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(She Harren HUcnrii Published Every Wednesday By Racord Printing Company P O Box 70. Warranton. N C 27589 HOWARD F JONES Editof GRACE W JONES Presxtent KAY HORNER N?wa Editor ENT ERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS Second Class Postage Paid At Warren ton, N C SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Warrao and adiommg countwa $8 00 Par Yaar $5 00 Six Monttw StOOOParYMr $? 00 Sta Moottw Deceptive Advertising There probably isn't any law against it, but it certain ly borders on deceptive ad vertising. We are speaking of the practice of a chain restaurant in a neighborning town featuring an attractive meat special as part of their outdoor advertising cam paign. We noticed the advertise ment calling attention to a ground beef steak being available for only $1.69, and figured that this must be a loss leader designed to en courage patrons to turn off the busy highway and make haste to the eatery. We did just that. When we arrived at the restaurant and were preparing to place our order, we were informed that the advertised price was for children 12 and under only. We felt the practice consti tuted gross misrepresenta tion and determined that our visit to the restaurant would be our last. We suppose other visitors who were attracted by the low price were left with an equally unfavorable opinion. It's an example of how half a truth is often a great lie. Too Much TV The Charlotte Observer recently published a test which the Rev. Harold Bales, pastor of Charlotte's First United Methodist Church, says is the way to know when you're watching too much TV: "You know you're watch ing too much TV if: "1. You can name all the characters on "As the World Turns" but can't remember the names of the 12 disciples. "2. You. can anticipate in advance the outcome" "Of a "FalconXrest" episode but can't remember how the New Testament ends. "3. You can recognize the local TV news reporter on the street but wouldn't know your next-door neighbor if you saw her standing on her own front porch. "4. Your cable TV bill is more each month than your contribution to your local church. "5. You find yourself following, in your own per sonal life, a script you've seen on your favorite soap opera."., . ? Frankly Unnecessary In The Roxboro Courier-Times Back in 1775, when the Con tinental Congress gave itself and members of the military the right to use the mails free ? the so-called "franking privilege"? they doubtless had no idea how extensively it would come to be used, as it is today. Recently, the U. S. Senate un der a new policy adopted last speing, published for the first tone how much senators were spending to mail "newsletters" to their constituents. In all, senators mailed $86 million worth in 1985. And this year? an slection year ? the spending is expected to take a hefty jump on jo $144 million. That may be a due as to why newsletters are so popular ? they're often nothing more than re-election propa ganda posing as news and posing rather poorly at that. Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., a critic of the practice, says the bill for "congressional junk mail" equals the combined federal income tax payments of 330,000 people, living in families of four with incomes of $20,000. What a waste, especially when most of what appears in such newsletters already has been reported by newspapers and broadcast news outlets. Bear in mind, we've mention ed the costs of newsletters sent out by senators only. Sen. Ted Stevens, says members of the House of Representatives are spending at least four times as much for their newsletters.: Looking Back Into The Record February 15,1946 The tugboat strike that brought tew York City to its knees for 18 ours ended two days ago as the ation's major labor troubles egan clearing. The REA is making some pro fess in the Rural Electrification ?reject in Warren County, but no remise can be made at this time s to when the lines will be com leted, according to a letter eceived by Alton Pridgen from liomas B. Slade, in, system lanager. Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Wilson debrated their golden wedding adversary on Saturday, Jan. 98, i the presence of their children ad a large number of friends. February 17,1961 {Proposed plans to estahlirii a siior high school serving the hurenton and Afton-Elberon I thool districts by making use of lie old Macon High School were Sen. Frank Banzet of Warren County has beat appointed vice chairman of the Judiciary Com mittee of the State Senate by Lt. Governor Philpott. Misses Peggy McCracken and Nancy Jo Paschall of Charlotte were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Paschall. February 12, 1276 Henderson Attorney Ben U. Allen Wednesday unveiled plans to seek the Democratic nomina tion for one of four district judgeships in the Ninth Judicial District. Miss Janet Grey Gardner and Forrest Dodd Adair were united in marriage on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 4 o'clock at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in III warrenton. Albert Seaman of Nortina was recognised as the top soybean producer in District Five at the annual meeting of the N.C. Soy bean Amorist!on held at the HBton Hotel In Raleigh last week. The Warren County Scene Bare branches and twigs of an oak tree print an intricate network on a cloudless winter sky. (Staff Photo by Dianne T. Rod well) Carolina Commentary ' ? I ? jonuns Bill Friday's Successor C. D. Spangler, Jr., Charlotte construction executive and chairman of the State Board of Education, has received editor ial bon voyages following0*!*: selection as president of ft* University of North Carolina to succeed Bill Friday. The editorialists have stressed dnd Spangler has acknowledged the difficulty he will have in ap proaching the brilliant record written by the gifted and unassuming Friday, whose ex ploits won't be fully appreciated until historians fit all the pieces together. Herewith some unsolicited advice and observations for the new president: Mister President-elect, you said in your acceptance speech you'll travel "at a different pace, but on the same road" as Friday. You'll find you don't set the pace for that office; it is set by the thundering hooves ap proaching from all points on the compass. One way to share greater responsibility with members of your Board of Governors who crave it is to supply aggrieved parents, irate alumni, and late night drunks with the home tele phone numbers of said mem bers. Keep your rear view mirrors clean so you can see in the after noon folks who were your friends in the morning before the latest flap occurred. If at times you get nostalgic for the staccato cough of jack hammers and other construction sounds, drop in on a meeting of the faculty council when it is discussing the paucity of the latest generous pay increase. If your competitors for the educational dollar invito you to huddle, beware of pickpockets. When an