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JANUARY , 1 956
A NEW YEAR WISH
May all your days this new year be
A sparkling silver symphony;
May all your thoughts be bright as stars ,
In harmony like soft guitars .
Should any storm clouds come to you ,
Still may the rainbow shining through ,
Dispel the gloom, and bring to stay ,
The sun to ever light your way !
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—Published Monthly ByT he Pr int ing Class of the Stonewall JacksonManual T raining and I ndust r ial School
Concord, North Carolina
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A MGNTHLY JONRNAL
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Subscript ion Two Dol lars the Year. in AdvanceAct of March 3. 1 897. Acceptance for mail ing a special rate
STAFF
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd itor
CON TE NTS
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Campus NewsChr i stmas Play
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rln mg ns we orBy W ilbur H all 1 5— 1 6
Sunday Serv icesREPO RTERSSTUDENT
By Steven Brawley 1 7—1 8Joe Q uick
Steven Braw ley Spor t sRobert W i l lard By J oe Qumk
Songsl INO TYPE O PERATORS BY Steven Brawley 20— 2 1
Q uick Birthdays 22—23
Steven Braw ley E h eJohnny Bonner XC ang S
Know your Count iesW i sdomJokesH onor Roll 28— 29— 30
Greet ing
Editoria
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(E dit or Note : The folio ing ar t icle appeared in The Beacon,January 1 939.
We feel it is as t imely now as when it was wr it ten . T he beg inning of the newyear is an appropr iate t ime to dwell on past mi stakes and resolve t o not repeat
M ISTAKES
M istakes are natural to mank ind. They are an inseparab le part of humannature, and the fact t hat man is fal l i b le is universal l y recognized. There isan express ion of the acceptance of t h is in the old saying t hat penci ls haveerasers on t hem because it is a known fact that those who use t hem are
go ing to make mi stakes .
Though it is human nature to make mistakes at t imes, it is also a part ofhuman nature to attempt to correct or undo the errors t hat has been madeWe often observe a person,“wh i le performing some tas k, suddenl y emit anexclamat ion of exasperat ion when a mistake is made; however, the very
next act ion, in most instances, is an effort to correct it. Th i s common occur
rence is, in itse l f, an ind icat ion t hat mank ind has a “
deep l y rooted and in
herent des i re to do right , w h ich is as natural as breat h ing.
Somet imes mi stakes are made by peop le because t hey are mental l yhandicapped by nature and are t hus unab le to reason logical l y and clearl y;
QR somet imes env ironment gives a wrong perspect ive w h ich they be l ieve toa“be righ t; and oftent imes a comb inat ion of ci rcumstances beyond the
Q immed iate contro l of a person is respons i b le for a mi stake . The maiorityof acts w h ich are in conf l ict w i th accepted concept ions of right , whet her
Kthey are minor mistakes or major crimes , may usual l y be charged to some
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def iciency in man’ s mental makeup . Defect s of reasoning caused by naturew i th ho ld ing her gi ft s to man may usual l y be improved; w rong perspect ivesdeve loped t h rough poor env i ronment may be corrected by educat ion; andmany of the other causes of mank ind ’ s m i stakes may, to a large extent ,be e l iminated th rough contact w i th the greatest teacher—experience. Al
t hough man may make fewer m i stakes as the years , fraught w i t h ex
perience, wear on, he can never comp lete ly overcome h i s hert iage of be inghuman and of mak ing some m i stakes .Pri sons are grim monuments to man’ s m i stakes . Every man in a penalins t i tut ion i s presumed to have made a mi stake and some have made a
number of mi stakes , but almost everyone, if g iven an act eraser wouldattempt to erase the errors of the i r past . Th i s observat ion i s not an id le one,
nor i s it an attempt to g l ide smooth l y over crimes wh ich have been com
mitted; on the cont rary , it i s a def ine statement of fact borne out in its
ent i re l y by unb iased anal ys i s of numerous inmates ’ v iew s toward t he i rindiv idual mi stakes .Wh i le everyone natural l y strives to avo id m i stakes and t he i r oftent imes
cost l y resu l ts , mi stakes have one v i rtue w h ich cannot be denied t heymake one t h ink , and w hen the m ind is '
made recept ive to fresh v iew po ints ,a new and more w ho lesome ph i losophy of l i fe i s born. Thus , mi stakes inone sense may be cons idered to have some value .
Human mi stakes have for ages marched dow n th rough the pages ofh i story . Napo leon,
A lexander, Ju l ius Caesar, and many other h i storicalf igures have made mi s takes cost ing count less l ives and unto ld suffering.
U l ys ses Grant i s reputed to have made more m i stakes than any other
general in the C iv i l War, but by careful and thorough analys i s of eachmi stake, he found its cause,
and he never made the same m i stake tw ice .
Inumerable men in all walks of l i fe,in any period of t ime we w i sh to
to exam ine,have clearl y demonst rated t hat t hey were on l y human, by
making mi s takes ; but the redeeming feature o f human nature i s the ever
present and inherent des i re to undo or correct m i s takes . Thi s i s , in i t se l f,an ind icat ion t hat man i s bas ical l y good w het her h i s s tatus be that of k ingor conv ict .Desp i te the fact that mis takes wh ich lead to pri son are usual l y the real l y
t ragic kind,they have the i r roots in the same fai l ings and weaknesses of
human nature wh ich caused the minor ones . They are , after all, caused bythe perspect ive in w h ich .
t h ings are v iewed w hether it be saw ing a board
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or sett ing a course in l i fe by a faul ty reckoning.
The record ing ange l has w it hout doubt etched our mi stakes deep l y intothe record of deeds clone and though they can never be erased, our futureact ions may be such t hat the account may be balanced to some extent .Indeed,
a man may prof i t by the new avenues of though t wh ich are int roduced as a resul t of mi stakes , and al though he may cont inue to make somemi stakes because of the very fact t hat he is human, he w i l l have takena step forward i f he i s ab le to fo l low the po l icy of Grant in anal yz ing eachmi stake so that he w i l l , at least , nevermake the same mi stake tw ice .
—o—o -o—o—o
NEWY EARS’
S mouom
The dreamer laugh s at thewo rker and the wo rker laughs at the dreamer,ne i ther real iz ing t hat the one i s use less w i thout the other. The pract icalwou ld have noth ing to do i f it were not for the ideal i st and dreams wou ldnever come t rue i f it were not for the worker
'
Poet ry and ideal s were not
intended to take the place of w ork but to give inspi rat ion for greater work.
No mat ter how much you may do , remember that you can do more .
No one has ever yet appl ied all the ab i l i ty of w h ich “
he was capab le . If
only a smal l port ion of your mind i s al ive and act ive, you w i l l cont inueto l ive in a med iocre env i ronment . As you wake up more of your mind,
more opportuni t ies w i l l unfo ld for you .
—Se lected
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CAMPUS NEWSOn D ecember 5th T he L el ia T ut t le
C ircle of the Cent ral MethodistChurch in Concord, Nor th Carolina,vis i t ed t he school . They brought wit hthem a number of magaz ine and a dozen books f or the school l ibrary . T heyal so presented a subcript ion t o the
Char lot t e Observer t o the library.
T hose at t ending were : Mr s . G . A .
Bat t le, Mr s . Norman Bisanar , M rs .
C . W . Bost , M rs . George Clemmer ,
Mr s . Re id Craven,Mrs . M . B . F ul ler
Mrs . F . Y . Ketner , M rs . T . M .
Rawlet t e, M r s.’
G . A . Widenhouse,Mr s . H . S . W illiams , and Mr s . W .
Ward, J r .
While on t he campus the ladiest oured the school and showed interestin al l phases of the act iv i t ies here .
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T he Psychology class of the E astMecklenburg H igh School , Mat thews ,Nor t h Carol ina, v i s i ted the school onD ecember 1 5th . Th i s group , wh ichhas been study ing the problems of
delinquency, v i s i ted the school inorder t o see the program offered hereand the fac i l i t ies we have for t rain ingthe boys under our care.
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Mr s . F rank T omkinson, Cot tage
mother of Cot tage 1 3 , recent ly underwent surgery in t he Cabarrus Me
mor ial H ospital . After a stay of near lytwo weeks she has returned t o the
cot tage. E veryone is wish ing her a
speedy recovery .0 00 00
T he boys and the staff wi sh t o ex
press t heir sympathy to Mr . R . S .
H ooker on the deat h of his motherdur ing the hol idays . Our sympathyalso goes t o Mrs . Par r ish who recent lylost her brother
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Mr s . H oward Kiser ,'
w ife“
o f the
night supervisor , has been a pat ient i nthe Cabarrus County Memor ial H ospital recent ly. We ext end t o her our
best wishes for a speedy recovery.0 00 00
T he Y outh Commis sion appointedby the governor to study t rainingschool s and juvenile cour t s in our
stat e spent January 6th at the school .T he group , headed by Mr . Nat Crewsof Winston-Salem, were int erestedin the program of the school and saw
it in operat ion. T hey t oured the
academ ic school and al l the t rades,and v is i ted some cot tage on the
campus . O thers in the group were Mrs .
Walter Carpent er of L enoir , Mr . R en
H ook of C l inton, Mrs . E rnest P.
Hunter of Char lot te, and SenatorAdam Wh i t ley of Sm i thf ield.
T he purpose of th i s comm is sion is
t o make recommendat ions t o the
governor as t o methods of handlingdelinquent youth ofthe state.
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Once again we are observingR eligious Emphas i s Month dur ingJanuary . E ach cot tage is hav ingreligious serv ices, usually held one
night dur ing each week, conducted bym inster s from the local M inist eralA ssociat ion. The boys and cot tage
parent s inv ite the m inster of their
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choice t o meet w ith them for t h i s ser ies of services . T his gives the boys achance t o di scuss their problems witha m inst er as well as provide groupinst ruct ion in religious training . T hishas become an annual event on t he
campus and we feel that it is a
wonderful supplement to the regularreligious program offered here.
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On Tuesday night January 3rd Cottage N0 . 1 1 began t heir religious emphasis month w ith R everend Paynefrom the West Concord Bapt istChurch . We star ted our service by
singing : “E very Day W ith Jesus .Af t er this Miss D anella Gray sangand played, “
H is H and I n Mine”Reverend Payne read ver ses of scr ipture from : Sixth Chapt er of John ;fir st through twelth ver ses . We thenhad a prayer before start ing the mes
sage. R everend Payne’ s t opic Was i “ABoy Plus . ” T his topic means if a boywould take his talent or whatever heowned and put it in the L ord
’ s hand hecould help lot s of people. Similar t o
t he boy in the sixth chapter of L ukewho had 5 loaves of bread and two
fishes . When he gave this t o Jesus, he
through the help of Jesus f ed fivet housand people and had 1 2 basket s ofscraps after they had eaten t heir fill .M r . Grady Miller , from Concord , led
us in a shor t song service, after whichhe dism i ssed us w ith a word of prayer .
—W ilbur H all
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COTTAGE E L E VE N H AS PART Y.
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An automob i le shou ld not be rated accord ing to its horse-power, butrather to the amount of horse sense possesed by the driver.
—Se lected
Our Cot tage had a party under thedirect ion of Mr . and Mrs. R ouse. Our
guest were Mr . and M rs . T routman
and Susan . We played stop the music.
T he w inner was R ober t Shores . Mr s .
Mary K ay Pet ty stopped the music.
We also played dropping the clothespins in the bot t le and F rank Ryalswas the w inner . We had a very nicepar ty and al l the boys enjoyed it
very much . T he boys that had a bir thday were T ony L aws , F reddie L it t le,Jackie L upt on and Ralph Norman .
T he boys got very nice bir thday present s . T he r efreshment s we had were
pepsi colas , pop corn, candy, and a
very nice bir thday cake. We al l enjoyed the par t y in t he cot tage.
—R ober t Joyner and F rank Ryals
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CHR ISTMAS PLAY PRESENTED
On D ecember 22 , 1 955 a beaut ifuland inspirat ional pageant was pre
sented in the school aud i tor ium bythe academic depar tment , under the.
direct ion of Mrs . L i ske and Mr s .
Stallings .T he auditor ium and s tage were
beaut ifully decorat ed w ith evergreens ,poinset tas , and life sized mural s dep iet ing the H oly L and. T he stagewas set as a h i llt op scene over lookingBethlehem on the night of the b ir th“of Chr i st . T o the r ight of the stagewas a m inature replica of the H olyC ity . T he scaled archit ecture plusl ight ing effect s gave it the appearance of a d i stant city .T o the left of
t he stage was a l ife sized mural depict ing the journey of the wi se men
t o Bethlehem . T he backdrop t o the
stage was a V iew of the hills nearBethlehem ,
w i th shepherds at tendingt heir flocks . The audit or ium w indow swere decorat ed with evergreen and
l ighted candles . T he choir area was
decorat ed w ith evergreens and poi_nset tas .
The program opened w i th a candlel ight ing ceremony by Carroll McClure
and Johnny Muse aft er which theyread the Chr i stmas st ory from the
books of S t . Mat thew and S t . L uke .
T his was fol lowed by a Chr i stmasprayer .
T he choir then ent ered in a pro
cessional w ith light ed candles , singing,
“O , Come All Ye F aithful .
”
A play, ent it led “T he O ther Shepherd was t hen presented. As the
cur tain opened E than, the other shepherd, played by E dward H orr idge,
was on the hillt op mak ing preparat ions to leave h i s nat ive v i llage and
go t o a d i stant c i ty t o become a‘
min
i ster . H is mother , played by MonroeKorn ; R ebecca, played by T homasL amber t ; Deborah, played by JamesChr i scoe ; Jaded, Kenneth -
' Jackson ;Abel , St ephen Braw ley ; and Zer i ,played by Bill Johnson, were w i shinghim good luck or t rying t o per suadehim t o stay in the village. After muchdiscussion it was decided that he
would postpone his t r ip for a while.
E than, being a very religious man,
was hoping for a v i s ion from God.
H is sister , Amrah, played by RobertWeather s ; and her son, R euel , playedby Ben Whitener , returned t o the
home.
In the next scene Joseph, playedby Jerry Somer set , and Mary, playedby Ov i lla Joyner , passed by the hills ide and E than gave them permi ss ion t o use h i s stable as a room for
the night . A s the shepherds becameweary and lay down t o
'
rest , a great
light appeared over the hillside. T he“H eavenly H ost s” appeared t o themsinging praises to the new born k ing.
E than, however , had m is sed t h i s vision because he had gone out into theh i lls looking for a lost lamb . Soonthe w i se men passed by on their wayt o Bethlehem . T hey were played byE dgar Shepherd, Bobby Metcalf, andWentwor t h Jam i son. T hey were fol
low ing the star which was mov ingover head and finally came t o restover the distant town of Bethlehem .
U pon his return from finding h i sCont inued on page 1 4
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CHR ISTMAS 1955
On D ecember 22 , 1 955,the boys andstaf f of Jackson T raining School , gotone
\week off for Chr i stmas . All of the
boys were glad for Chr i stmas to come.
T hey knew they would receive manyfine g ift s . In Cot tage N O . 1 we had a
very good t ime dur ing Chr istmas , We
played football and wat ched t elevison .
All of the boys at J . T . S . got to see a
movie every day . Dur ing Chr i stmas ,Mr . L en-t z the A thlet ic direct or de
voted his t ime to us . We had a volleyball championship and every cot tage
got to play . T he Winner s of the volleyball championship in the A leaguewere the boys of Cot tage 1 0 . A l l
of the boys in each cot tage playedvery hard, but No. 1 0 was just to goodf or us .
T he boys received a bag of fruit ,nut s , and many other good things t oeat . All of the boys ate al l they wanted, and st ill had a lot more of theirfruit left .
On D ecember 22 , the boys present edt heir Chr istmas play . T here were
many guest s here, and we hope theyenjoyed the play. We w ish t o con
gratulat e the boys on their excellentwork in the play . Mr s . L iske, M rs .
Stallings , Mr . H olbrook , Mr . H inson,
M r . C-arr iker, and Mr . T routman did
a very fine job of decorat ing the stage.
After we returned t o the Cot tage,Mr . H inson called us up stair s . We
were surpr ised when we got up stair s .We saw many good things t o eat on
the table; pepsi colas , candy , and
everything imaginable to eat . E veryone had a wonderful t ime. We wish
to thank Mr . and Mrs . H inson for all
that t hey did for us dur ing Chr i s tmas .On Chr istmas E ve we gathered to
gether and opened our gift s . Many ofboys received clothes
, wat ches, and
candy . Santa C laus brought us some
very fine games , along w ith Mr . and
Mr s . H inson ’ s children ’ s toys .Mr . J . W . Beckham of Char lot t e
gave about thirty boys of T rainingSchool very fine watches for Chr istmas . T hree boys in N o . 1 receivedwat ches . T heir names are: Kennet hJackson, F reddie Vadase, and R ober tWillard. T hese boys are very gratefu land they w i sh to thank M r . Beckham .
Mr . Bill Propst of“Concord, a very
f ine fr iend '
of the T raining School,sent some of the boys money for
Chr istmas . We w i sh t o t hink him for
giving us these gift s .On D ecember 30th ,
the boys star t edback to work , we thought this was al lof our vacat ion f or a few months .But on January 2nd, we got a halfa day off for the N ew Y ear . Af ter
dinner we went t o the st ore room,and
got another bag of fruit and nut s .T hen we went back t o the Cot tage andenjoyed wat ching the Orange and R oseBowl football games . Aft er supper we
wat ched t elevi sion again for a few
hour s . T hen we went down stair s , andgot ready for bed. We were glad because, we were very t ired and sleepy .We wish t o thank al l of the people
that made our Chr istmas here at the
school a merry Christmas .—Buddy H -uf f st ickler
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Cot tage N o . 2 had a very nice par tydur ing the Chr istmas week . We had
soft dr inks and M r s . Cruse made the
boys some delicious cookies . We played bingo and other games . On Chr istmas E ve the boys had a very nice t ime
Opening their Chr is tmas pr esent sT he Chr is tmas t ree in our cot tage
this year was very pret ty . Mr . and
Mr s . Cruse decorat ed it nicely withpret ty light s and other decorat ions .A l l the boys had a wonderful t ime
dur ing Chr i stmas and we received
many nice gift s -D 0n A llenT he boy ’ s of Cot tage N o. 3 had a
very nice par ty on the night of D e
cember 24 . Our par ty began at seveno‘clock w ith the boys singing Chr istmas carols . T hen the st ory of the
bir t h of Chr ist was read t o us by R oy
Pr idgen . We sang more songs and
then L awrence T aylor read the storeof the fir st Chr istmas t ree.
The highlight of the par ty was thegiving out of the g ift s which were un
der the t ree. A ll the boys receivedpr esent s and many were surpr i sedand excit ed over their gift s . N o one
was left out . Two of the boys gotwatches from a fr iend of the school .A l l of us received a large bag of
fruit , candy, and nut s from the school .T he boys of Cot tage N o . 3 enjoyed
a very nice t ime dur ing the holidays .-T he boys of N o . 3
I t was about f ive . P . M . when the
boys found out they were going t o
Church Chr istmas eve. Y ou shouldhave seen the boys faces l ight up . We
could hardly wait t il l we star t ed dressing . I don
’t th ink there was a .boy who
didn ’t t ake special percaut ion in dress
ing that night . T hey sure “
wanted t o
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We had such a good t ime at bur
Chr i stmas par ty that we almost wi shit were t ime for Santa Claus t o come
again .
make a impression on the people . at
the Church . I t was around six thir tyo’clock when we get star ted. We ar
r ived at the Church about fift een minut es t ill seven . T he boys didn ’
t walkin line. T hey went in as a large familywou ld go, w ith an open m ind and openhear t . When we were al l seat ed therewas a play of any
“typical Amer ican
home before Chr istmas , aft er whichthey gave al l of us a bag of fruit s ,nut s, and candy . But the best thing“
that happned was when we shookhands w ith R everend Knight , the pasat or of the McGil l St reet Bapt istChurch Boy ! T hat was something t o
be proud of . When we got back t o thecot tage we had a par ty, where we had
soft dr inks and cookies which Mr s .
Cheek made for us . T hen we al l sangChr istmas caroles which I think . we
did real well . Next was what al l the
boys had been wait ing for , t he opening of the pr esent s . Mr . and Mrs .
Cheek went around help ing t o openthem . I believe there were more sm ilesthere than I have ever seen at any one
place before in my life. I don’t t h ink
t here was one who wasn ’t sat isf ied
w iht the gift s he got . Th e next day we
went on a hike over the Campus . As a
whole I think it was thebest Chr i st-mas I ever had, not because I got a
lot of present s but I had the Chr istmas feelings . I th ink I can t ruly say
that f or the rest of the boys .Gyul-a Boyd Montgomery
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Bingo was our f ir st game and sev
eral boys won big candy canes aspr izes . After we bingoed in al l direc
t ions we played H iggley Jiggley whichis lot s of fun. After this we played“T hi s i s a sad and solemn occas ion .
By this t ime we were looking for
cook ies , and boy ! did we have plentyof them ! Mr . Russell gave us each apeps i or sun drop to dr ink . A ll wasquiet for the space of half an hour .
T hen we star ted opening our g ift s .E ach boy got something real nice t omake Chr istmas happier , but we didnot forget what the real meaning of
that day is . Mr . L ewi s Jenkins gavethe cot tage a soft ball and bat , and a
basket ball .Dur ing the holidays we enjoyedplaying out door s , seeing a mov ie eachafternoon and watching T .V . too.
—Ray H uffmanOn the night of D ecember 24 , Cot
tage 9 had a Chr istmas par ty . R ef reshment s were served which con
s i st ed of cookies and cokes . We playedbingo in a new way . We al l put some
thing into a box wh ich was placed inthe m iddle of the floor . T he objectof the game was t o see who -
could fillt heir card fir st . T he w inner wouldget the cont ent s of the box . Ar thurBowden was the lucky winner .
After the games , Mr s . Miller servedrefreshment s and the par ty was over .
Gift s were opened on Chr i stmasmorn ing .
I am sure al l the boys appreciat ethe effor t s put for th by Mr . and M r s .
Miller t o make the party a succeess .
—Stephen BrawleyMr . and Mrs . R ouse gave the boys
of cot tage N o . 1 1 a par ty on the 24th
l l
of D ecember . We played bingo and
other games . T o the w inner s Mrs .
Rouse gave pr izes . After the gameswere played Mrs . R ouse and some of
the boys served refreshment s whichcons i sted of peps i colas , candies , andpop corn . After refreshment s were
served we went into the sit t ing room
and watched the Chr istmas Carol onT .V . I t was late that night when Mr .
Rouse called our at tent ion to the
present s under the t ree. Mrs . R ous e
had company when we opened the
present s . Mr . and Mrs . Roy Pet ty andt heir daughter wat ched as the boystore into their present s . Some of the
boys got watches and most ly clothesfor present s . After the present s weregiven out it was get t ing late and
the boys went down stair s and got
ready for bed.
- F red L it t le and James ConradT he boys of Cot tage N o. 1 3 were
surpr ised with a par ty by Mr . and
Mrs . T omkinson on Chr istmas E ve.
We were upstair s wat ching t elevisionwhen Mr . T omkinson t old us to go
downstair s . We thought we were going to bed. A f ew minut es later he
called for us t o come back upstair s .We were supr ised t o see the tablesfilled with refreshment s such as pepsi-colas , cup cakes , cookies , and can
dy . After eat ing the refreshment sMr . and Mrs . T omkinson gave out
the gift s which were under the
Chr is tmas t ree. A ll the boys had present s and many were surpr ised withthe nice gift s t hey received. T hreeof the boys received watches Whichthr illed t hem very much .T he par ty was a climax t o a verypleasant hol iday week wh ich the boys
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enjoyed very much .1—Ward H opkins and F rank Manes sT he high light of our whole Chr is t
mas season “
was the Chr i stmas par tygiven by our cot tage parent s , Mr . and
M rs . H ooker . I ns tead of having our
regular supper on Chr i stmas E ve wewere Served r efreshment s of coconut
and chocolate cup cakes and cut out
cookies of Chr istmas t rees , santa’ sbell s , star s and wreaths t r immed realpret t y and other delicacies w ith a pepsi cola given t o us by Mr . H ooker ’ sson, E ugene. E ach boy received a
large bag which contained fruit s , nut s ,and lot s of candy . We played gamesw ith the p r ize going t o Bob Arnold.
A t last the long await ed t ime t o
give out gift s arr ived. E ach boy re
ceived gift s and they were al l verynice .
T hanks t o M r . and Mr s . H ooker forhelping us t o have a very, very niceChr istmas . We will remember i t f or a
long t ime.-Johnn ie Bonner
On F r iday night , D ecember 23 , the
boys of Cot tage N o . 1 5 had their eu
nual Chr istmas par ty . We opened
the par ty w it h Sylv ia Ann Peck playing Silent N ight . then the boys joined her and sang some Chr istmas carols . T he Chr is tmas st ory was read
by M r s . Peck . Poem s were said byCar l Sm ith , Kenneth H ager , and
C leemil ler Pierce . D on T hornburgplayed: White Chr i s tmas and Joy T o
T he Wor ld on his harmonica. L arryR oach , Bobby Price, and Jer ry Jackson also had poem s t o say . T his groupthen sang Jingle Bel ls . R efreshment swere then served.
Al l the boys in N o . 1 5 had a verynice Chr i stmas . —Jerr'y Jackson
Cot tage No . 1 6 had their Chr istmaspar ty . T he Cottage was gaily decorated w ith a light ed t ree, stockings hungby the chimmey and other Chr istmassuggest ions .Gene S tuf fel led our devot ionalper iod by reading the st ory of the
bir th of Jesus according t o S t . L uke .
Dur ing the evening Carol s were sungby different groups . Ralph Cat let tsang several solos . Several inters t inggames were played.
Mr . and Mr s . H ender son served our
refreshment s which con si sted of
cookies in shapes of Chr istmas t reess tar s , reindeer s
,and bells , candies
,
cup cakes and soft dr inks . We all
enjoyed the par ty very much . On
Saturday night D ec. 24th we Openedour gift s . We were all excited and
proud of the gift s that we rece ived.
we want t o thank everyone f or making this Chr istmas such a merry onefor us .
We had our par ty F r iday, D ecember 23 , 1 955 .
Mrs . Parr ish had many games
planned“, but we prefer bingo mostof all . We played bingo several ways .F ir st , five number s in a row , nextfilling the whole card , then cover ingthe out side number around the card.
Pr izes were given to the winner s .T hey were Gene Radford, John F ranklin L ee, L arry Vernon, and JimmyCant er . John was a two t ime winner .
Aft er playing bingo we went t o
the dinning room f or refreshment s ,which were candy
, cookies, peanut sand pepsi cola.
We al l thought it was very nice of
Mr . and Mr s . Parr ish'
t o give us a
par ty . We sure did appreciate it .
E ldr idge W inder s and Char les F rye
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W ITH THE NEW BOYS
By Joe Q uickRex Bell was admit ted t o the
Schob l from Wilkes County . on N o
vember 1 9th . R ex is a very nice boyand was placed in Cotage N o . 2
where he works on the farm .
Wesley Pendleton age 1 4, was
adm it ted from L incoln County . Wes
ley was placed in Cot tage N o. 3 . H e
has been working on the farm and
likes it very much .Melvin S tancil came t o the Schoolfrom Wake County . Melvins fir stdesire here at the School was t o
work in the bakery depar tment . H e
was placed in Cot tage N o. 1 0 wherehe w ill be close t o his work .A young boy by the name of
W ilbur H all from Wayne Countyarr ived dur ing the month of November . H e has joined the ranks of the
pr int er s and is doing very nicely . H eH e was placed in Cot tage N o. 1 1 .
'
Warren Car ter from R ockinghamCounty came t o t he School dur ingthe month of November . H e was
placed in Cot tage N o. 3 and i s do ingwork on the farm .
R onnie L ew is from McD owel l
County is working on the plant bedforce. H e i s in Cot tage N o. 1 1 and is
doing n icely .Dalton L ewis from Wayne Count y
was admit ted in November . H e went
t o Cot tage N o. 7 where he hopes t ot o get on the chicken force.
E d s e l Church f r o m Watauga
County was enrol led in November .
H e was placed in Cot tage N o. 1 4
where he works in the text i le mill .
F ive boys F loyd D et t er , KennethBlack, Danny Small , Raymond Ros e
ber ry, and R ichard Grayson were
enrolled from Gast on County dur ingNovember -D ecember . Kenneth Blackhas been chosen t o stay in the re
ceiving cot tage t o help w ith the new
boys . T he other boys have been sentt o other cot tages and will work at
var ious t rades .Two boys from L enoir County ,
W illiam Out law and F reddie Morr i swere admit ted to the School . W illiamwent t o Cot tage N o. 1 5 where he
works in the dairy . F reddie wouldlike to work in the - shoe shop .Clarence Baty, R oy Webb
, T homasL loyd, and Gene S tuff el al l fromMacon County were admit ted t o the
School . C larence nad Gene are workon the farm and like it very much .T homas works in the shoe shop , R oyin the meat market .
Steven L unsford from BuncombeCounty was admi t t ed t o the Schooldur ing D ecember . H e i s working in
the cafet er ia.
Jimmy Bowman was adm it t ed in
D ecember from Burke County .Jimmy was sent t o Cot tage N o . 1 5
and works in the dairy .Char lie Ander son was readm i t t ed
t o the S chool in D ecember fromR ockingham County . H e likes t o playfootball and would like t o work on
the t ract or force.
Ered King from N ew H anover
C ounty was admit ted in D ecember .
_F red went t o cot tage N o. 1 1 and
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works on t he plant beds .J . H . W ilkins was adm i t ted from
Robeson County . H e says he wouldlike t o work on the t ract or force.
Spergon McMast er s from R an
dolph County was adm it t ed in De
cember . H e likes spor t s and wouldlike t o work in the laundry .T hree boys from Kannapoli s, C lyde
D emby, Bill Carpent er , and JimmyRuff were enrolled in D ecemberT hese boys have not been sent out
of the receiving cot tage yet , but hopet hey w i ll be g iven their chance to
ask for their t rades soon .
Bobby Wheeler was admit t ed from
Cont inued from page 8lost sheep , E than was very disappoint ed t hat he had m i ssed the visionrevealed t o the other shepherds .In the f inal scene E than realized
that the Chr i st child had been bornin his humble abode, and. a
'
vis ionappeared to him t hrough wh ich herealized that the infant Jesus was t obe t he shepherd to the people of the
from Char lot te “N . C . in December .
Bobby would l ike t o work in the
cafeter ia.
Ralph Cat let t from Wake F orestN . C . was
”
admit t ed in D ecember .
R alph likes to play cards and wouldlike t o work in the mach ine shop .John Ander son came to the Schoolfrom W i lkes . County dur ing -Decem
ber . Hewould l ike t o work on thet ractor force.
T 'wo boys F rankie Su i t s and
Billy Coffey were adm it ted D ecem
ber 28 th . T hey hope t o get in Cot
tage N o. 1 0
wor ld, and just as he was a good shepherd t o his flock so would Chr ist bea good shepherd to mank ind.
T he program was concluded by the
audience sing ing,
“Joy T o TheWor ld”.
L ight ing and special sound effect swere handled by Char les W i semanand Buddy McL aur in . U sher s wereJ oe Qu ick, and W ill iam Sykes .
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SCHOOL ROOM NEWSBy Wilbur H all
TH E CH R I STMA S D E CORAT I ONS. T he Chr i stmas decorat ions in the
classrooms of the school depar tmentwere rather unique th i s year . I t wouldbe a hard t ask to judge wh ich room
was the pret t iest . T hese decorat ionswere made by the boys in the classrooms w i th occasional help and guidance from the ir t eacher . A peek in thedoorway of the rooms revealed the
follow ingMrs . Barber ’ s 1 st and zud grade
decorat ions cons i sted of church and
house scene. T h i s was painted by Ranson Wat son, Reg ie Cofer , M i land Walker and H erman Styles . The remaining decorat ions cons i sted of p ictures inthe room drawn by the ent ire group.
T his was a nicely decorated room.
Mr . T routman’s 5th grade decorated
the l ibrary and their room. T he dec
o'
rat ions in the l ibrary cons i sted of
holly in the w indows and around the
room, candles on each of the tables,p ictures all around the l ibrary and
on the board. T hese p ictures were
hand drawn, colored, and very good.
T he decorat ions in t heir room consisted of p ictures drawn by the ent ire
class . Mr . T routman’ s room reallylooked good.
Mr . Russell ’ s 5th and 8th grade has
some very n ice paint ings on the win
dows ; which were a Santa Claus, reindeer s and the usual decorat ions . T hesewere painted by Boyd Montgomery ,Carl Collins , and Glen Sigmon. T hey
also had a very nice set of p icturesabout Jesus from h i s b irth unt i l hiscrucif ix ion. T hese were by the ent iregroup .Mr . Wentz
’s 6th grademade w indow
decorat ions and paint ings . T hese werepainted by R ober t Joyner , B i lly Sellers , H arold H ensley, Roger L ee Carter , and B i ll Maynard. T hese paintings were of Santa, f ir t rees , snowflakes, and the usual Chr i stmas decorat ions . We th ink the 6th grade dida very good job.
M r . Caldwell ’ s 7th grademade somew indow paint ings of Santa Claus,candles , Chr i stmas t rees and the usualdecorat ions of Chr i stmas .T hese paint ings were by the follow
ing boys : Wentworth Jameison, Max ieT eak
-Bobby Metcalf, Jerry Jackson,
R ichard Walls , Steve Brawley and
Char les H opk ins . T h i s was a well decorated room.
Mr . H olbrook ’ s 9th grade did some
w indow paint ings of Santa, candles,f ir t rees , snow flakes, and the usualChr i stmas decorat ions . T hese paintings were by Joe Qu ick, L arry L ambert , Kenneth Jackson, Ralph Creaseman,
Buddy H uf fst ikler , Paul Culler,R . E . Weathers and H arold Pit t s . Thedrawings were by Ph i ll ip H olmes . T h i swas al so a nicely decorated room.
T he boys t hat did the decorat ing
of the school rooms did a wonderful
job and they should be congratulatedon their work dur ing the Y ulet ideseason.
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SCH OOL NEWSI n the second grade we have read
about the f ir st T hanksg iv ing. The
I nd ians and the pilgr ims had a feast .The men k i lled w i ld turkeys and thewomen baked cakes and pumpk in p ies .
The first T hanksg iv ing feast lastedthree or four days .
—Ransom Wat son, 2nd grade
I n the second grade we made somep ictures of the Mayflower , Indiansand pilgr ims and people. We haveal so drawn leaves and turkeys .
—Robert Ingram, zud grade
I n our room we have drawn some
p ictures of T hanksgivmg. And we
have read books about the Mayflowerand how she brought the p i lgr imsto Amer ica. T he I nd ians were the
p i lgr ims best fr iends . T he I ndianshelped the p i lgr ims t o bu i ld the i rhomes . T he Ind ians showed the pilgr ims how to plant seeds and grow a
garden and we read how the fir stT hanksgiv ing came to be. T he p i lgr im s set aside a spec ial day for
giving t hanks .Gary Beaty, 2md grade
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Henry Ford the f i rst , out of long experience, once said: Anyone who'stops learning ‘
is o ld, w hether t h is happens at 20 or 80 . Anyone whokeeps on learning not onl y remains young, but becomes constant l y morevaluab le , regard les s of phys ical capaci ty . —Sunsh ine Magaz ine
Our room is decorated very pret t ilyfor fall . We are proud of our pictures.
On our black board i s a fall scene.
T he wild geese are fly ing South overthe f ields of corn shocks and pumpkins T here i s a pret t y moon light ingup the f ields . I n the back of our
room we have a mural of fall fruitsand vegetables framed by autumnleaves in the beaut iful colors of red,yel low and brown. On a table we haveturkeys made of p ine cones and paper .
T here are pumpk ins also on the tables.
Char les H arr i s , 3rd grade
T he th ird grade has spent mucht ime on read ing. We enjoy the“Week
ly Readers . I t has current events
and we l ike the quest ions and the
t ickle box . Cecil K ing made a“L ets
Read More poster of the w ise old
owl reading. I t hangs on the th irdgrade room door .
We read a l ibrary book each weekand make a report on it . T hen we
copy it in our folder s wh ich we are
mak ing. T hey are very pret ty w iththe des igns on the back of them. We
have made t en report s this fall . We
are t ry ing to read and enjoy what weread.
—Char les Jackson, 3rd grade
"
1 8 THE U PLIFTt ion “What good could come out of
Nazareth ?”Rev. Joyner d i sm i ssed us w ith a
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Reverend J . J . Ballent ine of the
R edeemer L utheran Church in Kannapol is , was the
“
speaker at t he schoolon the 1 8th of D ecember .
H e chose h i s scripture from the
3rd Chapter of S t . Mat thew, l st to
1 7th verse.
R ev . Ballent ine talked about our
prepar ing for Chr i st ’ s com ing. H e toldus that John the Bapt ist was the
forerunner of Chr i st . John was t ry
ing t o‘
get people ready for Chr ist .H e said when Chr i st was born the
people were busy with taxat ion. T o
day as well as t hen people are so
busy that they somet imes forgetChr i stH e explained to us that we d idn’
t
make ourselves , but that we are
made by God, and t o do what is
r ight we have t o live by God’ s law .
T hat i s something we shou ld al l re
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When A lexander Graham Bell, inventor of the Te lephone, wrote in
1 878 t hat some day w i re w i l l uni te d i fferent ci t ies , and a man in one
part of the count ry may communicate by word of mout h w i t h anot her inad istant p lace,
" peop le thought he was insane . Today we haveword of mouth " communicat ions every day.
Sunsh ine Magazine
member .
R ev . Ballent ine closed h i s sermon
wit h a shor t prayer .
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The R everend George R . Wh i t t ikerof the S t . James L utheran Church ofConcord was guest speaker for D e
cember 25th , which was Chr istmas .
R ev. Wh i t t iker chose S t .
“
L uke,second Chap ter , ver ses 1 t o 20 for his«scr ipture, t h i s scr ipture i s of course
the Chr istmas story .H e then led us. in prayer after
which we had a song by three choirmember s .Rev . Wh i tt iker . explaind w h a t
Chr i stmas br ings . H e said, three of
these thing are L ove, H app iness, andJesus . Chr i stmas is Chr i st ’ s birthday,but so many of us forget that and
start th ink ing about what we are
going t o get in the way of present s .Many of us forget that it i s bet ter t ogive than t o receive.
H e said al so that Chr i st is the bestg ift we can g ive anyone. H e then
d i smis sed us With a shor t prayer .
”
t are
Dur ing the Chr i stmas holidays atJacksan T rain ing School there was
-a volleyball and basketball tourament
between the cot tages . T hese gameswere pract ice [games for the boys whoare playing on cot tage t eams .Basketball schedules were sent to
each cot tage and the f ir st off icialgames w i ll ‘
be played on January 9th .
Cot tage N o. 2 Stops Cot tage 7, 21 -2Cot tage N o. 2 chalk up an . easy
victory F r iday morn ing when theymet Cot tage N o . 7 at the gym for the
fir st volleyball game. Seller s was highscorer f or No . 2 . H anah and E vansmade N o. 7
’s only point s .
Cot tage N o. 1 5 Bows 5 1 -1 6
Cot tage N o. 4 downed Cot tage N o.
1 5 in the f ir st pract ice game dur ingthe Chr istmas hol idays . H igh scorerf or N o . 4 was L amber t s ink ing 22
point s and H ager mak ing 4 basket sfor Cot tage N o. 1 5 .
Cot tage N o. 1 6 D rops Game 2 1 -1 7
Played st rong in the fir st half
Q U ICK
Cot tage 1 6 scored 1 1 po int s to No . 1 1’s
6 . Sharpen ing their defense in t e
second half N o. 1 1 came on to win
the game.
Cot tage N o. 1 3 L oses‘
F irst GamePlay ing good ball Cot tage 1 3 could
not quite make it as the wh i st le blewending the game 25-22 in favor of
Cot tage N o. 1 7 . H igh scorer f or N o.
1 3 was H opk ins with 1 1 po int s andL ocust with 1 1 po int s for Cot tage 1 7.
Cot tage N o. 4 Wins Christmas
T ourament
Cot tage N o. 1 0 U pset 25-2 1I n the ir game with Cot tage N o . 1 0
Wednesday night N o . 4 ended the
game in a upset by winn ing the
Chr i stmas t ourament . H igh man in
this game was Creasman of N o. 4 .
Cot tage N o . 4’
s Champions
L amber t , f .Met calf, f .Creasman, c
Cont inued on page 23
2 0 THE UPL IFT
Select ed By St eve Brawley
S IXT E E N T ONSSome people say a man is made
“
out ta
mud
A poor man is made out ta'
muscleand blood,Muscle and blood and skin and bone,A mine t hat ’ s weak and a back that ’ sst rong.
(CH ORU S )Y ou loadyou get
?
Another day older , and deeper in debt ,S t . Peter don
’t you call me, cause I
can’
t go,
I'
owe my soul t o the company st ore.
s ixteen t ons and what ta
I was born one morn ing when the _sun
didn ’t shine,
Picked up my shovel and walked t o
the mine,L oaded sixteen ton of number ninecoaL
And the st rawboss said, well bles smy soul .
I was born one morning,it was dr izzl
ing rain,
F ight in l and t rouble are my m iddlename
I was rai sed in the canebrake by anold mama lion,
ain ’t no high-tone woman make me
L OVE I S . A MANY -SPL E NDORE DT H ING
fl: s
i: ::o Gil s
a
I H E AR Y OU KNOCKINY ou went away and left " me longt ime ago
walk the l ine.
I f you see me comin ! bet ter s tep -as ide, lot ta men _didn
’t and a lot ta
men diedOne fist of iron, the other of steel
,
I f the r ight -one don’t get you, t hen
the left -one w i ll
L ove i s a many splendored thing,
I t’s the Apr il rose that only grows
I n the early spr ing ;L ove is natures way of g iv ingA reason to be liv ing.
T he golden crown that makes a mana king
Once on a high and windy hill ,I n the morning m i stTwo lover k i ssed land t he wor ldst ood st i l l
T hen your finger t ouched my s i lenthear t
And'
taught it how to s ing,Y es, t rue love’ s a many splendoredthing .
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N ow you come back knockin’at my T he L ord is r ight beside, you,
I hear you knockin ’
But you can’t come in,
I hear you knockin ’
Go back where you ’ve been .
‘
I begged '
you not t o go but you saidgood-by ,
N ow you come back t ell in’al l those
lies ,I hear you knockin’
But you can’t come in,
I hear you knock in ’
G o back Where you ’
ve been .
I“t old you way back long t ime ago,
T he day would come when you ’d mis s
me so,
I hear you knockin ’
Go back where you ’ve been .
Y ou bet ter go back t o your used t o
be,
Because your love’ s no good t o me,
I hear you knockin ’
But you can’t come in,
I hear you knockin’
I know Where you ’
ve been .
T H E BIBL E T E L L S M E SO
H ave faith, hope, and char ity,T hat ’ s the way t o l ive succes sfully,H ow do I know ? T he Bible tell s me
so.
D o good t o your enemies ,And the Blessed L ord you ’ ll surelyplease,H ow do I know ? The Bible tells me
so.
Don’t worry about tomorrow ,
Just be real good t oday ,
H e’ ll lead you all the way ,
H ave faith, hope, and char ity,T hat ’ s the way to live seccessful ly ,
H ow do I know ? T he Bible tells me
so.
A I N’
T T H AT A SH AME
SONG OF A DRE AME R
Y ou made me cry ,
When you said goodbye,A in ’
t that a shame,
My t ear s fell like rain,
A in ’t that a shame,
Y ou’re the one t o slame
,
Y ou broke my hear t ,When you said we’ ll par t ,Oh, well , goodbye,Although, I ’ ll cry ,A in ’
t that a shame.
We met in a dream ,
Y ou walked by my side,And there in that dream,
Y our arms Opened wide,All the thr ill s 1 had mis sed,.Shone br ight in your eyes ,T hen soft ly we kissed,What a great surpr i se,“L ove
’ s magic devine,E nchantment supreme
,
I t was yours , it was m ine,What a perfect scheme,
T o the heavens above,I’m praying that you,
Give me that which I love,L et this dream come t rue
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B IRTHDAYSIn the U plift we are announcing each month the bir thday anniversaries of
the boys . I t is our purpose to follow this custom indef in i tely . We believethat the relat ives and fr iends of the boys will be great ly interested in these
announcements .
Robert Honeycutt , I 6th b i rt hday, Cottage No . 4
James Arrowood, l oth b i rt hday, Cottage No .
- I 7
Johnny Gard iner, I 4th b i rthday , Cottage No . I O
Buddy Huffst icklerh l éth b i rt hday , Cottage No . I
Robert Ingram, I 6th b i rthday, Cot tage No .9
Richard Powe l l , I 7th b i rthday, Cottage No . I O
Frank Helms, l oth b i rthday, CottageNo . I 5
Don Harri s , I 4 th b i rthday, Cottage No . 2
Larry Lamb, I 7th b i rt hday, Cottage No . 1 3
Johnny Muse, 1 3th b i rt hday, Cottage No . 2
R. E. Weathers, l oth b i rthday, Cottage Nofi I OF loyd Cal loway, I 5th b i rthday , Cottage No . I 4
James Johnson, I 6th b i rthday , Cottage No . I 3
James Bent ley , 1 7th b i rthday, Cottage No . I 3
O t i s Jacobs , I 6th b i rt hday, Cottage No . I 7
C laude Townse l , I 5 th b i rthday , Cottage No . I 5
Teddy Hog len, i 5 th b i rthday , Cottage No . 2
Robert Arno ld, Iot h b i rthday , Cottage No . I 4
Bobby Price, I 6th b i rthday, Cottage No . 1 5
F loyd H inson, 1 7th b i rt hday, Cottage No . I 5
James Morgan, I I th b i rthday , Cottage No.6
W i l l iamManes s , l oth b i rt hday, Cottage No . I
James Bo lden, I 5 th b i rthday . Cottage No . 2
Ral ph Harp , 1 7th b i rthday, Cot tage No . 1 0
James Stewart , l oth b i rthday, Cottage No . 1
Jack ie Lupton, I 6th b i rthday, Cottage No . 1 I
Lester Norman, 1 5 th b i rthday , Cottage No.4
Earl Price, 1 2 th b i rthday, Cottage No . 3
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Déd'
20
Dec 2 I
Dec“
. 2 1“
22
Dec 25
Dee 27-
oea 30‘
“29 Wes ley Pend leton, 1 5 th b i rthday . Cottage No . 3
Fred L i tt le, I 5th b i rt hday, Cottage No . I I
Lee Driver, 1 5 th b i rthday, Cottage No . 4
Bi l l y Sheets , I 4th b i rthday , Cottage No. 2
~ A l-onzo Maney, 1 5 th b i rthday , Cottage No . 7
Reggie Cotter, i 4 th b i rthday , Cot tage No .9
Everette Hog len, l oth b i rthday , Cottage No . I 3'
L. H . Owens , Ioth b i rthday, Cottage No . 7
‘k
Cont inued f rom page 1 9
Montgomery, gD ixon, g
Cot tage N o. 9 Wins -“B”L eague
Chr istmas T ourament
Cot tage N o. 7 Rout ed 47-1 7
Tak ing the championship from Cot
tage 7 and winning a easy v ictory N o.9 again became the champions . H ighscorer for N o. 9 was McClure w ith 22po int s and L amber t with 1 0 points forCot tage 7.
“B”L eague Campions
Brawley, c
Silva, gE verhardt , g
“A
”L eague Vol leybal l Champions
W inn ing the volleyball championsh ip from an old r ival N o. 1 0 beatCot tage N o. 4, 2 1 -1 9 . Sparking N o.
1 0’s t eam was W i seman 6 f t 4 in net
man .
Volleyball “B” Champ ionsU pset t ing Cot tage No. 9 f or the
“B”
league volleyball champ ionsh ip Cott age N o. 3 won 2 1 - 1 0 . T his was get tinlg even for Cottage No. 3 after los ingt he basketball t rophy to No. 9 .
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COMMENTS ON EXCHANGESO . P. NEWS : N ov .
’55
T hanks for the roses . U se our jokesanyt ime. We feel t hat a sm i le passedon i s worth much more than one
thrown in the waste basket . Glad to
see you jo ining the happy club of
P . P . editor s .oooOo
T H E SPOKE SMAN : Chr i stmasWe appreciate the lovely Chr i stmasGreet ings sent our way b y t h e
“Spokesman” of Georga. Y our ent iremagazine was one of the nicest wehave seen .
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EVE RGRE E N : Dec.
’55
What ’ s t h i s ! H ave we been over looking this nice lit t le work of art or i sthis the first edit ion this wr iter hasreceived of this magazine from Washington stat e ? Anyhow we like it andhope we w ill be get t ing more.
_We
especially like the way you rate the
E xchanges that come t o your desk
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There are no b lack-co lored f lowers , because b lack f lowers wou ld not
be ab le to reproduce themse lves , accord ing to the botani st s at the NewYork Botanical Gardens . F lowers are fert i l ized by insect s carry ing po l len,
but insects are attracted by b righ t co lors onl y , w h ich is why most of the-200 , 000 known f lowers are e i ther w h i te, red, b lue or ye l low . A verydark purp le i s about the closest to b lack that any f lower comes .
—Sunsh ine Magaz ine
w i t h stars“ as wel l as comment s .“A N ew Y ear s Resolut ion” was wellwr it ten and full of wisdom . T he closing parapraph i s wel l worth pas s ingon to other s :
And men, don’t forget that thisinmate never found the t reasure
of happiness in the m iddle o f an
easy-to-tread, well beaten path .I t
’s of f in t hat tangled brush andforest of a good rounded academ iceducat ion . So what do you say
fellow ? L et s g ive it a t ry shal lwe, and get out t here and startbush whacking.
”
T H E E AGL E : Chr istmasY our Chr istmas greet ing were most
appropriat e and glady rece ived. We
have the feeling t hat you do not need
our help for you have done a wonder
ful job in the reborn E agle. T he draw
ings are very cute and the ar t icleshave that woman touch that makesthem great .
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B ITS OF
I t usually doesn’t t ake long for a
man w i th push t o pash the man w i ththe pull .
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Worry is just l ike a rock ing hor se ;it keeg you going, but it get s you no
where.
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T he proper way t o turn a ch i ld inthe way it should go i s t o go that wayyour self .
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A man i s never to busy t o t ell howbusy he i s .
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I t must be nice t o be,r ich enough to
be able t o speak in glow ing t erms ofthe bles sings of pover ty .
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Man is the only animal who w i llsmoke a pipe, read a book or pay
alimony to a peroxide blond.
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What difference does it make wh ichs ide of the bread i s but tered? We eat
bot h sides anyway .0 00 00
E very community has at least one
sucker who will do all the work ifgiven a few chairmansh ips .
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The young man who works and
saves w i ll some day have enough tod iv ide with those who don’
t .
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Some men are l ike wheelbarrow,
they go around as they are pushed.
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When you hear and ill report aboutanyone, halve it and quar ter it and
W ISDOM
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H appines s can be bui lt onvirtue,and must of neccess it y have t ruth forit s foundat ion .
Coler idge.
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slow , they stumbledW isely and
t hat run fast .
— Shakespeare.
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L igh t is the task where many sharethe toil .
—H omer .
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Mine honor i s my l ife ; both growin one ; take honor from me and mylife is done.
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We never reach o-ur ideal s , whetherof mental or moral improvement ,
but the though of them shows us our
deficiencies , and spur s us t o higherand bet ter th ings .
—T ryon E dwards
say nothing about the rest of it .
An open m ind i s f ine, but be very
careful what you shovel into it .
”
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T here ’ s a narrow margin betweenkeeping your chin up and st ick ingyour neck out .
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I t is only great souls that knowhow much glory there is in being good.
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Sense shines w ith a double lusterwhen it set s in hum ility . An able and
yet humble man i s a jewel wor th a
kingdom .
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FUN AND OTHERW ISE(Bit s of humor cl ipped from exchanges and gathered from
other publ icat ions,t ickler added. )
Republ ic nur se: H ow did John get
such a large bump on h i s head ? ”Joe:
“I t was because of his poorE ngl i sh .Nur se: H ow could that be ? ”Joe:
“We were put t ing in fencepost s , and he said, “I ’ l l set th i s postin the hole. T hen when I nod my head,you take the hammer and hit it .
”
“
So I did”
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N ew salesman : I got two order stoday .”Boss : “Splend id. What were they ?N ew salesman : Get out and stay
out .-0 00 00
Junior : “D ent i st s aren’t painf ul .
T hat ’ s al l a lot of bunk .”Mother : “Why , did he hur t you,
dear ?”
Junior : “N o, but he sure screamed
when I bit him .
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The elder ly spinster sniffed whenanyone suggest ed that i s was t oo badshe did not have a husband.
“I have a dog that growl s, a parrot
that swears , a f ireplace that smokesand a cat that stays out all night .
Why should I want a husband ?”—0 00 00
T he hostess at a large par ty, ra
t her proud of her voice, rendered“Carry me back t o Old Virginee” in a
high and throat y voice. She was
touched to not ice a dist inguished,wh i te—haired man bow his head and
weep quiet ly as the last notes floated
w ith an occas ional original funny-bone
over the room . As soon as she couldshe went over t o him and said“Pardon me, but are you a V irg in
1an ?”
“N O
,madam, said the elder ly man,
brushing away a tear,
“I am a mus i
clan .
Well, I leave it to you,
”came the
reply, “what is f ive and t en cent s
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T he f ive and ten cent store had a
new propr iet or . A woman came in
one day and selected a toy , for whichshe handed the owner a dime.
“Pardon me
, lady,” said the owner ,but these t oys are fifteen cent s .”“But I thought this was a f ive-and
t en cent st ore,” protest ed the cust omer
—0 00 00A lit t le boy was sent to SundaySchool with these words from his
mother , “H ere’ s two nickles , one for
you and the other f or the L ord.
”
T he l i t t le lad was skipp ing merr i lyon h i s way when suddenly droppedone of the nickles and it rol led downa storm sewer drain .
“Oh, oh,
”he said. T here goes God’
s
nickle.
”
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T eacher (t o pupil ) : “Spell theword
‘St raight .
Pupil : “S T R A I G H T .
T eacher : Correct ; what does itmean ?
”
Pupil : W ithout Ginger Ale.
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FARM AND TRADE HONOR ROLLDECEMBER
F ARM
W il lie Ingram
Ar thur Bowden
J . B . Sheet sL arry VernonJames Arrowood
C laude WebbL ester NormanA lonzo ManeyWayne Bennet t
CARPE NT E R SH OPMilan WalkerD onald McM illian
Bradford H orne
F rank ManesssMalcolm Carrol lR ober t ShoresBen Whit enerF reddie L it t leD annie Smal lRober t ColonSandy Bowman
Bobby DaleBilly Joe Sm ithBob ArnoldBill CannonJacky Lupt onWilliam GlissonF rank Ryal sR alph NormanH arvey H udsonJimmy BoldonSEW ING ROOM
T eddy,H oglen
Bi lly Seller sE verelee H oglen
CA F E T E R IA
Bobby Met calfCar l Col lins
L arry L amber t “D ouglas I ngramBenny. SuggsPOU L T RY F O RCE
Johnny ManeyH arold Padget t
Char les JacksonE dgar L ewi sR oy F ergusonR ay H uffmanMACH INE SH OPF reddie Vadase
Maxie TealJerry Somer set
LAU NDR YWillie D eeseJ . C . JumpCordel l 0 xendineBilly StylesE dsel ChurchD on
“
H arr isE ldr idge W int er sR ober t A llisonGene R adfordBill JohnsonR anson Wat sonH erman StylesDon A llenCur t i s T rui't tPaul BaumgarnerCOT T ON M I L L
W illiam L ay
James SmithBobby T oddChar lie AndersonGary BeatyWarren Car t er
Char les H ar r isINF I RMARY
Phil H olmes
SCHOOL HONO R RO LE.
DECEMBER
F I R S T GRADE Raymond Gibson
Car l Sheet s
H arvey H uds on
Jackie L upt onR alph NormanSheet s H arold H ensely
B i lly Styles L arr R oach“Cur t i s T ruit t
y
W i lliam Waycas ter 11 (1
D onald WoodsBust er Bu ar
N T RAD E
SE CON D GRAD ESE VE H G
R ansom Wat son
Paul Athey
TH I RD GRAD E .E I GH T GRADE
N O H onor R oll Wayne Bennet t
N I N TH GRAD E
J oe QuickGrover Ewart R . E . Weather s
DECEMBER
R E CE IV I N I G COT T AGE Mac F lowe
Joe Quick COTT AGE N O . 1
Goldman Cheatham
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Kenneth JacksonMax ie T ealCOT TAGE N O . 2
NO H ONOR ROL L
COT TAGE N O . 3
Sam A ldr idgeCalv in Ph i llipsWesley Pendleton
COTTAGE NO . 4
Gary BeatyW i l l ie D eeseE ddie D ixonJerry Jenk insBobby Met calfBoyd MontgomeryL ester NormanPat Slat en .
Bob ArnoldCOT TAGE NO . 1 5
COTTAGE N O . 7
A lonzo ManeyC arrol l McClure
Danny SmithCOTTAGE N O . 9
George T hornburgMonroe Z ionCOTTAGE N O . 1 0
N O H ONOR ROL L
COT TAGE N O . 1 1
B ill CannonRobert ColonVer lon D ehar tC . J . H ouchinsR ober t JoynerJackie L uptonRalph NormanF ranklin R yalsB i lly SmithCOTT AGE N O . 1 3
Grover Ewart
E veret te H oglenJames JohnsonH erman StylesCOT TAGE N O . 1 4
T ed GlanceL arry RoachD onald T hornburgC laude T ownselF rank H elmsCOT TAGE N O . 1 7
J immy CanterJohn L ee
McK inley L ocustCardell oxend ineGene Radford
By H enryWadsworthLongle'
l-ler
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing; leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o
’
er life’
s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
cein s a ta e earl: a ain .s s hu L h 3
Let us then be up and doing,it a cart or an ate;W I1 h l y l
ti ac ievin sti ursuinS ll h g ll p g
Learn to labor and to wait .
—Published Monthly ByT he Print ing Class of the Stenewal l JacksoManual T raining and I ndust rial School
Concord, North Carol ina
A MGNTH LY JONRNAL
Publ ished ByThe authorit y of the Stonewal l Jackson Manual T raining and Indus t rial School
Type-set t ing by the Boys’Print ing C lass
Subscript ion Two Dol lars t he Year, in Advance
Act of March 3, 1 897. Acceptance for mailing a special rate
STAFF
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
Mrs . Wanda Ho l brookMrs . Agnes YarbroughAssociate Ed i torsJames H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT“roam s
Joe Q u ickSteve Braw ley
UNOTYPE'
OPERA'
I’
ORS
Joe Q uickSteven Braw leyJohnny Bonner
CONT E NT SE D I T OR I A L
SCH OOL UNVEI L S PLAQUE
CAMPUS N EWS
REL I G I OUS EMPH ‘
AS I S MONT H
SUNDAY SERV I CEBy Steven Braw ley
SPORT SBy Joe Qu ickSONGSSelected By St even Brawley
T H E BE GG ING BEARD ID Y OU K N OWF U N AND OT H E RWI SE
H ONOR ROL L S
1 4—1 7
1 8—1 9
20—21
22—23
24—25
28—31
THE UP—L—lFT
IDEA BORN IN COURTROOM
BECOMES FACT
By Bob S lough , Concord Tri buneThe 1 3-year-old boy stood before a
Cabarrus County Super ior Cour t judgeto hear sentence pronounced.
H e had stolen and he faced upt o society for the cr ime.
The youth had l ived in a two room
log cab in that served the purposes of ahome for a family of three. T he househad one chimney, one f ire-place, no
stove for cook ing. What l ight enteredthe home had to come through a shutt ered window .
But the youth was t o lose even t his .
T he death of both parent s just afterhe had passed thirt een year s of age
left the boy an orphan. H e had no
means of suppor t , no one to take 1care
of him .
H e was g iven a home w i th d i stantrelat ives whose manner of l iving wasunlike that of his parent s . T he boy wasin another wor ld he had never beforeknown .
One Sunday afternoon, wh i le the
family was away at church, the youthwas left home to guard the cows, . t o
keep them from wander ing into the
wheat f ield. I t was on th i s day that hewent int o the house and t ookfrom a bureau drawer . A warrant
followed and the youth was placed inthe county jai l [by the high sher iff .T he judge looked downupon the
yout h from his bench and sentenced
him t o a county “chain gang for threeyear s and S ix months , at hard labor .
”
T hat was just ice for a wayward youthin 1 890 .
The sentencing of that youth “
in
Cabarrus County was eventually tolead t o the establishment of r efermatory f or y-ouths of the ent ire s tate,a movement that gathered the supportof even the governor of the state.
A Concord newpaper man was in thecour t room the day the youth was sen
tenced. T he late J . P . Cook sat in the
court room and saw the . youth takenaway to have chains and locks placedaround his ankles . And he saw the
need for an inst itut ion for youths .In the columns of the
“Concord
S tandard” Mr . Cook advocated the
establishment of reformatory. H e t oldof the t r ial of the youth and the em
vironment .
Subject of a reformatory was pre»
sent ed in a number of N orth Carol inanew spaper s , the Raleigh News and
Ob server ,” “Monlroe Journal ,” and
the“A sheville Cit izen.
Begining in 1 891 , and at var ioust imes after that , d ifferent governorsof Nor th Carol ina began to lend theirsuppor t t o the move to establ i sh a
reformatory for boys .Governor Dan iel G
.F owle told the
legislature in 1 891 ,“The demand for
a Reformatory D epartment for youngconv ict s is becom ing very great . Oneof the most d i st ingui shed just ist s saidto me, t hat when he was on the Su
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preme Bench the hardest duty he hadto perform was to sentence boys andgir ls to the penitent iary .”I n 1 895, Grovernor T homas M . H olt
told the General As sembly, “In the
repor t of the Nor th Carol ina pentent iary for the b ienn ial term endingN ovemebr 30 , 1 890 , no les s than 362
conv ict s under it s control are said t obe les s than twenty year s of age and
56 under fift een. F our under 1 5 are
now in the Wake (county ) ja i l , andmany more at it s work-house.
”
Governor Char les B . Aycock againbrought the need of a reformatorybefore the legi slature in 1 903 and in
1 905 .
T he biunial mes sage of GovernorR . B. Glenn to the general assemblyin 1 907 contained the following :“Y outhful cr iminal s should not be
confined with old and vicious offender s, f or such assoc iat ion hardens theirnatures and lessens the chances of
ever reclaim ing them . I will therefore,throw no obstacle in the way of es
tablishing some kind of a reformat oryfor young offender s and the State can
now afford it .
”
Appar ent ly the S tat e found it
could afford the school . The act es
tabl ishing the St onewall T rainingSchool was passed by the General A s
sembly of Nor th Carol ina on March 2 ,1 907. F rom that t ime on the move
ment for a reformatory or t rainingschool had official sanct ion of the leg
islat ive department of the state government .
A lthough the move to establish areformat ory in the state had beenunderway f or 1 5 year s there st il l wasopposit ion t o the proposal when it
hit the floor of the General A ssembly .Some member s of the legi slature
argued that the bill int roduced byC0 1 . W . Penn Wood of RandolphCounty would require the tax money
of the state for operat ion and maint enance. O ther member s argued thatthe State already had public school swhl ch the children had the pr ivilegeof at t ending.
Opposit ion became so st rong thatthose who favored the reformatoryand passage of the bill began t o fearit would be lost if something were not
done. Confederate soldier s came to
rescue the bill .T here were several Conf ederatesoldier s in the general assembly at
the t ime. I t was suggest ed t o Cookthat if the school were named St onewall Jackson Manual T raining and
Indust r ial School the bil l might pass .A hurr ied call of sponsor s of the billwas made, the name adopted, and the
act creat ing the school passed.
I n the beginning the school facedmany difficult ies and hardships . T heinit ial appropiat ion of by theGeneral A ssembly proved t oo in
adequate to meet the needs .A temporary organ izat ion was
formed at the fir st meet ing of the
board of t rustees he ld in the Senat eChamber at Raleigh Sept . 3 , 1 907 .
The meet ing had been called by Gov .
R . B . Glenn who“impres sed on the
board that it was under taking an im
por tant task, w ith difficult obstacles .”A t this meet ing a t emporary organ izat ion was formed with the follow ingofficer s : J . P . Cook, chairman ; D r .
H . A . Royster , secretary ; and CaesarCone, t reasurer . A t a lat er meet ing
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in Greensboro the temporary com
mit tee was made permanent .
T he new board adver t ised f or bidsfor the sit e of the new school , butfound that pr ices asked for the dif
f erent s i t es were almost equivalentt o the init ial appropr iat ion . T he
board then agreed t hat the site for
the school would have t o be a dona
t ion .
I t was at this t ime that the c i t izensof Concord became deeply int erest edin the project . T hey had read J . P .
Cook ’ s scathing edit or ial s dur ing the
past 1 5 year s and they were readyt o act .
A meet ing was held in C it y H al lin Oct ober of 1 907 and those at t end
ing the meet ing decided to launch a
campaign t o raise In severaldays the campaign goal was reached.
_W ith this money a farm of near ly300 acres was purchased three m iless outhwest
_of Concord on the South
ern Rai lroad. In November , 1 907, theE xecut ive Commi t tee of the boardnamed Professor Walter T hompsonsuper intendent of the school . A t the“t ime T hompson was in charge of C on
cord school s .I n the spr ing of 1 908 it was de
cided that two cot tages would be
erected at the new s i te . Member s ofthe board agreed that the school couldnot operate w ith less t han two cot
tages .One cot tage was completed by
Chr istmas , 1 908, _and the other one
was near ing complet ion at the t ime.
A ll available ‘funds were used in the
erect ion of the buildings and no mon
ey was left for furniture and'
equipment .
- When it became ev ident that ad
dit ional funds would be needed women of Concord assumed the respon
s ibility of secur ing the funds .Mrs . J . P . Cook v i sited t he fum i
ture factor ies at T homasville andH igh Pon i t where she secured t he do
nat ion of necessary furn i ture f or one
cot tage. In Salisbury she securedtable l inens and other necessit ies .C lubs in Concord took u’
p'
the dr iveto secure funds and equipment so thatby Jan . 1 2 , 1 909 the inst i tut ion wasready to open it s door s .Since that t ime the inst i tut ion has
cont inued to grow steadily. F ac i l it iesnow include administ rat ion bu i lding,
1 7 cot tage buildings , t rade t rain ingand inst itut ional service bu i ldings ,educat ion and relig ious train ingbuilding,
recreat ional build ings , healthservice bu i lding, farm bu i ld ings forhousing farm animals , and farm and
pasture lands .In addit ion the school operat es it s
own bakery, shoe repair shop , barbershop , cannery, carpenter shop
, dairy,laundry, machine shop , pr int shop ,sew ing room and text ile depar tment .
T he work of the academic department , of cour se, occupies the posit ionof fir st impor tance among the otheract ivit ies in the school . So far as poss ible, the youths are placed in the
same grade t hey were when theycame to the school .J . F rank Scot t is present superin
t endent of the school . H e became exe
cut ive of the t raining school following the t enure of S . Glenn H awf ield.
F ormer super intendent s [
of the
school include Walter R . T hompson(1 907 Car les E . Boger , (1 91 3
S . Glenn Ha ield Sr ., (1 942J .
'
F rank Scot t , (1 948
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T he. unve i l ing of the p laque honoring Mr. J . P. Cook.
'
Let t to right Mr.
Samue l E. Leonard, Commi ss ioner of Correct ion; Mrs. J . P. Cook; StateSenator Luther Bernhardt; Mr. J . Frank Scott , Superintendent .
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SCHOOL UNVEILS PLACQ UEIN MEMO RY or J . P. COOK
The North Carolina Board of Cor
rect ion and T rain ing on January 1 8recognized the late J . P . Cook as
“a man who had much to do wit h establishing th i s School” in ceremon iesS tonewall Jackson T raining School .The dedicat ion was held in the
school bu i lding and a plaque was e
rected in the ent rance hall t o Mr .
Cook ’ s memory . T he plaque reads :“James P . Cook, 1 863 Stalwar tleader in the establishment of the
Stonewal l Jackson T rain ing and chairman of the board of t rustees from it s
beg inn ing unt i l h i s death . 1 909Samuel E . L eonard, Secretary of the
Board, read a shor t address from C .
A . D i llon of Raleigh, Chariman of the
Board of Correct ion and T raining. Mr .
D i llon or ig inal ly was scheduled to
make the presentat ion, but was unableto at tend.
“T oday the North Carol inaBoard of
Correct ion and T rain ing in regularsess ion here is happy to recogn ize thelabor s of Mr. Cock and to place -a per
manent marker inth i s bu i lding to petuate the memory of
,th i s great man
the prepared speech said.
T he plaque "
was unvei led by twos tudent of the s cflio
'
ol'
, Ben Wh i tenerand Char les Jackson. T hese boys areamong the smallest and youngest of
the school ’ s populat ion and were usedat the request o f
'
Mrs . Cook . I t wasonly f i t t ing that boys . should have a
par t in the cermony honor ing a man
who was a leader in establ i shing a
school f or youth . I n honor of a
potrait of Mr . Cook, wh ich has hungin the adm instrat ion bu i ld ing for
many year s, was placed over the
plaque. A beaut iful floral arrangement furn i shed by Judge RandolphPrest on and fam i ly lent a fest ivetouch t o the occasion. T he card w i ththe flowers read
“In lov ing t r ibute t o
my dear fr iend, Cook . ”S tate S enator Pres ident Luther
E arnhardt accepted the plaque on be
half of the country and Mrs . Cook “ascholar and f ine southern gent lemen,”rev iewed br iefly the h i story behindthe founding of the school . H e told of
Cook ’ s earl iest efforts to have a re
formatory for the boys in North Carol ina.
H e c i ted also the work of Mrs.
Cook and read a telegram received by
Mrs. Cook from Jul ia Jackson_and
Randolph Preston. Jul ia i s the granddaughter of Stonewall Jackson and
Preston was appo inted by the gover
nor t o the board of t rustees of theschool in 1 908 .
The telegram stated t hat Cook wasthe most unself i sh man we ever knew
in publ ic serv ice.
”
A number of fr iends of the school
and Mr . Cook ’ s family at tended; the
program. was honoredthat so man S tate’s leadingc i t izens at tened t nd e re m 1
t o the leader I
T he plaque will serve -as a'
prepetualr eminder of the serv ice done the stateof Nort h Carolina’
_by
"the effort s of
M r . Cook .
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CAMPUS NEWS AND ACTIV ITlES
Mr . James Auten, supervisor of the
Dairy, was confined to the CabarrusMemor ial H ospital for several daysthis month with a hear t cond i t ion. We
are happy t hat. he has been allowedt o return home and hOpe t hat he con
t inues to improve rap idly.0 00 00
Mrs . F rank Tomkinson, cot tage
mother at N o. 1 3, has returned t o the
school af ter undergoing surgery at
the Cabarrus Memor ial H ospital . We
are happy that she i s recover ing rap
idly from her operat ion and it is nice
to have her back on the campus .
— oOOOo
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The cot tage renovat ion program,
wh ich has been under way for near lytwo year s , is near ing complet ion. At
the present t ime workmen are reno
vat ing Cot tage 1 5, Cot tage 8 , and
Cot tage 1 2 . When these cot tages arecompleted all of the regular cot tageson the campus will have rece ived a
face lift ing. A t the present t ime plansare under way t o install new stokersin Cot tage 1 6 and 1 7 . In cot tage 1 6
new radiat or s w i ll be instal led in the
upstairs sect ion of the cot tage and
w i ll mean more comfor table quarter sfor the boys and staff of the cot tage.
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The T rain ing School farm was the
scene of a demonst rat ion in the use
of l iqu id fer t ilizer January 1 2th . T he
demonst rat ion was under the direct ionof Cabarrus County F arm Agent , Mr .
J . Ray A llen, and was at tended by
farmer s , farm agents , agr icul turalteachers , representat ives of farmequ ipment compan ies , and facultymember s of State College. The pro
gram began about A . M . w i tha lecture on the value and use of
anhydrous ammon ia. T he group tooklunch in the school cafeter ia and the
afternoon was taken with demonst rat ions of the applicat ion of anhydrousammon ia being applied to crops .
The Board of Correct ion and T raining held it s fir st meet ing of the yearat the School on January 1 8th . The
bus iness session began aboutA . M . in the Administ rat ion Building.
Lunch was served in the cafeter iaat R M . T he members then at
tended the dedicat ion of the plaquet o the memory of Mr . J . P . Cook inthe Academ ic School . A t our of the
cot tages , t rades , and farm was made
t o close the days act ivit ies . T hoseat tending the meet ing were : Mr .
Samuel E . L eonard, Commi s sioner of
Correct ion ; Mr . T . C lyde Auman,
Vice Chairman ; D r . Char les F . St rosnider ; M rs . C . L . Gilliat t ; Mr . JosephW . Nordan ; Mr . Paul B . B i s set te; Mr .
