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3JI|p Warrpn fipcorii Published Every Friday By The Record Publishing And Supply Company BIGNALL JONES, Owner and Editor Member North Carolina Press Association Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Warrenton, North Carolina, under the laws of Congress. "Second Class Postage Paid at Warrenton, N. C." SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, $3:00; Six Months, $1.50 Should Meet Our Own Responsibilities Results of a bond election to be call ed by the board of county commission ers for capital outlay cf Warren County schools in the near future can not, of course, be prediccted. But advanced dis cussion does tend to point out a glaring inconsistency in the reasoning of many of our people. Many citizens will support the issue because they feel that the Negro school children are entitled to better facilities and better educational advantages; and others, untouched by this consideration, will support the bond issue for reasons of expediency, because they feel that this is the way to maintain segre gated schools in Warren County. Others will oppose the bond issue because they are not moved by the needs of the Ne gro children, do not believe that the defeat of the bond issue would offer any threat to the status quo, and just don't want any bond issue under any circumstances. These are points that will be discussed in this newspaper after the bond issue is announced. The point which is brought to mind at this time is the curious quirk in the reasoning of so many of our people. Next to the matter of taxes, perhaps the most discussed and the bitterest discussed matter where people gather is that of encroachment of federal and state governments upon the functions of the local governments and the liber ties of the people, and its attendant rise in the cost of state and national govern ments. The reaction to the bond issut emphasizes this inconsistency. Were the State or National govern ment to offer to the county of Warrer. the sum of half a million dollars foi capital outlay of our schools, there would be little objection to this money being used for the building of a Negro -consolidated school and the abolishing of the small frame school buildings of the county. This was demonstrated by the use of state funds from a state bond issue several years ago. Of course, the people of Warren County had to pay their proportionate part?according to ability to pay?as would be the case in any state or federal plan. Here we have an example of so-called encroachment upon the. rights of a people to conduct their own affairs. It is not expected that the proposed bond issue, if passed, would cause any raise in the tax rate, nor would its re jection lower the tax rate. In other words Warren County is financially able to retire the proposed bond issue with out any increased hardship upon the tax payers. Thus if Warren County defeats the bond issue it will be a demonstra tion that Warren County does not want to meet its own obligation, but is will ing to let someone else meet it. What we are trying to say is that when local units of government fail to meet their responsibilities, an invitation is extended to the state and federal governments to take over, for Warren County may be a political unit, but it is also a part of the state and the nation, whose people seem to show a higher sense of social responsibility. So long as political subdivisions, so long as busi ness institutions, fail to meet the legiti mate needs of our people just so long can we anticipate more and more fed eral and state control over our local affairs. NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 YEARS AGO Good Thing It Wasn't Chittlings Greensboro Daily News We'd always suspected there was something powerful about the food people eat in North Carolina around New Year, and now we are sure. Down in Raleigh the other day a traditional Old "South dinner of collards and hambone blew up in Mrs. Calie Morris' pressure cook er. Nobody was injured, but: ?A two to three foot hole was blown in the kitchen. ?The kitchen walls were pushed out. ?Doors were knocked off the kitchen cabi net ?A hole was blown in the floor. ?The kitchen table was splintered. ?The refrigerator was bent. ?The kitchen stove was shoved to the mid dle of the room. ?A room partition was blown out Our thesis is this: No ordinary pot of vittles could produce so much damage. Possum and sweet potato, maybe. Black-eyed peas and hog jowl, perhaps. Collards and hambone, yes. Mrs. Morris should be thankful her pot con tained only collards and hambone, and not chittlings, the nuclear weapon, of the Tar Heel dietary line. The moral is you've got to be careful about a powerful dish like collards around New Year. Con Job Chapel Hill Weekly Reece Birmingham's experience in applying for State tuition grants to help finance send ing his children to a private segregated school In Durham lend solid support to the suspicion that the Pearmall Plan never really amounted to anything other