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<Cke cYlew4 - journal NATIONAL HEWSPAfg* musktihum i ? 1976 Qa/toS?na PRESS association rin? v~n ?? *-*?*' NC" 28376 PubU?O ^ ,jJ, w OwMd AMM WMcrlpdM RM* to Adr??? . ,, PobUabcr ? Editor PAUL DICKSON ZZZZZZZZZZZZZo-*?m~. SoctatJ Editor Reporter SAMC. MORRIS . ?? MRS. fAUL DICKSON MARTY VEGA Second Class Postage at Raeford. N.C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 1976 Olympic future .. ? j *u? rtK U, * be said flrs. .ha, we men What could be more thrUlmg th Wcs and with marvelous and women reach out for th? once-amazing records of past bursts of determination, shatter : t? :umping higher, hurling years? Athletes today are runmng faster.^ump objects farther, and displaymg m gra not. Many reasons are Is there a human limit. We are s ^ first started given for why athletes have l?pr? . stronger- they work harder; back in 18%. * the factor training facilities are bette . self- improvement and the of attitude, that natural striving demoUshed. As William expectation that records are there 10^^^ ^ ^ ..Qnce a Morgan, a u?verslJ* ? believe they can do it, and they do. barrier is broken others belie y ^ concern of many that That said and done, we sha Games. Certainly the C"?ov?TOwana?dy.he njs walkout of African countries .eft a ,onger be held. Throughout he.r W^year^ {o( the been dogged by such pro ? wg Uye in Today there are many Olympiad reflects the kirn d ol fi ^ at their height, so racial, more nations, and nationalist feeli "8s h international social and political fehngs tend ? surface ms^ ^ ???. SitS,' ~ ZSfc U- not ? use the 01yntp.es srUSSS X". w? ?? <*??"? *" "" them down. the international Olympic Now is the time to begin. It is up^ ^ ^ the l9g0 games m Committee to foresee Pr?bl*m* forestall them. IOC president Lord Moscow and to J that in the next year or two the 5? ?,iOT wm have ,0 be *%? questions, too. need to ? refugees and displaced Pe^?"s athie^ from pastern Europe are status (in view of the fact t perhaps the time has come to subsidized by the stat kf" D:ad which has grown burdensome in ^fe^nd "^Sna, 'SS^SSZZ but Nevertheless was in force until the Berlin nationalism will subside as nations One day. surely, the tide of nationalism tQ genume mature and political rivalries andconfl f wiU reflect a snsrs sr s ? ?- - ?? * one latest Olymp ics that gave Wiltons o J^g^around those uneven forget Nadia Comaneci of j d breezing down the final bars? Or John Walker of New f he Unlted stre,ch of the 1.500-meter '??'<> '"athlon? There are States besting all comf't''0" io? _ and. as the games close, the heroes too numerous accomplishments. whole world can take pr christian Science Monitor Browsing in the files of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday, August 2, 19S1 At a recent meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis Club, on recom mendation of the club's committee on "Support of Churches," a resolution was passed by the club asking all civic, social and political groups to refrain from having regularly scheduled or called meet ings on Wednesday night. ? * ? A large congregation from many parts of North Carolina attended the homecoming at Bethel Presby terian Church Sunday. * * ? D. Scott Poole, former school teacher, legislator, editor, etc., and Jiublisher of The Hoke County ournal for many years, is winding up another year and will celebrate his 93rd birthday tomorrow. ? ? ? The weekly Cotton Insect Survey of July 30 shows 21 % infestation in treated fields and 70% in untreated fields. 15 years ago Thursday, August 3, 1 961 Hopeful Hoke farmers began their annual trek to the tobacco markets at Fairmont and Lumber ton this morning, buoyed up by reports of good prices in the Georgia-Florida Market and opti mistic estimates of what the prices will be on the Border Belt. The many problems of the Hoke -County Public Library moved a step closer to solution this week with the announcement that Mrs. Sara Barnes McDowell of Fayette ville had been hired as chief librarian. From Rockfish News: Everybody even the news men are telltag ulsil 's hot, as if we don't know it, and if it isn't hot where you are it sorely is at Rockfish. ? * * ? ? * Weather problem by Marty Vega Part IV, Or Part II (Part IV of the story two weeks ago, or Part II of the story four weeks ago, or conclusion of Part I of the story) Plans were going slowly for the invasion of Ft. Thunderclap. There was a fairly long dry spell and people tended to forget about the issue. This was to later prove to be very foolish, as it now appeared the generals at Ft. Thunderclap were deliberately withholding rain just to spite the colonists further. For in going over the past weeks, the colonists determined a pattern-it either rained all of the time or it Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: Some people are always criticiz ing our foreign policy but Fve decided the only thing wrong with it is that it's not used at home too. For instance, the United States has just loaned Egypt 31 million dollars, payable in 40 years, to improve and modernize the port of Alexandria. The interest rate is 2 per cent the first 10 years, then it goes up to 3 per cent. This isjcnown as financial wizardry, as I know of no other country on earth that can borrow money from its citizens, at 7 and 8 percent and lend it to foreigners at 2 and 3 per cent. At the same time, the U.S. has given Egypt 5 million dollars free of charge to study what else needs improving over there. This is exactly the kind of policy I've been looking for. You see, I've got this old barn out here that 1 estimate is in worse shape than the port of Alexandria. If ships have trouble docking over there, you ought to see the trouble