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Learning From Pigs
When you see some 70-year-old
man in an exercise suit jogging
along the edge of the highway,
don't laugh. He may have learned
something useful from pigs.
Or so says Walter Spearman in
one of his many splendid articles
appearing in The Smithfield
Herald.
Scientists at the University of
California at San Diego tried an
experiment on pigs, whose
hearts they say are similar to
human hearts. They persuaded
one group of pigs to jog. The
other group was left to mire
around in the pig pen.
"The results were amazing,"
says Spearman. "The jogging
pigs developed better blood circulation
and were able to
preserve 42 per cent of threatened
heart tissue, while the pigs
that lay around all day in sloth
saved only 17 percent of their
heart tissue.
"Translating their findings
from pigs to people, the scientists
conclude that vigorous
exercise may actually prevent
heart disease or reduce its
severity. Exercise physiologist
Herbert DeVires said: 'A good
part of what people consider
aging is not aging at all. It's simply
disuse'."
We digress to say that not only
is a pig's heart similar to that of
a human, but all too often is his
manners, as witness littered
streets. It also occurs to us that
maybe instead of testing PCBs
or other substances on mice that
they make a second test on hogs
as being more like humans.
"So if you want to prevent the
signs of aging," Spearman continues,
"go ahead and buy that
jogging suit and take to the roads
and streets. Some folks may
think that you are just an old
fool; but you can be assured that
you may well live to be a considerably
older fool if you take
regular exercise and keep that
heart beating, those muscles
tuned up, and that blood circulating.
"Of course, this doesn't mean
that you have to make a pig of
yourself at the table."
God Bless This Land
Amidst all five cries of doom and
the moaning about cutting welfare
programs in the budget, it was
refreshing to read a report of a letter
to the editor of a leading news
magazine written by an immigrant
from the Soviet Union. The immigrant
wrote:
"If Americans knew what it is like
to search for a piece of meat and
never find it; how it is not to be able
to buy a refrigerator unless you stay
on a waiting list for 10 years; what it
is like, by mandatory registration, to
be committed forever to living in one
place; how easily people are put in
jail for complaining about it; what it
is like to live in constant fear and to
struggle for survival every day in a
country where courts are designed to
protect the government and justice
is formulated in one simple concept
of guilty unless you can prove otherwise;
if they knew all this, they
would become law-abiding citizens,
never go on strike, not demand more
freedom and never insult their
government . "But
with amazement, delight and
deserved pride, they would whisper
as I do: 'God bless this land and its
people'."
We Americans are the most spoiled
people on earth. We are so accustomed
to having what we want
when we want it, to having an abundance
of any kind of food we want at
reasonable prices, to having the
latest in conveniences through technology,
and to having the freedom to
tell those who govern us what we
think of them, that we forget how
fortunate we are to enjoy the fruits of
liberty and private enterprise....
Everything about our country may
not be perfect by any means, but we
need to defend the good things in our
system, while working to improve
and change the not so good.
Perhaps we need those immigrants
to remind us from time to
time how good we do have it
InN. C. Farm Bureau News
News Of 10, 25, 40 Years Ago
Looking Back Into The Record
March 5,1943
Jimmie Brooks, formerly
employed at
Boyce Drug Co., Roy
Pittman, of Grove Hill,
ABC board clerk for
several months, and
Alvin Read of Grove
Hill, who has been
working at Williamsburg,
Va. have accepted
positions as brakemen
with the Seaboard
Airline Railway Co. All
assumed their duties on
Monday, working out of
Norlina.
Because so many
Warren County xaen are
overseas or are preparing
to embark for war
zones, The Warren
Record has ceased
publishing soldiers' ad
Drafting of fathers is
expected to begin in
many areas of the
United State* about May
1, officials indicated
tonight, and draft
boards generally will
probably induct
married men with
children into the armed
services by early summer.
March 7,1958
Thomas E. Watson, a
native of Johnston County,
has beat appointed
manager of the Warren
County ASC office, succeeding
Jack S.
Forlines.
