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Need Statewide Plan
In finding that juvenile
training schools were falling
short of their goals in the
reformation of young boys and
girls, it was only good sense for
the State Judicial Committee to
seek a more productive system.
It is to be hoped that in juvenile
foster homes that such a solution
may be reached. Certainly none
of our citizens regret that
Warren County has agreed to
appropriate funds for a trial of
the system.
And yet the only quarrel we
have with the plan is that it is a
state, county and federal plan,
instead of a state or state-federal
plan. The county's part was
almost negligible, but the
county part is one, it seems to
us, that may differentiate
between the treatment juvenile
delinquents would receive in
rich and poor counties or more
enlightened counties.
One of the main reasons why
North Carolina adopted a state
system of public education was
to reduce the difference in
education received by children
in poor and wealthy counties. It
did not fully work because of
supplements paid to teachers
and for special equipment in
wealthy counties, but it did help,
and at least there is a statewide
standard of education.
It seems to us that any system
of law should be equal in every
county of the state and that best
way to provide this is to form a
state-wide system; not one of
foster homes in some counties
and training schools in others
where the county commissioners
are unable or unwilling to
provide 5 per cent of the cost of a
system that under the best of
conditions has some variations.
It should be remembered here
that in agreeing to participate
that a proviso was added in this
county "if the money is
available." There may be other
counties where not even this
priority may be given to the
rehabilitation of our young boys
and girls. It would be safer to
leave the matter to the state.
Mostly Personal
Sewage Quite A Problem
By BIGNALL JONES
Henderson is having •
hard time with plans for
increasing sewage facilities
and Warren County has
become concerned because
of a proposal to place a
treatment plant in Warren
County. Since sewage treatment
plants are not exactly
an exotic form of building, it
would seem that inhabitants
of Warren and Franklin
counties would insist that if
Vance County wants a
sewage treatment plant it
should be located on Vance
County land. But this seems
to have been lost sight of as
the emphasis has swung to
claims of pollution of water.
Henderson citizens are
divided over whether the
city should have two sewage
treatment plants, one on
Nutbush Creek which flows
into Kerr Lake and on Sandy
Creek which flows through a
small portion of Warren
County and much more of
Franklin County.
At the last public hearing
in February, farmers argued
that Sandy Creek was a
source of clean water, wildlife
habitats and recreation
that could never be replaced
if the Sandy Creek plant is
restored.
"The water going back
into Nutbush Creek will be
cleaner than what they took
out," said an advocate of the
Nutbush plant. A few nights
ago Bill Neal, Superintendent
of Warrenton's sewage
treatment plant, showed me
test sheets claiming that
water leaving the sewage
treatment plant was cleaner
than water taken from
Fishing Creek above the
sewage treatment plant.
However, similar claims
made when Soul City was
considering building a sewage
treatment plant on a
tributary of Fishing Creek,
from which Warrenton
draws its water, the claims
bore little weight, and as a
result Soul City sewage is
being piped to a point below
the intake for Warrenton's
water supply.
John Coit, in a recent
article about Henderson s
sewage problem, closed his
remarks in The Durham
Morning Herald with a
paragraph reading as follows:
"In 1974, Henderson voters
approved a bond issue to
help pay for the sewage
system. NEH and NPA
money will also be used to
fund the project, which is
eventually to expand into a
system to serve all of
Region K."
One does know that
Region K is composed of the
counties of Warren, Franklin,
Vance, Granville and
Person Counties, and one
does have to ponder that if
"eventually" a sewage
system will be built to serve
all of these five counties just
how it could be done without
having water from treated
sewage flow back into the
streams that water this fair
land?
While we are turning this
over with no great relish, we
might think of the City of
Durham whose's sewage is
treated and dumped into the
Neuse from which Raleigh
obtained much of its water
supply, and after treatment
dumps this treated sewage
back into the Neuse, from
which Smithfield gets its
water supply, and dumps it
into the Neuse from where
New Bern takes it before it
in turn sends it down into the
Atlantic Ocean.
I rather think there is no
way to supply an expanding
population with its water
without its re-use, and I also
believe that in the course of
time not only will pure
water be obtained from
treated sewage, but that
sewage will be a source of
much of our energy.
Does It sound both
unreasonable and bad? Well
let us remember that there
is nothing very attractive
about a slaughter house, but
their owners have been able
to extract everything from a
pig but its squeal.
