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CASS1E WASKO Reporter
Second Claaa Pomace at Raeford. N.C.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 14, 1978
CETA falls short
The idea behind the Comprehensive Employment Training Act
(CETA) was a good one - provide federal money to hire the
unemployed and train them so they can compete in today's job
market.
But the practical results of the program have largely defeated its
purpose.
Hoke County has gotten word that 27 of its CETA workers will
very likely be without jobs at the end of this month. The federal
money has run out. It comes as no surprise. The program wasn't
meant to last forever.
Since the county can't afford to retain these workers on its own (it
would cost 5181,000). they have been notified to sign up with the
Employment Security Commission for job placement. So the
question is, where are these people going to find their next jobs?
Nineteen of the CETA participants worked as teacher aides in the
local school system. Other counties and other states have also
employed CETA workers in this capacity. And so. when the federal
money stops, it's going to place many more teacher aides in the job
market than there will be openings to accommodate them.
It means many of them will end up drawing unemployment, which
is exactly what the program sought to prevent.
Bucks on the move
The Hoke High School football team played an excellent game
against Clinton last Friday night. It was a non-conference contest,
the first home game of the season, and the Bucks just plain trounced
'em.
The score was 21-6. but Clinton only managed to get on the board
in the final 30 seconds. Our defense harassed them unmercifully,
and our offense rolled over top of them. It was a fine effort all
around and indicates grand possibilities this season for the Bucks.
It's hard to beat the color and excitement of a football game, and
Hoke County has one of the nicest stadiums in the state. You can't
find a field in better condition, even at a lot of colleges.
The Bucks take on Lakewood here this Friday at 8 o'clock. It
should be another exciting game. Make plans to attend.
Public health week
This week is being observed here as Public Health Week, and local
residents are urged to become acquainted with the various programs
and services offered by the Hoke County Health Center, located on
Central Avenue in Raeford.
Health officials presented a program at the library Monday night,
outlining services that are available. Among them are: immuniza
tions. blood pressure checks, sickle cell testing. VD testing, cancer
screening clinics, chronic disease control, chest x - rays, family
planning, maternity clinics, and an eye clinic.
The staff is eager to help, and if you have health problems or just
want to make sure you don't have any. call or go by the center. The
number is 875-3717.
UMV FOR LIVING
By Professor Howard
Oleck, Wake Forest
Univ School of Law
(Distributed by the N.C. Academy ot
Trial Lawyers as a bublic service)
Judges and judicial proceedings
are "absolutely privileged" in most
states and in most cases. The idea
is that a court officer must not be
afraid to do his duty. He must not
be in fear of being sued for
damages if he makes a mistake that
causes injury to someone.
This is why even judges who act
maliciously and with deliberate
intent to injure a party in a lawsuit
usually are held to be immune from
damage suits. The theory is that a
judge who is incompetent or vicious
will be disciplined, or removed, by
the other judges (the "judicial
council"). It is a nice theory, but
lawyers know that removal or even
scolding of a bad judge is so rare as
to be practically non - existent in
fact.
But this "absolute judicial im
munity" does have limits. A recent
1977 case from a state court, in the
U.S. Court of Appeals Seventh
Circuit , did hold a state trial court
judge liable under the federal civil
rights statutes. Sparkman v. Mc
Farlin, S52 F.2d 172, concerned a
judge who ordered the sterilization
of a 15 year old girl. But he had had
absolutely no statutory or case law
right to do this.
The girl's mother had applied for
a court order to sterilize ner child.
There was a statute in the state
permitting sterilization of a person
being kept in an institution, under
specifically stated reasons (e.g.,
iaaantty or the like). But plaintiff -
girl was not institutionalized. She
and her husband pointed out that
there was no statutory authority at
all for a judge just to order anybody
at all sterilized, as he saw fit.
Under the statute, too. an order
could be resisted and appealed
from.
Here the judge could not even
successfully claim to be using his
common law authority. He had
failed even to follow elementary
"due process" principles.
