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BIGNALL JONES, Editor
Member North Carolina Press Association
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Voting Process Deplorable
During the past weekend we
noticed in The Roxboro Courier
instructions for operating voting
machines and on Tuesday
afternoon as these comments are
being recorded and as we face a
long night of hand-counting of
ballots we find ourselves somewhat
envious of Person County.
We realize that Person has a
broad tax base, due in great part
to the establishment of a giant
Carolina Power and Light
Company plant at Roxboro, and
that Warren County is not so
fortunate and to squeeze money
for voting machines into the
county budget at the present time
may be far-fetched, if not an impossible
task, but something must
be done within the next two years
to improve the deplorable voting
process within the county.
Judging from experiences of the
past several years it appears
doubtful that all returns will be in
before the late hours of the night,
and possibly before the sun rises
on Wednesday morning. We trust
that we are unduly pessimistic.
The trouble lies in the counting of
ballots.
True in some of the smaller
precincts time of counting and
phoning the returns to the
Warrenton election office is not all
that could be desired, but the
delay in the larger precincts is
due to the magnitude of the task
facing those tallying the voles.
Take West Warrenton, for instance,
the largest precinet in
Warren County, and multiply the
ballots by the number of names on
each ballot and the magnitude of
the task becomes apparent. This
could be reduced of course by
employing a greater number <rf
persons to count the ballots, but
that increases the costs of holding
the election and possibly a need
for larger precincts. Maybe
_buying voting machines for a poor
county may not be too ridiculous.
We hcpe that our commissioners
will investigate the possibility
before the next primary. Maybe
several of the precincts could be
combined to the point that voting
machines would be feasible.
Certainly the combining of East
and West Warrenton precincts
would eliminate the cost of three
officials as well as the cost of
those employed to tally the ballots
in two precincts since a voting
machine takes care of that
problem.
Frankly, we don't know what
should be done, but we have set
forth these thoughts in the hope
that it will stimulate thinking
toward a solution.
How Democrats
Solicited Votes
Bv ORVILLE CAMPBELL
In The Chapel Hill Newspaper
Back in the days when the Democratic
Party represented the poor
people, candidates and supporters
would go into a restaurant and instead
of leaving a tip would leave a card
that said. "Vote Republican." This
would make the waiters so mad that
they would go out and vote Democratic
"Who. father, is that gentleman?"
asked the young man. pointing to a
man standing on the dais of the House
of Representatives.
"That, my son." said the father, "is
the chaplain of the House."
Does he pray for the members?"
asked the son
The father thought for a minute and
then said. "No. my son; when he goes
into the House he looks around, sees
the members sitting there, and prays
for the country."
Quotes
Babies are such a nice way to start
people. - Don Herold.
I was so ugly when I was brought
into the world the doctor slapped my
mother. - Phyllis Diller.
News Of 10, 25 And 40 Years
Looking Back Into The Record
May 7.1970
Skies were blue in Warren
County all day
Saturday as voters went
to the polls to cast their
votes in the Democratic
Primary but on Saturday
night as the count was
made the skies fell on all
five county commissioners
as they were swept
out of office.
A radio station for Warrenton,
under consideration
for several months,
is expected to be in
operation by mid-summer.
A lot of dogs in Warren
County have not been listed
for taxation or vaccinated,
with less than SO
percent of the dogs
having been both listed
and vaccinated, C. J.
Fleming, Warren County
Dog Warden, said this
week.
May 13.1K5
Fire of unknown origin
completely destroyed the
Ridgeway depot on
Thursday morning
around 3:00 o'clock.
Burned with other contents
were approximately
300 tool of fertilizer, the
piuperty of Smith-Dour
lass Fertilizer Company
of Norfolk, Va.
A student piano recital
will be given at the John
Graham High School on
Wednesday night, May
18, at 8:15.
Local students taking
part will be Clinton Neal,
Jr., Betsy Read, Larry
Jenning, Tasker Polk,
Harriet Daniel, Tom
Banzet, Lyndell Aycock,
Betsy Byrd Bobbitt and
Carol Reams.
