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<?hecn eu?4 - journal NATIONAL NEWSPAPER (Jtrto&tuz PRES S ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday al Raeford, N.C. 28376 119 W. Etwood Avenue Subscription Rate* In Advance Per Year ? $8.00 6 Months ? S4.25 3 Months ? S2. 25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher -Ed I tor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor MARTY VEGA Reporter SUZANNE APL1N Reporter Second Class Postage at Raeford. N.C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1977 Mr. Ford's farewell What Ame"ca"^ Jfore that body to deliver his State of the President Ford s^?^h genuine outpouring of ^arm^V d Union message? J g transcended all partisanship and SSfS! * is hard to avoid In these final days of the F? dP deliVered perhaps the most sentimentalism. But. as Mr. career> 0ur hearts could not but effective speech of ^ preside ^ brought America through two fill with de^sp.f Jpa ' and With pride in the nation's "government 33S& continuity a, such a It is traditional to ring the graciousness. Even as he time. Mr. Ford did ? wth ch? arac ^ ^ extended his support dwelt on the past, helcwkedot was more than mere words, prayers to the incoming ^ Washington to detect quickly the this one o? the most affable and efficient "^'"^^Tup'his ??>'d wWh a"rong That Mr. Ford should ha ^ never sounded so accent on accomplishment is shows the measure of his self-confident or president al. ana t described the State of the growth. Many. hr^V!\hTsZ\on warrants; he d d not after Union in tones glossier that ^ ^"^orate . Indeed, if Mr. Ford all win his case before the iAme wan ^ through in those areas himself had vigorously and I creatr e y t reorganization - nf concern he mentioned - energy, joov k he probably would be staymg in office^ wouid have had more The President s sc?]dinf .. had^en skillful enough to bring ^"St^S era of -Cooperation and conciiiat.on. That ^?hl ^broacf^ The11 ecotvaniy^while^UU assessment and appreciate 11^^^^. Qf trQugh of stagnation, tenuous, is emerging ^r . such pluses to its cred,t a* ?gS Snct&^n the Middle &. a^-en^hene mus,n<S bTolse,enrSl'0?\eep abreast of the Russians, .s bas.ca > S,Tbgove an . and Ameicans toda^and m the future ????* reminded of this too often J Mr. Fort m of Watergate, new openness, honesty, and ctvtoy after t ^ ^ as he ?as We are glad the President did not go so f ? restored. ll past that public rS'nuKe"force oT tacharatU which Clearly it has not. But tl\roug President did strip away embodies the best of everyday ^ ^ the Nixon years and lay; a the manipulative and d P ^ government on which the strong foundation of honest c< Qf healing is well begun rbo^nd'Se^v the -ntinuinl goodwill and gratitude of aU - Americans. --C/in'5na? Science Monitor Browsing in the files of The News-Journq* 25 years ago Thursday, January 17, 1952 The Hoke County March of Dimes got off to a fine start at the High School Saturday night with the big variety show, featuring Lulong Ogburn. Fred Fletcher Puddinhead Jones, Fay Ridenour and others. * * * Private Lacy E. McEachin. who recently returned from the Korean combat zone, has been assigned to the I277th Area Service unit at Camp Kilmer. N.J. * * * Under the guidance of athletic director Haywood Faircloth, an immense physical education pro gram is carried on at Hoke High School for the benefit of the students of Hoke County. ? ? ? From Rockfish News: We have had dry weather for some time but with all the weddings that are planned it is likely that there will be showers this month. , * * * From Poole's Medley: There is too much tendency toward a centralized government. If the Federal Government were to protect the interests of the United States and stop with that, taxes would be lower and the people happier. 15 years ago Thursday, January 18, 1962 Raeford Baptists made news this week on several fronts. The Rev. J.M. Glenn announced a note ? burning ceremony for the 11 a.m. service this Sunday, a.m. organi zation of the Education Depart ment beginning January 28 and plans to open a mission chapel in a small house in Robbins Heights. * * * Cars moved slowly along main St. early Friday morning after a snowfall that slicked the roads, closed schools, and cancelled a basketball game. ? ? * The Upchurch Eagles in their first game since the holidays suffered their first loss of the season to Anne Chesnutt of Fayetteville 48-46 in overtime. ? ? * The Hoke political pot began bubbling this week in preparation for the Democratic Primary in May - with the announcement from Neill McFadyen that he would fete soon for re-election as State Represen tative. * * * Lt. Col. William Lamont. Jr. was presented a recliner on the occasion of his retirement as commander of the 2d Medium Tank Battalion. 196th Armor, of the 30th Division (Army National Guard). 'But at last we're in a tight ship and headed in the right direction' | b f Marty Vega Know Why It's Cold? I imlnrt f * re ls a number of important issues to cover-space exploration, television, electricity? "?'o beg?n alphabetically: ,hf. C has been Plenty written in the newspapers lately about the coldest winter of the century. AH of the meteorologists are saving this has been the most unusual in years in terms of prolonged cold. Add to w the b,izzards coming from the West and the North which we get as freezing rain. witheVhn? 