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QJlf* $0arr*tt Smirft 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 Shares Responsibility Rising prices indicate that there is a need for this country to take steps against inflation and while there is little quarrel with the gov ernment's objectives there may well be with the government's inconsis tencies. Recently when a labor union sought higher wages the government used pressure to hold down the increase on the grounds that such action would be inflationary. When the steel mills sought an increase in prices, the same tactics were used on the same grounds. More recently government Beatle Locks, Granny Dresses The Christian Science Monitor Maybe it Isn't of great importance when three little New York State sisters are barred from school because they are wear ing the new long granny dresses. Or when a small English child, obeying her mother's instructions, wipes her knife and fork with a napkin before eating in a school cafeteria. (She was suspended and taken from her mother's custody until she agreed to drop the habit.) Or when a Massachusetts boy is refused admission to classes because he won't cut his Beatle locks (as demanded by school authori ties) on the ground that short hair would lose him his rock-and-roll singing job. Or when a Saratoga, N. Y., high school miss, wearing wool slacks on a cold day, is ordered to change to skirts or stay home. But all these recent incidents made head Klines. And with reason. Editors who played up the cases, all involving court suits by parents, recognized the deep interest felt to day in the person who defends his right to be an individual. True , Dot all school authorities who have suspended the nonconforming students are acting like dictators. At a time when permissiveness is often carried too far, a firm hand is needed. But often administra tors take the wrong things to be firm about - those not involving moral issues. Controlling manners and dress is a deli cate matter. School chiefs can save them selves newsmaking conflicts If they re member this. Even a child can feel strong ly about his right to be different, and not only his parents but most newspaper readers are concerned when this right is lightly disregarded. TarHeel Syndrome In Kentucky Louisville Courier-Journal Everybody seems to be getting Into the act. The Kentucky Department of the American Legion Is sponsoring a bill de signed to keep the state's campuses from "being invaded by persons insidiously mo tivated." Sound familiar? It ought to. The people drawing up this particular bill have obviously taken a good close look at North Carolina's speaker ban law. But while they have been Influenced by the law they have not been content merely to parrot it. Indeed not. The proposed measure is even more sweeping in import than the Communist speaker ban. And the questions it raises are equally pertinent - perhaps even more pertinent. It may be possible now and then to de termine whether a man's a Communist. But how do you determine whether he is in sidiously motivated? Would a man selling Hadacol be barred from the campuses on these grounds? Not even the House Un American Activities Committee could offer much guidance here. We had never thought we'd find another piece of legislation as stupid as the speaker ban. But apparently we have. The only dif ference is that the Kentucky Legislature will probably have sense enough to vote it down. Quotes The roost effective water power In the world - women's tears. - Wilson M.'zner. There comes a time that one must de cide of one's dreams, either to risk every thing to achieve them, or sit for the rest of one's life In the backyard. - Robert Maury. ? * ?' Jfi''1 - V ? y' i'-. Jkf What a pity it Is that nobody knows how to man* a a wife but a batchelor. - George pressure resulted in the rescinding of a price increase by one of the country's largest cigarette man ufactures. All these actions were taken with the view of holding down price rises. And yet while the government sought on one hand to hold down wage increases by private industry, on the other hand it granted a sub stantial wage increase to govern ment employees: At the same time that the govern ment asked a roll back in cigarette prices, it announced a substantial increase in postal rates. The Government offers incen titives to take feed grains out of production and then shows alarm when the price of cattle and hogs rise. The government increased social security taxes on business to take care of the cost of Medicare and shows great concern when business has to raise prices to take care of the added expenses. The Federal Reserve Bank raises interest rates on money as a brake on inflation, which also not only increase business costs, but also raises the cost of the government debt, resulting in more deficit fi nancing, which is the greatest cause of inflation. If these steps do not prove ef fective, the government next pro poses to increase taxes as a fur ther brake on the economy, and while the country may be en joying its greatest prosperity in history and large corporations are piling up record profits, thousands of small hard-pressed businesses are wondering how they can carry on under increased burdens of high er taxes and higher money. It is highly questionable whether increasing prices can be held down in a growing economy, but for any inflation that we may have the gov ernment must bear its full share of