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The Moralizing Dross
There is nothing unusual about
The News and Observer saying
unkind words about Republi
cans, making little distinction
between good and bad Republi
cans. But in Sunday's News and
Observer, Editorial Director
Claude Sitton draws something
of a distinction between conser
vatives and right-wing radicals
seeking to pass as Republicans.
Sitton said "Ownership of the
Republican Party passed from
conservatives to right-wing
radicals last week in Dallas
while Ronald Reagan stood by
and smiled...." "So uncon
ventional was the conservatives
surrender that most of the
radical leaders skipped the
session in which the convention
rubber-stamped their handwork.
Instead they trooped out to
Bunky Hunt's Circle T Ranch to
rub shoulders of the tycoons of
oil, business and the Moral
Majority in a spirituous celebra
tion (24 bars manned by 60 bar
tenders, reported the Dallas
Herald) of their unholy alliance.
"One deceptive aspect of this
whole scene is the penchant of
radical leaders, among them
Jesse Helms, for calling them
selves Conservatives and
Republicans. In truth they are
neither."
We have a great deal of sym
pathy for the views of Editorial
Director Claude Sitton, having
personally known some Republi
cans of high charter and good
will, but our hats are off to
Editor Sitton for writing the
paragraph in which he stated:
"This new order is to be
presided over by a family man
who seldom sees his family, a
self-styled religious man who
goes to church occasionally at
best and a tither who doesn't
tithe. This is just more of the
moralizing dross that wraps the
radical package."
Red Means Danger
By WALTER SPEARMAN
In The Smithfield Herald
Everybody knows that the color
red signifies danger and means
"Watch out!"
But hummingbirds haven't learn
ed that lesson yet—and are still sit
ting on the fence. Out in St. Paul,
Minn, that proved to be a very
dangerous thing to do as hundreds of
hummingbirds were electrocuted.
The trouble was that the nation's
largest manufacturer of electric
fences was using red insulators,
which hummingbirds took to be
some beautiful new red flower from
which they expected to draw nectar.
But when the tiny birds stuck their
beaks into the insulator in search of
nectar, they contacted both the elec
tric fence and the metal pole inside
the insulator at the same time—and
were electrocuted.
When word got around to the Min
nesota Department of Natural Re
sources, state officials contacted the
markers of the electric fences and
requested a color change for the in
sulators—from red to black.
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The company obliged—and the
hummingbirds are no longer killing
themselves when they sit on the fen
ce and probe for nectar. And farm
ers in the Midwest who have the old
red insulators have been advised to
paint them black so they won't tempt
the hummingbirds.
There's a lesson in this for us
humans, too, so take warning: When
you seen your bank account or your
family checkbook is "in the red,"
you'd better hurry to put it "in the
black" again. "Red is for danger" is
a warning note for folks as well as
hummingbirds!
Uninsured Motorists
In The Greensboro Daily News
Disclosure that North Carolina's
compulsory automobile liability in
surance law is being enforced only
haphazardly, if at all, comes as a
shocker to drivers who dutifully pay
and have paiu th* x—'intly rising
costs for proifctio: u.oy are not get
ting.
And the biggest shock lies in the
fact that responsibility for this lax
ness apparently lies in an arbitrary
—if not capricious—decision made
on its own by the state agency
charged with seeing that registered
vehicles are properly insured.
The heart of any compulsory
automobile insurance law must lie in
the fact that everybody participates,
thus affording adequate protection
against injury ahd loss of property
on an equal basis to every driver who
puts a car on the road. If that's not
the case, then something is wrong
with the system. And in North
Carolina that has been the case since
1981 when the North Carolina
Division of Motor Vehicles abolished
a rule requiring insurance agencies
to notify the state of any change in
auto insurance policies.
If the state is going to operate un
der a compulsory automobile in
surance system, then the law must
4e applied fairly and equally and the
state most see that the law is
thoroughly enforced.
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3/4 Miles North of Littleton's
Oldly Traffic Light
This large A-frame building contains the kilns used by glassmakera at
Jamestown, Va. Craftsmen employed by the U. S. Department of the Interior
turn out glass items «imilnr to those produced nearly 400 years ago on the
shores of the James River. Some of the tourists standing in line to purchase
glassware are shown above. (Staff Photo)
Mostly Personal
A Visit To Mathews
By BIGN ALL JONES
Because my wife lived
as a child with her
family in Mathews, Va.,
where her father, the
late B. N. deFoe Wagner
was rector of three
churches, we have often
visited this small but
changing village. This
past Saturday our
family again revisited
Mathews Court House
on the shores of Mob
jack Bay.