than an extenporaneous con Job. One of the salient features of the Pearsall Plan was the promise of State tuition grants for those children who chose to attend pri vate segregated schools when public segregat ed schools were not available. There are no public segregated schools avail able to Mr. Birmingham's children in the Chapel Hill School District, so they were sent to a private school in Durham. The State has now found thet the private school does not qualify because of "technicalities.'' The truth is ,tbe State doesn't have money to war for tuition grants and has not at any time anticipated paying them. Cven an Integration 1st would have to con 1 Mr. Birmingham has been the vie ither a legalistic hoax or a promise in bad faith. reputation may merely he proof that have inquisitive neighbors, . Looking Backward Into The Record January 18, 1957 W. L. Wood was elected Mayor Protem of the Town of Warrenton at a regular meeting of the board on Monday night. The John Graham High School Band will give a concert at the school auditorium on January 31, Robert Macon Davis, director, an nounced yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Plummer Fitts have moved to their new home near Macon. Lucy Banzet, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Banzet, was elected president of Brownie Scout Troop No. 142 at its regular meeting on January 10. January 18, 1952 The death of Albert Dalby, 30, a profession al steeplejack who was killed here on Monday afternoon in a 130-foot fall from the Warren ton water tank, is blamed on a defective piece of new hemp rope. Work was begun last weekend on the con struction of a drive-in threatre to be operated by Stephen Daniel and Clifton Allgood. Negro enrollment in the Warfen County schools has increased 663 while the white en rollment has decreased 528 during the paat ten years, according to figures obtained this week from the office of superintendent of schools. Judge Henry L. Stevens will preside over the January civil term of Superior Court which convenes here on Monday. January 15, 1937 The Littleton Lions Club held its charter night banquet on Tuesday, January 11. Judge T. O. Rodwell held Recorder's Court in the Town Hall while Superior Court was in session in the court room this week. Senator Robert R. Reynolds will begin with in a short period writing a oclumn for The Warren Record. County Agent Bob Bright announced this that his office would clean tobacco seed for fanners. MOSTLY PERSONAL By BIGNALL JONES The late James Thurber inl a delightful book which I have1 been reading tells of his fam-! ily's experience with an auto mobile and the reaction of the older generation of the new mode of transportation. He said that his mother could nev er understand the exact pur pose of gasoline in the opera tion of an automobile but be lieved that if it were not used that it would cause much dam age hv frying the valves. As a result, his mother would often say, "Now. don't you boys go driving all over town without gasoline." After a life-time of driving horses, when the automobile appeared here it was not too easy for the older people to adapt to the new mode. As a result it was not too unusual to hear an older driver in a moment of stress when he had difficulty in stopping his car yelling "whoa." For the bene fit of the younger generation, that is a term used to stop a horse. These incidents are recalled by a letter I received a few days ago from Bill Sharpe,1 publisher and editor of The State Magazine, in regards to the publication of my recent | column on old automobiles. Bill adds quite a bit of his re collections to what I had said, and as there seems to be con siderable interest in the old I car matter, I am quoting Bill's comment as follows: "But one thing about the old i Ford you must have forgotten. The brakes were built so you could pull the emergency up part way and this would throw the gears into neutral. At this I position, little or no pressure was on the brake drum. If you wanted to stop or park you pulled the brake on back a little more. This, of course, obviated the necessity of using one foot on the forward pedal and the other on the reverse, though it is true that adept drivers soon learned io do this and not fool with the brake. However, I know the brake was designed this way, because one of our neighbors was an old lady who never failed to put her car into neutral with the handbrake before pushing on the reverse pedal. "And of course you must re member when a fancy Ford coupe (coop, we called them) often was outfitted with tas selled curtains which could be drawn by neckers. The first Ford I drove had the gas tank under the front seat, and you had to get out and take the cushions off so the man could fill the tank. It had a klaxon horn mounted on the door to 'he left, and the lights wouldn't! burn unless the car was run-1 ning. Everybody carried tire patches, and there were no "demountable rims," so a fel low with a puncture really had a job on his hands. I bet I've pumped up a thousand