Sbp ®arrpn fiprorfc Published E*er\ Thur^ddt B, R*cord Printing Compony ^ 0 Bo« '0 Wa^enton N C 27b8y BiGNALL JONES Editor W'W>e' \ijHh d'O'ind P'ebb AbSUL d'>o" ( \ it Ptl 4S' CC'OM .ASS rj'w J' '-<£ POST Qf-hCt i\ iAAPPc \ ' '■ * 4" '.J \D£P ' f CC\6P£ jss ► .• 1 "i ' A- A d-er • SUBSCRIPTION RATES Other Forms Of Energy According to an I PI dispatch from Boone in Saturday s Raleigh Times the woi'.d's largest wind-drnen electrical generator is one step closer to completi >n now that two 100-foot blades weighing nine tons each has armed in Boone from Seattle Wash Installation of the blades, said the dispatch was scheduled to U'gin immediateh after their arrival Thursda> but completion de|>ends on w ind conditions atop 4,42n-fiKit Howard's Knob The blades will t>e attached to a generator capable of supplying the elet tncal needs of 3ih) to 5 homes Another news story, possibly from The Raleigh Times recounts that a former North Carolina moonshiner has invented a solar still with which he claims that he can make alcohol at a cost of l()c a gallon It seems to us that he starts his car with regular gasoline and then switches to alcohol after the engine becomes hot. at any rate it has been established that alcohol can take the place of 10 percent of the gasoline No doubt this figure in the course of time can be greatly raised A Warren County man. Macey Paynter sought in vain a feu months ago to obtain a peri >it to distill alcohol from grain after he had demonstrated that tractors on his farm could Ik* operated with alcohol Kxtraction of the alcohol he said does not diminish the value of '.he used grain as a livestock food llecenth we published ex tracts from an article in The National (Jeographic about the recycling of solid uaste. in which it was shown that aluminum cans could be restructed into new cans at a cost of percent that of making c ans from ore it was further revealed that after aluminum, steel, giass and paper had been removed from solid waste by a re-claiming machine, that the residue was ground up and used for furnace fuel, where it showed that two pounds of the residue was worth one pound of coal On its face, it would appear that more of energy research money should be applied to new methods of producing energy It might cost more, but indications are that our people can still ride in future years, as scientists tap the sun. water, and items that may be produced on our farms Ginseng May Be Hazardous! The \\ hit»' \ illp News Reporter I p in the North ( urolina mountains ginseng or sang ha-■ t>e gathered and sold as medicinal tonic for years Nov*, says a I niversity of California stud> ;■!" ilonged use of the herb may fif hazardous to health winseng is used by millions of Americans and through the centuries by billions of Chinese as a tonic and healing agent Our mountain men find it growing wild transplant it and when it's ready ship it tn av id bu> its Nuu it -.ferns it falls into the same i ategor\ as sassafras and tobacco 1'he thing about v\ amines is that the> ire usiialh ignored We are certain there ar»- a lot of sassafras-tea swillers among us toda> as well as ginseng Users \s lor tobacco, the Surgeon (■eneral s warning ma\ as well not be ■ in the package for all the effect it has had News Of 10, 25 And 40 Years Ago Looking Back Into The Record Mas I 1%'t Boyd U Mayfield Nor lina tarmer and long-time member of the Warren County Hoard iif Education. a as named chairman of the board at an organizational meeting here last week Mayfield and the four other members of the new board took the oath of office before Mrs Lame Hayes Clerk of Court Other members of the board taking the oath of office were Robert Cupton of Areola I)r Charles Bunch of Warrenton Ben C Harris of Inez and Roger Moore of Littleton The Tungsten Mine in north Vance County closed for a number of years is expected to be reopened in the near future Rancher Exploration and Development Corporation of NewMexico has acquired the property and has pumped out the underground shaft The company is now in the process of installing new milling equipment of the most modern design for mining activity April 30. I9.V4 Bids for the construction fiitri plani III MlUth Uarrenton and sewer ex pan.sion in North \\.irrenton w ill he opened at 2 p m on Ma> 14 The two projects are expected not to exceed yJo immi with the