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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1976
The Humphrey factor
Why does President Ford keep saying he thinks the Democrats
will nominate their most conspicuous noncandidate, Hubert
Humphrey? It could be simply the judgment of one old political pro
on another. It could be the hope of a Republican who considers
Humphrey a more beatable Democrat than one or more of the
alternatives. It could be an effort to chip away at the surviving
alternatives - Carter, Jackson, Udall - by belittling them in relation
to Humphrey for all their strenuous campaigning. The implication
would be that, if they are the best the Democrats can dredge up, the
nod will have to go to Hubert.
"Oh, no!" say those who often note how much they like and
admire Mr. Humphrey before they like and admire Mr. Humphrey
before they relegate him to the closet of outdated talking machines.
Others say that he cannot expect to be finally handed a nomination
for which others have worked so rigorously in the primaries.
But candidate Morris Udall. who may see the virtue of
maintaining a bridge to Humphrey, has expressed the feeling of
many that Humphrey is an exception - in that he is a known quantity
who doesn't have to identify himself or prove himself to Democrats
yet again.
Indeed, for all Jimmy Carter's hard and effective campaigning,
Humphrey ran neck and neck with him in popularity among
Democratic voters, according to the latest Gallup poll this month
The Pennsylvania primary April 27 could bring Henry Jackson more
to the fore, but it could also maintain or heighten Carter's
momentum sufficiently to leave Humphrey behind.
Mr. Humphrey's increasing visibility in various forums may
indicate his realization that, if he does want the candidacy, he
cannot scrupulously keep up the line that for him this year the best
politics is no politics. He certainly seemed like a candidate appearing
before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington
this week. The other Democrats had refused to cross a picket line
and spoke to the editors by telephone. Even though pickets remained
at one door at Humphrey's scheduled time, he went in another and
wowed 'em.
What if? What if Humphrey is playing the game right?
Certainly his nomination would give the American people a clear
choice against Ford or - as some can still imagine ? Reagan in
November.
Where other candidates follow the crowd to one degree or another
away from big government, Humphrey remains its most unabashed
proponent as a means of helping people.
On foreign policy, through remaining firm against communism as
in cold war days, he tends to convey a greater spirit of seeking
solutions through cooperative efforts than, say. Senator Jackson.
Appearing with Bill Moyers on television Humphrey said he likes
to know where people stand. This is a challenge to himself as well as
the announced candidates of both parties to define their positions so
that the voters can choose wisely.
--The Christian Science Monitor
Browsing in the fi!
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, April 19, 19S1
The Davidson College Male
Chorus of 35 voices will present a
program drawn largely from the
classics of the 16th and 17th
centuries in a concert at the
? Raeford Presbyterian Church,
'Sunday night, April 21.
Funeral services for George C.
Biggs. 83, who died at his home
near Antioch last Saturday after
noon after an illness of one week,
were conducted at 3:30 o'clock last
Sunday afternoon at Antioch Pres
byterian Church by the Rev. J.W.
Mann of Atkinson, a former pastor
of the church.
What was part of Raeford's first
Presbyterian Church is undergoing
a face lifting. A.K. Stevens bought
this house which is next door to his
own house from the Covington
estate and is remodeling it into an
attractive and comfortable home.
From Poole's Medley:
We never get too old to learn,
and most of us need to keep
reviewing for we forget. Remember
knowledge comes. Wisdom stays.
Total assets of The Bank of
Raeford as of April 9, 1951 were
$2,719,983.22.
1 5 years ago
Thuraday, April 20, 1961
Activities in preparation for the
May 14 ? 20 Golden Jubilee
proceeded last week at a stepped -
up pace, with the arrival Monday of
two technical advisers from the
John B. Rogers Company which
has been placed under contract to
provide the "know - how" for the
big event.
Hoke County Coroner Dr. Wil
liam Barry has given a letter of
resignation to the Board of County
Commissioners, the resignation to
be effective May 5.
