtvc us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. hut deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glow forever. Amen THOUGHT FOR THI DAY (hnsf is our source of love, the added tacini that enriches all our service toothers. . -copyright THI UPPF.R ROOM --Leonaid W. Juhv. Fngland