Norlina High School marshal* for the 1977 commencement exercises are front row,
[left to right] Derrick Cheston, Freda Hight, Wendy Curtis, Oita Cheston and Laurie
Har?s. Top row, Michael Norwood. Chuck Ellington, Patricia Hlcki, Debra White and
Tammie Craft. [Staff Photo]
Norlina High Marshals Named
Blue Wave Chorus Writes Poem
The Blue Wave Chorus has issued the following poem in making the announcement
of a "Rockin' Fifties" program to be given Sunday, May 29, at 8 p. m. in the Norlina
High Gymtorium:
The rockin' fifties were the fad-filled fifties:
3-D glasses and hula hoops!
The rockin' fifties were the glamour-queen fifties:
M. Monroe in a skirt that went — whoops!
The rockin' fifties were the motorcycle fifties:
A rovin' cult with all the answers!
The rockin' fifties were the T-V fifties:
Cops and robbers and fabulous dancers!
ine rocKin' tifties were guitar — lovin' fifties.
With Elvis the Pelvis leading the throng,
We all strummed away in the deadpan fifties,
And laughed or cried only in song.
But thru it all —
up above,
down below,
all around—
YOU COULD NEVER ESCAPE THAT ROCKIN' SOUND
Rural Firemen Answer Four Calls
Warrenton rural firemen
answered four calls during
the past week, responding to
a woods fire, two car fires
and a trash container fire.
The first of these fires
occurred on Wednesday
afternoon of last week
around 3:30 p. m. wheti 5
firemen and a crash truck
responded to a fire on SR
1001 three miles west of
Warrenton where a station
wagon loaded with newspapers
was on fire. The station
wagon and some 400 papers
were a total loss. Some 4,000
papers were removed from
the station wagon. ■
A second car fire was
reported at 9:20 p. m. on
Wednesday when a car
belonging to Gwen Datta
Tunstall, Route 3, Warrenton
was on fire. Seven men
and a crash truck respond
Public Hearing
A public hearing on the
proposed use of Revenue
>•
Sharing funds by Warren
County will be held at the
Warren County Courthouse
on Wednesday, June 1,
at 7 o'clock P. M.
This May 26, 1977.
CHARLES A. HAYES
County Manager
ed. Damage to the 1971
Dodge Dart was estimated
at $100.
Seven men, two fire
trucks and a crash truck
responded to a woods fire on
the Peter Hayes farm near
Vicksboro at 4:25 p. m.
Friday. The fire was
extinguished after it had
burned over about one acre.
Six firemen and a crash
truck responded to a fire
call at Warren General
Hospital at 6:45 p. m.
Saturday. The fire was
found to be located in a trash
container and was extinguished.
No damage was
reported.
Declares Dividend
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.,
May 19, 1977—The Board of
Directors of Peoples Bank
and Trust Company has
declared a dividend of 24
cents per share on the
bank's common stock for
the second quarter, an
increase of 2 cents per share
above the 22 cents paid the
first quarter.
The dividend is payable
June 30,1977 to shareholders
of record on June 15, 1977.
The "X" dividend date is
June 9, 1977.
Peoples Bank currently
serves 23 North Carolina
communitiea with 39 branch
offices.
Turkey sella for about $2 a
pound in Chili.
Cooper Discusses
Soybean Marketing
By L. C. COOPER
Agricaltaral Extension Ag eat
Any way you look at it, the supply situation in soybeans
is tight and will remain that way until the 1977 soybean
crop is harvested.
November futures have been as high as |7.76 for 1977
soybeans. History generally repeats itself and most
likely it will and soybeans will go to $5.50 to $6.50 per
bushel.
If you're not a hedger, you're a speculator. If you buy
or sell livestock, hogs, soybeans or corn on the cash
market, you're taking a big enough risk to be called a
speculator. The way prices fluctuate, you could take a
much smaller risk by carefully hedging, or contracting
your soybeans.
Hedging is a way of buying or selling in advance at a
price that you and your business can live with. Hedging is
i marketing tool on the futures market which is simply a
narket on which prices are established for commodities
hat will be delivered at some time in the future.
Cash contacts allow you to forward prices just as
effectively as the futures market. It is a marketing tool
that simply guarantees a given price for a given quantity
of produce at a given time of delivery.
Hedging requires some capital investment where as
cash contracts require no capital down.
