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Bond Issue Is Needed
No fair minded person can quarrel
with the patrons of a number of small
Negro schools in the county who are
extremely dissatisfied with the condi
tion of their schools or with their pro
test aigainst a situation that reflects
little credit upon the people of Warren
County.
The boycotting- of the Snow Hill school
not only served to bring the county
some unfavorable publicity but may
have brought to a head a matter that
can no longer be neglected. If such
should be the case the boycott has al
ready served its purpose and its contin
uation will serve no useful purpose and
will only tend to harm the children who .
are being denied an opportunity to ob
tain an education. The children should
be returned to school.
The Warren County Board of Educa
tion has been deeply concerned with the
small Negro schools for several jrears
and although 19 of these schools have
been consolidated within the past four
A Fine Move
The formation of a John Graham
academic foundation to improve the
calibre of instruction in the John
Graham High School, the Mariam Boyd
Elementary School and the new Macon
7th and 8th grade school could be of in
estimatable value to the improvement
? of the schools concerned.
For several years the John Graham
High School Boosters Club has render
ed a real service to the school through
its support of the athletic program, but
its members, realizing that a good ath
letic program is not enough, voted at a
called meeting here on Tuesday night to
organize an ecademic foundation to pro
vide funds for improving the course of
studies in the schools. Following its or
ganization in the near future, it will
have no further connection with the
Boosters Club and all funds donated to
the foundation will be used for the
academic improvement of the three
schools and the fund will be administer
ed by the school administration.
? Larger and wealthier communities of
the state have voted tax supplements
to subsidize the operation of their
schools, but such a tax is hardly feasi
ble here. At the sajme time if Warren
ton is to have a first rate school more
money is needed than is being provided
by the state and county. The answer is
private contributions from those who
have a pride in, love for and ambition
, for our school. The academic foundation
, Is the medium through which such
funds may be collected.
Justice Of
Course
Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune
Justice, to be sure, is a wonderful thing,
\,x and it is the more wonderful in this country
because it is so much a matter of routine, so
unremarkable.
It scarcely earned a headline the other day
when a distinguished associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court sued in a Mary
land court for $35,000 for traffic accident
damages?and won $1,392, which merely cov
ered his medical expenses. Why should it
kit the headlines? As the local Judge remark
ed, Associate Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas in this case was "a private citizen,
tio mere, no less." The law favors no party.
But this is the very "routine" of justicc
* "that a large part of mankind longs to share,
but cannot This is a routine born of cen
turies of trial and error, -of injustice and
It la not a heritage to dismiss with a small
Hard To Believe
Mm Chy (Ir.) GMM-Gaastta
It's hard to believe the Seoteb really in
a came which in voles as many lost
years, the Board of Education has not
slackened its efforts to consolidate the
remainder of these schools. But to con
solidate the remaining schools it will be
necessary to build a consolidated high
school in the southern part of the coun
ty. Presently the Board of Education is
without funds to construct such a school.
The board of sducation in cooperation
with the board of county commissioners
has tried to meet this problen. with a
pay-as-you-go plan under which money
is being accumulated to erect the pro
posed school two or three years from
now.
Understandably the patrons of these
small schools are not happy" over any
further delay in a condition that has
already been delayed too long.
The truth of the matter is that a pay
as-you-go plan for improving the schools
of Warren County is utterly unrealistic,
is not in harmony with sound business
practices or either private business or
public business, and it not practiced in
the? ? own affairs by the very men who
jvould perpetuate such a system on War
ren County. The best thing that can be
said for it is that it sounds" good to
those who have not thought the matter
through.
A bond issue is the answer to the
problem and there is sound reason to
believe that a bond issue sufficiently
large to correct the inequalities in the
plants of white and Negro schools can
be retired with no increase in the tax
rate, as the levy being made now for a
sinking fund would be sufficient to re
tire the bonds.
The Negro patrons of Warren Coun
ty schools have waited long and with
commendable patience for the ccrrection
of an injustice that reflects no credit
upon the people of Warren County. We
hope that the Board of Education with
no further delay will request the Board
of County Commissioners to call for a
bond issue sufficiently large to consoli
date the remainder of the small Negro
schools.
NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 YEABS AGO
Looking Backward Into
The Record
September 7, 1956
Warrenton celebrated its annual harvest fes
tival on Thursday night of last week with a
colorful parade and street dance.
