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5Jt|* Ularmt l&ttarb 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 Losing Importance Several weeks ago Durham agreed to provide water for alarge industry to be located across the Durham County line in Orange County. This has naturally brought some opposi tion and some of this has been expressed in letters to the editor ap pearing in a Durham newspaper and in turn has aroused the interest of those far beyond Durham as it shows a growing trend to make trade areas the guide in economic development. Perhaps it is only natural that some residents of Durham feel that Durham citizens should not bear the cost of providing water for a large industry which will be located in nearby Orange County. While we feel that such citizens fail totakealong range view of a project that eventual ly must bring profit to Durham and the entire area, we do not parti cularly wish to be drawn into the controversy. We comment upon the matter pri marily to explore the declining im portance of county lines andtheneed for our citizens to think beyond them. The trend is inevitable that insti tutions in many cases mustbelocat We Will Bet "So one North Carolinian made enough last year to have to pay a $900,000 income tax to the state. That doesn't quite prove however, that he is the happiest, healthiest man in it."?The News and Obser ver. But we will bet that he is not the most miserable man in North Car olina. Why Our High Murder Rate? Greensboro Daily News North Carolinians should be both em barrassed and deeply concerned by the high ratio of murders to population as compared with figures for other states. In the over-all picture Tarheelia stands sixth in the nation. This high national rating must be explain ed in large part by the top figures which ap ply to its metropolitan areas. Two Tar Heel cities, Charlotte and Winston-Salem, rank one and two in the national standings. Dur ham stands in 10th place, Raleigh 17th, Asheville 31st and Greensboro 42nd among the top 50 murderous cities in the United States. We are not sufficiently versed in soci ology or criminolosrv to eet into the causes of this disturbing' showing. We do know how ever that life has always been cheap in North Carolina, that cutting and shooting scrapes are frequent and that crimes of passion rather than deliberation account for most of the killings. How statistics conform to the racial pat tern is also an open question. But, even there, no pat answer can be offered. Other South ern states, for instance, which have substan tially lower murder rates than the Old North State, have a larger percentage of Negro population. Obviously, however, what our state has been spared in cold-blooded, gang ster type or deliberate killing it has more than made up for in manslaughter or other than first-degree murders which leave their vic tims no less dead. As the bloody record continues to reflect discredit upon the state, a serious study of forces'and" factors behind this showing Is clearly In order. It might be a university research project, an Institute of Government study or the responsibility of a legislative study commission. For not until more is known can remedial action be undertaken, or even advocated, intelligently and effec tively. One conclusion can be voiced in advance: mere retention of capital punishment hasn't proved very successful in stopping killings in the Old North State. Leaning upon it too heavily as a deterrent may, in fact, divert time and attention from getting at approach es and processes which might turn our rising murder graph to other way. Bi all my travels the thing thai has im pressed me the most is the universal brother hood of man?what there is ri 't.?Mark 1 iS. ed to serve areas and the county lines will in many instances disap pear as economic borders just as township lines have decreased in importance. Durham is a growing thriving city and like all such cities offers services to people far beyond its borders. The location of an indus try in Durham County would have the advantage of increasing the base upon which ad valorem taxes are based, but that is about all. From an economic standpoint if a factory is to be located a dozen miles from Durham it makes little difference whether the factory is in Durham County, Granville County or Orange County so long as it is within the metropolitan district of that city. While the influence of the large cities reaches beyond county lines, drawn in horse and buggy age, and while even smaller cities also cross rural lines in attracting trade, the same rule does not apRly to coun ties with small rural towns, with limited trade areas. It is of vital importance to War renton, to Littleton, to Norlina, for instance, that factories be locat ed closeby as they provide people to furnish the services of a small town. Their payrolls can mean the difference between a growing com munity and a shrinking one, between good schools and poor schools, be tween good medical care and poor medical care, between the prosper ous business man and the business man constantly facing frustration. But were Warrenton a town of 50,000 or more serving the peo ple of a dozen surrounding counties, it would make little difference whether an industry was located in Warren, Franklin or Vance Coun ties, only a question of distance to markets. What we are seeking to point out is that it is the congregation of people that defines an area and not county lines. For this reason it is inevitable that counties as such will tend to shrink in importance. NEWS OF FIVE. TEN. 25 YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record August 25. 1961 Six warehouses will be in operation here next Thursday morning when the Warrenton Tobacco Market opens. An area aromatic tobacco sale will be held at the Warren County Fair Grounds on Tuesday, Sept. 5. John Graham High School Boosters Club tickets will go on sale today. Miss Scott Rodwell of Warrenton and Mr. James Fischer Trotter, jr., of Reldsville were married in the Warrenton Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon. August 24. 1956 Approximately 1600 doses of polio vac cine have been given by the Warren County Health Department during the past two weeks, Dr. A. G. Gregg, Health Officer, announced yesterday. A large scale parade and street dance will mark the annual Harvest Festival which will be sponsored by the Warrenton Mer chants Association here on Thursday, August 30. The Warrenton Lions Club annual Ladles Night will be held on August 25, it was decided at a Lions directors meeting on Friday night. August 22. 