Oil!? Marrrn Uprnrb 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, 11.60 The Governor s Message Governor Moore in his biennial message to the Legislature last Wednesday called for record amounts of appropriations for ad vancements of all areas of North Carolina's public education system, with substantial raises for public teachers, free textbooks, and a fea sibility study of public kinder gartens. "Education is the first concern and responsibility of this admini stration," he said. Governor Moore also asked that the burning of a cross or other symbol without the permission of the owner, and that the act of bombing occupied property, be both made a felony, with the latter carrying a penalty of from ten years to life in prison. He would also have the amount of reward offered by the state for the arrest of those bombing a residence be raised from the pre sent $400 to $10,000. The Governor also said that he opposed the sale of whiskey by the drink, but was for control and hoped that some way could be worked out to legalize the custom of brown bagging. We agree with the Governor that "education is the first concern and responsibility of this administra tion," and feel that it should be expanded to the limits of North PGirolina*5 ability to%*y. We are more than happy that the Governor has suggested that cross burning and bombing should be made a felony, for it is long past time that the shenanigans of those who set themselves us as judge, jury and Busting The Voting Age Floor The Chapel Hill Weekly The latest campaign to lower the voting age in North Carolina is gathering support of sorts. Jim Beatty, the splendid Carolina miler of a few years back, now a Representative from Mecklenburg, said he Is all for it. So is James C. Johnson, the Republican Whip in the House. Doubtless they are other legislators who can be counted in the bush if not In the hand. Some years ago, when the same pro position was advanced, Louis Graves, the late editor of The Weekly, suggested that instead of lowering the voting age to 18 it should be raised to 25 or so. His contention was that even at 21 few were able to make mature political judgments. That might not be an unassailable argument, but it is astrongone. We are not all wrought up one way or another about the matter. But, it seems to us, 1f the voting age is to be anywhere near consistent with North Carolina politics then it should be lowered to 12 Instead of 18. An objective survey of North Carolina poll tea! campaigns over, say, the last twn years would show conclusively, we think, an intel ectual level that would have been no problem at all for a moderately bright 12-year-old. As an example, take last year's campaign for the Fourth District Congressional seat. There was Harold Cooley's gripping picture of a gavel and Jim Gardner's spinetingling slogan, "He cares about you." The 11-year-old next door got those mes sages and she was able to make a highly Intelligent Judgment: they were both silly. The main trouble with lowering the voting age to 12 Is that a voter's bounden duty to pay attention to campaigns might interfere with school homework, and between the two homework Is more beneficial In every con ceivable respect. Quotes "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. "?Thomas Jef ferson. K you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. - Goethe. . ? ' . ? The Busy Atom: If you wrote a letter today, or drove a ear, or at* a sandwich, chances are that you enjoyed aome of the "invisible" benefits of nuclear energy, photo court e?y of the Atomic Industrial Fonun, inc. MBBMSSrni nl W i?MmMs executioner be ended. About the only recommendation of the Governor which fails to meet our approval is his suggestion for the legalizing of brown bagging. It is possible, of course, to change the Turlington Act, which permits drinking in the home only, so that a person may be permitted to take a bottle of whiskey to a "reputable" eating place and legally take a drink. But it seems to us that the defi nition of "reputable," in this con nection may cause some difficulty, and one wonders just who and when one is to term a place reputable. What one type of man may find re putable another may find dis reputable. To tell one man that he may take a drink at a fine and usually expensive place and another that he may not take a drink at a B-Grade restaurant is certain ly discriminatory, and we can not with good grace favor a law that would tell one class citizen that he may legally take a drink of whiskey with his meals and