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MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor
MARTY VEGA Reporter
Second Class Postage at Raeford, N.C.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1976
On standardized containers
for business garbage
We took a rather dim view at first of the city's plan to require all
commercial establishments in the city to acquire and use
standardized garbage containers, seeing it as just another in the
seemingly endless procession of new and additional expenses of
doing business these days.
A further look at the matter, including a complete explanation by
City Manager Robert Drumwright, has brought us to the conclusion
that the action is right and proper. We now believe it will result in
more efficient garbage pickup and a cleaner city, that it is the fairest
course for all taxpayers, and that in the long run it will be cheaper
for the commercial establishments of the community.
Certainly, having all commercial garbage kept for pickup in tight,
presentable looking containers with lids on them will be cleaner and
will at least make it a little more difficult for the rat population of
our alleys to grow and prosper. The smell should be some better ?
just think of rotting cabbage back of a food store, for example. Our
store operators will now not have to fear the sudden appearance of
Sanitarian M.R. Mills in their alleys.
As for efficiency of pickup, there appears to be no argument at all.
With the compatibility of the new truck and the containers to be
required, and a considerable reduction in human labor, the result
will be tax money saved for a long time to come.
It would be difficult indeed for the city to justify using city funds to
purchase these containers for commercial establishments at the
expense of all taxpayers. Homeowners in the city, most of whom do
not own or operate commercial establishments, would have a right to
expect the city to furnish them with garbage cans as well, it would
appear, and the confusion this would entail would be formidable
indeed.
Now the city estimates that enough of these containers for the
whole business community will cost between twenty and twenty-five
thousand dollars, or a tax increase of from four to five cents at
present valuations, and no estimate has been furnished of providing
garbage cans for all residences in the city. This would be just a
I one-time tax increase, theoretically, but we all know it takes a far
colder day than we have had this June to get a tax increase, once
applied, to come back down.
The city plans to make these containers available at a cost of as
low as about $75 per business on a share basis to a high of S383 for
the largest container used by one company alone. The plan also is to
allow them to be paid for over six months with no interest by those
wishing to buy them this way.
So, we would therefore repeat our contention that the one-time
extra expense for a business will be cheaper in the long run than a
tax raise which might never come down.
Better, cheaper, fairer ? these have changed our dim view of the
idea to a bright view. We would even go so far as to predict that in
years to come we'll wonder how we ever did it any other way, like we
do so many other things we have scrapped a little over in the past.
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, June 21, 19S1
The weekly survey of cotton
plants in the county was conducted
by a representative of the Extension
service this week, the fifth straight
check for the boll weevil, and the
figures for his work disclose a
startling and pronounced increase
over the number found on the
check of June 11.
? * ?
First cotton blossom of the
season to be seen in The News
Journal office was brought in
Friday by J.D. McCrimmon of the
Edenborough section of Allendale
Township on Red Springs Route 3.
Janet Hod gin, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D.H. Hodgin, and Joyce
Conoly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J.L. Conoly, spent last week at the
American Legion Girls' State, con
ducted annually at the Womans'
College of the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
From Rockfish News:
People enjoy a pause in the
cotton dusting since the rains, as
well as the weevils.
From Poole's Medley:
These tractors are going to
replace the number of horses and
mules hi use on the farms, for a
tractor can do as much plowing in a
day as ten horses or mules.
15 years ago
Thursday, June 22, 1961
Hoke County voters will soon get
a chance to vote on a special tax
levy to support their County
Library.
A new policeman, Harvey
Young, has been added to the
force, Chief L.W. Stanton reported
this week.
A stern crackdown on traffic
violators was promised this week by
Mayor H.R. (Hooch) McLean.
Close to a hundred Hoke Nation
al Guardsmen returned to Raeford
Sunday morning from two weeks
annual summer field training at
Fort Stewart, Ga.
A Raeford youth is one of six in
the entite nation to be chosen for
the staff of the Junior Leaders
Scout Camp at Mendham. N.J.
Hubert Woolen, 16. ton of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Wooten, was selected
from more than 200 applicants.
Two Raeford girls will be
crowned as "queens" in a corona
tion service to be held this Sunday
evening at Raeford Baptist Church
at 8 P.M. They are Marie McFad
yen. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis McFadyen, and Mary Neil
Seater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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Union?
Th? Christian ScMnc* Monitor
-by Marty Vega
Part II Of Thrilling Saga
(Part II to last week's thrilling
chapter in history.)
TTiere was much unrest and
discontent among the settlers dur
ing those turbulent times. Terrible
rain storms pounded the colonists
almost daily, drenching their
bodies and spirits. The people
would awaken to hot mornings and
it grew hotter and hotter until it
reached 90 degrees or more. As the
colonists labored at their daily
chores, sooner or later, the sky
would grow dark and the winds
would whistle and then the down
pour would begin.
The colonists began to blame the
Indians for their superstitious rites
and the Indians, in turn, grew
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
People have been asking, What's
gone wrong with Congress? All
those scandals and that sort of
stuff, why it's gotten so that if you
open your newspaper and don't
find a new one splashed over the
front page you're disappointed.
