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Uarren lUcorb Published Every Wednesday By Record Printing Company P O Bo* 70, Warrontc"., N C 27589 HOWARD F JONES Editor GRACE W JONES President KAY HORNER Feature Editor ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE IN WARRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. UNDER THE LAWS OF CONGRESS Second Class Postage Paid At Wa/renton N C SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in Warren and adjoining counties $10.00 Per Year $6 00 Six Months Elsewhere $12.00 Per Year $7 00 Six Months A Criminal Action It is a sad state of affairs indeed that in a land of plen ty, people go hungry. Even more tragic is the fact that these hungry peo ple, accustomed for some time now to the distribution of free food commodities, face an end to worthwhile practice. One only had to view the long lines of traffic snaking to the National Guard Ar mory, site of the food give away, to see the need for the program. Now the end is in sight, and there are many who are la menting the fact. A loud voice was raised by editor of The Pilot, a Southern Pines newspaper, over the antici pated end of the surplus food distribution. He wrote as fol lows: "There's something very wrong here and it should not be allowed to happen. "What we are talking about is the end of the distri bution of surplus food for the poor, and a lot of people in Moore County, North Caro lina and the nation will go hungry because the Reagan administration has cut off all funds for the distribution of those foods. "There will be one more food distribution for the poor in Moore County?on Feb. 27?but Melinda Hamrick, director of the Department of Social Services, said it will be the last because funds to pay the cost of distribution have been eliminated by the Reagan administration. "The foods to be distribut ed on Feb. 27 will be cheese, butter, flour and rice. These are surplus foods which the federal government acquired through its price support pro gram. But they will do nobody any good if they are piled up to rot in a ware house. "To our way of thinking, that is criminal conduct on the part of the federal gov ernment, to allow people to go hungry while food rots away. "This is the same govern ment which is paying $450 for a hammer, and billions and billions of dollars for planes that will not fly, war threat ening and unnecessary MX missiles and a Star Wars fan tasy. All in all, this adminis tration has tripled the so called defense budget to more than $300 billion a year, and that in itself threatens peace while draining funds away from people ir. need. "This is outrageous and the people of America should not put up with it. Appeals to the White House will do no good, but the offices of their congressmen should be flood ed with protests and with demands that funds be ap propriated to see that the poor do not go hungry while surplus food fills the ware houses of the nations. "Farm support prices are necessary, and indeed more needs to be done to save the family farms of America. But surplus foods serve no one unless they are distri buted in places such as Moore County to feed the poor and needy. "It is time to sound the alarm." 7 71 i've been taking 1 3 KINDS OF PILLS FOR A MONTH AND IT'S DOING ME SOME GOOD. NOV/ I CAN GET THE CAPS OFF THE BOTTLES ON THE FIRST TRY. > Lj Looking Back Into The Record February 14, 1947 A small airplane crashed Wednesday night on the farm of Ernest Harris of Inez. The pilot, who was flying alone, bailed out and was not injured. The plane was practically destroyed. Gravely concerned over the acute teacher shortage, the chairman of the Warrenton dis rict board this week sounded a call for teachers. He asked that any teacher interested in becom ing a member of the John Gra ham faculty notify the principal. Residents of Warren County bought approximately $50,000 worth of E, F and G Bonds dur ing the month of January, ac cording to a report received by the Citizens Bank from the Treasury Department. February 16, 1962 Trustees of the Duke Endow ment have appropriated a sum of $1,304,173.32 to North Carolina and South Carolina hospitals and child care institutions. Of this amount, $1,413 was allocated to Warren General Hospital com pared to $1,067 for 1960. The State Bureau of Investiga tion has been asked to assist in the investigation of a robbery at the Norlina ABC store on Monday night in which thieves stole 10 cases of bonded whiskey. The Warrenton Lions Club cele brated its 26th anniversary with a Ladies Night banquet and dance at the Country Club on Saturday night. February 17, 1977 Albert Seaman won fourth place in the statewide soybean contest with a yield of 58.85 bushels of soybeans per acre. The Warrenton Board of Com missioners Monday night voted to strictly enforce the law requiring all residents to purchase and display on their motor vehicles town tags and to adopt a $5 ser vice