another class that he can not take one. Maybe there is some difference in a restaurant mixing and selling a drink and in its furnishing glasses, mix and ice, and letting a customer add the whiskey, but the only thing that is clear to us is its hypocrisy. What we would like to see the State license eatlngr places to sell mixed drinks under strict super vision, with a sizable tax for the privilege. This, we understand, is permitted in 47 of the 50 states, with only North Carolina and two other states having the brown bagging custom. And when anyone can show us that the present North Carolina system produces less drinking, less drunk ness, less alcoholism, less violance, less crime and a superior type citizenship measured by any ac cepted criteria then we will be happy to publicly change our mind and extend our apologies to those who think differently. NEWS OF FIVE. TEN. 25 "YEARS AGO Looking Backward Into The Record Feb. 16, 1962 The State Bureau of Investigation has been asked to assist in the investigation of the robbery of the ABC store at Norlina Monday night. The Warrenton Lions Club celebrated Its 20th anniversary with a Ladies Night banquet and dance at the Country Club on Saturday night. Members of the Warrenton Rural Fire Department will conduct a county-wide broom sale from March 5-10 in order to raise funds for needs of the department. Ground-water resources of Warren County are being studied by the United States Geo logical Survey. Feb.I 5. 1957 The Barber cl Seville will be presented at - the John Graham High School by the National Grassroots Opera on Wednesday evening. The War sen-Halifax Basketball Tourna ment will be held at the Norllna gymtorlum beginning next Tuesday. Mayor W. A. Miles has been presented a Boy Scout Handbook by the Occoneechee Council in appreciation of his scout work. The Heart Fund Drive will be made here on Sunday, W. R. Drake and Mrs. P. E. Adams, co-chairmen, announced yesterday. Feb. 13, 1942 More than $25,000 has been received by' Warren County farmers in parity check pay ments. Capt. Harold R. Sk 111man, former commanding officer of Company B, has bean promoted to Major. Major General William Cannon Rivers, retired United State* Army Officer, and Mrs. Rivers will make their home in Warrenton after Jane 30, it was learned here this Mayor Frank H. Gibbe appointed 40 War "ttl-tnf as Hirli"if ward? Monday ?(ki Letter To Editor LONG FOR LIGHT To The Editor: It is during these short days of the year that we be gin to long for light. The sun light Is weak and without warmth. It's dark when we get up In the morning, and dark when we come home from work. In the North at least, city streets are smudged with sooty snow and ice, and in * the country, field and strsam y are locked in winter's steely embrace. Nevertheless, for allot that, there is something in the air that cannot be mistaken. The light looks different. There is a scant on the cold air which Is neither snow, nor earth, nor bud, nor leaf, but which is more subtle than any of these. Perhaps It is Just the per fume of a promise soon to be fulfilled, for the willows are bright yellow now, there are new voices In the early morn ing bird songfest and we are beginning to say hopefully, "The days are getting longer, aren't they?" By every one of the signs we know that spring is wait ing on winter's threshold, and that soon the days will be bright with color and warmth and light. Long, long ago men made the sun their great God, and it is not to be wondered at. Light was life. When the sun hid himself, they were cold and miserable and sick. Their fires wouldn't burn, their crops failed, their sick died and their spirits failed. But In the sun were all the glorious powers of life and of death, and they spoke with awe of his golden chariots and worshiped him in strange ly beautiful temples. The world grew older. Gradually came the Inescap able knowledge that behind the. known and the seen remained the unknown and the unseen. They came to realize that God was not the sun, but the power that made sun, moon and stars and held them In their courses. And as men gradually learn ed of God, they discovered that just as in the physical world life Is dependent upon the sun, so the life of the soul hangs upon God who Is Very Light Of Very Light. For long centuries man groped his way toward the light. David seems to have known the radiance of the heavenly Light. "The Lord God is a sim and sheild", he said, and, on another occ'as sion, "Thou art my lamp, O Lord, and the Lord will light en my