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Who Shot Old Joe ’s Foot ?
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“They suspicioned it was
mean William,” says his
neighbor Mrs. Fern, repor
ting the crime to Farmer Brown.
Farmer Brown stops making his
barn and humming to himself
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and rushes to the fearful scene.
He finds “Old Joe” sitting with
the wounded extremity swaddl
ed and propped on a chair,
lamenting the vice that caused
this violence.
Brandee Daves, director Salvatore Salerno and Maricus
Freeman.
“I wish 1 hadn’t won that
$10,000 off Mean William in
that card game,” the victim
moans. Sister Sue arrives, bear
ing “a nice bowl of soup for your
foot,” which the foot declines.
The growing assembly heads for
the hospital, where Nurse Carol
and Dr. Gene (who listens at the
foot with his stethoscope) pro
vide the kind of care that makes
the patient recover fast in self-
defense.
There is a script for this play,
written and presented by Mrs.
Ann Elliott’s third graders at
Boiling Springs Elementary
School. But drama coach
Salvatore Salerno, visiting artist
at Cleveland Tech, has en-
couarged departures from the
written word, to give this
premier work spontaneity and
life. Thus it gets more hearty
laughs in its scant five minutes
than many TV comedies com
mand in an hour.
Sadly, “Old Joe Goes To The
Hospital” will not make Broad
way; its cast has lines of spelling
and arithmetic to mastei.
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Kelly Edwards, Daniel Greene, Maricus Freeman and Brandee
Daves present "Old loe Goes To The Hospital." Not pictured
are cast members Karla Butler and Sally Thompson.
The F oothills View
BIW, Po-Mage Paid
Friday, October 21, 1983
BOILING SPRINGS NC
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Bj/e, Bye Boll Weevil
The little yellow plane swooping
right at clothesline-level has
startled a lot of folks over the
past few weeks in the Boiling
Springs area, as crop duster
Johnny Payne zooms across our
fields. Payne, whose home base
is in Statesville, is working with
the Department of Agriculture’s
boll weevil eradication program.
Some late spraying is for defolia
tion for ease of harvest, but some
is a final blast at bugs, to
diminish their assault on next
year’s crop. Cotton is making a
comeback in the South, and the
Red Baron of the boll weevil war
has his work cut out for him.
“As cotton comes back,” says
county agent Frank Sftencer, “so
does the boll weevil.”
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Cleveland Native
Funeral Held
For Mrs. Brooks
Modern Apple Rolled A Long Way
The first edible apples were
found in western Rusia, but
these earliest. European apples
were small, sour and seedy. By
crossbreeding those early apples,
a fruit of good size and taste was
produced and introduced by the
Romans into Britain as early as
50 B.C.
The only native apple in
America is the sour crabapple.
Early immigrants were used to
good apples, so they brought
with them seeds and graftings.
Apples soon became a valuable
crop in colonial America for
food, cider, forage for animals
and for fragrant firewood.
John Chapman, better known
as Johnny Appleseed, is believed
to have spread apple cultivation
westward from New England.
Around 1800 he started west on
the Ohio River with a boatload
of apple seeds from Penn
sylvania cider mills. He
crisscrossed the Midwest ter
ritory many times, stopping to
read aloud from the Bible to
anyone who would listen, as well
as to plant, sell and give away his
apple seeds.
Early plantings on this conti
nent produced a large number of
varieties. Many were named for
their location, such as Adiron
dack, the York imperial from
York County, Pa., and the
Rhode Island greening. Others
were named for their growers;
Jonathans for Jonathan
Hasbrouch of New York and
Macintoshes for John Macin
tosh of Toronto, Canada.
Early settlers used apples for
food, and cider was practically
the national drink. Apples were
used to cure everything from
malaria to distemper.
The word apple has a pleasant
connotation. Think of romantic
apple blossoms in the spring, the
unmistakable scent in the air at
harvest time, the aroma of apple
pies baking, or applesauce and
hot cider simmering. The
thought of biting into a crunchy,
juicy apple is enough to make
one’s mouth water.
You are lucky if you have an
apple tree in your yard, and
maybe we should all say thanks
to the Romans of 50 B.C. and to
Johnny Appleseed of 1800.
'No Kidding
Novak At
G-W
Workshop
Mrs. Vertie Greene Brooks, a
life-long resident of Boiling Spr
ings, died Thursday, Oct. 13,
after a long illness. She was 75.
