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BIGNALL JONES. Editor — DUKE JONES. Business Manager
Member North Caroline Frees Association
ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE
IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS
"Second Osas Postege Paid At Wsrrentoa, N. C."
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Must Keep Sense Of Perspective
During the few years that blacks
have been admitted into John Graham
High School many of them have demonstrated
that they are not second
class In any sense of the word
through their accomplishments,
their courtesy, friendliness and good
will, as well as their patience under
conditions that must have at
times been somewhat trying.
Watching these young students at
work, seeing them make the honor
roll and holding their own in classroom
and on the athletic field, many
ancient concepts have had to be
changed and slowly mores were being
broken down and boys and girls
were being thought of not as blacks
and whites but as persons. Real
friendships were being developed
between the races and hope was given
to those of us who realize that there
is no place for second class citizenship
in America and that if we were
to build a first class life and a first
class community it was going to
require the work and the talents
of all our people.
Nurtured by this hope, it was
positively sickening to learn that
we have among our midst black
boys and girls so devoid of a sense
of values that they would burn down
the school that is the key to their
advancement, would smash the windows
of a library whose books contain
the wisdom of the ages, would
han a rtaga fij*rta^»~yhlch was pur;
cjflUed by the donations of-many
parents'"who had a love for their
school. R is positively sickening to
learn that we have in our midst
black boys and girls who would substitute
for courtesy, rudeness; for
good manners, a foul mouth and for
accomplishments, a loud voice.
And yet we would point out to
many whites who would use the excesses
of the militant blacks at
John Graham as a cause for "I
told you so," and to bolster their
contentions that the Negro Is in
reality a second class person, we
would point out that the trouble at
John Graham has been caused by
perhaps less than 200 ill-advised
students, and that while perhaps a
hundred militants were on the school
grounds, that four or five hundred
blacks were in their rooms trying
to study under extreme difficulties
in order to obtain the education so
necessary if they are to achieve their
goals in life.
Amid the tokism and the paternalism
that is a part of southern life,
we would not claim that the life of
the intelligent black is easy; nor
would we claim that amid the "demands"
of the blacks that there were
no legitimate claims. But we say
again as we said when the schools
were first closed down that any unfairness
that might exist did not justify
the disruption of our schools;
and certainly no treatment that the
blacks have received Justifies their
action at John Graham on Monday
and Tuesday in trying to burn down
the school and to smash the windows
of its beautiful library.
At the same time we would point
out to the hundreds of bitter whites,
that while there may be a few hundred
"students" who are bad eggs,
some with a criminal tendency,
that -there- are thousands of goodend r
decent black boys and girls in our
schools who deserve our continued
understanding and our help; and that
among the few hundred militants
that seemingly can not wait for the
due process of law and reasons,
that there are thousands of blacks
in this county who have proved
through the years and who have
done more than their part to show
that whites and blacks can live together
in peace and goodwill.
Campus Unrest In Perspective
i ne smiuiueid Herald
In the aftermath of an election rempalgn
that crossly distorted the American scene,
Duke University's President Terry Sanford
pots campus unrest In perspective in an
article in the New York Times.
This is the Cist of what President Sanford
says:
"The deep troubles of our society do not
begin on college campuses, are not bred there,
and are not centered there. Instead, our possibilities
tor resolving these troubles find
their greatest hope on our college campuses,
In the resources of faculty and research capacity,
and in the hearts and minds of students.
To rtemaga the support of colleges Is to damage
the very hopes of society ....
"These students are more closely allied
than we might realize with that remarkable
grot*) of men who rethought all prior concepts
and precepts at government, and than
produced our Constitution nearly two hundred
years ago. Their Instincts are humanitarian.
They are convinced that the Individual la the
denominator that counts. They take their freedoms
seriously, although sometimes a little
too self-consciously. In the students' rethinking
at our institutions and society, we may
all be the beneficiaries.
"* U true that there has been some unrest
on all good campuses, disruption and
destruction on a relative few, and I
by some college administrations. . . .1'
that college administrators imvv
their radicals better than other community
leaders— including mayors, governors,
and presidents.