Tar Heel Kitchen
By MISS E. YORK KIKER
N. C. Department of Agriculture
A recent article suggested food ideas for older citizens,
however, requests indicate there is a need for recipe for
small family. Units. Young couples, students, and singles
enjoy eating! but find most recipes are for six or more
servings. For ease of preparation main dish
combinations of meat or chicken with vegetables are
excellent choices.
Do you need a crisp, green vegetable to accompany the
casserole? Cabbage is an excellent choice. Cabbage has
many points in its favor. Select a fresh head of cabbage,
cut only the amount needed for preparation and store the
remainder of the cabbage in the refrigerator for later
use. Cabbage is excellent served raw in your favorite
cold slaw or congealed vegetable salad, or may be
steamed in & small amount of water for approximately
ten minutes. To the steamed cabbage you can add only
salt, pepper and butter or bacon drippings for seasoning
or be more elaborate with "trimmings" if desired. Fresh
cabbage is now being cut in eastern North Carolina thus
the price should be more favorable than recently.
Desserts are always welcome and by proper selection
can add important nutrients to the diet. With June Dairy
Month approaching, we are reminded not to take a
vacation from these important foods. Yogurt is a cultured
milk product which is one of the oldest foods
consumed by modern man but which you may not have
discovered. For a simple dessert try:
Plain yogurt sprinkled with brown sugar. Strawberries
may be added, if available.
Sliced bananas or peaches with blueberry yogurt
sprinkled with flaked coconut.
Plain yogurt drizzled with 2 tablespoons honey per cup
of yogurt.
Plain yogurt plus applesauce to taste plus a dash of
cinnamon.
Baked Beef-Rice Scallop
% cup rice, cooked
Vt cup leftover roast beef, chopped
Vi cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon beef drippings or margarine
1 teaspoon onion, chopped
4 teaspoon salt
Few grains of pepper
Mix all ingredients. Place in a small greased
casserole. Bake at 350 degrees F. (moderate oven) for 40
minutes. Yields: 2 servings, about 1 cup each.
D..k i.J T«..lna
2 pork chops, lean
1 tablespoon shortening
4 small turnips, young, sliced
V4 medium-size onion, sliced
1 (lOVfe-oz.) can cream of mushroom soup, condensed
Mi cup milk
Few grains of salt
Few grains of pepper
Brown pork chops in fat. Place a layer of turnip slices
in baking pan. Place chops over turnips and top with a
layer of sliced onions. Combine soup, milk and
seasonings; pour over the onions. Bake at 350 degrees F.
(moderate oven) until chops are tender, about 1 hour.
Yields: 2 servings.
Individual Chicken Casseroles
1 cup cooked chopped chicken or 1 can (6 oz.) boned
chicken
Vi cup diced, cooked or canned carrot
8 small cooked or canned onions
1 cup diced, cooked potato
2 tablespoons fat
2 tablespoons flour
V« teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
1 chicken bouillon cube
% cup hot liquid
xk cup milk
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 cup ready-to-eat cereal
Put equal amounts of chicken, carrot, onion and potato
into two individual casseroles. Melt fat: stir in flour, salt,
and pepper. Dissolve bouillon cube in liquid drained from
cooked or canned vegetables plus enough hot water to
make % cup. Add slowly, with milk, to fat mixture. Cook
over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened. Pour
over chicken and vegetables. Mix butter with cereal and
sprinkle over tops of casseroles. Bake in 400 degrees F.
oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Yields: serves 2.
Truck Crop Acreages Gain
Green beans, or snap
beans, don't receive much
attention as a commercial
crop in North Carolina, but
the state is second only to
Florida in the size of its
spring fresh market crop.
North Carolina producers
will harvest about 3,000
acres of green beans this
spring for the fresh market.
This acreage is up 11 per
cent from 1976.
Spring cabbage acreage is
up also. Official projections
indicate Tar Heel growers
will harvest about 2,500
acres, or 400 more than last
spring.
The state ranks fourth in
the production of spring
cabbage. Florida is the
largest producer.
A whopping 83 per cenl
increase is expected in th<
harvest of spring cucum
bers for the fresh market
North Carolina has increased
its acreage to around
5,500 this year. This would
make the state the second
largest producer of fresh
market cukes behind
Florida.
Gospel Baptist Church Commentary
'Continued
Messages iron the commentaries of Oliver
B. Greene sponsored by Gospel Baptist
Church, Norlina.
Paul, in Romans, speaks of "Him that is of
power to establish you according to my
Gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery,
which was kept secret since the world
began" (Rom. 16:25).
