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; , MinThaU. k C.-ept 1, 1171 lugo The News-Record !f Paul Rice : Maker Of Fine Things 1 " 3$ n :w: m i!sn m i . . :. ji;::. t nox-pvhtisw i rounds I'LHLISHLI) ULtklV HV I OMMI M I V NtUSP FLRS IM Second class priviltgas duthorned jl Marshall. N C ?87E3 J W1ES I SIOKY. Editor SUBSCRIPTION HATIS OUTSIDE MADISON COUNTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN MADISON - ADJOINING COUNTIES 15 Months S4 50 12 Months 4 00 8 Months 3 50 G Months 3 00 4 rViontiis 2 50 UK IIL 1 5 Months 12 Months F Months 4 Months I Add 4" , il in N 4(k rYr Wtxk S6 00 5 00 4 00 3 00 r olind I Hz EDITORIAL A lew weeks ago a convict escaped from a "chain gang" near Mrshall Word was quickly spread concerning the man at large and officers and prison guards quickly went into a wide search for the escaped convict He couldn't be found. This same escapee hid near the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wild on the Walnut Creek Road in Marshall until after dark. He then entered the Wilds' home and ran sacked the house. When the Wilds returned home about 10 pm . they were met by the convict who had found a pistol in the home. At gun point, he ordered Mr. and Mrs Wild to drive him to Gastonia. Wisely, Roy and Frances did just that Fortunately, after driving the man to his desired destination, he got out of the car and let Roy and Frances return to Marshall. The Marshall couple was unharmed but shall never forget the fright and anxiety they experienced. It was a horrifying experience but could have been much worse. This event also caused many uneasy moments to others in this area They asked if the time had come when a person could not safely enter his own home0 Days passed ..weeks passed . ..and the public, more or less, forgot about the incident. Things seemed getting back to normal. Surely this had alerted those in charge of prisoners to be more cautious about their safekeeping. However. Marshall citizens were shocked and alarmed this past Tuesday afternoon when word was again spread that another convict had escaped from a prison truck transporting prisoners in this area to NC 213 where they are working on the highway. The "convict" was reported seen by several persons but no nrie seemed to be sure of his identity. Guards and ($ffjrrs again went into attion but a wide search in' various buildings, and even churches, failed to find the escapee. Bloodhounds were secured and the search continued Tuesday night but to no avail. It was also thought that the convict was the same person who successfully pulled a little hanky-panky at a local department store where he was "reim bursed" over $16 for a pair of shoes which he claimed his mother had purchased last Friday. It w as later revealed that he had picked up the shoes in the store just minutes before the reimbursement took place. This man was thought to be "on the loose" in Marshall and naturally, this horrified Marshall residents, especially the women. They were afraid to go home. Could the escapee be hidden in their home-' It was a dreadful feeling to know that an escaped convict was at large and couldn't be found. This newspaper inquired Tuesday night and Wednesday morning about the incident only to learn that the man had not been apprehended. Although unlikely, it is possible that the convict is still hanging around. Here's hoping he will be found and arrested shortly. There must be more security measures taken to prevent prisoners from escaping before another Wild incident occurs or maybe even worse. By BOB TERRELL Ashevllle Cittzen-Tlmes Paul Rice is a Marshall barber who loves to make things with his hands. He has made beautiful grandfather clocks, bedroom suites, gun cabinets, bookcases, tables. "I've made a little bit of everything," he said. "I make things just to be making them; it's something to fiddle at. I can make anything I ever tried to make but a chair and an axe handle and don't know why I can't make them. I tried to make a chair one time and it wouldn't sit still. You have to turn a chair out and ain't nothing to it. Oh I guess I could out-do one and make it, but I like something that's com plicated." He made a banjo for a friend a few years ago and it was a fine banjo. Then he saw the picture of a Gibson RB 800 banjo, one of I nternational Sunday School L csson GOD TRANSCENDS OUR UNDERSTANDING Extension News Phone M9-2491 Home Economics 4-H the timing directions. Frozen turnip greens can be delicious. Some of them are not. If you follow the commercial packers' trend and freeze mixed vegetables, blanch each vegetable according to its timing instructions before you mix them. These are especially convenient for the "live-aloner" since one package will take care of the vegetable needs for one meal or maybe two. "Waste not; want not" ap plies to the last garden vegetables of summer. Enjoy them in blustery March or showery April. Words to the wise cook! Dont use whipped butter in a recipe since the shortening power is not the tame as for un whipped butter. If your cucumber it withered end shriveled on the ends it may be somewhat bitter. Overgrown cucumbers (those with Urge diameters) and cucumbers of a dull color, turning yellowish, are likely to have tough flesh n. Keep greens mat nave ana large . nam . seeas. i in very dry weather and Cucumbers should be good green color and firm ever their entire length. - ,'r .; Sweet peppers la year garden? They are delicious cut in s".r; cooked briefly in r -rlir-f.avnred vegetable jj i M ci ..in; J to taste with salt -j j--; per. Late Vegetables The sweet-sadness