The Warren Record. Warren ton, N. C., Thursday, March 18, It
Albert Coates Honored
At Chapel Hill Ceremony
CHAPEL HILL— Inm... ''ve.
Vital. Genius. Whitty. Hardworking.
Stubborn.
Albert Coates was called all
of these last month during the
unveiling of his bust at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. But of all the
iauditory comments delivered
only immeasurable could encompass
all the characteristics
of the founder of the UNC
Institute of Government.
Coates' bust, sculpted and
cast in New York by William E.
Hipp of Davidson, N. C„ was
commissioned by UNC's Dialectic
and Philanthropic Societies
(Di Phi) and unveiled in the
Di Phi Chambers by Coates"
wife, Gladys.
Coates quipped in his initial
response, "Like Mark Twain
said, "Who am I to bandy
civilities with the other men
who proceeded me on the
program? I have listened with
exceeding care and I have
no doubt as to their correct
ness."
Four who praised the
79-year old Kenan Professor of
Law Emeritus were UNC-CH
Chancellor Ferebee Taylor;
Terry Sanford, president of
Duke Univeristy: Robert G.
Byrd, dean of the UNC law
school; and Donald B. Hayman,
professor at the Institute of
Government.
Sanford, a former law
student of Coates, said, "The
Institute of Government did not
simply get a grant. It began in
the old Methodist Church
helped by the sacrifice of both
the Coates. Part of Coates'
salary was spent to keep it
going."
The Institute of Government
is a story of Coates' undying
faith in an idea. Conceived by
Coates in 1923, planned on his
honeymoon with Gladys (who
received almost as much praise
as her husband at the
unveiling), the Institute was
not recognized and funded by
the.university until 1942.
It has been estimated that
Coates used $50,000 of his own
money or half his teaching,
salary for 30 years, to keep the
Institute . going.
Sanford noted that Coates'
vision of bringing together
academicians and government
workers was opposed for many
years by the University and
local government officials.
'There was opposition within
the University, municipal
governments and the law
school," Sanforjd said. "Its
accomplishment is a lesson in
perseverance. It is not
something that came easy."
"People around this state
tend to distrust academicians,"
Sanford continued. "But he
(Coates) created an entire new
constituency that continued in
support of UNC and continues
today."
Coates, a UNC alumnus who
did his graduate studies at
Harvard (where he roomed
with the eminent author
Thomas Wolfe), returned to
North Carolina in 1923 to join
the law school faculty with a
speciality in criminal law.
Later Coates became interested
in applying the knowledge
of practical law enforce
ment to the academic pursuit of
criminology, to bring together
the practitioners and the
academicians for combined
study of law and order.
Today the Institute of
Government trains law enforce
ment personnel, clerks of court,
judges, sheriffs, highway pa
trolman, registers of deeds,
jailers, city managers and
others in local and state
government.
Coates retired from the
Institute of Government administrative
duties in 1965 and
from the law school in 1969. A
recipient of the 0. Max Gardner
Award, the John J. Parker
Award from the N. C. Bar
Association and the North
Carolina Award, Coates also
has honorary doctor of law
degrees from Wake Forest and
Duke Universities. Coates is
presently a Kenan Professor of
Law Emeritus.
"I've found out as much or
more about myself since I
retired than I ever knew
before. I've been finding myself
all my life. Is a still finding out
who I am, and I won't
completely know 'til Gabriel
blows his horn."
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The Robinson family of Warren Plains ia shown above with their Sunday evening catch. IV
family trio caught 23 crappies, totalling 10 pounds and the big boy of the bunch [being held by
Mrs. Robinson] is a largemouth bass weighing 8 1/2 pounds. Mrs. Robinson said that they used a
cane pole and minnows to catch the fish from a bank at the Nocarva Marina on Lake Gaston. With
Mrs. Robinson, are daughter, Maxine, and husband Willie Joe Robinson. (Staff Photo)
Trucks Wreck Without Colliding
No physical contact occurred
between two trucks involved in
an accident on State Road 1134
in Warren County, 13 miles
south of Warrenton, on
Wednesday of last week.
Investigating Patrolman V. R.
Vaughan reported.
3oth trucks were headed
south. One was driven by
Fire Calls
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was done to the engine.
Town Fire
The Warrenton Town Com
pany responded to a fire at the
home of Coley Perkinson on
Crockett Street on Wednesday
afternoon of last week. A
kitchen fire was put out with a
booster hose but not before
from $8,000 to $10,000 in
damage had occurred. Fire
Captain Lee Cheek said. He
said the fire was started when a
drying pan left on the stove
overheated and set the kitchen
on fire. No one was at home at
the time.
Housing Start
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residents will be settled in their
new homes by the end of 1976.
Planning of the housing area
is reflecting a bicentennial
theme, and proposed streets
will bear the names.of local and
national figures.
The access road looping the
project has been named Duke
Drive in honor of one of the
owners of the Green-Duke
Home, listed in the National
Register of Historical Places,
and the oldest building on the
property.
