WEDNESDAY^ FEEEUARY 19, 1975
THE TRIBUNAL AID
TIME
Rev. R.M. White
High Point Soil Erosion
Control Ordinance
FIRST IN A SERIES ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
In the 20th chapter of Exodus, we find the Ten
Commandments (laws). Many believe that this set of
ancient codes is a lot of “hog-wash” -- never looking to
them as the “nature of principles”. It is my conviction
that to violate these codes is to bring disaster to the
individual and society, as a whole.
Let us take a concerned look at the First
Commandment. EXODUS 20:3: “THOU SHALT HAVE
NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” We will call our
discussions on the Ten Commandments in this series,
“The True Guides For Your Life Ship”.
This first commandment has a brief preface. “I AM
THE LORD THY GOD....THOU SHALT HAVE NO
OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” This code, you see,
begins with a great assumption. It assumes the reality
of God. It begins by asserting that God is. The author of
this code, whoever he may have been, makes no effort
to prove God. He simply affirms him. In so doing, he is
in harmony with all the other writers of the Bible. The
psalmists do not argue about God. They realize Him
and rejoice in His mercies. The prophets never
undertake to prove God; they proclaim Him. This is
emphatically true of Jesus. He lived in constant
fellowship with the Father. He communed with him; he
did his work through the might of his power. He
revealed him, saying, “HE THAT HATH SEEN ME
HATH SEEN THE FATHER.” But he never argues
about Him.
These psalmists and prophets do not take this
position, I am sure, because there are no evidences of
God. Of course, we cannot prove God by any sort of
logic; yet, there are unmistakable evidences of his
existence. This ordered universe with its infinite marks
of intellgience is one tremendous evidence. If you tell
me that you drive a car, and 1 ask you what make it is, I
feel that I am asking a perfectly reasonable question. If
you answer, “It is no make at all; it is the result of blind
forces that had no pre-vision of what they were
creating,” 1 will not conclude that you are wiser than I,
but only that you are less sane. With the poet, we can
slill hear God say:
“Before the roaring loom of time I ply and weave the
garment thou seest me by.”
Of course, the conception of God that was prevelent
when this code was written is not our conception.
Man's conception of God has changed vastly since
then. Since then, the Word has become flesh and dwelt
among us, and we have been privileged to behold his
glory. We have seen him gather little children into his
arms. We have seen him bend over outcasts in love and
mercy. We have seen him make every man’s burden his
own. We have heard him say, “IF GOD WERE HERE
HE WOULD BE DOING JUST WHAT I AM DOING.
HE IS HERE IN ME, FOR HE HATH SEEN ME HATH
SEEN THE FATHER.”
But the fact that our conceptions of God change with
the passing of the years, does not mean that God
changes. Our conception of the universe has changed
vastly since that far-off day. Their universe was a very
small affair; ours stretches away into the infinite. When
Ihc psalmist sang, “When I consider thy heavens, the
work of Ihy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou
has ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of
him?" he thought of those stars and of that moon as
very near and friendly little candles to light his way. We
think of them today in a far different fashion. Yet they
arc the very same stars and the very same moon at
which the psalmist looked. In the same way, though our
conceptions of God change, God abides, “the same
yesterday, today, and forever.”
Now in saying that God is ours for the taking, this
ancient lawgiver speaks in harmony with the whole
Bible. This affirmation sounds hearteningly in the Old
Testament rises to a shout of victory in the New.
Whalcver else we may miss, no man peed miss God.
How insistent and appealing is this declaration upon
the lips of Jesus!
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High Point- Man has not
always been mindful of the
awesome powers of nature.
In his ignorance, either
actual or convenient, man
has often disturbed the
land itself in ways that
made it easy for the forces
of wind and water to erode
in an accelerated fashion.
Indeed, a hard five-inch
downpour of rain puts
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135,770 gallons of water on
an acre of land, and if the
land is not properly
protected, this water can
carry off as much as 20 tons
of topsoil per surface acre.
This rich, fertile topsoil is
lost leaving a sterile,
hard-pan, and the run-off
sedimentation causes pol
lution of the waterways
destroying the marine life
therein and becoming unfit
for human consumption.
Sever Sedimentation can
also block natural and
artificial waterways causing
detractive flooding.
In recognition of the
adverse aspects of soil
erosion and sedimentation,
the State of North Carolina
has enacted a Soul Erosion
and Sedimentation Control
statute and an accompany
ing enabling act which
gives cities and counties
the option of abiding by the
State statute, or enaction
their own ordinance to deal
with the problem. The only
restriction placed upon the
cities and counties in
enabling act is that their
ordinances must be at least
as restrictive as the State's.
They are free to make it
more stringent if they deem
it necessary, however, the
main point is that the local
ordinance may not super
cede the State statute if it is
less severe than the
State’s.
The City of High Point
accepted the offer to draft
its own ordinance on soil
erosion and sedimentation
control, and, in conjunction
with Greensboro and Guil
ford County, drafted an
ordinance known in the
City’s jurisdiction as the
City of High Point Soil
Erosion Control Ordinance.
