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PubUahed E *wj Ttiared^ at Raeford. N.C. 28376
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PAUL DICKSON PubtUher Editor
SAM C. MORRIS - Gtaanl Manager
MRS. PAUL DICKSON Society Editor
MARTY VEGA Reporter
CASSIE WASKO
Second Claai Poatafe at Raeford, N.C.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1977
Protecting right-to-work
If the right-to-work issue resurfaces in the next Legislature, expect
a good fight.
It was, after all, a good fight back in 1965 when the state's seven -
year - old law was repealed. Something about freedom of choice and
union membership makes Hoosier blood boil.
Right-to-work, by simplest definition, is a law which protects the
right of individuals in a state not to have to join a union as a
condition of employment if they don't want to. This element of
cnoice in union membership was protected in 1947 by Section 14B of
the Taft-Hartley law which allows for right-to-work in the states.
Obviously, states without right-to-work laws are favored by labor
unions. In fact, unions try perennially in Congress for repeal of
Section 14B, so they can be done with the matter altogether. And
why not? In theory, union membership swells without right-to-work
laws, dues pour in, wages are set at union scales and non-union
members are prevented from reaping the bargaining benefits
negotiated by unions.
All of which sounds fine except that first, it is not necessarily true,
and second, it denies an individual the fundamental freedom to
decide for himself whether to join a union.
Union membership, which includes about 25 percent of all
non-farm workers, declined in 1976. This does not, however, appear
to be related to right - to - work laws. Twenty states have such laws
on the books according to Department of Labor statistics they have
more than 3.2 million voluntary union and 3 million non-union
employees working in them.
A National Right-to-Work Committee study, compiled from
Labor statistics, showed that states permitting forced unionism had
a net loss of 726,400 manufacturing jobs from 1965-1975, while
right-to-work states gained nearly a million new manufacturing jobs.
While gains and losses are not entirely attributable to such
legislation, clearly companies prefer states in which they must not
deal exclusively with unions. Indiana, which repealed it law in 1965,
is shown with a 29,500 or 4 percent net loss in such jobs. Further, the
committee reports, unemployment is 1 percent lower in right-to
work states.
Indiana's own experience offers further proof. Unions did not
decline in Indiana under the right-to-work law. Membership in the
state AFL-CIO jumped from 323,123 in 1958 to 350,000 in 1962
while hourly wages increased on the average of 50 cents an hour.
Unemployment dropped from a rate of 8.1 percent in 1958 to 3.1
percent in 1965, and that was below the national average.
Surely Indiana stands to benefit from any legislation which
protects the individual's right to freedom of choice. ?The
Indianapolis News
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up the old one. -The Miami Herald
Browsing in the files
of The News^Journal
25 years ago
% Thursday, October 30, 19S2
' Turkalina Farms, Inc. the brain
;? child of Bonner Thompson, Sr..
i and J. Scott McFadyen, both of
\ Fayetteville, has at last become a
^ reality and their new plant located
?} on the edge of Raeford on the
< Fayetteville highway is already in
^ full production and is expected to
f. continue that way indefinitely.
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5
< As a public service Raeford Auto
jj Co., Hoke Auto Co., and Morgan
Motor Co., Raeford new car
| dealers, will offer transportation to
* the polls on election day, November
J 4, to anyone in Raeford who does
* not havr a ride.
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\ The sheriff s department has
* been rather active in the last week
j as they apprehended four men and
destroyed five stills.
%
i The second gin fire in several
;? weeks took place last Thursday
morning when the local fire
? department answered a call to the
*' Dundarrach Gin at Dvndarrach.
1 5 years ago
Thursday, November 1, 1962
Under the pressure of the still -
continuing Cuban crisis. Civil
Defense work in Hoke County
moved ahead last week in a number
of areas.
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Sale of stock in the Raeford
Development Corporation went
into high gear this week, Lawrence
McNeill reported.