a hay truck has getting in and out of my barn. If anything needs improving and modernizing, it does, and I'll attend to it jf the government will let me in on some of that 2 per cent money. I'd like about S100.000. What I'll do is use $5,000 or so to fix up the barn and put the rest out at IVi per cent interest. In 40 years I'll bet I will have come closer to paying my loan off than Egypt. Now as for the other part of the foreign policy, the 5 million dollars we're giving Egypt to see what else needs improving over there, I've been looking at things around this farm for years that need improving, and if the government will pay me I'll write them down and send the list to Washington. I think S25.000 will cover the cost. While it's true I don't have any old pyramids that need fixing up or any tents that need patching or any camels that need replacing. I know that from a long- range economic view over the next 40 years I'm bound to have some cows that'll need replacing, and I know from years of experience that a fence can lean over just so far before it falls down completely. I don't know about Egyptian cows, but it doesn't take my cows long to find out they can step over a fence that's on the ground. Also, if given this money I'll guarantee I won't export any arms to my neighbors or declare war on any nation or get madder at the U.S. than the ordinary foreign contry does when its loan comes due. Yours faithfully, J. A. rained not at all. It could be said there was no in-between. For this reason, the expression "feast or famine" came into common use to describe this condition. Later historians argue this poinf and contended the term really derived from comparisons made about the corps, which of course was the primary source of food for every family in the colony, and that the people adopted the expression feast or famine to mean that it was either a very, very good year for the crop, or it was a very, very bad year. Hence, to have a bad year was to have a famine, a good year was a feast. Other historians claimed that outcome of the crop, any crop, was contingent on the amount of rainfall which fell, so the issue was really academic. It was considered by some to be a case of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Which did? Eggs became vitally important during this turbulent period. It was not immediately clear why, as chickens were very highly regarded, too. In fact, it was a sign of wealth to have a number of chickens around, as well as horses, cows, and maybe a goat. The loss of a chicken through illness or a marauding fox was serious. There was a skinny lady who lived in a house who had no chickens, but she had many cats. Striped cats, white cats, black cats, grey cats, many cats who sat in the driveway, or on the steps, or on the parched lawn. A crippled old man with a cane came down the road and saw the cats. He looked at the skinny lady, he looked at the cats, and he slowly walked by, shaking his head and clucking his teeth. The skinny lady picked up a pebble and threw it at him. The Senate has before it a bill. S. 8603, which will subsidize the U.S. Postal Service to the tune of S500 million for each of two years, and which forbids any more elimination of services, until such time as a study commission decides what to do about our troubled mail system. Now, this is a bill about which one is bound to have mixed feelings. That subsidy effectively adds in taxes what the Postal Service cannot raise by any more rate increases. But putting a stop to deteriorating service, and naming a commission to study whether we want to continue with a "public corporation" or go back to having a Post Office which is a government agency ? both of those are very good ideas. I do not believe we can avoid the subsidy. The Postal Service is in such a mess financially that the alternative is clearly the closing of more rural post offices, cut-backs in home delivery to five days a week, hefty increase in the cost of stamps, and even slower service. CLIFF BLUE ... ? People & Issues 1 REAGAN S MOVE -- The righw move at the wrong time! Maybe not in the person selected, but overall making a decision that should be made before the nomination and not after. What we are saying is that presidential candidates should in-, dicate their vice-presidential pref erence before the convention meets and not after the candidate has been nominated. To our recollection this has never been done before with the possible exception of incumbent presidents indicating incumbent vice pres idents for renomination. Not since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 has an incum bent president failed to ok his vice president for renomination. Franklin D. Roosevelt was First elected president in 1932 in the dark days of the depression with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner as his running mate for vice president. Roosevelt and Garner were reelected president and vice president in 1936 but Garner was a southern conservative from Texas and Roosevelt was a liberal from New York--having served two terms as governor of New York State. For his third term campaign. Roosevelt tapped Henry A. Wal lace. Secretary of Agriculture for his vice presidential running mate. When it came time for Roosevelt's fourth term campaign the conser vative people were very much out with Wallace. They favored Jimmy Byrnes who had served as U.S. Congressman from S.C., United States Senator and a member of the U.S. Supreme Court as a Roosevelt appointee and as "assistant" to President Roosevelt during World War 11. Sidney Hillman was the big labor union boss at that time and he turned thumbs down on Byrnes, so Roosevelt then tapped a United States Senator from Missouri Harry Truman, with the Roosevelt Truman ticket winning over Tom Dewey in November. 