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P O Box 70, Warnnlon N C 2/589
HOWARD F JONES
Editor
GRACE W JONES
President
THURLETTAM BROWN
News Editor
ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE
IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS
Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton N C
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
In Warren and
adjoining counties
$10.00 Per Year
$6 00 Six Months
Elsewhere
$12 00 Per Year
$7 00 Si* Months
A Fine Effort
Featured on the second
front of this newspaper this
week is an account of the ac
tivities of the Warren County
Education Fund, one of the
brightest things to be put
together in our county in
quite some time.
From its jiception, the
Fund has been a source of
good in the county, and has
displayed, despite the low
per capita income found
here, an ability to raise much
needed funds for public edu
cation. It has received
favorable national interest.
Under the direction of
Fund Chairman Karl Hehl,
and with the full guidance
and support of School Supt.
Mike Williams and Commun
ity School Coordinator Mary
Hunter, the Fund netted over
$10,000 earlier this year, with
individual gifts averaging
between $15 and $25.
The fund raising campaign
was called "A Day for
Warren County Schools."
And what a day it was. Some
72 volunteers met at the high
school, heard a keynote
speech from fifth-grader
Littleton
Life In '22
November 11, 1922
The election passed off quietly
in Halifax County. There being no
contest, all the Democratic can
didates were elected. People tak
ing very little interest and it was
doubtless the smallest vote ever
polled in the county.
Mr. H. M. Sykes has gone to
Fremont after holding a Peruna
demonstration here for the firm
of S. J. Stallings and Son.
Mr. Joseph Macon of Warren
ton was a visitor in town yes
terday.
Mary Parker Coleman, and
then went out into the com
munities of the county to call
on prospects.
When the special day had
ended, and donor prospects
were followed up and com
bined with mailed in contri
butions, the total raised stood
at $10,142.
An outgrowth of the fund
raising was the establish
ment of teacher mini-grants
to enrich classroom ac
tivities with programs not
provided for in the regular
school budgets. The mini
grants, which ranged from
$100 to $300, have helped to
establish a quiz bowl team, a
high school drama guild, a
literary magazine, a foods
fair, the purchase of appro
priate dictionaries for
special education students,
the construction of a nature
trail and outdoor laboratory,
and much more.
From all indications, hap
py days await future drives
to generate local monies for
additional projects. Mrs.
Hunter noted this week that
recently a letter advising
recipients of the accomplish
ments of the money raising
campaign was mailed. It
asked for no contributions.
Yet, more than $500 has
poured into Fund coffers
from people interested in the
welfare of school children.
You might not expect a
school-related fund to fare
quite this well in a county
which is often linked with
hard times. But the success
of the Warren County Edu
cation Fund, both in terms of
generating volunteer effort
and community financial
support, is just another
reminder that it seldom pays
to sell Warren County short.
Freeze II
Butter may be frozen if wrapped
in a moisture and airtight wrapper.
Looking Back Into The Record
November 5, 1948
Warren County residents on
Tuesday joined with other voters
of the nation electing Harry
Truman as President of the
United States in the biggest
political upset in American
history.
A planning board? with re
sponsibility for advising the
mayor and commissioners on
matters of beautifying the Town
of Warrenton and preserving its
natural and historical distinc
tiveness? has been appointed by
Warrenton Mayor Frank Banzet.
The 10-acre homeplace of the
late Will Rogers is expected to be
purchased soon for roughly
$17,000 as the site of the new
Warren General Hospital.
November 8, IMS
Hie parents of 53 black chil
dren living in Warren County
have filed a suit in federal court
asking that the Warren County
Board of Education be directed to
present a plan calling for deseg
regation of all schools in the coun
ty this school year.
With only one shot, James H.
Robertson of Macon killed a
180-pound Upoint deer last week
while hunting with Thomas Neal
of Embro.
The Mayflower community,
winner of top honors for the past
three years, will represent War
ren County in the Capital Area
Community Development com
petition to be held Nov. 18.
Gaston Lake will have its own
air strip soon thanks to Oliver S.
Davis, owner of three and one
half miles of lakefront property of
which 2,600 feet will be used by
Davis for the construction of the
proposed runway.
November >, 1178
Warren County voters gave
their support to the passage of a
1680,000 bond issue to build a new
sewage treatment plant by a
margin of more than 2-1 Tuesday,
with only two townships? River
and Smith Creek? failing to lend
their endorsement.
A search of a car involved in a
traffic accident yesterday turned
up CB radios and fire extin
guishers reported stolen in
September from the Inez Fire
Department.
A cornerstone, indicating the
organization of Cooks Chapel
Baptist Church in Warren Plains
in 1877 by the Rev. W. J. Harvey,
will be installed Sunday.