At first, when the
children were small,
there remained several
friends of my wife'*;
childhood, but they grew
fewer as the years
passed, and on Saturday
there remained the
churches of which Mr.
Wagner had served as
rector, or at least two of
them, the third now ser
ving as a community
center, and a few build
ings unchanged, but we
saw no Mathews citizens
that we knew Saturday.
But the hours we spent
in Mathews were
pleasant ones, with the
principal regrets voiced
by Grace, Howard and
Ann, that they had not
come dressed for crab
bing and fishing. But
how could we when we
left Warrenton on Satur
day morning at seven
o'clock, we didn't know
that we were going to
Mathews at all?
The Saturday trip was
conceived almost on the
moment, and in re
sponse to a Friday night
weather report
promising that both
Saturday and Sunday
would be cool. As we
were riding Friday
night, Grace said, "let
us get up at six o'clock
in the morning and go to
Jamestown and to York
town," one of my
favorite meccas. And
then someone remem
bered that our rector,
Dr. Ray Selby had said
there was an excellent
restaurant at Surry,
Va., where we could eat
breakfast. We had a
breakfast at home of
cereal and coffee, think
ing that we would get a
heavier breakfast at
Surry. A little more than
a hundred miles later,
Grace drove into the
yard of the attractive
Surry House, where we
made the first mistake
of the day when we or
dered pancakes and
sausage with our coffee
—three pancakes and
two cakes of sausage in
the case of Ann and me.
The meal was delicious
and the service was
good, and it was not un
til hours later that we
realized our mistake.
Finishing breakfast and
feeling "good" we drove
past the pretty Surry
County Courthouse and
drove to the pier where
we joined a line of cars
waiting for the Ferry to
Jamestown.
Grace pulled in behind
a car bearing a Hender
son license, where we
waited for the Ferry to
unload and send its
passengers by the line
where we waited. When
in turn we drove on the
ferry Grace parked
behind a car bearing a
Rocky Mount license.
About 30 minutes later
the Ferry pulled into
Jamestown, and we
found our way to the
Jamestown Glasshouse.
After parking we found
we had a long walk to
our destination, but the
walk was shady and led
by an old-fashioned rail
fence like the ones so
familiar for pastures
when I was a boy in
Sandy Creek Township
in Warren County.
At the Glasshouse, we
watched glassblowers
blow glass instruments
and insert them into the
kilns. Later we had an
opportunity to view and
buy pitchers and
glasses, and other
glass vessels, and I
think Grace bought a
vessel for a Christmas
gift. She buys her birth
day and Christmas gifts
throughout the year.
Lots of people from
Eastern North Carolina
cross the James River
on the ferry en route to
Williamsburg, Va., but
we drove from James
town to Yorktown
through the parkway.
Much of this route bor
dered the blue waters
of the York and the
remainder was along
shady roads bordering
green fields upon which,
in several occasions,
deer grazed. At York
town we drove by a
restaurant where
several weeks ago I had
left my hat. Surprising
ly, the restaurant em
ployee found it in his
business office where it
had been placed.
Grace was driving, as
usual, and Howard was
riding on the front seat
with her, and Ann and I
were riding on the back
seat, when Grace drove
on to the bridge that
crossed the York River
and led to Gloucester,
Va. As we drove through
Yorktown, Howard had
told Grace that
Mathews was only a
short ways from
Gloucester, and thus we
soon landed in Mathews,
Va.
Near Mathews we
reached the marine
motel and restaurant
where many persons
traveling by their
yachts through the
Inland Waterways have
their meals. Although it
was after 2 p. m. before
we ordered our meal, I
was not hungry due to
the heavy breakfast at
Surry and I think my
companions felt the
same. We ordered sea
food of various descrip
tion, and unfortunately
they served large por
tions, and before we
finished eating the
delicious meal we
realized that our heavy
breakfast at Surry was a
mistake. In spite of light
meals for dinner, break
fast and Sunday lunch,
only for dinner Sunday
night did I again feel
hungry.
As we left the motel,
we noticed a beautiful
yacht moored to the
wharf. It was large,
painted white and bore
on its top a small sail
boat flying an American
flag. Howard guessed
that it must have cost at
least $100,000, and we
both thought of J. P.
