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c ^yiew* - journal "W" ? '?? UNM D Q ET ?T |natkdnal newspaper ^ ?ASSOCIATION 0MO&9UZ ESS association Published E?er> Thursday at Raeford. VC. 28J76 1 19 W . KlMood Avenue Subscription Rales In Advance Per \ear ? M.00 6 Months? $4.25 J Months? S2. 25 PAIL DICKSON Publisher? Editor SAM ( MORRIS General Manager Bll.l. I.INDAl Associate Editor MRS. PAl I. DICKSON Society Editor Second Class Postage at Raeford, VC. (USPS 388-260) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1981 lefts from cars preventable ? The Christmas shopping season !s upon us, a cheerful time of the fear. K It also, however, has its dark side: it's a time of an increase in thefts -- stealing from cars and shoplifting in stores. f Police every year warn shoppers to lock their cars when they have |o park and leave their newly bought Christmas gifts. People who Hrive cars with trunks are advised to lock their packages in the trunks. > Officers say most thefts from inrlocked cars are made on impulse: purses and packages are in plain sight on seats, no one is watching. k> the thieves grab the things and walk away. I- Nearly every week the Raeford Police Department receives fcomplaints that purses and other property were stolen from ^nlocked cars while the owners were in stores. Leaving a purse or Anything else of value in an unlocked car is inviting a thief to help Jlimself. ? A determined thief can get into a locked car, to which complaints liled every week with the Hoke County Sheriff s Department or the IRaeford Police Department testify. Consequently, property isn't safe from thieves, if it is left in a car parked outside the house during the jiight. J When food stamps are stolen, the holder suffers only a temporary jnconvenience. The stolen stamps are replaced. But there are Victims: the people whose tax payments help provide the food Jwamps. The food stamp program is in enough trouble already, jvithout carelessness contributing fresh ammunition to its op ponents. I The simple act of keeping cars locked when they are unoccupied if jpackages have to be left in them will prevent a lot of unnecessary Expense in cash and time. I --BL Supply and demand ? Reagan administration and other economists have been Emphasizing the importance of increasing industrial productivity as ? major cure for the country's economic illness. ? Thev seem to be saving that productivity all by itself will do the job. J The purpose of productivity, is to meet consumers' demands for a particular product. If consumers quit buying a product, then, of jcourse. there is no reason for "productivity" to keep producing it. ' When productivity slackens, then productivity workers are fired. {When workers are fired, they have less money to buy products of productivity at prevailing prices. * The same is true when prices of products are increased (inflation), land people do not get raises in pay equal to the raise in prices (Cost ?of Living Adjustment). People will buy what they want, no matter ^iow high the price of it is. if they want it badly enough -- if they can ?afford it without giving up something else they want. : Enough consumers are getting cost-of-living raises high enough to permit them to keep on buying what they want, in spite of the '.increase in prices. On the other hand, many do not get cost-of-living praises, or COL raises high enough to meet the increases in prices. H~he result is sales have declined, and, consequently, production of ?the things not bought. Increasing productivity of those things won't fbring back the lost sales -- unless the prices are cut to the level at ?which the people with un-raised salaries can afford to buy them. * A glut of petroleum products earlier this year was caused by a Tailing off of sales. The decline was caused by the high prices. When prices of gasoline were cut. sales increased. - Auto manufacturers have reported heavy losses caused by falling otl of retail sales. High prices again compelled many people who traded their cars for new models every year or two to get along with the ones they had for a while longer. The fact that the high cost of a new car was caused partly by the increase in costs the consumer had to pay for financing is immaterial: regardless of what caused the ? high prices, sales declined, and, consequently, automakers' losses ?rose. 1 The same thing has happened to home construction, and the ; blame has been laid on high interest rates charged for buying homes. ;? Increasing productivity won't increase sales of cars, or homes. ! The only thing that will increase sales, and, consequently. ; increasing productivity, is lowering prices. Government controls ; would be necessary to do this. Manufacturers would cut prices to ?their distributors, who would do the same for their retailers, who , would reduce them for their customers, if all the suppliers wanted to !keep making profits, avoid laying off workers, or just stay in [.business. [? --BL Love me, love my dog Letters To The Editor Dear Editor: On Sunday. December 6. The Raeford Junior Woman's Club sponsored a successful tour of homes here in our community. An afternoon filled with Christmas spirit was experienced by those participating. Each of the five homes was decorated in the finest manner and friends and strangers alike met to enjoy the late after noon event. We. of the club, would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people kind enough to open their homes for our Christmas Tour. We also especially thank each participant in the Tour. We were pleased with the number of people participating and we hope the afternoon created a bit of community spirit for the Christmas season. Again, special thanks are ex tended to the Mr. Ac Mrs. Neil McFayden. Dr. & Mrs. Riley Jordan. Mr. &. Mrs. Ken Wither sp<H>n. Mr. & Mrs. John Leandro and The