0,?e has come 'onvara with the real reason why we are freezing here at 1 8 or 20 degrees for weeks on end. while up in Greenland it is warmer, much warmer, than in N.C. (This is true) There is plenty of evidence to suggest that abrupt changes in the weather follow these frequent aunchings of space craft by the L b. and other countries. (Re member back in 1%9 when the "le", went to the moon it rained nearly every day for a month afterward on the east coast?) Finally there is a group organ izing to bring all of "the Pfactf "o frh.H oPayecS of America Dis nS !r-r^pace Exploration. (Nicknamed TOADS) The aim of P"PP} Creek Philosopher Dear editor: If. so to speak, you look down the wrong end of the telescope, vou things.11"1" 3 bet,Cr view' of When for example political out forVa-r "? "eW taxes'" look ou for an increase in the old ones Politicians have been running against high taxes ever since I can remember and taxes have been fimp8vUP '?r. the same leng,h of time. You reckon we're real bright9 Or take Russia. Right now Russia is telling the world she has a abuutZe: gr,r,crop- Thu a,m?st automatically depresses the price of grain in the U.S.. where farmers crnn pr?duced a genuine bumper crop and were hoping to get a good P"ce f?\ 11 ? Sin<* the CIA has never toTU!? l? tram any of its agents o look out a window to see if Russia has a drought, we won't know whether the Soviets really few mn?U.h *7 Cr?P ?r I01 unt'l- a months later, they've quietlv bought up a lot of American grain depressed prices. You reckon we re real bright? fieure^^'r'16^" i according to some tigures I read last night, it now costs a million dollar? a year to reckon C?Nngrf smar in office. You reckon. ..No. I won t ask it. that 'fh^3"86 chC subject- 1 notice that the new Secretary of Agri culture is a farmer", actually operates a farm. F don't care wha? ta^hp-n 'S Agricu'ture Secre keeti f1" ^ of it to hi LI ??,ng' "Pecially if he has any cattle. Ranching today is like the highway system-u's not oublS l? m3ke 3 prof,t- it s a public service project. th^ha|I!frn8rhCSUbjccta8ain- 1 ^ that Mr Carter, true to his rom.se has put some women in ?s cabinet, but what I warn !o the'nrnhl * hC g?in? to hand'e Ib^Et ?Hem' K rc ,ob? bought up. ? T r e,ng no college or professional football team in the roach? COUn,ry wi,h a woman Yours faithfully. J. A. this group is to put pressure in the right places to stop all space programs, wait a while, then see if the weather goes back to normal. But TOADS can't do it alone. They need money to hire scientists to undertake a study and then compile a position paper to pre sent. Also, they will need money for typing paper and carbon paper for the position paper. This group doesn't claim it has all the answers. Some members say the weather is only affected by trips to the moon, others believe any excursions to outer space affect the delicate balance of the ionosphere, the stratosphere, and all that. But everyone is open minded, so if you have any fresh ideas about the connection between weather and space, you'll be heartily welcomed. Incidentally, this group did not choose the name to denote any connection with frogs. The name is derived from the unexplained phenomenon of toadstools appear ing in front of rainbows. The unbearable weather natural ly leads to the subject of television. Why? Because it's too cold to go out. But television isn't entertain ing anymore. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of good shows. The rest? Bionic people sailing through the air. the windup Donny and Marie dolls. Captain and Toenail, the Rhodas, Phyllises. Aliceses and all the rest of the whining women with their shrieking voices. Doesn't it make you want to throw up? Letter To The Editor Dear Sir. 1 am a resident of Raeford but I am presently in prison at Wagram' prison unit. I'm serving a 15 to 20 year sentence for some felonies I was convicted of March 4. 1975. I would like for the young people in Raeford to put themselves in my shoes for a brief moment. Just say that you were out with the gang of girls and boys having fun. They are your friends and always will be as long as you've ?Ot a ride, or something to get high on. But then when the chips are down you're forgotten about. This is not the type of friends you need. I had that type of friends and they were close to me. But I got busted and now my friends are down to one person, and I'd like to say this about her, she's the best friend I've ever had, it's my wife. Ginger Scott. My other so-called friends won't even spend 13 cents to drop me a few lines, so I know now I don't need that kind of friends. Friends like that could be a one-way ticket to prison! I guess everyone has done some wron^, some worse than others, but I don t think you should condemn a man or woman for their mistakes, should you? I guess I'm one of the lucky guys in prison. I do have a very dear wife and son to come see me on Sundays. Well, all I'm trying to say is. a friend is the best thing you can have if he or she is a true friend, but who knows until the chips are down. Sincerely. Jerry A. Scott P.O. Box 268, Wagram 283% A bill to abolish the limit that a person drawing Social Security benefits may earn has been intro duced in the Senate and I am pleased that I am one of its sponsors. Under present law. a person w ho is getting Social Security checks loses one dollar for every two dollars he or she earns in excess of S3 .000 a year. This is called the "means test" and the bill would simply do away with it. The best estimates that can be obtained show that more than two million persons between the ages of 65 and 7 2 are denied all or a part of their Social Security benefits be cause they are working and earning more than the $3,000 limit. This is true because many of these people just can't afford to quit work and live on the monthly sum they get from Social Security. The unfairness of the present system is shown in that a person who draws thousands of dollars from investments or rentals can still draw his full benefits, even though he needs the benefits less than the person who feels he must work. This penalizes the person who needs help the most. We must remember that pay ments from the Social Security fund are not