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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1976
Putting America to work
This week's economic good news is even better than had been
expected. The nation's total output rose by a very healthy 7.5 percent
while inflation has slowed to less than 4 percent.
But a persistent cloud remains on the economic horizon:
unemployment running at between 7 and 8 percent and forecast to
remain relatively high for several years to come. While the number of
Americans out of work will continue to decrease as economic
recovery continues, it should not be forgotten that fully 12 million
new jobs will have to be created just to bring unemployment down to
5 percent by 1980. This is more than ever before during peacetime.
The question, then, is how best to tackle this unfortunate nagging
legacy of recession. In Washington, the issue has become the source
of fundamental political debate. So far, however, neither has
forthright leadership been shown nor has a comprehensive program
been devised to put America back to work.
Democrats would have the federal government become, in effect,
the "employer of last resort." Proposed legislation with wide backing
would order the government to lower the unemployment rate to 3
percent within four years. Polls indicate the public appeal of such an
approach, but there is persistent fear that it would set off another
round of spiraling inflation. A nonpartisan Library of Congress
examination of the effects of government-engineered full employ
ment warned of price increases back up into the double digits.
President Ford and his economic advisers take an entirely
different tack. They would cut back on public service jobs while
providing tax incentives to business in hopes of creating permanent
private-sector employment opportunities. By cutting back on
government regulation, they say, industry funds would be freed to
boost capital investment.
The problem comes with the realization that while in the long run
most permanent and stable employment in a democratic and
capitalistic society must come from private businesses, some amount
of government stimulus and support is needed along the way to a
fully employed society. The two points of view are not mutually
exclusive, but must be realistically melded, free of the political cant
which an election year seems especially to generate.
It is not enough simply to "get government off business's back and
out of its pocketbook," or propose jobs-creating legislation that
appeals to the heart but leaves the head puzzled by its lack of
specifics on how it can work without dangerous side effects. There
are certain ways, however, in which the federal government could
attack unemployment, especially the high level of joblessness among
young, minorities, and the less skilled that will persist beyond
economic recovery.
Job-training programs should be expanded with more incentives
to businesses that help out here. The minimum wage might be
lowered for teen-agers and workers with less experience. The
government could use its enormous computer facilities to match
workers with jobs, then help with any dislocation costs.
Unions are pushing for legislation to lessen unemployment, but
they too could help by changing their restrictive seniority sytems and
expanding apprenticeship programs.
Putting Americans back to work and providing for the new jobs
that must be created will not be an easy task. But it can be done if
the issue moves beyond philosophical debate.
Christian Science Monitor
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
ThurwUy, April 26, 1951
Funeral services were conducted
at Raeford Presbyterian Church at
3:00 o'clock Monday afternoon for
James E. (Cap) Conoly, merchant
and former Raeford mayor, who
died in a Fayetteville hospital early
Sunday morning after a lingering
illness.
From Poole's Medley:
General MacArthur deserves the
esteem and gratitude of the people
but the hero worship manifested in
several places is carrying it too far.
* ? ?
John Kenneth Dark, Seaman
Recruit, U.S. Nany, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman G. Clark of 604 E
3rd St. Lumberton. former Raeford
residents, was among those who
were recently provisionally selected
for the Naval Reserve officers
Training Corps program.
A hundred or more Boy Scouts
from the 12 troops in Hoke,
Scotland and the western section of
Robeson County will meet a Camp
Tom Upchurch tomorrow after
noon for their spring camporee.
About a dozen boys from Raeford
are expected to attend under their
scoutmaster, Tom McLauchlin.
Marian Lewis, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. R.B. Lewis of Raeford,
was chosen president of the Junior
Class at Salem College.
The Hoke High band, under the
direction of Band Teacher J.B.
Renn, gave a concert Wednesday
morning to a very appreciative
audience at Rockfish school.
