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$ijr Barrrn Krrnrii 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 Message Of Christmas "I am a little boy, five years old, and I have been a good boy this year. I would like to have a fire truck, a construction set, some games and lots of fruit, nuts and candy. . . Please remember my brother. . Christmas brings a flood of let ters to Santa?little epistles brim ming over with all the faith and hope and charity that a wide-eyed young ster can muster. Nowhere Is the human spirit stripped barer, nor the real moaning of Christ mas contained more vividly, than in these messages. There is the first sentence, and in it the words "I have been a good boy," words that reflect faith of people everywhere that goodness begets favor, that righteousness reaps reward. The second sentence reflects the hope that by listing wishes some how wishes might be fulfilled. There is no concealing, no hedging. All the hopes of a year are set forth ? "a fire truck, a construction set, some games . . ." Then there is the last line, the words that give Christmas its sternal significance, the little mes sage that some youngster has scrawled on a piece of paper and written on his heart: "Please re nember my brother." Here is the message of Christ lias. It comes in clear language, words of faith and hope, words that :an foster peace on earth, good will to men. "Remember my brother." The Strength To Live We don't "rush" the Christmas season today. Instead we shoot it off like a Roman candle long be fore Jack Frost has finished beat ing up his milk and egg whites. In virtually every place in the state the Christmas lights and the public Christmas tree are up before Thanksgiving. A stranger wouldn't know if we have lost an old-fash ioned lawn party or if we have found a new system for Daylight savings time. If one asks certain old-timers, people frail of limb and pursy of breath, from all the premature shov ing and facsimile yo-ho-hoing, what they want for Christmas, they re ply simply: "Just the strength to live until Christmas Day." While much of the unadorned drama and the simple but heady rituals of a former era have pass ed, there is one big improvement, even amid the combination of Dis neyland and ancient Babylon that jingle along our streets as if all the cowboys were having a spurs rattling convention. There is one wholesome switch in the format. Apparently, Santa Claus has dis continued the employment of stool pigeons, fifth columnists, inform ers, espionage agents, and assort ed spies. (This change may be due to the fact the Santas almost out number the children, and the im perial, aloof image of yesterday is gone). Yesterday, there might be one Santa, at a church party, but Santa, as benevolent as he might be on Christmas Eve, was often an heathen idol to be appeased with ransom paid in prudery. At the slightest provocation, Santa would put ablack mark by your name and your just reward would be ashes and switches. And, all of this must have been confusing to Santa Claus because he received so many contradictory reports. One hour you were Peck's Just For Example Charlotte (N.C.) Observer Poeple who write all those press releas es that cross a newspaperman's desk aren't nearly as anonymous as they might think they are. In tact, It's possible to tell a great deal about them lust by reading what they write. For example, a press release from Wash ington says: "When the Interstate highway system is completed in 1972 motorists will be able to drive from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast without stopping for any thing." Now that was obviously written by some one who has nevsr driven more than 20 miles with one or more children In the car. Silence Is the unbearable repartee.-BU bert K. Chesterton. What passes lor woman's Intuit Ion is often nothing more than man's transparency. - George Jean Nathan. Bad Boy and the next hour you were Fauntleroy. In fact, getting the cap pistol or the little red wagon was hardly worth the sweat and the ner vous exasperation. But most kids planned for the worst and hoped for the best. (This deal about breathing under water is nothing new, and it prob ably comes from those insular times when a child held his breath the last three days before Christmas.) Some kids were so good they broke out in nettlerash, and some were so mannerly and polite they closed their eyes when they bathed them selves. But, meanly enough, Christ mas morning was a huge let-down. Santa Claus left most of the stuff you had written for , but all the aches and pains really didn't justify the bonanza. But all that is gone, most hap pily. Some of the parents who tor tured their progeny with spy antics were the same ones who shot off a gun on Christmas Eve and said that Santa Claus had committed sui cide, and some were the same folks who gave a kid two bits to go to bed without his supper and then charged him thirty-five cents for breakfast the next morning. NEWS OF FIVE. TEN, 25 YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record Dec. 21. 