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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1976
Editorial
A new beginning
"Not even the beginning" of a cause to remove Hoke County
Sheriff David M. Barrington from office, is substantially what
Superior Court Judge James H. Pou Bailey said here last week in
dismissing a petition brought by Elisha Dial, a former deputy
sheriff, and others. We agree with the finding of the judge, and
believe the overwhelming sentiment among the people of Hoke
County to be the same.
The judge also noted the incident in this action to be the only such
error charged against the sheriff in some 18 years of law enforcement
and added the comment that he wished he had that good a record.
Taking into account Dial's action to accumulate evidence on the
sheriff which he didn't see fit to use until after his discharge as
deputy more than a year later. Bailey took note of the fact that the
Hoke County commissioners had been told of the matter by Dial and
had heard Sheriff Barrington admit his part in it and that this board
had not seen fit to take action.
Judge Bailey added after court and after he had taxed Dial with
part of the costs, that he felt this law should be changed so that such
matters should first be heard before a local governing board, in this
case the county commissioners, before being taken to court. He said
if this case had been handled this way the county would have saved in
the neighborhood of S1000 in attorneys' fees.
Former Solicitor Doran Berry testified as to Barrington's
character with great eloquence and said things about the sheriff
which are usually heard only by a person's survivors.
Sheriff Barrington, after the finding and still apparently feeling
some apprehension about eitheT saying the wrong thing or having it
quoted wrongly, would only say that he was "gratified".
While we would characterize this as probably the understatement
of the year, we would say that the people of the county certainly
share the sheriff s gratification.
He has shown some signs in recent months of laboring under the
burden of his example of bad judgment, as evidenced by his
statements to the commissioners and the press and by his threats to
resign, or not run again. His constituents and friends who elected
him have certainly shared this pressure, and all these certainly share
his gratification in having the whole thing handled officially,
prosecuted vigorously ? as the county attorney and district attorney
were obligated to do ? and finally dismissed by one of the State's
most respected judges.
Now. with what is officially "not even the beginning" of a cause
for his removal, we can share with Sheriff David Barrington the hope
that we do have a good beginning for him to serve the people of Hoke
County for 18 or so more years. He has been, is, and will continue to
be. a good sheriff, and there is none among us who has not also
made an error of judgment, although he has paid for his error as
many of us don't.
Read Matthew 6:25-34
"Do not be anxious about
tomorrow; tomorrow will look after
itself. Each day has troubles
enough of its own." (Matthew 6:34,
NEB)
Jesus' words about today and
tomorrow are applicable in the
stewardship of God's good earth.
The distant future seems irrelevant
for most of us. Living today, we can
hardly be responsible for the twenty
- first century. We can, however be
good managers of the present hour.
After that the future arrives well
prepared for.
My father poured most of his
eighty - five years into building up a
small hillside farm until it would
frow anything he wanted to plant,
lut he did not labor to give his
children a good farm to cultivate.
Each day he worked so that the
family would have enough to eat
and to wear. Today his sons are
living fruit of his soil conservation.
Perhaps that is what we all need
to see. whether in terms of air
pollution, soil conservation, or
energy use. Along with our portion
of His good earth. God gives us the
present moment. We need to put
the two together to be good
stewards; then tomorrow will look
after itself.
PRAYER: Father, make us able
to respond to Your love today, so
that our responsibility for to
morrow will not be overlooked.
Then may the earth with all its
fullness truly be Yours. Through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
We give to God what He gives us -
the present moment,
-copyright-THE UPPER ROOM
-Joseph M. Reeves (Charlotte,
North fflrnlina^
'I don't care what we prove. I still believe in the monste
and also the Abominable Snowman'
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by Marty Vaga
Feel Tired, Rundown
Ever feel you're getting the
run-around from the landlord when
re-painting and other improve
ments are needed, but you are too
meek about it? Feel that you don't
speak up strongly enough about
what you are entitled to? Don't
assert yourself enough? Have that
tired, rundown feeling when cross
ing the street?
Is the pen still mightier than the
sword? Or at least stronger than a
small penknife?
L.V. of Norfolk, Va. offers us
this poetic message to bolster our
saggin spirits and our peeling walls.
There's a man called
Down here at Ft. Bragg,
Who rents and sells houses
To protectors of our Flag,
His houses are filled
With furniture nondescript
It's cozy and modern,
But some of it's ripped.
The tables are wobbly,
The chairs are-well...loose.
If you sit on them,
It might cook your goose.
There's always a room
In need of redecorating.
He says he will do it
It's naught but procrastinating.
His backyards are fenced
Partially, that is....
He promises completion
In answer to our quiz.
His curtain rods are supported
By a nail in the center.
It's tacky and ugly
For owner or renter.
On the first of each month
He drops in to visit.
He's come for his money.
When you ask 'Who is it?'