M . S . H aywor th ; Mr . St eed Rollins ;Mr . E lt on E dwards ; D r . E llen Winston, Commi s sioner of Public Welfareand E x -Officio member
,
of the Board ;
Mr . Blane Madison, who Wi ll becomeComm i ssioner of Correct ion afterJuly 1 st ; and Mrs . Pat Moore, Secretary t o Mr . L eonard. Mr . A . C . D i llon,
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Chairman of the Board, was unable t oat t end due to i llnes s .
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Sammy Glance of Cot tage N O . 1 3
returned t o the Bapt i st H ospital inW inst on-Salem on January 23rd foranother operat ion . T he staff and
boys wi sh Sammy the very best of
luck and hope he will be able t o r e
turn t o us soon .
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Ou -January 1 6 the School was hostt o a group of V i sit ing nur ses fromthe Cabarrus County H ealth D epar tment . T he morn ing hour s were t akenup wit h a V isit t o the t rades shopsand
'
cot tages . A t they were ser
Ved lunch in the cafet er ia. Dur ingthe
'
aft ernoon they V is it ed the acade
mic depar tment , farm ,and health d-e
par tment . In the group were Mr s .
Mary E R oger s , Supervi sor of
Nur ses ; Mrs . D orothy Rape, SeniorNur se; Mrs . Janice Mot ley; SeniorNur se; M i ss D orothy McN eely , S tu
dent Nur se; and Miss Sally Sm ith ,Student Nur se.
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One of the largest vaccinat ion pro
ject s that the school has sponsoredin several years was held on January23rd. T hree hundred boys at the
school rece ived the fir st in a ser iesof Salk shot s , inoculat ion againstparalyt ic polio. T he shot s were ad
m inistered by,the Cabarrus County
H ealth D epar tment under the direc
t ion of D r . Roy H ege, County Physician .
T he innoculat ion at the T rain ingSchool w i ll send the Cabarrus County
’s t otal number of school ch i ldren
who have been immun ized in excessof 1 3 200 . L atest figures of the H ealthD epartment Show more t hanschool ch i ldren have rece ived the Se
rumout of an est imated enrol lment .
-In addit ion, pre-Schoolyoungster s and 84 expectant mother shave also been vaccinated againstthe d i sease.
Accord ing to est imated report s t h i sput s Cabarrus in one of the highestbracket s percentage wise, if not t hehighest , in both the state and nat ionallevels . The County has rece ived na
t ional at tent ion because of it s uniqueSalk vacc inat ion program . The massinoculat ion program here '
was made
pos sible part ially through Mr . C . A .
Cannon, whofinanced the vaccine for
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A t,
the annual banquet of the centralNor th Carolina Boy S cout Counci lheld January 24th at the T roy CountyC lub , Mr . J . F rank S cot t , Superint endent was awarded the coveted Silver Beaver Award. T his award is fpresented annual ly t o the volunteerworker who has cont r ibuted the mostt o Scout ing .
Mr . Scot t has been very act ive - in
Scout work for many year s . H e has
held almost every volunteer worker ’ sjob from Scout Master t o vice pres ident of the council . H e" i s at presentV ice president of the Cent ral Nor thCarolina Council , a member of the
execut ive board, and a member of the
Camping Comm i t t ee.
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ANHYDRO US‘
DEMO NSTRAT IO N Cabarrus and nearby farmers wereshow n by a demonst rat ionon the Jackson Training Schoo l farm how ah
hydrous ammonia can be appl ied to the so i l and the equi pment neededto do the job. A number of al l ied tradesmen were on hand to observe theuse of th i s fai rl y new operat ion.
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COT TAGE N O . 4 TAKE S H ONORT R I P
By L arry L ambert and E ddie D ixonOn January 1 3th , Cot tage NO . 4 was
awarded their H onor T r ip for hav ingan out stand ing Cot tage for a per iod of
six months . T his was N o. 4’s f irs t
H onor T r ip and it was diff icult to dec ide where they would go and
“
how
t hey would use this holiday . Aft er discuss ing the mat ter and counsul t ing
the cot tage parent s , Mr . and Mrs .
Check, the boys decided t o go t o Mor
row Mountain. T his is a S tat e Parklocated five miles from A lbemar le.
_U pon arr ival at the mountain park
the boys spent much of their t ime
wander ing over the mountain t rails .
F rom some point s on the mountaincould be seen other mountain rangessuch as the Sugar L oaf Range. Some
beaut iful scenes of the Pee D ee R ivercould be seen as it wound it s way
through the countryside. F or some of
t he boys this was the largest and
h ighest mountain they had ever seen.
L ater in the day the group visitedt he Baden Dam and E lect r ic Plant .
T his was very interest ing and the
s cenerywas beaut iful around the dam .
H ere the boys got fir st hand infor
mat ion on how water power i s usedfor electr ic i ty.
E ach boy repor ted a good t ime and
they wish t o express their thanks t othe adm in i strat ion and espec ially t othe cot tage parent s f or help ing themto win such a t r ip .
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COT TAGE N O . 4 H AS BIR TH DAY
PAR T Y
By Boyd Montgomery and Car l Collins
—oO O:OO o
Sorrow i s l i ke a rock ing chai r. It w i l l give you someth ing to do, but
won’
t get you anyw here“.
On the evening of January 2oth,Cot tage N O . 4 had it s monthly bir thday par ty . T h i s month we were helping L es ter Norman, L ee D r iver , and
Wentwor th Jamison celebrate theirbir thdays . We had been looking for
ward to our b ir thday par ty s ince the
last one, and we are sure no one was
disappo inted.
A game per iod was held when we
played such games as “Where are you,
Who are you w i th, and What are youdo ing” ; Name the pies ; Pas s the on
ion ; and followed w i th group singing .
Bobby Metcalf, E ddie D ixon, and
Wentworth Jamison sang some songsand led the other in group singing .
T he' boys being honored received
b irthday g ift s and the Bakery Boyshad made them a huge bir thday cakew i th al l the t r immings . T he cake wascut and refreshment s served.
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REL IG IOUS EMPHAS IS MONTH
Cot tage N 0 . 4
D ur ing the month of January . R ev .
Knight of McG ills Street Bapt i stChurch came to Cot tage 4 for R eligousserv ices . On the 7th, of January hetalked on how we can be clean on the
inside as well as the out side. H e illust rated this fact by taking a pitcherof water , a glass , and some ink . H e
poured the water into the glass . T hep i tcher of water represented God, andand the glass of water representedman . H e put the ink into the glass ofwater to represent sin . H e then pouredthe water out of the pitcher into the
glass unt il al l the ink was washed out .
T h i s shows how God can wash out
our sins .On the second week of January 1 4th,
H e brought a message from 1 st , JohnChapter 3
,1 st through l 0th ver ses .
I t told how God loved us . In the fir stver se it illus trat ed how God was for
us ,“Behold what manner of love the
F ather hath best owed upon us thatwe should be called the son of God :
therefore t he wor ld knowet h us not
because it knew him not”
.
Dur ing the 3rd week R ev . Knightbrought some pict ures of the H olyL and. T hese were pictures on thingssuch as the birth place of Jesus . T hereis a church over t he spot where he wasborn. T hese were pictur es of hills andfields where the shepherds were the
night of J esus’s bir th . I t showed the
hill where Jesus was Crucifed.
Dur ing the 4th , and last week Rev .
Knight brought a message from S t .
—J erry Jenk ins
Mat thew . Chapter 5 . H e talked on the
subject of the Sermon on the Mount .Jesus went upon amountain, and whenhis disciples came unt o him he taughtthe Beat itudes .We sur e did enjoy and appreciatE
R ev. Knight ’ s coming and hope he w il lcome again soon.
Cot tage N 0 } 6
T he Rev . E . J . H arbison was our
fir st speaker dur ing Relig ious Emphasis Month . H e read to us from S t .
Mat thew Chap ter 9, 9th verse aboutthe calling of Mat thew, who did not
hesitat e when he heard Jesus call himbut followed at once. We all know thatJesus want s us t o follow H im, but we
use all kinds “of excuses for not do ingso . We all know that Jesus want s ust o share the good t hings we have justas H e shares H is love and help w i thall people.
T he second Wednesday night the.
Reverend R ober t Park, pastor of
Rocky R iver Presbyter ian Church,was our speaker . H e told
’
l
us a beaut iful story about Joseph and h i s brothers and how easy it was for Joseph toforgive them of the ugly th ing theydid to him . I t was easy because Josephloved and served God. I t s not easyfor us t o forgive others somet imes because we are not serv ing God as t rulyas Joseph did.
T he next Wednesday night Rev.
Park spoke to us about Samuel . I t isa wonderful story, and he t old us t hat
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God want s us to listen for H im to
speak to us . We must be willing and
ready t o do what H e t ell s us .
T he last Wednesday night M r . Parkread from S t . L uke chapt er 2 , 4 1
through 52 ver ses . T he last ver se wastheone he emhasized most . I f we eat
the r ight food and t ake care of our
bodies we w i ll grow . We want need to
worry about that . _ But“gr owing in
favor w i th God and man i s what weneed to t ry very hard to do . We can do
th i s through prayer , asking f or God’ shelp and through Church and SundaySchool at tendance.
Mr . Park brought Mr . H ubard alongthe last night t o lead us in s inging .
We really ‘
enjoyed s ing ing '“In T he
Garden” .
I believe al l the talks we have heardhave meant quite a lot . t o all
“
of us .
Ray H uffman
Cot tage N o. 7
Cot tage N O . 7 was for tunat e enoughto have Rev . D avid Blue V isit our
cot tage dur ing D ecember and Jan
uary. H e and his family visit ed withus tw ice in D ecember . T hey all came
t o our bir thday par ty . T hey broughtthe boys a present and told us some
good stor ies . _One story was about
Chr i st ’s bir thday . We had heard the
story many ways but I bel ieve we
enjoyed his best of all .
H e inv i ted al l of us out to hischurch . Mr . E ller got the school busand we al l went over to the Bayles sMemor ial Church in Concord.
“H e
introduced us to al l his gir l s and boysof the church . We enjoyed the pro
gram over t here very much . The
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church people gave us all a g ift . We
al l t hank t hem very much .Mat thew, chapter 1 3, was the bas i-s
of a st ory he t old us about the parableof the sowers . One sower
’ s seed fellupon stony places , where they hadnot much earth and the sun came up
and the seed were scorched and theywithered away. But other s fell intogood ground and brought for th goodfru i t some a hundred fold some sixtyfold, some t hirty fold. We Should al
ways sow good seed so people wi llfollow our example.
-Mat the-w , chapt er 25, was anotherpar t we studied and h eard about . I t
i s about the talent s R ev . Blue saidGod gave us all some talent , -maybesome just one but we should use thattalent . I f we u se our one talent wewould add more talent s beside them .
We were very “
s orry R ev . Bluemoved away from Concord. We enjoyed his st or ies and V i sit s very much .
Carroll McClure
Cot tagee N o. 9 had it s fir st R eligions Emphasis program on January1 1 th . R ev . Sides from the H arr isburgPresbetar ian Church, conducted the
service. Rev . Sides led us in a Shortprayer '
and then we sang,
“L ove
L ift ed Me.
”
T he R ev . Sides brought w ith him a
F elt board and some pictures , whichwould st ick to it .
H e t old us a story about a prophetnamed Zlijah who had spoken f or theL ord for many years . One day the
King called forth h i s servant s and
said “Go find this Prophet and br ing
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him to me.
The servant went out and foundZlijah and told him that the K ingwishes to see him . Zlijah went to see
the k ing and said unto him when hesaw him.
“Are you them man who is
t roubl ing my people?” And Zlijah
said.
“N o ! oh k ing,
it i s not I who ist roubling the people, “But you .
” Th i smade the k ing very mad, and he saidthat Zlijah should be pun i shed. So
Zlijah had to flee from the land; Oneday wh i le he was s i t t ing by a big
rock to rest he fell asleep and wh i lehe was asleep the angel of the L ordspoke to him say ing.
“Go back to this
land from wh ich you are flee ing and
find a man to speak for me and thenyou shal l be w i th me.
So Zlijah went back to the land fromwhich he was fleeing and found an
other man t o take his place th i s mansname was E lisha.
W-hen Zlijah t ime on earth was up
the L ord sent down from heaven a
f irey char iot and t ook Zlijah to heavent o be wi th him for ever .
I am sure t hat al l the boys _of
Cot tage N o. 9, enjoyed having R ev .
Sides come out and talk with us a
bout the L ord and we hope he wi ll return next year .
—John H ensely and: Steve Braw ley
Cot tage N o. 1 1
On F r iday the 1 3th cot tage N o. 1 1
had the !rel ig ious emphas is night .We star ted the
,program by s ing ing
“Standing On The Prom i ses .” Af ter
th is we had a prayer . Then we sang“At The Cross .
” R ev. Payne chosehis ver ses of scr ipture from 1 5 chap
ter 1 1 -24 verses of Luke. H e chose
for his topic“The Prodigal Son.
”H e
told of the young man who had run
away from home with his ent ire for
tune. But when his fortune gave out
he began to seek a job. But the only
job he could get was that of feeding
pigs . H e got so hungry he began to
eat w i th the p igs . H e then final lywent back to his father begging h isforgiveness and ask ing to be one of
the servant s . But his father wou ldn’ tth ink of this . Instead he killed the
fat ted calf and celebrated the re
turn of his son. Our closing hymn
was “Saved By H is WonderfulGrace.
” After this Mr . Payne led us
in a word of prayer .
On Tuesday night cot tage No. 1 1
had their relig ious serv ices as usual ,w i th Rev. Payne at tending. F reddy
L it t le, F red King, and B i lly Smithopened our serv ices by sing ing “BringT hem In.
”After th i s F rank Ryals
and Rober t Joyner sang “In The Garden; M i ss Danel la Gray was the pian i st . We then had a word of prayerafter wh ich M i s s Gray played the
Accordian and sang “H e L eadet h
Me,”and
“T here’ s A Mans ion Over
T he H i lltop .” After th i s we all sang:“I’m So Glad I T rust In Jesus .
”
R ev . Payne chose his scr ipture fromI saiah , 6th chapter . H is topic was :
T he Y oung Man T hat Saw H imself .
H e t old of Plato who was a philoso
pher who said: if you knew your selfins ide and out then you would haveno trouble get t ing t o heaven . T he
people bel ieved th i s unt i l they foundthemselves, and then '
they realizedt hat no mat ter how much you knew
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themselves or anyone else, theyto know and believe in Jesus
they can go to heaven. We clossinging
“T is So Sweet To T rustThen We had a word of
to close our services.
—Wilbur H al l
visiting minster for Cot tage
for the f irst of the four weeksas Rel igious Emphasis MonthReverand J . James M i ller of
tward Method i st Church of
N . G . Mr . M i ller chose a
for h i s1 6.
ller used “If there werehis main topic. H e tolds were go ing t o be dehe had h i s ‘
cho ice to
just one ver se he would keepn 3 1 6. F or God so loved the
~1d that he gave his only begot tent hat whosoever bel ieveth in H im
uld not per i sh but have ever last ingH e said we should give thanks tol for sending h i s only son int o the~ld t o save us from et ernali nat ion . We should t rus t in H im
>ur per sonal Saviour and t rust H imall H is ways .
I t the end of the serv ice re
shment s were served wh ich con
.cd of cup cakes , cook ies, and coca
i s . T he boys enjoyed t hese verych . T he boys of Cot tage N o. 1 6
1 1d like Mr . M i ller to know t haty really enjoyed his serv ice and
1 1d like Mrs . H ender son to know
they really appreciated the t ime and
effort she spend on the refreshment s .-J oe Qu ick
-Char les F rye—OOO:OO O
Actual l y there’ s onl y a s l igh t d i fference between keep ing your ch in up
d st ick ing your neck out—but it ’ s worth know ing.
Cot tage N o. 1 7
The month of January was Religions Emphas is month . Rev. GeorgeH eaton from F low-H arr i s Presbyter ian Church was our speaker at
Cot tage 1 7.
Rev. H eaton made his f ir st talk,January 1 1 . H e took h i s text s fromSt . Mat thew “
Ask and it shall begiven.
” H e brought out some interesting thought s , about the n ice th ingsGod would g ive us if we would o nlybel ieve in H im and do as he has t old‘
us .
On January 1 8 Rev. H eaton made
h i s second talk . H is text s th i s t imewas St . Mat thew “
But when ye
pray, use not vain repet i t ions , as theheathens do : for they th ink t hat theyshal l be heard for the ir much speaking. H e told us that the L ord knewour needs before we ask . H e al so toldus how he became a m in i ster .
H e came again January 25 . H e
chose for h i s t ext s th i s t ime the 91
Psalms , “2-I will say of the L ord, H e
is ‘
my refuge and my for tress : myGod; in him w i ll I trust .
”
H e always opened and closed the
talks w i th prayer . All . of his talkswere very interest ing. We w i ll beglad to have Rev. H eaton back at
anyt ime t o make a talk or just to v i situs .
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SUNDAY SERVICES
By Steven Braw ley , 7th Grade
The R everend R . T . Green of the
Cabar rus Bap t is t A s sociat ion in Con
cord, was the speaker at the school onJanuary l st .
Rev. Green chose his scr ip ture fromthe 1 2th
_Chapter of Act l st through
the 5th ver ses , where the apost lePeter was impr isoned by H erod, the
King . T he angel of the L ord came
down from heaven and freed him, he
went t o John Mark ’ s house where hisfr iends were praying for him and
he knocked at the door . Rhoda, a
dam sel went t o the door and saw
Pet er she ran back into the house joyfully t ell ing everyone who it was .
When they opened the door they wereastonished.
Peter t old them how the angel of theL ord made the chains t o fal l off hisarms and the gates t o open w i thouttouching them . I t goes to show t hatwith God all things are possible.
R ev . Green after explain ing the
scr ipture in an int erest ing way , thenclosed the serv ice wi t h a shor t paryer .
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The visit ing m inister f or January1 5th , was the Reverend L ee Sh iptonfrom S t . John Lutheran Church inConcord
R ev . Shipton chose his scr ipturefrom the Gospel according to
“ SaintMat thew, where he read to us aboutJesus ’ s t eachnigand how he used parables in his t eachings to t ell the peoplewhat God wanted them to do. H e toldus the Christ ian people are the light ofthe wor ld and that we should give eyesto them that do not see what they aret o do. T he Chr i st ian should be l ike a
watch, we should have an open face,clean hands and be depenable. N o per
son is so small that he or she shouldnot
'
do their par t .
“
T he speaker also explained t o us
that t o be a good Chr i st ian pressuremust be put on usand if we can stand
up under such pressure that it willbr ing the good in us out .
W i th Reverend Sh ipt on came an
eight -year-old gir l who sang “The
St ranger of Gal i lee”, for us . We all
enjoyed it very much and hOpe she
will come back again somet ime.
R ev . Ship ton closed the serv iceswith a shor t prayer .
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T he speaker for Sunday January22rd, was the Reverend J . R . Duncan
of the Bethel Methodi st Church inM idland North Carolina.
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Cot tage N o. 1 1 L oses 27 1 7
Cot tage N o. 1 1 played N o . 1 4 in the
school gym January 9 and lost 27 1 7 .
L eading at the half 1 7 1 5, the boysof N o . 1 1 were conf ident of anothervictory . But Cot tage No 1 4 held themscoreless while rack ing 1 2 point s t owin their s econd game. H igh score f orN o. 1 4 was Blackwell w i th 1 3 po int sand Ryals w i th 6 po int s for No. 1 1 .
Cot tage N o. 1 6 W ins F irst Game 64-30
T he fir s-t half was a nip and
t uck bat t le between the two fired-upt eams . Wit h. N o. 1 6 leading at the half27 1 9 .
I n the second half Cot tage N o. 1 6
racked up 37 po int s and No. 1 3 made
only 1 1 . Play ing a great defens ivegame for 1 6 was Bennet t , the center .
H igh score for N o. 1 6 was Qu ick with32 po int s and H opk ins wth 1 4 po int sfor Cot tage 1 3 .
Cot tage N ot
. 9 Wins 1 5 1 0
Play ing st rong in the f irst half itlook like another easy v ictory f or
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Cot tage N o. _9 lead ing 1 0 1 .
staging a rally late in the second halfN o. 7 scored 9 po int s wh i le '
No. 9
only scored 5 . F inal score in favor of
N o. 9 was 1 5 t o‘
1 0
Cot tage 1 4 Swamped 49 29
I t was N o. 4 all the way‘
as theydefeated the unbeaten team of N o. 1 4
48 29.
Both teams defense was good w it hN o . 4
’s boys being a l i t t le faster and
“
considerably bet ter shot s . H igh scorefor Cot tage 4 was Creasman w ith24 point s and Blackwell w i th 1 2
point s for No. 1 4 .
Cot tage I I Wh i tewashed 38 8
T he old r ival s N o. 1 0 and N o. 1 1 met
for th f irst t ime th i s year w i th N o.
1 0 winnnig 38 8 .
Playng most ly t heir second and
th ird s tr ing teams against N o. 1 1 ,
it was an easy v ictory wi th N o. 1 1
f ightng al l the way . H igh scorer of
th i s gamewasW i seman w i th 1 2 po int sfor No. 1 0 .
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Cot tage N o. 2 S tages 23 1 6 U pset
In their game w ith Cot tageNo. 3
the boys of N o. 2 f in i shed the game'
w i th a 23 1 6 upset .
Cot tage No. 3 lead all through thegame\t ill m iddle ways of the secondhalf when Cot tage N o. 2 came roar ingup the cour t t o w in 23 1 6.
'
H ighscorer of th i s game was H arr i s withsix f ield goal s for 1 2 point s .T he following “
is the cot tage line-upof the basketbal l t eams w ith the
player s ’ average point s per game.
Cot tage N o . 1 6 A . P . P . G .
Cot tage N o. 3
Cot tage N o. 4
Cot tage N O . 1 1 A . P .
Cot tage N o . 1 3
H opkins F .
H ollingswor th F .
L amb -C .
Johnson G .
Grayson G .
Cot tage'
N o'
. 1 4
K ing F .
Cont inued on page 3 1
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Selected By Steve Brawley
I T’S ALMO ST T OMORROW
My dearest , my dar ling, tomorrow i snear
The sun w i ll br ing shower s of sadness,I fear .
Y our l ips won’t be sm i ling,
Y our eyes wi ll not sh ine,F or I know tomorrow,
T hat your love won ’t be m ine.
I t’s almost t omorrow,
But what can I do ?Y our k i sses all tell me
T hat your 'love i s untrue
I’ll love you foreverT i ll star s cease to sh ineAnd hope someday dar l ing,
T hat you ’ ll always be mine.
Y our hear t was so warm, dear ,
I t now has turned cold.
Y ou no longer love me,
F or your mem ’res grow old .
I t’s almost tomorrow,
F or here comes the sun,
But st i ll I am hop ing.That t omorrow
“won
’t come .
DADD Y -O
Y ou couldn ’t call him handsome
But he’s loaded with?
“ style,
Always wear s a tee sh irt '
And“
a great big,smile.
T here’ s somet hing ’bout th i s crazy
We al l love so ;
When he’s around the g ir ls all hollerdaddy-o.
Daddy-o sure good lookin ’
,
Daddy-o always cookin’
,
Daddy-o ready to go
A l l the g ir ls are bat ty over daddy-o.
Y ou never have to see himTo know t hat he ’
s around.
H e’s got a set of horns
With the craz iest sound.
T he g ir l will star t to j iving ’
H ere comes daddy-o .
H e got a big convert ibleT hat
’ s f ire-eng ine red .
H owlin ’and a-prowlin
’
,Never goes to bed.
H e’s realy Mr . big to all the k ids in
schoolEverybody knows that daddy-o ’
s realcooL
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Y OU AR E MY L OVEY ou are my love(Y ou are my love)My one and only,When you’
re not near“
(When you ’re not near )
“
I’m;\ oh, so lonely.
Y ou are my love(Y ou are my love)And please bel ieve me
,
T here’ s not ’nother ,
There’ ll be no other loved one f or me
I s igh and cry
(L ong f or you)Oh , my dar ling, my loved one, mm
mm-mm
Y ou are my love(Y ou are my love)And please believe me
,
T here’ s not ’nother ,
T here ’ ll be no other love for me.
BAND O F GOL DI’ve never want ed wealth untoldMy life has one design,
A s imple lit t le band of gold t o provet hat you are m ine.
D on’t want the wor ld to have and
hold,F or fame i s not my l ine.
Just want a lit t le band of goldT o prove that you are
-
m ine.
Some sail away to ArabyAnd other lands of mystery .But all the wonders that t hey see
wi l l never t emptT heir memor ies will soon grow coldBut t i l l the end of t imeI’ ll have a l t t le band of goldT o prove that you are m ine.
A WOMAN I N L OVE
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Y our eyes are the“
eyes of a woman in
loveAnd oh, how they give you away .Why t ry to deny you ’
re a woman in
love,When I know very wel l what I say .
I say no moon in the skyE ver lent such a glow,
Some flame deep w i thin them sh ine.
T hose eyes are the eyes of awoman inlove
And may they gaze evermore intom ine,
Crazily gaze evermore into m ine.
R OCK AND RO L L WAL TZ
Came in lat e one night ,Slipped out of my shoes at the door ,T hen came the room,
I heard a jump tune,I looked in and here’ s what I saw ;
T here in night wasa wonderful scene,Momawas dancing w ith dad,T o my record machine,And wh i le they danced.
Only one thing was wr ong,
T hey were t rying t o walt zT o a R ock and R oll song.
One, two and then Rock,One, two and then Roll,T hey did the R ock and R oll Waltz .
Rock twosie, R oll twos 1 e,I t looked so cute to me,
I love the Rock and R oll Waltz .
One, two and then R ock,One, two and then Roll,One, two and then jump ,I t
’s good for your s oul,
I t’s old. but it
’s new,
L et’ s do the R ock and Roll Waltz,
L et’ s do the Rock and Roll Waltz
24 THE UPL IFT
THE BEGGINGBEARS
North
Sandy and Grumpy l ived in_Y el low
s tone Park, and they were just aboutthe k ind of l i t t le bears you would imagine hehr i'ng their names . San
dy was sandy. H is coat was l ightbrown, and his eyes tw inkled w i thm i sch ief . Grumpy was black and hisl i t t le muzzle always had a droop t oit
, as if someone had told him he
couldn ’t cl imb a t ree. Y ou know, t hat
would be just about the wor st thingthat could happen to a bear !T he two l i t t le fel lows were only
a few months old and had not com
pleted the ir f ir st lessons in bear behav ior when one day the ir mothert ook them f or a walk up the moun
tain. When they reached the t op theylooked over the edge and down the
valley . A t first , their eyes showedthem no s ign of life among the big
t rees down by the Y ellowst one R iver ,but , no mat ter what the ir eyes toldthem
, they knew that something wasgoing on; f or the ir noses could scenta new presence in the valley .Whinning eager ly, they sniffed and
sniffed. while Mother Bear looked on
in sat isfact ion . T his was lesson num
ber t en in her book, a very impor tantlesson,
and there was another one to
follow— one which she had inventedsome year s before whenthe older cubs(who were now grown and of f bythemselves were lit t le. She was veryproud of her accomplishment , for it
i sn ’t every bear who can boast of hav
ing star ted a t radit ion .
Suddenly Grumpy and Sandy froze
Carolina Christ ian “
Advocate.
in at tent ion. Now they d idn’t have to
depend on the ir noses alone; theireyes were send ing a message,_ too.
Down there in the valley a strangeth ing was happen ing.
Tak ing his gaze from the scene‘
be
low Sandy looked around at his mother and whined a quest ion.
“What isit ?
” he asked in bear language.
“I t ’ s the usual summer run
,
” saidhis mother complacent ly brush ing the
tw igs from her coat .“Y ou know,
l ikef i sh .”“F ish ! ” roared Grumpy eagerly.
L et’ s catch a few . I
’m hungry.”Mother bear wr inkled her nose in
d i sdain.
“Who said they were f i sh ? Id idn ’
t . I said they came in the summerlike fish do in the spr ing. Can
’t you
see they ’ re not fish ? I don’t know
what they are, but they are m ightynice to have around. I think they aremore l ike us, but they walk on theirhind legs al l the t ime—that is,whent hey aren
’t s i t t ing down in one of
those things that rol ls like a log roll sdownh i ll . I ’ve never taken the t ime to
figure it all out , but I know somethings about these queer creaturesthat make life very interest ing.
”
D own belowf the long process ion of
busses and -car s wound around the
twis t ing road and the eager tour ist sexclaimed over the wonder of nature.
“L ook !” cr ied a lit t le boy w ith a pair
of field glasses . “I see three bear s ona hill . T hey ’ re looking r ight at me.
”
“Y es
,said the bus dr iver .
“T hose
are the‘begging bear s . ’
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What ’ s a begg ing bear ?” askedproached.
“Pos i t ions, please! ” growlthe l i t t le boy .
“Well , just wai t unt i l we get up
the mounta in and you’ ll see. I guess
old Mother Bear has got a new cropof cubs and she’ s ready for us again.
”
But Mother Bear was not qu ietready . She had a job to do and it had
to be done quickly . Growling a hastycommand, she started the cubs up thet rai l to the place where the h ighwayentered a pleasant glade where lodgepole pines almost hid the sun. Grumb
ling as she went , she explained t o
Sandy and Grumpy what they were to
do.
And what if we don’t ? ”
Grumpy impudent ly.Wham ! And the saucy lit t le bear
went tumbling, head over heels , intoa br iar patch . “T hat ’ ll teach you to
answer me back,” said' Mother Bear
complacent ly, as she dusted off her
paws . “When you p ick the br ier s out ,you ’
d bet ter get over here in a hurry .We
’ve no
- t ime to lose.
”
Wh imper ing a l i t t le, Grumpy limped over to the s ide of the road and
did as he w as told. I t wasn’t good
enough the f irst t ime, and he -had t o
try it over again, but at last MotherBear was sat i sf ied. Sandy and Grumpy both knew the ir lesson.
F aint ly from below came the soundof vo ices and the gr inding of gear sas the long line of cars and busses ap
asked
ed Mot her Bear, and the cubs obeyed.
And so it was t hat the eager tour
ist s saw a s ight which was new to
them in that year of 1 926, but wh ichhas been repeated thousands of t imesin the year s s ince then, as lit t lebegg ing bear s grew up and taughtthe t r icks t o their ch i ldren, who
taught them t o the ir ch i ldren, and
so on. I f you go to Y ellowstone Park,be sure to watch for them, and more
than likely you w i ll see what happened to Sandy and Grumpy .What was it ?Well , you ’
d hardly bel ieve it , but
there were the two lit t le bears bythe side of the road and Mother Bearwith them . A s the line of car s came
into v iew, Mother Bear stepped out
in the road l ike a t raffic cop, and
everybody put on the brakes . T henw i th all the dign i ty of a great ladyenter ing a drawing room she marcheddown the road, stopp ing at each openwindow and sm i ling a bear i sh sm i le,while on the other s ide of the road,
Sandy and Grumpy stood on theirheads and did t r icks l ike clowns inthe circus .Of cour se, you know what happened.
T he delighted t our ist s threw out al l
t ook up the collect ion . I wonder if shegave any of it t o Sandy and Grumpy !of the food they had, and Mother Bear
‘
OOO:OO O
Do ing your best you can w i th the l i tt le opportuni t ies that come along,
w i l l get yo’
ufarther than idly w i sh ing for the big chance that may never
arrive—Se lected
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D ID YOU KNOW THAT
In wet d iary equ ipment , the bac
ter ia count can increase nearly 700percent in 24 hours .
0 00 00
About 70 million dollar s worth of
timber was cut in the U n i ted Stateslast year .
0 00 00
The Amer ican Bible Soc iety has
dis t r ibuted more t han 450 mill ionBibles and par t s of B ibles in 1 39
years .0 00 00
General Motors turned out half ofall the automobiles produced in the
Un i ted States in 1 954 .
-oOOOo
F or ty-seven d ifferent k inds of headaches have been ident if ied to date.
—oOOOo
About one Amer ican in 1 2 is"
oy er
64-years old.
-ooOOo
A new mo i sture-res i stant lead pencil can be used to mark rain-wear
and won’t rub out when it rains .
—0 00 00
H uman hair i s,one of the s t rongest
animal f iber s . When each hair bearsit s equal load, it has a
" break ingstregth of to pounds
per square inch, about the breaking
strength of steel .—0 00 00
The U nited States import s about35 mill ion pounds of black pepperper year .
0 00 00
An egg has a temper ture of 1 05 de
grees fahrenheit when it i s fir st laid.
—oOOOoThe f ir st jewelry was fash ionedbefore recorded h i story, for devine
protect ion and mag ic power .
—oOOOo
The average serv ice s tat ion i s open99 hour s a week and sells gal
lons of gasol ine a month .
-ooOOo
The average Amer ican ate 4 1 4 eggs
last year .
—Oo'
OOo
Bus t ranspor tat ion is the safestform of
‘
t ravel in the U n ited States .
The death rate per 1 00 mil l ion passenger m i les in 1 953 was
—ooOOoPorcupine tw ins are rarer than
those of human beings .
— 0 00 00 ‘
Mex ico City was developed fromthe or ig inal set t lement by the Aztecson an i sland in a lake, which has
s ince disappeared.
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SCHOOL HONOR RO LL
JANUARY
F I R S T GRADE
Bil ly E vansL owell H ardenL ee JohnsonJackie L uptonRalph NormanJ . B . Sheet sBilly StylesCur t is T ru i t tWill iam Wa
'ycasterD onald Wood
John F rankl in L ee
L eroy Gent ryW illiam Pr iceB i lly Prui t tCar l Sheet s
SE CON D GRADE
Regg ie CoferGary BeatyH erman StylesBobby AveryBilly Belt
TH I R D GRAD E
Cec i l K ingBen Wh i tenerL ouis
lSmith
F reddie Vadase .
R oy F ergusonJohnny ManeyWillie Deese
F 0 UR TH GRADE
Steve Braw leyWard H opkinsBobby Metcal fMaxie T ealL awr ence T aylor
E I GH T GRAD E
N o H onor Rol l
Kenneth JacksonR . E . Weathers
James Chr i scoBilly Ray MooreE ar l MorganJimm‘
y Canter
Raymond G ibsonD on McM il lan
E d Mathis.
Carroll McClure
Benny SuggsGene RadfordE ldr idge W inder sJ oe SeagroveD ouglas I ngram
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COTTAGE HONOR ROLL
COT TAGE'
N o. 1 6
COT TAGE N o. 1
Goldman CheathamRaywond GibsonArchie . MedfordJerry Somer setF reddie Vadase
COT TAGE N o
COT TAGE N o. 3
COT T AGE N o. 4
Will ie D eeseE ddie . D ixonJerry Jenk insPat S latenRay WebbC lifford Woodruff
JANUARY
COT TAGE N o. 6
COT TAGE N o. 7
COT TAGE N o. 9
N o. H onor R oll
COT TAGE N o. 1 1
Bill CannonC . J . H ouchins
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Billy BeltRay F ergusonRay H uffmanChar les JacksonD ouglas JamesJohn ManeyCar l D ean Sheet sD onald Wood
Clyde AndrewsA r thur Bowden
S tephen BrawleySandy CanadyR eggie CoferJohn H ensely
W illie I ngram
Wayne Jenk insRobert McClure
L eroy ThomasGeorge T hornburgMonroe Z ionCOT TAGE N o . 1 0
Jackie L uptonDanny Smal l
COTT AGE N o. 1 3
Clarence Baty
Grover Ewart
R ichard GraysonL arry L ambH erman Styles
COT TAGE N o. 1 4
Bob ArnoldT ray BlackwellE dsel ChurchH arvey H udsonB i ll JohnsonCecil KingL loyd T homas
FARM AND
James Sm ithOt i s JacobsRaymond GibsonJames JohnsonCar l JohnsonJimmy CanterKenneth JacksonRalph CreasmanDanny Sm ithCecil KingH arold R ichClyde Bennet t
John L ee
Jimmy H oneycut tArch ie MedfordB i lly Seller sE veret te H oglen
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InfirmaryPhillip H olmesRalph BestE dlum L o-cklear
TRADE HONOR ROLLJANUARY
T eddy H oglenR . E . WeathersSt eve L un
'
cf ord
Car l BaileyE dgar H uffst icklerGeorge ThornburgJohnnie BurnsRobert Ingram
T ommy GreerL eroy ThomasAr thur BowdenWayne JenkinsJames L ambReggie CoferSher idan BeckL arry SilvaCar l Andrew-s
COTT AGE N O . 1 5
Jimmy BowmanT ed
"GlanceL owel l HardenD onald T hornburgC laude T ownsel
COT TAGE N o . 1 7
Car l Bai leyJimmy Canted
T ommy _Greer
John L ee
McK inley L ocust
John H ardee
A lonzo ManeyBen Wh i tenerRalph CreasmanLarry VernonPh i l H olmesJ . W, GoreF rank H elmsDav id GreerL ar ry VernonD onald McMillan
Kenneth BlackWayne Bennet t
W i ll ie Ingram
J . B. Sheet sDalton LewisBobby E verhardt
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Dougles JamesBuddy Par son
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from
William Gl i ssonD onald Weaver
Johnny Post ellMaxie T ealJoe B lackJerry Somer setF redd ie Vadase
Goldman CheathamWillie D eeseDon A llenCur t i s r
lh'
uit t
Billy StylesPaul BumgardnerJ . C . JumpClarence BatyF rank -W i ll iamsE ldr idge W inder sGene RadfordBill Johns onE dsel ChurchH ermon Sty lesRobert A ll i sonRansom Wat sonL arry SmithT homas L amber tSteven BrawleyJoe Qu ick
No . 3 MARCH , 1 956 Vo l . 44
Go a Crocus
f air‘Bloom , when dags of earlg spring are come,
And everg sleepg seed is st ill abed,
I know I’
ll come upon gou some cold morn
‘Pushing up an eager lit t le head.
what spirit gou have go t ! F lowers so small,
Seem t o st and t imid oft , before the world,
fBut.
blanket ed bg whit e and icg st ars
One finds gour bloom unfurled.
One needs gour heartg spirit on ang road
5 0 blaze the t rail, t o loose the barring st one,
F air fBloom , gour great det erm inat ion lend,
And t each me t o push forward, though alone!Cnat alie ‘Tlot ris
Published Mont hly ByT he Pr int ing Class _of the Stonewall Jacksoz:Manual T raining and Indust r ial Schoo‘
Concord, North Carolina
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A MONTHLY JONRNAL
Publ ished ByThe authority of the Stonewal l Jackson Manual Training and Indust rial School
Type-sett ing by the Boya’Print ing Clan
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STAFF
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
Mrs . Wanda
'
Holbrook
Mrs . Agnes YarbroughAssociate Ed itorsJames H.Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPORTERS
Joe Q uickSteve Braw ley
UNO'
I'
YPEO PERATORS
Joe Q uick THE DAIRY
1 5—1 6
1 9—20
Steven Brawley By Jerry Jackson andM ichae l Smi t h 24Johnny BonnerSO NGS
Charles Frye KNOW YO UR CO UNTIES
Bobby McclureCarro l l McC lure FUN AND O THERW ISEJohn Hensely
C.Jwiféurflna'fid HO NO R RO LLSRobert W i l lard
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EDITO RIAL
CAMPUS NEWS
SUNDAY SERV ICES
By Steve Braw leyW ITH THE NEW BOYS
By Joe Q uickSCHO O L RO OM NEWSBy W i l bur Hal l
SPO RTS
By Joe Q uickTHE ROV ING REPO RTERBy Johnny Hensely
FARM AND TRADE NEWSBy B. Mcclure and R. W i l lard
4 THE UPL I FT
learns to be respons i b le for his own act ions . Some O f the boys fai l toreal ize t hat t h is is a part of grow ing up. They resent the he l p O ffered andrespond in the w rong way. However, t hese are a minori ty and most boyslearn w i t h in a few month s t ime the reason for t he i r past mi stakes . Theybegin to look at the s i tuat ion in a new l ight and see themse lves as otherssee t hem. I f a boy is ab le to do t h i s t hen over hal f O f the batt le is al readywon. The rest w i l l become eas ier and he f inds t hat be ing in the right s ideOf the law is best .O ne big O bstacle w h ich must be overcome before anyone can make
the f i rst step toward improvement is the change from comp lacency aboutthe i r behav ior to a real izat ion t hat improvement is needed . Unless the boyis w i l l ing to and des i res to he l p h imse l f t hen there is not much he l p t hat aschoo l or an ind iv idual can g ive him. The f i rst step must be taken by the ind iv idual w i th he l p s along the way furnis hed by experienced and cons iderate persons . O nce a boy want s to improve h imse l f he f inds t hat improvement s come fai rl y eas i l y and bring rich rewards .It is much more sat i sfy ing to a person to be accepted as a member O f
the group than to be an outcast . Work and p lay are much more p leasanti f one has friends and is made to fee l as one O f the crowd. The lonenessand insecuri ty O f a reiected person is a uncomfortab le pos i t ion and one
w h ich breeds d i strust and pre jud ice . Most O f U s '
clO not real ize t hat i f weare reiected by others it is because Of some phase O f our own personal i tyor att i tude w h ich keeps ot hers away from us . It is O ften t hat a boy w i l lcomp lain t hat ot hers p ick on him and take advantage Of him. Actual l y i fhe cou ld see t hat his behav ior inv i tes t h i s type O f react ion in others hewould real ize t hat it is his own faul t t hat ot hers do not l i ke him and accepthim.
To be a part Of a group you must f irst show the group t hat you want tobe long w i t h t hem. Th is can be done t hrough a cheerfu l and friend l y att itude. TO be reiected by the group lust fai l to be friend l y and show yourd is l i ke of them. U sual l y t hey w i l l react to you in the same sp i ri t you react
to t hem.
I was to ld once by an adul t , when I was a ch i ld, that the way I fe l t toward a person was a pretty fai r ind icat ion Of the way that person feltabout me . In ot her words, i f you are |ealous Of someone, chances t hey tooare iealous of you. I f you d is l i ke t hem, usual l y t hey too w i l l dis l i ke you.
If you l i ke and respect a person, t h is fee l ing w i l l be t heir feel ing toward
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you. Take stock O f yourse l f and see i f t h i s i s not true . The way you fee ltowards someone inf luences your contacts . w ith them. Your conversat ionand act ions are a resu l t O f th i s fee l ing. When they Observe your reaction tothem they w i l l in turn
”
react to you in almost the same way . Many t imesyou have seen th i s i l lustrated . Speak to someone in an angry tone and
t hey w i l l answer you in the same way . Be cons iderate, k ind, courteous,
and friend l y and the chances are t hat the ot her person w i l l be the sameto you.
We are respons i b le for w hat we are and w hat we become . Theway we
react to g iven s i tuat ions deve lops our personal i t ies and car at t i tudes. If
you are hav ing t roub le adiust ing to t hose w i th w hom you l ive and work , ‘take stock and see i f the fau l t migh t not lie w i t h you . It is not easy .
for a ._
person to adm i t his fau l ts . We think O f ourse lves as always be ing righ t ,and th i s i s only natural . However, an inte l l igent person w i l l real ize t hat heis his own keeper and t hat i f t here i s some reason why he is fai l ing to getalong w i t h others , some Of the fau l t must lie w i th in himse l f . '
Cross t h isbarrier and you w i l l have started we l l on the cl imb to a happy - and suc
cessful l i fe .
If m i stakes made '
w h i le you are young can be co rrected before youbecome estab l i shed in a set pattern O f t h ink ing and react ing, t hen the
future can ho ld much for you. Wai t unt i l you reach adu l thood and youf ind it much harder to make the improvements w h ich are needed and
w h ich are ind icated by your contact s w i th other peop le .
CAMPUS NEWSE ducat ional L eader s Vis it
On F ebruary 7th Miss Nel l E .
S t inson, Pres ident of the Nor th Carolina Classroom T eacher s A s sociat ion,
and Miss H elen Wells , F ield Secret aryof the North Carolina E duoat ion
A ssociat ion vis ited the school . T hiswas the fir st for either of them and
they expressed a great amazement
at the work we are doing here. T heyarr ived about ten o
’clock and had
lunch with t he teacher s of the aca
demic depar tment . Dur ing the afternoon they vis ited the academ ic de
partment , t rades depar tment , and
t oured the farm .
Boys At tend Golden Gloves Bout s
T hrough the courtesy of the E S S O
S tandard O il Company of Char lot t eand the Queen C it y T railways BusCompany of Char lot t e all the boys atthe school at tended a night at the
Carolina’ s Golden Gloves held at the
Char lot te Col iseum . M r . Ray Clarke,a former Carolina’ s Golden Gloveschampion and coach , became interested in helping the boys see these bout s .M r . Jerry Ball
,who is public relat ions
man for the E s so S tandard O il Co . ,
had visited the school some mont hsago and was al so int erested in doingsomething t o 'help the boys see thesebout s . T hey combined their effor t s andE SS 0 Standard bought the t icket s f orthe three event s .When the problem of t ranspor ta
t ion on such a large scale came up
Mr . Jack D . L ove, Vice P resident
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D isplay Made I n H onor O f Scout Week
AND ACTIV ITIESof Queen C ity T railways
, again came
t o the rescue . Mr . L ove sent his mostmodern and luxur ious buses to the
school each evening t o t ranspor t over
one hundred boys t o Char lot te. F or
the past several year s the QueenCity Coach Co. has sent chart eredbuses to take the boys t o the Char lot teF iremen-Policemen Baseball Games .E very considerat ion were given t o
the boys t o see that they enjoyed thet r ip . T he Coliseum staff was mosthelpful in get t ing such a large groupseat ed. M r . C . E . Parker and Mr . Joe
B lack dr iver s of the buses, w ere mostconsiderate and helpful . These t r ipsw ill long be remembered by bot hboys and staff .
T hrough the cour t esy of the Char lesStore in Concord, Scout T roops 60and 61 made a _window display . T hew indow was cent ered w ith a s imulatedcamping cite wit-h a Wigwam in the
background and a cook ing furnace,rust ic tables , and cook ing utencils
needed in camping in the foreground.
T o make the scene more reali st ic twoman ikins were dres sed in Scout suit srepresent ing the two unit s .Many of the handicraft s wh ich theScout s have done were d i splayedar ound the cit e. T hese exhib i t s included bird houses , basket weaving,leather craft , I ndian rel ics , insectco
'
l lelct ionls , .wood craft , and knotboards . I n another sect ion of the
window were displayed the mater ialses sent ial in scout ing and included
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books , magazines, and handbooks .Mr . Souther land, manager of the
local Char les St ore, and 'h i s staff weremost helpful in mak ing th is exhib i tpossible.
ScDut Commis sioners Vis i t SchoolT he Neighborhood Commi ssioner s
of the Cabarrus D ist r ict of the BoysScout s of Amer ica held their F ebruarymeet ing at the School on F ebruary1 3th . A banquet was held in the cafe
t eria followed by a busines s meet
ing led by D is tr ict Commi ss ioner ,James A . Poole. R epor t s were madeon the var ious act iv it ies of the localunit s t hrough out the d istrict . A l sopresent at the meet ing were J .F rank Scot t , Vice Pres ident of the
Cent ral N . C . Council, Br ice W ill iford,Chairman of the Cabarrus CountyD ist r ict , and H uber t Powell , memberof the E xecut ive Comm it tee of the
N . C . Counci l .Group Visit s L ions
’
s C lubOn F ebruary 9th Mr . R ober son,
R ichard Powel l, Jerry Somer set and
Char les Wiseman were guest s of theMount Pleasant L ions Club . T he meet
ing was held in the L ion’ s Club building in Mount Pleasant . T he groupwere served a f i sh supper . After a
brief bus iness session led by the
Chairman Adams , Mr . Rober son spokeon the problem s of juven i le del iuquency . F ollowing-his talk an informaldi scussion was held wit h bot h clubmember s and guest s part icipat ing .
I lonor Group At tend Circus
Ou -F ebruar '
y 6th one hundred s ixty
honor student s were guest s of the
business men of Concord at an indoorci rcus sponsored by the Concord R ecreat ional Cent er . T he boys went in
two groups , one going in the afternoonand the other at night . The performance lasted about two hour s and con
sist ed of wild animal act s , elephantact s , acrobat s, rope walking, dog act s ,and of cour se the clown s . A lthoughthis type of c ircus was new t o th i ssect ion, being held indoor s , it provedto be a splendid perfomance and wellaccepted by the group .
Mr . Scot t At tends Nat ionalConference
Mr . J . F rank Scot t , Super int endent ,at t ented the Nat ional T raining SchoolSuper int endent s Meet ing at the Statler H otel in N ew Y ork City F ebruary7th through l ot h . This was the thirt yth ird annual meet ing of this conference. I t was organ ized in 1 923 in
order that the super intendent of the
t raining schools throughout the U nitedS tat es could get together and d i scus stheir mutual problems . Member sh iphas always been limited t o malesuper intendent s of T raining Schoolsand reformat or ies, with training pro
grams .
CLASS VI s-rr'
SCH OOL
Two sect ions'
of the Concord H ighSchool Civics '
Class visited the schoolt his month. The first group came t o
the school on Thur sday, F ebruary23 and the second group on. F r iday,
re arranged
U nderwood,
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who is a member of the clas s . Theschool was of par t icular interest tothem since they have been studyingthe problem of juvenile del inquency .
Our campus has felt the effect of
the influenza or v irus bug s inceChr istmas with several of l
the staffmember s being bit ten by the monster .
Mr s . Y arbrough, Boys Accountant ,
and Mr . H ender son, Cot tage F atherof N o. 1 6, were especially unfor tunatein their encounter w i t h said bug . H ow
ever , we are able t o report that theyare much improved at this t ime and
for tunately few of the boys havebeen s ick .
M r . Aut en has returned t o his workat the dairy after a stay of severaldays in the Cabarrus Memor ial H os
pital .
T he supervi sor of the cafeter ia, Mr .
L i ske, also spent several days in the
hospital t his month due t o back ailment . H owever , we are happy t o re
por t that he i s much improved and
has resumed h i s dut ies at the cafeter
I nspect ion of Cot tage 8 and 1 5 was
held on F ebruary 24 and the cot tage
declared r eady f or occupancy . T hesecot tage are among the last on our t e
novat ion li st and now boast a com
plete remodeling job on the i r interiors:Mr . and Mrs . Peck and the boy of
Cot tage 1 5 w i l l be mov ing into theircompleted cot tage somet ime soon.
Mr R . G . McCaskill , Maintenance
Supervisor for the Board of Corree
UPLIFT
t ion and T rain ing, i s spend ing the
week here where he is help ing out withsome maint enance problems .A t otal of 306 pol io vaccinat ions
were g iven at the school on Monday,F ebruary 20 by the Cabarrus Count yH ealth D epar tment . T h i s representedthe second vaccinat ion with Salk vac
c ine for most of the boys at theschool . The t h ird vaccinat ion wi ll begiven in six months . T h i s vacc ine isbeing g iven free t o our boys who are
very great ful for the immun izat ionthey are receiv ing from this disease.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
A b ir thday '
par ty for six boys wasg iven on F r iday night , F ebruary 3 ,1 956, at Cot tagelgN o. 1 3 . All the boysenjoyed the games , refreshment s andseeing the boys hav ing b irthdays eujoy their g ift s . The boys , having a
b irthday in D ecember or Januarywere : Jamies B‘
ent ly, James Cole,James Johnson, E veret t e H oglen,
F rank Manes s , R ichard Grayson.
Mrs . T omkinson had prepared the
games and prizes for the par ty .E veryone enjoyed the games, especi
ally b ingo. A scoring c ontest and
dropping clothes pin contest was al soenjoyed by the boys . Pr iZes were
g iven the w inner in each game. Afterthe games the boys received their
gif t s , then refreshment s were served
which included cake, peps i colas, nut sand candy.
We want to thank Mr. and Mrs .
Tomkinson f orfor the boys at the cOttag and
everyone had a good t ime.
- Grover Eurart Earl H ollingsworth
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R E L I GI OU S E MPH A S I S R E POR T SCONT INU E D F R OM L A ST MONT HRev . James M i ller brought wi th him
on the second and third F r iday of
Religious Emphasis Mont h mov iesshowing the problems faced by fam
ilies who have very lit t le faith and"T he Wonderful Creat ion of God .
”
Mr . Miller explained t o us thatjust believing there
’
was a God wouldnot take us to heaven, but that wehad t O
'
believe in him as our S aviour .
H e Said, man has“always bel ieved
there was a God s ince the beginningof t ime. But t hey did not al l believein the same God. Some wor ship cows .the sun . moon, star s, rocks
‘
and somet hings that '
didn ’t exist . H e t old us,
Only the t rue and living God can save
us.“and all we had t o do
' i s accep tH im as our Saviour .
After the services '
were over we'sang several hymns and Mr . Millerl:ed us in prayer . H e a sked every boythat had asked God t o forgive him of
his sins'
t o say“Thank you God f or
forgiving me of my sins” and 90.
per
cent of the boys of Cot tage N o. 1 6
thanked God for forgiving them of
F or t he“las t F r iday of R eligious
Emphasi s Month at Cot tage N o . 1 6,'
R ev . Miller "
chose the l st chapter of
Genesis for his scr ipture.
“R ev . Mr .
“Miller ”
asked us whatis a Chr i st ian . Many of the boys answeredz
'
f aith, bapt ism,joining the
church, (going t o church, and working for the church . Rev. Miller point edout you
'
don’t' have t o be a Chr i st ian
t o do these'
t hings , but if y ou are a
Chr ist ian you certainly want t o do
t hem . Going to church or g iving a
1 3
large sum of money will not make you
a Chr ist ian but accept ing Chr ist as
your Saviour will . H e illustrated t h i sw i th a shor t story : I f a man l ikeshor se rac ing and there i s a race in
town or close by and you are lookingfor this par t icular man you will nothave t o gues s twice where he'
w i ll be.
I t is the same way w i th a man who
loves God.
R ev . Miller also asked us what wassin and he got several dif ferantanswer s . H e said, God has given us
T he T en Commandment s t o l ive byand t o break one of these command
ment s is a sin . I f the people of the
wor ld live by these commandment sthere wouldn ’
t be any need for
wor ldly conflict M r . Miller closedw ith '
a prayer .
Cot tage Number 1 1 had t heirTuesday night relig ious emphasis ason schedule. We star ted the programby singing “
H igher drama,”'
and“T he O ld Rugged Cross . ” After thiswe had a word of prayer . Beforestar t ing the service, we had a specialsong by R everand “
Payne, Mrf'
and
Mr s . Miller , and(
Mr . Cr isco; ' T he
pianoplayer was Mrs . Payne. We had
the honor of having. . the 'SundaySchool Supt . and
'
D eacon as our
guest s on t h i s night . R ev . Paynechose his ver ses of scr ipture fromthe 1 6 chapter 1 ver se of John. H is
t opic was“God Chose H e
said‘
t hat God would rather choosethe
'
meek,
'
and l i t t le “fellow than a
bully'
Or haught y per son to serve H im .
H e-
'
t lien went ahead to explain aboutthis . O ur closing hymn was “H aveT hine Own Way Mr . Miller t hen
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di sm is sed us w ith a word of prayer .
COT TAGE 1 4 R E L I GI OU SEMPH ASI S MONT H
On Wednesday January 4th, Cot
tage 1 1 and cot tage 1 4 came t o No. 1 5,
to join in the “
Religious serv‘ice's whichwas the beg inning of the R eligiousEmphasis month .R ev Grady Burg ' pas tor , of the
c ch'
f"
told“us" :of '
h is.
abo’
ut 2 years“ago'
v i si t t o the so
near .
A t our fir st services he r ead t he
F ir s t Psalm ,had prayer and spoke t o
us , of the need of center ing our liveson something good.
H e spoke about the sun being the
cent er of the un iver se and al so he
pictured the pat t ern God had of the
T hen he spoke of different center sthat we might build our l ives around.
H e spoke of the had; money, popularity ,
'and self, and'
how t hey wouldfail . T hen he spoke of the good thingsaround which we could' build our lives ,school , church , and best of al l JesusChr i st .
H e closed by'
paryer w i th al l joining“
in the L ords Prayer .
R ev . Burgin met w ith us again Wed
nesday January 1 1 th . H e cont inuedhis talk on cent er our l ives aroundChr i st .
H e talked on the breadth, hei-ghth ,
depth and width of our lives . H e
st ressed the fact of keeping our bodiesclean and healthy condition. A lso t o
study and broaden our m inds. that we
ab i lity .H e closed with a prayer .
“
COTT AGE 1 5 H AS A BIRTH DAYPAR T Y
Cont inued on.
page'
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A R elig ious Emphas i s devot ionalprogram for Cot tage 1 3 was ld
January 3 1 , w i th R ev . B ird 'Of Con
cord as our vis i t ing min
our program we , S anWard H opkins read the _gscri-pture,
E xodus 1 7 wh ich was the I
T en
Commandment s . R ev . Bird discussedthe type io
’
fc lif-e people e l ived'
everywhere and their relat ionship one to
anot her . H e t old us“that
'
r iches, xon
count in the sight of God. I t is l ivinga chr ist ian life, being helpful andconsiderat e of other s that count s .R ev . Bird t old us about -
a chaplainnamed R ev . Jackson of Cent ral . Pri
son, Raleigh, N . C . v isit ing him once
and mak ing the stat ement :in regard
t o the pr i soner s t hat life there is no
bet ter t han it is on the out side.
R ev . Bird also once talked w i th anarmy c haplain who stated the boys inserv icew ere about the same, as .many
did not try t o do the r ight t h ing ,every
t ime.
R ev . Bird t old us about four men
who lived many year s ago. . T hey were
Joshua,Kalum , Balum, and the boy
Joseph . H e told us about the“ four
men’
s l ives and how they somet imesdid wr ong and how they somet imesdid r ight .
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SUNDAY SERVICES
By Steven Braw ley, 7th Grade
The gues t minster for Sunday F ebruary _5th, was the R everend Mitchel lF aulkner:from the F orest H i ll Methodest church in Concord.
R ev. F aulkner read to us from the
8th, Chapter of St , Mark, 3 1 st
through t ithe 36th, ver ses : F or whatshall it profit a man, if he shall gainthe whole wor ld, and lose his own
soul ?T he speaker explained to us what
was meant by this ver se. I f a man
gains earthly wealth and doesn ’t try
t o help ipeople and i s selfish he i sdoomed. But if he w i ll g ive h i s l ife forservice to other s he i sn ’
t doomed, but
ha'
sf
the" promise -
of peace of m ind,happine
'
SS‘
and ever last ing l ife. Mostpeople are self centered“ T he way t o
overcome this ' i s t o put your t rust inGod.
'
Rev . F aulkner t old us a s tory aboutaman named Mr . Angel who was l ikedSo wel l by the people of the churchthat “fine of the men gave him a new
car . One day wh i le up town a lit t le boywas
'
looking at it and asked M r . An
gel if he would take him for a r ide init .
'
As they were go ing down the road
where the boy l ived, he asked Mr . An
gel if he would stop for a m inute. The
boy ran into a house and returned a
few seconds later w i th another boy
on ;h i s back . I t was his lit t le brotherwho had pol io and he wanted him. to
see the beaut iful car . In do ing. th i s hewas thinking of other s before him
self . Give your self to other people thereward i s great .
E ver last ing life will come to you ifyou w ill trust the L ord and serve him .
R ev . F aulkner closed his messagewith a shor t prayer .
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T he speaker for Sunday F ebruary1 2th , was the R everend H . A . Pr ivettepastor of the South Side Bapt istChurch in Concord.
‘R ev . Pr ivet te chose his scr ipturefrom the fir st Chapter of Genesis,24th through the 31 st ver ses .Aft er reading the scr ipture Rever
end Pr ivet te went on to tel l us howGod made everyth ing and al l man
had t o do was t o sit back and enjoyit . God gave man only one command
and that was not t o eat of the tree of
the forb idden fru i t . Y ou wi ll rememberhow the devi l tempted E ve and she
in turn caused Adam to sin, therefore,br ing ing sin into a wor ld that hadknown no sin .
T he speaker al so told us that no
mat ter how rosy the dev i l makes sinlook and you just know you can do it ,
and get away w i th it . God will see
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you even if no one el se does So whenthe devil tells you to do somethingthat you know is wrong t el l him “N0that your not going t o. R ememberthis , it s not us that sin , it s the devi lin us .
R ev . Pr ivet t e explained how we can
get forgivenes s f or our sins . T he
third Chapt er of S t . John 1 6th ver seproves to us t hat God w ill forg ive us
f or our sins if we w i ll have faith inthe L ord Jesus Chr i st and repent of
our wrong doings . We have al l sin ,
the Bible t ell s us that , and it also t ell sus that if any man says he has not , hei s a lier and the t ruth is not in him .
W ith this R everend Pr ivet t e closethe services .
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T he R everend Mr . F reeze of the
Mt . O live L uthern Church in Concord
conduct ed services at the school on
F ebruary 1 9th .
R ev . F reeze chose his scr ipture fromS t . L uke 1 7th , Chap ter , 1 st throughthe, 20 th ~ve11 ses 1 -And _as he ent ered
int o a cer tain village, t here met him
t en men that were leper s , whichstood afar of f
And they lift ed up thei r v 0 1 ces , and
said, Jesus , Master , have mercy on us .
And when he saw them , he said unt othem , Go shew your selves unt o the
priest . And it came t o pass , that , asthey went , they were cleansed.
And one of them, when he saw
that he was healed, turned back and
w ith a loud voice glor ified God.
And fell down on his face at hisfeet , giving him thanks : and he was
a Samar itan .
And Jesus _ answer 1ng said, were
ther e not t en cleansed ? but wher e are
the n ine?
T here are not found that returned
to give glory to God, save t h i s st ranger
And he said unt o him, ar ise, go thyway : thy faith hath made theewhole.
After the scr ipture R everend F reezethen gave t o us his sermon based on
“T hankfulnes s”, H e t old us
_that we
t oo are like the n ine leper s . God givesus everything and _we don
’t even ap
preciat e them .
The services were closed with R everend F reeze leading us in paryer .
—0 00 00We were very glad t o welcome to
the school the R everend D r . J . Mal
colm Murchison from the fir st Presbyt er ian in Concord who conducted the
service here on F ebruary 26 .
D r . Murchison chose the s tory of
Gideon ’ s three hundred as his scr ipture lesson f or us . T his i s t aken fromt he seventh Chapt er of Judges , fir stthr ough the. eighth ver ses .
.T_ _he reason given by D r Mul chison
f or“choosmg. thi s _per t icular story was
to t each us four impor tant thingsT hese wer e
,Braveness , F aithfulnes s ,
V olontary service and put t ing God
fir st ” .
T he speaker explained the s tory*
t o
us in such a way as t o show us Godspower and how easi ly H e gave G ideon and his smal l force of men vict oryover their enemies , the Midianites .Y ou can imagine how those f ew men
felt as they looked down in that valleyand saw the host of the Midianit esincamped there. About four ty . two or
four ty three thousand men_against
three hundred men of I srael . But
I srael had something the M id ianitesdidn ’
t have and that was the L ord.
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T hese men had faith, they were brave,they were serv icing God volontarly
and they were put t ing .God fir st '
ih
their l ives . F or this reason God
chose t hese f ew men out of the
t hir t y two thousand that came fir st .
D r . Murchl on dism 1 ssed us with a
shor t prayer .
W ITH THE NEW BOYS“
By'
JOe Q uickL eonar-d Cow ick, from Mecklenburg
County came t o the school dur ing themon th “ o f - Jaruary . L eonard playsbasketball very good and wi l l make a
good player . H e was sent to Cot tageNo . 1 7 and w ill work on the farm .
J oe Welch, age 1 6, was readm it tedt o the school dur ing January fromF or sy th County . H e went t o
,cot tage
N o .
’
1 0 where he'
wil l work in the
school ’ s cafeteria .
H omer R id-ings, was adm it ted t o the'
school from Polk County dur ing January . H omer likes t o play footballand was placed in Cot tage N o . 3 wherehe hopes t o work in the t ext ile mil-l .Two boys ' from surry County,
R onda L ee Poff and Marv in Gwyncame t o
.
the school dur ing J anuary .Ronda was placed in
'
Cot tage N o . 6
and hopes to work on
"
the'
chickenforce, Marvin went
’
to Cot tage N o. 1 3 .
R onnie Mint er from R ockinghamCounty was -
admit t ed dur ing January .Ronnie went -t o Cot tage N o. 1 and . i sworking ih the -machine shOp
T hree boys from Gaston County ;
Mason Brawel l, Wayne Crow ley and
McAruthur Gleenwere adm it ted during, January and F eburary . A lso r e
admit t ed from Gast on County was
Ver lin D ockery ; Mason -is work ing inthe infirmary and Ver lin ' is' workingon the plant beds . T he ot her boys arest ill in the receiving“ cot tage.
L awrence E vans , came t o the schooldur ing the month of F eburary fromCraven County . L awrence likes spor tsand wou ld like t o work in the bakery.
Cleat ive 0 xendine, was readmit t ed
to the school -" from R obeson County .
H e was placed in Cot t age N o. 1 7 andworks on the farm .
.B»i-lel _Con1-1 er, fr om Guilford County
was admit t ed dur ing F eburary . Billlikes to watch T . V . and play checker s ;H arold Cowick, age 1 5, came to
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theschool from Caldwel l County . H aroldwould like t o work in the bakery or
the cafeter ia.
Jess e Joel Tlayor ; from '
L in'
col'nCounty was enr olled at the school in”
F eburary . Jesse likes t o w ork on'
th'efarm and would like t o be placed
‘
in'
Cot tage N O . 1 7 .
Tracy Rat ley was adm it ted fromCumber land County in F eburary .
T racy would like t o work in the T ext ileMill while he is at the school
T8 THE UPL I FT
SCHOOL ROOM NEWSBy Wilbur H all
On T hur sday, the l 6th of F eburary ,
Mrs . Stalling ’s 3rd grade and Mrs .
Sm i t h ’ s l st grade presented a playrepresent ing the month of F ebruary .The play star t ed w i th L ewi s Sm i t hleading the boys in the L ord
’ s Prayerand the Salute t o the flag . F ollowingt his was D onald Woods w i th a poem,
the name of wh ich was “Be Proud of
Y our F lag”. T hen e ight boys w i thhat s on their heads spell ing “
F eb
ruary” and earr ing cards represent ingb irt hday s in t his month . F our were
emphas i sed by the boys taking one
step forward. T hese four were : Washint on,Valent ine, L incoln and E di son.
T he Get tysburg Addres s was presented by Steven Brawley . T hen sevenboys came out wi th cards spellingL incoln” . E ach boy then took his
let ter and told what it represented inpoem form. Ben Whitner and D onaldA llen said poems , the name of D onaldA llen’ s poem was
“L incoln L iked
We then had a sk i t by three boys.T hey showed valent ines and
'saidpoems . The date was the 1 4th . We had
a skit and qu iz on Wash ingt on and
L incoln by four boys who were: BillySm i th, James Sm ith, Char les H arr i s ,and J immy Ruff .O ther boy s in the program were
Sandy Canady, F redd ie Vadase, L arrySmith ,
Bobby 1Vernon, R oy F erguson,
Jerry Gent ry, R ober t McL amb, William Pr ice, John R ichardson, DaltonL ew i s and ' J immy T aret t . E veryoneenjoyed the program very
'much .
Mrs . Barbee’ s 2nd grade had some
very n ice decorat ions in the ir room.
T hey were pay ing t r ibute to themonth
of F ebruary ;T hese decorat ions cons i st ed of a p icture of
“Wash ington,L incoln, cabins, hatchet s , and so forth .
Mr s . Ba‘
rbee’ s room al so decorated the
l ibrary. T he decorat ions were aboutthe same. T hese were made by BobbyAvery and T ed Glance.
M r . Wentz’s 6th grade is work ing
on a ser ies of ar t icles and pictures of
the“Medieval Per iod” . The pictures
were by Pat -Slaten,Pete Cumm ings ,
R obert Joyner , and Jam'
es Sm i th . Theent ire class is wr i t ing ar t icles aftera lot of hard research and study in thel ibrary . T hey al so had some decor
t ion of Washington and L incoln. T h i swas by the ent ire group .H ere is a schedule the grades go to
the gym f or 30 m inutes pract ice.
Grades 2 , 5, 4, and 9 'go'
on Tuesdayand T hur sday . Grades 1 , 7,
“and
“3’
go
on Wednesday“
and F r iday. T hey arenow play ing basketball . On the dayst hey don ’
t go‘
t o the gym ,
\they play
volleyball and football . '
R oger Car ter , the school boi lerroom boy , has been do ing a nice job
keeping the school bu i ld ing nice and
comfor table dur ing the w intermonths .
E veryone apprec iates his services
very much .Mr . Caldwell ’ s 7th grade has been
do ing a\nice job of keep ing the audi torium clean. E veryone appreciatesth i s very much .
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blew ending the game 28 to 2 1 in
favor of N o. 3 . T his was cot tage N o .
3’s fir st vict ory and No. 2
’s f ir st los s .
H igh score of this game was H arr isof No. 3 w ith 20 point s .
Cot tage N o .
O ver
1 0 R uns Rough ShodN o. 1 .
Cot tage N o . 1 0 again played theirsecond s t r ing and won another easyv ictory over N o. 1 . Cot tage N o . 1
has not seen much act ion this yearon the basket 'bal cour t due t o accident s and m ishaps t o some of t he irbes t player s . Cot tage N o . 1 0
’s fir s t
str ing f has , seen some act ion = oc
casional l ly it i s rumored that_they
are being saved. for the t ourament .
H igh score of this - game was W iseman“
w ith 6 po int s f or N o . 1 0“0 nd
VVil'
lard w ith 6 point s fOr N o . 1 .
Beat s N o . 1 1 F or SecondW in O f S eason
F our t een
Cot tage N o. 1 4 won their secondgame of the season 42 1 8 againstN o. 1 1 . N o._ 1 4 had defeated: N o. 1 1 in
a previous game 27 1 7 for theirfir st w in.
“ Showing great 1mprove'
ment in their ball : handling and
shoot ing N o. 1 4 i s moving up fastin the A_ league. H igh“ score of t hisgame
‘
w'
as A rnold of“
1 4 w ith " 1 8point s .Cot tage N o. 9 Cont inues U nbeat enCot tage N o .
1
9 i s a sure th ing againt his year f or the C league t rophy .D efeat ing N o . 7 in their . last game
23 1 4 for the ir f ifth st raight win .
T he only oppos i t ion they have met
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thi s year was Cot tage N o . 2 whicht hey did away w i th in a close game.
H igh score of this game was
McC lure w i th 7 po int s .
T en T op Scorers
S TANDINGSA L E AGU E
B L E AGU E
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Cot t age
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THE ROV ING REPORTER
By John H ensely
On _Eeburary 1 3th ,Bobby -E verhardt
went home, leaving Cot tage N o. 9
and some of the boys h e had knownfor _
over 1 8 months . We-w ish Bobby
the best of luck , ,in-. the f uture.
T he -boys of‘
Cot tage N o. 1 5 are
hoping t o their'C ott ag
'
e a
bout the f ir stH
'
of“Marc-h. They
'
have
been l iving in “
Cot tage N o .
“5 whilethe
workman their cot tage .
Milan Walker went home and leftthe boys of _ Cot tage 1 7 . H e al so had
beenhere for somet ime . We wish him'
t he bes t _of luck al so .
M ichael, H arr i s , a long t ime favorite,
of many of “the boys , left thism onth t o
, 30 1n his parent s . Michaelsure was ha
'ppyi zt o
_,go home.
-T he boy s'
of the school were gues t oft he - businessmen
“
of Char lot te: t -hismonth . T hey
’
invit ed t he boys t o '
come
t o the new col iseum t o see”
the Golden Glove Boxing Mat ches . T his out
ing was enjoyed by everyone.
On F ebur 1
a1 y 9th ,the boys saw a
'movie galled “Knock on Wood , starr ing _
D anny Kaye . I t was a good mov
on F eburary l 6th,the boys
alled“T heL ong ,Long
'
Thlailer'
. al so was a very good
Cot tage N o . 1 4’ s new basketball
goals are helping the boys learn t o
play the game . T he goals are set up on”
theout side of the cot tage on the playground . T he
l
'
boy s are really enjoyingthis new equlpment .
__I t looks like someone has found a
new ;can of orange paint from the
looks of things near the barn. Aboutal l of the equipment is being paint ed.
Thi s _gives a lit t le color t o the a tmo
__spher e -around the barn . I t looks mce.
Someone said that Ben H annah of
C ot t age N o . 7, enjoys playing with -a
“
dus t pan and a chair round. I s thist rue Ben ? I b et you make a
' lot of
noi se .
Some of the boys have been rushingthe season on fishing . We heard the
”ot herday that several groups havealready beenover at the lakr
e ;
’
however
they didn ’
t have to much luck .
-
‘
W ith'
t -he coming of warm-
weather;several -‘of the cot tage
“
groups havebeen pract icing softball . T hey are
get t ing in some ear ly spr ing pract icebefore the season opens .
M r . H ooker , who i s in charge of the
flowers . on the campus repor t s thatt he peonies are about ready to star t_ceming up. T hese are the beaut iful
_found near the b ack of the
adm inist rat ion building .
