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@t|c SSarren SUcorb Published Every Wednesday By Rycord Printing Company P O Box 70 Warrenton N C 27589 HOWARD F JONES GRACE W JONES Editor President KAY HORNE R TMURLETTA M BROWN Feature Editor News 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 and ciiRcmiDTinM qatec- adjoining counties Elsewhere SUBSCRIPTION RATES. $10 00Peryea, $12.00 Per Year $6 00 Six Months $7 00 Six Months Guide For Living There is a collect recited yearly by members of the Macon Woman's Club which ought to be, in our opinion, committed to memory by every child growing toward adulthood and the responsi bilities that being a full grown citizen brings. It's the club collect, writ ten by Mary Stewart, and no matter how often you hear it, it inspires you to do just a lit tle bit better by your life. Because of the courtesy of the Macon Woman's Club, we get to hear it once a year, and Monday night, it invoked the same feeling as always. Believing it is too impor tant to put onto the back burn er for another year, we are reprinting it below in its en tirety, hoping it evokes the same feeling for the reader that it does for this writer. COLLECT Keep us, O God, from pet tiness; let us be large in thought, in work, in deed. Let us be done with fault finding and leave off self seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face without self-pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgment and always gener ous. Let us take time for all things; make us grow calm, serene and gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straight forward and unafraid. Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences, that in the big things of life we are as one. And may we strive to touch and to know the great, com mon human heart of us all. And, 0 Lord God, let us forget not to be kind. Protection Needed In The Durham Morning Herald When you mail your taxes today? assuming that you wait until the deadline as 99.9 percent of Durham's taxpayers seem to do? ask yourself, "Do I have any rights?" Not when it comes to taxes. Consider the trials of a Texan whose check to the IRS was 2 cents less than it should have been. The IRS levied a fine of $400.31 ? evidently figured on the basis of his total tax obligation, not the shortfall. He's still trying to get the IRS to reconsider. Then there's Thomas Tread way of Pennsylvania, who, the IRS said, owed the government $247,000. He didn't owe any such thing, but the IRS seized his girlfriend's bank account on the theory that he was hiding assets there. What rights did Mr. Treadway or his girlfriend have? The stories of the IRS actions to extract tax payments are hilarious? that is, until they happen to you. Frankly, you need some protection. Even a low-life criminal like Miranda had his rights. Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., un derstands. He wants Congress to enact a "Taxpayers' Bill of Rights" that would strengthen the ordinary citizen's protec tions against IRS abuses. Who's leading the opposition? The IRS! Skeptics believe the bill might cost the government as much as $200 million a year in lost revenue, but $200 million is peanuts in a trillion-dollar budget. Besides, as Sen. Pryor says, citizens might be more willing to pay their fair share if they can trust that the IRS will treat them fairly. This measure isn't aimed at protecting tax cheaters. They don't deserve mercy. Every dollar they withhold illegally from the federal treasury costs the rest of us. But the ordinary citizen is un believably vulnerable to the whimsies of the IRS. Bank ac counts and property can be seized without warning. The IRS can question you and begin ac tion toward a criminal in vestigation without your having the right to counsel. Sen. Pryor's bill doesn't seek to help you avoid taxes. It sim ply requires the government to treat you with respect. The IRS would be required to give fair notice before seizing a citizen's property or tying up a tax payer's bank account. You would have the right to have a lawyer present when summoned for questioning by IRS agents. Such rights are afforded to people whose sins are far more grievous than a confused tax return. It is time that govern ment?which exists because you pay the bills? begins treating taxpayers like citizens. From Februory To March Jobless Rate Drops In Warren County Warren County's Jobless rate fell slightly from February to March, from 5.0 percent to 4.9 percent. In February, Warren County had a labor force of 6,960, with 6,830 employed. The number of unemployed persons was 350. In March, 6,910 people made up Warren's labor force, with a total of 6,570 people employed. That left 340 people unemployed in March, 10 leas than in February. Surrounding counties and their rates fared about the same as Warns County. The only Jobless rats Increase was in Franklin OataAj . Hie unemployment rate for February was 4.3 percent. In March, that figure rose to 5.6 per cent, with a total of 1,010 people unemployed of the 18,140 on the labor force. Figures for February in Hali fax County showed the unemploy ment rate at 6.5 percent. In March, that figure dropped to 5 J percent. Northampton County's jobless rate in March was S.6 percent, slightly lower than February's figure of 9.9 percent. Vance County showed the larg est drop in the unemployment rate, from 9.8 percent in Febru ary to 7.9 percent in March. The Warren County Scene Closer Inspection of what appears, at first glance, to be just another serene landscape-and-water-scene, reveals a cow? busy admiring her reflection as she takes a cooling drink from Reedy Pond Creek. (Staff Photo by Dianne T. Rodwell) Looking Back Into The Record April 30, 1948 Slightly more than $300 has been cleared by the Woman's Club from the home talent play, which was presented last week at John Graham for the benefit of civic improvement. Steps have already been taken toward secur ing closed-type trash containers for Warrenton's Main Street. The Rev. Howard S. Hartzell has arrived in Warrenton to assume his duties as rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and will conduct his first service there on Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Neal of Warrenton announced the birth of a son, Patrick Dudley, in the Hunter Clinic on April 22. May 3, 1963 Dedication services for Saint Joseph the Worker Catholic Church will be held May 12 in its newly-constructed home on the Warrenton-Norlina Road. The Drewry community is making rapid progress in com pleting a fire station for the loca tion of a fire truck there, Wilson Fleming, club president, said this week. Two "Mother's Day Specials" at Warrenton Furniture Ex change: a 12-piece sofa bed suite for $177 and a 13-piece nine drawer triple-dresser bedroom group for $188. May 4, 1978 J. Roger Peeler, Warren Coun ty superintendent of schools for more than 21 years, this week an nounced his resignation, effective June 30. The Board of Directors of