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The Number One Problem
It has been said that the dark
est hour appears before the dawn.
It is to be hoped that is true of
Warrenton and Warren County.
Plagued by a serious boycott,
racial discord, and bad economic
conditions, the town of Warrenton
has for more than a year largely
pursued a policy of drift, while
conditions of town and county con
tinued to get worse.
Aggravating the conditions here
has been senseless bitterness en
gendered by political races, the rise
of factions, and attention given to
things of lesser consequences while
major matters have been largely
neglected. Warren County can ill
afford the luxury of division and if
we as a people are going to go
forward it is going to require the
united efforts of all our people.
An encouraging factor is that a
growing number of people are be
ginning to recognize our plight and
are beginning to do something about
it. One of the first steps was the
voting of a special tax for the em
ployment of an industrial engineer
in an effort to bring industry to
the county. It is unfortunate that
the directors of this fund have not
yet been able to employ a suitable
Let Us Remember
Sunday, November 22, marks the
first anniversary of the death of
President John F. Kennedy, and to
millions who truly loved this great
American, his memory remains
fresh and the anniversary of his
assassination still calls forth grief.
Sunday, it seems to us calls for
a renewed dedication of the deter
mination to make of this country
a better country and of this world
a better world and for all of us to
heed his admonition in his inaug
ural address:
. , Let us go forth to lead
the land we love, asking His bless
ings and His help, but knowing that
here on earth God's work must
truly be our own."
Keeping It Clean
San Mateo Times
Working wl'jOttt fanfare, scientists around
the world are Investigating any number of
things.
An American, Prof. Alan B. Draper, Is
Investigating the forces that can hold dirt
on a floor against the pull of a vacuum
cleaner or on the collar of a shirt that
Is being washed.
The way Prof. Draper reasons It Is that
If a boulder cannot stick to the celling,
why can a microscopic speck of dirt?
He's discovered that entrapment within
pores is one of the reasons. Electrostatic
attraction and chemical bonding are two
others.
Perhaps Prof. Draper should investigate
the mystifying fact that dirt always manages
to cling to the backs of a little boy's hands
no matter how hard they've been washed.
Asolutlon to this problem could win him
at least a Nobel Prize.
Quotes
Maybe we were pretty poor In the old
days, but at least dime stores didn't have
to use lay-away plans.?Changing Times.
I crave one of those foreign sports cars
?with the foreign sport still In It.?Dawn
Anderson.
Freeways aren't free. There's an emo
tional toll.?Don Sherman.
Texans are a religious people. They wor
ship one another.?Jack E. Leonard.
It's easy to spot the successful man.
Bon seats at the ball game, bucket seats
In the car.--Changing Times.
people are so sensitive that they
if an epidemic overlooks them.
OB# thing a speaker should remember
r sure: the mind can absorb only i
-can a
lives on hope win die fasting.?
engineer, out efforts have been
made, and perhaps some progress
has been made here.
Another factor has been the re
activating of the Warrenton Mer
chant's Association, one of which's
first act was to plan a town-wide
special sales days program. And
still another has been the assump
tion by the Wrorenton Woman's
Club of the job of decorating the
streets of the town for Christmas,
and they have come up with an im
aginative plan consistent with the
past history of the club. This seems
like old times when groups were
working together for the common
good of the town.
From a county-wide standpoint
there have been encouraging de
velopments on Gaston Lake and with
promise of much more to be ac
complished in the area of develop
ment.
And yet Warren County's number
1 problem has not been solved.
That problem is to put Warren Gen
eral Hospital on a sound financial
base. It is no secret that the hos
pital is in serious difficulty, and if
nothing is done to change the pic
ture it is likely that the hospital
will have to be closed. This is
something that neither town nor
county can afford, for the closing
of the hospital would not only mean
the loss of a convenient medical
center, but also the probable loss
of our young doctors, and lessened
hope for their replacement.
It is not too easy to obtain need
ed industries for a small county
such as is Warren County. With
out good medical care the problem
would be almost impossible of sol
ution. Whether it is going to be
necessary for the county to put
more money into the operation of
the hospital; whether it is to be
necessary to have the hospital re
organized; or whatever steps must
be taken, Warren County simply can
not afford to let the hospital close.
For it is a key, perhaps the key,
to any progress we may take.
NEWS OF FIVE. TEN. 25 YEARS AGO
Looking Backward
Into The Record
November 20, 1959
Dr. Wallace White, Warrenton physician,
will leave his practice here around the mid
dle of December In order to take further
training at the University of Iowa Hospital.
Miss Marjorle Mitchell, "America's fe
male Van CUburn," will present a piano
concert at John Graham High School Audi
torium tonight.
Ellen Wood of Littleton Senior 4-H Club
was elected president of the Warren County
4-H Council at a meeting held here on
Thursday night of last week.
Warrenton Jaycees are expecting a large
turnout for a rock and roll show to be
held at the Armory tonight.
November 19, 1954
A Mobile X-Ray unit will be at the War
renton Courthouse on Tuesday and Wednes
day of next week to give free chest X-rays.
Scoggin Motor Company was sold this week
to F. E. Watkins and A. H. Bryson of South
HUl, Va.
William S. Bugg of Warrenton was elect
ed president of the Warren County Farm
Bureau at a meeting held at the Norllna
gymtorlum on Thursday night of last week.
The Warrenton Rotary Minstrel will be
held at the John Graham High School Audi
torium on Thursday and Friday of next
week.
Nov ember 17, 1939
A thief or thieves entered the packhouse
of Osborne Llmer on Wednesday night and
stole around 400 pounds of tobacco, Sheriff
Roy Shear In reported yesterday.
A fiddlers convention and amateur contest
will be held at the Afton-Elberon school on
next Wednesday night.