tires. Sometimes, if there was a slow leak, we'd get out and pump up the tire every mile or so rath er than go through the patch ing job. "I don't know how we got along without windshield wip ers, but we did. The windshield was divided, and you could open it, and that's what you had to do in mistsy or snowy weather. When the wipers came, the first ones were all manually operated, and it was a full-time job to keep the windshield clean. The first "roadsters" and "touring cars" had wide curtains which were kept under the back seat and put up in wet weather. Both "roadsters" and "touring cars" were incipent convertibles. That is, you could let the top back on both, if you want ed to go through the agony and labor. There was no stor age space in the first touring cars. I recall very well the first time license plates were recalled. And I remember, too, lighting up the "carbide" lights of my uneel's old Buick, which had a right hand drive, a high back seat, and a bulb horn. A. R. PERRY'S GLASS CO. HENDERSON, N. C. Automobile Glut Curred Windshield*, Mirrors, Table Tops And Store Fronts Call Ui For Your Requirements mom gb *6ui "The Fries family in Win ton (bankers) had an electric runabout, steered with a rod instead of a wheel. I believe the electric auto " is coming back some day. "I recall also hearing about autos before ever seeing one and remember they were call ed "red devils" upin Rocking ham County. "Incidentally, Dur^pt, Essex, Marmon, Locomobile (a steam driven car), Chandler were, some of the cars now out of most memories." Huckaby To Speak At Bethesda Church The pastor of North Caro lina's rural church of the year, the Rev. Riley Huckaby, will be the speaker for a special Bible Conference at Bethesda Baptist Church from January' 19 through January 21. Serv-1 ices will be held nightly at j 7:30 o'clock. "The Young Church in Ac tion" will be the topic of Mr. | Huckaby's messages, based upon the Book of Acts. Mr. Huckaby's pastorate,! Mount Ruhama Baptist Church' of Newton, was selected by the1 Grange as North Carolina's most outstanding rural church. Bethesda Baptist Church, a member of the W. R. Cullom Association, is located three miles south of John Kerr Dam on State Highway Number 4 it the entrance to Palmer Point. Naturally Terminal Manager's Wife: ?lurry up, please, and give me' i quart of red oil." Service Station Attendant:' 'A quart of red oil?" Terminal Manager's Wife:: 'Yes, of course. Can't you see j ny tail light has gone out?" Now is the time to: plan your vegetable garden; check the power mower; sharpen tools; repair hose, sprayers and dusters; examine the compost pile; order" sufficient seed of adapted vegetable varieties to] meet the needs .of your family; and build a cold frame or hot bed. Your pruning chores] should be completed. The actual site of the garden1 is important but many garden-1 ers have no choice in this re-' spect. If you are lucky enough to have a choice of sites,; choose one as near the house as possible. This is for con-: venience. protection and avail ability of water for irrigation. Stay away from large trees, for two reasons?they have ex-1 tensive root systems which will compete with the vegetables for moisture, and they produce: shade. Most vegetables like' full sun. Avoid soils which are poorly f drained. If you have a new ] home, be on the look-out for mortar, brick, stumps and oth er debris that may have been covered while establishing a final grade. It is a good idea to plan your garden on paper. This will give an opportunity to lo cate all crops, arrange for succession plantings and as sure a plentiful supply of vege tables for fresh use, freezing and canning. Plant perennials along one side of the garden so they will GARDEN TlfV.E M . E . G. i rd >i iH N.C. St.ito College 'be out of the way when you are working your annual crops I'm speaking of such things as I asparagus, rhubarb, strawber ries, dewberries and rasp berries. Plan for continuous harvest , by weekly plantings of such I crops as snapbeans and sweet I corn. Unless you have plenty J of room, you may not wish to plant such crops as water melons becaue of the spac quired for normal growth. It is. -not too 1st* tt.aij&g your garden area and leave it in rough fallow until time to, prepare the soil for planting. Successive freesing and thaw ing will break up the soil par ticles and make the prepara tion of a seed bed much easier. The lifetime quota of water usage for the average person in the U. S. is 3,500,000 gal Ions. 1 ? C^666 Tox-Eol Exterminators SPECIALIST IN TERMITE CONTROL Office In Henderson Building Supply 942 S. William St. ? All Work Guaranteed SANDWICH SHOP in the Green Building on Market Street HOT DOGS ? HAMBURGERS BARBECUE ? SOFT DRINKS MILK SHAKES ? 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That is free enterprise at work to help keep America Powerful! :' ? -? ; -? ; CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY An investor-owned, taxpaying, public utility company
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