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Published Every Friday By The Record Priitiii| 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, UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS "Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N. C." i SUBSCRIPTION RA'i'ES: One Year. $3.00; Six Months, $1.50 Happy New Year As the year 1962 comes to a close and with it the final edition of The Warren Record we wish to thank our advertisers and those who have con tributed news for their forbearance in the errors we have made in the publication of this newspaper, for their tolerance for our sins of omis sion, and commission, and for their words of encouragement and for their support in the things we have accom plished of a worthwhile nature. The nice thing about the approach of a new year is that it gives oppor tunity for new resolves to reduce er rors and to improve the quality of a product. Year after year the resolve is made only to be broken, for mis takes will be made, and sometime one is tempted to make no resolution at all. But we do, and so long as we may live and so long as we publish a newspaper we hope each year that we will have the desire and the wish to do a better job. For without the wish and without the desire no pro gress would be possible. We beliece the same feeling exists among all those who work to' make n living and to make this a better town and a better county by doing a bet ter job. We believe that they too will often fall short of their goal, but it is worthwhile to have a goal, to know that the best way to make this a better town and a better area is by doing the job in hand to the best of one's ability. We hope that the mistakes of the closing year will be forgotten except as they tend to make one avoid simi lar ones in the future, and that each of our readers may profit by their mistakes of the 1962, and that their resolutions for the New Year 1963 may be kept to the extent that they may enjoy a happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year. A Lesson For Americans Drovers Journal (Cklct|o) The Soviet Union once again U going through an agonizing reappraisal of it* agri cultural plant and roparently is finding much to be unhappy about Farm failure after failure is still frustrating the ambi tions of the men in the Kremlin, and anoth er painful "reorganisation" is being under taken to correct deficiencies and boost production. What is basically wrung with Russian agriculture was summed up pretty well, we imagine, in a recent report issued by ? groin of Americans who visited the Soviet^ Uni<B and saw for themselves. As one spokesman put it, they saw "how not to run a farm." Essentially, the report said, Soviet farm failures stem . . . from an al most complete rack of Incentive on the part of farm labor to increase its producticity and on the strangulating inefficiency at a total bureaucracy. Obvious causes of Soviet farm stagnation that were apparent to the visitors included (1) a 40-year lag In peat control methods, (2) a 30-year lag in the use of farm ma chinery. and (3) a pitiful incompetence In quality control and standardization. But behind these obvious problems lurk the absence of incentives and unwieldy bu reaucracy. . . . Among other things, this situation em phasizes one of the wondrous aspects of our American system of private enterprise that all of tend to take for granted. Say an American fanner has a flat tire on his tractor. Does he stand around waiting for some bureaucrat to arrange to have it fix ed? No, he does it himself or simply buys a new one, if that se*ms best The price may not please him, hot the supply ordi narily doesnt concern him in the least If one store or dealer doesnt have what he needs, another one wQl . . . In other words, the American isn't de pendent upon some bureaucrat in an office somewhere having made the right decision as to how many tractor tires would be needed a month or a year. . . . The cause of Russlon farm failures, then, is found all up and down the line?from the breaucrat ii.suing orders from his remote office to the collective farm worker on the land who lacks incentive. The Com munist system la at fault Nature doesnt respond very well to bureaucratic decrees, and neither uoes human nature. . , . The vital lesson for ua in all this is to r-ttag--wiw.nl uw wuiwar oarttwafft lies?in the free enterprise system?and to guard and defend it from all encroachment .... The magic is in the system. Let's hang on to it! NEWS OF FIVE. TEN, 25 TEAKS AGO Seasonal Note The Ckriitiu Science Where are the mow* of yesteryear? The French poet Villon aaked the question sad ly?and, of coarse, most of as are convinc ed he wasn't