All Warren County schools opened on Thurs
day morning according to schedule.
State Senator John Kerr, Jr., of Warrenton
has been appointed to represent the Second
Congressional District on a committee to con
sider the revision of the State Democratic plan
of organization.
The Board of Education of Warren County
formerly endorsed the school amendment a3
the Pearsall Plan at its August meeting
September 7, 1950
The Warrenton Tobacco Market opened on
Tuesday with an average of $58.02, believed to!
be the highest average in the Middle Belt. |
A Wise delegation appeared before the
Board of County Commissioners on Monday
asking that the county appropriate $1500 to
pay an extra teacher at the Wise school.
Mrs. Patsy Bodgers Marshall will resign her
position as executive secretary of the Warren
County TB and Health Ass'n effective Sep
tember 15. .
Dr. frank P. Hunter and family have mov
ed from the Polk house in Warrenton to his
newly remotfeted home in South Warrenton,
formerly owned by the late Howard F. Jones,'
Sr. . '
September 4, ItW
White schools of the county are expected to
open Wednesday with an estimated enrollment
of apftraxinuRaljr MOO.
The hard-surface road from Warrenton to
Louisbtffg bar been completed and is bow
open to the public.
Presbyterian of nine counties will meat at
the Warrenton Prtabytariia Church on Sep
tember 15 at a meeting of the Granville Pres
bytery. .
The Eastern Belt Tobaoco Markets opened
on Tuesday with average prieoa running from
23c to 25c a
MOSTLY
PERSONAL
By BIGNALL JONES
By and large, I think. North
Carolina has been fortunate
through the years in having
good governors. There have
been, of course, a few mediocre
one, and some highly intelli
gent. brilliant and dedicated
men governing our state. Of
them all I think that Charles
Brantley Aycock left the most
lasting impression on the state.
And yet what Aycori; did
outside his work in t;ifield
of education I hav>:'t the
slightest idea, but his work in
this field gave him immortality,
and the result in my lifetime
has been to change North Caro
lina from one of the most back
ward states in the nation to
the leader in the south.
Aycock not only knew the val
ue of education to the state
as a whole but he knew that,
all moral considerations aside,
that North Carolina could not
go forward without some pro
vision for the education of a
third of our people. He cour-,
ageously told the white people]
of the state that there w.as no
way that the Negro could bo]
kept in the ditch without keep-]
ing the white man in the ditch
with him. This is an obvious
Tact but one that many persons'
in Warren County have not'
learned in sixty years.
I think that Aycock has in
fluenced my thinking as much
as any man that ever lived. I
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think that be definitely In
fluenced my decision to sup
port Terry Sanford for Gover
nor, when I learned that San
ford's main plank in his plat
form was better education for
our children at a time when
the lessons of Aycock had
seemingly been forgotten.
Sanford told the people of
North Carolina that better
schools would cost more money,
more taxes. He told them
that if new taxes were neces
sary that he would not hesti
tate to ask the Legislative for
these taxes. The people heard
him and they elected him Gov
ernor in preference to several
other candidates, at least two
of whom were men of high i
calibre.
True to his word, he went;
before the Legislature and j
told them that he could set no,
way to raise the money need- j
cd except by a sales tax on.
food. The Legislature, after i
careful study and long debate,
put a tax on food. As. a re- j
suit of this action, today San
ford is perhaps the most un !
popular Governor in Warren I
County that I can remember.]
How much is actually due to
the sales tax and how much is |
Sue to the fact that Sanford
defeated Dr. Beverly Lake in
Warren County I am far from
?crtain.
Ana yei, or so it seems 10
me. it is rather ridiculous.
When the sales tax was first
adopted by North Carolina in
the depth of the depression to
save the schools, it was at first
extremely unpor>v'ar. But soon
larae landowners saw that it
meant lower ad valorem taxes
and soon they were saying they
favored the tax because it
reached a large number of poo
pie who otherwise made no
contribution to government.
And, of course, today 1 sup
pose we could do away with
the sales tax on food if our
people would he willing to pay
more local taxes, but this
would be even more unpopular.