Russell Elliott
Brummitt, a former
Henderson native and a
graduate of the University
of North Carolina
School of Pharmacy,
has accepted a position
as druggist at Hunter
Drug Company.
Betty Read of Norlina
and Judith Spragins of
Littleton have been announced
winners in their
respective schools in the
Betty Crocker Homemaker
of Tomorrow
contest.
March 8,1973
The congregation of
Wise Baptist Church
participated in a worship
and note-burning
service on Feb. 25 when
the notes of the church
were burnedi The
church for the first time
since a building program
was begun in
1954 became free of
debt.
The dream of a
resident physician at
Norlina came closer to
reality with the recent
obtaining of an option on
a suitable lot and the
submission of plans for
an office on Monday.
Mrs. Eva S. Holtzman
and Mrs. Pattie M.
Brauer recently
represented Warren
County at the midwinter
conference of the
N. C. Division of the
American Cancer
Society.
Mostly Personal
People Don't Ripen
By BIGNALL JONES
Some Sunday mornings
when bad weather
or other reasons keep
me from attending my
own church I will listen
to the televised service
of the First Presbyterian
Church in
Raleigh to hear Dr.
Albert Edwards preach.
I find that he has the
ability to take some
everyday incident and
make a good sermon
from it. A similar
ability is possessed by
Mrs. Carol Pelosi of
Wake Forest who each
week writes a column,
"Back Room Notes,"
for The Wake Weekly,
which I read each week.
This past Thursday as
I read her column,
"People don't really
ripen like apples," I
decided that instead of
re-running a former
column, as I had planned
for first Mondays,
for reasons previously
stated, that I would run
Mrs. Pelosi's column,
for which I believe that
readers in their forties
will be thankful. It
follows:
Back Room Notes
By CAROL PELOSI
Hooray for 45!
I'm about through the
year, and to this point I
have to say my 45th year
has been the most satisfying,
the most comfortable
one I've ever had.
It wasn't perfect, but
it had its moments.
It was the first year
when I had the feeling
my experience, my expectations
and the way I
feel about myself
matched. For so long I
spent each year looking
ahead to the next one,
wishing I could fee 17
when I was just 15i wondering
if 21 would be the
magic year I felt grown
up. I think I'm a very
slow learner, and it has
taken me 45 years to understand
people don't
ever feel grown up, just
older. And there are
some points that make
older definitely better.
How can you miss the
chaos of feelings, the
waning emotions of the
teenage years? Or the
pimples and general
gawkiness? It's easier
to deal with the
wrinkles, the grey hair
and the congenital
clumsiness that still
makes me wonder how I
think I can wear high
heels.
Those first years of
marriage were wonderful,
but they were also
terrible at the same
time. Not enough
money, worries about
career, little kids who
were a delight but were
always getting sick or
getting hurt — all that
made for a lot of strain
that got in the way of enjoying
marriage. Now
that I know he loves me
even in bifocals,
marriage is a lot more
comfortable and comforting.
We've had the wonderful
experience of
growing up together and
learning people dont
really mature and ripen
like apples to a point of
perfection. What people
do is weather through a
lot of experience. If
they're lucky, they learn
the right lessons from
the experiences.
You learn about death
because people you love
and care for die. You
fr»gin to accept the fact
that somehow the world
is going to get along
without wonderful you.
You learn to treasure
good friends, and you
try to work at being a
good friend.
8 You irritate your
children to the point of
toy by talking about
what you think they
should do, based on your
experience. And at the
same time you have
learned to blandly
ignore the advice from
your own parents,
having outgrown fury on
that score.
Most of all, I finally"
feel balanced, able to
handle things. I don't
say I'm going to handle
them well or that I'll
make wise, even
rational decisions. But
I'm going to do the best I
can and forget about
worrying tnal everybody
else seems to be so
much more mature or
able to cope than I am.
And now that I'm on
the last half of life, I
won't try to hurry it
along, wishing I could be
50 or 65. I'm about as
grown up as I'm going to
get. At last a couple
years are not going to
make a big difference.
Why couldn't I have
learned that a long time
ago?