difference between the amount raised b\ the bond issue and the cost of the projects to l>e taken from the General Fund 1 )ue to a change in train schedule Postmaster Ix'onard Daniel said yesterday. tfi.it mail would be dispatch ed from the Warrenton postofficeat 12 45 p m Mail must f>e in the office by noon he said Miss Pats> Ann White, daughter of Mr and Mrs T A White of Wise, was among ;i2 graduating from the Johnson Willis School of Nursing in Richmond. Va on Friday night. April 23 Elizabeth (Gordon Taylor, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs William W Taylor .Jr was christened during the morning service at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Sunday The godfather was Crordon W Poindexter. great uncle of the child and godmothers were Miss Fii/abeth Gordon Taylor, aunt, and Mrs \ A \\ llhams of I)urham Fdwin (ill 1. state treasurer was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Warrenton l.ion: Club held at Hotel Warren on Friday night Gill devoted his talk chiefly to the financial affairs of the state and touched on the qualifications that shouid be required of a man seeking public office May 1939 .lerman Walker, who for six years has been connected with the county agent's office as chief clerk, has been appointed mail earner on a rural route served by the N'orlina post office He has been replaced in Mr Bright s office by Clyde M Coleman of Macon Freakish weather descended on Warren County Tuesday, causing citizens to shiver and complain as they paddled about in a cold rain w hich at one time during the day was replaced by snow and hail Mostly Personal Photo Brings Back Memories H\ Hi(.\ VLl. JOM S Accompanying Mrs Jack Sc ott's interesting article in another part of this news paper was a photograph of the John Early Boyd family taken b> the late J Willie White talented Warrenton citi/en who had been telegraph irwrator insurance salesman and amateur photographer To his other talents \va- the ability to write a he.mtiful hand He was the lather of the late Walter White for many >ears a partner with \lpheus I : es ,1) Hunter 1 )rug i ■ i:! in> Although Mr W hite ^ is an amateur pho'ographe' the Bowl pu tuni \vei. i have done credit I .1 professional Manv other pictures of [x-ople and e\ents in old A arrenton e; e take h\ Mr W hue 1'lie rriemlx'T s of the Boyd tan111 > in the photograph although not listed in order, included William Jones Ho>d Henr> Armistead Bo>d John Earl\ Bo>d W alter Blair Bo>d J Edwin Bn.vii 1'anthea Boyd Mas M'titnirg Mollie Boyd Ware soils and daughters of John Earh Boyd and Ann Buinall Jones Boyd and grandchildren of Alexander the elder The Ann Bignall Jones reterred to was ni> grand lather; sister, anu first cousin to mv father, aunts and uncles Therefore I had some knowledge of all of them and knew most of them fairly well not Only (tecause of kinship but Ix'cause of their accomplishment I knew William Jones i Cousin Will) Boyd only slightly and because he was the father of Hattie Boyd Scott and Lucy Boyd Scott I didn't know John Early or J / hdwm who was a South Hill Va business man who helped build tht' steel toll bridge over the Roanoke Kner Neither did 1 know Mrs Mollie Ware although 1 often -heard my Xunt Mary Mercer and other aunts and uncles talking about her I remember Cousin Henry Hoy d w ell lb- w as the father ot the late Norwood Bo\ d who was connected with his 1 ricie Walter Boyd in the warehouse and automobile dealership business m Wai rciiton and daughters Miss Mariam and i ousin \nnie (.! aham I ii 1 air\ ii w < emetery then is a i ather large and pr i-tt> tombstone hunurmg the 11u-ititn'\ iit U alter Hi i> d with the l.iiscript inn 11 ading sen ill John hai ;> and Ann BiLtnal! .Iwn-s li d 1 gut a start w hen I tirst re id the ins, np|urn a^ and Hignall Junes Mi H;i> d I don t retnem th• r that 1 e\ i r ■ ailed him t i -11sin W alte: w as a \ <-r\ sui i essiu! business man and at Hilt time president ot the i iti/eris Hank and iperati >r ot Hoy d W arehouse ott Market Mreet and w ith im est !l lent s ir, i ittiei' K« al business enterprises lit had the urst 1 -ell and convey our message I had another rather nebulus relation with Cousin I'an Her husband was the uncle (il Katherine Alston through, the Kings and Katherine a wonderful and U autitul girl was my sweetheart in the puppy love i lay s The 