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We Will Go Half Way
When one sees the large number
of laws that have accumulated on
the law books over the years and
the number that are passed each
session of the General Assembly, it
is hard to see any reason for
denying the Governor the right of
veto. The cynical might even say the
more he Vetoes the better, but
people generally would not go that
far.
The point is that the veto, while
increasing the power and the
responsibility of the governor, is a
preventive power, offering a check
on some possible excesses of the
Legislature. North Carolina is the
only state in the Union without the
veto power, the closeness of
legislators to the people is
diminishing with the increased
growth of the state, and it might be
well, we think, to give the Governor
veto power.
In spite of some strong support
from governors whom we respect,
we are yet to be convinced that
allowing a governor to succeed
himself will be to the best
advantage to the people of North
Carolina, and we can think of a
number of ways in which it could
work to the people's disadvantage.
Unless our present views are
changed before the issues are
submitted to the people for
amendments to the Constitution, we
think that we will vote for veto
power and against the power of
succession for governors.
Paper Favors Veto
The Smithfield Herald
It is hard to work up any enthusiasm over
the proposal to permit a governor of North
Carolina to serve a second consecutive term
if elected by the people to do so.
If we needed the change, we couldn't
inaugurate it with the governor better
qualified to lead the state than Jim Hunt.
He possesses commendable energy,
imagination, executive ability and concern
for public welfare. But the issue of
succession shouldn't be resolved on the
basis of Governor Hunt's qualifications for
leadership.
The state just might do worse under
succession. A governor may feel strongly
that a single four-year term isn't long
enough for accomplishing his goals. But
there would be a danger that some
governors would use eight years in office
not only to build up excessive personal
political power, but also to give the people
more government than they need. The urge
to "do things," whether needed or not, and
the desire to win political support by doing
a variety of things for a variety of
self-centered interests, have helped turn
governmental bureaucracy into a monster.
If the govemor-of North Carolina needs
more power to check the power of the
legislature, let him have the right to veto
legislation. But let's leave the gubernatorial
term of office alone.
Food Day
It Serves A Useful Purpose
The Durham Morning Herald
Guess what they had for dinner at the
White House last Thursday? Would you
believe black bean soup, broccoli nut
casserole and whole wheat muffins?
Among the guests for the unusiial meal
(such fare is hardly common at White House
dinners) were Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland and a number of members of
Congress.
The low-cost nutritious meal at the White
House was part of the observance of Food
Day, an event sponsored by the Center for
Science in the Public Interest. This year's
observance included a variety of nutrition
related events and programs around the
country.
When Food Day was first held three
years ago, it was a highly controversial
event. Its sponsors issued a list of 'The
Terrible Ten," a list of 10 popular American
foods that they considered low in
nutritional value.
This year there was no "Terrible Ten,"
but the event—and the official approval
suggested by the white House dinner
managed to spur some controversy. The
American National Cattlemen's Association
and some Republican congressmen were
critical of what they interpreted as an
affront to the nation's producers of meat
and poultry.
But the purpose of the White House
dinner was not to encourage vegetarianism.
It was designed to spur Americans to
examine their diets with special attention to
nutrition. Americans do not have to give up
red meat or high-fat and sugary foods to
attain a good diet. But they do need to
diversify their intake of food and consume
liberal amounts of fresh fruit, vegetables
and unprocessed food.
It is a widely held view that the average
diet of today's Americans is a "killing diet";
it contributes to disease and death. The
observance of Food Day is worthwhile
because it prompts some Americans —
through the publicity it engenders and the
local programs it encourages—to study
their diets and take steps to make them
more nutritious.
Gospel Baptist Church Commentary
Messages from the commentaries of Oliver
B. Greene sponsored by Gospel Baptist
Church, Norlina.
3. In the third place, we will learn as we
study this Epistle, that we are crucified
with Christ when we truly believe on Him
and accept His righteousness on the terms
of the Gospel. We are crucified with Christ,
we are resurrected to new life in Christ, and
we walk as the Spirit of God leads day by
day because the Spirit leads every son of
God. If any have not the Spirit, they do not
belong to God (5:12 through 8:13).
to God (5:12 through 8:13).
