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ffib* Varrrn JRworii Published Every Thursday By The Record Printing Company P. O. BO* 70 - WABRENTON, N. C. 27389 BIGNALL JONES, Editor ? DUKy JONES, Business Manager Member North Carolina Press Association EN-ERED 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." QTTBQrDTPTTnV X? A TEHJ . ?NE YEAR, $3.00; SUC MONTHS, $1.30 OUDOtmrilUIN nAlCi5.OUT OF mTI1 ONE YEAR. $4.00} SIX MONTHS. $2.00 School Prospects Bright Among the brightest outlooks for the advancement of Warren County is that of an improved and great ly strengthened school year. While many schools over the state and na tion are torn by bitterness and un certainty over integration, Warren County has a full year of integra tion behind it without unfortunate in cident, and is expecting one of its most successful school years. War ren County's experience, as well as the experience of Franklin County, could well demonstrate that the worst thing people have to fear is fear itself. The transition from separate to integrated schools was not easy and was particularly hard on Supt. Peeler and the school board and the principals and teachers. That they accepted the court decision and worked to build a school system of which we may be proud is to their credit and they are due the thanks of all our people. Also due our thanks are the attitude and de termination of Students who made it work. A favorite sport of the public is to denounce the federal govern ment for its "interference" with the operation of our schools. But on the other hand it must be recognized that many of the real im provements in our schools would have been impossible without the expenditure of large amounts of federal funds. These funds have enabled John Graham to have a library of which any school could be proud. It has been responsible for the addition of a carpentry course at John Graham. It has been respon sible for the employment of spec ial teachers, for special courses, for teachers' aides and many other additions. The school administration has taken advantage of these special funds to introduce needed facili ties in the schools, to strengthen faculties to reduce first grade teaching loads, and to strengthen the schools in many respects. Instead of ruination of our schools it now appears that Warren County could well have the strongest pub lic school system in its history. System Deserves Change The Durham Sun One of the problems oi Joint government al programs was highlighted this week by Gov. Bob Scott when he suggested the federal government take over the full cost of the wel fare system. , . The governor, tired of wrestling with the problem of getting some Tar Heel counties to raise enough money to pay their share of welfare bills, proposed that the U. S. government take over all costs Incurred by the welfare program. Now the federal, state and county govern ments split the cost of welfare programs ? with the federal level providing more of the funds. In North Carolina, the federal govern ment puts In about $150 million in the state's social program. However, 27 counties in the state have not yet paid their full share of welfare program costs - particularly In the Medicaid section of welfare assistance. Because of the lack, the state is In danger of losing all the full $130 million In federal welfare aid. Gov. Scott has a point in his suggestion that the federal government pick up the full tab on welfare. H the federal government insists ?as it does ? on setting the minimum level of wel fare payments, It should bear the responsi bility of financing those programs. Under the present system, rural counties with low-value tax bases can run short of tax funds, particularly when an openended pro gram such as Medicaid Is imposed on them. As the governor pointed out, the federal government pays about 74 per cent of the cost of welfare, the state puts in 14 per cent and the counties provide the remain ing 12 percent. "Essentially, it is a federal program andthe state has some jurisdiction in It. The counties have none," he observed. Little more than the governor'sobservatlon is needed to support action along one of two lines. Either the welfare program should be made more flexible, with the counties getting some control over payments, or the federal govern ment should take over the full cost of financing the plan. The county governments should not be putln a position of having to provide a share of the tax revenue required to operate the program if they cannot control the total required to be spent. Correctional Institution The Charlotte Observer Gov. Bob Scott took one long look around the Inside of the North Carolina prison sys tem and promptly called for a blue ribbon commission of lawyers to study ways of Improving the system. The overriding responsibility of that com mission Is to make the people of North Caro lina as impatient for Improvement as the Governor. There Is, of course, much that remains to be discovered about how to turn prisons Into correctional Institutions worthy of the name. But in North Carolina, as in so many other states, we aren't even making the im provements that penologists have worked out already. As chief Justice Warren E. Burger told the National Governors Conference earlier this month, most of us are "Sunday Christ ians" when It comes to the prison systems. We aren't willing to pay the price that could produce social redemption for' many men and women who break the law. Our prisons are, at best, custodial rath er than correctional Institutions. At worst, we are crime schools for many