Bailey Bugle. Bailey. North Carolina. October. 19‘?1 Page 18
/\ P3QQ C^f THq B^Silsy BuqIq By Doris Joyner
Have you ever given
thought to the history of
a page of the Bailey Bugle?
If you I'dll let your imag
ination roam vdth me for a
few minutes, you and I
will take an imaginary
trip backward through time
and find out hovir this pa^e
was made.
While prowling around
Bailey one afternoon,
searching for old clothes,
rags, and old paper, I
came upon the basketball
suit worn by lirs. Lassiter
back in her Kentucky high-
school-team days, one of
the shirts "Boss" Vsfells
vrare while in high school,
and one of Miss Edith Far
mer's baby dresses.
These garments were sent
to the paper factory in
Plymouth ' to be "pas-
tuerized".
A few days later John Mor
gan watched with sad eyes
as two men cut down some
of his father’s pine trees
in -v^iich he played "Tarzan"
as a small boy. These pine
I03S were loaded on a
trgin and sent to the same
factory.
At this factory a few
graduates of Bailey High
cooked the lengths of wood
in chemicals, then washed
them to free them from the
chemicals. (Silly—huh 11)
Next, several screens
freed the fibers of for
eign materials. The pulp
was then thoroujhly washed
and beaten by a machine.
After this the fibers
were brushed,and „put into
proper lengths. The pulp
from the garments v:as mix
ed with the wood fibers
next.
Finally the paper was
dried and squeezed onto
large cylinders where it
stayed until it was cut
and sent to another fac
tory to be refinished.
After the paper was re-
finished, the county
bought a supply for school
use. From the county of
fice the Bu,^le purchased a
number of reams.
At last in the skillful
hands of the Bugle Staff
this page was mimeographed
by Lois Thigpen and Jackie
Lamm in order to reveal to
you its history.
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