4. As we study chapter 8, verses 14-39,
we will see the full result in the blessing of
the Gospel, made possible through the
sacrificial death, burial, and resurrection of
Christ; that He died for us, and God
commended His love toward us only
because of God's grace.
5. The fifth division of Romans is very,
very important. Paul clearly teaches that
the Church is not a continuation of Israel.
The Church did not inherit the promises
God made to Abraham and Israel, and the
Gospel does not do away with the covenant
promises that God gave to Israel (9:1
through 11:36).
6. In the sixth division of the book, we are
dearly taught Christian life as it should be
lived daily, and Christian service aa it
should be practiced from a heart filled with
gratitude and love for God's marvelous
grace in Christ Jesus (12:1 through 15:88).
7. In the seventh division, there are 27
verses—chapter 16:1-27. These verses
teach that love automatically flows from a
Christian heart. After all, the very essence
of Christianity is love.
Personally, I believe the Holy Spirit led
the men who arranged the books of the New
Testament, in placing Romans at the very
beginning of the Epistles. There were five
other Epistles written before Romans, but I
believe this Epistle holds its rightful place
in the arrangement of the books of the New
Testament.
The body of truth revealed to Paul and
penned down in these sixteen chapters had
been "kept secret since the world (ages)
began, but now is made manifest" (Rom.
16:25, 26; Eph. 3:5-7). Paul, under
inspiration, begins to reveal this age-old
mystery to the believers at Rome. Paul tells
us that all Scripture is given by inspiration
of God, and all Scripture is profitable to us
(II Tim. 3:16). These great truths were first
revealed to the Roman believers, but they
are yours and mine as we study this gold
mine of the Epistles.
As we study Romans, my heart's desire
and prayer to God is that the Holy Spirit
will use these studies to give to those who
read these lines a clear understanding of
the wonderful truths set forth in Romans,
and I trust these truths will be accepted and
will cause many to be established in the
faith once for all delivered to the saints.
(To Be Continued)
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Film Impressive
By BIGNALL JONES
I suppose that most persons
at some time see a picture, read
a book, hear a story that keeps
recurring to them. Such was
the case several nights ago
when I watched a TV program
on energy. Not only have I
continued to marvel at the
ingenuity of our scientists, but
have spent some little time in
research of the Water Lily as
the result of a statement that it
could be distilled for gas and
that its cost would be reduced a
great deal because of its value
in freeing streams of sewage, a
statement that rather intrigued
me.
There are many sources of
energy that could be substi
tutes for oil. natural gas and
coal. Included among these are
solar heat, thermal heat,
windmills, conversion of ma
nures, garbage, and other
waste, as well as growing
special crops for conversion
into alcohol, or converted into
gas. It is not lack of knowledge
but the costs of these
substitutes in relationship to
the present cost of heating oils,
gas and coal. I gathered from
watching the TV show.
Solar heat seems to be the
most popular in the eyes of the
general public, if not in the eyes
of the scientists. The show
tended to demonstrate that
sufficient heat could be
collected from the sun by heat
panels to both heat and cool a
house. Fuel savings affected by
these are too high in relation
to the present fuels to make
them feasible, it would seem.
Japan is also working on these
and the show depicted efforts
to cut the costs of heat panels in
a manufacturing plant in that
country.
The narrator said that solar
heat offers some promise, but
that to be really efficient the
solar heat plants may have to
be located in space. I don't
know how the energy would be
sent to earth, but that did not
seem to unduly bother the
scientists. Of more concern was
the cost of space platforms
upon which solar machines and
at times workmen must rest.
