Stye Darren lUairii Published Every Thuraday By Record Printing Company P O Bo* 70 Warrenton, N. C 27589 BIGNALL JONES. Editor HOWARD F JONES, Business Manager Member North Carolina Press Association ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, UNDER . HE LAWS OF CONGRESS Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N C. * SUBSCRIPTION RATES Make Pie Large Enough How much hard times are real and how much are imaginary, we are unable to determine, but judging from our observation at public places and miles away, we think there is plenty money in North Carolina to carry on needed functions of government, local and statewide. A year ago, before our poverty became something that had to be corrected overnight, when the budget was made up, we felt that the schools were shortchanged, particularly in capital outlay. We think the same is true of the tentative budget submitted Monday. We also think that the good citizens of Warren County who voted a large bond issue for the new consolidated high school knew that the bonds would have to be paid and now that the building is near completion are willing to be taxed for its equipment. This is particularly true, in our emergency, if Warren County's tax rate remains below that of surrounding counties. We have a great deal of sympathy for those who are charged with levying and distributing the taxes that we all must pay. This is particularly true of our good friend County Manager Glen Newsome, who has worked, long and hard to provide an equitable tax distribution, knowing at the time that he would face criticism in the end. He savs that he tried to divide the pie fairly. We do not doubt this. Our quarrel with the county manager, who made up the budget, and the commissioners who must approve it, is the pie was not made bigger, as it could have well been with no one being ground down by high taxes. Local taxes in Warren County are actually a minor expense of good living. Monday night we attended a booster club meeting in the library of the new high school, where a few nights before we had inspected its beautiful gymnasium. Monday night came the realization to those young people looking forward to a beautiful place in which to play, that the 150,000 capital outlay allotted in the tentative budget would all be taken up by repairing a roof on the Mariam Boyd School and there would be nothing left for seats for the gym, or for lights for the football field. One man figured that increasing the levy from $.96 to $1.00 would cost a taxpayer owning $50,000, only $20. This increased 4f would bring in $76,108.12; if it were raised to the 9f that Halifax County raised its rate because of a bond issue, that would be more than twice as good; and a $1.05 rate would not be out of line with other counties. Much of what the new school needs is one-time things, and if delayed hurts education and if inflation continues, will cost more next year. Obvious Pocketbook Bite In Hie Henderson Daily Dispatch No owner has to be told that the cost of owning and operating a motor vehicle has climbed sharply in the past year. The bite on the pocketbook is obvious day by day. However, for those who find information on the size of the increase useful, the Carolina Motor Club has turned up some figures. The club reports that the cost of owning and operating an intermediatesized car has risen by (425. or 13 percent, to (3,601 per year since this time last year. That is an increase from 21.2 cents per mile to 24 cents per mile driven. The report is detailed in a new American Automobile Association pamphlet titled, "Your Driving Costs," and is based on a 1961 model intermediate, six-cylinder, four-door sedan driven up to 15,000 miles per year and kept for four years. In making its calculations, the association divides auto expenses into variable and fixed costs. The variable breakdown includes gasoline and oil, 6.27 cents per mile; maintenance, 1.18 cents; and tires, 0.72 cent. These total 8.17 cents per mile and are directly related to the number of miles driven. Fixed costs include insurance, $510 per year; license and registration fees and taxes, $88; depreciation, $1,287; and finance charges, $490. Totaling $2,375 per year, fixed costs remain the same even if (Continued on page 5) News Of 10, 25 And 40 Years Ago Looking Back Into The Record Jane 10,1971 Warren ton Cub Scout Den No. 2 presented $15 to Mrs. James Beckwith cm last Thursday afternoon for the restoration of Buck Spring, the home of Nathaniel Macon. Mrs. Charles Johnson, Den Mother, said the money had been earned by the scouts picking up drink bottles on the streets and selling them. Mayor E. L. (Bill) Perry and members of the Town Board of Commissioners of the town of NorHna were ■worn in at a meeting of the board on Monday night. Board members taking the oath of office were John A. Dore, James pA. Overby, J. Macon Myrick, T. Wallace Starlings, and Will S. Hicks Michael Martin was elected by ballot vote last I we* as president of the Nortlna High School Chapter of ths Future Farmer* at America tar the 1971-73 school year. Other officers elected were Marvin White, vice president; Hal Paschall, S£5ary; Dale WOker^ son. reporter; and John Bullock, sentinel. E. E. Hecht is advisor. June 8,1956 Nell Davis of Norlina and Charles Shearin of Warrenton are winners of the Junior Red Cross camping trip. The trip was won from points on Junior Red Cross activities, scholastic record, congeniality, personality and interest in sports. These young people will enjoy an all expense paid vacation at Camp Green Cove, N. C. from August 21-30. An addition to the Sunday School of the JerusiUem Methodist Church at Wise was dedicated Sunday morning, June 3. The addition was erected by Lucy Cole and Quincy Cole in memory of their mother and father, Julia Quincy Cole and Charles William Cole. Three John Graham ceived William Freeny Ward scholanMpi at graduation exercises at the school auditotlum last Friday night. Announcement that Juanita King, Rosa Wilkes and Tommy Peete Davis were winners of the award was made by Mayor J. Ed Rooker. June •, 1M1 Mrs. Essie Coleman has been retired as postmaster of the Paschal] office and John W. Bolton has been appointed to succeed her. Mrs. Coleman had served as postmaster for the past 32 years. A. E. Paschall of Manson visited the office of The Warren Record this week to renew Us subscription. While here Mr. Paschall expressed the opinion that the cantaloupe crop at Ridgeway is better this season than be has seen it in years. Miss Margaret Shaw of Macon has been awarded a national honor roll certificate with highest honor standing from the National Guild of Piano Teachers, it was learned here this week. She played an eleven-piece audition, including one of her original pieces, before an examiner at Duke University in May. Mostly Personal Favorite Gathering Place Hy BIGNALL JONES Where Liggett Store to now located on the Main Street of Warrenton there stood in my boyhood, a two or three «tory woo