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Friday, October 28, 1983
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Services
Held For
Mrs. Blanton
The Old Gray Mare
Ain’t What She Used To Be
Reagan Apointee
Novak: “Bad News
In the back for her Bible,
which she read daily, and had
read many times through, Mrs.
Sallie Ellis Blanton had written a
favorite verse. The 33rd chapter
of Jeremiah, third verse, it said,
“Call to me and 1 will answer
you, and will tell you great and
hidden things which you have
not known.”
Concerned with matters of the
spirit, Mrs. Blanton lived to see
many temporal wonders, as well,
in her 96 years. Born in
Cherokee County, she was the
daughter of Romulus N. and
Mary Jane Glover Ellis, and a
member of Grassy Pond Baptist
Church.
She and her husband, Otis
Alexander Blanton, farmed in
Cherokee County. They raised
four of their five children, one
having died in infancy. About 25
years ago, they retired and came
to Boiling Springs to live.
Mr. Blanton preceded his wife
in death by 11 years. She lived
on in a little house behind her
daughter, Mrs. Douglas Hardin,
on College Road, and each night
came to the Hardins’ to sleep,
because they didn’t want her to
be alone at night. But then each
morning, until the last week of
her life, when she was hospitaliz
ed, she got up and went to her
own house and cooked her
breakfast, and went about her
business all day independently.
“She lived a very quiet life,”
Mrs. Hardin said. “Her Bible was
the most important thing to her.
She was always the ‘Head of the
Religion Department’ in our
family.” She taught Sunday
School at Grassy Pond Baptist,
and then at Sharon Methodist,
after moving away from her
home Church.
Is Good News”
A httle on^horse wagon took an unaccustomed whirl, at about seven miles per hour, up Main
Street in Boiling Springs Wednesday, behind Everette Drewery's pick-up truck. Drewery bought
the wagon from G.C. Greene or Flint Hill Road and was pulling it home to North Main Street,
where his ponies will learn to pull it for the Boiling Springs Christmas Parade.
Big Top
Spreading
Over Laughter
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Tuesday, November 1 Gardner-
Webb College’s Paul Porter
Arena will fill with the roar of
lions and the laughter of children
as the Royal Hanneford Circus
comes to the college for two per
formances.
Performance are scheduled for
4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Tickets for the circus cost $5
for adults and $3 for children
under 12 and can be purchased
at Suttles Drug Store in Shelby,
Boiling Springs Drug Store in
Boiling Springs and at the Webb
Building at Gardner-Webb.
By Brooks Nash
By Stacey Harrison
A Reagan appointee and ex
perienced politician talked
politics at a press conference at
Gardner Webb College Friday,
October 21.
Michael Novak spoke candid
ly about his own and President
Reagan’s ideas on the newly
formed Martin Luther King, Jr.
holiday, and on Reagan’s plans
for the upcoming election and
the economy.
Novak said of the King holi
day, “There it is. Let’s make the
best of it. He was a great
American to honor,” said
Novak, who studied at Rome in
1958, “but in the Catholic
Church we typically wait a good
many years before we canonize
somebody. It was a little
rushed.”
Novak also fielded the impen
ding question about Reagan’s
running in 1984. Reagan, Novak
said “was the only President of
the last eight or nine of whom
that was an honest question. He
could walk away from it tomor
row a happy man,” Novak said,
“even his enemies are not quite
sure if he’s going to run again. I
wouldn’t be shocked if he didn’t
run - I wouldn’t consider it a
miracle.”
Michael Novak
Novak bases these ideas on his
beliefs about the economy. “I
would be very nervous myself if
I were in his (Reagan’s) shoes
about the fact that there’s good
news this year,” he said.
“He would be much better off
if there was bad news this year,
because these things do run in
cycles. If 1 were in the White
House I’d be scared stiff about
all the good news.”
Bazaar Opens Saturday
The Lattimore Junior
Woman’s Club will hold its an
nual bazaar on Saturday, Oc
tober 29, 1983 from 10:00 a.m.
to 3:00 p.m. at the Lattimore
Club House.
Vendors will offer a variety of
crafts including macrame, cross-
stitch, candlewicking, pottery.
candles, ceramics, baskets,
Christmas items, and much
more.
The dub members will offer
their cookbooks, “Granny
Strikes Again”, a country store,
baked goods, and a hot dog
lunch. Proceeds will go towards
community service.
She died Sunday at Crawley
Memorial Hospital. Funeral ser
vices were Tuesday at Boiling
Springs United Methodist
Church, conducted by Rev.
Morris Byers and Rev. Billy Joe
Parker. Burial was at Grassy
Pond Baptist.
