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^te ^Ylew* - NATIONAL NEWSPAPER mbhi ^ suTiUNINC PRESS ASSOCIATION PWtUaM E?w; TkwWaj al K?*ri N.C. 2*17* 119 W. Etwaorf Avhmm . . ? .. .. - MtcriftiMifaMirMiaM Prr Ymt?U.00 6 MmMJm?S4.2S 3 M?r*? *2.23 PAUL DICKSON SAMC. MORRIS . HILL LINDALI MKS. PAUL DICKSON LASSIE WASKO SkmkI ClaM Pnaagi at fUafard, N.C. ? Saciaij Edilar THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1979 Help for Children's Center Last week s appeal for county financial support to keep the Hoke C ounly Children's Center open raised two questions. One is: why is the federal government cutting down its support of this program (to 75 percent from 100 percent of the budget)? I he other is: why the private cerebral palsy program isn't helping? Judy Hendrix told the Hoke County commissioners, then The Ractord City Council the Center needs to get $15,000 of its 560,00 budget locally for the next fiscal year or close up. The reason is. she said, that the federal Title XX program will provide 75 percent for the next year instead.QCaU.the funds, as ft"has ix.cn doing the past-two years." Replying to" a question, she told the City Council that financial support from the cerebral palsy group wasn't available to the Center, lor reasons she didn't know. The question arose because four- of the children being helped by the Center have cerebral palsy. Consequently it is natural to expect the Center can get money from that source. The annual campaign raises millions nationally, every year, and Hoke County people give to the campaign every year. The value of the Center to the handicapped children has been and is being demonstrated regularly. It is one program that has been worth what has been spent on it and should be maintained. Some help certainly should come from the cerebral palsy account, and the rest should come from the federal governmnet. There must be an explanation of why it hasn't come from CP and why the federal people have cut their support, but it hasn't been made public yet. BL Separate wardens necessary The Hoke County commissioners made the right choice last week in providing for appointment of a county dog warden instead of looking for a joint, cost-sharing program with the City of Raeford. Though a joint program would save some money for the county, the combined city and county responsibility is more than one warden can handle properly. Archie Clark, whose death left the county position to be filled, picked up about 1.200 dogs a year in the county areas outside the city. The warden is subject to call at any time of the day or night. The city also has a leash law the warden must enforce. This says essentially dogs must be kept on a leash or under other control by their owners. The purpose is to protect people and their property, the latter from damage to ordinary nuisance (such as overturning of garbage cans). In this connection, newly arrived dog owners in town should be informed immediately of the leash law. This was suggested by a writer to The News-Journal. "New people who move in don't know it." the writer says. The card also adds that "people who do know are getting less and less inclined to enforce it. And soon this will create as bad a situation ;is before it was passed." Hie writer likes dogs, he notes, but not when they are allowed to run loose. Besides picking up dangerous and sick strays and others wandering loose and those showing no tags indicating they've been inoculated against rabies, the dog warden has the responsibility of taking care of the animals in the pound and notifying people their dogs have been impounded. Doubling up on city and county Jog convr?l-? not So simple as doubling up. tor example, on tcash .collection. Handling dogs also lakes some one with a humane attitude toward animals, as Mr. Clark had. It's not a job that should be done in a hurry, which it would have to be. il it covered both city and county. I lien. too. Hoke County's reputation must be considered setting up the best system possible. A mismanaged dog-control program can give a county a bad one far beyond its boundaries, and rather quickly. BL This Is The Law In the trial of a case, civil or criminal, the various "officers of the court" have various functions. The principal officer of the court is the judge. He rules on points-of law and insists-upon-an orderly trtah procedure. In addition, if there is no jury, he also decides the facts. The sheriff and his deputies keep order in the courtroom and take charge of the jury. The court reporter makes a transcript of the proceedings and marks exhibits for identification. The Cle?k of Superior Court, or one of his assistants, keeps the records of court proceedings. The lawyers, even those in privatej>r*ctKe. *ic-*teo offlCWS of the court. Their duty is to present "thlTCTidence and argue the llw for their clients. Trial lawyers are advocates. They put forth their client*' side of the case so that the judge and jury may reach a just decision. In a criminal case this could mean that the client's side of the case is merely a statement of "not guilty" since the State always has to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. 'Coconut oil? Olive oil? Peanut oil? Cottonseed oil .. .?' n,. 