u. on Besides this, he once again is demonstrating P human life. Kr.?0ut President Carter, by his The crisis at the same time ha g hadn't had since his conduct, a national support he app as caused a divided election, and, apparently, much more. It also America to close ranks, and Khomeini has declared - ? *? ? anwHch meansTha. Khomeini's Iranians probably would be the ^ ~n,n "s moslems^nd Ihlt^homeTnThimself has no influence beyond hts ?^he?reta possibility that he and ^hos.ages^ could * usedjs Suu^ut^o'sign^t^to appeared so far. or a, least been made "tiering the freeing ofthe blacks among rSLSTK. against the American free. .uo? Prp^ident Carter and the State We can say. however, that ettorts to get the hostages ? violence and a, the same time 01 The^' seem^o b^doing a?Ta. can be done, and the best that can bC A^for the future, it seems thjj.hr American to keep trying to do business * llves ol its representatives, or cuf d^plom^^'reiaflons 'completely until a responsible, mature government is organized in Iran. ~BL Overcutting competition? m Bufflom 1an?TranaSo comes a report that a couple ol newspapers had been "Gvercutting. Francisco dailies, the A weekly and others accuse : the large San ^ _ Examiner and the Chrmmh . ot g S ^ San Francisco second be right in the spirit o, our ' inflationary times. ~BL 1 Browsing in the files 1 1 of The News-Journal | 25 years ago Thursday, November 25, 1954 Auto licenses for this area for 1955 will go on sale Wednesday morning, December 1 , at the office of the Chamber of Commerce in Raeford. ? ? * The Raeford Kiwanis Club had the teachers of the white schools of the county as guests at the regular weekly meeting and supper of the club last Thursday night in what has become an annual affair. * ? ? W. Carroll Frierson. colored printing employee of The News Journal for the past two years, became the sixth traffic fatality of 1954 when he was killed in a wreck on the Maxton road about two miles from Raeford between mid night and 1:00 a.m. Sunday. ? ? * T.C. Jones attended a NCEA meeting in Raleigh Saturday as the representative from Hoke County. 15 years ago Thursday, November 26, 1964 A special term of Hoke Superior Court will convene here December 7 to hear charges against two Pinehurst Negroes charged with slaying State Highway Patrolman W.T. Herbin. * * * About 300 Hoke County families have qualified to receive free food under the government surplus commodity distribution program, according to Mrs. C.H. Giles. welfare superintendent. * * * The 23 ? year - old wife of a Fort Bragg paratrooper, mother of three children, plunged to her death five miles West of here Sunday after noon when her parachute failed to open in a skydiving exhibition. * * * Neill Bonnie Blue, 73, died at 1 p.m. Friday at Moore Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst after being in critical condition there for a little over one month. Cracks in civilized world which need welding Energy financing aids considering the decreasing supplies and rising costs of worldwide supplies of petroleum and the increasing of already high costs of making home improvements, government "handouts" and long term, low-interest loans for financing insulating of homes of people short of cash is now a public service. People with poorly insulated homes should be given this help if they can't bear the expense but also encourage them to take advantage of government help. The reason obviously is the stretching of home-heating oil supplies for the whole country. This stretching is necessary till the nation developes sources of energy other than petroleum, though efficient insulation of homes is and always will be a necessity regardless of what material is used, for the reason of keeping family costs down if for no other. In correction with the need to develop non-petroleum sources of energy, and conserve heating oil. North Carolina U.S. Robert Morgan reported in his weekly newsletter to his constituents the passage by the Senate by a vote of 65-19 a bill he has introduced. The bill would create a bank of solar energy. It also would provide interest subsidies to help people who want to insulate their homes and other buildings efficiently. North Carolina Fifth District Congressman Steve Neal of Winston-Salem has introduced a similar bill in the House, and. Morgan reports, "the outlook for its passage is favorable." Morgan's bill would authorize $750 billion for a solar bank within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The money would provide interest subsidies on low-interest, longterm loans to people who install solar-energy systems. The bill also would authorize S4.35 billion for interest subsidies for conservation improvement. "This is not a handout." Morgan says of the solar energy fund proposal. "It will be available to any person wanting to take advantage of solar energy, and. by increasing the use of these systems it is certain that mass production will bring down the cost and increase their efficiency. Of proper insulation, the senator says the Senate has received testimony that "if all our homes and buildings were properly insulated, we could cut our