Surviving are one son, Ellis
Blanton, of Gaffney; three
daughters, Mrs. Douglas Hardin
of Boiling Springs, and Mrs.
Harold Harris and Mrs. Robert
McMurry of Shelby; 11 grand
children; 14 great-grandchildren
and one great-great grandchild.
Self-Reid Vows Pledged Saturday
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IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT....
The goblins will be loose on the land Monday night, and
Halloween celebrants will abound. The wise will be watchful,
especially on the streets, and in all dark and lonely places....
8 In 10 Favor School Prayer
From Gallup Polls
An overwhelming majority of
Americans favor a Constitu
tional Amendment that would
permit voluntary group prayer in
public schools.
Among the eight in 10 (82%)
who have followed the pros and
cons of the debate over prayer in
public schools, 81% say they
favor the proposed Amendment
while 14% oppose it and 5% are
undecided.
Public support for such an
Amendment has remained firm
over the 15 months since Presi
dent REagan first proposed it. A
May 1982 survey showed 78%
of the aware group (also 82% in
that survey) in favor of the
Reagan proposal, 16% opposed
and 6% with no opinion.
Nearly half of the aware
group (48%) say they strongly
favor the proposed Amendment,
while 33% express mild support.
On the disapproval side, 7% say
they strongly oppose the
Amendment, while 7% express
mild opposition.
The President’s proposed
Amendment states:
“Nothing in this Constitution
shall be constructed to prohibit
individual or group prayer in
public schools or other public in
stitutions. No person shall be re
quired by the United States or by
any state to participate in
prayer.”
Organzed group prayer in
public schools effectively came
to an end in 1962 after the
Supreme Court ruled it violated
the First Amendment.
All persons in the survey were
first asked this question:
Have you heard or read about
a proposed Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution that would
allow voluntary prayer in tlie
public schools?
Eight in 10 (82%) replied in
the affirmative. This “aware”
group was asked:
Do you favor or oppose this
proposed Amendment? How
strongly do you favor (oppose)
this proposed Amendment - very
strongly, fairly strongly, or not
at all strongly?
Here are the national findings:
VOLUNTARY SCHOOL
PRAYER
(Based On Aware Group)
Favor—Total
Very strongly
Fairly strongly
Not at all
strongly
Oppose - Total
Not at all
strongly
Fairly strongly
Very strongly
No opinion
1%
48%
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A Saturday afternoon wed
ding ceremony at Sandy Run
Baptist Church united Anita
Cheryl Self, of Mooresboro, and
Dwight Davis Reid of Lattimore.
The couple exchanged vows ■
they had written themselves
before the groom’s father, War
ren J. Reid, who officiated at the
marriage. Mr. Reid was assisted
in the ceremony by Rev. Tim
Hendrick and Rev. Joe Edwards.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Self of
Church Street in Mooresboro.
Given in marriage by her father,
she was attended by her sister,
Wanda Schenkel, of Wilm
ington, Del., as matron of honor.
Bridesmaids were Patti Bailey, of
Morganton, the groom’s sister;
Jean LaCoste of Milton, Fla;
Sherry Downey, of Rock Hill,
S.C. and Patty Nesbitt of Cary.
Junior bridesmaids were
Jessica Schenkel, of Wilmington,
Delware, whose sister Christa
served as flower girl, and Karen
and Angie Reid, of Sumter, S.C.
Kim Allen of Pensacola, Fla.
kept the register.
The groom, son of the Warren
J. Reids of New House Road,
Lattimore, was attended by John
Blanton of Shelby as best man.
Ushers were Phillip Reid of
Hickory; Richard Reid of
Sumter, S.C.; Phil Bailey of
Morganton; Stan Schenkel of
Wilmington, Del., and Mike
Blanton of Lattimore.
The bride wore a white satin
dress trimmed in net and lace.
She carried an arrangement of
silk flowers. The bridesmaids
wore yellow and brown print ■
calico and carried fall banquets.
Music was provided by twin
flutist Becky and Mimi Allen,
organist Marlene Gold and
vocalists Paul Downey and
Susan Canipe.
A neighbor of the bride’s fami
ly, Mrs. Don Melton, made the
wedding cake for the reception
that followed, and the bride and
other friends prepared the food.
The bride is a 1974 graduate
of Crest High School a graduate
of Pensacola Christian College
and is a teacher at Shelby Chris
tian School. The bridegroom
graduated from Crest in 1976
and received his diploma in 1978
from Central Piedmont Com
munity College. He is an artist
for the Infomation Service office
at Gardner-Webb College.
After a wedding trip to Gatlin-
burg, Tenn., the couple will live
in Shelby.
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Mrs. Cheryl Reid
Of Shelby
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