The narrator said that ex
periments developed in Scot
land for oil ^platforms might
point the way to reduce the
costs of the space platforms. Of
course I know nothing about
that, but if we need the
experiments of Japan, and
Scotland to solve our energy
problems, it would seem good
sense to realize that it is a
world problem and enlist the
help of all industrial nations to
solving it. It should be
remembered that President
J. Graham Honor
Rolls Are Released
Honor rolls at John Graham
High School for the third nine
weeks were released by the
principal, W. E. Terry, this
week as follows:
Tenth Grade: Dianne Bran
nock, Arie Davis, Philip Hight,
Cheryl Shearin, Mattie Woods,
Priscilla Williams and Zeal
Williams.
Eleventh Grade: Sheryl
Aycock. Lisa Bobbitt, Joyce
Bullock, Robin Christmas,
Lindia Rose, Linda Copeland,
Melissa Exum, Sandra Groom
and Kathy Harp.
Also, Shirley Hudgins, Pa
tricia Jones, Ronnie Lynch,
Gale Murray, Patricia Richard
son, Edith Rodwell, Mary
Rooker, Michael Ross, Ida C.
Seward, Pamela Thompson and
Jason Young.
Twelfth Grade: Elaine Tun
stall, Connie Valentine, Marion
Vaughan, Donna Wheeler,
Angela Williams, Brenda Wil
liams, Cynthia Williams, Mary
B. Williams, Phyllis Wilson and
Scarlet Ann Abbott.
Also, Larry Darnell Alston,
Linwood Prince Alston, Ver
lean Alston, Michael Brown,
Gladys Bullock, Mary A.
Bullock, Carolyn Davis, Larry
Davis, Lester Davis, Janet
Edwards and Ricky Evans.
Also. Deborah Fore, Delton
Green, Debbie Grissom, Rose
lourdes Mejia Lopez, Oglechia
Hardy, Sandra Holden, An
nette Jones, Willa Hawkins,
Karen Hilliard, Ricky O'Neal,
Barbara Pullen, Cheryl Rich
ardson, Daniel Richardson,
JoAnne Richardson, Sandy.
Richardson, Shirley Robinson.
William Ross and Thomas
Stevenson.
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John Kennedy proposed (and
possibly entered into) an
Sgreement with Russia for
mutual studies of space
explorations. It might get their
minds off schemes for destroy
ing each other.
Agreatdealofelectncitycan
be generated by windmills, and
a great deal more can be
generated by larger and
improved windmills. A draw
back here is that no really
efficient storage battery has
been perfected. Since a
constant even flow would be
hard to obtain, a storage
system to even out the flow
would be needed. The scientists
being unable to store the
energy in batteries determined
that the energy generated
could be used to separate water
into hvdrogen and oxygen and
store the hygrogen for fueL
This would permit use of
relatively small amounts of
energy whether from windmills
or water mills.
One of the most hopeful
forms of energy is thermal heat
obtained from the ocean
Energy is created when cold
water rise^ from the ocean floor
to the surface and may be
harnessed by turbines connect
ed to generators. The ocean
waves also may be harnessed. I
gathered that these would have
to be a ratchet type generator
that would turn only when the
waves were advancing.
Somewhere during the pre
sentation. it was stated that
water lillies are a good source
of gas. They can be distilled and
the gas stored in cylinders.
Having read that garbage,
sewage, pig manure and other
forms of waste are being
converted into gas. I was
interested in finding that
another source had been added
to the list. I was even more
interested in the statement
about the use of water lillies in
cleaning up streams. Its value
here could possibly be deter
mined bv testing the quality of
water below the sewage plant
and below Hamme s mill after it
has passed through the water
lillies in that pond.
RETZLAFF
Former Pastor
On Health Team
Dennis Retzlaff has been
appointed community health
educator aide for the Warren
County Health Department.
Mr. Retzlaff has responsibility
for developing effective meth
ods of increasing public
knowlege about health
concerns, of informing the
public of the services of the
Health Department, and of
soliciting public opinion regard
ing additional services which
the Health Department might
provide.
