ST. NICK VISITS-Members of the 4-H clubs held a county-wide Christmas
party highlighted by a visit from Santa Clans.
4-H Corner
By Marsha Smith and Freddie O'Neal
With the holiday season well over,
we look back now that a new year
has begun. Last year was full of 4-H
activities that enabled us to grow
both mentally and physically. During
the Christmas season the Hoke
County 4-H'ers held a county-wide
party with 102 members and leaders
present. The night was full of fun
activities, such as mixers, which
allowed the newcomers to get
acquainted with the old members,
dancing and singing. The get-together
brought both young and old, rural
and urban, for an evening of fun.
ending with a visit by Jolly Old St.
Nick.
Refreshments were made by the
members of the different clubs, and
ranged from homemade cookies,
candies and confections, which were
served with punch.
Some ot the upcoming events for
spring will be achievement night,
Talent Night and dress Revue, with
all county 4-H'ers participating.
Anyone who wishes to join 4-H
please contact your County
Extension Office, phone 875-3461.
Let's make 1976 a better year than
ever.
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Airport Committee
Bids For Land Funds
The airport committee unani
mously agreed in a regular meeting
Friday to ask the Raeford City
Council for appropriations to up
date the master plan which is
needed to qualify for a federal
grant they are seeking and to
acquire land so the airport can be
expanded.
Chairman Joe Rackley told a full
committee the cost of the updated
plan would not exceed S3,000 and
it would include some alternative
sketches of the airport.
Rackley said the plan cost would
include drafting charges of the plan
and some field work.
He admitted the price that was
originally quoted to him concerning
the new plan was SI,000.
"This is our number one con
cern. We have to have the plan
updated in order to receive the
grant we've applied for," he said.
The committee next reviewed the
possibility of a non-directional
beacon that would cost from
S6-8.000.
It was disclosed that the state
would pay 50% of this cost through
a state grant.
Rackley said it would be ideal if
all the needs of the airport could be
tied together and money could be
obtained to get both projects done.
He said an official letter would
have to be sent by L.H. Koonce Jr.,
civil engineer, in order for the
request to be made since he does
the plan for the airport.
Rackley then pointed out that
many errors were found in the
application made for state airport
funds and this should be taken up
with Koonce also.
Rackley indicated that the Rae
ford airport mieht be able to
qualify for a VOR instrument
approach system and listed some of
the qualifications needed to apply.
Committeemen decided an ap
plication should wait until the new
plan is drawn up.
A discussion was then opened
involving the hangar owned by
committeemen William Poole and
Tom Cameron.
Rackley said that he hoped in the
future certain building standards
could be set up by the committee
and he did not think the hangar in
question would qualify.
He said it was not a question of
appearance, but he personally
thought it would not qualify for
standard building construction.
"It is obvious that we are not
going to be able to pursue the
future of the airport until the
hangar is moved," said Rackley.
Poole requested the hangar be
left where it is until the new plan
was made up or some more land
was acquired.
Rackley proposed that the city
pay the owners a reasonable fee
for the hangar and take it down.
A copy of Gene Thacker's lease
was passed among committeemen
and they decided that the lease
could not be broken by the city.
Committeemen then decided it
would be best to ask the City
Council to appropriate funds for
land acquisition and the updating
of the present plan so progress
could be made toward solving the
hangar and lease problems.
In other business, Paul Rose
requested permission to cut some
trees down that are located between
his business and the parking lot in
order to provide space for more
parking.
The committee decided to wait
until the new plan was drawn up
before they took action on the
request.
Raeford Fire Chief Crawford
Thomas Jr., suggested that a
meeting should be set up between
the fire department and the fixed
base operators so they could outline
procedure that could be taken in an
emergency situation.
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In the early days of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation there was
published periodically a list of
most-wanted criminals (a practice
that still survives in a somewhat
modified form). The desperado at
the top of the list was designated
"Public Enemy No. 1." There was
always a sense of great accomplish
ment whenever this criminal was
brought to justice and removed
from the list.
The Bible also often reads like a
"most-wanted" list of "public
enemies." Different enemies occu
pied the number-one spot from
time to time and it would be
difficult to determine which of
these was the most formidable of
God's foes. In the early chapters of
Genesis the serpent seems to
occupy top-billing in the Bible's
"Hall of Infamy.' For a while it is
the Pharoah. then the Phillistines,
followed by the Assyrians. Baby
lonians and Persians in succession.
In Jesus' day the number-one
enemy seems to be the Romans, but
a close examination of the Gospels
reveals that Jesus was much more
concerned about other more subtle
and insidious foes. The legalism of
the Pharisees was identified as one
of God's geatest of all enemies.
Jesus attacked the legalistic ap
proach to God. not as a minor
distortion of the Hebrew faith, but
as a principal alternative to the
worship and service of God. The
Law had become more important
than God himself for many people.