I've been thinking about this.
Now it's possible that some Con
gressmen need revising, but above
that I've figured is the need to
revise Congress itself. It's too
shielded from the people.
Look at it this way. Say you have
a farm anywhere from 500 to 2000
miles away and you send some
hands, ordinary people like the rest
of us, up there to work it for you,
never get up there to check on it
yourself, and depend on reports the
hands send back on how well the
farm is doing. You reckon it'd be a
very good investment? Reckon
before long it wouldn't get weedy?
That's the way we operate Con
gress. We send a hungry, lanky
young man up there, pay him
$42,000 a year with lots of fringe
benefits, give him about $400,000 a
year to hire a staff to do most of the
work, and before you know it he's
eating too much, getting fat and
contented, and making holding on
to such a job his main ambition in
life. Why not? The hours are good,
you don't have to show up for work
if you don't want to, you get your
picture in the paper, you get
interviewed when you fly back to
your home district at your employ
ers' expense, and if you stay there
long enough - that's the only
requirement -- you can become
chairman of a committee and wield
all sorts of power, like telling other
Congressmen where they can park
their cars.
That's an odd way to run a
business. I've been trying to figure
out a way to run Congress by a
nation-wide television hookup, with
each Congressman, after he s gone
to Washington to get sworn in,
staying at home in his own district
where his employers can keep an
eye on him. Instead of voting by
punching a button from your desk
in Congress, buy more wire and put
the button back home in your own
district.
I'm not sure this'll work.
On the other hand, you've got to
admit that these sex scandals
coming out of Washington lately
ought to at least put a stop to all
this talk about our having a
do-nothing, impotent Congress.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
distrustful of the white men.
With each powerful new thun
derstorm, the colonists prayed
silently they would be spared from
disaster, at least for the night, and
that the fury of the storm would not
disrupt the cablevision. Of course,
these people were of sturdy stock
and accustomed to going without
many things. Some historians even
say the colonists said they wouldn't
mind if the electricity or the tele
phone was cut off, as long as they
had their cablevision. Other histo
rians have claimed that if the
electricity went off, they wouldn't
have television anyway, so there the
matter rests, for later historians to
decide.
At this point, it should be noted
that these times contributed much
to the formation of friendly rela
tions between the settlers and the
Indians. For the Indians were
without cablevision due to federal
rules regulating the teepee building
market, and the Indians would
often bring corn, squash and
buffalo robes to the homes of
settlers in exchange for an eve
ning's entertainment around the
TV set. The Indians were courteous
visitors in the homes ? they sat
quietly for hours with their eyes
glued to the TV without saying a
word. Of course, the settlers were
much the same.
And so the days wore on during
this period in history. It became
appropriate to coin a term, and
wishing to get the jump on others,
the oppressively hot and muggy
days of June became known as Dog
Days. Originally it was believed the
term derived from Missouri settlers
who claimed dogs just lay around
everywhere, listless from the heat
during the months of July and
August. However, recent evidence
suggests that the term originated
among the settlers here as they
worked like dogs all day, only to be
rained on with cats and dogs at
night. So technically, the time is
colloquilly known as Cats and Dogs
Days, but the name never came
into common use for a variety of
reasons. First, the Indians were
superstitious of cats and it was felt
it would be unwise to stir up
anything. Also, some of the ill
informed settlers became confused
at hearing the term and mistakenly
thought Cats and Dogs Days was a
traveling caravan show coming to
town.
And some even believed Cats and
Dogs Days marked the signing of a
new peace accord to ena the
warring among the animals.
(To be continued next week, as
the riderless horse and the horseless
rider return from Raeford.)
CLIFF BLUE ? ? ?
People & Issues
CHIEF TOPIC -- As we talk with
people about the issues of govern
ment and politics, it is our opinion
that the chief issue of concern in
North Carolina is not inflation, not
the high cost of living, not the
national debt, not the salaries of
school teachers and state em
ployees, but the rising crime rates
and the manner in which many feel
our government and our courts in
particular are failing to measure up
to the challenge of crime.
It's not the misdemeanor cases
that seem to concern our people so
much but the felonious crimes of
robbery, breaking and entering,
murder, rape, etc. Citizens are
apalled at the number of de
fenders found guilty of capital
crimes receiving death or life
sentences, back on the streets a few
years later, many to take up their
old ways of vice and crime again.
This is an issue which could go a
long way toward electing a governor
if the people could be assured that
the candidate meant business!
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY --
The writer has for so many years
been an advocate of presidential
primaries. A strong effort was
made last year to abolish the
presidential primaries in North
Carolina. State Senator Tom
Strickland, now a candidate for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomi
nation was the leader in the
General Assembly to keep the
presidential primary. It looked like
the bill would be repealed until
George Wallace made his ap
pearance before the North Carolina
General Assembly and spoke
against the repeal bill which caused
the advocates of repeal to shake in
their boots and for all practical
purposes drop the campaign for
repeal. While Jimmy Carter was
not the first choice of the writer, we
doubt that the Georgia peanut
grower would ever have moved
ahead as he has, had it not been for
the presidential primary law.