prison ers and brutalizing horror houses for many otters. State Correction Commissioner Lee Bounds Slow (Mac so far In Us bid Just to mora control over Um prison bamstes. ? the prison doors are prisoners are etiec tivaty k control at tlx prisons. wt to I remedy tor th to k, la expensive. Bat It **r n m MM dens" a state must handle. Obviously, though, letting prisons serve as way stations along the path of crime adds a large burden. The prison system must be seen In Its role as a partner with the police and the courts In the system of justice. We must recognize that the best law enforcement agencies and the best judicial system possible can't serve North Carolina as they should un less they are backed up by a corrections system capable of rehabilitating the guilty. The commission members named by Gov. Bob Scott have the prestige and the ability to dramatize both the needs of the prison system and the urgency of meeting those needs. We hope they make the most of their chance to make the rest of the state as Impatient for action as the Governor. Something Fishy Billy Artnur In chapel Hill Weekly A man was several hundred dollars short of money tor his planned six-month European tour and went to the bank where he had done business for years to borrow the balance. He was refused the loan. He then went to another bank and his loan was promptly granted. t | ifi immediately went to the local fish ' Antot bought a five-pound fish and placed It la his safety deposit box at the first bank and then gleefully departed for his slx mooth trip. Quotes Middle age Is when a noisy )olnt is your .-Bill Leary. You can always Ml a man who's head of On house. W a bachelor. -Franklin P. Mostly Personal By BIGNALL JONES A small thlug can trigger memory and such was the case on Sunday afternoon. We usually take a late Sunday afternoon ride to some point In the coun ty. Sunday as we were riding near Embro our progress was held up by several cows and a large bull crossing the highway. I made some remark to my wife about the bull and was reminded of the Victorian age In which I was reared. In society between men and women there was no such thing as a bull. Sometime the animal was referred to as a steer, a misnomer, or more often as a gentleman cow, if any refer ence at all was forced. As late as the early twenties, Stud was also taboo. Two popu lar brands of smoking tobacco were Prince Albert and Stud. One day as I was trying to smoke a pipe at a country store and talking to a young lady I asked her younger sister if she would get me a package of Prince Albert from the store. She returned a few minutes later and with flaming cheeks reported that the store was out of Prince Albert but had a sack of tobacco containing the picture of a horse. In my childhood there was in polite society between the sexes no such thing as a leg; it was a limb; even arms were often re ferred to as limbs. There were no pregnant women, not even expectant women. They were referred to as being confined; as they usually were for several months before the blessed event. At that time a familiar sight was colored women mostly and sometimes white women, sitting on the steps of Warren stores nursing babies. In spite of this solid evidence that women had breasts, It was a well kept secret in conversation between the two sexes. The same Victorian stand ards were found In ourlitera ture. When an author found it necessary to use the word hell, he always wrote It h-11. The same procedure was used In the word damn, which was written d--m. Of course there was no reference at all, not even the Initials, to designate the son of a female dog, and the words were fighting words when used between men. We as boys didn't use the epithet and when we desired to convey the meaning it was "you got it on you." Once when some one during ball play in the field separating our home from that of Mr. M. P. Burwell told Williard Ellington that Duke said he "had it on him," Williard replied, "Well, Duke's a d--n lie." I thought thiswas about the most sensible reply that I had ever heard. It is refreshing that most of that prudery has passed with time but I do feel that the pendulum has swung too far the other way In the written word and now I often find in what Is supposed to be high ton ed magazines and books, words that in my childhood I only found scribbled on the walls of an outhouse, and filth being used for what seems to be for the use of filth. This convinces me that In all gain there Is some loss, and what loss of prudery we have gained in the spoken language, we may well have lost In the written word. There are a few four-letter words that even now In this "enlightened" age I do not care to use, perhaps due to my early training, but quite often I find them used in a great number of books. One of these words is parti cularly obnoxious to me. A few years ago I was reading a book written by a North Carolina popular novelist, when the main character ejaculated this par ticular word. It happened at a time when I was particularly fed up with literary filth and loose morals, so I proceeded to give a bad review of. the book. Later I learned the book was written by the son-in-law of a good friend of mine, to my regret. But I have i yet to finish the novel. Harrell To Teach Carpentry Course William Harrell of Durham will report today (Thursday) for his duties of Instructor at the carpentry shop to be operated this year at John Graham High School. Harrell has operated Har rell'* Cabinet Shop In Durham for several years. He is mar ried and the father of three children, Gloria, SO