15 years ago
Thunday, April 27, 1961
Plans and activities for the
Golden Jubilee, set for May 14-20,
picked up still more steam last
week with the first rehearsals for
the pageant, the beginning of the
Queen's contest, and tne first
promenades of Jubilee Belles.
A local church has been honored
by selection in a book published
today, which lists 100 historic ante -
bellum Presbyterian churches of
the South. Bethel Presbyterian,
located on U.S. 401, about three
miles south of Raeford, is the
church so honored.
John W. Cain of Raeford Rt. 1,
died Wednesday morning at Moore
County Hospital.
'I ain't rode him yet. .. but I'm shore gettin'
the hang ot it'
by Marty Vega
Give Up Money
To A Rohher
The time has come for somebody
to speak out against this daylight
saving law. It is just as bad as
robbing a person of his money.
Would you give up your money to
a robber? Why must we give up an
hour to the government?
Think of all the things you could
have done in that hour, which is
gone forever. Don't think you will
get it back in October, for that
won't be the very same hour. It will
be a different hour, probably one
you can't use.
Take a pencil and make a list of
all the things.
You could have washed the car.
Watched two complete episodes of
Cilligan's Island, or The Beverly
Hillbillies and Gomer Pyle. Taken
a sunbath. Eaten an anchovy pizza,
or a half a dozen egg rolls with a
pint of sweet and sour pork. Red
the latest MAD. Gone and seen the
last half of "Taxi Driver". Gone
and seen the first half of "Sham
poo". Looked at new cars in a
showroom, or furnished models of
condominiums. Eaten a bag of
pistachio nuts and drank a couple
of beers. Borrowed your neighbor's
croquet set. Borrowed a dictionary
to look it up.
So, how can you regain this
valuable, lost time? If you live in
Cumberland County, you may be in
luck. It seems we are exempt from
the country's general time annexa
tion laws if a majority of the
residents oppose it.
If you oppoje having your clocks
annexed, write your representatives
about it and give them your honest
views. Tell them this is the land of
freedom and democracy. Tell them
Thomas Jefferson, one of the
founders, invented the clock, if you
think it will help.
Tell them Benjamin Franklin
always wore a timepiece.
The time to act is now, or rather,
an hour ago, which is the same as
now.
If enough citizens don't act, all
this silliness such as $2 bills and
going to the metric system and
changing clocks back and forth,
when will it end?
If you oppose annexing clocks,
write your representatives. If you
oppose this silly trash in this
column, write the editor.
Tar Heel Spotlight
Genealogy F ascinating
"Where's your screaming
room?" the visitor asked, looking
around. "I mean," she continued,
"the room where successful hunters
can scream, 'I found it! I found it!'
" The visitor, a genealogy buff,
had just discovered confirmation of
a long-lost relative in a small,
locally hand-duplicated genealogy
of her family.
Such is the appeal of genealogy
today, according to Mrs. Lee
Albright, genealogy librarian of the
State Library.
The important of these small,
sometimes just typewritten, pam
phlets on history of North Carolina
families cannot be overestimated,
Mrs. Albright contends. The happy
discovery of some obscure docu
ment or minute mention of a
relative occurs almost weekly in the
Genealogy Section of the Library.
Ever-increasing numbers of out-of
state visitors arrive to search for
ancestors native to the state. And
more mail requests are being
received for information on North
Carolina families who have emi
grated to other areas.
Genealogy has become more and
more interesting to more and more
people. Why?
Mrs. Albright, who admits there
are many reasons, has two theories.
One reason, she says, is that people
are seeking membership in heredi
tary societies such as the Daughters
of the American Revolution and
must have documented proof of
their lineage. Those who want only
the lineage are in the minority, she
said. Most begin the search, and
then get so interested that they
continue, wanting to know every
thing about their ancestors.
"And another reason," she
added, "is that I think people are
curious. Besides, genealogy is fun
and fascinating."
Fun and fascinating reading, she
declared, are the folksy reminis
cences of "grandfather during the
Civil War, ' or "grandmother's
recollections down on the farm." If
the writer talks about your ancestor
or he is your ancestor, all of a
sudden you can see him - he's flesh
on the bones -- a real person
instead of a name on a lineage
chart, she maintains.