The Warren County Scene
Fall's foliage transformed the Warren County Court House
Square into a thing of beauty this autumn. In the background,
a postman passes by the law offices used by the late John Kerr,
Jr. and his father, Congressman John Kerr. The office is now
occupied by attorney Charles M. White, m.
(Staff Photo by Howard Jones)
Thurletta
Brown
Reasons To Give Thanks
You can't go too far these days in Warren County without finding
something to be thankful for and this week I'll list a few of the occur
rences that warrant noting.
Under the watchful eye of Nathaniel Macon ? who no doubt lies smil
ing in his stone-covered grave that overlooks his old hameplace?
progress is being made by leaps and bounds at the Buck Springs 4-H
Camp. Warren County's commissioners, along with other guests?
among them Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ward,
Monroe Gardner, County Manager Charles Worth and Mrs. Linda
Jones? had a first-hand "taste" of that progress with a site visit to
the camp on Monday.
All present were served lunch? catered by the Warren County High
School cafeteria staff? prior to presentations from agricultural ex
tension staff members George W. Koonce and Phil McMillan. The
luncheon was held in what was once an old tenant's house on the
Nathaniel Macon property. Through hours of hard work and
perserverance, that old, abandoned house has been transformed in
to a useful structure that now houses three workshop areas, as well
as kitchen and sex-specific restroom facilities, that can be used for
year-round day camps.
Seated on some $2,800 worth of padded chairs that had been donated
to the Buck Springs 4-H Camp by Ft. Bragg, those present Monday
learned that future plans for the camp include a 28-foot-by-40-foot
multipurpose shelter next to the ballfield and a 100-foot-by-120-foot
multipurpose court to be used for baseball, volleyball and badmin
ton tournaments. In addition, plans have been made for a five-mile
nature trail on the grounds. I feel certain that Nathaniel Macon,
wherever he may be, is thankful that such good use is being made
of his old homeplaqe.
Also on Monday, the wallet lost in early September by Jane Aycock
was found. Faithful readers of this column will recall that young Jane,
a student at Mereoith College in Raleigh, lost the french purse while
home in Warrenton celebrating her Labor Day birthday. The wallet
was inadvertently left on the back of the family car and was lost on
an outing down E. Macon Street. Readers will also remember that
the personal items inside? the pictures and other mementos? were
the ones most sorely missed by Jane. Well, that young lady must have
been "livin' right" because on Monday, the wallet was found by an
inmate who had been assigned to a work detail behind the CarQuest
store on E. Macon Street. There in the brook that runs behind Car
Quest, Jane's wallet was found. Of course, the money was gone?
along with the credit cards? but the wallet was found, restoring Jane's
faith in human nature. Neat, ain't it?
The third reason to be thankful is a very personal one for me. Some
of you may remember that an August column about my trip to the
Duke Chapel asked for prayers that the two trumpet players needed
for my Christmas Eve service here would be available. Well, as luck
would have it, last week BOTH cancelled out. One of them, after giv
ing up two Christmas Eves for me, has finally decided to spend that
evening with his wife and three small children. The other, also a two
year veteran, has a son who has a scheduled performance in Carnegie
Hall in New York City that night. Both of these are good reasons, but
with all the other problems in my life just now, I did not need to hear
"no's" from my two trumpeters, especially not for the night of the
premier performance of an anthem I have composed. Well, prayers
have not brought me trumpeters yet, but in Monday's mail at the of
fice was a letter from the daughter of one of the members of the
church that will host the 11 p.m. service who actually
VOLUNTEERED to sing with us on Christmas Eve. Oh, thank you,
thank you, thank you!
The moral of all this: Sometimes life does not give us exactly what
we think we want, but our needs? our true needs? are always met
in some form or fashion. As the Thanksgiving season approaches,
look about your own lives. There may be much there to complain
about, but I'll bet there are lots o< things to be thankful for at well.
American* conaum* an average of 58 pound* olaMcfcMi a yaar par pareon.
Here and There
Post Card Collecting
A former resident of Warrenton who now calls northern Virginia
home wrote us the other day, asking that we send her some of the
postcards which we advertise weekly. She was interested solely in
local postcards.
Our inventory of local postcards is small, indeed. We have several
thousand color postcards of the old Warrenton Depot, which was con
sumed some years ago as a result of arson.
Our second color postcard, which must number in the hundreds,
is one which my grandfather had published in the 1920s and which
features wording and a picture of Annie Carter Lee's grave. It is in
teresting to note on the address side of the postcard that the writer
was instructed to affix a one-cent stamp prior to mailing.
