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Sip fflarrttt Kprorb Published Every Friday By The Record Printing Company BIGNALL JONES, Editor ? DUKE JONES, Business Manager Member North Carolina Press Association ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, VNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS "Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N. C." SUBSCRIPTION-RATES: One Year, $3.00; Six Months, $1.50 Care Tax Should Not Be Added To S. S. We are not familiar enough with the provisions of the King-Anderson bill to engage in an intelligent discussion of it, but if it is like most bills it is probably not as good as its proponents believe nor as bad as the medical profession would have the public believe. However, regardless of the need for, virtues and faults of any plan for medi cal care for the aged there is one fea ture of the King-Anderson bill to which we must voice opposition. We do not believe that the King-An derson bill, or any other bill for the medical care of the public, should be financed through Social Security. Our opposition is based on two conclusions. The first of these is that the welfare of the poor is the responsibility of all the people, and not just business people and the working man. If a medical care plan is essential to the well-being of our people, it should be financed by the contributions of persons who derive their income from stocks and bonds and interest as well as by the contribution of working people. Perhaps, more to the point, is that if the Social Security program is sad dled with the cost of medical care, it could well destroy a system which has been accepted by the American people. In our opinion, if Social Security is able to continue to do the job for which it was conceived, it is going to have its Deserve To Be Shocked The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune It was inevitable, we suppose, that a society that can't go to the corner drug store without an automobile, looks forward to the 20-hour week, and produces such labor-saving ma chines as the electric razor and electric shoe polisher eventually would come up with an electric toothbrush. But perhaps the New Frontier society is not yet completely automated. We note that the Food and Drug Administration has seized some 200 electric toothbrushes and has warn ed the public about the use of some 50,000 others that have been distributed. The gov ernment says the motors in the little machines are not sealed and if immersed in water are capable of transmitting a severe shock to the user. We assume, of course, that electronic genius will overcome this imperfection in time; that Ma, Pa, Junior and Sis will be fully equipped with the device, thus boosting electrical con ?gumption, upping the tax take, permitting the Federal Government to institute new social welfare programs to make life easier for ev eryone. It all sounds nice. But somehow we find ourselves toying with the reactionary idea that a society that is too lazy to brush its own teeth without automation deserves to be ?hocked. His Father's Mark By KAYS GABY In Charlotte Observer What kind of mark do you leave! on your child? Major Art Ward of the Salvation Army tells Of an incident that answers the question. A couple of 14-year-old lads stopped in at the Transient Home for lodging the other Bight Investigation revealed they planned to hitch-hike to California. " One of the boys was arrogant. Defiant. An _j?rttet at back-talk. The other was not as crude. Troubled, yes. And he lied ? little, evidently Major Ward determined their names and the identity of their parents aaotter city. He phoned them. father of the first boy sounded just hit son: "Turn him over to the cops . . . court . , . somebody." father of the second was found: "We'W way," he said. "Well straighten it out ? major said he didn't have to make phone calls to know what the response he. tod talked with the boys," he said. "A hands full, without anything being add ed to the tremendous burden imposed upon business and upon labor. In re cent years the Social Security tax has more than doubled, and few people be lieve that the end is in sight. The conception of Social Security, we feel, is good. Modeled after a pen sion system of the more enlightened business concerns in which the ?*in ployces would put aside a certain sum from their wages for their old age and the employers would match this sum, it was an intelligent and humane solution to a real problem. However, as exer cised by private business, the pension plan offered an inducement to labor and put the company with such a plan in a stronger position in the labor market. But when it was adopted by the gov ernment and imposed upon all busi nesses, this advantage was nullified and it became in effect a tax on business. Still we favor the plan as such. It is true that while one-half the 6 1 '4 cents tax that this small business pays in Social Security is withheld from the pay of our employees, actually it is in reality a 6 1/4 per cent tax on our business, for in truth wages are based on take-home pay. We presume that if a single employee receiving a salary of $75.00 a week actually gets $60.00 a