Most people, Mrs. Albright
pointed out, realize the apparent
value of a professionally published
volume of genealogy, often beauti
fully bound -- a keepsake. But
many North Carolinians think the
State Library wouldn't be inte
See TARHEEL SPOTLIGHT, page 15
Puppy Creek Philosopher
ijear eaitor:
I was reading along rot paying
much attention to what the news
article was saying when I caught
myself, went back up the column
and read the paragraph again.
What it said was that Ron
Nesson, the President's press secre
tary, said that Mr. Ford was
shaking up his speech - writing
staff but it didn't amount to much
since only four of the speech -
writers were affected.
I got to thinking. Only four?
How many has he got? Then I
wondered some more. How many
has the Vice President got? The
Secretary of State? Senators?
Congressmen? Governors? For all I
know. Mayors and maybe even
grammar school principals?
In other words, in most cases,
when a public official makes a
speech these days he's only saying
what his speech - writers wrote, and
the better he can read the better it
sounds. 1 often wondered why
President lohnson allowed his
writers to use the word "sub
stantive" in his speeches as he
could never get the hang of
pronouncing it. I can't either.
Anyway, I got to thinking some
more. If what ? politician savs is
what somebody else wrote for him,
shouldn't the truth ? in - advertising
law apply? Shouldn't, as he talks
on television, ? line move across the
bottom of the screen saying This
Speech Written by Goodman Ace,
or whoever the writer was? If a
cornflakes manufacturer is re
quired to say on the box what the
contents consist of, shouldn't a
politician be required to tell who
manufactured his speech? Just as a
shampoo company is required to
say what its goop contains, so many
parts of this, so much percentage of
that, shouldn't a politician, if more
than one writer composed his
speech, be required to reveal: S
percent of this speech was written
by Goodman Ace, 15 percent by
Robert Orbin, 25 percent by John
Casserly, and the rest came from
the Encyclopedia Britannica?
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
CUFF BLUE...
People & Issues
OUR COURTS -- Last week Tar
Heel citizens read of the brutal and
senseless killing of 19-year old
Vickey McKinney of Charlotte.
Vickey, a student at Central Pied
mont Community College in Char
lotte was kidnapped in the College
parking lot about 7:SS a.m. forced
to drive off where she was found
6'/i hours later where she had been
shot, her throat cut and her eyes
cut out with her nude body spread
out with her clothes piled near-by.
Later in the day Charlotte police
charged a paroled convict who was
apprehended in Miss McKinney's
auto with the crime. The accused
suspect had a long record of crimes
when he was paroled about six
months ago.
Too often our law enforcement
officials are held too much respon
sible for the ever-increasing crime
wave that continues to sweep the
nation.
The facts, we suspect, will point
a much stronger finger at our
courts and parole boards than at
the law enforcement officers. The
law enforcement people can appre
hend the criminals but when, too
often, they are given little more
than a reprimand, a short sentence
from which they are, in the minds
of many people, paroled far too
soon, and back at their old trade of
violence and crime, so what can you
expect?
AROUSED -- Last week we
noted that Ed O'Herron, Charlotte
businessman who is seeking the
nomination for governor seems to
be sensing the mood of the people
when he used strong language
regarding criminals and the disci
pline problems in the schools.
Concerning the parole system.
O'Herron said the present parole
system should be "tightened up or
done away with in its present
form."
Recently, we could hardly believe
our eyes when we read an Associ
ated Press dispatch in which a
group of liberal scholars headed by
former United States Senator,
Charles Goodell of New York urged
"mandatory prison sentences "for
violent offenders and called for an
end to the parole system." Goodell.
who served as chairman of the
group said: "It might seem surpris
ing that a group of liberal profes
sors and activists, when faced with
the choice between trying to reha
bilitate offenders and punishing
them as they deserve, chose punish
ment." Continuing, Goodell said:
"The committee concluded that is
the only fair basis for sentencing
people."
