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PAUL DICKSON
SAM C. MORRIS
MRS. PAUL DICKSON
MARTY VEGA
SUZANNE APL1N
. General M?n*t*r
Socle I j Editor
Reporter
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Second Claw Postage ?? R*^0"1- NC
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1977
Now, Senate ethics
The Senate deserves credit for like
Representatives in the direction o 8 f (he ful| financial
zjsstxzvzs* ? ?? infomed
? had been thfc kind o. -Toft
p^emsteadtal to a dem^d ^^^XouXby^ny^. But
determined wrongdoer would not ha {<>r themselves
unaccep,ab,c ,o
"Tnd certainly Senator
New York Times dm week ,aw finn, ?hy should 1 say
their senator's earning one nickel iro
15 percent is all right? percent limit on earned
Mr. Weicker was referring to the w pc the Senate, after
outside income which has House This means a senator can
sharp controversy, as it was by tJ4t brought his salary to
earn S8.625 on top of the S12.WU There remains no
$57,500 for a total ?f ? toidends and interest.
limit on such unearned income as caiiinK the limits only on
There were plenty of man's club" of
earned income an examp ? in the House ? recognized that
^S?tVshowoC.nc,al restrain, after the public reaction
stricter ethics st^dar^f **d on his take-home pay. And. as
congressman's ethics depe ^inted out, there was also an
Republicans in the House _ ngnuy each member s official
appearance of bWjf ? ? "Xge falling for an end to the
expense funds by S5.UW in u. v * sQme members.
"unofficial" office account p efforts to clean house.
Thus, for all the ?& restoring public
^rt"?"SSS.?S cal,dP for h, senator
Weicker and others. certainly an improvement
The new disclosure "1" Jmt. holdings, and
over the old ones, under wh JT j dollar amounts reported
debts were publicly disclosed with actual ooi ^ ^ yalues
only confidentially to ethics co are onjy to be indicated by
areto be publicly disc osed but sow J, 00.000."
categories, such as " ess '^5.000 ^ ^ his
reprwenutive^Tsen^or^ad a specific number of millions in some
Stu:.Cs?cTamoun,s of assets a^habihti* ^^listed.
Weicker sugg^U the wLl.tton should be easily available in
a single document. ?noT^ional codes, disclosure is the
Whatever the details of the congr entering a fishbowl where
key. Those who run should kn y .-Christian Science
giving up some privacy is part ot the game.
Monitor
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
It was learned late yesterday that
Sheriff D.H. Hodgin received a
call from Lumberton yesterday
requesting a special venire of 50
men from Hoke County for jury
duty in Robeson County. They are
to serve as jurors in the trial of the
four alleged Klu Klux Klanmen
charged under an ancient 1868
statue forbidding membership in
secret political organizations.
Fred M. Culbreth of Raeford was
presented the Annual Distinguish
ed Salesman Award at a meeting of
the Sales Executive Club of Rich
mond.
From Poole's Medley:
It was in the newspapers that 55
of the total number of prison camps
in North Carolina are now
equipped with television sets. Is
that a necessary expense?
J.E. Byrd. manager of Cooper's
Super Market announced today
that Johnny Jr., Goodwill Am
bassador for Phillip Morris, is
making his annual tour and will be
in Cooper's Super Store March 28.
Work was begun this week on the
Kttle league baseball diamond
located in the Robbins Heights
area.
15 years ago
Election Board Chairman, W.L.
Poole, announced this week that a
county-wide ABC election would be
held May 26 in conjunction with
the regular primary voting.
Archie Daniel Peterson, 69, was
buried Monday afternoon in Rae
ford Cemetery following services
conducted at Raeford Presbyterian
by Rev. W.B. Heyward and the
Rev. F.E. Edens.
Sheriff* s deputies reported a
S2.000 loss at Harvey Warlick's
FCX store and mill after a break-in
last week.
