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0% barren (Record Published t vei y Wednesd.i» F1, Record Printing Company F' U Bu» /(J Warrenton N 7h>89 BIGNALL JONES Editor HOWARD F JONt-S Business Manager Mfi'it'ci N1" 'f (. i' ' 1 i F''>'ss A^si.h itn>ii t NTF Rt U AS St CONO ( I ASS MA! rt M AT !Ht F'UST Of t l( t IN WARMS- N I ON NORTH fclAROl INA UNDLRThI LAWS OF t.'QNliF<t 1 .»•< • i1 ' .r. F' " ' i |>' Paid Al Warrenton N (_ fycir'f i cil'O SUBSCRIPTION RATES Whitmel S. Peoples Whitmt'l Stnngfellow Peoples, 78. ot Warrenton died at hi.s home here on Sundav morning shortly hct:'i t' hr was to serve as one ot the ushers at Kmmanuel Kpiscopal Church which he had served so well for many years He had been in tailing health for a y ear or more He will long be remembered for his services to his church and to Warren County Memorial Library, of which he served for many years as chairman of the Board jf Trustees, A native of Mecklenburg County, Va.. where his ancestral home now lies below the waters of Kerr I-ake, he moved to Warrenton with his bride some thirty years or more ago and has made a substantial contribution to his adopted town "Whit" was a perfect gentle man. We were privileged to serve on the vestry with Whit for the past three or more years and found his counseling wise In the discussions that occurred during vestry meetings, we can never remember him raising his voice It is impossible to think of his committing a rudeness Whit was a person of great privacy, a commendable trait, but one that made it difficult to learn of his many virtues. One who was once his near neighbor commented following his funeral Tuesday, "he had such beautiful manners." A county official who had contacts with him through his work at the library said that his good manners made it a pleasure to work with him. And those of us who were privileged to know hirn can be grateful for the fine example he furnished his fellow citizens, knowing that the world is a bet ter placv because Whitmel Peoples lived in it. After Christmas, What? Bv WALTER SPKARMAN In The Smithlield Herald Now that the holiday excitement has died down and the stomach aches have subsided, are you won dering what to do after Christmas'.' One possibility is to learn from ex perience Think back through Christmas before you start making your New Year's resolutions. Don't think you have to eat all the Christmas goodies during the Christmas season. Store some of them in the freezer for the lean days of March. They will do better in the overloaded freezer than in your own overloaded stomach. Especially candy and fruitcake. When you take down the Clmst raas tree and put away the orna ments for next year, have the cour age to throw away what doesn't work. Those little birds that won't stay fixed on the tree might as well be thrown away. The lights that didn't work this year won't work next year either. Junk them. And the tree holder that won't hold the tree steady this year might az well be thrown away now — not next Christmas Eve when you're mad again! Of course, the members of your family who disappointed you this year can't really be thrown away — next year, just don't expect more than they can provide. When you want to clear away that stack of 1983 Christmas cards, better make a list of the senders so you'll have them next year. Better still, pack away the cards in a clearly labeled box. Then next year you can turn back through them for happy reminders or, as some people do, cut off the picture fronts of the cards and use them as gaily decorated gift cards for your 1984 presents. Best of all, pack away the happy memories in a corner of your mind, so you can bring them out from time to time and enjoy them in May as you did in December. Following A Winner Peter F. Drucker in Esquire on IBM founder, Thomas Watson, Sr., as quoted from The Charlotte Obser ver. Watson. . believed in a worker who took responsibility for his job, was proud of it and loved it. He believed in a worker who saw his in terests as identical to those of the company. He wanted, above all, a worker who used his own mind and his own experience to improve his own job, the product, the process and the quality.. . . As in Japan today, there was no contractual obligation on the part of Watson's IBM not to lay off people. But there was a moral commitment. In the first Depression years, 1931 and 1932, IBM did indeed lay off a few people, but Watson immediately stopped it. Employment security for workers has been IBM practice for 50 years now. The worker, Watson argued, knew far better than anyone else how to improve productivity and quality. And so around 1935 he Inven ted what we now know as quality cir cles. . Again and again I have been laughed at in Japan when I talk about Japan's management em bodying Japanese values. "Don't you realize," my Japanese friends say, "that we are simply adapting what IBM has done all along?" And when I ask how come, they always say, "When we started to rebuild Japan in the '50s, we looked around for the most successful company we could find — it's IBM, isn't it?" Postal Economy Tiny Norfolk Island in the South Pacific derived 28 percent of its total income in 1982 from sales of its postage stamps. They brought in 750,000 Australian dollars that year, National Geographic reports. Price Of Prosperity Of Concern To Writer By WINGATE LASSITER In Smithficld Herald First it was algae blooms choking the Chowan River in northeastern North Carolina. Then it was algae threatening life in the Neuse River Ijear New Bern. Last week it was algae fouling the beaches of southern North Carolina near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. What