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MRS. PAUL DICKSON
MARTY VEGA
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THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1^77
Economy on the up
There is no doubt '^e^rimute and adopting a
wringing of hands in the ptttc ougte ? ^ forecasting jj,., the
buoyancy in the air. b morc than SI trillion by
^^SiwWchlhouid dispel an, rock-bottom pessimism
if Economy hidices theseda^
the entire year is now exp^t below 7 percent for the
national unemployment rate has i Pj^umbcr of persons working
first time in more th*n y f 90 million. Inflation, still too high
has soared to a record high about 6 perCent annually. Real
for comfort, is nonetheless h J Wan Street stock market.
X year, the overseas
trend is also looking better. however, it is not a time for
fa^^i^S3rof,977,obe
problems still to be solved. Charl?bcnu ^ challenge in bnnging
dow^the' s^l? unT^eptably spurring another
513^ How^do thU no one is sure, especially when the
labor force is growing so dramaticaj^abie probiem of youth
Of particular concern is ,t industrial nations of the
unemployment, a concern s agenda at the recent summit
West. This issue was high on the^J ^ ^ (he subjKt of future
meeting in London and biJJness among young people runs as
frS'Ts'percen.'and, in sime cases, higher, a country is courting
social trouble and the United States
Still another worrisome set 0 tig ^ ^ run a trade deficit of
balance of trade. The na 1 because of its imports of oil. This
between $23 billion and growing and more and more
is troublesome because the import bill J ^ are earning
SSTLTS ?Ti SSfe-ARtt
Srer,ha?SOEXraor^ devrioping countnes which need .o
expand their exports to the ' America has to get
Hence there is no room ^^Tmust come to grips with
cracking on a serious enerBj p gt ^^^^^ .nflation gut insofar
PUb-liC--^^lhH .C??. TcHHs,^ Science Mom, or
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, June 26, 1952
The crowning of Miss Hoke
County of 1952 will take place at
the Armory tomorrow night, June
27th at nine o'clock.
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The Raeford Rebels, local semi -
pro baseball team entered the East
Carolina Textile League last week.
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From Poole's Medley:
1 have seen a wagon load of
melons in Aberdeen which weighed
80 to 90 pounds. A large water
melon is much sweeter than a small
one. Get one of each and see.
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The Post Office Department
announced Tuesday that it has
approved re-routing of the Greens
boro and Warsaw North Carolina
Highway Post Office route by way
of Carthage, Southern Pines,
Aberdeen and Raeford, effective
July 1.
? * *
Mrs. Walter Freeman, who
recently sold her home in
Aberdeen, where sbe had lived for *
number of years and who has come '
to Raeford to live, will move into
the Thomas house on West
Donaldson Avenue.
>
1 5 years ago
Thursday, Jane 28, 1962
The Hoke ABC Board an
nounced this week "a binding
verbal agreement" with realtor
Julian Wright for construction of a
liquor store on US 401 next to the
Tastee- Freeze.
? * *
Marvin J. Pinson, Jr. will take
over as Plant manager of the
Raeford Worsted Plant, succeeding
Sam Homewood on July 1.
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A first place award for the nation
was presented to The News-Journal
last Thursday night at a banquet
meeting of the Natural Editorial
Association held in Hershey, Pa.
* ? ?
Members of the Hoke Cattle
men's Association met at Tom
McBryde's pond for a supper
Tuesday night.
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At press time, the ABC Board
had agreed to meet with a
delegation of Raeford merchants,
but chairman K.A. MacDonald
said he cautioned the merchants
that agreement on the site of the
liquor More had already' been
reached with Julian Wright who
was buty getting the lot that is
involved in the deal.
'Nope, nothing in here except some money
by Marty Vega
Serious Treatment
This week's column was intended
to be a serious treatment of the
one-way street controversy. It was
intended to set forth the facts of the
matter and clearly show that the
city council has erred in its decision
to return Elwood Avenue to
two-way traffic.
Instead. I am now forcced to
chuck all of that presentation and
find myself obliged to explain why I
was observed making a right turn
off of Stewart St. onto E. Elwood
Avenue and proceeding the wrong
way on or about June 13 at about
8:25 p.m.
My accusers, who witnessed this
alleged breach of the law, were
milling about the corner of Stewart
St. and Central Ave., their at
tention fixed on the automobile
crash which had occurred moments
before at Edinborough Ave. and
Stewart St.
Accuser number one claims that
she recognized me and decided that
since I would have to pass by her on
my way from the accident scene,
she would wait where she was and
then hail me so she could find out
what the accident was all about.
But instead, she is prepared to
swear to the authorities, that the
car I was operating turned off the
wrong way on Elwood and
disappeared from view.
