I (Tíjr Barrrn Errori I Pubkstod fw#on EMTERED AS SECOMDCLASS MATTE* AT THE POST OFFICE //V WARQE\TO\ \ORTh CAROUHA. UNDER ThE LAWS OF COHGRESS Secona Ciass Postaga Paití Ai Wa'fenton. N C SUtSCRIPTION RA TES: ex, o s,„,. S 6.50 P*t V«o' S 8.50 P»r V«or $ *.00 S> Monixt $ 5J0 S > Month» Valué Of New Districts With the certification Monday by the Warren County Board of County Commissioners of the Hawtree and Inez Fire District all fire districts covered by the Warren County Rural Volunteer Fire Department and its auxil iaries will have been certified, and as soon as the Wise and Inez Departments have been approved as to their equipment by the Warren County Fire Commission and approved by the state, insurance costs in these two districts are expected to take a considerable discount as they have in other certified fire districts of the county. According to A. A. Wood, Fire Chief of the Warrenton Rural Fire Company, approval of the two districts by the Fire Commission and the State Insurance Department is a routine matter and expected to be given in the next few weeks. The act of certification Monday marked the completion of a goal of the Warrenton Rural Volunteer Fire Department not only to provide rural citizens of Warren County the best fire protection possible, but in the process to lower insurance rates charged rural inhabitants for fire insurance. This is a continuing goal, and Fire Chief Wood said Monday afternoon that extensión of fire hydrants along water lines in northwest Warren County would greatly aid the firemen in their work. As an illustration of how certi fication of fire districts reduces fire insurance ra tes, Wood said it was the cause of a $200 annual reduction in the cost of fire insurance on the Warrenton Country Club. Wood, like other firemen frustrated by lack of funds at times to buy needed equipment, remarked that if the property owners in the certified districts had donated just the first year's savings on fire insurance premiums, the fire companies would ha ve plenty of money. A gleam of hope carne into his eyes, as he suggested that when the insurance costs drop in the Inez and Hawtree Fire Districts it inight be a good time for rural property owners to reflect on this. The Warren Record is happy to be able to use the act of certifi cation c* the j;stricts as an opportuniiy «cognize the years of lev ice by a fine Lody of men whr e up our — rural volunteer fire d /tments. Principal Has Principies In The Durham Sun We nomínate Víctor V. Langston of Millbrook High School in Raleigh for this basketball season's MVP (Most Valuable Principal) Award. Langston merits the honor because he stared almighty athletics squarely in the eye and didn't blínk. When he learned that eight basket ball players had cut class on a recent morning, the principal unhesitatingly forfeited Millbrook's game that night with Northern Durham High School. "It's an unfortunate situation, with the team winless and badly needing a victory," he explained, "but rules were broken." , That's telling it like it is, as the sportscasters say. By doing so, Langston proved just how valuable he is — a principal with principies. How To Reach Heaven In our parish the pastor celebrates a special Mass for preschoolers once a year. Adjusting his height and his thoughts to the little ones, he kneels for the homily. This year he talked to the children about being good and going to heaven. At the end of his sermón the pastor asked, "Where do you want to go?" The little voices shouted out "Heaven!" Father then asked, "And what must you be to get to heaven?" Without hesitation, a loud chorus yelled, "Dead!" The rest of the con gregation broke up. - Manan Chao in Catholic Digest. News Of 10, 25 And 40 Years Ago Looking Back Into The Record Jan. 14,1971 Jim Elam, center on the John Graham High School footbail team, was recently chosen on The News and Observer's All East Footbail Squad, it was learned here this week. Albert Seaman of the Ridgeway community re ceived the top count award for highest yield of soybeans at a luncheon sponsored by the Ralston Purina Soybean Process ing Plant at Raleigh and Warren Fecd Mills of Nortina at ibe Warren Plaza on Wednesday of last week. Seaman produced a net yield of 34.6 bushels per acre on a 3-acre plot. The Board of Town Commissioners at their regular meeting Monday night rescinded a town ordinance forbidding the Sunday sale of beer within the corporate Umits of the Town oi Warrenton. Jan. 13,1956 A Ford Fairlane auto mobile with a Thunder bird engine will be given away to the holder of the lucky ticket on Monday, Jan. 23, at 2:00 o'clock, Roger Limer, chairman of the ticket committee of Limer Post of the American Legión, said yesterday. The retail valué of the car is $3,216.00, Limer said. Walter Fredric Robert son of Rt. 1, Littleton, has been nominated by Con gressman L. H. Fountain as first altérnate to take examination for admis sion to West Point Military Academy this year. a wire from the Congressman's office on Tueaday night stated. The a ver age price per pound for aromatic to báceo grown in North Candína this year was 80 cents per pound. Jan. 1», 1941 Cold weather over the week end the first two days and nights of this week resulted with Flem ing's Pond being covered with several inches of ice. Congressman John H. Kerr is in Washington attending the 77th session of Congress, which open ed on Monday. The Citizens Bank of Warrenton paid its stock holders their annual dividend on Monday of this week. The amount of the dividend was 16.00 per share of stock. Three recruits returoed with Company B, Warren County's military unit, to Fort Jackson, S. C. last week. The new men who left he re to jota up for service with the 120th Infantry are Wylie Washington Edwards, Lee Alex Wortham and Wilbur Arthur Hester Mostly Personal 'The Fat Of The Land' By B1GNALL JONES Some forty or fifty years ago when most of the better farmers of this and other counties were growing most of the ir food, I read a book en titled "The Fat of the Land." the author of which has long been lorgotten In this novel a family leaves the city, as I remember, and returns to the farm, where its members enjoy fresh eggs, milk, butter and real cream, as well as fresh fruits and veget ables in season, and truly lived on "the fat of the land." I don't know when I had thought of this oíd book befo re, but on last Friday Frederick Williams, a retired farmer and gin ner, living on his ances tral acres near Inez, was in the office and remark ed that he did not ha ve a cow, a chicken, or a mulé on his place and added "we used to farm with 16 mules." In the days recalled as a result of Frederick's visit, Locust Grove, the Williams plantation, not only had cows, chickens, a large garden and plenty of labor to work it, and grape vines as well as many mules, and was one of the largest cotton producers in the county, but had its own gin. There were many other smaller self - sufficient farms in Warren County, where owners "lived at home," and sold surplus eggs, butter, and some vegetables at Warrenton, and after purchasing the few items they could not grow on the farm, built this surplus fund into a nest egg, that led to many of them lending money to business men in the ■Kowns. ^ • i However, the se farm ers were in the minonty, and I remember one summer day, sitting on the railing of the front porch of Mr. George Scoggin's home and talk ing with Chancellor Bob House of the University of North Carolina about the needs of the state, par ticularly Eastern North Carolina, and hearing Bob mention the number of farms in the section without a milk cow, almost in the same tone that one would describe an illiterate as one who could not even write his ñame. Mrs. George Scoggin was Bob House's sister He attended school at the John Graham Academy he re and later married Hattie Palmer of Warren County, and in later years I got to know him pretty well, and to greatly appreciate his friendship. I don't know how long I have known Frederick Williams. It seems to me that around 1914 as I was visiting William Davis on the Davis farm near Warrenton, that Fred erick and the late Kearny Thompson carne to a pond on the Davis farm where William, Van and possibly Boyd Davis and I were swimming. But I could have just as easily have met him at Shady Grove Sunday School, then located near Park Town, and of which "Cousin Johnnie" Davis served as superintendent. A few nights ago I was listening to the "MacNeil Lehrer Report " on Chan nel 4, when a reference was made to the quality of production in the "good oíd days." The charming panelist from Boston re marked that only the best from products of those days remained, and ahe luspected that many ahabby products were atoo produced. And took ing back to those days described in "TI» Fat Of The Land," one knows that a more accurate descríption for most of our farmers wouid be a time of sweat and toil, and abandonment of the farm by thousands of farmers children who sought an easier way. Mules began disap pearing from Warren County farms with the invention of the small tractor, and the concen tration of tobáceo cul ture. just how many are left in the county is not known, but I doubt if a third of the farms have any mules on them. Also gone are the wagons, the roadcarts, the steers as draft animals, the era dles of my boyhood, with which wheat was still cut, and shocked and later threshed with a thresher powered by a steam engine. Also gone are the professional ditchers, well-diggers, the