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ATTN: All member customers of Lumbee River E.M.C.
Are you getting your money's worth?
Expense records on file at N .C. Dept. of Commerce show LREMC Board of Directors
spent $ 140,294.00 in 1982. LREMC board s expenses highest of any co-op in state
since at least 1974 Between 1974 and 1982 LREMC board members received
$783,708.00 in expense money
Directors attended ]_4 meetings between January - March this year, including 5
days in Las Vegas Jan. 30 - Feb. 3; 4 days in Florida March 2 1 - 24; and 3 days in
Raleigh Mar. 8 - 10, according to manager Ronnie Hunt.
Members are paying the highest electric rate of any co-op in the state. People on
fixed and low incomes are struggling to pay ever increasing electric bills . . . and
the lists goes on and on and on.
THIS TREND CANNOT CONTINUE. MEMBERS, THE BUCK STOPS HERE!
WE MUST GET INVOLVED IN OUR OWN BUSINESS, THIS YEAR!
WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, WE CANT AFFORD NOT TO.
ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 - VOTE FOR
AND ELECT 4 NEW DIRECTORS
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LEON STUART JAMES L. AUTRY
District 2 District 8
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BETTY SMITH EUGENE H. SHANNON
District 4 At Large
Four people who will work hard, use good common sense and honestly try to help I
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SUPPORTED BY THE LREMC ACTION GROUP 1 E
ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING AND VOTE FOR ALL FOUR
. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18th
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YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
Opinions
Fall colors to be on cue
By Cliff Blue
FALL FOLIAGE . . . Howard
Parr, chief Blue Ridge Parkway
ranger, each year predicts when
fall foliage will reach its most col
orful time but he hasn't done that
yet this year.
"I have heard some people say
that this year, fall may not be as
good as some but I don't believe
that," Parr said, "If it's really hot
and dry the leaves can dry up and
just get brown. But its been raining
in the mountains. I think we'll
have a normal colorful fall."
PINEHURST ... In Pinehurst
golfers and shooters will compete.
The 32nd annual North and South
Senior Men's Golf Tournament is
set for October 24-29 while the An
nie Oakley Trapshoot Tournament
will bring shooters from around
the nation for the October 21-23
event named for the woman sharp
shooter who once taught
marksmanship at Pinehurst.
NEW CAR SALES . . . New car
sales rose 4.9^o in September.
Sales for the month totaled
703,507 units, up from 670,352
units sold in Sept. 1982. The in
crease was accounted for by U.S.
made models. A restriction on
Japanese imports resulted in a
sales decline for imports for the
month.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .
. . Though many dissatisfied voter
groups now feel they'll be able to
defeat President Reagan in 1984, a
look back at presidential elections
indicates this will be a hard task.
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's
People & Issues
time, the country has elected four
Democrats to the White House:
they being Harry Truman in 1948;
John F. Kennedy in 1960; Lyndon
B. Johnson in 1964; and James E.
Carter in 1976.
In less time the Republicans
have had four Republicans,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952;
Richard M. Nixon, 1962; Gerald
Ford succeeded Nixon, August 9,
1974; and Ronald Reagan, 1981.
WALK FOR THOUGHT . . .
There's new evidence to show that
walking can improve the mental
ability of the elderly.
Researchers at the Veterans Ad
ministration and University of
Utah reported the encouraging
results on an exercise program of
slow to fast walking over a four
month period.
University researcher John Mar
tin told the Health Insurance
Association of America that this
program definitely helped the 200
elderly people who participated.
The walking, he said,
"significantly improved their men
tal functions as shown in tests of
reaction time, short-term memory,
reasoning power and ability to
distinguish subtle changes in
flickering light."
CRAMPED QUARTERS . . .
You think you live in cramped
quarters? Cave dwelling bats may
roost at densities of up to 300 bats
per square foot, according to In
ternational Wildlife magazine.
And a single cave may house more
than 40 million bats, says National
Wildlife Federation, 1412 Six
teenth St., Washington, D.C.
20056. Phone 202-797-6850.
BACKING INCREASED PAY?
. . . While State and Federal
employees are paid higher wages
than the average private enterprise
worker, we note that a couple of
Democratic candidates for gover
nor have boosted "merit pay" in
creases for state workers.
We suspect that most state
workers receive "merit pay" now
but are not satisfied with the
"merit pay" which they are get
ting.
Every worker would like to
receive "merit pay" but what is
"merit pay"?
We doubt that "honest merit
pay" is what most people want -
public or private!
It's human nature for people to
advocate "merit pay" if the
government or somebody else is
footing the bill.
Lots of private citizens would
like to be on the State or Federal
payroll but if they were on long,
they would not be satisfied with
"merit pay." They would be wan
ting more.
And where does the public
payroll come from? You and I as
private citizens.
Well, people trying to balance
the budget with private pay would
like mighty well for a pay increase!
There's a parallel between killings
By Lucien Coleman
News stories focused on two
brutal acts of murder last month.
On September 1, newspapers
reported that Soviet aircraft had
shot down a civilian airliner
somewhere over the Sea of Japan.
The next day they reported the
execution of convicted murderer
Jimmy Lee Gray in Mississippi's
gas chamber. \
In one respect, the crimes com
mitted by Gray and .the Soviet
airmen were strikingly similar.
Both atrocities were committed
against innocent, helpless victims.
Things That Matter
Gray was convicted for the slay
ing of 3-year-old Deressa Jean
Scales.
According to the court, he had
kidnapped the child from her
parents apartment, taking her to a
remote area on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast.
There he raped the little girl,
then killed her by holding her head
in a muddy ditch. Then he threw
her body from a bridge into a
creek.
What is particularly horrifying
about the account of this barbaric
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2. Date of filing: October 1, 1983
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Hoke County, North Carolina 28376.
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Publisher: Louis H. Fogleman, Jr., 316 Glenburney Dr., Fayetteville,
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act of violence is the picture of ut
ter helplessness presented by a vic
tim of such tender years.
But this was also true of the 269
people who were aboard the
Korean 747 jumbo jetliner when it
was attacked by Soviet interceptor
pilots. The commercial aircraft
was unarmed, completely
defenseless against the missiles of
military aircraft. As defenseless as
a 3-year-old against the assault of a
grown man.
The only basic difference in the
two acts of murder is that the at
tack on the passengers of the
airliner was more impersonal.
The pilot who launched the
missiles never saw his victims. It is
entirely possible that he never even
saw the aircraft he was shooting
down. Killing 269 human beings
comes easy when all you have to do
is press a button.
In a nuclear age, it's not much
more difficult to kill 269-million
people, without ever seeing their
faces or hearing their cries. It's all
very impersonal.
Political and military leaders
who would never think of raping
and suffocating a little 3-year-old
girl can destroy half the human
race by giving an order or turning a
switch.
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Elvis L. Verbal of 101 Hatley
Ave., Aberdeen has completed
basic training at Fort Leonard
Wood, Missouri.
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