The Court of Appeals, in holding
the judge liable, said: "Not only
was the plaintiff not given repre
sentation. she was not even told
what was happening to her. She
was afforded no opportunity to
contest the validity of her mother's
allegations or to have a higher court
examine whether the substance of
those allegations, even if true,
warranted her sterilization. "
Thus, this judge was acting
"extrajudicially" (outside the law),
and had no judicial immunity in so
doing.
It is sad how often some judges
develop enormous egotism, and
think of themselves as possessing
godlitfe power and immunity. An
honest mistake should not be
grounds for a damage claim against
a judge. But when a judge acts in
arrogant disregard of law and
fairness he should not be immune
from punishment and personal
liability.
'I read somewhere that white smoke means they
agree and black smoke means not yet . .
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HOKUM
By Charles Blackburn
PLEASE SPARE US
There was a young Corsican, a
law - student at Padua, who could,
without hesitation, repeat 36.000
Latin. Greek, or barbarous words,
significant or insignificant, after
hearing them only once.
NEW SHOES
A Raleigh father was taking his
young son to have corrective shoes
fitted. The lad. who loved his tennis
shoes, protested vigorously.
"My leg's gonna hurt a whole
lot." he promised.
"Yeah. I know." said his Dad.
"And I won't be able to plav
ball."
"Maybe you can."
"Well. I'm probably gonna flunk
arithmetic!" he threatened.
HARD ACT TO FOLLOW
In the year 1609. an Englishman
named Banks had a horse which he
had trained to follow him wherever
he went, even over fences and to the
roofs of buildings. He and his horse
went to the top of that immensely
high structure. St. Paul's Church.
After many extraordinary perform
ances at home, the horse and his
master went to Rome, where they
performed feats equally astonish
ing. But the results was that both
Banks and the horse were burned,
by order of the Pope, as en
chanters.
FLATTERING REMARKS
During a campaign an opponent
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
1 have never believed that human
nature doesn't exist in Russia but
according to an article 1 read the
other day the Russian government
has set out to prove it doesn't. It's
seeking a "psychological break
through" that'll make a person like
whatever job he's told to do.
Discovering that its high schools
are turning out too many college
prospects and not enough manual
labor prospects, the Russian lead
ers have issued a mandate to cut it
out. Stop teaching so much litera
ture and other fancy subjects, they
say. Too many students are trying
to make high grades in high school
so they can get into college and
wind up with a desk job.
The school teachers naturally
will comply. I can hear them saying
to their students: "This morning we
will take up the subject of the Joy of
Digging Post Holes." Next day it'll
be "The Delights of Changing A
Flat Tire In Mid - August." The
text books will be written by
somebody who's never done either.
I don't know why, but there are
people who like physical work and
would be miserable behind a desk,
and there are others behind desks
who'd be flops anywhere else. If
Russia can change that she's
working with a different sort of
human being I'm acquainted with.
Personally I like working with my
hands, like turning the pages of a
newspaper or hitting the keys on a
typewriter, but as for digging post
holes and changing flats, those
courses never were offered in the
school I went to.
Yours faithfully.
J. A.
said to Governor Alfred E. Smith of
New York, "I hear you have been
going around lying about me."
"You're lucky," Smith answer
ed. "If I told the truth about you,
you'd have to leave town."
EXPENSIVE SEDATIVE
A prominent officeholder wrote
the Collector of Internal Revenue
as follows: "I have experienced
great difficulty lately in getting
proper sleep because of a guilty
conscience in not having fullv paid
my income tax. 1 am. therefore,
enclosing my check in the amount
of $1,000. If I find that I still
cannot sleep, I will forward to you
the balance."
