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: <w(ie ^Vlewo - journal w ; } NATIONAL NEWSPAPER J ! j<BCI?TIOW fig l?M H mm sustaining ; \ '"^5 MEMUI - 1978 Published K?er> Thurvdat at Kwlord, N.C. 28376 1 19 W. Elwood Avenue Subscription Rales In Adtance Her Year -S8.00 6 Months ? S4.25 3 Months ? S2.2S .1 I DIC KSON >->H . MORRIS I I IN DAL '??s PAUL DICKSON Second Class Postage at Raefurd. N.C. (USPS 388-260) THURSDAY. JANUARY 15. 1981 elcome back hearty welcome and best wishes, of course, for many successful 'ill seasons for Hoke County High School: these sentiments are '< 0 to Tom Jones, returning to Hoke High, this time as head ' ill coach. u condolences at the same time to Glenn Draughon and best u s lor the success he worked so hard for the past year, but which V<l him and his Bucks in his only season as head football -h. uo ? is leaving the position of director of athletics of the Scotland "iv school system to return to Hoke coaching. He left last year !i;'t job after serving as defensive coordinator, and very ablely, M iid coach Clyde Campbell. ?i.'s brings back with him 11 years of experience in high school :k-s. 10 of them as a head coach or an assistant. He also is 1 -(I with a prior knowledge of Hoke High: its organization. Miistration, faculty and students: and the athletics of the 4-A iM"ti on IV in which Hoke plays. 'hen he starts work March 1 he will become the Bucks' fifth since 1971. But he plans to remain the fifth, saying he'll stay iiu as they'll keep me." ^ r/l/ott/i Qz/io&tta PRESS \ , ASSOCIATION Publisher? Editor General Manager Associate Editor Society Editor ~BL ong bus rides ?Misiana's Buckeye HighSchool case is another which points to a ? defect in the federal school busing program. ? *'iv is another case in which students must travel far to go to a ? tool when another is close to their homes. For some students. : l ye is within two miles of home, but a federal judge has ordered "i i<? attend, in the interests of a desegregation plan, a school 15 Miiles from their homes. '? parents of three white girls declined to obey the order and sent " 10 Buckeye. They argued that desegregation wasn't the n that long-distance busing was. Not only did they ignore the .1 order but a Louisiana state judge. Richard Lee. backed them personally enforcing for two days his order that the girls be ? ?' to attend Buckeye. 1 week the federal judge started contempt proceedings against >??>1 the parents of the girls. 1 i-. federal judge can't be criticized for his actions: he has been ms job. in the government-ordered desegregation policy, and ??"i z contempt proceedings for the ignoring of a court order. 1 i s long past time that the federal program take into i.ition the hardships of long-distance busing on children. vM-rnment fears, of course, that relaxing the rules to allow ?? io attend the schools closest to their homes would bring ;n milder form the old separate-and-unequal segregation that "'awed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 1950s. There basis for this reasoning, since segregated housing areas still : hough the situation has been changed to some degree by . "ton shifts. On the other hand, quality of schools has been veil equalized since those days, and the prime evil in ?? ?? 'lion was that black children were getting inferior educations. ? itrageous for any child to have to ride 15 to 20 miles to a 1 which means being away from home up to 12 hours a ? i day -- when one is within two miles of home, just to conform ??*tne mathematical formula made in Washington. ?ncally. before the early '50s. busing was a tool of segregation. place where desegregation made sense visibly could be seen in ??> County. Yancey at the time had only one high school, and it 1 -i whites only. The consequence was that black children had to m hool buses 70 to 80 miles every school day. round trip, to because Asheville had an all-black high school closest to h i i \ C unity. ' > -segregation didn't eliminate busing, but it did eliminate those Imis rides. i he federal authorities should consider riding distances ;mk| their relation to fuel consumption, as well as hardship on hililrcn - and not focus entirely on getting the "proper" ratio of ? -it each individual school. BL This Is The Law Mr-. Smith, an elderly widow ?I . m.