Motivational Rec Program Drawing Many
The new Motivational Recrea
tional Program, established in
Hoke County to provide wholesome
weekend activities for young people
who have had little or nothing to
keep them occupied on weekends,
is attracting many students every
weekend. Ttie program is designed
tor boys and girls ages 10-17.
George Maynor. a supervisor of
the program held at J.W. Turling
ton School's gymnasium, said this
Monday.
He said the program started the
weekend of February 6 for 10
weekends, and 75 youngsters parti
cipated in the first games. Maynor
said he recommends that the
program be carried on in the
future, after its 10 weeks expires.
The supervised receation runs 9
a.m. to noon and 1-6 p.m. Satur
days, and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.
The games now are basketball
types and include free play, one-on
one tournaments, free-throw con
teats, basketball relays, shoot-out
championships, and organized
team competition. Instructional
drills also are held.
The program is being financed
by a SI, 995 grant from the State
Community-based Alternatives
office. It is for ISO young people.
The County Board of Education is
providing SI 19.S0 worth of utilities
for the county's share of the
budget.
Cub Pack 437 Holds Blue And Gold Banquet
Cub Scout Pack 437's meeting
February 24 was held in the
Scurlock School cafeteria.
Cub Scouts game their annual
Blue and Gold Banquet. Guests
were George Wood, principal of
Scurlock. and John Cabeza. district
Scout executive.
Den 1 Scouts also held their
Pinewood Derby. Starter was
George Wood and judge was John
Cabeza.
The winners in the fastest cate
gory were: first -- Tony Mitchell;
second -- Heath Brock; and third -
Edward Burns.
Judging also was done for the
Most Beautiful and the Most
Unusual categories. All the boys
won ribbons.
This month's big event is Scout
A- Rama which will be held Satur
day. 11 a.m. -3 p.m.. in Laurin
burg.
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Cubs gelling Pinewood Derby instructions just before the races start.
Cuhmaster Jimmy Allen speaking to the banquet audience.
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Derby racers.
From the
Superintendent's Desk
by Raz Autry
Recently. 1 came to the very
profound conclusion that I had
been fighting with someone or some
organization all my life. However,
there is one group that 1 have never
fought with, at least in written
form. The news media. I had sense
enough to know that 1 couldn't
win.
The press is a powerful source of
relating information to the public.
All good newspapermen will tell
you that it is most important to
write the truth. There has been a
slanting of that truth in recent
years, and 1 am sure good news
papermen will admit that also. The
press and the American people, in
my personal opinion, have turned
more and more to emphasizing the
dramatic, the controversial, and
the "day of doom" type of news.
We very seldom see the good, the
heroic and the optimistic news on
the front page.
In this article I will deal with the
school system and emphasize only
the news dealing with either our
school system or some other school
system, or an article relating to it.
to try to get my point across.
All articles dealing with contro
versies involving me and my deal
ings with the public are front page
news. Case in point: Controversy
with school custodian /school prin
cipal. county commissioner's reply
to me about an article 1 had
written. Hoke "drug bust", test
scores if they are low or below
average, etc. News articles dealing
with awards and honors are
middle-page or back-page items.
Case in point: Scholarship awarded
to student, the Governor's School
recipients, appointment to military
academy. Let me dwell on that one
for a moment.
How often do we. in Hoke
County, get an appointment to a
military academy? I have been here
15 years and it has happened three
times: Paul Currie was appointed
from N.C. State University to West
Point; Ralph Huff to the Air Force
Academy; Earl H. Oxendine, Jr.
(Bucky) appointed to West Point
this year. Surely three students in
15 years deserves to be front-page
news. After all. this is not an every
day occurrence in Hoke County.
Let me hasten to say that 1 am
not being critical of The News
Journal, they are only following the
trend of all newspapers of today.
I have a copy of three newspapers
on my desk from other localities;
two from Brunswick County and
one from Person County.
The front-page news from The
Brunswick Free Press says:
"Brooks Suspends Two Over
Schedule Change"; "School Board
Meets Illegally". Most of the
fositive news about the county is
idden inside the paper. The
Brunswick Beacon headline says
"Grand Jury. DA Probe Land
Sale". "Brooks Disciplines School
Principal". "NCAE Hearing Date
Set". The headline of The Courier
Times in Person County said
"Board Assures It Wants To Hear
Teachers". This article deals with a
complaint from the teachers that
they want to meet with the board of
education.
My whole point is that along with
the sensational news should go
some good news, ?"'know enough
about newspaper business to know
what attracts headlines. I also
know enough about human nature
to know that many human beings
have been totally destroyed because
of headlines that, in many cases,
were only half-truths.
People coming into our county,
or any other county, will judge the
county by what they read and hear.
If all they read and hear deals with
controversy, they will look else
where.
I would be the last one to try to
tell our local newspaper how to do
business. In the first place, they
wouldn't listen to me. and even if I
wanted to I couldn't because 1
don't know how.
The News-Journal has given me a
free hand to express my opinions.
They have supported me on many
issues; they have also crucified me
quite often when they disagreed
with me. All of this was on the front
page.
