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aH|e Wzocvm iRecord Published Every Wednesday By Record Printing Company P O Box 70 - Warrenton, N C. 27589 i BIGNALL JONES, Editor HOWARD F. JONES, Business Manager I 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 QlinCPQIPTinKl RATF<i- adjoining counties Elsewhere SUBSCRIPTION RATES. $8.00 Per Year $10.00 Per Yfear $5.00 Six Months $6.00 Six Months Feeling Of Goodwill To those of us who were privileged to be present at the Warren County Court House early Monday afternoon and to see black and white persons working together, and to feel the mutual goodwill between the two races, it is not hard to agree with Mrs. Eva Clayton that this is an historical day. For years we have entertained the idea, without doing enough about it, that if we are to build a better county and a better life, all of our people must work at it. And when Mrs. Clayton praises what has happened as representative democracy, and as Warren County's first black and first woman ever to serve as chairman of the board of county commissioners in Warren County's long history, and says that "we accept the challenge that black and white together can work through creative leadership to make this county increasingly a climate where it is good to do business, we may provide the county that indeed will be the example for the northeast," it is not too hard to believe that this is the beginning of a new and better day. Alvah Ward, director of Industrial Development with the N. C. Department of Commerce, who followed Mrs. Clayton as a Monday speaker, also points out the need for working together. No industry is going to come to a county or a section where friction abounds, no matter how much state pressure is brought to bear, he warns, and both speakers join in cautioning that success lies in all working together to make Warren a better county in which to live and in which to work. Anyone Using Octagon? W.E.H. In The Sanford Herald At the office the other day, Margaret Wicker and Eunice Tedder were talking with me about the efficiency of Octagon and lye soap in cleaning spots and soils in various fabrics. We had some draperies laundered and re laundered tn effort to get some very badly-soiled spots about the size of one's head rubbed out. One big spot came clear after the second laundering; the other big one and some minor ones did not. Mrs. Iris Pendergrass allowed she could spot wash these out with Octagon soap, which she did. Margaret said that was fine; Eunice allowed lye soap would do it quicker. You have to be dated to even know what lye soap is and what it will do. That was the soap your grandma made from the leavings of pork rinds and skins, plus lye, and boiled in a big wash pot in the back yard. Everyone knows about Octagon soap, and there's still a fair sale of it in grocery stores and supermarkets. However, most housewives today stay with perfumed soaps, which, while they do a fairly good job, don't have the cleaning power in them that the older soaps did. ^ ~ ^ 3 9lams^ Oldsters remember when, as lads, they usually had the ]obofcilpi*fngthe coupons from the Octagon wrappers, which were good for gifts when sent in to the manufacturer for redemption. Quotes I'm trying something new next summer: I'm sending my dogs to camp and my kids to obedience school. — Lynn Redgrave. You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. — James Thurber. I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure. — W. C. Fields. Mews Of 1Q, 25, 40 Years Ago Looking Back Into The Record Dec. 6,1942 President Roosevelt today announced dissolution of WPA. Demand for labor has made the agency unnecessary, Mr. Roosevelt said, and added that the agency is receiving an honorable discharge, according to a radio announcement. Pfc Samuel T. Arlington has returned to Camp Bowie, Texas after spending a 15-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Arlington, of Hollister and visiting in Warrenton where he made his home for several years with Mrs. W. W. Cawthorae. He formerly held a position with Boyce Drug Co. Warren County farmers' gross incomes for IMS will be nearly $5 wiflHai ymrrttng to Bob Bright, county agent. Mr. Bright said that he bsUeved tUs production record was the greatest in the Msfcxy of the county, probably exceeding the income of 1918-19 when farmers received around 56 cents a pound for their tobacco and more than 40 cents a pound for their cotton. Dec.