Letter To The Editor
Different Views
To the Editor:
Monday evening at the Warren County Commissioner's
meeting, citizens voiced their Concerns
about the PCB leachate that is being pumped out of
the landfill, and then state official, Bill Myer, and
EPA official, A1 Hinke, responded with their point
of view. Outside, after the meeting, a group of
citizens and I talked with both officials, and their
view differed from that which was exhibited inside
the courtroom. I would like to discuss these differences
because they are fundamental, not only to
our PCB case in particular, but to the management
of hazardous waste everywhere.
One of the requests to the governor that the
citizens are making, and at their bidding, the county
commissioners as well, is that a holding tank be installed
to catch the leachate while being tested and
before it is released into the holding pond. Myer
said that he would relay our request but that he
would recommend that it is not necessary because
he believes in the present method. However, outside
of the courtroom, Myer modified his opinion after a
bit of personal and good natured prodding.
Why did he change his tune? Why, because he is
human and affected by the people and the circumstances
he is around. When in the courtroom, he
could sense, but more likely knew ahead, that the
commissioners themselves have little to no objection
to the landfill technology experiment that is
going on; otherwise they would have given evidence
of their concern with relevant questions and
remarks. However, they had nothing to say on their
own. Myer knew that without the citizens prodding,
the commissioners would never have even raised
the issue of the pumping at all. Yet it is this very
hesitation on the part of the commissioners to
responsibly search out the truth and to act accordingly
that led the people of Warren County down a
fateful path of toxic infamy. If these commissioners,
past and present, were truly earnest in
doing the jobs for which they were elected, they
would do more to represent the people than merely
to speak in their behalf when requested. With the
resources available to the commissioners, they
should be informing us of the problems of the landfill
and leading us toward a safe solution; instead,
they think it should suffice that we, with our meager
means, should lead them.
Outside the courtroom, where no commissioners
nor media were there to color the atmosphere,
Myer divulged a bit more of his personal point of
view on the landfill. I was sorry that he did not feel
compelled to speak this way in public. But he is a
man and afraid for his job. Nevertheless, he is an official
representing a government that has forever
violated our community, and if he is representing a
position with which he cannot personally agree, the
people have a right to know.
Inside the courtroom, Myer explained that one
part per billion of PCB that would be left after
filtering is safe enough, but when outside, he admitted
that he wouldn't drink water with that much
PCB in it, nor would he like to live in a community
with even that much concentration because PCB
bio-accumulates. While inside the courtroom,
Myers defended the dump as if every aspect of its
engineering was perfectly planned and poses no
problems that couldn't be solved. Outside he admitted
that any community that is targeted with a toxic
waste dump is necessarily a sacrifice area. Inside
the courtroom Myer explained bow the state is
trying to be safer than was legally necessary. Outside
he admitted that the laws are not strict enough
and that we often learn this after a community is
destroyed. Inside, Myer was a state official
speaking to defend his boss to a board of commissioners
who have had no initial concerns of their
own, while outside he was a man discussing the
truth. And in truth, as a man, he admitted that if he
were in our position, he would do the same thing,
that is, determinedly fight to protect his persons
and properties.
When I asked Myers why, if our landfill is so safe,
has the governor called a two-year moratorium on
landfills. He smiled and said that the 1964 elections
might have something to do with it I told him that if
we citixens have anything to do with those elections,
the PCB and toxic waste problem will be an issue of
major contention. That's okay, Myer said, because
the governor will have the Reagan administration
to blame for the inadequate regulations of EPA. I
told him that politicians will have to laarn that they
can't play party politics when it comet to toxic
waste or else they will pay personally with their
careers.
DEBORAH FERRUCCIO
Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCB
Letters To Thp Editor
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True Champions
To The Editor:
Upon first reading the letter to the editor submit
ted by Elizabeth Harris in last week's edition of Tb
Warren Record, my first reaction was to considei
the source and attribute her remarks to the "soui
grapes syndrome." After re-reading and carefullj
considering her remarks however, nothing withir
me can allow to go unchallenged the negative com
ments and serious charges, both stated and Implied,
directed at the Warren Academy girls' basketball
team and their fans.
