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<~Vl&w6 - journal NATIONAL NEWSPAPER BBSEH NNA SUSTAININC "?T ? MEMIER ? 1976 Oa/icf?ma\ R R ASSOCIATION Pnbllilwd K?fj Thursday it Raeford, N.C. 28376 119 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Ril? In Advance Per Year ? M.OO 6 Month.- S4.25 3 Months? S2.25 PAUL DICKSON PubUther? Editor SAM C. MORRIS General Manager CHARLES BLACKBURN Associate Editor MRS. PAUL DICKSON CASSIE WASKO Society Editor Reporter Second Class Poataffe at Raeford, N.C. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1978 Jumping for sport More and more sportsmen are coming to the conclusion that big money has all but ruined athletics in this country. The love of the game has been largely replaced by the love of the dollar. It has gotten so the college campus is merely the training grounds of the pros. (College coaches make three times the salaries of the most distinguished faculty members.) That bastion of amateur athletics, the Olympics, is fast losing its purity as more and more governments give their teams financial as well as moral support. Even in the U.S., it seems the road to fat commercial contracts, selling Wheaties or tennis shoes, is being paved with gold medals. We all appreciate the hard work and dedication it takes to become an outstanding athlete, but why should some ill-mannered tennis player be paid $50,000 for a match? Any number of golfers on the tour annually make more money than the President of the United States. Is a good putting stroke really worth more than good foreign policy? There aren't many sports left where people go all out just for the fun and personal satisfaction of it. Parachute jumping is one such sport. Members of the U.S Parachute Team are now training at the Raeford Municipal Airport for national and international competi tion. While other athletes are selling toothpaste and beer on television and walking off the playing field in a huff because they didn't . get the money their inflated egos told them they deserved, members of the U.S. Parachute Team are quietly striving toward the excellence that will make them world champions. For them, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat are not keyed to the tune of a cash register. In fact, they have to dip pretty deep into their own pockets to participate. It's going to cost about 532,000 for the team to compete in the World Meet in Yugoslavia this August and contributions are being sought to make this trip possible. Those who go will be the best in the U.S. in their sport. And when it's over, all they'll earn is the satisfaction of knowing they've done their best. Contributions are tax deductible and may be sent to Doug Christen, c/o The Parachute Team, PO Box 734. Raeford. Politics and the long green Remember the Golden Rule? There's a new variation of it. Whoever has the gold makes the rule. Of course, it doesn't necessarily apply to politics, as Luther Hodges found out in the runoff election last week. Hodges spent about $900,000 during his campaign, compared to $50,000 for Ingram. That's what the books show, anyway. Walking around money seldom makes it into line item expenditures. Some feel the voucher is low for Hodges and high for Ingram. Will Rogers said it a while back. "It takes a lot of money in politics these days just to get beat." Ingram made a big deal about it. but the truth is. a lot of folks are going to miss Luther's style of campaigning. At various Democratic conventions. Hodges usually rented several motel rooms and filled them with nothing but the best liquor for the party faithful. Ingram supporters invariably drank more of it than anyone else, complaining all the while about how much Hodges was spending. Talk about unethical. But now Ingram's crowd will have to resort to their own bottles. The odds are you won't hear them refer to it as "the people's brew." because in this Baptist state, the peoples' brew is ice tea. Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: According to an article I read the other day, Washington politicians, when they get up in the morning, first glance at the headlines on the front page of their paper - I guess to see if any new war has broken out or if any of their friends have been caught red-handed -- and then turn to a gossip column on an inside page. An official said this marks a return to "the vil'age mentality." I don't believe it. I got to thinking about what "village mentality" means, not what big city people intend it to mean. 1 used to think I'd discovered a point when I claimed it takes just as much ability to run a bank or any other business in a small town as it does to run their counterparts in a big city, but I had it backwards. I should have said it takes as much ability to run a big city outfit as it does a small town business. This occurred to me when I read about the head of a big helicopter company claiming he didn't know his company was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to bribe foreign governments to buy his machines. If he'd had average village mentality he'd have caught on that something was funny. And here's another example of the lack of village mentality. According to another news story, two professors at Yale University have designed a course to teach teachers how to teach children how to watch television. They want to make sure the kids can distinguish between programs and commercials and between fantasy and reality, so, I guess, they won't try to walk straight up the side of a building like Spider Man. Try as hard as I can, I can't think of a comment to make about this. I don't believe there's a single kid in Raeford who'd have to go to Yale to learn how to watch television. We've got too much village mentality around here for that. Yours faithfully. J.A. Tm sorry I can't rescue you. I lost my horse in Vietnam' V ?