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fate 'Tteuw - 3h>urnal imfnuH m mstmww ?l NEMItt - 1976 QrfjMta 'press a7soc.at.on NC M376 PubUahcr ? Editor PAUL DICKSON SAMC. MORRIS CHARLES BLACKBURN MRS. PAUL DICKSON CASSIE WASKO Second CUm Poetafe at RaeCord, N.C General Manager AmocUU Editor ... Society Editor Reporter THURSDAY. AUGUST 3, 1978 High tobacco prices ? w ?hU time the anti-smoking Tobacco is making ** "JV are making the headlines, as forces ar" 'i'n" ^n^gh?u? .he state. And the early results markets begin to open inr s point to a good year for season by tbe opening day. 0fCOUrSe,onOUtChe Bordlr Belt were as much as S40 per hundredweight higher ^f^J^^raremdicative of a higher The experts tell us the h g P are cooperating with the ^J^l' lnTe^oTie, cleaner leaf. They're leaving .he "t/i:? da, pn:r *??%$+ zssk hundred. But even at 'h?e PJ^of prX.ion, particularly farm . >? - ??? My ,he> season a lot better off *?XSJEw? "a*" CT if inflation , percent of .he crop was lost in permanent basis, .here is prices ,his Mason w "rTnly help iScal farmers stave tam off. Boards and committees How did pas. generations ever g? ai^wt.hou. all .he boar s. councils and committees in ?Pe* been spawned by the Many of .hese boards ^thou. su^ion and'a wad of paper bureaucratic rationale tha nature are doomed to failure. As a work, .he affairs of humanity and" boards whlch, in .hat, even.ua.ly. whisper -ue if given enough "u? taadver.en.ly with "ToSni' of the North accounts, the bicycle .sn . nearly government. propels i. along .he highways and byways o' st g ^ P Items." on the agenda included (1) ? ^ of recommended policy penaimng ^ near future. (2) final Transporia.on lor consideration , reiatjne to bicycles to recommendations for suppleme n ^aat^? SSool.: .3) a be included in the North Ca policy for the Moped sub-commit.ee re^n ot ^ogra .PKuss.on q( p d bicycle le^TuaoT t session of .he ,0 know 1, makes one feel secure someh". ..h.^dal mg g ^ .ha' .he Bicycle you up a hill. rpLT^'^^en yoTuefal. off. bu. keep on pedaling - .hese problems may appear on the next agenda. the Browsing in of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday, Jul) 30. 1953 Names of players from Raeford and Aberdeen teams of the Aber deen- Raeford Little League were announced this week and the boys got down to hard work in prepara tion tor their play off game against South Wilmington in Aberdeen Monday. The roster included three Raeford boys. Dickie Hendley. Jerry Williams, and Willie Hodgin. * * * Aviai" Jadet Roy W. Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn W. Wood. 507 Main Street. Raeford. is nearing completion of jet pilot training. ? ? ? From Addenda: * Someone has remarked after the article on boll weevil last week that farmers should pray for rain in stead of spray for weevils. ? * ? The Philadelphia athletics will hold a tryout camp and baseball school in Red Springs. August 3. 4 and 5. Scout M.C. Norris will be in charge assisted by Joe O'Rourke of Philadelphia. i J 1 5 years ago Thuriday, August 1, 1963 Thursday. August 1. will be another historical date in Raeford. It will mark the official opening of the Hoke Civic Center. Inc. * ? * J. Lawrence McNull of Raeford is to be appointed to another term on the board of trustees of the North Carolina Sanatoriums. * * * The Chamber of Commerce has now signed up 14 new members, membership chairman. J.D. Mc Millian. announced. ? * ? The new library will have mahog any walls! * * ? J. Ed Williams. Raeford's first town manager, begins his duties today. ? * * The Hoke County Booster's Club will hold its annual kickoff supper Thursday. August 8. at 5:30 p.m.. Jack Pope, president, announced. 'Fetch . . . fetch!' Tt? CtvMan SetMie* Monitor HOKUM By Charles Blackburn While it is by no means uniquely American, the custom of having the last word about one's own life has a special place in the literature of the United States. Most epitaphs give us nothing more than the dates of birth and death. There are those scattered few. however, that tell us--usuallv in a few lines of verse, or. perhaps, in a single phrase- whole volumes about the deceased and ourselves. The cemetary seems an odd place to go for a chuckle, but there are those among us who can't resist telling one last joke, even if it must be chisled into our tombstones. For example, we feel an instant kinship with the gentleman who took a final opportunity to chide his wife: ^"Elizabeth, I told you I was sick." And how well, in just 13 words, we know John Auricular, buried in a New England grave yard: Here lies John Auricular. Who in the ways of the Lord walked perpendicular." Our sympathy for Mrs. Ann Jennings is profound--"Some have children, some have none: Here lies the mother of twenty-one." And we cannot help but be touched by the Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: Ancient fables, like tax struc tures. need to be revised occasion ally. For example, one ancient fable has it that ants work all summer storing up food for winter while grasshoppers dance and frolic. When winter comes the hard working ants are snug and well-fed while the carefree grasshoppers are cold and hungry. The moral is. we re told, don t be like a grass hopper. Since grasshoppers have been acting that way since Biblical times you'd think they'd gradually play out and disappear from the earth. A farmer in one infested state the