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<3t|e barren ifocorii Published Every Wednesday By Record Printing Company P O Bo* 70 Warrenton N C 27589 HOWARD F JONES GRACE W JONES KAY HORNER Editor President 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 Warrenton N C In Warren arid cnQcnDiDTinu datfc adjoiningcounties Elsewhere S10.00 Per Vear $i200PerYear $6 OOSi* Months $7 00Si* Months Dr. Thomas E. Powell With rising frequency one . the impressive nents of a native SUV Oi , di ren County who rms gone elsewhere to make his mark upon the world. Seldom has one accomplish ed more, or left more of his heart in Warren, than Dr. Thomas E. Powell, Jr. who died Thursday at the age of 88. Funeral services for Dr. Powell were held Saturday morning from his home church, Burlington's Front Street United Methodist Church. Those who learned of his death learned also that he had always continued his affiliation with the United Methodist Church of Macon. Warren County seemed always in the thoughts of Dr. Powell, who was born in Warrenton before the turn of the century, the son of Thomas Edward Powell, Sr. and Clara Morton Bobbitt Powell. He left to enroll in three North Carolina schools?Elon College, the University of North Carolina and Duke University?and he succeeded at each, eventual ly receiving a Ph.D. degree in biology from Duke in 1930. Dr. Powell s special area of research dealt with the life history and control of the tobacco beetle, but his inter est in research was truly broad. That can be seen in his active involvement with Carolina Biological Supply Company, a company he ounded in 1927 and which low has operating units in Warren County and else where. What his life has meant to ?esearch can be seen in the lonor Dr. Powell received in .981 for his involvement in he establishment of Duke Jniversity Marine Labora ory's research vessel, the Cape Hatteras," an inter lationally known marine re earch laboratory. Dr. Powell's abilities to get hings done was known to >oth his peers and to the eaders of the state. He received numerous honorary degrees from educational in stitutions and in 1958 Gov. Luther Hodges appointed him to the N. C. Citizens Committee for Better Schools. Despite his accomplish ments, Dr. Powell never put Warren County on the back burner. He maintained the Powell homeplace on the Air port Road in a fine manner, and he restored his grand father's house between Warrenton and Macon near the site of where he con structed a motel with dining and meeting facilities for company officials who paid frequent visits here. Few visited more frequent ly than Dr. Powell. Between 1967 and 1974, when he was putting together most of the 2400 acres in his Warren holdings, he was here at least once every two weeks. As the years passed, he came less frequently, but with the same enthusiasm that seemed to accompany each visit to see the genetic research under way on his Warren research farms and to visit with "his folks." Dr. Powell did much to dis tinguish himself during a full and useful life. We are grate ful that Warren County profited so much from his life and that over the years he never forgot his roots. Youth comes but once in a lifetime. Longfellow Looking Back Into The Record December 5, 1947 Henry Seaman, farmer of the idgeway section with a 114 ashel yield, has been named irn champion of Warren Coun ? and presented with a $50 war ind at a meeting of the Warren aunty Farm Bureau. Warren County is enriched by 10,367.77 as a result of a statute lacted by the last legislature, hich gives counties and towns a jrtain percentage of the tax erived from the sale of beer and ine. The wedding of Miss Annie luriel Weaver, daughter of Mr. id Mrs. Calvin J. Weaver, to arl Jackson Pinnell, son of Mr. id Mrs. E. Hunter Pinnell, took ace on Nov. 27 at the home of :r. and Mrs. Roy W. Perkinson. December 7, 1962 Tobacco allotments in Warren junty will be cut more than 300 Tes as a result of a five percent ;crease in national allotments dered Friday by the state <cretary of Agriculture. Amos L. Capps has been re elected chairman of the newly elected Warren County Board of County Commissioners. A bond issue of $165,000 for a sewer system and sewage treat ment plant at Norlina has been called for Jan. 8 by the Norlina Board of Commissioners. December 8, 1977 An apparent low bid of $156,302.05, submitted by a Tar boro construction firm for site development at the consolidated high school, has been accepted by the Warren County Board of Education. Gusty winds or small tornadoes touched down in several sections of the county late Monday after noon causing