charge for all bad checks issued to the town. Kermit C. Copley has suc cessfully completed the statutory requirements to become a cer tified public accountant in the State of North Carolina. The Warren County Scene: Striking a pose in this atypical Warren County scene is this member of the crane family which was seen recently survey ing the territory along Highway 401 between Warrenton and Norlina. (Staff Photo by Dianne T. Rodwell) Carolina Commentary Jay Jenkins Some Statistical Nuggets Sixteen blacks are serving in North Carolina's 1987 General Assembly and that is a record for this century, eclipsing by one the number who served in the 1985-86 session. Three of the blacks are in the 50-member State Senate, and 13 are in the 150-member House of -Representatives. State Rep. Henry Frye (D-Guilford) was the trailblazer in 1969. He now is an associate justice of the State Supreme Court. There are 24 women members (four in the Senate, 20 in the House) and that ties a record shared by three previous sessions. The first woman to serve was State Rep. Lillian Exum Clement, elected from Buncombe County to the 1921 session. These statistical nuggets and others to follow come from a fact sheet prepared by the office of Secretary of State Thad Eure, who called to order the House of Representatives for the 26th time. After the formality of his election, Speaker Liston Ram sey took the gavel. Ramsey (D-Madison), serving his 13th term, became the senior member in terms of service in the House. He inherited that honor because Rep. Dwight Quinn (D-Cabarrus) didn't seek reelection in 1986 after an all time record of 18 terms. The oldest member of the Senate is R. L. Martin, 74 (D Pitt), the youngest is Austin M. Allran, 35 (R-Catawba). Oldest member of the House is Gordon H. Greenwood, 77 CD Buncombe ), youngest is tarry E. Etheridge, 27 (R-Wilson). The Senator with the longest tenure is the president pro tern of that body, J. J. (Monk) Harrington (D-Bertie),serving his 13th term. Rep. Jo Graham Foster (D-Mecklenburg) and Sen. Lura Tally (D Cumberland) are in their eighth terms, and have tied the late Rep. Nancy Chase (D-Wayne) for the most lengthy tenure among women members. Twenty years ago, members of the General Assembly re ceived base pay of $15 per day, for a maximum of 120 days (af ter that, they paid their own way). Current members get a base salary of $10,140 per year, a monthly expense allowance of $252 per month for the entire year and $79 per day subsistence allowance during the session. Members also get 25 cents per mile for one roundtrip per week to their home districts. During a two-year term, a member will receive nearly $41,000. In addition to subsistance and mileage, House Speaker Liston Ramsey gets an annual salary of $28,452 and a monthly expense allowance of $929. lieutenant Governor Bob Jordan, who pre sides over the Senate, is a fulltime employee of the execu tive branch and doesn't receive the monthly allowance and sub sistance pay. He collects the same salary as his colleagues on the Council of State, $61,044 per year. Legislators dressed for the chill of February will be in their summer finery before the 1987 session adjourns. Whether they'll break the record for the longest session?195 calendar days in 1971?remains to be seen. Before the one-man-one-vote court decision, each of the state's 100 counties had at least one representative in the 120 member House. Thirty-four counties have representation in the House only, six counties in the Senate only. Mecklenburg has the largest delegation on the basis of population with 11, eight in the House and three in the Senate. The most homicidal session of the legislatures was in 198W6, when only 32 per cent of the 3,458 bills and resolutions which were introduced were ratified. The previous fatality record was in 1973-74, when 45.1 per cent of 3,701 pieces of legislation bit the dust. Wreck (Continued from page 1) the right side of the highway and driving with a revoked license. He was held in the Warren Coun ty jail on $10,000 bond pending a hearing set for Mar. 11. William NcKinley Bullock, 32, of Norlina, owner of the vehicle, was charged with aiding and abetting for allowing Levister to drive. He was riding with Levis ter when the accident occurred and was held in the Warren Coun ty jail on $1,000 bond. The truck driver was not charged. On Dean's List Warren County students named to the fall semester Dean's List at A&T State University in Greensboro were James Alston, Renae L. Alston Bobby Andrews, Jr., Kenneth Edwards, and Christina L Pryor. Thurietta Brown Searching For Roots Alex Haley's "Roots" did much to spark an interest in the past. Genealogical pursuits, once popular only among the elite, became < an obsession of blacks, who went in droves to pour through state ar chives, county records and family Bibles. Like so many others, I was bitten by the bug, too. I searched through