Cul-de-sacs branching off
Duke Drive have been named
for Thomas Paine, John Brown,
Charles Howard, Nathaniel
Macon, David Walker, Nat
Turner, Dred Scott and George
White.
Fires Expert
Army Staff Sgt. Samuel L.
Howard, whose wife. Myrtle,
lives on Route 1, Manson,
recently fired expert with the
90mm recoilless rifle Feb. 26 in
Manneim, Germany.
The expert rating is the
highest mark a soldier can
achieve on his weapons qualification
test.
Sgt. Howard, a squad leader,
entered the Army in 1963 and
was last stationed at Ft.
Benning, Ga.
He is a 1963 graduate of C. E.
Perry High School in Roseboro.
Fan dancer Sally Rand is a
grandmother.
George Michael Stanley, 22, of
Route 2, Henderson, and owned
by Fmco Leasing Co.. Inc. of
Route 2, Tarboro. The other
truck was owned and operated
by Murphy Harrison, 67, of
Route 2, Henderson.
Vaughan said his investiga
tion revealed that Harrison
started to turn left into a
driveway but saw Stanley
attempting to pass, then
Harrison pulled back to the
right side of the highway.
Stanley applied brakes and his
truck skidded off the left side of
the highway and overturned.
There was no apparent contact
between the two vehicles.
According to the officer,
Congressman
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science from North Carolina
State University and a master's
degree in public administration
from Howard University in
Washington.
The candidate has served as
an aide to Rep. John Conyers,
D-Mich., was Conyers' liaison to
the Congressional Black Cau
cus and worked as a
Washington lobbyist for the
American Optometric Association.
From 1972 until last year,
Rudasill was general personnel,
officer for the International
Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (World Bank).'He
left that position late last year
to become president of a
development corporation involved
in several enterprises,
including rehabilitating slum
housing in Washington, turning
farm land into housing subdivisions
in Warren County and a
car wash in Raleigh.
Fountain last faced a primary
challenge in 1972, when then
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard N.
Stanley was charged with
failure to give warning signal,
while Harrison was charged
with improper or no signal.
Damage was estimated to be
$1500 to the Stanley truck.
Lee got 42 per cent of the vote.
In 1974, Fountain was unopposed
in both the primary and
general elections.
Fountain, Thorpe, Kirby and
Rudasill all spent Saturday politicking
at the Jefferson-Jackson
Day dinner, with Thorpe
and Kirby manning literature
tables in the lobby of the Royal
Villa, and Fountain and
Rudasill taking a more low-key
approach and greeting supporters
in hospitality suites.
The primarily rural district is
composed of Orange, Caswell,
Person, Vance, Halifax, Northampton,
Wilson, Nash, Edgecombe,
Granville, Franklin and
Warren counties.
When a smallpox epidemic
decimated London in the 18th
century, persons living near the
coffee-roasting plants escaped
the disease, and physicians
attributed this to the coffee's
"protective" fumes. Subse
quently, coffee was used in
sickrooms as a disinfectant, the
National Geographic Society
says.
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Lily Day Drive To Be Launched
A kick-off m««ting of 4-H
members and leaders for the
1976 Lily Day Drive will be
held on Thursday, March 18, at
7:30 p. m. in the Extension
office in Warrenton.
Announcement of the drive
was made yesterday by Miss
Debbie Tartleton, volunteer
leader of the Wise-Paschall 4-H
club. Miss Tartleton succeeds
Mrs. Chris Holtzman who
headed the drive for years.
The Lily Day drive is a
traditional 4-H project in
Warren County. Funds collected
are for the benefit of
handicapped children and
adults through the Easter Seal
Society.
Miss Tartleton said that last
year's drive, when $435.05 was
raised to make Warren top
county in the Pine Vallev
Chapter area, was the most
successful to date. The
Wise-Paschall 4-H Club was the
top individual club in the
county and in the chapter. Each
year the top club in the chapter
will receive a trophy, as did the
Wade Assuming
Guard Command
HENDERSON-First Lieu
tenant Theodore Leroy (Lee)
Wade will assume additional
duties as station commander at
Detachment One of Company
C. 505th Engineer Battalion of
the North Carolina National
Guard, stationed at Henderson,
on April 1.
Lt. Wade will replace First
Lieutenant Thomas S. Hester,
Jr. Lieutenant Hester will be
transferred to the North
Carolina Military Academy at
Fort Bragg for his weekend
drills.
Yield Down
North Carolina producers of
small grain will be out this year
to reverse the production
pattern of last season. The
yields of wheat, barley and oats
were all down in the 1974-75
season.
At the same time, the nation
as a whole produced larger
crops than in the previous year
and set a record in wheat.
Wise Paschall Club.
The kick-off meeting is held
to set dates for the drive.
Charles Drake, executive
director of the Pine Valley
Chapter of the Easter Seal
Society, will present the
program.
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