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Wine In ABC Stores
The purpose of the establishment
of the ABC stores was not to stop
but to control the sale of whiskey,
and while not entirely successful,
it has proven to be a great improve
ment over prohibition, and perhaps
the least objectionable method of
handling whiskey. While profit was a
secondary consideration, the count
ies and. towns have received hun
dreds of thousands of dollars of
profits that had heretofore gone
into the pockets of the bootleggers.
While the sale of hard liquor was
restricted to the ABC stores, wine
and beer were permitted under lic
ense in retail stores. The purpose
of this, we suppose, was to permit
wines of low alcoholic content and
beer in retail outlets as a matter
of public convenience in the know
ledge that drinks with low alcoholic
content offers no great problem.
But in some manner things became
crossed up and. today we find the
ABC stores restricted to the sale
of low alcoholic wine while the
stores are selling fortified wine with
a 20 per cent alcoholic content.
While people rarely get drunk
from drinking beer and unfortified
wines, people can and do get drunk
from drinKing 20 per cent wine.
This type wine, chemically made, is
relatively cheap and police officers
say that it produces the worst kind
of drunk. They say that sale of this
type wine in retail stores offers
them their greatest problem. Em
ployers of considerable numbers of
laborers are bitter over the prac
tically unrestricted sale of forti
fied wines. They want its sale of
this type wine restricted to ABC
stores. That seems to us to make
sense.
Principal opposition to this pro
posal stems from some retail mer
chants to whom the sale of this type
wine offers a principal source of
profit. While we do not think that
all retailers would oppose restrict
ing sales of fortified wines to the
ABC stores, the opposition is quite
formidable. We believe the rank and
file of our citizens would prefer
that fortified wines, perhaps all
wines, be so restricted.
A few days ago we received a
letter from a highly intelligent and
public spirited woman from one of
the townships asking that we call
attention to the fact that the Board
of County Commissioners has been
asked by Sheriff Davis and John
Britt, ABC officer, to restrict wine
sales to the ABC stores. She said
in part:
"This community is disgusted. We have
four or five stores within a radius of a lew
mUes. The operators pay no more attention
to Sunday than any other day of the week.
"I wish you would drive out here Sunday.
Check the Intersections on our farm for bot
tles, cans and other litter. Just look around.
"The worst thing is the misery and fright
of the women and children?especially on week
ends. I have heard them scream trig in the
middle of the night. Wine is destroying the
colored men and a certain segment of white
men in this county. It Is a curse and a dis
grace."
A Mule Named Kitt
By DR. W. G. WILSON . JR.
m The Smithfield Herald
Do Animals think? No one can say for
sure how long this question has been argued,
but the fact that it is still being debated
is proof that an answer acceptable to all
has still not been found. So far as 1 know
even a definition of what constitutes think
ing has not been agreed on, but if the ability
to make decisions is any criterion the answer
has to be yes.
Now you take the case of an old mule
named Kilt. Since I was a young boy, say
about 12 or 13 years old, there has never
been the slightest doubt in my mind that
on one occasion old Kitt made a very pain
ful decision, painful to me that is.
One day Papa decided to take the whole,
family wtth him up to the Viney Corbett
farm, ?lm? twr> rtr ^ tP11"* ??oy So
the horses were t u.~hed to the surrey with the
fringe on top. But there was scarcely room
in the surrey for all of us, ao I elected to
ride old Kitt and follow along behind. Thus
we started oi* according to plan, but we had
not counted on old Kitt having plans quite
different from ours. No sooner had we begun
than old Kitt seemed to sense the lack of auth
ority in bar youthful rider and set out to ex
plore the village, undeterred by my efforts
to keep her in the road. Eventually I man
aged to pull her to a stop at a woodpile,
where one of my young friends was chopping
firewood . Looking down I saw a dog
wood brushbroom, such as was customarily
used In those days to sweep yards.
"Marvin," I said, "cut me off an end ol
one of those brushbroom limbs."