55 CASES DISMISSED - Re
cently we observed that "voluntary
dismissal was taken by the prosecu
tor at the last term of Southern
Pines district court of 55 old cases,
involving charges of no operator's
license, improper registration,
worthless checks, various degrees
of assault, trespass, malicious de
struction of real property, fradulent
misrepresentation, danger to self
and others, abandonment and
non-support of wife, and non- <
support of children."
Court action of this nature is
little encouragement for the law
enforcement people when those <
they bring to the bar of justice are
not even tried!
SEEK TWO POSITIONS -- We
note from the Roanoke Beacon in
Plymouth. Washington County,
that the Rev. William P. Mc
Comas, minister of the Creswell
Mt. Hermon Methodist Church has
filed for a couple of offices in the
May 17 primary and Nov. 2, 1976
election. Now to quote the Roanoke
Beacon: "According to several
longtime political observers, this is
the first time anyone has ever
sought two political offices at once
in the county. Laws prohibit a
person from holding two political
offices, however, they do not
prohibit a person from seeking two
offices as long as they resign from
one if they should win both." Mr.
McComas is running for seats on
both the Washington County Board
of Commissioners and the board of
Education on the Democratic
ticket.
ROY SOWERS -- Former C&D
Director Roy Sowers Jr. of Sanford
has announced his candidacy for
County Commissioner in Lee
County. Four years ago Sowers was
a candidate for lieut. governor.
Sowers ran second to Jim Hunt and
cold have called a second primary
but did not. Since his unsuccessful
race for lieut. governor. Sowers has
been associated with Charles
Reaves. Sanford businessman, in
the real estate business.
Report
To Tlu?
People
by Senator Robert Mitrgai
The Senate has passed a bill
reforming the food stamp program,
removing a number of the abuses
which upset North Carolinians and
the American people. Unfortu
nately, the bill was so comprised on
the floor of the Senate that 1 finally
had to vote against it as being too
costly.
Briefly, here's what happened.
Senator Herman Talmadge of
Georgia reported out of the Senate
Agriculture Committee a basic
Food Stamp Reform Act, which
attacked the worst abuses of the
program.
The most important change was
to remove the "itemized deduc
tions'' rule, by which millions of
people who were not poor could
qualify for food stamps. They could
pyramid deductions for such things
as home mortgage payments,
private school tuition, alimony
payments, medical and utility bills,
and work ? related expenses, and
get their incomes down to where
they qualified. Also, the Agricul
ture Committee proposal provided
much tighter regulations regarding
college students, with work regis
tration and job - search require
ments.
The bill as it came out of the
Committee tightened up the pro
gram. and would have reduced the
cost of it by about $630 million a
year, according to the Congres
sional Budget Office.
However, as a result of a
compromise proposal offered by
Senators George McGovern and
Robert Dole the cost of the
program would have to increase by
a minimum of $578 million a year
over present spending, going by the
Department of Agriculture's fig
ures.Other estimates put the
cost increase at $1.4 billion a year
over and above the present level.
But even being more conservative
on the estimates, the McGovern -.(
Dole substitute would undoubtedly
cost a billion dollars more a year
than the Committee version.
This substitute proposal was
accepted by the Senate by a 49 - 30
margin. Due to the increased costs
involved I had to vote "no."
The Senate, in accepting this
substitute proposal, voted to waive
limitations imposed on such spend
ing by the Budget Reform Act of
19/4, in order to pass the bill
increasing the cost of the program.
The Budget Reform Act is our only
hope for getting a handle on federal
spending. What it does is to require
that Congress set limits for itself on
spending. The test of that Act is
whether Congress will abide by
those self - imposed limitations, or
waive them every time a bill comes
along which exceeds the budget, as
we did here.
1 am afraid the Senate failed the
test this time, and 1 am afraid that
this increased spending will even
tually hurt everyone.
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