a Junior at wmcato Collate; Debbie 14, a student at Carrin?too junior Hich In Durham and Larry W. Jr., a senior at Carringtoc Senior Hifh School In Durham. Harrell is maklnc his home at the Warrantee hotel while he Three Drunk Driving Cases On Court Docket Three drunk driving cases were on the Warren County District Court docket Friday following the criminal term of Superior Court. One of the cases was tried and the other two cases were continued. Joseph Perry, Jr., was found guilty of drunk driving and was sentenced to Jail for 90 days. The sentence was suspended for three yeirs provided the de fendant surrenders his driving license to Clerk of Court and not operate a motor ve hicle upon public highways for 12 months, pays a $150 fine and court costs and not be guil ty of drunk driving for three years. The defendant appealed to Superior Court and appear ance bond was set at $200. A case against Robert Lee Champion, charging drunk driv ing was continued for de fendant until Sept. 11. A drunk driving case against Sidney Allen Beckham was con tinued for defendant until Sept. 4. James Calvin Miller was or dered to pay a $5.00 fine and court costs when he pled guilty | to operating a car left of cen- j ter of the highway. Charles Frank Holloman was \ charged with speeding 65 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone. The case was continued for the defendant until Sept. 25. Forest Eugene Vaughan was ordered to pay a $20 fine and court costs when he pled guilty to a charge of speeding 75 miles per hour In a 55 mph zone. Richard Livings Bobbitt failed to appear In court to answer to a charge of speed ing 75 miles per hour in a 60 mph zone. The case was con tinued until Sept. 4. The state took anol pros with leave in the case of William Jordan Bledsoe, charged with failing to drive on right side of highway. James Clarence Hardee was charged with falling to report an accident. The case was continued for the defendant searches for a home. He does not intend to move his family to Warrenton until after the first six weeks term of school in Durham. The Harrell family are mem bers of the Baptist Church. until Sept. 11. Sprig Haywood Williams fail ed to appear In court to ans wer to a charge of speeding 55 miles per hour In a 45 mph zone. Capias was Issued to Sheriff of Warren County and bond was set at $40 for his appearance at Sept. 4 term of court. The state took a nolpros with leave In case of Charles H. Callaway, charged with im proper parking on paved portion of road with no lights. Wallace E. Neal failed to ap pear In court to answer to a charge of giving a worthless check. Capias to issue and bond fixed at $200 for his appearance in court on Sept. 4. Lorenzo Wlnfred Murphys was ordered to pay court costs when he pled guilty to public drunkenness. The state took a nol pros with leave in the case of Eva Mare field, charged with public drunkenness. Betty Jean Towns, charged with assault with a deadly wea pon, pled guilty of simple assault. Prayer for judgment was continued for two years on condition that the defendant pays a $40 fine and court costs and is not found guilty of any crime involving assault fortwo years. A case against Melville How- | ard Hicks, Jr., was continued i to Sept. 4. He was charged with speeding 69 miles per hour | In a 55 mph zone. Isaac Marks failed to appear i In court to answer to a charge of failing to list and vaccinate I two dogs. Capias to issue to Sheriff of Warren County and bond set at $75 for appearance at Sept. 4 term of court. James Paschall, found guilty of failing to list and vaccinate two dogs, was ordered to pay court costs. James Burnart was ordered to pay a $10 fine and court costs when he pled guilty to a charge of speeding 50mllesper hour In a 35 mph zone. Geologists believe there are many more volcanoes hidden beneath the sea than the 500 or 600 volcanoes?active and dormant?known on land, the National Geographic Society says. ? ' .. WALKER Walker Presented Bronze Star Medal Army Specialist Four Floyd Walker, Jr., son of Mr. andMrs. Floyd Walker of the Olive Grove community on Route 3, Little ton, was recently decorated with the Bronze Star while serving in Vietnam. He is with the H. H. C. Aviation Bn. (AH) 101st Airborne Division. Walker, a 1967 graduate of North Warren High School, at tended Durham Technical School in Durham where he studied Drafting for one year. He received his basic train ing at Fort Bragg before going to Fort Dix to school and where be received a diploma. From Fort Dix he went to Vietnam where he has been since Janu ary. MISS WALKER Miss Walker Receives Master Of Arts Degree Glorl.i Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Walker of the Olive Grove community on Route 3, Littleton, received her Master of Arts Degree in So ciology from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn , on Aug. 24. She has accepted a position In Orangebui g, S, C., where shf will be Instructor South Carolina State College In the Sociology Department. Miss Walker graduated from North Carolina Central Univer sity In Durham on June 1, 1969, when she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. In the fall of 1969 she continued her education at Fisk University where she studied for a year and a summer session. NOTICE DOVE HUNTERS HUNT ON MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 7th. George W. Davis Farm **5: HWY. 58, 9 MILES SOl'TH OF WARRENTON. Hunters must act in lawful and safe sporting manner. Plenty of doves ? Shooting hours from 1:00 'til sunset. 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