in the world are we doing to the Tar Heel environment? Is pollution of our waterways a necessary byproduct of this state's rapid development? All of us welcome the prosperity that accompanies economic growth But what good is prosperity if we no longer have water fit to drink or rivers fit to fish'' Safeguarding our natural environ ment ought to remain at the top of this state's public agenda as we head into the 21st century. Mcstly Personal Change in Celebration H> BIGNAIJ. jones Saturday night, New \ ear s Kve, the entire fairuJy was in bed and presumably asleep as the New Year was ushered in I; is hkely that our failure to stas up to welcome the New : Vear has gone on for a number of years Satur day night, however, as I waited for sleep to come, 1 thought of how for years we welcomed the New Year without the benefit of either radio or television. I he occasion did not pass unnoticed as there were a number of New ^ear s hve parties, just as there are now, only then the proportion of young people to old was much greater A custom observed here until the middle twenties was the ringing of church bells on the stroke of mid night. Kinging the bell at Emmanuel Episcopal Church was my self imposed and joyous duty I still remember holding my large watch in hand waiting for the minute hand to reach twelve before pulling the rope that caused the Episcopal Church bell to P**al in unison with the hells of Wesley Memorial Methodist i hurch and the Baptist Church bells Joining in the salute to the New \ ear were the whistles of Peck Manufacturing Company and Warren ton Box and Lumber Company, ancj sometimes the whistle of a distant railroad locomotive. No longer are the church bells rung here on New Years. They have been replaced first with the radio and the playing of "Auld Lang Syne" by Guy lx>mbar do, and since the mid fifties by television which depicted hun dreds of thousands of persons dancing in the streets of New York, and their shouts and the din of horns as the New Year made its ap pearance. Few of us, I think, are totally satisfied with the kind of life we have lived during the past year as we look back on our sins of commission and omission and look for ward to the new year as a time for a new begin ning. This is true so far as I am concerned. Another nice thing about New Year's Day is that the days which have begun to lengthen with the advent of winter A few short weeks and we will be able to enjoy the sunlight as the day's w ork ends The above thoughts about the New Year are written as a substitute for a continued article about Washington, L) C , for reasons which I will explain next week iVleanvhile I will take this occasion to thank many friends for their kindnesses to me during the past year and to wish for all our readers a Happy New Year HOVH OF lilt WHIIh NQIIRRH S Olnn. Illinois ha ,ht-largest »ild alhino iolon> in the world I lie pink e>ed. » h11c squirrel* are cominonh seen m ainprrin^ around low n--» here an ordinance yi>es Iht'in the riyhi ol -« a\ on streets Prune Or Remove Overgrown Shrub A shrub that has been allowed to grow too large detracts from the beauty of tne landscape and should be pruned, if possible, 01 replaced with a smaller-growing plant. Shrubs that are out of proportion are often eyesores and detract from the over-all land scape picture, suggest North Carolina State University agricultural extension specialists. The shrubs may get out of proportion in their relationship to walls, flower beds, buildings or other features. Many oi the best foliage shrub bery grow rapidly and should not be used in restricted places. Pruning and removal are the two alternatives. Not all plants lend themselves to severe pruning. Severe pruning isn't going to help the beauty of the plant if it leaves sheared masses. The only solution in these cases is removal, substituting low growing plants. Some of the plants tend to become too large, and they include some of the most popu lar landscape plants used around North Carolina homes and buildings. One of these is pyra cantha, a showy shrub with the bright clusters of berries in fall and winter. Photinia is another. This is the popular hedge plant and is frequently used near the corners of large buildings. One form, called red top, makes masses of red leaves at the ends of stems. Another good example of plants that could easily become too large in restricted places is the cherry laurel — also called Carolina cherry laurel. The eleagnus, ligustrum and pit tosporum fall into the same category. In the areas of the state where it grows, the loquat — Japanese plum — grows wen ana oiieri becomes a size problem. Burford and Chinese hollies are other widely used plants that need plenty of space and need to be trained by pruning. Shrubs to be consider ed for planting in con fined areas, such as beneath windows, at in tersections of walks and so forth, include hetzi and helleri holly, rotun da holly, dwarf yaupon and dwarf burford holly. These are possible replacements for the more massive shrubs Other useful low growing shrubs are dwarf aucuba, winter green barberry, dwarf creeping gardenia and horizontal juniper. Legion Auxiliary To Meet The American legion Auxiliary will meet Thurs day, Jan. 5, at 8 p. m. in the home of Mrs. Palmer King with Mrs. Melvin Shearin serving as co hostess. Blazettes Announce Meet The Warrenton Rural Fire Department Indies Auxiliary, known as the Blazettes, will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8 p m. at the home of Betsy Gardner. Public Meeting Is Called A general membership meeting of the Hawtree Volunteer Fire Department will be held Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p. m. at the fire house. The purpose of the meeting Is to elect officers, and all interested citizens of the Wise, Paschal! and Oakville com munities are urged to attend. Directors Will Gather The Twin County Rural Health Center's board of directors will hold its regularly monthly meeting on Monday, Jan. 9, at 7:30 p. m. in the conference room of the center. Secretary Laura F. Powell said that the meeting is of great importance and that all directors are urged to attend. Jordan Is Back From Sea Duty Navy Sonar Technician Seaman Charles F. Jordan, son of John and Martha Lynch of Rt. 2, Ijttleton, recently returned from a seven-month deploy ment to the Mediterran ean. He is a crewmember aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Virginia, homeported in Norfolk, Va. Most of the ship's time in the Mediterranean was spent off the coast of Lebanon in support of the Multi-national Peacekeeping Force. The Virginia provided gunfire support for the U. S. Marines in Beirut, firing more than 300 rounds of ammunition. Each person in the United States uses about 90 gallons of water a day for cleaning and gar dening; two more are used for dru Jang and cooking, National Geographic World reports. Letter To The Editor A Good Practice To The Editor I used to consider it a nuisance to put the Zip Code on a LI my out-going mail, but not any more. Here is an example of n letter that reached me, only because the Zip Code was included in the ad dress, nearly everything else was wrong It was ad dressed to C Skillman, Box 204, Rt 1, Warren town, Pa 27MK So now 1 am happ> to use the Zip Code on alJ of my mail C'.ARENCE E. SKI IJ JUAN Rt 3, Box 204 Warrenton, N. C 27559 News Of Yesteryear Looking Backward Into The Warren Record Jan. 7, 1944 Ensign George Allen Burwell, son of Mr and Mrs J C Burwell of Warrenton, now serving with the Pacific Fleet, adds his condemnation of those who strike in war time to those of thousands of other soldiers giving their views in letters to their home folks, many of which find their way into the local press Frank H (iibbs, mayor of Warrenton, stated yesterday that he wished to add his own endorse ment to that of Governor Broughton as express ed in his proclamation of Dec 28 praising the un selfish work of the War Ration Boards of the State The Rev. and Mrs. A P Cham bliss entertained at dinner on Thursday evening for Miss Bernice Chambliss and Mr George Black of New York City and Mrs Clarence Anderson, Jr of Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 2, 1959 Serls Hardware Store, operated since 1960 by Frank Serls, Jr. and his son, Niles, has been pur chased by William B. (Billy I 1-anier. I^anier for the past 35 years has been connected with W A Miles Hardware Company. Mr. and Mrs. John Boyd Short of Middleburg an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Edna Gray, to Rov C. Neal, Jr , son of Mrs. Roy C. Neal of Warren Plains. Richard Wooding, 39, of San Diego, Calif, yester day began management of the Norlina Hotel. Wooding and his wife will replace Mrs. L. I Price, who has operated the hotel since April. Jan. 3,1974 Robert Stephen Rodwell of Warrenton was ap pointed Clerk of Warren County Superior Court on Monday by Judge Hamilton Hobgood of Louisburg, resident judge of the Ninth Judicial District. He succeeds Mrs. Lanie M. Hayes, who retired on Dec. 31 after serving in the clerk's office as deputy clerk, assistant clerk and clerk of court for more than 31 years. Peter G. Seaman, a native of Warrenton, has been promoted to vice president and senior trust officer by Southern Bank of Richmond, Va. John H. Harmon and Frank W. Ballance, Jr. have established a $10,000 scholarship fund for North Carolina Central University I,aw School students. The two North Carolina attorneys are both 1958 graduates of the law school. Dateline: Washington Business Suffers By REP. TIM VALENTINE The economy looks like it's bouncing back toward a sustained recovery. While this is some cause for celebration, it also tempts one to overlook some parts of the economy that continue to suffer grievously, notably small business. Business failures throughout 1983 continued at a staggering pace. Approximately 30,500 failures were recorded with Dun and Bradstreet, a national credit rating and information service. That figure is up 5,000 from 1982, is three times the average post war rate and the highest since 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression. Data from the Minority Business Development Administration indicates that minority business failures have nearly quadrupled over the last several years. The number of business persons filing for protection under bankruptcy laws mat ched 1982's record pace of over 90,000. Continued high interest rates appear to be the culprit that prevents many small businesses from fully participating in economic recovery, with short-term interest rates extremely high. Although real interest rates on small business and farm loam declined slightly from their postwar highs of 1981 1982, they are still double postwar averages. Some point an accusing finger at the Federal Reserve Board for operating a tight money policy, but a bigger cause stems from the extraordinary sums that must be borrowed to offset spiraling Federal deficits. Small businesses have a tough enough time competing in the credit markets with their larger brethren. They shouldn't have to com pete with their government as well. Th« first President of the U.S. to be born out«id« boundariet of tb« original 13 Colonist wm Abra Lincoln, born in Hodgenvilla, Kentucky, in 1809.
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