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The Warren Record, Warrenton, North Carolina, Thursday. December 8, 1977 - Page 2 i (Et;r fflarrrn fiprord Pubhshed Every Thursday By Rocord Printing Compony P O Bo> 70 Warrenton. N C 27589 BIGNALL JONES, Editor Member North Carolina Press Association ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER Al THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON. NORTH CAROLINA. UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N C. k ONE YEAR. $5 00; SIX M.ONTHS, $3 00 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: OUT OF STATE ONE YEAR $7 00 SIX MONTHS. $4 00 I Cheap Labor And Unions While a local man has a connection with a large Corporation and has used this connection to attempt to have a branch of this multi-million dollar Corporation lócate at Warrenton, so far he has not been able to accomplish this. The reason, a friend said this week, is due to the type labor we have in Warren County. Thinking about this statement as we were running an errand, we wondered why this statement was made since we have a large amount of trainable labor who are industrious and learn quickly. And it is cheap labor. I wondered if the fact that it is cheap labor had anything to do with its suitability. There must be many companies who are attracted to the Sunshine Belt because of its climate. lower living costs, and proximity to market^, and who are not drawn here by low wages. It is quite possible that there are many well paying concerns that want highly skilled labor that is not apt to be readily found in a state or section that uses cheap labor as its chief drawing card. Unfortunately, too often cheap labor is just that. The editor of this newspaper, as a young man, paid his way through night school in Washington, D. C., by operating a linotype. In order to work at the trade he joined the Typographical Union. One requirement for membership was a five-year apprenticeship-one more year than the four years required in college. For about two years the editor was a member of the Union, paid a small unión due and was never called on strike. His salary was $1.00 an hour, Which was good compared with what he had earned at Warrenton. This experience gave the editor an understanding of and sympathy for organized labor. During the nearly 50 years in which operating a linotype was part of his work, the editor had contact with many linotype operators, both unión and non-union. One thing he noticed was that when one hired a unión linotype operator he hired a person who knew his business. The unión saw to that. Warren County with too much unskilled labor is glad to have the type industry that will use this type labor until we can better train our labor supply. The pay in low-paying industry beats farm pay and-or not job. But there is a need for high paying industry if we are to keep pace with other states. But the rub is that it is awfully hard to keep high paid industry from unionizing. The skill that earns the high wages is the kind of skill that lends itself to organization. If the South is to become prosperous it must learn to accept the unión for the unión follows good jobs. It will likely be a bitter pill for many, but it is one that we must learn to swallow. Threat To U. S. Securíty The Christian Science Monitor America's more than $100 billion a year for defense will not mean much if the country being defended runs out of gas. Such were the warnings of Secretan,' of Defense Harold Brown when he valuably reminded a group of business leaders that national security was a prime reason for reducing the use and importation of oil. The present lack of assured fuel is "the single surest threat" to the security of the U. S and its allies, he said. As if to underscore the Secretary's views, the intemational Worldwatch Institute included similar points in a report on redefining national security. Released on the weekend, it finds that future threats to the security of nations are less likely to come from military power than from energy shortages, inflation, and other ecological and economic problems. It should not take a threat to national security to make Americans act according to the gravity of the situation. Yet the administration has to seize on every legitímate argument to pulí off a difficult trick: convincing people to conserve in the midst of apparent plenty. We do not intend to cause alarm but encourage prudence by reporting Secretary Brown's effort to get people to see "beyond the easy days of the present to the harsh signs of tomorrow." He quite properly wants to avert not simply a "crisis" - here today and gone tomorrow-but "more an impending disaster." And Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch, adds a necessary larger perspective: "In a world that is not ecologically interdependent but economically and politically interdependent as well. the problem of national' security requires a parallel concern for global security." How To Stop S no ring i W.E.H. In The Sanford Herald Is snoring necessary, habitual,or one of those arts that won't get lost? My Pretty Wife, bless her soul, snores almost soundlessly and melodiously, just once in a while. Maybe you are one of those belly-sleeping, side-positioned, backplaced guys and dolls who snore. They claim, first of ail, they don't. When confronted with the verbal word of folks sleeping in the same room with them, they shrug shoulders as if to say, "So, what? Everybody snores, I do it only occasionally." Read in a paper that a Florida A&M professor who snores himself had got so interested in these noises he pláns to appl/ for a federal grant to study snoring uuu i kiiüvN whether the Federal Government would make such a grant, but guarantee the Ford- Foundation, which makes grants to all sorts of lefthanded theories and enterprises, will gladly finance him. In my book, this is one research item Ford Foundation money could well be spent for. Snoring affects everyone, even the most well-intentioned who lay themselves on their beds and seek the sleep of the just, yet are annoyed by snoring from nearby fellows, often one or two rooms removed. Changing positions, wearing antisleep objects such as muzzles, sleeping on the side with elbow propped under the chin to keep mouth closed, or putting a pillow under the left side these are suggested remedies. Research needed! 