Austin's for exhibiting their homes and decorations. These homes are certainly a superb example of Southern hospitality at its finest. Appreciation is also extended to this newspaper for its exceptional advertising of this project. Without this major contact, we could not have reached the number of people who responded so cordially yester day. The Raeford Junior Woman's Club is a service organization dedicated solely to the growth of the Raeford Community. When we receive support such as was ex hibited yesterday, we can intensify our efforts towards helping our lovely city in many ways. Thank you. Sincerely. Raeford Junior Woman's Club Betty Williamson Sonja Falls Editor, The News-Journal: It is with gratitude and joy that we write this letter to The News Journal and to the community, thanking everyone for the support received in our most recent event at Raeford United Methodist Church which we call "HAPPY HOBBY HARVEST." This is the fifth consecutive year where we have "pooled" our talents in an enthusiastic united effort to serve our Great Creator and our church. It is a time when the members of the congregation seem to forget their personal needs and requirements as well as their individualistic attitudes, and join efforts in a totally unselfish manner for the benefit of the total. The prime objective of "HHH" is to get as many members of the congregation as possible involved in service to God and to the church. Enthusiasm and christian fellow ship are at their highest peak during the preparation for this event and for many weeks after. The funds acquired as a result of "HHH" are secondary to the participation and the spirit gene rated result. These funds are not used to supplement our yearly budget, but are used for special* projects over and above those items supported bv the regular church budget. We wish to thank The New Journal and all other support groups such as the local radio station and the downtown business community for their direct support in the work of our church. We also especially thank the members of the community who made "HHH" . a success and contributed to the well-being of Raeford United Methodist Church. Thank you very much, and we look forward to seeing you again next vear for an even greater "HAPPY HOBBY HARVEST"! Gib Bernhardt <k Lewis Upchurch Co-chairman "HAPPY HOBBY HARVEST" Raeford United Methodist Church iBrowsing in the files I of The News-Journal] 25 years ago Thursday, December 6, 1956 James H. Woodhouse, general arrangements chairman for the community Christmas parade set for next Wednesday, said yesterday that final plans for the second annual such non-commercial affair were taking shape and that partici pation and interest throughout the county appeared good. * * * Resident Superior Court Judge Q K. Nimocks. Jr. of Fayetteville announced Monday that Hoke County Superior Court Clerk John B. Cameron was retiring due to his health and that he had named M. Donald Yates of Raeford to serve the remainding two years of the term expiring the first Monday in December 1958. ? * * Search of McNeill's Pond, in the southeast section of the county near Shannon, for the body of Hoover Bullard, 30-year-old Indian missing since Monday. November 26. continued this week without success. ? ? ? ? Two more deaths in Hoke County from traffic accidents in the past week brought the total for the year to 13 fatalities in II wrecks, two having killed two persons. 1 5 years ago Thursday, December 8, 1966 Hoke County had the honor of having one of the first sessions, if not the first, of district court among the state's six "pilot" districts in the court reform pro gram. ? * * Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at Raeford Pres byterian Church for Mrs. Irma Coble Poole. 72. who died Friday in Moore Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. ? ? ? Hoke High School's defending conference champion Bucks scored a decisive 68-48 victory over Union Pines here Tuesday night to notch their second straight win of the young basketball season. ? ? ? Dr. Raymond A. Stone was formally installed as president of Sandhills Community College and the college dedicated at special ceremonies at the institution during the weekend. * ? * Postmaster Charlie Morrison today rang the warning bell, re minding residents of Raeford and Hoke County that this is the last round for Christmas mailing. It's a Small orld By Bill Lindau Bob Terrell's column in The Aslieville Citizen of November 25 shows the importance of the Fifth Amendment and also volunteering information, especially when your spouse is on the spot. Terrell tells this story. A woman and her husband were riding to town in a battered pickup truck with her husband driving, when the husband saw the whirling blue light of a city policeman, so he drew his truck to the nearest curb. The officer approached him. then advised. "Sir. your license plate is about to fall off." "See?" the woman told her husband. "I told you to put it on tighter. If you'd lost it. Uncle John would have been fit to be tied." "Uncle John?" the policeman asked. "Well." the woman told him, "he borrowed the tag from Uncle John." "Do you mean you're driving an unlicensed vehicle?" the officer asked the man. Before the man could answer, his wife said. "He had to. He had to come to town to get some insurance for this truck." "You're driving an uninsured vehicle?" the officer sounded in credulous. "He had some other things to do, the wife said. "His driver's license has expired, so he had to come to town. This trip was necessary." "You don't have a driver's license?" the policeman asked the man. "Sir." replied the man. "1 can explain..." "Don't pay no attention to him." the woman broke in. "He's so drunk he don't know what he's saying." Bob closes the item with this sound advice: "Next time you get the urge to talk too much, remember