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(Sfye fflarreu Krrnrb Published Every Friday By The Record Publishing And Supply Company BIGNALL JONES, Owner and Editor Member North Carolina Press Association 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: One year, $3:00; Six Months, $1.50 The School Bond Issue ine rsoara 01 county ^omiiiiasiuuaa have ordered the holding of a $400,000 bond issue for the construction of build ings and the building of classrooms in order that some 11 small Negro schools may be consolidated. While we can understand how our people are becoming more and more sensitive to taxes and their reluctance to vote bond issues in general, this is one bond issue for which we are un able to find any real good reason for opposition. Its passage is dictated by both what is right and what is ex pedient, and it means no additional cost to the taxpayers; and its defeat will not lower the tax rate one penny. This condition is brought about by the fact that for several years the coun ty has been operating on a pay-as-you go plan for the construction of neces sary school buildings.. Under this plan several thousand dollars have been ac cumulated each year and placed into a fund for the building of school buildings whenever enough money accumulates for a building. But this method has been too slow to meet pressing school needs and has worked a hardship on some communities and has hampered the op eration of the schools. If the bond issue is passed, instead of putting aside an amount of money rep resented by a 19c levy, this amount will be used to retire the bonds, and deduct ed from the over-all capital outlay fund of the county. If the bond issue is de feated, the 19c levy must be retained, with some possibility of it being in creased. So much for the dollars and cents angle of the bond issue. When the Supreme Court decision out lawing segregation in the schools was handed down, many people said they felt that it was unfortunate and that they could see no reason why the Sep arate but Equal doctrine handed down more than 60 years ago in the Plessy case could not be maintained. The elev en small Negro frame schools are in themselves a negation of this policy. The Main Hazard To Shelter Program Paul Crume in Dallas Horning News In all this talk about fallout shelters, Wash ington seems to have overlooked the main hazard to the shelter program. This is the hogsnake. It is hard to tell where to put the blame for this oversight, but a morose friend of ours blames the State Department. He says It takes too long for our diplomats to recog nige a snake when they see one. At any rate, plenty of people in this part of the country have had to run for the cyclone filar in their lifetimes. These safety devices been known to come apart at the seams blow up in all directions shortly after family had taken refuge from a suspici cloud. Even when the cellar was not en tirely wrecked, the entrance was often widened considerably. Coiled peacefully in the wreck age somewhere you would ordinarily find a Coming face to face with a hogsnake in a collar Is not only hard on the nerves: it in also a hazard to the home brew and can aad goods. Of course, a hogsnake never bites anybody. Everybody knows that, but you have to ad mit that ho might Dm hogsnake hazard was prevalent enough in oor boyhood that mention of having to take to the cyclone cellar always set up a vague in everyone. In those days, you did not into your cellar and lock the neighbors out as some people now have talked of doing. Absolutely not, you let the neighbors go Into the cellar first and see what happened. A Good Idea N. C. Education A businessman called his wife from the of fice lot* one afternoon. Tve got two tickets for My Fair Lady," ha taM her "Wonderful, darling," she cried. TO start ?t once." In," he replied. "They are for to a fool and his money art soon part And it is true as a Negro patron re cently said in rebuttal to a lack ol funds, "The fact remains that there L not a single white child in Warren Coun ty attending such a school." Thus thes< schools make a mockery of protestatior ol any Separate but Equal philosophy. Outside of being a mark of inferior ity and as such resented by many Ne groes, wc do not think that the build ings as such are too important. Th( real concern here is the course of in struction offered in these small schools in many of which, we understand, tw< and three grades are taught by one teacher. When we remember that one ol the principal rasons for the establish ment of the controversal school at Macon was that it would end multiple grades at John Graham as well as at Macon, it should not be hard to realize that the same reasoning applies, 01 should, apply to the Negro children The quality of the Negro schools shouh be .of deep concern to every citizen oi the county; both because it is righl and because it is wise. Contrary to the thinking of mam citizens of this county, the editor of thi' newspaper has never advocated the inte gration of the races in the schools. W< believe that such integration is no wanted by either white or colored citi zens, and that at this time mass inte gration would wreck our public school system. But, we hope that we have the wisdom to see that inequality of school facilities is an invitation for outside agitators to come into tHe county and raise the issue among a people many oi "horn are easily swayed Ly