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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1981
Sunday beer sales
The Hoke County commissioners are due to consider on August
17 whether to allow the sale of beer in Hoke County on Sundays.
The sales would be for off-premises consumption and would be
permitted by stores which already have permits to sell beer.
County Commissioner Danny DeVane in proposing that Sunday
sales be permitted said the present situation is unfair to Hoke
County stores, since neighboring Moore County, within a 30-minute
drive of most Hoke people, permits Sunday sales. He also added,
however, he is against Sunday sales but believed they should be
permitted for the reason he stated.
The setting of the date for possible action by the commissioners on
a formal resolution allowing the sales gives time for Hoke County
people to organize both protests against and support for the
proposal.
One resident raised an objection to Sunday sales as soon as they
were proposed at the commissioners' July 20 meeting: he lived in a
neighborhood which has stores which have beer sales permits, and
he didn't want to seem them selling on Sunday.
Other questions the commissioners will have to decide before
acting on the proposal include these. Will the expanded sales create
more problems for law enforcement officers?
Should alcoholic beverages be made more available in the county
than they already are?
Should the Hoke County government maintain the present status
in traditional Christian reverence for the Sabbath?
The answer to the first question can be obtained by checking the
law enforcement agencies of Moore County, with its area and
population far greater than Hoke's, which has allowed beer sales on
Sunday by town and county ordinance for many years.
As for the second question: Hoke people who enjoy having a beer
on Sundays merely stock up at their favorite stores before Sunday, or
drive to a neighboring county on Sunday if they run out.
The answer to the third question is a matter of personal religious
conviction. If expressed by many, the convictions naturally would be
considered by the commissioners as seriously as they would the
possible enlargement of the law enforcement problem.
There is plenty of time for the commissioners to get the necessary
information and the sentiments of Hoke County people before they
take up the subject of Sunday beer sales on August 17.
-BL
CLIFF BLUE . . .
People & Issues
PRESS CONVENTION -- The
N.C. Press Association, which in
cludes the dailies and non-dailies,
held it's 108th annual convention in
Pinehurst last Thursday, Friday
and Saturday until noon.
Lee Weathers of Shelby suc
ceeded Frank Daniels of the Raligh
News and Observer as president of
the N.C. Press Association. The
Association meets twice a year. The
winter meetings are at Chapel Hill
in January. The summer meetings
are rotated between Asheville,
Pinehurst and Wilmington.
Newspaper conventions, like
other trade associations, are a time
when people in the same trade get
together and swap ideas and
problems, in addition to holding
formal sessions.
U.S. Seantor John East was the
guest speaker for the Frtday
evening banquet. The freshman
senator discussed the many duties
of being a U.S. Senator, which
included the consumed time in
answering roll-calls in the august
body. He said a majority of the
roll-calls were not of significance,
but, if you didn't go on record then
it was a point an opposing candi
date could make a big issue of.
PINEHURST. INCORPO
RATED -- Pinehurst, Incorporated
and the Village of Pinehurst of
Pinehurst adopted some zoning
laws that Pinehurst, Inc. did not
like at all, after a lengthy hearing.
After the adoption of the Zoning
that Pinehurst, Inc. did not like.
Village Town Manager Suggs said:
"We received a letter in which we
were instructed to remove all city
vehicles from the property they
were on and turn in all keys at the
close of the dav."
TAXES -- Taxes is one of the
oldest issues in government. In
Washington taxes Ts a prime issue
and has to do with any issue to
provide an additional service.
Taxes were the paramount issue in
the recent General Assembly. And
everytime an additional service is
advocated it hits the nerve point of
taxes. In fact the chief issue in our
war for Independence was taxes --
"Taxes without Representation."
TOBACCO SEASON -- Tobacco
harvesting in 1981 is a far cry from
what it was in past years when
everything was done by hand from
setting it out in the springtime to
maketing it in the fall.
Back in the early days of tobacco
curing you didn't think of market
ing it until all was cured and placed
in the pack barn and allowed to
age.
Now you start marketing the
golden leaf soon after the first barn
is taken to the pack house.
In the early days of harvesting
tobacco, a sled, drawn with a mule
carried the tobacco which had been
primed by the men to the barn
where mostly women-folks strung it
up in the shade, and the men-folks
hung it up in the barn at the close
of the day.
