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u% Warren fiecnrb 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, $3:0O; Six Months, $1.50 More Delay On Adoption Postponement by the Warren County Board of Commissioners of a decision to approve subdivision regulations to their February meeting will probably do no harm, but we find ourselves in agree ment with Planning Board Chairman Marvin Newsom when he told the com missioners that it would be nice to see ... Warren County take the lead in some progressive measure instead of waiting around to see what other counties might do. A public hearing was held in the county court house on Monday, Decem ber 4, when an opportunity was given interested persons to make known their views on the adoption of subdivision regulations for Warren County. The meeting was well publieizied and was attended by some 25 persons. Following a lengthy explanation of the reasons for subdivision regulations and their value in the development of the Gaston reser voir. each person present was called upon individually for an expression of their views. Only one person of those present expressed any opposition to the plan, approved by the Warren County Planning Board, the Planning Boards of Northampton and Halifax Counties, and the State Department of Conservation and Development. Following the hearing, it was expect ed that the Board of Commissioners would adopt the plan. However, the board deferred action until their Jan uary meeting in order to give further study of the plan and to hear more ex pressions from the public. Monday after noon the commissioners again deferred any action for 30 more days. In defer ring the action, the commissioners said they had heard some rather bitter op pisition to the adoption of the subdi vision regulations, as veil as some strong support for the measure. They said among those opposing the measure strongly was one person, whom they named, who did not raise any opposition at all when asked for his comment at the mass meeting. This raised the question if there is great opposition to the adoption of the subdivision regulations why was not this opposition raised at the hearing on the matter. The public was notified of the meeting, was told of its purpose and further informed that if there were any opposition that it should be made known at this meeting. Yet only some 25 persons showed enough concern to attend the meeting, and only one person expressed his opposition. One now wonders if opposition is bas ed on additional information supplied the opponents, and just how authentic these objections could be. The Board of County Commissioners ? several months ago were asked to ap point a planning board for Warren County, and the Board of County Com missioners asked Warren's Representa tives in the General Assembly to have the county covered by Planning Board legislation. In addition the commission ers approved a donation of $3300 to pay Warren's part in the cost of a survey ?f the area. The commissioners, it seems to us, made a good selection in the personnel of the Warren County Planning Board. Its members are recogpized as good business men and sound citizens. For months this planning board has studied h the best method for the orderly develop ment of the Gaston reservoir to obtain the maximum benefits for all the peo ?f Warren County. They have dia !, among other things, the subdi regulations; they have called in help from the State Depart o# Conservation and Development, they have recommended the adop ot the subdivision regulations. If k110* nwre about its worth else in the county they admit that H is possible that there are valid objections to the adoption | of the subdivision regulations: we will admit that we do not know as much about the plan as we should. But, frank ly if we must choose between the judg ment of the Warren County Planning Board, the only group that has given full study to the measure, the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, and the State High way Commission, and the views of the man on the street, we must go. along with the Planning Board, and we feel that so should the Board of County Commissioners. Has He Paid All Of His Bills? The Charlotte Observer "A man drives a car the way he lives his life." That's the conviction of Dr. James L. Mai-' fetti, psychologist at Columbia University, who was quoted in Newsweek. Dr. Malfetti has been head of a safety edu cation project at Columbia since 1957. He has supervised psychological tests on hundreds of drivers. "The violator," he reported, "is usually younger, aggressive and rebellious. He tends to be in conflict with others, including mem bers of his own family." Conversely, the safe driver is almost com pletely non-aggressive. He pays his bills promptly, plans his vacations months ahead of time, almost never gets into a fight and gives the other fellow the right of way. Forwarned is forearmed. Next time you're invited to ride somewhere with a person whose driving habits are unknown to you, just ask him if he has any bills that are overdue. Question From The