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FARM AND TRADE NEWSBy Bobby McClure and R obert W i llard
PL ANT BE D S
_Over at the plant beds , under the
direct ion of Mr . R ouse, the boys havebeen workmg pret ty hard t o get the
beds ready f or plant ing. T hey '
have
ranch work t o do before the seeds canbe sowed. After the soil has beenworked - the boys star t prepar ing t o
sow the seeds . But they play it smar tby sow ing only one-half of the bed
at a t ime. T h i s way they can raiseear ly and lat e plant s in the samebed . L ast week the boys were planting tomat oes , bell pepper , and eggplant s . T hese should be up soon and
w ith proper care, t hey w i ll be t ransplant ed t o the fields at an ear ly date.
I t has been repor ted that the on ionsset s have been planted and we willhave Spr ing onions ear ly in the spr
ing.
T he boys have been working on
some cool frames for the plant‘
b eds .
T hey wil l need these frames whenthe seeds star t com ing up . Mr . R ouse
and his plan t bed boy-s have beendoing a grand job in Operat ing the
plant beds . We w i sh them the bestof luck on this year s plant ing.
T H E LAU NDRYT he laundry i s one of the largestsingle indust ry at the Jackson T raining School . T h i s organ izat ion does
al l the laundry for the boys and mostof the staff member s . T hey keep thecafeter ia w i th clean towel s , aprons ,
Sheet s , pillow cases and t oweis
are pressed by running t hem throughthe mangle. T he boys in the laundryare do ing a f ine job in keep ing the
boys clothes washed.
‘
Mr . N ovabilski
i s the l aundry superv i sor .
COTT ON M I L L
and mops along w i th the ir otherdut ies . A l so t hey do the School Inf irmary
’s laundry .
T he laundry boys have a t ough
schedule“ each week, they wash theboys cloth ing—work clot hing, tw iceeach week ; =dress cloth ing, once . eachweek ; and al l the bed cloth ing, t ow
els , pajamas, underwear , and the
staff member s clot hes .When the clothes reach the laundry,
they are assorted, keeping the colorsfrom “fading.
'T hen they are washedfor twent y-two m inutes . F rom the
washer the clothes are placed in the
ext ractor and all the water i s removed.
T hen the cloth ing is placed in the
dryer and tumbled unt il dry . T he
dres s cloth ing is t hen taken t o the
press room and pressed. T he del iveryboys then take over . These boys de
T he' boys at the cot ton m i ll have
really been busy th i s mont h . T heyhave been mak ing “
cloth for s heet s,p i llow cases and pajamas . Some -peo
ple haVe often wondered just howthe ' mach ines work . F ir st a bale of
cot ton is sent through a machine
called the p icker . H ere al l the seeds
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and t rash are removed. F rom the
p icker it goes t o a machine calledthe card where it i s made into ropingand then it i s put in a can. F rom the
card it then goes t o a machine whichi s called the draw ing machine it t hengoes to the s lubber where it i s st retched and tw i sted and put on a bob in .
F rom the drawing machine it goest o a machine cal led the intermediatewhere it is
“ st ret ched again and put
on a smaller bobin . F rom there it goesto another machine, the spinning, hereit is made into thread and then goesto the looms . I t is then made intocloth . Mr . F agget , the cot ton. m i l lsuperv i sor , i s do ing a good job of
teaching the boys the t ext ile t rade.
T H E BARN F ORCE
Down at the barn Mr . T omkinson,
who i s in charge of act iv i t ies aroundthe barn arid his crew of boys havebeen mixing feed on the average of
twice a week . T hey have acquired a
new motor last week for the feedgr inder . F rom al l repor t s this i s
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Cont inued from ' page 1 4
b irthday par ty . T he following boyshad bir thdays , Jerry Jackson,
JimmyBowman,
F rank H elms, L ee Jackson,
Jackie Nelson, Bobby Pr ice, and
Claude T ownsel . E ach boy receiveda nice gift .
We had a‘
ve'
ry nice t ime _s ing ing ‘
wi th our guest Miss E d i th Judkins .She
' played the auto harp . wh i le we
quite a mot or . T he machine shop under
.
the direct ion of Mr . H inson, set
the motor up on a stand. T hey did a
n ice job on th i s task . T his motor
should pull the gr inder with ease.
T he feed that w i ll be ground will beused to feed the var ious livestock on
the campus . T he boys are look ing -
af
ter about 50 head of beef cat t le downat the barn. A lso there is about 1 50head of hogs that must be f ed everyday .
'
T h i s is a job w i th in it self be;cause they clean a lot of pens , watering and feeding the hogs every day.
And of course t here is three mulest hat must get the ir daily rat ions t oo.
T hese mules are used t o pull wagonsand do small work around the barn .
They are wel l kept .
W ith the many jobs go ing on a
round.
the barn the boys work ing on
the barn force t hink t hey have one of
the best all -round jobs on the campus .T hey really enjoy work ing w ith themules , cows and hogs . And of cour set here i s always one of their pet cat s
chasing a mouse wh ich the boys enjoywatching .
sang. Sylvia Ann Peck gave a Negrosermon and we enjoyed it very much .Aft er that we came in and had re
f reshment s . We had a pret ty cakeand enjoyed it very much . Af ter . re
feshment s we played Bingo, and Mr s;
Peck gave out pr izes .We enjoyed the par ty very much
and are looking forward t o another .
By. Michael Smith Benneth H ager
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THE DA IRYBy Jerry Jacksonand Michael Smith
T he d'
airy has 44 mi lk cows , and
they give 80 -85 gallons of m ilk in the
morning and 60 -65 gallons in the
aft ernoon . Aft er milking the cows themilk is carr ied t o the m ilk house”
where it is st rained, past eur ized, andbot t led . T here ar e three boys who dothe work in the m ilk house . Twice a
week we make ice cream . Somet imeswe make as much as 700 cups a week .S ince we have new b ot t le washer we
save a lot of t ime . A ft er bot t les arewashed they are put -in the st er lizer
and are st er l ize‘
d.
When the cows are let out of the
barn they go to the lounging barnwhere t hey get . the ir hay _
wh ich xis .
dropped _f rggn the . lef t into hay. racks ,
There are two water tanks one at each
end of the barn . T he cows have '
I OO
acres or more of pasture to graze on .
When the cow s-
are . taken in the barnfor m ilking" they have silage and
ground feed t o eat , morning and af
t ernoon . We have 3 silos which are
filled up in the summer and are f ed
out dur ing t he w int er .
T he boys scrub the barn Where thecow s are m i lked about once a week .and it i s washed out af ter each milking . We t ry t o keep things as clean as ,
possible in the dairy . D ur ing the -day .)
we pu t st raw down in the back of the;barn f or the cow s t o sleep on . Before ,
the . cows are milked two of the boys
take .W,arm water; and wash , them.
.
_There :are ”two boys who take carg;
of the calf barn. There are 1 8 H ol
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stein calves and several white facecalves t o be feed and looked after .
Nine of the H ol stein calves are go ingt o be kep t for milk cows , the othern ine wil l be made int o veal for the
S chool . “
We have one H ol st ein bull . The
boys wholook" after the calf barn haveto be sure that t hey are feed, watered,and have hay to eat . We like the
work in the dairy because we like t owork with amimals .
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Selected By- Steve Brawley
ADORABL E
Y ou’re adorable, you ’
re sweet as can
be,
Y ou re adorable a dr eam come t o
Y ou’re al l that I hope my love
would ever be .
Y ou’re so lovable, when you re in
my arms ,Y ou
’re so kissable, when I hold your
charm s ,Y ou
’re m ine, you are so divine, _my
adorable one.
"
Y ou must have come from heavenbecause you thr il l me so;
‘
My heaven start s at seven sharp ,Y ou star t thy
- heart -to glow , glow;glow ;
Y ou’re
“so hugable, s0
'
clinging, -so
nice,
Y ou’re excitable, when“ kissed once
or tw ice,A nd soon you ’ ll be m ine alone, you
adorable one.
AR E Y O U SAT I SF I E D .
'
f‘
And want me back someday ?A re you sat isfied, real ly
'
i -zsat isf ied;
I f you are, then I’ll be on my way .
Are you sat l sf led
I’
L L NEVE R srop Lov'
iN G Y OU
I’l l never st op lov ing you ,
What ever else I may do,
My love for youW ill live ’
t i t ime it self is through
A re’
you sat isfied _really sat isfied,“W ith the new love that “
came yourway
?
A re you sat isfied ?A re you sat i sfied really sat isfied,W ith the love that he gave you
t oday ?Are '
you sat isfied ?-D o you thr ill to his kiss , _A s you oncef did t o m ine ?I s there a chance that you ’ l l regret
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I’ll never stop want ing you,
And when forever i s through,My hear t w ill beat the wayI t does each t ime we meet
T he night doesn ’t quest ion the star s
that appearIn the skies ,So why should I quest ionT he star s that appear in my eyesOf t his I ’m more than just sureMy love wil l last and endure,
I’
ll never , no
I’ll never st op loving you
T H E BIBL E T E L L S ME SO
H ave faith, hope and char ity,T hat ’ s the way t o live successfullyH ow do I know ? the Bible tells me so
D o good t o your enem iesAnd the B lessed L ord you ’ ll sureleyplease
H ow do I know ? the Bible t ell s me so
D on’t worry ’ bout t omor row,
Just be real good“ t odayT he
'
L Ord is right beside you ,
H e’ ll guild you all the way
H ave faith, hope and char i ty,That ’ s the way to live succes sfullyH ow do I know ? the B ible tells me so
ROCK AROUN D T H E CL OCKOne, two, three o
’clock, four o
’clock,
F ive, six, seven o
’clock, eight o
’clockrock,Nine, t en, eleven o
’clock, twelve o’
clockrock,
We’re gonna rock around the clOck
Put your glad rags on and jo in me,how,
We’ ll have some fun when the clockstr ikes one,
We’re gonna rock around the clock
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’
t il
broad daylightWe
’re gonna rock , gonna rock, around
the clock tonight .
When the k s kes twelve,
We’ ll cool of f then, star t a-rockm ’
’round the clock again,
we’re gonna rock around the'
clock
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’ t il
We’regonnarock, gonna rock around
the clock tonight .
When the clock s t r ikes two, and threeand four ,
I f the band slows down we’ l l yell f orm ore,
We’re gonna rock around the clock
t onight ,We
’re
'
gonna rock, rock, rock, ’
t'
il
broad daylightWe
’re gonna rock
, gonna rock aroundthe clock t onight .
When the chi-mes r ing fiveand s1 x and
seven,
We’ ll be rockin ’
up in sevent h heav ’n
We’re gonna rock around the clock
t oni-ght ;We
’re gonna rock, rock, rock ’
t il
broad daylight ,We
’re gonna rock , gonna r
'
ock aroundthe
'
clock t onight .
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FUN AND OTHERW ISE
(Bi ts of humor clipped from exchanges and gathered from
other publications , wi th an occasional or iginal funny-bone
t ickler added. )
U NCL E F U Z GE T S A RE PL Y
Deer U ncle F uz
We were a m i te s’
prised to hear fromyou but fair-t er middlin pleesed 2 no
you air set t led down fer a spell .Well F uz, i i s go in to be a m it y r ich
man purty soon. Y ou reckomember
how th im oil -bor in peeple want ed t o
t er buy my s ide of Cat tymount hollowand pay me wi t h a lit t le peese of pa
per they called a check ? And do you
reckomember how i and tater -hed
McGune run th im feller s back 2 the
set t ilmint s w it h our f oulin-piece ?Wel l, t is diffurent now . I se done went
and sold my land and theys bor ingoil holes aw l over the holler .
A feller cum hear what hed one
of thim money-making masheens and
pon my oner , hit were the handiestmasheens you ever seed. Awl you hed
t o do is put in l i t t le peeses of paperand turn a crank and r ite away t endoller b i l ls sl id out . I wanted t er buy
t h i s masheen and the feller ‘greed
t er sell hit ter me ifn i would takea peese of paper , called a check fermy land, th in give hem the check ferthe masheen. R i te away i noed i wasmakin a good deal . I jist ackezd stubburnl ike, winkin at my missus awl
the t ime but 'pur t y qu ick-like, I tolehem i would t rade . H e let me git in
thet big autymobile of hisn and
dr iv to the set t ilmint s, where thim
oil-peeple lives . We hunted up the
bos s ond i tole hem i hed d‘dcided tersel l fer '
a check . T his oil feller g ivedme the check and i sined _my name on
a bunch of paper t hin i g ived the
check ter t his frend of m ine and he
g ived me th i s masheen . N ow awl i
need i s a lit t le bot t le of special kindof ink , this fr iend i s gona send hit t erme wh in he g i t s back t er his home,
thin i w i ll turn out a bat ch of spankin
new t en doller bills .F uz, one of Zak F uddies boys 31 st
come back from up there. H e’s the
one thet stold 2 of Clim Y okum ’s
mules and the jedge gived hem fiveyeer s . H e sez thet up there they g ivesyou stor-ebought shoes and socks andawl the chawin t obacker t het you
want s . N ow ifn this be t rue Grampssez thet he i s go in t er steel a t oe
sack full of w idder Par sley ’ s chickensand let ’ em ketch hem , sos he can come
up t here. Be shore t er let us no r i teaway ifn this be t rue.
Wel l F uz, i ges s you w i l l be heer infrom me r i te often, cause wh in th isfeller sends me thet ink ter make mynew money, i am goin ter buy me one
of th im sh iney autmobiles and get
cusin H erk imer ter dr ive hit and wewi ll cum ter see you. So you be good
an r i te us wh in you can. Y our m i ssus,your possum dog mose, and your
shootin-iron are do in o.k . I must go
and slop the hogs, hop in you the same,
yrs; truly,Cousin E ffus
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SCHOOL HONOR ROLL
F ir st GradeL eroy GentryCar l Sheet sWilliam Pr iceJohn R ichardsonJohn F ranklinCur t i s Tr uit tL ee JohnsonBilly StylesW illiam Waycast erR alph NormanD onald Wood
F E BR U AR Y
James Chr i scoE ar l Morgan
29
F if th GradeAr thur Bowden
D ouglas I ngramT eddy H oglenGoldman Cheat hamGene RadfordL arry SilvaBenny SuggsE ldr idge Winder sBill CannonCar roll McclureJohnny MuseJ oe SeagrovesSixth Grade
Bradford H orne
R ober t JoynerBilly MaynardL arry R oachPet e Cumm ingsPat Slat enSeventh GradeSteve BrawleyChar les H opk insE ighth Grade
Boyd MontgomeryRobert W i llardNinth Grade
Joe Qu ickRalph CreasmanPaul Culler
Kenneth JacksonL arry LambertR . E . Weathers
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COTTAGE HONO R ROLLF EBRU AR Y
R eceeiving Cot tage
J oe QuickWayne Bennet t
Kennet h BlackBill Carp-ent erMack F loweCot tage N o . 1
Goldman CheathamJerry Somer setMax ie T ealF red-die Vadase
Cot tage N o. 2
D onald All-eu
R er BellB illy Pruit tCur t is t '
ruit tPaul Webb
“Cot tage
-N o . 3
JamesCalvin PeelerBobby S teven-s
Cot t age N o. 4
Gary BeatyRalph C reasmanW illie D eeseJerry JenkinsL es ter Norman
Pat SlatenClifford Wood-ruffCot tage No .
“6
Billy Belt U
Car l Sheet sCot tage No. 7
Carroll ' McClure
T homas Lamber t—T
"
D alton L ewi sA lc
'
mzo ManeyJer ry Manshack
D anny SmithBi lly "S tylesCottage N O . 9
N o H onor R ol lC ot tage N o . 1 0
'
R alph Cat let tC lyde D emby
St ephen _L unsfordR . E . Weather sChar les W isemanCot tage N o . 1 1
Bill CannonR obert . ColonW ilbur H allF red KingJackie L upt onD anny “Small 'Billy Sm ithR ichard WallsCot tage N o . 1 3
C larence BatyClyde Bennet tGrover Ewar t
James L ambF rank Maness
-Cleon Mason'
T rui t t McCal l“H erman St 'yle'sCot tage N o. 1 4
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Char les Ander sonT roy BlackwellE dsel ChurchBilly CoffeyH arvey H udsonBill JohnsonCecil KingCot tage N o . 1 5
Jimmy BowmanT ed GlanceF rank H elmsMar shall Jones
FARM AND TRADE HONOR
F E BR U AR Y
Phil H olmesJ . W . GoreD avid GreerJerry JenkinsE d H orr idgeC lifford WoodruffSteve L unsfordE ar l H ollingswor thJames L anningL onnie Br it tH arold GaineyD ale E l lisonT ommy T ompsonGerald E arnie
E ar l SmithJ . W . W i lkinsonCleon MasonR ichard GraysonJohnnie ManeyH arold Padget
Charles JacksonDouglas JamesT roy BlackwellJames Stewar tBilly Coffey
ROLL
Claude T ownselCot tage N o. 1 7
Car l BaileyJimmy CanterT ommy GreerO t is JacobsJames L anningJohn L eeCardell OxndineI nfirmaryPhillip H olmes
Mack F loweE dgar ShepherdF loyd CallowayChar l ie Ander sonBo-bby T odd
W illiam L ay
Raymond R oseberryR oy WebbR ober t ColonGarry BeatyRonnie L ew isF reddie Morr i sChar les H arr i sR ex BellJimmie BoldenH arvey H udsonR ober t JoynerBilly Sm i thJack ie LuptonRalph NormanF reddie L it t leDonald Weaver
Johnny PostellBill CannonWil l iam Glis son
Spurgon McMasters
Ver lon D ockeryDanny SmallE veret t e H oglenT eddy H oglenGeorge T hornburgL eroy T homasF rank H elmesF rank McManiss
Malcolm Carrol lBradford H orne
Bazel R odesWayne Bennet t
Kenneth BlackL arry R oachJerry JacksonCleemiller P ierceO scar Cart er
F loyd D et ter
Willie IngramJ . B . Sheet sL arry VernonWayne Jenk insR obert McL amb
Paul Webb
No. 4 . APRI L, 1 956 VoL 44
LEGENDE
Ch ri st in his garden, w hen a boy,Grew roses red w h ich were his ioy;O
’
er Them He waTched W iTh Tender care,Hop ing some day awreaTh To wear.
Then came The Judas ch i ldren nearTo see wh ich b looms To ChrisTwere dear.
They broke The roses from The i r stems,And Took from ChrisThis d iadem.
WhaTw ilTThou wear now for a crown?Behold, Thy roses all are gone .
”Leave me The Thorns ,” young Jesus said,To be The crown Uponmy head.
”
50 fo r his“forehead pure and k ind,
A crown of Thorns He Tw ined;Thus on his brow no roses red,
BuT hearT’
s red b lood g leams There insTead .
—Published Monthly ByT he Pr int ing Class of the Stonewall JacksonManual T raining and Indust r ial School
Concord, North Carol ina
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A MQ NTHLY JONRNAL
Published ByThe authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School
Type-set t ing by the Boys’Print ing Class
Subscript ion Two Dol lars the Year, in AdvanceAct of March 3. 1 897. Acceptance for mail ing a special rate
CONT EN T S
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent ED ITO RlAL
R. Vance Robertson
Ed itorMrs. Wanda Ho l brookMrs . Agnes YarbroughAssociate Ed itorsJames H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPORTERS
W i l bur Hal lBobby McC lure
Robert W i l lardJames Conrad
UNOTYPE O PERATORS
John BonnerRobert W i l lardWilbur Hall
l 2—l 3
l 4—l 5
1 6—1 7
1 9—20
G ENERAL JACKSO N AND
O UR SCHOO L 5—9
MRS . J . P. CO O K PRESENTS L IBRARY G I FTTO LEN IO R RHYNE CO LLEGE lo—I l
SUNDAY SERV ICES
By John Hens leyINTEREST ING PROGRAM PRESENTED
By R. E. Weat hersSCHOO L RO OM NEWS
By W i l bur Hal lBOYS ADM ITTED AND RELEASEDBy Jerry Garren
SPO RTS
By Robert W i l lardFARM AND TRADE NEWS
By J . Conrad and B. Mcclure 2 1—22KNOW YO UR CO UNT IES 23
Q U IZ
By J . Conrad and B. McClure
SO NGSSe lected By Johnnie Bonner
BIRTHDAYSJO KESHO NO R RO LLS
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unsure feet t h rough l i fe .
The resurrect ion is a great hope to be cheri shed: Now IS Christ risenfrom The dead and become the f i rs t frui ts of t hem t hat s lept . The worldhad looked and longed fo r a better way, but it was not unt i l Jesusopened The door That the way was found.
The story i t se l f is heart-break ing, but it has an end ing t hat surpas sesthem all. A smal l boy got the idea once . He was s tand ing in
'front ofa store w indow gaz ing, spe l l bound at a very beaut i fu l paint ing of The
cruci f i x ion. A man stand ing near by not iced the eagernes s on the childis hface, Touched him on The shoulder, and said,
”Sonny, w hat does it mean?
"
Don’
t you know?" the lad as ked.
”That man is Jesus , and the others
are the Roman so ld iers The woman t hat is cry ing is H is Mother, andThe so ld iers k i l led H im. The man was int rigued by both the p icture and
the s tory, but he had to be on his way. A few minutes later as he wal keddown The street he heard a ch i ld cal l ing ”
Hey, M i ster, and turned to
see The l i tt le boy running Toward him.
Hey, M i ster, he cried breath les s l y, I forgot to te l l you. He roseagain.
Th i s smal l boy grasped the signifance of the cruci f i x ion. He real ized inhis ch i ld i sh way, t hat even t hough Ch ri st was put To death , He rose again.
Th i s lesson, al ready learned by the ch i ld, was as app l icab le to him as it
was to t hose who l ived in the Time of Christ ur fai t h today is bui l t onth i s same les son and is our hope for the future .
Each generat ion s ince the resurrect ion has seen,many changes and
suffered many setbacks , but because of The hope that was born on Calvarythe story has enci rcled The g lobe . We may fee l somet imes That The worldis not prof i t ing by its errors , but i s st i l l reek ing w i th animos i ty , struggling for power, and mak ing hidious p lans for war. It seems to be man'sw eaknes s to
,doubt and fear, to stumb le and fal l , but always he has man
aged to push fo rward and keep his chartered course. Even Though wehave many more pi tfal l s To cros s and w i l l st i l l s tumb le along darkenedpathways; as long as the church st ill ho lds sacred the memory of the”crown of t horns " and as long as l i tt le boys remember That even t hought hey k i l led H im, He rose again—THERE IS HO PE.
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GENERAL JACKSON AND OUR SCHOOLMost -of those who l ive and work
at the Stonewall Jackson T rainingSchool are fam i liar with the st ory of
how“our school became named for
this famous Southern gent leman . We
know that f or year s there had been a
movement under way t o establish a
t raining school f or boys somewherein the state, but it was not unt il1 907 that the Nor th Carolina leg i slature final ly voted t o appropr iat emoney f or it s establishment . One
fact or in help ing get the bill passedwas that the school would be named
in honor of General T homas Jonathan (S tonewall ) Jackson , a man
held in reverence by S outherner ss ince his famous campaigns dur ingthe C ivil War . Vet erans of this warwho were member s of the legis laturein 1 907 were very much in favor of
nam ing a school in his honor , as wellas establishing a school to help thedelinquent youth of the state. A
decis ion on the name helped the billt o pass and plans were got ten under
way immed iately f or the school to bestar t ed.
A member of the legislature whichhelped t o pass the bill t o open the
school, H on . E . Randolph Preston ,
has recent ly been in correspondencew i th our school . T he H on. Mr . Prest on i s now residing ih Washington,
D . C . where he cont inues t o show an
avid int erest in our school and it s
act ivit ies . R ecent ly he sent t o us
some mater ial regarding the - home
of General Jackson which has'
recent ‘
ly been made into an h i stor ical shr ine.
BR I TA IN, T OO , R E COGNI ZE SJACKSON ’ S M I L I TAR Y GE NI U S
I t i s interest ing to note t hat Mr .
Preston’ s wife i s General Jackson’ sgranddaughter .
We believe our readers will beinterested in this shr ine and are re
pr int ing some newspaper ar t icles regarding it which were furni shed us bythe H on . M . Prest on . Our boys wi llespecially be interest ed t o know some
thing about the famous man whosename our school bear s . I f they would“aspire t o the ideal s he believed in
and fought t o perpetuate, we feelthe school could ask f or no more.
Y our ext remely int eres t ing edit orial of Januay 2 1 on St onewall Jackson reminded me of a number of
anecdotes illust rat ing the respectwhich Br it ish mi litary men have for
our Confederate hero .
T he late H onorable Oscar T . Crosby,
of Warrenton, a wor ld t raveler and
A s sis tant Secretary of the T reasuryin W ilson ’ s administ rat ion, was fondof telling the st ory of a lunch he hadwith member s of the Br it ish H ighCommand immediat ely after the dis
ast rous F ir st Bat t le of Mons ear lyin Wor ld War I . H e stated that thehigh ranking E ngli sh officer s , al
though very depressed at their recent
defeat by the Germans, t r ied t o be
polite to their guest , and one of theminquired of Mr . Crosby from whatpar t of the U n i ted States he came.
When he replied that his home was
)\s
in V irg in ia, the Br i t i sh general br ightened percept ibly and said, “Oh ! T henyou know the Warrenton and A lexandr ia Turnp ike.
” Mr . Crosby in
formed him that from his res idenceatop View T ree Mountain he over
looked the famous h ighway, andimmediately all the off icer s presentbegan to d i scus s Jackson ’
s prom inentpart in Bat t les of F ir st and SecondManas sas .Mr . Crosby said that desp i te the
fact that he was fam i l iar with thebat t lefields from many v i s i t s and
was h imself a grad-uate of the U n i tedStates Military Academy, those Br i tisher s di splayed a much greater
knowledge of the maneuver s and thecountryside. They soon forgot f or thet ime being t heir current depress ionin their adm ir ing discusson of Jackson ’ s m i l i tary br i lliance.
On another occas ion Mr . Crosbyrelated, he was return ing from an
expedit ion into E th iop ia and h i spack t rain was desending the upperreaches of the Nile, at the very out
post s of Br i t i sh c iv i l izat ion in E gypt .
A s h i s par ty came down the trai l , Mr .
Crosby esp ied a few bungalows on a
bank, and On the veranda of one of
t hese a Br it ish off icer was seated,reading a large red book . On a chanceMr . Crosby climbed the bank, greetedthe officer and asked if he might inqu ire what book he was reading.
repl ied the officer ,
“I am reading Colonel H ender
s on’ s L ife of
‘ St onewal l Jackson .
”
T hose two fat red volumes whichoccupy prom inent places in the librar ies '
of'
so many Virginians and wh ich
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John A . C . KeithWarrenton.
ST ONEWAL L JACKSON ’ S H OME ,NEWE ST SH R INE , OPE NS T ODAY
fam i l iar to us as the B ible, are re
qu ired reading at Sandhur st .
In my humble op inion,General
Jackson’ s name does not need t o be
record-ed in the N ew Y ork H all ofF ame. H is memory is enshr ined in
t he hear t of every Southerner and
does not depend upon recogn i t ion bythe group of ind ividual s in N ew Y orkwho decide who i s famous and whois not .
By Spec ial CorrespondentL E XINGT ON
,Aug . 28—V irginia’
s
newest hist or ic shr ine w i ll make it s
bow here t omorr ow when the home
of General T homas J . (Stonewal l )Jackson, OSA , is opened t o the public.
The home, the only one ever owned
by the Confederate hero, was purchased and renovat ed by the StonewallJackson Memor ial, Inc. , headed byJay W inst on Johns , '
of Char lot tesvi lle. T omorrow
’ s publ ic open ing wi llclimax almost a year and one-half ofeffor t s by the memor ial t o create a
permanent shr ine t o one of the Con
federacy ’ s most legendary f igures .T he shrine proper ty was purchased
f or last Apr i l from lStonewall
Jackson H osp i tal here. T he proper tycons i st s of the old Jackson home, a
back sect ion of wh ich was the mainpor t ion of the old hospital , and the
old nur ses ’ home. The hospit al moved
t o new quar ter s in May .
have been from ch i ldhood almost as
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on an island in the Miss i ss ipp i ,earning their living by lchoppingcordwood t o be sold t o the wood
burn ing steam boat s ply ing the
r iver , it might seem t hat H uck and
Stonewal l were kindred spir it s forat least one t ime dur ing theirl ives .T hose who knew St onewall Jack
son in later life, however , wouldfind lit t le resemblance between
Mark Twain ’ s colorful , ext rover tedhero and the shy , uncommunicat
t ive general .Becau se of poor health and fai l
ing eyesight which plagued him al l
his life, J ackson set up r igid rulesof self-di scip line. A lthough he ask
ed no one el se t o necessar i ly con
form to t hese rules , his st r ict code
was none the more under standableto his asociat es . Modest and t ightlipped, few per sons other t han hiswife and This past or real ly knew
the gent le, warm-hear ted man who
was T homas Jonathan Jackson .
T he fir st and only home of hisown was purchased shor t ly aft erh is :marr iage t o Mary Anna Morr is on in 1 857 . U nder t his roof, on
W ashington St reet in L exingt on ,
he knew the t ragedy of losing the
f ir st child born t o Mary Anna and
h im self .A devot ed husband, he seemed
t o be a different per son when he
returned home each even ing afterhis t eaching at V irginia MilitaryI nst itut e. T he door s , it seemed, as
h i s wife put it , opened and closedon golden hinges .H e was a gracious host and
his int imate fr iends found him
charm ing, and even gay“
.T he t rag
edy of loos ing his ch i ld . i s magn i
f ied by the fact that he loved ch i ldren, and would frolic boy i shly w i ththem at the ir games , I t is recal ledthat on one occas ion a fr iend spentthe night in Jackson ’ s home w i thh i s smal l daught er . Awakening in
the night , the fr iend was surpr i sedt o see Jackson bent over the bed,
gent ly cover ing the l it t le_ gir l and
expressing his fear s lest she, being away from her mother ’ s care,
should become chilled.
A devout man, his great fai thwas notable throughout h i s llat erlife. D evot ional s were conduct ed
daily for his fam i ly and servant s .S tonewall and Mary Anna shar
ed a wonderful l companionship . Oft en she would read t o him—theBible, Shakespeare, and Napoleon’
s
T act ics were his favor ites .F or many year s , Jackson ’
s L ex
ingt on home has been used as s.
hosp i tal . I t is about t o be abandond because of the construct ionof a new Stonewall Jackson Memo
r ial H ospital . While the gleaming,
modern inst itut ion w il l cont inue to
be a wor thy t r ibute t o_ General
Jackson, the Stonewal l JacksonMemor ial F oundat ion hopes to per
petuat e h is memory st ill fur therby restor ing the or ig inal proper ty.F uture plans of the St onewal lJackson Memor ial , Inc. , are threefold, according t o Jay W . Johns,president : F ir st , the home will berest ored, and the Jackson pos session recovered f or d i splay with init . Member s of the Jackson familyhave generously offered to donate
pr iceles s Jackson relics for the
home if the memor ial is successfulin acquir ing the proper ty . Second ,
emphasis w ill be placed on promot
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ing act iv i t ies des igned f or developing charact er and cit izensh ip . I t
i s planned t o sponsor essay con
test s among student s , w ith scholarship and research awards to winner s throughout the U nit ed States .
T he t hird object ive i s t o collectdocument s and records wh ich w illbe available for research and
study, and the st imulat ion of in
t erest in the document s, so obtained
,by awarding fellow ships , sab
bat ical leave emolument s , and oth
er incent ives for study and ac
compl ishment .
Johns ._said that the long-range
plans of the memor ial , t hose relating t o scholar ships, etc. , must be
postponed unt i l the immediate oh
ject ive of acquir ing the Jackson
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Don't Judge by Size !
The most wonderful t h ings in nature are The smal lest .A f lea leaps 2 00 t imes its lengh. A man would have to jump feet
to proport ionate l y equal t h i s .The house f l y takes 440 steps To t ravel Th ree inches , and does it in hal f
a second—correspond ing to man running 20 mi les in a minute .
Turni p seeds , under good cond i t ions , increase t he i r we igh t 1 5 t imes aminute, and in rich so i l Turni p seeds may increase the i r we ightt imes a dayThere is no force more powerfu l than a grow ing squash . A squash 1 8
days old has been harnessed in such a way that in its process it l i fted50 pounds on lever—1 9 days later it l i fted pounds .
—Se lected
proper ty is accompl i shed .
T his home, t o wh ich fat e did not
permit h im t o return once he had
r idden of f to war , might well bethe symbol of the real Jackson .
N ot only was it where he acquiredknow ledge through study and t ra
vel which was t o serve him wel lthroughout the war , but it was the
place where the human charact erist ics— the hear t and soul of the
man—were revealed which showJackson worthy of L ord Wolseley ’ ssweeping t r ibute“The fame of Stonewal l Jackson
is no longer the exclus ive proper tyof Virginia and the South ; it has
become the birt hr ight of every person pr ivi leged to cal l h imself an
Amer ican.
”
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MRS . J . .P. COOK PRESENTS L IBRARY “
G IFT TO LENO IR RHYNE COLLEGEBy Mary Fr ix Kidd
E d i tor ’ s NoteThe following ar ticle, r egarding the library of the late James P . Cook,
appeared in , the S unday , March 20, 1 947 edition of T he Concord T r ibune. M r .
_C
’
ook was the founder of the U p lif t and the edi tor unt i l his death, I nstrumental
in founding the school . M r . Cook’s contributions to the youth of the S tate have
been of untold value:
Mr s . J . P . Cook has recent ly pres ent ed t o the library of L enoirR hyne College approximately 300
fine books that compr ised the libraryof her late husband, who was widelyknown t hroughout the stat e and
south as a scholar , an educat or , an
ed i tor , a relig ious and civic leader ,and the moving sp ir i t in the foundat ion of the Stonewal l Jackson T raining School for the reclamat ion of
boys who, somehow, had got ten off
t o a bad star t in life.
In 1 890, Mr . Cook saw a 1 3 yearold boy sent enced to t hree year s onthe road for stealing five dollar s .Immediately, he got the idea f or a
“
reform school in the state and, us ingas his theme
f‘there are no bad boys ,
he plant ed h i s idea in the heads ofstate off icals and never ceased working unt il h i s dream was a real it y.Zeb T rexler took the books in Mr .
Cook ’ s library t o H ickory and turnedt hem over t o D r . P. E . Monroe, president of the college, who was de
lighted for many reasons, _ t o havet hem; One reason i s that , includedamong the volumes , is much valuabledata about the history of L utheranism in Cabarrus county, in Nor th
Carolina, and in Amer ica.
I ncluded among the volumes i s avaluable set of Southern L iterature,also a set of the E ncyclopedia Br itannica, and of Balzac’ s works .F eatured in the collect ion are
bound cop ies of “The U plift ,” a
magazine founded by Mr . Cook, publ ished at the Jackson T raining Schooland edited by him unt il his death,March 22 , 1 938 . T hese bound volumescontain a great por t ion of Mr . Cooks ’creat ive wr i t ing,
'h i s edit or ials on
many subject s , part icular ly on con
solidat ion of school s , a project dearto his hear t . D esire t o preserve t heseirreplaceable cop ies of her husband’ seditorals im' par t prompted Mrs . Cook
t o g ive the books t o the college whereshe was sure t hey would be appreci
ated f or the ir t rue wor th and pre
served f or posterity .Contemporary wit h Char les B . Ay
cock, and seeing eye t o eye with Aycock on the quest ion of the r ight of
every child to a good educat ion,
Mr . Cook was a pioneer leader in
the school consol idat ion in Cabarruscounty. I t was while he was cha irman of the Cabarrus county boardof educat ion that he and Char les E .
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SUNDAY SERVIGES
By John H ensely
D ue t o the absence of our SundayService repor ter t here were no notestaken on the s ervice of March 4, 1 956.
H owever we would like t o t hank R ev .
Paul Bruton from the M t . O livesMethodist . Church f or leading us
in our devot ional serv ice.
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On Sunday March 1 1 R ev . JamesA llen from the H armony MethodistChurch was our guest speaker . R ev .
A llen read t o us from the Book of S t .
John.
T he R everend A l len t old us the
s t ory of “T he S trange Man .
”H e said
that one day over 2 thousands year sago a baby was born in the lit t let own of Bethlehem . We don
’t know
much of th i s Baby’ s childhood, butone incident that happened when H e
was 1 2 year s old, was that h i s fathert ook H im and his mother t o Jerusalem
'!t o pay t he ir taxes . Whi le
they were there, Jesus went into the
t emple and asked quest ions about theL ord.
When this st range man was 30
years old, H é went to f ind John the
Bapt ist t o be saved . When he was
bapt ised the H eaven’ s opened and a
voice said, “T his is my Son,
T he people could not under stand
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this s t range man who talked of,God
and made the lame walk and the
blind t o see. The people thought H e
was evil so they nailed H im on a
cros s and cruc ified H im . H is dy ingwords were: “F ather forg ive t hemf or t hey know not what t hey do”.
Af ter H e had d ied, the follower s ofJesus t ook H im from the cros s andplaced H is body in a t omb . But H erose from the grave on the 3rd day as
H e said H e would.
Rev. A llen t ell s of Jesus stay ingon the ear th for 40 days and be ingseen f or the last t ime on the Mount
of O l ives , where he rose into the sky .
T his was the last t ime anyone saw
Jesus , but it wasn ’t the last of h i s
teachings .We closed the serv ice by s ing ing
a hymn and Rev . A llen d i sm i ssed us
with a word of prayer .
March 1 956
T he guest minister for Sunday,March 1 8th was, the R ev. Dav id L .
Johnson, from the Kimbal l Memor ialLutheran Church of Kannapoli s .R ev . Johnson chose
.
his scr ipturefrom the book of John, the four thchapter , ver ses 34-38 .
“Jesus saithunto them, My meat i s to do the w i ll
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of him that sent me, and to fini shhis work.R ev. Johnson t old us of a company
of s old ier s marching in step , t owardsa br idge. Just before they got to the
br idge the sergeant said, “F all out .
”
D o‘
you know why the sergeant said“fall out ” ? H e knew t hat the company of soldier s marching in stepwould probably rock the br idge, andcause it t o fall or weaken, but if theyfell out they would do no harm .
R ev. Johnson went on t o prove hispoint by t elling us the story of the
man with 1 2 sons , who were fighting and fussing al l the t ime. One day
their father called them in from the
f ields and showed them something .
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Due t o the absence of the min i sterthere was no service at the T rain ingSchool on March 25, 1 956.
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TODAY I l lVE
Look to t h i s day, for it is l i fe . In its brief course lie all the veri t iesand real i t ies of your ex i stence . The b l i s s of grow th , the g lory of act ion,the sp lendor of beauty . For yesterday is but a dream, and Tomorrow is
onl y a v i s ion . . but Today well l ived makes every yesterday a dream of
happiness, and every tomorrow a v is ion of hope . Look well, therefore, to
Th is day! I am Thankful t hat the past is gone . I am Thankfu l t hat now is The
onl y Time . Today I l ive . Today I am f i l led w i t h the Ch rist's presence . TodayI give express ion To all The powers and ab i l i t ies t hat God has imp lantedin me today . Today I l ive.
The New L i fe
H e said, H ere in my hands I havea bundle of st icks . U nited t ogethert hey can
’t be broken, but if I take
one from it , I can break it . T hesest icks represent my fam i ly united t ogether we are st rong but separatedwe are weak .”R ev . Johnson sa id, the dev i l can’
t
make you sin ; he can only t emptyou. Y ou are the only one who can
make you sin.
H e closed the serv ice w i t h a
prayer .
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INTEREST ING PROGRAM PRESENTEDBy R . E . Weather s
A very interest ing and insp ir ingprogram was presented to the boysof the school on T uesday, March 1 3,by R ev. and Mr s . Baker , a ret iredminister and his wife, from K annapo
lis . R ev . and M rs . Baker have recent lyreturned from a vis i t t o the H olyL and and other fore ign countr ies .While on this t r ip they made manybeaut iful color slides of interest ings it es and it was these slides thatt hey showed to the boys on theirvi sit t o the school . Mrs . Baker gave
an interest ing narrat ion as Rev. Ba
ker showed the slides .R ev . and Mrs . Baker began the ir
t r ip at N ew Y ork where they boarded a ship , T he Silver Star , whichhad been char tered by about one hundred and sixty -church leaders .
T heir fir st stop was A lger ia, and
Mrs . Baker says she was'
cer tainlysurpr i sed t o f i n d modern c i t ieswhere she had expected t o see mud:
hut v i llages . T hey al so v i sited T unis iawhich was al so not so backward as
you would thinkf F rom there theywent to E gypt , where they v i s i tedA lexandr ia and Cairo. Near Cairothey saw the ancient pyram ids andmarveled at the size of
_them . T hey
wondered how the E gypt ians , w i thno machinery, could get such g igant ic stones in 'pos i t ion on so tall ast ructure. When t hey asked howthis was "
“
done, this was what theywere told. E very year the N i le R iveroverflows and r i ses many feet above
it s banks . When this happened the
E gypt ians bu i lt raft s and placed the
large stones on them . They were
then floated near the pos i t ion wherethe pyram id was being bu i lt . F romthe raft s they were moved up mounds
of sand to the height required f or
that part icular s tone. The mounds
grew higher as the pyramid neared
complet ion.
Another interest ing s ight for the
t raveler s was the Sph inx . T his i s ahuge, rock hewn f igure bu i lt f or re
ligious purposes and is a magnif icantth ing to see. T he face alone measuresth ir teen feet across .T he next count ry they v i s i ted was
I srael . The two most impor tant placest hey v i s i ted there were Mount Sinaiand T el Av iv . Mount S inai was whereMoses rece ived the T en Command
ment s . T el Av iv, the cap i tal of I srael , i s a fair ly modern c i t y.Next came Jordan and the _ci ty of
Jerusalem . The c i ty has eight gatesand at n ight they are closed so no
'
one may enter or leave the city . Therel igion of the c i ty i s Jew ish and :
they have s ealed up one of the gatesto the c i ty . I t is the gate through .
wh ich Jesus rode on the f ir st PalmSunday . T hey say that no one can
enter the gate unt il Jesus comes t oear th again.
In Jerusalem the people have an
unusual custom in bury ing their
dead. Dur ing the funeral only the
fam i ly at tends . T hey bury the ir dead
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SCHOOL ROOM NEWSBy Wilbur H all
Mrs . L iske’s room has been mak
ing some very pret ty E ast er deco
rat ions . Some of these include bun
n ies , eggs , and flower s .I n science t hey have been study
ing bees . T hey borrowed some of Mr .
R ouse’ s bee literature in their study.T hey are go ing to finish the studyby going to the cafeter ia and hav inghoney, hot biscu i t s , but t er , and
dr inks . T hey are also going t o makea huge bee out of paper mache,which wil l have a w ing span of 1 8 or
23 inches . Mrs . L i ske has also beenconduct ing a Spelling contest and
Claude Webb has won .
Mrs. Barbee’ s f ir st and“second
grade have been studying E asterand the meaning of it . T hey al sohave some very pret ty decorat ions .When they go out for recess theyplay dodgebal l and volleyball .
Mr . T routman ’ s 5th grade has beenstudying the Geography of the U nitedS tates and
_are star t ing on Canada.
In science t hey have been study ingair pressure, in math ; fract ions , inhistory ; the D utch buying Manhat
tan I sland from the Indians .
Mr . T routman t ook 6 boys over to
the ballfield t o repair the fence,scrape
_the diamond, and _put it in
playing condit ion .
Mr . H olbrook ’ s n inth grade havebeen diagramm ing sentences in E ng
Mr . Carr iker inspected the raftersof the school house. R oger Car ter
helped him on this job .
l i sh . T hey have just fini shed a chapt er in health about the; “teeth .” T heyhave also had 2 movies on t eeth fromthe State H ealth D ept . In sciencethey have been study ing the format ion of the ear th and al l the ages
t hat great changes t ook place. In
math they have been studying per
centage problems and “T hr ifty"
Buy
ing .
”
T he school purchased a new filmst r ip projecter and $300 wor th of
filmst r ip s . These include; sc ience,univer se, E ngli sh, his tory, insect s ,and Amer ican P ioneer H eroes .
Mr . Wentz’s s ixth grade have been
studying R oman H ist ory and on re
lat ion t o this they have made a cast leout of cement and rocks . T he cast lew ill have a courtyard and all the
impor tant places in a real medevial
cast le.
ST . PATRI CK’ S DAY PROGRAM
PRE SE NT E DMr . Rus sell ’ s fifth and e ight
grades present ed a chapel programon F r iday, March 1 6, in honor of
S t . Pat r ick .T he program opened with a devo
t ional by J . C . Jump who read the
24th Psalm . T he audience t hen joined in singing, “T his I s My F ather’ s
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Wor ld.
” A welcomewas then given
by Ar thur Bowden.
The st ory of St . Pat r ick ’ s Day wast hen t old by Car l Coll ins . T his wasfollowed by a sk it , ent i t led, “TheStory of S t . Pat r ick ’ s D ay”. In the
sk it E ugene H uffman played the
par t“
of Dan, James Conrad por trayed the part of June. Jerry was played by Jerry Somerset t .
After the play Joe Black recit ed
a poem ent i t led, “St . Patr ick ’ sL and
”. J immy H oneycut t rec i ted the
poem,
“T he R eturn of S t . Patr ick”.
A monologe, “Mike’ s R eward”, was ABOU T DOGSg iven by Rober t Wil lard. The mono
logue was fol lowed by other poems .T hese were:
“The Com ing of the
Shamr ock” by B i lly .Cofifey ,“The
L i t t le People” by A llen Grant ; TheBig Parade
” by D ouglas Ingram ;and
“The Perfect Cure” by E dgarShepherd.
T he concluding part of the pro
gram was a sk it with E dward H or
rige, Boyd Montgomery, and Char lesW i seman par t icipat ing . Th i s sk i twas very humorous and entertain ing.
By Rober t Wi llard
oU R BE ST WORKIn our third grade room we have, W i ll iam L ay , third grade
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When an old gent leman wagg les his head and says : Ah, so I t hough twhen I was your age, It is not though t an answer at all i f the young manretorts : ”My venerab le snr, so shal l I most probab l y t h ink w hen I am yours .”And yet the one is as good as the other.
Crabbed Age and Youth
“Our best work” bullet in board. We
put up E ngl i sh, spell ing and arithme
t ic ou it . Somet imes it may not lookt oo good to other s but it i s our bestwork and we are proud of it . We
must have a perfect paper withoutm i stakes , and it must be neat and
well wr it ten . .Some of us have not hadany work up there yet , but we ar e st i llt rying and perhaps we can make it thenext t ime.
—R egg ie Cofer , T h ird Grade
In the th ird grade we have madea study of dogs . Most of us like dogsand have one at home. We saw a good
mov ie about a W irehaired T err iernamed “But tons . H is master was
good t o him and taught him manyt r icks . We learned how to t reat our
dog so t hat he would be happy . Ourreading book “L ucky” was also in
terest ing. I t i s about a Coll ie and we
learned the d ifferent t rait s of dogsand their smar tnes s .I th ink that we boys can be bet ter
master s f or our dogs if we try to do
what we have learned in school aboutdogS
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36 BOYS ADMITTED TO SCHOOL32 BOYS RELEASED TO GO HOME
According t o the r ecord in the
off ice of the super intendent 36 boyswere adm i t ted t o the school dur ingthe month of March . Boys admit ted
-t o the school were; Cur t i s BenjaminLucas , D onald Pr ivate, T ed Brown
L edbet ter , T homas E dward Jenkins ,Rober t Warren Munger Jr . , L aw
erence H erman Munger , Ray Wat sonPaxt on, T ommy L ee W illiams , R ober t M i t chell Mault sby, F loyd Dan ielConner , D onald Car lt on Cook, PaulPerkins , James Archie Grooms , E ddie L ee Burns , I ra D ew i t t L angleywas readm i t t ed, James George Y oungJr . , Billy Brown Johnson, Paul JosephW i llard was also readmit ted, L eon
A shley T r immons, D av id F rankl inDupkoski, W illiam D onald Braswell ,Grady Car l Gordon J r . , T homas L eeO ldham , Joseph L ewi s Stone was re
adm i t ted, Raymond E dward James ,Ver lin Ewar t , Dav id H ugh Rathbone,T homas S ingleton, J r . , R ober t L ee
Presnell, L umus Wayne E st er , Jr . ,
Paul Grant Owensby , Jay H arrold
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“
H i story after all is the story of peop le: a statement that might seem too
obv ious to be worth mak ing i f it were not for the fact t hat h i story so oftenis presented in terms of vast incomprehens i b le forces mov ing far underthe surface, carry ing human be ings along, he l p less , and mak ing themconform to a pattern w hose t rue shape t hey never see. The pattern doesex ist , often enough , and i t i s important to trace it . Yet it is good to remem
ber'
that it is the peop le whomake the pattern, not the other way around.
Bruce Catton
Pressley, John W ilbur Shadr ick wasreadm i t ted, Car l David Call, D elmarSheet s , and Namon Sheet s .Boys released from the school
were; S teven Y ork Brawley, R obertPat r ick Staten, W ill iam R ogersSykes , Clyde Russell Bennet t , J immyL loyd Canter , Joseph R obert Qu ick,Char l ie Bradford H orne, _
D octor
T homas Greer , Keneth L ee Jackson,
L ester Radford Norman, W i ll iamRalph H arp , Claude T ownsel, JamesE dward Bent ly, Alonzo Maney, JohnC lifford Maney, H ilton L ee Br i t t ,Char les T homas Jackson, L arry Daniel L amber t , James C
'
enery Tar t t ,
D onald Ray A llen, James E dward
J'ohnson, Jerome E r ic Seagroves ,Char les A l len H arr i s , H arold D ean
Padget t , James F ranklin Sm i th , E ar lL loyd H ollingswor th, L arry E ugeneL amb, Junious Ray R ivenbark, H esterWill ie D eese Jr . , Cleemiller BuddyPierce, Bobby E ar l Dai l .
—Jerry Garren
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Twelve T op Scorers
Point s
F inal Stand ings
—O O-ozo-OO
IS TH IS LOG I’
K?
What ’ s a doub le petunia?We l l , a:petu'
nia is a f lower begonia.
Begonia is a meat l i ke sausage.
A sausage and batter-y is a crime.
Monkeys cl imb t rees.
Trees a crowd
A rooster crowed in the morning and made a nonseA noise is on your face l i ke your eyes;The eyes is the oppos i te of the nays and has a colt;You get aco ld and go to bed and you awake the next a.
ddub le petunia.
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FARM AND TRADE NEWSMr . L iske and the boys in the
cafeter ia do a huge job of prepar ingand serving over three hundred boysat each meal . T he boys have one pintof m i lk at each meal . I t takes about1 50 pounds of meat to serve these:hungry youngst ers . I f ch icken is ser
ved it t ake-s fifty chickens t o serveone meal . I t also takes 8 count ry hamst o make one meal . T he desser t s consist of ice cream twice a week, on
T hursdays, and Sundays , cakes , p ies ,pudding, and sliced pineapples . Mr .
L iske has four new boys learn ing to
serve food on the serv ing lines .—James Conrad
—ooooo
M r . T 'homkinson and the boys on
t he barn force are taking care of the
cat t le, mules , and hogs . Mr . T homkinson has s ix boys in the morningand eight in the aft ernoon. T here are
for ty cow s which the barn forcefeeds and water s . T hey are also looking after t hree new calves . The boystake care of the barns and keep thecows and pigs fed and watered. Re
cent ly t here were 1 5 new p igs addedt o the hog herd. T hese lit t le fellowsare real cute.
—James Conrad—ooooo
Mr . N ovobi lski is the laundry su
pe'
rVisor and i s in charge of elevenboys in the morning and eleven boysin the afternoon. Mr . N ovabilski and
his crew are do ing a f ine job. T h i sis one of the b iggest jobs at Jackson
—J am~es Conrad—ooooo
Plant Beds
T raining School . T here are severalmach ines which are very delicat e,such as the mangle. T he guide on thismachine keeps the apron in l ine and
i s very delicate t o work w i th . The
guide must be checked and t ightenedevery day it i s used. On these machines all bear ings must be well lubr icated. The latches on the door ofthe lit t le wash ing machine needs replac ing. T -hey have ordered new onesand they should be in shor t ly. Thedryer s must not be overloaded. T h ingssuch as these are given careful not ice by Mr . N ovobilski because if thedryers were over-loaded the clotheswould not dry .
Mr . N ovabilski has a suggest ionthat the boys take al l content s out
of their pocket s such as nai l s , bolt s ,and screws before send ing them t o
t he laundry . I f a nai l was to get out
of the pocket into the washer theother clothes would be torn. Mr .
N ovabilski would al so appreciate itif the boys would send the ir dresssh irt s in a bundle on the day the
sheet s are sent .
Mr . R ouse and the boys on the
plant beds are do ing a f ine job of
t ransplant ing. Mr . R ouse has elevenboys in the morn ing and f ifteen inthe afternoon. The boys are tak ingtomato plant s from the seedlingbeds or hot beds and plant ing themin cold frames before set t ing them
22 THE UPL I FT
in the f ields . Marglobes, Rutgers , andEar linias are the tomatoes beingt ransplanted. The boys , with Mr .
R ouse’ s help have transplanted aboutplan-t s and many more are
t o be transplanted. F rom the t ime
the plant s are sowed it takes fourand one half months unt i l matur ity .T he tomat o plant s w i ll be set in
fields about Apr i l 20th and we w i llhave r ipe tomatoes by June 25th . Mr .
R ouse and the boys are taking care
of the Black Beauty egg plant s wh ichare do ing n icely and w i ll be set out
on May l st . T he let tuce and radishesare com ing up and w i ll be ready fort ransplant ing in the very near future.
Mr . R ouse and the boys have one bed
of cabbage, ear ly and lat e var iet ies ,wh ich can be set soon.
—J ames Conrad—ooooo
The boys that have been workingin the mach ine shop , have been verybusy for the last few days . T hey have —Bob-by McClure
been work ing on the t rucks . The
O OO :OOO
Be honest w i th yourse l f, w hatever the temptat ions may be; say nothing to others t hat you do not t h ink , and p lay no tricks wi t h your own mind.
O f all the ev i l - spi rits abroad in the world, ins inceri ty is the most danger—Se lected
D odge t ruck broke an axle and dam
aged the t ransm iss ion. T hey havebeen busy work ing on th is job. T heyalso have been working on the F ord
t ruck . We th ink the boys are do inga good job w i th Mr . H inson. The
'
boys that work there are Goldman.
Cheatham, Jerry Somer set , MaxieT eal, F reddie Vadase, Carol Tay lor ,H erber t Lucas , Pete Cumming and
Ronn ie M inter .
—Bobby McClure
—ooooo
Mr . Russell and h i s crew of boyshave been do ing a good job car ingf or the ch ickens . T hey feed the chickens twice a day and get about fourhundred and sixt y eggs per day . T heyhave about 1 20 old hens and 525
young hens . T he boys that help Mr .
Russ ell are Ray H uffman, Ray Pegut
son, L eroy Gent ry, Will iam Ph i lp,Douglas James , John R ichardson andV irgi l Shular .
24 THE UPL I FT
SCRAMBLED NORTH CAROL INA C IT IESCAN YOU UNSCRAMBLE THEM?
By Bobby McClure and James ConradT o t est your ab i l i ty t o unscramble
the scrambled Nor th Carolina Cit ieswe have scrambled below twenty-fivec i t ies . So out with the maps , dic
t ionarys , and ab i l i t ies , see if you
can beat the exper ts .
Nor th Carolina C it ies and T owns
O A T E H C T L R
S I A T N O A G
Y A V L S
D O C O R N C
S B Y R IA U L S
H A R I E L G
L A H E L I V E S
Y L E L F A V E T E T I
O S R N E R G O E B
G O L S R O D O B
S B Y H L E
N O N L I L C N O T
H N O E S N R D E
N C T N O A
fi . Y V E L LW N E L A S
1 6 M D A U H R
N . N M O R O A G N T
1 8 X G N I O T E L N
1 9 Y R T O
% . R Y U P H MI
N O I M R A
TL R E N O
N W T N Q E
24 K C Y O H I R
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In case you fai l t o unscramblethe c i t ies we w i ll pr int the answer sin the next i s sue along with morescrambled Nort h Car olina c i t ies foryou to t est your skill .
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Select ed by John Bonner
MEMOR I E S AR E MAD E O F T H I ST ake one fresh and tender kiss .Add one st ole-n night of bliss .O ne gir l , one boy ;
Some gr ief, some joyMemor ies are made of this .D on
’t forget a small moonbeam ,
F old it light ly w ith a dream .
Y our lips and mine,Two sip s of w ine.
Memor ies are made of this .T hen add the wedding bells ,One house where lover s dwell .T hree lit t le kids for the flavor .
St ir caref’lly thru the days ;
See how the flavor stays .T hese are the dreams you will savor .
H is blessings from above,Serve it gen
’rously with love.
One man, one wife, one love thru life.
Memor ies are made of this .Memor ies are made of th i s .
SEVE N DAY SSeven days , seven days and there’ s
not a word from you
Seven days w ithout loveT ell me what am I t o do.
Seven days I have cr iedH ow I long t o feel your touchW-hy
’d you go, Why ’ d you st ray
Seven days , seven daysI have been in m iserySeven days , lonely “
daysD ar ling, please come back to me.
T U T T I F RU TT I
T ut t i frut t i au rut t iWop
-bop-a-loom ~b0 p-a4boom-b‘am
boom tut t i frut t iAu rut t i tut t i frut t i au rut t i tut t i
When I loved you, oh, so much !T he ph one won
’t r ing at al l
T he clock is standing st illMy t ear s are like the rain dropsU pon my window sill .Seven days , lonely daysI have walked the floor f or youSeven days , seven daysWon
’t you please say you ’
re st i ll t rue.
Au rut t i tut t i frut t i au rut t i tut t ifrut t i
Au rut t i wop-bop-a- loom -bop-a-boom
ham -boomGot ta go can
’t st op down t o the candy
shopI’ve got ta go
'
can’t
' st op and get me a
cream pop
D on’t want vani lla or
_st raw-berry t oo
Want the same kind of f lavor whenI’m k i s sing you
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Tut t i frut t i au rut t i I seem t o be what '
I’m '
not , you see
But I’m wearin
’ my hear t like a clownY ou
’re the one I miss Pretend ing that you ’
re st i ll aroun’
I got ta tell you th i sOh you ’
re the one I m i ss I m i ss H E ARTBRE AK H OT E L
And the flavor of your k i ss :1 don
’t mean cherry
With chocolate chipsI mean the same kind of flavoryour sweet lip s :
Won’t you be my date
And baby don ’t be lat e
Oh won’t you be my date
And share my ice cream plateW ithout your kisses th i s is all I
’ve
got
Just an im i tat ion flavor of you knowwhat
TH E GR E AT PRE T E NDE ROh yes, I
’m the great pretenderPretend ing I ’m doing wel lMy need i s ~ such I pretend too muchI’m lonely but none can tel l
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender
Adr ift in a wor ld of my own
1 play the game but t o my real shame
Y ou’ve left me to dream al l alone
T oo real i s this feeling of make bel ieveT oo real when I feel what my hear t
can’t conceal
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughin’and gay l ike a clown
All mank ind is d iv ided into t h ree classes : t hose t hat are immovab le;t hose t hat are movab le, and t hose t hat move .
—Beniamin Frank l in
N ow s ince my baby left meI’ve found a new place to dwellD own at the end of L onely StreetA t H ear tbreak H otelI’m so lonely, I ’m so lonelyI’m so lonely that I could die
And tho’it
’s al l ways crowded
Y ou can st i ll find some room
F or broken hear ted lover sT o cry there in the gloomAnd be so lonely, oh so lonely,Oh so lonely they could die !
T he bellhop ’ s t ear s keep flowing,
The desk clerk ’ s dressed in black,T hey ’ve been so lonely on L onelySt reet
T hey never w i ll go back,And they ’ re so lonely, oh they ’ re so
lonelyT hey ’ re so lonely they pray to die.
So if your baby leavesAnd you have a tale to tellJust take a walk down L onely S treetT o H ear tbreak H otelWhere you ’ ll be lonely and I
’ ll be
lonely,We
’ ll be so lonely that we could die.
28 THE UPL IFT
FUN AND OTHERW ISE .
(Bi ts of humor clipped from exchanges and gathered fromother publications , wi th an occasional or iginal funny-bone
t ickler added. )
I not ice t hat in telling about thefish you caught , you vary the s izeof it f or different l i stener s .Y es , I never t ell a man more than
I think he wil l believe .
OOozoOO
Mother was t elling her smal l sonabout the good t imes she had whenshe was a lit t le gir l—r iding a pony,sliding down a haystack, and wad ingin a brook at the farm .
“Mother ,” he said at last w ith a
sign,
“I wi sh I ’d met you ear l ier ! ”
Ooo :oOO
Said a local t eacher , N ow ,Bobby,
t ell me which month of the year hastwenty-eight days in it . Bobby hadforgot t en, but after a moment of
deep th ink ing, he shouted, “T hey al lhave.
OOozoOO
An old Negro mammy went to thev illage lawyer and said she want ed
t o get a divorce from her husband.
T he lawyer inqu ired‘as t o 'what
ground-s she wanted t o take . suchact ion. She repl ied, “
Cause he’s
done got religion, an’ we ain ’
t had
a chicken on de table fo six weeks .OOozoOO
Mother Cat was a tyrant to her
children. I t got so bad that one of the
kit tens was finally heard complaining :
“Can
’t I live one of my own
lives ? ”
OOozoOO
said his mother , help ingSonny,
him w ith h i s homework , “how muchare 7 and“Twelve” said Sonny .N ot bad for a lit t le shaver
,
” hisfather volunt eered, “he only mis sedit by
OOo:oOO
Aft er giving the pr ivat e a dres sing down for being so late in re
turning w ith the supplies , the ser
geant demanded,“Okay, let ’ s hear
how it happened, Miller .
”
Well , I picked up a chaplain alongthe road, explained the woebegonerookie, “and from then on the mulescouldn ’
t under stand a word I said.
”
OOo :oOO
The village blacksm ith had justhired an as sistant , and was inst ructing the boy in his new dut ies . “N ow,
he said, “I ’m going t o br ing t hishor seshoe from the fire and put it
on the anvil . When“
I nod my headyou hit it w i th t his big hammer .
T he assistant did just what he wastold, and now he
’s the village black
sm i th .OOozoOO
I t had rained hard. T he windsh ieldwas sprayed with muddied wat er
and the car had narrow ly escapedseveral collis ions . “Wouldn’
t it be
a good idea t o wipe of f the w indshield ? ” asked the anxious pas senger .
“N ot worth the bother , repl ied
the dr iver , cheerfully, left my
glasses at home.
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FARM “
AND TRADE HONO R ROLL
T ractor F orce
D anny Sm i thJohn L ee
J . W . WilksonL oyd T homasCeci l KingH arold R ichArchie MedfordO t is JacobsJimmie H oneycut tRalph CreasmanJCardel Oxedine
Cleat ive Oxedine
Car l JohnsonJames SmithWayne Jenk insCot t on MillGarry BeatyA lvin Craw leyBob-by T odd
W il liam L ay
Char lie AndersonR aymond R oseberryF redd ie Morr i sWarren Car ter
R ex BellF arm
O scar Car ter
R o'ber t McL amb
J . B . Sheet sWillie Ingram
St eve L ance
F loyd D et terPaul DockeryJ . W . GoreWayne Bennet tKenneth BlackH oward H ardee
John Burns
MARCH
D on McM il lian
E dgar H uf fst icklerR eggie CoferAr thur Bowden
H oward: M cGrady
McK inley L ocustClyde Andrew sSher idan BeckJohn H ardee
Sandy CanadyBuddy Mc
-L aur inJames L am‘bH orace L oweryL arry VernonChar les JamesBuddy Par sonPoult ry F orceD ouglas JamesR ay F ergusonRay H uf fmanL eroy Gent ryI nfirmaryPhil H olmesMason BraswellBarn F orce
T ruit t McCall
James L anningH arold GaineyClaude WebbE ar l Sm i thT ommy T hompsonGerald E arneyR ichard GraysonC leon MasonMeat Cut t ingWentwor th JamisonCar l CollinsBobby MetcalfD ouglas I ngram
Sam A ldr idgeBenny SuggsBarber ShopT roy BlackwellBilly CoffeyJames Stewar tMack F loweShoe S hopE dgar SheperdF loyd CallowayPlant Beds
Jimmy BoldenBill CannonW illiam GlissonH arvey H udsonJack ie L uptonR alph NormanD anny SmallBilly Sm i thR ichard WallsVer lon D ockeryBobby JoynerF reddie L i t t leH aywood L uptonSpurgen McMasters
E ar l MorganJohnny Postel lL ou i s Sm i thF rank ie Suit sD onald Weaver
DairyN o H onor R ollSew ing R oom
T eddy H oglenE veret te H oglenLaundryW i lliam Reece
Cur t i s T ru it tB i lly Joe H aney
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H arry NealKenneth HagerC larence BeatyJ . C . JumpB i lly StylesW i llie D eeseBil l JohnsonE dsel ChurchE ugene H uffmanE lr idge W inder s
COTTAGE HONOR ROLL
MARCH
R eceiving Cot tage
Wayne Bennet t
Cot tage N o. 1
Goldman CheathamJerry Somer set tMaxie T ealF red Vadase
Cot tage N o. 2
B i lly Pruit tCur t is T ru it tCot tage N o. 3
Sam A ldr idgeWarren Car ter
Calv in PeelerTerry St rangeBobby StevensCot tage No. 4
Ralph CreasmanC l ifford WoodruffCot tage
“N o. 6
Bil ly . _Be'
1t
Roy F ergusonL eroy Gent ryRay _H uffmanRalph ‘James
Gene RadfordRansom Wat sonJames ArrowoodT homas L amber tL arry Sm i thH erman StylesCarpenter ShopF rank H elmsGeorge T hornburgMalcom CarrolF rank McManus
Car l D ean Sheet sD onald Wood
Cot tage N o. 7
D alton L ew i sJerry Man'
shac'
k
R o‘ber t McL amb
Danny Sm i thJessie TaylorCot tage N o. 9
Sheridan BeckRegg ie CoferJerry Rud i sellCar l Sm i t hGeorge ThornburgCot tage N o. 1 0
Stephen ,
” L unsfordChar les W i semanB i lly MooreCot tage N o. 1 1
Bill CannonR ober t ColonW i ll iam Gl i ssonW i lbur H allF red K ingJackie Lupton
“
No . 5 Vo l. 44
o MO THERS O F THE HUMAN RACE
0 Mothers of the Human Race,
Who, in the b i rth ing of our breath ,The uttermost of suffering face,
And touch of the very hem of death ,W i l l younot mot her all mank indInto one all-material mind?
0 Mothers of the Human Race,
Whose mi l k is universal bread,As all-sustaining as the grace
O f the heart ’ s universal red,
W i l l you not feed us w i th the foodO f love for all the human brood?
O Mothers of the Human Race,
Protesters of our infant years ,Who wooed us to our f irst embrace,
And taught us laughter of our tears ,Teach us the gesture and thegleeO f theWorld Lovet hat is to '
be l
Robert Wh itaker
—Published Monthly ByT he Pr int ing Class of the Stonewall Jackso:Manual T raining and I ndust r ial Schoo‘
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A MONTHLY JONRNAL
Publiabed By
The authority of the Stonewal l Jackson Manual T raining and Industr ial Sch oolType-nett ing by the Boya’ Print ing Cla
Subacript ion
1 36 316 1 1 c 3. 1397.
STAFF
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
Mrs . Wanda Ho l brookMrs. Agnes YarbroughAssociate Editors
James H . Furr
Print ing” Instructor
STUDENT REPORTERS
W i l bur Hal lBobby McC lure
Robert W i l lardJames Conrad
LINO'
I'
YPE OPERATORS
John BonnerRobert WillardWilbur Hall
Tv o Dol lar the Year, in AdvanceAcceptance for mail ing a special rat e
CO NTENTS
EDITO RIAL
CAMPUS NEWS
SCO UTS ACTIV ITIES
CO TTAGE N EWS
FARM AND TRADE NEWS
MO THER’
S DAY
SCHO O L RO OM NEWS
SUNDAY SERV ICE
KNOW YO UR CO UNTRIES
SO NGS
COTTAGE HO NO R RO LL
SCHO O L HO NO R RO LL
FARM AND-TRADE H O NO R RO LL
8—I 0
I I—I 2
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20—22
23—25
27—28
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mentals in the beg inning and t here w i l l be no necess i ty for‘
Startingp ver.‘
W i th the foundat ion so l id l y bui l t and the framework erected,be S Ure
to give your house a roof to keep out the bad weather. Th i s is extreme l yimportant . De lay in roof ing O fter
‘
f'
results“
in'
so much damage t hat thebui lder th row s up his hands and qui t s . Don’
t let th i s happen to you. Hal fa house is no house at all. It i s impos s i b le to l ive in it . There are no com
plete f loors , no ce i l ings , no w indow s . Yet t h i s is the very th ing t hathappens in the bu i ld ing Of many educat ion houses . The bui lder becomesd iscouraged and abandons h i s pro ject . The shell O f the house-that-was-toibe remains l i ke a scar on the educat ional road "
Those see ing your fai lure,are d i scouraged and remark to themse lves . If t h is IS w hat comes O f
attempt ing to get an educat ion, it is foo l i sh for me to t ry_. Your fai luret hus becomes a source O f d iscouragement to ot hers . O n the other hand,i f you cont inue to bu i ld your educat ion. house, w hen f ini shed it w i l l be an
insp i rat ion to others to do l i kew i se . The l igh t from your w indow s wCheer t hem along the road .
CAMPUS NEWS
MR . R I CH ARD CH A SE VI SI TSCOT TAGE S N O . 8 AN D N O . 1 0 "
On Sunday April. 8, 1 956, Mr . R ichard Chase, noted Amer ican folklor i st ,visited Cot tages N o. 8 and N o. 1 0 .
M r . Chase _has t raveled f or a good
many year s and has been t ell ing folks tor ies that have been handed down
verbally f or many generat ions . H e
is the author of _many books Suchas :
“Jack T ales”, “Grandfather T ales”,“H ullabuloo
”, and singing folk games .
Mr . Chase det ermind that these . tales,which were slowly being forgot ten,
shouldn ’t be lost . T raveling the
mountains , he has for year s notedthem down together wi th folk gamesand songs . H e t ells the t ales, complete with mountain words and ac
cent s , in his programs , and" '
taht’s
where we come in—for a t reat .
When he arr ived at Cottage"
N o .
8 we were all sit t ing around the p iano list ening to Bobby Wat t s “of Cottage N o. 8 play. H e came in and sat
down in the back and said, “play some
thing a wh i le t he program got underway . H e asked if anyone could play the harmonica. Severalof the boys? s ‘aid R . E . Weather s ofCot tage N o. 1 0 could play one. Mr .
Chase gave R . E . a harmonica and R .
E . proceeded t o play while Mr . Chase “
looked on. When R . E . f ini shed he
surpr i sed us all by playing a snappysong himself . Af ter the harmonica
bit he challenged any of Us to a“ly
ing cont est . E d H orr idge of Cot tage
N o. 1 0 said -he would take him up on
that . "Mr . Chase star ted with the
story ‘
L
of“The Best '
Rabbit D og In
The then E d counterpuncli
edwi th “The T ale '
Of The Two Twins” .
Mr . Chase won the contest by a largemargin s ince he“holds” the t it le of“the biggest liar in five s tates
”.
Mr . Chase i s admired by the yoimgand ol d alike and i s a ffect ionat elyknown as
“U ncle D ick” to the’ younger set .
“U ncle D ick” carr ied a . gree
'
n
bag which contained al l Of his “playepret t ies” . In this -bag was a set of
jack st icks that were carved by a
man that had the (use of one hand on;
ly .
’
T hese s t icks were carved in every “
conceivable fash ion . T here was “
an
auger bit , an apple but t er paddle, a
syt he blade, and many other int eresting things .We
_al l enjoyed Mr
'
. Chase ’ s vi s i tand are look ing forward to hav ing himb'
a'
Ck wi th us c agam .
J erry Garren
H ONOR GROU P SE ES GL OBET R OT E R S
_
Ou T hur sday night , Apr i l 5, 1 956,40 boys were invited to the Coliseumin Char lot t e. T hey
'
Saw'
the wor ld ‘
s‘
er
ies of basketball played by the H ar
lem Globet roters and the A l l S tars
of f -t he colleges -T he boys t hat went
were from cot tages one through number thirt een that made the honor roll
hundred fifty to two hundred gameseach year without los ing over two or
'
6 THE UPL I FT
three games . T hey get their name
from going all over the Wor ld play ingbasketball . E ach year the Globetrot
ers and the All Star s go all over the
U nited States playing their games .
T hey play in about twent y differentc i t ies . T he t eam that w ins most of thegames i s the champion. The Globet roter s do a lot . of clown ing wh i let hey are out on the cour t playing bal l .T he n ight we went to the ’ball game
we -saw more th ings than the basket
ball game that we‘
re exci t ing . Dur ingthe half t ime we saw a Japanesewoman r iding a bicycle, she could doal l kinds of t r icks on it . We al so saw
a man w i th some educat ed hoops . H ecould throw them out and they wouldgo around a small circle and then go
in and lie down . H e could throw themon a str ing and t hey would hop fromone str ing to another .