"We will not tolerate destruction on college
camp—s. College administrators are stopping
the destructive minority, although
It did take a oovle of years to design adequate
reaction to campus demooatretors. Bat
In fairness it should be recalled th* when
the etwee of
we neea in tM world
"The moat urgent - .lesson for this generation,
young and old, to learn may vary wall
ba that force leads to escalated tore*, and that
tha way to peace abroad and harmony tt homo
is tha way of reason. It takea (reater courage,
greater Intelligence, greater understanding
to rely on the moral force of reason than
on the physical force of power. Those Institutions
attempting to teach this lesson should not
be smeared for their efforts."
No college president, no politician has
spoken more wisely than Terry Saoford on the
problem of campus unrest.
LHteral Justice
Chicago Daily New*
Om at bib'i bade Instincts—In addition
to aeeklng food, shelter and relatlva oomfort
—limn to to tb litter. You dont have to to
ao Indian to spot where people have been—
if you are too nearsighted to see the trail
or refuse, yoall know it when you walk into tt.
Ore con has come up with a solution that
strikes us as sensible. Convicted lltterers
there face Ones at up to $>50 sod six
months in Jail and - the big and—they spend
oust of their Jail time picking litter off state
highway a.
Now that la real Jastloe. *
Quotes
way mm people look tor faults, you'd
there «u a reward.—Joseph C. Salakft;-.
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and the atara could have
a«o, had they ^*1T***^ to ba
reach of predatory hands.—Havelock
L
What a beautiful di «a ira la now;
U they weren't try In* to t
all tha Uaaa.-W. A. Clartse.
Bow |« It that our memory to food <
to ratato tha toast trivially that l
us, and yet not good enough to
hov oftoa we have told It to the same par
aoau—La Rochefoucauld.
Mostly
Personal
Bjr UGNALL JONES
Last Wednesday moraine,
when the temperature «n tolow
irHila(i I tariMdtha Martlac
toy oo our five-year-old
Volkswagen and tto car started
u If tt were summar. There
la nothing particularly noteworthy
about this as practical Xy
all cars In food mechanical
condition will at art In cold
weather without difficulty, but It
did tand to racall the day before
high comprasalon anginas and
high octane gasoline.
When the Modal T Ford was
the mode of transportation,
most persons would have
walked instead of trying to crank
the car. Thoae who had to travel
a long would apend considerable
time and effort and
expend as much energy as many
now spend in a day to fat the
car running.
Tin standard procedure for
starting a Model Tin bitter cold
weather was first to jack up one
wheel so that it would serve as a
irimi of balance wheel when the
crank was turned. The second
step was to get a kettle of boiling
water and pour It on the
car's manifold. The third step
was to spin the engine with a
hand crank from a few seconds
to many minutes. If this did
not work, the spark and gasoline
were adjusted and the cranking
process started off againsometime
s after another trip
for more hot water. The nearest
modern thing to this ordeal was
cranking a balky lawnmower or
outboard motor.
When finally the engine was
started the motorist was far
from being ready to travel.
Since anti-free re had not yet
been developed, water had been
emptied from the radiator the
previous night and had to be
refilled, usually from abucket,
with sometimes spills down a
trousers' leg. This explained
why many car owners walked to
work when the weather Was cold.
Wednesday afternoon I pulled
Into a service station to have
my gas tank refilled. A late
model Volkswagen was being
filled at th# other side of the
pump and I noticed that It was
being refilled from a spout on
the outside of the hood. In our
reflected that raising the hood
was an improvement over the
old Model T whose tank was
under the front seat. In order
to fill the gas tank the seat
cushion had to be first removed.
When my three brothers and
my sister were born we were
living In Wilson where we remained
until I was four or five
years old and my elder brother,
Brodle, was six or seven. During
that period, when Brodle was
six years old, my grandmother
sent him down town to the bank
with a five dollar bill (or chance.
He performed his mission
without mishap. There was
nothing remarkable then nor
now In a six-year-old child being
able to go a few blocks to
a bank and obtain change tor a
five-dollar bUL The remarkable
thing U that In those long
by-gone days It was safe to let
a small child walk down the
street with what was then a
relatively large bill. That
Is certainly a far cry from
things as they are now.
However, I guess we lose
something and gain something
with the passing years. Many
persons now wake up in a warm
home with no indication of cold
weathsr such as we had last
week until they step out of doors
In warm clothing Into a car. Such
was not the case when we lived
la Wilson. My grandmother lived
in comfortable circumstances,
but her home, where we
often stayed, was heated with
ooal stoves, and In spite of these
stoves often being red hot the
rooms were not too comfortable
after one's clothes were removed.
