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COMPLETE PEST CONTROL FUMIGATION SERVICE
WEED CONTROL & FERTILIZATION
ROACHES - RATS - TERMITES
P.O. BOX 667 RAEFORO, N. C.
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OLD MONTROSE STORE
LOTS FOR SALE
Maultsby & Covington
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Tel. 875-2804 N
NOTICE
Mr. Farmer - Farm Service Co. Rt. 1, Box 237,
Lumber Bridge must reduce its inventory during the
month of May. We will offer all John Deere parts in
our stock for sale at 20% OFF our regular list price.
CASH ONLY
Lower
Cancer
Rate
Because of a sudden upsurge in
cancer deaths in most parts of the
country during the past year,
reported by the National Center for
Health Statistics, the situation in
Hoke County bears examination.
What has been the mortality rate
locally in recent years? Has it been
higher or lower than elsewhere?
The report shows that there has
been a startling and unexplained
increase in cancer deaths in the
United States in 1975.
For decades, it is pointed out,
there had been a gradual rise of one
percent or so annually in the
mortality rate. Unexpectedly, how
ever, the rate zoomed by five-times
that much in the past year,
according to provisional figures.
What caused it? The experts are
baffled. They have some theories
but no immediate answers. On the
one hand they know that con
siderable progress has been made
in the treatment and cure of certain
types of cancer. On the other hand,
they find that the overall mortality
rate has gone up. A detailed study
has been launched to determine the
cause of the rise.
The extent of the cancer problem
in Hoke County is indicated in the
annual reports of the U.S. Public
Health Service.
According to its last three annual
reports, the number of local deaths
attributed to cancer has averaged
15 per year, 3 of them due to lung
cancer. Not included in the count
are non-residents who died in the
area.
Related to the local population,
this amounted to a cancer mortality
of 93 per 100,000 people.
The general average, throughout
the United States as a whole, was
163 per 100,000. It was 133 in the
State of North Carolina.
The recent surge in the rate has
sparked several analyses of the
statistics to determine responsibi
lity for the increase. A prime
suspect is lung cancer. This form of
malignancy has been zooming,
especially among women, as more
of them have been taking up
smoking.
Other areas of investigation
include the various chemicals to
which man is exposed in his food,
the environment in which he works
and lives and the possible failure of
the body's natural immunity
system.
WANT ADS
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EXTRA MONEY IN YOUR ATTIC?
There are hidden dollars in the things you are
storing and not using!
Put those odds and onds to work for you, to earn extra
cash now. The old chest ... tho out-grown bicytlo . . . the
extra chair. Make a list of those items you don't need and
place an ad. Someone can put them to good use. Call today
for our low rotes.
CALL 175-2121
The News-Journal
DOLLS - A collection of dolls, old and new, filled one corner of the arts and crafts exhibit at the Methodist Church.
Library News
Tale of 'History In Reverse9
I'm sure there is a great deal said
in today's paper about our Bi
centennial Week in Hoke Co. and
everyone had a grand week. But,
this librarian must relate a com
pletely true tale of not "History
repeating itself' but history in
reverse.
In offering a ride to a beautifully
bedecked lady in the historical
fashion of the week; I received a,
"No thank you." Having retrieved
my car and turning around to
pursue my route back to work;
what did I see. but the same
fashionable lady climbing down
from a mule drawn wagon in the
middle of Main Street. Now I ask
you. would you turn down an
automobile ride for a more com
fortable one in a mule drawn
wagon? Of course this statement
occurs when you realize how much
more you would rather have a ham
biscuit than a ham sandwich.
Remember when you were ashamed
of your biscuit when everyone else
had a sandwich made with "light -
bread"?
We are interested in finding an
old copy of Newsweek, March 15,
1976 and Time Magazine, January
12, 1976. We are having all our
newer copies bound but the binders
want every copy in each quarter
year. We are missing these two
issues and are calling on patrons
who might still have these on hand
and are willing to give them up.
It might be interesting for our
Hoke County folks to remember if
you want to relate to your children
and grandchildren, how you used
this old library to get up school
work, bring the children, or for
your own personal use, you only
have a few more weeks. A stable, a
National Guard Armory, a County
Agent and Home Extension office,
a library and we'll just have to wait
and see what new future this old
building will have. Anyway, if you
enjoy times of, "I can remember
when," you don't want to miss the
opportunity of the next few weeks
to come in, sign up, get a new
library card and be ready to check
out books here in the old and then
in the new library. Time is running
out.
Our staff members never let
obstacles stand in the way of
patron's request. If you come in
and hear the rendition of "Happy
Birthday to you", it will probably
be Mrs. Maxwell singing to some
young child who doesn't want to
wait until story hour on Tuesdays to
here it. She could start a fad, as it
did happen this past week.
The children might like to know
our story hours will continue 'til
school is out, then we will start our
summer program. Information on
this will be announced later.
BOOKMOBILE SCHEDULE
Montrose?May 11
Linda Seper, Josephine Parks, Miss
Katie Cameron, Elizabeth Lide,
Lenora Thompson. Carol Brown,
Venetia Walters, Donald Wilson,
Rita Baker, Gaston Shaw, Valerie
Holloman, Annie Liza Purcell, and
Doris McAllister.
Ashley Heights?May 12
Prison, Mamie McNair, Linda
Schuchard, Mary Murphy, Mar
garet Inman, Jean Vanhoy, Lillian
Smith, Boyd Hussey, Kathy
Shields, Diane Williams, Dan
Hagins, Ethel Carroll, Gail Ellis,
and Linda Simmons.
Law Enforcement
Dance Scheduled
The Hoke County Law Enforce
ment Association will sponsor a
dance May 15 at the Raeford
National Guard Armory from 8
P.M. to 12:30 A.M., with music by
"Brandy".
Proceeds will go toward building
a law enforcement meeting
building.
Two door prizes will be given
away at 9 P.M. The winners must
be present.
Tickets to the dance are $6 per
couple at the door and $5 in
advance. The dance is for couples
only. '
A.K. Leach Is County Head
For Jim Hunt Campaign
Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt, Democratic
candidate for Governor, this week
named Alfred K. Leach of Raeford
chairman of his campaign in Hoke
County.
"We are running a people's
campaign for Governor," Hunt said,
"and it is people like Alfred Leach
who are going to make us
successful."
"Alfred Leach is a fine person and
I am especially proud and pleased
that he will play this key role in my
campaign in Hoke County," Hunt
said, "I know he will do an
out standing job."
Leach is in agri-business in Hoke,
Robeson, and Moore Counties.
He has been active in county party
affairs in the past and in 1972 was
County Manager for Jim Hunt's
successful lieutenant gubernatorial
campaign.
Demo Convention May 8
The Democratic party district
convention will be Saturday, May ?
at noon in' Owens Auditorium ir
Lumberton, chairman Sam Noble:
announced.
Eight Hoke delegates are slated
to attend. The district convention
will elect delegates to the state
convention in Raleigh on June 15.
Cannon salutes on Sunday, July
4, if they are part of a bonafide
celebration and do not interfere
with worship services, are okay, DA
officials say. Army Reg 600-25 says
that when the official day is i
Sunday, ceremonies and salutes
will normally take place the next
day. For the Bicentennial, officials
are making an exception.
COLLECTION - A wide collection of tooh used In early America hoi assembled by the senior citizens frnup for
d Up lay at the 'Oil Tbney Day'exhibit Thursday.