Mr . H inson, Mr . L ent z, Mr . R ob inson and Mr . Cheek went with us to
the ball game. Mr . Crocket t , the promoter , gave us the t icket s to the game.
We all want t o thank him for the en
joyable even ing.
—R alph Creasman
SPOR T S AT J .T .S .
S ince the cold weather has gone
we have “stopped playing basketball .
OOO:OO O
Paul Culler
He who keeps his mind on his work goes ahead; he who keeps hiswork onhis mind goes crazy .
Mr . L entz gave out . the t rophiesto the w inners of the baskeball and
vol leyball,
t ournament s . In the“C”
league N o. 9 won the basketbal lt rophy . In the “B” league N o. 1 5 wonthe basketbal l t rophy . In the “A”
league N o. 1 0 won the volleyballt rophy and they al so won the basketbal l t rophy . Cot tage N o. 7 won the
Spor t smansh ip” t rophy . Some pr izeswere given t o the best spor t s in al l
t hree leagues .N ow we have started playing
softbal l . A t school each grade goes
t o the gym twice a week for a 30
minute period. A t first we just t ooksome bat t ing and field ing pract ice.
Now we have chosen sides and weare playing. We have an and
D group after school . E very afternoon from unt il each groupplays softball , volleyball, or dodge
ball,
About the second week in Aprileach cot tage was g iven a softballand a bat . T he cot tages haven’
t started playing softball games yet . We
are looking forward t o hav ing a
good' soft ball
,t ournament,
r
‘between
the cot tages t h i s summer .
W i th t his warm weather com ingwe are hop ing the swimm ing poolcan be opened.
a meet ing at the Scout R oom . Mr .
R eadling and Mr . H inson showed us
how t o t ie knot s , start fires w i thfl int and steel, and sharpen an axe.
T hey al so helped us with our oath,laws , and pledge of allegiance.
—Gilber t Keetch
WH AT J . T . S . H AS T AU GH T ME
F ir st of all I have learned t o use
UPL IF T
COTTAGE NEWSSPR ING CL E ANING AT N O . 1 0
Since spr ing has arr ived and the
weather is get t ing a lit t le m i lder , thecot tages at J . T . S . are t ry ing t o
clean up the ir yards . One cot tage thatI know of i s N o . 1 0 . We of N o. 1 0
are st r iv ing to make the grounds around our cot tage one of the best looking on the campus .Mr . L iske brought one of h i s lawn
mower s from his farm . And w i th itwe are cut t ing almost everyth ing thatis not too rocky or h i lly to cut . I t cer
tainly makes a lot of d if ference in
the way it looks now and the way it
used t o look.Out near our dog lot , there was a
patch of ground without much grass .Instead of put t ing gras s seeds t here,Mr . and Mrs . L i ske decided to makeseveral flower beds . T here are f ivein al l and ins tead of complain ing, the
boys and Mr . and Mr s . L i ske star tedt o work . We have just about f in i shedthem.
T here were a lot of tall bushesbetween the road and the cot tage,
—R . . E . Weather s
COT TAGE N O . 1
my manners in al l ways,I have learn
ed t o behave myself and t o stay out
of t rouble, to keep neat and clean;not only myself ‘
but my locker in the
cot tage, and my bed. My work at thedin ing hall i s neat and clean and
every thing I do now i s done in a
nice clean way and it i s done that waybecause the supervisor s at t h i sschool have taught me how t o do i t ;
—James Chr i sco
so three boys, Steve L unsford, E ar lSt evens , and I , cut them down to
about 3 or 4 feet above the ground.
Mr . Brown, Mr . L i ske and severalother boys t ook the limbs down t o
the t rash p i le.
When summer comes we hope thatour flower beds w i ll have pret ty flowers so that we w i ll know t hat our
effor t in prepar ing them wasn ’t
wasted.
E very year about th i s t ime Mr .
and Mrs . H inson, and the boys of Cottage
“
N o. star t digg ing up the
flower beds and the garden. We
plant just about every k ind of floweror vegetable that you can th ink of .
T h i s year on the r ight hand s ide of
the cot tage we have rose bushes ,hedges , and a few colorful flower s .O n the left hand s ide of the cot tage
along the s ide of the road, Mr . H in
son has set out seven Big Boy t ree
tomatoes . T hese tomato plant s get
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as high as a man ’ s head. T heseplant s are com ing along just f ine.
L ast year the same kind of plants .
were set . The tomatoes t hat the plantproduced were giant in size; and verydelicious . R ight below these tomat oeswe
‘
have our rose bushes . T hese rosebushes are a few year s O ld. T hereare about eight of them . T hese rose’ sare very pret ty, -
'
when they bloom .
D own below the'
roses we have our
garden . I t i s a very pret ty garden.
I t i s out lined with br icks . And it wasbuilt by Mr . H inson. In this. gardenwe have onions , let tuce, car rot s,rad i shes , flower s, and four rosebushes We planted some cucumber salso, but due to the change in the
weather , they didn ’t come out of the
ground. Below the garden we havefour more rose bushes . T hese rosebushes are also very beaut iful whilein bloom . In front of the cot tage thereare several smal l wat er oak t rees . We
have dug around three of these t rees ,but as of yet we haven ’
t planted any
thing under them . We al so cut down
the two large cedar . t rees in front of
the cot tage. T his gives us more playing space. Mr . and Mrs . H inson haveput forth a lot of effor t “
t rying t o
make our cottage look more beaut iful .T he boys of Cot tage 1 wish t o thankMr . and Mr s . H inson for mak ing our
cot tage a more beaut iful place to
l ive in.
H uffst icklerRE CE IVING COT TAGE OCCU PI E S
The boys of Cot tage N o. 1 6 havebeen very busy since we moved to
our new cot tage. We have been busyplacing furniture and other thingsin conven ient places . After things werest raightened out , the boys seemed to
enjoy the new cot tage very much .M r . H ender son and the boys havebeen hauling gravel on Saturdayevenings t o f ix up the play grounds .The grounds look' much bet ter now
and are a'bet ter place f or the boys
to play . We put up new basketballgoals and layed Off a cour t and cov
ered,it w i th gravel . One of the t rac
tor fOrce boys leveled it Of f w ith a
drag . We knew basket ball was out
of season '
but the boys st i ll enjoyplaying it very much .
We built a new park at the backof cot tage 8 t o eat in and built new
tables and benches t o make eat ingmore convenient . We put up a smal l
' stove and Mr s . H ender son furni sheda gi ill t o go on the stove. T h i s makeseat ing more enjoyable and al so helpsthe looks of the campus .Mr . and Mrs . H enderson have been
very busy fixing things up for the
boys so they can enjoy themselveswhile in the receiving cot tage and t o
make it more pleasant for them . I
know the boys appreciate this and
would like t o thank them_ Wayne Bennet t
NO . 1 H AS SPE CI AL SU PPE ROn Saturday aft ernoon the 2 l st of
Apr il, ,
thej‘b
‘
toys of cot tage N o. 1 were
very glad to have w i th them a group_Of people from the Center GroveMethodi st Church of Concord. T hese
' people went t o the t rouble of f ixing'
a supper and br ing ing it out t o us .
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We had such things as sandwiches,cake, dr inks , potato chips , deviledeggs , hot dogs, and many ot her goodthings t o eat . Al l of the boys foundt heir favor ite foods on the table.
E veryone ate his share of the foodand there was plenty left over . T he
boys of Cot tage '
N O . 1 would sincerelyl ike to thank these people for goingt o so much t rouble for us . We hopethey can come and vi sit "
us again soon .
—B . H uffst ickler R . Willard
Mr . Rouse and the boys of N O . 1 1
have a bee hive at their cot tage. The
boys are studying the bees , we are
looking forward t o the day that wewill get t o eat the honey out Of the
hive .
T he bee hive has glass sides so W e
can see the bees working inside the
hive. T his type hive is called an“Ob
servat ion hive.
”T he bees are working
very hard t o make some honey and thequeen bee i s laying eggs t o hat chnew bees t o take the place of the old
ones . T he life of a worker 1 5 veryshor t . The places where the boys gotthe bees t o go in our hive was over
at the plant beds . T he boys and Mr .
R ouse went over t o the plant bedsand t ook a rack of bees from one of
Mr . R ouse’ s hive at the beds . Whenwe t ook the rack out of the hivesome bees stayed on the rack
,We
have found bees t o be very int erest ing.
T he bee is a group of living and wor
king insect s . We can learn a lessonin many phases of life from th i s insect . T here are three kinds of bees ina hive . There is a worker bee, whv:br ings In the nectar , and there is a
drone bee. A drone does not work
N O . 9 AN D THE I R SO F TBAL LT E AM
and has lit t le value to the hive exceptt o father the new eggs of the queenbee. A queen bee is the mother of all
the other bees . She lays the eggs t oreplenish the worker s and drones aswell as a new queen when she i sneeded.
Al l the bees in _the hive work f orthe queen
.
bee. T he bees keep the beehive clean al l the t ime. T he queen
—
b ee
i s always working very“ hard doing
her tasks,T he way a bee hive get s
a new queen bee i s she lays a bunchof eggs in cells and when the new
queen bees hat ch they fight and the
one t hat “i s living when they fini shis the queen of the hive . T here can
not be but one queen in a hive at a
t ime. Somet imes two live and one
leads part of t he hive away t o makea new home. T he boys in N O . 1 1 suredo thank Mr . R ouse for let t ing us
have some O f . his bees t o go'
in our
bee hive and taking int erest in us .
We hope that M r . R ouse will havet he best of luck with his bees this year .
—F rankie Suit s
I n N o. 9 cot tage the boys havebeen “
going across the highway t o
t he softball stadium to pract ice ball .Mr . Miller i s our
,
coach and he has
been showing us how to bunt . H e has
been giv ing us bat t ing pract ice, whichhe st resses place hit t ing . I t hink theboys are pret ty good t his year and
are out to Win.
I r ia L angley is our catcher and
Sher idan Beck is our pitcher . The
boys have been learning fast how to
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PL ANT F ORCE
Mr. R ouse and the boys on the plantforce have been doing a nice job of
t i ansplant ing th i s year . T hey havebeen set t ing E ar l iana and Marglobe
t omat o plant s in the field. A lreadyhundreds of plant s have _
‘been set in ;
-n“d
'
many more are
T he Por to R ico potat oes are b eingset in the fields at this t ime.
-T herewill be pepper s and egg plant s of
var ious numbr'fsi to be set in the fields .The weather hasi 'warmed
“up
“and
we think the d anger of fros t has past .
Many boys who_have not had the
exper ience in set t ing plants ar e now
learning to become good p'lant set ter s .
I t t akes One '
boy t o dig holes for theplant's, two boys to water them and
five boys on each row to set the plant s .T here is al so one boy at the end of
the field dipping wat er from a tankwhich i s on a wagon.
M r ._J im Bt own i s watch ing .and
helpingRouse and Mr _ H ender son are see ingthat the plant s are. set correct ly . T hecabbages that were . plante
'
d on F ebru
ary 1 5th are now looking fine. T heywill taste as _good as they look thisfall .
—James Conrad
LAU NDRYMr. N ovob
'
ilski'
is the laundry suu
uu u u
job M r NOvOworking W I th
has four new boysT heir _names are:
‘
J-
esse McN eely , H arold Presley, '
_
'Namon Sheets , and James Connor .
M .r Novobilski wi ll appreciate it
the boys that are_hoeing. Mr .
‘
t hat we eat .
PL ANT BE D S
In January we went into the woodsand got two t ru
'
ck loads of leaf mold.
We had to mix the leaf mold w i thsand . Mr . H enderson ’ s boys put eightinches Of manure in each bed. T he
boys on the plant b'eds put four inchesof leaf mold over the manure.
T he first seeds were sowed Pebruary the f our teent h in the hot beds .T he hot beds -have fert ilizer and leafmold in them . Mr . [R ouse and R ober tJoyner sowed t omato seeds . T he seedswere wat ered ,
each day and glas scover s were. put over
- them . We sowedeggplant s and pepper the next week .T he boys put canvas .over the glass
cover s each night . T he canvas wastaken of f every morn ing t o let the
plant s get some s'
un. The plant s aresprayed and t ransplanted when theyhav
'
e‘
f‘
our leaves on ”
each“ plant . The
t ransplant ing beds hav-e’ the fer t il izerand sand 'mixed
cover s are taken off the
la'
st f of .
5Apr i l . We are plant ing the
t omat o plant s in the f ield now. The
plant“'
be'
dbo'
ys‘a
'lso p ick the vegetablesWe have . one bed of
cabbage that wi ll be planted in the
next month or two
f
—Robert Joyner
if the boys dres ssh irt s ‘
ih ' a bundle and place them on
t Op of the sheets .
'
Anything that wil lhel p the '
laundry b Oys w ill be appreci
ated very m-u'
chi' Please keep all
clothes of the same nature t ogether .
—James Conrad
MOTHER’ S DAY
M other’
s D ay , which wi ll be celebrated the second Sunday in May is fastapproaching. T o be separated fr om ones mother and fami ly tends t o makei t s appreciate them even more. T his is t rue in
“
the ca'
se of the boys on our cam
pus . We asked them t o wr i te ar t icles on what M other’s D ay means to them,
and af ter reading them we think you wi l l agree that our boys appreciate theirmothers
’effor ts for them even more than other boys or gir ls who wi ll .be wi th
E dit or’ s Not e
their mother s on their day .
I f I had listened t o my mother I
would not be"
in the T raining Schoolt oday . She t r ied keep me O lit
'
of
t ro'
uble and I Could“ be" '
at home wi thher now if _I had done like she wanted
me t o . Boys should appr e'
ciate"
their
mother s and what they do for '
them .
— Johnny Post ell, 3rd Grade
Mother ’ s Day help s me think of mymother and t o remember what a goodmother . she has been t o me.
_I love
her very much and would be happyt o
' be home w ith her-again . I know
she would-
be happy to have. me t o
help her and she needs my help .—_Char les James , 3rd Grade
‘
I am thankful that mother is liv ingand . I am for tunat e t hat this is t rue.
Many boys do not have imother s to
pay tr ibute t o on her special day . Mymother is so good t o me and everything-she -has done f or me
'
was in mybest ' int erest , although I . didn ’
t'
thinkso al l the t ime-
'
When I was h ome. She
forgives “me When I d o wrong and' i sthe dearest fr iend I have.
When I was -at‘hOi-‘ne I did all r ight
'
unt il I . star ted staying out of school“.Mother would scold
_me and t ry t o
make me go, but I paid no at tent ion
t o her . F inally I was taken-
t o cour t
and given another chance. I st illwould not do like my mother want edme to do and now I am in the t rainIng ,school. I thought it would be a
relief to get away from home and
not t o hear her say-ing,
“R aymond do
t his , and R aymond don ’t do that .
”
H owever , I was here only a lit t lewhile unt il I realized what it meanst o be away from ' your mother and t o
be .homesick . I am Over this now , but
when I go home I am going t o Obeymy mother and help her al l I can .
—Raymond R oseberry,5th Grade
My mother is very good to me. She
wat ched Over“me
“and she tr ied t o
keep“me'
out of t rouble and get me t o
be good. I wouldn’t list en to her , but
I would t oday “ if I were back w ithher .
—Sandy Canady,“ 3rd Grade
Somet imes boys do not know how to
appreciate their mother s unt il they areaway from them . When I go home I
am going t o Obey my mother in every_way
'
I can and do the things she want sme to. %When I get home I am goingt o t ry t o make her happy .
_ Wesley Pendleton, 3rd Grade
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My mother has been so good to me
I am goin t o t ry t o do someth Ing ni ce
for her on Mother ’ s Day . Perhaps thebest thing I could do would be t o con
duct myself in such a way that she
would be proud of me. She has worked
'hard fO-r me in the past and I w il lt ry t o repay' h'
er by making her proudof me.
—H omer R idings} 3rd Grade
I f I had a mother I know she wouldhelp me t o be honest w ith my work .But my mother i s dead and my fatherhas t o do his best . I f I had a mothert o whom I would list en, I would not
be here at J,T . S . I am sure t hat it
would be nice t o have a mother t o
do -al l the nice t hings which one can
do . My father has done his best byme, but I am sure he does not t akea mother s ’ place. My sist er has t r iedt o take the place of my mot her , but Idon
’t t hink that she could take the
place of her . Mother died when I
was nine mont hs old and I do not
know much about her . SO I w il l havet o be as kind t o my father as I pos
sibly can because he wil l be in heavenwith my mother some day , and I hopeI will be t here t oo. T he boys of N O . 2
t ell me t hat it '
would be'
nice for me
to have a mother . T he boys t el l methat a mother ’ s p lace would be
.
t o
keep you out Of t rouble and t o cookthe meal s for the fam ily . SO I thinkof the mother I never knew on
“Mother ’ s D ay .
”
—Johnny Muse
I f'
I was'
asked, What Mother sDay meansi t o
‘
me,”I woul-d say
“it
means m'
Ore t o me than anything.
”
I t i s the one day Of the year thatwe Show our mother s how much welove them . We usually do this bygiving them gift s of appreciat ion.
I t hink we should have more thanone mother ’ s D ay a year , becauseMother ’ s are always helping us everyday Of the year . We only have one
Mother ’ s Day a year , so we '
can showthem our appreciat ion the whole yearout by being good boys while here at
schooL
My Mother i sn ’t living, but if she
were, I know she would be proud t o
know I Was making a good record for
myself,while here at school . E very
boy here a T raining school can s howhis mother how much he loves herby being good here at school .Mother ’ s D ay was or iginated in the
l 800’s _and was made a nat ional holi
day . Mother’s f -D ay is always the sec
ond Sunday in May and i s celebrat edall over Amer ica.
—BO-bby Wheeler
I could sit here al l day and never
really explain what Mother ’ s Day
means t o me. I have Often t r ied to
put int o words how much my mothermeans to me, but I can
’t seem t o
find enough words t o express it .
Mother ’ s D ay makes me think Of
my mother and how good she alwayswas to me, it makes me think howunder standing she always was and
how she a'
lways seemed t o know how
I felt or what I really want ed to do.
Mot her ’ s D ay reminds me of all the
t imes my mother has p-rayed with me
and for me that I might live and be
closer t o God. In my Opinion I“ have
the best mother in the wor ld, and I
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they do so much for us . Many t imeswe do not even thank them for whatthey do. I f we had minded our mother swe would be at home w i t h her and nothere.
—_Clyde Andrews , 6th Grade
T o me Mother ’ s Day means thatI must thank he'
r
'
for the many t imesshe has g iven me clothes to wear and
the many t imes she has l i stened t o
me under standingly when I was in
trouble.
T o me mother s are a source of
comfor t when the go ing get s too
t ough t o bear alone. When otherpeople are fast asleep many mother sare aw-ane
'
worry ing about theirsons that are out somewhere in the
n ight . Often they wonder if t hey ’ llget home or in t rouble and need themby their s ides . T hough most Of us
will be away from our mother s on
this day I am sure al l the mother srepresent ed here wil l be happy enoughifwe are all well and t ry ing t o do
our best t oward mak ing a good record.
—Jerry Garren
Mother ’ s Day i s a day set as ideeach year honor ing our mothers . Theday i s supposed to represent the feeling of children toward the ir mother .
T his is what Mother ’ s Day means t ome. When I think of Mother ’ s DayI th ink of the many days she’ s goneout in the Cold t o work and makeme a good home. A lso
'
Of the t imesshe’ s come t o me and g iven met h ingsand doing without
J
for her self. I t
br ings back the many hol idays we’ve
spent together , so "happy. and content
ed with al l the' jo'ys Of mother and
ch i ld. I , also, th ink of the t imes she’ scome to me and said not to get intot rouble. .She begged and begged butI wouldn ’
t l i sten. I f I’d listened I
’d
be home spending more happy hol idays and joyful t imes w i th her . She
used to cook and bake f or me whenshe was s ick. She’d go w i th me on
picn ics and fam i ly get -together , and
I al so remember when I’d go to bed
at night she’d be there wait ing to
hear my prayer s .But now these th ings are past and
I hope they w i l l be again, for I w i llalways l i sten t o mother if I reachhome again . T h i s is what Mot her ’ sDay means the most t o me.
Mother ’ s Day to me means a "
day_
Of memory. T he many t imes she"
thought about me and the t imesshe went out Of her way to see if Iwas all r ight the night s she _came in
my room to see if I was t oo cold or
t oo hot .
T he things I asked of her , and she
did w ithout , so she could fill myw i shes . F or. instance the day I walkedthrough the 5 and 1 0 cent store and
wanted some lit t le t r inket s on the
counter and she did without once
more so I could have my selfcenteredways .T he many t imes I left home, and
without a s ingle thought t o let mymother know where I m ight be. But
every t ime I would come home andsurely find her wai t ing to see if '
I
was. al l r ight . T hen one morning I
woke up and I had no one t o say“F red!
_F red ! Get up and get ready
f or school .” T hen i s when I real izedwhat Mother ’ s Day means to me.
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Mother i s one person a boy can al
ways look and run to for advice, nomat ter how mean he may be she w i llnever turn him down.
T o me every day should be devotedt o mother , when only one day out Of
the\year i s set aside for her . And on
that day, the second Sunday in May ,you should devote t o her , somewhereshe i s thinking about you .
-F r ed King
T o me Mother ’ s D ay i s a wonderful day set aside f or the honor ing of
motherhood. I t h ink Mother ’ s Day is
one of the best days Of the year . I t
shows thanks and appreciat ion f or
t heir love. Mother ’ s D ay i s t ruly a
day of respect f or all‘
mother s . I
t hink on Mo ther ’ s D ay everyoneshould wear a carnat ion, either a red,
or white One. A red one shows thatyour mother i s liv ing, a white one
' shows that she i s dead.
But regardles s of whether she 1 sliving or dead I think you shouldwear a carnat ion t o show “your appre
ciat ion toward Mother ’s Day . Mother ’ sDay i s the second Sunday in May. I
t ruthfully th ink Mother ’ s D ay shouldbe honored in every respect .
—R onn ie M interMother ’s Day
'
should mean'more to
a boy than a day for buy ing her a
pr .esent I t should be a day of takingstock, remember ing and appreciat ing
’
the things she has done f or yOu . Mymother always looks surpr i sed whenwe g ive her a g ift on Mo ’
ther s'
D ay ,
but she i s always pleased, no mat terwhat the gift i s . T he best gif t I
could give her i s t o behave myself
and make her proud of me.
-F rank Maness , 5th Grade
Mother ’ s Day i s a day to showyour mother how much you love herand think of her . I t i s a day f or herto rest and enjoy .
‘You should do al l
you can for her on her day and all the
rest of the year t oo.
—_T ommy Andrews , 5th Grade
I mi ss my mother and know she
mi sses me. I would like to be home
with her and am t ry ing t o do wellhere so I can go home t o live withher . On Mother ’ s Day I will thinkof her and pr om i se myself to do the
best I can so I , w i ll not cause her more
worry .—Bobby Stevens, 5th Grade
I t i s good t hat '
we have a day set
aside . for remember 1ng~
our mother s .When we get out of the school weshould ask our mother s to forgive-u s
for the t rouble we gave her and ask
her to let us turn over a new leaf.Someday I hope
_t o repay the hear t
break I gave my mother and I hOpe
all boys feel_.the
' same way . I w i llnever forget when I pW O lfl d get into
trouble I would always _.go «to mymother for comfort . She was always
Mother ’ s D ay means a t ime for
t hanking our mother s f or what theyhave done for us dur ing the year .
When a boy has t o go to a T rainingSchool his mother i s hur t badly byit and we need t o make it up t o her
by being good here at the school andafter we get home.
—D ouglas Poole, 5th Grade
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w i lling to help me in any way and I
now appreciate it . with all my hear t .
—J oe Welch 7th Grade
When Mother ’ s Day comes I likeit because I like to surpr i se my mot herw it h present s, and thank her for whatshe has
“
done f or me. POOr mother ,she works hard every day , she washesour family clothes twice a week andtheni 'rons ' them and she get s up everymorning and -wake-s
“'
up the childrenthat go t o school and fixes breakfast f or us . T hen we go to school .While we are gone she cleans thehouse up . When the day i s Over
she washes the children and put st hem t o bed. T hen she get s a lit t lepeace. SO it goes , al l day and part of
the night . A mother ’ s work i s neverdone. T hat is why I think whenMother ’ s D ay comes you should thankher for what she has done f or you .
Y ou should t el l her to sit down and
rest . D on’t let her do a thing. Just
let her have a good t ime. Make her
feel happy and not sad. L ater on you
w ill wish you had.
—E ar l Smith, 5th Grade
Mother ’ s D ay means a lot t o me
because it is a day for happiness f oryour mother . I t i s a day for you to
show your mother that you love her
and give her al l you can and be goodt o her . I t i s a day we should all keepin m ind. I t i s
.a day t o show your
mother that she has been good t o
you .
I have no'
mother “
but'
I have a
grandmother and been justlike a mother to me. I love her but
when I . was at home I would n
there. I realize nowthat I wasI w i sh now that Is tayed at home.
-I t pays t o obey yomother and s tay at home. Y ou won
get int o ' t rouble that way . T hat iwhat Mother ’ s Day means to me.
—J immy L est er H ammonds
May the 1 3th i s a day we‘
Set'
asidf or remember ing our dear lovingmother s . On May 1 3th —we shouldthink more of them than any otherday of the
"
year . Our mother s havesacr if iced many dol lar s so that we
could have Clothes , food, and shelter .
She works as hard as she can so t hatwe can
f
get an educat ion. We disap
point her by get t ing k icked out Of
school or get t ing int o t rouble and
being sent t o a t raining school . We
should ask our
'
mothers to give us a
new star t and show her that if we t ryhard enough, that we can be the k indof boy she was hop ing for . I th inkeach of us can do what is r ight ifwe t ry . When I was at home and got
into t rouble I would always" go to mymother , she would always straightenme out . But I thought I knew more
than her and kept get t ing int o t rouble.
I t t ook me a long t ime t o f ind out
that I wasn ’t as smart as I thought
I was . My mother was r ight and I'
was wrong. But - I didn ’t listen . I
hope each per son down here th inks asmuch of their mother as I think of
mine. Some day I hope t o repay theheart break I caused my mother and
fam ily . One'
way“Of doing that is by
:making a good clean record whileI am here. When you get out of here
SCHO OL ROOM NEWS
Week Mr .
” also some -honoring Mother ’ sDay ;wh ich as Weknow comes -on May1 3, .of . t his year . .
One of our post er s on C iv ics isCar toons T hat T ell A Story,” by
:Paul Culler , Ray James , and BobbyWheeler . A s the name impl ies , t hispost er is made
“up ent irely of car toons .
Some of these show : (1 ) Vesuv ius is'
get t ing hot ter by .the day and i s veryclose t o erupt ion t emperatures . Somescient ist s say that it i s overdue, thatit has been qu iet longer t han any
other t ime in history . (2 ) The f ighting and disputes at F ormgsa, (3 ) The
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(4 ) Race“balanced budget for
betW'
een the R epublican and Democrat ic par t ies for the pres ident ialnominat ion.
Anot her of our poster s is : Bet
Y ou D idn’t Know ,
”by3_ Ralph Creas
man and John Bonner . T his was on
out standing facts in: history , T he
Corner; S tone -of the _White H ousewas laid on Oct . 1 3, 1 792 . __I t was al sothe fir st publ ic building erected in
Washington D .C . (2 )’ Jefferson led
all pres ident s in invent ions“but '
never
pat ent ed one. (3 ) E D . R oosevelt wasthe fir st president t o fly dur ing a t en
ure in the Whit e H ouse. (4 ) The
White H ouse was burned by theBr it ish on August dur ing
(5 ) McMadison ’ s administ rat ion.
Kinley . was the . fir st pres ident t o
r ide t o his inaugurat ion in an auto
mobile. I t was in 1 899 in a StanleySt eamer .
H ol brook ’ s n inthgrade made a number of poster s inhonor : of our Nat ion ’ s C ivic affairsand
We al so had some very n ice pic
tures honor ing Mother ’ s Day . Among
some of these was : (1 ) A couple of
border pictures by : Wi lbur H all,Jerry Garren, Kenneth Black, andF red K ing .
Jimmy A l l i son, Gilbert Keetch , andR E . Weather s made a very nice '
cal
endar_ of May ; showing a beaut ifulmountain scene.
R onn ie Menter Rober t Wat t s,John
H ensley, and Melv in Stanc i l made a
very nice poster showing a boy and
g ir l do ing some gardening .
Buddy H uffst ickler . and WayneBennet t on ;
“A Summer Vacat ion,
”
showing the different_t hings we do
on a vacat ion such as ; go ing fish ing,playing basebalL and swimming
-W ilbur H al l
WHAT OUR WOR L D I S MADE O F
Mr . Caldwell ’ s room for the lasttwo weeks have been studying someof .the things -our wor ld i s made of .
We found that 50 per cent of the
Wor ld is made of oxygen, 25 per cent
silicon, 8 per cent aluminum, 5 per
cent iron, per cent calcium, Pot
as sium, Sodium, Magnesium and
al l other element s .We have also studied chem ical compound. H ydrogen f or example, com
bines With Oxygen . T he new substancewhich forms i s wat er . Carbon, H y
d rogen, and Oxygen join together t o
form sugar ,O ther element s can com
hine to form other things . Wheneverchemical element s combine, the resulti s a chemical compound. I ron and
Oxygen combine‘
t o form . I ron Cic-‘
ide,1«which is_. called .rust .
"
T hese _chemical 'c ompoun
‘
d-s .Which “made .
_11 p the"
eart h. have «a “
special -,nagne, . they are-zca'
l led;
Thefrocks are”composed-of chemical ,
element s . We seldom find these ele
ment s in pure ”fo ,rm for
gran ite rock is a m ixture of felds parand mix-turesof mineral s t oo.
'
. T he "
outer crust of
the ear th 1_s composed most ly of
Some. of it .is. inb ig layer s and chunksS t ill other s h ave been broken down
int o fine grain . R ock that has beenbroken down int o fine gram 1 s _calle
‘
d'
soil
Perhaps one of the’ fir st m 1uerals
man .
-u -sed was . table salt . Salt ischemical . compound of Sodium '
and
Chlor ine. All t ogether t here are twelvehundred d iffer ent mineralsearth
’ s crust .
The class has become more inter :est ed in the chemical compounds andchemical element s . We are lookingforward to our next lesson.
—'
Péte Cumming
In the'sevent h e
studying about f i nd
live. T he mackerel fishing "
fground
ex t ends i rom H at t eras in Nort h_t o the Gulf of S t : L awrence.
nter the mackerel sw im t o
ward the equator . And in the sum
mer they go t o the _polar region. Thecome.North along the A t
'
inth e vicinity _of Cape H at teras about ”
Apr il 1 , and at that t ime f ishing be
_ in . the
lant 1 c coast of Nor th Carolina appear ed Stat es .
of the wor ld -'are'
those of the
«Wat ersT'
éiff the coast"
off'
lM aine where“
t he fish are a ught i uf'
r‘om June t ill
November A s" t hey fi nalso t ravel in
great schools; ‘
in'fwh-ich t housands of
_themieswim together near the surface.the; Water . T h
'
en.the fishermen
C'
atch'
them in large net s .-T here are other kinds of fish which
a-reflcaught along the A t lant ic coast .
F or. example, t here are the fish cal
.led. Menhader-1 . They range along our
ent ire A t lant ic and Gulf coast s , and
t hey are,twelve t g;eight een inches
along . Th ey swim near the surface, andin the
.
spring y ou may see a m illionor mo
'
_re out in schools . People do not
eat Menhaden, but they are used in
large quant it ies in manufactur ing of
fish meal for cat t le; and poult ry feed ,
—Bobby E st el la Pr ice
T H INGS WE D O AT SCH OOLWe have been doing some new
work in the ninth grade. In ar ithmet ic we have been .
,learn1ng how t o
f ind,the square root . of
'
a number . We
have also been making things t o decorat e the room . We made some posters that look real nice and put up
some pictures . We finished our spelling“ book and we are star t ing back
_throligh it . We have a paper every
.
_Week and the name of it is “E veryWeek” . We learn many t hings fromit about What goes on in foreign__countri ,es an
gér p laces here in the U nitI t has a crossword puz
zle that Weenjoy working I t also hassome jokes that We like t o read.
At ; recess we have been playingsoftball
_We teams and enjoy
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playing. We have al so been playing
softball at the gym . We have two
t eams . Wayne Bennet t is the captainof one of the team-s and R alph C reas
man i s the captain of the'
other . Ben
net t’ s team i s w inn ing now . I t has
fourteen point s . Creasman’s team i s
losing . T hey have only four point s .Creasman ’
s t eam is working hard t o
get the lead. Maybe the reasonCreasman ’
s team is los ing i s becauseWheel‘er, i -
'
their f irst baseman, leavesear ly to
“
go t o the dairy . Whethert hat is the reason Or not , I don
’t
know, but I do know that we‘
all
enjoy the .game and play hard tow in.
—Johnn ie Bonner
COT TAGE F OU R GE T S R E AD YF OR SPR ING
M r . Cheek and the boys of cot tage
number four have been workng around
the cot tage for the last couple of
months . We have cut and hauled logsto bui ld steps up the hill from the
cafateria. I t took about four hourst o do it but it i s a lot easier to climb
BIRTHDAYS:
Namon Sheet s , l 6th “
BirthdayJ . C . Jump , 1 5t h BirthdayJ . H . Wi lk ins, 1 5th BirthdayJames A llison, l 6t h Bir thday“
H enry L amb , l 6th BirthdayMaxie T eal , l 6th Bir thdayR ichard H ale, 1 2th BirthdayBuddy Par sons , 1 4th B irthdayH erbert L ucas , . 1 7th BirthdayCarrol McClure, 1 3th Bir thdayR onda Poff, l 6th B irthdayMason Braswell , l 6th
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Birthday
up the h i ll now . The farm boys and
tract or boy s hauled dirt and manure
up to t he back of the cot tage so We
could spread it out and plant grass .We have planted the grass and it isup about two or !h i re inches high.
I t sure help s the looks of the ‘
back"
-of
the cot tage.
Mr . Cheek and the‘ boys h auled a
load of good r ich d ir t to put‘
ing'
the
flower beds at the s ide of the cot tage.
.Whil'e par t of the boys were help inghaul the dir t some of the other
'
boys
stayed at the cot tage and cleanedout the flower beds so we could getthe dir t in the beds and get the flower s planted.
-The boys in the cot tage like to
work around it and keep t hings looking nice. Mr . Cheek assigns certainplaces for different boys to work .Some boys cut the grass , some Weed
the flower s , while others'
do d ifferentjobs . The boys all like their jobs a
round the cot tage and we hope thatthey stay interested and w i ll keept he cot tage and around the cot tage
look ing neat .—Ralph Creasman
W ilbur H all 1 7th Bir thdayE ugene H uffman,
1 6th Bir thdayR ober t McL amb, 1 2th BirthdayL eroy Bent ly, i 6th BirthdayD onald Wood, 1 3th BirthdayCar l .Smith, 1 41th B irthdayJohn Shadrick, 1 3th Bir thdayJimmy H ammonds , l 6th B ir thdayBobby Wheeler , l 6th BirthdayD ouglas Poole, 1 4th B irthdayH oward McGrady , 1
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3th Birthday
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heaven, and t hat the only way you
can get t here i s by keep ing youreyes in front of you, and look ingt o the s ide of the road only out of
the corner of your eyes .R ev. Turner said, “The des ires of
sin wi ll be on the s ide of the road,
say ing do t h i s , do that .
” H e al sosaid “
Chr ist said, you shal l havefai th in me.
R ev . Turner went on t o prove hispo int by saying = if you have faith inme you shal l be in heaven w i th me.
”
R ev . Turner told us that Chr i stw i ll help us to get r id of these t emptat ions if .we will let . H im .
H e t old us . t o set our aims f or the
goal and be like Jesus .Before closing h e t old us t hat the
key t o life i s t o be“L evel H eaded
and T empered.
”
R ev . Turner closed the serv ice w i tha shor t prayer .
0 00 00
The guest speaker for Apr i l 1 5thwas R ev . John D . L indler from the
M t .
‘
Pleasant L utheran Church .R ev . L indler chose his scr 1pture
from the 2 1 st chapter of"S t . John
beginning'
with the 1 5th ver se.
So when they had dined; Jesussaith t o Simon Pet er ,
Jesus , lovest thou Me more t hanthese. H e sait h unto him“ “feed“my sheep?”R ev . L indler ch'ose'
for h i s top ic,Who i s our Shepherd ? ”T he young speaker asked first ,
What i s a shepherd ?“ A shepherd is
a man who t ends she'
ep .”H e compared the modern ’
way'
'
oi'
sheepherding w i th the'
t old —way'
. H e
"
PopulalS 1mon
-son of
oooOo
Due to the absence of the m inisterthere was no service .at the T rainingSchool on Apr i l 22 , 1 956
0 00 00
T he.
guest speaker for Apr i l 29thwas
'
R ev . L T . E dgerton pastor of
T ent Presbyter ian church .Rev E dgert on chose h i s scr ipturefrom2md chapt er of L uke 40th ver se,“Arid he
_
sai'
dx
unt o them , how is it
that ye sought me ? W i st ye not t hat" I must be aboutmy father s bus iness .‘7 ”
fed up the aud1 ence 1nto 2 groups
lked b t a d e who came
to a‘
tawyers’office t o talk with him“
,
t old us t hat the modern shepherdneeds a horse and has dogs _
t o . helphim . Some have many helpers to
help them tend the sheep . in
B iblical t imes , a shepherd Wal kedand carr ied a st ick to f ight off an?
imals, he usualy had a dog ,to helphim, but he didn ’
t have helpers . A shepherd got up very _ear ly .
and let his sheep out of t he, _fold.
R ev. L indler t old us that ‘
our
Shepherd i s Jesus and we are his
sheep .H e said “Jesus is concerned about
xour inner -
_soul because it i s the part
of us t hat i s going t o heaven .
”
R ev . L indler asked us the quest ion,
When we are with Jesus are we
afraid ? ” and said “That the answert o that quest ion i s no.
”
H e closed the service wi th a shor tprayer .
THE’UPU FT L i
while he. was there he not iced a pic
ture -of
"‘J es-i
'
1 s in th T emple” hang1ng on the wal l . H e looked at the pic
t ure for s omet ime aft er they finishedt heir business , and got up and leftthe office. A couple of days passed,later . he came back and said t o the
lawyer , “I ’d like t o look at t hat picture again if it s al l r ight with you .
T he lawyer said, “I t s perfect ly al l
right with me.
’T he judge looked at
the picture for 2 h our s . H e came backlat er and asked the lawyer if he couldtake the picture down and look at
it . T he lawyer said it would be all
r ight . The judge t ook it down and
went int o another room . After awhilethe lawyer went into the room and
O Oo :oOO.
THE NAME O F MO THER
God p lucked tw in stars from dew drenched cloudsTo fash ion eyes for you;He brought rose petal s for your handsH is wil l forserv ice, too;
He sprink led star-dust in your hairHe touched yourl ips wi t h f lame,
Your heart He t i l led-w i th ho l y careForMother is your name.
Your smi le He brushed in tones of go ld,Your vo ice gave love ’
s caress ;Your
.
l i fe’
s prayer I’ve seen. unfoldIn
'
sweet unse l f ishnes s .Cou ld I repay th i s debt of love?Ah no—nor could anotherTh is ange l sent from Heaven aboveGod gave the name of Mother.
found the judge lying flat on his backw ith the picture on his stomach . H e
was crying . T he judge said, “youcan hang it now . H e has mast eredme.
R ev . E dger t on t old us that we hav
en’t got t en into any t rouble thatJesus doesn ’
t know about . H e i s w i t hyou al l the t ime. When you say lit t ledir ty words if you would only stopt o t hink, Jesus i s here list ening t o
'
me, you wouldn’t say t hem
,
The speaker asked this quest ion“When did Jesus go t o the t emple before he was 1 2 year s old ? ” One of the
boys said, “When he went t o be bapt ised.
”H e then closed the service w i th
a shor t prayer .
26 THE UPL I FT
KNOW YOUR COUNT IESA ser ies of interes ting facts concerning cit ies, t own and vi llages wi ll be
published monthly in TH E UPL I F T . We believe the readers wi ll be inter es tedin learning how these names were given to the different communi t ies .
facts are compi led alphabet ically by counties .
one hundred counties in N or th Carolina.
S I L E R CI TY E stablished and .)
incorporat ed 1 887 ; named for . .Silerfamily that set t led near the intersec
t ion of the Raleigh-Sal i sbury and
Greensboro-F ayet teville stage roads .CH E R OK E E
AND R EW S I ncorporated 1 905 ;
named for Colonel A . B . Andrew s ,prom inent in the development
'
of the
Western North Carolina Railroad .
CU L BE R SON I ncorporatedwho donated t he sit e for the villageand post officeH IWA SSE E Name from Chero
kee, ayuhwa-si , a meadow .
MAR BL E Incorporat ed 1 91 1 ,
named for“
deposit s of marble in the .
vicinity .
MU R PH Y I ncorporated 1 85 1 ;
fir st called H unter sville f or ColonelA . R . S . H unter , who established at rading post w ith the Cherokee about1 830 ;
Murphey, “fat her of public educat ionin North Carolina.
”T hrough a cler'i
cal error the“e”was dropped in the
legislat ive act incorporat ing the t own .
PO ST E L L Named e
_f o r the
T homas Postell family, ear ly, set t lers .
T OPT ON So named because o f
it s elevat ionCH OWAN
E D E NT ON Set t led 1 658 , incor s.
‘
named . for A rchibald D ebow .
TheseWe hope to cover all of the
porated 1 722 ; or iginally called QueenE den, royal Governor of North Carolina (1 71 4
R OCKY H OCK Set t led 1 760 ;
name bel ieved t o be Angl icized s'pel ling of Indian word rakiok , meaningland of cypr ess t rees .
CL A Y
BRA SST OWN R eputedly namedfrom a confusion of two Cherokeewords of similar sound but differentmeaning— it sex ’
yi , a place green w ithvegetat ion, and unt sai ’y i , brass .H AY E SV I L L E I ncorporated ;
named for George W . H ayes , member .
inst rumental in the format ion of ClayCounty .SH OOT ING CR E E K Name i sbelieved '
t o be a_ t ranslat ion of the
C h e r o k e e -du-stagalan’t i, meaning
“where it made a great noise,” appliedt o st ream in the v icinity .
-T U SQU I T E E Named . eitherfrom t he Cherokee daskw intunyi, .sig
nifying the rafter s of t he roof, or‘
f r o m t suwa’uniyet sun
’
yi , meaning‘
where the water dogs (salama'
nder s )bark .WARNE Named for the War
rens , an E ngli sh fam i ly. who m inedgold here ; cor rupted to Warne by theI ndians .
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l ag
D own the R ock I sland L ine.
A , B, C , W ,X, Y , Zee,
Cat’ s in the cupoard but he don
’t see
me
On the Rock I sland L ine
L ONG TAL L SAL L Y
Gonna t ell Aunt Mary ’bout c le
JohnH e says he has the blues butH e has a lot ta funOh baby yes baby whoo-oo-oo-oo babyBavin ’ some fun t onight .
yeah well !
L ong tall Sally has a lot on the .ballAnd nobody cares if she’ s long and .tal lOh ,baby yes baby whoo 0 0 -oo 0 0 baby
I’m havin
’ me some fun t onightWell , I saw U ncle J-ohnW ith long tall SallyH e saw Aunt Mary comin ’
And -he ducked back in the alleyOh ,baby yes baby whoo-oo-oo-oo baby
I’m havin
’ me some fun tonight
We’re gonna have some fun ton ight .
Gonna have some fun t onightWe
’re gonna have some fun tonight
E verything w ill be all r ightWe
’re gonna have some fun
Gonna have some fun t on ight
H OT BI GGIT YNever dreamed anybody could k i s sthat -a-way ,
Br ing me blis s that -a-way ,What a wonderful feeling t o feelthat -a-way !
T el l me where have you been al l my
l ife? Oh !
H ot ; diggity dog
I t’s soqnewx . t o me what you do to me,
H ot di'
ggity‘
f
'
dog ziggity boom lt
What you do to me !
When you ’re hold ing me t ight !
H ow my future w ill shineF rom -the moment you ’
re mine !
that my hear t could go“Zing ! ” that -a-way ,
T ing-ai ling that -a-way ,
-:Make ime sing that -a-way
Said “Goodbye” to my t roubles ,T hey went tha- at -way !
'
E ver since you came int o mylife ! Oh !
T here’ s a cute lit t le cot tage for two,
that -a-way ,
Skies "a blue that—a-way ,
D reams come true that -a-way .
I f you say
'
I can share it with you,“that?a-way !
I
I ll be happy the rest of my life ! Oh !
IVORY T OWE R
Come down, come down from yourivory '
tower ,
Let lo.ve come int o your heart .
D on’t,
.f lock yourself in an ivory tower ,
D on’t keep us so far apart .
“
I love you, I love you ,
Are you too far above me to. hear ?
Y ou’ ll find t rue love has it s charms .
Come down, come down f rom yourivory tower ,
I t’s cold, so cold in your ivory tower ,
And warm,so warm in my arms .
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APR’
Il.
Receiving C ot tageH oward H ardee
Cot tage N o . 1
Goldman CheathamT ed F ow lerH erbert L ucasJerry Somer set tF reddie Vadase
R ober t W illardCot tage N o . 2
Paul WebbCot tage N o. 3
Sam A ldr idgeWayne E stesD ouglas IngramCalvin PeelerH omer R id ingsBobby StevensCot tage N o . 4
Car l CollinsRalph CreasmanL ee D r iverClyne E dwardsBenny SuggsClifford Woodruff
Cot tage N o. 6
Roy F ergusonRay H uffmanJohn McGrady
D onald Wood
Ralph JamesCot tage N o. 7
Carroll McClure
Cot tage N o. 9
Sandy CanadyO scar Car ter
R obert IngramI ra L angleyH oward McGrady
Jerry Rudisel l
-_ l 4
4—J 29
L arry SilvaGeorge ThornburgCot tage N o . 1 0
Steve L unsfordCot -t age N o. 1 1
B i ll CannonR ober t ColonW ilbur H al lF red KingE ar l MorganDanny SmallR ichard WallsCot tage N o. 1 3
Ward H opk insJames L ambF rank ManessH erman Styles
F loyd CallowayE dsil ChurchBilly CoffeyMack F loweBill JohnsonE dgar ShepherdCot tage N o. 1 5
Jimmy Bowman
F rank H elmsMar shall JonesBobby Pr iceL arry R oachCot tage N o . 1 7
H arold Gowi-ck
James L anningJohn L ee
E dlum L ocklearCardell 0 xend ineCleat ive oxendineL arry Vernon
SCHOOL HONOR ROLLAPRIL
John L ee F ranklinB illy Pruit tD onald WoodsH arvey H udsonJackie L uptonRalph Norman
F rank McGrady
W ill iam Out lawH omer R idingsH erman StylesBobby VernonBen Wh i tnerE ar l MorganGoldman Cheatham
FARM AND TRADE HONOR ROLL
APRIL
E dd ie H orr idgeC l ifford WoodruffL ee D r iver.
Car l BaileyL eroy T homasT ru i t t McCal l
James L anningC laudeWebbE ar l SmithGerald E rn ieJames L ambertD onald BraswellMarv in GuinnD av id DupkoskiPaul. BaumgarnerE dlum L ocklear'
J . C. JumpKenneth H agerBilly Styles
L arry SilvaDonald T hornburgJimmy H ammondsH orry NealF rankie Suit sJames L ambT ommy L ambertMason BraswellMichael SmithBilly CoffeyBoyd MontgomeryJerry Somer setRalph CreasemanBuddy H uffst icklerR . E . Weather s
H arry NealC larence Bat yW i l l iam R eece
Billy Joe H aneyBill JohnsonE ugene H uffmanH erman StylesE dsel ChurchJames Arrowood
Jesse'McN eelyL arry SmithT homas L ambert .
Char lie Ander sonBobby T oddWayne
_E stes
R ober t ColonWarren Car ter
Rex BellT ed L edbet ter
No . 6 JUNE, l 956
I Will lift up m ine eyes unto the h i l l s , from w hencecometh my he l p .My help cometh from the Lord, w h ich made heaven and earth .He w i l l not suffer“ thy foot to be moved: he thatkeepet h thee w i l l not s lumber.Beho ld, he t hat keepeth - Israe l shal l ne i ther s lumber nor s leep .
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy s hade upo '
n
thy right hand.
The sun shal l not smi te thee by day, nor the moon
by night .The Lord shal l _preserve t hee from all ev i l : he shall
preserve thy soul .The Lord shall preserve thy go ing out and thy
coming in from t h i s t ime forth , and even for ever
more . Psalm 1 2 1
—Published Monthly ByT he Pr intmg Class of the Stonewall Jacksor;Manual T raining and I ndust r ial School
Concord, North Carolina
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A MONTH LY JONRNALPubl ished By
The authority of the Stonewal l Jackson Manual T raining and Industrial SchoolType-set t ing by the Boys
’Print ing Class
Subscript ion Two Dol lars the Year, in AdvanceAct of March 3, 1 897. Acceptance for mail ing a special rate
STAFF
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
M rs . Wanda Ho l brookM rs . Agnes YarbroughAssociate Ed i torsJames H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPO RTERS
W i l bur' HallRobert W i l lardJames ConradJohn BonnerJohn Hens ley
LINOTYPE O PERATO RS
John BonnerRobert w i l lardW i l bur HallJerry GarrenJames Conrad
CO NTENTS
SAMUEL E. LEO NARD
CAMPUS NEWS
SUNDAY SERV ICE
SCHOO L RO OM NEWS
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FARM AND TRADE NEWS
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SAMUEL E. LEONARD
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STAFF HO NO RS MR. l EONARD
O n May 1 7 the staff members honored M r. Samue l E. Leonard, Commi ss ioner of Correct ion, at a
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dinner he ld in the schoo l cafeteria. M r. Leonard
w ill ret i re from his pos i t ion as head of the f ive state Training Schoo ls onJune 30 after serv ing thi rteen years in t h i s pos i t ion.
Places were laid at banquet sty led tab les for the s i xty-four staff mem
bers , M r. Blaine M . Mad i son, Commis s ioner of Correct ion-Elect , and the
guest of honor, M r. Leonard. Act ing as toastmaster was M r. J . Frank Scott ,Superintendent . During the course of the d inner M r. Scot t spo ke brief l yand introduced Mr. Mad i son to the group . In turn M r. Mad i son spoke,
te l l ing the staff about M r. Leonard’ s ach ievements during his long career
w i th the state .
Fo l low ing the d inner the staff and boys presented M r. Leonard g i ftsas tokens of t he i r appreciat ion and esteem.
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SAMUEL E. LEONARD
By Blaine M . Mad i sonE di tor N ote : (M r . Blaine M . M adison, Commissioner of Cor rect ion-E lect ,
gave the following talk at the dinner honor ing M r . S amuel E . L eonard onMay
It i s w i th m ixed fee l ings and emot ions t hat we pause to recognize the
outstand ing work done by our. friend and leader, M r. Leonard—and our
know ledge of the fact that he w il l soon ret i re as Comm i s s ioner of Correct ion and Training, a pos i t ion he has he ld w i th digni ty and d i st inct ion, and
w i th great prof i t to our state .
M r. Leonard has done a most remarkab le work in every_tas k he has un
dertaken, and especial ly in the capaci ty of Commi s s ioner of our Correct ional Schoo l s . We fu l l y recognize thi s fact as we meet here today
,and it i s
our happy . priv i|ege to honor him as he stands upon the thresho ld of re
t i rement from t h i s important pos i t ion.
W i t hout g iv ing a complete background of his l i fe and work,we do
want to look back w i t h s incere respect to M r. Leonard’ s parent s , Mr. and
M rs . Dav id S . Leonard,w ho gave thi s friend of ours a good start in l i fe ,
conferring upon him a noble heri tage and g iv ing him an early Chri st iant raining in a good count ry home s ix m i les from Lex ington, North Caro l ina.
Th i s t raining wou ld be ref lected in all the good work of the i r son; the
background for thi s was well prov ided, and the foundat ion for a pos i t iveChri st ian l i fe was laid .
These parents be l ieved in the value of t raining and educat ing the i rch i ldren, in the home and in the best of schoo l s ; and it is interest ing to
rev iew the f ine educat ional achievements made by Samue l Leonard—lnthe county schoo l s f i rst , and then his graduat ion from Yadk in Co l legiateInst i tute ,
and in 1 9 1 1 from the Univers i ty of Nort h Caro l ina. Soon aftergraduat ion, he began his work w i th the Pub l ic Schoo l s—as teacher, t henprincipal , and later as Superintendent of Schoo l s at Red Springs . The f i rstWo rld War too k him out of schoo l wo rk here and into very important ”
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work in France . Returning from war serv ice he entered We l fare Work,
and for four years he was Superintendent of Pub l ic We l fare in W i l sonCounty; and, prov ing his ab i l i ty for such work, he was soon promoted tothe off ice of working w i th the State We l fare Department in the Bureau of
County O rganizat ion.
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Supt . Scott , Mr. Leonard and M rs . Scott at the party honoring Mr.
Leonard .
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SAMUEL E. LEO NARD RETIRES
O ne of seven ch i ldren, Samue l E. Leonard was next to the younges t ch i ldof Dav id S ink Leonard and Martha Frances (Wagner) Leonard . H is earl yyears were spent on a farm in Dav idson County , s ix m i les from Lex ington.
After attend ing Schoo l in the county and rece iv ing a d i p loma from YadkinCo l leg iate Inst i tute, he entered the Univers i ty of North Caro l ina and graduated in 1 9 1 1 .
For e igh t years he was connected w i th the Pub l ic Schoo l s , f i rst as a teacher and princi pal and later as Superintendent of Schoo l s - at Red Springs .WorldWar l interrupted h i s teaching career when he went to France in
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serv ice . O n h i s return he entered We l fare work and for four years wasSuperintendent of Pub l ic We l fare inW i l son County , and for two yearsworked w i th the State We l fare Department in the Bureau of County O rgan
izat ion. When the State Legi s lature,in 1 925 ,
enacted a b i l l estab l i sh ingEastern Caro l ina Training Schoo l , M r. Leonard expressed h i s interest in theSchoo l and soon thereafter became its f i rs t Superintendent . For e ighteenyears he labored there, bui ld ing a Schoo l based on h i s st rong be l ief in theChrist ian way of l i fe .
During h i s years of working M r. Leonard cont inued h i s interest in furthertraining,
tak ing graduate w ork at Co lumb ia Univers i ty in 1 9 1 6- 1 7 and
North Caro l ina State Co l lege in 1 944-45 ,and Springf ie ld Co l lege in Massa
chusetts .
The 1 943 General As semb l y passed a b i l l conso l idat ing the Correct ionalSchoo l s under one Central Board and Commi s s ioner. O n O ctober 7th thenew l y created Board of Correct ion and Training, appo inted by GovernorBrough ton, he ld its f i rst meet ing in Rale igh and e lected Samue l E. Leonard
as Commi ss ioner of Correct ion. For th i rteen years M r. Leonard has d i rectedthe work of the Schoo l s . In thi s period the phys ical p lant s have been greatly expanded and the staffs increased . Th i s expans ion has taken advantage
of progress ive ideas in the construct ion of bu i ld ings and al so in improvedmethods of t raining w h ich you see here and in the other four Schoo l s . M r.
Leonard ’ s attendence at State and Nat ional Conferences has enab led himto keep abreast of these deve lopments . He has al so stres sed the importanceof Ch ri st ian character in deal ing w i th young peop le and has cons idered ita requi s i te in employ ing h i s staff .Mr. Leonard has always taken an act ive interest in C iv ic affai rs . He was
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a Charter Member of the W i l son K iwani s C lub in its organizat ion in 1 920 ,
and has served as Lieutenant -Governor and Pres ident . H is aff i l iat ion w i thprofess ional organizat ions include D i rector of the Nat ional Associat ion of
Training Schoo l s ; V ice Pres ident of the Nat ional Associat ion of Juveni leAgencies ; D i rector of the North Caro l ina Conference of Social Work . Anact ive Church member, M r. Leonard has served many capaci t ies in the
Presbyterian Church , and h i s on l y daugh ter i s married to a PresbyterianM ini s ter.
Ev idence of h i s he l p to those boys and g i rl s w hom he has guidedth rough the years i s found in the i r frequent correspondence and v i s i ts inwh ich t hey s incere l y expres s t he i r appreciat ion and grat i tude for his effort stoward the i r rehab i l i tat ion and h i s des i re to g ive them a chance in l i feIn his own l i fe M r. Leonard i s an examp le of his be l ief t hat we make a
l iv ing by w hat we get , but we make a l i fe by w hat we g ive“.
It i s interest ing to note that M r. Leonard has worked w i t h the State of
North Caro l ina a total of forty-f ive years and has served under every G ov
ernor s ince Charles B. Aycock , mak ing fourteen in all.From every part of our great s tate ch i ldren have rece ived h i s gu idance
and d i rect ion. They have returned to t he i r homes and communi t ies w i thnew sets of ideal s and a changed out look on l i fe to become good ci t izens .The inf luence he has had upon the l ives of count les s youth s cannot beadequate ly measured . He has not he ld his tas k l ightl y , but has prayerfu l l yand soberly performed h i s duty and more to prove the State w i se in p lacing him in the respons ib le pos i t ions he has he ld . He has met chal lengesw i th courage, w i sdom, and fai th and has been a p ioneer in estab l i sh ingthe Correct ional System for Nort h Caro l ina’ s youth . The s tate is fortunateindeed to have had a man of h i s ca-Iibre and leadersh i p to bring uni ty tothe Correct ional Schoo l s and gu ide t hem during the past th i rteen years .H is ret i rement p lans include a t ri p to Mex ico th i s summer. Fo l low ing
t h i s he plans to make his home at h i s mountain retreat an Mont reat ,
North Caro l ina. There his hobb ies of read ing, and work ing around his
home w ill occupy his t ime .
H is many friends among the boys and staff here at Jackson TrainingSchoo l w i sh for him good heal th and a long and happy l i fe .
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June 3 from Womans College U ni;
ver sity' of Nor th Carol ina. Miss Scot twill receive a B . S . D egree in Sociology .
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On May 2,five of the lady em
ployees spent the day tour ing the
Nor th Carolina T raining School f orWhit e Gir l s , Samarcand Manor , at
E agle Spr ings , N . C . T hey were takenon a t our of the campus by schoolofficial s and were able to see in
operat ion the program t here. Whilet here they enjoyed a del icious luncheon prepared by the gir l s and theirsupervisor s . T hose making the t r ipwere Miss Shoe, M r s . H inson ,
M r s .
E ller,Mr s . Miller , and M r s . H ender
son .
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T he boys were once again the guestof the F iremen and Policemen of
Char lot t e at their annual baseballgame on T hur sday night May 24 .
T ran spor tat ion to Char lot t e was furnished by the Carol ina T railwaysbuses . T hi s game was thoroughly _en
joyed by the boys and w il l 'be r egard
ed by them as a highlight of theirstay here.
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The boy-s of Cot tages 4 and 1 4 were
rewarded this month with a half dayholiday f or having hadg ood behaviorin their cot tages f or six months .
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Cot t age N o. 1 4'
has a Bir thday Par tyOn Saturday aft ernoon, the fifth of
May , Cot tage N o. 1 4 had a bir thday
par ty . I t was a beaut iful afternoonand we had our par ty out side
,We had
a good t ime playing act ive games .We al so had a contest blow ing
.
bubbleswi th bubble gum and a cracker eat ingcontest . S t eve F arr ington won the
pr ize for blow ing the largest bubble.
Mac F lowe won a pr ize in the crackercont est .
Aft er our games we went inside forrefreshment s . Mrs . H ooker had a largetable fixed w ith many nice t hings toeat . We had a beaut iful bir thday cake,peanut s , sandwiches , candy and pepsicolas .S ix boys received gift s from var ious
women’ s clubs . T hey received softball s
base balls , and one received a billfold .
A l l the gift s were nice.
T he boys who received gift s appr eciat e them very much and are enjoyingthem .
We w ish t o thank Mr . and Mr s .
H ooker f or helping us t o have a veryenjoyable bir thday par ty .
Johnnie Bonner— OOo :oOO
SCOU T S GO ON "WE EKE NDCAMPOR E E .
On May 1 1 1 956, the scout s fromJackson T raining School left f or
Camp D ick H enning and arr ivedthere about l
We checked in
with officials “
and then set up our
camp . Our camp sit e was beside a
l it t le st ream and we built a br idgeacros s it with ropes and logs .F r iday night we had a campfireprogram t hat was put on by the
council , it included Indian dancingby the order of the
“Arrow club” .
Saturday morning we built several
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camp gadget s such as monkey br idges , t owel racks , slit t renches , greasepit s , fir st aid and axe sharpening.
We had camp inspect ion at
and t hen we had dinner .
T he scout s were on their best behavior and we received blue r ibbonsf or the inspect ion, check-in, checkout , camp gadget s and discipline .
We had a good t ime and are looking forward for another out ing .
-Jerry Garren0 00 00
COT TAGE N o . 1 H AS PARTY
On T uesday May 22nd, the boysof Cot tage N o . 1 decided t o “chip in”and have a par ty . When we returned
from supper we star ted prepar ing forit . A ll the boys went to the sit t ingroom fir st and called Mr . and Mr s .
H inson . Much t o their surpr ise theysaw a box al l wrapped up . Mr s . H insonopened the
,box and found an E lect r ic
F rying Pan . T his was given t o themby the boys of Cot tage N O . 1 for be
so nice t o us . Mr . and Mrs . H inson ap
preciat ed t he gift very much . Afterpresent ing the gift we Went out sideand had the par ty . We had good thingst o eat such as popcorn,
potat o chips,
cold dr inks and so for th . A l l t he boysenjoyed the par ty very much and hopet o have another one in the near fu
ture.
— R ober t W i llard
— Jerry Garren
A stern no does not always mean d i sapproval . It may mere l y mean thatthe cond it ions are not yet judged to be favorab le—and maybe they aren’
t .
—Se lected
Boy ’ s from J . T . S . go t o Ball Game
in Charlot teSurely one of the highlight s of any
one boy ’ s s tay down here is the t r ip t oChar lot te t o the F iremen, Policemen
ball game. We left about via
bus‘ses donated by M r . L ove of the
Char lot t e Queen City T railways Co.
We al so Wi sh t o expres s our deepestappreciat ion t o the fol low ing men and
women who made the t r ip possible :M rs . James’ W . Cannon , Mr . and Mrs .
J . Schoenith, Mr . Mar t in L . Cannon ,
Mr . James G . Cannon, Mr . T . A . L it t le.
T hese people are cer tainly to be
commended f or their int erest in the
boys here at t he school .We here at J . T . S . w i sh t o express
our thanks t o the men and women
who made the t r ip “t o the F iremen,
Policemen ball game poss ible.
We are looking forward to anothert r ip off the campus .
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SUNDAY SERVIGES
T he guest speaker s for May 6th
were M r . Vivian and M r . W ilson fromBob Jones U niversity.M r . Vivian talked t o us about thebigges t business t ransact ion in the
wor ld. H e t old us that the t ransaction t ook place on Calvary ’ s H ill inbiblical t imes . H e told us that thereare four reasons why it was the big
ges t busines s t ransact ion . (1 ) I t con
cerned the most people. (2 ) I t was
made without money . (3 ) Y ou and I
were included in it . (4 ) Y ou and I
must believe in it . T hen M r . Viviant urned the service over t o Mr . W ilson ,
who t old us about how he had been a
s inner up unt il 5 year s ago. H e had
a cont ract with a big studio in H ol lywood, but was called to serve God and
went . H e said “Boys if you have not
heeded the call of God do it now .
”
M r . W ilson sang “Al l T hat T hr ill sMy Soul i s Jesus . ” After the songthere was a shor t prayer . Mr . W i lsonread t o us from the 2nd book of Samuel , 9th chapter l st through the 1 3thver ses , And the
' king said unt o him ;“Where i s he?” And Ziba said unt o
the king “Behold he i s in the house of
Mach ir , son of Amel from L odebar .
Mr . W ilson asked this quest ion ;
By John H ensely
What is_God -s kindnes s ? ” H e told us
t hat his kindnes s is murder inghis onlybegot t en _
Son so that we might live.
H e closed the serv ice w ith a shor tprayer .
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T he guest speaker for May 1 3th,was R ev . Ralph R eed, pastor of the
Midway Methodist Church of K annapolis .R ev . R eed chose h is scr ip ture from
the book of L uke, the 2ud chap terand the 1 st through the 6th ver ses .“And it came to pas s , that after threedays they found him in the t emple
,
s it t ing in th m idst of the doctor s , bothhear ing them and asking them quest ions .”R ev. R eed t old us that behind each
man there i s a woman,he went on t o
prove his point by t elling us about how
Abe L incoln t r ied very hard but failed,but he kept on t ry ing because he knewthat his mother would want it thatway . R ev . R eed quot ed from Abe L in
coln ; “All that I am, All t hat I shallbe, I owe it t o my mother .
R ev . R eed asked some quest ions ,(1 ) H ow broad i s your life ? H e toldus that by this I mean ; how broad i syour sympathy or your feeling t oward
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SCHOOL ROOM NEWS
ByW i l bur Hal lI n M rs . Sm ith ’ s l st grade the boyshave been making some very pret typoster s . Kenneth H am drew a largeposter showing some red roses and
John F ranklin did the coloring. M r s .
Smith ’ s room subscr ibed to “Children ’s
Act ivit ies . ” I n thi s magazine there
are pictures and diagram s showingand t elling how t o make var ious displays . T hey now have five of theseposter s . A lso 8 boys wrote 30 wordsw ithout amistake. T his was very good.
I n Mrs . Barbee’ s 1 st and 2nd gradethe boys have been making a studyof farm animal s and the ir use, suchas : Sheep
,food or wool ; Goat , m ilk
or food; and Chicken, eggs or food ;E ach boy made a small pamphletwhich contained informat ion on the
animals he was able t o find in newspaper s , magazines , or otherwi se. T heylearned to spell the names and t heythought it very int erest ing .
I n the third grade room we havea draw ing '
of the U nknown Soldier ’ st omb , made by Cecil King . Our t eacher has t old us the st ory of this picture.
“
We learned how the U nknownSoldier of the U S . was one of the 4
dead taken from the Amer ican Ceme
t er ies in F rance. On 1 92 1 the casketof the U nknown Soldier was brough tto the U . S . . T here was a ceremony inN ew Y ork when the ship br inging the
casket arr ived. T hey then t ook thecasket t o Ar lingt on Nat ional Ceme
tary in V irginia, just across the P0
t omac R iver from Washington D C
and put it in a t omb there. T he T omb
of the U nknown Soldier is guarded byan Amer ican soldier night and day .
Many people vi sit th i s place"
every
year on Memor ial D ay in May , the
President of the U S . places a wreathof red roses at the t omb . I would l iketo see this T omb of the U nknownSoldier and perhaps some day I can
go t o Washingt on D .C . and see it .
-R egie Cofer
In Mr s . L iske’s room the studen ts
have been having quit e a t ime. Theyhad 2 par t ies after they fin i shed theirs tudy on bees . T he par ty consis ted of
hot biscuit s , honey, r ipe and green
olives , and dates ; they then had a
spelling bee and sang songs .Mrs . L iske
’s room have s tar t ed some
shadow boxes of Swit zer land and'F rance in geography .They als o have a very nice mural
of H olland. I t cover s the ent ire w idthof her room and
,contains flower s ,
people, wind m ill s , milk car t s , and
st orks . H olland has quit e a f ew s torks .T hey have another mural wh ich i s ahelp and illust rat ion for the E ngli shs tudent s . I t shows : the ground, wall ,and ladder s . T he words that don’
t
need a helper are sit t ing on the wallby themselves while the ones that needa helper are either standing on the
ground or being helped up the ladder .
Mrs . L i ske has been read ing to the
class a book wh ich they al l enjoy verymuch . T he name i s “In the Y ear of our
mst r ips on
been study)hy bemi ssulas and
t o star t a
grade the
r ing for a
is cent er ed
3 have been.nd wr it ingLl l the boysis program .
n studyingd fract ions .t o co-opertch ing T .V . ,
eep up w ithaffair s . Inun i t on the
Wilbur H all
a very at
a boy just rest ing .
” Many people whohave seen this poster think they arer eal pictures taken at Camp Gabarusbecause they look so r eal , but theyhave been cut out of a boy ’ s magaz ine.
Keep Bo-bo SmilingI n the third grade room we have
a large head and face of a clown . We
call him “Bo-bo. H e has a pret ty
colored hat and he has red cheeks anda red nose. H e is made so he can smi leor frown when we come into the room
smi ling and looking happy our teachermakes him sm i le by pulling a st r ingt hat makes his mouth and eyebrowsturn up . But when we come in frowning and grumbling he has t o frowntoo. Our mot to is :
“Keep Bo-bo smiling .
—Bobby Avery, 3rd grade
in: In a pushbutton war that cont inued for severalmach ines t hat wou ld have to do the f igh t ing bepush but tons would be out of order due to a lackmen. If you don
’
t be l ieve it , ask any housew i feiths in amodern k i tchen.
-Se lected
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T he soft ball games w ill s tart on
May 1 2 . F or the fir st month, gameswil l be played on Saturday afternoon only . Beginning June 4 gameswill also be played on Monday and
T uesday after supper . We w ill havethree leagues composed of the following cot tages : “A”
L eague, Cot tages1 -4—1 0—1 4 .
“B”L eague, Cot tages 8
1 1 - 1 3- 1 5- 1 7 .
“C”L eague, Cot tages 2 -3
7-9 . The follow ing rules w ill be oh
served f or the softball season :
1 . A l l games will be five innings2 . R egular rules of soft ball will befollowed except that t hree str ikesis out whether the catchercatches the ball or not .
Umpires w ill be agreed upon bythe cot tage parent s involved.
4 . E quipment and score sheet s maybe picked up at the gym . T heyshould be returned as soon afterthe game as possible.
5 . T he fir st t eam listed is ‘
respon
sible for get t ing the equipment .
The cot tage parent s can decidewhich is the home t eam .
Softbal l f ields will be numbered as
followsF ield N O . 1 , Across the road fromcot tage 1 5 .
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F ield N O . 2 , Beside the cannery .F ield N O . 3, Across the highway bythe grands tand.
Swimming f or the cot tages w ill probably s tart on June 2 .
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T he softball season got underwayat the school on May 1 2
, w ith six
games being played. On May 1 9, six
more games were played. A t the present t ime each league has an undefeated t eam . N o. 1 4 in the
“A” league,N O . 1 5 in the “B” league, and N O . 9
in the“C” league have 2 w ins against
no loses .H ere are a f ew of the games played.
A very well played game, N o . 1 4 beatN o. 1 0 by the score of 1 1 t o 1 0 . N O .
1 4 had t o score 9 runs in the last inning t o win aft er t railing most of the
game .
I n t he“C” league, N O . 9 beat their
old enemy N o . 3 by the score of 7 t o
3 . N o . 9 scored 4 runs in the last inning t o clench this game.
N o . 8 came up w ith a very goodt eam to hold the powerful N o. 1 5 t eam
t o a close game. The final score was7 to 5 in favor of N o . 1 5 .
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FARM AND TRADE NEWSBarn F orce
Mr . T omkinson i s in charge of the
barn . H e has seven boys working forhim in the morning and eight boys inthe afternoon sect ion . In the past twomonths there has been three lit ter s ofyoung pigs added t o the hog herd.
T he boys have been plowing and havebeen sowing soy beans for the hogst o
'
graze. Mr . T omkinson and his boysare in charge of about 1 50 hogs andpigs , T hey must feed and wat er t hemeach day . T he Barn boys care for
about 30 year lings which help t o makeup our beef herd. Recent ly a new lighting system was installed in the barn .
T his i s a great help t o the operat ionof the barn.
—James Conrad
Mr . Aut en'
is in charge of the Dairyand has t en boys working f or him in
t he morning and six in the afternoon.
D ur ing the past f ew weeks the ice
cream machine has been running at
full blast because of the large st rawberry crop . M r . Auten and his boysare in charge of m i lking the cows .T hey have fort y-two cows which arem ilked twice a day , t hese cows produce from 1 50 t o 1 60 gallons of milka day . The dairy boys keeps the cowsand the stalls clean at al l t imes
,
—James Conrad
F arm
T he farm boys have been work ing
—James Conrad
pret ty hard this month . The seven ac
res of cot t on requires a lot of at t en
t ion . T he cot t on is up and is lookingvery good. Over in the s trawberrypat ch, the boys have been pickingquite a
“
f ew basket s of berr ies . T hes t rawberry crop was held up due t o
the cold weather in the spr ing ; however
, the cafeter ia has been servingt he berr ies about twice a day _dur ingt he st rawberry season . Many of the
berr ies are being frozen for futureuse.
T he sugar peas have been plent ifulthis spr ing and the boys have had
their fill of them . T hey al so require a
lot of at t ent ion and work before theyare ready for table use.