4 Mostly Personal Farms And Energy By B1GNALL JONES Again this is a dreary, slue Monday with rain falling and again L'olumn is not written. Under alniost identical circumjtances last Monday I :lipped a eolumn by Patsy rucker. former Warrenton ■esident, from the Southern ñnes Pilot and made out /ery well. I think. My wife nforms me that Patsy had inother interesting article, )ut I am ashamed to try the ¡ame thing two weeks in a •ow, and furthermore, those hat pay my salary may )btain the notion that it is íot good business to pay me o write a eolumn when they ;an clip a better one from >ther papers. So I am on my >wn. When I was growing up nost of the energy on a farm yas provided by mules and »ne advantage of this kind of ■nergy was that it was ¡rown on the farm, or at east on the farms of ;uccessful farmers. The ood that provided the ■nergy for the men who tlowed the mules was also ¡rown on the farm, and nost of the transportation vas provided by horses, nules, wagons and buggies, vith some of it being >rovided by steers and ¡teer-carts. Thus, with no •utlay for automobiles, rucks and tractors, our armers managed to make iut with very little money. A íelp to this living at home vas the production of wood or home and tobáceo barn >n the farm. My Sunday School teacher n my youth and early teens vas Miss Mattie Brown. lobert Davis, who attended Sunday School with me, and ; laughed after class at Miss Vlattie's statement, from he Bible, that "There is lothing new under the sun." iVe were quite sure that here were no automobiles n Biblical times. But sassine vear broueht ereat er wisdom and we know today that Miss Mattie was correct. the form may be different but the substance is the same. Now as we face the threat of exhaustion of our crude oil supplies, the talk is more and more of producing our energy on the farm, through growth and distillation of grasses, and the production of alcohol from wood and grains. So one sees if a farmer produces grain which is turned into alcohol which propels a tractor that it is not exactly the same as feeding grain to a mulé, but raising feed for energy is nothing new. Tests are being made on an engine that will run on alcohol and taking part in this test is Pajmter's Enterprise of Afton, which is planning to build a still at Soul City to manufacture fuel alcohol from grain. If one wonders why alcohol should come from grain instead of cheaper wood, the reason, as recently explained to me by Gordon Cary of Soul City, is that grain alcohol will mix with gasoline and wood alcohol will not. Tractor engines will not run on a 10 percent mixture of grain alcohol, Macey Paynter says. It is only a matter of time, he added, until they will run on 100 percent alcohol. Enabling a farmer to furnish grain for alcohol in competition with wood alcohol is another discovery. No proteins are used in the production of alcohol from grain. The protein may be retained in mash or powder form and fed to livestock, according to Macey Paynter. If a farmer can obtain alcohol to run his tractor and protein to feed his hog from grain grown on his farm. it would appear that he would be in good shape. There is certainly nothing new in a hog turning waste products into food. •v° 5; ■ p Christmas Programs CANTATA The Warren Plains Baptist Church adult choir will present their annual Christmas cantata, "When Lo ve Came Down," on Sunday, Dec. 11. at 7:30 p. m. The cantata was composed by Van Denman Thompson. The choir is under the direction of Mrs. Glenn Weldon. The public is invited to attend this program of Christmas music. Choral Service A choral service for children will be presented by the children and youth of Warren Plains Baptist Church on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Gerry Da vis, pastor, invites the public to come and enjoy the program and share in the fellowship OPEN HOUSE / Historie Salisbury Foundation will sponsor its sixth annual Christmas Open House Dec. 17 and 18 from 2 p m. until8 p. m. "Oíd Christmas Town & Country" will include two houses Doctor Hall's House as the town house and the Alexander Long house, built in 1783. as the country house. The Alexander Long House, first opened to the public on the 1976 Historie House Tour. also sponsored by the Foundation, is the restored home of the Richard Messingers'. The house will be decorated with live greenery, berries, and candles and will suggest Christmases of the 18th century. Doctor Hall's House will feature the beautiful "Twelve Days of Christmas" theme so popular in 1974. Members of the Rowan County Extensión Homemakers Clubs, under the direction of I Edith Hinshaw, will decórate the 1820 home with garlands of running cedar and evergreens caught with red bows and highlighted by the handmade decorations depicting each one of the 12 days of Christmas as described by the traditional song. Hostesses in period costumes add to the illusion of an oldfashioned Christmas. Tickets are $2.50 for adults and $1 for students and are available in advance at Follett's Firehouse Restaurant in downtown Salisbury or at Doctor Hall's House, 226 South Jackson Street, on . Sunday afternoons. Tickets will also be available on tour days at the door of both houses. Special group rates and tours may be arranged by calling (704) 636-2943. HOPE PLANTATION WINDSOR - The fifth annual Christmas Open House at Hope