emotional appeals In other words these little school buildings are an invitation to integration of our schools. We feel that the people should sup w , ,e^nd issue for three reason: iv? c , ... . . mice reasons feel that it is a sound policy from an econoime standpoint. We feel thai It" R Imf Vl Ll'mlii 1 r> if ic i ii_ . , "C leei ma t is -o h right and fair to consolidati the small Negro schools; and we assun all our readers, of both races, that it i< expedient to do so. NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record December 7, 1956 wear rTT P?STam of the Carolina Sporl on L m ' , " San in the buildir operators. ^ 'na ?" Wedne5di,y with s: nJ.h,C t0wn. Commissioners at their Monda night meeting discussed the desirability < fuiply ginS Creek f?r the '?wn'* watt The Board of Commissioners of the Tow month/ 0n 0n Monday night changed th Mond"1!"8 time ?f the board from th first Monday in each month until the secorn TnheayBoirdliVf p* the Ja"Uary mcetin* Board ?f County Commissioners oi Arm .appropriated $999 to convert th Armory heating plant to oil. December 7, 1951 Mrs. Mary Ella Smiley, assistant home a, here since July. 1950, has resigned effe January 1 she will be suceeded by M ,s Olive Dossett of Smith Mill. Ky. Ground will be broken at Noriina this v or the building of Warren Feed Mills r Santa Claus will make his appearml on Monday night, December 17 according Commerce ?' t? directors ?f the Chambei Commerce on Tuesday night. Individual Christmas trees will replace lit strung across the streets in past years Z to?ef? 'ih U,t,e Garden Club decor the town for the Christmas season December 4 193? -n ssjrr <00 ll? ChHMm, h?iu,? *'? D"?" Frank Knox, candidate for the VI? ?? ""l" SUf. President Dawes stopped briefly in War v moraln?- while enroi Chicago from a hunting trip fa> HalfrbxC MOSTLY^ PERSONAL By BIGNALL JONES The salesman told me to feel the weight of a nut and bolt bin as I dropped into a store where he was attempting to sell the proprietor a number of I these bins. "Fell the weight, notice the 1 construction." the salesman | told me. "They cost the gov ' ernmcnt $14.00." 1 don't know at what figure ? i he quoted the merchant for1 j these bins, but I heard him | tell the merchant that he could | j easily get $2.00 for them, and. it seems to me that they would ! be a fine bargin at this price' ' for anyone needing a bolt and nut bin. The salesman left and I went; to the back of the store to talk' advertising with the proprietor, j and as I walked back 1 felt my blood pressrue rise, not that I blamed the salesman for1 his enterprise in obtaining army surplus or the merchant for making a good buy, but my indignation was over just one more exnmplo of army waste. Severil months ago I was in a school of printing In this state when the instructor proudly showed me a modern Intertype machine that prints on film. He said that the cost of the machine was $18,000, but that it was Army surplus, and was given to the school. The instructor explained that the reason the machine became surplus was that one army post had ordered a number of these machines, but had later found out that men were transferred to other posts before they could master the operation of the machines, and thus the project was abandoned and the machines were declared sur plus. When 1 recently went to a football game on a very cold night, I carried with me an army blanket, that I bought a few years ago for around $3.00, as Army surplus. Stored in the basement of the Warren County Memorial Library is a 250-bed field hos pital, as a part of the Civil Defense preparation. This is some more of the Army sur plus. Also donated to the CAP and the Warrenton Rural Fire Department, or sold for practi cally nothing, have been gene The Fabric Doctor 'Why Should My Drapes Be Damaged In Cleaning?" Asks Mrs. P. I. B. Dear Mrs. P. I. B.: | several years of uncleaned They shouldn't be damag- use. Laboratory tests show that in nine cases out of ten, when a drapery fabric "falls apart" in drycleaning, the cause is exposure to light, faulty dyes that weakened the material or household fumes. It is not the dry cleaning that causes the damage. Another disappointment is shrinkage. Many drapery fabrics do not meet the standards of wearing ap parel and the "2<7c allowable shrinkage" in "pre-shrunk" fabrics can shorten the length of a long drapery by inches. Your cleaner handles your drapes gently and carefully. They will not be damaged in cleaning. ed in cleaning, if they are cleaned frequently enough. Your slip-covers and bed spreads, soiled from contact, are sent for cleaning far more often than drapes. TUey seldom are damaged. When drapes are changed twice a year, most home makers put them away with out cleaning. Their first cleaning comes after they are three, or more years old. The cleaner Is told to "be careful" because it? is the first time they have been cleaned Damage to drapes from sunlight or fumes in the home may not be noticed because of the bulk of a drapery fabric or its soil. Some heavy fabrics have been known to fall apart from their own weight after Superior Dry Cleaners Phone 442-1 Warrenton, N. C. After Years Of Research Santa Has Found That There Is No Better Christmas Gift than a Warren Record Gift Subscription $3.00 $1.50 Per Year Six Months Subscribe Now la Order That Christmas Subscription May Be Delivered By December 25th. ? t Harott Herori **tor? and other