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iUtfp Barrrn Rnorfc Pubksh»0 Evfy Thursday By lUcord Printing Company P 0 Bom 70 - W»»enton. N. C. 27589 BIGNALL JONES, Editor Member Noah Carolina Press Association ENTERED AS SECONDCLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE /N WARRENTON NORTH CAROLINA. UMOER THE lAWS OF CONGRESS Second Ciass Postage Pa«J At Warrent&n N C SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 0*0. s.o* $ 6.50 9*t V«0r $ 8.50 P«r Y«Or $ 4.00 S»* Months $ 5.00 S<* Month* A Beautiful Tribute Because of our deep admiration for Congressman Richardson Preyer, appreciation of his service to his state and his country as a member of the North Carolina Delegation in the National House of Representatives, we are re producing an editorial from The Greensboro Daily News following Preyer's defeat in the Reagan landslide of Nov. 4. The editorial, reproduced in Sunday's News and Observer, is notonly a tribute to a good and decent irin, but is beau tifully written. It reads as follows: In The Greensboro Dally News One might say that Richardson Preyer began preparing for his defeat in the 1980 Sixth District congres sional race on the day he was born. He grew up in a wealthy Southern family, heir to a pharmaceutical com pany fortune and heir to the philoso phy that wealthy men must serve their fellows where they can, with modesty and intelligence. This philosophy has deep roots in the South, particularly in the region's politics. Thomas Jefferson is its patron saint. His lineage includes the likes of LeRoy Percy of Mississippi, a man of wealth and principle, and a fierce opponent of a concurrent strain in Southern politics, the demagogu ery of the Bilbos, the Vardamans and the Longs. To such men as Percy and Richardson Preyer, public service was the ideal, and reason ruled emotion. Representative Preyer has evinced precisely those qualities throughout his career of public service, first as a judge, then as a gubernatorial candi date and, for the last 12 years, as a congressman in the U. S. House of Representatives. There is no room here to summarize Mr. Preyer's congressional career. Suffice to say that he served his constituents' interests with a quiet diligence and a self-effacing integrity. Ironical as it may seem, such attri butes served him poorly on Tuesday at the polls. On that day, as people here and elsewhere across the nation scanned the stormy skies across America, they felt anger, confusion and fear. They wanted a change. In the face of such desire, a quiet, reasonable voice like Mr. Preyer's was as so much muffled thunder in the distance. "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive," they seemed to say, echoing Mark Twain, "but it is lightning that does the work." So saying, they voted for Gene Johnston, Preyer's Republican opponent, a man who seems to break fast on bowls of lightning bolts. Where Preyer promised service, Johnston promised results. Where the incumbent sought to illumine problems, the challenger built bonfires of solutions. Gene Johnston ran a good race. He may become a good congressman. He is intelligent, industrious and committed to his ideas. But one thing is certain: The contrast between the two men and their philosophies is stark. Johnston, a self-made millionaire, sees the world in his own biography: Anything is possible when people are left to their own initiative, especially by a meddlesome government. His is a seductive vision. Preyer's on the other hand, seems more opaque. He found his biography in history: From him to whom much is given, much is expected; the private aristocrat became the public's servant. This election saw that old tradition prove Richardson Preyer's undoing. To have it any other way, he would have to be a different man. He would have to unlearn all he knows of this respect for the institutions of government. He would have to spurn his love of details and his steadfast belief in the complexity of reality. He would be forced to barter all he has championed for another chance at success. Throughout his campaign, he acknowledged the fears and frustrations of the people; often enough he hunkered down among constituents mired in their own impatience. But he refused to doff his servant's robes for the trappings of a savior. His dispassionate tongue was lit by no pentecostal fires. To his challenger's scathing attack, he responded in cool and often muted ways. So he lost. That is disappointing, for Richard son Preyer and the many people he served so well for so long. If there is solace, it is to be found in the remark able shape and story of his career. Look there and learn. You shall not soon see its like. News Of 10, 25 And 40 Years Ago Looking Back Into The Record Nov. 12,1970 The Warren County Board of County Commis sioners at their regular session last Thursday ex pressed the hope that taxes from beer and wine sales in excess of budget estimates would be enough to pay for a new ambulance for Warren County. Sunday sale of beer for off-premises consump