A total of 11 candidates in the
Municipal Election set for May 2
managed to plunk down their filing
fees before the Saturday deadline.
Town Clerk Charles Morrison,
reported.
Clean - up campaign to get the
county ready for the Jubilee got a
boast from local Boy Scouts last
week.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Raeford ? Hoke PTA held
Monday night at Raeford Elemen
tary, featured a report by Principal
Dewey Huggins on school fees paid
by students at the beginning of
each year.
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Not Bee-lievable
wnoever was unlucky enough to
miss the first thrilling minutes of
Saturday's Reds ? Giants - Bees
game, take heart, there will be
much more to come, we have
learned exclusively from unusually
reliable sources.
A top Hollywood screenwriter,
who has produced such animal
rampage flicks as "Burds", "Jawz"
and "Rattles", revealed to us
Saturday's bee battle was really a
pilot film for a new movie adven
ture, as yet untitled, which involves
crazed caterpillars who invade a
ballpark, drink up all the beer,
noisily devour hot dogs, and cause
a general commotion and panic in
the stands.
"You mean you're doing a
picture about baseball fans?" we
asked.
"No, we're capitalizing on two
key ingredients - the public's
demand for horrifying movies
about improbable situations and
the baseball player's demands for
astronomical salaries".
"You see, Saturday's bee drama
was all set up with the cooperation
of officials. You noticed, didn't
you. that the game that as sup
posed to be televised was Chicago
at Boston, and the so - called "rain
game" was San Francisco at Cin
cinnati? So how come the Cincin
nati game was televised even
though the Boston game wasn't
rained out?"
"Yeah, I wondered about that,
too."
With the Senate going into
Easter recess, I plan to continue
my orientation of this country's
position in the world by eoine to
Taiwan and Korea.
These two places are constantly
being discussed in Congress, and
there is a great deal of sentiment
that we withdraw our forces from
both places. I want to see first hand
what we are spending millions of
dollars on, so I requested the State
and Defense Departments to ar
range for the trip. I am flying by
commercial airlines and am taking
one staff aide. Michael Mann, with
me.
Our first stop will be in
Honolulu, where I have an appoint
ment with Admiral Noel Gayler,
who is commander of our forces in
the Pacific. I hope to get a briefing
on the entire Far East situation
from him.
From Hawaii. I will go to Taiwan
where I will meet with our
ambassador, visit with our service
men, and talk with the President
the Premier and the Foreign
Minister of that island nation. As
you know, Mainland China has
long desired that the United States
cease its protection of Taiwan, and
I want a chance to look at this
situation myself.
From Taiwan, I will go to Seoul
the capital of South Korea. This is
one of the really potentially dan
?erous areas today, with the
ommunist leaders in North Korea
a constant threat to attack.
The United States has been
deeply committed in Korea ever
since the Korean War in the early
"Simple. Because the players'
strike has created such financial
pressure on the teams, they had to
come up with some new gimmicks
that would increase the viewing
audience and raise revenues, so we
hit on the bee idea".
"We had some production prob
lems. BARFS, Bee Actors Regular
Fraternal Society, threatened a
buzzout unless we met their wage
demands and guaranteed certain
residuals. Also, we had some
casting difficulties with the Cin
cinnati parts. We couldn't find fans
dumb enough to stay in their seats
above the dugout when the spray
ing started and the bees became
frenzied".
"What did you do?"
"We located some old Brooklyn
Dodgers fans and they worked out
fine".
"Weren't they supposed to move
up to the bleachers when the bees
started attacking?"
"Yeah, but they just stayed
where they were and kept yelling
'throw the &#?&% bum out' ".
"All in all, it was the most
unbelievable baseball game ever
and it really has the fans sitting up
and taking notice".
"Not hardly. What we're won
dering about is that 17-1 New York
- Pittsburgh game, whoever heard
of a game like that in recent
times".
"Whoever heard of bees taking
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Report
To Tin
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
19S0's and at present there are
some 40,000 American servicemen
stationed there on a continuing
alert.