the woman in the pickup truck who talked her husband into spending the next 30 days in jail." * ? ? Actually. Bob is an excellent example of the fact that there's no such thing as a hopeless case. In his early youth, he fell in with evil companions and became a sports writer. But some time later, something happened. He got reli gion. saw the light, went straight, and became an editorial writer. Maybe one of the things that happened was that about 7 a.m., when he was a sports editor, a correspondent came by his apart ment. woke him and his wife up, then demanded to know why his story about the putt-putt golf tournament hadn't been published in that morning's paper. * * * Speaking of telling too much reminds me of the story of the little boy who went to the library and asked for a book about frogs. The librarian cheerfully went to the shelves and chose a book for him. It had about a thousand pages in it. The boy looked at it silently for a moment, slowly looked at some pages, then closed the book and returned it to the librarian. "Is something wrong?" she asked. "I thought you wanted a book about frogs." "Sure." the boy said. "But this book has more than 1 want to know about frogs." Then there was another kid who had an assignment from his teacher to write a paper on a subject. He could find the information about it in the library. So he went to the library shelves, found a book and started to check it out. It was titled "Expectant Mothers." The librarian sensing that this wasn't what the boy really wanted, questioned him. The teacher told him to do a paper on moths, he replied. So. naturally, he picked out this book. "Expectant Moth-ers." Another kid asked a librarian for the book "The Cross-eyed Bear." What the child really wanted, the |ibrarian found, after searching unsuccessfully for the bear book, was the book, "The Cross I Bear." Still another kid told a librarian his mother asked him to get the book, "Forty Ways to Amuse A Dog. The librarian knew that one wasn't on the shelves, and it took quite a bit of questioning to find out what book the kid's mother really wanted. It was "The 40 Days of Musa Dagh." * * * When the press and any public official lie down together too long, it is the public which rises up with C"s;" Hodding Carter, former Mississippi newspaper publisher and former State Department gokesman in President Jimmy irter's administration. "I have been reading the morn ing paper. I do it every morning -- ?en Knowing that i shall find in it the usual depravities and base nesses and hypocrises and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading tor the damnation of the human race." -- Mark Twain, quoted in Tin- Aslieville Citizen November 25. A few years ago when some business people were getting off to as fast a start as possible promoting the coming holiday seasons, some started off promoting their pre Thanksgiving sales in late October. Store windows were full of re minders of the coming of Thanks giving. Seeing all these things, one little boy started crying and asked his mother. "What happened to Hallo ween?" * * * Buddy Blue just came by and gave me some information about where to find detailed information about Kiffin Rockwell of Asheville, the LaFayette Escadrille pilot who was the first American killed in action in World War 1. He said the Suite monthly magazine several years ago published an article about Rockwell, who was flying for the French forces when he was killed, before the Americans got into the war. Blue also mentioned that the "Balloon Buster from Arizona" who also was an Escadrille flier, was Frank Luke. Luke's parents, ironically, were Germans who emi grated to the United States. I did hear from the State Division of Archives and History, which I had queried. The applica tion form I received indicates the division has quite a lot of records about Rockwell. It lists: Military Collection. World War 1 Papers. 1903-1933, VI. ..Private Collec tions, Kiffin Rockwell. Box 67... North Carolina Booklet. Vol. XIX. No. 4. April-July 1920. pp. 150 155: Kiffin Yates Rockwell by R.B. House. House, incidentally, was chan cellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while 1 was there in the 1930s. He was a historian by education. He also played the harmonica regularly at student gatherings, including some of the freshman assembly periods in Memorial Hall on class days. Puppy Creek Philosopher Dear editor: I heard a Congressman use a phrase the other day on television that caught my attention. Faced with the fact that he's a strong advocate of tax cuts and a balanced budget and the fact that it's not working, that the budget ? may be more out of balance than ever before, he said he is now in favor of "revenue enhancement." It sure sounds better than raising taxes. And it has wider use. H the telephone company ups your phone bill S2 a month, it hasn't raised your rate, just enhanced it. I tried to enhance the price of a steer I had for sale, but the people who control the cattle market have i| a limited vocabulary and ap parently have never heard of the word. They paid me 42 cents a pound instead of the 60 cents I was trying to enhance it to. Another word that's come into use by politicians is "goal." If a candidate solemnly promises to balance the budget and gets in office and finds it's impossible, he explains it wasn't a promise, it was ? just a goal. This too should have wider use. If a promissory note you signed at the bank comes due, go in and explain re-payment wasn't a pro mise, it was just a goal. By the way, speaking of revenue enhancement, did you notice that of all the Federal offices shut down for one day when the government ran out of money recently, one in particular was ordered to stay ( open? It was the tax cc" office. DID YOU KNOW? aithfully, J. 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