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Vic <Ylew>6 - journal WftTIOWAL WEWSPAPgH 0Mo?ma\ PRESS ASSOCIATION FublUbed E??j Thursday at Raaford, N.C. 2S376 119 W. Etwaod Avenue Subscription Rata* In Advance PwYmt-M.OO 6 Month* ? $4.25 3 Month. - $2.25 PAUL DICKSON Publisher ? Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager SocWtj Editor Reporter MRS. PAUL DICKSON MARTY VEGA SUZANNE APUN . Reporter Second Clais Postage at Raeford, N.C. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1977 Congressional stonewall The United States Congress1^ not ^^gi!tingwrongdoing in its best of circumstances. But ^hen t ^ surpnsing midst its deUberattons slow to a?^ alleged South Korean that the House ethics committee^ * ewalUng its delicate task, influence buying gives era, a post-Watergate era in But this was supposed to be zealously pursued and which high ethical standards were House mmmMK charges of "cover-up avoided Why ? ^ on)y se<en times su dragging out its Prob?; * HoUse warn that less than three ?*>??. ? ?? ma)ot findings will be disclosed thls who are concerned. Philip It is not only the y?"ng5r^ Watergate counsel who is i now Lacovara, the respected forme rep0rtedly is also highly serving the House rthlcs fth investigation. According to the New disturbed by the slow pace of themvest g memorandum to the York Times, Mr. Lacovara has wr^ena sttongm ^ Jf for his committee members ndum is said to complain that an ^trtot?d^eT??taon, havc <*e? deUyed. e#jbtBiiilI1B1, U.S. foreign policy. Far more c?^entertainment, and honorary in re^V^^XnearUerfhought. The New York rrTle^ftlS la^nakers. among them many figures prominence, accepted something . It is not yet clear how The public should not jump to r :t perhaps most of it, much of this might have f f e of ,t. P?*P ^ was not. But until and ""^zeal and determination than it has investigates the ? findings, the suspicion will remain shown to date and prod up is in the making and that a strong that a Democrat c cove p lawmakers are guilty of shockingly high number of Amenc^^ at the lcast. corruption at the mos Generai Griffin Bell's statement We are reassured by Attorney deoartment's investigation of that he will tolerate no cover-upin P machinery of the Justice the scandals. But we won^ ..a,inc expeditiously with the case, if Department is adequate to deahng pert ^ Ucated The Justice indeed more than ^ ^f^ng time. Unless Mr. Bell can assure probe has been going on for a long tim ^ may be npe t0 the public that it will be co^^d"itor to do the job. consider appointment of a specia p ?christian Science Monitor Browsing in the of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday, July 17. 1952 Mary Sue Upchurch, better known as "Miss Hoke County," will depart for Winston - Salem Thursday, July 24 to participate in the Miss North Carolina Beauty Pageant. ? ? ? Earl Huggins, 29, graduate of Newberry College, Newberry, S.C. has been signed as the coach to fill the vacancy left by Haywood Faircloth who recently resigned to go into business, according to W.T.Gibson, Jr., principal of Hoke County High School. * * * The number one spot in the Eastern Carolina Textile League was at stake last night as the Raeford Rebels journeyed to McColl to play their seventh game of the league season. ? * * From Poole's Medley: It has grown into a custom for a retired governor to run for the United States Senate. I do not know how being governor qualified a man for the Senate, but it seems to work on his lawmaking quali fications. * * * From Rockfish News: The tobacco curing season is on now so there is no time for loafing at Rockfish. The nail kegs are ail deserted. 1 5 years ago Thursday, July 19, 1962 A savage hail storm battered sections of Allendale and Blue Springs townships Monday after noon, causing an estimated S200.000 worth of damage. * ? ? The Raeford - Hoke Chamber of Commerce has a new manager. He is R.B. Stone, who was on the job Monday morning bright and early attempting to apply his profes sional knowledge to a host of local business problems. * * * A native of Raeford. now living in Laurinburg, Herb McKeithan, Jr. has opened the new Family Pharmacy there. ? ? ? James T. Peek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Peek of Raeford. has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. ? * ? Scouts from Raeford Troop 403 went off to Camp Tom Upcnurch last week, and on Wednesday held an Aquatic Day with parents and friends visiting. * ? * Services were held Tuesday after noon at Antioch Presbyterian for William James McBryde. who passed away Sunday at Scotland County Memorial at the age of 80. Oh, wow.Loofcie wKe.IW mwntvaKmb TUAT CAH Kiu. PCMBC PBOPLE IMAM TMC Heimaot Bows !! Amazing... Guess MMT ? I'vB FINALLY >Mv?MTEC> A BOMB TVUrr CAN'T KILL ANVTMIN6 ff by Marty Vtga Food For Thought J The new school lunch program for the senior high students an nounced last week by the Board of Education may have some parents puzzled. After all, most parents of adolescents are worrying about the almost-steady diet of cheeseburg ers, fries and milk shakes that their teenagers consume, believing that their offspring are surely ruining their bodies and their future health by downing vast amounts of "junk food." So, now, the school board has seemingly put its stamp of approval on all this and has decided to make these tantalizing foods available in the lunchroom. Although it sounds a bit radical, actually, the real^plan is that it will be a savings to the taxpayers. Although the regular school lunch will now be free to everyone who wants it, the educators are betting that more students will forget their acne and happily munch away on cheeseburgers, washed down with a triple-thick, frosty shake. But in case this doesn't happen, the schools have another plan. In order to generate sales at the fast-food counter, the school board has bought up (at a very shrewd price) a substantial stock of McDonald's drinking glasses (which were drastically marked down) which they will offer for a special, grand-opening promotion celebration price of -- well, we'll learn that later. And when