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Should Extend Town Limits
The agricultural revolution, while
increasing the growth of cities, has
resulted in the decline of many small
towns over the nation. Most affect
ed have been very small towns and
villages, according to a national
survey. As a rule of thumb, the
survey states, those towns with less
than 2500 population have lost popu
lation. Those above that figure have
continued their growth.
The finding of the survey, which
comes as no surprise, has a de
finite application to Warrenton. For
here we have a town whose popu
lation is only around 1100 according
to census figures, but in reality a
town of probably more than 2500
if its limits were extended to a
realistic point.
If a company wishing to come into
the town with a branch business, or
a factory, would make an investi
gation these facts would be reveal
ed and they would find out what the
town really 'ias to offer. But, un
fortunately, few people are willing
to even consider entering a town with
a business when the census figures
show that a town has not only fail
ed to grow but has actually lost pop
ulation.
For this reason, mar s.
we think that the town ti
in its own light when It
consider extending town limit
In Warrenton the houses exten
beyond the present limits. We have
noticed in many other towns show
ing growth that the limits actually
extend in some cases to farm land.
We do not ask this for Warrenton.
We would like to see the town
limits of Warrenton extended on the
East to Neal's Service Station; on
the South to Hudgin's Creek; on the
North to the Old Cemetery and to
the Sportswear Factory; and on the
West to the Prison Camp. This would
embrace greater Warrenton and
would give us a population of around
2800. Some open land would be taken
in, but not to the extent that has
been in the case in many towns
that have extended their limits.
In the short run, such exten
sion might not be profitable to the
town which would have to increase
its services to more citizens. But
in the case of water, mains al
ready extend to most of the area
covered in the suggestions. Lower
Insurance rates and town services
would well compensate those brought
into the town for the town taxes
they would have to pay.
In the long run, we feel that ex
tending the town limits would be
very beneficial to our people, would
tend to correct a false picture of
its opportunities, and would en
ourage us in our continued effort
j provide the services and attrac
lons needed to bring industries into
our county.
Statistics That Keep Haunting Us
The Smithfield Herald
Those disturbing educational statistics
keep cropping up.
A Monday morning news story from Chapel
Hill has passed along some Ideas of a
University of North Carolina sociologist,
Dr. Glen Elder, about methods In overcom
ing educational deficiencies. Dr. Elder, a
strong believer in the principle that older
students can help younger students through
learning processes, is quoted as saying:
"Separation of age groups increases diffi
culties which children experience as they
move from one age to another." He specifi
cally is proposing educational centers in
communities bringing adolescent dropouts
and adult dropouts together In a common
effort to Increase their knowledge.
Lest anyone question whether we have
educational deficiencies in North Carolina,
the United Press International inserted
prodding statistics In the story about Dr.
Elder's ideas. We' have read them before,
but we do need to read them- again and again.
These statistics:
Only seven states in 1960 had a higher
percentage of lllteracy in population over
14 than North Carolina.
Only six states have a higher rate of
high school dropouts than North Carolina.
One-third of the state's ninth graders en
rolled in the fall of 1962 didn't make it to
graduation in the spring of 1966.
In 1966-67, North Carolina's public schools
spent $411 per pupil In average dally
attendance (on items In current expense
budgets). Only seven states spent less than
North Carolina.
In 1965 only two states had a higher
percentage of Selective Service draftees
falling mental tests than North Carolina.
Forty-one percent of North Carolina's draf
tees failed.
In the Nineteen Sixties, North Carolina has
greatly increased its public school appro
priations, under the leadership of both Gov
ernor Sanford and Governor Moore, but
the state has hardly kept pace with educa
tional progress in other states If the cited
statistics are a fair indication of the ef
fectiveness of public education in North
Carolina.
The need for more money to attract
and retain good teachers remains acute.
The rural counties which do not have teacher
salary supplements are especially disad
vantaged, tor the better teachers tend to
migrate to the schools systems in North
Carolina and elsewhere where supplements
?repaid.
Bat money la not the only need. Nor
will 1ms regimentation?removal of undue
restrictions upon teachers who need time
and freedom to teach creatively ? fully
solve the proMem of making classroom in
more affective, though leas
certainly emid help improve
greatly.
la room la the pottle school sya
for
ed in the public schools. As Dr. Elder ob
serves, pupils often come from homes
"where there Is no parental interest." An
effective public school must find substi
tutes for parental interest. As long as a
substantial number of North Carolina
pupils approach school work without the
motivation that wholesome home life pro
vides or its equivalent, those shameful edu
cational statistics will continue to haunt
us Tar Heels.
In Modern Colors
The Hartford Courant
Some educators appear to be going back
to the methods of the little red schoolhouse.