NEW
HOURS
Effective immediately
we will be closed at
night.
Our dining facilities will be available, by reservation
only, to club groups and private parties, any night.
Call for details.
Our new operating hours
will be 7 A.M. until 2:30 P.M.
Monday through Friday.
Our Sunday Buffet (Dinner
and Coffee or Tea for $3.50)
will be served from Noon
until 2:30 P.M.
Closed All Day Saturday
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Main Street • Warrenton
View Of Old Warrenton Cemetery
Carter Asks That No Eligible
Person Pay For Food Stamps
WASHINGTON—If President Carter
gets his way in the coining fight over
food stamps, no eligible person will
have to pay for them.
Free food stamps, besides helping
the poor, will eliminate some of the
problems that have dogged the
program since it began, the administration
argues. With no cash changing
hands, there would be less chance for
fraud.
But some strategically placed members
of Congress want to keep the
purchase requirement. They feel that it
prevents the program from becoming a
welfare giveaway.
As the program stands now,
recipients must come up with a certain
amount of cash each month to pay for
an allotment of food coupons worth
more than the required payment.
For example, a four-member family
of four with a net income of (250 has to
pay $71 to get $166 in stamps. The
difference between the payment and
the amount of stamps received is called
the bonus — in this case $95. If the
purchase requirement were eliminated,
the family would get $95 in stamps
free.
Only about 50 per cent of those now
eligible for food stamps participate.
The administration predicts that figure
would rise to 66 per cent if the purchase
requirement were dropped. Some
studies suggest that many needy
persons are too poor to "buy in" to the
program. But other studies indicate
that pride, disinterest or lack of
information are the main reasons why
eligible people choose not to enroll.
Should the purchase requirement be
eliminated?
Proponents of eliminating the
purchase requirement argue that "the
poorest of the poor" can't get enough
money together once a month to buy
their stamps.
Jeff Kirsch, legislative coordinator
for the Food Research and Action
Center, which has lobbied actively for
free stamps, says that the existing
system "looks good on paper" but is
designed so that "half the people (it is
designed to help) won't show up."
"While it is important that we keep
the costs of the program within
reasonable bounds....we know for a
fact, based on census data, that only
about 40 per cent of the people below
the poverty level use food stamps,"
Kirsch said.
Many people with limited incomes
have a cash flow problem, the
proponents say. It is difficult for them
to get 25 percent of their monthly
income — the average amount spent on
stamps — together at one time.
"It is not that poor people cannot
manage their affairs," said Sen.
Edward W. Brooke (R. Mass.),
sponsor of a bill to eliminate the
purchase requirement. "Indeed, it is
because of their ability to manage
month after month, bill after bill;
putting a little toward this and a little
bit toward that; that they are often
unable to put out large chunks of cash
at one time."
Proponents also argue that eliminate
Ing the purchase requirement would
simplify administration of the program
and would eliminate much of the fraud
and abue.
Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland
noted in testimony before Congress
that 17.3 million recipients pay more
than $3-billion a year in cash to 15,000
vendors ranging from banks and post
offices to churches, fire stations and
corner stores.
More private agents collect more
cash from more persons than in any
other federal program. This has led to
numerous, well-publicized tales of
abuse. All cash transactions would stop
if the purchase requirement were
eliminated.
With $3-billion less in stamps being
printed, shipped, stored and redeemed,
Bergland said, there would be far
fewer points where fraud could take
place.
Opponents of free food stamps argue
that the so-called "poorest of the poor"
already are included in the food stamp
program because persons with net
incomes below $30 per month don't
have to pay.
They queston the proponents' contention
that the purchase requirement
is keeping people out of the
program; they also challenge the
administration's estimate that participation
would increase by only about 15
per cent.
"I fear that the proponents of
eliminating the purchase requirement
are playing down the increase in participation
in order to lower their cost
estimates," said Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge (D. Ga.), chairman of the
Senate committee that handles food
stamp legislation.
"However, they can't have it both
ways," he said. "Either the elimination
of the purchase requirement will
greatly increase participation and cost
millions more; or it would not greatly
increase participation and thus fail to
accomplish its main purpose."
Talmadge is among those who
oppose doing away with the purchase
requirement because, they say, it
would destroy the program's unique
characteristics as a nutrition rupplement
and turn it into another welfare
program.