Morgan's reply to an
acquaintance who asked
him what it would cost
to own a yacht Morgan
said "if you have to ask
that, you can't afford
it."
After driving around
Mathews for a short
time, Grace and
Howard visited Christ
Church and took pic
tures. I noticed the
churchyard contained
many monuments as
well as small grave
stones. From Christ
Church we drove to
Trinity Church where
Mr. Wagner had served
as rector. Here Grace
and Howard went to the
church where they
found a Roman Catholic
group was preparing to
hold mass. The Bishop
from Richmond came
up to the car in which I
was seated and intro
duced himself. He said
that the Episcopal
diocese still owned the
church, but was kind
enough to allow the
Catholics to hold mass
in the building each
Saturday until they
could build their own
church. I thought this
was not only nice, but
noteworthy.
We visited one more
Episcopal Church
before reaching home.
In Gloucester County,
Grace pulled into a
short lane that led to Old
Ware Church, a placard
at the entrance to the
kne revealed that the
c"urch was built in 1690.
It has, presumably,
been in constant use sin
ce that date. We did not
enter this church, but
Grace drove through the
^rohyard. « was
""fr •nd welHtept and
was perhaps the pret
tiest cemetery I have
ever seen.
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conditioner filteri at |eaft
once » month.
News Of Yesteryear
Looking Back Into
The Warren Record
September 1,1M4
LL Gen. Kurt Dittmar, Nazi radio commentator,
admitted last night that the defeat of Germany is
drawing closer and in perhaps the strongest peace
note yet voiced by a German propagandist, implied
that the Reich would like to talk compromise terms
on a basis somewhere short of unconditional sur
render.
EM. and Mrs. Creed Satterwhite and daughter,
Carolyn, spent Sunday afternoon at Silver Springs,
Fla. Pvt. Satterwhite is stationed at Camp Bland
ing, Fla.
Warrenton stores and businesses, which have
been observing half-day holidays each Wednesday
during the summer months, will next week abandon
the half-holidays for the winter months.
August 28,1959
Members of Vaughan Baptist Church are building
a new, $25,000 church and funds have been raised
altogether by tithes and offerings. A building fund
was set up in 1952 when the first homecoming ser
vice was held at the church.
Dr. William Alexander Mabry, a native of Ridge
way, has been appointed dean of the college at Ran
dolph-Macon Men's College, effective September 1,
it was announced today by President J. Earl More
land.
Mrs. J. E. Banzet honored her niece, Miss Dickey
Watkins of Oxford, at a Coca-Cola party on the
porch of her home Wednesday morning. Eighteen
guests attended.
August 29,1974
Newly completed doctors' offices on the grounds
of Warren General Hospital have been occupied by
two Warrenton doctors, Dr. D. A. McLaurin and Dr.
Charles Bunch.
Construction of a regional water system to serve
portions of Warren County—stalled several months
by a $3 million bid overrun—is being pushed again
following governmental pledges of the necessary
funds.
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Andy McLaurin, son of Dr. and Mrs. D. A.
McLaurin of Warrenton, will spend the 1974-75
academic year at the University of Seville in
southern Spain.
Remedy Is Outlined
For Missing Check
The following column was prepared as a
public service by the staff of the Henderson
Social Security office.
A person whose Social Security check does not
arrive on the day it is expected should wait for two
more mail deliveries before contacting the Hender
son Social Security office.
If the check still has not arrived after two days,
the people at the Henderson Social Security office
can begin action.
The most common cause of delayed or unreceived
checks is failure to report a change of address.
Many people fail to notify Social Security when they
move, even though they rely on their Social Security
checks as their primary source of income.
Some think it is enough to report their change of
address to the post office. The post office, however,
will forward mail to the person's new address for
only one year. After that, they will send the check
back to the U. S. Treasury.
If the person's check is returned and the new ad
dress provided, it usually takes four or five days for
a new check to be sent. If the check was not retur
ned, a stop order will be put on it and the matter will
be transferred to Washington, D. C. to see if the
check has been cashed.
If it has not been cashed, a new check will be sent
immediately. This process can take up to three
weeks. If it has been cashed, a new check cannot be
sent until the person who cashed the check is iden
tified.
Even though a person's check is deposited direct
ly into his or her account in a financial institution,
he or she should notify Social Security of any change
in address.
More information about Social Security checks
can be obtained at the Henderson Social Security of
fice, located at Northside Plaza Shopping Center,
Henderson, N. C. The telephone number is 2S7-2426.