Mr . Query, the farm manager , re
por t s the roast ing ear patch (20 ac
res ) is doing very well and should beproducing corn f or the table soon .
H e repor t s the 'lads have been cut t ingand baling hay ,
Over 3000 bales of
alfalfa and clover hay has been baledso far this year . T his w il l be used forfeeding livest ock . T he smal l grainshou ld be r ipe and r eady for the boysto s tar t cut t ing in a few days . T heyield looks good.
L aundryM r . N ovabilski and the boys in the
laundry have been doing fine workthe laundry . T here i s one new boy in
the laundry. H is name i s Rober t Presnell . T he laundry boys have a hardt ime dry ing clothes because one of
the dryer s is broken. They have three
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dryer s working . T he pres s boys dida fine job on the Boy Scout uniforms .Mr . N ovobilsk i has eleven boys working with him in the morning and t en
in the afternoon . H e said the cot tage
supervi sor s are co-operat ing very nicely in keeping their clothes bundled.
Carpent er ShopM r . Carr iker and the carpent ershop boys have been very busy thepast month . T hey have paint ed the —John Bonner
THEM IXED-UP DO LLARS
How much is a do l lar worth? Th i s ques t ion i s not as s i l l y as it sounds .Somet imes a do l lar i s worth much mote t han a do l lar. Th i s happens w henour count ry makes only a few cop ies of a certain co in. It also happensw hen onl y a few of the co ins are given out . Peop le who co l lect co insoften pay h igh prices for these rare co ins .Seventy
-f ive years ago, our country made a new s i lver do l lar. It was
cal led the L i berty-head do l lar. O nl y a few L i berty-head do l lars were ever
g iven out . So, unt i l onl y recent l y, co in co l lectors paid as much as e igh tdo l lars for one of them.
Today , however, you can get a_ L i berty-head do l lar for onl y one do l lar.What happened? We l l , the mint in the ci ty of Ph i lade l ph ia had a call for
some s i lver do l lars not long ago . Someone made a mi stake . He sent outthe l i berty-head do l lars and today the s i lver do l lar is no longer rare. It is
now worth no more than a regular do l lar.
—Agrico la
inside of the cafeter ia and it looksvery mcc. T hey also put a new wat er
l ine fr om Cot tage N O . 7 over t o the
cow pasture t o wat er the beef cat t le.
Mr . Carr iker has three boys workingwith him in the morning and five inthe aft ernoon . Mr . Carr iker
’s boys
have been building a dog house for
Mr . F urr and M r . H olbrook t o findrefuge in . T hey have recent ly in
s tal led a new wat er fountain at the
office.
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OUR PRINTLNG DEPARTMENTJohnnie Bonner
D ur ing the past f ew months , the
pr int ing clas s at the Stonewal l Jackson T raining School hasn ’
t had verymuch commer ical pr int ing t o do, due
t o the fact that the colleges and
other state inst itut ion that we do
pr int ing for , have caught up on theirforms , let terheads . envelopes, cards ,and other job work .We do all the pr int ing f or our
school , plus the four other t ra iningschool s in the stat e and several stat ecolleges . We also put out a magazineeach month . T he U pl ift . T he mem
ber s of our pr int ing clas s enjoy making book marker s, addres s books ,calling cards , and other odds and
ends when work is slack . T he pr intshop has some good equipment for
the student s t o learn the pr int ingtrade. We have a Babcock pres s andfour other presses , two of which areaut omat ic presses and two are handpresses . We have three linotype -r
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na
chines , a Bost on st it cher , two perforat or s , an elrod, a dico, a broach , a
Challenge dr ill , a paper cut ter , and a
saw .
The boys that have pr int ing in the
morning, go t o the“
academ ic schoolin the aft ernoon and the boys thathave pr int ing in the afternoon go t o
the academ ic school in the morning .
A lot of work i s required to get T heU plift published each month . T he
boys set the type, make proofs , cor
rect and make up . After pr int ing,
T he U plift must be folded, s tapled,cut and addressed f or
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mailing and
campus di st r ibut ion.
We have guit e a f ew type casesf or job pr int ing . T his type ranges insize from six point t o sixty po int .
Most of the type is in the Califgrnia
Job Case . T his case i s rather easy '
t o learn . T he beginner s set type froma pract ice case, 24 point . Century.T hey make t icket s , bullet ins , pract icejobs and so for th before get t ing intothe smaller and fancier var iety of
type.
R ecent ly the pr int er s have beenmaking plant labels , for Mr . H ooker ,who i s in charge of the flower s andM r . R ouse, who i s in charge of the
plant beds . T hese labels were made
on the perforator and on the dr ill .F ive different colored label s were
made. T hese colored labels w ill helpt o ident ify the plant s . An unknownamount was made because they werenade
_from scrap paper .
R ecent ly two new boys were added
t o the pr int ing crew . Jerry Garren,
from A s'heville, who i s sixt een year s
old, s tated that he would l ike to
learn typeset t ing . A lso, we have R ober t Wat t s , a sixt een year old fromWins ton Salem. R ober t i s a very't alented musician who states he wouldlike t o learn the pr int ing t rade, t o
aid him in his future.
T he summer roller s for the pressesarr ived last week . A s al l pr int er sknow , the press roller s should be
changed at least twice each yearsummer r oller s and w int er roller s .Because of varying atmospher ic con
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KNOW YOUR COUNT IESA ser ies of interes ting fact s concerning ci ties , town and vi llages wi l l be
published mon thly in TH E UPL I F T . We believe the r eaders wi ll be inter es tedin learning how these names were given t o the different communi t ies . T hese
fact s ar e compi led alphabet ically by counties . We hope to cover all of th eone hundred count ies in N or th Carolina.
CL E VE L AN D
AR CH DAL E Set t led 1 700 ; named for Quaker John A rchdale, Governor of North Carolina (1 694BE LWOOD Set t led 1 870 ; named
by M rs . E lla R ound H oyle, probablya cont ract ion of Belle Wood.
BO I L ING SPR I NGS Set t led1 900, incorporat ed 1 91 1 ; named for
a boil ing spr ing, known since the daysof the Cherokee.
CA SAR Set t led 1 870 incorpor
ated 1 903 ; named for Jul ius Caesarby vot e of the people, but an error
was made in the spell ing .
DOU BL E SH OAL S Set t led1 800 ; named for two shoals of BroadR iver nearby .E AR L Set t led 1 870 ; named for
Abel E ar l , plantat ion owner .
F AL L ST ON Set t led 1 885, incorF
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all s , sher iff of Cleveland Countywhen the t own was incorporat ed.
GR OVE R F irst called Wh i takerf or nearby mounta in ; incorporated
COL UMB U S1 885 ; renamed f or Pres ident GroverCleveland.
KINGS MOU NTA IN Set t led1 773, incorporated 1 874 ; named for
the site of the R evolut ionary bat t le,8 miles south ; mountain named f or
one of Br itain’ s Georges .L AT T IMOR E Set tled 1 880 , in
corporat ed 1 899 ; named for Confederate Capt . Audley M . L at t imore.
L AWNDAL E Set t led 1 870, in
corporated 1 903 ; named for spread inggreen lawns of Major H . F . Schenck,owner of m i ll s and power companyin the town .
MOOR E SBORO Set t led 1 780,incorporated 1 885 ; named for L em
Moore, an ear ly set t ler .
PAT T E R SON SPR INGS Set t l
ed 1 880 ; named for Ar thur Pat t erson,
Sr . who par t ic ipated in the Bat t le of
K ings Mountain .
SH E L BY Set t led 1 84 1 , incor
porat ed 1 843 ; named f or Col . I saacShelby, R evolut ionary commander .
ST U BBS Set t led 1 885 ; named
f or Col . Seth W . Stubbs , who madecourthouse in '
1 856 .
WACO Set t led 1 857, incorpor
at ed 1 887 named by George W . H en
dr ick f or Waco, T exas .WA SH BU RN Set t led 1 875 ;
named for W . W . Washburn, a count ycommissioner .
BOL T ON Set t led in1 889 ; incorporat ed 1 91 5 ; named for Bolton L umber Company .CE R R O GOR D O I ncorporated
1 874 named f or the Mexican bat t leground.
CH ADBOU RN Incorporat ed in
1 883 ; named for family ~ of lumbermerchant s .
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Selected by John Bonner
T OO Y O UN G TO GO S TE AD Y I WAS TH E ON E
‘
T oo young t o go steady,'
T oo young, I hear him say ,
H e says I ’m not“ready
But , then why am I feel ing th i s way .
T oo young so he t ells me,
H e says we’ ll have to wait ,Why wait t ill it may be too late?“Can
’t he realize he dr ives me w i ld,
I s hemade of stone?Must be always t reat me l ike a ch i ld?Won
’t he ever own up,
S omeday he’ ll be sorry,S omeday, just wai t and see,
H e’ ll w i sh he’d gone steady w i thme !
MOL L Y -O
M olly, W it-h her green eyesA nd her fair hair ,I love her so.
Molly-0 .
'
T ell me will she be there,W i ll she st ill care,W hen I am low?
H old me through the bad t imes’Cause theglad t imes Stand ing on t he corner watching al l
“T hey come and they go. the g irls go by,N o blues w i ll I mind Standing ou
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the corner watch ing allL ong as I find the g ir l s go by .
'
S he is my k ind and my Molly-o. Brother you don ’t know a n icer
I was the one who taught her to k i ssT he way that she kisses you now .
And you know the way she t ouchesyour cheek
Y es, I taught her how .
I was the one who taught her t o cry
When she want s you under her spell .T he sight of her tear s dr ives you out
of your m indI taught her so well .And then one day I had my love asperfect as can be.
She l ived, she loved, she laughed, shecr ied
And it was all for me
But I’ll never know who taught her to
lie
And now that it ’ s over and done,Who learned the lesson when she
broke my heartI was the one.
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occupat ion, me there.
Mat t er of fact neither do I .
T hen stand ing on the corner watching A TE AR F E L L
al l the gir ls ,Wat ching all the g ir l s, wat ching allthe gir ls go by .Standing on the corner wat ching all
the gir ls go by,Standing on the corner g iv ing all thegir ls the eye.
Brother you ’ve got a r ich
imaginat ion ,
Give it a whir l , give it a t ry .
T ry standing on the corner wat chingal l the gir ls ,
Wat ching al l the g ir l s , wat ching al lthe gir ls go by ,Standing on the corner wat ching all
the gir ls go by,Stand ing on the corner underneath aSpr ingt ime sky .
Brother you can’t go to jail for what M I S TAK E N
you ’re think ing,
O r for the -woooo” look in your eye.
Y ou’re only standing on the corner
wat ching all the gir l s,Wat ching al l the gir l s , watch ing allthe gir l s go by .
I’m the cat that got the cream,
H aven’ t got a gir l ,
But I can dream .
H aven’t got a g ir l ,
But I can Wish ,So I take me down t o Main St reet .
And that ’ s Where I select myimaginary dish !Saturday and I ’m broke,Couldn ’
t buy a gir l a nickle coke.
St ill I ’m l iving like am ill ionaire,When I take me down t o Main -St reet ,And I review the harem parading for
A t ear fel l when I saw you
In the arms of someone new
A t ear fell when you left me
A ll alone and feel ing blueA tear fell when you t old me
T hat your love was not for me
I don’t m i ss the teardrops
But I miss you constant lyA fool am I a fool am I in love.
T he t eardrops t hat you st epped on
A s you danced across the floorWere crushed like my poor hear t wasWhen you walked out of my door
A t ear fell when you t old me
T hat the flame in your hear t diedDar l ing have I lost youL ike these t eardrops from my eyes ?A fool am I a fool am I in love.
Mistaken, Oh I_ guess I was m i staken,
N ow th i s hear t of mine i s break in’
Because I t rusted you .
I was so mi staken .
I believed in all your love l ies .N ow I see that I was unw i seT o be in love wi t h you .
Y ou had me believing you were
sincere,Y ou t old me you cared.
I thought your love was st rongE v
’ryt ime your arms would hold me
so t ight .
I t hought I was r ight ,But I was wrong, wr ong, wrong .
I was so m i staken .
N ow I find that I ’m for sakenSomeday you may be m istakenT he way I was w ith you .
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FUN AND OTHERWISE ,
(Bi ts of humor clipped fr om exchanges and gathered fromother publicat ions , wi th an occasional or iginal funny-bone
t ickler added. )
A fisherman was t aken into cour t
f or cat ching 1 0 more bas s than the lawal low s .“Guilty or not guilty ? ” asked the
judge .
“Gui lty said the spor t sman .
T en dollar s and cost s ,” said the
judge.
Aft er paying, the defendant asked“And now
,your honor , I ’d like sev
eral copies of the court record to showmy fr iends . ”
OOo:oOO
U p at the Nor t h Pole, where the
night s are six months long, two E skimo women were out side of their igloos one day ,
hanging up wash . T heywere talking about t heir husbandsget t ing drunk on spiced whale oil .
Y ou know ,said one, I
’ve taken
al l I can take. T hat husband of minedidn ’
t come in unt il half past January .
”
OOo:oOO
Pat was in the Br it ish army inF rance dur ing Wor ld War 1 , but his
ant i Br it i sh seniment s were wel lknown, so the censor and headquar
t er s kept a wary eye on him .
Pat r ecieved a let t er from his w ife,Br idget , stat ing that it was near lyt ime t o plant “potatoes , but there wasnot an able-bodied man . available forhire and she did not feel able t o spadethe potat o pat ch her self .Shor t ly she received a let t er from
Pat that said : “D on’t dig in the potato
pat ch . T hat ’ s where the guns are buried
,
”
Soon he recieved this new s from hiswife : “A lot of soldier s came and dug
up the patch from end t o end. Whatam I t o do ?
”
Pat answered :“Plant the potat oes .
OOo :oOO
H ave you , asked the elect r ician,
any four -volt , two wat t bulbs ? ”“F or what ? ” asked the assistant .
N o, two .
“Two what ? ”Y es .
”
N
Money Madnes s : I f a man runs aft ermoney, he i s mad; if he keeps it , he isa capitali st ; if . he spends it , he i s a.playboy ; if he doesn ’
t he lacks ambit ion . I f he get s it without working forit , he
’s a parasite ; and if. he has ac
cumulat ed it aft er a lifet ime of hardwork, people call him a fool whonever got anyt hing out of life.
OOo :oOO
A father , vis it ing his son at a U S .
A rmy recept ion Cent er in Mich igan,
was amazed at the spot less condit ionof the res t rooms adjoining the v isit or
’ s lounge. T hen he saw the largesign which read : KE E P T H I S PLACEL OOK N G NE AT . Y OUR SON MAY
H AVE T O CL E AN I T .
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B IRTHDAYSIn the U p lif t we are announcing each month the bir thday
“anniversar i es of
the boys . I t is our purpose to follow this cus tom indef ini tely. We believe
that the r elat ives and fr iends of the boys wi ll'
be gr eat ly“
inter ested these
monthly announcement s .
JUNEEd Horridge, 1 7th Bi rt hday , Cottage No . 1 0
Charles Mau ldin, i 5 th Bi rthday, Cot tage No . 1 4
E. J . Johnson, 1 3 th Bi rthday , Cot tage No . 9
Noe l Pat terson, l oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 2
C l i ffordWoodruff , l oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 4
Pau l Perk ins , l oth Birthday,Cottage No . 1 5
De lmar Sheets , 1 5 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 4
Dav id Hater, 1 5th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 1 0
Franklie Sui ts , i 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 1
Law rence Tay lor, 1 3 th Bi rt hday , Cottage No . 3
Lee Roy Gentry , 1 2 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 6
Ralph Prui tt , 1 5 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 2
Leon Pridgen, i 5 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 3
Bobby Juxrney, l oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 4
Paul Dockery, l oth Bi rthday, Cottage No . 1 4
Tommy S ing leton, l 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 2
Donald Weaver, l oth Bi rthday , Cot tage No . 1 1
James Lanning, i 5th Bi rthday, Cot tage 1 7
Marv in Gwyn, l 4 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 3
Honesty sho‘
uld compel us to adm i t that we don’
t always get w hat w e
deserve.
Selected
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COTTAGE HONOR ROM.
R E CE IVING COT TAGEKenneth BlackH owardH ardee
R ober t Wat t sCO T TAGE N O . 1
R oger Car ter
Buddy H uffst icklerCO T T AGE N O . 2
Billy Pru it tCO T T AGE N O . 3
Warren Car t er
D ouglas I ngramChar les JamesCalv in PeelerC laudes W i ll iamsCOT T AGE N O . 4
L ee D r iverWentwor th Jami sonCOT T AGE N O . 6
Ralph H ammer
John McGrady
L awrence MungerW illiam Ph i llipsDonniePrevet teJohn R ichardsonD onald Wood
COT T AGE N O . 7
T homas L amber tCarrol McClure
Virgil R obert sBilly StylesW ill iam WaycasterClaude WebbR ichardWhi-sh ant
CO T TAGE N O . 9
Sandy Canady
COT T AGE N O . 1 1
Ver lon D ockeryF red KingE ar l MorganJoe StoneF rankie Suit s
COT TAGE N O . 1 5
Jimmy BowmanKenneth H agerF rank H elmsMar shal-l JonesBobby Pr iceD onald T hornburg
R eggie CoferJames D ailR ober t I ngramW illie I ngramI ra L angleyH oward McGrady
Car l SmithMonroe Zion
COT T AGE N O . 1 8
Clarence BatyD onald Braswel lDavid DupkoskiE veret t e H oglenF rank ManessH erman S tylesCO TT AGE N O . 1 4
T roy BlackwellJohn BonnerE dsel ChurchBilly CoffeeMack F loweH arold GaineyBill Johnson
JU LY , 1 956 Vol. 44
Published Monthly ByT he Pr int ing Class of the Stonewall JacksonManual T raining and I ndust r ial School
Concord, North Carol ina
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A MONTH LY JONRNALPubl ished By
The aut hority of t he Stonewal l Jackson Manual Training and Indust rial SchoolType-set t ing by the Boys
’.Print ing Class
Subscript ion Two Dol lars the Year, in AdvanceAct of March 3, 1 897. Acceptance for mail ing a special rate
STAFF CO NTENTS
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
M rs . Wanda Ho l brookM rs . Agnes YarbroughAssociate Ed i torsJames H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPO RTERS
W i l bu’
r Hall
Robert W i l lardJames ConradJohn Bonner
l INOTYPEO PERATO RS
Jo-hn Bonner
Robert w i l lardW i l bur Hal lJerry GarrenJames Conrad
ED ITO RIAL
NEW COMM ISS IO NER
NEWS O F FO RMER STUDENTSNEW CRO P DEWBERRIES
BARBER SHO P SHO E SHOP
THEMACH INE SHO P
By Jerry GarrenSUNDAY SERV ICE
By W i lbur HallBO Y WANTED
WHEN YO U W ISH UPO N A STAR
PEO PLE AND FRIENDS
CATCHY Q UESTIO NS
CAN YO U IMAG INEBy Johnnie Bonner
KNOW YO UR CO UNTIES
BIRTHDAYS
BITS O'
F W ISDOM
JO KESHO NO R RO LLS
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the training schoo l s must have a h igh sensit iv i ty to the n.eed's .of the children comm i tted to our care . The peop le of
“Nort h Caro l ina expect the trains
ing schools to be adm ini stered in a manner. that will be in keep-ing w i ththe best t hough t and pract ice to be
‘found in the nat ion. Such a programrequires an adequate budget and consecrated and profess ional l y trainedpersonne l .TO the ach ievement of th i s wo-
rthwhile purpose I look forward w i thenthus iasm, and p ledge my best eforts to its accomp l i shment .
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STATE TRAiN ING SCHOOLS
GET NEW COMMISSIONER
Blaine M . Mad i son
M r. Blaine Mark Mad i son, who succeeds Mr. Samue l E. Leonard as
Commi ss io ner of Correct ion, is we l l qual i f ied t h rough educat ion and ex
perience to d i rect the f ive Training Schoo ls of the state.
Born in O l in (I rede l l County), Nort h Caro l ina, M r. Mad i son rece ivedhis educat ion in Nort h Caro l ina pub l ic schoo l s , and took his A . B. Degree
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at H igh Po int Co llegenAt Duke Univers ity he earned M . A . and M . Ed.
Degrees .
H is experience has been w ide in the educat ion f ie ld . He served as
princnpal O f '
the Central Conso l idated Schoo l in lrede l l County and Of the
Coo l Spring D i strict Schoo l s , lrede l l County . He served as a co l lege professor at Appalach ian State Teachers Co l lege for the Summer Ses s ions , 1 935and 1 940 ; at Ashev i l le Co l lege, for the Summer
'
Sessions, 1 939,'l 94 1 and
1 942 ; and was d irector of Workshop in Educat ion at Ashev i l le Co l legefor the summer O f 1 94 1 . At the Method i st O rphanage in Rale igh he wasprinci pal O f the H igh Schoo l and Elementary Schoo l from 1 942 unt i l 1 952 .
Prior to accept ing h i s present pos i t ion he was As s i stant D i rector of Prisonsfor the State O f North Caro l inaM r. Mad i son i s very act ive in church and re l ig ious work . He is a mem
Chai rman O f the Board of Stewards there . He teaches the F ide l i s Bi b leC las s at t h i s church; i s Lay Leader O f the Rale igh D i st rict O f the Method istChurch ; Treasurer O f the Board of Lay Act iv i t ies of the North Caro l inaMethod i st Conference; Member O f the Board O f Educat ion O f the Nort hCaro l ina Method i s t Conference; member of the execut ice commi ttee O f
the North Caro l ina Counci l of Churches ; and a member of the Board O f
Trustees O f H igh Po int Co l lege .
A pro l i f ic w ri ter, M r. Mad i son has contri buted n umerous profes s ionalart ic les for NO RTH CARO LINA EDUCAT IO N , NO RTH CARO LINA CHRIST IAN
ADVO CATE, THE STATE, PTA BULLETIN , BU LLETIN SERV ICE O F THE
METHO DIST CHURCH O F THE UN ITED STATES .
M r. Mad i son i s al so act ive in cuvrc affai rs . At the present t ime he is amember of the Rale igh L ions C lub; Past Chai rman O f Board O f D i rectorsO f Rale igh Fami l y Serv ice Society; '
and a member of the Parks and Recreat ion Board of the C i ty O f Rale igh .He i s a member of the American Pri son As sociat ion, Nat ional Educat ion
Associat ion, American Associat ion of Schoo l Adm ini st rators, and the KappaDe l ta Pi hono rary scho larship f raternity lbeducat ion.
M r. Madi son i s married to the former M i s s Helen W i l l iams Of Yadkinvi l le , North CarOlina, andmakes h i s home TnRale igh .Theschoo l Wi shes to extend to M r. Ma
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disOn its best Wishes} in his WOrkand assure him O f its cooperat ion
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used to pull the bread from the ovens .H e sm i led as he compared the fastwrapping machine with the methodhe had known here of sliding the breaddown a shoot t o the basement whereit was stacked on tables w ithout wrapp ings . H e marveled at the improvement s al l around and said that t heynever knew what a
“citat ion”
was
and the“only form of recreat ion on
Saturday afternoon was s i t t ing in theold grand- stand wat ching some otherguys have fun .
Clyde, who is the father of f iVe
children from 1 1 months to 8 year sold, is mar r ied to the former MissMary L ou H undley from West V irg inia. T hey met while he was stat ioned in Norfolk Virginia. H e has nothing but praise for the Navy, and planst o stay in unt il he can ret ire . H is
baby was born in Naples I taly in a
Navy hO‘
spital and only cost himA fter being released from t hisschool in August 1 938 he returned t o
his home in Kannapol is where he at
t ended school for awhile t hen securedr egular employment . H e enl ist ed
_in
t he U nited Stat es Navy on July 1 4 ,1 94 1 , and received his basic t rainingat N orfolk . On Sept ember 1 3, 1 94 1 ,
he was assigned t o the “U . S . S . Nor thCarol ina,
”where he at tained the rat
ing of second-class baker . When the
war star t ed he was sent t o the Pacif icwhere the fir st duty -of the U . S . S .N . C . was t o suppor t the U . S . landings on Guadalcanal and T ulagi ascar r ier planes , at tacked these objec
t ives . H is fir st tast e of act ion came on
August 24 , 1 942 when the Japanesewere turned back in a major at t emptt o land reinforcement s . on Guadalcanal . D ive bomber s made the Nor thCarolina t heir target and scored sev
eral hit s kill ing seven men who were
t rapped below deck . T he bat t le shipst ruck back at the enemy and downedat least six of t heir planes .Aft er Pear l H arbor Clyde says his
ship'
suppor ted the engagement s on
islands of the Pacif ic and was a par tof the cover ing force which operatedunder the command of Adm iral William F . H alsey . J r .
I n 1 944 Clyde was sent back to thestates as pract ical inst ructor in the
Cooking and Baking school . H ere he
showed the new recru i t s the way t o
prepare a meal by actually do ing that .
After spending a sixty day leaveat home in Kannapol is
, Clyde reportedfor duty at California aboard the U SSI owa, another one of the great heroesof the war
”. When the ship was de
comm i ssioned he was assigned t o theU SS Macon, a heavy cruser , and sailed t o the A t lant ic where t hey receivedfur ther t raining .
I n 1 952 he was assigned to a com
municat ions ship the Adirondack andt hey were sent t o Naples , I taly t oserve as a flag ship for the newly organized N . A . T . O . Clyde served as
cook f or the member s of t his wor ldw ide organizat ion . H e i s st ill at N aples helping feed the Naval A irmen .
A t the present t ime he is on emer
gency‘leave because of the death of
his sister and plans t o leave t onightby plane for Naples where his familyi s l iving . T hey are al l anxious forC lyde’ s order s t o come allow ing themt o r eturn t o the stat es .H e has 1 5 year s in the Navy and
plans t o remain there unt i l he can
ret ire.
T here i s something cat ching aboutt his boy . H e sm iles from ear t o ear
and before you know it you are smil
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ing too and you are not surewhy . H e
i s very neat in his Navy un iform w iththree red st r ipes on t he sleeve belowthe elbow signify ing his y ear s in ser
vice, and a row of star s and r ibbonsacross h i s chest t o show the majorengagement s he has served in the war .
T here was a humbleness about himthat was quit e impressive. H e ex
pressed his grat i tude t o the schooland . M r . and M rs . L i ske h i s cot tageparent s , for the t raining and guidancehe received while here. A statement
he made wh i le telling his exper iencesseemed t o sum up his feelings andat t itude and make a far bet ter clos ingt han any we can think of .
“I give M r . and M rs . L iske the
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ECO NOM IST VS . STATISTICIAN
An economi st i s a man Who begins by know ing a very l i tt le about a
great deal and gradual ly gets to know les s and les s about more and more
unt i l he f inal l y gets to know pract ical ly noth ing about pract ical l y everyth ing.
Whereas , a stat i s t ician, on the other hand,begins by know ing a very
great deal about a very l i tt le and gradual l y gets to know more and more
about les s and less unt i l he f inal ly gets to know pract ical l y everythingabout noth ing.
From: Uni ted Benef i t New s
credit for what I am and what I havebeen able t o do. H ad it not been forthem and this school I t ruly bel ievethat I would have ended up behindbar s , for before I came here I had no
desire t o do the r ight thing and cared
f or nothing. T his i s home t o me and
I am proud for anyone t o know .
”
We are always happy t o have our
boys come back and make such suc
cessful report s as Clyde has made,and would like to take th i s opportunityt o w ish for him and his family con
t inned success and happiness and maythey realize that dream of a home of
their own back in the “good ol-d_U nit
ed Stat es”
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A FU LL CRO P O f dew berries i s expected next year from 500 p lants at Jackson Training Schoo l . A l though dew berries are cons idered a new cash cropin the state,
these w i l l be for the schoo l consumpt ion. C layton Mu l l i s ,ass i stant farm manager at the schoo l , checks the plants , as s i sted by IriaLang ley, one O f the boys who he lped set out the dewberries during March .
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grow , stable or poultry manure maybe applied.
L it t le or no pruning is done in the
spr ing when tying up the canes . I t isoft en necessary t o cut off at the t op
of the s takes . A ll the old and new
canes are cut off level w ith the groundand burned aft er harvest .
T o begin new plant s , bury the t ips
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BARBER SHOP AMP:
M r . H ooker is in charge of the
Barber Shop and the Shoe Shop . Theboys that work in the barber shop are :T roy Blackwell , B ill Coffey, MackF lowe and D onald Braswell . T he
boys in the Barber Shop have beenvery busy . T his month , T roy Blackwellhas given 1 58 , hair cut s . Mac F lowe
has cut 1 1 8 , D onald Braswell'
has
cut 99, and Bill Coffey has cut 86 .
T he total of hair cut s given this monthin the school ’ s barber sh 0p i s 461 .
Mr . H ooker has four boys thatwork in the Shoe Shop , t hey are
L awr ence E vans,Jimmy Smith, Bobby
Bagwell , and Bill F roel ick .
SHOE SHOP NEWST he shoe repair s are approximately
2 00 each month . D ur ing the monthof June, Bobby Bagwell repaired 45,
Jimmy Sm ith repaired 68 , L awr ence
E vans repaired. 45 and Bill F roel ickrepaired 40 .
T he boys are doing .excellentwork in their respect ive t rades . Oneboy s tated the other day, “I am goingt o get a hair cut t he day before I
go home so I . want have t o pay f or
it . T hey cut hair jus t about as good
as the barber gives back home.
”T his
i s only one example of the sat isfiedpat rons of the local shops .
—J . Conrad and C . F rye
of canes or vines in Sep tember . Cane
t ips w il l develope root s by spr ing. Cut
of f the new plant a foot from whereit r ooted in ear ly spr ing and t ransplant .
D ur ing harves t ing, ber r ies shouldbe kept out of the sun and in a coolshady place as fast as p icked.
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THE MACH INE SHOPJer ry Gar ren
Mr H inson ’ s boys have been working pret ty hard these past f ew week s .T heir work ranges from welding t o
washing car s .One of the most recent jobs hasbeen working on i s the F armall “H ”
t ractor . An axle was broken while one
of the boys was working in the fields .I t was broken about on June 6,1 956, the shop boys worked on it aboutt hree hour s after supper but st illcouldn ’
t get it fixed; however it wasrepaired the next day .
T he shop is managed by M r . H insonw ith the help of Paul Culler , Pet e
Cumm ings , Bill Carpent er , R onnieMint er , Car l Call , T ed F ow ler , and
F reddie Vadase. T hese boys are in the
morning sect ion . T he aft ernoon boysconsist of : Goldman Cheatham, D avidAdams, Car l T aylor , Maxie T eal, andH erber t L ucas .One of the most recent add i t ions t o
t he farm implement s i s a grain con
veyor . T his machine will be put int ouse by the t ime the grain is ready t obe stored in the dairy barn . I t w ill beused t o feed the st ock dur ing the wint er months .Some of the more recent add i t ions
t o the shop are: amow ing blade gr inder , also t hree new stands and a new
gr inder . T he boys have made a lime
spreader from mi scellaneous junk . Avery nice display of workmansh ip .T he boys under the guidance of Mr .
H inson have bu i lt a wagon f or the
Chrysler Mar ine engine. T he boyss tar ted from scratch with only the
mot or . T hey star ted by making chasi sfrom pieces of 5 x 1 2 lumber , thenmounted the mot or on the chas i s andthe axles . After they mount ed the
mot or they cleaned it '
up , get t ing al l
the grease and wax accumulatedthrough shipment . T hey ordered a
special radiat or , and fan, the pulleysand the mount ing were made at Can
non Mills Machine Shop , then installed a drum to keep the circulat ingwat er cool by bypassing the manifold. In order t o do this they stoppedup the plugs in themotor block . T heyhad t o bore two holes so the wat er
could run through the engine block,then into the radiator , then theyfixed the gasoline line and the gover
nor s .Two elect r icians from Concord
w ired the engine, so they could star tit w ith a bat t ery . I n put t ing the axleson the frame they had t o do a great
deal of welding. A lso they welded a
bat tery box t o keep the bat tery inplace.
A s you go around the campus youwill see many things that the boyshave built , such as the orange gat esat the D airy Barn and pastures .T he boys in the shop are surelyon the ball” when it comes to makingor repair ing implement s for the farmand campus .
It is not t ruth that makes man great , but man that makes t ruth great .
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SUNDAY SERVICES
T he guest speaker f or the School onJune 3rd was the R ev . Mark Q . T ut t leof T he T r inity Method i st Church of
Kannapol is.
R ev . T ut t le chose his scr ipture fromS t . Paul ’ s let t er t o E phesians 6thchapt er and a ver se of the 7th chapterof Galat ions ;
“What soever a man
soweth that shall he also reap .Rev . Tut t le ’ s subject was “Self D e
ceiving. H e star ted by asking a
couple of quest ions ; (1 ) What do folksthink of me ? (2 ) What do I thinkof myself ? H e said t hat if you had
self respect then you would“ have ther espect of others . And if you didn ’
t
have th i s self respect and st i ll thoughtyou had the respect of other s youwere deceiving yourself . Another t hinghe did was t o take a bill f or an
example. H e said if you had a
b i l l with a lot of ones “and m i stakenlygave the away think ing it was
a one then you wer e deceiving yourself.R ev . T ut t le t old“ us a shor t st ory
about a man 1he saw one day who was
dress ed nice, clean, and in al l the waysan Amer i can cit izen should look ; butt he next t ime he saw this fellow he
was laying in the woods afs“drunk as
a «hog.
'
Mr . T utt lethen asked thisquest ion : H ow did th is man feel about
By W i lbur H al l
h imself ? D id he have the respect of
the other fellow ? R ev . T ut t le thenclosed by saying once again,
“Keepself r espect and you ’ ll have the respectof the other guy .
” We closed with ashor t prayer .
T he guest speaker for Sunday June1 0, was R ev . John H . Kn ight , pastorof McGill S t reet Bapt i st Church inConcord.
R ev. Kn ight chose his scr ipturefrom John 1 , 6—1 2 :“T here was a mansent from God whose name was John .
T he same cam-e‘
for a witness of . the
l ight , t hat all men through him mightbel ieve. H e was not that that L ight ,wh ich l ighteth every man t hat comethinto the wor ld. H e was in the worl d,
and the wor ld received him not . H e
came unto h i s own and his own re
ceived him, t o them gave he power t o
become the sons of God even t o themt hat bel ieve on H is name.
”
In reference t o these verses R ev .
knight t old us a lit t le story : Oncet here was a farmer
,h i s w ife, and son .
T hey were very poor but they alldreamed
“of t he day their son could
go’
to'
Collegg. Aft er a_while t heir son
did'
go t o college and needless t o say ,
the father worked h imself half t o
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BOY WANTED
A boy who stands st raight , sit sst raight , act s st raight , and talksstraight .
A boy who list ens carefully whenspoken to
, who asks quest ions whenhe does not under stand, and does notask quest ions about things that are
none of his business .A boy whose finger nail s are not
'
in
mourning, whose ear s are clean,whose
shoes are pol ished, whose clothes areneat , whose hair i s combed, and whoset eeth are well cared f or .
A boy who moves quickly and makesas lit t le noise about it as possibl e.
A boy who whist les in the st reetbut not where he ought to keep st ill .A boy who looks cheerful , has a
r eady smile for every-body, and never
sulks .A boy who i s pol i t e t o every man
and r espectful t o every woman and
gir l .A boy who does not smoke and has
no desire to learn how .
A boy who never bullies other boysor allows other boys to bully him .
A boy who, when he does not knowa thing says : “I
'
do not know .
”and
when he has made a m i stake says :“I’m sorry ;” and when request ed t o
do anything immed iately says , “I ’ llt ry .
”
A boy who looks you . r ight in the
eye and tells you the t ruth every t ime.
A boy who is more eager t o knowhow t o speak good E nglish rather thant o talk slang .
A boy who does not want t o be
smar t ” nor in any way at t ract at
t ent ion .
A boy who is eager t o read goodbooks .
'
A boy whom other boys like.
A boy who i s perfect ly at ease in
the company of respectable gir ls .A boy who is not a goody-goody, apr ig or a lit t le Phar isee, but justhealthy happy and full of life.
A boy who is not sorry f or h imselfand not forever th inking. and talkingabout himself .A boy who i s fr iendly w i th his
mother and more int imate w i th hert han with any one el se.
A boy who makes you feel goodwhen he i s around.
T his boy i s wanted everywhere. The
family want s him, the school want shim, the neighbors want him , the boysand gir l s want him, and Amer icawant s him .
I f you resemble this boy then you
are want ed .—Selected
PS . We need several boys like the
above in the Pr int Shop come by t oday if you qual ify.
O ne reason many peop le don’
t succeed in cl imb ing the ladder of succes sis because t hey are cont inual l y s topp ing along the way to not ice and
po int out the defects in others w h i le forgett ing the defects the'y posesst hemse lves . —E. N . Wal lace Jr.
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WHEN YOU W ISH UPON A STAR
(A repr int from the Paahao Press , H onolulu, H awan by F ranc i s D . Barros . )T he Space-Por t in N ew Y ork C ity
in the year 2050, was it ’ s usual bus-yself as Paul Credon and h i s co-pilot ,George Carson, made t heir way fromthe br iefing room t hrough the building and onto the rocket ship revet
ment . T he space-por t was hummingwith act ivity . T rans-cont inental rocket s and inner -cont inent al rocket sshook t he very ground with a thundering roar .
I n the year 2050 , space t ravel,which had been a fond dream f or so
many, was now a reality . T he U n i tedStat es had pioneered in the development of rocket ship t ravel . I n the
year 2042 , a lunar stat ion had beenset up to observe the act ions of the
planet s and t o track the space st ormsthat posed a problem for space t raveler s .
Paul Credon and his co-pilot , GeorgeCar son, were prepar ing t o blast offin their small two-man rocket t o
inspect these s tat ions and to br ingback the data that had been recordedby the inst rument s .
L ooks like a pret ty fair day f ora t r ip P3 11 1
,
” George remarked as
they walked t oward the ship .“L ooks that way . L et s hope the
weather holds up . T his is the t ime ofYear when those space st orms kickup their heels
,
”Paul answered
,look
ing up at the heavens .Y eah ! ” George said, “I t ’ s only a
week-long t r ip though . Won’t bother
us any , I hope.
Both men boarded the ship and
went to their respect ive stat ions .“E verything checks out here,” Paul
called out .
“R oger !
” George answered, “checksout here too.
Call t ower and inform t hem thatwe
’re ready f or take—of f
,
”Paul order
ed
R oger !”
prompt ly.H ello t ower ! H el lo tower ! T h i si s L unar 4, ready f or take-off Pleas eadvise when field is clear
,George
called.
L unar 4 ! L unar 4 ! T his is tower .
T ake-of f ready. Synchronize take-offwith my count , was the reply .“R oger ! Proceed with count
,
answered.
“T en seconds to take-off . Nine
E ight —S'even —Six —F iv‘
e—F '
our
T hree—Two— One—Blast -of f .
T he power plant on the sh ip ex
ploded into act ion and the red-hot
flash of fire st reamed from the tailsect ion of the ship . T hen w ith a sud
den bur st of speed the ship lurchedupward and left the ground. L unar 4
w ith it ’ s two crewmen was off for
t he moon !
T he ship rose ver t ically . Rapidly itgained momentum . F ir st a thousand,then two thousand feet up . W ithinseconds the ship was approachingthe limit of the ear ths atmosphere.
Aboard the sh ip the two men were
busy checking their course and speed.
“F ive more seconds and we’ ll be infree-fal l George,” Paul said, “stand
the co-pilot answered
Paul
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by t o sw i tch off power .
R oger !”the co-pilot answered.
Paul kep t his eyes fastened on the
alt imeter ,-ready to g ive the order as
soon as the sh ip broke free fromear th ’ s gravity . George was at the
cont rol panel , his hand on the powerlever .
“Sw i tch of f the power at f ive,Paul ordered.
R oger !”answered George. T hen he
counted,“One—two—t
‘hree—fourfive—power off !
”
Paul turned around in h i s sw ivelchair and faced h i s co-p i lot .
“I t ’ ll ber out ine from here on in,
” he said.
George grined.
“Y eah ! Just l ikea cru i se from N ew Y ork to F r i sco,”:he laughed as he spoke.
Suddenly Paul ’ s face grew stern.
George ! look here, quick !” he a-nx
iously cr ied.
“Good L ord! Meteor s ! H undreds oft hem ,
maybe thousands ,” George shotback .“H eaven help us if we get hit by
one, Paul said.
“Paul ! L ook look headed
r ight for us !”Geeorge screamed:
“H old on George ! I f we hit it
’ llhur t ,” Paul shot '
back .
Both men braced t hemselves int heir seat s . T he ship began t o tos s,like a sh ip at the mercy of heavyseas . Both waited tensely for t he
collision they expected. T he sh ip cont inued t o t oss“We
’re hit ! We
’re hit !
” Georgeyel led, as the
l
ship was struck .A t the same t ime the ship turned
t opsy-turvy. H ad it not been f or theirsaf ty belt s both would have beent os sed around like toys at the“mercy
of a dest ruct ive ch i ld.
“T hat was a big one George,
Paul said, “I t must have caused
s ome damage.
“But how much ? ” George askedsharply.“D on
’t know, Paul answered, “may
have damaged the rudder , or even the
isolar -mass -detector . I’ll have t o check
it .”
When a ship ’ s rudder was put out
of operat ion steerage became nil . A
sh ip could never be set back on course.
I t would dr ift in space forever . T he
t urning operat ion needed t o make a
s olar-mass -detect ion was just as bad.
A planet meteor , or other object scould not be detected in t ime t o aver t
a coll i sion. An object t raveling at
t housands ,of miles per second must
be detected far in advance. A secondcan make the difference betweensafety or dest ruct ion
,
aul now had to don h i s space su i tand helmet and exit from the air
lock t o check the poss ible damage.
When he was ready Paul entered.t he air- lock and closed the hat ch behind him .
“R eady George ! ” he said.
George set the pres sure gauge and
with a swoosh ing sound the air-lockwas ready to open . Paul opened the
out side hatch and st epped out of t he
shipAround him the darkness of space
was broken only by pat ches of star s .Pau l grabbed: the rung-s on the hull ofthe ship and made his .way up to the
solar -mass-det ect ion ant enna. .Suddenly he stopped and looked at the gap
ing crack in the ship ’ s hul l .“Oh ! We
’ ll never“make it . One
more shower "
and the ship will dis
T‘
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THE WAYS OF PEOPLE AND MAKING
FR IENDS
By B. Lowery in the Haw keyeA lmost everyone know s someone
they can’t get along w ith, no mat ter
how hard they t ry . Someone dislikesus , or we dislike him . I t
’s mutual and
aut omat ic, occasionally w ith good
reason, but mor e oft en purelyinst inct ive.
I’ve had a per sist ent dislike for a
lot of people, just because of l it t lethings, like the way t hey t alk, some
l it t le habit they have, the way theybehave in public.
T here are t imes when you have t o
endure people like that t o maintaindescipl ine, hold a job, preserve fam ilypeace . In an inst itut ion of t his sor t ,t o keep a cl ean record which you
should recogni ze i s more impor tantt han either of you .
I was in a spot on board shipwhile I was in the Navy; I was
gunner smat e and working in the gun
shop . T hat ’ s the place where t heykeep gun par t s “and repair guns . Oneday the division officer came in
“
witha guy who just came aboard ship . I ’mgoing t o call the guy Bill When we
were int roduced, I said, H ello, gladt o know you .
”H e grunt ed and walked
over t o put his things on an empt ybunk . I went over t o a bench t o f ini shwhat I was doing,
thinking t hathis manner s ‘
were boor i sh but he’d
improve them .
H e didn ’t . Day after day he would
only grunt when I would speak or t ry
t o talk t o him . F or a while at fir stI thought maybe he couldn
’t talk
,
when I found out he could, I became
disturbed. I t hought maybe he didn ’t
like me.
But t here was work t o be -done, and
we did it compet ent ly . I’m sure I
worked harder than 1 m ight have,
because I craved t o make talk w ithhim . I t never happened.
One day Bill was as signed .t o a new
job down below decks, down in the
engine room . I never
'
knew why , at
fir st I thought maybe he didn’t l ike
me.
I didn ’t see him again f or many
months . But t hrough these months ,Bill went out . of his way t o do thingsf or me. H e did them unobt rusively,and so t hat I couldn ’
t reach him t o
I f I had thanked him,
he would probably have snubbed me
again . But the kindness was real .T hrough it , I learned something
that has served me wel l . I t is this :E veryone has his own way of be
havior and everyone has the r ightt o be himself.I
'
don’t know why Bill behaved as
he did, but his reasons may havebeen sound ones for him. Perhaps noone taught him good manner s ; perhaps he was shy . Or he may havebeen cruelly rebluf fed and so hur t t hathe didn ’
t t rust anyone. All I am sureof i s that by never alt er ing my own
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t hought s, we got the work done and I
made Bill my permanent fr iend.
D oing that can oft en be a hard job .
We really don ’t need t o
_be t old that ,
t his place is something like the Armyand Navy, the men who never have a
goodword t o say . Y et in the Army andNavy, the rules of conduct are fixed.
So are they her e ; you do as you are
t old, or el se.
U nder standing makes the st rongestand most reliable br idge for good
fr iendship . One must under stand the
o ther and know what his t roubles are.
F or instance, say you are t alking t o
someone and the name of a per sonyou don
’t l ike i s brought int o the
conver sat ion . Y ou might say ,
“I can
’t
s tand t hat guy .
” And then she beginst o t el l you what ’ s bother ing thisguy . I t
’s like that somet imes . What ’ s
always s a i d then ? “Why doesn ’t
anyone t ell us t hese things aboutpeople ? ”Aft er we learn what a per son ’ s
t roubles are and under stand them ,
we should t ry t o help them . Becauset hey may be a dist ressed per son whomwe could help .Mere cussedness is the rarest of
human discrepencies . Another disag reeable per sonal it y may come fromindifference or unwareness , his lackof poi se from insecur ity ; and it is
wel l t o remember that we t oo mayhave t rait s which get someone el se’ sback up . T he snappishness of the
man you work with may be due t o
headaches from poor eyes ight or the
pressure of debt s , just at the cr it icalnagging of a mother-in-law may be
due t o loneliness rather t han actuald i slike.
Many marr ied couples have t roubleswith their in- laws . When that happens ,one of them should go t o the in- lawswithout anger or host ility and explaint hat t hey can ’
t be t ogether unless sheor he is honest with them . A sk exact lywhat they have done or failed to do,and let her know what they want t omake life pleasant for her .
Brought t o light , many vague dissatisfact ions boiled down t o an older person ’ s loneliness and the dread of
losing the ir sense of impor tance in
the going'
concern of life. Out of the
discus sion should come mutual respectand t erms of last ing peace.
F ace the fact that there is di sl ike.
H ave the courage t o learn what prejudices , fear s or mi sunderstandingshave created it . A s sume that some
where t here i s a kernel of good in
t ent ions , good wil l . F ind it , cher ish it ,help it grow .
T here are,t o be sure, prejudices ,
larger and deeper than our per sonalselves , inher it ed host il it ies, int ernat ional antagonism s which t orment
these days . T hese are so grave thatsomet imes we cease t o think of peopleon ear th as people.
Oft en a pleasant answer with a
sm ile can avoid t rouble. Many of us
shun the soft answer s out of dread
of being t hought of as soft ourselves .Y et t here i s no shame in softness . T heart of fr iendsh ip , essent ial in publicas wel l as pr ivate relat ionship , leanheav i ly upon that . And upon pat ience,forebearance and honest effor t t o
understand one another ’ s weakness,
fear and d i st ress .
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CATCHY Q UEST IONSSelected from The Agricola
1 . A big Ind ian and a l i t t le Indianare walking down the road. The
l i t t le Ind ian i s the big I nd ian ’ s son
but the big Ind ian i s not the l it t leI ndian’
s father . Who i s the big
Ind ian ?2 . I f an chicken and a half lays an
egg and a half in a day and a half,how long will it take one chicken to
lay a dozen eggs ?
3. Wh ich horse on a merry-goround t ravel s the fast est ? T h inkyou have the answer ? Check again .
4 . I f you were offered your cho iceof salar ies , wh ich would you accept ,a st raight —dol lar a month or
ON E cent for tht fir st day and the
salary to double each day f or th irtydays ? H ow much would be the
d ifference ? Cloncent rat e carefully ;
5 . A farmer has one hundreddollar s and he want s t o buy one
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eqq perament He Kemp, Ans ItoA prq'
g
hundred head of stock . I f cows costt en dollar s each, p igs three dollarsand chickens f ifty cent s how manyof each did he buy
?
7 . I f Mae West was at the SouthPole and Santa Claus at the Nor thPole, which one would reach the
equat or first if both star ted at the
same t ime ?
8 . I f pork cost s th ir ty-s ix cent s
and mut t on twent y-nine cent s f indthe cost of twenty-five cent s wor t hof hamburger .
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6 A boot legger had a cer tainnumber of bot t les of l iquor . H e was
st opped by a highjacker who“
tookone half his load plus one bot t le.
T he man was st opped a second t ime
and to pay one half the remainerplus one bot t le. T h i s left him w i thnoth ing . H ow many bot t les had he
when he star ted ?
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CAN YOU IMAG INE
JohnBonner, 9ih Grade.
No . I gett ing a six month s t ri p?Jerry Garren on the barn force?Kennet h Hamm in the ninth grade?John Hens ley be ing qu iet?Carl ”Granny " Johnson wash ing h i s feet?M r. Caldwe l l pick ing b lackberries?M r. H inson work ing in the cafeteria?Raymond James cut t ing gras s?Troy
“Toots ie Blackwe l l wearing b lue su
-ede'
shoes?
The barn force w i thout mules?Eat ing Saturday supper ins ide?Eat ing popcorn in the mov ie?A summer w i thout shade?The print shop boys work ing?Go ing home?Haro ld Gainey w i t h a crew cut?
Edse l Church wearing overal l s?Fredd ie L i tt les f ight ing?”
M ighty Mouse” “l igh t ing up”
?
James McGee gaining we igh t?M r. Hahn wearing w rahglers?
Johnny Rhea go ing to the dent i st?Coffey andMaulden loos ing the i r teeth?Eat ing waterme lon after supper?Want ing to clean out the barn?A snatcher” ?A hot bedroom?No schoo l department?Gett ing seconds at the cafeteria?Gett ing enough to eat?
An air cond i t ioned laundry?No w ri te ups
”
for July?M r. Peck w i thout h i s pi pe?
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KNOW YOUR COUNT IES
A ser ies of interes t ing fact s concerning ci ties , towns and vi llages wi ll be
published monthly in TH E UPL I F T .
.
We believe the readers wi ll be interestedin learning how these names wer e given to
.
the different communi ties . T hese
facts ar e compi led alphabet ically by coun t i es . We hope to cover all of th e
one hundred count ies in N or th Carolina.
E VE R GR E E N Set t led 1 870 ; incorporat ed 1 907 ; named for surrounding pine forest .
F AI R BL U F F Set t led 1 850 ; incorporat ed 1 873 ; physiographic name.
H AL L SBOR O Set t led 1 888 ; incorporat ed 1 889 ; named for H all fami ly ,fir st set t ler s .L AKE WACCAMAW I ncorpor
ated 1 91 1 ; named for lake, in turn
named for an I ndian t r ibe that once
inhabited the region .
OL D D OCK Set t led around 1 800 ;so named because sharkies once docked here ou a t r ibutary of the Wac
camaw R iver .
TABOR CI T Y Set t led 1 886 ; incorporated as T abor 1 905 ; named for
t he Mount T abor Presbyt er ian Churchwhich was named for the Biblical
'mountain ; r eincorporat ed T abor C ity,1 935 .
WH I T E V I L L E Set t led 1 800 ; incorporat ed 1 832 ; named f or (a) JohnWhit e, Governor of the Raleigh Colonyon R oanoke I sland and grandfather of
V irgin ia D are, (b ) John B . WhiteStat e senator (1 809- 1 0 )
CRAVE N
A SKIN Named for A lec A skins ,on whose land the local post officewas built .
BR I D GE T ON Set t led 1 900 ; in
c orporated 1 907 ; named f or the br idgeacross the Neuse R iver , connect ingw ith N ew Bern .
COVE CI T Y Set t led 1 859 ; in
corporated 1 907 ; known as Core
Creek unt i l changed t o eliminate con
fusion w ith a Corepoint , and C i tysubst itut ed by a M r . R ickwah who
planned t o establish a knit t ing millhere.
CROATAN Set t led 1 800 ; namedfor the Croatan I ndians .D OVE R Set t led 1 879 ; incorpor
at ed 1 90 1 probably named for the
city in E ngland.
E RNU L Set t led 1 888 ; named for
James and F reeman E rnul , resident s .F OR T BARNWE L L Set t led
1 800 ; named f or Col . John Barnwell,South Carolinian , who led t roops against T uscarora Indians in 1 71 1 - 1 2 .
JAME S CI T Y Set t led 1 865 ;named f or Col . James Bryan whosepr oper ty was confiscat ed for Negrohome sit es dur ing F ederal occupat ionof N ew Bern and recovered aft er ex
t ensive lit igat ion .
JA SPE R Set t led 1 868 ; named
changed from F orks of the R oad f orlocal cit izen,
James Spear.
N EW BE RN Set t led 1 71 0 ; in
corporat ed 1 723 ; named by it s founder , Baron D e Graf fenr ied, f or the
capital of his nat ive count ry, Bern,
Sw it zer land .
R H E MS E stablished 1 9 1 3, fir stcalled D ebruhis for a family of set
t ler s ; post office est ablished 1 9 1 3 andnamed for D r . Joseph Rhem, localcit izen .
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B IRTHDAYSI n the U p lif t we are announcing each month the bir thday anniversaries of
the 'boys . I t is our purpose to fol low this custom indefini tely . We believethat the relat ives and fr iends of the boys will be great ly interes ted in thesemonthly announcements .
M ichae l Harri s , l oth Bi rthday, Cottage No . 4
Robert Aut ry, I oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 4
James Young, I 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . I S
Pau l Cul ler, I ot h Bi rthday, _Cottage No . I
Sandy Canady , I 3 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 9
Tomas Morrow , I othBirthday, Cottage No . I 5
James Grooms , I 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . I O
John Bonner, I 6th Bi rthday , Cottage No . I 4
RichardWal l s , I ot h Bi rthday , Cottage No . I I
Law rence Evans , loth Bi rthday , Cottage No . I 4
James McGee, I oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . I O
SpergonMcMasters, I oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . I I
W i l l ie Ray Ingram, I 4 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 9
Joe Stone, I 7th Bi rthday , Cottage No . I I
Bobby O scar Carter, I 4th Bi rt hday , Cottage No . 9
Donald Prevette, I 3 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 6
John Joseph St innett , I 4 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 8
Dal ton Leo Lew i s , I 2th Bi rthday; Cottage No . 7
Rex Be l l , I 4 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 2
Glenn Prince, I oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 8
Wayne Head, I 5 th Birthday , Cottage No . 4
W i l l iam Gl i s son, I oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . I ]
Bi l l y Johnson, l oth Bi rthday, Cottage No . I O
Kenneth Hager, I 6th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 5
Thomas Jenk ins , I 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 4
Happ ines s is l i ke jam, you can'
t spread even a l i tt le w i thout gett ingsome on yourse l f .
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FUN AND OTHERW ISE
(B its of humor clipped from exchanges and gathered fr om
other publicat ions, wi th an occasional or iginal funny-bone
t ickler added. )
Baby Sit t er : E verything went fineMr s . E var t s . Judy drank al l her m ilk ,T ommy went t o bed without aand, oh yes , a quiz show called. I won
u
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U nst eadily, a man st ood before them irror one morning . Mournfully hesurveyed his bloodshot eyes . “T hat sett les it _” he mut t ered .
“I’ve got ta stay
out of those bar s . My eyes are beingruined by t elevision .
D epar tment head : Where did you
file t hose marr iage licenses ? I can’t
find them under
Secretary : “L ook under ‘C
’ for con
gratulat ions .
H ow old are you ,Bobby ?” asked
the visitor .
“Oh , I
’m just at that awkward age.
“R eally ,” said the visit or ,“and what
do you consider the awkward age?”
“Well ,” said Bobby, “I ’m t oo old t o
cry and t oo young t o cus s .
An agent delivered a check fromhis insurance company to the w idowof a deceased client
,She was appar
ent ly inconsolabl‘e, and had been weeping three days w it hout st opping. A
glance at the amount of the check—itwas for — st illed her t ear s . “Y oumay not bel ieve this , she -t old the a
gent t earfully, “but I ’d giveof this t o have him back .”
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Shave and haircut , barber .
Okay . Say , by t he way , I under
stand you ’ve been running ar ound
with my gir l fr iend.
“Just make that a haircut , fr iend.
T he gr izzled old mountain man t ookthe f ount ian pen from the hotel clerk .W ith a flour ish, he signed the regist erw it h a large X, then circled it .
“Say ,
” said the clerk,
“I have seen
a lot of people sign w ith an X , butthat is the fir st t ime I
’ve ever seen
anyone circle it .
”
“Shucks , ’tain ’
t nothing s’
pr isin’in
thet , cackled the hillbilly, “when
Ah’m out f er a wild good t ime, Ah
nevah uses mah r eal bir th-givingname.
”
And can angel s fly, mama ? ”Y es dear
Daddy said nur se was an angel lastnight . When w il l she fly ? ”“I n a few moment s dear .
”
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Count ry boy : I always wonderedwhere all the Smiths came from unt i lI came t o the city .”C it y boy : “what did you find out ?
"
Count ry boy : “I saw a sign the otherday ;
“SMI T H M F G . CO .
”
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COTTAGE HONOR ROLL
JUNE
R E CE IVING COT T AGEKenneth BlackH oward H ardee
COT TAGE NO . 1
Car l CallGoldman CheathamCar l T aylorMaxie T ealF red Vadase
COT T AGE N O . 2
Noel Pat ter sonCOT TAGE N O . 3
Sam A ldr idgeA llen -GrantClaudeW illiamsCOT TAGE N O . 4
Car l CollinsR oy WebbCl ifford WoodruffCOT T AGE N O . 5
Dalton L ew i sR ober t McL amb
H arold RussellV irgil ShulerR ichard WhisnantCOT TAGE N O . 6
R oy F ergusonD ouglas JamesJohn McGrady
D onald Wood
COT TAGE N O . 9
Sher iden BeckO scar CarterJames DailH oward McGrady
COT T AGE N O . 1 0
H uber t GosnellE d H orr idgeG i lber t L unsfordF rank McGrady
COT T AGE N O . 1 1
W ilbur H allF red KingE ar l MorganRalph NormanF rankie Suit sD onald Weaver
COT T AGE N O . 1 3
David DupkoskiD ouglas PooleNamon Sheet sE ugeneWestCOT TAGE N O . 1 4
Paul D ockeryJohn BonnerH arold GaineyH arvey H udsonNor r is JohnsonCOT T AGE N O . 1 5
J immy BowmanF rank H elmsR ober t StancilBobby T oddD onald T hornburgCOT T AGE N O . 1 7
John L eeH orace L owery
Cardell oxendineCladie. oxend ineJames oxend ine
I NF I RMARYPhillip H olmesMason Braswell
FARM AND TRADE HONOR RO LL
F ARMKenneth BlackH oward H ardee
L eroy ThomasJohn H ensl eyGeorge ThornburgSher idan BeckBuddy McL aur in
Michael H arr i s
L uther E vansJohn H ardeeBuddy Par sonsJohn Shadr ickSandy CanadyF loyd C onnerH arold Cow ickJdell T aylor
L AU ND RYE dlum L ocklearJames ConnersBilly T illieAuthur Slu-der
Namon S heet sHarold Presley'
_
T homas L ambertC larence ,
B'
at y
“
T EXTILE MI L L ‘
1
Bobby T oddT ed L edbet terChar lieAnder sonRaymond R oseberryR ober t CreelF red MO I
‘I‘l S
BARN F ORCET ommy T hompson
T RACT OR FOR CE
POU L T R Y F OR CE“
Douglas Jarr-iesD onald
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Wood
1 1
Will iani PhillipsJohn McGrady .
PL ANT IBE D S'
Card-ell OxendineGladie OX '
endme
O t is JacobsH orace L oweryJunior OxendineBobby Ander sT o
'
mmy W illiamsJ . W ; W ilkinsL oyd T homasA r
_chie
_Medford
T ruit t -McCa-ll
August , I 9S6 Vo l. 44
A F ISHERMAN’
S PRAY ER .
God grant that Imay“
live,
To fish unt ilmydying'
day,Andwhen it comes to my last cast ,I thenmust humbly pray,
When in the Lord’
s safe landing net
I’
m peacefully as leep,
That in H ismercy I be iudged,
As good enough to keepv ia. The TarHeel
Published Monthly ByT he Pr int ing C lass of the Stonewall JacksonManual T raining and_I ndust r ial School
Concord, Nor th Carol ina
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A MONTH LY JONRNALPubl ished By
The authority of the Stonewal l Jackson Manual Training and Indust rial SchoolType-set t ing by the Boys ’ Print ing Class
Subscript ion Two Dol lars the Year, in AdvanceAct of March 3. 1 897. Acceptance for mail ing a special rate
STAFF CO NTENTS
J . Frank Scott ED ITO RIAL
SuperintendentARO UND THE CAMPUS
R. Vance Robert sonEd i tor BIRTHDAY PARTIES
Mrs . Wanda Ho l brook SUMMER CAMPM rs . Agnes YarbroughAs sociate Ed i torsJames H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPO RTERS
W i l bur HallRobert W i l lardJames ConradJohn Bonner
LINOTYPEOPERATO RS
Jerry GarrenJohn BonnerRobert w i l lardW i l bur Hal! KNOW YO UR CO UNTIES
James ConradFUN AND O THERW ISE
SCHO O L HO NO R RO LL
CO TTAGE HO NO R RO LL
FARM AND TRADE HO NO R RO LL
I O —I S
I O—I 8
24—25
29 30
30—S I
SUNDAY SERVICES
By W i lbur Hal lSPO RTS
By Robert W i l lardFARM AND TRADE NEWS 20 2 1
By John Bonner and Fred K ingSCHOO L RO OM NEWS 2 I—23
By W i l bur Hal l and Jerry GarrenAT THE INF IMARY
By Douglas JonesBIRTHDAYS
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What's the d i fference between aw e l l groomed boy and a poorly groomed boy w hen it comes to seeking employment , acqui ring friends , or ho lding a pos i t ion? The answer is very apparent , the one who makes the bestimpres s ion on others is go ing to w in. Th i s does not mean t hat it takesgaudy or f lashy c loth ing, nor the extremes in hai r sty les . A boy who is
neat l y dres sed, c lean, and g ives the appearance of caring for h imse l f isthe one who makes the most imp res s ion. When the ornamentat ion in dres sor hai r is overdone to the extent that good grooming no longer is ev ident ,the ind iv idual has t ransformed h imse l f into the fad clas s . H is effect ivenes s on others of good taste is t hen l imi ted and thus he fal l s into a typeor clas s . Moderat ion in dres s is always good taste .
F i rst impress ions are important to any ind iv idual but it is the last ingimpres s ion w h ich real l y count s the most . These may not be worn on the
outward person, but are t hose qual i t ies w h ich are inst i l led deep w i th inthe ind ividual . What ’ s the d i fference? Those on the outs ide soon fade and
wear away unles s t here is someth ing of value underneath the externalgl i tter to ho ld the attent ion, respect , and adm i rat ion of others . Even themost unattract ive ind iv idual can posess a g low and bri l l iance of personal i ty w h ich may rad iate the w ho le be ing to the po int that dres s or phys icalappearance becomes secondary .What's the d i fference between a l i fe of happ iness and one of iust get
t ing along? The secret l ies in the ab i l i ty to get along w i t h others and adapting ourse lves to dai l y l iv ing. The fee l ing t hat we are do ing a job worth
w h i le and are be ing of serv ice to our fe l low man. Th ink ing clean t hough t sand be ing honest w i th ourse lves and others . O ur greates t happ ines s comesfrom w i th in. There is a d i fference and w hen we honest l y evaluate our
se lves we w i l l t hen see ourse lves as others see us .
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AROUND THE CAMPUSTwo of our boys , Marvin Gwyn and
L eroy Bent ly, are pat ient s in the Ca
bar rus Memor ial H osp i tal . T hese boysboth\ have had appendect omies . We
w ish them a speedy recovery and hopet hey can soon return to the school .
Dur ing the week of July 1 6-20 Mr .
R ober t son at tended a Workshop F orChild Care I nst itut ions held at the U niver sity of North Carolina, in ChapelH ill . M r . R obert son at tended the workshop for Cot tage parent s and Cot
tage per sonnel . About sixty workersf r om twelve stat es at tended th i sworkshop w ith him . T hey heard dis
cussed the problems of adjustment of
children in inst itut ions and M r . Rob
er t son received valuable suggest ionsand ideas which could be applied herein making our cot tage life more mean
ingful to the boys .
M r . Scot t at tended the Workshopdur ing the week of July 23-27 . H is
workshop dealt with the total inst itut ion program and adm inist rat iveproblems . D i scussed in this workshopwas the way in which the ent ire inst itut ion could work to prepare the
child for returning t o his home and
commun it y. About forty per sons attended this workshop from abouttwelve states .
Among the staff member s recent lyenjoying vacat ions were : M r . and M r s .
H ooker , Mr . and M r s . T omkinson,
M r . and M r s . Peck, M r . Jack Russell ,Mr . and M rs . L iske, M r . and Mrs .
Mullis , M r . and M rs . Cruse, and Mr .
and M r s T routman .
T he Advisory Budget Commissionvisited the school on July 1 9 for thepurpose of evaluat ing the needs of theschool for the coming b ienn ium . .
July 4 was quite an enjoyable dayto a large percent of the school popu-rlat ion this year . T his holiday fel l on;our regular vis i t ing day and a totalof 90 boys received vis i t s from theirfamilies and fr iends on that day . T h i si s one of the largest groups of visitor swe have had on the campus dur ingone day in quit e some t ime . T his hol iday seems t o r ival Chr i stmas for popular it y with the boys .T hose boys who did not have vis i
t or s on July 4 enjoyed a holiday fromschool and work . T hey were enter tained in the school audit or ium w ith a
movie dur ing the aft ernoon and were
served refreshment s by the school .T he remainder of the t ime was spentin recreat ional act ivit ies .
T he campus roadways and lawnsare very pret ty this summer thanksto the care given them by M r . H ooker , Mr . Readl ing and the boys . Mostof the dr ives are lined with flower s,boast ing such a w ide var ity as petunias , zinnas , summer poinset tas, scarlet sage, and mar igolds . T he recent
rains have freshened the lawns andgiven a boost to the flower ing plant s .T he avenue of Crepe Myr t le on frontfront campus i s in full bloom and
makes a very colorful d i splay .
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According t o the record in the officeof the super intendent , 21 boys wereadm i t ted t o the school dur ing the
month of July while 1 8 boys were re
leased to return to their homes .Boys admit ted t o the school wereKe i th Monroe R obinson, Mecklenburg County, adm it ted July 2 ; B i llyT homas Broyles , Gaston County, admit ted July 2 ; W inifred Wayne Jenkins , Gaston County, readm i t ted July2 ; Archie Jack Sims , Watauga County,readmit ted Ju ly 5 ; Clarence Ray P ickard, A lamance County, readm i t tedJuly 9 ; Paul Jennings, Jackson County , admit ted July 1 1 ; D ar rell E dwardWh i t t ingt on, Caldwell County, read
mit t ed July 1 2 ; T ony Maur ice L aws,Caldwell County, readm i t ted July 1 3 ;A lbert Guy Kelly Jr . , McD owel l Coun
t y , admit ted July 1 7 ; W i lliam Bruce
Belt , Gaston County, readmit ted July1 8 ; Bobby Joe T allent , Macon Count y,adm i t t ed July 1 9 ; T homas Car rollBradshaw,
Durham County, admit tedJuly 1 9 ; Car lton Pr idgen, R obesonCounty, adm i t ted J u l y 20 ; L acyChar les Gradly , Robeson County, ad CI T I ZE NSH I P AWARD Smit ted July 20 ; Robert Wes-ley H oney
PRE SEN T EDcut t , Anson County, readmit ted July25 ; Ronald:L ee Ramsey, H ender sonCounty, adm i t ted July 27 KennethRay R amsey, H ender son County, admit ted July 27 ; BruceWeldon H ardin,
Rutherford County, admit ted July27 R ober t Porter , Cumber land Count y , admit ted July 30 ; Steven GaryL ambert , Cumber land County, admitt ed July 30 ; and Robert H ugh BarnesJr . ,
McD owell County, admit ted July31 .
Boys released from the school were
E dward F ranc i s H orr idge, CabarrusCounty, released July 3 ; Dav id Kelly,
Scot land County, released July 4 ;Billy Joe H aney, H aywood Cou
'
nty,released July 6 ; F redd ie L ee Vadase,Wake County, released July 9 ; K enneth F ranklin H ager , L incoln County,released July 1 0 ; Bobby Sherr i llAvery, H arnet t County, released July1 3 ; James H enry L amb, Gu i lfordCounty, released July 1 4 ; R onaldL ee Jordan,
Buncombe County,T
re
leased Ju ly 1 1 ; James Wallace Gore,Columbus County, released Jul y 1 7 ;Jimmy Bolden, McD owel l Count y, re
leased July 1 7 ; Bobby O scar Car ter ,Catwaba County, released July 1 9 ;
Car l Moore Smith , Catwaba Count y,released July 1 9 ; H ughie Char lesF rye, Moore County, released July20 ; L eroy T homas , Randolph County,released July 20 ; R ober t E ugene Colon,Guilford County, released July
26 ; Or lando L eonard S i lva, Cumberland County, released July 27 W i ll iamRudolph R eese, Macon County, re
leased July 28 ; Char les L ynn James,Caldwell Count y, released July 3 1 .
Once again the T he Cabarrus County Commit tee of the Nor th CarblinaSociety of the Colonial D ames of
Amer ica presented awards to the threeout stand ing c it izens of the T rain ingSchool . T his is the fourth year thisgroup of interested ladies have madethese awards which act as awonderfulincent ive to our boys and is one of the
h igest honor s offered at the school .T he awards were presented in a
spec ial program h ighl ighted with anaddress by Mr . J . K . Odell, ConcordY oung Man of the Y ear .
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When we were through eat ing, everyone got a dr ink and piece of the bir thday cake. Mr . H inson and some of the
boys fixed two freezer s of ice cream .
After we were through eat ing, the
present s were given out . Paul Cullergot two .decks of Congress cards . R onnie Mint er got a paint set w i th twobeaut iful pictures t o paint . H erber tL ucas got a deck of R ook cards . R onnie Ander son got a fish ing pole thatcan be taken apar t
,Bill Carpenter
got a baseball and R ober t W illardreceived a deck of Canasta playingcards .I really t hink the boys were wellpleased w i th everything .
— John Paul Burns
COT T AGE NO. 4 H A S A
BI R T H DAY PAR T Y
On Saturday, July 2 1 , 1 956 the boysof Cot tage No. 4 , accompan ied by M r .
and Mr s . Cheek, had an out ing on
Catawba R iver at a cabin owned byM r . Mar shall Cheek . T he cabin
_is
locat ed'
about thir ty m iles - from the
campus .We arr ived at the site about
in the aft ernoon. Much t o our amaze
ment we saw some boat s and waterSkier s in act ion . I t was a wonderfulsight . After the enter tainer s depar tedsome of the boys star ted fish ing and
t he non-f i sher s began explor ing the
area. When the school bus was un
loaded the boys went in sw imming.
A fter the sw imm ing per iod we had
supper in the front yard .
T he boys that had birthdays inMay , June or Ju ly were the oneshonored. T hey were : Cl ifford Wood
ruff, Bobby Journey, D elmar Sheet s ,
—Jerry Garren
Bobby Aut rey, Bill Varker , T homasJenkins , M ichael H arr i s, Wayne H ead,L eroy Bent ly and Glenn Pr ince. T he
gift s that were received were great lyappreciated by the boys . And also thegood t ime shown us by M r . and M rs .
Cheek . We are all look ing forwardt o another out ing.
COTT AGE N O . 9 TAKE S T R I PT here was much excit ement in Cot
t age N o. 9 on July 1 9th . T his was theday M r . Miller thought best for our
t r ip . I t had star t ed raining that morn
ing and the quest ion on al l of our l ipswas ,
“A re we going or not
” ? M r .
Miller set t led the whole thing at
lunch when he drove,the school ’ s bus
up t o the cot tage . E verybody knewsomething was up when James Dailcame downstair s car rying a big cakeand put it in the bus . M r . Miller , M rs .
Miller , Mrs . H o p k i n s and her
daught er , E lizabeth , who prefer s t obe called “Boo”, got in t he bus . M r .
Miller then t old "
us t o get in t oo .
We left the cot tage about one
o’clock, for Morrow Mountain State
Park .T he boys thought that it would not
be t o far away, but we'
had a surpr isecom ing . We rode and we rode, for
about thirty-two miles, but on the
way we saw some of the most wonderful scenery in Nor th Carol ina. We
saw fields of cot ton and corn thatlooked to be a mile long, we saw the
big buffalo ranch , and we saw a big
house way up on a hill , that remindedus of the south before the C ivil War .