1944. We still think it a mighty good idea from the public's standpoint for a presidential candidate to announce his preference before the convention meets. Reagan, of course picked Senator Schweiker in the hopes of gaining votes to secure his nomination. This, we feel will likely hurt his chances for the nomination rather than cinch it for the California conservative. CARTER OVER SANFORD -- It's hard to understand how Jimmy Carter, a former Georgia governor was able to run-away with the Democratic presidential nomina tion when other able candidates like Terry Sanford fell by the wayside. We believe Terry Sanford has the background to make just as able a president of the United States as Jimmy Carter. Both Carter and Sanford were moderate to liberal governors in generally regarded southern conservative states. We have been trying to figure this paradox out and we can only come up with the fact that while Sanford was out meeting the people he usually had a benign expression on his face while on the other hand. Carter always had that toothy-grin! PRIMARIES ? In past presi dential primaries Governor George Wallace made hay and moved ahead. However, this year the primaries proved to be the undoing for the Alabama governor. In 1972 Wallace received more primary hefn ?" any 0f his 0PP?nents v e was wounded by a would be assassin's bullet. But 1976 was Carter s year and they served him well. GUBERNATORIAL - It ap pears that the gloves are untied and ready to come off in the guberna tona| race. As the Democratic ! candidates square off it will likely i See CLIFF BLUE, page 15 Letter To The Editor afternoon on a bus for Camp Monroe. Each child has had a physical and has appropriate cloth- ! mg. bathing suits, underwear, and 1 hfaV?nn!? shoes- 061,131 k?s * blankets, linens, and bibles were packed for each child in a mono- I grammed duffle bag. The joy of the ! project has been seeing how people ? wiMmgly and lovingly provided for I the children. We wish all of Hoke County 1 could have shared with us the foh;'?hreE:sas?,3i&ufrs'Thank^ RAEFORD WOM AN* S* CLUB Mrs. C.R. Clark First Vice President To the editor. I think that most of the people in Raetord know ma and I would 3jRPrcc,atc ?|ryou would print My name is Mack Wallace and I am a Private First Class in the U S Army stationed in Europe (Ger many). v MoMWnU'd liku t0 salute Ka,hy McMillan in her outstanding ef forts in the Olympics. I watched her perform live on German TV It makes me feel good knowing that e girl who made it happen went to the same school I attended. (I attended Hoke High in -74-75.) she may not remember, but we Cols,on's a|gebra class lege consider lhat a privi To me Kathy McMillan is a star and a friend. I just want to wish Kathy McMillan a happy and successful future. Continuous suc cess at Tennessee State! Love always. Mack On behalf of the senior citizens who took the tour July 27. 1976 w? would like to thank the ones that made it possible for the senior citizens to make this tour, which was to different parts of S C including Myrtle Beach. We had a 20 minute stop just etore we reached the restaurant then we reached this beautifui restaurant. Some of our group preferred seafood and some carried their own lunches. This was the Calabash Restaurant and everyone enjoyed it. rJJkI T went from N. Myrtle Beach to S. Myrtle Beach on to the state park where everyone had a chance to go in the water. There were so man/ things to see. Some went swimming, some enjoyed the sunshine, some played golf There were 15 from Cameron Heights and two from South Hoke and I will say again we 'all really appreciate these tours that have been made possible for senior citizens. Thank you. A. Jones Report To Tin People by Senator Robert Morgan The problem with the Postal Service, it appears, is salaries. Salaries at the top are high. There are 45 executives who make as much or more than a Senator or Congressman and since the Nixon administration's conversion of the U.S. Post Office to a semi-public corporation, postal workers can bargain collectively. Since 1971, postal workers' salaries has risen about 63 percent, while federal workers' wages have gone up about 40 percent. I don't begrudge anyone a good living, but you can see what this has to do to the Postal Service, which has to use so much labor. It is hard to agree entirely with the Postal Service's reaction to the problem. The move to close small, rural post offices is penny-wise and pound-foolish. The savings from all the small post offices closed last year won't run the Postal Service but for 13 minutes. And it is probable we could have kept several small North Carolina offices open for the $178,000 the immedi ate past Postmaster General spent remodeling his office and confer ence room. The decision to model the mail service on a business ignored one fact ? it would have to resemble a monopoly. And if there are three things typical of monopolies, they are lowered service, high prices, and big labor contracts. I feel the delivery of mail ought to be a public service. If we continue as we have, that "let's cut back service" mentality which seems to prevail will ruin the system completely. On that basis, I am supporting the bill. The Subsidy is the price we will have to pay, at least temporarily, for maintaining what service ?4e have left. In the meantime there will be no increase in the price of stamps, no cut-back in delivery, and no more closings of small post* offices.. We need to face the financial crisis of the mail system. But at the same time we owe it to the people to stem the decline in postal service.
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