Modern mechanism has taken
much of the toil and sweat from
this method of 50 years ago.
Tobacco this year appears to be
selling higher than ever before,
S 159.95 on opening day in the
Sandhills markets.
WASHINGTON STAR The
Washington Star, once Washing
ton's leading newspaper, an
nounced last week that it would
cease publication on August 7th.
Owned by Time, Inc., the Star
announced that it had been losing
S20 million a year for the past three
years. The Washington Post, in
recent years, has surpassed the Star
in circulation and advertising.
MOORE DEMOCRATS --
Moore County Democrats Execu
tive Committee has decided against
taking the issue to Federal court
regarding the General Assembly's
dividing the county between the
Sixth and Eight congressional dis
tricts, the first and only county to
be divided in North Carolina.
Gone with the wind?
Sign in a downtown Southern
Sfn" SS?P Which offcrs service to
coin collectors:
If coins are outlawed, onlv
outlaws will have coins."
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John Hurt, a British actor, got
very favorable publicity from the
of "Th ClcVCSuWho Saw the Prev>ew
h, H* E'eP?a,1t Man." in which
he played the deformed hero.
drama" Wpontd his background in
r.owUli jddly enou8h, the articles 1
read did not mention his superb
performances as the degenerate
?.^.^ula' in the
has been shft ? scrics which
nas been shown, twice, on educa
nonal television (Channel 4, UNC
Dol i1", this area>; and as
Raskalnikov, the tragic student, in
ri! . dra(natlzation of Fyodor
Dostoevsky s "Crime and Punish
ment, also a British production
shown on Channel 4.
? *
Speaking of Channel 4 (the
.u?, r Public Television-CPT in
^TVgu'des), it's a good idea to
check that one for good fiction and
nonfiction A couple of weeks ago,
for example, the outlook on the
commercial stations was dull so 1
turned to CPT> channel in The
belief that anything would be more
tha"what ABC, NBC
w??, ,WaS ?ffering at the ??e.
What I saw was the beginning of
a piece about Cecil Rhodes, Bri
tain s empire-builder in Africa.
The first scenes didn't look verv
promising but I hung in there, and
was rewarded for my persistence.
The work was one of the rare
ones in entertainment. At times
you see excellence in form, but not
IheSn?hStanCe' and at othcr times,
the other way around. Rarely do
tl/" whatJ^ exccl,ent in both,
rare ones was one of the
rhimt ""I- SuCl.1, il is a Pro,rait of
isrifv hJ- theJatter quarter of the
1800s dedicated to expanding per
sonally the British Empire8 To
carry out his plan; he accumulated
tremendous wealth, not for his
personal profit, but to buy the
power he needed, as well as money
to reach his goal.
He also was one who wouldn't
let principles interfere with his
The televised story brings
this out. Yet, it also shows Rhodes
wasn t all cold-blooded zealot The
aSorra,?arnHKenneth(?) ^n an
wntcr- shows in one
capable8 nXfamrPl<; that Rhodes was
? a [CC,'ng tremendous
love, and the suffering ihar
sometimes goes with it.
Rhodes, Griffin tells us was a
bit of Churchill and a bit of Hitler
States ftluvtM* l?T thc United
Rhodc? s dream and his life
ended some time after his private
army conquered the land that was
RhJ? nam5Cl in his honor,
Rhodesia, and before he could go
'he^Brittsh Empire.'**" '"Cl1 im?
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And here's an idea that seems to
make sense:
"The world cannot continue to
wage war like physical giants and
to seek peace like intellectual
pygmies." - Basil O'Connor,
speaking to the National C'on
toence of Christians and Jews in
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.J??T!time#' your Phone "ngs.
hi? Ju?TlifcOUt the partT ca"ing
as dialed the wrong number, and
,o,, di" ,,k
When you dial the wrong Area
Code you get interesting results.
At home in Southern Pines,
every now and then we get people
who are dialing our home,
692-2246, but it turns out they
want to talk with somebody in
Hendersonville. Somebody in
Hendersonville has the same
number, but the Area Code is 704,
and ours is 919.
I also got to talk to some lady
with a French accent twice in one
day a few years ago.
1 was trying to call Hamlet,
which has the 919 Area Code.
When I got the lady with the
French accent the second time, 1
asked what city she was in. She
said, "Quebec".
The Area Code for the province
of Quebec which is in Canada, is
819.
