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BIGNALL JONES, Editor
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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.
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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.
It may sound like a
dream, but folks, high
blood pressure, or the
effects of it can be a
nightmare.
ANN COPLEY
Holiday Guests
Holiday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. John Powell
were their son J. C.
Powell and fiancee, Giner
Pittenger of Richmond,
Va., also Mrs. Francés
Harrell and children,
Dodd, Linda and Forest
of Archdale, N. C.
LQood Jfücl<
We're making a wish
that all our valuad
patrons enjoy a very
joy-filled year...all
wrapped up in health,
happiness and lots of
love. Sincere thanks
to our special frtends
for their support! '
Worrenton Furniture
Exchonge, Inc.
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