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<ryieiod - journal NATIONAL NEWSPAPER vmm ri?w imi rST"H m Omd&ici PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Ever; Thursday at Raeford, N.C. 28376 119 W. Kl?ood Avenue Subscription Rale* In Advance Per Year ? V8.00 6 Months ? S4.2S 3 Months ? S2.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher ? Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor MARTY VEGA Reporter SUZANNE APLIN ? Reporter Second Class Postage at Raeford, N.C. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1977 Should generals speak out? ^^^eK^^A^ng^n^v^ra^ut^gen^ral^pu^icly^d^agreeirigJ*^ the President about some dip questions, from ?"h th< -~ment of new President detenntned to play by the President could nothing short of a tou8jj.a" ' P thority as he undertakes a whole seTeTof^'re^^that will challenge the assumptions and b^'^here^no'such'thing as ^TC^f^c^w^r^^^g^^hrough'which politics and not in dlpl?^: the choice, sometimes even the they may pass their views and the ^ ^ ^ bad enQUgh when the duty, to resign for the ng P? insults other governments or chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff msulteom^^ ^ ^ ^ degrades his office with offens v i]n;ted States need repeated worfs of an ambassador to the United clarification. But direct ch 8* Jhe -e Qf democracy, and military policy is simply un p officiais accountable, is ltn?n"eracy. and above all in the military. - THe New York Times Ford's faith Whatever happened to " tew theology, or nontheology. If full of obituaries accOTdmg to thi false concept of anything was dead. bo?ev? < it was not o , , of Go(J ? relUnceo^Him Sf U7 ?? - top of government in the U^r. Carter has .eft he proclaimed as a camP*Ig"f reliBi0us headlines, has told of how has not made the same kind of f rehg ??? House he relied on God during h^ stay in th commencement exercises at The occasion was appropriate Hamilton, Massachusetts, Gordon-Conwell Faced with the burden of where son Michael Ford rec Mf Ford ?turned to the Book of the presidency in a time of . ?? He found those sustaining Proverbs, in the Bible Mike gave m heart...in all thy ways words: "Trust in the ^ wi^l th?ne he a ^ ^ m acknowledge him and he shall < ^ * *P life further deepened his and the assassination attempts on nis o faith, said Mr. Ford. reliance on God contributes to a Whether headlined or not. sue _ Christian Science strengthening of the nation and the world. Monitor Browsing in the files of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday. June 5. 1952 After the Raeford Tigers had opened the Little League season here the week before by winning their first home game over the Aberdeen Cubs the Raeford Ind ians went to Aberdeen on Wednes day of last week and were beaten 7 - 3 by the Aberdeen Cardinals so that each town had a home team victory in the opening game. * * * From Poole's Medley: When 1 think of the logrollings on Drowning Creek 1 think of the waste of fine heart pine timber piled up and burned. Some of those pines were several feet through. Joyce Conoly has accepted a position with the Bank of Raeford and began liei duties there this week. * * * Alton "Buddy" McGirt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edison McGirt of Raeford, was one of four injured, one fatally, in an auto accident near Luderwick, Ga. ? ? ? Ben Hurly, local representative for Carolina^ Power and Light, announced this week that the new collection agency for the company in Raeford is Webb's Radio Service. 1 5 years ago Thursday, June 7, 1962 Selected unanimously to a 3 year term as chairman of the Hoke ABC Board was retired school admini strator K.A. MacDonald. ? ? * Tom McLauchlin, 58. died early Tuesday morning at Moore County Memorial Hospital from a rare blood disease, cause unknown. * * * The brother of Miss Ila Graham, Hudson Graham, formerly of this county, was recently nominated for Sheriff in Surry County. * * * Raeford's Bill McPhaul received two trophies at graduation exercis es held last weekend at the Castle Heights Military Academy in Le banon. Tenn. * * ? The Womanless Wedding at Rockfish School auditorium May 25 might be called a howling success as the bride's mother and the baby involved occasionally gave audible vent to their grief and there was much laughter and applause. ? * * Preibe Poultry in Raeford is officially closed. Take a letter to Jimmy Carter Cuban- American DESK ?MRS I Tt? Christian Scwnca Moo '>* ? by Marty Vega Important Omission Suggestion was made recently that the Parks and Recreation Commission omitted an important item in their proposed budget for 1977-78. Since this column makes every effort to report news that might go unnoticed if it was in some inconspicuous space in the newspaper, it is a good idea to review this important matter here. The Parks and Recreation Com mission submitted their modest, "no frills" S105.000 budget to the county some weeks ago. Funny, but for some reason, when the overall county budget was made up, there wasn't $105,000 in it for recreation. Yet this omission is not the issue. What the issue is, and maybe it's not too late to fix it, is that the Parks and Recreation Commission should have budgeted a position for a full-time cartographer, say at an annual salary of $15,000 or so. Or heck, make it $20,000. You don't want a second-rate cartographer. Now, when this suggestion was made around some places, some people disagreed vehemently. Some said the Commission didn't need somebody to work on cars since they didn't have any cars. Others said they didn't need a photo grapher to take pictures of cars. Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: There's an argument going on in Congress on whether mail delivery on Saturdays should be eliminated. The Postal Service says it could save S400 million a year by eliminating Saturday deliveries. A prominent Senator favors it. asking "Why do we need six-day delivery? Mail 1 get on Saturday could very well wait until Monday." This opens up some far-ranging possibilities. If you can wait till Monday to get Saturday's mail, why can't you wait till Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday? Or one day next week? Or next month? If the Postal Service can save 400 million dollars by eliminating Sat urday delivery, it could save six times that, or 52,400,000,000 by eliminating the whole week. This would sure throw a kink in mail service, but there are some who claim it wouldn't be noticed. By eliminating all mail delivery, the Postal Service could thus save about two and a half billion dollars a year. That's just a start in a national economy drive. For exam ple. it now costs about a billion dollars a year to operate Congress. You get the drift. Or take the courts. The court system in this country has never shown a profit. Neither has the highway system. I don't know of a single public school that's done it. Raising kids is one of the least profitable businesses there is. Show me a penitentiary that's paying its way. Everybody knows that big cities are one of the worst invest ments a mass of people can make. You ever hear of a weather bureau showing a profit? A public park? Without generous tax support, how many county governments could stay in business? Or state govern ments? By eliminating Saturday mail delivery and setting the domino theory of economy in action, this country could get out of debt in no time. Yours faithfully, J. A. they could get free brochures from the dealers with all the pictures of cars they wanted. But others did see merit in the plan. These others were the people who saw the map in the N-J last week of the proposed Walk-a-thon route and said 'Huh?' Then they got out their spectacles and put them on and repeated 'Huh?'. As maps go, this one had to be one of the all-time great losers. (Even for people who are not too picky about their maps). But with a full-time cartographer on its staff, the Commission needn't have to worry about sorry-looking maps anymore. They wouldn't have to look hard, either, to find one. Raeford already boasts a professional cartographer, Robert Gatlin, who is rumored to work for next to nothing. But that is not necessarily an indication of the quality of his cartographic efforts, it's just an indication of Gatlin. * * ? County commissioners, already overburdened with a host of messy problems, have a new one to contend with. The clock in the meeting room stopped cold last week, and as of this week, it has not been repaired yet. What caused the clock to stop has not yet been determined. Several theories have been offered. The important thing is to get the clock, and the commissioners, moving again. So let's open up our pocketbooks and start a fund to pay for more batteries for the clock. Read James 2:18-26 "Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working still, and I am working." " (John 5:17 RSV) 1 have noticed that the spare tire in the trunk of my car seems to lose its pressure sooner than those that are in constant contact with the road. Herein is a parable. We need to be in tension with life if we are to maintain the spiritual vigor that God intended. The divine im perative is voiced by Jesus in the words: "My Father is working still, and 1 am working." Faith requires the discipline of work, and preoccupation with my own affairs is not the answer. There is a world out there that requires my participation. I must be ready when 1 am most needed. To serve God through my labors, whatever my talents or capabilities, is to prove my faith and to continue strong in the ability to meet life's tests. PRAYER: O God, challenge me with opportunity and invigorate me with purpose to demonstrate my faith by the works I am able to perform for Thee. I ask in the spirit of Jesus Christ. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: "Faith without works is dead." copyright- THE UPPER ROOM -Charles Philip Harder (Hacketts town. N.J.) Two meetings in June have been arranged to give North Carolinians a chance to get closer to their Federal Government. Both will be held in Raleigh and indications are that many citizens will participate in one or the other. The first is a hearing on Rural Housing which will be conducted by Senator Jake Garn (R-Utah) and me, on June 20, in the Century Post Office's Old Federal Courtroom. This hearing will start at 10:00 a.m. The second meeting will be a conference for North Carolina businessmen to acquaint them selves about the opportunities of doing business with the government and ways to secure foreign trade contracts. This will be an all-day meeting on June 24 at the Royal Villa Convention Center. The response of persons wishing to attend tne latter session has been very gratifying. Several government agencies who deal directly with private industry will send representatives to the second meeting. These are people who buy for the United States Government, which is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world. It is a fact, however, that too many businessmen lack the knowledge of how to do business with their government and miss out on sales opportunities. This conference will be an effort to provide those who attend with the information they need on how to compete for government busi ness. The Department of Defense, which will be represented, esti mates that it would take a small businessman several months to get the procurement information that will be available at the June 24th meeting. Both military and