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The long arm of the Raeford
Police Department will soon be
reaching out for parking violations.
Mayor H. R. (Hoocn) McLean
warned this week.
* * *
A sluggish Buck team (the
adjective is from Coach Floyd
Wilson) crunched out a game, but
out ? manned Dunn team. 13-0,
Friday night at Dunn.
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The annual "Powder Puff Bowl"
will be held today (Thursday) at
Armory Park at 4:30 in the
afternoon.
'Unfortunately, I'm beginning to understand
how you feel"
| ? bf Marty Vega
| Put Thinking Cap On
Next Tuesday is a very important
date. Nov. 8 is the first Tuesday
after the first Monday and you
know what that means.
There will be only 41 shopping
days left until Christmas.
But there is something else
important, too. It is election day
and every voter must make his
choices.
There are nine candidates on the
ballot for city council, so people
will have to make up their minds.
There is only one candidate on the
ballot for mayor so it won't be
nearly so hard there. Or will it?
Some of you voters may still be
undecided about it. Some of you
may be thinking of casting a
write-in vote for someone else for
mavor.
(For those of you who are
thinking now. stop thinking and go
on reading. You can think any
time.)
Who would make a good candi
date for mayor?
It should be somebody who lives
here, of course. Somebody who is
not too old, but not too young.
Somebody who is loyal. Some
body who is trustworthy. Somebody
thrifty and clean.
It should be somebody who has
attended lots and lots of city
council meetings. Somebody who
isn't overly concerned with Monday
night football, but very concerned
about the price of cable TV and
things like that.
It should be somebody who
doesn't make a great deal of money
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
One trouble with the world
today, it seems to me, is that it's too
full of advice.
Makes no difference what area
you have in mind, there's always an
expert around to tell you what you
ought to be doing or ought to stop
doing.
I read an article in the paper the
other day by a doctor who was
instructing us on how to live a long
and healthy life. He said we ought
to walk a lot.
Then he went on to say how to
walk. "When the right foot goes
forward, the right arm swings back
and the left arm swings forward,"
he said. "When the left foot goes
forward, the left arm swings back
and the right arm forward. '
I got up and tried it out and By
George he's right about it. A little
later on I watched a 2 ? year ? old
kid walking and doggone if he
wasn't walking the same way.
without a scrap of medical advice.
In addition to walking, the
doctor went on, you've got to get
plenty of sleep and stay out of the
sun. Contrary to popular belief, he
said, the sun isn't good for you.
I got to thinking about this. I
know the sun isn't good for you if
you're a farmer needing a rain, but
otherwise have never considered it
an enemy. I was further confused
when I turned the page of the
newspaper I was reading and
noticed an article telling about the
oldest living man. He's a Russian
farmer now 161 years old and going
strong. Poor fellow. He must have
had a trying time, holding a parasol
over his head while he was out in
the field, especially when he was
digging potatoes by hand.
Personally. 1 have no advice on
how to live a long time, although I
do suggest, when walking through
a door, opening it first. Forget,
despite sound medical advice,
where your right arm belongs in
relation to your right leg.
Yours faithfully.
J. A.
but isn't living on welfare, either.
It should be somebody who is
accustomed to writing down lots of
things, taking notes, etc. Some
body who is used to working with a
typewriter to write things.
It should be somebody with a
name that is non -discriminatory,
a name that could be either
masculine or feminine when it was
put on official proclamations.
(When this mayor signs stuff to
go off to Raleigh and other places,
the officials there won't know if the
mayor is a man or a woman and
this will catch them off guard and
they won't be able to make sexist
assumptions.)
It should be somebody who gets
around the restaurants frequently
to keep in touch with the people to
hear what they're saying. (And see
what they're eating.)
It should be somebody who lives
and works right in the downtown
area, say in the El wood and Harris
Ave. general vicinity, in case she
was needed right away for official
ceremonies and stuff like that.