responsibility. NEWS OF FIVE, TEN, 25 YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record March 24, 1961 A 17-year-old Norllna girl, Kathryn Ann Vale, has been named one of 11 North Car olinians chosen to receive Duke University's 1961 Angler B. Duke scholarships. The Warren County board of commission ers has given its endorsement to a com prehensive labor survey scheduled to begin in the Warrenton-Norlina-Littleton area on April 10. W. R. Drake was elected president of the Warrenton Merchants- Association at the association's annual meeting at the Warren ton Country Club last Thursday night. John Graham, Norlina and Afton-Elberon students will participate in the North Carolina Central District Science Fair at State Col lege in Raleigh Saturday. March 23, 1956 More plane spotters are needed to man the Warrenton Observation Post, Mrs. Loyce M. Connell, chief observer, said yesterday. Graham Home was elected president of the Warrenton Rotary Club at a regular meet ing of the club at Hotel Warren Tuesday i night. * The Rev. Joseph T. Echols of Waynesboro, | Miss., has accepted a call to the Warren ton, Littleton and Gruver Memorial Pres byterian churches. He will make his home in Littleton. Miss Elizabeth Shearln, daughter of Sheriff and Mrs. Roy Shearln of Warrenton, has been elected corresponding secretary of the Student Council of Greensboro College. M.vch 21. 1941 The Rev. L. C. Larklns, district super intendent, of Rocky Mount will preach at the Methodist Church here Sunday. Mr. John Tax-water was a business visitor In Winston Salem on Tuesday. The play, "Feuden In The Hills," was presented at the Macon school last Friday night. It will be repeated tonight. Mr. B. E. Carpenter, who is working at Fort Bran, spent the weekend here. Cheek Reviews Work At Memorial Forest G. E. Cheek, coordinator for the Recreation Council of the Memorial Recreation For est, Inc., this week re viewed the following activities which have taken place at the Memorial Forest during the last month: Three members of the North Carolina Fund met the Execu tive Committee of MRS's Council, Inc., In a two hour conference In the studio In the Forest. A leading representative from the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington visited the Forest in a 3 hour conference and spent an other 2 1/2 hours visiting sev eral of the Head Start Child Development facilities. The Rev. G. E. Cheek, MRF's Council's coordinator spent a day in Washington. He visited the VISTA Head quarter's Building, the Pro ject Head Start Building sharing hands with Miss Re becca Silverman, Mr. Harold Balin, Mr. Len Slaughter and others. He also visited the Neighborhood Youth Corp Building and had a brief con ference with Mr. Tlbbett. Car mical Lorenzo was absent at the time. Washington's Birthday Celebration was a gala af fair at the Forest February 22 featured by the appear ance of the Henderson Insti tute High School Band. Be cause of the cold weather the group decided to set another in the spring when it will be warmer so that they can do more of the needed work In Court (Continued from page 1) pay court costs. Otis Davis pled guilty to two counts of having no chauf fer's license and was ordered to pay court costs. Lenwood Kearney was or dered to pay a $100 fine and court costs when he pled guil ty to a charge of drunk driv ing. Bill Smith pled guilty to having no valid operator's license and to carrying acon cealed weapon. H e was fined $25 and ordered to pay court costs. * Joe Lynch was ordered to pay court costs when he pled guilty to a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Sterling Brinkley pled guilty to a charge of reckless driv ing. He was ordered to pay a $25 fine and court costs. Carlton Ray Downing, charged with speeding, fail ed to appear in court. A capias was Issued to Halifax County. Defendants in other speed ing cases and verdicts of the court were as follows: Margaret Austin Holmes, costs; Ollie Evans Cooper, Jr., $10 and costs; William Powell, $10 and costs; Con stance Amelia Cobb, costs; Clifton Wilson Miller, $10 and costs; Spencer Legray Pierce, $10 and costs; Alan Irving Murdock, costs; Louie Her bert Haskins, Jr., costs; Douglas E, Woodlief, costs; Sidney Earl Griffin, $10 and costs; Robert Wayne Queen, $10 and costs. Census (Continued from page 1) An official report will be published later providing sta tistics for the county on the number of residents by sex, race, and five-year age groups. Population totals for Incorporated places and townships will be included, also. An jld gent was passing a Raleigh intersection when a large St. Bernard ran by and knocked him down. A moment later, a Volks wagen skidded around the corner and inflicted other damage. A bystander helped him to his feet, and someone asked if the dog hurt him. "Well," he grumbled, "the dog didn't hurt so much but the tin can tied to his tall scratched me up right smart." Billy asked his mother, "Mom, the teacher told us In Sunday school that we come from dust and we return to dust." "That's right, dear." "Well, 1 Just looked under, the coach In til* living room and somebody is either com ing or going." Raoew your subscription. clearing bushes, brush, and briers to make the Forest more beautiful and attractive. The annual meeting of MRF's Council was held, March 13. It was revealed that the Council, Inc., received in money or; in-kind during 1965, $57,540.84, and spent $57,078.17. The committee on 1966 