This he did, and handed it to me, a stick
about a foot and a hall long and about one
inch in diameter. Now I thought to teach old
Kitt a lesson and let her know who was boss,
so with more irritation than good judgment
I brought the stick sharply down between
her ears. With an astonished shake of her
head old Kit took off at a lively gallop and
had almost caught up with the surrey when
she went off at another tangent. That mule
must have had good eyesight for she spotted
a clothesline at least 100 yards away.
There has never been any doubt in my mind
that at that moment old Kitt did some
thinking and made a decision, and that de
cision was to rid herself of that nuisance on
her back and to change my Idea of the proper
way to treat a mule. And like Balaam of
old, I learned the hard way. With this In
mind she made a bee line for the clothes
wire, and In spite of my frantic yanking on
the bridle reins ran right under it.
When I regained consciousness, I was
lying on the ground, and the kindly Negro wo
man who owned the clothes wire was washing
my face with old water. Old Kitt, meanwhile
was Innocently cropping grass nearby, but I am
sure she must have looked at me with her
mulish heart full of amused satisfaction. And
so I learned about mules from old Kitt.
The 'Nonsense' Of Football
, r TlM Mthfleld Herald
The "football madness" U with us again.
IVhen aMti become excited * tha high school
Kama 011 Friday night or in tha college stadium
on Saturday, and yell and act Ilka unrestrain
ed children * play, tot no one hastily oon
|| clods that football is a atgn of American
Immaturity. Man can overdo football, just
Mhfi can ovardo eatlne or drinkinc. But
tor tMr : sort can be found to
_ir?,to ?%-?
prepare w .to
rigors of life whan plajito
humor In the stands, enjoying the company
o< fellow "playmates" who cannot do their
playing on athletic fields, cheering young peo
ple who do play on the fields, exulting In
response to their football tests and victories?
unafraid of descending from perches of
psychologists will tell as that the
baby in the adult will come oat one way or
r-tf not through the outlet of play,
through the outlet of some activity
attitude unbecoming to bra an beings and
to
Quotes
Did you hear about the four-year-boy who
to saying bedtime prayer? After
; church and hearing the LonTsPray
er, he began hU prayer one night. "Our
rather who art uCheaven, how'd jaknow my
(U.) Bulletin-Press.
Mostly
Personal
By BIGNALL JONES
The "Amutni Mats" won the
World's Bmlwll Champion
ship on las* Thursday afternoon
as the Mats took tha last tour
straight games over Baltimore,
which Is of course no news to
anyone very much Interested In
baseball, but it does tend to
contrast the annual event now
and when I was a child and
young man.
Perhaps this was just about
the finest World's series that
has ever been played, but the
odd thing is not the millions who
watched the games over TV and
listened to the play over radio,
but the many more millions who
had no Interest in the series.
It has been said that Horse
racing is the King of Sports,
but when ! was a teenager
we knew little of horse racing
and baseball was the king of
sports locally. We played it on
sand lots; almost every town
and many cross-roads had their
teams, and long before we kne\.
anything of World Series we
were collecting baseball pic
tures from cigaret packages*
Even now, with a sense of nos
talgia, I can see the little
wallet size pictures of Babe
Ruth, then playing with Balti
more, Chris Speaker, Hans
Wagner, Ty Cobb, and dozens
of other all-time greats. They
were our heroes.
But communications in
creased and interest grew in
national baseball at a time when
basketball and football were
minor s.orts. True, we had to
wait a day for the daily paper
to let us know the results of
games, but this did not greatly
decrease our Interest.
And then we began to get the
results over the telegraph.
Scores of us went to Norlina
where some one had rigged up
a telegraph ticker In a large
room. The batter would go to
the plate, the ticker would give
forth?Its dots and dashes and
the telegraph operator would
relay, "strike, ball, out, home
run," etc., to a crowd unable
to contain its emotions. This
was the way, I suppose, that
Warren County heard an ac
count at the World Series game
when Jack Scott, a Warren
County boy, became a national
hero.
But then th> late Roy Davis
came to Warrenton and soon
he had obtained a radio, crude
by modem standards, but an Im
provement over the telegraph.
