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THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1975
Detente In Space
For a short while at least the world can pause from its
earthbound troubles and let its attention soar skyward.
The Apollo-Soyuz flight will not have quite the heart-stopping
drama of the first moon landing. The project did not require much
new equipment and it is not expected to yield significant scientific
results. But it does demonstrate that the world's rival superpowers
can collaborate in some fields. If successful, it should help warm the
air of detente.
This does not mean that after the American and Russian
spacemen shake hands 140 miles over the earth, the way is
automatically open to the joint exploration of space. Nor that the
Russians will abandon their expansionist drive in the Middle East,
Western Europe, and Asia. Nor that the Kremlin will suddenly allow
political and intellectual freedom at home. Nor that it will stop
looking for the collapse of the capitalist system.
The joint space mission serves the Russians well. It has gained
them exposure to American space facilities and technology. And,
while the object of the flight is to test a universal docking system
that can be used in space rescues, the superiority of American
technology places the United States in a better position to effect
such rescues.
Nonetheless, Apollo-Soyuz is good for America, too. The
rationale of detente is that in the nuclear age a policy of
cooperation and accommodation better promotes peace than one of
hostile confrontation. It is wiser to engage the Russians
constructively on the international scene than to fight them. It is
wiser to encourage a gradual evolution of their authoritarian system
through the flow of people and ideas across borders than to treat
them like pariahs. Isolating a country only invites aggressiveness:
involving it invites responsibility.
Hence, while Americans will continue to abhor the despotism of
the Soviet regime and must remain vigilant against Moscow's
aggressiveness-as writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn eloquently
warns-they can sensibly support detente. They can welcome the
efforts to restrain the nuclear arms race. They can also sell grain to
the Soviet Union, seeking assurances from their government that
they will not be bilked in the process. And they can cooperate in
scientific endeavors.
Apollo-Soyuz yielded much cooperation in the long five years the
project has been under way. Each side had to accommodate to the
other in scheduling events in the flight, releasing information to the
public and designing safety equipment. The Russians were not
totally open in showing the Americans their space facilities but they
disclosed more than before. And for the first time a world audience
was about to see a Russian space launch.
In short, the scientific importance of the flight should not be
overestimated. But. as a symbol of what can be accomplished when
men work together, it holds out great potential-both in space and
on earth.
The Christian Science Monitor
Browsing in the fil
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, July 13,1950
Robert Gatlin. chairman of the
Public Affairs Committee of the
Raeford Kiwanis Club, sponsors of
the summer recreation program for
school - age hoys and girls, said this
week unless the people of the
community come through with some
money to help keep the program
going it will close.
Rain in many parts of the county
yesterday brought to seven the
number of successive days there had
been rain in this section, and
according to the weather people "no
immediate change in the weather is
expected."
From Rockfish News:
Tobacco barning is in full swing
around here in spite of the rainy
weather.
From the Report of Condition of
The Bank of Raeford assets were
listed at $2.405,526.25,
From Poole's Medley:
We all should leam to abound, and
how to save. We should learn to
y exercise prudence, good business
judgment, and be ready for whatever
comes
'North Carolina Tuesday was
instructed to have 610 draftees in
uniform not later than Sept. 30.
Eastern North Carolina tobacco
farmers cast one eye at a waterfilled
sky and the other at water ? soaked
fields Tuesday as the worst rain
damage in years hit some sections
and threatened others.
15 years ago
Thursday, July 14,1960
Henry McCoy Blue, 63, president
of the Aberdeen and Rockfish
Railroad Company and former
mayor of Aberdeen, died at Moore
Memorial hospital on Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Cornelia Maxwell Ray. 88
the widow of John Calvin Ray of
Raeford, died Wednesday morning in
the Raeford Rest Home.
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Response to the visit of the Red
Cross Bloodmobile proved rather
disappointing when only a total of
54 persons appeared to volunteer
blood during the period from 10:00
a.m. to 4:00 pjn. Tuesday, that the
mobile unit was present in Raeford.