A member of Boiling Springs
Baptist Church, Mrs. Brooks liv
ed on North Main Street. A
widow for nine years after the
death of her husband, J.B.
Brooks, she is remembered by
family and friends as an extreme
ly loving mother.
It was love returned, during
her years of serious illness. “Her
doctor said that it was only the
tender love and care her children
gave her that kept her alive,”
said her sister, Mrs. Velma
Walker.
The daughter of the late
Charles Plato and Addie Mae
Greene, she was seven years old
when her father died, leaving her
mother with a large family of
small children to raise. Hubert,
the baby, was only six months
old. Their mother went to work
as the switchboard operator for
the town of Boiling Springs, and
the children all shared in keeping
the home.
“We used to pick cotton,”
Hubert remembers now. “We us
ed to race to see who’d get the
most. Vertie never did win.” No
cotton picker, she took over a lot
of chores in the house, her sister
Velma recalls. And at 14, she
was married to J.B. Brooks, who
was a local building contractor.
“She and J.B. got along as well
as any couple ever did get
along,” V elma says. They raised
six children, and then the grand
children 2ind great-grandchildren
came along, keeping the home
busy. “Her grandchildren loved
her - she never did try to boss
‘em; she left that to their parents.
She Just loved them,” Mrs.
Walker says.
Her minister once consoled
her, when Mrs. Brooks was
lamenting her lack of time to do
more church work. ‘The work
you’ll leave behind you is in
these fine children,” he said.
Surviving are her son, Carl
Brooks, of Boiling Springs; five
daughters, Mrs. Polly McDaniel,
Mrs. Catherine Jolley, Mrs.
Becky Wallace, Mrs. Carolyn
Hunt and Mrs. Lib Jones, all of
Boiling Springs; two brothers,
Roy Greene and Hubert Greene,
of Boiling Springs; two sisters,
Mrs. Velma Walker of Boiling
Springs and Mrs. Cindy Vassey
of Shelby, 14 grandchildren and
12 great-grandchildren.
Dr. Max Linnens and Rev.
Keith Dixon conducted funeral
services on Saturday. Burial was
in Cleveland Memorial Park.
Memorials may be sent to Boil
ing Springs Baptist Church.
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Michael Novak - author, col
umnist and political activist will
be the featured guest speaker
during a three day workshop to
be held at Gardner-Webb Col
lege.
The workshop, cospoonsored
by the Broyhill Academy of
Gardner-Webb and the National
Foundation for the Study of
Religion and Economics
(NFSRE), will be held in
Gardner-Webb’s Charles I
Dover Student Center beginning
Wednesday, October 19 through
Friday, October 21.
The workshop, which is open
to the public at no cost, will be
directed by Dr. Douglas Culver,
director of the NFSRE.
Four Courses Open
At Cleveland Tech
They're rare, especially in a goat's first bir
thing, says G.C. Greene, whose proud nanny
produced these triplets this summer. The nan
ny, who follows Greene around his flint hill
road farm like a dog, is already teaching the
kids to climb into his truck and car. People
have offered to buy them, Greene says. But so
far, nothing doing.
Workshop activities will
culminate on Friday at 6 p.m.
with a banquet featuring Novak
as guest speaker.
The Continuing Education
Department of Cleveland
Technical College has scheduled
the following courses:
Stained glass begins October
25, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at
Shelby Junior High. The class
will meet each Tuesday evening
until December 6. The instructor
will be Neal Seism. Total hours
20. The registration fee is
$15.00.
Upholstery begins Nov. 2,
from 6-9 p.m. at Campus
Upholstery Shop. The class will
meet each Wednesday & Thurs
day until January 25. The in-
structory will be Doyt Johnson.
Total hours 66. The registration
fee is $10.00.
Upholstery begins Nov. 8,
from 9-12 a.m. at Campus. The
class will meet each Tuesday and
Thursday until January 12. The
instructor will be Charles
Knight. Total hours 60. The
registration fee is $10.00.
Beginning Sewing begins Oc
tober 31, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at
Campus Room 883. The class
will meet each Monday evening
until December 12. The instruc
tor will be Abbie Anthony. Total
hours 20.
The registration fee is $15.00.
All persons 65 years of age
and over can register free. For
further information, call
Cleveland Tech.