We ask ourselves why
This run is all business,
Why can't he think of us,
Drifting in dizziness.
If he doesn't fix up
And move soon to act.
We'll say 'Adios'
And cancel our pact.
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morean
Recently, I voted to sustain the
President's veto of a bill that would
have added SI25 million this year
to enforce the standards of the
Child Day Care Act. The bill
provided for authority to spend
$250 million more for the next four
years.
The Sunday newspapers, in the
column on how your members of
Congress voted the previous week,
dutifully recorded that 1 voted to
uphold the veto of the Day Care
appropriation.
There was some mail which was
critical of the vote and even my own
son wanted to know why 1 had
voted against day care for children.
It wasn't quite that simple.
The Federal Government is now
spending over S725 million
annually for Day Care, to help
working parents have a place to
leave their children while they go
off to their jobs.
And because the Government is
spending this sum, it has insisted
upon setting up standards which
apply to centers in all of the 50
states. These went into effect June
1st of this year.
The extra $125 million would
have increased the bureaucracy to
enforce those standards. It is
extremely doubtful that many
members who voted for the appro
priation know just what standards
are.
The standards mandate that for
every four children between six
weeks and three years old in a
center there shall be an adult.
There shall also be one adult for
every five children between the ages
of three and four years. And so on.
There has been no evidence that
these standards, which were set by
an all - knowing Congress, are
necessary in every state or in every
center. Rather there is a feeling
that if there are problems with Day
Care Centers, more money will
make them go away.
There have been some problems.
In New York City, a Mayor's task
force found day care incompetent
and extremely costly. High rents
paid to slum landlords were called
a major problem and it was
discovered that a student could be
sent to Harvard University for less
than it cost to keep one child in a
Day Care Center. And, of course,
the taxpayer is the one who is
footing the bill.
Throwing extra money into the
pot to pay more bureaucrats
doesn't seem to be the way to help
the day care situation.
There was no proof offered that
the staffing ratios which are
mandated in the standards have
had any beneficial effect on day
care for children. In fact, no one
has made clear just how the ratios
were arrived at.
This is currently something that
should be left to the state govern
ments, rather than attempting to
handle the matter by increasing the
federal bureaucracy. Each state
should know its own needs and
should be accorded the privilege of
setting its own rules, rather than
having Washington, in its wisdom,
mandate the same standards for
Winston - Salem and Wilmington
that it does for Chicago and New
York.
So the issue wasn't as simple as it
appeared and the vote was not
against children, but against an
increased bureacracy and higher
spending for what appeared to be
no answer to the problem at all.
CLIFF BLUE ? ? ?
People & Issues
OUT FRONT ? Jimmy Carter is
way out front in the race for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion and as usual it's the man in
front who gets shot at and in recent
days Jimmy has been getting it
right and left.
Udall has been after the peanut
grower from Georgia for weeks but
has never been able to make a solid
hit. As the race nears the end
Senator Church and Governor
Brown have been able to slow the
Georgia boy down as he tires in the
final Taps of the primary campaign.
Hubert has been throwing a rock
whenever the opportunity has
arisen and Minnesota orator is no
slough in finding an opportunity.
Carter has been quite canny in
being able to "run the ridges' on
major issues which will certainly
come up in the general election
even if he is able to get by the
primary without taking a hard
stand.
Carter is so far ahead now for the
nomination that it will be mighty
hard to deny the prize to him.
Governor Brown and Senator
Church are building up recognition
for themselves in ah attempt to be
readv for a real run for the White
House in 1980 or 1984. While
Church has been in the Senate for
several years and has a liberal
record to his credit or discredit,
depending on how you view the
situation, very little is known about
Brown who seems to be quite
popular in California but to size
him up as a serious presidential
contender would be something like
buying a "pig in the poke."
CANDIDATES CHANGE ? It
must be remembered that candi
dates have been known quite
frequently to change from their
original views once they start
running for president, and some
times after making it to the white
house. Lyndon Johnson was elected
to the House of Representatives
and later to the U.S. Senate as a
tegular Southern conservative but
when he started eyeing the white
house he started moving from his
old conservative stance. After
making it to the White House upon
the death of President Kennedy he
adopted an all - out liberal position
on domestic issues.
CARTER CHANGES - Jimmy
Carter, back in 1971 when he was
governor of Georgia, assured the
National Right - to - Work
Committee that he was "not in
favor of doing away with" right to
work laws. But what he is saying
now is quite different. In Roanoke,
Virginia, he recently said: "If
Congress repeals 14-B and it is
placed on my desk I will be glad to
sign it. But I'm not going to take
this on as a crusade.