The John Graham
School Band, consisting
of 53 pieces, will be
presented in concert
Monday, May 16, at 8:00
o'clock in the auditorium,
under the direction of
Robert M. Davis, Director.
May 1«, 1*4*
A proposal for an option
to purchase Hotel Warren
for $18,000 was refused by
the board of town commissioners
at their regular
meeting here on
Monday night. The offer
was made by S. M.
Gardner who was acting
for his brother who is
engaged in the hotel
busiaen.
Leading her classmates
in scholastic attainment
during her
entire school career, Miss
Lucy Davis Seaman was
awarded a medal by
Principal Paul Cooper
during seventh grade
promotion exercises last
Friday for making the
highest grades of any
student during her seven
years in school. Miss
Fairfax Mitchell rated
second to Miss Seaman.
Hundreds of homes ol
Warren County will be
electrified tonight for the
first time providing authorities
grant the Halifax
Electrification Corp
oration oermission tc
energize today the 13(
miles of power linei
which have been strung
over this area by tlx
Rural Electrification Ad
ministration.
ADVERTISEMENT Pittard
Motor Servici
announce that it ii
handling the finest car o
lowest price in America
Roomy. restfut-ridini
Studebaker Champion
29.19 miles per gallon ii
official teal - with price
beginning at 9600.
Mostly Personal
Stock Subscribers
Were Numerous
By RUiNAl | JONES
In this column last
week I listed a number of
objects for which the
Peck Manufacturing
Company was chartered.
Briefly they permitted
the company to engage in
real estate, building,
general merchandising,
warehousing the manufacture
of various textiles
in addition to cotton, the
erection of cotton gins,
cotton oil business, the
manufacture of machinery
and tools
Other objects of the
company as stated in the
charter were:
(k) To erect, own and
operate, or cause to be
operated, a plant or
plants for the manufacture
of ice and to buy. sell
or otherwise deal in ice
by wholesale and retail.
(1) To carry on the business
of an electric light
company in all of its
branches and in particular
to construct, lay
down, establish. fix,
carry out and operate all
necessary cables, wires,
lines. accumulators,
lamps, conductors, rods
and works and to generate,
accumulate, distribute
and supply electricity
and to light cities,
towns, streets, docks,
markets, theaters, buildings
and places both
manufacturing or any
other purposes for which
electricity may be used. .
The company was
empowered to buy stock
of any other company.
Lack of space prevents
listing of further powers
covering several legal
pages.
The total authorized
capital stock of the
company was five hundred
thousand dollars
($500,000) divided into
five thousand shares of
the par value of one
hundred dollars each; but
the charter stated that
corporation may organize
and begin business
when one hundred and
eleven thousand and six
hundred dollars ($111,G00.00)
of such capital
stock, composed of 1116
shares shall have been
subscribed for and as
much as twenty-five thousand
dollars ($25,000) has
been paid in.
Those not listing their
addresses as Warrenton,
and the number of shares
purchased were as follows:
R. A. Jackson,
Palmer Springs. Va., 10;
B. R. Palmer, Merry
Mount. 5; J. R. Paschall,
Wise. 10; J. M. Coleman,
Macon. 5; W. S. Griffin,
Lawrenceville, Va., 5; W.
S. Terrell, Warren
Plains. 2; J. L. Coleman,
Macon. 3; W. H. Pridgen,
Creek, 10.
Those from Warrenton
subscribing stock and the
number of shares were as
follows:
Thomas D. Peck, 700;
J. M. Gardner, 40; C. N.
Williams. 40; E. L.
Weaver, 10; W. T.
Johnson. 10; E. G.
Rogers. 21; Frank Serls,
5; J. C. Hardy, 1; R. B.
Boyd. 20; John Graham,
5; C. C. Hunter, 3, W. N.
Boyd. 2; C. H. Peete, 10;
W. H. Riggan. 5; H. A.
Moseley, 2; P. J. Macon,
6; H. T. Macon. 5; J.
Willie White, 3; W H.
Burroughs, 2; W. H.
Dameron, 5; W. W.