About 200 Hoke County "pros
pects" will be soliciting in the next
few weeks on behalf of the Moore
Memorial Hospital building cam
paign. chairman Neil L. Senter
announced this week,
Lloyd Gillis, 45. of Antioch died
Wednesday afternoon after a long
illness with cancer.
Buck horsehiders are currently
batting .500 on the season to
date-with an impressive 11-3 win
over Red Springs last week and a
4-2 loss to tne Lumberton Pirates in
the home opener Tuesday.
Lip
? by Marty Vega
Great Courage Shown
Now and then you hear of an act
of unusual courage, a deed so
unselfish and daring in the face of
great danger that ordinary mortals
like us are stunned with wonder
and awe.
The hereo, or heroine, takes on
proportions seemingly larger than
life. Such bravery is superhuman.
This writer is privileged to relate
to you the details of an extra
ordinary action which occurred in
Raeford Monday. Look closely in
this newspaper. Do you see the
photograph of the dangerous
reptile, the enormous, menacing
snake. Doesn't it strike fear in your
hearts?
While recoiling in your horror,
don't you wonder what sun^r
human heroine stood in the tace of
such sure destruction with a
camera?
Wouldn't you feel cheated if you
didn't know? Wouldn't you burn
with curiosity, the question con
suming your mind and disrupting
your lives with its gnawing
presence, until you at last learned
the answer? Who was this brave
soul who gambled a terrifying
death and lived to tell about it?
It was me. 1 did it. No one else.
Me. Modesty would prevent me
from telling this. False modesty
would, too. But 1 have neither. My
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
You open up your newspaper or
turn on the evening news any day in
the week and find the world s
endless, dreary troubles laid out
before you. Every day it seems like
a new country is heard from with
more trouble than the one in the
news the day before -- countries a
lot of us never heard ot a year or
two ago. like Zamia. Zaire.
Uganda.
And that's just on one continent.
Tomorrow somebody is going to
find another country we never
heard of before on some other
continent, and it too will be
reported in big trouble. The papers
and the networks will carry the
story, public officials will agoni/e
over it. and we can add one more
problem to our list.
1 have thought long and hard
over this and I've figured out the
solution to people's mounting
worries. What the world needs is a
new set of leaders, all of whom
failed geography in school. You
can't worry about or come to the
aid of a country you don't know
exists.
Maybe we need a President tor
example who. when asked -- by
some reporter who probably just
heard of the place -- what he thinks
ought to be done about say Angola,
could reply without being laughed
at by the rest of us: "I'm not too
familiar with that lofcal situation, is
Angola in Oregon or West
Virginia?"
People are simply learning too
much geography. Don't the news
papers and networks know that
every time they introduce a new
country to us they're just adding to
the sum total of our worries?
Understand. I don't think
ignorance is bliss, but on the other
hand being informed can give you a
headache.
By the way, which state is Angola
in? What's the town's
problem, busing? Drought?
Yours faithfully.
J. A.
I
mother told me that false modesty
was a sin. True modesty I never
acquired.
Now that the story is out, I know
1 will be deluged with inquiries
from scores of people demanding
the whole story. Time magazine,
probably, will pick it up within the
week.
How did you do it. everyone will
be clamoring. Well, some are born
great and others have greatness
thrust upon them.
You don't iust pick up a camera
and step out and confront a snake
eyeball to eyeball. You have to
work up to it. You start by taking a
picture of a dead snake first. Like
about two years ago. Then you put
it out of your mind.
And then, a man walks into the
newspaper office and says. "Would
you like a picture of a snake?" You
say sure, we'd like a picture of a
snake, let's see it.
And when the man says no.
that's not what he meant, he meant
he wanted a picture TAKEN right
now and the horrible beast was
waiting outside, what do you do?
It's true grit, friends. Some of us
got it and some of us ain't got it.
Consider yourselves lucky that
you should know such a great
person in your lifetime.
? * ?