In a few years there were a
number of radios in the town and
at World Series time, many of
these were blaring forth from
doorways as crowds gathered
and cheered. It was a terrible
time to get any work done.
In later years came TV, but
by that time baseball was a
waning sport, replaced In pub
lic interest by football and bas
ketball, and a multitude of ac
tivities, and even I, a sports
fan, forgot at times that the
World Series was going on last
week. I have a great deal
more Interest in the John Gra
ham football team and the re
sult of the UNC team than I did
in who won the World Series.
Like many others, almoit as
an after thought, I found my
self asking, "Who won the ball
game?"
During my teens, Warrenton
had an excellent team. Among
the players on this team were
Bill Polk, Mack Booth, Whar
ton Moore, Jack Scott, Russell
Palmer, and my brother Brodie,
not to mention Little Stewart
and Big Stewart. Little Stew
Letter
To Editor
CHURCHES DISAPPOINT
To The Editor:
I have Just received a copy of
the September 18 edition of The
Warren Record. H I am cor
rect in ssawmlng that the pur
pose of Warrenton' Private
School la to avoid integration,
1 would like to express my
personal di appointmeot in the
Warrenton Baptist church and
the Methodist Church for per
mitting the private school to
hold classes in their churches.
I seems iTW^nHtteM that ths
aame organisation that preach
es "brotherly love," the con
cept of "all men being the
children of Ood," end that
spends millions of dollars send
ing missionariea all mr the
to <ave the so*s of
yellow snd brown men,
lend itself to fostering
?vil of
worked for W. A% MUu
fi Company, wma ?
protessfcmal wd hjKJ
arm that 1 bad ever
a ball player. The
period which I recall had many
chances over a sis or eight
year period. Whan I beat re
member was when Wharton
Moor* was the pitcher and Jim
Moore was the catcher, and Jack
Scott played field, which seems
odd In view of the fact that
Jack Soott leter became a pitch
er for the New York Giants and
was the hero of a series be
tween the Giants and the
Yankees. We bad a little touch
with another baseball great, as
Lee Meadows of Oxford, who
became a big league pitcher,
had a sister who married Buck
Green of Warrenton.
Back in those days practically
all the business of the town was
done in the fall, winter and
early spring months, and sum
mer was largely a matter of play
for the town boys, and for some
country boys who perhaps neg
lected their cotton to a de
gree. This not only allowed the
players to get off work, but
permitted a great many busi
ness men to attend baseball
games, particularly when we
played Littleton, when, too
often, a fight or two would take
Place.
Not only did Warrenton have
a good baseball team, but the
Negroes also had an excellent
team. Among the players I re
call were Walter "Bossle"
Harris, who played third base
and pitched; Richard (Red) Har
ris , who played first base;
Will Sommerville, brother of
Mrs. Nunie Stalnback Adams,
who was the catcher. Across
his breast protector in large
letters was written, "Thou
Shalt Not Steal!" White and
colored citizens attended these
games.
This was the team who match
ed its skill against a team
from Richmond, Va., to the later
regret of many supporters of
the team. The Warrenton team,
with ambitlorc whetted by wins
over lesser teams, challenged
a team from Richmond, and It
was a big day when this team
came to Warrenton, and danc
ing and other celebration after
Warrenton won the first game.
The Richmond team, it
seems, was not only a good
baseball team, but Its mem
bers wero not beyond guile
or teaching country bumpkins
a lesson. From the best avail
able evidence, they threw the
first game and that night be
gan taking bets on the second
game, and there were plenty
of takers. With bets placed the
Richmond boys simply mopped
up Warrenton in the second
game. It was a long dry sum
mer for many of the most ar
dent fans.
Local Rotarians
Attend Henderson
Rotary Meeting
Following tholr appearance
here last Monday of last week
seven Australians returned to
Henderson on Monday night
where they were guests at a
Joint meeting of the Warrenton
and Henderson Rotary Clubs.
An account of this meeting was
given In The Henderson Dally
Dispatch on Thursday and Is
reproduced below for Its local
infatrast. - Editor.