WASHINGTON -- Two of the
most potent Democrats in Congress
have brought a cloud of disrespect
over their party and Congress in
general -- Wilbur Mills who headed
the powerful Ways and Means
Committee and Wayne Hayes sho
chaired the potent House Adminis
tration Committee and the Demo- '
cratic National Congressional
Committee. When the Democrats
point the finger and holler "Water
gate." the Republicans can shout*
back, "Hayes, Mills and Chap
paquiddick!"
FORD & BUSING - President
Ford will likely find many backers
if he devises and promotes legis
lation which would avoid court -
ordered busing. When the courts -
Federal or State attempt to run the
schools as is the case in Boston and
elsewhere it reminds many of a bull
in a china closet. The furor over
busing out of a home neighborhood
into another may not have caused
many to go without a high school
diploma but something has caused
hundreds and thousands to go
without a proper high school
education -? being able to read and
write a comprehensive sentence!
AIRING THE ISSUES -- Coy C.
Privette for the Republicans and
Senator Tom Strickland for the
Democrats have challenge their
opponents in their respective
parties for an open discussion on
the issues facing the state. Strick
land said that the special interests
had been receiving the candidates
to hear how they stood on issues
and he thought it time for the
general public to have the same
opportunity. Strickland suggested
that the Democratic gubernatorial
candidates hold the discussions
over the state in the several
congressional districts which seems
fair and democratic. We hope that
the debates takes place and that
they be televised so the public in <
general can see and hear the
questions and answers.
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
Some men I understand won't
leave work in the afternoon till their
desk is cleared off, some clean their
desk off once a week, some once a
month, some every spring. I have
never been bound by such rigid
rules. I clean mine off when it won't
hold any more.
It reached that peak yesterday
and here are a few items I picked
up after they fell on the floor:
(1) It seems to me that while it
might be asking too much of
human nature to expect to have
politicians who won't lie, it looks
like some of the more notorious
ones would learn to at least stop
lying about their lying. It makes
you wonder about a politician's
intelligence when he looks into the
TV camera and says "I never was in
her apartment," only to have it
come out that actually he was there
twice a week for two years. It looks,"
like Congress has to do either one
of two things: straighten up, or ban
investigative reporting.
(2) As Mark Twain said, some
people will lie on credit when they
could tell the truth for cash.
(3) I understand the big New
York City University has closed
down because it's broke. Congress
ought to do something about that
immediately. You start closing
down public outfits because they're
broke and what do you think will
happen to Washington?
(4) According to a statistical
firm, what a person earns from
January 1 to May 1 goes for taxes,
and it's not until May 2 that he
actually starts working for himself.
It has taken us 200 years to go from
No Taxation Without Represen
tation to No Representation
without Taxation.
(5) Washington has a hard time
learning. It has been denouncing,
Cuba for sending troops to Angola,
when it ought to be sitting back
grinning. If Cuba hasn't learned
From us what it can cost a nation to
send troops to a country half - way '
around the world, it ought to be her
worry, not ours.
Mjr desk is now cleaned off. I
didn t know it was that color.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
Browsing in the files of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, lane 7, 1951
The new board of commissioners
of the town of Raeford held their
first meeting Monday night and
were sworn into office along with
Mayor W.L. Poole who succeeds
himself. The new board, none of
whom served last term, include
R.B. Lewis. J.H. Blue, ).W.
McPhaul, A.V. Sanders and
Marion Gatlin.
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Richard Roberts, of Los Angeles,
California, became manager of
Colonial Frozen Foods of Raeford,
Inc. last week.
Among the 61 graduates of
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
at commencement exercises June
10 and 11 is Riley Moore Jordan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Jordan.
The State Highway Commission
has recently completed seven miles
of road work in Hoke County.
From Poole's Medley:
When I could buy eggs four
dozen for 25 cents, a 24 - pound
sack of flour for 40 - cents, corn
meal for 2 cents a pound, times
were considered the hardest ever.
New officers of the Ellis
Williamson American Legion post
are Robert Gatlin, commander;
Richard Neeley and Luke McNeill,
vice - commander; Charles Hos
tetler, adjutant; Israel Mann,
finance officer; D.H. Hodgin,
service officer; Dr. R.L. Murray,
15 years ago
Thursday, June 8, 1961
A proposed budget for the town
of Raeford was approved Monday
night shortly after the five board
members and the mayor took theft
oath of office. Sworn in were Mayor
H.R. (Hootch) McLean and Board
members J.D. McMillian, Fred
Culbreth, W.L. Alexander, C.P.
Kinlaw and John K. McNeill, Jr.
A delegation of Hoke County
men journeyed to Raleigh Tuesday
to testify before a House Committee
in opposition to the proposal to
create a new Congressional District
that would match Democratic Paul
Kitchin against Republican
Charles Raper Jonas.
Miss Mary (Mayme) McKeithan
received a silver bowl" last *eek
from her fellow teachers on the
occasion of her retirement from
what Principal Dewey Huggins
called "a good 47 years of
teaching."