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Traffic Liahts
We braked our car to a stop at the
corner of Front and Fairview Streets
one morning this week and waited for
the lights to change. When the green
light flashed up on the signal we drove
one block east to the comer of Fairview
and Main Streets where we were again
halted by a red light.
A few days before, in an unusually
big hurry, we traveled Chestnut Street
in Henderson on our way to the office
of The Henderson Dispatch to pick up
pictures. This time we bit a succession
of red lights, believing that we did not
miss a one, with the result t' it took
us almost as long to get th' h Hen
derson as it did to reach thai city from
Warrenton.
Almost every Saturday when traffic
is heavy here a line of cars extends
from one end of the business section of
the town to the other. Quite often when
one stops for a red light at the corner
of Main and Macon Streets and watches
the light change to green, he is not al
lowed to proceed because of the line of
traffic held up by a red light at the
corner of Main and Franklin Streets.
Signal lights are necessary for an
orderly flow of traffic, and for the re
duction of accidents. This is admitted.
It must also be admitted that wrongly
timed lights can cause unnecessary
traffic congestion. We believe, for in
stance, that the lights on the corners of
Front and Main and Fairview Streets
should be synochronized so that one
could drive from Front Street to the
postoffice without being held up by
more than one signal light. We believe
that if the lights 011 Main Street?and
011 many streets in other towns and
small cities?wore prtiperly synchroniz
ed that traffic congestion would be
greatly reduced and the motorists would
find his trip through town less un
pleasant.
It is easy to point out a 'difficulty,
but it is often much harder to provide
a remedy. We are well aware that it
would not be easy for our local officials
to synchronize the signal lights on
Main Street so that traffic could flow
through town freely. It would necessi
tate re-wiring of the lights to one con
trol box. we suppose. We do not know
whether or not it would be feasible for
the town commissioners to employ a
traffic engineer to work out the prob
lem. But we would like for them to give
thought to the matter and investigate
the cost of the services of a traffic en
gineer. We feel that if traffic could be
expedited through town that it would
not only be a great convenier. ce to the!
traveling public, but would mean much ?
to the business life of the town.
Consolidation Is Inevitable
Loleta Kenan Powell, who writes an
interesting column for The Smithfieid
Herald, last week discussed the consoli
dation of our schools. Because this is
a definite need for Warren County and
because her reasons for consolidation of
schools in Johnson County are applica
ble to this county, we are republishing
her article.
The first step in the improvement of
Warren County schools is the passage
of a bond issue to provide funds for the
consolidation of the remaining small Ne
gro schools of the county. Until this is
done there is little need to talk of a con
solidated white high school for the
county. But eventually the high schools
of Norlina and Warrenton should be
consolidated and, if feasible, the Little
ton school should be included in the
consolidation plan. Meanwhile, we think
it well that our people understand the
reasons for and the advantages of con
solidation, for if any school is to be suc
cessful it must have public backing.
Mrs. (or Miss) Powell's article is
thought provoking. It follows:
By LOLETA KENAN POWELL
During my recent teaching experience I
have done much thinking about our schools
Of the future, last week in the Pine Level
community I was delighted to learn of the
attitude of some of the deep-thinking women
there toward the consolidation their school
anticipates. I received the distinct impression
that these people in that community, while
they hate to look back nostalgically on the
school that "was" in Pine Level like all ei li
nens of any close community, do believe that
true progress demands consolidation.
I deplore bigness, when individuals must
count for less, as all of us do. Novertheless,
we must face the fact that population growth
makes mandatory our doing things on a larger
scale. Economy likewise demands our doing
00. The schools of tomorrow must be fewer,
bigger, and better for genuine progress.
Transportation is no longer the problem
#? was when every community had to strive
locate a center of education as clooe as
to its walking or laboriously driven
Today, we can afford to locate in
centers the very best in books, physical
and varied curriculum; but the
placing these in every community Is
fewer schools, our children can
receive more Individual attention than
small schools. Here, a freshman clam
might be divided, for instance, easily
sections that arc teachable; where
teacher asked to teach them In two
can not teach them properly.
In the larger school, adequately
mat make K, more and
smaller classes, and more subjects can be
taught. Physics, for instance, wished by only
five or six very fine students in the small
school, could hardly be offered; in the larger
school, while physics still would not be a
prime desire, it easily could draw a class of
25 or 30 challenging students who vitually
would need that stcty for future occupations.
For the larger school to serve us better,
there will be a change of emphasis. Athletics
must receive less attention. Class functions j t
such as plays and banquets can not assume: M
the same scale as "what we had." There must i si
be, in general, more attention to subject mat- j *
ter?and recent reports on our deficiencies in- ?
dicate a prime need here. Some of the things,
like athletics, in suffering "de-emphasis," may
in reality be elaborated into a general physl-.
cal education for all the school. Each student j
could be given intensive health education be
yond the first year even, in lieu of extra ef
fort for only a few. Such de-emphasis on class
functions as mentioned above may, rather, re
sult in more activity in that a large school
can offer more organizations attractive to
varied interests. I believe elimination alto
gether of a period to explore some outside
interests is one step too far in the subject
matter direction. I still believe in development
of a well-rounded citizen. It is possible to
make school too much of a grind, so that no
fun is left at all. It is not impractical to re
member this factor in human make-up.
NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 YEARS AGO
Looking Backward Into
The Record
February 15, 1957
The Bnrber of Seville will be presented at
the John Graham High School by the National
Grassroots Opera on next Wednesday evening.
The Warren-Halifax Basketball Tournament
will be held at the Norlina Gymtorium begin
ning next Tuesday.