I do want to assure all my
faithful readers (both of you) that I
will not carry out my threat to quit
writing columns. I had decided to
give up some bad habits, like
smoking, swearing and writing
columns, but cooler hand con
vinced me that if I gave up
columns, certain people would
believe that they had forced me out
of the business. Some folks said 1
shouldn't write a certain column
this week. Other folks say 1
shouldn't write an uncertain
column.
That's sensible.
"Hearing they hear not, neither
do they understand." (Matthew
13:13)
"Tom, you haven't asked David
tonight! I told you your father and I
had tickets for the theater."
"I thought you said David could
come to supper."
"Any evening except tonight.
Son."
"Sorry. Mum. I honestly didn't
hear you."
Although 1 was exasperated, I
knew Tom had not been delibe
rately disobedient. He had been so
full of his own plans that he had
been deaf to what 1 was saying.
How often we are so preoccupied
that we fail to hear our heavenly
Father when He speaks to us! We
talk of "saying our prayers" as if
the value of prayer lies in the
number of words we utter. Yet we
would not dream of talking nonstop
to an earthly friend without
listening to his or her reply.
God speaks to us in many ways:
through the beauty of nature, the
voice of conscience, the words of
people we meet, the books we read,
the opportunities He gives us every
day of doing good and practicing
patience and restraint.
Are we so busy finding good
reasons for doing what we want
that we miss God's gentle voice
asking us to do what He wants?
Members of Congress value the
opinions of the people from their
home states on issues that arise,
and generally, writing to your
Senator or Congressman will cause
him to consider your views before
making a judgment and casting a
vote. But sometimes, in their zeal,
constituents can try to ask too
much.
In a short time, a bill to allow
common situs picketing will be
before the Senate for debate and
then a vote. Briefly, this bill allows
any union working on a job -- even
a union made up of workers for a
subcontractor -- to strike the whole
job if they walk out.
This issue came up in the last
session of Congress and it passed
but was vetoed by President Ford,
even though he had promised the
labor unions he would sign it. 1
voted against it in the last session
and I plan to vote against it in this
session. I have stated this publicly,
both when I campaigned in 1974,
and since I have been in the Senate.
But that hasn't satisfied some
people.
Just a few days ago, a represen
tative of a national organization
called the Right to Work Com
mittee called my Washington office
and asked how I stood on the
common situs bill. A member of my
staff told him I opposed it. Then he
asked if I would commit to vote
with opponents of the bill on all
procedural votes and was told that 1
probably wouldn't because no one
could be sure what sort of
procedural votes will arise.
This apparently angered him and
we began to get an avalanche of
letters, and then there was an
advertisement in the Charlotte
paper saying. Senator Morgan
refused to commit himself, and we
got more mail. The my Raleigh
oftlce got a call saying that every
businessman in North Carolina
who supported and contributed to
my campaign would be asked to
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
bring pressure on me to support a
filibuster or any other procedurial
road block that opponents of the
bill could dream up.
There may be literally hundreds
of amendments and tactical
motions made before a vote is
taken, and 1 am just not willing to
give anybody a blanket com
mitment on how I'll vote on each
and every one.
Situations may arise, as they did
last year, when to vote for an
amendment may weaken the bill.
Senator Javits. a supporter of the
bill, offered an amendment to
exempt homes of three stories or
less where there was no elevator
and public buildings where the law
said contracts must be let
seperately. from common situs
picketing. I figured if the bill was
going to pass, and it did. that we
had better weaken it every way
possible, so 1 voted for that ?
amendment. Some who opposed
the bill voted against the
amendment, saying, "if it's going
to pass, let's ram the whole thing
down their throats." 1 just didn't
see it that way.
These high pressure campaigns
can backfire. Another Senator,
who is from a northern state where
opposition to the bill is less intense,
remarked the other other day that
because of the organized pressure
he might support the bill at this
session. Last time, he voted against
it.