Like it or not, here we are,
linked up on an orbiting space vehicle'
?me Christian Science Momt
? by Marty Vega
Today's History Lesson
Today is Thursday. July 17. On
this day. many, many moons ago. my
children, as the Indians were planting
their tobacco, unmindful of a vast
untapped market for filter tip
cigarets. across the expanse of the
sea. later to be known as the Long
Island Sound, and even beyond that,
to the shores of England. our story
begins.
Robin the Hood, or Robin Hood
as we call him today, was just a small
time 12th century hood until he got
a publicity gimmick.
The idea hit him while he was in
stocks, not that he was an investment
broker, but he got locked up in the
stocks for stealing a silk hankerchief
out of a fine ladies' bodice.
12th century penologists figure A
short stretch in the stocks was an
enlightened approach to prisoner
rehabilitation, as a convict would
have time to think about his sins.
Robin was sitting there thinking
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear Editor:
You take a man like Benjamin
Franklin, how was he to know 200
years ago that his notions about
thrift would eventually be bad for
the economy? That "a penny saved is
a penny earned" is a theory that
produces a nose-dive in the Gross
National Product?
You see, according to an article 1
read last night, economists have been
cheered because consumers, after
holding back for three months, have
now gone forward to buying more on
credit The Federal Reserve Board
reported that consumer debt rose for
the first time in three months,
reaching 185 billion dollars, a gain of
over 3 billion.
"Economists have pegged hopes
for a significant recovery from the
recession to a revival of consumer
confidence and spending." the article
said, and this jump, or plunge as
Backward Ben Franklin might put it.
in total indebtedness, is highly
encouraging.
This theory shows why farmers for
instance every time they go in debt
to make a crop that loses money are
strengthening the backbone of the
economy.
It shows that the Federal
government, now over 300 billion
dollars in debt and going in deeper all
the time, is lighting the path toward
economic recovery, and coming
along with flashlights of their own
are state and city and county
governments. Take New York City
for example. Clearly it has taken the
lead in pushing for a healthier
economy.
1 feel sorry for Benjamin Franklin,
but you've got to remember he had
no way, looking 200 years down the
road through those primitive
spectacles he wore, to see that a
solvent man is a road-block to
economic recovery, that refusing to
spend actually is sabotaging the
economic machinery.
But he was a smart man, he could
adapt to change and new ideas, and if
he were around today no doubt
would be saying "a penny saved is a
monkey wrench thrown."
By the way. do you sell
subscriptions to The News-Journal
on credit? Aren't you in favor of
whipping the recession?
Yours faithfully.
J.A.
when il occurred to him if some of
the onlookers on the street when he
stole the hankerchiel" had helped
him. he'd have gotten away clean.
And the way to get the common
people on his side. why. of course,
give him the idea he robbed from the
rich and gave the dough to the poor!
Paroled two years later, he went
up to the first rube on the street and
told him he was the great Robin
Hood who stole from the rich and
gave to the poor. Directing the rube's
eye to a passing milkmaid, he
reached into the schntoe's greasy
wallet and found a penny. He pressed
the penny into his hand. "This is for
you-l stole it from a nobleman only
today."
He repeated this trick a few' times,
and soon all the rubes, hicks, yokels
and bums in hngland were on his
side
He set up his headquarters in an
upper class suburb called Sherwood
Forest, an exclusive area where his
neighbors had no idea what sort of
business he was in.
Friar Tuck, top man of the Italian
Mafia who was temporarily hiding
out in Fngland until a gang war over
control of the Chicago rackets ended,
was a front man for Robin s
organization.
One day Tuck came in with the
news Prince John was heading their
was with a large federal force of
soldiers.
Robin had always spoken loudly
against Prince John, because he was
the biggest fatcat around, and this
went over big with the poor.
Thinking quickly. Robin had Maid
Marion, who looked like Miss
January I Iri5. go to a pond and
bathe, while luck stood yelling.
"You brazen hussy, you shouldn't be
bathing here, you might be seen by
some passing soldiers."