HENDERSON-Seven visitors
from Australia were special
guests and appeared on the pro
gram at a Joint meeting of the
Henderson, Oxford and Warren
ton Rotary clubs here Tues
day evening. F. Don Kesler,
Henderson cltfB president, was
in charge of the program at
Henderson Country club.
Members of the group from
Australia who have been In Hen
derson since Sunday, were
guests of the Henderson club,
coming to America as mem
bers of the Rotary Exchange
program. While bare, they have
been entertained in home* at
several Rotarians and been
shown various industries, busi
nesses, farm areas and other
sites at Interest in Henderson
?m> Oxford.
The meeting was opened with
the staging of "Waltzing Matil
da," an Australia folk song.
The melody was explained by
Jim Bo swell, an Australian
that the wsltstag term is given
to the circular walks
is symbolic at worldly
Other visitors
lHWKH IMA'S?I'tvparinK IIk> land lor future seeding- a bulldozer moves beneath Carolina
Power & Light ComiMiny transmission linos '."i'^l/s program of helping develop tho right
of-way land into either a wildlife area or .trmland was the first in tho Carolinas and a
model project for the nation's electric companies.
Power Company Lends Help To Wildlife
A wildlife area 70 feet wide
and hundreds of miles long Is
one goal of a Carolina Power
& Light Company program be
ing undertaken In both Caro
linas.
Using six bulldozers?mach
ines not normally associated
with conservation and wildlife
preservation ? CP&L is de
no permanent jobs. ?>
Bob Harper, electrical engin
eer, explained that the govern
ment - cont rolled cotton industry
Is booming. Begun in 196Z, this .
industry is highly mechanized
with an average of 2 1/2 bales
to the acre now being produced.
Roy Watson, an accountant,
spoke of the country's economy.
An average worker now re
ceives $65 per week for a 40
hour work week. There is ap
proximately one car for every
three persons. Also, to promote
the purchase or buindlng of new
homes, the government offers
$500 to young couples wishing to
secure a dwelling.
Be von Sommerland, rural
youth supervisor, told the group
that until after World War n,
Australia was primarily an ag
ricultural country. The govern
ment purchased land and en
couraged new settlers but some
areas still could not support
people. Presently, the govern
ment U' ttftslMftg With ltirgbr
> ".nuC srt tii Azvvi'- .
Also appearing on the pro
gram was Frank Robinson, an
Australian auto dealer repre
senting District 265. He pre
sented a RotarybannertoPres
ident Kesler, who, in turn,
presented each of the seven
visitors a banner from the Hen
derson club.
Along with Warrenton and Ox
ford Rotarlans, visitors includ
ed John Reed, Interact club ad
visor; Jim Burleson, Robert
Turner and Jimmy Tolson, In
teract members; and Ernest
Beal, a Rot art an from Rocky
Mount.
Miss Holly Wood all served as
pianist.
veloplng the land beneath trans
mission lines In the Carollnas.
The bulldozers are used to
clear and disk the land. Fol
lowing the disking a landowner,
farmer or sponsoring organiza
tion prepares a seed bed of
vegetation favored by wildlife.
pieared brush pushed to the
sides provides protection, and
the fairly tall, but tender plants
provide shelter and foodstuff
that Isn't as abundant in the thick
forests. Quail, rabbits and
songbirds are the major in
habitant s~of the areas;
"Following development you
will find more small animals
and bird life in the right-of
way areas than in the remain
der of the surroundlngforests,"
Cliff Story, CP&L director of
the program, said.
CP&L's land clearing service
also is available for farmers
who war.', to plant the right-of
way in agricultural products or
pasture.
The power company Is co
operating with the Soil Conser
vation Service, North Caro
lina Wildlife Commission, var
ious hunting clubs, landowners
and farmers in this unique con
servation program.
NEWSPAPERS GET MOST
Airlines, domestic andinter
riational, spent about $i<!5 mti
llon in advertising last year.
Most favored medium was
news papers, which received
$43 million. TV was second
with $35 million and magazines
ranked third?just over $24 mil
lion.
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