week in his pay envelope, that he would be able to work for $60.00, if no taxes were withheld. It is also true that in the final analysis this business does not pay this tax, but passes it on to its customers by increasing1 the prices of its goods. There is no other way in which it can be paid. Unfortunately, the natural law of the higher the price the lower the demand has not been repealed, and thus taxes can well destroy a business. For these two reasons we feel that the plan to saddle medical care, on to Social Security is not a fair or a sound plan, and we, therefore, oppose this feature of the King-Anderson bill. Looking Backward Into The Record June 14, 1957 The Girl Scout campsite on Kerr Lake has been officially named Camp Graham in honor of Major W. A. Graham of Warrenton. Allen Kimball of Norlina and CharleJ Shearin of Warrpntnn havp hppn an the American Legion's representatives at Boys' State to be held at the University of North Carolina. Black shank is reported in tobacco fields in practically every county in the state, County Agent Frank Reams said yesterday. The state's legislature has granted $4,000 for the restoration of Person's Ordinary in Littleton. June 13, 1952 The Jackson property on Main Street has been sold to Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. The purchase was made with funds donated by George G. Allen of New York. A new livestock auction market will be con structed at Norlina by B. W. (Tot) Currin and Kenneth Mustian. Mrs. A D. Harris was on Thursday night elected president of the American Legion Auxiliary, succeeding Mrs. B. G. White. The auction sale of the Methodist Parson age in Norlina will be held on Saturday morn ing, June 14. Jose 11, 1W7 Macon merchants for the first time have adopted the practice of doling for a half holiday on Wednesday afternoons. Miss Elizabeth Wagner of Warrenton was elected a member of the John (Graham High School faculty at a meeting of the executive board on Monday night. The Silas Green Minstrel* will appear in Warrenton on Thursday, June 17. Mrs. G. H Macon, Mayor William T. Pelk and Macon Thornton have been appointed as the three persons to constitute the Warren County Welfare Board which will govern the amount of funds to be received by those who become eligible for aid under features of the ~' *V '-r'\ ^ By THE REV. THOY J. BAKKKTT "Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transform ed by renewing your mind." Romans 12:2. All of you have but one thing in common, you have one life to live. What will you do with it? First, you can run away from life, or try. When in Rome, run from the Romans. Stick your head in the sand and hide. Men have devised many ways of running away from life. They rationalize and make excuses instead of buckling down to work. Anoth er escape mechanism is alco hol. "It's the shortest way out of Warren County," someone once said. But it i>n't, and those who try it wake up with themselves and their headache. You cannot run away from life. Jonah, the Old Testa ment prophet, discovered this. But you can take what comes, not stoically, but with the help of God and by His grace make the most of it and even use it 'or eonstrucav-' ends. Pagans waste their pain, but Christ ians use it for good and for God. Second, you can run along with life. When in Rome do as the Romans do. Be the slaves of custom as well as the servants of habit. With this prevailing attitude you soon see that cheating is the accept-' ed thing, morals are lowered and life is degraded. But you don't have to conform You don't have to do as the Ro mans do, or the Warrentonians either, simple because every body else is doing it. If it's wrong, it's wrong. Rather, transform the wrong to that which is right and honest and pure and Christian. Third, you can run life. When in Rome, shoot Roman candles! Eat. drink and be merry for tomorrow you mjy be drafted. Don't worry about ! anybody else, just follow your j natural instincts. This makes j you your own god and you can \ do no wrong. Even the Com- j munists have discovered this doesn't work. Fourth and finally, and this! has been implied all along, you can let Christ help you run your life. When in Rome or in Warren County, convert and transform the opposition, within your own life or with out, to His will and His way. Instead of running away from j it, you can and will stand up . to life because God in Christ j Jesus stands with you. Instead! of running along with life, you j will go only as far as He will i go with you. Instead of run ning life yourself, you will let, Him be your Savior and guide. You will not be like the fel- j low trying to learn to drive a car by himself, flooding the carburetor, choking it up, starting and stopping. Rather, you will move over and ltt Christ take the wheel of your life and teach you the Way, the Truth, the Life. When a community, a church, a home, or an individ ual lets Christ become the head, then you become the body and all of life takes on fuller meaning. Try letting Him help you run your life and see if you do not discover the same. Prayer: Our Heavenly Fath er, we come right back to the place where we began, we have only one thing in com mon, life, which