This Is a radical departure from the regi
mented system that has grown up In the
cities. In the one-room country school one
teacher had charge of children in all grades
up to high school. The children were thrown
together and received instruction at the
convenience of the teacher, according to their
ability to profit from it.
Graduates of graded schools who have
worked around have noticed that conditions
In shops and offices are little like those In
regimented schools. Things may be different
now, but not long ago pupils sat In silence
In rows at desks lined up In fixed positions.
They answered the teacher when spoken to,
and had no converse with their neighbors.
During recess they marched like convicts
In a column to the school yard, and re
turned in the same way. They could not walk
about the room or leave tt without permis
sion. Children were graded by age for the
most part, and classes made no allowance
for different growth rates In children.
Now Kansas City has rediscovered the
system so that It Is new. The first six
grades are being run together. Children will
be taught in groups according to their needs.
They will move around, working In differ
ent grows for various subjects, according
to their abilities. A team of teachers and
associrfes will have charge of each colony
of children.
In the old days one of the boys had to
come early to start a fir* In the wood stove
so the room would be warm by the time the
others arrived. Modern educators have not
thought of anything better than that tor
character building.
Quotes
"Being in old maid la Ilk* death by
drowning a really delightful ?i sat km after
you eaas* to atnggl*,"?Atea Farter.
"Every year I live I am mora convinced
that th* waste o? life ll*a In th* krv* w* hava
not given, the powars w* have m
that will risk
as well."
Bears Are
On Candid
Camera
WASHINGTON - The pri
vate life of the grizzly bear
Is no longer private.
The most feared of all North
American carnivores has been
observed napping, gamboling
like a lamb In new-fallen snow,
battling, courting, swimming
at night, digging secret dens,
and, for the first time, holed
up for a six-month winter nap.
Naturalists John and Frank
Craighead spy on grizzlies In
Yellowstone National Park by
harmlessly drugging the fero
cious animals, taking vital
statistics, then attaching col
lars with built-in-radios.
Portable tracking receivers
convert the signals into apul
sating "beep-beep" that en
ables monitors to keep tabs
on marked bears and learn the
llfe-and-death details of Yel
lowstone's grizzly population.
Love Life Unruffled
rhe Craigheads report,
"The love life, family duties,
and general behavior of agrlz
zly are not noticeably affect
ed when it acquires a collar
antenna, radio transmitter,
and battery pack."
Electronic eaves dropping
has proved a vital aid In the
first major scientific study of
grizzlies. It Is sponsored by
the National Geographic So
ciety, National Science Foun
dation, and other Institutions.
Adventures of the Craig
heads are related in the Na
tional Geographic special,
"Grizzlyl", to be shown in
color on CBS Television Net
work November 1. The film
premieres a 1967-68 series
produced in association with
David L. Wolper and narrat
ed by Alexander Scourby.
The grizzly has roamed
North America for a million
years; It was king of animals
until man came along. The
first of countless fearful com
ments on grizzlies probably
was made by Henry Kelsey,
of Hudson's Bay Company, in
1691. He reported, succinctly,
"It is mans food & he makes
food of man."
Now the grizzly is a threat
ened species south of Canada,
Less than 1,000 survive in the
United States outside Alaska.
Prior to the Craigheads,
grizzly research was discour
aged by the size, strength, un
predictability and wanderings
of the great bears. Grown
grizzlies weigh 600 or so
pounds, and can break a
steer's back with one blow.
Indians say the grizzly is so
wary it doesn't let one foot
know what the other Is doing.
No Telltale Paths
The Craigheads have radio
tracked some 30 grizzlies and
visually studied more than 200
others marked with color
coded ear tags. Their pa
tient work has yielded much
new knowledge about the spec
ies.
They are thefirst scientists
who have trailed grizzlies to
their hidden dens, dug at ele
vation!. of 8,000 to 9,000 feet
In Yellowstone well before
winter. Dens face north to
assure snow Insulation.
The grizzlies steal like
ghosts to their mountain re
treats in snowstorm*. Thus
they leave no telltale paths.
During winter, females give
birth to the young ? blind,
toothless, and no bigger than a
squirrel.
The Craigheads plan more
Intimate probes Into grizzly
secrets, a new transmitter
with a device to measuretem
perature tells whether a bug
ged bear Is lumbering through
a cool forest or sunny meadow.
More sophisticated devices
now being tested will teleme
ter the grizzly's body tem
perature and take electro
cardiograms.
Such data Is of medical In
terest. Grizzlies are obese
animals with high cholesterol
and low thyroid levels. But
they don't suffer hardening of
the arteries like man.
Carroll E. Harris
Promoted Sergeant
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.