those run out, the board members are going to introduce another fabulous, color ful glass collection that everyone will want to grab up: A special, limited edition of cartoon glasses Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: Right after Watergate when most of the culprits had been tried and convicted, newspaper pundits be gan writing about the post-Water gate morality, how the lessons of that big scandal would slow down law-breaking in high places, would frighten the short-cutters into towing the mark, for a while at least. Most big-city columnists seem to know more about typewriters than human nature. Skullduggery kept right on going. Witness the news about the rip-off of millions of dollars from the Small Business Administration by people who elected janitors as presidents of their company in order to qualify their firms as minority-run outfits. Or how about all those Congress men who're now checking their records and admitting that, by-the way, they did get some of that South Korean money? It looks like Watergate had as much effect on morality as hanging pickpockets in England a hundred years ago had on other pickpockets still on the loose. The pickpockets discovered that the best time to lift people's purses was while they were staring goggle eyed at the public hanging of a convicted pickpocket. They learned that when the trap door was sprung, the spectators were so transfixed by the gruesome sight that even an amateur could pick a pocket without being noticed. This is a short letter this week. I'm going to go off by myself and think about human nature. Yours faithfully, J. A. which will feature the countenances of the school board members (a different one each week) living it up in some familiar habitat, like Las Vegas, or Houston, etc., etc. (All proceeds from the sale of promotional glasses will go to a special fund to send board mem bers to a very important summit meeting next year on the Mediter ranean entitled "The Serious and Profound Sociological and Physio logical Effects of Choosing the Right Color of Ink for Grading Report Cards in Today's Changing, Turbulent Educational World." Hate Mall Regrettably, one of the misfor tunes of those of us who choose to make crusading journalism our mission in life is that some psychopathic minds find pleasure in sending hate mail. This bit of poison pen prose was delivered to the office one week ago, its cowardly author hiding in anony mity. -IMPORTANT PRESS RELEASE'' In an upset of staggering signifi cance. Monday night, the Set makers trounced the Headliners in Hoke Recreation Volleyball action. The Setmakers needed only five "persons" to spike The News Journal entry in straight games 15-5 and 15-4. Noticably absent from the typesetters team, however, was Marty [Most Valuable ] Vega their leading spiker, setter, and server. Her all-round prowless was missed immensely! Thus another preseason power falls by the wayside. The only comments we have to make about this trash are that the author should be told noticeably has an "e" and prowless may be a female prowler. Letters To The Editor 1 tin writing this in response to statements made in last week's News-Journal by Hoke County Sanitarian M. Russell Mills and by Fred Snyder, Lumberton manager of Sanitary Container Service, the company now providing our coun ty's garbage disposal service. Let me first thank our County Commissioners and the citizens of Hoke County for giving me the opportunity to serve them for the past ten years. I am sure many of our county residents know that I provided them with garbage pickup and disposal services without any assistance from the county until June 29, 1972. When I started the business about 1967, I operated my own landfill, charged $2 per customer, and went from door to door recruiting customers. It took years of hard work at a small return to build up my business to the point where any other firm would want to compete for it. To illustrate how my services expanded, my first con tract with the county consisted of 50 containers or dumpsters; now there are 107. I noticed with a great deal of concern that Sanitary Container Service plans to pick up only that garbage that is deposited by the roadside or bv the mailbox. Ap parently they failed to consider the hardship this will impose on their elderly and handicapped custom ers. However, they are a fine company, so perhaps some excep tions will be made to the above rules. As 1 said at the beginning of this letter, I am especially concerned about a number of incorrect state ments made by Mr. Mills and Mr. Snyder. Mr. Mills charged that I imposed a hardship on my former customers by refusing to give the new company their names and addresses. Surely Mr. Mills and Mr. Snyder would not give away what it took ten years to build. 1 did write all my customers on June 24 informing them that a new com pany would take over on July 1. * Mr. Mills claimed the reason for the pileup of garbage was that the containers were left in a mess. 1 requested that the container sites be inspected prior to the change over and that I be informed of the results in writing. Mike Wood, Assistant Sanitarian, inspected all of the container sites on June 28 and informed me by telephone that everything was satisfactory and that he would write a letter to this effect. On July 13 he told me he had been advised not to provide me with the letter. According to Mr. Snyder, all of the containers were serviced by noon on July 2 and were in fine shape. If things were in fine shape after his company had been on the job for only l'/a days, I must have left matters in satisfactory condi tion, or they could not have been cleaned up properly in a mere 1 /j days. Sincerely, Clyde A. Leach Dear Mr. Dickson: The North Carolina Federation of Humane Societies now has 40 society members throughout the State. Our hope in the not-too distant future is to realize a society in each of North Carolina's 100 counties. To the best of our information there is no humane society in Hoke County and we hope that among > your readers are one or more penons who would be interested in organizing a