1 finally got my Hamlet call
through simply by watching what I
was doing with the dial.
You do get to meet interesting
new people by dialing wrong
numbers, though.
* * *
The English language, I was told
many years ago, is a language of
position.
Sometimes you get funny
looking results when you get
careless with the position of the
words you use for making a
sentence.
One common to newspaper is
the sad story of the man who got
shot "Tuesday in his back porch."
Then I read this one published in
last week's edition of a Piedmont
area newspaper:
"A former kindergarten teacher
was found guilty of shoplifting two
jars of coffee in District Court
Tuesday." Now that took a lot of
sheer gall: shoplifting right in
District Court.
Of course, we're all for freedom
of the press, but we also believe in
freedom from the press on occa
sion.
For examples, there was the case
of the Asheville television reporter
of a while back who came barging
into a coroner's inquest with a TV
cameraman on his heels just as a
witness was ? testifying about a
homicide.
All business promptly stopped,
and the witness went into shock.
Immediately, the coroner
ordered the TV team to get out.
"Freedom of the press!" the
reporter hollered.
Nevertheless the dismal duo was
ejected.
Then there was the reporter
photographer who charged into
the emergency room of North
Carolina Memorial Hospital. He
was out to get a picture of the
victim of a shooting.
A surgeon was just about to start
work on the victim, who had just
been rendered unconscious with
ether.
The photographer was using a
camera which fired a flash bulb,
which he intended to use. Ether,
however, is highly inflammable,
and the whole room would have
been engulfed in flame if the bulb
had been Fired.
Immediately, the doctor ordered
the photographer to get out. The
cameraman, however, started to
give him an argument and raised
his camera again. After a struggle,
the cameraman and his camera
were removed from the emergency
room to a place of safety, the
patients' and doctors' as well as his.
This incident didn't interfere
with his career. He wound up with
a good reporting job on a large
Midwestern daily. I don't know
whether they let him take any pic
tures, though.
Letters To The Editor
Editor. The News-Journal
For 750.000 North Carolina
handicapped citizens, the designa
tion of 1981 as the International
Year of the Disabled Person is of
special significance as they strive to
become fully integrated into society
and the economy of this state.
North Carolina, through the
Division of Vocational Rehabilita
tion Services of the Department ot
Human Resources, supports pro
grams designed to aid handicapped
persons in achieving these goals
Through the intervention of Voca
tional Rehabilitation (VR) pro
grams. thousands of disabled per
sons are given the opportunity
to overcome or reduce their voca
tional handicap and to obtain the
skills necessary to enter the labor
force. VR focuses on handicapped
persons of working age who have
work potential. It also aids 20,000
youths under age 21 and nearly
1,000 individuals over age 60.
The state helps to support 51
sheltered workshops where handi
capped persons are individually
evaluated as to their skill level and
work potential and placed into a
suitable program designed to assist
them to employment. Many are
hired to work at the workshop while
some are able to secure work in
competitive employment.
The Adult Developmental Acti
vity Program, along with the
Vocational Work Adjustment pro
gram of the sheltered workshops,
seeks to increase the level of
independent living by providing the
mentally retarded and the physi
cally disabled with access to job
skill training and competitive em
ployment.
These programs also seek to
remove society's stereotyping atti
tudes that prevent disabled persons
from participating fully in the
many physical, social, and creative
activities that North Carolina has to
offer. . _ .
The International Year of the
Disabled Person provides a unique
opportunity to increase recognition
of these barriers and help find ways
to overcome them.
Sincerely yours.
Tom Gil more
Deputy Secretary
N.C. Department of
Human Resources
Editor, The News Journal
I am a Governor's School- East
student, and I am writing this letter
an an assignment for my Self ana
Society class. In this class we, as
students, examine the relationships
among peers and in society. The
purpose of this letter is to make a
stand on some issue that we feel
strongly about. The issue may be of
any nature as long as we are honest
in our opinions. .
I have chosen the educational
system of Hoke County High
School. Throughout my years in
high school, I felt that my learning
capacity was being filled in each
course that I undertook. For the
majority it was. So I felt before
coming to Governor s School-East.