It should be somebody who. if
elected, would turn back the salary
to the city treasury and keep only
enough for carfare to go to the
meetings.
If this is your kind of candidate
for mayor, then vote according to
your convictions next Tuesday.
The name of somebody who fits
the bill may pop right into your
mind.
Letter To
The Editor
To the Editor:
Imagine how exciting the early
days of exploration of North Caro
lina were. The early settlers here
found a good climate, a relatively
fertile soil, abundant forest, wild
game, fowl and fish in great
abundance. To these first settlers
our water and other resources must
have seemed limitless.
Today the quantity and quality
of our waters can no longer be
taken for granted. Careful plan
ning is necessary if we are to
continue to have enough water to
meet our needs and preserve the
quality of our environment.
On November 8, we have the
opportunity to vote on a S230
million clean water bond refer
endum. This needs to be passed so
we can develop an adequate, clean
water supply system and provide
for water pollution control. Such
projects would provide cleaner
streams, safe water supplies, and
improvement in fish and wild life
values. Of this, 112.5 million would
go toward municipal, community,
and county water pollution control
projects...! 10 million for the im
provement of municipal, communi
ty and county water supply systems
...7.5 million would go in a
contingency fund for special com
munity and county water projects.
All 100 counties would benefit
from issuance of the S230 million
clean water bonds. No new taxes
would be required.
The dread of a water shortage,
the fear of water pollution, and the
loss of time and money when
treatment facilities break down ??
we have faced these situations
many times in recent years. The
S230 million bond issue offers us
the opportunity to see that it
doesn't happen in the future.
We in North Carolina can meet
this great challenge of preserving
our environment while continuing
our industrial expansion.
Bobby Simpson
Newton Grove
A bill which will raise the
mandatory retirement age from 65
to 70 has passed both houses of
Congress and will soon be signed
into law.
I supported the bill, although I
had some reservations about just
what its effect on the economy
will be. For one thing, no one can
predict just wha^ percent of those
who reach 65 will elect to keep on
working. The number has been
estimated as low as five percent and
as high as twenty percent.
However, it can be argued that a
capable person who is told he must
go sit in the corner at age 65 is
being discriminated against and
certainly it is interfering with a
person's freedom of choice to take
away all his options just because
the calendar says so.
Probably every member who
voted for the bill was influenced to
some extent because he had known
persons who were perfectly capable
of doing their jobs but who were
sent kicking and screaming into
retirement simply because they
reached the age of 65.
But there are still some questions
that must be answered before we
know what effect this bill is going to
have on the nation's economy. It
could be that young people will find
fewer jobs available because the
rate of attrition among older
workers will slow d*wn. especially
if twenty percent, or one out of five,
decide to keep working an extra
five years.
Corporate pension plans, now
geared to a retirement age of 65,
will probably have to be reap
praised, ^and it could be that some
pensions may be improved so that
the earlier retirement will be made
more palatable to seniors.
Report
To The
People .
by Senator Robert Morgan
Wili the rate of productivity,
which industry lays such stress on,
go down because some of the
over-65 workers are not as quick
and deft as they once were? These
and others, are questions which no
one has answered because there is
simply no way to find out until we
see how many persons elect to stay
on the job.
If there was one compelling
reason why 1 supported the bill it
was because 1 feel that the idea of
making retirement mandatory for
everyone is not really fair. People
are individuals and should be
treated as such, and to lump
everyone into a single category that
is controlled by the calendar seems
discriminatory. There are some
people whose faculties at age 65 are
better than other people's at 40.
and they should be given an
opportunity to keep producing, and
not be sent off to atrophy in
idleness.
Looking into the future, one
thing about American society is
clear--we are going to be an "older"
nation. An increasingly greater
percentage of our population is
going to be over sixty
It seems inevitable that we will
have to have some adjustments in
our habits because of this. An older
society perhaps ought to have an
older work force, and it may
be actually unhealthy to have such
a vast category of people out of the
economic mainstream.