tion in all sections of the county not embraced in corporate munici palities except during church hours was approv ed ^y the Board of Warren County Commis sioners at their regular meeting on last Thurs day. The Warren General Hospital Board of Trus tees is seeking funds for a painting of the late Dr. Frank Patterson Hunter to be hung in the hospital lobby and for the furnish ing of an ultra modern room in his honor, Hal W. Cornell announced yes terday. The room is to be fitted with an electric bed. Nov. 11,1955 The life of Warren County moonshiners should become a little more uncomfortable and less profitable should a plan of the county to obtain seven walkie-talk ies from the Army's surplus without cost to the county meet with success. Three unidentified men died in the crash of a light plane near the George Bender home south of Norlina around noon yesterday. The plane struck a power wire as it attempt ed to land in a field near the Bender home and the occupants were burned following the crash. The Board of County Commissioners on Mon day called for sealed bids for the construction of a Welfare Building on the original Warren County Hospital grounds. The total costs of the building with beat and plumbing is expected to be from $12,000 to $15,000. Nov. 8,1940 The home of R. B. Chapel], tenant on the farm of Lem Harris, was destroyed by fire Wed nesday morning around 10 o'clock. The fire, which is believed to have started from a defective flue, also destroyed the furniture and other household goods in the dwelling. A family reunion was held at Berry Hill, home of the late William A. Burwell, last Sunday to observe the 42nd wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. George Allen of New York. Fifty relatives from Warrenton, Oxford, Henderson, New York, Lynchburg, Durham and Richmond were present for the celebration. Mrs. Julian Butler of Warrenton is recovering in Park View Hospital, Rocky Mount, from severe burns she sustain ed in her apartment this week when she slipped and fell on the stove. Mr. Butler visited her at Rocky Mount on Tues day. Mostly Personal Don't Take Calomel! - By BIGNALL JONES Advertising can be interesting as well as news articles. I think this is borne out in the June 14, 1918, issue of The Warren Record contri • buted to us by Mrs. Jack Scott of Warren ton, from which several front page stories were reproduced in this column last week. A half-page advt. on the back page of the June 14, 1918, issue of The Warren Record from The War renton Department Store tells of special sale on "The Keep-Kool Suit - The All-American-Made Garment . " The store said it had for sale 40 of these woolen suits, spring and fall weights, specially priced at 30 to 40 per cent reduction. The advt. also stressed the need to adopt the policy of using only American fabrics. In an advt. half the size of that of the Warrenton Department Store, Ed mund White of Warrenton adveitised Clean Com Meal, ground on a Meadows Mill which ground the meal after removing weevils, trash and other filth from the corn. The Professional Cards were headed by the card of Dr. Charles H. Peete, Warrenton, N. C., Tele phone 99. Other physicians hav ing cards in this paper were: G. H. Macon, M.D. Office Hours by Appoint ment. Office next door to Miss Effie Ellington's Store. Phone 82. W. D. Rodgers, Jr., M.D. Office In the H. A. Boyd Building on Court Square. Phone 59. If not in office - Try Phone 2. Dentists with cards in the column were: Dr. W. W. Taylor, Surgeon Dentist, Warren ton, N. C. Office Phone 52; Residence Phone 54. Dr. H. N. Walters, Surgeon Dentist, Warren ton, N. C. Office Phone 59; Residence Phone 66. Lawyers represented were: Pittman and Williams, Atty-At-Law. P. M. Pitt man, Henderson, N. C. B. B. Williams, Warrenton, N. C. Superior and Supreme Court Practice. Other cards were: A. C. YOW-DVM-J. S. Dorton. Yow and Dorton, Veterinarians, Hender son, North Carolina. Stark's Dixie Castings - Genuine plowpoints. C. E. Jackson. Insert Under Dentists Dr. R. S. Booth, Dentist, Warrenton, N. C. Office in Dameron Build ing. Residence Phone 138-J; Office Phone 69. - - • In those days patent medicine advertisement was a source of revenue for the weekly papers of state and nation, and the four-page Warren Record carried its fair share. One of these warned "That Calomel is quicksilver and acts like dynamite on your liver, and attacks the bones." It suggests; "When you feel bilious, sluggish, constipated and all knocked out and believe you need a dose of dangerous calomel, just remember that your druggist sells for a few cents a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is entirely vegeta ble and pleasant to take and is a perfect substitute for calomel. It is guaran teed to start your liver without stirring you up inside, and cannot sali vate. "Don't take calomel! It makes you sick the next day; it loses you a day's work. Dodson's Liver Tone straightens you right up and you feel great. Give it to the children because it is perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe." Another advt., appear ing twice, states that PAZO Ointment cures Piles in from 6 to 14 days. Another advt. advises readers to "Just try one 50-cent bottle of Las-Fos With Pepsin, for Indiges tion, Constipation or Biliousness." There are several other such advts. on other pages, as well as a display advt. from W. A. Miles Hardware Com pany ; the New Perfection Oil Company; Freiden berg's; Hunter Drug Company; and W. R. Strickland who advertis es "Overland, The Thrift Car -More than 500,000 in use." Thr Want Ads Column of some (our inches, contained the following advts. GOOD FRESH MILK - At twelve cents a quart. Two deliveries each day. Phone 49. Mrs Hal Macon. YOU CAN GET - Good Pine and Cypress Shin gles, flooring, ceiling and weather boarding from Edmund White, Warren ton, N. C. FOR SALE — Improved stock pigs. Any quantity. J. R. Paschall, Merry Mount, N. C. BINDER TWINE - Grain Crs lies and Grass blades. J. E. Miles Hard ware Store, Norlina. N. C. CAROLINA CORN CULr TIVATORS - and cul. wheels, Acme and 50 tooth Harrows, Disc. Plows and Disc Cultiva tors. J. E. Miles Hdwe Company, Norlina, N. C. GALVANIZED CRIMP ROOFING: Galvanized Shingles, Ever Wear Rubber Roofing, Red Cedar Shingles. Buy here and save money. J. E. Miles Hdwe Company, Norlina, N. C. The Public Record Warren Deed Transfers Hattie Plummer Jones and others to Vicey Plummer Harvey and husband, 8.5 acres in Fishing Creek Township. Vernon Kemp Plum mer and others to Clemon E. Plummer and wife, 8.5 acres in Fishing Creek Township. Clemon E. Plummer and others to Isaiah Plummer, 8.5 acres in Fishing Creek Township. Isaiah Plummer and others to Vernon Kemp Plummer and wife, 8.5 acres in Fishing Creek Township. Vernon Kemp Plum mer and others to Hattie Plummer Jones, 8.5 acres in Fishing Creek Town ship. Tanglewood Land Com pany Inc., to Gene Stone burner and wife, certain lot in Roanoke Township. Tanglewood Land Com pany to Glen G. Collins and wife, a certain lot in Roanoke Township. Tanglewood Land Com pany to William C. Wallace and wife, a certain lot in Roanoke Township. Jasper P. Johnson and wife to Watson Wood Co., certain lot in Warrenton Township. Samuel L. Stowe, Sr., and wife to Harold L. Miley and wife, certain lot in Roanoke Township. Robert Edward Reid and wife to Robert Edward Reid, .91 acres in Warren County. Samuel L. Stowe, Sr., and wife to Harold L. Miley and wife, certain lot in Roanoke Township. William T. Leavett and wife to L. Thorne James, certain lot in Sixpound Township. Henry R. Battle and wife to Robert N. Shaw and wife, certain lot in River Township. S. S. Viverette and wife to D. W. Mathews, certain lot in River Township. Audrey L. King to Harry S. King, two tracts of land in Sixpound Township. Bernard Harris and wife to Milton Harris and others, certain tract in River Township. Milton Harris and others to Bernard Harris, certain tract in River Township. Willie J. Currin to Lillie C. Abbott, 11.16 acres in Sandy Creek Township. Willie J. Currin to Henry C. Currin, 11.16 acres in Sandy Creek Township. Willie J. Currin, Execu tor of Willie Lee Currin, to Willie J. Currin, 11.13 acres in Sandy Creek Township. Willie J. Currin to Mary C. Spain, 11.16 acres in Sandy Creek Township. Willie J. Currin to Dorothy C. Terrell, 11.16 acres in Sandy Creek Township. James W. Thomas and wife to Timothy Wayne Anderson and wife, cer tain real estate in Roanoke Township. The Soul City Company to Joycelyn M. Myers certain lot in Nutbush Township. Marriage Licenses Fred Alexander Ash worth, of Gibsonville and Elizabeth Byrd Bobbitt, of Greensboro. Carlton Lyons, of Hen derson and Juanta Delois Brown, of Henderson. Elloitt Francis Lese sne, of Jamaica, N. Y. and Bertha Beatrice Davis, of Jamaica, N. Y. Tarantulas may IHra to be 30 years old. Strong National Defense Crucial By REP- L. H. FOUNTAIN WASHINGTON, D. C. - A strong national de fense is crucial to the security of the country and the protection of the Free world. The Congress has sharply increased the funds being provided for the Department of De fense (DOD), and I strongly supported that increase because we just must have military strength second to none. But, simply providing more and more funds is not enough. It's not the ;otal answer. We must do more to eliminate waste and improve effective ness in our whole system of national defense. There are more than 18,000 auditors, investiga tors, and inspectors scat tered throughout the Department of Defense in numerous different units — more than three times as many as the combined total staffs of the statu tory inspectors general in all civilian agencies of the Federal government. However, no one in the Department of Defense has clear responsibility for coordinating all their work. In other words, no one's totally minding the store. Additionally, there is no requirement that important findings of these auditors, investiga tors, and inspectors ever be reported to the Secretary of Defense and-or the Congress. Why have waste watchers if they don't report their findings. Every dollar saved through elimina tion of waste is another dollar available to strengthen our national security system. Consequently, in my judgment, a statutory Inspector General for the Department of Defense - basically similar to those already established in most civilian depart ments and agencies through legislation I sponsored - is urgently needed. It has been tailor ed to recognize differ ences between the de fense establishment and other Federal agencies with inspectors general. With the co-sponsorship of Congressmen Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) and Frank Horton (R.