< children, wanted to make iih i line would he money lor her i 'Mirr.il and burial. In fact, she > i iiti*tl 10 no so I'ar as to arrange ? ii i own lnneral and pay lor it in .till .IIKT WItjii options are available to hrt ' < )l course, she could n^ike the 1 ti i i - 1 ;? I arrangements wMlh her tMiK i.il director, and she could set the money in her savings ,.V vi ?lilt!. wewessK * ~ Bui North Carolina law also provides protection for her it she ?anis to pay the money to the Mineral director in advance. It she makes the arrangements prior to death and also pays the tuncral director, he must deposit the funds in a bank or savings and loan. If she later changes her mind, she may withdraw the funds. These so-called "preneed burial contracts" are becoming more and more prevalent in North Carolina. It's a Small orld by Bill Lindau Newspapermen used to have a term of contempt for editors who would refrain from attacking pro blems or personalities that needed attacking, in editorials. They'd say the paper was cou- . rageously condemning "commu nism in Afghanistan." The idea in the phrase was, of course, that it takes no courage to criticize something or someone that is far away and very unlikely to see what you have written. But since the world turned as it has in the past 13 months, the term is not an insult, since communism in Afghanistan, backed bv the Russian military occupation, is a proper subject for editorial writers. * * * New Year's Day was a holiday for most people in Hoke County, but The News-Journal people (along with the start at a local restaurant, thank goodness), worked. It wasn't any hardship for me. though, as what work there was to do was possible to do leisurely. Then. too. the morning ride from Southern Pines was no strain, as there was little traffic. A catering truck set the pace from McCain eastward, at about 35 miles an hour. But I had no need to hurry, so that was all right. The hardest part of working that day. was the same as the one of working any day-getting up at 6:15 a.m. (there are dogs and cats to feed and dogs to take walking, and me to feed, before I can leave for Raeford). I used to work on holidays, including Sundays. When I was working on daily newspapers, and that rather frequently was a dif ferent story. Since I was the only reporter on duty, whatever hap pened in the entire area of 10 to 20 counties, depending on the paper's circulation area, was mine to get the information about. In Asheville. one period, there was a sticky killing on each of two successive Sundays. One of them, though, happened to be my day oil. but 1 had to go to the scene (it was Fryon) since the only reporter working that day had his hands lull, or too full. The other happended in Mar shall. Madison County. Jealousy was the motive for each, as it turned out. And in each case, the killer was not convicted. In the Marshall case, the jury found a housewife innocent, and in the other, the killer was never arrested (though "everybody" in Polk Coun ty knew who he was). He had died since, of natural causes. . The only w itness the state had. at the coroner's inquest, was stopped from testifying, because she was the wife of the leading suspect. Under the law. she could have testified only if she had been attacked by her husband. Aside from those crime stories. I also had the "tun'' of gathering material for a story about the bad weather and its effects in the mountains, and forest fires and what started them, how much each burned, and where, and whether they were under control or still being fought. ? * * The first Sunday in June 1953 was a nightmare for reporting, and worse for drivers using that stretch of road: a freak frost had occured during the night, leaving little patches of ice the entire lb miles of U.S. 70 between Asheville and Black Mountain. . In an hour's time. 25 cars and trucks had skidded to everything from some bent fenders to' total losses, but fortunately injuries were miner. The drivers had come upon the patches by surprise. Even in the mountains, no one expects to see ice on the roads in June, even early June. That job took getting hold of the investigating state troopers, who were understandably hard to get hold of, since each investigating one accident after another. But. with the coopeation of the troopers beyond the call of duty, we had the story together and written in plenty of "time to make the first edition. Then on another Sunday, a bus carrying bout 60 people from the Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly ran oft' the mountain near Newfound Gap on the North Carolina-Tenne ssee line in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at night. It is about 60 miles southwest of Ashville. Fortunately no one was injured seriously but I had to get the names of the people who were and were and where they were treated, while a staff photographer was taking the pictures. There