oil consumption drastically. A conservation program is essential if we are to reduce oil importants." Morgan adds cheering comments to his report: "...More has been done in developing solar energy than anyone knows." The White House has installed a solar system to cut down dependence on energy sources and many homes in the nation have turned to the sun for heat. Earlier this year, he adds, telephones, radioes and computers, all powered bv the energy of the sun. were demonstrated in Washington. And solar energy. Morgan points out. "is one source that everyone can agree on. It doesn't pollute, it costs nothing once we are prepared to use it. and the supply is inexhaustible." He closes his letter with "It we can use... solar energy and better conservation. ..in the fight to reduce oil imports, then we will have taken a giant step toward self-dependence and the lessening of inflation. " The senator's and Congressman Neal's bills rate enthusiastic support. Morgan's letter, incidentally, says at its start: "Now that we have lost, at least for the time being, the oil that we were getting from Iran, and with other oil-producing nations threatening to cut their output and increase their prices, the need for substitute types of energy becomes more apparent and more ugrent." It's ironic that the Avatollah Khomeini. Iran's ruler, in creating the current crisis by his listing for the blood of the deposed shah and his accompanying hatred of the United States should provide his "enemv" with this benefit. --BL Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: Some of the 12 candidates-- 10 Republicans. 2 Democrats?now running for President are mad at the TV networks because they won't sell them time to make their formal anouncements. "It's too early." the networks say. "Wait till after January 1." Some political experts say there's another reason, that a network gets only SI 80.000 for a 30-minute political announcement, while it can get S900.000 for its regular show with Sl50.000-a-minute com mercials thrown in every few min utes. These commercials are nec essary to pay the inflated salaries of TV performers. A pound of bacon would have to sell for S100 for its price to equal the inflationary price of some TV personalities. HOW high it would have to go to equal what some of the candidates, if elected, will cost us. I'm not prepared to sav. On the other hand, not allowing President ial candidates to get on television with their own scriopts before the first of the year seems like a spoil-sport atitude. For eleven of the twelve, funning is all the fun they're going to get out of the race. But there may not be money to the TV networks' thinking than we realize. It may not be money at all. Well maybe some but not all. Here's the thing.~^Yoii let can didates get on television now, twelve long months before the election, promising everything they can think of, and two months before voting time next November there may not be anything left to promise. A politician who has run out of something to promise is no fun to watch. Be as dull as a quarterback who can't scramble and throws nothing but incomplete passer. Yours faithfully, It's a Small orld by Bill Lindau Our son Bill was leaving his job to travel. His friends gave him a present for the occasion. It was a set of Brut 33 made by Faberge, Inc. He was given it in Nottingham. England, a few weeks ago. Faberge has places at Iver Bucks. London. England. Also in Paris, Toronto, New York, Milan, and Munich. Also in Raeford. From Nottingham he went to the Continent. In traveling he passed by Arnhem. That was the area the British airborne men were fighting in while the Americans were battling around Nijmegen in World War II. Bill says he saw no scars of the war at Arnhem when he passed by it this month on a train. * * * The Nazis did do some good, if accidentally, for Americans. Among other things, they helped North Carolina's industrial de velopment with its economic bene fits greatly. A postcard seat by Bill from Cologne reminded me of the story of that contribution. Cologne is the home town of Henize Rollman. He and his family owned and operated a prosperous shoe factory there till the Nazis struck. Rollman still has a periodic ache in a kidney to remind him of that, even if nothing else did. He got it when he was beaten on a Cologne street by Nazi Storm Troopers one day in broad daylight in 1939. That, it turned out, was for tunate for the survival of him and his family. If he hadn't been given the meeting, the Rollmans prob ably would have stayed in Ger many, till it was too late to get out and avoid going to a death camp. But the Rollmans, their Cologne factory taken by the Nazis, fled to Switzerland, then to Belgium where they established a new shoe - making business. The Nazis got that one, too, though, when they overran Belgium. Rollman got the news while he was on a ship on the Atlantic on a honeymoon vacation to the United States. Rollman had the essentials to start the family business again. however: the family patents and international credit. He started the business this time in Waynesville, about 30 miles west of Asheville. It's