Thou hast given to us. Help us to give it back to Thee, freely, for Thy Guidance, that not only will we discover Thy Will but live by it. Amen. MOSTLY PERSONAL By BIGNALL JONES Has it been a year, two or more, since I stood in the street and talked with little j John Blaylock as he played j [ with sand in the curbing of j the road across from his home j i and looked up and carried on his part of the conversation? Weeks and months speed by, and now John is getting to be j a big little boy, but he usually has something to say to me as j I walk to my nearby home, j Recently, it has been to ask when am I going to put his' name in the paper again? And now John has been joined by another most attrac tive younger boy in the person of Wiley Coleman, who has become John's boon compan ion. He. too, wants to know j when I am going to put his name in the paper. "Mr. Jones," they asked sev eral weeks ago. "will you put our names in the paper?" I assured them that I would. "If you are real good," I said, "I might even put your pic-1 tures in the paper." And I j just might do that. This re- j ply was greeted by a fervent, | "Oh, boy!" Sometimes as I walk by the Blaylock or Coleman home, I hear a considerable amount of giggling, and the little fellows shout in unison, "Hey, Mr. Jones, when are you going to put our nam'es in the paper?" And so, now I have put their names in the paper. But I have a strong suspicion that it won't be too long before 1 hear the boyish shout, "Hey, Mr. Jones, when are you going to put our names in the paper again," or perhaps next time, | "When are you going to put ] our pictures in the paper?" i If occasionally mentioning their names brings happiness j to my little friends, and if it I serves to keep them as my > friends, from time to time | Descendants Four Families Will Hold I Reunion June 17 North Carolina's first family society, the AUton-Wiliams Boddie-Hilliard Society will hold its annual reunion next Sunday, June 17, at Alston Farm near I/Ouisburg. This annual affair attracts! several hundred descendants | of these prominent North Car olina families, and is usually | held in the Warrenton-Hender-1 son-Louisburg area. Alston Farm, which is 12 miles north of Louisburg near the village of Epsom, is the home of the late Dr. Bennett Perry Alston and his wife, Caroline' Matilda Williams, and is now the home of his five daughters, Mrs. Val Alston Bell, Miss Carrie M. Alston, Mrs. Emma Alston Anderson, I Miss Bessie I.ee Alston and | Miss Margaret P. Alston. A picnic lunch will be serv-| ed at noon. Starting the festivities will be a reception at the Hender son Country Club at noon on Saturday, followed by a lunch eon at one o'clock. The Honorable L. H. Foun-| tain, member of Congress, will | address the group. Officers of the Society are: James Byron Hilliard of Rocky Mount, president; Mrs. Helen Williams Coxon of Lu dowidi, Ga., vice-president; Miss Carrie Alston Mann of | Enfield, corresponding secre tary; Dr. William R. Mann, Jr., of Enfield, recording secre tary; Gideon F. Alston of Lit tleton, treasurer; Mrs Wil liam F. Fillmore of Tar boro, registrar; Mr<-. Val Als ton Bell of Henderson, histor ian; and Mrs. Lewis Alston | Thompson, Sr., of Franklinton, chaplain. Mrs. James Allison Cooper and Bennett T. Perry, Sr., will be in charge of arrangements for the luncheon on June 16. Warrenton Native To Teach In Africa A Warren County Negro stu dent is one of two honor stu dents at North Carolina Col lege who have been accepted by the Peace Corps for teach ing in Africa. Randolph Bullock of War renton will teach Biology in Ethiopa, and Miss Aljosie readers of this column might well get a progress report on the two little fellows. Baker of Salisbury will teach English in Togo. Both Bullock and Miss Bak er were seniors at North Caro lina College during the 1961-62 term. Keturas Mr. Henry F. Twitty has re turned from Duke Hospital, Durham, where he has been for sometime for treatment. Move Here Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Davis of South Hill, Va., have moved to the Anne Lee Apartments. Say too n* It edrertlsed The wwren Record. Par Iw . . . PAINTING U REPAIR WORK NEEDS Call EDCIE G. HAMM, JR. Tel. 510-8 Rt. 2, Warren ton Come One-Come All NORLINA HIGH SCHOOL GYMN Friday, June 15, 1962 8:00 P. M. A Musical Show 'Sing Along With Billy' STARRING BILLY FALLAW AND THE SINGING ANGELS OF THE NORLINA METHODIST CHURCH And Many, Many Other Fine Talented People Through Out Our Community We Can Assure You The Very Best One Hour And Thirty Minutes Of The Most Wonderful Entertain ment You Can Get Anywhere. Admiuion: Children . . . 50c, Adult* . . , 75c ALL PROCEEDS FOR BENEFIT OF NORLINA HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY BUS FUND CAMCO REBUILT UNITS Generators Starters Brake Shoes Clutches Carburetors Fuel Pumps Water Pumps Regulators ROGERS ENGINES Complete Stock - Quick Service STANDARD Motor Parts Co., Inc. Complete Auto Parts St lice Main Street Warrraton, N. C. "Wherever you go in Eastern N. C. you'U find Long Distance will add pleasure und peace of mind to your tohole vacation W-. fr; ; ? ? ?? "? ? ? ?- -"JS
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