also was the investigating officer to interview to find out what happen ed. I didn't have to go all the way back to the office to do the story. Just called from the nearest pay phone, at Cherokee, and gave the info to the city editor, who wrote the story, and kindly put my name on it. The ride from Asheville to the wrecked buses was rather exciting, though. The photographer was in a hurry and drove accordingly. On one stretch between Asheville and Canton, he had his car "riding" the bumper of a car ahead, waiting for a chance to pass. Both cars were running about 20 miles over the speed limit. On another stretch I happened to glance at the speedometer and immediately wished I hadn't: we were doing 90. ? ? ? An even stickier story broke one summer Sunday afternoon in Che rokee. but I happened to be off that day. so a colleague. Karl Fleming caught it. The foot bridge spanning the Ocon*luftv River off U.S. 441. which runs . to Newfound Gap. collapsed and dumped about 40 men. women and children into the water. The river is shallow but it runs over rocks. Most of the people were injured. Fleming won a State Press Association award for that story. Later he moved to the Sundav magazine of the Atlanta Journal. then to the Atlunta Bureau of Newsweek, then to the Los Angeles Bureau of Newsweek (where he got hit by a piece of lumber while covering the Watts riots). He's managing editor of a Los Angeles Television station now. Not bad for a guy who got most of his early education at the Methodist Home in Raleigh which, as is generally known, was for poverty-class kids. ? * * There also were pleasant stories done on holidays. I w as called off a vacation one day to go to the Asheville- Hendersonville Airport to interview an incoming visitor. The visitor was a former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She was on her way to Western Carolina University ' ' ? I ? I_1L_JuLL Haig Biackvmth Shop I' r I "*r The Ovtaar Science Monaot (then Teachers College) to give a lecture. At the same airport 1 also interviewed President Dwight Ei senhour's secretary of the Arnty (I thought it was Cyrus Vance but I doubt it now. as he didn't look like Cyrus Vance does). * * * You can meet all kinds of people in the most unlikely places. I interviewed Richard Nixon (then Eisenhour's VP), on top of Roan Mountain, on the Tennessee-North Carolina line at the northwest corner of the state. 1 also got a picture and a brief interview with Cecil B. DeMille, on the beach near Kitty Hawk. Just happened to run into him while I was working for two weeks for the Elizabeth City Daily Advance. Some of you are too young to remember DeMille. He was famed internationally as a producer of "spectacular" films, with casts of thousands. One thing I still remember from that interview: DeMille was very courtly in the old manner, a gentleman in the old. gracious style. Unfortunately I remember only one statement he made in the interview. Replying to one of my questions, he said he wasn't a native of North Carolina but almost was. His parents' home was in Washington. N.C.. but his mother was visiting in Pennsylvania when he w as born. My lapse of memory is understandable, however. That in terview took place some time in September 1940. * * * And every time Jack Jones sings, off camera, the theme of "The Love Boat." 1 see his father. Allen, also a singer, wearing nothing but a bath towel, wrapped around his middle, and smiling politely, while standing in the door of his hotel room in Charlotte in 1946. I had gone to his room to get an interview, but he didn't have time, he said, apolo getically. Incidentally, if you saw "The Love Boat" episode of a tew weeks ago. you know Allen Jones's voice is still excellent, and hasn't faded in quality with the passing of the yean.. I don't believe Allen ever made it big in the movies. The only movie 1 remember him in he was the love interest with Kitty Carlisle, also a singer but an actress as well, in a Marx brothers' production. And among the celebrities I almost interviewed but didn't were Judy Canova. in Ashville: Ginger Rogers, in San Antonio. Tex.; Walt Disney (Karl Fleming beat me to it. He got up real early and went to Franklin. Disney's people were doing the Davy Crockett movie in the mountains at the time); and Dorothy Lamour. at the Pineville I Dinner Theatre near Charlotte j about three years ago. Dorothy, ' who made the sarong famous back in the late '30s and "40s. appeared in a "Love Boat" piece also recently. Judy Canova. in case you're wondering, is the mother of Diana, a star ot the comedy series. "I'm A Big