1956 Boyce Drug Co., wlU begin operating un der Its new owner, W. F. Farmer on Jan uary 1. Tasker Polk was elected Junior Lion of the Year at a meeting here on Friday night. W. B. Terrell, retiring school superinten dent, was honored at a dinner held at the Norllna Lodge on Monday night. Miss Norma Plttard of Flora MacDonald College was this week tapped for member ship In Who's Who In American CoUeges and Universities. Dec. 22. 1961 Ginger Hicks of Norllna was Installed as president of the Warren County 4-H Council on Wednesday night. Cbolr members of the Wesley Memor ial Methodist Church were presented new robes on Sunday. William D. Jones, Jr., was announced as being on the third academic honor roll for the third reporting period at Flshburne Mili tary School. A. D. Johnson was appointed head of the Masonic Lodge at its meeting on Monday night. Dec. 19 1941 Mayor William T. Polk has resigned as mayor and will be replaced by Frank Glbbs. It was announced this week that Billy Paste has been selected tor admission to Harvard's Medical School nest fall. LL-Ool. Claude T. Bowers of Fort Jack son spent the weekend with Ids famUy here. Five hundred and forty-nine garments have been shipped from the county by the local Red Cross chapter to be distributed from New Jersey. iwtttniiiiminitniti LITTLETON NEWS ? ????? 4-H-H-H Mr. and Mrs. Bill Whlt son and daughter o 1 Rich mond, Va., and Mrs. John Whltson of Roanoke Rapids were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Billy L. Stansbury and daughters for several days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Elmore of Newport News, Va., ac companied Mrs. Macon Moore, Sr., and Mrs. Ella Belle Rlggan Sunday to visit with Mrs. Eulalla Rowe In Newport News, Va., for some time. The Elmores were en route home after visiting his relatives In Kinley over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Brown of Glbsonvllle spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brown. Charles Moore of State College, Raleigh, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Macon Moore, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Willie My rlck of Burlington were Sun day visitors of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. My rick, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Salmon. Other visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Salmon were Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ferrell and sons of Roanoke Rapids and Pvt. Thomas Salmon of Fort Eustis, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Salmon, Jr., of Roanoke Rapids were Saturday guests of his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Salmon, Sr. They also visit ed Mrs. Edwin Stansbury. Sgt. and Mrs. Joseph E. Stansbury, Jr., of Havelock spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. Edwin Stans bury, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Sykes in Weldon. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cagle of Colonial Heights, Va., visited Mrs. Raymond Harris Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. EarlleShearln of Warrer plains visited his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Shearin, in Holllster and his sister, Mrs. Edwin Stansbury, In Littleton Sunday. Clifton Crawley was a pa tient In Roanoke Rapids Hos pital for several days last week. Airman l/C and Mrs. Joseph Stalnback and daugh ter, Angela Joe of Freemont, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Stain back and children, Gary and Marlene, of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Stainback and children of Roanoke Rapids and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Per kinson and daughter of Bow ers Crossroad were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Stalnback. Mrs. Annie Lee Hilliard and son, Bernice, and Misses Mary Lois and Brenda West were in Roanoke Rapids Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. George Out WAOKNTON Dept. Store J. BOYD DAVIS WARRENTON, N. C. land were Sunday visitors of Mrs. Minnie OuUand In Roa noke Rapids. Miss Sue Crawley of East Carolina College, Greenville, Is spending the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Crawley. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Larrl more and family were In Rocky Mount Saturday. Sun day they visited Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Rook on Star Route, Emporia, Va. Sunday night they attended a Christmas program at Forest Hill Bap tist Church near Emporia, Va. Mrs. Frank Shearln has re turned to her home after hav ing been a patient at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mlllette and sons, Manly and Kenneth, of Charlotte were weekend guests of Miss Viola Bobbitt and Maynard Bobbitt. On Sat urday night the group and Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Camp of Roanoke Rapids and Mr. and Mrs. Mack Braxton of Mur freesboro were supper guests of Mr. Charlie Sewell lnMur freesboro. Johnny M. Coleman famed Squad Leader Johnny M.Coleman, a mem ber of the Fishbume Military School Cadet Battalion has been promoted to the position of Squad Leader of Company "A". Coleman , the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Glenn Cole man, Rt. 3, Warrenton, North Carolina holds the rank of Sergeant. This Is Coleman's senior year at Flshburne. Colonel E. B. Young, Jr., Flshburne Military School superintendent said that all promotions are based on a cadet's demonstrated per formance of duty, military, academic and conduct ratings and general school citizen ship. Birthday Party Master Winston Courtney Sadler was honored on his sixth birthday Sunday at a lovely party in the homeof his grandmother, Mrs. Hope Wil liams. The attractive gifts, the delicious refreshments, and the joyous Christmas spirit made this a most happy occasion for all the young guests. Dr. and Jin. wuilard T. Jones of Ball ston Spring, N. Y? were recent luncheon guests of their cousins, Mrs. Hope Williams and Miss Helen Thompson. The Joneses will visit other relatives and friends In the South, after which they will take a cruise to Puerto Rico and other Is land points, returning home In February. Mrs. Alpheus Jones and Mr. Alpheus Jones, Jr., will spend the weekend In Elizabeth City with Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Weatherly, III, and family. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. House and Mr. Jay House will spend the weekend with relatives In Ashland, Ky. Mrs. W. A. Baxter, Miss Hattle Drake, Mrs. E. H. Wes ton and Mrs. Mary W. Shields and Barry were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lewis In South HU1, Va., Sunday. Mrs. Ersle B. Stewart Is visiting relatives In Lershaw and Orange, S. C. Miss Elizabeth Massey of the University of North Caro lina, Chapel Hill, Is here for the holidays. Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Stevenson will be Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Stultz and family of Smlthfleld, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stevenson and sons of Hampton, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller of Florence, S. C. Holiday guests of Mrs. E. D. Davis will be Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Davis and family of Reidsvllle, Mr. and Mrs. H T navls and famllv nf Ploa ?ant Cardan, Mr. and Mra. Tommy Peate Davis and family of Yancey villa and Mr. and Mra. Selby Benton and children of Warrenton. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Weston of Rocky Mount were dinner guests of Mrs. Mary W. Shields and Barry on Tues day night. Dr. and Mrs. Elwood B. Coley, Woody and Betsy, of Lumberton will spend the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Harris. Mrs. J. W. Scott spent se veral days In Enfield with her sister, Mrs. Lawrence Whit - aker. Weekend guests of Mrs. J. B. Williams and Mrs. Mar garet Barnes were Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Wilder and Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Wilder, Jr. of Durham. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Wood and children of Greensboro will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wood for the Christ Sincsr* tvishs* and holiday ?mtuu)s to alt of you from all of ui. HOME SECURITY LIFE INSURANCE CO. WARRENTON, N. C. ROBERT V. ALLEN, Staff Mgr. CLAUDE J. PAYNTER, Agent G. L. BILLIARD, Agent F. W. AYCOCK, JR. Agent RONNIE W. MOSELEY, Agent Santa may be going modern, but our Christmas wishes for you are still old-fashioned: good cheer, full table, and warm hearth with smiling faces. To you and yours we sincerely send our warmest holiday greetings. --M n NU-WAY SHOE:A BARGAIN SHOP IRENE uid JOHN HOUSE WARRENTOH, N. 0. mW P11 ?! ^ ^ _ | | BTm | Kd t. rJam aroi is i< ? I i BEST -WISHES FOR /V F0R 5 The Christmas spirit glows brightly. Happy surprises come forth from the gaily-wrapped presents that express the sentiment and love that Christmas inspires, filling us all with the }oy of giving and sharing. With this thought in mind, we would like to share with you the good will and good wishes of the season. Sincere greetings. BULLOCK Oil Comixny, Inc. i NOMINA ROAD WARRINTON, N. C.
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