One bitter cold night
when I was three or tour years
old my Aunt Fumy was putting
me to bed In an upstairs room.
The stove showed red and, having
removed everything but my
shirt, I backed tg> as close
to the stove as 1 dared before
removing my shirt. Bat 1 was
too close and as 1 pulled the
shirt over my head I bent torward
and my backsides went Into
contact with the hot stove. S
left with me a lasting lmpres
LIVESTOCK PUCES
Mom paid at CraacbLlvaatock
Utftot at Norllna on
Tuesday vara aa follows:
VEALS- Topp* at 44- 50$;
prima to nod, 4 c 44$; ataadart
to «ood, »0$-40$.
COWS- Coaamarcial, 17$Wfc
nutty. ISM7*.
HOQB— Topped at 16.10$.
80*8—#00 to 400, ILMft
400 to 000, Uf.' *
BULLS—Ifedtm, M$.
SGOS - Yard ran, 40$-<9?
SCENE AT VILLAGE FLORIST DURING OPEN HOUSE
Village Florist Holds Open House
The Village Florist, a new
business in Norllna, held its
grand opening and Open House
last Saturday and Sunday. The
Village Florist is owned and
operated by Mrs. Linda Hundley
and Mrs. Gladys Wemyss
and located at the corner of
highways 158 and 1.
More than SSOpersons registered
for the three door prizes
which were won by Master Ash
ley White of Wise, Mrs. G. D.
King of Warrenton, and Mrs. W.
H. Casper of Henderson. Mrs.
W. D. Little of Norllna drew
the prizes.
Assisting Mrs. Hundley and
Mrs. Wemyss in the two-day
event were Mrs. R. E. Eller,
Mrs. O. H. Yancey and Mrs.
Walter Smiley, Sr. Persons attending
were served fruit cake
Claiming Married Child As Dependent
GREENSBORO-Many taxpayers
want to know whether
they may continue to claim their
child as a dependent after the
child gets married.
J. E. Wall, District Director
tor Internal Revenue Service,
says that a taxpayer may claim
his married child as a dependent
If he furnishes more
than one-half of the child's support
and meets all the other
dependency requirements except
in some cases where
the child files a Joint return
with his spouse. B the child
files a Joint return, the parent
Is not allowed the dependency
deduction, unless the joint
return was filed by his child
only for the purpose of receiving
a refund of .taxes
and neither the child nor
Us spouse had sufficient Income
to be required by regulations
to file a return. Only In such
cases may a parent claim his
child who files a Joint return.
__ Director Wall suggested that
parents who are supporting
married children might consider
conferring with the children
to decide the best way to file
their returns next year since.
In some cases. It may save
tax dollars for the married
couple to file a Joint return even
though the Joint return may
nullify the parent's right to the
dependency deduction for his
child.
Wall added that a Joint return
cannot be changed to
separate returns after the
final date for tiling, which, for
nearly everybody, Is April 15.
Spanish ftU^kierors of Mexico
dubbed the armadillo, or "little
fellow in armor."
ana apple cider.
The new florist specializes
In sympathy flowers, wedding
presentations, general floral
artistry, antiques, and catering
services.
The proprietors stated "We
appreciate the patronage of Its
guests and hope an enjoyable
visit was bad by all who attended."
School
(Continued from page 1)
racial Incidents, were reopened
on Monday and have remained
open. No incidents have been reported
from schools other than
at John Graham, QradyHayaea,
Chief at Fallot, said Wednesday
morning.
Trouble was confined to the
school and no Incidents war* reported
else where. The curfew
was not re Imposed and the
whiskey stores ware not closed.
However, a state of emergency
for Warrenton was continued for
five mora days.
The emergency period was to
have expired on Tueaday afternoon.
Mayor W. A. MUes said
late Monday afternoon that the
town did not expect to renew
the period of emergency unless
thare should be some trouble at
the schoolson Tuesday. Following
the disturbance at John Graham
Tuesday morning, the state
of emergency was renewed.
A girl was taken out to lunch
by her boyfriend and upon returning,
he told her little brother
that she was spoiled. The
brother denied that she was
spoiled and said It was ]ust
the perfume she was wearing
that made her smell that way.
To cope with labor shortages,
the Soviet Union Is encouraging
pensioners to come out of retirement.
In Uzbekistan, a 117year-old
man went to work as
a traffic policeman.
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