Now, there are a lot of very good
people here who could easily
become upset over this matter, so
let's put it to rest. Everybody makes
mistakes. Tis human to err.
And for the accusers who are
thinking it would fix her if a
"Seek the Lord while he may be
found, call upon him while he is
near." (Isaiah 55:6 RSV)
A newspaper reporter came to
interview me about my work as an
Army chaplain. His comments were
very perceptive and thoughtful. It
was apparent that he had seriously
considered many of the basic
questions of human existence and
of our relationship to God. At the
close of the interview, I asked him
about his own faith. With a rather
wistful smile, he replied, "I guess I
really don't have a religious faith.
Like a lot of other young people,
I'm just a seeker." Then he added
poignantly. "Maybe someday."
All of us are seekers. God made
us that way. Intellectually, we seek
answers to our basic questions
about life; but at a far deeper level
of being we week a relationship
with God our Creator. We may
never find answers to all our
questions; and so, in that sense, we
may always be seekers.
But our search for God can be
satisfied this very moment. He is as
near as the air we breathe. Indeed,
it is His spirit that draws us to Him.
When our lives are content in that
relationship; and we shall ex
perience the peace that passes all
understanding.
PRAYER: O God, our hungry
hearts and restless spirits are vivid
reminders that we are made for
You and apart from You we can
never have peace. Restore us. O
Lord, to a right relationship with
you. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY;
When we seek God, we find a
lifelong friend.
copyright- THE UPPER ROOM
"William R. Gentry (APO New
York)
policeman saw it and gave her a
ticket -- ha. The police were all
down where the accident was, or
dontcha think I thought of that
before 1 did it?
Some citizens are wondering
why the city council doesn't take up
the issue of massage parlors and get
in the act, too.
The answer is that it's not that
the councilmen aren't thinking
about it, it's just that they have a
lot of other important business to
take care of first. Besides, they
know that they can depend on the
planning board and zoning board
to keep any of that stuff out.
Members of those boards would
certainly disapprove of any such
business request, unless it was to be
conducted from a mobile home
office. If it's mobile homes, well,
that's fine. They might let you put
them in the middle of Main St. if
you asked real nicely.
As for the real business ahead for
the council, they are considering
annexation of Spring Lake and
Lumberton so they can get some of
the federal public works funds,
debating whether paint or wall
paper would be best in the new
council chambers, and are trying to
determine just why all their
meetings last way past 10 p.m. no
matter what business is before
them.
Philosopher
Dear editor:
According to an article 1 read in
a magazine last night because there
wasn't anything to watch except
re-runs, some experts have come
out with a theory on why people go
bad. They say it's something they
ate.
According to them child delin
quency, which leads to adult
delinquency, which leads to crime,
which leads to jail or would if the
cops could catch them and if the
courts would ever get around to
trying them and some lawyer didn't
get them off and if he doesn't and
they go to jail they weren't let out
soon to start robbing all over again
-? anyway, to get hold of this
sentence before it arm-wrestles me
to the ground, according to them
child delinquency is caused by
inadequate or improper diet. Kids
either don't get enough protein-rich
food or they eat too much junk
food.
In many cases this is probably
true, but the trouble with theories
is that if you keep reading you'll
run into something else that makes
you scratch your head.
For instance, when former Attor
ney General John Mitchell went to
prison the other day, the news
papers reported that he was the
25th member of the Watergate
group to be jailed.
This got me to thinking. What
did those 25 men eat when they
were kids?
Like the rest of the nation, I saw
all of them on television and they
all looked like they'd had a well-fed
childhood, and were all eating sood
at the time they were caught. Not a
one looked like he'd ever been
under-nourished.
. It's pretty hard for me to believe
you can blame Watergate on
sodawater and pot
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Puppy Creek
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
A few days ago, hearings were
held in Raleigh on the Rural
Housing Bill of 1977, which has
been introduced in the Senate by
Senator Hubert Humphrey and
others.
The Raleigh hearings were con
ducted by Senator Jake Gam of
Utah and me. He is the ranking
Republican member of the Rural
Housing Subcommittee and I am
its chairman.
A great deal of concern is
expressed by public officials, civic
leaders and the press about city
slums, and there ts no doubt that
housing in the inner cities is in
many cases deplorable and needs
the government s concern.
But little is said publicly about
the needs of rural housing, a
subject which has long been neg
lected by the Federal Government
and almost everyone else. Yet the
problem is very real and it is
national in scope.
Statistics generally are dull
things, but it is a fact that in rural
America one family in five uses an
outdoor privy. In a state that
adjoins North Carolina, one family
in three live under these primitive
conditions, and in some selected
counties, the rate is over 60
percent.
There are rural places where the
water is polluted, because of hu
man and industrial wastes that
have been dumped directly into
rivers and creeks.