talking about snow at alL We guess he was thinking of those white stretehss of memory in which figurative wind-blown twigs fall?runes in a secret code?like nature's shorthand. Not the snow itself, but the transformation of a too familiar landscape into something sud den, fragile, briefly communicative. Villon never watched those big automatic sbow scooper whining their wsy through a bliztard-ripped night, with a poetry all their own in which the men at the controls be giants dwarfing the ale He may have watched children such tf or the gravelly park near Paris' aid Hotel up haadfuls of snow with like hall?H? Ho mam its Looking Backward Into The Record XI, 1*67 Modern Cleaners won first prize for tU Christmas window display in a contest sponsored by the Warrentoa Woman's Club and was presented a check for $5.00. L. C. Cooper, former assistant county agent in Wayne County, will begin hi* duties as Negro County Agent for Warren County on January 1. Top place winners in the Lions Club an nual Christinas decorations contest were Mr. and Mrs. D. J. MacDonald and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wood. The OakvOle Home Demonstration Club held its annual Christmas party in the home of Mrs. C. B. Bottoms with Mrs. Clyde Perkinson as co-hostess. December 24, IMS Although the completion of the new highway bridge at Clarksville permitted the raising of the waters in the John H. Kerr Reservoir to around 281-foot level, other work at Clarksville will delay any sub stantial rise for some time. Around 80 destitute families of Warren County had their Christmas brightehed as the result of action by the Norllna Ruritan and Lions Clubs, whose members Joined to play Santa Claus to the less fortunate of the county. Jesse Gardner of Oakville was re-elected chairman of the Warren County Prodtac tion Marketing Administration at a meet ing of newly elected county delegatea in the Agriculture Office at Warrenton on Friday morning. December 11, 1M7 Cars and other motor vehicles owned by Warrenton persona must wear a town license tag as well as state license plates when they roll down the streets tomorrow and throughout the year. liquor sales In the three ABC stores of Warm County leaped upward on Christ Eve to break what is believed a ra for one day. Sales to have amounted to *T of the new veer wfQ be My ROY J. RAKKETT Where did Christmas Go? It's ? question asked by many and gone. Weeks of prepa ration; all the anticipation. And now, it's all over. The toys are worn, the tree looks tired if it isn't already down. For a short time everybody seemed to be enjoying a huge love affair that chased away the wrinkles. Now, it's back to the ol' dog eat dog rou tine. But, does it have to be so? I Well, where did the first | Christmas go? Luke tells us the Shepherds returned glori fying and praising God. How about us, will we return to the ol' routine or will we re turn praising Him from whom all blessings flow? Where did the Wise Men go? Matthew tells us they returned another way; they took a different route. Where and how will we return to ! home and school and work, a I different way, different per t sons because we have seen j and worshipped and shared? ? Where did the Christ-child I eo? The evil Herod died, but "Jesus increased in wis dom and stature and in favor with God and man." How about us? How will we in increase in understanding and being spiritually and socially iii this New Year? God erant that we may increase as He, that we may se? and share as did the Shepherds and Wise Men. S. S. Class Given j Christmas Party I Members of the "busy j Bee' Sunday Sc*"*' of| Providence Methodist Church were honored at a Christmas party in the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Steed on Sat urday night. Mr. Steed, teacher, led the group in games and singing Christmas carols. The members exchanged gifts and enjoyed the delic ious refreshments, consisting of lime punch, nuts, cookies, open-face sandwiches, date Jfeu&jHMjl candy- Punch av poured by Sarah Ann Fuller,; president EMtertaia Ax Dinner Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Peo ples of Afton entertained at a dinner on Christmas Day for members of the Puller family. A delicious dinner was enjoyed, followed by the opening of gifts and an after noon of fellowship. Gnests Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Campbell and sons on Friday night were Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Burgess and children, Angela and E. J., Jr.. and Miss Lula Belle Fuller. Say you saw it advertised in The Warren Record. Father Time, Babe From WASHINGTON ? on Dmrtif SI will signal. In cartoonists' lore, the exit of ? haggard old nan and the