This legislation can have far
reaching consequences. There will
be many problems, to be sure. Its
passage, however, may be a first
step toward realizing we are living
longer lives, and that our country
may benefit from productive, older
and wiser minds.
CLIFF BLUE...
People & Issues
N.C. TOPS. ..According to a
report issued by the U.S. Dept. of
Labor North Carolina's work in
centive program (WIN) had the
best over-all performance in the
nation between Oct. 1, 1976 and
July 1, 1977. During the period,
welfare payments were terminated
for 1 .985 recipients of aid to
families with dependent children
(AFDC) and the monthly payments
of another 2,756 were reduced. The
savings do not include correspond
ing reductions in expenditures for
these recipients in the Medicaid
and Food Stamp Programs.
SEPARATION OF POWERS...
Under the U.S. Constitution we are
supposed to have separation of
powers. We have the legislative,
executive and the judiciary. With
Federal Judge James McMillan of
Charlotte making noises like he is
going to direct the administration
of the welfare and poverty pro
grams in a number of Tar Heel
counties we suspect many will feel
that the social services boards in
the various counties are much
better able to determine those
eligible and needing assistance
than a Federal Judge from afar off.
NAZI UPSERGE...From time to
time we read about the Nazi group
in North Carolina and other parts
of the nation. Why any reasonable
people would want to take up with
any group accepting the "nazi" tag
after what Hitler and his followers
did to the Jews and others in World
War II is hard to swallow. How
ever, we must remember that this is
a free country and a democracy
allows and tolerates many organi
zations and other minor groups like
Only m the newspaper does the
newt, entertainment and features
keep until work or chores ore
done ? a foct important to the
notion's 23 million working wom
en alone, who might otherwise
miss the news ond advertising
messages of local businesses.
the Nazis. Lest we forget. Hitler
and his followers ran rough shod
over millions of Jews after his rise to
power in Germany. Hitler's rise to
power in Germany followed run
away inflation, followed by a
depression which weakened the
German people to the extent of
turning to Hitler who offered to
lead them to become a great nation
again, but who instead led them to
the greatest down-fall in history!
WASHINGTON. ..While Presi
dent Carter gives voice to a desire to
restrain inflation, it appears that
most everything that is taking place
in Washington today is building a
little more fire to the flames of
inflation, raising salaries, social
security benefits and increasing the
national debt for future generations
to wrestle with!
In fact we can't think of a single
program which has been enacted in
Washington which, would tend to
hold back intlation. The Labor Bill
which President Carter supported
would give more stimulus to infla
tion.
MOREHEAD SCHOLARSHIPS
...In the public (and private)
schools over North Carolina nomi
nees are being named to compete
for the prestigious and coveted
Morehead Scholarships which the
late John Motley Morehead estab
lished in 1945 before his death
some years later. While there are
hundreds of scholarships offered at
the various institutions of higher
learning over the State, the More
head Scholarships are among the
top in the nation. To be a
Morehead Scholar is a distinction --
something that both boys and girls
covet as well as the S3, 000 per year
which goes with each of the
scholarships for four years.
SUBSIDIES FOR CONGRES
SIONAL CAMPAIGNS. . .Many
people feel that the Federal govern
ment already has its hands in far
more projects than is healthy and
good for the nation and that should
not start using taxpayers money to
support congressional campaigns.
Commenting on the subject,
former U.S. Senator Sam J. Erviji,
Jr. of North Carolina savs: "I fear
my former colleagues in the United
State Congress, anxious to rid
politics of the last remnants of
Watergate-type scandals, may be
close to damaging the very institu
tion they hope to strengthen...
What they fail to recognize in their
zeal to remove any taint of 'special
interest' money, is not only the *
potentially terrible financial bur
den they may be laying on the
taxpayer's shoulders but the
damage they may be doing to the
election system itself."
Sam Ervin is a wise senior
statesman and due consideration
should be given to his fhoughts.