Plantation will be Sunday, Dec. 11 from 1-7 p. m. The open house will officially begin the Christmas Season at Hope, the restored 1800 home of North Carolina's governor David Stone. The two-story Federalist mansión was opened to the public in 1972. It's located four miles north of here on NC 308 and will remain decorated until Jan. 1. Visiting hours are 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. week days and 2-5 p. m. on Sundays. The home will be closed Dec. 24, 25 and 26. Mrs. Al Baker of Colerain is serving as chairman of the Decoration Committee. Decorations have been featured in national publications including the Dec. 1975 edition of Southern Living and this year's December edition of Family Circle. r To Tbe \.e^er \o Thanks Writer To The Editor: In regard to the recent article in The Warren Record, "Lack of Challenge in Schools AUeged by Student's Parent." I would like to thank the writer of that article and The Warren Record for its very accurate account of my appearance before the Warren County Board of Education. I would also like to comment on the recent "Letters To The Editor" written about the above mentioned article. It seems that Dr. L. B. Henderson in one fell swoop, managed to admomsh our local paper and the school board of which he is a member. He also completely ignored my specific complaint from which all of this controversy has stemmed. I also think Dr. Henderson should take a good look at his own hindsight, if he really believes that Mr. Price was at the boara meeting by chance. I would like to remind him that Mr. Price had at the meeting all of the Uterature about his class as well as the work my daughter had done in his class. As for a chain of command, I would like everyone to know I followed this chain, except for one link, the position of command held by the teacher. Some years ago I took the last complaint to a teacher that I ever intend to take. This was at Littleton High School and this same teacher is now working at Hawkins. He was not following the curriculum as set up by the county, and was very smug in the belief that he could teach anything he pleased, even if it did not pertain to the subject that he was hired to teach. Last year, I sent a letter to my daughter's teachers, making a specific request concerning her classwork. Most of her teachers told her they would be glad to help and did comply with my request. However, there were 9ome that made it clear to her that they did not intend to honor the request or help in the matter in any way. ^ V ■ Which brings me to Gail F. Bullock's question, in her "Letter To The Editor," in which she asks about my credentials. It seems that there are some teachers that believe, in light of new legislation on their behalf, that they are no longer required to answer to anyone for their actions in the classroom. But I would like to inform Dr. Henderson and Miss Bullock that my credentials are as a parent. And that the "very silent," but "very real, first link," in the chain of command is the parent, per se, taxpayer of this county. Miss Bullock says she needs no scapegoats and yet she is trying to use my daughter and me as scapegoats to cover her own unwillingness to help students and parents. I say this to Miss Bullock - "your new day" is over and mine as a parent is just beginning. To Arnetra D. Johnson, who wrote a "Letter To The Editor," I would like to say that none of my chidlren have ever failed classes in Warren County schools. And as for the time missed by my daughter at the beginning of this year, I intend to discuss the time of school openings at a future board rneeting in light of this being a tobacco-growing county. My complaint had absolutely nothing to do with the failures of students but with the failure of some teachers to carry through with the curriculum as set up for them by their superiors. As Mrs. Johnson already knows, my complaint was valid and that even before my appearance before the board there had been changes made in many areas, including her own classroom. I would like to take this time to thank all of those teachers who willingly made changes. These are the teachers that are truly deserving of the tátle. MRS. CLAUDEG. SHEARIN, Vaughan Chapter Meets At Steak House Delta Kappa Gamma, Xi Chapter met on Dec. 3 at The Rafters Steak House. The 69 members present were served a delicious buffet luncheon. The dining room was beautifully decora ted in a Christmas motif with evergreens and other appropriate appointments. A white elephant sale was held prior to the meal. President Shirley White presided at the meeting. Mrs. Louise Hunter gave the invocation. Mrs. White recognized Mrs. Virginia Waller, who announced that Dr. Douglas R. Jones is a candidate for the position of East Carolina University Chancellorihip and asked members to endorse his selection. The minutes were read by Mrs. Betsy Little, secretaiy. The treasurer's report was given by Mrs. Annice Cannady. The following committee reports were given. membership, Mrs. Jean Williams; personal growth, Mrs. Heath Beckwith; pro^ fesSional affairs, Mrs. Edith Adams; scholarship fund, Miss Annie Lou Alston;' publications and publicity, Mrs. Alma Mayfield; scholarship, Mrs. Ann Bartholomew. It was announced that the 1977 Scholarship Fund recipient, Miss Danylu Palmer, a freshman at Louisburg College, is an honor student. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. Russell Palmer of Norlina. Mrs. Palmer is a member of Xi Chapter. Miss Ann Royster gave a report of the District meeting, which she recently attended as a delegate. Mrs. Rachel Ricks introduced the speaker, Mrs. Heath Beckwith, who gave an inspiring and informative talk on "Enriching Our Lives Through Cultural Arts." Mrs. Beckwith is director of Pupil Personnel Services in the Warren County Schools. 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