"If a household is willing to help
itself, by coming up with the purchase
requirement, the federal government
will match, and in most cases exceed,
that amount in bonus stamps,"
Talmadge said. "The American people
favor this arrangement over a
giveaway."
Other opponents argue that food
stamps are a necessity to help poor
people manage their money and assure
them and their children a nutritionally
adequate diet. This reinforces "the
idea of family responsibility," said
Rep. Robert H. Michel (R. 111.),
sponsor of a bill last year to tighten the
program.
The opponents also say that
proponents have overstated promises
of significant administrative saving if
the purchase requirement were
eliminated.
"Transactions must still occur:
bonuses must still be calculated; and
stamps must still be issued," said Sen.
Carl T. Curtis (R. Neb.). Eliminating
the purchase requirement to stop
vendor abase, he said, is "akin to
shooting a gnat with a shotgun."
fflfijililtit 1977, Congressional Quartdflylnc)
Committee Seeks
Cemetery Funds
By BIGNALL JONES
Editor—The Warrea Record
In view of the marvelous Job the Warrenton Cemetery
Committee haa performed in the restoration and
beautification of the old Warrenton Cemetery, we
delayed publishing the committee's annual request for
funds in the hope that a single photo might emphasize the
need for and value of contributions.
We trust that our people will be just as liberal with
their contributions as their means will allow, and that
when their work for the spring is completed that we may
be able to tell the story of their efforts in pictures.
With this foreword, and with the hope that our people
will not only give generously but will also visit the
cemetery quite often, we publish the committees letter
as follows:
"New growth of weeds is fast taking place in the
Warrenton Cemetery. We, your Cemetery Committee,
are attempting to have some work done but our funds are
limited. We thank all who have supported this effort in
past years. We hope you have observed and been pleased
with results.
"We beg our citizens not to litter the cemetery
grounds. It is expensive to have the rubbish picked up
and hauled away. If the cemetery is to be kept in a respectable
condition we must have annual contributions.
We hope all who have loved ones resting there will honor
them by sending us a contribution so we may have funds
to pay the workers. Checks should be made to Warrenton
Cemetery Committee and mailed to our secretary, Mrs.
Annie Mae Alston, 426 W, Franklin Street or any member
"Ms. Irene Fits, Chairman, Dora Bobbins, Treasurer,
Elnora Adams, Willie B. Anderson, Miss Lucy
Wortham."
j Dusting, Cleaning Keep
I Wood Furniture Cleaner
Wood furniture needs to
be kept clean to look nice
and last longer.
Regular dusting with a
damp cloth will pick up dust,
but to remove stubborn dirt
and grime you may have to
use a little detergent and
water, say extension specialists
at North Carolina
State University.
Before mixing the detergent,
protect the upholstered
parts of the turniture
with a cloth or plastic.
Fill a pan with warm
water and add mild detergent—the
kind you use for
dishes. Use one tablespoonful
in one quart of water and
make lots of suds.
Use a clean sponge or soft
cloth to do the washing. Pick
up some of the thick suds off
the top of the sudsy w*ter,
but don't let the sponge or
ctoth get dripping wet.
Wash a small area at a
time and work quickly.
Without using much water,
work from left to right or top
to bottom, NOT in circles.
Wipe off all the detergent
with a clean, damp cloth and
then dry the area immediately
with a clean, dry cloth.
Then move on to the next
small area and repeat the
process.
Wood furniture can also
get very dirty if you use too
much wax or furniture
polish, or if the furniture is
not cleaned often.
Dirt, wax and furniture
polish can be removed by
dipping a small, clean cloth
into a small dish of
turpentine or mineral spirits
and wringing the cloth until
it is almost dry. (Never let
the turpentine or mineral
spirits get on upholstery,
rug or floors.)
Clean a small area of the
furniture at a time, covering
an area abut the size of a
saucer. Then rub with a
clean, dry cloth. Keep on
doing this until the whole
piece of furniture is clean.
To clean painted wood
fixture, dust *nd wash It
like other wood furniture.
However, do not use
turpentine to clean painted
furniture.
To wax lightly colored
pieces use a white creamy
wax. On medium or dark
painted wood furniture use
any wax suitable for wood.
Wax only once or twice a
year.