Surely Mrs. Harris doesn't believe that the postponement
of the Warren/Halifax play-off game was
the decision of Warren Academy. It was a Carolina
Academies Conference decision and any complaints
should be directed to the same. If the proverbial
shoe had been on the other foot, I'm sure Mrs.
Harris would have been thrilled.
Mrs. Harris' complaint that the Lady Warriors
cut down the nets simply shows a lack of knowledge
of conference tradition. I remember all too vividly
last year's play-off game between Warren and
Hobgood on Warren's court. The Raiders won and
our nets were taken. While it isn't an easy thing to
watch, sometimes the old advice "grin and bear it"
works best.
As for posters being torn down, I can't believe
that this hasn't happened to every team following
the loss of a heated contest. It certainly has to
Warren Academy without any charges of bad
sportsmanship being leveled at the victor.
I flatly deny the unstated "other physical
damage" charged to the team and their fans by
Mrs. Harris. I hasten to point out that when contacted
by a concerned parent, the headmaster of Halifax
Academy also denied that any damage occurred.
As a parent of a basketball player, I empathize
with Mrs. Harris when a hard fought game is lost "
but I would hope that in the future careful thought is
entertained prior to a distasteful dissertation being
presented for publication. I can assure Mrs. Harris
that win, lose or draw, the Lady Warriors are true
champions in every sense of the word and I believe
their fans are the most enthusiastic and loyal.
ANNE A. HARRIS
Warrenton
Words Tell A Lot
To The Editor:
Words have a way of portraying who we are and
what we are. This is certainly evident in the letter of
Elizabeth P. Harris to you as published in your
newspaper last week concerning the Lady Warriors
of Warren Academy and their fans. The entire letter
is laced with Jealousy —° Jealous because her
daughter's team, the Lady Vikings of Halifax
Academy, did not win the game. Her lack of
knowledge of facts in writing such a letter is quite
apparent, and one cannot help but wonder if she has
one idea of sportsmanship for herself and another'
for the Lady Warriors and their fans.
Mrs. Harris must know, or if not, it is time she
should know, that "To the victor belong the spoils"
not only in sports, but in all phases of life. The next
time she feels inclined to judge the behavior of individuals
or a group, let her first judge her own.
My heartiest congratulations to the Lady
Warriors and their coach on their achievements.
May the individual achievements of each of them be
as successful and honorable as their achievements
as Lady Warriors.
IDAD. DAVES
Warrenton
Jehovah's Witnesses
Planning Convention
The Warrenton congregation
of Jehovah's
Witnesses has made
plans to attend a twoday
circuit convention
to be held in the auditorium
of the Roanoke.
Rapids High School on
March 12 and 13.
Mr. W. Coley Per kinson,
a local minister of
Jehovah's Witnesses,
stated that more than
1,200 delegates from 10
congregations in the
Northeast North
Carolina and Southeast
Virginia area are expected
to attend.
Mr. Perkinson said
that the assembly's
theme would be "Be
Rich Toward God, Not
Covetous" based on the
scripture in Luke 12:21,
15. On Saturday this
theme will be highlighted
by discussions on
such topics as "Working
What Is Good Towards
All" and "Love Does
Not Look For Its Own
Interests — CovetousnassDoes."
jThe focal point of Sunday's
program will be a
public talk at S p. m.,
raining the ctwupelllng
question, "Is This World
doomed To Ruin?" to be
delivered by Louis R.
Beda, district overseer
of Jehovah's Witnesses
for this area.
Mr. Beda, an ordained
minister for 47 years,
has been serving in
supervisory capacity for
25 years in 15 different
states. He is a direct
representative of the
Watchtower Bible and
Tract Society of New
York.
Some of the issues he
will be addressing are:
What is God's view of
present world conditions?
When will world
ruination occur? How
can you survive die end
of this doomed world?
The program begins
at 10 a. m. on Saturday.
The sessions are free
and Jehovah's Witnesses
invite you to attend
and learn the answers
to these
questions.
Mr. Perkinson said
the meetings at local
Kingdom Halls will be
cancelled for this
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