Many believers consider Romans a book
hard to understand; but it is not difficult to
understand if we will "let God be true, but
every man a liar" (Rom. 3:4), and if we will
read what Romans says and believe it
instead of refusing to believe what we read.
Many believers must confess that their
besetting sin, as having to do with Bible
study, is the sin of unbelief. They read a
clear statement in God's Holy Word and
then they stop, raise their eyebrows,
scratch their forehead, and say, "I wonder
what that means." Just let God be true and
every man a liar! The Word of God says
what it means, and means what it says.
There are parables in the Word of God,
and there are symbols in the Word of God;
but the Holy Spirit always makes it clear
when parables are employed to illustrate a
tremendous spiritual truth. So when you
read a clear statement such as "For sin shall
not have dominion over you...." It is clear:
When one receives Jesus as Saviour. Jesus
is our victory over sin; and if He who is in us
is defeated by him who is on the outside of
us, then the latter is greater than the
former. You will understand if you will read
I John 4:4: "Yet are of God, little children,
and have overcome them: because greater
is He that is in you, than he that is in the
world." John is telling us that Jesus Christ
is greater and more powerful than the devil.
Every believer has within him Jesus in the
Person of the Holy Spirit; and Jesus within
is greater than the devil without. Therefore
"we are more than conquerors through Him
that loved us" (Rom. 8:37).
- The Book of Romans speaks with
authority. The words in Romans were
penned down by the accredited
representative of the risen Christ, one who
was called and ordained of God to bear this
message—not only to the Romans, but to all
Gentiles. The words we read in Romans are
Godbreathed (II Tim. 3:16). So as we read
and study these sacred lines, verse by
verse, chapter by chapter, should we not
feel as Moses felt when God said that he
should remove his sandals from his feet
because he was standing on holy ground?
(See Exodus 3:1-5).
Perhaps someone is asking here, "Just
what do we mean when we refer to the
Scriptures as being verbally inspired?" We
know that not one word of the New
Testament had been written when Jesus
Christ ascended back to heaven, but we
have in God's word plain truths that
declare-His Word to be God-breathed, or
verbally inspired.
In the first place. Jesus plainly said
before He went away that He would leave
the revelation of truth unfinished (John
16:12), but He promised that the revelation
of truth would be completed after He
ascended back to the Father, where He was
before He came to earth in a body (John
16:13). Also, chose certain men to receive
additional revelation from time to time, and
to be His witnesses, His preachers and
teachers, after He ascended back to the
Father. (Read John 16:13; 15:27; Matthew
28:19, 20; Acts 1:8 and 9:15-17.) These
words, penned down by holy men called
ordained by God, are precisely the same in
authority and power as the words spoken
by the very lips of Jesus Himself. (Read
Matthew 10:14, 15; Luke 10:16; John 13:20
and 17:20.)
I-do not believe the Bible CONTAINS the
Word of God; I believe the Bible IS the
Word of God! I believe every word in the
Bible is inspired of God and penned down by
holy men called and ordained of God, and
they wrote as God's Holy Ghost dictated to
them the words they were to pen down for
our instruction and admonition. According
to the testimony of Jesus Christ Himself
and of the men who wrote the Gospels and
the Epistles, the Scriptures are verbally
inspired; that is, the Holy Ghost gave the
words and holy meti penned them down.
As we study the Epistle to the Romans,
we will notice the exceeding sinfulness of
sin; how sin entered; the final wages of sin;
and the only hope for the sinner. Then we
will see clearly set forth the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus, and our desperate
need for His righteousness if we would
enter the City of God. We will clearly see
that God honors only the righteousness that
comes through faith in the finished work of
the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten
Son.
As we come to the closing chapters of the
book, we will see clearly set forth the walk
of the believers. We will see what the Holy
Spirit reveals through Paul concerning our
cooduct toward each other, and as believers
we will learn much about the
ministry of the Holy Spirit in our heart and
life after we become a child of God.
Paul told the Ephesian believers: "Ye
were sometimes darkness, but now are ye
light in the Lord: walk as children of light"
(Eph. 5:8). Certainly, as we study Romans,
we will receive new light, increased
light—and if we fail to walk in that light,
then we will be worse off after studying this
marvelous Epistle, than we were before we
began the study. If we see these things and
know these things, happy will we be if we
do them; but if we see them and refuse to
accept them, if the light is revealed and we
refuse to walk in it, then better had we
never been exposed to the tremendous
spiritual truths of Romans.