11 rst titne 1 ever rememltci seeing Hattie Scott a < cry pretty girl was at Cousin Hannah Davis's home next to our home \\alter i>a\is was either trying to flirt or make love with Hattie but 1 think at tfiat time she was probably engaged to .Jack Scott who uas later to distinguish him sell as pitcher for the New N ork (iiants Cousin Henry Boyd had a law ottice on the courthouse square where later B H William- was to practice law as an individual and later with Julius Ban/.et That office was only taken down in recent years Cousin Henry was a kindly man and a very gentle jK'tson whom I remember with pleasure The picture brought in by Hattie Scott brought all these people of earlier days to m;nd. and it has t>een a pleasure to recall them as inhabitants of a less strenuous age Pyramids A Challenge Even For The Japanese Building an authentic pyramid may not be easy, even for the Japanese The ancient Egyptians did it without using iron tools, the wheel, or horses hollowing as many olu methods as possible, the Japanese are directing construction of a junior pyramid in Egypt just a few miles from the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza About lit.i»oo Egyptians are laboring with stone axes on the pyramid, which is to be about 65 feet high with a %-foot base about oneseventh the size of the Great P\ ramid By doing it themselves, Japanese archeologists hope to find out how the Egyptians built their pyramids almost 5.000 years ago \ge-old Questions Remain If they use the old methods 1 think the project could answer some lingering questions about how the pyramids were built, said Edward Brovarski. an Egyptologist at the Museum of Eine Arts in Boston One nagging question, he said, is how the huge stones were moved up ramps and put into place as the pyramid rose higher and higher The Japanese are bowing to a few technological advances Cranes and trucks will take the place of manpower in some phases of construction, reports the National Geographic Society If we used only manpower. it would take 25 years to build the pyramid. " explained Yozo Shiratori of a Japanese television network that is sponsoring the $1 -million project They hope to finish in three months If the project doesn't solve time-honored riddles about how the monuments went up. it will give the world an idea of how to take down a P^oto Oy Winfieid Parks Na*'onai Geographic Society \ I ()I' the sturd\ stones of the Great Pyramid ot Cheops at (,i/a. a guide pauses and looks tow ard the p> raniid of ( hephren Now the Japanese .ire building a p> raniid - on a smaller scale — alongside the ancient Kgyptian ones on the west hank of the Nde Hiv er near ( .urn pyramid Egypt has ordered that the Japanese-made | pyramid be dismantled after completion so as not to compete with the genuine articles Most Egyptologists believe it took at least 20 years to build each of the original pyramids, depending on how many men were employed Estimates range , from 2.500 to 400,000 laborers per pyramid Egyptians quarried limestone with copper and wooden tools, and, when the Nile River was at its annual peak floated the stone on barges to the construction site Once on land, the stone jlocks. which weighed as nuch as 15 tons each, were lauled on sledges atop ■oilers made of logs Egyptians Thought Big The Japanese model will ■>e dwarfed by the Great ^ramid, built by the iharoah Cheops about 2500 3 C during Egypt's zenith if pyramid building One of he Seven Wonders of the tVorld, the pyramid is 480 'eet tall with a base of 756 'eet The 2 3 million stones ised in its construction ■veigh an average of two and ine-half tons each According to one esti ©LENOIR Car Exhibit Set In Oxford An Antique arid Special Interest Car Exhibit will be held at the Planters National Bank Drive-In between Ilillsboro and Spring Streets in Oxford from 10 am until -1 p m Saturday. May 12. during the Earl of Granville Eestn al Persons who view the exhibit will vote on their favorite pre and post World War II cars Those awards will be presented at 3 30 p m Saturday in the Garden Club Memorial Park on Spring Street Ruritans To Hold Variety Show The Old Barn Variety Show sponsored by the WiseI'aschall Run tail Club will be held May 5 at 7 30 p m at the Old Wise School Admission is $1 Class To Have Bake Sale The Sulphur Springs Baptist Church Adult Sunday School Class No ! will sponsor a bake sale Friday, May 1 it the AAA (las Company In-ginning at K 30 Stew will also be sold at $2 2:> per quart and will be ready by 11 30 (•'or advance orders call 257-44f>3 or 257-43;>3 Ushers To Present Pageant I'he senior and junior ushers of 1 -ocust drove Baptist Church in \\ ise will present a pageant 'Challenge of the Cross on Sunday Ma|.