equipment, .which may nnt men flagrant waste on the part of the Army, but is certainly an indication of careless buying. .Il- ?' course, must be recog nized that many items sold by u8 surplua a? ob r..Zit, because of this fact, a sacrifice in price is Justified fcli ?",? ,T?"der3 how a blan hnf; W i ^cket or a nut and i\_ becomes obsolete. The incidents that I have mentioned may be multiplied a thousand times; they are just a lew that have come to my at tention in this small rural county But they are enough think, to indict Army waste as simply inexcusable. And they are enough to boost my Federal Income tax. Tbere is much more to it than inexcusable waste. Take the case of the nuts and bolts tw ?unces are ten to one that they were made by one of the giant companies of the na tion, and one can speculate as just how and why the order was placed. So here we not only have a small fabrication Plant losing out on a govern ment order, but unable to sell its product in the open mar ket. because of a dumping poli cy of the Army. I am becoming more and more sensitive to waste in gov ernment. and I wish that there would be less concern about a undeserving" people re ceiving help from the Welfare Department, and more effort on the part of our people to go out after the real chislers and wasters. 'J"? no< wbat is known as welfare that is wrecking our government, but national de fense. I read a short time ago that spending for national de fense had over the years reach Th ? tf[llion d0,,ar nark. That may be just a figure to most people, but its is enough, I estimate, to buy the entire tobacco crop of the nation for a thousand years. * r?alize that whatever the cost, this nation must be pre fna .J0. mcet a11 emergencies and that national defense is necessary, and that the cost is great, but I do not fee 1 that even national defense must be run without regard to business sense. Afton News Mrs. J. H. Andrews and chil dren apent the weekend with Mrs. Edward Compton and fam ily m Ringgold, Va. Mrs. J. K. Pinnell, who has been spend t? /0n!?tinie w'th. the Comp ton family, returned with them on Sunday. M?rtvan,d, w" J B Martln, H- Mart'n- Mrs. Annie vitifirf T ? Miss Karen Cates visited relatives in Richmond, va., on Sunday. Mr. E. W. Hayes of Palmer Hioka U U Elected President Of 4-H Council Miss Ginger Hicks of the Norlina Senior 4-H Club was elected president of the War ren County 4-H Council at the first meeting of the 1961-62 year on Tuesday, November 28, in the County Agricultural Building. Other officers installed were | Emily Rideout, Afton Club, vice president; Dolores Lancast er, Norlina Senior Club, secre-' ' tary-treasurer; Betsy Clark, Lit , tleton Senior Club, reporter; 1 and Sylvia Shearin, Littleton Junior Club, songteader. Ginger Hicks called the meet- ] j the meeting to order and Do-1 ; lores Lancaster gave a Christ- ? mas devotion. The roll call of ' clubs was answered with the I iNorlina Junior Club having the] largest attendance. L. B. Hardage introduced Paul Lancaster, Sr., who spoke | ' on behalf of the 4-II Scholar ship Fund. Miss Ann Rackley : made announcements concern ing 4-H Achievement D a y, j which will be held on Satur-; I day, December 16. ? Betsy Clark, reporter Springs, Va., visited his daugh-1 ter, Mrs. Norman Gene Pinnell, and sons on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Harris and family and Miss Betsy i Frazicr visited friends in New Jersey over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Fuller and family and Miss Lula Belle | Fuller were in Rocky Mount on Sunday. | Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Peoples and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hall spent Sunday with Mr. Hall's parents in Angier. | j Say you saw it dvcrtised in The Warren Record. Vi?a Women *re?ented Award? SOUTH HILL, Va. ? Mary ivers and "Jennie Paynter of /ise, N. C., were the recipients f awards presented recently y Burlington Ribbon Mills. They each recei\"d a scroll nd a pin which commended lem for completing five years f loyal service to Burlington ibbon Mills. r'J g The awards, which are part'* f Burlington's program for ranking employees for a job ?ell done, were presented by harles A. Santore, group man ger. Santore expressed the wish (lat each of these ladles will njoy many more years aa part f Burlington. Mrs Susan U. Adams, Mrs. [obbs and Miss Lucy Webb f Oxford were guests of Mrs. rey Allen last week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barn tte and daughter of Norfolk, 'a., were weekend guests of liss Mabelle Fitts. POULAN CHAIN SAWS EASY STARTINO PERFECT BALANCE MORE POWER SALES SERVICE WILLIAMS MOTOR SALES WARRENTON, N. C. FGX HOLIDAY JAMBOREE SPECIAL SALE OF 1962 UNICO APPLIANCES November 15 Thru December 31 15 Cu. Ft. UPRIGHT FREEZER Modal U3510-2WC 30-INCH RANGE ~ $169.95 Modal C151B-2?15 Cu. Ft. COMB. REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER $264.95 Modal BH152D 15 CU. FT. CHEST FREEZER $184.95 Modal J ft?30 Oal. Glaaatlnad (Ooubta EUmont) ROUND WATER HEATER $ 52.95 Modal 30?30 Oal. Olauttnad (Doubla Etomont) TABLETOP WATER HEATER $ 69.95 .AIM AUTOMATIC WASHER 199 .95 Modal (1 (-2?Matching tha AIM Waahor AUTOMATIC DRYER $134.95 BAYS $20 ? Set of Melmac Dlnnerware w For Only $14SS With Purcham of ^ Any New Unlco Appliance Warren F C X Service Cor. Brags,* Macon St. WARRENTON, N. C. Wl
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