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? (Ply Marrrw ittnrii Published Every Thursday By The Record Printing Company BIONALL JONES. Editor ? DUKE JONES, Business Manager Member North Carolina Press Association entered as secondclass matter at the post office IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS "Second Class Postage Paid At Warronton, N. C." CTTDCPDTPTTfW D ATPC ? Y1AS, SS.OOl SIX MONTHS. SI.SO OUBSCXUrUttJIN KA t . OUT or STATSi ON* TBAB. S4.00? SIX MONTHS, SI.00 What Will Rate Be? While an amendment to the spec Ush the Town of Warrenton as a special school administrative unit did not kill hopes of voter approval, It did serve to damage hopes of approval In the town election of July 1. The original bill provided that the town commissioners be authorized to levy a tax of not more than 50$; the amended version of the bill, which wa?-e?acted, provides that a tax of not less than 50$ shall be 'f 111 WiCV/l? board the authority to levy an un limited tax. The provision Is unique as all other acts imposing a tax in a referendum that we can recall requires a limit on the amount of tax to be levied. The purpose of the amendment, it was stated, is to test the good faith of the town in pro viding money for an improved ed ucatlonal system. Valuations Rise Tax valuation figures following a new revaluation of real property increase of more than 50 per cent, comes as good news to Warren Citi zens reflecting the growth of the county, and allows new hope to pro perty owners who were disturbed by a rise in the valuation on their property. The increase in property valuations should mean a consider able reduction in the tax rate for the 1969-70 fiscal year. It should also make the job of the com missioners somewhat easier as general fund, previously limited by a maximum tax for this purpose. While much of the increase is due to a rise in prices reflecting an inflationary trend, a great deal of it is due to developments on Gas ton Lake, which is expected to fur ther increase as building on the lake is accelerated. The Call For More Negro Students The Carolinian (A Negro Newspaper) ? Among the demands of the Students for Democratic Action at the various universities, is one calling for an increase in the enroll ment of Negro students, or more popularly "morS^BSSXSesTTTLast weak, thirty-seven students held a quiet demonstration amid shoutjs of "nigger go home" from some white students to push for more Negroes at the Uni versity of Florida in Gainesville. This demonstrating group of students had information that the University of Floridahad admitted only 98 fulltime Negro students in the past fifteen years. Currently, there are more than 19,000 students at Florida's biggest state univer sity. Only 49 of them are Negroes, enrolled on a fulltime basis, while 50 others are enrolled only part time. The 30 - minute afternoon demonstration by the Negroes was held in front of Tlgert Hall. Most of the Negroes wore black shirts and carried black placards lettered in white: "The University of Florida is 99.5 Per Cent White" and "end Tokenism." While the demonstration was taking place, some 50 white students gathered around the Negroes and heckled them. What happened in Florida has happened many times in other states at other state univer sities. Although the doors for enrollment are open to students of all races at all formerly white state universities, only a few Negroes are enrolled. First, only afew Negroes actual ly apply for admission and academic stand ards. There is a reason why many Negro students cannot gain admissions Into the formerly all white state universities. They cannot pass the entrance tests, because they are the " products of more than a century of school discrimination. Since we have been advocating Integration In our schools, It would seem that student demonstrators would face the facts. They should not want a university to accept a lot of Negroes Just to say more Negroes are en rolled. Perhaps the demonstrating slogan could have read: "Let's push for enrollment of more high-risk students on ah experimental and underglrdlng basis." instead of a campaign for more black -studies, protestors should call for commun ity action on tutoring and undergirdlhg of black students who need to be strengthened so that they can enter any universities on a par with other students. Certainly, black students should not want any Institution to accept the unqualified entrance applicants. A first - class student begs no special favors with regards to the enrollment of more Negroes because he realizes that he wants to be treat ed as first-class. All protestors should re member this. A Nation On Wheels Philadelphia Evening Bulletin If you thought that there was an additional car and driver pushing you cm the way in this morning, you were right. It was the 100 millionth motor vehicle on American highways. Actually, there may be more than this number of vehicles In service. Estimates are of 83 million passenger ears and more than 17 million trucks, buses and tractors. For the first time In history, there Is one vehicle for esdi tuo p#rsoo8? Motor vehicles traveled a trillion (1,000, 000,000,000) miles on American highways last year, or more than the equivalent of two million round trips to the moon. Federal and Mate governments took in 8 billion dollars In fuel taxes and almost that much In other excise taxes. _j America's shift from * rural to an urban ised society has created something of a para dox. The need for additional vehicles would to be In the wide open spaces, and not much In the cities, where mass transpor ted la available. Yel, reverse is true, vehicus pour ; ?'