We passed t hrough the t own of
Ablemar le on t he way , and one of
the boys saw a st reet sign that said
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Miller ’ s St reet , this led up t o a jokewhich got plenty of laughs from the
boys .About everybody was
_ keeping an
eye open for Morrow Mountain, when
al l of a sudden M rs . H opkins exclaimed“T here it is .
”
M r . Miller started in t oward the
sw imm ing pool and Natural Museum ,
fir st but M r s . Miller thought it wouldbe best if we went up to the t op of
the mountain fir st . So up we went .
A b o u t half way up M r . Millerst opped the bus for just up aheadwas a real t ight hor seshoe curve. T he
bus got half way around it and thatwas al l . M r . Miller had t o do some
fancy maneuver ing t o get around it ,
but we finally did. When we got up
t o the t op we saw some more of thatpret ty scenery . We saw thegreat Pee
D ee R iver and many other breath t aking sight s .We star t ed back down the mountain .
When we_got down t o the bot tom M r .
Miller t ook us down t o the NaturalL ife Museum . When we got inside we
saw all kinds of insect s , snakes, bat s ,ow ls , and indian ar row heads . T he
guide said that the biggest eagle thatthey had was twenty year s old. We
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THO UGHTS O F GREAT M INDS
Ah ! to l ive ind ignant , to l ive out raged at fal se honor, at universalmed iocri ty! To be ab le to read a new spaper w i thout pal ing in anger! To
fee l the cont inual and i rres i s tab le need of cry ing aloud what one thinks ,above all when one i s alone in thinking it , and to be ready to abandon
all the sweets of l i fe for it !Confucius
star ted t o leave the Museum whenBobby Byrd found some mud tur t lesin a large tank w ith some wat er in it .
One of the turt les climbed up on t op
of the other ’ s shell and fell of f .
We left the museum to go sw imm ingin the big pool . We got int o our su it sand hit the pool . T he pool was only4 to 5 feet deep in most places and1 0 t o 1 2 feet deep around the boards .Al l of the boys enjoyed the big pool .Aft er our sw im we went to the
picnic grounds where we had hot dogs ,pepsi ’ s and cookies , on t op of that wehad some cake and a bir thday par ty,and bubbl e gum bought by M r s . Miller .
T he gift s the boys got ranged f rom
baseball s t o baseball bat s .M r s . H opkins thought it would be
nice t o take some group pictures t oput on our picture board .
M r . Miller looked at his watch andsaid “L et s go if you want t o see the
movie” . Most of the boys laughed because we had enough excitement
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t o
last a long t ime.
T he boys of Cot tage N o . 9 wou ldlike t o thank M r . and M r s . Miller formaking our t r ip a success .
— John H ensley
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SUMMER CAMP
F or the past s ix years we havebeen offer ing the boys 3. two weekSummer Camp ing Program wh ich hasdeveloped into one of the most valuable ext ra-curr icular act iv i t ies carr iedon by the T rain ing School .E ach year a large percentage of
our boys at tend this camp whose purpose it is t o g ive the boys a real vacat ion, and inst ruct ion in th ings wh ichw i ll help t hem in later l i fe, and also beenter tain ing to them . T here is nothingthat takes the place of camping, cooking, camp f ires, outdoor rel ig ious serv ices, boat ing, canoeing, and nature
study in a boy ’ s t rain ing.
We feel t h i s program has meant
much to our boys in the past in helping them adjust t o the requ irement sof society . T h i s camp gives us a wonderful oppor tunity to observe the boy,and gives him the opportun it y to ex
pand his interest s and a chance t o
pract ice democrat ic living in the com
mun i ty s i tuat ion. Emphasis i s placedon sport smansh ip , manners, cooperat ion, neatness, health, the development of a hobby, and good ci t izenship .I n such an atmosphere he feel s free toexpress h imself and display his hidden talent s . T he feeling ,
of'
Succeed ingis very impor tant to a boy and it is
here t hat he can gain recognit ion for
h i s ach ievement s in phases bf l ife thatcannot be shown in campusact iv i t ies .
T he air of freedom from rout ine l iving and the chance to relax in com
fort gives a boost to the sp ir i t and
morale of a boy .
T he greatest part of the rehab i l itat ion program of the T raining School
i s that of formulat ing the proper at
t itudes and frame of mind in the in
d iv idual boy . Certainly the camp ingprogram is most inst rumental in f ormulat ing such des irable t rait s .T he 1 956 Summer Camp program
has been completed w i th approx imately two hundred boys at tend ing. T hosein charge of the program felt it wasthe most successful season in the six
year h i story of the camp .T he camp ing schedule was arrang
ed t o allow the boys t o go in fourd ifferent groups . E ach group enjoyeda three day out ing. Dur ing each sess ion add i t ional boys were brought outfrom the school for day per iods . Bydo ing th i smore boys were able to takepar t in the program .
T he inst ruct ional per iods includedhand icraft s, first aid, nature study,boat ing and swimm ing. T he remainder of the t ime was devoted to recrea
t ional act iv i t ies .A point system has been worked out
whereby the camper s are graded on
all phases of camp ing act ivit ies . T hesepo int s were t otaled at the end of the
camp ing per iod and the four boysmak ing the most number of po int swere awarded wat ches for their a
chievement s .
Boys w inning in each group wereF ir st per iod, Paul Cul ler w ith 1 39point s ; Second per iod, W i ll iam Phill i ps w i th 1 39 po int s ; T h ird per iod,James oxend ine w i th 1 40 po int s ; andF ourth Period, Mason Braswel l w ith1 43 point s .Awards were presented to theseboys recent ly in a student assembly.
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T hey are t o be commended for theirfine showmg.
T he student counselor s who aidedin the program were also cited at
t h i s t ime for the ir effor t s in help ingmake the program a success . T heywere : F red King, A ss i stant Wat er
front D irector ; Bill Coffey, T royBlackwell , Goldman Cheatham, JesseMabe, and Car l Call , Junior Counse
lor s . Boys helping the cooks t o pre
pare and serve meal s were F red Va
d a s e, Max T eal , H erbert L ucas ,F rankie Su i t s , and J immy H ammonds.
Dur ing the two weeks many cit izensof the surrounding area were inv i t edto the camp t o observe the program
A F ISH TALE THAT IS HARD TO BELEIVE
O ne evening last month, M r. Robert Brown was f i sh ing at Lake Prosptand returned w i th one of the most fantast ic fi sh tales ever to ld . S ince thebass i s the big game f i sh in the lake, our f i sherman was p lugging w i thh i s favori te plug.
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O h one cast he_got a s trike, it seemed to be a big one
and he began to ree l the v ict im toward the bank. Upon l i ft ing the catch
from the water, a strange s ight was w i tnessed by M r. Brown. The f i shwas dead. Its tai l had decayed and nothing was left but the head. M r.
Brown said the f i sh must have been a real f igh ter during its t ime be
cause its soul st ill had '
that o ld f igh t ing sp i ri t . How the f i sh got on M r.
Brown’ s l ine is unknown.
M r. John Russe l l i s back ing thi s tale . He was f i sh ing al so . (It’
s hard to
beHeve)
and have a meal . E vening devot ionalswere conducted by representat ives ofthe Cabarrus County Minister ial Associat ion . We were indeed happy t hatMr . Blaine M . Madison, Comm i ss ionerof Correct ion, was able t o visit w i thus as well as M r . Samuel E . L eonard,
past Commi ssioner of Correct ion .
W ithout the help of_the many
fr iends of the school and complet ecooperat ion of the school staff it wouldhave been impossible to hold t h i s program . We w i sh t o express t o al l whohave cont r ibut ed in any way t o the
success of these days spent at CampCabar rus our sincere appreciat ion .
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Boys learn to t ie bandages under M r. Ho lbrook’ s inst ruct ion.
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The Boat ing and Sw imming C las s under the d i rect ion of John Scott , Jr.is the Camp's favori te spot .
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SUNDAY SERVICES
By W i lbur H al l
T he guest speaker f or the school onJuly l st was the Rev . Bill B ighamfrom the M t . Pleasant Methodi stChurch in M t . Pleasant .R ev . Bigham chose h is ver ses of
scr ipture from the 4th chapter of
Mark ; The Parable of the Sower .
Once there went out a sower to sow
some grain,
“and as he went along
some seeds fell by the wayside, and
the birds came and ate them . Some
fell on rocky . st ony , and hard ground
where there wasn ’t much ear th . Be
cause it didn ’t have much depth of
soil it sprang up r ight away . But whenthe sun came up it got hot and dry so
the l it t le plant withered and died be:
cause it didn ’t have any root s . St ill
some other s fel l among some largeweeds and br iar s ; And because the
weeds took m6st of the plant food thelit t le plant soon died and thereforeyeilded no fruit . And st ill some more
seeds fell in the fer t ile and good soil .I t became a big healthy plant and
yielded fruit . Some yielded thir ty,sixty, and a hundred.
Of cour se we know that when SaintMark wrote this ‘he was using seedsin reference t o people. T elling us how
some people when they are born fallby the ways ide and l ive a sinful life.
O ther s t ry to do r ight just a lit t le butare soon overpowered by sin and turn
back t o the s inf ul way of life. O ther smay want and can live f or Chr ist buttheir environment may keep themfrom it , and although they ’ re l iv inga good l ife they can ’
t have any inf lu
ence on other sinner s and thereforedon
’t bear any fru i t . O ther people
have a good environment where peoplewill l i s ten and take God int o theirhear t s and therefore these people thathave the good env ironment lead a
good and fruitful l ife.
R ev . Bigham closed his serv ice wi tha shor t prayer .
T he vis it ing m inist er for July 8, wasR ev . Victor T r ivet te from the Y oung
St reet Bapt ist Church in Concord.
Rev . T r ivet te chose for his subject“The Prodigal Son”, taking h i s scr ipture reading from the 1 5th chapt er of
L uke; st ar t ing w i th the 1 1 th ver se.
H e t old the well known story of howa cer tain father had two sons : T heyounger wanted adventure so his
father d ivided h i s i nher i tance and
gave the younger his share; then he
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went int o a far count ry where he didfind adventure, but his money wassoon gone and he had t o feed the hogsand even ate with them . One day h i ssenses came t o him and he said : Myfather has lot s of hired servant s whohave lot s more than they want to eat ,
and here I am hungry .I will go t o my father and wi ll say
to him; F ather , I have done wrong
and am sorry, I am not wor thy t o becal led your son : make me as one of thy
hired servant s .But as he got near ly home his father
saw him and ran t o meet him, and
kissed him . T he father wouldn’t hear
of“such a thing as his son suggest ed,
but inst ead he put the best robe on hi sback
,a r ing on his finger , shoes on
his feet and he called f or a feas t t ocelebrat e. T hen R ev . T r ivet te t old us
how the eldest son got angry and hisfather told him,
“F or this thy brother
was dead, and is alive again ; and waslos t , and is found.
”
R ev . T r ivet te then closed his ser
vice w ith a shor t prayer .
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D ue t o the absence of our schedu ledmini st er the speaker on July 1 5 , wasour own M r . C . L . Miller Jr .
M r Miller chose f or his subject ;T he T en Commandment s . ” We al l
know the t en commandrnent s but I ’m
sure Mr . Miller put them int o a new
l ight f or us dur ing his br ief but impor tant message.
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T he visit ing minis ter for the school
on Sunday, July 22 was the R ev . JohnF ain Jr . Pastor of the F ir st Presbyt er ian Church -of Kannapolis .R ev . F ain chose his scr ipture from
the 1 5th chap ter of L uke; “T he Prodigal Son”. H e then went on to tell usthe well known s tory of how a cer tainfather had two sons . T he eldest son
was faithful to h i s father and stayedat home. While the younger had a
r oam ing hear t . One day the youngersaid t o his father ; “F ather , give me
the por t ion of goods that falleth t ome. So the father gave the son hisinher itance. And aft er a lit t le whilethe youngest gathered all his moneyand belongings t ogether and went int oa far country and was ted it on r iotous , sinful, and adventureous living.
After a while al l his money was gone;when his money gave out al l h i s r ichfr iends weren
’t fr iend-s anymore. A
bout this t ime there arose a mightyfamine in the land and he was forcedt o look f or work ; but the only workwas feeding pigs at a very low wage;
and since there was a famine none
of t he people could give . him any so
it was'
about all he could do t o stayalive; even by eat ing the same stuffthe pigs were eat ing . And finally oneday the young man said t o himself
,
H ow many hired servant s of myfather ’ s have bread enough and t o
spare, and I per ish w ith hunger ! Iw ill go back t o my father and as I
appr oach him I w ill say : F ather , Ihave sinned against heaven and be
fore thee, and am no more wor thy t obe called thy son : make me as one of
thy hired servant s . And so he went
and when he came in sight of home
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his father recogn i sed him and ran t o
meet him. H e fell “on his neck and kissed him, put a r ing on his finger , thebest robe on his back, shoes on h is feet ,and. brought the fat ted calf and let useat and be merry ; such was his happiness at the return of his son.
R ev . F ain then closed h i s serv iceswith a shor t prayer .
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T he speaker for Sunday July 29thwas the R ev . Max Brandon, pastor of
t he Rober ta Methodi st Church of Concord, N. C .
Rev . Brandon chose h i s scr ipturereading from the 24th Psalm . Rev.
Brandon told us about a t r ip he hadgoing S outh ; he said! he was dr iv ingalong and he saw a s ignboard wh ichread :
“Greater T h ings Are Y et T o
Come; H e said he got to t h ink ingabout th is and suddenly it became
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Dreams, books, are each aworld; and books we know,
Are a substant ial world, both pure and good.
Round these, w i th tendri ls strong as f lesh and b lood,
O ur past ime and our happ iness w i l l grow .
—Wordsworth
clear that when Dav id said“Who shallascend int o the hill of the L ord ? or
who shal l s tand in his holy place ? ”T hat there were greater things tocome then just what i s now tak ingplace. Such as al l the nat ional and. in
t ernat ional affair s , our count ry ’ s def ense; even though we can hardly imagine something more powerful thanthe H bomb
,and all the way down the
l ine.
R ev . Brandon went on down .the
road and saw a huge watch and th i srem inded him that a good watch hasan open face and it is full of goodworks . In relat ion to people it
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t oldhim always t o
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l i sten w i th an openmind and t o be full of good works anddeeds t oward your fellow men.
Rev . Brandon closed his serv ice byt ell ing us not to be a
“Doubt ing T hom
as ,”for
“Blessed are they that have
not seen but yet bel ieve. H e then led
us in prayer to close his service.
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FARM AND TRADE NEWSBARN F OR CE
T he Barn F orce has not been t oo
busy t his month . T hey have only fivecow s t o feed and water . T hey do not
have as many pigs t o feed and water
as they usually do because they havemoved some t o another pen. T heyhave killed six hogs and one cow thismonth . M r . T omkinson, the regularbarn supervi sor i s now on vacat ion .
F ARMT he boys on the farm have been
very busy lately . T hey have beengather ing apples , beans , cucumbers ,carrot s, t omatoes and other vegetablesf or cann ing and for use in the cafet er ia. We have started tak ing cant e
lopes t o the cafeter ia. We should beget t ing watermelons before long.
CH I CKE N F OR CEM r . Russell and the boys on the
chicken force are doing a good jobcar ing for the ch ickens and keepingthe cafet er ia suppl ied w i th eggs . T heyhave 700 young pullet s t o care for and
550 laying hens . When the youngpullet s start lay ing, they w i ll star tkilling the old hens . T he boys gatherquit e a few eggs each day . T here are
t en boys on the chicken force. T heygather eggs t hreet imes each day and
feed up tw ice each day .
L AU NDRYM r . N ovobilski, the laundry super
visor , started h i s vacat i 'on F r iday. H e
DAI R Y
CANNERYT he boys and officer s have been
i s gomg t o Pennsylvan ia and N ew
Y ork on h i s vacat ion. M r . Readl ingis in charge of the laundry wh i le Mr .
N ovabilski i s on vacat ion. T hree new
boys are now work ing in the laundry .T hey are : Bert Johnson from Cot tage
N o. 9, John Shadr ick from Cot tage
N o. 9 and Clarence P ickard from Cot
tage N o. 3 . T he boys have been doinga f ine job in the laundry and we hopet hey cont inue it .
T he dairy boys have been pret tybusy lately . The boys at the barnm ilk tw ice a day . T hey have fourelect r ic milker s w ith wh ich they milkand then the boys come along and
milk by hand for what the elect r icm ilker s don ’
t get . When the boys f ini sh m ilk ing they clean out the barn.
T he barn is always very clean.
T he boys stay busy at the milkhouse too. T hey make ice cream tw iceeach week, pastur ize m i lk and cleanbot t les with the automat ic bot t lewasher . Some of the cows have beendry f or the last month and we havehad a l it t le shor tage on m i lk . Mr .
Auten said some of the cows shouldbe fresh in about two weeks . T herew i ll be about eighteen to twenty cowsfreshening between now and Chr i stmas . T he boys are car ing for fournew calves . T he boys at the dai rydeserve a lot of credit for their goodwork .
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doing a wonderful job of canning thisyear . Mr . Brown has been canningbeans lat ely, we have about o n e
thousand gallons of beans at the
present t ime and approximat ely fourhundred gallons of cucumber s cannedas pickles. M r . T routman canned two
hundred and seventy gallons of kraut .
T he cannery w ill . can most ly beansin August . T hey have star t ed pealing and cut t ing apples , pr epar ingt hem for canning . M r . Brown sayswe have plent y of t omat oes comingin but he won
’t can very many this
this year , other than making soup .
Y AR D F ORCE
SCHOOL ROOM NEWS
M r . Caldwel l ’ s 7th grade‘has been
doing quit e a bit of work lately .T hey have been studying fract ions ,elect r icity, verbs , sent ence st ructure,colonial per iod, wor ld t rade, readings t ories and having t est s .
M rs . Sm ith ’ s l st grade has beenmaking some very pret ty peacocks ;the ent ire class has memor ized the
T en Commandment s and t he 23rd
Psalm . 1 9 out of 30 boys have madea“1”
on spelling this month .
M r s . L iske’s 4th grade has been
s tudying t he solar syst em ; how theygot their names . T hey used the planet s as a spel ling lesson,
star t ing w iththe planet neares t t o the sun and
o n out t o the far therest . T hey foundout how many moons each planethad, if any . In connect ion w ith thisthey made a model univer se out of
paper mache and wire. A ll the plan
et s will r evolve about the sun staying in
“
their par t icu lar orbit ,T hey
have been studying R oman Numeral sin ar ithmet ic. So far the can wr it et o I E nglish they have studiedlet t er wr it ing and in Geography theyhave s t udied Aus t ralia. D ur ing theirfree t ime they have been very int erest ed in a book called, “T he Spir itof the Border
” by Zane Grey , read
t o them by M r s . L i ske.
M r . Russell ’ s 8th grade has beenstudying adject ives and adverbs in
E ngli sh . Some of the boys are hav
ing a rough t ime w ith their E nglish .
T he yard force has most ly beenmow ing grass this month . M r . R ead
ling, the yard force supervisor , hasfive boys working w ith him in the
morning and five in the aft ernoon.
T hey have been doing a good-
job of
cleaning the flower beds T hey haveplant ed some flower s this month . T heyplant ed some snap dragons , petunias ,zinnas and summer poinset t ias .
Mr s . Barbee’ s l st and 2nd gradeshas been reading “R obinson Crusoe.
”
A ll the student s chose their favor itepar t of the s tory and t old it beforethe class for their E nglish lesson ,
T hey also chose a draw ing from the
book and drew it on paper . T hey thenput the pictures on the black boards .
22 THE U PL IFTI n the n inth grade, Mr . H olbrooks
and the clas s has been d i scuss ingthe convent ions and making score
cards for keep ing count of the votes
casted by delegates . T hey have alsobeen discus s ing the Pear-sall B i ll .In math they have been comput ing
reading of elect ric and gas met ora.
In E ngl i sh they have been s tudying nouns and pronouns in t heirantecedent s .I n science they have been study
ing the univer se, the sun, planet s ,star s and comet s and have seen a
filmst r ip : “T he E ar th and it’s U ni
ver se.
” T hey al so made char t s of
planet s and their orb i t s , al so the
largest planet in the un iver se whichis Jup-i ter .
Mr . H olbrooks s tated that al l his
good student s were promoted t o the
tenth grade,
Mr . Went z’s room has been study
ing measurement s in math and in
Geography, a un i t on Ind ia. T heysaw some slides and films on Pak
astan.
I n the B ible t hey have been s tudying the 1 2 apost les and memor iz ingthem.
In E nglish they are study ing the
eeight eight par t s of speech which are :nouns , pronouns , verbs , adverbs , ad
ject ives , conjunct ions , preposi t ioos ,
and int erject ions .T hey have been studying f ir st aid
in science.
We Profit F t hm T he F ilmst ripsIn the third grade we have beenstudying about simple machines
, per
manent and elect r ic magnet s . When
Our N ew Spelling Metho'
d
—Bobby E,Vernon
What J . T . S . H as T aught Me T o Do
we f inished study ing about them we
saw some filmst r ips on them . T hesewere very good and interest ing . We
under stand our lessons much bet teraft er seeing these p ictures . T here werequest ions on them and we found thatwe could answer mos t of them . We
think the school did a f ine th ingwhen it purchased the f i lmst r ips .
—Pau1 W i llard
In the third grade we have two
classes in Spell ing because some of
us are bet ter than the others . We callthe clas ses the A and B groups .Our teacher put s us in the groupwhere we belong and it i s up to us
whether we stay in the group or not .
We can m i s s only one word a weekif we want to stay in the A group . I fwe mis s two
, we go down to the B
group . T he boys in the B group can
go up to“
the A group if they mi ssonly one. We have a good t ime pushing one another around,” and we learnmore b ecause we are in the
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classwher e the word-s are not t o hard or
t o easy f or us .
When I fir st came to J . T . S . , I
couldn ’t get adjust ed. I was placed in
several cot tages , but didn’t seem to get
along . F inally I was placed in Cot tageN o . I . I liked the cot tage and havebeen in there about three months . Ilike Mr . and Mrs . H inson, my cot tage
parent s . T hey sure have been nice t ome. T he boys of N o . I have a real good
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AT THE INF IRMARYBy D ouglas Jones
M rs . Mu l l i s , our nurse,t reat s a boy ’ s sore throat .
T he infirmary under the d i rect ionof M r . and Mr s . Mulli s has been busyt hi s month . A number of boys haverepor ted t o the infirmary w ith colds ,minor cut s and injur ies this month .M r . and M r s . Mu lli s are on thei r
vacat ion . T hey wil l stay at their ca
bin which is locat ed near Char lot t e.
I t i s expected t hat t hey wi ll do a lot
of fishing in their well stocked lake.
While the Mul lis’s are on vacat ion,
M r s . I senhour , the assistant , alongw i th Mason Braswell and Phil H olmes,have been busy looking after the dut ies in and around the infirmary . Mason and Phil are a great help whena boy needs medical care at the Ca
bar rus H ospital in Concord or at the
Or thopedic H ospital in Gast onia. T heyass i st the pat ient s in and out of the
car , dressing and so fourth, whent r ips are made to these hospitals . At
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the present t ime two boys are at the
Cabarrus H ospital having their append ix ’ s removed. T hey are Marv in Gwynand L eroy Bent ly . We w i sh them a
speedy recovery .D r .
\Cheek , our dent ist , has also
been busy this month . Dur ing the
month of July, D r . Cheek had over
200 appointment s w ith the boys onthe campus . T his is an average of
about 50 pat ient s per week . Some of
the boys need more dental care thanothers and t hey have several appointment s each week . D r . Cheek stat es that
B IRTHDAYS
Robert W i l lard,1 8 th Bi rthday,
Cottage No . 1
Bobby Vernon,1 4 th Bi rthday, cottage No . 5
D ick Testerman, 1 1 th Bi rthday,Cottage No . 6
Ronnie M inter, 1 6th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1
Bobby Ray Tal lent , 1 3 th Bi rthday, Co ttage No . 8
Herman Turner, 1 3 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 6
Tommy Lee Andrew s , 1 2 th Bi rthday,Cottage No . 6
F loyd Conner, 1 6th Bi rthday,Cot tage No . 1 3
Harry Neal , 1 6th'
Birthday,Cot tage No . 1 7
Russe l l Bruce M ikeal, 1 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 5
Thomas Lambert , 1 4 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 5
Roy. Webb, 1 6th Bi rthday , Cot tage No . 4
Danny Smal l , 1 6th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 1
Warren S ides , 1 6th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 4
Donald Edwards ,“ 1 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 3
George Thornburg, l 4 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 9
Bobby Munger, 1 6th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 3
Ted Ledbetter, 1 5 th Bi rthday, Cot tage No . 3
Arney Goodman,i 5 th Bi rthday,
Cot tage No . 1 3
Leon T immons , l 4 th Bi rthday,Cottage No . 9
W i l l iam O ut law Jr. , 1 6th Bi rthday, Cot tage No . 1 5
Mack F lowe, 1 5 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 1 4
most of his work consist of cleaning,
fill ings, and ext ract ing . T he boys appreciate this service very much .R ecent ly the dental room at the in
f irmary underwent major changes .T he r oom was made larger by mov ingthe wall over several feet . The new
dental room w i ll cons i st of a new den
t al cha i r , x -ray machine, cabinets forvar ious equipment , and a x -ray room .
W i th this new equipment more ser
vice can be offered t o the boys of thecampus . T he school is very fortunatein receiving this equipment .
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KNOW YOUR COUNT IESA
_ser ies of interes ting fact s concerning ci t ies, towns and vi llages wi ll be
published monthly in TH E UPL I F T . We believe the r eader s wi ll be interes tedin learning how these names were given to the different communit ies . T hese
facts are compi led alphabet ically by counties . We hope to cover all of th e
one hundred counties in N or th Carolina.
R IVE RDAL E Set t led 1 878 ; named by Char les Molet te because of
locat ion near Neuse R iver .
T H U RMAN Set t led 1 850 ; namedfor A llen G . T hurman, U . S . Senatorfrom Oh io (1 869 whose motherwas the daughter of Nathan iel A llen,
nephew and adopted son of JosephH ewes , of E denton.
CUMBE R L AND
CU MBE RL AND Set t led 1 850 ;
incorporated 1 889 ; c a l l e d Beaver
Creek unt i l renamed for the county .F AL CON
_E stablished 1 890 in
corporated 1 91 3 ; when names werebeing considered, J . A . Culbreth,glanc ing at a box of F alcon pens onthe shelf of a count ry store, said :“Name it F alcon .
”
F AY E T TE VI LL E Seat of Cumber land County ; set t led and incorporated 1 762 as Campbelltown, named
for the h ighland clan Campbell ; namechanged t o F ayet tev i lle in 1 783 for
General L afayet te, the f ir st t own t o
so honor the Marqu i s .F OR T BRAGG E stablished 1 91 8 ;fir st called Camp Bragg for GeneralBraxton Bragg, Confederate com
mander ; name changed to F or t Braggin 1 922 .
GODW I N Set t led 1 877 ; incor
porated 1 905 ; named for I saac W .
Godw in, who gave the railroad a r ightof -way .
L IND E N Set t led 1 800 ; incor
porated 1 91 3 ; known as Chee‘
f ington
and L it t le R iver Academy unt i l 1 91 0,when it was renamed for a grove of
l inden t rees nearby.ST E DMAN Set t led 1 888 ; incor
porated 1 91 3 ; named for Maj. Char lesM . Stedman of Greensboro, a Con
gressman .
WAD E Set t led 1 886 ; incorpor
ated 1 889 ; named for N . G . Wade,
who donated the rai lroad r ight -ofway .
CU RR I T U CK
CO INJOCK Set t led 1 690 ; named
for an I ndian word meaning placeof the blueberry swamps .CU R R I T U CK Named for a small
t r ibe of A lgonquin I ndians, or iginallyCarat oke w ith many var iant s .JARVI SBU R G Set t led pr ior t o
1 750 ; named for the Jarvis family ofwhom Governor T homas J . Jarvi s wasa member .
MOY OCK Name of I ndian or iginmeaning place of oaks on the t rail .SH AWBOR O Set t led 1 775 ; nam
ed for Colonel H enry Shaw, Confederate A rmy Officer .
WAT E R L I L Y Set t led 1 750 ;
named for wat er lilies growing in
ponds and dit ches here.
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SCHOOL HONO R ROLL‘JU L Y
F I R ST GRA D EN o H onor R oll
John F ranklin L eeH arvey H ud son F I F T H GRAD EJackie L upt onR ober t McL amb
T ed F OW leI '
W illiam Phillips Mar shal l JonesWar ren Cart er
L ee D r iver
D onald WoodH arry NealGoldman CheathamMarvin GywnD onald T hornburgC leon Mason
Rex BellSE COND GRAD E S IXT H GRAD E
SE VE NTH GRAD ET H I R D GRAD E
D onald BraswellCar l CallR oy F ergusonF rank McGrady
W illiam Out law E I GH T H GRAD EWesley PendletonH omer R idingsGeorge T hornburgPau l W illard N INT H GRAD EF OU R T H GRAD E N o H onor R oll
N o H onor R'
dl l
I thank God that '
l have l ived to,see the day w hen my Count ry has caught
the greater v i s ion of its duty and opportuni ty .-Gov . Wal terA. Huxman
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COTTAGE HONOR ROLLJU L Y
Cot tage N o. 1
Car l CallA rchie MedfordT ommy T hompson
Cot tage N o. 8
Cot tage N O . 2 Kenneth BlackR ex Bell H oward H ardee
Noel Pat t er sonCot tage N o. 3
Sam A ldr idgeWar ren Car t er
A llen GrantChar les JamesTed L edbet t erCalvin PeelerBobby St evensC laudes Williams
Cot tage N o. 4
C lyne E dwards Cot tage No. 1 0
D elmar Sheet s N o H onor R ollWarren Sides
Cot tage No . 5
Dalton L ew isR obert McL amb
Joel T aylorR ichard Whisna-nt
Cot tage N O . 6
T ommy Andrews
Roy F ergusonD ouglas JamesJohn M cGrady
W illiam Phill ips Cot tage N o. 1 4
R onnie Poff T roy Blackwell
Cot tage N o . 1 3
N o H onor R ol l
Cot tage N o. 9
Sher idan BeckSandy CanadyR ober t CreelJames D ailJohn H ensleyJohn H ardeeE . J . JohnsonI'ra L angleyH eward McGrady
L eon T immons
Cot tage No . 1 5
FARM AND TRADE HONOR RO LLJU L Y Doug
lasSara
CARPENTER SHO P
F rank H elmsNorr is JohnsonMalcolm Carroll
RI "HiPaul D ockery 3M“
Curtes L uca'sBobby Munger
BARBER SH O PT roy BlackwellMack F loweGeorge T hornburgB
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lly Coffey1Buddy McL aurin
John H ardeeSandy Canady SHO E SH O P
N o H onor R oll
BARNFO RCET ommy T hompsonH arold Cowick
Ot i s JacobsJohn L eeWayne Jenk insCardel 0 xendineJames 0 xendineRay R osenberryT ommy W i lliams
I nf irmary ,
Phil H olmesMas on Braswell
SEPTEMBER, 1 956 Vo l. 44
TH INGS. YO U CANNO T BUY
There are many things to purchase
In the stores and marts of t rade,
“
There isevery sort of gadget
Which the hands of men have made;There are stamps and stoves and t rinkets,There are lands and mo tor cars;
But you cannot purchase character
Nor the beauty of the stars .
You can buy a type of'
prest ige
And a seat that’
s soft and'
high,But the thingsmost worth havingLoads of money cannot buy;
Common things like ioy and laughter,Lit t le things like peace of mind
These are values freely given
To the t rue and'
good and kind IJohn G . Trui tt
Published Monthly ByT he Pr int ing Class of the St onewall JacksonManual T raining and I ndust r ial School
Concord, Nor th Carol ina
The authority of the Stonewal l Jackeon Manual Training and Industrial School
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A MONTHLY JONRNALPubl ished By
Type-sett ing by the Boys’ Print ing ClassSubscript ion Two Dol lars the Year, in Advance
Act of March 3, 1 897. Acceptance for mail ing a special rate
STAFF
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance Robert sonEd i tor
Mrs . Wanda Ho l brookMrs . Agnes YarbroughAssociate Ed i torsJames H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPO RTERS
Wi l bur Hal lRobert W i l lardJames ConradJohn Bonner
l lNOTYPE O PERATO RS
Jerry GarrenRobert W i l lardW i l bur Hal lJames Conrad
CO NTENTS
E D I T OR I AL
SU NDAY SE RV I CE SBy W ilbur H allSPOR T SBy R ober t W illard
F ARM and T RAD E NEWSBy Jerry Garren
ST ORY L—BE ST WI SH E SV
By E . F . KaczmarczykST OR Y—C H AR L I E MOE L E PO
By Pat Y im
KNOW Y OU R COU NT I E S
BI R T H DAY SD I D Y OU KNOWH ONOR R OL L S
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SCH OOL R OOM NEWSBy F red King
PLANT A T R E E
By Agnes Y arbroughST ORY— U L T IMAT E SBy R ev . Andrew H anfland
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How d i fferent our standards become at a t ime l i ke th i s . The pett ines sand b ickering of everyday li fe, the s trugg le fo r weal th and power, thefal se social and c
'
ultural‘
dist inctions For is it not-
“
t rue
that the most stupid and the most learned men are but a w i sp apart in the i rknow ledge w hen we th ink of all the know ledge that ex i st s in the
universe? And i s there very much d i fference between youth and o ld age
w hen v iewed in the l igh t of eterni ty? Mos t of us t h ink that the earth is of
t remendous s ize, but to the ast ronomer peering b i l l ions of mi les into space,our world i s but a grain of sand f loat ing on a vast cosmic ocean. How can
the snobbery of weal th or pos i t ion endure w hen the es sent ial equal i ty ofall men i s seen in the c lari ty of proper perspect ive .
Accord ing to Henry Adams , the 1 9th century American w ri ter; T imeand experience al ter all perspect ives . But w h i le the capaci ty to v iewthings in the i r true re lat ionsh ips increases w i t h age, true perspect ive,
l i ket rut h i tse l f , i s an abso lute and imperi shab le th ing that ex i sts even w henwe are unaware of its ex i stance .
“Truth crushed to earth , shal l rise again,
and t rue perspect ive, though befogged and beclouded and obscured, w i l leventual ly sh ine thru the darknes s l i ke a beacon, show ing all the valuesin the i r proper pos i t ions of re lat ive importance an po int ing the way to
wards peace of mind,to lerance and brotherl y love .
—The Trumbu l l Cheer viaThe Corrector
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BE GO O D
By Merv in Cag le in the Lake Shore O ut lookTo be good s imp l y means to be he l pfu l—or at least to refrain fromharming or h indering other peop le need less l y . Th i s includes even the offering orw i thho ld ing of sympathy and encouragement .
It i s not a s i ssy “to be good . lnf lex ib le moral courage and rigid se l f
d i scipl ine must occas ional l y be pract iced in order to put the we l fare of our
ne ighbors above or equal to our own. Actual ly, in the t igh t l itt le world inw h ich we l ive]
, we are very dependent upon each other . for the clothes we
wear, the food we eat , the homes we l ive in,t ransportat ion, entertainment ,
and a t housand luxuries and incidental neces s i t ies that make l i fe worth liv
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ing. And let us not forget the most important gi ft of all for w h ich we are
dependent upon each ot her: human companionshi p .It somet imes happens that , after mak ing a few mi stakes in our re lat ions
w i th others , we decide that we don’
t qui te deserve the i r acceptance on
equal terms . Be ing human, we natural l y des i re the society of other peop le .
on‘
equal terms . Even the ”
worst " of people have a deep crav ing for humanrecogni t ion, acceptance and companionsh ip. The vast majori ty of them fai lto sat i sfy t h i s crav ing on ly because of a lack of conf idence in themse lves , inthe i r righ t to be accepted. It i s resentment over the imaginary inferiori tythat causes them to become ch ronic offenders” ,
”
recid iv i st s and profes
sional criminal s as they are various l y labe led .
The remedy for lack of conf idence in ourselves i s , obv ious l y , to acqui reconf idence in ourse lves . Th i s conf idence may be acqu i red through pract icein do ing t h ings that we know to be usefu l and he l pful to ot hers unt i l we
know that we have earned the right to the i r recogni t ion and acceptance
on equal terms .W i l l ingnes s to lend a he lping hand or an encourag ing word w hen nece
ssary or poss i b le i s the mark of a conf ident , we l l - integrated, unse l f i sh person—a GO O D person,
i f the term i s preferred . Among such people, con
s iderat ion for the righ ts and priv i leges of others and respect for the i rOpinions are taken for granted.
6 THE UPL IFT
SUNDAY SERVICES
By Wilbur H all
T he v isit ing mini st er on August 5thwas the R ev . Thurman S t one, Past orof the F ir st Bapt i st Church in Con
cord.
R ev . St one had f or his t opic; T he
Sea of L if e;” choosing his ver ses ofscr ip ture from the 6th chapt er of
Mark . R ev . St one t old us about a t r iphe had in the past in which he crossed t he ocean on a ship . H e said everymorning he was so int erest ed in the
sea and God’ s power over such a vastt hing ; whi le the sailor s didn’
t even
not ice anything because t hey had become disint er est ed in it . R ev . S t one used t his example t o show that some
people on the sea of life become dis
int er est ed and comm it su icide or the
l ike. R ev . S t one said w e should thinkof every day as a m ighty gem t hati s pr iceless . L if e is like a m ighty journey acr oss the sea.
I n the sea of life there ar e a num
ber of things that we have t o do. We
have t o choose a capt ain . We haveeither of two choices : Chr i st or the
D evi l . (1 ) “Choose you whom this dayyou w ill serve .
”Get one you can under
stand. Y ou should conf ide in him . Be
r eady t o give your lif e at any givenmoment f or him . T rust in his reasoning and under standing,
his kindnes s ,
and love. (2 ) Char t your cour se : whichway you w ill go and where you w illgo in the future. What
_you want in
lif e. I f you want sin and go t o hell inthe future, work f or it . I f you want
goodnes s and be w ith God ever last ingwork f or it . E very man should have a
goal t o work t oward . D on’
t set yourgoal at anything here on ear th f or lifei s f ar mor e than grat ificat ion of the
flesh . (3 ) Consider your crew . D et er
mine w isely who your associat es wil lbe . Our associat es can have a lot of
effect on your way of life. I f you
choose a sinf ul living and live among
minist er s and Chr ist ians , sooner or
lat er you w ill turn t o the Chr is t ianway of life and v ice ver sa. (4 ) Champion t hat cause. E ither way we choosewe want t o be champions of that wayof lif e. I nf luence other s , in every waypossible, t o be the best at this way of
life. I f you are just living and not t ry
ing t o influence other s t o live in the
same way you aren’
t doing much ; youar en
’t bear ing any fruit f or your cap
tain . (5 ) Cont rol our Charact er . By
t his I mean if you are t empted t o dosomething we ought not , we want t o
be man enough t o stand up and say
no.
”T V
e want t o overcome al l t empt af ion and make ourselves do what
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UPli lFT
lieveth in him should not per ish, buthave eternal life.
”H e didn ’
t say thatif we believed in H im we wouldn ’
t get
a reward f or our hardsh ips and tempt at ions ; rather H e said we would geteternal life.
M r . A lexander t hen closed the ser
v ice with a short prayer .
0 00 00
T he v i sit ing minist er f or August 1 9was R ev . F . C . T rexler from the Be
t hany L utheran Church in Kannapoli s .R ev . T rexler chose for his scr ip;
ture reading; L uke —38 . R ev .
T rexler has been having a ser ies of.
young people and t eaching some cal
esthenics so they could d i scipline theirbodies . H e said that we should dis
cipline our sp ir i t s t oo ; t hat is t o standup and l ive for Chr is t , and not be
what some people call a“Y ellow
Backbone.
”
R ev . T rex ler t old us about once he
went int o a cafe in Kannapoli s andt here at the bar he saw a man who
was obviously drunk because he wascur sing and talking big stuff. R ev .
T rexler said he walked over t o the
man and asked him if he was havingfun . T he man looked at him w i th t ea-r sin h i s eyes and said, “No preacher I ’mnot having fun, 1 only thought I was .
”
T his just goes to show that what wecall happiness is of t -t imes noth ingbut a cheap drunk .R ev . T rexler told us about anotherint erest ing occurrance that he knew .
Two pat ient s escaped from the Mor
'
gant on hospital and in order to maket heir getaway they st ole two b icyclesjust out side the main gate. After a
while it got dark and theywant ed t os leep but one of them said, Where’
re
we go ing t o sleep ? The other guy
said, I n the ditch . ” T hey wanted to
know what t o use f or cover becauseit was get t ing pret ty chilly, one of
them said they could take the t iresof f the bikes and use them ; afer a
while one of the fellows awoke sh ivering and he asked the other fellowwhat did be think was wrong . T he
other fellow “said, “Well no wonder
you ’re cold, the
'
re’re 4 spokes m i ss ing
in your wheel .Of cour se in our lives we have t o
have these 4 spokes for really , t rue
happiness . 1 ) Judge not and you willnot be judged. (2 ) Condemn not and
you will not be condemned . (3 ) F or
give and you w i ll be forgiven .
Give and it w ill be given t o you ,R ev .
T rexler asked us if we had ever t r ieda wheel w ithout a hub . In t his l i t t les t ory Jesus is the '
hub . if we don ’t love
and live f or H im we cannot possiblysupply these 4 spokes which are es
sent ial for t rue happiness .R ev . T rexler then closed his serv ice
with a shor t prayer .
—ooOOo
T he v i sit ing minister f or the schoolon August 26 was the R ev . John Cannon , Pas tor of Bethpage Presbyter ianChurch of Kannapolis .R ev . Cannon chose h i s ver ses of
scr ipture from Mark 6 : 34 —43 . The
m iracle of God’ s feeding 5000 peoplew i th 5 loaves and two f i shes . T hesepeople followed Jesus out t o the deser tand when he started preach ing theygot so interested that it was suddenlynight and mos t of them had a longway t o walk (because there wasn ’
t
any form of t ranspor tat ion then)before they could get food. So Jesus ,because he loved them so much, askedt hem how much food they had. The
me upri st
Bible doesn ’t say a lit t le boy gave the food compared to what was '
needed
food but we can use our own imag but he gave what he had. And Jesusinat ion a lit t le and assume he did. did great th ings . The same can be for
When his di sciples gathered what you or me. God has g iven all of us
food they could they had f ive laoves someth ing, some“
t alent or ab i l ityand two fishes , and Jesus died the to do some s pecial th ing . I f we put
people and had plenty of scraps our t rust H e can take whatleft over . We know r
—J esus did such H e has g iven us and do great th ings .things all through the h i st ory of his U nt il we do th i s we w i l l not be doinglife, we don’ d iscuss H im in this our best in any field of work .lit t le story but of the l i t t le boy . The
“
R ev . Cannon then closed h i s ser
lit t le boy didn ’t have very much vice with a short prayer .
—oOO:OOo
DIDJAKNOW?
'
What is a b i rd’
s Temperature?We say t hat mammal s are warmb looded, but b i rds are real l y hotb looded .
The i r temperature ranges from 1 00 degrees Fah renhe i t in the gull to 1 1 2
degrees in the swal low . A temperature of 1 1 2 degrees would mean sw i ftdeath to a man, whose
'
normal temperature is about degrees . A long'
w it h t h is h igh leve l of bodyheat , the b i rd has an extraord inary heart . Ab i rd’
s pu l se is about 1 20 beat s a minute w hen its at rest . At the end of a
f l igh t its heart beat s so rap id l y t hat the pu l se cannot be counted. The
humanpulse averages 72 beats aminute .
What b ird t rave l s yearl y between the Arct ic and the Antarct ic?It is be l ieved that the Arct ic tern may somet imes trave l mi les in
a year. In Spring it f l ies far north to nest in the Arct ic. A f ew month s laterAntarct ic summer. Many Arct ic terns , however, w inter north of the equat or. The b i rd’ s tremendous f l igh ts are poss i b le because it is a f i sh-eater.W i th the open ocean always beneat h it , food is p lent i ful for the w ho le
'
d i stance .
—Se lected
Cot tage N o. 1 T he U nderdog, Wins“A
”L eague T rophy
T he tournament play-off th i s yearwas full of upset s as the season ended
'
on August 29 . Cot tage N o. 1 0 star tedthe ball rolling by defeat ing N o. 1 4
in the f ir st round of the“A
” L eague
Play-off ’ s . Cot tage No, 1 4 had fin i shed on top dur ing the regular seasonbut N o . 1 0 had lit t le .t rouble as theyput M r . H ooker ’ s boys out of the
tournament by the score of 1 4-7.
Cot tage No. 1,wh ich had improved
dur ing the summer turned back Cottage No. 4 in the other half of the“A
”L eague Play-off ’ s . N o . 4 jumped
out t o an 8 -0 lead but the mach ineshop boys came back st rong and in
a thr illing f inish , R ober t Wil lardwon his own game by coming home
on a w ild pi tch as N o. 1 put N o. 4
out by the score of 1 2 - 1 1 , leavingCot tages N o . 1 and 1 0 to slug it out .
In the firs t game of the Play-off ’ sN o. 1 took it by the score of 4-2 .
T his was probably the best game
of softball p layed this season .
T he second game was no contes tas the
“fixed up”N o . 1 boys galloped
to a 22 -5 win t o win the championship .T he out standing player ’ s in the
ROBERT
W ILLARD
Cot tage N0 . 1 5 W insT rophy
C‘B”L eague
“A”L eague
“
were Culler , Willard,F ow ler , Minter and Meadford for
Cot tage N o. 1 , Woodruff, Coll ins,Seagrove and Garren for N o . 4 . F or
N o. 1 0 A llyson, Gardner and Keet chplayed good ball . Blackwell, E ll i sonand Mabes led N o. 1 4 in their dr iveto the top dur ing the regular season.
In the“B”
L eague Cot tage N o.
1 5 disposed of N o. 1 3 .by the scor eof 1 9—1 0 . N o. 1 1 t ook care of N o. 1 7
by the score of 1 6-4 . I n the fir st gamebetween
'
the two w inner s , N o. 1 5 won
by the score of 6-5 w ith H elm s seoring two of the runs and Wheelerpitching good ball . The plant -bedboys came roaming back t o win the
second game by 8 -5
T hen came the final game. T he
f ir st four innings Cot tage N o. 1 1
was ahead 4-3 . In the top of the 5th
inn ing N o. 1 5’s defense collapsed
and w ith N o. 1 1’s heavy h i t ter s com
ing to bat eleven more runs were
scored. But this game was protest edby N o. 1 5 because of the use of an
i llegal bat . T he ent ire A thlet ic Commit t ee upheld the protest , thus caus ing
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400 yd. R elay R aceL eague
A
B
G
Baseball Quest ions
Q . H ow many hits could be made
in an inning without a run be
scored?
A . Six . F or example,say the f ir st
three bat ter s single w i thout a run
scor ing. T he pitcher then picks oneman off third base and the catchert hrows out the man on second “
on
an at t empted steal . T hen the nexttwo men up single, leaving the basesloaded, two out s and f ive h i t s alreadyaccount ed for . T he s ixth hit comeswhen the bat ter h i t s a ball thats tr ikes a base runner . The bat ter is
cred i ted w ith a hit (the s ixth ) , thethe man who was s truck is out (the
t hird) , and the runner who crossedt he plate does not score because the
side i s ret ired.
Q . Who hit safely in the mos t con
secut ive games ?
Q . H ow many t imes may a playerent er a s ingle gaine?
A . Only once.
Q . What pres ident inaugurat ed the
custom of throwing out the f irst ball
at the s tar t of t he season?
A . W i lliam H oward T aft in
Q . Who can cal l t ime-out in a game?
A . Only the '
umpires . A player , coach'or
' manager may ask for t ime-out ;'
he cannot call it .—
.Selected.
A . Joe D iMaggio hit safely in 56
consecut ive games in 1 941 . H e was
s topped by the Cleaveland Indianswhen T hird Baseman K en Keltnermade two sensat ional plays t o rob
D iMaggio of hit s . D iMaggio went
on after that game to hit safely in1 6 more games before be ing stoppedagain .
Q . H as anyone ever played a fullseason (1 50 or more games ) with;
out making an error ?
A . Y es . Danny L itwhiler , Ph i ladelphiaPh i llies outfielder , played 1 5 1 error
less games in 1 942 . W i llard Mar shall,
Bos ton Braves,in 1 95 1 (1 39 games ) ;
and Buddy Rosar , Philadelph ia Ath
let ics, in 1 946 (1 1 6 games ) al so haderror less seasons .
Q . H ow many ways can a bat ter reach
first base?A . Nine : hit , walk, error
, forceout ,
fielder ’ s choice (when the man on
base is not forced out or not r et ired) ,hit by pitched ball, interference bycatcher or other
_member of f ield ing
t eam , m i s sed t_hird st r ike, and bat t edfair ball hit t ing a runner or umpirebefore it i s t ouched by a f ielder .
THE UPLIFT
FARM AND TRADE NEWS
By Jerry GarrenMr . R eadling and his boys havebeen cleaning up the campus groundsthese past few weeks . T hey alsocleaned _Mr . Scot t ’ s yard and flower
beds . L awlerence E van-s and PaulBurns have been mowing lawns a
round the campus . T he Y ard F orce
boy ’ s have cut the hedges '
around the
Admini st rat ion building and H ospital . Mr . R eadling has a new addit iont o the implement s in his care. T he
new mower is a Gravely Whir lwind.
I t sure helps the yards looking nice.
Mr . Carr iker and his=boys have
been put t ing drain p ipes around the
I nfirmary w i th the help of Mr .
McCask-le, the state plumber . T he
pipes help the appearance of the
I nfirmary very much .This i s the busy season of the year
with all the mowing blades , rakes ,lawnmower s , corn cut t er s and hay
baler s to fix . Maxie T eal and PaulCuller built Mr . H inson a tool boxf or his new tool s . R obert H oneycut thas been sharping mower blades .R onnie Mint er has been cleaning out
the t ire room and it looks nice and
t idy . Bill Carpenter and T ed F owlerrepaired s ome wooden chair s and
H erber t L ucas has been gr indingblades for the in s i lage cut ter . A l l
the Machine ShOp boys have beenworking on the lime spreader whicht hey built from odd bit s of junk .T hey have been washing all the“school car s and keep ing them in good
running condit ion.
Mr E rvin ’ s bakery boys have beenworking very lit t le, because of the
donat ion by Puffin Biscuit Co. of
450 cases of biscuit s . T his cut s downon the baking the boys ordinar i lyhave to do. T heir work ranges frombaking t o m ixing cakes , cinnamon
buns and pound cakes .Mr . H ooker ’ s boys have been cut
t ing a lot of hair this month . MacF lowe gave 1 06 hair cut s , Bil l Coffey90 , Namon Sheet s 73 and T roy Blackwell gave 86. T hese boys are respon
sible for the good look ing heads around th
_e campus .
A l l the t rade groups have beenwork ing a lot the past month includingthe Pr int Shop boys . We have had a
large order and it has been'
keeping
us pret ty'
busy .T he boys in the cott on m ill are glad
t o be back in the m i ll . T hey have beenworking in the cannery f or the lastmonth prepar lng food t o be canned or
used in the cafeter ia.
The boys have been mak ing sheetmat er ial and sh ir t mat erial . The boysin the mil l that do the weaving areJames McL amb, Claudis W illiam,
Warren Car ter , T ed L edbet ter , and
F eddie Morr is .T he cot ton is run through the picker
that get s al l the t rash that the gin
misses ; after going through the picker it goes through the carding ma
chine where it is st retched and -put
in cans ; after the carder it goes intothe slubber machine where it is re
s t retched and twi sted.
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SCHOOL ROOM NEWS
By Fred K ingMrs . Sm i th ’ s first grade has been
making some very pret ty fall decorat ions . T hese were made from var iouscolor s of const ruct ion paper—red,
green ,yellow,
brown and other var
ious fall color s . T he boys al so madesome pictures of children going backt o school and playing . T he fir st gradeis learning their mult iplicat ion tablesand borrowing and subt ract ion .
M r s . Barbee’ s second grade is
having fun in ar ithmetic“T hey are
learning ,to mult iply with two num
ber s . I n th i s way they learn the irtables . Most al l the boys know theirmult iplicat ion tables .T hey are al so reading a new book
which they say they like very much .T he name of it i s “D own T he R iverRoad .
”
Mr s . L iske’s four th grade has been
s tudying long and shor t division, in
ar ithmet ic. In E ngli sh, they are studying about the twelve sons of Jacob ,who are t o become the twelve t r ibesof I s rael . “Genes i s .M rs . L iske
’s afternoon class took
a field t r ip from which they broughtback some very int erest ing th ings .T hey have sixt een different kinds ofinsect s wit h their homes , boxed up
f or observat ion in their room . T hisgives a very good example of how
the insect s adapt themselves t o theirenviroment . T hey have alsostar ted a
st one collect ion. T heir collect ion con
si st of sixt een building st ones so far .
M r . Wentz’s sixth grade has been
taking up measurement s concerningliquid and dry measur es . In historythey have been studying the new wor ldand the builder s of the N ew Wor ld.
In geography, the different classesof people and their standards x of
liv ing ; _ I n E nglish , the eight par t sof speech ; In Science, how soil androcks are built up and tore down.
H ow glac ier s are formed and the
t races they leave.
Mr Rus sell ’ s eighth grade i s studying insurance in ar ithmet ic. H ow to
comput e year ly premiums , how the
value of an insurance policy differ sw ith the amount of r isk involved. I n
T he seventh grade has been studying addingand subt ract ibn of decimal sin ar ithmet ic. In history they havebeen reading about the
“
beginning of
local self-government in Virginia. In
geography the boys have seen severalfilm s on planets, star s , comet s andother bodies in the U niver se. M r . .
Caldwell has been t eaching literaturein E nglish . In science they have beenstudying how alcohol dis so lves '
in
oil and proves that alcohol hardensfood in the stomach and ruins a
per sons health .M r . Caldwell says he expect s t o
give the H al loween,
P rogram thisyear . M r . Caldwe ll and his room are
doing a fine job of keeping the aud
itor ium clean too.
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PLANT A TREEM rs . Agnes Yarbrough
H ave you ever heard the story of
the tall, slender cedar t ree that growson the r ight side of . the ent rance to
t he admin i st rat ion building ? Mr .
F i sher, the late A ssistant Superin
tendent, told it to me one day . I t
seem-s t hat many year s ago when boththe school and M r . F i sher Were very
young, a small boy came in from the
fields carrying '
a lit t le cedar s'prout .H e t old Mr . F i sher t hat he wouldlike to plant it for he thought thatsomeday it would make a nice Chr i stmas t ree.
With l i t t le hope for the surv ival ofthe slender sappling
'
Mr . F i shert old the boy t o plant h i s t ree whereever he wanted t o. T h inking thatthe front lawn would be a very proper place for a Chr i stmas t ree, the
boy dug his hole and carefully plantedthe lit t le t ree. And so it grew and
grew , unt il one day it i s at least 1 5feet high and very beaut iful .T he name of the smal l boy is not
known, for year s have passed and
there i s no record of smal l boy ’ sw i shes , but
“
the t ree stands as a
memor ial t o the kindness of .a man
and the thought fulnes s of a boy .
T he th ing that stands out in the
mind of this wr it er each t ime we
pas s the t ree i s not so much whoplant ed the t ree
, but the thoughtfulness of a man in hear ing a smallboy ’ s plans . Mr. F isher could havesaid, “Son, I am t oo busy now , and
it won’t l ive anyway or We don
’t
want you digging up the front lawn”,but he didn ’
t . H e t ook the t ime t o
hear the lad’ s request and gave him
perm is sion t o do the thing that to
the lit t le mind was so very impor tant and wor thwhile.
H ow many '
t imes do we brushaside the request of ch i ldren, whenjust a br ief moment would makesuch a difference in the m ind of
that ch i ld. Maybe the outcome‘
wouldnot be as big or last ing as the cedar
t ree, but to the boy or g ir l mak ingthe request or ask ing the quest ion,it i s just as big . Many: a young mindhas been set in the r ight line of
t h inking because some one took thet ime to stop and l i sten . On the otherhand many a ch i ld has wandered into unwholesome th inking and livingbecause someone was to busy .I t may some day be dec ided that
this t ree is no longer an asset to
the campus , or it may “become deccas“
ed and die, but the shor t moment
spent w i th this boy who wanted to
plant a t ree was pr iceless . Whoknows the result of a kindness suchas th i s ! The request was made
, a
t ree was planted, and a ch i ld madevery happy .
Oh , the comfor t — the inexpressible comfort of feel ing safewith a per son,
H aving neither to weigh t hought sN or measure words but pouring them
Al l r ight out—just as they areChaff and grain t ogetherCer tain that a fai thfu l hand w i llT ake and sift t hemKeep what is wor th keep ingAnd with the breath of k indnessBlow the rest away .
—D inah Craik
tHe UPHFT
U LT IMATES
By Rev . Andrew Hanf land in The CorrectorI f a per son looks long enough and
deep‘a
enough into human nature, it be
comes reveal ing. I f you let your m indstare at it unt i l it light s up, you w i llbeg in to see the t r iple tap-root of it s
mult iple and complex var iety of de
sires . A ll of them are reducible to
three fundamental s and ult imate realit ies wh ich the human be ing cravesfor . E very man want s l ife and t ruthand love. H e craves these w ith suchav idity that his capac i ty f or t hemseems almost unl imited. F rom childhood to old age that quest goes on
known. T he ach ievement seems to fallso far shor t of that almost l imit lesscapac i ty of the quest for t ruth .T hen again there is the craving for
love. Man want s to love and to be loved. T h i s des ire is un iver sal and deepseated. Children man ifest it in affeca
t ion for parent s, g iv ing and receiving
it with delight . L ater it f inds expression in fr iendships . St i ll later it pairsof f into romant ic love between the
sexes and culminates in marr ied love.
I t beget s it s own image in the embodi
ment s of mutual love, the children.
like an insat iable hunger W ithin—t he; _And—the whole cycle star t s al l over
inner dept s of h i s soul .Take for instance, the crav ing to
live. F rom youth to old age it i s mostfundamental—nature
’ s f ir st law. E x
ternal t h ings, des irable conven iences ,yes, even part of a person ’ s member swill be read i ly sacr ificed to maintainthat prec ious thing called l ife. Moreover, we keep expand ing our conceptof l ife to enfold an ever farther horizon, so r ich i s the capacity for a
t ruly abundant l ife.
T he same can be said of the questfor
'
t ruth . A lready as ch i ldren, hu
mans keep raising those probing quest ions : “What i s it ?Whence i s it ?Whyi s it ?” T hey take the ir toys apart t osee what make the wheel s go round .
So also adult s, each in their own measure, take the wor ld apart to see whatmakes it t ick . Man want s t o know . And
the more he f inds out , the more st illdoes he search and the more does herealize how very much there i s t o be
again. And th i s quest for love i s univer sal , so deep and so intense that itseems almost l imit less in it s capacity .N ow there are two quest ions that
need t o be answered about t hese deepand almost insat iable capaci t ies andcrav ings for l ife and t ruth and love.
What is t heir source ; and how wi llt hey ever be fully sat isf ied? R egarding the ir source, we know they couldnot .have come from us, so must havebeen given . We have to look for the
source out side of ourselves . We havea share of l ife, a share of t ruth anda share of love. But the ir source mustbe one who I s L ife with a capital L ,
who I s T ruth w i th a capital T , and
who I s L ove w i th a capital L . H e mustbe unmixed w i th the shadow of deathor the shadow of hat e. And t hat can
only be God. But not only i s God thesource of this threefold capacity ; H ei s al so the only answer t o how it can
ever be fully sat isfied. E xper ience of
1 8 THE UPL IFT
all history proves that the most int ense, perfect and abundant l ife you
could env i sion—the most intensiveand extens ive knowledge your m indcould at tain—the most ideal , beaut iful and sat isfy ing love you couldach ieve here in this wor ld, would st illleave th i s t r iple deepseated craving
unsat i sf ied and this yearn ing for thel im it less st ill unfulfilled. Only H e whoI s L ife All-L iving and T rut h Al lKnow ing and L ove All-L ov ing can ful
ly slake that th ir st w i th in the inner
TH E TWO SAILO RS
Two sai lors were once w recked on a lone l y i s land, and, luck i l y , twocoops of chickens f loated ashore from the i r sh i p . They took one each.
'
The'
f i rst sai lor saved his eggs for hatch ing; the other ate his up as t hey were
laid. In a few months the f i rst sai lor had a grand flockb f hens and p lentyof eggs , w hi le the other had ne i ther fow l s nor eggs . In other words , theone had become construct ive and creat ive, w h i le the other had becomedestruct ive and UN-creat ive . We tal k about theG REAT CREATO R God.
but often lose s ight of the fact that we have a l i tt le bit . of God in us and
MUST FO LLOW h i s creat ive l ine; CREATIVENESS spe l l s LIFE FO R ANYO NEAND EVERYO NE. Lake Shore O ut look
dept s of our soul . God and H is H eaveni s the answer . T hat is the goal of t ruereligion . I t i s the answer t o the mostbasic quest ion every man should solvefor himself : Why am I in this wor ld?I t is all summed up in a few words“I am in this wor ld to Know and L ove
and Serve:God in t h i s wor ld in order
that I may be forever happy wit hH im in H eaven . in the next world .
”
T hat i s the r ight yard st ick of all
human l ivmg.
20 7 THE’
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ed with the sp ir i t of the happinesswh ich yearns t o creat e happines s toother ’ s hear t s . And t here w i ll abouthim a subt le magnet ism, warm,
at
t ract ive, compell ing, which w i l l drawt o him whomsoever and what soeverr ight ly belongs t o him .
Comb ine lovableness , t h e h a p pyqual ity of per sonal ity, w i th usefulnes s,the noblest aim of human l ife, and youhave in the ir pos ses sor a type of hu
man i ty closely approach ing the ideal .G ive to the lovable person the qual
it ies of intel lect wh ich make him use
ful , which f it him to do work eff iciently in what ever his chosen f ield of
labor may be, and you have one blessed w i th everyt h ing necessary to happiness and wealth .
CHARLIE MO E LEPOByPat Y im -ln ThePaahao Pres s
Char l ie Moe L epo as he was
known t o al l the t own of Kaneohe,was indeed a character , loveableand funny . Migrat ing t o the I slandsfrom his nat ive Germany . H e im
mediately set t led in a l i t t le hamletcalled Coral ' Gardens in Kaneohe.
'
E ver since I can remember , he wast here. _ I guess he was there longbefore I was born.
Char l ie was a st ocky guy of aboutfifty
,measur ing an inch under five
feet . H e always had a twink le in
his grayish-green -eyes .Char l ie always .had a cud of chew ing tobacco and
when he st opped chew ing. it t o spitthe t obacco ju ice out , you had bet ter
H e who w ould do much for h imselfmust do much f or his fellowmen.
T here is no bet ter occupat ion thanusefulness . I t b inds your fellowment o you, and you t o t hem; it tends tothe improvement of your own character ; and it gives you a real importance in society far beyond what anyar t ificial d i st inct ion can bestow .
The lovable,useful person can scar
cely fai l t o at tain the hear t ’ s des ire.
And in the highest sense of the word"
he i s “rel igious .” H is dai ly l ife i s a
perpetual act or worship .So it seems t o us that of al l the .
wi shes a hear t hungry for happ ines smight conce ive, t hese two are the
best ; t o be lovable to be useful .
get out of h i s way or you ’d get a
n ice spray of t obacco juice on yourperson . _I f_ the juice happen t o catchyou
_in
“
it s path, he would slap his ‘
hair les s head and roar with glee.
H is Sunday at t ire would usuallybe an over sized felt hat that was
given t o him by someone, a blue sh ir tand a pair of overalls . Occasional lyhe would slip on a pai r of so i ledcanvas shoes . On weekdays h i s dres swould be the same, sans fedora.
H e could never get over the factt hat the E nglish people . were in
st rumental t o some degree f or the.
doa all of the Germans in the F ir st ;Wor ld war . Whenever he
'spoke to.
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any E ngli shman he would refer to
him as that “damn l imejuice.
”H e
had a very heavy German accent
which reminded you of the manyE uropean priest s that came to the
I slands many year s ago.
"
H owever ,
out side of this fault of lambast ingt he E nglish people, Char lie was
well liked by al l , and was one of the
best “cit izens” of the community .
F rom building a house to rai singorchids, Charlie t ook everything in
st r ide. H e was a dandy of a carpenterand there are many houses thatst ill stand in Kaneohe bear ing the
handiwork of his versat il i ty . T he
old German spent many hour s gathering all sor t s of th ings f rom- " t he
"
sea shore: old door s washed ashorefrom sh ips at sea; dr iftwood thatwe k ids could see no beauty in but
wh ich he always p icked up and
examined -it l ike a precious jewel ;net s that were full of holes ; hugeglass floaters that drifted in fromthousands of m iles away, and the
count less'
other“things that managed
t o find their: way to Char lie’ s feet .
Many , of t he t ownspeople spendmany enjoyable even ing. chat t ingwi th : Charl ie on his veranda. H alfof his
’
“shack was" bu i ld on st i lt s
above the water .
Cat‘s ‘
were' his weakness. H e had
a menager ie that had more cat st han you though existed in th i swor ld. H e was forever on the lookout for birds that fell from their nest s ,or b irds that were injured. H e wouldtake t hem home and
"
nurse themt i ll they were well , then let them flyaway . I t made you wonder about hisboyhood l ife and it gave you the im
pression that he must have been a
lonely child when he _was young.
Bach, Beethoven“, Schuman, were al l“
dear t o Char lie but sounded l ikenonsense t o us at the t ime. Char liehad an old violin that he would takeout of it s case every now
"
and thenand play for the kids around the
neighborhood. I t sounded terr ible theway he played. Seemed like noth ingbut screeches came out of the thing .
Perhaps it was because Char lie never
did find any use f or put t ing rosm on
the bow . Char lie Would place the
inst rument under his ch in and play,and w i th each st roke of the bow he
would sway like a profes sionalhis be ing in great ecstasy . H e cared
for the instrument as if“ were a
St rad ivar ius .Char l ie gathered boards and oddsbefore he had enough
‘
t o start on a
new” house for himself . I t t ookanother f ive year s to build ing and
close scrut iniz ing on the seacoastbefore he completed his “cast le” as
he called it . Out of the many odd
pieces , he fashioned a two-storyhouseJIt had a winding stairwaywhich was a novelty for the k idsaround the place. A s you climbedthe stairway, you could not helpbut become fascinated ' by the differcut types of wood that he had usedin building it . A l l pieces were f inicallyf ited, hand sanded then lacquered.
Y ou’d never dream that they merely
p ieces of scraps that he had salvagedfrom the beach .T ypical of any smal l community,people in Kaneohe knew everyonel s in the t own. Char lie was no ex
cept ion. The t own had an old-fashined
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t elephone syst em at the t ime and one
answered the phone according t o how
many t imes it rang. Our s ignal wastwo long, and one shor t r ings . A l so,
l ike their communit ies this sizeeverybody h ad a lot of fun
“ l isteningin on _other people’ s conversat ionsover
“the t elephone. Anyt ime therewas something excit ing, everyonewould soon know about it . E veryt ime
there was any scandal in the lit t leg ,
t own,everybody would relay this bit
of juicy gossip t o his neighbor t hroughthe
“t elephonevine.
” Never theless,t his t elephone system had it s mer i t s .
—0 0 .0 :OOo
DEEPWATER
A young man in his earl y teens sat’
musing on the banks of a greatriver. A priest chanched to pass and the young man said to him:
" Father,w hat shall I_do to have succes s?The priest answered,
”
Fo l low me, and he waded into the s tream.
The water grew deeper and deeper, bUi the priest led '
on. The boy
fo l lowed unt i l the water reached his ch in. As he turned to go back , thepriest se ized him by the hai r and he ld him under theWater. The
“
lad strugg led and fough t w i th all his st rengt h and f inal l y , w hen it seemed he woulddrown, he b roke away and made his way to shore .
After the lad had ceased gasp ing, the priest s‘
aid'
to him: Young man,
w hat did youwant most w h i le you were he ld under water?”
“A ir, air!
”the boy rep l ied .
Then the priest said,
"
My son,w hen you des i re success as much , and
are w i l l ing to f igh t for it as hard as you fought for air, noth ing can keepyou from gett ing it . Author Unknown
Whenever someone needed help , all
the people in the t own would rallyand go t o -
offer t hair aid. A lwaysamong the fir st would be Charlie.
Char lie worked for many year s ascaretaker for two kamaaina families ,Wilcoxes of Kaneohe. R eminiscencingevery -
once in awhile, I find myselfmusing about Char l ie and his whereabout s .“Moe L epo” the nickname given
Char lie, means one who doesn’t bathe.
Y ou see, Char lie was allergic towater .
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Selected -by John Bonner
BOT T L E U P T H E MOONL I GH TI sn’
t that a lovely moon?Wish that I could bot t le up themoonl ight ,
Then we’d have it all the t ime,
E'
v'
en on a rainy, rainy. n ight .
N ever'
saw'
somany stars,Wish that I . could bot t le up
'
the
stardust ,T hen we’
d have it rain or_shine,
Any t imewe held each other t ight , You W l ld “Whld.
Wfl d W 'l lfl cherry
(
Bot t le up the ev’ning breez
'
e,Sweet sweet .sweet sweet .wi ld cherry
With it s album of melodies . Someday, you ’ ll fall and I ’ ll catch ya,And that day , -cherry I ’l l , betcha you ’ l l
I’ll keep after you,
Bot t le up _acloud or two,
T o help the ev ’ning grow dark when I
kiss you .
W i sh I may and w i sh I m ight ,F ind away t o bot t le up the moonl ight .T hen we’d have it all the t ime,And my dreams would come t rue,I f I could share that moonlight bot t lew ith you .
My wild w i ld wi ld w i ld cherry.
W ild wild w i ld w i ld wi ld cherry(Wi ld cherry )L iving high and oh so merryI f only I could reach you cherry'
Oh what I ’d teach youW ild wild wild w i ld w ild cherry
,
'
Sweet'
sweet sweet sweet Wi ld cherry
Why ? why are you so cont rary ?Y ou know I need your k i s s in ’
St ill you _keep on
Sweet sweet sweet sweet w i ld .cherryY ou’
rewarm and tender
Y ou re full of f ire “
Gi nd you should be here in my arms
Won’t . you surrender -t o my des ire
TH E MAGI C TO U CH
Y ou’ve got the mag ic touch ,
I t makes me glow so much,I t cast s a spellI t r ings a bell,T he mag ic t ouch .Oh ,
'
when I feel your charm,
I t’s l ike a four alarm ,
You make me thr ill so much,Y ou
’ve got the magic touch,
H ere I go reel ing,
'
O h , oh I’m feeling the glow,
But where can I go from you ?I d idn ’
t know too much
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And then I felt your touch ,And now I learn I can return
TE ACH ME TON I GH T
D id you say ,“I’
ve got a lot to learn ? ”Well , don ’
t think I ’m trying not t o
learn,
Since this is the perfect spot t o learn,
T each me t onight .
S tar t ing with the of it ,
R ight down to the of it ,
H elp me solve the mys tery of it ,T each me t onight .
T he sky ’ s a blackboard high aboveyou,
I f a shoot ing s tar goes byI’ ll use that star to wr ite I love you,
A thousand t imes across the sky .One thing i sn ’
t very clear my love,Should the t eacher stand so near , my
-love,
_Graduat ion ’ s almos t here my love,T each me tonight
BE CAU SE OF Y O U
Because of you there’ s a song in my.hear t .
Because of you my romance had it s
star t .
Because of you the sun will shine,
I F 1 GAVE M Y H E AR T TO Y OU
— oOO:OOo
THE IDLE M IND
An id le mind is l i ke amach ine t hat's broken and ful l of rust . For w hen a_brain is idle, it
'
s onl y gathering dust .It
’
s l i ke a stagnant poo l t hat stands alone day after day, accumu lat ingf ilth and everyth ing that breeds decay .A mind t hat onl y s i ts and dreams w i thout the w i l l to work , is harmfu l to
l
aworld at large, and other minds that perk .So use your brain to best avai l and you w i l l sure l y f ind that you w i l l be
much happ ier and know real peace of mind.-Se lected
T he moon and s tar s will say you are
m ine.
F orever and never to par t .
I only live for your love and your k i ss .I t
’s paradise t o be near you like this .
Because of you my life i s now '
wor thwhile;
And I _can smile,Because of you .
I f I gave my hear t t o you,
W ill you handle it w i th care ?Will
'
you always treat me t ender lyAnd in ev
’ry way be fair ?
I f I g ive my hear t t o you,
W il l you give me al l your love ?W ill you swear that you ’ ll be t rue to
me
By the light that shines above ?And will you sigh w ith me when I
’m
sad,
Smile w i th me when I’m glad,
And always be as you are with me
t onightT hink it over and be sure,Please don’
t answer ’t il you do,
When you prom i se all these things tome
'
T hen I ’ ll give my hear t t o you.