birth certificates and marriage licenses in Jim Hundley's office. I rummaged through wills in the office of the clerk of court. I spent a couple of days (and a small fortune for copies) at the Archives in Raleigh. I spent hours in conversation with my parents, uncles and grandmother. Although I was able to learn a great deal about three generations of relatives on our side, that was not enough. There had to be more and I had to find it. It had always struck me as odd that my great-grandfather and his brothers all had English literary and religious names: Byron, Shel ly Tennyson, Milton, George Herbert, Peter Pender and Tom Moore. It also struck me as odd that certain names, Faulcon, Ridley, Cor nelia and Lafayette, seemed to recur in various generations. My grandmother had always talked about Dr. Ridley Browne, his brother, Jacob Faulcon Browne, and their father, Dr. LaFayette Browne, supposedly of Vaughan. So, off I drove through Macon into Vaughan with Polaroid and notebook in hand. The reaction to my questions was mixed. Two sisters refused to talk with me, but two others, Ann and Cornelia, were open and warm. They shared the Browne family Bible and family photographs. They took me to their family cemetery. They also took me to their grand father's old home. It stands today?just barely?but, it's there. Cornelia and I corresponded until her death a couple of years later. Ann died soon after. Although we never quite said out loud what we thought to be true, we knew that something special had taken place and that the relationship established was miraculous, at best. As recently as August of last year, some 2,500 individuals at tended a sort of "homecoming" at the Somerset Place plantation in Washington County. Among them was 78 year old Josiah Collins VI of Seattle, Wash.?a direct descendent of the founder of Somerset. The event drew over 100 reporters, including representatives from USA Today, Time magazine and the major television networks. Governor Jim Martin proclaimed Aug. 30 "Somerset Homecoming Day." There are aspects of black history that we don't care to remember. I don't like to think about that part of our heritage, but I feel better for having found out more about my roots. CALENDAR Commissioners Meet Axed The mid-monthly meeting of the Warren County Commissioners scheduled for this evening (Wednesday) has been cancelled. All business has been deferred until the regular monthly meeting to be held Monday, Mar. 2. Smith To Deliver Sermon James W. Smith, evangelist, will return to The Soul City First Bap tist Church on Sunday, Feb. 22. He will deliver the morning sermon at 11:30 a.m. All are invited to attend. Republicans To Gather The Warren County Republican Convention will be held Saturday, Mar. 7, at 11 a.m. at the Warren County Courthouse. Major business includes the election of officers and selection of delegates to the district and state conventions. Precinct meetings will be held prior to the Convention. Stew Sale Plans Outlined The Norlina Woman's Club will sponsor a Stew Sale Saturday, Feb. 28. Stew will be ready at 10 a.m. at a cost of $3.50 per quart. The sale is sponsored by the Norlina Masonic Lodge. Macon Supper Postponed The annual George Washington Buffet Supper planned for Satur day night by members of the Macon Ladies Fire Auxiliary has been postponed until Saturday, Feb. 28, from 5 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Will Settlement Is Sought (Continued from page 1) residents of Warren County." Two-thirds of the interest income was to be used annually to benefit white persons; one-third of the in terest income was to be used an nually to benefit black persons. Because of difficulties in honor ing the manner of distribution of the funds, the monies have re mained since 1964 in an interest bearing account, untouched and free to grow to the $37,000 on hand today. According to Clerk of Court Richard Hunter, various clerks of court had deemed the will's stipulations unmanageable. Dr. Tom Holt, one of the co executors of the will, requested in 1985 that the State Attorney General petition the court for release of the funds to Emmanuel Episcopal Church to be distri buted in the following manner: two-thirds to the Church of the Good Shepherd, a primarily white congregation in Ridgeway, primarily black congregation in Warrenton. The request was ap proved by Judge Robert Hobgood. Complaints were raised by dissatified citizens and these were aired in a hearing held Jan. 5 before Judge Hobgood. The original approval was rescinded. Hobgood will hold a hearing with the clerk of court and trustees of the will on an undeter mined date to authorize Clerk of Court Hunter to appoint the Hugh J. White Memorial Fund Board to select a recipient of the bequest. For a complete line of writing needs? for home or office 123 South Main^ Warrenton I flllje Barren Uecorb E
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