This nationwide problem is one
that directly relates to North Caro
lina, where about one-half of our
people live outside urban areas.
The Humphrey bill would,
among other things, increase the
federal share of rural water and
sewer grants from 50 and 75
percent; broaden rural housing
loan and grant programs to include
the handicapped and establish a
new research program on rural
housing in the Department of
Agriculture.
There are some sections of the
bill, as it was introduced, that I
probably shall oppose because they
would be too costly, and with our
perennial deficits in the Federal
budget, I feel there is a limit to
what government should do.
However, if we can expand our
program of low interest loans,
working through the Famrers
Home Administration, to help
families in rural areas to obtain
decent housing, then I feel we
should act.
A very good argument can be ^
made that a healthy economy in the
United States depends to a great
extent on the health of the housing
industry, and building better*
homes in rural areas creates jobs
just as does construction in the
cities.
A better argument could be
made that it is simply the right ?
thing to do. Back in 1949, the
Federal government committed it
self to providing "a decent home
and a suitable living environment
for every American family." Cer
tainly, with one of five rural
families forced to use outside
privies, this goal has not been
reached, or even approached.
The proper agency to deal direct
ly with this situation is the Famers
Home Administration. 1 hope we
can come up with a final version of
a bill that will allow rural Ameri
cans to obtain decent housing with
a minimum of red tape; and at the
same time, keep the program
fiscally sound.
CLIFF BLUE .. . K
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People & Issues ~
JOHN INGRAM -- Against the
lobbyists and special interest group
Insurance Commissioner John
Ingram did not come out on the top
side. However, with the "voters
back home" John Ingram probably
stands the tallest and most secure
in his life. Two years ago when John
Ingram was seeking renomination
to his insurance post he had but
little money to campaign on but
"the people" made their way to the
polls in spite of a well - financed
and determined campaign to defeat
him to show their appreciation, and
he won renomination and re ?
election by commanding majori
ties.
We know that insurance com
panies must make a reasonable
profit to stay in business. We also
know that repairs to wrecked
automobiles oftentimes appear to
be unreasonable. However, it is up
to the insurance companies to see
that repairs to the wrecked auto
mobiles are reasonable and fair.
Most people are for the free
enterprise system and by the same
token they want to see the public
get a fair deal.
DRUG EXECUTIONS ? A
House committee in the Florida
legislature recently recommended
that prisoners condemned to death
be given a lethal drug injection
rather than burned to death in an
electric chair.
Some states -- at least one, shoot;
others hang and use the electric
chair. If capital punishment is to
resume in many states, certainly
painless drug injections are a more
humane method than hanging,
electrocuting or shooting.
WASHINGTON PENSIONS --
The high pensions which Con
gressmen, Senators and their as
sistants receive upon retirement
can only taste bitter to most of the
taxpayers back home. William
"Fishbait" Miller, 66, retired door
- keeper of the House of
Representatives get $37,000 a year.
He was a 42 - year employee, and,
as doorkeeper was paid S40.000 a
year. Retired former House
outnumber
lull wall
4fol.
t
Speaker Carl Albert gets an
estimated S48.500 a year. Former
U.S. Senator Hugh Scott gets an
estimated 541,500 a year, and the
list can go on and on in the Federal
government. Pensions for Federal
government employees appear to be
far more hefty and inviting than
retirements in the private business
field.
STATE LEGISLATIVE PAY --
The Laurinburg Exchange points
out an effort in the North Carolina
General Assembly for a quiet
"salary hike" by the honorables.
We quote from the Exchange:
"Before the final gavel falls on the
1977 term of the state's General
Assembly, the representatives and
senators are expected to go to the
public trough to get their share of
the spoils.
"That's the word out of Raleigh.
A little bill has been quietly
introduced about increasing sal
aries of our lawmakers. Despite the
mauling congressmen got for
sneaking through their last pay bill,
our legislators seem to prefer that
kind of approach. This bill calls for ?
lawmakers' salaries to automatical
ly go up every time there is a
blanket raise for other state
employees. ^
"Although North Carolina
legislators are part ? time
employees and their entire annual
compensation, including fringe
benefits, comes to nearly SI 2,000 a
year already, many of them want to
avoid putting themselves on the
spot periodically for personal
raises. They want full pay for part -
time work."
INSURANCE BILL -- If House ,
Bill 658 which would partially
"de-horn" John Ingram from pro
tecting the public from unwar
ranted increases in automobile 4
insurance is enacted by the General
Assembly you can expect many of
those who opposed the measure to
seek a letter from Ingram come
re-election time 1978. And en
forcements from the insurance
lobby will be of little help for those
who supported the measure.
Doubling up can
cut your commut
ing expenses in
half as well as
saving our Nation's
energy. It can also
make that dally
drive twice as nice.