C. - Carroll E. Harris, son
of Mrs. Edna M. Harris of
Macon, N. C? has been pro
moted to sergeant In the U. 8.
Air Force.
Sergeant Harris Is a radio
repairman with the 437th
Civil Engineering Mainten
ance Squadron at Charles
ton AFB, a c. He is. mem
ber of the Military Airlift
Command.
The sergeeat is a graduate
o* Mm Graham High School,
Warrenton, W. c.
United Nations Serves Marty Very Useful Purposes
Ai Editorial Froa The Charlotte Observer
United Nations Dvy passed quietly hereabouts. Not just
quietly, but virtually unsung, except tor a telephone poll
by a local television station.
This poll showed, incredibly, that more than 50 per cent
of the people who called In were convinced that the United
Nations serves "no useful purpose."
Did all of these people have their eyes and ears closed
recently when war broke out between Israel and the Arab
nations? Do they not realize that without the U.N. as a
buffer another direct confrontation might have taken
place between the United States and the Soviet Union?
Regardless of the demonstrable facts about the U.N.,
people believe only what they want to believe about it.
Admittedly, the U.N. is weaker than it should be as a world
peacekeeping force. It has had financial problems. It at
times seems little more than a debating society, but even
In that role, It serves a useful purpose.
Memories are short. The United States bore the brunt
of the defense of South Korea, for example, but It was a
United Nations operation overall. The U.N. has helped main
tain an uneasy peace in the Middle East for the past 11
years. It brought about an end to the war In the Congo?
not to everybody's liking, but it helped stave off a wider
African conflict Involving the great powers.
Have Charlotteans so quickly forgotten the U. N. role In
the Kashmir and Its part in helping reduce the friction
on Cyprus? Do they not remember the moderating func
tion it performed during the Cuban missile crisis?
No useful purpose indeed! Is it not useful to try to protect
the independence and integrity of weak nations, bring an
end to the violent settlement of International differences,
supervise ceasefires and provide a forum where differ
ences can be debated and mediated?
But there are less visible things about the U.N., too,
that make the results of the poll a travesty of the truth.
In numerous ways through its various agencies, the U. N.
is seeking to educate and guide developing and underprivileg
ed people In nation-building. It is feeding hungry children
and working for economic, technological and social pro
gress all over the world.
The U.N. has had Its difficulties, of course. It Is just
as effective as its largest member states will allow
it to be. France and the Soviet Union, for example, have
hampered It by refusing to contribute to certain peace
keeping operations. Worthwhile actions have been vetoed
numerous times In the Security Council. The U. S. has
not made as good use of Its peacekeeping mechanism In
Southeast Asia as It could have.
But "no useful purpose"? The recently negotiated Outer
Space Treaty which went Into force last month Is Just one
example of what has been accomplished at the U.N. Ex
tremely Important work on the extension of human rights is
In the same spirit. The U.N. Is grappling with problems
of world population and food supply, making Important stud
ies, trying to find ways to help mankind not only to sur
vive but to live well, and live In peace.
We could chronicle the faults and weaknesses of the U.
N. endlessly. But the late Adlal Stevenson, that very ef
fective ambassador to the U.N. was right when he said,
"Let none of us mock its weakness, because when we
do we are mocking ourselves."
When more than 50 percent of a local response is that
this international forum, this center of diplomatic contact
and maneuver, this exp> tssion of the idealism of mankind,
serves "no useful purpose," the communications media
and the leadership of a community must hang their heads
in shame.
For It is quite clear that we have fallen down badly
on the job of not only explaining the U.N. but putting its
accomplishments and failures In perspective for the people.
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A-Elberon Honor
Roll Announced
The honor roll for Afton
Elberon for the first grading
period of the school year was
released yesterday as follows:
Mrs. Hurst's Fifth Grade
Steven George Bender, N. M.
Hllllard, Jr., Clyde R. Per
klnson, Jr., Kim Melanle
Fleming, Kaihryn Larnell
King, Cynthia Ethyl Quails.
Mrs. Haynes' Sixth Grade
Catherine Blankenshlp, Cathy
Renn.
Cotton has always offered
high performance at reason
able cost.
In Hospital
Patients in Warren Gen
eral Hospital on Tuesday
afternoon were listed as fol
lows:
Devilla Vick, Myrtle Spain,
Jessie Hasklns, Thomas Luf
sey, Bessie White, Lula
Shearln, Lorena Edwards,
J. Van King, David Harris,
Molly Plummer, Leona May
nard, James Pitchford, Henry
Conner, Cora Christmas,
Georgiania Williams, Jesse
Alston, Junius Plummer,
Percy Richardson.
Machines are used to har
vest more than two-thirds of
the U. S. cotton crop.
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