Taylor. 3; B. P. Terrell
2; B. G. Green, 3; H. J
White, 10; Edmund
White. 2; John C. Bur
well, 2; M. P. Burwell
15; Tasker Polk, 5; J. J
Tarwater, 10; Minnie W
! Lifsey, 7; J. H. Kerr, 5;
i Herbert Alston, 5; R. T
f Watson, 5; C. E. Jackson
16; H. N. Walters, 10; J
I P. Scoggin, 5; W. B
Boyd, 20; W. A. Graham
I 1; H. L. Falkener, Jr., 5
i J A. Dameron, Jr., 1; A
D. Harris, 5; W. D
Rodgers I; L W Wilker.
S; Lizzie M Tarwater. 5:
E S Allen 10; John S.
Davis. 10; M M Pendleton.
for Hunter Drug
Company. 2.
When ! first read the
charter I was intrigued
by both the wording of the
charter and the powers
given the corporation,
and failed at the time to
realize the amount of
space that would be
required to give the
abbreviated listing that I
have used, making it
longer than I preferred
Since completing the
three columns. I received
a telephone call from
Thomas Peck of Henderson.
telling me that he
enjoyed the write up and
offering to give me
further information about
his father and a number
of pictures, one of which
showed his father, sitting
in a buggy upon which
was written "Peck Manufacturing
Co."
I believe that this would
make an interesting
column, which I look
forward to running later
in the summer, either in a
shorter column than the
one used on Peck Manufacturing
Company, or as
a feature article.
Letter To
The Editor
To The Editor:
The Warren Record has
recently reported a number
of events that indicate
a possible rise in
serious crime by the
young people of our
county. I am sure that
many of your readers
were disturbed by these
reports. Juvenile crime is
a critical problem nationwide
and recent events
raise the possibility that
Warren County will soon
join the more urban areas
in seeing juvenile crime
as a serious problem.
What can be done to
prevent this? What can
be done to insure that our
children can grow up in
the best possible environment?
These and other
questions will be asked in
a "Forum on Juvenile
Problems" to be held at
John Graham High
School on Monday, May
19. at 7:30 p. m.
Professionals from the
school system, court
system and mental health
will make short presentations
but the main focus
will be on the private
citizen, giving them the
opportunity to make
comments, ask questions
and suggest answers to
the problems facing our
young people and our
county.
I want to urge all of
the citizens of Warren
County to attend this
Forum. The future of our
young people must be the
concern of all citizens and
not just a handful of
professionals.
DENNIS RETZLAFF
Peu and Food
Don't krrp pel feeding
dishes or toys near any food
preparation or storage area.
Don't let your pets wander on
countertops where food may
be placed.
Courthouse Squares
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JUST BECAUSE THC
PEOPLE ARt hOLLEBlMG
AT EACH OTHER, THAT
DOESN'T Al\AAVS MEAN
IT'S A SOUND ^
Daring Commando Raid ■
By REP. L. H.
FOUNTAIN
WASHINGTON, D C.
Few events in recent
memory have shaken the
nation in quite the same
way as the news that a
small group of American
commandos had covertly
entered Iran in an
attempt to rescue our
hostages, but failed in
their mission The shock
of the failure, the loss of
American lives on Iranian
soil, and the barbaric
acts of the Iranian authorities
in desecrating the
American bodies have
gripped the nation's attention.
When news of the failed
mission broke. I was in
North Carolina where I
had gone by auto late the
night before. After listening
to President Carter on
television at 7:00 a. m.
that morning, I later
boarded a plane for
Washington to receive a
secret briefing along with
other members of the
House Foreign Affairs
Committee from top level
officials of the State and
Defense Departments.
After the briefing, I
returned home for a full
weekend of activities.
Of course, much of the
full story is still not
known, and may never be
known - and maybe for
good reason. The release
of every detail would not
only cause an excess of
"Monday morning quarterbacking,"
but it might
also tip our hand as to any
further plans our government
may have for the
rescue of the hostages, if
still possible.
