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$tje barren Ktetoxb Published Every Wednesday By Record Printing Company P O Bo* 70, Warrenton. N. C 27589 BIGNALL JONES HOWARD F. JONES KAY HORNER Editor Business Manager News Editor 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES' adjo^ng counties Elsewhere oUDov^rtlr lUN rtA to. $e 00 Per Year $10 00PeiYear $5 00 Six Months $6 00 Six Months Time Of Thanksgiving Tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 22, is Thanksgiving Day, and in spite of the dangers that threaten our country and the world, the American people have much for which to be thankful. There are two events about which weekly paper editors feel that they must write editorials. They are Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year Thanksgiving comes a day after the publication date of The Warren Record, but must be written in advance of its publication, this time on Monday afternoon before Thanksgiving. The front pages of all daily papers always contain good news and bad news, but we are all thankful that they are no longer filled with political advertisements and debates, now that the elections are over and our people have accepted the results. On the front page of The News and Observer Monday morning was a story of hope and service for which we can all be thankful. A three-column headline read: "Soviet Union. U. S. Join Forces in Airlift of Food to Ethiopia. The AP story from Kembolcha, Ethiopia, read in part as follows: EthioDia. read in part as follows: "The 100-pound sacks of wheat being loaded from a truck into a Soviet Ml-8, bore the stamp 'Furnished by the people of the United States of America.' "Americans and Soviets in one of their major emergency-response efforts since World War II, are putting their countries' differences aside to work together on the airlift taking food and supplies to millions of starving Ethopian famine victims. "Dawit Wolde Giorgis, head of Ethiopia's relief efforts said the cooperation is such that sometimes 'we are transporting supplies by Soviet aircraft with the fuel paid for by the American government.' "At first (Russian) officials shooed reporters away from the four Ml-8 Soviet transportation helicopters But then the Russian chief of the 50-member Soviet crew at Kembolcha allowed the journalists to take photographs of the helicopters, painted in shades of camouflage green and bearing the name of the Soviet airline Aeroflot, as the U. S. wheat was being loaded. The Russian, wearing running shoes and a red and white baseball cap, gave only his first name, Kolya, a diminutive of Nikolai. "Kolya, who is based in Moscow with Aeroflot, said the four helicopters arrived in Kembolcha Nov. 7 and two days later began flying food to parts of the highlands so remote that they are difficult to reach by tnirk " Lee lacocca's Story By BIGNALL JONES More than a month ago, I watched Sandi Freeman interview Lee Iacocca in her "Freeman Reports," on TV channel 13 following the publication of his autobiography "Lee Iacocca." He was assisted in preparing the book for publication by William Novack, Washington columnist. The following night I purchased a copy of this book from a bookstore in a mall at Wilson. As an admirer of Iacocca, I was anxious to read this book but had to defer this pleasure. At that time I was reading and reviewing in this column a copy of "First Lady From Plains," an autobiography by Rosilyn Carter. A review of the last half of the bode appeared in this column last week, I having finished reading it the previous Friday, and turned to the reading of Lee Iacocca. I finished reading the Iacocca autobiography on Thursday of last week because I brought a copy of the book with me to the office that morning. Iacocca is recognized as one of the most distinguished and intelligent men in the United States. His autobiography is divided into five sections, in addition to "acknowledgements," "An Opening Word," "Prologue," and "Epilogue." "Made in America," concerned with his family and school days; "The Ford Story," "The Chrysler Story," "Straight Talk," in wWdi Iacocca discusses several things that labor, capital, government and the public must do in order for America to retain its greatness; and "The Great Lady," » story of the restoration of the Statute of Liberty, which he heads. Iacocca relates that his father, Nicola Iacocca, arrived in this country at the age of 12"poor, alone and scared." "As the boat sailed into New York Harbor, my father looked out and saw the Statue of Liberty, that great symbol of hope for millions of immigrants. On his second crossing, when he saw the statue again, he was a new American citizen—with only his mother, his young wife and hope by his side. For Nicola and Antoinette, America was the land of freedom—the freedom to become anything you wanted to be, if you wanted it bad enough and were willing to work for it. "This was the single lesson my father gave to his family. I hope I