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FUN AND OTHERW ISE
(Bi ts of humor clipped fr om exchanges and gathered fr omother publicat ions , wi th an occasional
'
or iginal funny-bone
t ickler added. )
E very morning f or year s , at aboutthe t elephone operat or in a
small M id-west ern t own received a
call from a man asking the exactt ime .
One day an Operat or summoned up
nerve enough t o ask him why the
regular ity .“I’m foreman of the Smithson Nut
Bolt works ,” he explained.
“E very
day“I have t o blow the whist le at
noon so I call you t o get the exactt ime.
T he operator glggled . T hat ’ s really funny,” she said.
“A ll this t ime
we’ve been set t ing
'
our clock by yourwhist le ! ”
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Mr,Binks was busily engaged with
a spade in the mud beside his car
When a st ranger haided him .
“Stuck in the mud ? ” he asked.
Oh , N o !”
exclaimed Mr . Binkscheer ily, “my engine died and
‘
I’m
digging a grave for it .
0 00 30 00Y ear s ago, when Barnie Pyle was
on the Washingt on News as a $30
a week copyreader , he tagged a st oryw ith the H eadline: Man Inher it sH uge F or tune of“Where do you get the idea thati s a huge for tune ? ” his ex
ecut ive edit or asked.
“I f you were earning the same
dough I am ,
” Barnie replied, you ’d
t hink so, t oo .
Mr s . Smythe was making finalarrangement s f or an elaborat e re
cept ion:“Nora,
”she said t o her vet
eran servant , “f or the'
f i-rst half-hourI want you t o stand at the drayyingroom door and cal l the guest s namesas they _ar r ive.
”
Nora’ s face lit up . T hank you,
ma’am”
she replied.
“I’ve been want
ing t o do that t o some of yourfr iends for the last 20 year s .”
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Pete was t elling about his exper é
iences in the army ._Dur ing Wor ld
War 1 1 in one of the CBI bases hiscaptain sent a young pr ivat e down
t o the r iver to get two bucket s ofwat er . T he pr ivat e returned shor t ly ,Without .t he wat er and t old the cap
tain that there was a large crocodilein the r iver and he was afraid to
get too near the creature.
T he captain " said he was being silly,that the crocodile was probably tw iceas scared of the soldier as t he soldierwas of it .
T he pr ivat e blinked and replied,S ir ,— if that crocodi le i s Just halfas scared as I am that wat er ’ s unfitt o dr ink . ”
0 00 30 00I sn’
t the human body a wonder
ful t hing ? We take powder s for
headaches , pills for our liver , syrupfor coughs , and all seem t o knowjust exact ly where t o go and get t o
work .
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DID YO U KNOW—Se lected '
T he Swis s perfect ed -the fir st one
man hand gun lat e in the 1 5th cen
tury . I t weighed 1 5 t o 50 pounds ,depending on how much wood was
used.
E lephant s in Sumatra somet imespu ll down t elephone wires , tangl
ing them up like spaghet t i as theyscrat ch their backs against the poles .A long the R io Grande valley, foss i l
oys t er s 30 inches in diameter havebeen found.
About 40 per cent of the ent ire sea
area of the wor ld i s compr i sed bythe basin of the Pacific Ocean . T he
A t lant ic Ocean compr ises about 25
per cent .
T he smallest screws in a modern
watch have about 260 threads t o one
inch , and their weight i s only equalt o one two-thousandths of one ounce.
A package of solid plat inumthe
size of a pound block of but t er wouldweigh approximately 22 pounds .
A T ibetan greet s one of higher posit ion w it h prot rucing tongue and
hissing intake of breath,
When the t err itory of Oregon was
es tablished in 1 848 , it embraced the
present s tate of O regon , VVashing
t on, I daho and par t s of Montana and
Wyom ing.
Bulk tanks f or hauling milk t o
processing farms have replaced mi lkcans on at least dairy farmsin the U nited S tat es .Water of the r 1ver Ni le in E gypt
was fir s t used f or irr igat ion about
More people are sent to federalpent it ent iar ies through v iolat ion of
immigrat ion laws than through in
f r ingement of any other single law .
T hroughout the year the harbor sof Nor thern Norway, well above the
A r t ie Circle, are ice free because of
the warming nor thward dr ift of the
Gulf S t ream .
Vanadium , an impor tant par t of
s t eel used in armor plat e, was dis
covered by Andres Manuel D el R io in1 80 1 .
Man’ s t roubles are due t o threethings : Women
, Money, and Both .T he Amer ican Golden-eye duck i s
commonly known as the whist ler becau se of the sound made by it s wingsdur ing flight ,
T he Quir inal was one of the sevenhills of R ome, sit e of a palace.
T he rocks of t he palisades alongthe H udson R iver , are said by geologist s t o be 1 50 m illion year s old.
T he annual U . S . income tax col
lect ed from Nevada figures out t o
about $500 a square mile.
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FARM AND TRADE HONO R ROLL
AUGUST
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John BurnsE . J . JohnsonL awrence E vansF loyd D et terD ouglas PooleSher idan BeckR ober t BarnesS E WI N G R OOMNoel Pat ter son“
CARPE N TE R SH OP
F rank H elmsJohn H ensleyPaul D ockeryBobby MungerNorr is JohnsonH oward McGrady
PR I N T SH OP
R ober t W illardJames ConradBobby BirdJer ry
_Garren
Wilbur H allF red KingBuck Cow ickD ouglas JonesPO U L TR Y F OR CE
D onald Wood
John McGrady
R oy F ergusonJohn R ichardson
SCHOOL HONOR ROLL
F I R ST GRAD EWarren Car ter
Marvin GwynR ober t McL amb
R ex BellJohn F . L ee
H arvey H udsonD onald Wood
Cleon MasonSE COND GRADEF loyd D et t er
F rank H elm sRalph
”
N orman
Bob-by Ander sT H I RD GRAD E
E ddie BurnsD onald BraswellCar l -Cal lSandy CanadyR oy F ergusonF rank McGrady
W i lliam Out lawWesley Pendlet onNoel Pat ter sonH omer RidingsL eon T immonsPau l W illard
F OU RT H GRAD EE ar l MorganMar t in E lli son
COTTAGECOT TAGE NO . 1
David Adam's
L ee O ldhamBuddy McL aur in
F I F T H GRADE
S IXTH,GRAD E
T ommy L amber tJohnny RheaF rankie Suit sSEVE N T H GRADE
Maxie T ealR ober t W illard
Gilber t Keet ch
N o H onor Roll
HONOR ROLLCar l CallArchie Medford
Goldman Cheat hamCar l T aylorC larence BatyPaul D ockeryChar les Ander sonD onald T hornburgH arry Neal “Mar shall Jones
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No. I O O CTO BER, I 9S6 Vol. 44
”Lives of great men all rem ind us We can make our lives sublime .
Published Monthly By T he Jackson T raining School, Concord N . C .
A M’
ONT'
HLY JONRNAL
The au t hor ity of t he Stonevg‘
r
all JackspnManual Training and Indust rial SchoolType-set t ing hy__the Boys
’Print ing C lass .
Subscript ion Two Dol lars theYear, in AdvanceAct of March 3, 1 897. Acceptance for mail ing a special rate
STAFF
J . Frank Scot tSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
Mrs . Wanda Ho l brookM rs. Agnes YarbroughAs sociate Edi torsJames H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPORTERS
Robert W i l lardJames ConradW i l bur HallFred K ing
LINOTYPE O PERATO RS
RobertWi l lardJames ConradW i l bur Hall
CO NTENTS
E D I T OR I AL
F I GHT F OR STAT E T RAINING SCH OOLR E CAL L E D
By A . L . But ler
I D E A BORN IN COU RT ROOM BE COME SF ACT
By Bob Slough 1 0— 1 4
CAMPU S ACT IVIT I E S 1 5— 1 7
BOY S AT T E ND ANNU AL F AI R
By Rober t Wil lard and F red King 1 8
SU NDAY SE RVI CE SBy W ilbur H all 20 —23
F ARM AND T RADE NEWSBy Byrd
, Cow ick, and Rud i sill 23— 24
ANGL ING T IPS 25—26
BI RT H DAY S
H ONOR R OL L S 28— 31
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a new spaperman, attended a ses s ion of court and heard a thi rteen yearo ld boy sentenced to three years under the State Pri son System for the theftof a pal t ry sum of money from h i s foster parent s . F i red w i th a sense of
m i scarriage of just ice, M r. Cook began a campaign that was to enl i stsupporters from all over the s tate and that was not to end unt i l l the schoo lopened its doors to rece ive such youngsters in 1 909 .
Not onl y was it necessary forM r. Cook , the K ing’ s Daugh ters , and othersto conv ince the pub l ic, but t hey also had to conv ince the StateLegi s laturethat such a State supported schoo l was a necess i ty . Nort h Caro l ina, nevera rich state, was at that t ime in poor pos it ion to f inance such an under
tak ing. Just recovering from the Reconst ruct ion period, her resources werel imi ted . However, it is much to the favor of her cit izens t hat f i rst th ingswere put f irst and the legis lature of I 9O7 pas sed the b i l l estab l i sh ing thetraining schoo l in the state.
A f i rst hand account of the f igh t for the passage of th i s b i l l in the legi slature
'
of I 9O7 i s printed e l sew here in th i s i s sue . Thi s art icle, w ri tten byMr. A . L. But ler, one of North Caro l ina’ s outstand ing ci t izens , was at thatt ime a page boy in the State Legi s lature . From his eye w i tnes s account thedrama of the day l ives again.
A member of the legis lature body of I 9O7 , M r. Rando l p h Preston, hasrecent l y renewed his contacts w i t h the schoo l . H is interest and act ive partin the strugg le for the pas sage of the b i l l estab l i s h ing the schoo l is al socovered in M r. But ler’ s art icle . M r. Preston, who is married to the granddaugh ter of ”
Stonewal l Jackson now res ides inWash ington, D . C . and to
him we owe a debt of grat i tude for his cont inued interest in our schoo l .He has been ab le to prov ide us w i th many h i storical facts about the schoo lwh ich would ot herw i se have escaped our attent ion.
A look at North Caro l ina’ s Correct ional System today w ill show a totalof f ive Training Schoo l s located in various sect ions of the state; two forw h i te boys , one for wh i te gi rl s , one for Negro boys , and one for Negro
gi rl s . The fact t hat North Caro l ina has progressed rap id l y in th i s respectis ev idenced by these schoo l s , who s ince I 943 have been co-ord inatedunder one central board. Today our state is in a pos i t ion to offer rehabilitat ion and a new set of ideas to youngsters who f i fty years ago were
doomed to the st igma of' pri son, in an adul t env i roment .
Fee l ing that few of our readers know the real h i story of .the schoo l , we
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are devot ing t h i s i s sue of THE UPLIFT to a look at the past . We are proudto reprint art ic les w h ich have appeared in some of the State
's lead ingnew spapers recent ly on t h i s subiect , to g ive the readers an account of the
actual facts lead ing to the estab l i shment of the Stonew al l Jackson TrainingSchoo l , the o ldest and largest of the State ’ s f ive Correct ional Schoo l s .
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F IGHT FOR STATE TRA IN ING SCHOOL
RECALLEDBy A . L . But ler
E d i tor Note : (T he follow ing art icle concerns the beg inn ings of the JacksonT raining School , an impor tant inst itut ion in the l ife of Nor th Carol ina. I t
was wr it t en by A . L . But ler , who is now Chairman of the Board of the
Chatham Manufactur ing Company and who was a Page in the leg i slaturewhich establ i shed the T raining School . Th i s ar t icle f ir st appeared in “TheNew s and Observer , Rale igh, N . C .
Randolph PrestonT here recent ly appeared in the
U plift ,” the publicat ion of the Jackson T raining School of Concord, an
interest ing account of the ded icat ionof a plague to that noble humanitar
ian, the late James P. Cook, who gavethe last year s of h i s life to the de
velopment of the Jackson T rain ingSchooL
T h i s brought back to me the mem
ory of the days when I was a page inthe L egislature of 1 907, wh ich passed the bill establishing th i s greatinst itut ion .
W ith the except ion of Judge Ran
dolph Preston, who lives in Wash ingt on, I am probably one of the few
who remember s dist inct ly this dramat ic contest in the L eg i slature,which cont inued unt i l the clos ing daysof the session .
I have conferred w i th Judge Prest on and he confirm s the correctnessof the fact s here stated.
M r . Bob Slough , in the“U plift ” of
F ebruary 1 956, g ives a good account
of the ear ly history of the ReformSchool movement in Nor th Carol ina,under the heading “I dea Born in a
Court R oom” which i s also d i scussedin a pamphlet ent i t led the
“H i story
of the Jackson School” by one of the
learned super intendent s , S . G . H aw
field.
T hese can be obtained by writ ingt o the present super intendent
,H on.
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appeared at the meet ings of the Senate to consider the R edwine bill, butat those of the H ouse on the Prestonbill , denouncing them both as a Pan
dora’ s box of t roubles for the large
tax payer s .I t became evident t o both Senat or
R edwine and Mr . Preston that boththeir b i lls would be defeat ed unless adifferent cour se was pur sued and t hatr ight quickly .One of the most popular and in
f luent ial member s of the H ouse wasthe late Col . W . P . Wood of Randolphcounty, a Confederate soldier , whowas t hought t o be favorable to the
R eformat ory bills , though not com
m it t ed.
T here were three or four other Confederat e s oldier s in the H ouse, whowere opposed t o the bills and accord
ing t o Mr . Prest on ’ s card index of themember ship , it could not pass W i thout their suppor t .
T he member s of both houses whowere in favor of the R eform Schoolmovement , held several conf erences ,and it was decided that Mr . Prestonshould draw a subst itute b i ll combining the features of both the R edwineand Preston bills and '
ask Col . Wood
t o int roduce it in the H ouse, wh ichhe agreed to do.
I t was at this stage of the closeand bit ter contest t hat H on. I saacAvery of the famous Burke countyfamily of that name, made a suggestion
, which probably t urned the t ide.
M r s . Stonewall Jackson of CharI ot te, had at this t ime respectfullydeclined a pension of per yearf or her life and in her let t er t o the
L egislature expressed the hope thatthe pens ion money be given t o some
Name D id I t
char i table cause.
M r . Avery said that if the Reformat ory were called] the
“StonewallJackson T raining School”, all the Confederates and other admirer s of General Jackson would vote f or it and
it would pass .
Preston inser t ed Jackson ’ s name
in the Wood subst itute and it passedthe H ouse by about four votes
, carrying an appropr iat ion of a yearf or the maint enance of the school andby a narrow marg in,
passed the Senat e.
D ur ing the whole fight , the lat eJames P . Cook of Concord, who was
then a clerk ' t o one of the Senat e Commit t ees had been most act ive and helpful . Mr . Cook was probably the fir s tnew spaper edit or in the state t o ad
vocate the es tablishment of a reformat ory and it may be truthful ly saidthat he gave his life t o impr oving thecondit ion of the delinquent boys inNor th '
Carolina.
T here were several dramat ic incident s in t he cour se of this st ruggle.
T he one thing I remember best,i s
the cit izen ’ s pet it ion,
cons i st ing of
hundreds of sheet s of paper signed bycit izens of the state favor ing a R e
f ormatory , past ed end t o end, t husmaking a r ibbon of paper long enoughto reach around both ai sles of the
H ouse when carr ied by other pagesand myself, as was done several t imesand great ly impressed the members .T h i s pet i t ion was prepared under
the leader sh ip of that lovely Chr i stian lady, the late Miss Dai sy D enson,
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State Board
son T rain ingd just a fewand Gover
leted the ap
of T rustees,ong the num
Preston were3 offered himisted that he.on felt con
se of h i s conh Mrs . Jacked t o aid h i sa remained inas cons iderednally decidedabt t o the in
had alreadyrt of h i s t ime
fur ther fact[I proposed t ote.
School firs tlary 1 2, 1 909,ildings and a
ad been sen
t .
in_s1 ze and
a t t ime. T he
iper t ies i s ai llion dollar s .1 955 is $349,buildings , 1 4the boys live.
rhe care of a
res ident husband and w ife, who makethe lives -oi the inmates as homel ikeand interest ing as possible.
The school,
now owns 948 acres ofland, 71 1 being under cult ivat ion bythe boys , Who by the prov i s ions of
the law, Work half a day and go to
school the other half . T he crops rai sedare wheat , corn, bar ley, oat s , cot ton,
alfalfa and lespedeza, and great a
mounts of all kinds of vegetables .The dairy herd cons is t s of 42 regis
tered H olstein cat t le and the beefherd cons i st of 1 25 H ereford cat t le.
T here are 1 50 head of registered Berkshire hogs and a poult ry flock of
7 hens .T here are at present 62 per sons on
the staff,nine of them being teacher s
in the academ ic, public school branches and a number of other s work w ithand inst ruct the boys in indust r ialand manual t rain ing on the farm .
The inmat es are sentenced to the
school by the Judges of the .Super iorCourt for an indefin i t e t erm and the
t ime of their release depends pr imari ly upon the individual ’ s record and
character while so confined.
Over boys have been sent t othe Jackson T rain ing School since itwas star t ed and by est imat ion onlyabout 1 0
_percent have again been in
t rouble with the cour t s .A. very large propor t ion have made
good cit izens , becoming banker s , lawyear s , doct or s , busines s men and m inisters
,and hundreds have made good
soldier s .—OOo :oOO
ber away back yonder w hen a student wou ld bet for '
gefi ing married.
TO THE-
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IDEA BO RN IN COURTROOM
BECOMES FACTBl ob Slough
E d i tor Not e : (T he follow ing ar t icle i s being repr inted in connect ion w ith thehistory in the establishment of t he Jackson T raining School . T he ar t icle waswr it ten by Bob Slough , Concord T r ibune Staff Wr iter and appeared in the
F ebruary 1 956
T he 1 3-year -old boy stood before a
Cabarrus County Super ior Cour t judget o hear sentence pronounced.
H e'
had st olen and he faced up
t o society f or the cr ime.
T he youth had lived in a two room
log cabin t hat served the purposes of ahome f or a family of three. T he househad one chimney
,one f ire-place, no
st ove for cooking . What light ent ered
t he home had t o come through a shutt ered window .
But the youth was t o lose even this .T he deat h of both parent s just aft er
he had pas-sed t hir teen year s of age
left the boy an orphan. H e had no
means of suppor t , no one t o take care
of him .
H e was given a home with dis tantr elat ives Whose manner of l iving wasunlike that of his parent s . The boy wasin another wor ld he had never beforeknown.
One Sunday aft ernoon,while the
family was away at church , t he youthwas left home t o guard the cow s , t okeep them from wander ing int o the
wheat field . I t was on this day t hat hewent into the house and tookfrom a bureau ‘ drawer . A warrent
followed .and the youth was placed inthe county jail by the high sher iff .
T he judge looked down upon the
youth from his bench and sentencedhim to a county “chain gang f or threeyear s and six months
, at hard labor .
”
T hat was jus t ice for a wayward youthin 1 890 .
T he sentencing of that youth in
Cabarrus County was eventually to
lead to the es tablishment of refor
mat ory for youths of the ent ire stat e,
amovement that gathered the suppor tof even the
'
governor of t he s tate.
A Concord newspaper man was in
the cour t room the day the youth wassent enced. T he late J . P . Cook sat in
the cour troom and saw the youth taken away t o have chains and locksplaced around his ankles . And he saw
the need for an inst itut ion for youths .In the columns of the
“Concord
S tandard” Mr . Cook advocated the
es tablishment of reformatory . H e t oldof the t r ial of the youth and the en
vironment .
Subject of a reformat ory was presented in a number of Nor th Carolinanew spaper s “T he R aleigh News andObserver ,” Monroe Journal ,” and
the“A sheville C it izen .
Beginning in 1 891 , and at var ioust imes aft er that , different governor sof Nor th Carol ina began t o lend their
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support to the move to establ ish a
r eformatory f or boys .Governor Dan iel G . F owle told thelegi slature in 1 891 ,
“The demand f ora Reformatory Depar tment for youngconv ict s i s becoming very great . One
of the most dist ingu i shed jur i st saidto me
,that when he was on the Su
preme Bench the hardest duty he hadt o perform was t o sentence boys andgi r ls to the pen i tent iary .”In 1 895, Governor T homas M . H olt
told the General As sembly, “In the
report of the Nor th Carolina penitent iary for the b iennial term endingNovember 30 , 1 890, no less than 362
convict s under it s cont rol aresaid t o
be les s than twenty year s of age and
56 under 1 5 . F our under 1 5 are now
in the Wake (county ) jai l, and manymore at it s work-house.
”
Governor Charl es B . Aycock againbrought the need of a reformatorybefore the legis lature in 1 903 and 1 905 .
T he bienn ial message of GovernorR . B . Glenn to the general assemblyin 1 907 contained the follow ing“Y outhful cr im inals should not be
confined with old and vic ious offender s
,f or such as sociat ion hardens their
natures and_lessens the chances of
ever reclaiming them . I wi ll therefore,throw no obstacle in the way of es
tablishing some kind of a reformatoryf or young offender s and the stat e can
now afford it .
”
Apparent ly, the _State found it
could afford the school . T he act es
tabl ishing the,Stonewall “
T rainingSchool was passed by the General A s
sembly of Nor th Carol ina on March 2 ,1 907 . F rom that t ime on the movement
f or a reformat ory or train ing schoolhad off icial sanct ion of the legis lat ivedepar tment of the state government .
A lthough the move t o establish a
reformatory in the“ state had been
underway for 1 5 year s there st ill wasoppos i t ion to the proposal when it
hit the floor of the General A s sembly .Some member s of the leg i slature
argued that the bill int roduced byCol . W . Penn Wood of RandolphCounty would requ ire the tax moneyof the state for operat ion and maintenance. O ther member s argued thatthe State already had publ ic schoolswh ich the children had the priv i legeof at tend ing.
Oppos i t ion became so strong thatt hose who favored the reformatoryand pas sage of the bill began to fearit would be lost if someth ing were notdone. Confederate sold ier s came to
rescue the bill .T here were several Confederatesoldier s in the general assembly at
the t ime. I t was suggest ed to Cookthat if the school were named Stonewall Jackson Manual T raining and
Indus tr ial School the bill might pass .A hurr ied call of sponsor s of the b i llwas made, the name adopted, and theact creat ing the school passed.
In'
the beginning the school facedmany difficult ies and hard-ships . T heinit ial appropr iat ion of by theGeneral A ssembly proved too inade
quate to meet the needs .A t emporary organ izat ion was
formed at the fir s t meet ing of the
board of t rust ees held in the SenateChamber at R ale igh , Sept . 3 , 1 907.
T he meet ing had been called by Gov.
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R . B . Glenn who impressed on the
board that it was under taking an im
por tant task, w ith difficult obstacles .”A t this meet ing a temporary organ izat ion was formed with the follow ingoff icer s : J . P . Cook, chairman ; D r .
H . A . R oyster , secretary ; and CaesarCone, t reasurer . A t a later meet ingin Greensboro the temporary com
mit tee was made permanent .
The new board adver t ised for bidsfor the site of the new school , butfound that pr ices asked for the dif
ferent sites were almost equ ivalentt o the init ial appropr iat ion . T he
board then agreed that the site for
the school would have t o be a dona
t ion.
I t was at this t ime that the cit izensof Concord became deeply int erest edin the project . T hey had read J . P .
Cook ’ s scathing editor ial s dur ing the
past-
1 5 year s and they were ready t oact .
A meet ing was held in City H al lin Oct ober of 1 907 and those at tend
ing the meet ing decided t o launch a
campaign t o raise In severaldays the campaign goal was reached.
W i th this money a farm of near ly300 acres was purchased three m ilessouthwest of Concord on the Southern Railroad. I n November
, 1 907, the
E xecut ive Comm it t ee of the boardnamed Profes sor Walter T homps onsuper int endent of the school . A t thet ime T hompson was in charge of Con
cord school s .In the spr ing of 1 908 it was de
cided that two cot tages would be e
rect ed at the new site. Member s of
t he board agreed that the school couldnot operat e with less than two cot
tages .One cot tage was completed by
Chr istmas , 1 908, and the other one
was near ing complet ion at the t ime.
A ll avai lable funds were used in the
erect ion of the buildings and no mon
ey was left for furn i ture and equipment .
When it became ev ident that ad
dit ional funds would be needed wo
men of Concord assumed the respon
sibility of secur ing the funds .Mrs . J . P . Cook v i sited the fum i
ture factor ies at Thomasv i lle and
H igh Po int where she secured the do
nat ions of necessary furn i ture for one
cot tage. I n Salisbury she securedtable linens and other necess i t ies .C lubs in Concord took up the dr ive
t o secure funds and equipment so thatby Jan. 1 2 , 1 909 the inst i tut ion was
ready t o open it s door s .Since that t ime the inst itut ion has
cont inued to grow steadily . F acilit iesnow include admini st rat ion building,
1 7 cot tage buildings , t rade t rainingand ins t itut ional serv ice buildings ,educat ion and religious t rainingbuilding,
recreat ional buildings , healthservice building, farm buildings f orhous ing farm animal s, and farm and
pasture lands .In addit ion the school operates it s
own bakery,shoe repair shop, barber
shop , cannery, carpent er shop , pr intshop , sewing room and t ext ile depar tment .
T he work of the academ ic depar tment
,of cour se, occupies the posit ion
of fir st impor tance among the otheract ivit ies in the school . So far as pos
sible, the youths are placed in the
1 4 THE
same grade they were when they cam-e
t o the school .J . F rank Scot t is present superin_
t endent _of the school . H e became exe
cut ive of the t rain ing school follow;ing the t enure of S Glenn
'
H awfield.
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F ormer super int endent s of -the
school,include Walter R . T hompson
(1 907 .Carles E . _Boger , (1 91 3
8.Glenn H awf ieldl Sr . , (1 942
J . F rank Scot t , (1 948
-fi — 0,
'
Oo:0 0'
O
AUTUMN
When the fros t is on the punk in and the fodder's in the shock,And you hear the kyouck and gobb le of the struttin
’
turkey-cock,And the clackin
’
of the guineys, and the cluckin’
of the hens ,And the rooster’ s hallyhooyer as he t iptoes on the fence;0 , it
'
s t hen the t ime a te l ler is a-te'
e l in’
at his best ,W i th the risin
'
sun to . greet him from a nigh t of peaceful rest ,As he leaves the house,
bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock ,When the frost 15 on the punk in and the fodder’ s in the shock .
—JamesWh i tcomb Ri ley
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as lemonade and cook ies . We stayedup a l i t t le longer watching T . V .
—Buck Cow ick
Party for Cot tage 1 5 Boys .
On Tuesday even ing September 25,there were nine boys in Cot tage 1 5
who observed t heir birthdays . The
boys are as follows : Bil-ly Broyles,
Mar shall Jones , W i lliam Out law, PaulPerk ins, T homas Morrow
,Ralph
Pru i t t , Jun ions R ivenbark, John St i
net te, and James Y oung.
In the par ty room our tables wereover laid w i th a wh i te cloth . In the
cent er of the tables was a very beaut ifully decorated bir thday cake w i thgreen candles on both sides of it .Before the boys sat down we sang
the “H appy B ir thday song to the
honored boys . We then unwrapped our
g ift s and we had some very n ice g ift s .We played b ingo for about 30 minutesand the pr izes were composed of can
dy and gum . D el ic ious refreshment swere served.
We had a very n ice par ty and wewant t o thank M rs . Peck and everyone else who had a part in mak ingour par ty a success .
Bobby Wheeler James Y oung
CALVE S W I N.
R IBBONS AT snowsAbout two months ago we began t oselect calves from the herd here at
the school t o show at the Jun iorD airyman Cat t le Show held in Statesv i lle, Nor th Carol ina on Sept . 8 . Two
calves were selected and were s ingledout f or special t reatment from thenunt il show t ime.
E ach day the calves would be groom
Aecordin-g to the record in the
office of the super int endent , 44 boyswere admit ted to the school duringthe months of August and September ,while 24 boys were released. The
boys adm i t ted dur ing August were:
ed and spec ially fed to make certain
t hat they would be in the best con
d i t ion poss ible f or showing at the fair .
We washed them almost every dayin order to make their coat s glossyand sh iny . A l so we began learninghow t o make them walk and s tand.
Mr . Auten, Mar shal l Jones , and
James Y oung left the school with thecalves on September 7. I t was neces
sary for us to f ind the stalls for our
calves and feed them. Car ing for themin the large barn where t here weremany other calves and boys and g ir lsshow ing them was fun.
F inally it came t imefor us t o showthe calves . We walked them into a
r ing in a clockw i se c ircle. When we
stopped them we made sure that al l
four feet were underneath the bodiesof the calves .
‘
Our effor t and t ime was
rewarded with w inning a purple rib.
bon for the Grand Champ ionship prizeand w i th winn ing a blue and whiter ibbon also.
We enjoyed the t r ip to Statesvi lleand spend ing the nigh-t t here. We
came back to the school, proud of our
r ibbons, and began look ing forwardt o taking the calves and other cat t leto the Cabarrus County F air a few
weeks later . A t the F a ir in Concord
we won two grand champ ionship ribbons , one senior championship r ibbonand twelve blue r ibbons .Mar shall Jones James Y oung
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O’N eal Cooke, W i lliam Jones , Jun ius
R ivenbark, (
Ray O-wens, Dav id . Rud is i ll, Sandy Bowman,
Char les Ma'
rk‘
:
ham, James Johnston, Wayne Craw
ley , James Jackson, James Barret te,Bobby Barret te, T homas -Pr iddy, B i llBradley, Keith Somerset , Billy H ayes ,W illiam Madron, D oug Billy, BobbyBauguess , Billy Panther , L yman Cates,George M'ather son, Danny Penning .
t on and Roland R oy .
T he boys released during Augustwere: R ober t Joyner , Jack ie L upton,Malcom Caroll, Bill Muse, D ean H ammer , O t i s Jacobs , James Gainey,T homas L amber t , E ar l Smit h, BobbyT odd, E ar l Greer , T roy Blackwel l,Johnny Gardner , and John Bonner .
Ooo:ooo
Trials, Tribulations of An Editor
Pub l i sh ing a smal l paper is no p icnic. lf we print jokes , peop le say we
are s i l l y; i f we don’
t they say we are too serious .I f we “
st ick close to the off ice all day, we ough t to be out hunt ing interest ing t h ings to wri te; i f we go out and t ry to hust le ; we ough t to beon the job at the off ice .
If we don’
t accept contri but ions , we don’
t appreciate genius ; i f we printthem, the paper is full of junk .I f we ed i t the other fe l low ’ s story we are too cri t ical , i f We don’
t we're
as leep. If we cl ip th ings from other papers , we’
re too lazy to w ri te them;i f we don't , we're stuck w i th our own stuff .Now l i ke as not , some guy w i l l say we sw i ped th i s from another paper
We did .—V ia ”
The Evergreen
The boys adm i t ted dur ing the monthof S eptember -were: Jame s Brewer ,Char les H orn, E dward
'
L ew i s , DannyE lli s , William Michels, R onnie D e
H ar t , E ugene Moore, Bobby E ver
har t , Danny Smith, Raymond Parr is ,Bobby Tucker , H arold Dav i s, Dav idD av i s , R obert Busbee, Jerry Parnell,L uther Parnell, F rank ie O sborne,L arry Smith , and H arold Padget t .
T he boys released dur ing themonthof Sept . were McK inley L ocust , D ickSaunder s H aywood L upton
,Buddy
McL aurin, H orace L owery, JamesMorgan, E dd ie L ocklear , Ralph N or
nam, James H ammons , and T ommyT ompson.
me”
.UPEIET
BOYS. ATTEND ANNUAL FA IR
By Rober t Wi llard and F redKingOn September 1 8 and 1 9 the boy ’ s
at J ackson lT raining‘S chool were
invited by the Cabarrus"
County F airA ssoc iat ion t o
.
at tend the AnnualF air in Concord. T h i s i s the four th“consecut ive year .that we havebeen invited. We went t o the F airin two groups . T he f ir st group whichleft on T uesday cons i sted of Cot
tages 1 , 2, 4, 5 , 6, 9 and 1 3 . The
second group left on Wednesday whichcons i sted of Cot tages 3, 7, 8 , 1 0, 1 1 ,1 4, 1 5, and the I nf irmary boys .We left the school around 1 p . m .
and arr ived at the F air Grounds atp . m . As we ent ered the gat e
we went into the E xhibit ion _ H all;Some of the things that the boy ’ swere most interested in were as
follows : T he F . F . A . , 4 H Club and
the Scout display by the Cabar rusCounty Boy Scout s . T he boy ’ s wereespecially interest ed in some of the
ent r ies by some of the boy ’ s at theschool . These were such '
things'
as
leather craft , “basket weav ing, insectcollect ion,
rock col lect ion, bird houses ,model-s
,map making,
leaf arrange
ment s , neckerchief slides , wood ex
hibit s , metal works and many otherint erest ing things on display . A lmostal l of these displays won blue r ib
bons . O ther things which amazed
There i s onlyone person more exasperat ing than a w i fe who can cookand won
’
t and that i s the w i fe who can'
t cook and w i l l .
the boy ’s were the T eletype“ wh ichwas br ing ing in
'
news from al l over
the world,and the guided m i ss le
wh ich was exhib i ted by the U . S .Army .Aft er leav ing the E xhib i t ion H all
we went t o see the livestock wherewe saw some fine breeds of an imals .Wewere happy to note that the Training S chool won the Grand Champion Beef Bull and Grand ChampionDairy Cow Contest as wel l as manyother blue r ibbons . We then went
through a building where we, saw
al l kinds of ch ickens and b irds .After tour ing the exh ib i t s the fun
bejgan. several of the r idessuch as the ferr i s wheel , tubs, t i lta-whir l, sky rocket s
,sw ings etc. T hen
we went into a side show where wesaw a man eat ing and handl ing f ire,a man swollowing swords , hypnot i smand many other act s that ‘were veryenjoyable.
I t " was get t ing pret ty late in_ the
evening when we start ed back t o thebus . We Were st opped . at a concession s tand and were given soft dr inks ,pop corn, snowball s etc.
All the , boys enjoyed the F air and
we w i sh t o thank everyone who madethi s t r ip possible f or us .
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SUNDAY SERVICES
T he v isi t ing m in i ster on September2nd
“
was Rev. Byron'N ifong from the
Kerr S t . Method i st Church in Concord.
R ev . N ifong chose h is scr ipturefrom the l st E p i st le of Peter : 6th“chapter , and spoke on the miraclesof Jcsus . ‘ T he m iracle of chr i st iancharacter i s the type of charactert hat i s needed in our wor ld t oday .When Peter wrote th i s let ter he
was doubt less an old man, and he
r evealed more than he though t abouthim-self . The things we do, the way weact and etc. , _reveal more about our
selves t han we think .Mr . N ifong t old a st ory about twobrother s who got int o an argument .
T hey kept on arguing unt i l one de
cided t o g ive the other a good bootin the s t omach . H is mother saw whathad happened and came t o see whatwas the t rouble. She asked the olderson why did he kick his brother ; andhe said it wasn ’
t his fault . H is mothersaid, “But I saw you deliberat ely kickhim in the s tomach . ” T he boy said,
.
“Y es , but he shouldn ’
t have turned
so suddenly . ” Of ‘
cour se we can get
boot ed around but let ’ s let it “be done
behind so maybe it w ill help ins teadof in front where it can be a lot more
dangerous . A misplaced word or kick
can get us into t rouble. When a fellowis put in a t ight place it ’ s not how he
act s but what he does that shows hischr i st ian character . All men can do
good for all mank ind, (under God) .
I f you l ive for and love God you ’re a
real man because it ’ s not easy to over
come the tr ials and temptat ions thatcome our way .
R ev . N ifong closed his serv ice w i th ashor t prayer .
T he speaker for the school on Sun
day , Sep tember 9th was the R ev. R . T .
Green, pastor of the Bapt i st M i ss ionary Church of Concord
,N . C .
R ev . Greene _chose 'his scr ipturereading from Mat thew
'
4 , 1 8 In
t his serv ice let us imagine a lit t le.
L et’ s go back almost years andstand w ith Jesus . H e was probablybig, rugged, and tough because he
spent a lot of his life on the seas .Jesus is on a mountain praying some
m i les away tell ing God about thisfisherman named Pet er . Before day
break he get s up and goes through thev illage we ’
re in. We ask him lot s ofquest ions but he t ells us he’ s on hisway t o see Pet er . We go on w i th himto the sea of Galilee where . Peter is
just coming in. Jesus then steps into
'
o shore. Peter probably said,L ord,
’m w icked, no good, and not wor thy'
0 be in thy presence. But Jesus put s.i is arm on Peter
’ s shoulder and asksaim to go with him and be fis her s ofnen . Af ter a l i t t le wh i le for some
~
eason unknown Peter got cold and
indifferent ; he qu i t church ; he startedsack t o his old ways ; but Jesus againwent up and t alked to God about him .
What he said no one knows but heprobably asked God if they shouldkeep t rying, and God probably an
swered, saying; “we’ re going t o makeaman ,out of him .
”After a lit t le while
he got cold and indif ferent again.
As you remember he denied Jesusthree t imes on the night of the crucifixion . H e remembered that Jesus hadt old him he would deny him so he got
st raight w ith God and his Son .
Rev . Greene closed by say ing ;E veryt ime we do something wrong
go back t o Jesus . Jesus w ill talk toGod with you .
” R ev . Greene then closed his service w ith a shor t prayer .
The v isit ing minist er f or the Sun
day of S ept ember 1 6th was the R ev .
R . E ar l Combs , pastor of the S t . An
we can star t wit h is 1
(3 ) Jesus als o increa.
We should be st rongmind but al so of body.calls us we can go the
of the wor ld and overcc
ly difficult ies as s ick]mals , and other hardshcounter along l ife’ s 1:Jesus grew in faver bman. We can grow tow
way we think, act , tallso in the conclusion,
four of these things inthe k ingdom of heaverR ev . Combs told us
which goes like this ; AMissis sippi r iver overffi
every year and the pet
to higher land. In thisstance there was a lit t '
a small rag doll whichand when the floods caso quick she didn ’
t -ha
her doll . Aft er the f
she came back every t
including her doll . Sheset over her los s buspot t ed her doll in a
but she had t o buy it
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could say ; “T he dol l 1 s m ine,” she heldit -close and sa id, “I made you, I . lostyou, and I bought you back.” T hisgoes to show that .God
_made us, hethen lost . us when we entered into the
devil ’ s -way and temptat ionsfi hebough tus - back w i th Jesus , his only begot tenSon.
Rev . Combs then closed h i s serv1cewith a short
-” prayer .
T he“ speaker on September : the
23 was M r'
J . W. a lay
man from the F irst Bapt i st Church inKannapoli s .Mr . H oneycut t i s also a represen
t at ive of the Gideon Organ izat ion forthis distr ict .
M r . H oneycut t chose his scriptureread ing from the 23 Psalm .
“T he L ord
i s my shepherd.
” H e i s the shepherdof al l people of al l t imes . Jesus came
and taught us to fol low him as the
sheep follow a shepherd.
“I shal l not
want , No matt er what the necessit iesof life may be God wil l provide f or
us . We can’t breathe, talk, or any
thing unles s he permit s us .
“H e re
st oreth our soul .” I f we live f or Jesuswe shall not per i sh but have ever
last ing life. N o mat ter what our sin,
H e can and will forgive us if we f orgive our enemies , if we with all our
hear t and soul and body go to Jesus ’way of life.
“H e preparest a table be
fore me in the presence of mine ene
mies .” H e doesn’t just b less us in the
presence of our fr iends and fellowChr i st ian worker s but also he said inthe presence of Our enem ies .M r . H oneycut t closed by saying that
the solut ion to every problem is in thehands of our God. T he only th ing we
have to do i s obey the 1 0 command
ment s and the golden rule. We havealso to go t o him in prayer and ask hisforgivenes s . And when we go to him
in prayer let ’ s don ’t be l ike the pub-6
lican but like the phar i see when he
said : L ord be mericful to me, a sin
ner .
”
T he spe-aker jf o
’
r Sunday, September30 .was R ev . E rnest "U pchurch, pastorof the Calvary Bapt i st Church in K annapol i s .R ev . U pchurch chose his scr ipture
reading from Act 1 3, 1—1 3 ; a par tof the first m i ssion-ary journey of
Barnabas and Paul . In th i s t here i sa man by the name of John Mark, hewas a Chr i st ian . H e had the respectof his elder Chr i st ians , he was heldin high esteem by all . H e was g iventasks that only a true Chr i st ian and
follower of God could do. One day
Paul and Barnabas met John Markand wanted him to accompany themon their journey to Ant ioch . A lthoughJohn Mark had the conf idence of the
Chr i st ians in Ant ioch he was playing the
'
role of a quit ter . When the
people needed him mos t and wanted
him most to go on, he fai led them . H e
want ed t o go back home to Jerusalem .
H e ut ter ly fai led in a moment whenthe people want ed him'
t o go on. L ikemany of us t oday, John Mark wasgiven another oppor tun i ty . Barnabasthought that John Mark could reallydo good so he was w i lling to Go out
on a limb for him .
”And as he thought
John Mark went on t o turn fai lure intosuccess with the help of Jesus Chr i st .
Aft er about 1 0 year s we hear of JohnMark again ; he was a wor ld renown
24 THE UPLIFT
ing green beans in just about everyday . Mr . Brown has had to get helpfrom the school sect ion just aboutevery day . Mr . Brown has had to
get help from the school sect ion t o
snap and str ing the bean-s beforethey are canned. The beans are canned
in one gallon cans. T hey wi l l tasterather good th is w inter when !no
fresh beans are avai lable.
T he t ract or force boys have beenplow ing and sowing the w int er grainand gather ing hay th i s month . Beforethe rain last week everyone on the
farm pit ched in and got most of the
newly cut hay in the barn before therain came. T he barns are now almostfull of hay .
Several of the t ractor s had t o un
der go major repair work dur ing themonth . T his was done at the local machine shop under the direct ion of Mr .
H inson . Some of the boys work ingon the t ractor force are : BobbyAnder s , Jimmy H oneycut t , John L ee,
Junior 0 xendine, T ruit t McCall , J .W . W ilkinson, Cardell oxendine, T omW illiam s and E rnest Johnson .
Mr . R eadling and the yard forceboys have been mow ing and cleaningup the yards around the campusthis month . They have also plant edsome pansies and kept flower s cut
f or the tables in the cafeter ia. T heyhave been taking care of the flowerbeds around the campus . T hey are
now gather ing up seed f or plant ingnext year . T he boys keep the shrubery
t r immed,
‘dur ing their spare t ime.
E very thing looks very nice.
0 00 0 0
You se ldom f ind inte l l igent chi ldren in any kind of s i l ly m i schief . The i rsi s apt to be ingenious .
T he pr int shop and the boys underthe direct ion of Mr . F urr have beenpret t y busy dur ing the mont h -
of
September . Pr int ing has cons istedmost ly of form work for one of the
S tat e Colleges , We have had severaljobs of two colors .
_
T his was new for
most of the boys, since most of our
work - i s in only one color . F or the
month of Sep tember , 32 jobs werecomposed and impress ionswere made on the presses . Some of
the pr inted forms were made intopads while some were perforat ed and
st itched .
T he.
boys working f or Mr . F urr
are : T ypeset ter s ; Wilbur H all , R obertW illard, and James Conrad; pressmen are : F red K ing,
Buck Cow ick,and Bobby Byrd. Several new boysare learning the trade, they are
Wayne Rud i sill, D ouglas Jones andW illiam Madron. T hese boys are
doing very good and should makethe grade of becoming a pr inter some
day .
ANGL ING T IPSBy H illesland
D id you ever become angry at
y our self f or los ing two or t hree bigfish in a r ow . Perhaps it isn ’
t yourfault at all . Next t ime you lose a big
one, take a lit t le t ime out t o look aty our hook . A lot of us put a hook ont o a leader and think that everythingi s ready t o go. H ooks are one of the
most impor tant it ems in a fellow ’ stackle box and deserve a lit t le care.
T here i s no bet t er pract ice than t o
examine your hook at frequent intervals to see t hat it has not been bentor broken. I t i s w ise to carry a smallcarborundum st one and an ignit ionpo int file, or any other stone the
Sport s dealer recommends,A few
seconds of sharpening the barb of
y our hook may br ing you a fullercreel . (NOT E ) T reat a hook with respect whet her it i s t ied t o the end of
your line or stored in your tacklebox . Indifferent t reatment has and
w ill cause many painful wounds andthe t erminat ion of fishing t r ips .H ow many t imes have you'
cast int oa patch of lily pads and ret r ieved yourhook wi th a fine mess of lily on it ?
T here’ s a cure f or that . I t may not
work every t ime, but it wil l cut “
down
on your “hooks picking up everythingbut a fish . On most of your plugs t oday , there are a ser ies of t reblehooks placed on the front and rear of
t he plugs . Remove the t reble hooksand replace them wi th a single hook .Y our chances of cat ching a fish arenot cut down any and the single hookwill not lodge it self in as manyweeds . A single hook will allow you
t o replace a fish to the wat er (if heis t oo small ) without tear ing his
mouth apart , wh ich you w i ll do witha t reble hook .Some of the old t imer s w i l l swear
to their dying day that a fish w illnot bite in the backwash of a boatpropeller
,T his is not t rue. I f any
t hing,it at tract s f i sh . In many cases
in A laska, the Indians use a doublet rolling r ig . T hat i s t o say , they letone line follow the boat in the pro
peller wash, and cast t o shore withanother line. On cast ing t o shore,you ret r ieve the line at slow paceand if possible, let it dr ift back int othe propeller wash . There are manycases where a fish will str ike at the
lure being ret r ieved but will hit theline that i s being t rolled. I havenever heard of it being used in the
stat es , but we’ve learned a lot from
the I ndians .I t is said that at high noon when
the sun i s the hot t est , al l the big fishtake to the bot tom of the deepestwat er t hey can find t o escape the
heat . T his again, i s a mi sconcept ionof fish habit s . The major ity of - t he
fish w ill head for the shore line t o
find shade and a deep“hole to wallowin. T he reason f or this is t hat if
they went t o deep water , they couldnot feed dur ing the hot per iod of
t he day . F ish feed at al l t imes dur ingthe day and the old belief that t heyfeed dur ing t he night only is not
t rue. While they are sit t ing in theirhole on the shore line, t hey can see
minnow s , bugs or any other smal l
26 THE UPL IFT
bai t float over the ir head. T hey popout of their ho les , get a b i te t o eat
and just go back t o their holes , t oenjoy the shade and wait for
.
the
next unexpect ing meal t o come a
long . So, if you are having a bad
day at fishing, t ry the shore line.
Cr icket s are considered one of the
most effect ive live bai t s there i saround. The m i stake many of us
make i s running the hook thru'
t heirbody . H ere i s a way t o fool the old
and_the wi se ones of the scaley clan .
F ir st cut a piece of cork an eighthof an inch thick into st r ips abouta quar ter of an inch wide and just
—O OO :OOO
Things Money Can’
t Buy
Money can't buy real friendsh i p- friendsh i p must be earned .
Money can’
t buy a c lear conscience—square deal ing is the price tag.
Money can’
t buy the glow of good heal th—right l iv ing i s the secret .Money can’
t buy happ ines s—happ iness is amental att i tude and one may
be as happy in a cottage as in a mansmn.
Money can’
t buy sunsets , songs of w i ld b i rds and the mus ic of the w indin the t rees—for these are as t ree as the air we breath .Money can" t buy inward peace—“
is the resu l t of a cons truct ive philosophy of l i fe.
Money can’
t buy character—character is w hat we are w hen alone w i thourse lves in the dark .
Scott i sh Ri te New s
long enough to cover the shank of
your hook . Y ou can w ire or cement
these st r ips t o the t op of the hook .Place the cr icket on top of the corkplatform
,T ake an ordinary straight
pin and star t on the bot tom of the
platform , pushing the pin throughthe cork int o the very end of the
cr icket . Be“ sure you do not pin him
in the m iddle or about the head, as
this will kill him . Place your line ‘
in
the water and let it float w ith thecurrent . T he cr icket w ill live for . f if
teen or twenty minut es and kick forall he i s wor th .
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FUN AND OTH ERWISE
(Bi ts of humor clipped fr om exchanges and gathered fromother publicat ions , wi th an occasional or iginal funny-bone
t ickle?" added . )
A lit t le boy , caught _in misch ief
by his mother , was asked, “H ow do
you expect t o get t o heaven ? ”T he lad thought a moment then re
plied : “Well , I’ll just run in and
out and in and out , and keep slamm ing the door unt il S t
,
‘
Peter says ,“F or heaven ’ s sake, Bobby, come in
or stay out !”
0 00 00‘I’.ve cured my husband of com ing
in lat e at night .
“H ow ? ”
When he comes in, I cal l t o him ,
I s t hat you, Bill ? ”“H ow does that cure him ? ”
My husband’ s name i s Jack0 00 00
Customer : Are you sure that stuffw ill grow hair ? ”Barber : “Am I
_sure ; do you see
this hair brush ? U nt il some of thishair grower got spilled on it lastweek, it was a ping-pong paddle.
”
0 00 00
Said the installment col lectorL ook hear , what do you mean ?
You ’ve never made a single payment
on your p iano.
”
Well , the company adver t ises : ‘Payas you
What has that got to do with it ?”I don
’t play .”
I
0 00 00
I used t o know -Mr . Sm ither s ,who was with your firm . I under
stand he i s a t r ied and t rust ed em
ployeé
T he banker looked . at his guestcoldly .“H e was t rust ed, yes ; and he wi ll
be t r ied, if we’re for tunat e enough t o
cat ch him,
”
0 00 00
A small boy said he was sure the
s tork brought his baby brother as
he heard his daddy complainingabout the bill , an he knew ' the storkhad a longer bill than other birds .
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Speak ing of being cold blooded,a local man t old us that h i s motherin law gave a sick man a p int of
blood for a t ransfus ion . When we
asked if the pat ient recovered, his
reply was, “N o. T he poor fellow frozet o death .”
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T hree small boys were braggmg
on their father s .“My dad, said the fir st , wr ites
out a f ew short lines , call s it a poem ,
sends it away andl
-get s f or it .
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Shucks ,” said the second, “My dadmakes some dot s on a piece of paper ,call s it a s ong, sends it away and
get s $25z-00 f or it . ”
Pikers,” said the third scornfully .My dad wr it es out a sermon on a
piece of paper , get s up in the pulpit_and reads it , and it takes four bigmen to br ing in the money .
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COTTAGE HONO R ROLL
CO T TAGE N O .
Car l CallT ommy T hompsonCOT TAGE N O .
F loyd D et terNoel Pat t er sonBuddy Par sonsCOTT AGE N O .
Sam A ldr idgeWayne E stesT ed L edbet terCalvin PeelerWayne RudisillClaude W illiamsCOTTAGE N0 .
Wayne H ead
James McL amb
But ch ParkerCOT TAGE N O;
Joe H ayesD alton L ewisJerry ManshackR ober t McL amb
D ouglas PoffJoel T aylorR oy T estermanR ichard WhisnantCOTTAGE N 0 :
D ouglas JamesJohn McGrady
John R ichardsonD onald Wood
COT TAGE N O .
Sher idan BeckT homas BradshawSandy Canady
SEPTEMBER
COT TAGE N O . 1 0
James McGee
Steve L unsfordJames Grooms
CO TTAGE N O . 8
Keneth BlackH oward H ardee
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COT TAGE N O .
R ichard WallNorman Sm ithF red KingW ill iam Gl i ssonD onald Byrum '
E ddie BurnsCOT TAGE N O . 1 3
Gene WestD ouglas PooleMarvin GwynD onald BraswellClarence BatyCO T TAGE N O .
D onald CookCOTTAGE N O .
T ommy W illiamsJ . W . W ilkinsCardell 0 xendineJohn L eeH arold Cow ickBuck CowickJohn BradshawCar l BaileyJames A rrwood
Bobby Ander s
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FARM AND TRADE HONOR ROLLSEPTEMBER
F ARMJackie T illeyJesse T aylorL eon Pr idgenJames SmithR ichard GraysonRoy T estermanH arold Cow ickA llen GrantJoe H ayesKeneth BlackH oward H ardee
Bruce H ard inR ober t CreelJames McL amb
T RACT OR F ORCE
J . W . W i lk insCardell 0 xendineCleadie oxend ineJ immy H oneycut tL oyd T homasJames Sm i thSandy BowmanWayne JenkinsJames 0 xendineArchie S imsJohn L eeT ommy W illiamsSt eve L ambertA rchie MedfordJames ArrowoodBobby Ander sJohnny Bradshaw
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COT T ON M I 'L LChar lie AndersonC laudes W illiamsWarren Car ter
E ar l MorganRex BellT ed L edbet ter
James M cL amb
PL ANT BE D SJohnny PostellF reddie L i t t lesH arvey H udsonW ill iam GlissonE dd ie BurnsD onald ByrumBARBE R SH OP
B i ll CoffeyMac F loweNamon Sheet sSH OE SH OP
D onald BraswellPOU L T R Y F OR CE
D ouglas JamesJohn McGrady
W i ll iam Ph i ll ipsD onald Wood
MACH INE SH OPCar l Cal lRonn ieRamseyKe it h Somer set tB i ll CarpenterPaul CullerMaxie T ealGoldman CheathamD av id AdamsME AT CU T T INGCar l Coll insClyde E dwardsBut ch ParkerJimmy SmithWayne H ead
CAF E T E R IA
D elmer Sheet sWarren SidesRay WebbBARN F OR CE
Bill F rolich
No . I I NOVEMBER, I 956 Vol. 44
THANKSG IV INGBY MRS . EDMOND SNOW-RANSOM
G ive thanks to God for this onequiet day
Each year, at end of harvest ,set aside
That all the people in this
Nat ionw ide
May, se lf forget t ing, homage to
H im pay .
May pause in grat itude to humblysay
DearGodw e thank Thee that Thoudidst prov ide
O ur daily bread . Thy hand didst
ever guide
And keep us in Thy gent le, lov ingway.
We thank Thee for the memory offlowers
Published Monthly ByThe Pr int ing Class of the Stonewall JacksonManual T raining and I ndut
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r ial SchoolConcord, Nor th Carol ina
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A MONTH LY JOUR NALPub l ished By
T he au thority of t he Stonewal l Jackson Manual T raining and Indust rial SchoolT ype-set t ing by the Boys
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Print ing C lass
Subscript ion: Two Dol lars t he Year, in AdvanceEntered as second-class mat ter December 4, 1 920, at t he Post Off ice at Concord, N . C . ,
underAct of March 3, 1 897 Acceptance for mail ing at a special rate.
J . Frank ScottSuperintendent
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
Mrs . Agnes YarbroughAssociate Ed i tor.James H . Furr
Print ing Instructor
STUDENT REPO RTERS
W i l bur Hal lRobert W i l lardJames ConradFred K ing
l lNO TYPE O PERATO RS
Robert -W i l lardW i l bur HallJames Conrad
CO NTENTS
D E D I CAT IONS 3— 1 3
B I R T H DAY PAR T I E SCAMPU S ACT IV I T I E SSU NDAY SE RV I CE SBy W i lbur H all —1 8
H AL L OWE E N CE L E BRAT I ONBy R ober t W illard and F red KingSPOR T SBy R ober t W illard 1 9—20
SCOU T S AT T E ND F OOT BAL L GAMEBy R obert W illardSE VE NT H GRAD E PR E SE NT S PL AYBy Jesse E nnis 2 1 4 22
KNOW Y OU R COU NT I E SF U N AN D OT H E RW I SEBI R T H DAY SSONGSSelect ed by D oug Jones
H ONOR R O L L S26—27
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rooms , canning, care and management of po'
ultry‘
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flock,'
t'
ruck. f-ar
proces s ing dai ry products .In the fo l low ing pages The Uplift is carry ing .the fu l l account of th is
ded icat ion program.
PROGRAM
Pres id ing“
C . A . D i l lonChai rman, Board of Correct ion and Training
Special Mus ic Gi rl s ’ Chorus
Prayer of Ded icat ion Bi shop No lan Br. Harmon
We lcome and Introduct ion of PlatformGuest s M i s s RevaM i tche l l
Superintendent
Samue l E. LeonardGreet ingsFormer Commi s s ioner of Correct ion
T . C . AumanIntroduct ion of SpeakerV ice Chai rman, Board of Co rrect ion and Training
Addres s Honorab le Luther H . HodgesGoveronr of Nort h Carolina
Acceptance of Bui ld ings '
Bl‘aine M . Mad i sonCommi s s ioner of Correct ion
Mus ical Bened ict ion Gi rl s ’ Chorus
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INTRO DUCTIO N
By C . A . D i l lon, Chai rman, Board of Correct ion and TrainingDuring my few moment s before you, on th i s very f ine occas ion, I shal lhave just one word in mind . I th ink you w i l l agree w i th me t hat we cou ldnot have before us
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a more important word for emphas i s . That one word
IS Peop le .
Th i s word in its importance stands above the inst i tut ion here, in w h ichwe are ever concerned, and above the new bui ld ings w h ich we are to
ded icate today . For back of the inst i tut ion were peop le of great hearts ,or e l se the inst i tut ion could not have been brought about ; in th i s Schoo lthere are people w i th great hearts who are serv ing w i se l y and effect ive lyas is leaders and teachers . And pass ing in and out of these bui ld ings areyoung g i rl s—people w hom God has created in h i s image, w i th immortalsou l s and m inds which can be inf l uenced and shaped for ci t izenship and
leadersh i p in future years .Somet ime ago , Edgar A . Guest w rote for the Chri st ian Herald a very
interest ing l i tt le pres s art icle, w i t h onl y four paragraph s , on the k inds ofpeople we have ever before us to love“
; and all grades of people he
properly emphas izes as important , and worthy of recogni t ion and appre
ciat ion. Now the th ing t hat makes that l i tt le art ic le ring clear i s the factthat Jesus Chri st f i rst demonst rated t rue love for all k inds of people ; forGod i s no respecter of persons .Not ice in part icu lar these few things that M r. Guest said in that art ic le ;
The sort of peop le Chri st loved are in all clas ses and wal ks of l i fe . In
one great respect thi s i s a d i fferent world from that w hich He came to
save back yonder. It has had the benef i t of H is teachings for nearl y'
two
thousand years , and some headw ay has been made against se lf i shness ,greed and arrogance . The th ings He came to teach have permeated the
human heart . The ideas He sough t to plant have taken root .
Now , my friends , we know that in America thi s i s t rue, and whetherwe are thinking of Church or State Inst i tut ions , it i s easy to real ize that
back of all, and inspi ring all, i s the Chri st himse l f ; and we know that all
the great ins t i tut ions of thi s count ry have orig inated and‘
grown by the
inspi rat ions of that match les s Lover of all people—Jesus , the humb le, per
fect Man of G al i lee , who was superb ly and forever concerned in do ingthe Father
's w i l l .
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So we are here today th ink ing of the peop le who made t h i s inst i tut ionposs i b le, and of those who have recent lymade poss ib le these new bui ldings here; and we are especial l y th inking of the young girls
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w ith unto ldposs i b i l i t ies , for whose training al l these bui ldings were conce ived anderected .
-Whatever'
we are do ing to he l p these girls '
to b los so'
m forth in-to rad iant ,Chri st ian personal i t ies , reminds me of w hat a l i tt le gi rl said to her mother,when that mother found -her in the ro se garden t ry ing to
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pu l l the t ight l yCl inging petal s of a rosebud open, so that it cou ld more quick l y* be seenas a fu l l -b lown rose . The mother as ked the ch i ld: “What a re you do ingmy immed iate l y the ch i ld responded: ”
I am he lping - God
to b loom H is roses . How soever w rong agains t nature and its gradualcourse the chi ld ’ s efforts may have been, we are bound to see the beautyof the purpose she had in mind . How wonderfu l the though t—"
He lpingGod to b loom H is roses .Yes, and how wonderfu l your wo rk here in he lping God to make of
t hese gi rl s what He has des igned that they should be !Every gi rl here has the D iv ine spark from God w i th in her. May God he l p
you to recognize it , and to have the courage and the pat ience to work tothe end of deve loping that spark into an eternal personal i ty of bri l l iance ,
to brigh ten the pathway of many t rave lers on the pi lgrimage to the EternalHome .
A PRAYER O F DED ICAT IO N
By Bi shop No lan B. Harmon
O , God, under whose sovere ign ru le the ch i ldren of men make law sand do governance, grant , we beseech Thee, that w hat we do here th i sday shall resound to Thy g lory and to the advantage of the State .
May the inst i tut ion now to be ded icated prove of h igh W 'offh toward
the strengthening of our ci t izenry and the bu i ld ing of the pub l ic order.
We pray also that th i s place may be a refuge rather than a p lace of
restraint for d i straugh t sou l s ; t hat w i th in its walls a saner sp i ri t and a
sounder mind may come upon t hose who ot herw i se have mi ssed the way .
May heal ing be w i th in its gates and peace w i th in these precincts . Mayt here be taugh t here , we pray Thee,
t h rough ded icated and sympathet icteachers , all needed lessons of l i fe , that fau l t s may be done away , and vir
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ADDRESS BY GOVERNO R LUTHER H . HO DGES
DED ICATIO N O F SCHO O L BU ILD INGSSTATE HOME AND INDUSTRIAL SCHO O L FO R G IRLS (SAMARCAND)
It is a p leasure to share in thi s ded icat ion program for the new academ icschoo l bu i ld ing and the new vocat ional schoo l bui ld ing here at Samarcand .
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These are Sp lend id new faci l i t ies and we are proud of t hem and_w hat
t hey mean to th i s schoo l and the g i rl s who are student s here . May I take
t h i s opportuni ty to expres s my appreciat ion to Chai rman C l yde D i l lon and
the membersh i p of the State Board of Correct ion and Training, Commiss ioner Blaine Mad i son, h i s s taff and as sociates , the superintendents ands taffs of ‘ the various inst i tut ions under th i s outs tand ing Board . Th i s wou ldnot be complete w i thout the ment ion al so of the name of Samue l Leonard,
former Comm i s s ioner who recent l y ret i red after 45 years of serv ice to theState of North Caro l ina.
I understand that the academ ic bui ld ing, w h ich i s the center of the edu
cat ional program at the schoo l , cons i sts of an off ice for the princi pal -ass i s tant superintendent , I I academic c lass rooms , the l ibrary w i th new furni shings and a co l lect ion of books and period ical s appropriate to the interestand ab i l i t ies of the students , and the aud i torium,
w i t h a seat ing capaci tyof 400 . The new vocat ional schoo l bui ld ing houses the crafts department ,the crafts d i splay room, the home economics department includ ing two
sew ing rooms and a three-k i tchen coo k ing laboratory, beauty cu l turec las sroom and laboratory, greenhouse and workshop.
To appreciate fu l ly the meaning of t h i s ded icat ion serv ice, it i s we l l totake a qu ick look at the h i story of the schoo l , see w here we are today andw hat there i s hoped for the future .
What we are w i tness ing here today actual ly reaches back to the year1 890 w hen a I S-Year-o ld boy was brough t before a Cabarrus CountySuperior Court Judge on a charge of s teal ing The boy was an or
phan who l ived in a prim i t ive two-room log cab in w i th d is tant re lat iveswho apparent ly cared l i t t le about him. For his crime, he was sentenced toa county chain gang for th ree years and six month s at hard labor. Thatwas just ice for a waywar‘
d youth t hen.
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Fortunate l y, there is more to the story . The sentencing of that yout hwas eventual l y to lead to the estab l i shment of our State Correct ion Inst itut ions . A Concord new spaperman, the late J . P. Cook , w i tnessed th i s trialand his heart sank w hen he saw thi s lad chained, shack led and led away tojai l as a common
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criminal. From h i s ed i torial effort s came State-w ide interest and support w h ich eventual l y led to the estab l i shment of the Stonewal lJackson Training Schoo l in Cabarrus County in _
1 907 . Here is a mov ingexamp le of what lust one man can do when he i s w i l l ing to f ight for whathe be l ieves to be righ t and iust . It always f inds support and others w howil l he lp him do something for thewe l fare and inspi rat ion of others .Th i s State Home and Indust rial Schoo l
_for Gi rl s was opened in 1 9 1 8 ,
the Morri son Training Schoo l for Negro Boys in 1 92 3 , the Eastern Caro l inaTraining Schoo l for Boys in 1 925 , and f inal l y the State TrainingS choo l forNegro Gi rl s in 1 944 . Each schoo l was estab l i shed by statute,f gover_nedby an ind iv idual board,and had no off icial connect ion w i th -the otherschoo l s . The North Caro l ina Board of Correct ion and Training did not come
into ex i stence unt i l 1 943 when it was aut horized by the General Assemb l yto operate all of the inst i tut ions for de l inquent ch i ldrenSamarcand was estab l i shed on the s i te of a former schoo l for boys wh ich
was closed during World War I. The State acqu i red the property, incl ud ingbu i ld ings , which were all of wooden const ruct ion, and cont inued to bu i ldin the same manner. In 1 943 , for example ,
there were seven huge dorm'
tories all of pine wood cons t ruct ion except one, Gardner Bui ld ing, whichwas f i reproof . Here was a program w h ich emphas ized homemaking, cooking, sew ing, canning, general housekeeping, as we l l as nurs ing and clas sroom work, phys ical recreat ion and sp i ri tual guidance .
An emergency arose in 1 946 when the dormi tories were inspected bythe State f i re marshal l and v i rtual ly condemned as a place for s leepingand hab i tat ion. Certain measures were taken to clean up the prem i ses ,employ a night watchman and operate the schoo l as
_normal ly as pos s ib le
unt i l better permanent improvements cou ld be made . The schoo l rece ivedfunds from the 1 947 and 1 949 General Assemb l y and the new campushere at Samarcand was underway . The p lans w h ich were ready in January1 950 included an admini st rat ion bui ld ing, a central cafeteria bu i ld ing,
cent ral heat w i th tunne led connect ions to bui ld ings, f ive dormi tories , a
vocat ional bui ld ing, cannery , sewerage and water systems , special farm
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bui ld ings and surfaced roadways . However, before b ids cou ld be cal ledand work started the Korean Conf l ict broke out and it became necessaryto change the plans
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rad ical l y to meet the tremendous l y increased bui ld ingcost . A new program was prepared iwhich cal led for three dorm i tories ,admini st rat ion bu i ld ing, cannery and refrigerat ion bui ld ing,
laundry bu i lding,
vocat ional bui ld ing, farm bu i ld ings and sewerage and water systems .It became neces sary to e l im inate central heat ing so that every bu i ld ing hadto be re—des igned for individual heat and every dormi tory had to have a
k i tchen and d ining room. To add to the prob lems , it was d i scovered t hatthe outs ide e lectrical d i st ri but ion system was not only inadequate but wasdangerous to l i fe and property . Th i s made necessary add it ional cost andrenovat ions . So it was that actual const ruct ion on the major re-bu i ld ing of
Samarcand was not begun unt i l about six years after the f i rst substant ialappropriat ion made by the General As semb l y .We see here today a new Samarcand w i th bui ld ings valued at more t han
land at approx imate l y ut i l i t ies represent ingequi pment at and l ivestock at not ment ioning farming
operat ions on 430 acres . Th i s includes a new staff house w h ich prov idesattract ive and comfortab le l iv ing quarters for teachers and staff members .There is a renovated chape l w h ich is now both beaut i fu l and worsh i pfu l .Samarcand was set up to deal w i th a special youth prob lem and it i s the
State's respons i b i l i ty to prov ide and maintain a program to meet t h i s
prob lem. We in State Government must do everyt h ing we can properl y doto so lve the prob lems represented by these young girls here and the youngboys at other locat ions . We must remember t hat these young people are
not mere case h i stories but individuals w i th migh ty big prob lems for so
young a mind and heart .There i s a communi ty and county respons i b i l i ty invo lved in our ent i reprob lem of juveni le de l inquency . Th i s invo lves juveni le court s , specialdetent ion faci l i t ies for ch i ldren in t roub le and all the special ized workw h ich i s neces sary for these prob lems . Do we in our communi t ies andcount ies fu l l y appreciate w hat many non-
pub l ic agencies can and do ac
compl i sh in youth programs w h ich help prevent de l inquency and giveyoung peop le from broken homes a new ins ight on the beaut ies and possibilit ies of l i fe?‘There are. character-bui ld ing agenaes such as Boy Scouts ,Gi rl Scouts , 4 -H C lubs , and Church Youth organizat ions that prov ide im
portant channe l s toward const ruct ive ci t izensh i p . We would be w i se as
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it is poss i b le t hat our juveni le prob lem s hould be cons idered w i t h our
w ho le jud icial system now al so under s tudy .O ur State
’ s greatest resource i s our young peop le . As parents , we mustmake every effort to prov ide them w i th a good home, decent env i ronmentand the love and attent ion they so just l y deserve . As c i t izens , we musturge our communi t ies , count ies and State to prov ide bas ic we l fare serv ices=
to meet the needs of ch i ldren and to of fer prevent ive serv ices w h ichw i l l work. Current l y the study i s look ing at budget reques ts from
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thi s ando ther correct ional ins t i tut ions . There i s need for special ized care for chi ldrenwho are not deve lop ing normally
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whether it be phys ical l y , mental l y , or
emot ional l y . We must make every effort to prepare our young people forthe respons i b i l i t ies wh ich lie ahead in a comp lex and tense world today .The prob lem of juveni le de l inquenc'y deserves our bes t thought , our bes tp lanning and our mos t v igorous act ion. The teachers and others connectedw i th our correct ional inst i tut ions are work ing hard to help our boys andgi rl s . Let's all do our share as parents , teachers , ci t izens and taxpayers .
ACCEPTANCE O F SCHO O L BU ILD INGSBy Blaine M . Mad i son, Comm i s s ioner of Correct ion and Training
There i s an o ld proverb w h ich says : A carpenter i s no better than h i stoo l s . That i s t rue also of a schoo l . A schoo l i s no better than the tools
w i th which it has to work . Today we add to the faci l i t ies of t h i s schoo ladd i t ional too l s w h ich w i l l he l p to increase its effect ivenes s in the educa
t ion and rehab i l i tat ion of the student s here .
O f course,the greatest resource of any schoo l i s its facu l ty the
teachers w ho guide the th ink ing and conduct of the s tudent s . I congratu latet hi s schoo l on its f ine staff and commend them to the board members andto the student s for the splend id work they are do ing.
A good s taff , however, must have good too l s good faci l i t ies . My hearti s f i l led '
w i th grat i tude and t hanksgiv ing today for t hese two new schoo lbui ld ings .I want to say thi s to the s tudents : These new bu i ld ings are be ing ded i
cated under A lmighty God, to serv ice for the students , to you students
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who are here now and to those who w i l l come after you. The State of
North Caro l ina, your own state, is prov id ing you w i th an opportuni ty hereto become better educated, and to learn the f ine art of l iv ing together
and of gett ing along one w i th another.
Th i s is a beaut i fu l ’schoo l , one of the love l iest schoo l s in the ent i restate . I ask you as student s to love it and to appreciate it . I ask you to take
care of it ; to take care of t hese new bu i ld ings ; to take care of all the
bui ld ings and equipment ; to take care of the sh rubs and the lawns andthe f lowers so that the schoo l may increase in beauty and its effect ivenes sfor the students . I chal lenge you as student s to do your share, to pul l _yourshare of the load,
in he lping thi s schoo l to cont inue to be a great bu lwarkof educat ion and t rain ing for those who need its care . Work and cooperate w i t h your teachers to the end that you may be a nob le and uprightci t izen of a great state .
And now , on behal f of the admini strat ion, the facul ty and the s tudents ,I p ledge to the Governor, The Board of Correct ion and Training and to the
peop le of North Carol ina, an industrious , construct ive and jud icious use of
these new schoo l bu i ld ings that all students who come here
W i l l become better educated,
W i l l be good ci t izens here,
W i l l return to the i r communi t ies as respectab le and law-ab id ingci t izens ,
And w i l l increase in w i sdom, and in stature and in favor w i thGod and man.
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B IRTHDAY PARTEES
COT TAGE N O . 1 H AS PART I E SOn Saturday night , October 6, the
boys of Cot tage N o. 1 had an OysterStew . All of the boys liked Oys t er sand at e as much as they w ant ed. One
of the boys made the r emark that hehad never eaten Oyst er s before, butther e was nothing that he liked bet t er .
We had soft dr inks to go wi th them .
We would like t o thank Mr . and
M r s . H inson for making th i s Oyst erS tew possible f or us .
On Wednesday night , October 1 1 ,
we had a bir thday par ty . T he par tywas given to the boys who had a
bir thday dur ing the last couple of
mont hs . When we went upstair s we
found that the tables were filledmany good things to eat . We t ook ourplaces at the tables and Keith Somer
set t asked the blessing. After the
blessing we sat down and star ted to
eat . We had sandwiches , popcorn,
potat o chips , soft dr inks , cookties‘
candy, a big bir thday cake and a few
other good things to eat . When we
fini shed eat ing, the bir thday cakewas cut and the present s were givenout t o the boys . T he boys hav ing a
b ir thday were; Car l Taylor , T heodoreF owler , John Burns
,Car l Call , and
Keith Somer sett . The boys present swere g iven to them by var iousWomen
’ s Clubs . T hey received dif
f er ent th ings such ‘
as football-s, games ,model airplanes , and a f ew otherthing s wh ich the boys appreciatedvery much . After the boys opened
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their gift s , we played a couple of
games . A t firs t we played pin the
tail on the donkey . David Adamswon fir st prize, Bill Carpenter won
second ’ pr i ze, and Keith Somer set tcame in third. T hey were given a
nice pen, pencil and flashlight sets }After that bubble gum was pas sedout
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and we had a bubble gum blowing contest . T he fir st one that bloweda bubble won . T h i s was won byT heodore F ow ler .