This ordinance was passed
by the City Council of High
Point meeting in regular
session on January 16,
1975, and later ratified by
the North Carolina Sedi
mentation Control Com
mission in Raleigh. It is
now the law.
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Human Resources in Action
in North Carolina
' Clay Williams
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Two recent
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DEATHS
KERNERSVILLE
MR. CHARLES CHAVIS
Mr. Charles Chavis, 64,
of 308 North Cherry St.,
Kernersville, died in N.C.
Baptist Hospital, Winston-
Salem. Funeral services
were held at St. Paul
develop- procurement program is
ments in the North Carolina being stepped up because Methodist Church,
Kidney Program will give of the increasing number of Point. HAIZLIP S
the 330 people in the state patients now existing solely FUNERAL HOME was in
who have suffered total on dialysis. He noted that of‘I'l ^'■■'■angenienls.
kidney failure, a better at the present time 330 are
chance at life, according to on dialysis and about 200
Rodney Johnson, program more come into the
HIGH POINT
manager.
Two mobile vans equiped
with perfusion
(stimulates a
MR. FREDDY DEBERRY
Mr. Freddv Deberry of
come
program each year.
“Last year 50 cadaver
machines kidneys were procured,”
kidney's Johnson stated. “With
human environment) have increased emphasis on Trinity, died in High Point
been purchased for trans- procurement, we hope to Memorial Hospital. Fune-
porting cadaver kidneys to get at least 75 in 1975. We l al services were held at the
transplant centers at Duke, must remember, however. Miracle Temple Holiness
Chapel Hill, Charlotte and that all kidneys procured in Church, Trinity. Burial
Winston-Salem.
“The move will enable us
North Carolina are not followed in Greenhill Ce-
transplanted in the state, metcry. MOORE'S FUNE-
to serve larger hospitals North Carolina is included RAL SERVICE was in
better, but more particu- in a 13-state organ-sharing charge of all arrangements,
larly community hospitals network. If, after the
whose participation in the kidney is tissue-typed, it is MR. WILLIAM MARTIN
program has been sparse determined that the most
due mostly to the lack of a suitable donor lives in Mr. William Martin,
facility for maintaining and another state, the organ is formerly a resident of High
transporting the organ, will flown there for transplan- Point, died in New Jersey,
now be able to contribute to tation.” Funeral services were
procurement Johnson said the ultimate conducted al Moore's
the kidney
effort,” Johnson said.
“Probably the biggest
reason we have been
unable to get cadaver
'tidneys from smaller com-
nunity hospitals,” Johnson
•easoned, "is that person-
lel at these institutions
lave not been made
■ufficiently aware of our
lesperate need for kid-
leys."
To remedy that problem
hree transplant coordi-
lators have been hired,
'he perfusion specialists,
/ho will be stationed in the
'hapel Hill-Duke area,
Charlotte and Winston-
alem, will travel the state
3 attempt to establish
rotocol among hospital
dministrators and emer-
,ency room and intensive
are personnel for the
lurpose of identifying
lotential donors.
Johnson said the kidney
solution to the program lies Funeral Service chapel by
with the people who must the Rev. F.O. Bass. Burial
be sufficiently aware of the followed in Greenhill Ce-
need for kidneys for metcry. MOORE'S FUNE-
transplantation, that they RAL SERVICE was in
will make prior arrange- chargc of all arrangements,
ments for donating their
kidneys. MR. THOMAS
“Our mobile vans have ROBERTSON
th capacity to perfuse as
many as four kidneys each Mr. Thomas Robertson
up to two days,” said Dr. of Trinity, died in High
Stanley Mandel, director of Point Memorial Hospital,
the procurement phase of Funeral services were held
the kidney program. “This at First Baptist Church of
will allow us to serve the Trinity by the Rev. John
most remote hospitals in Mason. Burial followed in
the state and still maintain Greenhill Cemetery,
the kidney in an environ- MOORE'S FUNERAL SER-
ment as close as possible to VICE was in charge of all
that of a human being.’' arrangements.
Ijach machine-equiped
van will be manned by one
perfusion technician, a
physician's assistant
and/or nurse. Mandel said
Di'Gel REUEvks
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continued on Page 6
Retired A&T Farm Supervisor
Buried In Greensboro Rites
Greensboro- Martin F.
Holt, retired farm super
intendent and superinten
dent of buildings and
grounds at A&T State
University, died Feb. 9 in
Cone Memorial Hospital
after a long illness. He was
84 year old.
Holt, who lived at 1011
Bluford Street, retired trom
A&T in 1960 after serving
in various capacities at the
chancellor of A&T State
University, said, “Mr. Holt
made outstanding contri
butions at A&T State
University over the years.
He remained a close friend
of the university even after
his retirement.”
university for 42 years.
Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy,
He came to A&T in 1918
and for years operated the
blacksmithing shop on the
campus. In this role, Mr.
Holt fabricated the metal
used on some of the earlier
buildings.
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