There was. however, another foe
whom Jesus attacked with equal
vigour and determination. This
enemy also had seemed to have
become for many people an altern
ative to religious faith, a substitute
for God. Jesus drew the line
distinctly in Matthew 6 when he
proclaims: "No one can serve two
masters; for either he will hate the
one and love the other, or he will be
devoted to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and
mammon." (6:24)
In Matthew 6:24 Jesus calls
God's enemy "mammon." Today
we would call this same enemy by
the name of "materialism." A
punster has dubbed this alternative
religion "Monevtheism" - the belief
in money and material goods as the
highest values in life. Jesus was
unequivocal: you can't give your
life to the pursuit of material things
and still maintain that God is first
in your life.
Yet. the problem is not that
material things are evil - as some
religious people have maintained -
but that they must always be
secondary to spiritual values. We
can have both so long as we realize
and acknowledge that the spiritual
is more to be desired than the
material: "But seek first his king
dom and his righteousness, and all
these things shall be yours as well"
(6:33).
In the lives of many people,
God's number one foe has been and
continues to be the subtle, seduc
tive false god of materialism.
"Were it left to me to decide
whether we should have government
without newspapers or newspapers
without government, I should not
hesitate for a moment to prefer the
latter. But I should mean that every
man should receive those papers and
be capable of reading them."
"The press is the beit instrument
for enlightening the mind of man,
and improving him as a rational,
moral and social being."
"If a nation expects to be both
ignorant and free, it expects what
never was and never will be."
-Thomas Jefferson
Roekfish News
By Mr*. A. A. Mclnnb
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hare of
Charlotte spent the weekend with
Mrs. Hate's mother and brother
Mrs. Mary Mclnnis and Thomas.
Mrs. A.W. Wood Sr. has had
"flu" or some of its kin for several
days and has been real sick.
Miss Katharine Ann Mclnnis of
Florence, S.C. is spending this
week with her Gilfis and Ray
relatives at Rockfish and Galatia.
Everyone is delighted that Mrs.
George Dees was able to come
home Saturday from Cape Fear
Nursing Center after a long stay
there and Cape Fear Valley Hospi
tal. Here's hoping she will soon be
out among her children and friends
again.
Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Smith have
returned to New Orleans, La.
after a visit with Mrs. Smith's
brother, Mr. Bruce Ray and Mrs.
Ray. Mrs. Smith is the former
Willie Ray of Raeford.
Mrs. Garnett Emory and daugh
ter Ruth of Durham spent Friday
with her sister Mrs. Will Monroe,
Mr. and Mrs. James Wood of
Raeford. Misses Debbie Wood and
Pam Monroe of Fayetteville were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Robert McNeill and daugh
ters, Susan and Nancy have re
turned home from Lincoln, Neb.
where they spent the holidays with
Mrs. McNeill's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Mussmann.
Mrs. Lib Bunce, Mrs. Carol
Pittman and Mrs. Cecil McKit
tham were hostesses for a stork
shower Friday night honoring Mrs.
Clarence Batten at the Fellowship
Hall of Pittman Grove Church. She
received lots of nice gifts and all
enjoyed the get together.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis Parker, Mr.
and Mrs. D.B. Parker and children
attended the Orange Bow] game
and Parade in Atlanta Ga., last
weekend. They were joined in
Atlanta by their sister Elizabeth
and her husband Mr. Thomas
McPherson and children of Yancv
ville. N.C.
Mr. Carl Boahn entered Duke
Hospital in Durham, N.C. Sunday,
after a long illness at home.
The death of Miss Flora Mc
Laurin of Mt. Olive, N.C. was
learned with sadness. She was a
cousin of the Community Parker
families and an aunt of Mrs.
Margaret Terry and Thomas Mc
Call. Our deepest sympathy is with
Mrs. Effie McCall Farbis and
family whose husband and father,
Hunter Forbes, died Sunday
morning with burial at Lumber
Bridge Monday afternoon. Mrs.
Forbes is a sister of Mrs. Margaret
Terry and Thomas McCall.
The Community Sympathy also
extended to the Clarence Lee family
of Fayetteville R3. Mr. Lee was
killed last week in a Raleigh
explosion and was buried in the Lee
family cemetery near Rockfish
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Marshall Newton had her
sisters Miss Lessie Martin, Mrs.
Charles Rozier and Mr. Rozier as
her guests Sunday.
Mrs. Frances Braddy Capps
went to the Kel|ar Rest Home,
Sanford, N.C. Friday and carried
her aunt, Miss Bessie Cameron out
for a birthday dinner and to Miss
Bessie's home in Vass for a few
hours and also called on some of
her neighbors. She was for many
years a teacher in the Vass schools
before entering the Rest Home. She
is eighty-four years old, but still has
hopes of coming back to her pretty
home some day to stay.
Mrs. Floyd Monroe had several
of her many good neighbors in to
dinner Wednesday night.
Mr. Duncan McCraney has just
returned from an extended holiday
visit with his son, Johnny Mc
Craney and family of Nolanville
Texas.
Mrs. Henry Fowler and daughter
Kathy, and Mrs. R.V. Tanner were
in Shelby, N.C. Sundav for the
Silver Wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Gibson.
Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. Tanner,
Kathy and Carol Fowler also visited
the Allen Gibsons in Richmond,
Va. returning home Thursday.