Audience Decatur (Ala) Herald The neutron bomb is designed to destroy people but not property. But then who would pay the property taxes? There's a stairway to success, but everyone is looking for the elevator. NEWS OF FIVE, TEN AND 25 YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record January 4, 1957 W. A. Miles was appointed Mayor of the Town of Warrenton at a called meeting o? the Board of. Commissioners Thursday after noon. He succeeds J. Edward Rooker, resigned. J. R. Peeler, former superintendent of Free mont City Schools,, arrived in Warrenton Wed nesday to assume his new duties as Super intendent of Warren County Schools. C. C. Granger Company of Henderson, which has been operating a store here since early fall, has closed its Warrenton store. The Town this week took over the opera tion of Hotel Warren with the expiration of the lease of Horace Cooper. January 4, 1952 The promotion of Col. Claude Bowers of Warrenton to Brigadier General was announc ed this week by Governor Kerr Scott. Warren County farmers received their larg est income in history in 1951, County Agent Frank Reams said this week. The children of the late Will Allen Connell have donated a room at Warren General Hos pital in memory of their father, F. P. Whitley, hospital manager, announced yesterday. Corporal Donald E. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Wilson of Afton-Elberon, is on the prisoners list released by the Red Army of Korea. January 1, 1937 First prise, a floor lamp offered by Carolina Power and Light Company, was awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Holt for having the most attractive deeorated home here during the Christmas season. Robert D. Scott, for nine years Deputy Reg ister of Deeds under Joseph C. Powell, last night resigned. The 1937 farm program offers Warren County farmers over a quarter of a million dollars, County Agent Bob Bright said yester day The December issue of The Southern Agri culturist carries a story written by Mrs. Cricb ton Thome Davis at Warrenton, entitled, "One1 MOSTLY PERSONAL By BIGNALL JONES Somewhere a few days ago I read that Henry Ford around 11921 was asked what car, next | to the -Ford, gave the most value for the dollar. Ford answered the Franklin. Ford said that It was an hon est car, giving tremendous gas I mileage, and very economical ] with tires. In addition, he I said, the engine was air-cooled, land added that all automobile engines should be air-cooled. The article stated that the Franklin in a test run had given more than 80 miles to the gallon, and gave figures for tire milage, which I do not remember. The initial cost of the car was given for its lack of public acceptance. It seems ! to me that the Franklin was priced at more than $200 when a Ford could be bought for $400 or less, but I am not at all certain of this. Someone about that time owned a Franklin in Warren-, ton, and I believe it was Dr. Harry Walters, a Warren ton dentist, hut I can not be cer tain as that was some 40 years ago. I do remember that Dr. Walters prior to that time owned a Stanley Steamer. I also remember the electric run about of an earlier date, at least one of which wa in Hen derson. I also remember the cars with solid tires, one cyl inder, side-curtains, chain-drive, and many other features that have passed out of existence. The comments about the Franklin car started me to thinking about the large num ber of cars that are no longer manufactured; perhaps half a dozen of the hundreds manu factured thirty or more years ago are still on the market, among these being the Dodge, the Studebaker, the Cadillac, the Ford, and I think, the Chevrolet, although all of them have undergone such modifica tions as to be hardly recogniz able as kin to their old models? A list of these extinct cars comes to my mind, although It j is just off-hand and will fall for short of the actual number. j Manv old-timers can add to | this list, which I am publishing | below, and many will probably enjoy doing so. My list: The Appleton, the Anderson, the Stutz, the Star, the Pierce Arrow. the Franklin, the Stan-j ley, the Oakland, the Maxwell, j the White, the Reo, the Cor bett, are only a few, and far) short of the list that I believed j that I could give. Many more, would reoccur to me, were | there more time to devote to the subject. I have driven many of them in the days when the gear shifting was manual, and the gear levers were in the floor, and when there was no stand ard gear shift. For instance, at one time the gear-shift of a Buick was just opposite from that of say a Studebaker. In cidentally, the gear-prongs on the old Studebaker were not covered, but exposed beneath the floorboard of the car. Quite often when we were un able to shift gears on our old Studebaker we would have to find a rock, crawl under the car and hammer a gear-prong back to where It would mesh with the gear-shift lever. The gear-shift of the old Model T was quite a contrap tion and handled altogether by j the feet. To go into low one J mashed on a pedal, and to go into high?there being no sec