Since so many of our troops are
there and since we are spending
millions of dollars each year to
maintain this force, I feel it is
important for me, as one who has
to vote to either keep them there or
bring them home, to find out as
much about the situation as I can.
1 have arranged for meetings
with General Richard Stilwell, our
commander there, and Richard
Snyder, our ambassador to South
Korea.
There will also be a meeting with
President Park Chung Hee. There
have been many reports that the
government under Park is too
restrictive on the people and that
civil liberties are being abused by
those in power. This is something
else I want to examine at close
range.
On the way home, I will make a
short stop in Japan, where a
meeting with the American ambas
sador to that country has been
arranged.
I hope to return a more
knowledgeable member of the
Senate than I was before 1 left, and
be better able to vote responsibly
when matters pertaining to that
part of the world come before the
Senate.
It will not be an easy trip, the
schedule is tight and crowded, but I
feel that by gaining as much
information as I can, I will be
better able to represent the people
who sent me to Washington.
CLIFF BLUE ...
People & Issues
BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE
? President Ford has had much to
say about "bureaucratic red tape"
since becoming president. On this
subject the Franklin Times quotes
the President and takes him to task
on the matter: We quote: "Of
concern to all businesses was the
address in January when Mr. Ford
presented his State of the Union
message, 'A necessary condition of
a healthy economy is freedom from
the petty tyranny of massie gov
ernment regulations. We are wast
ing literally millions of working
hours costing billions of consumer'
dollars because of bureaucratic red
tape in 1975, an increase of
14% was recorded in new and
amended regulations."
To what the Franklin Times had
to say we will just add that the
increase is red tape under the Ford
Administration speaks so loud that
I can't hear what he is saying!
WALTER JONES - Congress
man Walter Jones of the First N.C.
Congressional District quotes
District quotes former House
Speaker John McCormick on de
fense spending, saying: "I had
rather err on the side of too much
rather than on the side of too
little." We suspect the people of
Congressman Jones' district and
the people of most congressional
districts would heartily agree with
Congressman Jones in this report.
SERIOUS ERROR? Appointing
Federal Judges or anyone else for
life to a responsible position to our
way of thinking is one of the
greatest mistakes in the U.S.
Constitution. Of course when the
U.S. Constitution was written and
adopted in 1788 the people were
fresh from living under British rule
where the king served for life. With
the president and members of
congress being elected for stipu
lated terms, the Constitution was a
great advance over the European
way of government. Of course in
some areas we still have kings and
government heads who serve for
life, in which cases the people
sometimes resort to a rather ugly
and barbaric manner of deposing
them by assassination. We would
like to see Congress submit an
Amendment to limit the terms of
Federal judicial appointments to a
reasonable number of years.
JIMMY CARTER -- While the
primaries are far from over with
only about a third of the delegates
for the national convention having
been selected it looks like Jimmy
Carter's coat - tail is flying high and
sverytime he stumbles he is up and
gone again before the other candi
dates can come anywhere near
catching up. In politics as in other
ventures there comes to mind the
old saying: "Nothing succeeds like
success."
TOO MANY? -- Some are
wondering if the Democrats are
trying to stage too many fund -
raising rallies too close together.
Just a month after the Jefferson -
Jackson dinner in Raleigh they had
another fund ? raising dinner at
Atlantic Beach, and shortly, on
May 15 another fund - raising
dinner is scheduled for Charlotte.
This weekend, April 23 - 24, the
Northeastern Democratic rally vail
be held in Dare County to raise
funds for the First Congressional
District. Some suggest it's not
impossible to run a good thing tn
the hole, particularly since about
the same people to a large extent
make up the attendance at most of
the state - wide rallies.
COULD GET BITTER -- With
four months and a second primary
to go in the political campaigns,
chances are that some of the
contests may become bitter before
all the votes are counted, and the
candidates will not have as long to
get together and smoke the pipe of
peace this year as heretofore. This
holds true for the Republicans as
well as the Democrats.