Theresa Allen spent the holidays ft
in Charleston, S.C. with Sandra
Allen.
Mrs. Paul Johnson visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of
Vidalia, Ga., last week. They have
not been well for some time, but
she found them as well as she could
expect. Mr. Johnson is recovering
from a severe heart attack.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Guin had as
their dinner guests Sunday, Jack
Lunsford, Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Clark and Mrs. Floyd Monroe.
Miss Susan Upchurch of Lexing
ton, N.C. spent last week in the
M.S. Gibson home. Mrs. M.S.
Gibson and Mrs. M.S. Gibson, Jr.
carried her to Mt. Gilead Friday
where she was met by her mother
on her way home.
Mrs. M.S. Gibson, Sr. spett
Monday with her sister, Mrs. Virginia
Bounds in Red Springs. Mrs. Bounds
who was so very sick at Moou
Memorial Hospital recently, is ft
home but is restricted to her home
by her doctor, for four months.
Mrs. Ellen Willis visited her
mother Mrs. Mary Southerland of
Clinton during the weekend.
Miss Mary Priest who carries
Mrs. Quick to the Adcox Rest
Home to see her brother, Mr. Will
Culbreth went in to see Mrs. James
Livingston, the former Bessie Mc
Millan of Dundarrach and Mrs.
Nealie Ritter Dail, patients in the
home, Friday. Mrs. Dail isn't doing
well at all. Mrs. Livingston isn't
improving any.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodger Sheats of
Red Springs and Mrs. Bess Newton of
Parkton were visitors of Mrs.
Marshall Newton Monday evening.
No special news from the nearby
churches except Galatia Presbyterian
Church had their Communion
Service Sunday morning and Parkers
Methodist will observe theirs next
Sunday. The usual Monday and
Wednesday night meetings at Pittman
Grove and Rockfish Tabernacle
Baptist churches. All reported good
attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Culp have
returned from Alabama where they
visited Mr. Culps mother and other
relatives during the holidays.
Walter Brock is still a patient at
Moore Memorial Hospital, Pinehurst.
Mr. and Mrs. Merman Koonce and,
Mrs. Janie Monroe were overnight
guests of their sister Mrs. Fred
Cameron and Mr. Cameron at
Carolina Beach, Friday night.
Mr. snd Mrs. Charles Johnson and .
Mr. and Mrs. Alien Barnes of#
Columbia, S.C. were Friday visitors
of Mrs. Martin Wood and Mrs. Eric
Wood. They had with them their
mother, Mrs. Ben Johnson.
Mrs. Joe Lovette had all her
children and grandchildren with her
for dinner Sunday evening. Dr. and
Mrs. Vamik Bombatepe, Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Simpson and Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Lovette and children from
each home.
Mrs. Lacy Sessoms of Pine Bluff,
spent Friday with Mrs. Martin Wood.
Mrs. Lee, owner and operator of
The Family Care Home, say* all
patients are fine and gettinj on
nicely. Her husband Mr. Jessie Lee
who recently had back surgery lad
the misfortune of falling and hui ing
his back since surgery and is ^till
suffering from the fall.
Mrs. Alex Ray had a surprise visit
from her brothers, Vernon Mooring
of Seven Springs and Dewey Mooring
of LaGrange Sunday.
Misses Jennie Monroe and Kathy
Newton returned to East Carolina
Sunday afternoon to resume their
school work. %
Miss Addie McDonald who is with
Mrs. Will Monroe during her recovery
from a heart attack, spertf the
weekend with her sister Mrs.Gladys
Glisson. Mr. Glisson who has wen
sick for some time and a patient at
Moore Memorial and St. Joseph's
Hospitals is now at home in
Dundarrach.
Annexation Gets
'Thumbs Down'
The proposed plan by Fayetteville
to annex the Ft. Bragg reservation
got a "thunbs down" from the
county commissioners Monday after
a Chamber of Commerce spokesman
argued against it.
"I think the board should oppose
any annexation of Ft. Bragg which
lies in Hoke County by the city of
Fayetteville," Chamber manager J.H.
(Buddy) Blue, Jr., argued.
Blue told the board that
Fayetteville was eyeing increased
revenue, such as Powell Bill funds,
and it wasn't fair since Ft. Bragg has
the use of 90,000 acre? of county
land it took over.
"Hoke County will .never see a
penny of that," he claimed, referring
to tax dollars.
Blue also argued he Checked the
census officials and learned Ft. Bragg
personnel were carried; as
Cumberland County population.
"I called, and everybody on the
reservation was counted as
Cumberland County," he told the
board.
The motion to go on record
opposing the annexation was carried
unanimously.
"None of the means of
information are more sacred or have
been cherished with more tenderness
and care by the settlers of America
than the press."
-John Adamit
0 - What is the "man - on ?
campus" program I keep hearing
about?
A - It is an all-out effort by the
Veterans Administration to place
man on college campuies to intura
prompt delivery of CI BB
educational assistance checks by
expediting change of addreaet.
dependency status or training
programs.