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THURSDAY, MARCH 1 1, 1982
Clearing the air
The explanations made by John Balfour, chairman of the Board ot
Hoke County Commissioners in last week's edition of The
News-Journal and the board's acceptance of an invitation from
the county schools administration to view schools' needs by seeing
them Monday on visits should do much to clear the air between the
school board and the county commissioners and also inform the
general public of the situation.
The explanations also should enlighten the public about the
proposed county water system, which the commissioners are
considering but as vet have made no commitment to build.
--BL
Good school news
True, The News-Journal of last week did Contain another story
about school "pot." but on the whole it was literally loaded with
pictures and stories about the constructive things that were going on
in the schools.
True. also, there was an additional "pot" story but that was about
real pot -- pottery -- reporting that a visiting artist was showing
Upchurch and Hoke High students how to make articles on a
potter's wheel and with other tools.
Other stories and pictures showed students practicing for the
March 13 Jump Rope for Heart, to help raise money for the annual
Hoke County Heart Fund campaign.
The requests for picture-taking at school kept photographers
hopping a lot. but in view of the subject-matter, it was more fun than
work.
--BL
F amily planning
From The Christian Science Monitor
Last year Congress amended family planning lesiglation to require
that family participation be encouraged when federally funded
private or public family planning centers provide services to young
people. Now the Department of Health and Human Services has
proposed regulations to mandate parental notification in a manner
which the amendment did not intend. Some 50 days are left for
public comment that must be considered before the regulations are
final. The wisest outcome would be for the administration to seek
legislation if it wishes to revise the law. rather than to try to do so
with rules that are certain to be legally challenged.
To be sure, the regulation tries to walk a tightrope within the law -
but thus undercuts its own effort to ensure parental involvement in
the serious decision of using prescription contraceptive drugs or
devices. The rule does not say that a center must inform parents
he/ore supplying such materials to minors under the age of 18. It
says parents must be informed within 10 working days afterwards.
This may be an attempt to satisfy the law's mandate to provide such
services without hindrance, but it brings parents in only after the die
is cast.
Plann^a Parenthood and other sponsors of family planning
centers a|e all in favor of encouraging family participation in such
decisions. They question the worth of enforced notification of
parents when there is not sufficiently open family communication for
the young people to talk with their parents themselves. They are
concerned that the upshot would be many teenagers simply deciding
against going to the centers.
As it is. the rate of pregnancy among teenagers having sexual
relations has been falling. The absolute numbers have stayed
tragically high because more teenagers are having sexual relations
and at younger ages. The annual total of teenage pregnancies had
reached about a million in 1978 when the family planning legislation
was first passed. HHS estimates that some 500.000 adolescents of 17
years and under now receive prescription drugs or devices from the
federally funded centers.
Exceptions to notifying parents would be permitted when it is
judged that they would do physical harm to their child. This starkly
hints at the home circumstances from which come many of the young
people seeking help. Birth-control counselors who favor restraint in
sexual relations find that some of the young people turn to sex in
hopeless reaction to bleak futures, swayed by the relentless
glamorizatin of sex by the media.
Beyond rules and legislation the United States needs to cleanse its
cultural climate, enlist the family and society in shoring up the
family values that are so far superior to clinical assistance, however
humane.
Loving parents naturally feel a responsibility for guiding their
children toward respect for themselves and others in all human
relationships, including those between the sexes. They seek to set
and exemplify standards of morality in sexual relations as the
fundamental way to foster genuine affection and prevent the sad
consequences of uncertain standards. They seek to establish the
freedom of family communication that permits the sharing of joys
and the solving of problems. Here, not in Washington, lie the best
answers.
'If the price of gasoline keeps going down,
we'll be able to afford a head of lettuce'
It's a Small W orld
By Bill Lindau
When the Sandinistas showed up
in the news from Nicaragua. 1 got
curious about the background of
the man whose name they use for
the base of their title.
As I mentioned before, I was in
grammar school north of New York
City when I first heard of Sandino,
and the reason was the world got
around that this little brown kid
with the Spanish accent was the son
of one of Sandino's guerrillas. This
was a private. Catholic boarding
school i was going to at the time. If
a kid's parents had no money and
the kid needed help, he or she was
taken in and given board, room, an
education (for girls, through high
school), and clothes if needed, free
of charge. For the other kids the
charges totaled S40 a month.
Since this kid's father at the time
was fighting the U.S. Marines, 1
asked, some time later, why had
the boy been admitted. A nun,
retired from the school, replied
simply that all that mattered to the
school was a kid needed help, that
the politics of the family didn't
matter. I asked the question just a
few years ago. since at the time I
w as going to school I didn't think of
inquiring.
Anyway, here's some highlights
of (he background of Sandino --
Augusto Cesar were his first and
middle names. He lived from 1893
till 1934, was a farmer and mining
engineer by profession. He joined
the Liberai revolution against the
Conservative government of Nic
auragua in 1926. The revolution
aries were protesting against the
"new" U.S. intervention in that
year. Sandino rejected the agree
ment made by Henry L. Stimson.