«, 1957 Mrs. John Kerr, Jr. was elected to the Governor's Executive Committee for Clean Highways at a meeting held Monday in Raleigh. A picture of William Eaton, Jr. was this week placed on the wall of the office of the clerk of Superior Court. Eaton was one of three or four men from Warren County who served as attorney general of the state. Warrenton commissioners will decide on Monday night whether or not this town will go along with eastern North Carolina towns in raising $10,000 with wMch to fight a proposed telephone rate increase In the area served by Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company. Dec. 7,1*72 General Claude T. Bowers was re-elected chairman of the Warren County Board of Commissioners at an organizational meeting of the new board en Monday morning. William T. Skinner was elected vice-chairman. Mrs. Pete Fleming was named Club Woman of the Year by the Norlina Junior Woman's Club at the Christmas party on Sunday night at the home of Mrs. C. C. King, Jr. Frank Holt, crosscountry runner for Blue Ridge School in CharkrtteaviDe, Va., won the Junior Division of the Virginia Prep School Meet held at Woodberry Forest School last week. Frank came In ahead of 46 boys representing seven prep schools and brake 4be record by It Mostly Personal Meeting A New Friend By BIGNALL JONES Growing very old and sometimes wondering if one's friends are not going to run out before one does, it is nice to meet a new friend, even if within 34 hours you learn that a childhood friend is no longer in the land of the living. So much for the start of this week's column, which I warn may require the verbosity of the famous old fox hunter of Sandy Creek Township as I follow memory's ramifications. On Thursday afternoon of last week as I was sitting in my office, I heard this young man talking with Carolyn Steele, our receptionist, say something about writing a column for the Chase City, Va., newspaper, which remark caused me to walk to the front office where I was introduced to Munsey Adams Moore, a personable young man from Chase City, and to buy from him a copy of his recently published "Cemeteries of Mecklenburg County," which I have given to the Warren County Memorial Library in the knowledge that many Warren County families came from Mecklenburg. Destiny is a strange thing, and it was through a chain of events that I met this young automotive parts salesman with the unusual hobby of searching out and recording the gravestones of a county. The start, one deducts, was an admiration for homes built by # Jacob Holt, architect and contractor who built many of the old homes of Warrenton. Several months ago he saw the old John White home in South Warrenton, built by Holt, and recently renovated by Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Geddie. This home built in 1850 was also the Warrenton home where General Lee and his daughter, Miss Agnes Lee, spent a night in 1870 when they visited the grave of Annie Carter Lee. Mrs. Geddie having died and Mr. Geddie not being at home when Moore went to the home, he went next door to the home of Charles and Sally Tarry to inquire about the Geddie home. This led to a friendship between the Whites and Moore and he frequently calls on them when passing through Warrenton. Mrs. Steele, who has considerable artistic ability, recently painted a picture of the Geddie home which was recent-^' ly bung in The Carriage House, where Moore saw it and came to the office of Hie Warren Record to see the artist and buy the picture, and while here told me that he had found the grave of John Speed, which he said he would show to me at my convenience. John Speed had two sooa, Jamea and Joaeph and my great-grandfather William Duke Jones married Joaeph Speed's daughter, Mary, and from this marriage I owe both of my given names. I like to tell of an incident that I found rather amusing. in County but Jamas went to Kentucky to make Ma home. Joaeph wrote to acemdiug to a latter copied hi the Spaed family history, in which he told bim about the crops, the health of the family, the weather and some small items, signing bis letter, "Your affec. brother, Joseph W. and then adding the following postscript: "I married Col. Bignalls daughter, Ann, last week." pnrHor in the afternoon Mildred Allen Adams was in the office and addressed me as Speed. She is one of the few persons who ever addresses me with affection by that name. Others being my father in writing to me, because he was very proud of the Speed kin, the late Katherine Arrington, and Bobby Jones Cook. When Carolyn asked me did anyone ever call me Speed? I told her that many did in a spirit of derision that causes one to call a fat person, "Slim," or a tall person, "Shorty " When I was growing up in Warrenton one of my young friends was Hunter Moss who's brother Oscar worked for Mr. Jim Tarwater. He was very close to Will Price and