1 i Christian Sc*nc? Monrtoi ?i?? iiiin \<?; n iin iim ; i nii/iilHI It's a Small Vi^orld lYiViftiiiii , ?J3iWWEr~By Bill Lindau Spring arrived March 1, no matter what the calendar says. Ann Webb said so the other day. Tne reason is the first tourists of thenew year stopped at her house. Iney are two purple martins. I ney took up in one of the gourd nests she keeps on the premises. I wo more moved into another apartment the next day. Between then and March 7, six more couples arrived. A1/1 expects they'll keep coming in pairs till all 24 of the gourds are occupied The nests are up on a home - made tree. ? ? * Since most traffic accidents are caused by bad_ manners-. good Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: Some people are always claiming Kaeford could use a new industry. I m planning on opening one. Let me explain what it is and how I got the idea. 6 You see. it looks like it's taking Egypt and Israel longer to sign a peace treaty than most countries take to break one. As I understand it, they can't get together on the wording, which is another indication of the low state of writing these days, as anybody who has read a best-seller lately can testify. However there is a solution to the problem. I ran across it in an article in a magazine last night. A big company is coming out with a ballpoint pen that uses erasable ink. Erases so clean you can't tell anything was written on a piece of paper. That's the answer to the Egypt Israel hang-up. Stop quibbling over words. Get the television cameras in place on the White House lawn, shake hands, embrace, and sign anything put in front of you. Then go back home and keen an eraser handy. It s the answer to broken treaties iLV 'ht Tld' ,f China a"d Viet Nam had one of those new pens when they signed a treaty a few years ago. all they'd have had to do was erase their signatures, maintain international morality, and fight each other without being conscience-stricken about it. Russia and the United States cant agree on the wording of a anH Ir agreeument? Sign anything and keep the erasers and guns handy. Chief Sitting Bull, show us *nere anybody signed that treaty you keep talking about. . This new invention opens the way tr"[y Si?nin?s "8ht "d left all over the globe, and here's ere my idea for a new industry conies in. ' 1X1 can get theTinanciat backing ? m going to open up an eraser foory out ta M., Lve ,o k?p it operating around the clock. I'll sign a note for operating money if I can get hold of one of those new pens. irnX*alLln0 ?. enterPrise. I don't ,knT *h? 1 *'jnning the revolution ? iUt theuf,rm that nLZrl * w rd*d Khomeni placards must be doing all right. Yours faithfully. J.A. manners ought to be encouraged. The Asheville Jaycees, for ex ample, once had a practice of giving recognition to courteous drivers. Driving his persona] (unmarked) car, a Jaycees would pick a vehicle at random and follow it for several blocks, observing the way it was handled, like refraining from cut ting across another vehicle's path and slowing down to allow pe destrians to cross the street before making a turn, generally observing all the traffic rules and signals, and respecting the other driver's right - of-way. If the observed driver's conduct satisfied the observer, the Jaycee would signal the driver to stop, then congratulate him or her give the driver a certificate compliment ing him or her for cnnrtyr>ns (safe) driving," and the story of the courteous-driving citation would be published in the local newspaper. . 1 remember it after exper iencing it about 25 years ago. I got one and I still feel proud of it. It was a particularly remarkable achievement because at the time I had two children and a large dog named Duncan in the car with me. It's something that Hoke County Jaycees or any other organization might consider sponsoring in co operation with the county law enforcement officers. ? * * A bad night on the tube can become an educational thing On checking the ABC. NBC and t-Bb stations one evening, I found nothing 1 considered worth the time to watch. So 1 switched to Channel 4 (the educational channel. UNC-TV). There I was greeted with a discussion of the progress being made in the development of con trolled thermonuclear fusion re actions as a source of energy. So naturally I switched back to one of the situation comedies. After watching that for a couple of minutes. I switched back to the thcrmonuke program. It was informative at least, and also more entertaining than any thing else on the tube incidentally, it will be quite a while before controlled thermo nuclear fusions will be heating and lighting the old home place. For the information of those who haven't poked around in nuclear matters, the blast of a hydrogen bomb is a thermonuclear fusion reaction that isn't controlled. The energy is produced by the coming together (fusion) of nuclei of atoms This is the opposite of the so-called atom bomb. The energy of the atom bomb is created by the splitting of nuclei. When the fusion work becomes successful -- meaning when fusion reaction can be maintained contin uously -? it will provide a source of energy whose fuel will be sea water and will produce no radioactive waste. This means that, eventually, Jtjcrony kes.could b?-?mnmg -cars'. - trucks, trains, planes, generators and every other gadget that now 8as- ?il. coal, or gasoline. That, of course, is years away, maybe 100, since no reaction up to now has been sustained even for more than a fraction of a second, and the best way to achieve a sustained fusion reaction hasn't even been found yet. But the hope itself is a bright light in a dark sky. CLIFF BLUE... People & Issues i ? -41MMY-GRCEN - I havnv tulked with Jimmy Green or any of his inside advisors regarding the rumors thai are going on about his joining the Republican Party and running tor governor on that ticket in 1980. My first thought was that it was preposterous. As time passed and the talk continued. I thought about Jesse Helms leaving the Democratic Party in North Carolina, joiningupwith the RepuUicans and wiiuiing the election. That, of course was in 1972 when McGovern was the Democratic candidate for President, and Nixon, running for re-election carried every state except Massachusetts. 