The important thing, as 1 see it.
for a school system, or a news
paper. is to emphasize the positive.
All of us need to re-evaluate
ourselves often and decide if we are
headed in the right direction. Our
youngster are the most important
ingredient of our school system.
The things that happen to them,
good and bad, deserve equal billing
on the front page or the lead story
on radio or television.
I am equally sure that the most
important ingredient of the news
media is what is happening to our
country, good and bad. and that
both should deserve equal treat
ment on the front page or the lead
story on radio and television.
Since I am such a mild-man
nered man. the controversies I get
into don't amount to a hill of
beans, but they make good read
ing. After the controversy dies
down, I am sure that most of the
readers would much rather read
about some of the fine accomplish
ments of our youngsters and
relegate me to the back page.
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TOPS IN NEW PROGRAM ~ Four of the youths who are participating in
the new Motovational Recreation Program sponsored by the Hoke County
school system and County Parks and Recreation Department in
cooperation with the County Youth Task Force are shown here with George
Maynor. a supervisor of the weekend program. Standing next to Maynor is
Charles Andrews. 14. an Upchurch Junior High School Seventh Grade 0)
student named Best All Around in the program. In the front. L-R. are
Darris Daniels, who topped everybody on the free-throw line, basketing 35
of 50 attempts; Barry Fellows, named Go Getter: and Johnny Maynor. the
coach 's nephew, named Jump Shooter champion. The three are II years
old and J. W. Turlington students. Johnny Maynor is in the Fifth Grade,
and the others are in the Sixth. George Maynor is a supervisor of the
program held in the Turlington gymnasium. [Staff photo. ]
Ex-Hoke Man Preaches^,
Introductory Sermon
Clarence W. Page, a former
Hoke County resident, preached
his introductory sermon on Sun
day, March 7 at New Hope Baptist
Church in East Orange, N.J.
N.J.
The theme of his sermon was "A
Matter of Life and Death." His
Bible text was taken from John:
Chapter 3. verses 16 and 17. He
warned unsaved listeners that "now
is the time to come to Christ if they
want to live for evermore."
For the past several years. Page
has served as a deacon and a
Sunday School teacher and has
been actively involved in visiting
and witnessing to those in prison,
and the sick and shut-ins. He is
also actively involved in manv other
church organizations and is devot
ed to Christian missions.
Page is the son of Mr. and Mrs. ?))
Clarence Page, Sr., of Rt. 1,
Lumber Bridge. He is married to
Vivian Mundy, formerly from
Catawba, N.C. They have one son.
Bryan, who is 4 years old.
His parents and several other
members of his family witnessed his
sermon.
Background Scripture:
Mark 4: 35 through 5: 20.
Devotional Reading:
Galatians 3: 23-29.
The man was, according to
Mark, a "demoniac" ? a "man
with an unclean spirit." In other
words, he ? as a man possessed by
some entity other than himself, an
entity that was evil and made him
mentally ill, just as other "unclean
spirits" made people physically ill.
If you've ever worked closely with
the mentally ill. you will know that,
although the term "demoniac" may
seem archaic in this day and age, it
is an apt description for those with
serious disturbances. Their behav
iour easily mav be described as
"demonic," as if under the control
of something not themselves.
The picture of the demoniac is
dramatic. The man is ostracized
from society, living among the
tombs (particularly avoided bv
Jews) where no one was likely to
disturb him. They had tried to
chain him, but his strength was
also "demonic." It seemed too.
that the man was more destructive
to himself than others: "always
crying out . and bruising himself
with stones."
The demons ? whatever they
were ? seemed fully in control. Yet.
us soon as Jesus came near, they
felt threatened: "What have you to
do with me, Jesus Son of the Most
High God. I adjure you by
God, do not torment me." illness,
whether mental, spiritual or physi
cal or all three, recognized in Jesus
a mortal enemy. There was not
room enough for them and Christ.
Another indication that the de
mons were not Jesus' "little help-'}
ers" in disguise is the way in which
he disposed of them. For the Jew,
there was no more dispised. hated
animal in creation than the pig.
Religiously, all swine were "un
clean." able to separate a man
from his God. So there could have
been no more terrible finale than
for the evil spirits to be sent
headlong into a herd of swine.
Jesus' healing of the man was. J
more than making him mentally
whole. The man's dis-ease was
social as well. He was a man
ostracized from all human fellow
ship. They had tried to chain him.
When they saw him cured, sitting
next to Jesus, "they were afraid."
In fact, "they began to beg Jesus to
depart from their neighborhood."
The fact is, there are many times
when we'd like to ask Jesus to
depart from our neighborhood. We(
may complain about the "demo- 1
niacs" among us, but often we are
even more disturbed when he
begins to bring healing into our
midst. We are afraid of wholeness
because it changes people. The
sickness in that neighborhood went
considerably beyond the madness
of the demoniac. And in ours, too.
Jesus healed a madman and
the madman, restored to his right
mind, began to heal the neighbor
hood: "And he went away and
began to proclaim in the Decapolis
how much Jesus had done for him;
and all men marveled-"
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