recommendations (rep resenting Warren, Franklin and Vance Counties) left sev eral important recommenda tions for the 3-county area In the hands of the Executive committee for study and im plementation by suitable com mittees. A special committee of MRF's Executive Committee was called recently to elect competent personnel to ad minister?through guidelines from OEO In Washington? the 5 month Child Development Program of 4 and 5 years old children from low Income families of the 3-county area. The training personnel in stitute is scheduled to begin April 4 The Head Start child development school is sche duled to begin April 11. Thanks to the ladies of the community in working secret - edly on a fund to place need ed curtains at the windows in the Studio at the Memorial Forest. Mrs. Beatrice Davis is serving as treasurer and It leaked out that the needed curtains will soon be install ed. The Homemakers club will meet at the forest in their next monthly meeting. "What's your age?" asked the judge, reminding the wit ness that she was under oath. "Twenty - one and some months, " the woman ans wered. "How many months?" his honor persisted. "One hundred seventeen," she replied. "Can I go out and play with the boy next door, Mummy?" "No. You know I don't like him." "Then can I go out and fight him?" Patronize the advertisers. As Others See It Sit Tight And Grow Rich B> RICHARD L. STROI1 In Tlic Christian Science Monitor A friend told us the other day about the enormous increase in the value of his land. When he moved out to the suburb he could hardly see another house; now as we looked out the picture window from the little emi nence we saw that the twinkling city lights had moved right to the trees of his property. We congratulated him on the financial kill ing he was going to make. It was fine of course, he said, and yet he hesitated. His conscience hurt a little. What had he done to deserve this vast increment? A corporation not long back bought 2,100 acres of unimproved land in Florida for ?20,000. By 1960 the land was woilh $10 mil lion. It is fearsome to think what it Is worth now. One thing is sure, population is going to go up in the United States and land will be scarcer. Over the long run it will be hard not to make money out of appreciating land values. A good many critics of present real estate tax laws wonder if we are doing the right thing about land, particularly in our cities. Suppose, for example, you deliberately want ed to create a slum. You would probably proceed in two steps. First you would increase the tax on build ings that had been painted or remodeled; That would be a tax on improvement, a penalty on keeping them in repair. Second, you would reduce the tax on land values. In other words as the property ran down the taxes would go down, too. That would be a bonus for letting things get worse. Many American municipalities impose their property taxes this way, and are sur prised at the way blight is spreading. A few years ago the magazine House & Home ran some articles on the subject. It quoted home builders as saying that land was "their most critical problem." Land was being "hoarded" by speculators, it found. "Today's taxes make misuse of land more profitable than good use. . . Today's taxes harness the profit motive backward. They give land speculation a better break than any other business." The article added that slums were subsi dized by undertaxatlon while developments Were penalized by overtaxation. When the municipality put in large-scale public Im provements the speculators often gobbled up the Increased land value. This was much the same attitude that the American Institute of Economic Re search, a New England group, took of the subject. How to turn a beautiful city into a slum? It recommended the same double procedure: raise the assessment on taxes on any building that is repainted, remodeled, or improved (that means older sections will decay); reduce taxes on land values as the property deteriorates: "this will en courage the slumlords to hold their proper ties for speculation on the future growth of the city." Latest testimony comes from Perry Pren tice in the Architectural Forum. He says about the same thing Present tax policies "harness the profit motive backwards." They make "slums the most profitable^of all housing investments." Fifty years ago land carried two-thirds of the realty tax load, Mr. Prentice finds, improvements carried only one-third. Today it is just the reverse: Improvements carry two-thirds of thie realty tax load, land carries only one-third. Mr Prentice adds that since 1896 Bris bane, Austrialia, has banned taxes on all improvements, but the land itself in thej;ity is taxed the same for parking lots as the site of skyscrapers. One economist com mented that Brisbane is "the only great city in the world without a slum." When a woman preaches a sermon to her husband at home, she generally ends it by taking up a collection.-Frank" Dickson. \ Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.?O. Henry. First National Bank IN HENDERSON 4 "BANKING TRUSTS" ? Member Of The F. D. I. C. Ir BAIN, SLEET, SNOW HIR DARE OF NIGHT, IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT TIME TO DO LAINDR7 IF TOO HATE A FLAMELESS ELECTRIC DRYER SEE THE EXCITING NEW MODELS AT AN ELECTRIC APPLIANCE DEALERS! GmH2133gH?I'Mibl+l.'BBP In i#ur%l??r funrJ, tuxfHi) I'ul'hc tit 11 it \ rompum
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