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10OmnibusThursday, September 15, 1988 Full of hot air ? Then ro adtr By KELLY RHODES Arts Editor Statesville. N.C, Is finally being put on the map. No, no. not literally. Its been there for many, many years, at the intersection of interstates 77 and 40, just 40 miles north of Charlotte, 45 miles west of Winston-Salem and SO miles east of Hickory. What's putting Statesville on the map Is this little party we have there every year called the National Balloon Rally. This week end 1 20 balloonists from all over He's the man with the plan. And now he's in The Chapel Hill Herald. To get him delivered to your door, call 957-6581. Don't be a pinhead. Read about one. Herald SSvSW To arrange tor daily devyt cal 967-6581. ME M com!" the country will be taking off and landing at the Statesville Municipal Airport Statesville is home to The Bal loon Works, one of very few places in the United States that makes hot-air balloons. The rally began 1 5 years ago with only a few balloons for a single lift-off and a tour of the factory. Now, corporate spon sorship has stepped in to create the Piedmont Airlines National Balloon Rally sponsored by Coca Coia This year, the rally begins this Friday at 3 pm when the gates open. The first ascension will be at 5:30 p.m. after the U.S. Navy Leapfrogs jump. Other ascensions will be both Saturday and Sunday Violins just don-1 belong in devils' h By EUZAEETH ELLEFJ Staff Columnist . - Farm machinery in the fields is a good thing. Farm machinery on a highway is a pain in the butt There is an appropriate place for nearly everything, and a time to every purpose under heaven. (This last part is a quota I didnt make it upj On the road is not a proper place for harvesters, and I cannot come up with a decent time for their snail's , pace passage down highways, either. Why cant mod ern . technology devise tractors that are truly portable, i.e. can be folded up and carried on a truck or something? Or just left in the fields all the time eventually to biodegrade? Speaking of appropriate times and places, what about this busi ness of saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school? its a mystery to me why many of the same people who feel school is a great U with purchase D F!3 g f? El fqf PI Czj E3 C3 E3 p ff 153 w" Jj MI ms Mf s Green Fees o with this ad through October 31, 1988 Q Q 18-hole Public Course 0 0 0 q Complete Line of Golf Equipment Driving Range Lessons Available n s Jibuti) tote Golf Course at 7:30 am and 5:30 pm Most of the ascensions are "fly- in's and fly-outs " which means half of the balloons will be launch ing from the airport and others will be flying in from all over Iredell county. Not only are there balloons to see including the beautiful new North Carolina balloon - there are more than 60 arts, crafts and food booths. Souveniers range from official Balloon Rally T-shirts from the Statesville Chamber of Com merce to balloon pins from collec tors from all over -to drinks sold by the Statesville Greyhound Grenadier Band. Tethered balloon rides, helicop ter rides, dunking booths, a cheer leading exhibition, major military place for prayer and symbolic acts of patriotism do not feel that a public school is a legitimate avenue for addressing real and pressing issues like teenage sexuality. These same people want parents to ha ve more control over their children's moral upbringing. ,. That is all fine and well, but patriotism and religion are moral issues, too. if parents can teach sexuality in the homes so well, why can they not hang an Amer ican flag in the kitchen and say the pledge every morning while the toast is toasting? .... in Nepal, hanging a national flag -in one's kitchen would produce quite a different visual image. And heaven only knows what they toast Of all the national flags pictured in the 1988 world Almanac, Nepal's is the only one which is neither rectangular nor square. Just for fun, the Official Nepal Rag Committee devised a of 9 or 18 hole n 0 0 D Q 0 0 0 D 0 Directions; From NC 54 ByPass take . Jones Ferry Rd. to Old Greensboro Rd. Follow Old Greensboro Rd. 12.5 miles to NC 87. Turn right on NC 87 (north) for 9 miles to blinking light. Turn right for 1.2 miles on Boywood Rd. to sign Call For Tee Times 942-0783 ip to Statesville aircraft and equipment displays and a "Scouting for a Natural pitching booth to find America's fastest amateur pitcher will also be available