In no time, the soldiers, with
Prince John at the front, were
grouped around the pond. "Go find
Robin Hood." the prince ordered,
and off they went, without the
prince.
Robin, meanwhile, had been
dropping gold coins along a trail
through the forest, and the soldiers
greedily followed the gold trail,
swinging their clubs, much like the
pro golfers of loday. But the trail led
to a deep swamp, full of quicksand,
and all the men were lost.
So was Robin-he tried to carry
too much gold across the quicksand,
and sank.
Stories Behind Words
by William S. Penfield
Barmecide Feast
A "Barmecide feast" means an
illusion of plenty. The term came from
a story in lite "Arabian Nights".
A member of the wealthy
Barmecide family invited a starving
beggar to dinner. The beggar was
seated at the table and empty dishes
were set before him. The merchant
prince, exercising his cruel sense of
humor, started questioning the beggar.
"How is the soup?" he asked.
"Excellent, sir," the beggar replied.
Further questions about the imaginary
meal brought nothing but praise from
the beggar.
Finally, the beggar was offered
some imaginary wine, but politely
declined it, explaining that he was
already drunk. Then, in his pretended
drunken state, he knocked the
Barmecide down. The Barmecide,
recognizing the humor of the
situation, treated the beggar to a
sumptuous meal.
CLIFF BLUE ...
People & Issues
VICE PRESIDENT ?? Seems that
the Republicans are concerned with
what to do about a vice presidential
candidate come nominating time
1976. '
Vice President Rockefeller says he
has never heard of anyone running
for vice president - that the party
nominee for President always gives
the nod to the man he wants for his
running mate.
Well, 1 can remember one notable
exception among the Democrats.
After Adlai Stevenson was
nominated for president at the
Chicago convention in 1956, the race
for vice president was thrown
wide-open with Senator Estes
Kefauver and a young Senator from
Massachusetts by the name of John
F. Kennedy being the candidates.
The writer was a delegate to the
convention from the Eighth District
in North Carolina. The word from
Stevenson trickling down to the
delegates was that it was an "open"
race and that either Kefauver or
Kennedy would be quite satisfactory
with him.
It proved to be quite a close race.
U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn of
Texas was permanent chairman of
the convention. You could tell from
his presiding that he was on the
Kennedy side. Near the close of the
roll call of states it appeared that
Kennedy, who was waiting in a
near-by building, would win.
Kennedy was so informed and came
swiftly to the convention hall only to
find that Kefauver had edged ahead
and had won the vice presidential
nomination.
The late Luther H. Hodges was
then governor of North Carolina and
was chairman of the Tar Heel
delegation. Terry Sanford was among
those attending the convention as a
delegate. The Tar Heel delegafion - a
great majority of them at least, went
by train - aboarding at Charlotte on a
Saturday about I p.m. and arriving in
Chicago Sunday morning.
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Ives, sister of
Adlai Stevenson, who maintains a
home about six months out of the
year near Southern Pines and
Aberdeen, was at the convention.
She was acquainted with many of the
Tar Heel delegates and this gave the
North Carolina delegates a close-up
knowledge of what was going on
behind the scenes, and Stevenson's
attitude toward an open convention.
SIDELIGHTS -- Harry Truman
had been out of the White House
only about three and a half years
when the 1956 Chicago convention
was held. Truman was a strong
supporter of Governor Harriman of
New York. If memory serves me well
Sam Burrow of Asheboro. now State
House Reading Clerk, was a
supporter of Harriman, Hodges and a
great majority of the Tar Heel
delegation supported Stevenson.
While Truman has now come to be
regarded as one of our outstanding
presidents - he had very little
influence at the Chicago convention.
1 remember standing on the
sidewalk at the Blackstone Hotel and
watching Truman, Mrs. Truman and
Margaret get their luggage in their car
and leave the convention on
Saturday morning. I know it was
remarked around the convention
about how Truman's influence had
ebbed since he left the White House
Members of Congress are going lo
be under heavy pressure during the
days ahead lo remove all price
controls Irom natural gas piped in
interstate commerce. This interstate
gas, which is used to operate many of
our plants and factories as well as
heat many of our homes in North
Carolina, is now sold at a regulated
rate of 51. cents per thousand cubic
feet We are being told that if gas is
"deregulated", that is, all controls
are removed, then we will have
plenty of gas but it will probably
cost about four times as much.