I know how emotions can flare
when an issue such as this'comes
up. But the idea of being pressured
by every businessman who sup
ported me goes too far. Nobody has
bought me and the people know I
am not for sale. I'm against
common situs, but 1 am funda
mentally opposed to making com
mitments on votes when 1 don't
know what the votes will be. 1 really
don't think the people of North
Carolina would want me to follow
any other course.
CLIFFBLUE... |
People & Issues
APRIL 29 - 30 -- On Friday.
April 29 former Democratic mem
bers of the House and Senate along
with incumbent members will hold
their annual reunion in Raleigh at
the Velvet Cloak Motel. Former
House Speakers head the com
mittee for this reunion.
On the next evening, Saturday,
April 30, the annual Jefferson -
Jackson Day dinner will be held at
Dorton Arena at the State Fair
grounds in Raleigh. Tickets will be
S20 each instead of the $50 price -
tag heretofore asked. Vice Presi
dent Mondal will be the featured
speaker.
ETHICS ORDER -- Governor
Hunt's ethics order is coming under
heavy fire and criticism by Com
munity College and Technical
Institute Trustees. They point out
that only a third of the trustees are
appointed by the governor and that
only the third that he appoints
could come under his ethics order
that this would be unfair. The
trustees further argue that since
they serve without remureratiori
and are in no position to overly or
covertly exert undue influence on
the business affairs of the in
stitutions. the governor's order
should not apply.
SEPARATE CC BOARD? -
Chairman Dallas Herring of the
State Board of Education has
called attention to the fact that the
last time the community college
and technical institute trustees
voted on whether to seek a board
separate and apart from the State
Board of Education, the trustees
voted against the proposal which
took place in Winston ? Salem
about two years ago. The trustee
association will soon be meeting
again and the manner in which they
vote is expected to have con
siderable weight with how the
General Assembly looks upon the
proposal.
CALIFANO ?- With HEW Sec
retary Joseph A. Califano resorting
to hiring a SI 2,000 cook and a
$44,000 a year office aide and
bodyguard and approving discrim
ination in reverse, we wouldn't be
surprised to see him become the
first person to leave the Carter
cabinet.
CARTER SALARIES -- Speak
ing of White House salaries, the
Fayetteville Observer says: Presi
dent Carter has raised the salaries
of his top aides from $44,600 to
$56,000, presumably for a job well
done in the presidential campaign
since the success of the adminis
tration itself is still pretty much in
the air." Hetty salary raises like
this doesn't seem like statesman -
like leadership to curtail inflation.
However, we shouldn't be too
surprised for he approved the Ford
recommendation for hefty raises for
the Congressmen and U.S.
Senators.
Who was it who said: "What you
do speaks so loud we can't hear
what you say."
SIZING UP CARTER -- People
are still trying to size up Carter to
see which way he is heading. In
some ways he has pleased labor; in
other ways he has displeased
George Meany and other labor
bosses.
We have been interested in his
moves to make friends out of long -
standing foes like Castro in Cuba
and the government leadership in
Hanoi. We don't like Castro's
communistic ties but the ties may
be there because of the United
States ill - fated bay of pigs
expedition back in 1%1 when John
F. Kennedy was president. Frank
ly, we never thought we had any
more business in Vietnam than
Russia had in Cuba when Nikita
Khrushchev was attempting to set
up a fort of missies in Cuba in
l%2.
OBSERVATION -- We have
sometimes observed that in public
life a person who gives frugally of
his own is quite willing to vote
generous when it comes to govern
ment or tax-payers money.
JUDGES -- Speaking of the
proposal to abolish the election by
the people of all judges in North
Carolina, we heard an outstanding
state official say recently that it
might not be bad to put such a
proposal on the ballot as it might
help to carry down to defeat other
proposals which might be just as
objectionable but with more
appeal.
QUOTATION -- Who was it who
wrote?:
"Give us a man of God's own mold,
Born to marshal ? his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and
sold
at the stroke of a politician's pen."
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