\ r * ChrieHan ScMnca Moot** HOKUM By Charles Blackburn Pembroke Magazine is an excellent stick with which to beat the Philistines, and the latest issue is dedicated to North Carolina literary giant Paul Green, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, poet, novelist, storyteller, and Hollywood screen writer, best known, perhaps, as the father of such symphonic dramas as The Lost Colony and The Stephen Foster Story. Pembroke 10 contains a bonanza of information on Green's life and work, with contributions by the eminent man himself and by such Tar Heel luminaries as Jonathan Daniels, Richard Walser, Thad Stem. Jr.. Guy Owen, Albert Coates, Kay Kyser, and Walter Spearman. In this issue, noted critics Allen Tate and Brooks Atkinson herald Green as "the greatest playwright the South has produced." There is much in the magazine to study and savor for anyone interested in the career of one of North Carolina's most outstanding writers. Pembroke 10 also contains in its 248 pages a goodly offering of poetry and fiction as well as tributes to Green. Thad Stem has a new Entry From Oxford, an addendum to his celebration of small town life by the same title. There is an antholoev of poetry from Wales that includes contemporary verse as well as selections from the work of Dylan Thomas and Wilfred Owen. And there is a review of Norman Macleod's The Distance-New and Selected Poems. 1928-1977. Macleod is editor of the magazine, which is an international literary review sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines in New York and published annually by Pembroke State University. Copies ($3 each) may be ordered by writing Pembroke Magazine, Box 60. Pembroke University, Pembroke, N.C. 28372. / law for uvme By Professor Howard Oleck, Wake Forest Univ. School of Law (Distributed by the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers as a public service) "No-Fault" Law Mushrooms No-fault automobile insurance statutes have been adopted in many states, though not in all. North Carolina legislators have been considering such a law. Insurance company lobbyists are arguing adoption of such law. In essence "no fault" statutes are supposed to cut down on court congestion and delay, reduce auto insurance premiums, and speed up (and make more certain) payment of some benefits to victims of auto accidents. They are supposed to do so largely by barring the flood of auto accident damage lawsuits and by eliminating lawyers from ad justment of many such cases. New York State recently amend ed its "no fault" statute, adopted in 1973. when it found that the promised benefits were not actually happening. In fact the insurance company rate increases granted were averaging fifteen percent up wards in the past eighteen months; not downward. The state statute had required a S500 (threshold) amount of medical expenses in an injured person, before he would be allowed to sue for "pain and suffering" damages one of the big items in personal injury cases. Patients' doctors were then accused of inflating their bills in order to get an injured person above the "threshold" sum. so that he then would be permitted to use a lawsuit as a remedy against the one who injured him. Under the latest (1977) Amend ments, the New York statute now limits doctors' and hospitals' fees to the very low amounts permitted in Workmen's Compensation cases. Also, the "threshold" sum is eliminated, and an injured person can sue for damages for pain and suffering only when a complicated new statutory definition of "serious injury" is satisfied. Also, in col lision cases, a standard collision deductible of $200 will limit claims for automobile property damages. These new statutes, and the whole idea of "no fault" law, delight the insurance companies, and infuriate many law teachers and lawyers. They require, in effect, compulsory purchase of personal health and accident in surance by auto users, while bar ring use of the courts to most claimants--a dandy system for in surance companies. The whole concept of "no fault" raises the hackles of people who believe that a person should be responsible for what he or she did. It resembles the recently popular theory that "there are no bad boys," or that "drunkenness is an illness, not a character weakness," or that "society is responsible for crime, not the criminal." In fact some people now are advocating "no fault" rules for any kind of wrong or injury. All of which might be more palatable if it were the general public, rather than insurance com panies. that would get the major benefits of barring so many people from access to the law and the courts. ?Hiiimiiimniiiiiiiimmiimi CUFF BLUE . . . People & Issues THE INGRAM VICTORY ? Politacal prognosticators for years will be discussing the upset victory of John Ingram's stunning win over Luther H. Hodges. Jr. overcoming a deficit of 14 points in the first primary to defeat Hodges 244,695 votes to 206,945 in complete but unofficial returns. My diagnosis is this! It was not as easy for Hodges to rub shoulders and communicate with the average person as it was for John Ingram. This has much to do with whether a man votes for you or against. Another factor was the emphasis that Ingram pointed out daily, that Hodges was a "big banker" and was borrowing "big money" from an out-of-state bank to assist in financing his campaign. Ingram almost daily emphasized that he had saved the people millions of dollars by