The entire question of the
regulation of natural gas is a very
complex one. For instance. North
Carolina gets all of its gas from one
supplier, Transco, which gives that
company a monopoly in our state. In
a truly "free enterprise" situation,
where competition exists, there
would be no reason for regulation,
but that is not the case here. Transco
has no competitor and, like any
other utility, it was able to condemn
land when it installed Its pipeline.
Thus, some regulation to protect the
consumer would seem proper.
It appears there is a very real
danger that unless controls are
removed the gas supply in our state
could be cut sharply and some plants
less than four years before.
Stevenson had run against
Eisenhower in 1952 and lost in a
most exciting campaign. The 1956
campaign found the brilliant former
Illinois governor losing by a bigger
percentage than in 1952.
REVENUE SHARING - 1 hive
always had a big question mark in
my mind regarding federal revenue
sharing. In the first place, the Federal
government doesn't have any surplus
revenue to share, except for the fact
that it has been running along on
borrowed money for many, many
years. We are afraid the counties and
municipalities will get to sucking the
"revenue sharing tit" to the extent
that when it goes dry they will have
become so addicted to it like a
dopester on narcotics that they will
be in worse shape than at the
beginning.
AGE DISCRIMINATION -- With
the General Assembly having
adopted John Ingram's bill which
purports to abolish age
discrimination in automobile
insurance, John has a big tiger in his ?
yard to make play right and not hurt
a good many people. We are hoping
that it works out as John envisions.
BLACKS - While the North
presents itself as more favored
towards the blacks than the South, a
recent survey finds that more than
half the black office holders in the
nation have won their jobs in the
southern states. The largest number
of black elected officials ? 1.913 or
55 percent, come from the 17-state
region of the South, which has 53
percent of the total black population
in the United States.
Letter To
The Editor
Dear Sir:
I was born and raised in Raeford
and at the age of 17 I entered the
Military Service to serve my
obligated time to my Country. After
a Navy career of 20 years, my family
and I recently returned to Raeford
planning to make it our home.
We traveled from California to
Raeford and used Travelers Checks
for all our expenses with no
questions asked until we got home.
When we go in stores here to
purchase items for our family the '
merchants refuse to cash our
Travelers Checks. In tact, only one
store here has cashed a Travelers
Check, which is a modern thing in
this day and time.
Even the local library doesn't seem
to trust supposedly newcomers or
outsiders ? whichever term fits the
occasion maybe it's displaced
persons.
I would think a town the size of
Raeford would welcome a little
population growth and a little more
money being spent in their stores,
but evidently that's not the case.
After what I've seen I truthfully
don't know il I want to live here or
not. I'll have to give it a lot of
thought.
Whatever happend to Southern
Hospitality anyway?
Sincerely.
Petty Officer First Class C.H.
Hendrix
United States Navy - Retired
Report
To Tin
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
would have to close. None of us
wants that.
On the other hand, I am seriously
disturbed because no one yet has
shown me any evidence that
deregulation will solve this problem
of not enough gas and insure an
adequate supply. But it is not enough
just to say that I need information
and proof to support these
arguments before I can support a
program that will raise gas prices
some 400 percent. An increase, of
course, will be borne by the
consumer and many farmers and
small industries might not be able to
pay this price.
In any event, such an increase in
the price of natural gas will surely be
inflationary. We have just seen the
price of gasoline jump from 30 cents
to 60 cents per gallon, and this is
going to increase the cost of every
commodity hauled by truck. Now, if
natural gas prices jump from SO cents
to $2.00, then the companies which
use gas will have to raise the price of
their products, too
I certainly do not want to see any
plants closed this winter because of a
jack of fuel. But on the other hand I
also do not want to be part of any
plan to raise gas prices unduly,
See REPORT, page 13