have done as well with my own." In reviewing this book, I will use quotes from the book from time to time in the hope that I may encourage my readers to obtain the book and read and sometimes re-read it for this man has a message of hardship, hope, and success and a message for both the American people and their leaders. In addition to the quotes I clipped there are hundreds of interesting comments that find their way into my conversation, as they will of yours. For instance, when Lee"s mother was coming back from Italy she suffered an attack of typhoid fever, which confined her to her cabin. Her husband, afraid that she would not be permitted to land, persuaded an immigration officer that she had a bad case of seasick ness. To quote further: "When I was growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, our family was so close, it sometimes felt as though we were one person with four parts. 'My parents always made my sister, Delma, and me feel important and special. Nothing was too much work or too much trouble. My father might have been busy with a dozen other things, but he always Thompson Feted For Co. Service BUI Thompson, man. ager of Byrd's Food Store in Warrenton, was one of 11 employees honored for 10 years of service at the company's annual awards banquet on Nov. 14, at a restaurant near Burlington. Also receiving awards were the company's employee-of-theyear and winners in a recent store manager's contest The employees celebrating over 10 years of service with the Byrd organization were presented diamond cluster rings by the company president, C. R. BynfcJr. Following dinner and the presentation of awards, Dr. Jack Hunter of Front Street United Methodist Church, spoke to the guests. UlCmcii The average American ate 7.S pounds of celery in 1982. had time for us. My mother went out of her way to cook the foods we loved—just to make us happy. To this day, whenever I come to visit, she will make my two favorites—chicken soup with little veal meatballs, and ravioli stuffed with ricotta cheese. Of all the world's great Neopolitan cooks, she has to be one of the best." Elsewhere, he writes that his mother is still beautiful and looks today younger than he does. Writing of the trying days of the Great Depression when my father had lost all the money he had accumulated and was threatened by the loss of his home, Lee writes of his mother: "During those difficult years, my mother was very resourceful. She was a real immigrant mother, the backbone of the family. A nickel soupbone went a long wa> in our house, and we always had enough to eat. I remember that she used to buy squabsthree birds for a quarter —and kill the birds herself because she didn't trust the butcher to guarantee their freshness. As the Depression grew worse, she helped out in my father's restaurant. At one point she went to work in a silk mill sewing skirts." To Be Continued. Looking Back Into The Warren Record November 24,1M4 A War Exhibit Chemical Show from Camp Butner is expected to arrive in Warrenton next Thursday, Nov. 30, and give an exhibition and demonstration of combat weapons at the Armory shortly after the noon hour, according to John Tarwater, Warren County chairman of the Sixth War Loan Drive. Richard Davis entertained a large number of friends on Monday evening at an oyster roast at the Warrenton Box and Lumber Company. Tom Burton, one of the best known auctioneers in the entire tobacco business, selling on the largest tobacco markets in the world, will be the auctioneer at the War Bond auction here on Nov. 30. Mr. Burton, whose home is at Warrenton and who is well known to many Warren County citizens, cancelled a sale at Wilson for the event. November 20,1959 Warren County farmers, seeing their number vanishing at a phenomenal rate daily, must act with speed and unison if they want to insure their existence as farmers, according to Dr. D. S. Weaver, director of N. C. Agricultural Extension Service. In a ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 4 o'clock in Norlina Baptist Church, Miss Nell Holt Davis became the bride of Luther Earl Stegall. Mrs. J. B. Massenburg was hostess to the Warren County Chapter of the United Daughters of the confederacy at the home of Miss Mary S. Massenburg on Friday with 14 members present. November 21,1974 Edwards, Dove and Knight, architectural firm of Rocky Mount, was chosen by the Board of Education Monday night as architect of record when the county decides to build a consolidated high school for the county. The Warrenton Lions Club heaped good wishes and $400 upon its new offspring — the Warrenton Leo Club — Monday night during charter night exercises held at the Lions Den. Mrs. Mary Kearney of Warrenton received a gift recently of red carnations after being crowned Miss Burden Lifter during a gospel sing held at Hawkins Junior High School under the sponsorship of the Willing Workers Club of Warrenton.
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