gifts from a benevolent government. These funds have been placed in trust by deductions from the workers' pay checks during their earning years, plus -contributions from their employers. The Social Security Program, when it was conceived and created in the I930's was accomplished by statements of purpose that benefits would be paid as "a matter of right" when a worker reached a specific age. Report ! To I lit' People ; b\ Senator Roller! Morgan Yet. now a worker is told that he must establish need in order to obtain lull benefits and the pro gram has been turned from a contributory program into one that resembles welfare. Senator Barry Goldwater. who introduced the bill which 1 co sponsored. has called this penalty "a shameful robbery by law of our senior citizens" and 1 agree with that assessment. What has actually been happen ing is a lot of double talk given those retirees by their government. In 1939. when Congress passed the Social Security Amendments, it was accompanied by a statement that "granting benefits as a matter of right preserves individual digni ty." The concept of a person earning a right to his benefits has been restated many, many times, yet all the while a retired person must prove to his government that he % needs the benefits in order to get the money back that he paid in during a lifetime of work. During the years. Congress has raised the amount that a retired person may earn. In 1972. the limit was raised front SI. 080 to $2,100 per year, and then in 1973. the sum was raised to $2,400. It is now S3, (MX) and it is time that it was removed completely. There is little justice in treating a person who must work to supple ment his benefits differently from a person who receives dividends and interest from investments or rentals from property. Certainly the pre sent system is discriminatory any way one looks at it. it is time that retired citizens' rights to their benefits become a reality. CLIFF BLUE ... People & Issues JOBS FOR THE JOBLESS . . . Jimmy Carter has called upon the people to write and let him have their suggestions for consideration by his administration. Since the former Georgia governor has put jobs for the jobless at the top of his list, our suggestion will be on this subject. We are leary. and question the idea of solving our unemployment through a public works program unless the public works are needed. Public works for projects are quite proper. We are afraid we have too many people on the "unemployed" rolls who do not want to work. They work a few weeks then "draw" as long as possible. Too many of our Period Employer 1st 3 months SI. 00 2nd 3 months SI. 30 3rd 3 months $1.60 4th 3 months SI. 90 We are not wedded to the above figures but a system with the government thrust toward getting the unemployed trained and/or off the welfare rolls and back to work is what we are thinking about, not some program which would per petuate government handouts. After this one-year of training there would be no further obliga tion on the trainee or the employer. Hopefully, the employer would be able to continue to offer employ ment at a higher rate of pay. Remember, these people would not be on the training program if they had a job. It would be for the unemployed and untrained and if they could find a better job elsewhere while on training they could go to the better job. The wage scale listed above is low but the whole plan is based on the theory of taking people who want to work off the unemployed rolls and giving them a chance to draw a salary while training. This is similar to the Veteran's Training program which the U.S. Government promoted after World War II. The G.l. on the job program trained young veterans in a similar U.S. Government approved pro gram after World War II which proved beneficial to the veterans as well as the employer. SOUTHERN WEEK . . . This is unemployed have been brought up under the welfare system and have little incentive for earning a living when they can draw welfare payments and Food Stamps. On the other hand, we have many people who are entitled to welfare aid and Food Stamps and to the deserving people we would take nothing from them, but would like to see them given greater help and support. We are concerned about the unskilled and the untrained who add to the unemployed and welfare rolls. We suggest the following co-op plan between the government and private enterprise to train and give them a job. Govt. Total Pay SI .(I) S2.00 S .HI) S2.10 S .?> S2.20 S .-?) S2J0 a real Southern Week. -- Robert E. Lee's birthday January 19; Jimmy Carter being inaugurated Presi dent. January 20; Stonewall Jack- ^ son's birthday January 21. Three great Southerners: Strike up "Dixie!" GOVERNOR & SENATE . . . Could it be that Lulher Hodges. Jr. and some of the other feeling out possible strength for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Jesse Helms are doing so because they feel Hunt may get the State Constitution changed so he can run for a sccond term. Hodges was a strong Hunt supporter and many people felt he might like to follow in his dad's footsteps and run for governor before going on to the Senate, but w ith the possibility or probability of Hunt being a candidate again, having decided that his best bet would be for a seat in the U.S. Senate. FORD . . . We thought President Ford made a mighty Fine speech * before Congress and to the nation ; last week. We have been thinking ; all along that he might make $ another try for the White House in 1980 should the tide appear to be * turning from Carter. Even though i the chance of either of the two ^ major parties may not appear bright, there are always plenty of willing candidates. SUPPORT ^1P YOUR HOKE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD Volunteers Trained and Equipped To Serve You.