I t was get t ing a l i t t le late bythen and we star ted t o bed w ith our
fill f or the n ight . We would like to
t hank Mr . and Mr s . H inson f or pre
par ing this bir thday par ty for us .
—By R ober t W i llard
L ast night -
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we had a jolly t ime in
Cot tage six . We had a b ir thday par tyf or seven of our boys . F ir st we played“H iggley _ J iggley,
”t o get warmed
up a lit t le bit . Bingo was next and
we played f ive games and each winner got a pr ize of either cards , a boxof raisins , or a box of ballons .By that t ime we smelled potato
chips . Boy did we eat ch ip-s and threekinds of candy brought in on pret tyt rays ! T hat meant we must play more
bingo ’cause we were to full t o play
anyth ing else. So we played and got
more pr izes .We t ook turns t ry ing t o see who
could knock a plast ic dr ink ing glassoff a boy ’ s head by bounc ing asmall
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SUNDAY SERVIGES
T he speaker for Sunday, Oct . 8 , 1 956
was the R ev . George R . Whit tecar
past or of S t . James L utheran Churchin Concord.
R ev . Whit tecar chose his scr ipturefrom S t . Mat thew 7, a par t of the
Sermon on the Mount . R ev . Whit tecar
then asked us a quest ion : “What dowe do when somebody punches us or
t reat s us unkind ?” I n relat ion w iththis he went way back in hist ory anda man named Swant o, who made hishome on the shores of the A t lant icin the stat e which is now Massachu
set t es . One day this captain and hiscrew beached in the hOpe of findingsomething valuable or worthwhile t o
take back t o E ngland. T hey sp iedSwant o and decided he could be a
high pr iced slave so they capturedhim and carr ied him t o E ngland,where he was sold as a slave. In due
t ime,however , he escaped back home
t o Amer ica. H e was captured againand again car r ied back to E ng land,where he was t reated as bad or wor seal l over again . T his t ime when he
escaped he went by way of'
Spain buthe finally got back t e his nat ive home.
H e was captured again and when he
got home again he found he was the
By Wilbur H all
sole survivor of h i s t r ibe and it made
him“
very unhappy because lookingback over his life every unpleasantmemory was
.
undoubt edly associatedwith the white man . But in 1 620 whenthe pilgr ims landed at Plymouth Rockhe
,the man who had every reason -in
the wor ld t o get or seek revenge
came -t o be, as Governor Bradford putin his diary, inst rument of God for
good)’
R ev . Whit t ecar closed his serviceby saying,
“D o not be overcome by
evil , but overcome evil with good.
H e then led us in a shor t prayer .
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T he speaker for S imday , Oct . 1 4 was
M r . R . Vance R ober t son who spoke inthe absence of our scheduled m ini ster .
Mr . R ober t son jus t had a hear t tohear t talk w ith the boys about some
of the bad point s or habits they mighthave acqu ired and
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tr ied t o get themt o see how they cou ld e i ther correct
these habit s or refrain from associat ing w ith boys who pract ice them . In
relat ion w ith a lot of these problemshe gave an example from the Bible.
M r . R ober t son closed by say ing thatif we obeyed the 1 0 commandment s ,the golden rule
, and love thy neighbor
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as thyself ; we would not be forevermore get t ing int o t rouble. Mr . R ob
er t son then closed wi th a shor t prayer .
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The vi sit ing minister for the schoolon Oct . 2 l st was the Rev . Virgil M .
H ailey, pastor of the N . Kannapoli sBapt ist Church in Kannapol i s .Accompanying R ev. H ai ley was a
group of fine gent lemen from the
same church . Among them was M r .
F red Wat t s who did some very fineaccordion playing while the boys sangsuch favor ites as ; “When T he R ol l i sCalled up Y onder and
“The O ld Ru
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gi
iged Cros sR ev . H ailey chose his ver ses of
scr ipture from L uke 2 ; how a boy 1 2
year s old, Jesus , under his parent ’ sauthor ity learned to obey . When we
go out and get a job and don’t obey
what our boss tell s us, we’ re soongoing t o lose our job . I t i s the same
way w i th our H eavenly F ather ; if wedon
’t obey him we can not get the gift
of eternal life. A lso Jesus learned t owork . H is father , Joseph, was a car
penter by t rade and it i s very possiblethat one of Jesus ’ fir st jobs was t o
clean the shop and later on t o sharpent ools and care f or them . T hen whenJoseph died he had t o t ry to take hisfather ’ s place, t o be a carpenter , .
which can be very trying and hard at
t imes . We knowthat th is wor ld wasbuilt on work . Somet imes we want toknow the difference between work andplay. Work is what we have t o do,and play is what we want to do . Whenwe learn to do work as if it were. playwe have made a very impor tant and
large s tep t oward happines s and suc
cess here on ear th .
Jesus al so learned to wor sh ip H isF ather who i s in H eaven. H e increas
ed in w isdom and s tature t oward God.
”
Our sp ir it needs guidance and loveand, not just get t ing help from God,
but showing H im H e is far super ior toany of us . When we wor ship H im we
should tell H im that we know H is wil lis good and best f or your l ife. T hatwe are asking H im t o take our livesand gu ide us and keep us . H is willi s supreme.
Rev . H ailey said ; “May God helpus to grow as Jesus did.
”H e then
closed w i th a‘ shor t prayer .
A s our closing'
song M r . Wat t s dida beaut iful solo : “I t i s N o Secret ” .
The speaker_f or Sunday
,October
28,1 956 was
'
Mr . R . Vance Rober t son,
Ass i stant Super int endent of the
SchooL
T he subject of Mr . R obert son ’ s sermon was taken from the 25th Chapt erof Mat thew .
“T he
_ten v i rgins .” _
We
need t o know s omething about a spir itthat can make our lives a lit t le more
meaningful . Some of us are l ike the
foolish v 1 rg1ns , ,we fail t o make use
of the oppor tunit ies we may have ingo ing down God’ s st raight and narrowroad. E ach of us needs help , no mat t erhow g rea
‘
t, small , dumb , or what ; we
al l have t o pass the same way . I f we
live according to H is t eachings we
will get et ernal life. Al l we have to doi s follow his Son ’ s example; becausethat is why H e came, t o r id the wor ldof sin and show us the right way . of
life. Somet imes we ask our selves ;“Can I accept death ? ” Some of us
think it is the -end. But I can assure
you 1 t is not the end ; our life here i s
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just a t r ial . “Some people just don ’t
live for Chr ist '
because they say theydon ’
t know how; but I think if "
we
take the“1 0
_comandment s and
"mold“
our lives t o t hem , and not them-
t o ourl ife
,we w ill have no t rouble get t ing
that mos t pr iceles s of al l gifts , eternallife.
HALLOWEEN CELEBRAT IONBy R ober t Willard and F red K ing
A holiday from ' school and work,ball games , and movies , plus all thehot dogs , candy, peanut s , and popcornyou can eat—that sum s up H alloweenhere at the school f orT he H alloween par ty was held at
J . T . S . on Wednesday , Oct ober 3 1 .
T he fest iv i t ies got under way w i thfootball games ‘being played _WithCot tage N o. 1 1 downing N o. 1 3 by thescore of 27—0 , Cot tage N o . 1 0 winningover N o. 1 5 24-0 and Cot tage N o.
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3
w inning over N o . 9“by the score of
6-0 .
After the football act ivit ies the
boys enjoyed a recreat ional per iod.
T he boys used this t ime for var iousthings they want ed t o do, some prac
t iced football , some worked on the irhobbies and other s enjoyed themselvesby just relaxing .
When arr ived the boys congregat ed at the back of the cafeter ia w ithno urging necessary . T here was a
n icely decorated counter set up, sur
rounded by a booth decorated w i thcolorful leaves
,corn shocks and other
fall foilage. M r . Carr iker and the car
penter shop boys were responsiblef or the at t ract ive center . In the boot hservmg were M r . H inson, M r . E rv in,
Mr . Carr iker , M'
ax ie T eal, J immyA lli son, and Ralph Cat let t . A t the end
of the counter coca colas , peps i colas ,peanut s
,popcorn, and candy were
served . by Mr .
“
R ober t son and Mr .
Whit e.
When everyone had returned to the
Cot tages w ith full s tomachs , theywere st illl in st ore f or another t reat .
A t the student body gatheredin the school audit or ium t o see amovieent it led, “T exas L ady,” which was
thoroughly enjoyed.
T he spooks and goblins were fewbut everybody enjoyed them selves , andwe w ish to thank all the staff andother s who took part in mak ing th i spar t y a success .
—F . K ing and R . W i llard
Mr. Robert son then closed by say ingthat we don ’
t know what toexpect of
the live a
Chr ist ian life and then 5we wi ll haveno fear of the future. Mr . Cheekclosed w i th a prayer .
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Cot tage N o. 3 downed N o. 9 by thescore of 1 0-6 . Out standing players forN o. 3 wer e E s tes and Pr idgen . L ance
and Byrd were out s tanding for N o . 9 .
With no excep t ion al l the t eams
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have played very good. Mos t of the
t eams show signs -
of pract ice, and
by T hanksgiving Day we shouldhave some real bat t les for the championship .
BOY SCOUTS ATTEND FOOTBALL
GAME IN RALE IGHBy Robert W i l lard
On Saturday, Oct ober 1 3, ScoutT roop 60 and 61 of Jackson T rain ingSchool went t o the N . C . State vs .
F lor ida Stat e F ootball game in
R aleigh , N . C . We left the schoolaround 1 o
’clovck About 4 o
’clock we
st opped at a roads ide table t o eat
our lunch that we had packed. Whenwe ar r ived in R aleigh it was 5 o
’clock,
much t o ear ly for the game.
We t ook a t our through the big
coliseum on the campus and it was
a very beaut iful place. Around
P . M . we went t o the stadium wherethe footbal l game was t o be played .
A s we marched down the m iddle of the
field t o our seat s we not iced thatt here
‘
weren’t many
' people in the
stands . But as game t ime neared the
stands began fill ing-up .
While the two t eam s pract iced before the game we were served peaf
nut s and cold dr inks . When the football game star t ed, N
'
. C . won'
the
t os s up”and chose“
t o receive the
ball . Both t eams played very good
ball dur ing the fir st half of the game.Neither team scored a t ouchdownin the fir st half of the game
,although
F lor ida ‘
threat ened N . C . severalt imes .T he third quar t er was pret ty bad
f or N . C . . F lor ida, using the “I ” format ion and handl ing the ball verybr ill iant ly, scored two touchdowns inthe third quar t er . By making the
ext ra point s , F lor ida was ahead 1 4-0 .
In the four th quarter , N . 0 came
back s trong t o score a t ouchdown,
and making the ext ra po int . T he scorest ood 1 4-7 . By running and passingF lor ida went father ahead by scor inganother t ouchdown
'
and kicked the ex
t ra point . F inal score was 2 1 -7 .
A l though N . C . didn ’t win the game
we think that they played good balland showed excellent spor tmanship al l
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dur ing the game.
T he game ended around 1 0 o’clock,
and w ith a bus load of sleepy Scout swe returned t o the school about2 P . M .
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SEV ENTH GRADE PRESENTS
THE CONSC IENT IOUS SCARECROWBy Jesse E nni s
On the 26th of Oct ober M r . Caldwell ’s Seventh Grade gave a H al loween Program in the School Auditorium . T he event opened w ith devot ionals being pr esent ed by S t eve L ance .
T he audience then joined t he seventhgrade in singing a hymn .
James Grooms gave the s toryent it led “T he H i s t ory of H alloween
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in which w it ches and ghost s playedan impor tant part in the celebrat ionof the event in ear ly hist ory . T he
highlight of the ent ire program cen
t ered around the presentat ion of the
play “T he Conscient ious Scarecrow”.
T he Scarecrow was owned by a groupof farmer s who expect ed him t o guard
their crops well . On H alloween nightthe farmers went t o the scarecrow t o
get him t o look aft er their fields andprot ect them from the t error s of
H alloween . L ooking over the fieldthey found that everything was in
order and they felt t hat their pos sessions were in good hands .A s soon as the farmer s left the
fields the w it ches , goblins , black cat s ,and jack o
’lan.terns appeared t o de
st roy the farmer s corn . R ealizingthe situat ion in which he found himself the Scarecrow was compelled t o
use his w it s t o pr otect the crops ashe was expect ed t o_ do. Aft er a mo
ment s thinking he devised a scheme t o
keep the v isit or s busy . H e , prai sedt hem f or their tallent s in ent er taining
piano .
Pr ogram
D evot ional Steve L anceSong,
Poem,
“Black and Gold ' J . D ailH i st ory of H alloween J . Grooms
and making merry and asked whichone could do the best job . A s a re
sult each group began t o t ry to out
do all the other s in ent er taining .
E ach group put on an act of singingand dancing . N o one realized whatthe Scarecrow was doing nor did
they expect that he was flat t er ingthem and urging them on . H e had di
ver t ed t heir at t ent ion from t he
dest ruct ion of the crops and had cen
t ered it on something less destruc
t ive .
A t last it was twelve o’clock mid
night and it was t ime for the ghost st o leave _the field and ret ire t o theirhiding places f or another year . So
t hey had t o leave without des t royingthe crops of the fields . T he farmer scame back at daybreak and congrat
ulat ed the scarecrow f or the nicejob he had done ln prot ect ing the
cr ops .Jesse E nnis ent er tained the audi
ence w ith several select ions on the
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A H alloween Acrost is 9 BoysB . Carpenter
L it t le O rphan Annie W . E stesWat ch Out . . S . L ance L . E vans
H alloween L egend
Grandpa’ s Confession J . MabeJack of T he Mar sh
Poem,
“Jack O ’L antern
A Skit , Vacat ion in F lor ida . . J .
Rhea and D anny PenningtonT he Danger s of H alloween W . H ead
H alloween Cust om of E ngland . BillParker
L egends of I reland Joe StoneH alloween Steve L ance
One Act Play
T H E CON SC I E N CI OU S
SCAR E CR OW”
T he Scarecrow K en . Somer set tF armer Jones L eon Pr idgenJack, son of F armer Jones
Bob, son of F armer Jones . James
Dai lPluto, Black Cat ' Kenneth
RamseyKing Cole, Black Cat Car lt on
Pr idgenGoblins R hea C . H orne
Ghost s . J . Mabe and J oe StoneW it ches S . L ance and B . Varker
Jack O ’L ant erns . Danny Pennington
and R ober t Stancil .
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Cont inued from page 1 4rubber ball at it as the boy sat in a
chair . I t f inally simmered down t o
two cont estant s, Buck '
Phillips , ‘and
Car leton Pr idgen who won a magiccircus game. D on Wood got a box
of modeling clay f or dropping the
most clothes pins in a jar . O’N eal Cook
won a box of cards f or guess ing near
est the number of grains of corn in a
bot t le.
M r s . Russel l asked us int o the read
ing _room where there was a tablecovered w ith a white cloth, pret tybr ight blue lighted candles in crystalholder s and best of al l a hugh cakedecorat ed so pret ty that we almosthat ed t o eat it , but not qu it e, I t was so
good w ith ice cold dr inks . After t his
we watched the boys open their g ift swhich seemed t o please al l of them .
We al l , including our Cot tage par
ent s , enjoyed the fun and food.
—R ichard H ale
-J . D . Barret t
(3) 5d ll "
of silver W7”
Scotland. by
Scotland.
named Ira: . a
depam‘
ent
ELLEli—X
Danlel Hay '
a r
Cot tage 2 had a birthday par tyT uesday night for : F loyd D et ters ,
H ugh Rathbone and Johnny Caviness .We played bingo and won pr izessuch as funny books , combs and keychains . We had cake and cold dr inksf or refreshment s . Mr s . Cruse playedbingo with us and gave out the pr izes .We had a lot of fun and want to thankM r . and M rs . Cruse f or having the
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par ty for the Cot tage
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(Bi ts of humor clipped from exchanges and gathered from
other publicat ions , wi th an occasional or iginal funny-bone
t ickler added. )
S econd Grader’
s E ssay On The Body
Y our head is kind of round and
hard, and your brains are in it .
Y our face' i s the front of‘
your‘head
where you eat and make faces . Y ourneck is what keeps your head out of
your collar,I t s hard t o keep clean .
Y our shoulder s are sor t of shelveswhere you hook ‘your
_. suspender s on
t hem . Y our stummick i s someth ingt hat if you don ’
t eat enough it .hur t s ,and spinach don ’
t help it '
none.
Y our spine i s a long bone that k eepsyou from folding up . Y our back i salways behind you no mat ter how
quick you '
turn around.
Y our arm s you got to have to
pit ch with, and so you can reach thebut t er . Y our finger s st ick out of
your hand so you can throw a curve,
and , add up rithmat ick .
Y our legs i s what if you have not
got two of you cannot get t o fir stbase, neither c an your sist er . Y our
feet are what you run on . Y our t oesare what always get stubbed ,
And that ’ s al l there i s of you,
except what ’ s inside and I never
saw it .
Say , what ’ s that bu ild ing there?”Where?”Y ou looked too late . I t
’s gone.
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Y ou didn ’t roll your own cigaret tes
before. Why do you do so now ?” “Because the doctor told me I needed a
l it t le exercise.
”
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My grandfather lived to be n ear lyninety and never used glasses ! ” “Welllot s of . people prefer to dr ink from the
bot t le.
”
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A man’ s reputat ion i s a blend of
what his fr iends , enem ies and ac
quaint ances say behind his back.
H ave any of your family connect ionsever been t raced?”“Y es , t hey t raced an uncle-of m ine asfar as Canada once.
”
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Bob . .
”A ren’t you com ing in swimm
ing?”
Ber tha . I can’t . A moth atemy bath
ing suit .
Bob“T he lit t le rascal . H e must have
been on a diet .
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A newspaper repor ter bent over a badly injured passenger in the t rainwreck .I am gomg fast ,” the wounded one
said feebly .“Cheer up, my brave fellow ,
saidthe repor ted, “how do you spell yourlast name
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B IRTHDAYI n the U plift we are announcing each mont h the birthday anniver sar ies of
the boys . I t i s our purpose t o follow t his cust om indefinit ely . We bel ievethat the relat ives and fr iends of the boys w ill be great ly interested in thesemonthly announcement s .
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FO R YO U
I never can h ide myse l f from me ; I see w hat others may never see; I
Know w hat others may never know ; I never can foo l myse l f, and so ;What
ever happens , I want to be se l f-respect ing and conscience free . Edgar A .
Guest
C leat ive 0 xend ine, 1 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 7
Buddy Lee, 1 7th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 1 7
Joe l Tay lor, 1 3 th Bi rt hday , Cot tage No . 5
James McLamb, 1 oth Bi rthday, Cot tage No . 4
Bi l l Johnson, 1 7th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 4
Me lv in Stanci l , l oth Bi rthday , Cot tage No. 1 0
James Conner, l oth Bi rthday,Cottage No . 1 3
Ernest Johnson, l oth Bi rthday, Cot tage No . 1 7
John Richardson,1 4 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 6
Robert Pru i t t , 1 3th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 3
Gerald Earney , 1 7th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 1
Carl Co l l ins , 1 oth Bi rthday,Cot tage
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N o . 4
Jerry Strange, 1 5 th Bi rthday , Cottage No . 3
Carde l l 0 xend ine ,1 7th Bi rt hday , Cottage No . 1 7
Donald Thornburg, 1 7th Bi rthday,Cottage No . 1 5
Fredd ie Morri s , 1 5 th Bi rthday,Cot tage No . 1 7
Harvey Hudson, 1 7th Bi rthday, Cot tage No . 1 4
James O sment , 1 5 th Bi rthday,Cottage No . 2
Butch Parker, l oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 4
Ri ley Smi th, l oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 1
Fred K ing, l oth Bi rthday , Cottage No . 1 1
Eugene Moore, 1 7 th Birthday, Cottage No . 8
RayW ilmoth,
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1 4 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 6
Harold Pres s ley,1 4 th Bi rthday, Cottage No . 1 3
TH lEUPL IFT
Don’
t Be On e] My Prayerknow I can be found
Sit t ing home al l aloneI f you can
’t come ar ound
A t least‘
please telephoneD on
’t be cruel
T o a hear t that ’ s t rue .
Baby,if I made you m ad
F or something I might have saidPlease let ’ s forget the pastT he future looks br ight aheadD on
’t be cruel
T o a hear t that ’ s t rue.
I don’t want no other love
_
Baby , it ’ s just you I’m th inking of .
D on’t s t op thinking of me,
D on’t make me feel this way H ound D og
Come on over here and love me,
Y ou know what I want you t o say
D on’t be cruel
T o a hear t that ’ s t rue.
Why should we be apar tI really love you,
Baby, cross my hear t .
L et’ s walk up to the
“ preacher ,And let us say , I do
T hen you ’ ll know you ’ ll have me,
D on’t be cruel
And I’ll know “
I’ll have . you t oo
T o a hear t that ’ s t rue.
My prayer i s t o linger wi th you .
A t the end of the day .
In a dream that ’ s d iv ine.
My prayer i s a rapture in blue.
W ith the wor ld far away .And your lips close t o m ine.
T onight while our h ear t s are aglow .
Oh ! t ell me the words that I ’m longingt o know .
My prayer and the answer you give.
May they s t ill be the same.
F or as long as we live.
T hat you ’ ll always be there.
At the end of my .prayer .
Y ou ain ’t nothin ’
but a hound dog,
Cry in’al l the t ime.
Y ou ain ’t nothin ’
but a hound dog,
Cry in’al l the t ime.
Well , you ain ’t never caught a rabbit
And you ain ’t no fr iend of mine.
When they said you was high-clas sed,Well
,that was just a lie.
When they said you was high-clas sed,Well
,that was just a lie.
Well , you ain’t never caught ~ a rabbit
And you ain ’t no fr iend of mine.
COTTAGE HONOR ROLL
OCT OBE R
COT TAGE N O . 1 COT TAGE NO . 9
COT T AGE NO . 2
COT T AGE N O . 3
Sam Aldr idgeClaude W ill iams
COT TAGE N O . 1 0
COT T AGE N O . 4 St eve L unsfordMelvin Stancil
COT T AGE N O . 1
COTT AGE N O . 5
J-oe H ayes“D alton L ew i sR ober t McL amb
R oy T est ermanR ichard Whisnant
COT T AGE N O . 6
CO T T AGE N O . 1 3
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R ober t BarnesSandy BowmanRober t ByrdR ober t CreelBradford H orne
W ill ie IngramBur t JohnsonE . J . JohnsonE dgar L ew i sKennet h RamseyGeorge T hornburgL eon T immons
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COT TAGE N O 1 4
Char l ie Ander sonR obert BusbeePaul D ockeryBi ll F roelick
H arvey H udson
COT TAGE N O . 1 7
Bobby Ander s INF I RMARYJames Ar rowood
SCHOOL HONOR ROLLOCT OBE R
F OU R T H GRAD EH erber t L ucas
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F I F T H GRAD EClearence Baty S IXT H GRAD EMar shall JonesCar l T aylor Mac F lowe
D onald T hornburg Clifford WoodruffH ar ry Neal T ed F ow ler
Donald ByrumF I R ST GRAD E
D elmar Sheet s SE VE NT H GRAD E
SE COND GRAD ED alt on L ew isBobby Ander sR ex Bel l
T H I R D GRAD E E I GH T H GRAD EWesley Pendlet on N O H onor R oll
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N INT H GRAD E J imm ie Sm ith
James '
Conrad’ T E NT H GfiAD
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R obert -'Will'ard Paul’
CullerMax ie'Teal Wilbur H all
FARM AND TRADE HONOR ROLLOCT OBE R
F ARM
SEW IN G R OOM BARBE R SH OP
David Rathbone
CARPE NT E R SH OP SH O E SH OPDonald BraswellCH I CKE N F OR CEJohn R ichardsonMike McGrady
R oy F erguson
T RACT ORF OR CE L AU ND RYJ . W . W ilkinsT ommy W ill iamsCardell 0 xendineClea-die 0 xend ineJimmie H oneycut t
L oyd T hom'
asJames Sm i thJohn L eeSteve L amber tArch ie MeadfordA rchie SimsJun ior Oxendin-
e
Wayne JenkinsJames A r rowood
Bobby Ander sJohnny BradshawR obert Stancil
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YO UR CHRISTMAS GU EST
Take t ime thi s Chri stmas Day to goA l i tt le way apart
And w i th the hands of prayer prepareThe house that i s your heart .
Brush out the dusty fears , brush outThe Cobwebs of your care
Till in the house that i s your heartIt
’
s Ch ri stmas everyw here .
Light every w indow up w i th love ,
And let your love sh ine through,
That they w ho wal k outs ide may shareThe b lessed l ight w i th you.
Then w i l l the rooms w i th joy be bright ,W i th peace the hearth be b lessed,
And Ch ri st H imsehcw i l l enter inTo be your Chri stmas guest .
—James Dillet Freeman
Published Monthly ByT he Pr int ing Class of the St onewall Jackson
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A MONTHLY JOURNALPub l ished By
T he authority of t he Stonewal l Jackson Manual T raining and Industrial SchoolType-set t ing by t he Boys
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J . Frank ScottSuperintendent E D I T OR I AL
R. Vance RobertsonEd i tor
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STUDENT REPORTERS
W i lbur HallRobert W i l lardJames C onrad CH R I STMA S T H OU GH T SFred King SANTA ’ S L I ST
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CAMPU S ACT IV I T I E SSH E L BY GROU P BR INGS E ARL YCH R I STMA SBy T he Concord T r ibune
CH R I STMA S F E ST IVI T I E SKE E PI NG CH R I STMA SBy H erry Van Dyke
I T’S T H E SP I R I T T H AT COU NT SBy R ober t W illard
SU NDAY SE RVI CE SBy W ilbur H allSPORT SBy R obert W i llard
CH R I STMA S CAR OL SSelected by F red King
H ONOR ROL L SJOKE S
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the supreme g i ft of Jesus Ch ri st have g iven very l i t t le in return for H is
Gift . Even w hen we do our utmost we fal l far s hort of returning even a
port ion. of the love rece ived .
For God so loved the world that .He gave H is Onl y Son in order t hat we
migh t have a more abundant l i fe . What -greater g i ft cou ld one want? A ll
other g i ft s seem so smal l and ins igni f icant in compari son. Yet , we too
can g ive a g i ft far more valuab le t han any material posses s ion. The g i ft oflove and understand ing i s one of invaluble worth to the ind iv idual whoi s g iv ing it as we l l as the one who i s the reci pient . No g i ft that is not givenin the spiri t of love and good w il l can leava a s p i ri t of sat isfact ion to the
g iver and the rece iver i s sure to know "
the spi ri t in w h ich it is g iven. It i sno t the s ize nor the worth of a g i ft that makes it valuab le but the spi ri tin w h ich it i s g iven and rece ived .
During the Chri stmas season we here at the schoo l w i l l not be ab le to
g ive the material g i fts to those about us that we wou ld l i ke to give . Yet ,
there IS amore valuab le g i ft that can be give-n, that of love and fe l low sh ip.
Many of us w i l l be spend ing our f i rst Ch ri stmas away from home and therefore w i l l be very sad
“and lone ly for the good t imes that we remember w i th
the fam i ly and friends . Those of us w ho understand thi s fee l ing can offerthem the g i ft of love and understand ing ; t hus lett ing t hemknowt hat we are t he i r friends and that we care fo r t hem w i l l be a great boost tothe ir ho l iday sp i ri t . A l though we may be poo r in material g i ft s we can be
rich in the g i ft s of love _and k indnes s . Let each of us share our weal th of
love and unders tand ing during th i s Chri s tmas season.
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CAMPUS ACTEV TIES
T hanksgiv ing day was a joyou sholiday on the campus .
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T he dinnerincluded turkey w ith al l the t r imm ings ,pumpkin pie
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and fresh vegetables .T he afternoon was filled w ith football games w ith the three leaguesvying for championships . R esult sw ill be found elsewhere in this i ssue .
M r s . Wanda H olbrook v isit ed the
campus br iefly this month and everyone was happy t o see her . H er motherhas r eturned home from the hospitaland is rest ing comfor t ably . We are
happy that her mother i s home and
hope that it w ill give her more t ime
t o be at home. We are sure that M r .
H olbrook i s happy about this t oo .
Batching i s get t ing a lit t le hard for
him,he says .
Mr . B ill Sawyer , Boy Scout E x ecut ive of this dis t r ict , has vi sit ed the
campus on a number of occasion sthis month . H e is helping in the
Scout ing program here at the School .We have two t roops here and the
boys enjoy them very much . M r .
R eadling and Mr . H inson are the
Scoutmast er s .Mr . Aut en, the dairyman, and Mr .
Query , farm manager , at t ended the
Dairyman meet ing at .Stat e Collegeon November 1 5th . T hey repor t edthat it was very helpful t o them . We
have a fine dairy herd and both men
are int erest ed in it making a good
show ing in the state.
M r s . C . L . Gilliat t , a member of the
Board of Correct ion and T raining and
Mr . Madison, Comm i s sioner Of Cor
rect ion ,spent the day w ith us on
November 28th . M r s . Gilliat t i s fromShelby and she brought w ith her M r .
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Meacham who has been very inst rumental in rai sing money among t he
civic clubs Of Shelby for purchasinggames for the cot tages at the t rainingschool s Of the state.
A ccording t o the record in the OfficeOf the super intendent , 22 boys wereadm it ted dur ing November while 1 3
boys were released .
T he boys admit t ed were JamesChurch , Gu ilford County ; L eroy Boyer ,Kenneth Venable and O t i s W iles ,F or syth County ; R-ay D arnell , Buncombe County ; F rank H aire, OdellH aire, Wayne County ; L ee Cagle and
Marvin Scot t , R ock ingham County ;R ock H arvey, N ew H anover Count yAdam Cour tney, Burke County ; GradyColeman and Char les H uffman, Gas
t on County ; R ober t T hompson, W ilkesCounty ; Milas Case, Catawba County ;Wayne McCorkle, Mecklenburg Coun
t y ; Jimmy Carpent er , Cabarrus Count y ; Billy Joe H ar t ley, Avery County ;Car l H udson, Durham County ; D azelRhodes , Rutherford County .T he boys released were : E ar l Pr ice,.
and Sammy A ldr idge, Wayne County ;D onald Weaver , D urham County ; R oyF ergu son, H aywood County ; Car l T aylor , R obeson Count y ; A rchie Medfordand James Conrad, Gast on County ;E ar l Cain, Cumber land Count y ; F rankH elms , Ralph Gosnell and John H en
sley, Buncombe Couny ; and Char lesAnder son from R ockingham County .
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CHR ISTMAS FEST IV IT I ESA lready the spir it Of Chr i stmas isinfest ing our campus . In visit ing some
of the cot tages they have alreadybegun t o make their Chr is tmas decorat ions and rumor has it that one
cot tage already has up a Chr i stmast ree. I t
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couldn ’t be that they are
rushing things could it ! M r . Carr ikerand the Carpent er Shop boys have“been eyeing the t rees on the campusselect ing the ones t o be decorat ed
and repair ing their out side decora
t ions . T he cafet er ia staff is in the
mids t of plans f or Chr istmas dinnerand the turkey is already in the deepfreeze await ing t he great occasion .
Cot tage Mother s are working on pl ansf or Chr istmas par t ies f or their re
spect ive cot tages and we hear thatsome wonderful ideas are going int ot he preparat ions . One cot t age Motheri s already searching f or a new cookierecipe t o add a new t ouch t o the
refreshment s in her cot tage.
One Of the h ighlight s of our Chr i stmas program i s the annual Pageantwhich w ill be present ed in the SchoolAudit or ium on the evening Of D ec
ember 2 1 st . T his w ill be the Openingof our Chr i stmas holidays . T he Pag
eant this year i s Gift s Of Myrrh” byKar in Sund-clof-A shbrand. I t i s a st oryOf a r ich lit t le gir l , who is very muchneglect ed at Chr i stmas t ime . Whileeveryone el se goes “ Of f t o enjoy _the
Chr is tmas E ve fes tivit ies , leav ing herat home in bed, she eventually findst hat her Chr istmas E ve turns int o a
very excit ing and enjoyable one f or
her . A burglar breaks in while she
i s sit t ing wait ing f or the Chr ist -Child
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t o come in answer to her prayer s ;and '
so enthused i s she over the vividness Of her own imaginat ion that she
takes him f or one Of the W ise Men
br inging gift s Of Myrrh for the InfantBabe. H e in turn becomes so impressedwith her that he leaves '
al l his l ootwith her , t elling her t o give it t o theChr i st -C hild her self . With clum sygent leness , he tucks 'her into her lit t lebed and goes away . She falls asleepand dreams about the Chr i st -Child,and sees her self lay the gift s at thefoot Of H is manger . Main charact er sin the play include the followingMother F airweather , A young so
ciety mat ron R alph Cat let tD addy F airweather
,Just her
husband John H ardee
Maida F airweather, T heir
daught er Car lton Pr idgenD odo,
T he washwoman ’ sson Keith Sommer set
T ommy, T he washwoman ’ s cr ippledson Buddy Par sons
D olly F razier,A nur se
maid T erry Sim sA Burglar , Being just a w iseman Jimmy A llison
T he pageant scenes w ill include several groups Of boys in scenes such asshepherd scene's , wise men scenes ,and other groups .School w ill be closed from F r iday,
D ecember 2 1 st t o Monday, D ecemberS l s t . Morning act ivit ies w ill consistof athlet ic cont est s conducted by theathlet ic depar tment and [the af t ernoonsW i ll be given t o movies in the schoolaudit or ium . E venings w ill be spentin recreat ion in the cot tages . Our
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Chr i stmas Church Service wi ll beheld S unday afternoon, D ecember 23 ,
at and the guest minist er will beR ev . Banks K . Peeler , Past or Of the
T r inity R eformed Church, Con-cord,
Wednesday, D ecember 26, i s visit ingday and the campus w ill be floodedw ith parent s and fr iends of the boys .
KEEP ING CHR ISTMASBy H enry Van D yke
I t i s a good thing t o Observe Chr i stmas day . T he mere marking of t imesand seasons when men agree t o st opwork and make merry together , i sa w ise and wholesome cust om . I t helpsone t o feel the supremacy of the
common l ife. I t reminds a man t o set
his own lit t le wat ch, now and then,by
the great clock of humanity whichruns on sun t ime.
But there i s a bet ter thing than theObservance of Chr istmas Day , and
that is , keeping Chr i stmas .A re you wi ll ing to forget _
what youhave done f or other people
,and to
remember what ot her people havedone for you ; to ignore what the
wor ld owes you, and t o think what youowe the wor ld; to put your right s inthe background, and your dut ies in themiddle distance, and your chances t odo a lit t le more t han your duty in theforeground; to see that your fellowmen are just as real as you are, and
t ry t o look behind their faces t o theirhear t s , hungry f or joy ; t o own
Chr istmas eve and Chr istmas morningw ill see par t ies being conducted in
the cot tages w ith Chr is tmas t rees ,opening of present s , and serving of
r efreshment s .We are looking forward to this
vacat ion t ime and know that eachof us w ill have a very Merry Chr istmas . We hope that you do t oo !
that probably the only good reason foryour existence i s not what you are
going to .get out of life, but what youare going t o g ive to l ife; to closeyour book of complaint s against themanagement of the universe, and
look around you for a place Whereyou can sow a few seeds of happiness_ are you w illing t o do these th ingseven f or a day
? T hen you can keepChr istmas .Are you wi lling t o st oop down and
consider the needs and the des i res oflit t le children ; to remember the weaknes s and loneliness of people who are
grow ing old; t o stop ask ing how muchyour fr iends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enought o bear in mind the things that otherpeople have to bear on the ir heart s ;t o try to under stand what those whol ive in the same house w ith you reallywant , w i thout wait ing f or them to
t ell you ; to t r im your lamp so thatit w ill give more l ight and les s smoke,
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IT’ S THE SPlRlT THAT COUNTSBy R ober t W i llard
E very boy at th i s T ra in ing Schoolwould like t o be home th i s Chr i stmas .I know because I spent one Chr istmashere at the school . F or some
,this w i ll
be the i r fir st Chr istmas away fromhome. H ere at the T raining School aprogram is set up every year . I t is a
very n ice program and we al l enjoyedit last year . I f a boy dosen ’
t sit around
t hinking about home all the t ime, he
w ill enjoy himself and be far more
happier than just sit t ing around th inking ; Oh ! I f I only was at home.
T here i s nothing I l ike t o see bet t er ,than the look on a boy ’ s face when heopens his present s on Chr i stmasmorning, and in his hear t the joy and
kindness that he shares w ith other s .T o us Chr i stmas i s themost wonder fulseason of the year . I t i s the commemo
rat ion of the birt h of Chr ist , who wasborn on t his day t o br ing peace and
joy in our hear t s . Some of us wil l notfeel so good when the boys start opening the ir gift s around Chr i stmas because we d idn ’
t get something likeit or d idn ’
t get as much . We star t t opout , but t his is not the thing t o do.
We should all be thankful for whatwe have and thank God for send ingH is only Son, Jesus Chr i st into the
wor ld t o save us all from sin .
I recall a story told to me one t ime
in Sunday School about a l it t le boywho d idn ’
t get anyth ing f or Chr i stmas .H is family was very poor and couldn ’
tafford to buy their son anyt hing. T he
l i t t le boy was very sad. T he nextChr istmas found the family more in
pover t y t han in the previous year . H ehad to help his father work to br ingthe ir food home. T he day b eforeChr i stmas , the l it t le boy ’ s father gavehim a dollar and t old him that was allhe could afford t o give him for Chr i stmas . H e went out and found a pret tyChr i stmas t ree and cut it down . H e
placed the t ree in the house and h i sparent s d idn ’
t know what t o t hinkbecause they knew that t here wou ldn ’
t
be any present s to go under the t reeor any decorat ions t o go on it . But
much t o t heir supr ise the followingmorning they awoke t o find a verysmall package under the t ree. As theyopened it t hey found that it was a
small Bible with a card saying, T o
Mom and Dad, Love your son.
T his story br ings t o our m ind, ifwe share what we do have we can
make everyone happy . So this Chr i stmas if you see a boy who doesn ’
t get
much for Chr i stmas you can help himby shar ing what you have w ith him.
Y ou w ill find out that it i s bet ter togive than receive.
Let us laugh . It i s the cheapest luxury man enjoys . lt s t i rs up the b lood,
expands the chest , e lectri f ies the nerves , clears away the cobwebs f rom thebrain and gives the w ho le system cleans ing shock .
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remembrance of Chr is t and how muchwe love H im .
—Bobby T odd, F ifth Grade
T o me Chr i stmas means a d-ay of
happ iness , and the day Chr i s t wasborn.
—J . C . Jump , F ifth GradeI t means a special th ing t o me. The
wor ld changes from bad t o good. T he
Glory of God seems to come t hroughto everybody .
—Ronnie Ramsey, S ixth GradeChr istmas means joy and cheer f or
it i s the month before the new year .
I t means Chr ist ’ s bir thday, and to keepit holy .
Steve F ar r ingt on, Sixth Grade
T o me Chr istmas means the begining of a Chr is t ian relig ion and it i sthe b ir t h of Chr i st , and we have a
very happy l ife.
—J a-mes Arrowood, Sixth Grade
Chr i stmas to me is the most impor tant day of the year . I t i s a dayt o give present s , and to rece ive them .
—Clifford Woodruff, Sixth Grade
Chr i stmas to me means a day t o
celebrat e the coming of Chr ist . We all
should be thankful that Chr i stmascomes once a year .
-E ugene West,Sixt h Grade
Chr istmas , anday t o me of giving t oother people. G iving to them the sp ir i tof God. Some people only t hink of
Chr i stmas as a day of get t ing gift s
A t Chri stmas we should love everybody . Because on the fir st Chr i stmas ,God showed his love to al l the wor ldby giving his only begot t en son.
—Joe St one, Seventh Grade
Chr i stmas means t o me what it
means t o millions'
of others . I t means
it s Chr i st ’ s birthday, and it s t ime t o
celebrate.
—R obert H aydock, Seventh Grade
Chr i stmas to me i s a day of wor
sh ip because on Chr istmas, Jesus wasborn . We should all wor ship H is name
on that day .
—Kenneth Venable, Seventh Grade
Chr istmas i s the t ime t o rememberthe bir th of Chr i st , and a t ime t o
give thanks that Jesus was born t o
die f or our s ins .—B i l l Carpent er, Sevent h Grade
Chr i stmas means f or us to celebrat e
f rom other people. T o me Chr i stmasi s the day I like to help other peopleby giving to them inst ead of them giving t o me . Chr istmas is a day that Ican wor sh ip God in a spec ial way .
_ Wayne Burr i s , Seventh Grade
Chr i st-mas is the day that Chr i st ourSavior was born . We should be happythat we have a fr iend wh ich can saveus from our sins . Giv ing g ift s t o one
another , I think came from the W is-eM en wh ich gave Chr ist gift s when H e
was a baby. We should respect Chr istmas w it h all our heart .
_ Wayne H ead, Seventh Grade
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Chr i st ’ s b ir thday . I t means for us t o
love everybody and share g ift s withone another .
—R ober t H urt , Seventh Grade
Chr ist-mas means to me a t ime f or
resb and peace and f or thanking God
for br inging us safely through anotheryear .
—Jimmy Johnson,Seventh Grade
Chr istmas i s the day when Chr istwas born, the day we praise H im f or
al l H e has done for us , f or happines sand joy H e gives .
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é—R onnie D eH ar t , Seventh Grade
Chr istmas not only means shar inggifts, but it means that Chr ist wasborn t o bear our sins and we may
share our happines s w ith other s .—Dav id Dupkoski, E ighth Grade
A t ime set aside for giving and
receiving~
gif t s . But Chr i stmas is a
t ime_to wor ship
_God and remember
our Savior s birth,and the meaning
i s “giving” not_rec
-eiving.
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—Ralph Cat t let t , E ighth Grade
Chr i stmas means a day of our love
f or Jesus Chr ist the day wh ich H e washorned.
—Ke i th R obinson, N inth GradeT o me Chr i stmas i s a t ime of show
our love f or one another by givinggift s . I t is the birth of our L ord JesusChr ist who was born on thi s day .
—R o'ber t W illard, N inth Grade
—J ames Conrad, T enth Grade
Chr istmas means t o me the t ime f or
thanking God f or giving H is only begot ten son,
who died so we could live.
—J ohn H ensley, T enth Grade
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sat i sfied mind . H e said he was goingt o give us peace .
“I am the way ,the
t ruth,and the life.
R ev. R egi ster closed by saying :
When God creat ed heaven and ear thand al l the other things he made it foryou and me. Choose God and you ’ llhave a sat isfied m ind.
”H e then closed
w ith a prayer .
T o me Chr is tmas means a t ime of
good cheer and f or show ing '
our ap
preciat ion t o our loved ones . A lthoughsome people are making Chr is tmasa commercial benefit and not our
L ords bir thday .—Jerry Gar ren,
T enth Grade
Chr is tmas means to me t he showingof love t oward one another by the
exchange of present s .But most of al l don ’
t forget thatGod gave H is only Son on Chr istmasD ay .
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SANTA’ S L ISTBy D oug Jones
The names l i sted be low m igh t be found on o ld St . N ick ’ s Ch ri stmasl i st . If Santa forget s you its because you haven't been a good l i tt le boy.
D oug Jones T eddy Bear Gerald E arneyJames McGee R DX P i lls E ar l MorganMax ie T eal Y o-Y o J immy Sm i thA llen Jul ian Marbles David AdamsJohn L ee Joke Book J immy H oneycut tPaul Culler Boxing Gloves D av id Dupkoski
Joe Stone Cave Mate Donald Wood
F red King T ricycle Billy T illeyF loyd Conner Scooter H ar old PresleyM ichael H arr i s Baby Car r iage James GroomsF red L it t les H arp Rober t McL amb
E ugene H uffman Red Wagon Sandy CanadyB i ll Carpent er Cap P i stol D onald CookB i ll Madron Kite John H ensleySt eve Kelly Mach ine Gun James A r rowood
C l ifford Woodruff Kidd ie Car t Jesse MabeF rank Suit s Water P i stol Keneth R amseyArchie S ims Shoe Pol ish Marv in GwynR ober t H oneycut t J igsaw Puzzle Pau l D ockeryWayne E stes Bull Dog Ronn ie M interRex Bell Jack Rocks E dward T urp inDav id Rathbone Sew ing Mach ine Sammy TyndalH arold Cow ick Story Book Wesley PendletonB i ll F roelich T ract or T ed F owlerH oward H ardee Rocking H orse Keith R ober t sonBobby Byrd D iamond R ing Car l Coll insMelvin Stanc i l Chop St icks Keith Somer set tJohnny Post ell Baby D oll Steve L unsfordE ugene West T op Robert BusbeeE dsel Church Sport Coat T ed L edbet terBobby Wheeler ‘Jack-in-Box E dgar L ew i sRobert W i llard Cad illac Car l CallR obert Stanc i l T oboggan T ommy Andrew sDanny Sm i th .
l Penc i l D onnie Prevat te
Bobby Journey Billfold Douglas PooleJer ry Garren Mickey Mouse Watch Warren Car ter
James Conrad A Bobbi Bruce H ardin
Overcoat
Blue Suede ShoesVolley Bal l
Coloring Bobk :
PajamasT ool SetShirtD rum
F lash L ightTwo T one F ord
CombT oy Clown
Radio
Talk ing MachineT inker T oys
CrayonsBag of NutsNeckt ie
Paint SetF ish F oodMotorcycle
Pressley Phot oShot gun
A Spooky Rat F aceNot ebook
Meat CleaverBal lonsSled
Basketbal lBedroom Slipper s
Push CartSt i lt sGu i tar
E lect r ic T rainPaper D olls
.GMC' T ruck
Sling Shots
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A t the present t ime they are dig
g ing grass and clear ing out the weeds
that surround the plant beds in order
to keep the fungus growth away fromthe plant s in the spr ing, when the
seed ing buds are sown.
T hey are also break ing ground for
ear ly let tuce and rad i shes t hat willbe sown around the s ixth of March .L ater on they w ill be mend ing and
cover ing sack frames and sash forcover ing the beds .
—Doug JonesBARBE R SH OP AN D SH O E SH OPMr . H ooker is the Barber and ShoeShop superv i sor . H e has four barber swho are : B i lly Coffey, Mac F lowe,L eroy Bent ly and R obert McGee. T heseboys g ive approx imately 300 hair cut s
each month .T he boys in the Shoe Shop havebeen repair ing many shoes th i s mont h .
T he boys go to the School house to
p ick up the shoes that need repairing . R ecent ly R ober t H ur t was placedin the Shoe Shop .
—James Conrad
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and t o carry it in front so t hat yourshadow will fall behind you ; to makea grave for your ugly thought s , anda garden for your kindly feel ings,with t he gate open are you w i ll ingt o do these th ings even for a day ?
T hen you can keep Christmas .Are yoq il ling to bel ieve that lovei s the st rongest thing in the wor ld
M r . Cheek, the meat cut t ing superv i sor , has f ive boy ’ s who are learning
to be meat cut ter s . T he boys t hat workw i th him in the morning are: ButchParker , J immy Sm i th, and Carl Collins . I n the afternoon the boys areC lyne E dwards and R oland Roy . T he
boys cut 450 serv ings of steak if steakis served. I f stew beef i s served theycut 1 00 pounds of beef, and 50 ch ickens must be prepared t o serve chicken.
I f pork chops are served 8 pork lo insare used. I t is a big job t o preparethe meal s served in the cafeter ia.
-James Conrad
st ronger than hat e, st ronger thanev i l , st ronger than death and thatthe blessed life wh ich began in Bethlehem ninet een hundred year s ago i sthe image and br ightnes s of the E t ernal L ove ? T hen you can keep Chr i stmas .
And if you can keep it for a day,
why not alwaysBut you can never keep it alone.
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B IRTHDAY PART IESBI R TH DAY PART Y F OR N O . 1 4 were : Jesse McN eely , Archie S ims ,On Tuesday, November 20 we had a
bir thday party for 6 boys . The boyswere
-\B i ll Johnson, H arvey H udson,Norr is Johnson, James Smith, E dselChurch and Kenneth H amm . We came
to the l iv ing room and played games .F irst we played “Pin the H ead on the
T urkey” and Char les Mauld in p innedthe head nearest t o the turkey . Nextwe played guess how many but tonswere in the jar , w i th Mac F lowegues s ing the amount . T hen we playeda game of throwing beans into a bowlof different s izes . H arvey H udson wonth is game. The pr izes were combsand hair oil . T hen Mrs . H ooker got
out the big bri thday cake, pepsi colasand apples . Mrs . H ooker popped us a
big pan of pop corn wh ich was verygood. The boys opened their gift swh ich were very n ice. The g if t s weresent t o the boys by var ious women ’ sclubs . After we had eaten, we playedibingo unt i l bedt ime
,with gum s ,
candies and comtbs as pr izes . We w isht o thank Mr . and Mr s
,H ooker for pre
par ing the b irthday par ty for us .
B i ll Johnson
N O,7 H AS PARTY
Cot tage N o. 7 had a wonderfulparty November 1 1 . We came upstair safter Church where M r s . E ller had thegames set up . We played games allafternoon. When we got t ired we
played bingo. We played unt il everyone present won a pr ize. T hree boyshad bir thdays in November
,They
and Zim Zeagle.
nice gift s .T he r efreshment s were delicious .
We were served hot dogs , pickles ,peps i s , potato ch ips , m int s and nut s .T hen some boys took up our plat esand M r . E ller served bananna split sand cake. The boys here won’
t forgetthe par ty and hope to have manymore. Our guests were Mrs . E ller ’ sparent s, Mr . and Mrs . Benf ield, and
E llen Carol ’ s E ngl i sh t eacher,M i s s
H arrell, from Concord H igh School .—Bi11 F roel ich and John Brown
they al l received
N O . 1 3 H AS BI R T H DAY PART Y
Cot tage N o. 1 3 had a b irthdayparty on October 1 6 for t hese boys :Marv in Gwyn, Bobby Munger , D eanAuton, Raymond Parr i s, Donald E d
wards, and F loyd Conner . We playedb ingo and held a contest to see who
could tear out a good witch from a
p iece of newspaper . Dav id Dupkoski
won. Mr . and Mrs . T ompkinson served us sandw iches , cake, and coca-cola.
We had a good t ime and we appre
ciate Mr . _ and Mrs . T ompkinson for
mak ing this par t y poss ible.
—E ugene West and D onald Braswel l
COT TAGE 1 7 GOE S ON T R IP
Cott age 1 7 had a big b irt hdaypar ty on November 1 7, 1 956 . We
had candy, pepsi colas , b irthday cake,and so for th, t o eat and dr ink . T he boyreally enjoyed the part y very much.
The boys who had b irthdays were
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Ray R osenberry, F redie Morris , Cardel l oxendine, C leatt ie 0 xendine,T ommy Odom and R ay Darnell . T heseboys received some n ice gift s and theyappreciat e the gift s very much .On Sunday after church, Mr . and
Mrs . H ahn t ook t he boys out t o t he irfarm . M r . H ahn t ook us f or a walkover in the woods and showed us an
old abandoned gold m ine,Some of
the pit s were very deep .We visit ed two old grave yards ,
one was a fam ily grave yard and the
other was some people from CornwallE ngland who died in 1 838 and 1 854 .
Around the graves were large st ones .The st ones came from the m ines atGold H ill , N . C . Most of the graveswere gold miner s . Some of the gravesare over 1 1 8 year s old.
We came back t o Mr . H ahn ’ s houseand at e a picnic supper . We had
cheese cracker s . pepsi cola, sandwichescake and apples . E veryone came back
t ired but happy . We want to thankM r . and Mr s . H ahn f or the good t imethey gave us .
—J ames Arrowood and W . Jenkins
COTTAGE N O . I I H AS PART Y
—D oug Jones
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the t rophy . T he two t eams made some
very nice plays and passes in th i sgame. Both teams t r ied very hard t o
score a touchdown, but were held back .A t the end of the 4th quarter ne i thert eam had scored. T his game may be
played on a later dat e for the C L eagueT rophy .
T he out standing player s for the
season were : Willard, F owler , Cul lerand H oneycut t for Cot tage N o. 1 Got
On the n ight of Oct ober 24th, Cot
t age N o. 1 1 had a bir thday party . T heboys having b i r thdays were JamesConrad , D on E llis and T homas Pr iddy .T he gift s received were shir t s and
books . T hese gift s were sent by a
woman ’ s club in W ilmingt on .
Aft er the gift s were given out , we
played bingo. Two of the boys , JamesConrad and W ill iam Glisson won threeconsecut ive t imes . T he boys were givenpr izes for every t ime they won.
T o cl imax our par ty we were servedrefreshment s which consisted of peps i sand bir thday cake. We al l enjoyed thisparty very much and are look ing forward t o another par ty .
tage No. 2’s ent ire t eam played very
good ball and so did Cot tage N o. 3 ; for
Cot tage N o. 4 , Garren, Woodruff, Coll ins
,D ixon and Sm ith ; for Cot tage N o.
9 , Byrd, L ance, T hornburg and T im
mons ; for Cot tage N o. 1 0 , Rob inson,
A llison , Cat t let t and Beasley ; for Cottage N o. 1 1 , K ing, Turp in, St one,Wall s and Jones ; for Cot tage No . 1 3,
Braswell , L ucas and Dupkoski ; Per
k ins , Wheeler and Michael led N o. 1 5 .
T he ent ire team of Cot tage N o. 1 7 has
played fair ly good ball .
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God’ s cause far ther into the hear t sof people around him . H e gained therespect and admirat ion of men tw icehis age because he always deal thonest ly and be it
fr iend or foe. H e was different in
another way too from our boys of
t oday ; he t r ied to think of t hings t hathe knew God wanted him t o thinkabout . Our boys today lit ter theirm inds w ith t rash found in comic
books , vulgar magazines and the like.
E ven though they didn ’t have these
back then, there were st ill ways inwhich he could eas ily have left God ’ slife and lived wr ong ; but he didn ’
t
H e thought only of the r ight t hings .Another thing i s, he never got angryor had ev i l int ent ions t oward hisfellowman ; even with Saul ’ s at t empt sto k i l l him . Y ou know what we woulddo if someone t r ied t o kill us . We
would probably have him put in jai lor something or at least get angryand t ry t o get r evenge ; but D aviddidn ’
t he left the count ry so he wouldnot have any t rouble.
R ev . H ouck closed by telling us thatif we don’
t l ive r ight it i s not . t oo
lat e t o beg in ; although the soonerwe s tart the more l ike David we
’re
go ing t o be. H e then closed his serv icew ith a prayer .
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T he vi sit ing minist er for the schoolon T hanks-giving D ay was a fr iendand neighbor , R ev . I van W . Br indlefrom the R ocky R idge Method i stChurch of Concord, N . C .
R ev . Br indle del ivered '
a very finemessage choos ing his ver ses of scr ipture from 1 03 Psalm dealing concur
rent ly w ith the fir st two ver ses . R ev .
Br indle went on t o t ell us about thefir st T hanksg iving D ay . A s we knowthe fir st T hanksgiving day wasn ’
t
in November but in D ecember . The
pilgr ims who landed in Plymouthwere set t ing aside a day f or the pur
pose of thanking God f or br ingingt hem through their hardships and
anxiet ies . They had been " fast ing and
were now feast ing . T he pilgr ims aswe have, had a lot t o thank God forshelter , food, _
clothing , good” health',
our oppor tunit ies , free wor ship , hav ingsuch a fine count ry that we are proud ‘
to say W e are cit izens of, and al l the
innumerable blesssings that God has
bes t owed upon us . We should thankhim f or H is love, F or God so lovedthe wor ld t hat he gave his only begot ten so
‘
n that whosoever believethon him shall not per i sh but have ever
las t ing life .
”T he pilgr ims came t o
wor ship God as they chose and we
should wor ship him in spir it and in
sincer ity and w ith faith . F or he said“W ith faith mountains can be moved.
So like our forefather s , we shou ld havea lot
“
of faith in God.
R ev . Br indle closed by saying the
l ife we l ive t oday is the beginningand way of life of t omorrow . H e
closed w ith a prayer .
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T he speaker for Sunday, November1 8 , was R ev . R oy L . T rexler , Past orof the Prosper ity L utheran Church ofR oute 3 , Concord N . C .
R ev . T rexler chose his scr ipturereading from the let ter of St . James .R ev . T rexler start ed by saying thatthere are var ious ways we can seek
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anything. H e gave us a f ew examplesof people t raveling far and wide seeking for something that was eventuallyfound in their own back yard. Once
t here was a very r ich man named
A lhapta of Per sia. H e was_in hi s
h-ome\one day when a cer tain H indupr iest came in and t old him aboutGod, the creat or , how he creat ed
heaven and ear th . H ow he made suchvaluable th ings as gold, silver , and
diamonds . Alhapt a got t o thinkingthat if he could get a diamond the
size of his thumb he could put al l hischildren on thrones as kings . So
A lhapt a in his search f or diamond's“ sold al l hi s land and finally like the
Prodigal Son h is money gave out .
When he was on the shores of Spainhe jumped in the ocean, and was lostforever . But this isn ’
t the end of the
st ory . Back on the farm he had sold,the fellow t hat bought it was down
at the creek behind the house wat er ingan animal . H e saw a black stone and
liked the looks of . H e carr ied it backt o the house and laid it on t he mant lenever t o use again . But this same
pr iest that had or iginally got ten Al
bapta int erest ed saw the rock and hethought A lhapta was back but he
wasn ’t , and it came t o pass that t he
rock was a very large d iamond. And
A lhapta in his quest f or fame and
for tune forgot t o look in his own
back yard. T he moral and lesson of
this lit t le st ory is that we shouldn ’t
be so enthused over the things thatwe find here on eart h t hat we can
’t
look in our own back yard. So t o
quest ion,
“H ow can we increase in
w isdom and know ledge? ” The answer
i s very simple; ask of God with faith.
H e then closed w ith a prayer .
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“The speaker f or the School on
Sunday , November 25 was R ev H . L .
R egist er , Pastor of the Memor ialChurch of Kannapol is , N . C .
R ev . R egist er chose his scr ipturereading from t he Gospel of S t . L uke,“L et not your hear t be t roubled. Y e
believeth in God bel ieveth also in me .
R ev . R egist er went on t o tell of two
men ; one was very r ich who couldbuy anything he want ed. T he otherwas a very poor man who had t o workf or a l iving . Both of t hese men had
something in common ; they} _
were
both seeking f or something t o havea sat isfied feeling in their hear t s .T he r ich man want ed a huge ruby andhe sold everything that he owned t o
get that ruby . T hen he was perfect lysat i sfied. T he poor man didn ’
t want
very much ; just a home and farm he
could cal l his own . One day he was
plowing and his plow st ruck some
thing that sounded like it was madeof metal . H e in his searching founda box full of jewels ; but it didn ’
t
belong t o him . I t belonged t o the manwho owned the field . So this poor manhid the box again and some year slat er aft er raking and scraping everycent he could h e bought the farm and
the box of jewels were r ight ly his .H e had his home and farm and therefore he was filled w ith sat isfact ion .
Jesus said if you want someth ing ;“L et not your hear t be t roubled, Y e
bel ieveth in God believeth also in me
for in my father ’ s house are manymansions .” The thing we want i s a
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T he football season has slow lydrawn t o a close here at JacksonT rain ing School . T he Cot tage t eamshave shown more improvement in
every game they have played. Some of
the t eams that were on the bot tomhave worked their way to the t op .
Games played on SaturdayNovember 3
Cot tage No. 4 , unbeat en t eam of the
season, won over N o . 1 5 by the scoreof 6-0 . T he touchdown came in the f ir sthalf of the game, when Wheeler , forN o. 1 5, t r ied to knock down a passwhich was meant for Woodruff, hit itdirect ly into Smith ’ s hands , who wasplaying r ight end for N o. 4 , and ran
f or a touchdown . _T he ext ra point wast r ied by a pass , but was incomplet e.
Cot tage N o. 1 5 held N o. 4 down in the
last half and played very good ball .T he final score was 20—0 .
Cot tage No. 1 1 get t ing of f to a good
star t in the fir st half of t he ir game,
downed the undefeated t eam N o. 1 4 .
T he three t ouchdowns weremade bylong passes from N o. 1 l
’s quarter
back Jones . Two of the t ouchdownswere scored in the fir st half of the
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ROBERT
W I LLARD
game, and two of the ext ra po int swere made. I n the second half anothert ouchdown was scored, but the ext rapoint was no good. T he final scorewas 2 1—0 .
Cot tage N o. 3 play ing most of the irsecond st r ing against N o. 2 , defeatedt hem 6-0 .
T he highlight s of the games played on
November 1 0T he open ing game on November 1 0 ,
saw Cot tage N o. 1 4 , who hasn ’t lost
but one game all season, down N o.
1 3 by _the score of 1 4-0 . T he two
t ouchdowns were scored in the fir sthalf of the game. T he ext ra po int swere made by a pass and a run . N o.
1 3 played a very good game, and in
the second half held the 1 4 boy ’ s down,
but couldn ’t seem t o overcome the 1 4
point s
T he second game saw t he undefeated team, Cot tage N o. 1 1 , out classCot tage N o. 1 7 by the score of 33-0 .
F our touchdown passes were thrownby Jones . Walls scored 1 4 of the point s,with the ext ra po int s being made byshor t passes .
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Selected byWH I T E CH R I STMA S
I’m dream ing of a White Chr istmas,Just like the ones I used t o know,
W i th the t rees tops gl i sten and
children li st ens ,T o hear ' sleigh bells in the snow .
I’m dream ing of a Whit e Chr is tmas ,W ith every Chr i stmas card I wr i te,May your days be merry and br ightAnd may all your Chr ismas ’ s be
wh i te.
JINGL E BE L L S
D ashing thro’the snow,
In a one-horse open sleigh,O
’er the field we go,
L aughing all the way ;
Bell s on bobtai l r ing,
Making spir' i t s br ight ;What fun it i s to r ide and
A sleighing song ton ight !CH OR U SJingle bells ! Jingle bells !Jingle al l the way !Oh ! what fun it i s to r ideIn a one—hor se open sleigh !Jingle bells ! Jingle bells !Jingle al l the way !
Oh ! what fun it i s to r ideI n a one-hor se open sleigh !
CH RISTMAS SONG
S I L E NT NI GH TSilent night , holy nightA l l i s calm al l i s br ight
F red KingRound yon Virgin Mother and Ch i ldH oly Infant so tender and m i ldSleep in heavenly peaceSleep in heavenly peace.
S i lent night , holy n ight ,Darknes s flies , and all is l ight “, v
Shepherds hear the angels s ing,
A lleluia hai l the kingJesus the Saviour i s born,
Jesus the Saviour_is born ,
S i lent night , holy nightGu id ing star , 0 lend thy l ight ;See the eastern w i se men
'br ingG ift s and homage t o our kingJesus the Saviour is born,
Jesus the . Saviour i s born .
Silent night , holy night ,Wondrous star , 0 lend thy light ;W i th the angel s let us s ingA llelu ia to our kingJesus our Saviour i s born ,
Jesus our saviour i s born .
Ches tnut s roast ing on an Open fire,Jackf rost nipping at your nose,Y ule t ide carols being sung by a choirAnd folks dressed up
'
l ike esk imos .E verybody knows some turkey and
some m i st let oesH elps to make the season br ight ,T iny t ot s with their eyes al l aglowW ill find it hard to sleep t on ight .
T hey know that Santa i s on h i s wayW ith lot s of t oys and goodies on his
sle ighAnd every mother ’ s ch i ld i s go ing to
sigh,
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When they see a reindeer really knows Pleased, as man,w ith men t o
how to fly . J esus , our Immanuel !And so I
’m offer ing this s imple H ark ! the herald angel s sing,
phrase, “Glory t o the newborn King .
”
T o kids from one t o ninety two,
T hough it’s been said many t imes OH
,L I T T L E T OWN OF
many ways , BE T H L E H EMMerry Chr istmas t o you .
JOY T O T H E WOR L D
J oy t o the wor ld, the L ord i s come !
L et ear t h receive her King ;L et ev
’ry hear t prepare H im room ,
And H eav’n and nature sing,
'
And H eav’n and nature sing
And H eav’n and nature sing .
J oy t o the wor ld, the Savi our reigns ,L et men their songs employ ;While fields an floods
,rock, h i l l s and
plainsR epeat the sounding joy ,R epeat the sounding joy ,
R epeat the sounding joy .
H ARK ! T H E H E RALD ANGE L S 1 T CAME Ugggfi
MI DNI GH T
H ark ! the herald angel s s ing,“Glory t o the newborn King !Peace on ear th, and mercy m ild,God and sinner s reconciled.
”
Joyful all ye nat ions r ise,Join the t r iumph of the skies ;With the angelic host proclaim“Chr ist i s born in Bethlehem .
”
H ark ! the herald angel s sing,
“Glory t o the newborn King-l”
Chr ist , by highest heav ’n adored,
Chr i st,the
'
ever last ing L ord ;
L at e in t ime behold him come,
Offspr ing of the favored'
one.
V eil’d in flesh , the Godhead see;
H ail th ’ incarnat e D eity ;
Oh ,lit t le t own of Bethlehem !
H ow s t ill we see thee l ieAbove thy deep and dr eamless sleepT he silent star s go by ;Y et in thy dark st reet s shinethT he ever last ing light ;T he hopes and fear s of al l the year sA re met in thee t onight .
F or Chr is t is born of Mary,
And gather’d al l above,
While mor tal s sleep the angel s keepT heir wat ch of wond
’
ring love,Oh morning star s , t ogetherProclaim the holy bir th !And praises sing t o God the KingAnd peace t o men on earth .
I t came upon the m idnight clearT hat glor ious song of old ,
F r om angels bending near the ear thT o touch their harps of gold ;“Peace t o the ear th , good-w ill t o man ,
F rom H eaven’ s al l -gracious King :”
T he ear th in solemn s t illness lay ,
T o hear the angel s sing .
St ill thr o ’the cloven skies they come,
W ith peaceful w ings unfur led;And s t il l celes t ial music float sO
’er all the weary wor ld
About it s sad and low ly plainsT hey bend on heavenly w ing ,
And ever o’er Babel sounds ,
T he blessed angel s s ing !
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COTTAGE HONOR ROLLR E CE IVING COT TAGEJerry BrownKenneth BlackH oward H ardee
Bruce H ardin
COT TAGE N O . 1
CO T TAGE N O . 2
B uddy Par sons
COTTAGE N O . 3
R ober t Pruit tH omer R idingsC laude Williams
COT TAGE N O . 4
Car l CollinsL ee D r iverClyne E dwardsJerry Gar renJimmy H oneycut tJames McL amb
But ch ParkerJimmy Sm ithR oy WebbClifford Woodruff
COT TAGE N O . 5
Joe H ayesR ober t McL amb
Grant OwensbyBilly Panther
D ouglas PoffH arold RussellR oy T estermanR ichaardWh i senant
COT TAGE N O . 1 0
COT TAGE N O . 6
T ommy AndrewsMike McGradyWill iam Ph i ll ipsD onn ie Prevat te
John R ichardson
COTT AGE N O .
John BrownD onnie Dav isB i ll F roelichJesse McN eelyA rchie SimsBobby T odd
COT TAGE NO . 9
R ober t CreelJohn H enselyBradford H orne
W illie I ngramBur t JohnsonE . J . JohnsonI ra L angleyE dgar L ewi sR ober t McGradyL arry ParkerKenneth RamseyJohn Shadr ickL eon T immons
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CAF E T E R IA Bobbie J oe T allantJ
o
C lyne E dwardsCit
ieS
Ma
s
sTith
Ber t JohnsonDonald Braswell Car l J ohnson
R ober t PresnellBA RBER SH OP
C lar ence PickardMack F lowe J . H arold Presley
MACH INE SH OP D ouglas GilleyF red Parker T om H oward
L arry Carden W‘
esley Pendlet onKeith Somer set t Jes se M cN eely
Maxie T -eal
Marv in Scot tPOU L T R Y F OR CE
John R ichardsonW illiam Phil lips
T ommy_Andrews
H arold Padget t
DA I R Y
W ill iam Out lawMarshel JonesBobby WheelerP-aul PerkinsBruce M ikeal
Junious R ivenbarkBi lly Broyle'sJinimie
,Bowman
D onald CookJames Y oung
R ober t L it t leD onald T hornburgF rank BakerBobby Port er
L AU ND RYJam-
es Conner
R onnie Ander son
Y AR D F ORCE
L awr ence“
E vansE . J . JohnsonJ Ohn BurnsR ober t McL amb
F loyd_D e-t t er
L eon T immonsD ouglas PooleKenneth .
‘
Ram seyW il lie I ngram
S t ev‘
e L ance
R obe-r t BarnesJohnny Cavines s
CO T T ON MI L LC laude W i ll iamsWayne E s t esE ar l MorganRaymond R oseberryR ober t H aydockR ex Bell
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Warr en Car t er
T ed L edbet t erT RACT OR F OR CE
Cleadie 0 xendineJ .“w. W ilkinsT omnt y W ill iamsBill F roelichJimmy H oneycut tE dw in KnightS t eve L amber tA rchie SimsJunior 0 xendineWayne JenkinsJames Arrowood
Bobby Ander sJohnny BradshawR ober t S tancilBARN F OR CE
R aymond Parr i shJohn Burges sChar les Mathi sPaul Webb
SCHOOLD elmar Sheet sD alt on '
L ewisR onald Po-ff
Bobby Ander sJame s E dwardsD avid AdamsBobby Aut ryH arvey H udsonC lyde D embyJimmy BowmanJohnny H ardeeCleadie 0 xendineC laude W illiam s
Jer ry St rangeD avid D upkoski
CAR PE NT E R SH OPBobby BagwellBobby MungerNor r is JohnsonPau l D ockery
INF I RMARYWayne Bur r i sD anny Smith
HONOR ROM.
PR INT SH OPR ober t W illardF red KingJames ConradWayne Rudi sillJohn BrownJerry BrownBuck Cow ickD oug JonesW ilbur H allW illiam MadronBobby '
Byrd
E ar l MorganT homas O ldhamCar l BaileyC larence BatyMar shall JonesClyne E dwardsJohn BurnsE dsel ChurchJames McL amb
James Groom sMax ie T ealB ill F roelich
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FUN AND OTHERW ISE(B it s of humor clipped from exchanges and gathered from
other publ icat ions, with an oozasional original funny-bonet ickler added. )
I f you are so smart give me a
defin i t ion of nothing” .
H ow simple can you get? Noth ing
is a bunghole without a barrel,I t is
also what t he husband has left in
his wallet after his wife buys a new
dress . And it i s more than you havein your head.
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H ungry, exhausted, and fr ightened,the
,
hunter dropped his r ifle, stumbledforward, and threw his arms aboutthe man who had just emerged from.
a pat ch of t imber .
“Am I glad t o
see you !” he cr ied.
“I’ve been lost for
two days,
”
“What are you so glad about ?”
mumbled the other .
“I’ve been lost a
week !”
OOo:oOO
T im :“D id you say that man called,
you a peanut ? ”S lim :
“That ’ s about t he size of it .
OOo :oOO
When I stand on my head, all myblood rushes down. Why doesn ’
t it
do this when I stand on my feet ?Simple. Y our feet aren
’t empt y
,
And incidentally, Y ou are the onlyper son at Jackson T raining Schoolwho looks bet t er stand ing on his
head so keep it up .
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T eachee f you mowed twenty lawns
at a dollar and a half each, what wouldyou have ?Tomr
'
ny : A new bicycle.
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Most parent s can ’t figure out what
t heir son would like for a b ir thdaypresent . Just what would a s ixteenyear O ld boy like?A s ixteen year old g ir l .
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F red —I saw a doctor t oday aboutmy lapses of memory.T ed—What did he say ?
F red—H e made me pay in advance.
OOo :oOO
A manwalked into a grocery store
in a small t own .
“Y es , sir ,
”the clerk said.
“May I
help you? ”
“I
'
want t o buy all your over r ipevegetables and rot ten eggs .”“H a, ha,
”the clerk laughed.
“Y oumust be go ing t o see the comedian at
the t heater .
”
“N ot so loud,” the man said fur
t ively .
“I am t he comedian .
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F or many year s , the ed i tor of the
P ine Bluff (Ark . ) Commercial had a
s ign over h i s desk that read :“Ob i t
uary E d i tor .
”R ecent ly, h i s son t ook
over the post and prompt ly had thes ign changed t o read:
“Son of Obit
uary E d i tor .
To
To
To help yourTo do his work , and l i ft hisTo add your gi ft to the world’ s goOd cheer.
Is to have and to give a g lad New Year.
AuthOr unknown
Published Monthly ByThe Pr int ing Class of the St onewall JacksonManual T raining and Indust r ial School
Concord, Nor th Carolina
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