John and Jim Kerr, but I only remember him as one of a number of young boys who lived here for a few years, and who moved back to a place near Keats, Va., where in later life he was to become a farmer. In glancing through Moore's Mecklenburg County Cemeteries, I read the name "Hunter Moss, 1899-1976." I am reasonably certain that he was my childhood friend, as he was withjft ajy®at Qf age. Many years later one of our mutual friends told me of an incident concerning Hunter Mom. I am not certain but It may have been Pat Hunter. Aa I remember, be said that one day be went with Win Price to see Hunter Mom. When they arrived, Will put on Ms sternest and most dignified manner m Hunter walked up to the car, "My young man," Will said, "you have a mighty rough road loading tO yOUT house and I don't see why you don't fix it." As Hunter hognn to make excuses about the bad rains, be suddenly recognised Will and all laughed. Sometimes I feel sorry for people wbo never knew Will Price. Another incident that is a fond memory of growing wis concerned with Oscar, and not Hunter. Early one evening I wm escorting Will Jones, now Mrs. Branch Bobbitt, to a party, holding my arm as suited a young man escorting a girl, and she had her band on my arm. That is until we met Oscar Mom, when her hair all of a sudden needed some attention. Oscar's reaction, to our embarrassment wm to say 'Grab a wing, grab a wing." "Couple up, couple up." My new friend, I have been told, is a buff of Jacob W. Holt, architect and cotii actor who built many of die old homes in Warrenton and whose own home still stands at the corner of East Franklin and Bragg Street. I wm interested in glancing through Moore's book note tha( the grave of Jacob Holt is in Chase City. News Of Littleton Mrs. Joe Threewitts spent the weekend with her two grandchildren, Nicole and Mathew while their parents were in Goldsboro. Mrs. Belle S. Bright of Warrenton and Woodrow Shearin of Norlina were visitors of their sister, Mrs. Gladys Stansbury on Monday. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. (Dick) Fugitt at their cabin at Lake Gaston on Thursday were Mrs. Douglas McLawhorn, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McLawhorn of Richmond,Va., Mike Shurant and Chiw* Fugitt of Rockville, Md. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Sykes Thursday night were Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Jones and children, Michael and Ray of Columbia, S. C., Mrs. Peggy O. Stansbury and son, Joseph, III of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Cheek and daughter, Denise of Warrenton and Larry Cheek of Charlotte. Mrs. Bobby Ron and son, Braxton spent a night recently with her mother, Mrs. D. E. Bennett in Murfreesboro. Guests of Mr. and Mis. Macon Moore, Jr. were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore and children,. Mary FIHiabeth and Charles, Jr. of Danville, Va. Ihqr also visited Mr. and Mia. Brantley Acree. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Moore and children, Jonathan and HoDy of Salisbury and Mrs. Ethel Herbert of Enfield wan also visitors of Mr. and Mis. Moon during the weekend. / Mark Mclntyre of Raleigh spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Stalnback. Mrs. Viola Etheridge of Guardian Care Nursing Home in Louisburg spent four days this week with her daughters, Mrs. Stuart West of Littleton and Mis. Chesley Stokes of Smithfield. Other visitors over the weekend were Chesley Stokes at Smithfield, Vernon West of UNC-Charlotte, Danny West of Newport News, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Henry West and children, Reggie and Pamela of Williamsburg, Va. Mr. and Mrs. William Sharpe, son, Greg, of Newport News, Va., were visitors of her parents, Thursday and attended the funeral of her uncle, Luther Perkinson in Jerusalem United Methodist Church at PaachaH. Mr. and Mrs. James Myrick of Iowa spent several days with his sister, Mrs. Herman Shearin and also visited Us mother, Mrs. LOa M. Myrick in Warren Plaza Rest Home in Warrenton. Mr. and Mis. Irvin Harris visited Mr. and Mrs. Bemde Harris and Mr. and Mis. Howard Oreshack and ton, Craig in Raleigh during the weekend. Mr. Bonney Hands at Knightdale Joined them for hmch Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mis. Bemrie Harris. E1Sta2bwvS* J<>9ept Joseph of Raleigh were Saturday visitors of hta mother, Mis. Gladys This Word Conjures Up Different Images By REP. L. H. FOUNTAIN WASHINGTON, D. C. - Government. F'l a word which conjures up all sorts of images images of the local courthouse, City Ball, the State Legislature, the Governor's Mansion, the Congrees and the Capitol, and the