Today, we do have a good stock of black-and-white postcards, all
reproduced faithfully by my friend Barrie Davis, who runs Theo Davis
Sons, Inc., a fine printing concern in Zebulon. These cards were made
from an accordion folder of 1920-era Warrenton street scenes, and
featured among the ten scenes, four of the town's churches, including
the Baptist church which burned in the mid-Thirties, and the
Methodist church, which was drastically altered and enlarged several
decades ago.
I mention these cards more as an example of rising interest in
postcard collecting than as an attempt to make a sale.
Some time ago I received literature from the International Federa
tion of Postcard Dealers, which is headquartered in Manassas,
Virginia, not too far from where our letter-writer mentioned earlier
lives.
The Federation pointed out that way back before World War I, the
picture postcard hobby was the greatest collectible hobby the world
has ever known. Just about everywhere, it seemed, everyone from
royalty to peasant had a postcard album.
Just after the turn of the century, postal restrictions were lifted
and picture postcards could be mailed for one cent. This ability to
mail at low cost opened a window on the rest of the world.
Oldtimers will remember that this was a world where the average
person never travelled more than 20 miles from his place of birth dur
ing his lifetime. It was a world without radio, without television and
with only primitive motion pictures. The average person had little
knowledge of the world outside his immediate neighborhood. Then
came the picture postcard.
Stereoscopic viewers were found in virtually every parlor, and the
most advanced printing plant- * i then in Germany? turned out
millions of picture postcard isis.
In addition to the millions ct ?,?. uced in huge plants, the
small-town drug store often had a d om where pictures were
developed and printed as postcards, ring a local news item.
With the coming of two world wars, the interest in postcard collect
ing waned. But now it is back, apparently in full swing, and vieing
for a place usually reserved for stamp collecting and coin collecting.
About a month ago, while browsing through an antique store, I came
across a postcard printed in Germany before the First World War.
Its value was made greater because it contained a postage stamp and
a legible note. The price? $5.00. 1 suspect that many postcards go for
much more.
The International Federation of Postcard Dealers lists more than
300 dealers in the United States who specialize in picture postcards.
Additionally, there are thousands of small dealers who buy and sell
cards at antique markets or through the mail.
Finally, there is the small collector, such as our reader in northern
Virginia, who wants only a reminder of what a hometown looked like
many years ago, and who doesn't want to pay a king's ransom for
that memento.
? ??
Bill Hudson, a representative of the U. S. Census Bureau, stopped
by our office last week to drum up interest in a recruitment drive
which the Bureau is conducting for census takers. When he finished
talking with a reporter, and was on his way out, he stopped to tell
me something. But he forgot what.
"I never have been able to remember very well," he said. "But
now I am 68 years old, and finally I have an excuse for forgetting."
? ??
A very pleasant lady from Norlina called the other day to request
that she be given a refund for a classified advertisement which our
newspaper published for two consecutive weeks.
The problem was the old typo bOgaboo. The lady had intended to
advertise pears for sale. As rotten luck would have it, our typesetter
omitted the "r" in "pears."
The disappointed advertiser admitted that she was perplexed when
folks started calling for peas. It took a couple of weeks to realize what
went wrong, and by that time her pear crop had come and gone on
the tree, a victim of peas she never had.
Letter To The Editor
The Rules Of The Game
To The Editor:
Life is a game, and every game
has rules. That idea might be the
philosophy of some persons.
After all, there are deadlines,
commitments, responsibilities
and ? oh, yes? laws that we all
are required to meet and obey.
There are time clocks to be
punched, quotas to be met and
criteria that must be satisfied.
There are rules and laws and in
terpretations and explanations of
laws that use reams of paper and
boggle the somewhat feeble,
fickle human brain.
The resulting questions are
many: Is it necessary? Is it pro
ductive? Have we become so in
undated with the rules of the
game that we forget that the pur
pose of the game is to gain per
sonal and spiritual satisfaction?
I would not attempt to answer
any of those questions. What I
would do instead to soothe the
fear inside and calm those nag
ging doubts is to quote a phrase
that someone? ever so insignifi
cant in major world events, but
equally as wise and understand
ing?said.
Ufe, religion and what they en
tail is not of rules. It is of relation
ships. The rule says "turn the
other cheek." The relationship
says "forgive." The rule says
"thou shalt not kill." The rela
tionship says "love thy neigh
bor." Rules are not made to be
broken, but they are broken quite
frequently. Relationships, if
based on sound spiritual precepts
rather than inflexible rules, last
indefinitely.
I have no doubt that we will
always be governed by laws and
rules. I have even less doubt that
we should always be guided by
love.
There is a language for laws
that few create and few under
stand, but to quote something
that hangs on my wall that I read
everyday: "The language that
God hears best and we all under
stand is the silent language of
love."
MILTON GOODWIN DAVIS
Warren ton
Editor's Quote Book
He that does good for good's
sake seeks neither praise nor re
ward, though sure of both at last .
William Penn