w USarrrn fiernrii 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, UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS "Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N. C." SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, $3.00; Six Months, $1.50 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. ? LOOK - WATCH THIS PAPER FOR SY-CO-RUB AD WIN A P RI ZKI S25.00 Fir at Prix, S10.00 S,cond Prix, 3 SS. 00 Prix,a Write in year own words (23 Words or less) a jingle telling "Why I Use Sy-Co-Rub" send jingle with a snapshot and negative that may be used for advertising purposes. Th, judges decision will be final. Contest Closes D,c. 7, So S,nd in Those Jingles! Sy-Co-Rub Can Be Found at the Following Stores. $1.00 per tube BENTON'S SERVICE STATION Ncrllna, N. C. HUNTER DRU6 CO. Warrantor!, N. C. If Unable to Find, Write: cwt/ ryo FOR THE BEST FURNITURE VALUES IN TOWN SEE US Satterwhites HENDERSON, N. C. First National Bank IN HENDERSON 4 "BANKING TRUSTS" ? 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