ARTISTIC LICENSE
Tintoret. an Italian painter, in a
picture of the Children of Israel
gathering manna, took the pre
caution to arm them with modern
guns. Durer, in his scene of Peter
denying Christ, represents a
Roman soldier very comfortably
smoking a pipe of tobacco. In a
Dutch picture of Abraham offering
up his son, instead of the
patriarch's "stretching forth his
hand and taking the knife." as the
Scriptures inform us, he is
represented as holding to Issac's
head a more effectual and modern
instrument - a blunderbuss. In a
picture by Verrio of Christ healing
the sick, the lookers - on are shown
with periwigs on their heads. A
French artist drew the garden of
Eden with Adam and Eve in all
their primeval simplicity and
virtue, while near them, in full
costume, is seen a hunter with a
gun, shooting ducks.
Read 1 John 3: 1 -3
"When he appears we shall be
like him." (1 John 3:2 RSV)
When I was newly entered in
Chaplain's School, a drill sergeant
lined us up. He chose eight men
who were of an even height and said
to us. "You are the Honor Squad.
You will represent this school in the
drill competition."
After we were dismissed I went to
him and said. "Sergeant, you will
have to get someone else. I have no
sense of rhythm. I am awkward. I
am dumb. I will foul everybody
up."
He said to me. "I've noticed that.
You are awkward. You are dumb.
You are on the Honor Squad."
Then he worked us, and we were
all what I said I was. But he worked
us. When the day of competition
came, we were good. We were very
good. We won. We were the Honor
Squad.
You and I are not what we ought
to be, but we do belong to Jesus
Christ. He can take us as we are
and make us what we ought to be.
We are His. and He will shape us.
PRAYER: O Lord, fashion us
after Your will. Amen
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: We
are not pushed by the past, but
pulled forward by the future.
- copyright- THE UPPER ROOM
??John B. Warman (Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania)
CLIFF BLUE...
People & Issues'
mnamnaMMMi
FREE MEALS -- In Washington
County and probably others, free
meals were provided to more than
half, or 57.7 percent of students in
the county last year while 29.8 were
paid. Reduced price meals
amounted to 12.3 percent. No
major changes are expected this
year.
GENE ON CARTER - Gene
Smith, editor of the Havelock
Progress in Craven County, in
commenting on President Carter's
standing in the polls, writes:
"Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford and now
Carter have all faced this problem,
losing support in mid - term when it
is weighed against their first week
after election or first week after
inauguration. We've often thought
the incumbents let such happen,
wanting to see their popularity polls
drop during the first two years so
they could 'bottom out' and then
catch the groundswell of the re
bound as they began their serious
re - election campaign."
TODAY & 20 YEARS AGO ?
An editorial in the Halifax County
"This Week" newspaper says:
"Twenty years ago there were/
fewer than 100 federal - aid
programs for state and local
governments, totalling $2.2 billion,
and amounting nationwide to 10.4
percent of all state and local
government funds. Today there are
more than a thousand federal
grant, loan and subsidy programs
scattered through a confusing
bureaucratic maze . . . The total of
the various programs today is more
than $85 billion and represents
2b. 2 percent of all state and local
revenues." No wonder Uncle Sam
is in debt head over heels and more
so with each passing day.
CHURCH SCHOOLS -- With
the low rating of a number of the
public schools in North Carolina,
many people may feel that it would
be in the interest of quality
education if the State remained
hands - off the church schools, as
indications are that they are getting
along as well, if not better, than the
state - supported schools.
COMPETENCY TESTS ??
While some people have been
critical of the Competency Testing
program in our public schools,
from what we can hear the great
majority feel that it is one of the
best approaches to determining the
quality of class - room teaching that
has been initiated in North Caro
lina in quite a while. We think it's a
move in the right direction.
CHEROKEES - The county
commissioners in Cherokee County
are concerned about road making
decisions. According to the Chero
kee Scout the county commis
sioners recently criticized state
secondary roads policy in a meeting
with state highway engineers.
While the Cherokee commissioners
declined to take official action on
the matter the discussion was
spirited and the commissioners
made their views known.