February 15, 1952
Warren County's 1962 tobacco allotment is
9,650 acres, Clyde M. Coleman, PMA secre
tary, announced yesterday.
Howell Steed, manager of Steed's Shop, was
named president of the Warrehton Chamber
of Commerce at a director's meeting on Tues
day night.
The John Graham PTA on Tuesday night
agreed to support a Boy Scout Troop.
February 12, 19S7
A bill to district Warren County for the
election of county commissioners and members'
of the Board of Education passed the State
House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Plana are underway for the holding of an
automobile show here in the spring under
the sponsorship ot the Warren ton Lions Club
The W. a Dameron Supply Company, has
been dissolved end reorganized as Warren1
Cotton and Fertilttar Co.
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MOSTLY
PERSONAL
By BIGNA1X JONES
'' i i ? ?
"Modern Yancey County's
school system included two
lew high schools, each costing
iver $300,000, and a brand new \
:olored school for the county's j
!7 colored students, costing j
530,000. 1
This was' one of the many, s
interesting bits of information. t
I received in reading Bill; 1
Sharpe's "A New Geography,!
>f North Carolina," covering, t
ho histories of 26 of the 100 <
counties. This most worth- t
.vhile book came to my desk|<
i few weeks ago with the,'
compliments of the author,
vhom I have known for t
nany years, and which I com- i
iletev. reading over the week- c
nd. |t
Here in Warren County 1
vhere the school enrollment is,
nora than two-thirds Negro, i
he statement that in Yancey,!
Ipunty there_are only 27 Ne-, v
;ro students seemed unusual.; I
Presently John Graham High , v
School has a candidate who is v
i semi finalist for a Morehead c
icholarship at the University t
if North Carolina and we all, f
mpo that a Warren County y
chool boy for the first time t
nay obtain this fine scholar- o
hip But Bill in recounting I c
he fine school at Albermarleiv
n Stanley County, said that f
:The Albemarle high school r
las four Morehead Scholars at
he University, which school
icople think is a record. And
t has another record?a high
chool football team unbeaten
n 5 seasons in conference
day."
We have had many oddities
n Warren County, but noth
ng to touch the Siamese
wins,, Chang and Eng. Bunker.
Jill relates that the twins
rere united to each other by
ligature of fleshy band, about
inches in length ^nd eight
nches in circumference, form
d at the extremity breastbone
if each, and extending down
ward to the abdomen. Al
hough inseparably linked, the
wins carried on their business
iffairs quite successful and en
oyed social life. They attend
ed dances, courted and married
he Yates girls, in a double
eremony. Eleven children were
lorn to Eng and Sarah and
en to Chang and Adelaide.
Another thing of interest to
ne at a time that the com
nissioners are preparing to
all a school bond issue is the
arge number of counties In
he state that have voted
chool bond issues within the
last few years. In a discussion
f the schools in the 26 coun
ies covered in this volume of
lorth Carolina Geography, Bill
tates that eight of them have
oted school bond issues?one
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WHITE'S
COTTON GIN
WARRENTON, N. C.
tor $2,000,000, another (or $1,
'.50,000?and by inference! MUP
that several others of the 26
counties have voted such bond
issues. For instance, he will
say that a county has com
pletely remodeled its schools
through a consolidation pro
gram. or that two modern
ligh schools have recently
jeen built.
But the book is much more
hau a collection of odd (acts
about North Carolina, it is an
nformative and very readable
listory of the counties of the
state. It is expected that other
,'olumes will relate the his
tories of the other counties.
Several weeks ago Bill's daugh
ter was in Warrenton for sev
iral days gathering informa
ion for a history of Warren
bounty to be included in anoth
er volume
The Sanford Herald says of
he geography that "This prom
ses to be not only the most
?xhaustive but the most enter
aining report on North Caro
ina ever attempted."
Hugh R. Lefler, Professor of
?listory at the University of
^Jorth Carolina, says of the
?olume: "A New Geography of
>Iorth Carolina, is the first
'olume of a projected series,
vhich will cover all the state's
ine hundred counties. This
took, and those which are to
ollow within the next few
'ears, will fill a great gap in
he most neglected phases of
iur state's history?that of the
ounties and towns. All those
vho teach and write about
4orth Carolina will find A
tfew Geography of North Caro
ina an indispensable book."
My reaction was that I not
mly have come into possession
f a most enjoyable book, but
i fine reference source, and
he wish that I may visit each
if the counties so well covered
iy Bill Sharpe.
Just Like Banking
"Have you seen the grocer's
lill, dear?" she asked the bank
eller.
"I sent it back to him, darl
Walker Attend*
UNC Sympo*ium
CHAPEL HILL ? Harry
Walker of Walker Drug Com
pany at Norlina la now attend
ing a six-week drug symposium
at the University of North
Carolina School of Pharmacy.
The program, which consists
of meetings every Wednesday
night, got underway this week
and will continue through
March 14. It is being attend
ed by some 50 pharmacists
from throughout the state.
Miss Lea Franklin
Honored In France
I
Miss Lea Franklin of Fon
tainebleau, France, who is at
tending the Paris American
High School in Paris, France,
was recently inducted into the
National Honor Society, it was
learned here this week.
To be eligible for the honor
a student must not only main
lain a 3.5 average of a possible
t points, but also she must
be selected by the members of
the school who belong to the
National Honor Society and ap
proved by the principal and
[lie teachers of the school.
Miss Franklin has attended
Paris-American for two years
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And did you hear about the
Texas housewife who said to
her husband: "Will you get
the car out, dear, and drive
the youngsters to the back
yard so they can play?"
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itixens by birth, or choice of a common
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Farewell Address, 1796
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