President and the White House. In fact, government covers all of this and a lot more, and it's vitally important that the various brandies and divisions of government at all levels cooperate and work in as unified and responsible a manner as is humanly possible. The decisions governmental bodies make can and do affect the way we live as individuals, the way our towns and cities are run, and the way our state and nation are directed and led. And, of course, those same governmental decisions can and do affect us in the pocketbook. When government at all levels works well, it means our American system of federalism is working well. f „■ iiiifi * ofunnynmai vuuvor tioa in 1787. Ihe findings and conkIiwLm of the KKtobaum Commission dearly suggested the great value of aoootlaningstudy in all areas of Intergovernmental relatione, especially Into intergovernmental pro* grams and problems. Shortly after the Cot .nission's report In • 1956, my Government Operations Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee began an in-depth study of the Kestnbaum Commission's recommendations. We held pifcttc hearings in many areas of the country. After three yesrs of detailed study by our subcommittee - known as the Fountain Subcommittee - and based upon its conclusion and recommendations, the full Government Operations Committee issued a report which recommended the establishment of a permanent and broadly-based Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. To help achieve the goal of responsible, efficient and effective government, back in 1959 I introduced legislation establishing the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (the ACIR). My friend, Ed Muskie, graciously introduced and led the fight in the Senate for its passage there. Back in the 1960*8, the that it was set up as a genuine intergovernmental group, made up of public officials from all levels of government, rather than as an agency dominated or controlled by any singe part of government. Furthermore, its permanent mandate was then, and remains today, to continuously review intergovernmental programs and problems at all levels of government with an eye toward maintaining the workability of our federal system. The stage for the establishment of the ACIR was set by the work of the temporary Commission on Intergovernmental Relations - better known as the Kestnbaum Commission - which conducted the very first official study of federal -state • local government relations since the Our subcommittee drafted appropriate legislation which passed the House and Senate with strong bipartisan support, and Presilent Eisenhower sified the ACIR bill into law on September 24, 1959. Incidentally, I have had the privilege of serving on the Commission since its inception. I'm the only member still serving on the commission since It was created and I will, of courser<go off' when i leav4'tttt.aAgNUwn> • The j Advisory : Cttmmisskm is conAposed of local, state, and federal elected officials, federal —officials, and private citizens. Hopefully, the ACH} will continue to provide €886QtiAl CvWcPCCt filial* ings, and recommendations to the Congress, state and local governments, and to others as to the directions which our country must take if our federal system is to become more responsible, economical, and efficient, and if we are to survive as a flee and prosperous nation Clearly, government must be made less pervasive, leas intrusive, more manageable, more effective, and more accountable to the people. The ACIR continues to have an important role to play in accomplishing the worthy foal of better government African Violet Flowers Through Most of Year The African violet is favored u a house plant for its long flowering season—virtually the full year. It'sagood plant for apartment dwellers became it is a small eves green. Leaves are oval and violet flowers are arranged in dusters. Cultured varieties offer an array of colors including red, white, and pink. Depending upon the variety! African violets are propagated by seed or leaf cuttings. Seeds require bottom heat for germination. Cuttings are rooted in equal parts of neat and sand. The African violet Hkes plenty of water. In Ism humkl areas, the pot is placed In a container of peat to help retain moisture. Watering is done at the roots, always sufAckudyto keep the soil mixcesdvt'heat or cold—33 degrees F to 70 degrees F—is best, and the most fftfMt it Ugfct and bright, bat away from direct son. tive to Vietnam, i/uTexcdfer« eye-catching foliage. Leave* are oval and fairly dixmhi ana spoiled witn tu* II Mil tVjPHCuCm , #■ Unlike the African violet,
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