1941 Traffic, which tor several weeks has been diverted through Warrenton, has been returned to route 1. Stores and other business houses of War renton will be closed from 10a.rn.to2 p. m. on August 28 tor the dedication of the new armory. Dry forces of Warran County held an organizational meeting at the Warrenton Bap tist Church last night. Revival tervfaas will begin at Reedy Creek Creek Baptist C*rch Sunday night with the Rev. J. F. Roach in charge. Goats Serve As Both Friend, EnemvToMan Washington-There are two schools of thought on goats. One holds that goats are friends of man, supplying him with nourishing milk, tender meat, supple hides, and soft hair. All this useful animal asks In return Is a bit of Scraggly grass or brush to chew. The other declares bluntly that the goat Is man's worst enemy. By eating all the vegetation from vast areas the pestiferous animal expos es the soil to erosion and ruin Many naturalists blame goats for stripping eastern Mediter ranean lands of trees. Anti-goat people agree with the Persian proverb: "If you have no trouble, buy a goat." floats Cnder Pressure The pro-goat faction scored a point recently when four French goats served under water research by spend ing two weeks in a pressure tank, the National Geographic Society reports. Captain Jac ques-Yves Cousteau, director of the test, said the animals endured pressure that was the equivalent of 1,900 feet below the sea. The successful experiment strengthens plans to send I French oceanauts more than a thousand feet down into the sea to live and work. Goats were tested because their metabol ism is slmUar to man's. "Goats are more like peo ple than any other animal," declared the operator of a goat dairy farm in New York State. She says her charges are lively, enterprising, cur ious, chatty, affectionate?and clean. Even the most ardent goat fancier admits that bucks smell terrible, especially in the mating season. On the other hand, does are as fas tidious as a debutante. Goat milk Is a staple in the Medi terranean countries, Switzer land, parts of France, and sections of Central Europe The United States has only 120,000 milk goats, however. TCiey are far outnumbered by the 3,000,000 mohair-bearing Ar.goras. m Texas, the lead ing goat-raising state, aprize Angora may sell for as much as $1,300. The common American goat, a hybrid, numbers about a million; it is valued chief ly for clearing underbrush. Contrary to popular belief, the goat disdains tin cans, old shoes, and shirts. Horns Are Hollow Goats are a close relative of the sheep, ox, and ante lope, sharing with them the hollow horn, cloven hoof, and four-part stomach. Some wild species can hardly be distin guished from sheep. Domestic species sprang from the Pasang, a wild goat of Asia Minor. This goat prob ably was domesticated before the cow sometime prior to 3000 B.C. Today, goats are one of the most widespread of domestic animals; they flourish every where except the polar regions. Goats are vital to the economy in many poor areas where small farmers cannot affort cattle. Undeniably, goats pose a major threat to trees. A goat will eat his way from the root bark to the topmost leaf of a five-foot tree, and churn the ground beneath it to dust with its hoofs. A few years ago, a Lebanese farmer planted thousands of trees in a mountain pass. One night a herd of goats stray ed onto the land past a sleep ing watchman and, by morning, had destroyed four years' growth of trees. Fescue Pastures One Source Of Relief From Feed Shortage Fescue pastures offer one source of relief from the feed shortage that will face many North Carolina farmers this winter. Livestock farmers in North Carolina are already facing a possible shortage of winter feed due to the hot and dry summer weather. As a re sult of the adverse weather, grain and silage crops are low on many farms. John Clapp, extension agronomy specialist at North Carolina State University, says fescue pastures can fill this feed gap for many beef cattle producers. Clapp points out that fes cue will put on about 30 per cent of its total year's growth during September, October and November. But it will take a fall application of ferti lizer for this-growth potential to be realized. For farmers with a pure stand of fescue, the special ist recommends adding from 50 to 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Late August is the best time to apply the nitrogen in the mountains and Septem ber is best for the Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Although the extra fertili zation will pay off In the equivalent of one to one and a half tons of hay per acre, the agronomist said not many farmers are realizing this potential. Fall fescue Is desirable for maintaining a beef brood herd. It provides good fall grazing and can offer an accumulated growth to carry a beef herd Into the winter. Clapp also urged farmers who have not been fertilizing their fescue regularly to set aside a definite time each spring and fall for this prac tice. An application of 400 to 600 pounds of 0-10-20 per acre and 50 to 100 pounds of nitrogen Is recommended for the fall. The same suggestions hold true for orchardgrass and Kentucky bluegrass. In case phosphorus and pot ash were not applied last spring, Clapp recommends that about 300 pounds per acre be applied this fall. If these elements are deficient, a farmer cannot expect the proper response from an ap plication of nitrogen. The specialist says that far mers who need additional per ennial grasses should make plans for early fall seeding. Farmers should buy seed, ap ply lime and phosphate and seed as soon as possible. Extension agronomy spe cialists at N. C. State Univer sity recommend seeding dates through Sept. 7, In the moun tains, Aug. 25 through Oct. 15, in the Piedmont, and Sept. 1 through Oct. 30, In the Coastal Plain. Brown spot cost North Carolina flue-cured tobacco growers more money In terms of damage to crops than any other disease In 1965. Made from a star-spangled recipe that's 25 years old The cake above is something we whipped up to help celebrate the 25th birthday of the United States Savings Bond program. Although there will be no confetti, no horn-blowing? in fact, no party?there are a number of reasons to cele brate this quarter-century observance. 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