Wellco Shoe Corp^ Not only did the Nazis "give'" North Carolina that industry, but indirectly another. Because Wellco was operating in Waynesville. Dayton Rubber Co. established a plant in adjoining Hazelwood. Dayton supplied Wellco with the materials fo^ manufacturing the Wellco shoes. * * * Thanksgiving week was a day short as far as getting things into the paper was concerned, so on t trip wasn't made and some new# stories were left out. The trip that wasn't made was the one to the Farm - City Week program Nov. 19 at Arabia for picture - taking mainly. It started in the afternoon and ran till dinner. But unfor- . tunately we had to try to do or0 Monday what we usually do on Monday and Tuesday, because the paper was going to press a day early. M To the University of North Carolina students of the present and recent years, last Saturday's football game with Duke probably was viewed with interest only because of the possibility of an upset by Duke. A To Carolina graduates of th" 1930s, '40s, '50s and possibly a little later, it was the Traditional Game of the season. Every school has one like it. If the team wins that Big One. the season has been a success anc^ the coach can work another season? even if that's the only game the team has won. Now the Big Came for the Carolina students is the one with State. For the Carolina graduates of the^ 1920s and earlier, though, Carolinaf had a very good season the week before: the Tar Heels beat Virginia. To those grads of the 1920s, Johnny Branch is one of the immortals of Carolina football, at least equal if not superior to George Barclay. Andy Bershak. Paupi Severin, Charlie Justice. Art Weiner, and later Tar Heel heroes of the Saturdays of fall. Letter To The Editor Editor, The News-Journul Most of the readers of this letter probably hear a constant barrage of criticism of our education system. This criticism from a wide range of our citizenry. It comes from the paper boy who delivers this paper, from the housewife who lines her bird cage with it, and from the most ill-informed of all, the politicians, who would do anything to get their names and confused ideas on page one. Since everyone else has had an ODDortunity to decrv the ills of education, I feel it is time for some one in the education profession to speak out. In this short letter, I would like to, from a teacher's point of view, pont out what is wrong with education. While join ing the ranks of the majority and enumerating the ills of education is an uncomfortable position, certain issues need to be addressed and must be addressed if education is to meet ever-increasing demands. Something is wrong with educa tion when the values of parents and society are so mixed up that we're willing to pay more for a child's toy than we pay for a day, or in some instances, a week of schooling. Something is wrong when students who require an inordinate amount of attention are placed in the regular classroom, and yet the class size is not reduced. Someting is wrong when school systems will not provide enough mimeograph paper, instructional supplies, or up-to-date textbooks and equipment, but will put new lights on a football field, erect fences, or purchase expensive, un needed athletic equipment. Something is wrong with the logic that says spending less for education will force an improve ment in its quality. Something is wrong when teachers must stand in fear of be ing sued by parents because they take strong disciplinary measures while the public has said year after year in the Gallup Poll that discipline is the number one pro blem of our schools. Something is wrong the classroom is recognized as the most important station in educa tion, and yet the teacher is the lowest paid professional in the system. Something is wrong when the 1 public criticizes education lor in adequacies and then votes against funding that would help eliminate those inadequacies, and when governing bodies, such as the county commissioners, continually pare the school budget as if the^ were trying to cut a decayed spot from an apple. Something is wrong when we pay the workers who lay the school building foundation more than we pay those who lay the foundation ior our future society; whcgl teachers are encouraged to teacn understanding, support of. and participation in a democratic form of government, but are criticized for their own political involve ment; when teachers are expected to succeed with all children, yet a^ parents we often fail with one or two of our own; when, as tax payers, we say that because of in flation we must curtail future fund ing for education while inflation itself is the culprit that is gradually eating away at the present educa tion budget. ft Something is wrong when teachers, both tenured and non tenured, stand in fear for their jobs and morale is at an all time low. Something is wrong when, it seems, that principals' evaluations of teacher performance are not t^ be used to help teachers, but ratht? to be used as a tool to "get" teachers. This list easily could be extend ed, but perhaps the most injurious condition that exists in education today is that the public an