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? <=Yl**06- Spurned. StT^H UBTADtMC a^S nana ~r 1976 Qmo&kcl PRESS ASSOCIATION NiWJiiil Ewij Tbarwfajr at Raeford, N.C. 28376 1 19 W. Ehrood At Subscription Rale* la Advance hrYwi- $8.00 6 Months ? $4.25 3 Month* ? $2.25 PAUl DICKSON ............ ... ; . .. ...: . ..... . . ... . ... SAMC. MOKKIS . , .... . . . . . , ... .v. < v MIIS. PAUL DICKSON . MARTY VEGA ;?/?.?> .:-.v ? - - , ? SUZANNE APUN y. Second Clan Postage at Racford, N.C. Pubfeber Editor General Manager - InjlKlw ? ... Reporter THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1977 Hello, g?8olin? ,ta*flieheadli?KoU,o{,he -Gasoline tax'' is the Phme tha^w^^ forthcoming energy stories about ^^.f^Jhangs together will be the most program. How the whole package na g> ? ^ ^ urgcncy and important criterion. But ^ * program drafts carefully note approach. Reports of to JWrt ener^ official announcement nex that chancre std pos ^ ^ ^ ^ balloon even a ?h?s late date, we hope it is not ^dow^ ^ to indicate For a gas tax is one of the few ^m enough so that something to the public that oil is ru"nlp^uCtion as well as conservation has really has to no foreseeable production gams will to be encouraged, of course. which, in effect, are also the offset the need for consum^ioncu Saudi Arabia and other cheapest form of extra prod ^ Sutes needs beyond 1982, if producers will not meet checked, according to Saudi current growth in consumption is not cnec Arabia's oil minister Shw^ *?jj^erican ways of life. work, and Nevertheless ? unless and un energy picture ? many commuting are altered to cars Mass transit is not available ksstsss. ?? ? " SSSSS sr.' SMSS the government has to and to use them in behalf of to return the revenues to theec * # of recycling have not yet creating more energy . Apparently t doubtless be teen settled o^^^S^ch the administration involved. The skill and ser^itmty wi effect on the works out these problems will nave acceptability of a gas-tax plan. ^ ^ ^ ^ order to deter Experts disagree on how mucg^ ^ he mtend?i an waste. Last month Mr. ^ reported plan calls for " a increase Of 25 cents a jajoj Now ts re^ ^ present prices this "standby increase of up to 50 ' * than many dnvers would still leave Americans paying less per g overseas. at least be a reminder to conserve. But the Carter increases would at leas_ ^ ^ ekme?,s ,r> And they place the burden ever has to violate his pledge the Carter package - as to whMIw ^ be imposed ,f targets against a 25-cent tax. F g h percentage point of of controlled consumption are met. five.cent tax increase. n,"^^ irlS: ? experience imposed? That would nudging will be necessary. For this SfiSftVE 'he firs, date now heing tnentioned. January. 1979. . story The smashing of The political problems are a wh ^ a Wnt But the Ford the gas tax in the new President himself taking White House also opposed it. With t ^ to depletlon) ^1' ^'aVbe a^h.ing0'chanceP -C^nan Science Monitor Browsing in the files of The New?-Joornal 25 years ago Thursday, April 17, 1952 Two hundred and thirty - eight Home Demonstration Club women and visitors attended the Annua! 16th District Federation meeting which was held at the Raeford Methodist Church on Wednesday. ? ? ? A new market for North Carolina turkeys has been assured through the organization of Turkalina Farms, incorporated, which plans to operate a turkey processing freezing plant in Raeford. From Rockfish News: The picture was not shown at Rockfun Monday night as it was announced because nobody came. ? ? ? The Mildouson PTA win serve a chicken and rice stew supper Thursday night at Mildouson for the public. ? ? ? From Poolels Medley: The papers give some space to tbf o^oon. and star*, ? ?? >. and that they may be peopled, and some time we may be able to visit some of these planets. Foolish creatures. * *. * Sjft. Marvin J. Wood, the new National Guard instructor for the 130th AAA Battalion, has arrived in Raeford to begin his duties. 1 5 years ago Thursday, April 19, 1962 Teacher Marion Gatlin never saw a pink elephant but last week he saw a peacock casually preening on the ledge of the second (loot archway At Raeford Elementary School. ? * ? Two young men paid their filing fees on Thursday and Friday to run for Sheriff, following Dave Hod gin's withdrawal announcement. The two new entrants in the nee are Dave Barrington, who resigned his deputy's poet to run, and lumberman Bill Clark. ? ? ? A new launderette is coming to tow* And- will. Open - soon,/- . on Oakwood- Ate. near Hoke Oil k -by Marty Vega Read With Disgust In this newspaper you will find a story concerning the old Maultsby house downtown. You will note in this story that the controversy over this house has reached the stage that city officials, including the honorable Mayor, are now being called disgusting for their conduct. An observation was made by our friend J. H. Blue Jr., who isn't often wrong, that bears repeating. The officials are certainly disgusting, to be sure, but for a variety of reasons. But some good, constructive discussion has come of all this unpleasant business and some keen minds have hit on the perfect solution. Don't tear the old place down and have the city lose that valuable tax base. The facility could easily be converted into an active business. Like a massage parlor. Since the city code evidently doesn't bar the use of neon signs, the massage parlor could be so equipped so as to draw in business from 401 business. The only disagreement during this discussion was whether the signs would be flashing on and off or stay on all the time. This will be decided the democratic way, by votes. Maybe. The massage parlor would, of course, want to become a member of the Chamber of Commerce right away, and the Chamber, of course, would welcome any new business heartily. Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: Of all the things 1 don't under stand. one of the uppermost is Foreign Policy. For example, recently Secretary of State Vance went to Moscow for a talk with Russian leaders and the meeting was termed a failure because Russia wouldn't agree to his proposals. Had she agreed, the meeting would have been hailed as a success, when everybody, especi ally Russia, knows Russia will keep an agreement with one country just as long as a better agreement with another one doesn't come along. 1 estimate that in the past 25 years at least 500 agreements between nations of the world have been signed, and 499 broken. The one that wasn't broken got lost in the files somewhere and nobody could remember what it was. Foreign policy is like the tail fins Detroit used to put on cars. Nobody knew what they were for but everybody had to have some on his car. Foreign policy is like fashions in clothes. What's in this year will be out next year, but what country wants to be out of style? Most of the time, it looks to me. our foreign policy consists of signing an agreement on top of a table and passing money under it. When the money stops, the agree ment is canceled. I got to thinking. What would happen if all the countries of the world got together and agreed to abolish all foreign policies? Just do away with the things, on the grounds their cost-benefit ratio is out of line, they cost more than they gain. Some people will argue it won't work, it'd leave the world's coun tries quarreling and snarling and ready to grab each other by the throat, with every nation arming itself to the teeth. We couldn't have that. ? . . ? Yours faithfully. In the meantime, volunteers are needed this Saturday for the Fix-up Festival to plant flowers and shrubs around the house. Discrimination It has been reliably reported from several sources that a well known Raeford grocery store with the initials HFM is engaging in discriminatory practices against one class of shoppers. It has been said that if a Northern lady goes in and asks for V-8 juice, she is told 'we don't sell gasoline, lady'. Can you believe the crust of that? This Is The Law By Robert E. Lee Sponsored by The Lawyer* of 1 1 North Carolina i Cora's parents deeded property to her with the following provision: "It is understood and agreed between all parties herein that if the said Cora G. Jones marries, this property reverts back to the grant ors. their heirs and assigns." When Cora subsequently married, did she cease to be the sole and absolute owner of the property? No. The policy of the law is to encourage marriages. It frowns upon provisions in contracts and conveyances in general restraint of marriage. In a case before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, the court said, "It is the principle very generally recognized here and else where that, when an estate has been definitely conveyed to anoth er, a condition subsequent, in general restraint of marriage, will, as a rule, be disregarded." However, restraints against re marriage by widows and widowers are a well-established exception to the general rule, and a person who receives property from a spouse can lose the property should he or she violate the provisions of a will by remarrying. Letters T o The Editor Reader* are reminded that Letter* to the Editor mast be signed. Unsigned letters will not be considered for publica tion. Readers may request that names be withheld. Names wiD be withheld when an Individ ual's personal circumstances deem It neceeaary. Dear Sirs: The following is a letter to the Editor: "There are a number of things that bother me about the dismissal of Allen Edwards as our High School principal. I feel that: 1) the reasons given for dismissal do not seem to be serious enough to warrant this degree of punishment and its accompanying humiliation and career ? damaging effects. 2) such a serious decision should have been deferred (after the 5 '/> hour executive session rather than arriving at it at 1:30 A.M.) because of possible mental fatigue. i) there should be solutions to personality conflict short of dis missal. I think it would be appropriate for the Board of Education to take the following action*: Report To The People by Senator Robert Morgan considers that 10 percent of the government work force is lost each year by retirement or by the departure of employees to the private sector. The- President says he plans to Involve as manv people as possible in this effort. A Reorganization Advisory Group will be established and it wiH try to gefr -''rCBVi^kMsi'' government units, ind (he public to participate or at {east be. aware >f what steps are pTppoMd to bring government un der pHtcr cdntrol. . One approach that President Cartel- sajcs hewflltak? <nay give his program a better chapcfc to success than the efforts of those who preceded him in office. He plans to start his study of each agency, not at the top, but down where the programs and the people meet. This, after all, is where an agency fails or succeeds. Too many reorganization tries in< the past have ended with reorgani zation on paper, achieved by shuffling a few jobs at the top. Some of this probably needs doing, but the real test is down at the level where the citizen and the agency become involved with each other. 