civilian agency representatives will have with them lists of goods and services they Report To The People . by Senator Robert Morgan require and it is highly probable that some state companies will find government needs that they can fill. This conference will start at 8:00 a.m. with registration and will continue until mid-afternoon. The hearing on June 20 in the Old Federal Courtroom will be to get views on the Rural Housing Act of 1977, which would broaden the Farmers Home Administration's programs to assist persons needing homes in non-urban areas. At the start of this Congressional session, I was appointed chairman of the subcommittee on Rural Housing and Senator Garn is the ranking minority member. This is one of several field hearings planned in the country and they will culminate in two days of hearings in Washington in July. Senator Humphrey has introduc ed the Rural Housing Bill which i will be considered. It would, among other things, increase grants for water and sewerage; extend the program to include the handicap ped and develop research capacities on housing to allow the Farmers Home Administration to deal with changing housing needs in rural areas. Expected to appear and com ment are persons from the home building industry, lending institu tions. and from the rural sections where housing needs are being experienced. We expect to take the testimony from this and other hearings into account when recommendations on the proposed legislation are made by the Committee on Banking. Housing and IJrban Development. It is my fervent wish that both of these meetings will be well attended and will result in some benefit to our state and nation. CLIFF BLUE... People & Issues 4 EMPLOYMENT -- We seriously doubt that the "real" unem ployment is as high as the Federal government indicates, even though the last report had inched down from seven percent to 6.9 percent. Lots of jobs are available and go unfilled because people have grown quite selective in the type of work they want to do which is certainly understanding. It seems that too many people prefer to draw unemployment pay as long as possible rather than take a second choice job. Why would it not be well instead of providing unemployment pay to provide government work of some nature, with the pay being the same as unemployment pav for three days a week, leaving two days for the person to hunt a job on his or her own tiem. It appears that many people had rather "draw" than work as long as Uncle Sam will sign the check. GOOD RESPONSE -- We had a good response from our suggestion in last week's column that prisoners be put back to work, on the roads or elsewhere, unless they are unable to work due to physical impair ment. If their cooperation and demeanor is good, consider parole after one ? fourth time served; but if they refuse to work and cooperate, prohibit parole and let them serve the full sentence. Idleness is said to be the devil's workshop, but if they do a day's work they will be more responsive to rules and regulations towards building a better posture for return to civilian life. Give them a small allowance if they work and co operate, but nothing if they fail to do so. JOHN WINTER ~ We applaud the selection of State Senator John Winter, the black legislator from Raleigh for having decided to give up his seat in the General Assembly for membership on the N.C. Utilities Commission. We agree with The Carolinian when it says: "Because of his consumer ? ori ented background, Winter will bring to the Utilities Commission a consumer point of view that has been so sadly lacking." I DC coo OR L05E 11 ? AGREE -- North Carolina's two United States Senators, Jesse Helms and Robert Morgan predict an arms escalation in Japan if President Carter's proposal is put into effect and U.S. troops are withdrawn from South Korea. HELMS ? Seantor Helms con tinues to build bipartisan support over the state. On Saturday, June 18 Helms will be the featured speaker at a reception and dinner at Pinecrest High School in Moore County sponsored by the North Carolina Congressional Club which is made largely of conservatives of both political parties. Talk among the politicos is growing that Helms will be a hard man to defeat come election time 1978. INCREASES ** County com missioners and municipal govern mental units are being asked for "hefty" increases in appropriations * for most every facet of government. If all the increases were granted we suspect we would soon see a lot of new faces on boards of county * commissioners and municipal units of government. In many areas county and municial units of government are growing, percen tage - wise, probably faster than the Federal bureaucracy in Wash ington . GEARED TO ECONOMY -? The late House Speaker Eugene Bost of Concord used to say, North Carolina government and the taxation structure is geared to the economy. If business is good, we have more tax funds to pay for services needed. If business and the economy is sluggish, then the people who make up the govern ment should bear its portion of the burden with less revenue to do with. It is human nature for people to want more in public service than they are willing to pay for. This is what brought on our huge national debt for future generations to face 4 up with. In times of general prosperity like we have toiday it looks like mighty poor statesmanship for our leaders to continue to pile up huge ? deficits for the young generation to face up to. While in general we feel Presi dent Carter is making a strong president, for him to put off balancing the budget until 1981 does not have the ear - marks of ? strong Fiscal statesman that many people are looking for.
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