> the core Ifiajk- Sri fggat waBd-'i be the last piece. Everything would be locked In place. Nothing could move. Summertime Commercial Appeal (Memphis) As we recall the Ira Gershwin lyric to his brother George's song, "Summertime,' this is the time of year when the living should be sasy. Hal For all practical purposes It is summei time, sad the grass has to ha mowed every weak or 10 days. The outdoor chores which yon could get out of when it was cold, windy sad wet demand attention?especially doe to the you would do them when the weather was nice. The house seeds paint. Ths shrubs need trimming. It's time to dean out the clutter in the garage. It's a pood time to fix the rod and lay ? patio. Dig i*> the multiplying flow ers and move them. Build the wall you've been talking about since Thanksgivtag. So mach for the easy living myth. ... JSfy *?? : ? ' : '? ? -/JSC.-*' ?" ? . ' ? ' .-r .Jv - ? wm to ready, your feet are WZ shape. "-Frost Mostly Personal By BIGNALL JONES For the past several months I have been digging through the minutes of the town commis sioners covering a period of from 1891 through 1916, tor a series of articles which have appeared in The Warren Re cord from time to time as space -permitted. The series was activated by a belief that a history of the town would be revealed in the action of the town commission ers. I think this has been true. Sometimes I have felt that the purpose had become too complicated and often I won dered if the series had any Interest to our readers many of whom had no recollection of the men whose deeds I recorded tor the public. R was a bigger Job than I anticipated and, natural ly, I grew tired of it and sometimes wondered If readers were not tired of it, too. How ever, I have been pleased with favorable comments from our readers, many of them relative ly young, and hope that the ef forts have been worthwhile. Our family moved to War and naturally I remember many of the events recorded and the men concerned with the events as town commissioners. Later, as a newspaperman, I was to attend many board meetings where several of the commis sioners mentioned in the series were still serving in this capacity and I had known many others who had no longer serv ed, among whom were Mr. Frank Rose, and Mrs. A. D. Harris. Memory is a tricky thing and I am afraid I remem ber the foibles of the com missioners better than 1 do their accomplishments. I re member Mr. H. A. Moseley chiefly for his discussion of hay for the town's horse and I remember Mr. Frank Serls as the commissioner who almost always moved for adjournment, accuated in part by his desire to get home in time to hear Amos and Andy over the radio. Letter To Editor IN DEFENSE OF WARREN COUNTY To The Editor: Just a word In defense of Warren County from a native and lover of the county. There has been so much publicity stressing "poverty and back wardness," let's look at It from another angle. I think living conditions are much improved. Just one Item: there were no paved roads In my day, no electricity In the countryside. But without these conveniences, It was such a lovable existence. The countryside was so beau tiful. Reedy Creek, Fishing Creek and all the "branches;" the woods full of dogwoods and stately trees. Of .course, I have not lived there for the last fifty years, but I still think of it as "home" and not a back woods section." I am the daughter of the late Peter Powell and grand daughter of Morgan Powell. NANNIE POWELL DAVIS 158 LaSalle Ave. Buffalo, N. Y. GARDEN PROTECTION Use 5% Serin Dust for oom plete protection at your garden - Controls all Ben Beetles and Is affective on other garden vegetables - 5 - Lb. - Bag. .$1.00 $- Lb. - Bog . .$3.75 nice varfat?.-'? Cream or Sugar Crowded Blue Goose or Gray Crowd ?r, Largo Purple Hull, Early Black Eye, Six Week Brown Eye Porto Rico Potato Pints 604 - 100 < $5,00 - 1000. See us for the SH OP-N-8 A VE LANIER Our next door Will Davis, was a rural mail carrier and kept two horses as wall as a couple o( cow* in a large s-taSTe located jusTacrbss toe street from toe home of Mr. Serls and now understandably object lonal. 1 remember Mr. ! Serls* complaints to toe com . miss loners and Ms largely un successful efforts to have legal steps taken to have toe stable removed. That, too. Is under standable as there were many other stables In the town and some of these were owned by some of the commissioners. During the nineties two Negroes served on the town board. They were John M. Ransom and John S. Plummer. When we moved to Warrenton the Ransoms operated a car riage factory about where the Warren Theatre is now situated. I suppose that John M. Ransom then worked there but I never knew him, but later knew Ms brother, or possibly his son, Jimmy, who was the town's Negro undertaker, who was well thought of by both wMte and colored. John S. Plummer, long atetive in and for many years state president of the North Carolina Colored Volunteer Firemen's Association, was a successful business man of the town, and operated a livery stable on a large parcel of land next to the old Graham (now Horne) property on Front Street. When we came to town h e lived in the house across the street from the J. Boyd Davis home, next to the Hendricks build ing. He operated an ice house in the basement of the home, having ice shipped in by rail in large blocks and retailed by the -pound;?He was a mail uf dlg nlty and courtesy and was re spected both for Ms accom plishments and his character. He was the father of the late Baker Plummer, well remem bered here. So far as I can learn from the minutes of the town com missioners he and Ransom both served well and without incident on the town board. Both were removed from the board in the "WMte Supremacy" campaign in 1899, when the Negroes were disfranchised, Seventy years later, if I may digress, the Town of Chapel Hill on Tuesday elected a Negro as its mayor and several Eastern North Carolina towns