Dixon Ward, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. F.
Ward of Warrenton was among students mak
ing the honor roll at Flahborne Military
Academy for the second month.
Ben Collier, youngest eon of Mr. and Mrs.
O. T. Collier of near Norllna, won a prUe
in the Fiddlers' Convention held at Norllna
on Friday night.
Contrary To The Statutes
By JOHN GOULD
in The Christian Science
Monitor
A young man limped to our
lintel In the small hours of our
lonely, rural night, and asked
us to telephone the police. He
had rolled his automobile over
j just up the road and needed
! help. Shortly our local police
, cruiser picked him up and with
I fhashing lights roared off up the
! hill to the scene. We went back
I to bed.
The next morning I looked
the situation over, and I could
see where the young man's right
i front wheel had dipped off the
pavement and scooped Into the
gravel. I could see how he had
then dragged his brakes for 35
smoking yards across the as
phalt and off on the left side.
In the puckerbrush he had found
the Immovable object. I don't
know how he had extricated him
self.
What Interested me In parti
cular was that all 'his took place
about ten yards beyond the stop
sign at the Intersection, where
he would have been going about
eight miles an hour lnlowgear.
Would have, that is, If he had j
come to a full stop as the law I
suggests.
Since there was no witness |
to any of this at the time, and
the young man himself Is the
only person who really knows, I
plan to stop in at the police
station some rainy day and look
at the t eport on this. I would
like to see what It says under,
"Cause of accident "
The other day one of these
gay sportsmen from a far place
who come around to amuse us
got himself all accoutered up
with a shiny new shotgun that
needed experience, and he went
bird hunting. He was sneaking
around In the "cover" looking
this way and that, and without
knowing It he came up behind
the Billy Bourgoine place so
he was almost at the barn ?
except he couldn't see the barn
for the bushes. Just then he saw
a head stick up out of a juni
per, and the battle was on.
For the next few moments he had
great fun. Every time a head
popped up he would shoot at
it, and whenever he shot two
three more heads would come
up to look around and see what
the noise was. In a short time
the gentleman had mowed down
the covey.
Meantime, in his barn, Billy
Bourgoine was attending his
chores, and he went about six
feet In the air when the first
shot went off. It was close.
He had hardly hit the floor when
the next shot came, and Billy
|was by then rounding the corn
crib and headed for the fray.
jHe arrived to see this city
|feller shooting away athlsflock
of hens.
I am sorry, but I cannot find
the words to explain what a
thing like this does to an agri
ir
culturalist. BUly didn't like It
very much. But It so happen
ed that there was ons thing In
volved In this which needs ex
pounding, and may be consid
ered pertinent. These hens were
not of the egg persuasion, but
were Billy's breeding flock for
a profitable business he had
going In fighting cocks. True:
the breeding, growing, keeping,
raising, possession, fighting,
witnessing and wagering on
same Is contrary tothe statutes
made and provided, and this ex
plains why any remote agrono
mist who turns to this business
generally pursues It In the
bushes out back. However, this
wouldn't devalue the crop, and
Billy could see that he had Just
been put out of a lucrative bus
iness by a sportsman who dldn t
know a simple pa'trldge from
a game bird!
I am willing to admit that a
speed of 80 mph ten yards be
yond a full stop is a remark
able testimonial for the auto
motive Industry and in my agile
mind I see some reason to find
Mr. Bourgolne's agitation com
parable. The hunter, of course,
was perplexed at the turn of
events - he had a license,
and was wearing a red hat, and
he had taken a few birds In
a wild habitat well surround
ed by forests. He had acted [
upon a reasonable assumption
that these birds were fair I
quarry and even after their
identity was pointed out to him
he could find nothing In the fish
and game laws covering abag
limit on fighting cocks, nor were
they specifically excluded If oc
casion arose.
Billy was nevertheless point
ing out that differences do pre
vail betwixt a woodcock and s
game cock, and that anybody
with two eyes could tell the
difference ?* three-quarters of
a mile. The hunter objected that
iie was a stranger In the vi
cinity and shouldn't be expect
ed on short notice to reason
such things out.
What with this and what with
:hat the colloquy continued while
BUly and the hunter picked and
iressed the birds, and during
ihis they arrived at a Just
settlement. The hunter would
jay so much the pound going
jrlce for the birds, and Billy
vouldn't tell anybody about It.
He did, right away.) Thus the
>tate Police and the Game War
dan were spared a decision In
this moot matter, and the
crowded court docket was not
further burdened.
I am inclined to think there
are morals in such things which
should appeal to all of us gifted
with circumspection, discern
ment, and perspicacity, I do not
believe we have any right to
expect public sympathy If we are
aggrieved in the midst of our
own folly. I think, if we are
growing fighting cocks and
somebody shoots them, we are
not In a position to appeal to
the Constitution. I think if we
bowl our motor vehicle into a
shambles we would meditate.
Mr. Dave Drye of West Ches
ter, Pa., spent several days
here last week with Mr. Bill
Jones.
Alston Funeral Is Held At Littleton
Littleton -? Funeral services
for Mrs. Verns Jones Alston,
76, who died Monday, were held
at S p.m. Wednesday at the
Littleton Methodist Church, of
which she was a member, by
the Rev. O. V. Elklns, the Rev.
James Grant and the Rev. M.
Y. Self. Burial was In Sun
set Hills Cemetery.
Survivors Include her hus
band, Charles Alston; four
daughters, Mrs. Hawkins
Thompson of Macon, Mrs.- Wll
lard Harrison of Washington,
Mrs. John Drake of Hampton,
Vs., and Mrs. Frank Brown of
Rich Square; two sons, Frank
Jones of Roanoke Rapids and
John Jones of Dennlson, Tex
as; four step-children; and nine
[grandchildren.
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