SUPERIOR The Hoke High School Chorus and Chorale took top honors again while competing in the North Carolina Regional Chorale Festival Friday. Both groups received the
highest rating of "superior Jor their performance. Twenty-one groups participated in the festival.
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Urges The Members To Attend A
Special Meeting Of The Members
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Thursday, March 17
Registration 9 A.M. - Meeting 10 A.M.
Cumberland County Memorial Auditorium
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membere to reaaon together In eoiving the Isauea facing the Cooperative.
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Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation along with the dlrectora
and management of LREMC will make preeentationa and then anawer
questions from the memberehip.
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Red Springe, N. C.
It has long been my belief that
the nation will not return to its full
economic potential until the hous
ing industry is healthy again. And
I have always maintained that every
family should have a chance to own
at least one home during their
lifetime.
Now the Farmers Home Ad
ministration has an opportunity to
make a contribution to both of
those situations, through an
amendment to the Housing Act bf
1949. Congress approved the
amendment in 1972. but it was
never implemented by the Execu
tive Branch of the previous ad
ministration.
Under the admendment, the
FHA can guarantee loans made to
moderate income families to
finance moderate but adequate
homes in rural areas.
Private lenders -- banks and
savings and loan associations -? will
be guaranteed 90 percent of the
principal and interest on loans they
made to families who want to build
a home in the country. Prior to
passage of the amendment, the
FHA made its loans directly, using
government funds.
This new area that has been
opened up is wider than it looks,
because persons living in towns of
10,000 or less are eligible and loans
may also be made in towns with
populations of up to 20,000 if the
town is not located in a Standard
Metropolitan Area.
To be eligible for such a loan, a
rural family must:
1. Not own decent, safe and
sanitary housing.
2. Be unable to obtain a loan
from a private lender.
3. Have sufficient income to meet
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house payments, taxes, insurance
and necessary living expenses.
The definition of "moderate
income" is set periodically by the
FHA on a state - by - state basis.
Also, the interest rate which
borrowers are charged is set by
FHA in accordance with state
statutes.
The borrower must have equity,
either in the form of cash or land,
equal to three percent of the loan if
the amount is less than $25,000 or
Five percent if the loan exceeds
525,000. Loans can be made for 97
percent of the S25.000 - or - less
loan and for ?5th percent of the
525,000 - plus loan.
Persons interested in obtaining
such loans may get information and
application forms at their country
FHA offices.
I believe that this program, if the
government and the lending in
stitutions will cooperate, can be of
great help to families wanting and
needing decent housing and to the
economy, because the housing
industry has been one of the
hardest hit by, and slowest to
recover from the recession. Un
employment in the building trades
is still extremely high.
Recently I was named chairman
of Rural Housing Subcommittee of
the Senate Banking, Housing and
Urban Affairs Committee. The
subcommittee will have oversight
over this program and I intend to
watch it closely and do what 1 can
to see that it gets a maximum
chance.
With the economy still sluggish
and unemployment still unaccept
ably high, I believe that here is a
chance to do something about both
without spending huge amounts of
federal tax dollars.
Singers
Rated
Superior
The Hoke County School Chorus
and the Hoke County High School
Chorale received certificate awards
with ratings of "Superior" at the
North Carolina Regional Choral
Festival held in Rockingham Fri
day. March 4th. "Superior" is the
highest attainable choral rating
presented by the North Carolina
Music Educators Association which
sponsored the Festival.
During the Festival's morning
session 21 choral groups performed
for rating and/or criticism. After ,.
lunch they joined the other chorus- '
es in a thousand voice workshop in
choral art under the direction of .
Dr. Paul A. Aliapoulious, associate .
dean for undergraduate studies at
North Western University School of
Music. Evenston. 111.
High Schools participating in the
Choral Festival were Scotland .
County. Pinecrest. Union Pines, .
New Hanover-Wilmington, Pem
broke, West Montgomery, Pine
Forest, Hoke County, Whiteville.
Hoggard-Wilmington, Hobbton,
Douglas Byrd, Laney-Wilmington, ?
Clinton, Richmond County, and
E.E. Smith.
The old Negro spiritual tells us
that, although everybody, "talks"
about Heaven, it doesn't mean ?
everybody's "goin' there." So, also,
lots of people "talk" about prayer,
but that doesn't mean their ex
perience of it has been very
satisfactory. Perhaps there is no
discipline in the Christian Church
more highly touted, nor poorly
taught, than prayer. Described
glowingly as one of the most vital
resources in the spiritual life, it is
more often observed, as Harry
Emerson Fosdick once remarked,
as " pious form rather than a vital
transaction."
One of the reasons for this failure
is to be seen in the erroneous .
suppostions which many people
harbor when it comes to praying. 4
They approach it as if the key in
prayer were to be found in their
efforts to persuade a reluctant or
inattentive Gp<# tp rouse Himself tp .
do their will. Their efforts are #
focused on praying in the right way,
using right techniques, saying the
right words that will cause God to
act on their behalf.
Jesus knew well this popular
misconception concerning prayer
and he told some parables to try to
change these unfruitful attitudes.
One of these parables (Luke 18:1-8)
tells an interesting story about a
persistent widow who finally gets
the local judge to defend her rights
by hounding him continually. The
brief personality sketch of the judge
is illustrative of the kind of public
official that was recognizable to his
listeners: he "neither feared God
nor regarded man."
The point of the parable, ot
course, is this: if an unjust judge <
will be moved to do justice if he is
persistently petitioned, how much
more will a loving God do if we
bring him our petitions! '.he
contrast could not be more vivid:
the judge respects no one, thinks \
only of his own needs, cares ?:
nothing about the plight of others. :
and wouldn't help anyone unless it ,
served his own interests; God, on ,
the other hand, loves men, cares ,
about them, is concerned about 5
their needs, is sensitive to their *
cries, and responds to persistance. j
But persistance is required not j
because God needs to be goaded or ?
reminded, but because man must j
persist in his receptivity! Our 5
persistance enables God to do. the
good for us that he already wants to -?
do.
The second parable (Luke 18:
9-14) also centers on two readily ?
identifiable personalities. First,
there is the self - righteous Pharisee
who has all the "right" religious
credentials... except for two. He
lacks humility and he despises
others whom he feels don t live up
to his pious standards. The mes
sage in this parable is clear: don t
expect effective prayer if you are
proud and disdainful of others. The
problem is not that God will not
answer such a person, but that that
person himself is blocking the
channel through which God's grace
would flow. Pride and hostility on
the part of the prayer slam shut the
doors through which the blessings
would come.
J. H.AUSTIN
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