President Coolidge's special repre
sentative in Nicaragua and Jose
Maria Moncada, the leader of the
Nicaragua Liberals, for elections
in 1927 and conducted vigorous
guerrilla campaigns from 1927 till
1933. Sandino was never captured
but was reconciled after the
Marines withdrew and he headed a
cooperative farming program. But
in 1934 he was suddenly seized and
executed during the administration
of President Juan Sacasa, who was
the Liberal vice president in 1925
(under President Carlos Solor
zano).
The Liberals had been waging
guerrilla warfare almost constantly
since 1916, objecting to U.S.
influence in the country in con
nection with the Bryan -Chamorro
Treaty ratified that year. The treaty
gave the U.S. an option on a route
for the Nicaragua Canal. That
guerrilla action stopped in 1925
after the U.S. occupation ended.
The Marines had been sent into
Nicaragua in 1912 on the request of
President Adolfo Diaz, then head
ing Nicaragua's Conservative gov
ernment.
The Somoza "dynasty" had its
beginnings in 1936 when Gen.
Anastasio Somoza, leading the
National Guard, deposed Sacasa
on June 2. and Somoza became the
country's new strong man." He
became president 1he following
year. In 1947, a new president,
Leonidas Arquillo. was elected but
he was in office less than a month
when he was ousted by Somoza.
Anastasio Somoza was the father of
the Somoza who was forced to leave
the country a couple of years ago by
the Sandinistas.
Incidentally, the Sandino fol
lowers of the 1930s waged guerrilla
warfare periodically for several
years after Sandino was executed.
The information about Nicara
gua though the 1930s was taken
from the Columbia Encyclopedia of
1950 published by the Columbia
(N.Y.) University Press.
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Typing the above was slow going
as 1 was using an electric type
writer. to which 1 am not ac
customed. My regular one had to
go to the shop. I got this one from
the repair people, so I returned the
electric typewriter to its original
place.
I'm also not doing too well with
this one, so I think I'll wind up this
column right here, as I have
planned it for the March 10
edition.
Puppy Creek Philosopher
Dear editor:
1 understand there is a special
course you can take that'll vastly
improve your memory.
i have a habit of listening to
politicians on television and I'm
convinced nearly every one of
them ought to sign up for that
course. They're having too much
trouble remembering this year
what they said last year.
Either that, or they ought to
pass a law saying that every TV
tape, once shown, can not be dug
up and shown again until at least
50 years hence. Like it is, some
busy-body TV network is always
re-running something that takes
some of the fun out of being a
politician.
I guess the prime example of this
occurred the other day, when Vice
President Bush said as a candidate
running for President he didn't ac
cuse his opponent, Candidate
Reagan, of advocating "voodoo
economics." Then a network dug
up a tape showing him saying ex
actly that, in living color. Where
do you sign up for that course?
I'm not singling out Mr. Bush,
nearly all politicians, Democrats
and Republicans, have these em
barrassing memory lapses and it's
clear what this country needs is
more politicians with longer
memories or voters with shorter
ones.
Changing the subject, before I
forget, I'm afraid this New
Federalism idea of shifting pro
grams from Washington to the
states is in for some hard going.
We've spent years sending pro
blems we ca^'t handle to
Washington and when somebody
suggests we take them back I'm
afraid we'll all look the other way.
Yours faithfully,
J. A
Read PhiHppiaas 2: 1-11
Don't just thiak about your own
affairs, but be interested In others,
too, and In what they are doing.
-Philippiaas 2: 4 (TLB)
Wc were new in town. Having
been very impressed with a friendly
minister and congregation, we had
recently joined a new church fami
ly.
One evening my husband walked
into our apartment and said,
CLIFF BLUE . . .
People & Issues
U.S. BUDGET. ..Every so often
we hear talk about a balanced
budget for the United States.
From the looks of the proposed
budget for the fiscal year that
President Reagan is proposing
with a S91 billion deficit, it appears
to be a long way off.
However, I read in The Wall
Street Journal a few days ago thai
headway is being made towards a
Constitutional Amendment to the
U.S Constitution. So far, 31 states
have applied for a constitutional
convention to take up a balanced
budget amendment. That is three
short of the numbered required.
There are two ways to amend the
U.S. Constitution which are as
follows:
1. By a Constitutional conven
tion, which has been used only
once, to write the original docu
ment in 1787; and by a vote of two
thirds of both houses of Congress,
and ratification by three-quarters
of the states.
The proposed amendment was
passed, 11 to S, last May by the
Senate Judiciary Committee. It
will probably come before the full
Senate in April of this year. The
most recent count shows 5 1 Senate
sponsors, nine short of the number
needed for passage.