At a time like this, what
we need more than anything
else is national
unity, for we have only
one Commander-in-Chief,
and a determination to
keep trying in every
responsible and plausible
way through whatever
means we still have at
our disposal - again and
again - until we are
successful in getting our
people home.
Obviously, the unbelievable
chain of bad
luck, and possibly some
bad judgment, or both,
which resulted in the
failure of such a daring
commando raid will
make any such attempt in
the future far more
difficult, especially if all
the hostages are now
detained in different
locations in Iran.
From talking with
people in North Carolina
and in Washington, even
where emotions are mixed
and filled with doubt, it
is evident that most
people support the President
in what he was
trying to do. I think they
accept his explanation,
that the plans and
preparations made for
the raid, though filled
with risk, justified his
decision to act as he did,
when he did.
Simply put, it appeared
we had no other choice.
The tyrannical fanatics
who rule that God-forsaken
land had time and time
again rejected reasonable
and responsible
attempts to negotiate a
solution. Their lies and
falsehoods had become so
commonplace as to merit
almost no attention at all.
I am pleased that the
Administration began to
make plans for the rescue
mission almost as soon as
the hostages were taken
It was a bold mission and
a necessary attempt,
which should have been
tried earlier, to redeem
some of our lost national
esteem and honor.
As we enter a new
phase of the Iranian
crisis, however unwelcome
it may be, we
should all remember that
we are not dealing with
rational beings in that
ancient and backward
land Rather, we are
dealing with a group of
people who do not
understand simple basic
human concepts like
responsibility, honor, or
integrity. This means
that our government
should not be expected to
pursue precisely traditional
courses of action.
We must be flexible, and
as painful as the process
is, cautious and secure in
whatever we do to solve
this seemingly insolvable
problem.
While our country failed
on this first rescue
attempt, and while we
should not make a lot of
threats that we are not
prepared to back up, the
ruthless Iranians in control
should not and hopefully
will not forget that
we mean business when it
comes to protecting our
national interests anywhere
in the world.
We may not always
succeed, but our country,
described by many foreign
leaders throughout
the world as the last
bastion of freedom on
earth, must never fail to
try, always seeking
peace, but willing to
defend our people, our
soil, and our honor by any
and all reasonable and
necessary means at our
disposal.
Scout Troop Meets For
Mother's Day Project
Members of Hawkins
Junior High Cadette Girl
Scout Troop No 398 latest
troop project was designed
to produce happiness
on Mother's Day.
Each girl used her
creativity to make something
out of paper to
present to her mother on
Mother's Day. Each girl
also wrote an original
poem especially for her
mother. Most girls chose
to make a bouquet of red
roses.
The girls had fun
completing this project
but also used this
opportunity to complete a
cadette challenge and
earn a cadette insignia.
The troop is the only
Cadette troop in Warren
County. Members of the
troop are Sherry Baker,
Brenda Cheek, Dannette
Colbert, Shirley Debnam,
Linda Falcon, Annie
Hargrove, Holly Howell, ,
Clementine Judkins, Delois
Judkins, Bernice
Kearney, Vernice Kearney,
Dorothy Maynard,
Maggie Patrick, Carol
Swain, Johnsie Taylor
and Muzetta Williams.
Mrs. Eva. G. Howell
serves as troop leader.
from HISTORY'S SCRAPBOOK
DATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
May 8, 1878 — Paul Hines, Providence outfielder, makes 1st
unassisted triple play in history of baseball, in a game with Boston.
May 9, 1926 — Lt. Comdr. Richard I. Byrd and Floyd Bennett,
in a 3-engine Fokker airplane, make 1st flight over North Pole from
Spitsbergen Island.
May 10, 1968 — Peoce talks between United States and
North Vietnam open in Paris.
May 11, 1846 — President James K. Polk asks Congress to
declare war on Mexico, which "has invaded our American soil."
May 12, 1942 — last U.S. troops in Philippines surrender to
Japanese on Mindanao.
May 13, 1914 — Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion,
1937-49, born Chambers County, Ala.
May 14, 1942 — Congress establishes Women's Auxiliary Army
Corps.