individual chancellor seeking preferential treatment lets some tear drops glisten on a cheek, it probably means he has an onion in his hankerchief. Save the telegrams from alumni demanding that the coach be fired after a losing season. You'll see the same names attached to telegrams demanding a contract extension after he gets a bowl bid. , If you Intervene in a local political dispute, you'll be ac cused of sabotaging a good town-end-gown relationship. If you dont intervene, you'll be accused of the same thing. When you decide members of the Board of Governors again are hungry for greater responsi bility, constitute the Board as a committee-of-the-whole with sole authority for distributing complimentary athletivticMlts. b a You'll find it's an article of faith with students that they are always reasonable except when you aren't. i If you want to curry favor with the next Governor, whoever he is, insist that the Orange County election results are a computer error and that the county for once has voted for a winner. When student newspaper editors applaud your actions twice in a single month, it's time to reexamine your position. "I don't want to usurp your prerogatives as President, but?" means he or she wants to do exactly that In the job, you'll make enemies (if fortunate, the right ones). But stay out of disputes with the Chapel Hill Appearance Commission. Those dainty ladies will chew you up and spit you out. One more note on the job: It's the only one whose occupant walks barefoot on a bed of nails to unwind. Good luck, Mister President elect. Happy to help make your day. Price Feature In Magazine An article of reminiscence by Macon native Reynold* Price, novelist and James B. Duke Pro fessor of English at Duke Univer sity, appears in this month's issue of Southern living magazine in its "Southern Journal'column. In the article, entitled "A Gourmet Childhood," Price recalls the meals prepared by Us Aunt Ida Drake and her longtime black helper, Mary Lee Parker. In those day*, the lttO's and 40's, there were no cookbooks, Price noted, and 'the recipes were stamped in Ida's and Mary Lee's brains; they could no more have written them down than I , could write 'Paradise Lost' blind folded. Yet my memory doesn't recall a single failure for them." } ^ Price recounts for readers of Southern Living the "splendid" meals prepared and served at the Macon home of Ida and Marvin Drake, meals whose secret in gredient was "time?time and Catherine Valentine's Day "Roses are red; violets are blue. Sugar is sweet and so are you." So goes the first verse I can remember scribbling on a valen tine of my very own making. Valentine's Day, festival of romance and affection, comes Friday, as it always does on Feb. 14, on a feast day of two Christian martyrs named Valentine. And like Halloween on All Saints' Day, the customs of the obser vance carry little, if any, kinship to saints. It does appear, however, that at some vague point along history's or specula tion's way St Valentine acquired the label of patron saint of lovers. As with many observances of long standing, legend and theory abound?not always com patibly?to explain the origin and connect it to the modern celebration. One source suggests that the custom of sending missives or tokens of affection on Feb. 14 grew out of the pagan ritual Lupercalia, honoring Juno, the Roman chief goddess, regarded as queen of heaven and protec tress of marriage. Another indicates that one of the saints named Valentine was martyred on Feb. 14 in A.D. 271, beheaded on Palatine Hill at the site of an ancient altar to Juno. Who knows where fact ends and assumption takes over? Still another legend connects the romantic nature of the obser vance with the medieval belief, alluded to by Shakespeare, that birds begin to mate on Feb. 14. Some believe it to recall a time when a winged creature of mythology, the chubby little love god named Cupid, aimed his ar rows at the hearts of men and women. Whatever the origin, Valen tine's Day affords an occasion for one to remember affectionately sweethearts, friends and family members with cards or gifts? sometimes tender, sometimes anonymous and often humorous. An early custom in Sicily called for young unmarried women to get up before sunrise to stand by a window to watch for a man to pass, believing that the first man she saw or someone like him would become her husband within a year. An old English superstition claimed it bad luck to take snowdrops into houses before Valentine's Day if unmarried girls hoped to marry before the end of the year. Believe what you will, it's good that we mark a particular day to pay honor to someone special. Like the legends and theories behind the day, so are the words of our valentine verses only sometimes true. Roses can in deed be red; violets are some times a shade of blue; and sugar is always sweet. Now, what about you? Kay Horner My Newest Diet Plan People who work for newspapers are not, by and large, known for their subtlety. On Monday morning, I arrived at work and found on my desk a diet plan that, if scrupulously followed, guarantees a weight loss of 10 pounds in three days. Sensitive person that I am, I was crestfallen to think that someone with whom I worked had singled me out few such treatment. But my countenance lifted when I learned that fliers pro moting the diet plan had made their way to all the desks in our office. On Tuesday, two of my coworkers committed them selves to lunches of hot dogs, broccoli, carrots and bananas and dinners of tuna, beets, cauli flower and canteloupe in hopes of looking noticeably more svelte by Friday. After three days, they are allowed to eat "normally" for four days before going back on the diet for three days to lose another 10 pounds. (Obviously, the author of the diet is unaware that normal eating in Warren County is a pint of stew, pound of 'cue and hand ful of hushpuppies.) I have long touted the theory that we are what we are and we might as well make the best of it. Much to my surprise, in a televised interview Monday, this was confirmed by Raquel Welch, actress, singer, dancer, who on her approach to mid-life has pro duced the Raquel Welch Total Fitness and Beauty Program. Raquel, as is obvious to even the most untrained eye, was crafted rather handsomely by her maker, a reality she has struggled to accept. "I always wanted to be one of the boys," she said, a yearning that to date has eluded her for ob vious reasons. Years of carrying the burden of her raw good looks have made her philosophical. "You have to take what life gives you," she intoned. Raquel knows that we all have the same gifts, just in differing measure. "But we couldn't have the whole planet looking this way," she concluded, with a sweeping gesture from the head to the toe of her finely-tuned body, "or I'd be out of a job." Diet if you must, dear friends, but leave me out of it. I'm doing my bit to keep Raquel employed.
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