elected Negroes to the boards of com mlssioners, which may be an indication of tfctaeg to come. At the same time that Ranaom Plummer were serving Mansfield Thornton, a Metro, was serving as Register of Deeds for Warren County, a position which he held with such competency that he won a com mendation from the Warreoton Bar when he was forced out of office when the Negroes were disfranchised. I learned to know "Uncle Mansfield, "as we call ed him, fairly well in later years. He was quiet, digni fied and capable and quite a remarkable man. I wish that someone would write a history of this man's life, which should not only be an inspiration to his race, but to the white race as well. When we came to town, as a small boy I had no concern with either tlie town ur county gov ernment, and knew nothing about Negroes having ser^fed on the town board and as Register of Deeds. I have never heard until this day much about the fact that Negroes once served on the town board, but I did from time to time hear references to Mansfield Thornton's serving as Register of Deeds, usually in a tone of deep gravity and as a justi fication for the disinfranchise ment of the?Negro. Thornton was elected Regis ter of Deeds, or so I have al ways heard,~ as the result of a deal between Negro and white leaders. With no restrictions on the vote and the vote and the Negro in the majority, things looked bad for the "white su premacists." Because the Ne groes had a majority ofthevot ers it did not necessarily fol low that they could elect ? all the office holders, but in the Republican party and led by whites, the danger was there. The men of those days may have been prejudiced, but they were highly practical, so they agreed to permit the Negroes to have one office in the court house under promise of no fight for the other offices. The les son here, I think, is that in a day when the colored people and colored leaders were able to meet to discuss their prob lems and work out a compro mise with which they could live. That lesson should be Just as applicable today. M.d* i. urn 1 Storage Program Changes will be made in the farm storage and drying equip ment loan program effective May 30, according to W. S. Smiley, chairman, Warren Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. The changes are being made in order to slow down the rapid acceleration at the program and reduce Government expendi tures as an aid in the fight agaiqst inflation, Smiley said. The changes will affect appli cations approved by the county committee after May 29, 1969. Farmers who have unfiled ap plications which can be com pleted should file them lramed iately If they wish the county committee to take action on them before May 30. Bullock Funeral To Be Field Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Leah F. Bullock, 77, will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at Greenwood Baptist Church by the pastor, the Rev. Kermlt Richardson. ?? Mrs. Bullock, the widow of the .late Lemuel Bullock, died on Tuesday. She was a life-long resident of Warren County and had been a member of Green wood Baptist Church since childhood. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Susie Cotten and Mrs. Lena Williams of New York City; three sons, John Ferrell Bullock of New York City, Hen derson T. Bullock of New Jer sey, and Daniel Bullock of the home; and 10 grandchildren. mmc m Funeral service* tor Mrs. Jessie -Finch Stegall, 7?, oi Routes, Macon, who died Mon day, were held at t p. m. Wed nesday at the Macon Baptist Church by the Rev. Grady Haynes. Burial was In Green wood Cemetery. Surviving are her husband, Jack C. Stegall; two daughters, Mrs. Billy Perklnson and Jars. M. J. Kyrlazls of Newport News, Va.; five sons, Milton of Ports mouth, Va., Willard of Norfolk, Va., Julian of Warrenton, C. B. of Macon and Malvln Stegall of Elon; two sisters, Mrs. Ray Hicks of Henderson and Mrs. George Adams of Newport News, Va.; and four half sisters, Mrs. Hunter Ellis of Klttrell, Mrs. Sadie Thomp son of Man son, Mrs. Lizzie Dlckerson of Henderson and Mrs. Laura Halthcock of Wins ton-Sal em. Gaston Eliminated By Vance County Gaston, which eliminated John Graham with two straight wins to become champions of the Roanoke Baseball Conference, was in turn eliminated In dis trict play by Vance County at Norlina on last Friday after noon. After tying the game in the fourth inning, the Vance High Cougers pushed in the winning run in the last half of the seven th frame to edge previous ly unbeaten Gaston 3-2. 1-A District in high school baseball playoff title and earn ed a berth in the Eastern 1-A championship semifinals. Failure is the line of least persistence. dr. james c. Mcdonald, jr. ANNOUNCES " THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICE For The Practice of POD 1ATR Y MEDICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ALL FOOT AILMENTS Every Monday ? 9:00 A.M. ? 5:00 P.M. 109 N. GARNET St. ? 492-0806 ? HENDERSON Our Manager is as close to you as we can get. ? Tp :? ' ; \v; ?v-'f* : ? Ifef ... ,'Ci Hjr or working round the clock helping . Tom Dabney 1 lis one of our coordinate work in an emergency. local managers. w m You'll always find him vyith people. J _ . ' . He's a "people specialist." Tom and 34 other ^ local managers have one purpose?serving you. The abili,y to work with people in You mioht m~t Kim - *?,V,n8 Problems makes Tom ? might rpeet him. important link fit the chain that provides in his office helping a customer solve a over half a million customers low problem . .. priced, dependable electricity. involved in a church or community Our focal managers are good men to ^ project... i know .. . even if you don't have a problem. at the construction site of a new manufacturing plant 4;, v :.:V
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