1 also thought of Strom Thurmond in South Carolina who seems to win on any ticket lie chooses to run on - even by a write - in vote, which was the way he won his first election to the United States Senate many years ago. Thurmond had served as a Democratic governor of South Carolina. In 1948 along with Governor Wright of Mississippi. Thurmond bolted the Democratic Party and ran for President on the States Right Party, carrying four states. Alabama. Louisiana. Mississippi and South Carolina. In 1972 Thurmond sought re-election to the United States Senate as a Republican and won, and again in 1078. he won as a Republican. A few years ago U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. switched from _jhat of a Democrat To~lhat as an Independent and won. Here in North Carolina in 1972. Helms who had been an active Democrat, serving as administrative assistant to the late U.S. Senator Willis Smith, signed up with the Republican party and won over Congressman Nick Galifianakis, a Democrat, for the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 795,248 to 677,293. Last year ? in 1978 Helms won re-election ,ovcr Insurance Commissioner Ingram by a vote of 619,151 to Ingram's 516.663. On the other hand. Governor Jim Hunt is regarded as a strong vote - getter. He won big for lieutenant governor in the primary and general election in 1972 when Nixon and Holshouser were carrying the state. Again in 1976 he won over a field of able candidates in the first primary for governor, and again inJhe generic election by a vote of 1.081^93"to 564,102 tor David Flaherty, Republican. Hunt has a built - in organization ready to go against any opponent. Yes, just some musings concerning 1980! V DRINKING - The Vietnam er7 saw 18 states accept the argument "old enough to light, old enough to be an adult" and dropped legal drinking age to 18. Now. with teen-age alcoholism on the rise, lawmakers in several statdf have changed their minds. Main? Michigan have restored the age limits of 20 and 21 respectively. Minnesota, Montana and Iowa compromised at 19. In Massachusetts the Senate has acted to raise the age to 19 and the House wants to raise it to 21. Mike Donovan, an assistant t?' Boston's police-commissioner, termed the lowering or the drinking age to 18 "a disaster." State Secretary or Transportation, Tom Bradshaw. says: "North Carolina has more driving under the influence arrests per capita than anf? other state." Continuing, Bradshaw said: "Studies indicate this is especially true as the consumption of alcohol increases every year.'* DINNERS - On Friday, April 6. the annual Democratic Legislative Alumni will hold its meeting at tb^ Hilton Motor Inn in Raleigh. ?Xhe annual Jefferson - Jackson Day dinneT will be held in Ralcigh.op Saturday, April 7, at the Civic Center. WATER - Water, an absolutf J necessity of life; too much of it cai9 be as destructive as tire, and without it man or beast cannot live. People seldom bccomc concerned about it unless there is too much or too little, or when it becomes polluted to the extent that it is unusuable by man or animal. Meetings have started this week - the first being hied on March 12 In Greenville. Others will be held across the state as follows, Monday, March 19, CarmicNcI Humanities Lecture Hall, Asheville; and Tuesday, March 27. Hall of Justice, Winston - Salem^ both at 7 pjn. Citizens concerne? about water quality are urged to voice their opinions at one of these meetings. Browsing in the files? of The News-Journal 25 years ago Thursday, March 11, 1954 The State Highway Patrol got one of its "Whammies" working in the county again last week with the result that there were 32 cases of speeding on the docket for Tues day's session of Hoke recorder's court before Judge T.O. Moses. * * * Clyde Upchurch. Jr.. Chairman of the Hoke County chapter of the American Red Cross, announced this week that the officers and men of Battery 'A'. 130th Antiaircraft Battalion, local National Guard unit, has accepted the responsibi lity of conducting the annual Red Cross drive in Hoke County this year. ? ? * The need for a "permanent, bLpajlisafl.-lorcipTSiJ'ge Nation al farm program >ghich will not be jeopardized by every shift in the political winds" was stressed here Friday by State Agriculture Com missioners L.Y. Ballentine. ? ? ? From Rockfish News: The landscape gardening is still going on Fayetteville St., but some of the lawns look very much neglected. * ? ? Baseball practice started at Hoke High last Wednesday with 21 hopeful candidates out to win starting positions. ? ? ? ? One of the finest and best coached girls basketball teams ever produced at Hoke High won the Fayetteville Invitational Tourna ment Friday night over a scrappy Lumberton team by a score of 76 to 69. Hodgin. Guin. Dark. Scull. McLean. Everleigh and Linthicum all turned in a Tine job for the Hoke team. 15 years ago Thursday, March 12, 1964 The Board of Directors have accepted the resignation of R.B. Stone as manager of Raeford-Hoke Chamber of Commerce, Harold Gillis, president, announced. ^ ? ? ? Hoke County Recorder's Court completed its 10,000th case since January, 1950, this week and began a new with case number one. ?? ? Sheriffs officers destroyed two stills and arrested four men in Bluf Springs Township during the week end. i ft Two cucumber sheds and grad? ing stations are being erected itj Hoke County by two firms whidj -will-encourage increased -produay tion this spring. ? Three Hoke school basketbalf players, Nat Heyward, Don Koomg| and David Hodgin, have made tl7 second team of the District II; all-star squad. ? * * Robert Michael (Mike) Woo^f 22. has passed examinations before the N.C. Board of Pharmacy and is now a registered pharmacist. ?William Monroe McFadgen. 84.' a lifelong resident of Hoke County and a prominent farmer here, died Tuesday at 10 p.m. at Cape Pear Valley Hospital. Favetteville. * ? ? ? ? How much more money will residents of Hoke County have in their pockets this year, thanks to the new reductions in federal income taxes? The answer: about $676,680. ?
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