other day counted 50 of the things to the square yard. They're so thick through a wide part of the country they're eating everything in sight", including trees Worst infestation in years. There goes that fable about the toolish grasshopper. But 1 got to thinking. Is the ant the hard worker it's cracked up to be? There's an ant bed out here I've been watching while I should be storing up food for the winter. To the un trained eye. those thousands of ants scurrying back and fourth along their trail appear to be the hardiest working creatures on earth, storing up food like they expected winter to hit this after noon. . Because you can't tell one red ant from another. I marked about 50 by sprinkling them with white talcum powder. I then kept my eves on them. You want to know something? They weren't storing up food. They were just running up and down the trail looking busy like bureaucrats stumbling over each other in the corridors of a government building in Washington. I estimate only about half the ants were thinking ahead to winter. The rest were just killing time and enjoying themselves. The moral of this revised fable is that the system must work, as there are more ants, grasshoppers and bureaucrats on earth than ever before. Yours faithfully. J. A. simplicity of: "Thorpe's Corpse." The ring of the divine gavel is implicit in an auctioneer's epitaph: "Going. going-Gone!" And an image of the world as a stage is conjured by the headstone of a well-known Shakespearean actor: "Exit Burbage." We suspect the orator is probably being truthful when he urges: "Here, reader, turn your weeping eyes./My fate a useful moral teaches; /The hole in which my body lies/Would not contain one-half my speeches." Horace Brown, a dentist, in structs: "Stranger, approach these bones with gravity; Doc Brown is filling his last cavity." And a tailor displays a final flash of wit with: "Here lies W.W../Who never more will trouble you, trouble you." And. finally, we turn to W.C. Fields for his last reflection on mankind's ultimate fate: "On the whole. I'd rather be in Philadel phia." Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-13 He that loveth not knoweth not god; for God is love. (1 John 4:8) "Love makes the world go "round." So goes a popular ditty. True, but human love is so fickle and vacillating that it leaves us dizzy and dissatisfied. A story my mother told me as a child somewhat depicted God's love. It left a deep impression on my childish heart. In Japan, so the story goes, it was the custom to cart away old grandmothers to a moun tain called Oba Sute Yama ("throwing-away mountain for old grandmothers"). One son. in per forming this difficult duty, saw his elderly grandmother periodically breaking branches and dropping them along the trail. Upon ques tioning her about this peculiar act. she replied: "Son. 1 don't want you to lose your way. I want you to reach home safely." This is human love. God's Son. Jesus, bore His own cross up Calvary's hill. Though He was tired, in pain, and friendless, He forgot Himself and uttered the heart-originated words on the cross: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." They were expressive of no retaliation, no hate; but of love and concern, even for His enemies. Is there any greater love? PRAYER. Father, let me love all mankind with a divine love, just as You did in sending Your only Son. who died for me. In His name. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: God so loved the world that He didn't send a committee! - copyright- -THE UPPER ROOM --Dawn A. Kashitani (Venice. California CLIFF BLUE . . . People & Issues CARTER S VISIT . . . President Carter will be in North Carolina Saturday in an effort to help John Ingram win the U.S. Senate seat now held by Jesse Helms in the November general election. Some people question how much an outsider of national stature can influence a state election other than in his home state. Forty years ago, in 1938 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in his heyday had carried every state in the union except Maine and Vermont in the 1936 presidential election, set out to defeat three Democrat U.S. Senators for renomination ? Sena tor Walter F. George of Georgia. Senator Ed Smith of South Caro lina and Senator Millard Tydings in Maryland. He failed miserably. Each of the Senators won renomin ation and election. There is a difference between the Roosevelt and Carter efforts. Roosevelt was attempting to defeat incumbent U.S. Senators in the Democratic primaries whereas Car ter is attempting to help a Demo cratic nominee defeat an incum bent Republican U.S. Senator. While Carter has been lagging in the polls, large crowds usually go out to see an incumbent President and few candidates shun an en dorsement by their party's chief when he is the President of the United States. TEACHERS . . . According to an article in the Fayetteville Ob server by Pat Riviers two thousand teachers applied for 150 teaching jobs in the Cumberland County system this year. With supply exceeding demand, education has become an employers' market. Colleges and universities statewide produced b.466 teachers last year, but only 2.032 found teaching jobs in the state. Will Brown, assistant superintendent for secondary edu cation. estimates that there are 75 teachers applying for a job teaching English for every applicant to teach math. CHEROKEE . . . Cherokee County -- furtherest in the west, is coming to the top. having just received rewards at the National Association of Counties held in Atlanta for School Renovations. County Historical Musuem. County Mapping for Planning and Bring imr ing Markets to the Producers. Also, it's Tri-County Technical Institute was changed to Tri-County Com munity College as of July 1, 1978. ALARMING ... An editorial in the Anson Record has this to say about the sentiment regarding taxes in Anson County, one of the state's oldest units of government, having been established in 1749 from Bladen County. We quote the first of a ten paragraph editorial: "An alarming state of affairs exists in Anson County at the moment with a number of the Board of County Commissioners apparently cowering and swaying to the tune of a limited number of irate taxpayers and landowners, and in the process threatening the very foundations of county government." FARMERS MARKETS , . . With the high price of groceries and fresh vegetables newly openedfi Farmers Markets appear to be^ catching on. One Record reports: "We are cheered by the apparent success of the farmers market that is evidently "catching on in the community for the first time after several years of effort." Yes. we strongly suspect that the ever increasing prices of groceries attri bute to farmers markets "catching on" in these two communities as well as elsewhere. "1 JUST DON'T LIKE YOU!" . . . When the recent president of the Ford Motor Company was having his tilt with his big boss. Henry Ford II, Board Chairman. Ford is reported to have told the company president: "I just don't like you." Well this is the way it is with may people. The late R. Gregg Cherry and the late Dr. Ralph McDonald who served in the N.C. General Assem bly together may have had the same feeling towards each other. Cherry and McDonald ran for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1944 when Cherry won. In coversation one time Cherry was reported to have made the state ment: "I love everybody but I am no damn fool about Dr. McDon ald." By the way to keep history straight. McDonald ran twice for governor, once in 193b when he was J defeated in a run-off by Clyde R. Hoey and again in 1944 by Cherry. LAW FOR UVIN8 By Professor Howard Oleck, Wake Forest Ur.lv School of Law (Distributed by the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers as a public service) North Carolina Bars Boycotts of Citizens Foreign governments and per sons who try to get Americans to violate American law have become a serious problem in recent years. Thus, the Communists and others persistently try to get American Communists and dissidents to be tray U.S. security and other secrets to the Russians. Chinese, etc. -- to help to destroy their own nation. Obviously such cooperation with nations or persons dedicated to our destruction is treason. A more subtle, but equally dangerous problem is the attempt of such nations and people as the Arabl Oil Cartel to set American against American, for the benefit of the foreign powers. This is well illustrated by the Arab Oil Boycott and especially of their boycott of Americans who do business with Israel. The ugliest aspect is the Arab boycott of any American company that has in it workers of the Jewish faith -- on the assump tion that Jews will be sympathetic to the Israeli objection to being annihilated by the Arabs. And the worst of this is the Arab League maintenance of a boycott list, barring trade with an American company that does business with an American company that has Jewish workers in it if it also does business with "Zionists." It is ironic that this obnoxious form of anti-Semitism is carried on by the most Semitic of all people - the Arabs - against people who are of the Jewish religion but whose ancestors mostly never came from the Semitic world. American legislatures, such as the North Carolina legislature, have responded to this kind of war - in - America - by - foreigners - against - Americans. Thus North Carolina enacted a statute in 1977 (Chapter 91b; Senate Bill 515) effective Jan. 1. 1978. making clear that it is a crime to aid the Arab boycott by cooperating with it against fellow Americans. The loss of profit by those who want to. but are forbidden, to aid the boycott is small punishment for the vicious greed that is willing to destroy its own countrymen in order to make money. The statute provides that it is unlawful for any person doing business in North Carolina to directly or indirectly agree "to refuse, fail, or cease to do business in the State with any other person who is domiciled or has a usual place of business in the State, based upon such other person's race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin or foreign trade relationships." This also covers employment contracts, and other kinds of business relationships. Violators may be enjoyed by civil action by the Attorney General, with expenses to be awarded to the injured victim of the boycott. Also, treble damages may be awarded in cases of wilful violation. Also, the victim may employ other remedies against the violator, such as anti trust suit. etc. This is a good statute, in the best tradition of American fair play, as well as in defense of the trust of Americans in each other as fellow citizens. DO TURI1 OFF UnnEEDED UGHTS
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