society with the assis tance of a Federation's representa tive. ? While a humane society is mostly interested in helping animals in distress, it is also much concerned about the impact upon a com munity where stray and unwanted pets are producing serious health problems and are sources of danger and considered by most city and county officials throughout the country as the cause of the greatest number of complaints they receive from the public. These are the reasons humane societies are laying great stress upon educational programs ac quainting the public, both young and old, with responsibility to pets, the desirability of spaying and other connected matters including advising city and county officials in respect to adequate control ordi nances. Our member societies are inter ested in assisting pound personnel whose efforts are, too often, unap preciated and, where there is no pound, in influencing the com munity to build a modern facility. The undersigned is a Board t member of the N.C. Federation and will be happy to meet with any interested person or persons who writes him at Box 590. Pinehurst, N.C. 28374 or telephones 919/295 6268. Hopefully, Burton M. Parks Dear Editor: Last year, the people of North Carolina gave Insurance Commis sioner John Ingram a solid vote of confidence. In the Democratic primary he had a three to one margin over Joe Johnson, the industry candidate and in the general election Ingram got more votes than any other council of government candidate. In Raleigh, however, the in surance people were able to get what they could not get from the electorate. Through a massive lobbying effort they were able to get the General Assembly to pass a bill that takes away the rate-making powers from Commissioner In- ? gram. This means that we shall over the next two years have premium increases of twelve per cent, despite higher profits in this , state than the national average for automobile liability insurance. David Parnell of Parkton voted for the bill and the people of this district ought to be aware of the fact. He there by showed his comtempt for the people who supported Ingram and sided with a special interest against the con sumer. He was the only one of our three representatives in the N.C. House to thus side with the insurance companies. I suggest that at the time of next year's elections we let the insurance people give David Parnell their campaign contributions and their votes. The rest of us can then give our support to another candidate who will represent the people rather than special interest. Sincerely, Kenneth N. Smith 1418 Biggs St. Laurinburg, N.C. CUFF BLUE ? ? ? People & Issues BILL JOHNSON... We have long been an admirer of W.A. (Bill) Johnson, outstanding "barrister" of Lillington who is now chairman of the Board of Governors of the University system of North Caro lina, who has now been named chairman of the Ethics Committee of the North Carolina State Bar Association. Johnson's position as chairman of the N.C. Mate Bar's committee is of particular importance now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a five to tour decision that lawyers can advertise, which has been banned in recent years. Johnson is a former commissio ner of revenue under Terry San ford's administration as Governor and also has served as a Superior Court judge. WYNNE ON INGRAM... From Hoover Adams front page column on "These Little Things" we quote: "State Senator Bob Wynne said last night that the legislature may have elected State Insurance Com missioner John Ingram as North Carolina's next Governor of U.S. Senator by passing insurance legis lation this year that will rive the companies authority to send Insur ance rates sky-high. 'Three people told me yesterday,' Senator Wynne told Dunn Rotarians 'that the legislature may have made a martyr out of Ingram.' Senator Wynne himself is not an admirer of Ingram and voted against him and the insurance industry... He conceded that insurance companies are doing Ingram a great favor by fighting him so hard." PAUL GREEN... We note that Paul Green, noted author and playwright of Harnett County entered N.C. Memorial Hospital recently but was released after a brief stay. He was ordered by his doctor to "relax and rest." Green, now ?3, is one of the great playwrights of the nation. He is probably best known for his symphonic outdoor drama "The Lost Colony-" which is now in its 37th season at Manteo. Green has not only provided the script for other dramas but has assisted in many across the nation. CURRITUCK. ..In the small northeastern county of Currituck a woman has been named Superin tendent of the County Schools ? Ms. Jeanne Meiggs. She is said to be a most capable, dedicated and outstanding young woman, and the only female superintendent in the st?t? among the 145 local education districts.: In the past two years women have been coming into positions of leadership quite fast. BLACKOUT... The New York blackout goes to show again that with men as well as mice plans often go astray. Probably the most disheartening part of the tragedy was the looting which took place during the blackout. The blackout dramitically point ed up the importance of electricity in life today. You can have ample fuel but without electricity thou sands and thousands of modern day conveniences would be worth less. It was Tom Edison back about 1880 who invented the electric light who gave tremendous stimulus to the use of electricity and without it taday we would be set back about 80 years. POSTMASTERS... We note that an organization of postmasters are seeking to take the U.S. Postal Service to the U.S. District Court in Washington in an attempt to stop * the agency from announcing their salaries. It is a long and sound established policy that the expendi tures of public funds is open to* scrutiny and people unwilling to stand the heat of public scrutiny should report to private employ ment. When officials from the president, congressmen, senators and all the way down have their salaries publicized, why the excep tion for the postmasters? ?
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