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<5tje barren iteiirii Published Every Wednesday By Record Printing Company P O Box 70 • Warrenton, N. C. 27589 BIGNALL JONES, Editor HOWARD F. JONES. Business Manager Member North Carolina Press Association ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS Second Class Postage Paid At Warrenton, N C In Warren and CI incmiPTION RATES' counties Elsewhere SUBSCRIPTION RATCO. $8.oo Per Year $10.00 Per Year $5.00 Si* Months $6.00 Six Months Problems Need Solutions There are two problems now facing our people upon which we would comment this week in the hope that such comments may call forth additional suggestions which we would be glad to have aired through our "Letters To The Editor" column. They are more effective methods of collecting votes in our primaries and gener al elections; and a more effective method of collecting garbage in Warren County. The hours for which polls were to remain open were set in the days when North Carolina was a rural state and in a day when early rising was accepted. Farmers could get up, feed the mules and while they were eating could reach the polls by 6:30 a. m., but few farmers now keep such early hours. Now with eight-hour work shifts in the factory, such early hours are no longer called for. Already three-fourths of the counties in North Carolina, we have been informed, have voting machines, and already some are planned for Warren County. These machines may cause some consolidation of polling places, as has been the case with consolidation of tax listing places. When citizens of the Gaston Lake section of the county recently appeared before the county commissioners to com plain of poor garbage collection, speakers pointed out how garbage had been thrown out of dumpsters by persons in search of beer bottles and cans, which certainly is not a flattering picture of the economic condition of the county, or to needs for recycling. If those who use the dumpsters should be required to separate bottles, cans and newspapers from other refuse, not only would the dumpsters be less crowded, but perhaps some of the expense of garbage collection could be recouped urough recycling. It would also help to have all dumps ter sites fenced and screened from the highways. In richer sections of the country, it has been demonstrated that recycling is the best way to handle garbage, and perhaps the most economical. It is, we think, only a matter of time until this method will be used in this state, perhaps at first by regional recycling units. But meanwhile, we think we can make the handling of garbage more effective and more attractive by doing the best we can with what we have by giving the matter deep thought, and requiring better cooperation from the general public. Congratulations We not only congratulate J. T. Fleming for the speed with which he rebuilt his former quarters, recently destroyed by fire, but also for the beauty and conven ience of the new building and the attractive landscaping that makes his parking lot an addition to the beauty of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming have in the new building, not only quarters for their real estate and video game center, but have added an attractive gift shop with many items now on display. We suggest to local citizens that if they have not already visited the new building, that they will be rewarded by doing so. Quotes No one would have been invited to dinner as often as Jesus was unless be were interesting and had a sense of humor.—Charles Schultz. You can say this for these ready mixes — the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. —Earl Wilson. The theater needs continual remind ers that there is nothing more debas ing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. —Gore Vidal. News Of 10, 25, 40 Yeors Ago Looking Back In The Record July 10,1942 A Boyd-Boyce Motor Co. wrecker pulled a cow from an abandoned well at the home of Mrs. S. K. Clark at Marmaduke on Sunday. The cow, which dropped 10 feet into 12 feet of water, was removed without injury. The wedding of Miss Alma Kimball of Manson and Wallace Boyd Mayfield of Norlina was solemnized Thursday afternoon, July 2, at 8:30 o'clock in the Mount Auburn Christian Church of Manson. The Warrenton section Observation Post, which operated at Levy Hide's Service Station on the Norlina Road far several months, was closed on July 1 for lack of oiwratfng personnel and notified of Its closing, according to Mis. Lode P. muds, who was In July 12,1957 W. R. Strickland, president and general manager of the Warrenton Railroad Company, tendered his resignation to the board of directors at the annual stockholders meeting at the Citizens Bank on Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Mason Hawfield an nounce the birth of a son, Beverly Mason, Jr., on Friday, July 5, at Park View Hospital, Rocky Mount. Mrs. Hawfield is the former Ann Moore Robinson of Littleton. A rumor that a person had received a new growers cotton allotment for 1967 and then placed the allotment in the Soil Bank Acreage Reserve has reached the local ASC office, Jade S. Forlines, yesterday. 'Tbrnnnor is absolutely untrue," July 13,1972 Mrs. W. L. Wood was installed as president of Unit No. 25 of the American Legion Auxiliary for 1972-73 on last Thursday night at a meeting at the home of Mrs. Palmer King. William T. Williams of Oxon Hill, Md., formerly of the Inex community, was graduated from Strayer College, Washington, D. C. on June It. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Baldie Williams and is a 1967 graduate of John R. Hawkins High School. L. C. Cooper of Warrentoo has been appointed by the State Board of Social Services the three-member Warren County Board of Social Serrices. Mrs. the Warren Coorty board, Mostly Personal Examples Of Heroism By B1GNALL JONES In this column last week, I commented on the difficulty I had under standing that any citizen could believe that service to one's country is not an obligation of ritixenship. In that column I think I said that Southerners had the example of General Lee, who is quoted as saying that "Duty is the sublimest word in the English language," which I first heard quoted by my father; and the ex ample of the Confederate soldier. Our history is replete with military heroes, such as Nathan Hale, American spy, who as he was being hanged by the British, said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," or the equally gallant Major John Andre, British officer, sent by Sir Henry Clinton with papers to Benedict Arnold concerning sur render of West Point. Caught in civilian clothes by the Americans, he was hanged as a spy. I can not at the moment recall his last words, although I remember his heroic bearing and I think his request that he be shot as a soldier instead of being shot as a spy. I mentioned that ex amples of heroism and devotion to one's country were not confined to the South, as was freely demonstrated by Northern soldier during the War Between the States. And then — looking over the editorial page of The Wake Weekly of July 8, I found that Carol Pelosi, who writes "Back Room Notes" for "The Weekly,"" had In her column unwittingly bols tered my contentions as to Yankee patriotism. On July 4, Wake Forest held a celebration of that historical event, in which Dr. I. Beverly Lake was the principal speaker, and during whose talk a bit of rudeness occurred which triggered her com ments. The heading of the article, "Good manners didn't win our revolution," was no doubt accurate, and the writer's conclusions were correct, but I hate to see die value of good manners down graded in any form, shape or fashion. But the article was both interest ing and worthwhile as I have found all her articles — as I think readers of this column will agree. It follows: By CAROL PELOSI During Dr. Lake's speech Saturday night, some lout in the crowd near us began to bellow, "Get on with the pro gram," because we could not bear the speech in that portion of Trentini Stadium. I felt a strong urge to strangle, or at least let go with a swift kick in the shins, but he wasn't close enough. As it does for thousands of others, the stadium program recharges my patriotic batteries every year. And it always sends my mind and heart musing along the Revolu tionary War paths, trails I know pretty well. Relics of the Revolution were part of the everyday land scape where I grew up, just as they are here in North Carolina. Oriskany, where that stout squire General Herkimer routed St of towns we passed through along the Burgoyne met his Allen, was Just the hills. Even pre Revolutionary history was alive. I bought some of my best-loved antiques in a little store at Cherry Valley, best remembered for the Indian massacre. The Revolution was part of family history, too. Joel Tubbo and Peter Hilton, both direct fore bearers, left their Connecticut River farms to take up arms for the country their families had been in 100 years or more. Nearby, a young Peter Westfall left his farm, too, where his Dutch ancestors had lived for 150 years or more. Much later, Westfall's great-etc. grandson would marry a Tubbs Hilton descendant. And the rest of the immediate family history is also revolutionary, too, reflecting as it does the later immigration to America, the land of promise. Our first child was born in Boston, that hotbed of liberty. And both our sons have christened them selves in that stream hallowed by the blood of patriots, the Brandywine, while chasing the minnows in its wine-dark shallows. Although ours is not a family now tied to land for our livelihood, yet we are tied to certain well loved, well-lived hills and valleys by invisible strands of emotion and CRUMP JOHNSON Outstanding 4-H'ers Named Delegates Two outstanding 4 H'ers from Warren County Joined some 16 Tar Heel youth at the State 4-H Electric Congress at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, July 12-14. The delegates were Erinn Elizabeth Johnson and Maurice Crump, Jr. of Soul City. Mrs. Johnie Johnson, 4 H leader of Soul City, ac companied the delegates. George W. Koonce, extension agent, 4-H, said delegates were selected for achievement in their 441 electric projects. During the conference, the delegates listened to project reports, viewed affection, just as those farmer-eoldiers 200 years ago were tied to their land. Somehow I have to believe that the defense of land and family figured as* greatly or more greatly to them than abstract notions of liberty. For the land, this land of America, had already set them free, given them that liberty of action, that independence of mind and body. They had to become free men in all ways to accept the gift of the land. We have to stay free in this and every new generation to keep the land. We have to be as irritatingly, as daringly free as Thomas Paine, who mocked and tore down with his words and passions all the correct, the right, the proper parts of society and government. He was anti establishment, anti almost everything. Thomas Paine would have liked the lout, I think, respecting his quickness to question and speak out about something that bothered him. No one ever accused Thomas Paine of good manners. And when you think about it, the revolution we inherited as history and are expected to live by had nothing to do with good manners either. electric demonstrations and exhibits, and visited a science museum and Carowinds. The highlight of the congress was the announcement of a state winner and territorial winners and runners-up in the 4-H electric project. The 4-H Electric Congress is sponsored by Carolina Power and Light. Co., Duke Power Co., Nantahala Power and Light Co., Virginia Electric and Power Company, and the Westinghouse Educa tional Foundation, in cooperation with the N. C. Agricultural Extension Service. UDC Chapter Meets The Warren County Braxton-Bragg Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met on Friday afternoon with Mrs. Willie Robinson. On arrival of the members, delicious refreshments were served. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. Frank Newell. pledge, and given chaplain, Norwood, Warren County roster of Warren County veterans who fought and died in the War Between the States. This is one of the projects of the year, and when finished, copies will be placed in the Warren County Memorial Library and the school libraries. An interesting program on Jefferson Davis was given by Mrs. George W. Franklin. She told of Jefferson Davis, a soldier, statesman, and patriot He was president of the Confederate States of America and was a m»n of intelligence and deep convictions who worked to pwwrw the rights of the states within conatitutional frame work. Tbt meeting was dosed with the singing of "Bleat Be The Tie That Binds." Letters To the Editor Charity Begins At Home To The Editor: Warren County has a high rate of unemployed high school graduates, whose families cannot finance their entry into college or technical schools. This represents an opportunity for Warren County commissioners to sddress this problem with progressive constructive plans to hire these graduate students to work and learn the operations of county government at the minimum wage. There are many county agencies that could use the services of our young people and advance the cause .1 of good government in the future. The upensea of this program can be financed with the general fund. The managers of different county departments can operate and supervise this program with little diffi culties. For example, the Clerk of the Superior Court can use these young people as court attendants in the various court facilities. Maintenance and utilities can , use many of these graduates. The agricultural ex tension services could plan to give work to these unemployed people. It is without argument that it is cheaper and more productive to keep young peonl* at work man 10 pay tor tneir keep in me uuninai justice system. JAMES W.BYRD Littleton, N. C. Congratulations, Victors To The Editor: We congratulate all of the people who won either a first chance or another opportunity to represent Warren County citizens following Tuesday's primary election. On your part, winning is obviously the result of hard work and commitment. Voters have placed their faith in you. Now that you've won, the question is, will Warren County citizens win, those who voted for you, and others as well? That is the most important question. Thus for the next two or four years, we will be ' looking over your shoulder asking questions, probing, examining and reminding you constantly of all those wonderful things you said during the past several weeks as you sought to win. Our goal will be to hold you accountable to the expectations that citizens have for the particular office you hold. Our method obviously will be to generate public discussions on various issues over which you have control and by which citizens are affected. So, now that the heated ™»mpaign» are over and your attention turns to the nam work of public service, ours turns to the constant vigil of public accountability. Again, congratulations...but..accountability must follow as surely as day follows night. REV. L. G. BROWN Pastor, Coley Springs Baptist Church ) 8ION ' . r.' '.■ "*m Sponsored by f WC ) Warren County \ IjQ / Health Department ' Many people have a problem maintaining their proper weight. Haven't you beard it said "Well, I don't eat any more than I used to." The simple fact of the matter is that we may not have changed our eating habits but what about our lifestyle? Do we really get the same amount of exercise or physical activity as we did when we were younger? Usually the answer to that question, if honest, is NO. On top of that, as we get older our bodily or physical processes slow down. For this reason the older you are the less food your body actually needs. Knowing this you may decide to cut back on what you're eating, but if it's permanent weight loss you're after you will probably find this to be difficult So what do you do to permanently loae those excess pounds? Millions of experts have concluded that sensible eating habits and moderate, regular exercise is the only per manent (and less painful) way to loae weight With a positive attitude, good foods and exercise, anyone can lose weight Neverthe less, it's wise to check with your doctor before you begin any type of weight loss program Monday, June 7-July 26 Free 8-Week Welgh-In Contest Location: Warren County Health Dept Time: 8:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 14 Second Session of American Red Cross Certification Course Location: Warren County Health Dept Time: 6:45 p. m. Friday, July 16 Free Blood Pressure Screening For All Employees of Amos L. Capps Pulpwood Co. Location: The Areola bffice Time: 10:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M. Monday, July 19 Free Health Series — "Exerdse — Bxardse Techniques I" Location: Warren County Health Dept O Time: 7:304:30 p.m. Tuesday of Each Week Ttane: 8:45a.m.-2:30p.m. Location: Wi Time: 3:00-4:00pi m. bjr
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