1 feel it is a task that the nation wants him to succeed in, because 1 feel that the great majority of our people feel that the Federal Gov ernment needs to be cut back to some reasonable size. It is certainly a task that he is going to need help in doing if he is to succeed, and much of that help must come from the Congress. There's no doubt that the people want him to succeed. The Congress hu passed, and the President has signed, the Government Reorganization Bill, which is designed to cut some of the waste in the Executive Branch, . I voted for this and hope that it will do whait it is planned to do. Put simply, the bm gives the President the right ot take such measures as he deans necessary to streamline the government unless one of the Houses of Congress objects to ? : recomraendation within sixty days after it is presented. ;x President Carter not the first chief executive to ftaye the po*er to reorganize the federal bureaucracy. Presidents Kennedy* Johnson , Ntx on and Ford all had relatively the same power that has now been fiven President Carter by Congress, iut none of the others campaigned, as did Mr. Carter, on a platform of cutting down unneeded agencies and none made this one of his top goals. Realizing that he needs a strong institutional base from which to work on the reorganization, the President has indicated he will place much of the responsibility in the Office of Management and Budget (OBM) which is headed by his Georgia friend, Bert Lance. The administration says this will pro vide a natural link between the budget and organizational chang es, and will provide the nucleus of a staff to start the work. The President has promised that there will be no career employees who will lose their jobs or surfer pay cuts because of this program. That seems to weaken the effort until one CUFF BLUE ? . . People & Issues ROY H. PARK. ..Roy H. Park is a native of Surry County, who for years has made his home in Ithaca. New York, still has "tar on his heels" and keeps fully abreast of the business and political life in North Carolina. 1 first met Roy Park several years ago when he served as chairman of the Public Relations Committee at State University, of which I was a member. Passing through Aberdeen a few days ago Roy dropped in for a chat. A graduate of North Carolina State College back in the "depression" days, Roy became editor, advertis ing and publicity manager for the North Carolina Cotton Growers Association in which capacity he served for 1 1 years. Next he took over the advertising and PR department of GLF -- a farmers' cooperative known as "Agway" in Ithaca. N.Y. "My mistake was getting into political advertising." said Mr. Park who handled the advertising for the ill-fated presidential campaign of Tom Dewey in 1948, who it will be remembered was defeated by Harry Truman. Park soon started franchising top quality foods under rigid controls approved by Duncan Hines which proved to be a big success. In recent years Park has added an additional line to his business enterprises -- the new media. From 1962 to 1972 Park built broadcast operations, both TV and radio, and also acquired his first ? advertising plant in 1963. He now owns, individually, seven TV sta tions and 13 radio stations. He has a TV station and two radio stations in Greenville, North Carolina. He owns a TV station in Alabama, two in Tennessee, two in Virginia, one in New York, and in the last four years has bought up 21 newspapers in six states. Since moving into the "fourth estate" field his newspapers in 1976 received 55 awards for excellence, they being located in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Nebraska, New York and Virginia. . Roy Park, while living in New York, owns some 2,000 acres of land in eastern North Carolina and keeps a keen eye on what's going on in his native North Carolina where he is a frequent visitor. RECALL BILL.. A "Recall Bill introduced by Rep. David Bum gardner and co-sponsored by Reps. John Gamble of Lincoln and E. Graham Bell of Gaston, probably may not get far in this General Assembly, but has the earmarks of being a genuine "people's bill." The Bumgardner-Gamble-Bell "Recall Bill" would establish a system whereby people would be able to vote out all levels of officials from local to governor. The bill i would require a petition of 25 percent of the number who voted for governor in the preceeding election before a recall election could be slated. Rep. Bumbardner recalled that North Carolina was one of only 10 states in the union without a recall provision. The bill, if enacted into law, > would probably be used very little but it would be a reminder to some of those who occasionally are "cocky and irresponsible" after election that they could be brought to the bar of justice before the people without having to wait two or three years before re-election time/ We would hardly consider it - "must" legislation, but we believe it should nave due consideration and not be swept 'under the rug of the constitutional committee to which it has been assigned. The people could vote on the matter since it would be a constitu- ^ tional amendment at the same time^ that gubernatorial succession is ' voted on. GENE BOST.. .Former N.C.* House Speaker Eugene T. Bost, Jr.* who died last week was an able and outstanding member of the General Assembly for 20 years ( 1 937-1957; > A solid conservative, he had great influence, serving as chairman off the House Finance Committee and a member of the Advisory Budget Commission as wtfll as House' :Sp?akerdunn| 19$3-$4. 1) set aside the decision for dismissal. 2) review the facts and determine a more appropriate course of action. 3) advise and direct those involved in the personality conflict to arrive at a workable solution to this problem. This letter is not intended as an attack on the Board or Super intendent who have served Hoke County so well in the past. It is merely intended to say that none of us are infallible and that it is conceivable that there has been an injustice committed. Richard Coker" My name is Billy Charles and I'm 13 years of age. I've been in Stonewall Jackson School for two months now, and I enjoyed some of it, and I also had tome bad times, too. You know, training school isn't all that bad. I mean they feed you, they put clothes on your back when you need them. They send you to school so you can learn how to get a job. They have recreation so you can have some fun. When ru get here, don't run, all h will do make you stay here longer. Well, all I can say is I did the crime to I'll pay the time. Well, good luck. Yours truly, Billy Charles
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