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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<H>
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 -<rd agency in
\\artent i; 1 .wll remeni
be I when tie built the
pa1 ltial home now the
residence ot Mrs John
Kerr Jr
\lways we called Mr
Walter Boyd's sister Mrs
Fannie Boyd Massenburg
< oUsin Pari Occasionally
as children we visited her
When the Mercer girls
Routh and Lenoir iChunki
visited our home they
always left their Kdgeeomb
home with instructions to
He sure and visit your
Cousin Pannie Massenburg.
and amid the round of festiv
ities in which the young girls
engaged they alway s visited
their Cousin Fan" before
they returned home
C hildren did a great deal
of that kind of courtesy
(ailing when 1 was growing
up 1 well remember how
my mother would instruct
us to call on Cousin
Hannah \rnngton and
wish her a happy birthday
ami how we would march up
on the porch ring the l>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