apperance of a chubby infant wearing a diaper mark ed IMS. The personifications of the New Year Babe and rather Time, traditionally armed with a scythe and an bour gtaas. are as famlllsr aa those of Santa Claus. Yet these fining symbols for the end of one cycle of living and the birth of another have roots in Greek mythology. Father Time survives as a descendant of the Greek god Cronus, lord of the universe, the National Geographic So ciety says. Cronus' face was Teased with the lines of in estimable years, and he car ried a long, curving blade. Strange Appetite Like many of mythology's earthy gods, Cronus was not without defects of character. Having been warned that one of his children would depose him, Cronus coped with the problem by swallowing each at birth. His wife, Rhea nat urally wished to discourage the practice. She hid her son Zeus after his birth, and presented Cronus with a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. The trick worked. Zeus liv ed to dethrone his father, settled on Mount Olympus., and rule as chief god of the Greek pantheon. Later, Cronus name was confused with the word "chronos," meaning "time." But the hourglass has found a permanent place in the hand of the white-haired gen tleman with the scythe. Ancient Romans identified Saturn, their god of agricul ture, with Cronus. Like his Greek counterpart, Saturn carried a scythe. Rome celebrated Saturna lia. a solstice ceremony of the year's turning, from Decem ber 17 to 23. In many ways, the festival resembled pres ent-day New Year celebra tions. All worked stopped: School closed, courts handed down no sentences, revelers gamboled in masquerade, and gifts of waxen fruits, candles, and Klolls were exchanged. Even today, exchange of presents lingers as a New Year custom. The Roman word for good-luck gifts? strenate?survives in "Jour d'etrennes," France's populai expression for New Year'i Day. Symbol of Rebirth The New Year Babe may be as old as Father Time. An infant was paraded as a sym bol of rebirth in pagan Greece's festival of the na ture god Dionysus. The im age of a baby also was fea tured in Greece's Eleusinian Mysteries, the important re ligious rites that signified the annual decay and renewal at vegetation. In more recent times, fann ers of West Prussia staged the symbolic birth of ? child in harvest fields. & German (oik song of the 14th century depicts the New Year Babe in ita present fern. The widespread recognition of January 1 as the start of the new year is a purely ar bitrary custom stemming from ancient Rome. It was the time when consuls and other officials took office. Thus Julius Caesar designat ed that date as the first day of the Roman year when he adopted the Julian calendar. J. D. Randolph Dies In Greenville James O. Randolph, 58, died in Greenville, S. C., at 2 50 A. M. Wednesday, De cember 26, after being in de clining health for the past year. Mr. Randolph held the po sition of equipment mainte nance operator with the American Telephone & Tele graph Company for the past 37 years. He formerly work ed out of the Norlina office but was transferred to Green ville in 1064. While in War ren County he owned and operated an electronics and radio repair service in War renton. He married the for mer Annie Hawks, whose first husband, Herbert C. Tucker of Warren Plains, died in 1027. Funeral services were con ducted from the McAfee Fun eral Home in Greenville, S C.. at 10 a. m. Thursday, and final services will be in the Warren Plains (N. C.) Meth odist Church at 3 p. m. Fri day, with interment in the church cemetery. Mr. Randolph is survived by his wife; a step-son, H. Clifton Tucker of Kinston; his father, Fred F. Randolph of Benny Creek, Calif.; his mother, Mrs. Vernon Lock wood of Moline, 111; a sister, a half-brother, and a half-sis ter. Renew vour suhserintion. lor WO Knigbt we In the Hollister Methodist Church am Turn* . at S p. m. by the Kerr. H. D. Stanley. Burial waa in the church cemetery. Mr. Knight, M, a resident of Hollister, died in Warren General Hospital on Sunday. He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Ruth Ellington Knight of the home; one daughter, Mrs. J. B. Thompson of War renton; three sons. E. M. Knight of Rocky Mount, and J. L. and W. Leon Knight of Norlina. Mrs. Albert Andrews of Wbitakers visited Mrs. B. G. Tharrington oh Tuesday. sfip] Copy for card* mint be in tMi Tueeday night. 60c to cover coot tion. We wUh to ttigP ?? friend* and relative* for the many acta of kindness shown as during the time at the death of our husband and father, L C. Dalton. THE FAMILY. WANT A HOUSE? SEE US! We Build All Type* Financing Arranged E. C. 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