My emphasized subject here is
natural science, and for the first
three weeks 1 have studied organic
chemistry of which 1 knew nothing
of upon entering the class. I chose
this subject to build onto mv
knowledge of chemistry, but I didf
not realize that there was so little
foundation to build on; although 1
have had a year of chemistry. I was
completely lost the first few days,
and it was really discouraging. It is
difficult to comprehend when you
do not have the basics to back you.
The course was very enlightening
in the sense that 1 discovered that
for the specific course my capacity
was not filled to an adequate level. .
Teachers should stress the need for'
basics before going into higher
levels. Without these a student does
not truly learn. He may know how
to work a particular activity, but he
does not know why he does it. In
many cases it is rote.
The question "Why?" should be
asked more often. If students were
to ask this question they would
graduate with a greater feeling of
fulfillment and self confidence to?
go out into society and be produc- ?
tive members.
Thank you.
Rose Parish
Editor. The News-Journal
I have observed with interest, the
reactions of many individuals con
cerning the appointment of Mrs. f
O'Connor to the United States
Supreme Court. Of particular in
terest was the statement attributed
to New Hanover County Commis
sioner Karen Gottovi. As a fellow
Democrat, I believe it is possible to
comment without being accused of
being partisan.
The Wilmington Star quoted
Mrs. Gottovi as follows: "Her
(Mrs. O'Connor's) political philo
sophy is not of paramount impor- #
tance to me.' Well, political
philosophies not withstanding,
when the justices abandon the
traditional practice of a strict
interpretation of the Constitution
and law, as they have for years,
then ideology is the only thing left
and becomes extremely important.
Not to recognize this fact is quite
naive.
Franklin Roosevelt's "packing
the court" was clearly recognized as P.
a means of obtaining favorable
decisions in order to carry out his
socialist reforms for America. Let's
be honest and admit that he and
subsequent presidents were and
have been successful in doing just
that. NRA and a host of other
socialist programs were simply
replaced with similar programs
under difficult titles by both Demo
cratic and Republican administra- .
tions. ?
While Congress, charged with
the responsibility of checking the
excesses of the judicial and execu
tive branches of our government
has consistently closed its eyes, the
Court has been converting our
Republic into an unbridled, mobo
cratic democracy, leading inevit
ably to tyranny.
Lynn Batson ^
5521 Wrightsville Avenue '
Wilmington, N.C. 28403
Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, July 26, 1956
County Farm Agent W.C.
Williford said this week that the
increase in boll weevil in the cotton
fields of the county in the last week
had been tremendous.
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Following arrangements by the
county department of Public
Health and the Hoke County
Medical Society a clinic for ad
ministering the Salk vaccine for the
revention of infantile paralysis will
e held in the county health
department, Dr. J.W. Willcox,
county health officer announced
yesterday.
? ? ?
Norman McLeod McDiarmid,
farmer, businessman, and retired
funeral director died Saturday
morning in High smith Hospital in
Fayetteville.
? * *
Bill Hodgin pitched the Raeford
Pony League team to a 13-0 victory
over the Gibson team there
yesterday afternoon, and didn't
allow a single hit in the process.
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Hoke County farmers have
agreed to remove 247.54 acres of
cropland from production under
the 1956 Soil Bank program, and it
is expected that there will be more
before the time for signing up
expires on Friday, Miss Louise
Blue, secretary of the Hoke County
Agricultural Stablization and Con
servation committee reported
yesterday.
15 years ago #
Thursday, July 28, 1966
Hoke County farm crops con
tinue to suffer from drought, but
the economic picture is not as bad
as some people paint it, a survey of
the situation reveals.
? * ?
N.H.G. Balfour, 75, former,
chairman of the board of county '
commissioners, farmer, and a
director of Lumber River Credit
Association died Monday at his
home near Lumber Bridge.
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Hoke County suffered its second
drowning within 24 hours last
Wednesday when Jimmy McLean,
25-year-old farmhand, drowned in f
an irrigation pond near the Hoke -
Moore County line.
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Walter Pressly Baker, 67 long
time Raeford druggist, died at his
home here early Monday night the
apparent victim of a heart attack.
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f
Raeford Lions Club will stage a
36-hole open golf tournament Aug.
20 and 21 at Arabia Golf Course six
miles southeast of Raeford in the
Arabia Community.
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Lonnie S. Brock, 59, ruling elder
in Raeford Presbyterian Church,
died Saturday morning at High
smith - Rainey Hospital in Fay- *
etteville.