black smiths, and the cotton pickers, and the cotton that provided jobs for so many poorly paid unskill ed persons. Cotton was a beautiful and a remantic crop, suitable perhaps for slave labor. At one time in my recollection 18,000 acres of Warren County lands were devoted to the crop The last I remember seeing was being grown in the Elberon section of Warren County. A half dozen or more black women and children were chopping cotton in a two-acre or more ñeld. I looked and I knew that the re is no way that a man with a hoe can compete with a man with a tractor. I also knew that the South's philosophy of cheap labor was to keep us poor. A few days ago I heard a man blame high prices for automobilies on labor unions, a rather common view in this vicinity, and one touched upon that night in the "MacNeil Lehrer Report." Here management was blamed for most shoddy goods, and as to trained and skilled labor, it was pointed out that 70 per cent of Germany's labor forcé belongs to labor unions, and that lifetime jobs are guaranteed to all Japanese workers. mJWWfcinM» -r"* KABOB-IT STICK 'EM IP—Hierr'i roo ni for rifcht aktwen «tarkrd with gtoodie* in WearEvfr'i Kahob-It, an appliance whirh maltes kabob-rooking easy and convfnifnl. Age-old cooking method is perfect for party foods Entertaining at home in the '80s will see a heightr.ned in terest in both nutrítional and economical food valúes and a renaissance of one of the old est known cooking methods. kabobbing. The '80s hostess will turn wholesome foods from all na tions into informal or elegant appetizers, main dishes. side dishes or desserts. With WearEver's Kabob-It, time-tested kabob cooking has been updated to meet the fcating styles of the '80s and the desire for unusual party foods. 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MIS1NFORMED To The Editar: Ib the December SI, 1980 issue of The Warren Record, you printed an article written by Tal madge Edwards, Jr, questkwing in particular my positions as member of the Warren County Commissioners, The Area Mental Health Board, and The Council of Governments In his article, Mr Edwards raised the question of dual office holding. I am responding to his ques tion. On August 22, 1973, an opinion on the question of a county commissioner also holding a position as a member of an a rea mental health board and/ or a council of govern ments board was issued by James F. Bullock, deputy attorney general. A copy of this opinion is enclosed. You will note that the positions other than county commission er are "ex-officio" and, as such, do not constitute dual office holding but are extensions of the commissioner position. It is odd that Mr. Edwards would bring the matter up. When I was appointed to the mental health board, Mr. Tal madge Edwards. Sr. was a Franklin County Com missioner and also a member of the mental health board. Could it be that Tal madge Edwards, Jr., needs to do his homework moro thoroughly or to leave free-lance writing to someone who will??? WALTER J. HARRIS Chairman, Warren County Board of Commissioners, Mental Health Board and Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments PRESSING NEED To The Editor: I have been employed by the state of North Carolina and by the citizens of Warren County for two months. I work at the Public Health Depart ment, in the Hyperten sion Program. My job is not only taking blood pressure but counselhng those persono wlth higb blood pressure and edu ca ting the pubüc in ways lo prevent Ihii diaeaae. My problem is this: in counselling and educat ing the public of the risk factor» of high blood prea sure I hit a snag wben it comes to exercise. I know we ha ve a small town but does that ha ve to stop us from developing a public park and recreational area? There are severa! viable civic groups for both men and women in Warrenton, the majority of whom are young to middle aged adults. This is the age group who 1 should be interested in not only maintaining their good health but promoting physical activ ity for the prevention of hypertension, heart dis ease, obesity, and all other conditions which go along with lack of physical activity. It is diffícult to encour age the public to exercise for their good health when we have nothing to offer adults or young adults, or even young people outside school P.E. prograris. I have seen the differ ent civic groups in action when it comes to raising money for dances, festi vals and the like. If they all joined forces, just imagine what type of public park and recrea tional area they could put together! We all would gain if we direct our attention to promoting biking, jog ging. walking, calisthen ics and recreation in a joint community project. 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