all weekend. Scheduled events are a 5K run, the Holiday inn Air Show, the Leapfrogs, The Hollanders, the Johnny cash Show (yes. the real Johnny Cash, with June Carter and John Carter Cash), Shagtime, the Spontanes and the Showmen. if you want to "go up," you can purchase rides from balloonists for around $100. The balloonists also will be competing for more than $10,000 in prizes and money for various balloon-related contests. Of course, all this fun crammed into one weekend will cost you. On Friday, admission is by carload national emblem that looks like two triangles stacked. Geographically, Nepal is about the same size as North Carolina, and Its capital is Katmandu, if Bob Seeger ever gets out of here, that's where he's going. Even if its the last thing he ever does. . "Things in Nepal are looking up. Polygany; child marriage and the caste system have been officially abolished since 1 963. The next step is outlawing Harvesters on the roads. , "V-:"-.- in fact, things are looking up all over the world today, or at least they, should be. Today Mercury r reaches longest elongation 27 (count 'em) degrees east of the sua Lets have a party! While folks are busy planning the religious curricula for the public schools and recovering from Mer cury Elongation Party hangovers, I wish someone would consider the issue of Just what musical instru ment the devil plays. The fact that Beelzebub is so often portrayed as a violinist is something I find mystifying and disturbing. The tradition spans time and cultures, even from Tartlni to Charlie Daniels. 7 Tartini was an 18th-century Italian composer whose Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor is subtitled "Devil's Trill." Supposedly, Tartlni was living in Asslssi In a monastery, of all places, when the devil came to him in a vision. The sonata Tartini wrote is a rough approximation of the piece Satan played for him on that fateful evening. tusjjfm CHINESE RESTAURANT Chinese Gourmet Dinner Buffett MOW OPEN ON MONDAY NIGHTS! All the SHRlMP,BEEF, CHICKEN & ORIENTAL VEGETABLES You Can Eat Plus Fried Rice, Egg Rolls & at $5 per car. On Saturday and Sunday, admission is $5 per person. Kids can get in two for $5. The Johnny Cash concert, which is the only thing that isnt free once youte inside, is $8 per person. Statesville is about two hours away from Chapel Hill. The easiest route is to take N.C 54 west to 1-85 south. In Greensboro, get on 1-40 west until you get to the Stamey Farm exit Big signs should lead directly to the front gate. The Balloon Rally is a road trip that will be fun making. I've been going to the rally for more than five years, and I'm sure not going to miss this one. If you've never seen a balloon ascend, or if you've never seen many ascend at the same time, you'll enjoy the trip. I do not know if the devil visited Charlie Daniels in Georgia, but "The Devil went Down to Georgia" likewise depicts the Evil One's instrumental preference as the smallest member of the string family. Why a violin? Granted, it is a difficult instrument to play, and a rank amateur can sound like evil incarnate. And yes, rubbing horse hair over cat gut does sound slightly sadistic But the devil is not only depicted as a violinist, but as a fantastic violinist. Tartini claimed that "Devil's Trill- was His finest sonata, but still infinitely inferior to what he heard in his vision. The competition between the devil and Johnny in "Georgia" is sup posedly stiff, were not talking about a "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" violinist here. Most instruments sound horri ble In incapable hands, anyway. Violinists have no monopoly on ugly sounds. Why doesnt the devil play the French horn? This instru ment is overquaSified to produce ungodly sounds, and there are plenty of bad horn players around. Why do violinists take all the flak? Lets put blame where blame is due. What probably drove both Tartlni and Daniels to put a violin in the devil's hand was driving behind farm machinery (or its cultural equivalent in Tartini's case) while on the way to cele brate a planetary elongation, possibly Mercury's. Seems to me to be a reasonable reaction to an unreasonable situation, some things are, after all, more impor tant even than agriculture. r$27o"o j 9FF ! i Dinner i j Buffet j i For 2 i with coupon only xpires 92588 Dumplings S. E3 r"i E3 f3 E3 E3 ESE3 E3 d CZ3 EZ3 El-El -fi Q.QI 3
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