ond gear?one let the pedal all | the way out. That was a sim ple matter; but complications developed when one had to back. Then one had to hold the starting pedal between low and high and mash down on a reversing pedal. One could never be quite sure that the car pedal was in neutral, and sometimes one would be try-] ing to back and go forward at the same time, usually result-' ing in a stalled engine. In ad dition to the two pedals for forward and backward there was a brake pedal. The old Model T had no. footfeed, but the steering, column contained a spark lever and a gas lever. When we hit' j a good piece of road we would ! often pull these levers togeth- ( er, which meant that the car was "wideopen," and perhaps running at a little better than 40 miles an hour. There are many other pecularities of the Model T that space does not allow me to recall, but I will relate one incident that caus ed some amusement at the time. There were many manufac turers of accessories for the Model T. Among these was a footfeed, a rather long lever which was depressed with the foot for accelleration. Mr. Tasker Polk had one of these attached to his car, no doubt by his son, Bill. Mr. Polk also I had a poodle dog of which he was very fond and which rode with him in the car. One day Mr. Polk started down town to his office and the dog jumped into the foot of the car. .which began to run at a fast clip. Mr. Polk could not stop it or account for it until he reached the heart of town when he realized the dog was lying on the footfeed. Fortunately, there were no speed limit or stop lights in those days. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Shaw spent the holidays in Ahoskie and Norfolk, Va., with relatives. Mrs. Katie R. Creech has re turned from visiting in Kins ton and Washington, N. C., during the holidays. Holiday visitors in the home of Mrs. Myrtle King in Areola were Dr. and Mrs. Graham J.' Davis of Greenville and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin P. King of Washington, D. C. 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Joyner ? in I Mr. ana an*. , and family visited relatives in j Wilson on Sunday. January Clearance Sale "BUY NOW - SAVE LATER" MEN'S SUITS And OVERCOATS I Oil Values to $60.00 LADIES' SUITS And COATS 1 OH Values to $99.98 MEN'S M PANTsJpr J OH Values to $14.95 SKIRTS And SWEATERS iOH Values to $14.95 SPORT SHIRTS iOH Values to $3.98 LADIES' DRESSES 10H Values to $24.95 MEN'S SWEATERS J Off Values to $13.95 MEN'S JACKETS i OH Values to $22.95 Warrenton Department Store "The Horn* Of Qnality Merchandise" - 1962 Farm Income Picture About The Same As 1961 Farm Income in 1962 is ex pected to be about the same as in 1961. Two extension tarm manage ment specialists at N. C. State College, R. L. Johnstone and W. L. Turner, made this pre diction after taking a look at the factors that will likely ef fect farm income next year. "There are two major fac tors that will likely have a re pressing influence on income,' Johnston and Turner said. Lower prices are expected for several of the livestok and livestock products. Production costs are expected to continue upward On the plus side is higher prices for several major com modities resulting from higher price supports. Also, consumer demand and exports apparently will continue strong 'It is difficult to foresee any improvement in farm income' during 1962," Johnston and Turner said, "since farmers generally had a favorable pro duction year in 1961 and prices for several major commodities were relatively strong." Looking beyond 1962. the farm managment specialists say two major factors bear close watching. One is farm price legislation; the other is the Europeon Common Market. "Should a widespread feel ing develop that the current government effort to support farm prices is too expensive, there may be some legislative resistance," Johnstone and Turner predicted. This could mean lower prices for several major commodities, such as feed grains. If this oc curs, production could also expand because of less control. The development of the Eu ropean Common Market may bring greater competition for several U. S. farm commodities. "Economic pressures under which agriculture operates are likely to remain for the next five years," the specialists pre dict. "Total net farm income will likely remain relatvely stable while national income in creases in coming years." Rose's Distributes Christmas Checks Manager N. M. Milliard of the local Rose's Store announced that distribution of his com pany's gifts to employees this year amounts to $119,932.50. Every member of the 151 stores in the seven southeastern states served by the company pates to a greater or degree depending on length of seVvlce. ' ? In notifying the Managers, T. ^ B. Rose, Jr., the company Pres ident said, "Whatever success we have enjoyed has been largely due to the loyalty and hard work of those who have been associated with us. The ? gifts we distribute now are tok ens of our genuine appreciation of their fine efforts." 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