(l at 7 p m The choir will r .-nder songs pertaining to the pageant Sterling Cheston, president of the usher board, will direct the pageant The Ke\ \ 1. Dave invites the public to attend Firemen To Fry Chicken The Drewry V olunteer Fire Department is sponsoring a fried chicken supper Saturday. May 5, from 4pm until K p m at the firehouse The supper will sell for $2 50 per plate and take-out orders will be available Revival Services Slated Revival services are scheduled at Shocco Cnited Methodist Church in the vicksborocommunity beginning Sunday May 6. through May 10 The Rev Dennis Levin, pastor of the church, will bring the message and special music will be provided each night The services will begin at K p m nightly The public is invited Choral Program Scheduled The Simmons Memorial Baptist Church Male Chorus of Baltimore, Md . one of the East Coast's outstanding choral groups, w ill render gospel and spiritual music on Sunday , May 6, at 3 p m at Greenwood Baptist Church The public is invited and proceeds from the performance will 1*' used for the building fund Business Notes Increased Earnings Reported First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company reported increased earnings for the first quarter of 1979 compared to the same quarter of the preceding year First quarter income before securities transactions totaled $2,517,000, compared to $1,412,000 for the first quarter of 1978 Net income after securities transactions for the quarter ending March 31, 1979 was $1,138,000. compared with a loss of $189,000 fof the same quarter in 1978 Per share income before securities transactions totaled $25.05. up from $14.00 per share Net per share income amounted to $11 26 compared with a loss of $2 01 First quarter deposits for First-Citizens were $1.101.000 an increase of $43 million over the first quarter of 1978 Growth Shown At Cochrane Cochrane Furniture Company's earning were up 66 percent for the 39 weeks' report ended March 3. 1979 Net income, after taxes, was $403,478 compared to $242,082 for the 39 w eeks' period ended February 25, 1978. Unaudited figures show a rise in net sales from $10,425,576 to $13.248.850 for the earlier reporting period Farmings per share reached 63-cents relative to 37-cents per share, based on a weighted average of 642,329 shares outstanding at March 3. 1979 and 649.475 shares outstanding at February 25. 1978 Branch Bank Lists Earnings The shareholders of Branch Corporation, the parent holding companv of Branch Banking and Trust Company, held their annual meeting at the home office in Wilson on April 17 Thorne Gregory, chairman and chief executive officer said. "By any measure. 1978 was a good year for Branch Corporation "A 10 percent stock dividend was declared in December and cash dividends paid topped the $2 million mark for the first time Total dividend payout was $2,122,050 or $ 94 per share This represented a cash payout of 36 5 percent of net earnings, and this compares very favorably with other major financial institutions in North Carolina " Gregory reported that net earnings increased 21 6 percent and totaled $5 8 million, deposits increased 9.1 percent on a monthly average basis; loan demand continued to be strong during the year and increased 11.7 percent by year end mate, the cathedrals of Florence and Milan, St Peter's Basilica, Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral could all fit in the base of the Great Pyramid Cheops, like other kings of his time, believed his death would be the beginning of eternal life in another world Because life on earth was relatively short, houses in those times were built of mud but tombs were made af stone in hopes that they would last for eternity. Cheops built the grandest tomb of all, designing his stepped pyramid to be a stairca.se to heaven " But not everyone believes the pyramids were tombs It has been suggested that they were observatories, grain stores, refuges from floods, or even giant "makework" projects