Smoke filled rooms late at night
may be following the trail of the one
- horse farm insofar as nominating
presidential candidates are con
cerned. Of course the political
leaders will continue to have their
opportunity to register their choice
as they help pay the taxes and abide
by the rules of the law.
SIR WALTER -? We note from
the Raleigh News and Observer
that a group of businessmen or
investors are planning to purchase
and completely renovate and add to
the Sir Walter Hotel in downtown
Raleigh. This is welcome news
which people from over the state
going to Raleigh on business and
otherwise will appreciate.
For many, many years the Sir
Walter Hotel was not only a
meeting place for Raleigh citizens
but for people from all over the
state to cross paths and meet for
business, social and political talk.
For a dozen years and more the Sir
Walter has been on the downward i
drift and in recent months has been
turned into an office building. We
note that the new group expects to
spend about $6,000,000 in the
renovation and enlargement project
which will most likely bring it back
to its old status in Tar Heel life.
WALLACE -? An editorial cap
tion in the Laurinburg Exchange in
Scotland County says "Wallace
Loses And Wins." The closing
paragraph of the editorial reads:
"It proves something else ? that
George Wallace has been right all
along. Well, not exactly right
philosophically, but his "send 'em
a message," his "fed-upism" and
his charge that the other candidates
have stolen his thunder and
adopted his demands for drastic
change in Washington have now
been given a new stamp of validity.
Wallace has faded as a candidate
but he has indirectly won a major
victory."
HISTORIES - Probably more
local histories have been and/or
being written this year than ever
before. Many communities which
heretofore have never had a history
written have come forward with
one. Last week Pinebluff with a
population of 610 (about the size of
Plains, Georgia) had its history in
hand fresh off the press. In a few
weeks Aberdeen (four miles from
Pinebluff) population 1600 when
everybody is home, will have its
first local hard - bound history in
hand. Yes, it looks as if 1976 can be
looked upon as a local history- <
writing year.
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
President Ford recently signed
into law a bill I introduced for the
benefit of America's small busi
nessmen.
We've gotten to thinking big
business is all there is anymore,
and that is just not so. It is a
surprising fact that 40 million
people hold jobs in small busi
nesses. This kind of dispersion of
economic power is healthy, and
Washington ought to do what it can
to foster it. The new law ? S. 1298
? is one step in the right direction.
It raises the limit the Small
Business Administration can loan
directly to a small businessman,
from $350,000 to $500,000, to take
care of the recent inflation.
And the SBA's backing of small
business investment companies
(SBIC's) will also be improved.
These companies are formed for
the purpose of investing in someone
else s small business, and have
become an important source of
financing for smaller enterprises.
The SBA will now be authorized
to loan SBIC's $3 for every $1 of
private capital, instead of $2 for $1.
And in the case of SBIC's which
make an equity investment in small
firms, the SBIC can loan $4 for
every dollar.
For the first time, farmers will be
able to apply for help from the
Small Business Administration,
provided similar help is not avail
able from the Department of
Agriculture.
One way farmers and small
businessmen both may benefit is in
meeting federal pollution control
standards. Dairy and hog farmers,
and small industrial plant opera
tors have had a hard time financing
the equipment required. Too many
have shut down.
Under the law, local govern
ments may issue revenue bonds to
buy the equipment, and sell or
lease it to small enterprises. This
has already been done for big
corporations. By guaranteeing
those bonds for small business, the
SBA will make the technique
available to the little man, too.
For the future, the law does
something else very important. It
makes the SBA's Chief Counsel for
Advocacy of Small Business a
Presidential appointee, thus in
creasing his clout, and charges him
with studying the following:
- the effectiveness of federal
subsidy and assistance programs
for small business;
-? the effect of government
regulation and the tax structure on
small business;
- the ability of financial institu
tions to meet small business credit
needs, and the impact of federal
deficit financing on small business.
The Chief Counsel's report will
be due in two years, at which time
he is to propose legislation to help
small business along these lines.
And that is something we really
need.
"Good deeds are conspicuous;
and even when they are not, they
cannot remain hidden. (I Timothy
5:25, RSV)
Consider our reaction to John,
who always reminds everyone of all
the good things he has done.
"That's nice. He's on an ego trip.
Big deal-blowing his own horn."
His bragging becomes monoto
nous. Henas probably even exag
gerated his claims.
On the other hand, consider
George. It was almost by accident
t
that you discovered some of the fine
things he has done. And you
suspect there is probably more that
you don't even know about. Chan
ces ue that he has understated his
case"'
If we do good deeds, according to
Paul, they cannot remain hidden.
Though not immediately, our good
will eventually catch up with us.
And there Is no hiding it from God.
It is like the illustration Christ
uses. The hypocrites in the syna
gogues want everyone to know their
generosity. But "they have their
reward" ? if you can call it that.
The advice of Jesus is for us to give
humbly and sincerely, "in secret." *
This cannot be hidden ? it will be
conspicuous, where it counts the
most. "And your Father who sees
in secret will reward you."
PRAYER: Our Father, help us to
want to do good because of our love
for You and not for what others will
think about us. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The good that we do will catch
up with us.