TRIO -- Three area leaders in
three adjoining counties within a
span of ten days or less were
recently claimed by the grim reap
er, Bob Lewis in Hoke County,
Forrest Lockey in Moore County
and E. Hervey Evans in Scotland
County. These three citizens, each
beyond the three ? score and ten
years, were outstanding in their
devotion to the upbuilding of their
respective areas.
C.B.STAFFORD -- Another
outstanding senior citizen living in
Robeson County, adjoining Hoke
and Scotland was honored at a
dinner by some 300 friends and
neighbors recently. C.B. Stafford
has not only served his home town
of Fairmont well in making it one
of the leading tobacco markets yi
North Carolina but he has been a
solid community leader in many,
many ways.
Tar Heel Spotlight *
Preserving 'The Tricky Bit'
The paintings hanging in muse
ums aren't always exactly what they
seem.
A canvas may have been painted
by Rembrandt, and it may be so
labeled, but chances are the picture
you see is also the work of a few
other people.
Catherine Leach is one of those
other people: she is a conservator.
As paintings age, fade, become
discolored and begin to crack, it is
the job of conservators to try to
preserve them for the future. You
see their handiwork, whether you
know it or not, in every museum
gallery in the world.
Miss Leach began work last
month as the first full-time conser
vator at the North Carolina Muse
um of Art. Because the position is
new, she's still spending time
setting up a workshop -- a difficult
job in the current budget crunch ?
and beginning a systematic survey
of the museum collections.
Eventually, she will examine,
preserve or restore hundreds of
museum paintings, using tools such
as x-ray, microscope, ultraviolet
and infra-red photography as well
as chemicals, varnishes, and dots of
paint applied with minute brushes.
"Some people would call conser
vation the job of making the
painting physically safe from deter
ioration and removing everything
not painted on the canvas by the
artist," Miss Leach said.
But removing all the restorative
work on some centuries-old paint
ings would reveal disturbing gaps
and blemishes.
"Most conservators agree that
you have to do something about
those areas so you can see the
paintings as a whole," she said.
"But then you get into the tricky
bit."
The "tricky bit" is that restora
tion of paintings has not always
been done the same way it is today.
For example, most paintings
consist of several layers of paint
which all add up to the final color
effect. Sometimes, paintings have
been cleaned so severely that parts
of the top layers have been rubbed
off.
Another problem is dealing with
the work of an over-enthusiastic
earlier restorer.
"In the last century," Miss
Leach said, "restoration was too
often making the painting look 'as
good as new.' If, for instance, a
painting had a damaged area where
paint was missing in spots, conser
vators today would just fill in the
spots. Earlier, they might have
painted over the entire area.
"They didn't have the sort of
respect for the original artist's work
we try to keep now."
A conservator's job also includes
See SPOTLIGHT, page 10
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
Everybody knows it takes more
and more money to keep your head
above water these days, some
government statistics claiming it
takes S15.000 a year for a family of
four.
Therefore there's a problem
that's been worrying me. Some
where in some attic or laboratory
some guy right now may* be
thinking up a new game. Let me
explain.
As you know, our forefathers 200
years ago didn't have to put up any
basketball hoops or lay out any
football fields and build stadiums,
as those games weren't invented
then. I don't have the figures, but it
takes millions and millions of
dollars a year to finance football,
considering all the fields, stadiums,
uniforms, coaches, bonds, pep
squads, etc., not counting all the
tickets the public has to buy, from
grammar school through high
school and college, plus the pros.
All right, say some odd charactei
invents a brand new game, one that
sweeps the country like football and
basketball, but one that requires all
new and different facilities, costing
as much as football stadiums and
basketball gymnasiums.
With nearly every town and
school in the country scrambles
for money to barely stay even, thini
what would happen to theii
budgets if they had to pay also foi
this new game.
It ought to be nipped in the b*d
right now. CongTess ought to pass I
law outlawing any new game to b<
invented for at least tne next 5(
years.
Yours faithfully
J.A