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Best Wishes Extended
Elsewhere in this news
paper can be found a feature
article on Traub's Inn, a bed
and breakfast inn which
opened Tuesday in the hand
some two-story house on
West Macon Street formerly
occupied by the family of the
late Mr. and Mrs. J. Boyd
Davis.
One reading the story can
not help sharing the en
thusiasm of the inn's pro
prietor, Monika Perry, and
wishing her well in her new
venture. As one might know,
the story was written in ad
vance of Tuesday's opening
of the inn, which seemed to
go off without a hitch.
We have observed the
opening of several eating
places and never have we
seen a smoother opening. Of
course the number of persons
seated for a meal is limited
at the new inn, but the ser
vice was far better than one
would anticipate on the first
day of operation.
Not of secondary impor
tance was the quality of the
food, which was excellent.
We heard no complaints
from either ours or any of the
adjoining tables and surmise
that everyone who was an
opening day patron of
Traub's Inn was well
pleased.
We wish Mrs. Perry well,
not only for the good of our
collective appetites, but
because in opening an inn
where former residents and
others may spend a night or
two in a relaxing atmosphere
she has provided a real ser
vice. In so doing she is
helping to promote our town
in areas heretofore un
reached, and she is going
about her daily routine
trying to improve the quality
of life in the town she has
adopted. We wish her every
success.
Looking Back Into The Record
April 18, 1947
Warrenton was thrown into ut
ter darkness Monday night for
five hours when a Ford automo
bile crashed into the guide wire
of an electric light pole located
opposite the Rodgers home on the
Norlina Road. The driver es
caped injury.
J. Howard Daniel was chosen
as president of the Warrenton
Lions Club at the regular meeting
of the organization held last Fri
day night.
L. C. Davis, Norlina High
School student, has been awarded
a $25 bond by Limer Post of the
American Legion as the county
winner in the oratorical contest
held in the schools of Warren by
the Legion.
April 20, 1962
Warren County's 1962 cotton
crop is expected to be consider
ably increased as a result of 732.1
acres released by those farmers
not wishing to grow the crop.
Frank B. Banzet, Warrenton
attorney who holds the rank of
lieutenant colonel in the North
Carolina National Guard, will
end a 15-year association with the
Guard on April 30 when he offi
cially steps down as assistant
chief of staff, G2, of the 30th "Old
Hickory" Infantry Division.
Three agricultural leaders
from Kenya, Africa are in War
ren County this week studying
agricultural methods used in this
country and to obtain a first-hand
view of life in the United States.
April 21, 1977
Few people interviewed Mon
day failed to have some sort of an
opinion about a feature story
about Warrenton which occupied
the front page of the editorial sec
tion of The News and Observer
Sunday morning. The article was
headed "Warrenton," in large
type and sub-headed "Charm
Runs Deep In Little Town That's
Searching For a Future."
A Warren County construction
company and its dynanu" leader,
I>ee Paschall, had a hand in
building some of the nation's
most ambitious projects, among
them the Pentagon, the $85 mil
lion government structure off the
Shirley Highway in Washington,
D.C. (An article appearing in the
May 17,1954 edition of the Rich
mond News Leader paying tri
bute to Paschall was reprinted in
the Record.)
Brown J. Hawkins of Rt. 2,
Macon has been appointed by
Governor Jim Hunt to the Gover
nor's Advisory Committee on
Agriculture, Forestry and
Seafood Industry.
AGRICULTURE:
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mode or reosonoble rotes with repayment
scheduled to fit your situation
A lor goes into agriculture the Federal
lond Dank Association cowers it
The Farm Credit System
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Warranton, N.C.
The Warren County Scene
Rain paraphernalia got a workout during last week's wet
weather in Warren County. Pedestrians were rarely seen
without umbrellas or other forms of protection during the
several successive days of rainfall.
(Staff Photo by Dianne T. Rod well)
Rescues On Dry Land
The lifesaving heroics of Coast
Guardsmen off North Carolina's
treacherous coast have been du
ly chronicled and their bravery
and derring-do saluted in song
and story.
On canvas, artists have cap
tured brave men in oilskin gear
bending to their oars in gale
winds and riotous seas as they
went to the rescue of comrades
eyeball-to-eyeball with destruc
tion.
This kind of drama everyone
can recognize: men braving the
elements, risking all in fragile
craft against thunderous
background music.
Dry-land rescues often are less
spectacular and so go unnoticed
generally. When the rescuer is a
quiet-spoken guy in a two-button
suit talking to some university
professors, no folk singer is
moved to write a song about him.
But whether Chairman George
A. Kennedy and his colleagues of
the Faculty Council of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill realize it or not, John
L. Sanders may have saved them
from some troubling times.
Sanders, the director of the In
stitute of Government, led the
professors to reject Chairman
Kennedy's call for a resolution
that would have produced an out
side study of the structure of the
16-campus UNC system.
Kennedy's motivation was a
personal feeling that the two ma
jor research institutions, UNC at
Chapel Hill and N.C. State at
Raleigh, are handicapped under
present arrangements. The in
ference was the two schools need
ed more autonomy and special
treatment by the Board of
Governors.
As a matter of fact, those two
institutions under the present
structure have flourished as
never before. Their salaries are
higher than those of sister
schools, their support services
greater, their libraries richer
all because of special research
status accorded after restructur
ing 15 years ago.
As one who advised the
legislative committees that
keyed the creation of the new
structure, John Sanders remind
ed his colleagues that any pro
posal to change the structure
would be handled by the General
Assembly. And once the issue
landed in that arena, anything
could happen.