"Public knowledge and sup
port are vital for an effective
public health program," said
Ms. Carolyn Klyce, Depart
ment director. "In this newly
created position Mr. Retzlaff
will increase the effectiveness
of our total program. We are
very pleased to have him."
Retzlaff. his wife Norma, and
son Micah, came to Warren
County from Massachusetts
where they were involved in a
foster children's program. He
was formerly interim pastor of
St. Paul Lutheran Church in
Ridgeway.
Retzlaffs position is funded
by CETA.
Early Norsemen were among
the first to hunt whales and
perhaps eat them. Stone
harpoon heads found with
segments of whale bones in
northern Norway are more
than 4,000 years old. National
Geographic says.
Calorie-Counting Days
Weighing On Americans
The yearly dieting season
may well begin about two
months before the yearly
swimsuit season.
That's the impression from
the seeming increase in ads on
TV and radio and in
newspapers and magazines
plugging dieting methods,
dieting books, dieting advice,
and reducing resorts — all
obsessed with one of mankind's
historical problems: getting rid
of unwanted weight.
However, history's view of
fat folks is confusing. Classical
Greece, to size up the Venus de
Mi!o and other surviving
statues, liked well-put-together
citizens. The Greek city state of
Sparta, always in fit-to-fight
readiness, told the overweight
to get out of town.
Socrates supposedly was
first to confess. "Other men eat
to live, but I live to eat,"
according to the National
Geographic Society.
Gluttony. No; Obesity, Yes
In Europe of the Middle
Ages, there was a conflict of
cause and effect among those
with enough to eat. Gluttony
was a sin. but obestiy was
symbolic of good fortune and
being in God's good graces.
In Victorian America, yards
of billowing flannel bathing
costumes concealed not only
wasp waists, but surprisingly
solid silhouettes.
Many of today's calorie
counting women may hope to
cast the thin shadow of a
fashion magazine model. But
emaciated models' photos are
not the ones admiringly pinned
up in garages and machine
shops.
Confusing or not, dieting is a
fat business. Americans spend
$10 billion a year on reducing,
according to sociologist Dr.
Natalie Allen of Hofstra
University. That includes $220
million in reducing resorts,
$100 million on exercise
equipment, $34 million on diet
pills, and $1 billion on books,
magazines, and other how-to
diet publications.
Dr. Maria Simonson, a Johns
Hopkins University expert on
obesity, says at any one time
there are 9.5 million Americans
on a diet, but only 29 percent
will lose 20 pounds or more, and
only 6 percent will keep it off.
She says there may be 2.000
diets around today, but less
than half are physically and
mentally safe. Doctors urge
checking with them for advice
and supervision before embark
ing on a diet.
Diets L'pHmitrd
There are diets starring
bananas, grapefruit, brown
rice, ice cream, hard boiled
eggs, seaweed, cider vinegar,
and water. The ultimate
push-back-from-the- dinner
table diet is short-term,
supervised fasting.
Skimpy diet food may not
always go down easily with the
robust. Doctors point out that
middle-aged men who scorn
salads as 'rabbit food' should
reflect that a male rabbit is
light on his feet, has no paunch,
and maintains lively romantic
interests.
Champion dieter, says the
Guinness Book of World
Records, is ex-circus fat lady
Dolly Dimples who went from
335 to 145 pounds in 14 months.
Overweight admissions may
come hard. It may be, as Ring
Lardner reckoned, "An optim
ist is a girl who mistakes a
bulge for a curve." But
according to the U. S. Public
Health Service, more than 79
million Americans are affected
one way or another by
overweight.
Thinking about dieting may
not help much. Somebody
calculated that one hour of
mental effort would burn up the
calories equal to one oyster
cracker or one half of a salted
peanut.
Helpful Hints
Whole vegetables or special
ly sized vegetables usually cost
more than cut styles. Fancy-cut
vegetables are more expensive
than other cut styles, while
dices, short cuts and vegetable
pieces are the least expensive.
Beaded bracelets in bright
colors or natural shades of
brown make decorative napkin
rings.
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