Vance-Granville Community Col lege has approved the use of the George Allen home as a Warren County branch of the college, pro vided the county commissioners will approve a budget of $117,000 for renovation of the building and first year operation, and a budget of about $6,000 in subsequent years. The Warrenton Arts Commis sion, citing as reasons a lack of broad-based community support and declining interest, Monday night agreed unanimously to dis band in mid-June. Kay Jury Is Still Out In recent years, it has been a slum landlord's dream? a three-story, brick and stucco apartment building, not roally fit for human habita tion, but still standing, and therefore, renta ble. It was once described by its most famous tenant as a "dump." But it is now a prime example of what the prospect of demolition can do for preservation. Demolition, mind you, not deterioration, for the structure has been deteriorating for years and no one has seemed to care one whit. Then along comes a developer who buys the property and an nounces plans to raze the building to make room for a park. With that, comes the great hue and cry. The building, located on a muddy lot in the middle of midtown Atlan ta, is where Margaret Mitchell penned much o.f her epic novel "Gone With the Wind." She and her husband, John Marsh, were tenants from 1926 to 1932 in a first floor apartment at what was then called Wind sor House. Trammell Crow Company, a big, big, bigtinie development com pany, purchased the property in 1985 and soon determined that preser vation of the house was not feasible. Plans were made to demolish it to make room for a park to complement new construction in the area. < Trammell Crow's plans came to an abrupt halt when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young refused to sign the demolition permit, promising to do so only as a last resort, if all efforts at pres?rvation failed. The company's plans spurred formation of Mitchell House, Inc., a group whose members are pounding the pavement to gather enough bucks to save the building. So far, they have garnered $850,000. According to Associated Press, the group wants to restore the building, return Miss Mitchell's apartment to the way it appeared when she resided there, and establish a writer-in-residence program. Trammell Crow, on the other hand, has determined that restora tion would cost an estimated $2 million and has instead proposed a plaque in the park designating the site where "Gone With the Wind" was written. Developers and preservationists seem often at odds these days. Developers charge that nobody cares about the old landmarks until demolition is begun. Preservationists charge that developers run roughshod over our roots, turning the stuff of hist ory into rubbish. It would be nice if we could have preservation without development, but, like it or not, the fact is that nothing helps preservation efforts like a good shot of progress. Nothing makes us stand up and take notice like a bulldozer in front of a hone with historical significance. As for the future of the building Margaret Mitchell called "the dump," the jury is still out. But it seems to me that if supporters of restoration htive raised close to a million, that Trammell Crow could throw in another million, a mere pittance to a company that deals in megabuckij, and produce one mighty fine tribute to one of the South's most celebrated writers. The building, one writer noted, has suffered too long from those who, as Rhett Butler put it, frankly don't give a damn. Perhaps progress? and preservation? will win out at the corner of Peachtree and 10th streets. Here and There HJ^d Lagging Behind Escort On the opposite page is an editorial from the Durham Morning Herald which chronicles some of the frustrating and unpleasant dealings between taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service. It is being published at the request of Jim Beckwith of Church Street, Warrenton, who submitted it, along with a plea that con cerned citizens write their congressmen to express their dismay over the procedures of the tax-collecting agency. Of particular interest to me is the role of Sen. David Pryor of Arkansas in trying to promote a "Taxpayers' Bill of Rights" that would put the ordinary citizen in a better position with reaped to the Internal Revenue Service. It has been almost 20 years since I last saw David Pryor, then a young congressman from Arkansas, a former newspaperman and a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. He was in Durham to make a speech, and as his committee chair man, the then-powerful Wilbur Mills, had instructed him to return to Washington immediately after the speech in order to take part in an important vote, he was short on time. My duty, that day, was to drive Congressman Pryor from the Durham hotel where the speech was given, to the Raleigh -Durham Airport, where a commuter plane awaited him. In the interest of time, a police escort had been arranged by the Durham Police Department and the Durham County Sheriff's Department. The car I was driving, certainly no speeding btillet, did fairly well as Congressman Pryor and I set out behind a police cruiser for the airport Congested streets and stop lights kept the speed down, and I managed to keep up with the escort car quite well. Then, as we approached the city limit, a sheriff's car appeared and the police driver instructed me to pull in behind my new escort. We were now on the straight stretches of U.S. 70, and try as it would, my car could not keep pace with the sheriff's deputy and his partner. They roared down the highway, siren sounding, leaving the Congressman and me far behind. When David Pryor and I eventually pulled into the airport, the two officers who were escorting us were waiting beside their car, obvious ly disgusted with the capability of both my car and its driver. But all's well that ends well. Congressman Pryor got back to Washington on time, and my car didn't die from exhaustion, although it never did seem to like to follow a sheriff's car ait any distance after that ??? I knew Friday night that the master of ceremonies at a magic show given at the St. Regis Resort at North Topsail Shortts for members of the Eastern North Carolina Press Association had a familiar face. It was indeed someone I knew. It was Jack Jones, a native of Norlina who served for many years as a full-time noncommissioned officer in the division headquarters of the North Carolina National Guard vn Raleigh. Jack, who has acquired a Will Roger??tyle manner, presided over the magic show with much ease, and performed several magic tricks, all with the use of rope and rings, much to the delight of the young children in his audience. Four years ago Jack retired from the National Guard, and moved from Wake County to Emerald Isle on the coast He has aged but lit tle, and seems to be as ufflcient on the stage as hi was while wortlng for Uncle Sam.
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