holding auto insurance rates down. Most every votet owns an auto. While Ingram was emphasizing these points in- the first primary, it probably did not sink in good until the second go-around. Ingram was jabbing much harder in the second primary than in the first and from vote standpoint, it certainly paid off. POLITICIANS -- It appears that the "politicians" were heavy on the side of Hodges in the Senate race, although in the second primary "the people" were heavy on the side of Ingram. One community college president when asked why he was for Hodges is reported to have said: "Because he is going to win." With the politicians too many are usually more interested in who is going to win than who they feel will do the best job. INFLATION -- President Sher wood H. Smith, Jr.. of the Carolina Power & Light Company, told a Dunn civic club last week that "inflation is the most critical danger we have to fight." He also spoke out against deficit spending and urged citizens to encourage Washington to cut expenditures by two and a half percent across the board in the federal budget. With such a suggestion put into effect, we would in all porbability have a far more efficient govern ment. LEE & PENDER -- Two counties spoke out loud and strong in Tuesday's election against bond issues--they being Lee and Pender. Lee voters turned down a S12.3 million bond issue by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1 with 5.070 votes against, and 1.865 for. In Pender county for the second time in less than a year the voters decisively defeated a school bond issue by a vote of 3389 against, and 2021 for. It appears that the voters are approaching a spirit of revolt against higher taxes. With more and more being spent on our public schools, and with many high schools turning outf graduates who can't read and writ^ to the extent of being able to satisfactorily fill out an application for work form, some people, yes probably many people, are becom ing concerned over the manner in which the schools are being operat ed. Many feel that the teachers are underpaid while too much of the school budget goes to the ever expanding bureaucracy at the top level. TAX RELIEF -- 1 was interested in State Senator Lawrence Davis' proposal last week in the N.C. General Assemply, in proposing the legislature cut state income taxes by $56.75 million next year by revising a number of tax brackets. The money would come from an anticipated $279 million plus the legislature is planning to spend on state programs. The reduction would affect the low and middle income people more than the top salaried group. While we don't expect the proposal to be enacted for the coming year, we feel it has merit and should be studied. State Senator McNeill Smith of Greens boro backed the Davis suggestion. Both Davis and Smith were candi dates for the U.S. Senatorial nomination on the Democratic ticket but were eliminated in the^ first primary May 2. ^ Browsing in the files of The News- Journal 25 years ago Thursday, June 4, 1953 Alfred Cole was administered the oath of office as new mayor of the Town of Raeford by Hoke County Superior Court Clerk J. B. Cameron here Monday. * ? * A group got together in Raeford this week and laid plans for "Rube Poole Week," honoring W.L. Poole who retired as Raeford mayor June 1 after six years of service without missing a board meeting. Commencement activities for Hoke County High School were brought to a close last Friday night as forty - six members of the senior class were presented diplomas by Principal W.T. Gibson, Jr. ? * ? J.L. McNeill, chairman of the Hoke County Committee opposing the further partition of Hoke County by the Army for a larger Fort Bragg reservation, announced yesterday that two public meetings would be held in the county next week at which the situation up to the present time would be fully explained to interested persons by himself and members of the com mittee. ? * * At its regular monthly meeting Monday the Hoke County board of commissioners authorized the en largement of the Hoke County Public library according to plans presented by the library board. ? * * A Civil Service examination for the position of Substitute Clerk ? Carrier is now open for filling vacancies at the Raeford Post Office. The usual entrance salary is $1 .61 Vj per hour 1 5 years ago Thursday, June 6, 1963 The 1963-64 annual budget of 5207,997. adopted by the Raeford Town Board of Commissioners, Monday night, varies only slightly from the previous one and the tax rate remains stationary at S 1 . 1 7 on SI 00 property valuation. ? * ? Hoke County's National Guards men. members of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 252nd Armor will be among about 1000 officers and men of the 30th Infantry Division who will go to Fort Stewart, Georgia,^ Saturday for their 15 days of fieldQ training. * ? * The Hoke Swimming Association has sold only about 20 per cent of the memberships needed to operate the pool this summer, Harold Gillis. treasurer, reported. ? * * A quarterly report from the mayor's court shows 67 cases were disposed of. * ? ? Mayor H.R. McLean and the five elected commissioners took the oath of office Monday night and town department heads were named to launch a new fiscal year. * * * The Board of Education has given its approval for the Hoke County Public Library to use the J.W. McLauchlin School building this summer while the library quarters are undergoing renova-4 tion. ? * ? King and Queen of Health were crowned at an annual Hoke County 4-H Club event Tuesday night. They were Judy McNeill and Benny Bruner.
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