According to an article in The
Wall Street Journal, in the next
week or two the state of
Washington may become the 32nd
state to join the call for a constitu
tional convention. Missouri, then
might move to become the 33rd
and Kentucky might be the one to
put it over.
In the House, where it has been
acted upon, it will take 218
signatures to get the bill to the
floor. That may be hard to do
since only 155 are reported to have
signed such a petition, where rules
require 218.
It looks like a pretty hard road
to travel, but it is -something that is
needed, except in cases of war or
dire emergency which could be
overruled by a two-thirds vote of
both house and senate.
North Carolina operated by
statue on a balanced budget from
about 1927 until a few years ago
when an amendment to the N.C.
Constitution was approved by a
vote of the people.
It was under the administration
of the late Governor Angus Wilton
McLean, the General Assembly
adopted a law that called for a
balanced budget. However, the
law could have been repealed at
any time by the General Assembly,
but under the constitution, it can
not.
INSTITUTE OF GOVERN
MENT... A few days ago I received
a 300 page History of the Institute
of Government, by Albert Coates.
I have scanned the book and
find it well prepared and outstand
ing.
The Institute of Government
had its beginning in 1933 and has
grown into an important part of
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. <
It has hundreds of pictures of in
dividuals and groups of people
who helped make the Institute of
Government, from 1933 in the very
depths of the "Great Depression"
until now, when it has become a
vital part of the University of this
great state of ours. Here is Coates
dedication:
Albert Coates Dedicates the
Book
To the men and women:
"Who in the years from 1933
through 1939 laid the foundation
of the Institute of Government and
got it going;
"Who in the years from 1939
through the 1940's held it together
and kept it going;
"Who in the years from the
1940's to 1962 and thereafter have
given the prime of their working
lives to building it into a new
University of Public Officials
within the framework of the old
University of North Carolina, and,
"To the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill which gave
me a classroom and a teaching job
- the only job 1 ever had and the
only one I have needed in order to
do what I wanted to do."
[Browsing in the
1 * " of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, March 7, 1957
Members of the town board of
commissioners at their regular
monthly meeting Monday night
ordered a larger pump for the
town's water system and were
advised of the fact that a bill raising
their pay had been introduced by
Representative Charles Hostetler in
Raleigh.
* * *
Ben A. Hurley, local representa
tive of the Carolina Power & Light
Company, this week announced
that work would be done on the
transmission lines of the company
north of Raeford next Sunday
morning, and that there is a
possibility that power may be off
for some time between 6:30 and
8:00 o'clock.
? * *
Thomas ^ay of McLauchlin
Township has just completed the
two weeks short course at N.C.
State College as the guest of The
Bank of Raeford. and reports that
his time was well spent.
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There will be a fiddler's conven
tion at the Mildouson School on
Wednesday night, March 20. at
8:00 o'clock. Principal T.C. Jones
announced this week.
* * *
Tom Cameron and A.V. Sanders
spent several days last week in
Florida on a fishing trip.
? * #
Edward Langston. senior at
Hoke High School, has been com
mended by National Merit Scholar
ship Corporation and unusual
ability. Principal W.T. Gibson, Jr.,
announced this week.
15 years ago
Thursday, March 9, 1%7
Thanks to their admirers and
supporters in Raeford and Hoke
County, members of Hoke High
School s hand will have brand new
uniforms in the near future.
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The Hoke County Board of a
Commissioners gave final approval "
on plans for a new county jail at its
Monday meeting.
? ? *
The Raeford unit of North
Carolina National Guard w ill cele
brate its 20th Anniversary with a
banquet Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the
armorv.
Our Hoke High Bucks won the
District 2 basketball title Friday
night at Lumberton and will play in
the first round of the state 3- A
tournament tonight at 9 o'clock in
Durham.
Hoke's Community Action Pro
gram is bringing $100,000 into the
county annually, J.R. Attaway,
director, told the board of commis
sioners Monday.
? * *
Hoke County had 1,828 acres of
land seared by forest fires during
1966. according to Clyde A. Leach. 0
Hoke Forest Ranger.
* * *
A resolution passed recently by
the Hoke County Board of Health
requested that the county board of
commissioners "establish some
means of garbage and refuse
disposal tor county residents.
"(juess who I saw at the gas
station-our minister! For some
reason, it seemed so strange to see
him pumping gasoline into his car
alongside ours." We reflected on
why it would seem unusual to see
our pastor doing such an everyday
task.
How often do we put ministers
into a mold and fail to think of
them simply as persons? We
sometimes forget they are human
beings, just we are. How often we
put other people into molds,
forgetting to look for the human
qualities of each individual.
Are we guilty of insensitivity to
those around us? As a result of
stereotyping, we often overlook
the needs of others.
PRAYER: God of all persons, loo
often we see only the outer sheMs
of others. Help as to become more
attuned to the individual qualities
of those around us and to be more |
receptive to their needs. Amen.