SHERIFF GOODMAN -- Sher
iff R.W. Goodman of Richmond
County has requested and secured
a commitment from the county
commissioners stating that the
county will support law enforce
ment officers if legal action is
brought against them. Goodman
said the officers need to know thet L
will have the county's support it?
they go into a situation with good
intentions and an error in human
judgment is made. The commis
sioners agreed that the county will
provide defendants in such action
with legal assistance.
BREATH OF FRESH AIR -- An
editorial in the Franklin Times has
this to say about Governor Hunt's
proposal for tax relief: Governor
Hunt's proposal for a tax rebate to
North Carolina taxpayers is a
breath of fresh air to taxpayers who
realize that as long as government
income increases government ex
penditures increase accordingly . . .
Although state officials and pos
sibly state workers may oppose the
tax rebate. Governor Hunt would
do well by the people to give that
relief if possible as inflation eats
away at their spendable income."
AN OPPORTUNITY ? While at
this writing we do not know what
the outcome of the Camp David
meeting between President Carter,
Israeli Prime Minister Begin and
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat,
we feel sure that President Carter
made the most of his Christian
background and teachings to bring
the two leaders of the Bible land of
old together to work out their
problems in a friendly and
Christian atmosphere of "do unte r
others as you would have others d^! ?
unto you." The meeting was a great
opportunity for President Carter,
and also for Begin and Sadat. We
hope that the three made the most
of it.
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, September 10, 1953
At its regular monthly meeting
Tuesday night the board of com
missioners of the Town of Raeford
began to get the machinery in
motion to get several of the town's
streets paved in the next few
months.
? * *
Representative H.A. Greene an
nounced this week that there would
be a meeting at the courthouse at
8 o'clock Monday night of citizens
interested in passage of the two
bond issues by the voters ot the
state in the election on October 3.
? * ?
At the final game of the 1953
Carolina League baseball season in
Fayetteville Monday night Mai
McKeithan, Raeford's contribution
to professional baseball received a
nineteen - jewel Elgin wrist watch
for being the most popular player
on the Fayetteville squad this year.
* ? *
Tobacco prices on the Aberdeen
market for September 8 was for an
average of S5/.71 per hundred.
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A large crowd is expected for the
opening football game at Armory
Park Friday night when the Hoke
High Bucks open against Chad
bourn. Captain Benny McLeod will
lead the backfield forces from the
left halfback position and the
speedy swivels hipped youngster is
one of the few bright spots in the
present setup.
* ? ?
J.M. Broughton, Jr., Raleigh
attorney and son of the late
governor and United States sen
ator, spoke to the Raeford Kiwanis
Gub at its regular weekly meeting
in the high school cafeteria last
Thursday night.
15 years ago
Thursday, September 12, 1963
Hoke County airport committee
was advised last week to hire an
engineer to develop the project,
which must get under way before
Jan. 2 if $10,000 in federal funds is
to be available.
* * *
Hoke County Public Library
today neared its goal in a drive for
$3,270 with which to renovate the
library building on West Elwood
Ave.
Neill Adams McNeill. 78. long
time resident of Raeford. died in
Moore Memorial Hospital at Pine
hurst last Thursday night after a
brief illness.
* * ?
Bryan Miller of Rockfish has
accepted the position of choir
director at Raeford Methodist
Church.
? * ?
Halfback Eddie Baker, just out
of the bed with a virus infection,
came off the bench, Friday night to
score two touchdowns for Hoke
High, giving the Bucks a 14-7 come
- from - behind victory over
Lumberton.
? ? ?
Hoke County Civic Center has
been equipped with 100 folding
chairs and 12 si* - foot folding
tables and is ready for use. Charles
Hostetler, president of the center,
told the clubwomen at the Home
Demonstration Club CountvC]
Council Tuesday. < "W
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A quarterly report filed by
Mayor H.R. McLean shows that of
the 88 cases handled by him in
Mayor's Court. 67 were for traffic
violations.