considerable damage in the Embro communi ty and twisting off house tops is other areas. The Warrenton Woman's Club was among 12 other groups or in dividuals receiving state awards of merit during the luncheon held recently in Raleigh. The Warren County Scene Looking as though it is fed up with the rat race, a young cat peers from the snugness of a used tire which provides some thing of a refuge from the cold. The scene was found on a farm near Paschall. (Staff Photo by Dianne T. Rodwell) Ccrolina Commentary ^ Jenkins Pastor Sees Opportunity Now that the momentum of fundamental inerrantists in the Southern Baptist Convention has been halted in North Carolina, at least temporarily, the Tar Heel laity has a "wonderful opportuni ty" to further the moderate cause. That's the view of the Rev. W. W. Finlator, a retired Baptist minister of Raleigh. He referred to the recent election of a slate of moderates at the Baptist State Convention, which he attributed in part to "outrage" over the fun damentalist takeover of South eastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest and the resignation of President Randall Lolley. A true seminary is a communi ty of theologians who together under the leadership of the Holy Spirit are in a quest for light and truth, Finlator said, "as opposed to someone who has the whole truth and requires the faculty to accept it, believe it, teach it or get out. That's indoctrination, total ly destructive of the concept of a theological community and the Baptist faith." The election of a president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) at San Antonio, Texas next year will be crucial, he added, because the president names the committee that selects members of the boards which control the seminaries, foreign and home missions and literature produced by the Sunday School Board. To take advantage of an oppor tunity, Finlator said the laity should take several steps: ?Churches right now should set aside in their budgets enough money to send to San Antonio every messenger to which the church is entitled "to defend Bap tist beliefs," Finlator said. "The fundamentalists will be busing people in, trying to win the 'body count.' " ?"Women believe in the priesthood of believers and have two great fundraisers for foreign and home missions, Lottie Moon and Fannie Heck," Finlator said, yet the foreign and home mission boards of the SBC will not com mission or recognize an ordained woman minister. "Women should rise up and ask their churches to put this money in escrow until these boards change their at titude," Finlator added. ?Moderate, mainline churches finance a majority of SBC func tions, Finlator said, yet the fun damentalists want total control. "When we give money to the church, a portion goes to the Bap tist State Convention. The state convention keeps 60 percent and sends 40 percent to the SBC. Churches may very well say, as long as the fundamentalists are taking over and changing the Baptist faith, we're going to withhold that 40 percent and spend it on our own causes colleges, orphanages, retirement homes, hospitals, youth work on college campuses. We don't have to underwrite something that is defeating our Baptist faith." ?"The laity should require of their ministers that they under take a program of educating the congregations on the Baptist faith, in such areas as rights of public conscience, freedom to in terpret the Bible under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, openness to truth and protection of dissent, church-state separa tion, local autonomy of the church, priesthood and equality under God of all believers," Finlator said. "All of these beliefs are destructive of the fundamen tal beliefs. Other denominations as well as Baptists should invite seminary professors to come in and talk to them about what's happening. If it can happen to Baptists, it can happen to others, too. Inerrancy is a mind-set, like Fascism." ?"There's an organized cam paign to place fundamentalist preachers in every church look ing for a pastor," Finlator said. "It's going on in Maryland and Virginia now. Every church should be alert as to who will be brought before its pulpit commit tee. The churches can get help from the Baptist State Conven tion office or a seminary to make sure in the screening process that future ministers represent tradi tional historic Baptist faith." Thurietta Brown 'Twas Almost A Waste 'Twas the day of "Messiah" and there in my house I awoke feeling sick?much worse than a louse. My tickets, ordered early, had been pocketed with care In hopes that for the performance I'd be there. Duke's choir and "imported" soloists at two p.m. would be led In Handel's "Messiah" by Ben Smith at their head. And I, with Aunt Mildred, would be right there?on tap To enjoy the performance (with my recorder in my lap). When out of my chest there arose such a clatter I thought: "Oh, no, the flu?that's what's the matter." Away to my phone, I flew like a flash To call "music lovers" to share with them my stash. When what to my wondering ears they should say: "We're too busy to go to Messiah' this day." With tickets for what was "sold out" for weeks (Boo Hoo! >, I knew in a moment just what I should do. "Ben, are they taping? I'm sick and can't stand In line for an hour." (The protocol they demand). "I'll reserve you two seats," he said, not with stealth. I cried when he said it?in spite of myself. We were late. They'd begun Handel's Part I, song three. But there on the front row was a seat saved for me. Which I gave to my aunt whilst I sat on the floor To hear the Christmas music that I adore. Ben spoke not a word, just conducted and filled The Duke Chapel with beauty. Handel would have been thrilled With the beauty of voices and instruments honed with skill In the tradition of excellence for which Duke has been billed. The soloists were the best; The trumpets, sublime. I sat there transfixed and had a good time. But, Ben, without you, I surely would have missed My first "Messiah" since '80. YOU SHOULD BE KISSED! And, to you here in Warrenton, I say, "Get ye hence To Wesley Methodist on the 20th, when choir and musicians will commence A locally-sung "Messiah" led by Steinert?and done right. Happy music to all. (Hope this wasn't too trite.) As Others See It Millions For Art in The (Roxboro) Courier-Times No other acclaimed artist so ignored in life is so valued, posthumously, as Vincent van Gogh. In his 37 years, van Gogh produced more than 800 oil paint ings and 700 drawings, but he sold only one?for $30. Just one article was written about this genius while he was alive. He lived to see few of his bold, im pressionistic canvases exhibit ed. One-man shows of his work were not held until two years af ter his death by suicide in 1890. Van Gogh's fame and reputation are so great today, however, that prices for his paintings continue to soar, im mune from the impact of stock market convulsions on the rest of the art world. Recently, van Gogh's "Irises," painted in 1889 during the first week of year-long con finement in the asylum at St. Remy, France, commanded a record-shattering auction price of $53.9 million at Sotheby's in New York. Actually, van Gogh holds the record for the three most expen sive paintings ever sold at auc tions. His "Sunflowers" gar nered $39.9 million and "The Bridge of Trinquetaille," $20.2 million at Christie's in London earlier this year. Amazingly, none of these are listed among van Gogh's major works, although "Irises" did cause a stir when first shown, along with the more famous "Starry Night," at the Salong de Independents exhibition in Paris. Critic Felix Feneon found van Gogh to be an "amusing colorist" but was taken by the aggressive quality of the violet petals and swordlike leaves. In 1947, Joan Whitney Payson liked the strong, lyrical quality of "Irises" enough to pay the then handsome sum of $80,000 and hang the painting over the fire place in her living room. One can only wonder what the al (rays-poor van Gogh would say abtut the incredible growth in stature and investment value of his paintings. His asylum writings to his beloved brother, Theo, are filled with touching passages of hope and despair. But the van Gogh inflationary spiral is something few would have predicted even a few years ago. At least one aspect of the spec tacular financial bloom of "Irises" might have cheered van Gogh, who once gave away all of his belongings during a brief attempt at missionary work. John Whitney Payson, the late Mrs. Payson's son, has pledged $6 million of the after tax proceeds to an unrestricted grant to Westbrook College, the former temporary home of "Irises," and another $6 million to Maine charities. SENIOR CITIZENS HOME OF HENDERSON ' IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE A NEW SERVICE THE WOODLAWN RETIREMENT HOME Woodlawn is located next to Senior Citizens Home in a beautiful wooded area on Ruin Creek Rd. Like Senior Citizens Home, Woodlawn Retirement Home is located 1 V2 miles from hospital and medical clinics. It is a place where the senior citizen can feel secure, yet indepen dent. For more information about Woodlawn Retirement Home or Senior Citizens Home phone 492-0066.
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