Anyway as the result of the
sales tax the schools were sav
ed and the state actually forg
ed ahead educationally.. But
during the days of the second
World War when materials
were restricted and the State
could not do needed work, a
surplus accumulated, and the
tax on food items was remov
ed. But a backlog of needs ac
cumulated and to catch up on
these needs and to continue
our advance at the same time,
it again became neoessary to
impose the sales tax on food.
Marriage Licenses
August 29-September 5
Michael Douglas Gallagher,
white, of Flushing, N. Y., to
Victoria Papanek of Flushing,
N. Y
Charles Saunders Beach,
white, of War, West Virginia,
to Janice I.ee Taylor of Caret
ta, West Virginia.
Philip Warner Hildrup, white,
of Spotsylvania, Va? to Sue
Ann Goodwin of Fredericks
burg, Va. t
Albert Feguroa, white, of ?
South Hill, Va., to Frances I
Terrell of South Hill
Jack Schwartz, white, ofj
Newburgh, N. Y? to Patricia
Ann Pavlak of Cementon, N.
Y.
Jerome Boyd, col., of Hack-!
ensack, N. J., to Martha Powell
of Hackensack I
Charles M. Pope, white, of
Richmond, Va., to Dollie L. I
Trent, of Richmond
Harold Lee Boyd, col., of
Manson to Mary Lizzie Champ i
of Manson
MacNair Hyney, white, of.
Fort Plain. N. Y., to Martha |
Alvis Lee of Fort Plain
Mrs. Katherine Conway and
Mrs. R. B. Butler will leave on
Wednesday for a trip to Que
bec, Canada, and other places
of interest.
The Rev. and Mrs. Dan Mea-:
dows of Elizabeth City were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.!
R. C. Holt on Monday .evening.
GAR D Eft TIME
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M.E. Gardner'
N . C . St at e C o l? I e g?
A friend and I were discuss
ing (he collard the other day
be?ause of his interest in this
important southern crop of the
Potherbs and Greens family.
Botanicallv the collard is a
Brassica (B. oleracea) and
classed as a cool season crop.
There are certain varietal i
differences in which my friend ]
was interested. Some of . the j
varieties have a more marked,
heading tendency than others,!
such as the (Morris Improved .
Heading. This variety was de-|
veloped by careful selection
and is outstanding for flavor. |
Vates, on the other hand, is
also a good variety of the open,
leaf or loose heading type. The
tenderness and flavor in the
heading type develops as a re
sult of the folding and blanch
ing of the center leaves.
The collard is one of the
most popular vegetables grown j
in southern gardens and is
coming more and more intoj
demand on northern markets.
It will withstand a greater
range of temperature than per
haps any other vegetable crop
grown in the South. In addi
tion, this crop is adapted to a
wide variety of soil types as
long as they are well drained.
Why is the sweet potato call
ed a "Yam" in the South? Do
you know the answer to this
one? I am not sure that I do,
but here are some facts that
may be of interest.
The true yam and the sweet
potato are members of differ
ent plant families and sp are
not even closely related.
The edible species of yams
produce starchy roots (some
times up to 60 pounds and
aboVe) somewhat similar to the
Irish -potato in taste and food
value. They constitute an im
portant source of food In tropi
cal areas of the Americas, the
West Indies, Pacific islands and
tropical areas of Asia. Yams
may be baked, boiled or fried
much the same as Irish pota
toes.
For highest yields it is rec
ommended that the vines be
supported on stakes or a trel
lis or tne yard or garden fence.
However, the crop may be
grown without supports on well
drained soils.
Dr. Rufus S. Jones
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Dear Mrs. R. L. N.: j stuff it into a storage box
Yes, Indeed. Man-made too tightly, either. You can
furs or pile fabrics can
be drycleaned professionally.
Over the years, as this type
garment has become rfiore
popular, manufacturers have
developed many beautiful
fur-type pile fabrics. They
arc costly, too. Along with
the manufacturer, the dry
cleaner has developed skill
in handling and cleaning
them, so that today, your
fur type pile fabric coat
may be cleaned perfectly.
There are a few wdrds
of warning for you if you
plan to store your pile fab
ric coat for the summer
Naturally, it is moth-proof
because moths don't care for
man-made fibers. However,
put wrinkles and marks in
he pile which will not hang
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The same precautions
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lined coats. Remember, the
pile is man-made and heat
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manently if heat is applied.
If jammed together in a hot
closet in summer, creasing
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