darkness." All through the Old Testa ment men seemed still to be groping, looking and longing for the promise, hoping for It and believing it, encouraged by the mighty voices of the prophets who cried, "Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings" CMalachi 4:2) The time was coming near er, the willows were golden, the bird song was clearer and sweeter, the darkness was lifting. Then In the fullness of lime, Jesus came to earth. "In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. That was the true Light, which "lighteth every man that cometh Into the world." And with John's triumphant declarations, mankind knew that the Sun at Righteousness had at last risen upon the world. That light, shining brightly in the hearts of men, is re flected outward upon the dark ness of the world, In loving deeds. In gracious words, In ceaseless concern and com passion for the condition of man. And, at the last, all shad ows will flee away, for the city that John saw, the Bet ter World of all our hope and faith, "had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine In It; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." W. PRYOR RODWELL, JR. ATTEND BANQUET W. Monroe Gardner, Dis trict Governor of District 31 G, and lira. Gardner attended the 30th anniversary banquet at Lions International it the Sir Walter Hotel In Raleigh Monday night. International Vie* President Dick Bryant was the gueat speaker. Also attending buK^nt vwrt Put International President Jack Stlkley and Past Inter national Directors Wall see ?Mt and P*ronlxe the advertisers. Two Warren Seniors Win In Betty Crocker Contest Two Warren County High School seniors have been named Betty Crocker win ners tor finishing first in their schools in written home making knowledge and attitude examinations for senior girls on Dec. 6, it was announced here this week. Beverly J. Johnson won the honor for John Graham High School, and Ann Rose Long was winner at North Warren High School. Both girls are now eligible for possible state and national scholarship awards and their tests also earned each of them a specially designed silver charm from General Mills, sponsor of the Betty Crocker search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow. A state Homemaker of To morrow and runner-up will be selected from the winners of all schools in the state, with the former receiving a $1,500 college scholarship; her school will be given a complete set of Encyclopaedia Brltannica by Encyclopaedia Britannlca, Inc. The runner up will be awarded a $500 educational grant. The Betty Crocker Home maker of Tomorrow from this state, together with those from all other states and the Dls tric of Columbia, each ac companied by her school ad visor, will join In an ex pense paid educational tour of Colonial WiUlamsburg, Va., and Washington, D. C., next spring. The national winner?the 1967 All-American Home maker of Tomorrow?will be , announced at a dinner in Wil liamsburg. She will be chosen from the state winners on the basis of original test score plus personal observation and interviews during the tour. Marriage Licenses Harold Daniel Williams, Jr., white, of Hopewell, Va., to Barbara Ann Whittle of Rt. 1, Chester, Va. ' Devon Hamilton Edwards, white , of Henderson to Rosa McKlnney Day of Henderson. Brian William Nllsson, white, of Woodbridge, Va., to Ruth Ann Stiles of Rt. 1, Dumfries, Va. John Edward Brucklacher, Jr., white, of Liberty, Pa., to Beverly Jean Copp of Wells boro, Pa. Paul Elliott Sherwood, white, of Alexandria, Va., to Mary Elizabeth Downing of Alexandria, Va. Robert Lee Spritzer, white, of Long Beach, N. Y? to Evelyn Vivian Haaseof Hlcks ville, N. Y. Cards Of Thanks Copy for cards of thanks must be in this office by Tuesday night, earlier If possible, accompanied by $1.00 to cover cost of in sertion. I wish to tnank my relatives and friends who remembered me with prayers, visits, cards, letters, flowers, gifts and all the other acts of kind ness during my stay In the hospital and since my return home. May God bless each of you. HERMAN HAYES I wish to thank the many people of the Warren Plains Baptist Church for the many nice gifts and cards and for the ones that were so kind to take time to carry me to and from school and doctor's of fice while my leg was hurt. Your kindness will never be forgotten. May God bless each one of you. PATSY ANN SALMON I want to express my thanks to the doctors and the staff ' > :"V -v, Tv V Wf ' ?>? ? ? -vh r. 4## ? ?? J* rf. ii !??? >ut ? ? ? ?, tht- i *i? ? ???????? ' " *?