Girl Now." with Danny Tho mas. and was formerly in "Soap." 1 didn't get to talk with Judy when I 'phoned to her husband lold me in ^ a friendly way she wasn't available n at the moment. Back to Dorothy: she was at Pineville doing a part in a stage comedy and was quite good at it. She played in comedy movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, the "Road" pictures, but as I recall didn't have comic parts in them. Dorothy also was "credited" at one time with nearly destroying the . women's hat industry, by making " the head "kerchief popular. * ? ? It's not generally known, but Hast Carolina University's head football coach. Ed Emory is a former industrial executive. He ran in the Schult Mobile Homes factory at Polkton. about six miles west of Wadesboro. for nearly a year. That a was a few years ago when he was " between coaching jobs. Polkton is familiar territory to Emory. Early in his career, in the l%0s. he coached Bowman High School's football team to the best season Bow man ever .iad. before or since. Bow man is about live miles northwest of Wadesboro. Speaking of football, did any newspaper mention an interesting thing about a couple of the recent bowl games? This is namely that teams coach ed by brothers played in two bowls in the same period -- Vince Dooley's Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar on New Year's Day. and Bill Dooley's Virginia Tech Gobblers in Atlanta's Peach the next day. You f football fans will recall that Bill went to Virginia lech from North Carolina's Tar Heels a few years back . Incidentally. I revealed my gene ral age when I referred to Tech's people as the Gobblers. They're the Hokics now . The name probably was changed after the word "turkey" became a slang insult. f Personally. I feel that the turkey bird is more to be pitied than censured. It can't help having the personality it has. It was born that way and never can make it to the White House, though some critics of our national politics claim that some turkevs have. (Browsing in the files J of The News- Journal) 25 years ago Thursday, January 12, 1956 The congregation of (he Raeford Baptist Chureh accepted ihe resig nation of its pastor, the Rev. James E. Baker. Sunday, and Mr. and Mrs. Baker and their children left Tuesday for Mrs. Baker's home in South Carolina. ? * * The home of the Covington farm, about two and a half miles south ol Raeford on the old Bethel Road, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Hinnant and family and formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Peter McLean, was destroyed by lire ol unknown origin shortly after dark last Saturday night. * * * ' Kenneth W. McNeill got shot in the eye on a dove shoot Saturday at Timberland. and was taken to a Favettcville hospital where it was first thought he would lose his eye. ? ? * The Raeford Chamber ol Com merce closed its license tag olfice in The Bank of Raeford building some time ago. and state tags are not being sold here this vear. * * ? The Bank of Raeford in a report of condition showed assests as of December 31. 1955 of $3,544,812. 34. ? ? 4> Bert Ishee. president of the North Carolina Education Associa tion will address the Hoke County unit of the association at its second meeting of the school year if the Hoke County High School Library tonight. Mrs. Leola Flannerv. untit president, has announced. 15 years ago Thursday, January 13, 1966 A pel il ion culling tor a vote of the people on whether or not package beer sales should he permitted in Hoke County this week was de- | elared invalid heeause ii did not eontain enough qualified signa tures. * * * Hoke County is the fifth fastest growing eounty in the state, accord ing to a recently-released study bv Dr. C. Horaee Hamilton, professor of sociology al N.C. State Univcr sii\ in Raleigh. * * ? * Raeford's high-flying Bucks forged their sixth straight victory Tuesday night, downing Rocking ham. 7h-47. in an impressive victory in Richmond County. ? * * The local saddle club has an nounced the appointment of Jesse Lee as Wagonmaslcr for the annual wagon train to Simpson Lake this summer. ? ? * Cadet John Knox McNeill, son of Mr. and Mrs. John K. McNeill. Jr. of Racford. is a member of the \arsity basketball squad at Castle Heights Military Academy. ? * * Daniel E. Baker, local sales representative for F.S. Royster Guano Company. Wilmington, at tended the annual sales conference for the company at Virginia Beach last week. He was awarded a trophy lor the best all-around salesman for the Wilmington sal"s division.
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