-N. Y.), I have introduced legisla tion to establish a statutory Inspector Gen eral for the Department of Defense. The legisla tion was approved unani mously by the Committee on Government Opera tions on September 23rd and is now ready for consideration by the House of Represents- , tives. Predictably, officials of ( the Department of De fense are opposing estab lishment of a statutory Inspector General for the Department. That is hardly surprising, be cause very few govern ment officials like to have their operations reviewed by an independent unit which they cannot control. ( - particularly in so large an operation as the DOD I appreciate this con cern but the time has long since passed when we can afford to give any agency of government a blank check. Their flexibility requirements will in no way be impaired by a responsible auditing and investigative system from within. What is surprising is < the charge by a Deputy Secretary of Defense that if the legislation is > enacted "....for the first time in our Nation's history, the direct line of civilian control from the President through the civilian leadership of the Department to the armed forces would be broken." That charge is, of ' course, unfounded. The direct line of civilian control will continue to exist. Establishment of a statutory Inspector Gen eral for the DOD would strengthen, not weaken, civilian control by provid ing the President, the Secretary of Defense, and ( the Congress with infor mation they need to help ■ insure an improved and more effective national security system. A strong national se- * curity system doesn't work like a well-oiled machine just because lots of money is available. It ' only meshes together like it should when there are adequate funds, good equipment and people, and when all three are used in the most produc tive and efficient man ner. Clearly, an apropri ate Inspector General system is strongly needed at the DOD to help bring this about. , Every effort will be made to secure enact ment of this urgently needed legislation before the end of the 96th Congress. If this is not possible in the limited time remaining, then I;...' am confident we will be able to get the job done .-, during the 97th Congress. : Massive Call For Change In The Charlotte Observer Ronald Reagan's electoral triumph and Republican victories across the nation Tuesday add up to the most sweeping mandate for change in American politics since the Depression days of 1932, when voters impatiently swept Herbert Hoover out of the White House and ushered in Franklin Roosevelt. That year the voters rejected an ad vocate of laissez-faire economics in favor of a dabbler in economic liberalism. In 1960 the results were just the opposite. The people said a resounding no to extensive federal intervention in the economy and embraced a candidate who promised to "get the government off your backs." The results not only turned a hesi tant Jimmy Carter out of the Oval Office, they also reshaped the Congress. In state after state key Democratic leaders were ousted from Congress, giving the Republicans control of the Senate and, with the help of conservative Democrats, a strong grip on the House. Now the question is: Can a Reagan administration bring about the sweeping changes it has led voters to expect, and, if so, will those changes Improve American fortunes here and thrtN0Nut the world? The parallels between Mr. Carter and Mr. Hoover are striking. Though perceived as good and moral men, each engendered the dislike of large segments of the voting public. They were trapped by their own stubborn righteousness that let them think only their approach could cure the nation's ills. Both also were victims of interna tional circumstances over which they had little or no control. In seeking re-election, each also seemed to be asking the voters for patience, claiming that his methods would work if only given a little more time. In Mr. Hoover's case, many historians now believed that, indeed, his methods would have worked. In time, scholars may say the same about Mr. Carter. Quotes I exercise self-control and never touch any beverage stronger than gin before breakfast. - W. C. Fields. It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable - and dull. - Joseph Conrad. When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appear- " ance. - Victor Borge.
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