Sanders didn't go into the gory
details of possibilities, but he did
mention that UNC at Chapel Hill
and N.C. State might not want
their salary differentials dis
cussed in the legislative halls.
The profs ought to go to their
knees nightly in supplication that
it won't happen.
If Chapel Hill and N.C. State by
some fluke were set apart from
the other 14 schools, they would
be marooned and drubbed. Re
gional university coalitions, aid
ed by supporters of predominant
ly black schools, would translate
their latent resentment against
the favored two into votes in the
House and Senate. Sic transit
favoritism in pay and everything
else.
A good case can be made for
shortening the terms of Board of
Governors members, because
that doesn't tinker with the basic
structure. But the Kennedy
resolution, intended or not, was
an assault on the structure itself.
That structure cured many ills,
has become a national model,
and has insulated higher educa
tion from political interference
that has plagued some other
states.
John Sanders may be a
landlubber, but he knows well the
sharks which dwell in legislative
waters.
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you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courthouse Squares
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Silent Prayer Called For
Years ago, I began keeping a notebook of "quotable quotes" that
give testimony to the fact that kids are not the only ones who say the
darndest things.
One of my favorites in that volume is from the pen of Mary
Chestnut, a South Carolinian whose Civil War diary is one of the most
insightful pieces of literature from that era. Unfortunately, one after
noon, on the way home from a bandage-making party, she apparent
ly had to drag her ruffled petticoat over a few too many wounded Con
federate soldiers and on arriving home penned these words about the
hell that war had wreaked on the South's economy: "One can live
without gloves, but linen is next to life itself."
In recent weeks, the fall from the airways of televangelism's first
couple, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, has provided new material
for my collection. A sampling follows:
"The PTL ministry must go on without so much as a hiccup." Jerry
Falwell. Actually, a good case of the hiccups might be just what PTL
needs, being as how the hiccups usually forces the one so inflicted
to be quiet until the condition passes. Imagine, silence on the PTL
Show. What a novel idea. The time might even be spent in prayer?
the silent kind.
"Jim has very seldom seen me without makeup and hardly ever
in my life without my eyelashes." Tammy Faye Bakker. The com
ment is part of a recently published book "Christian Wives: Women
Behind Evangelists Reveal Their Faith in Modern Marriage." It was
published after the fall and includes the revelation that Tammy Faye
rarely goes to bed without makeup. Having seen her makeup job and
knowing the time required to perfect it, including starting over when
an eyebrow goes awry or a lip slips out of line, we can assume that
we now know why she cries so much.
The last quotable quote is from Jessica Hahn, the seduced or seduc
tress depending on the source, in the Bakker sex imbroglio. Hahn,
from her home in Babylon, N. Y. (note the biblical significance of that
name), told reporters she was "deeply moved" that churchgoers
everywhere understand that the current scandal "has no reflection
upon the Lord."
About that, Ms. Hahn need not worry. Believe it or not, he has sur
vived worse.
Mary
Catherine
Harris
Era Of Tulipomania
The brand of enthusiasm which prompts an anomymous telephone
bidder in March 1987 to lay out close to $40 million for a single paint
ing of sunflowers does not belong exclusively to the 20th century.
In the early 1600's?a couple of centuries before the Dutch painter
Vincent Van Gogh created "Sunflowers"?it was a different blossom,
and one real and live, which produced in the painter's own Holland
a strange craze known by some as tulipomania. This I read in an April
1977 "Smithsonian" magazine article which someone passed to me
recently.
Tulipomania was a state of the times which allowed some un
named enthusiast able to spare two loads of wheat and four of rye,
four fat oxen along with eight pigs and 12 sheep equally healthy, two
hogsheads of wine, four barrels of beer, two barrels of butter, 1,000
pounds of cheese, a complete bed, a suit of clothes and a silver beaker
to purchase a single tulip named Viceroy. One flower!
That revelation sent me to one of last fall's gardening catalogues
where I combed the pages for the most extravagant buy in tulips.
Among those billed as "Holland's Finest Tulips," there was only one
variety advertised for as much as one dollar per bulb. And even that
one, described as rare, could be purchased in quantity for as little
as 81 cents each.
While tulips are beautiful and also common in these parts, moreso
in Holland, it is clear the mania has subsided considerably which once
drove some Dutchmen to sell their tools, pawn their jewels and mort
gage their homes to pay for the prized flowers.
A few of the 17th-century countrymen remained apparently ig
norant of the plant even while others were sacrificing their morals
as well as their possessions to claim the bulbs most unusual. The
magazine article relates the story of one sailor who as he ate breakfast
one morning spied a bulb among the merchandise on the counter.
Thinking it was an onion, he doused it with oil and vinegar and par
took of it along with his herring breakfast. The tulip seemed to have
settled well until he learned the bulb was worth an amount which
would have fed the entire ship's crew for nearly a year.
Unusual tulips were status symbols back then in Holland and prices
skyrocketed. Everyone grew bulbs placing hope upon hope that
chance would deal a unique variety in his garden.
The craze continued amidst intense rivalry and craftiness until peo
ple began to realize the "folly could not go on forever," the article
states. Anyway, people grew tired of buying and selling tulips. So the
market crashed and trade in Holland took on a more normal course
but with the country on the brink of bankruptcy. Years it took to
stabilize the economy, according to the magazine.
So ended tulipomania in Holland, but not without tribute to the
wisdom of keeping more than a fine line between healthy enthusiasm
and debilitating mania.
DID YOU KNOW?
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American Sport Horses
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