about the last rose of summer left blooming alone (whose lovely companions are faded and gone) changes to downright practical opportunity when it is (he last garden vegetables whose tasty companions are frozen and stored. Those just-before-frost peas, corn, limas, winter squash (includes pumpkin), greens, peppers, okra, broccoli, snap beans, and others If you are lucky-make mighty con venient eating bi Marshall. Postpone summer fatigue pntil these late vegetables are fucked away. Handle as ten derly, - blanch and chill as carefully, and package as well M you did in mat first burst of enthusiasm when you , froze Spring vegetables. - ... ; ; Fpr example, be sure the ye- table Is young, tender, and Jus-right to eat fresh. Take Jurr "p greens. Only the young ni. tender ones are good t r, ave erown old out of r. V ry 'I lack ' ! t ".. .' r C e f : l ! ? or 'u!!)rt International Sunday School lesson for September 12 LESSON TEXT: Exodus 33:12 23; Job 11:7-9; 37:23-24; Isaiah 40:18-26; Romans 11:33-36 How much can we know about God0 The Bible, which reveals to us so much about Him, teaches us that there are limits. ..both to God's self revelation to mankind, and to mankind's ability to understand His ways. To the thinking adult, this should not be surprising. Today we hear much about "the generation gap" as it relates to parents and children. How, then, can we honestly expect the human brain to comprehend the wonder that is God? We can only say that an increasing knowledge of God is the ultimate reward of those of us who accept Him in faith, and serve Him obediently. This Lesson is offered to those who seek a closer fellowship with God that will lead to awareness and understanding. For it is true that the attributes of God His glory, His power, His wisdom are qualities of which only a partial knowledge is permitted us; yet it is also true that we know enough to stimulate the awe that leads to worship, and a trust that is evidence of faith. No man can fully know God; Moses tried, but was rebuffed. Not in arrogance, but in mercy. "Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live". (Exodus 33:20). God's reply, in answer to Moses' plea that he should see His glory, was that he (Moses) should see His goodness. In due course of time, God's glory would be revealed in Jesus Qirist, so that all men might see. And, in Christ's life (and death) all men might live. But even in the recorded facts that God has made provision for our salvation: that Christ's life was dedicated to the redemp tion of man from his sins, there is much that we cannot fully comprehend. There is the in nate mystery of Christ's resurrection from the dead, and of His ascension into heaven. There is wonderment in the miracles He wrought during His short tenure on earth. To ponder God's ways is an invaluable lesson for the professing and practicing Christian; it promotes the humility of soul which is one of the Beatitudes. It provides a yardstick for a truly Godly life. It inspires our worship. And while it may be im possible for us to understand God, it is not impossible for us to experience God. This we do, in our everyday living, content as we are to see the beauty of the world around us, to witness tne miracle ot Dirth of a new born soul, to re-live the wonder of His infinite mercy in the person of Jesus Christ. The fact that God is nowhere in our physical sight in no way diminishes His greatness. Rather, it adds to it, when we remember the awesome ex periences of our courageous astronauts as they explored, first-hand, that part of the Universe where no man had trod before. How meaningful became the words of the Creation as read by them from such great distance! , . those $1,000 gold-plated, pearl inlayed instruments, and knew he had to make one. It was the prettiest banjo he'd ever seen. Took him two years, working at home at night after he'd finished cutting hair for the day, but he made that banjo piece by piece. He bought the gold plates, cut the pearl inlays and fashioned the instrument with an expert touch. Ruel Yarborough of Muscle Shoals, Ala., who used to play with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, picked Paul Rice's banjo. "He liked it," Paul said, "bragged on it." Raymond Fairchild of Hazelwood, who's about the best banjo picker Paul Rice ever heard, played the banjo at Maggie Valley. "He said this was the best banjo he ever got hold of and he'd played all of em," Paul said. Many people have tried to buy the instrument from Paul. "I've been offered all the way from twenty-five dollars to three thousand dollars for it," Paul said. "Some old feller came in here and offered me twenty-five for it. He was just as serious as he could be and thought that was a good price. "Jesse James Bailey offered me three thousand for the banjo but I wouldn't take it." Why Not'' "I just wanted to keep it," Paul said. "Contrary, I guess. The three thousand wouldn't last long no way, the way prices is, and then somebody'd have my banjo and gone with it." The strange thing about Paul Rice is that he is not musical. "I don't know a note of music," he said, "and can't play a thing. But I know enough about a banjo to make it play." And he loves to hear a good banjo picker. He keeps the banjo with him in his barber shop during the day and anytime an old country boy who can pick a banjo comes in for a haircut, you can hear Paul's banjo ringing a block away. It has a beautiful tone. There are those around Marshall who know of Paul Rice's skill who wonder why he never took up making things as a trade rather than barbering. "I've thought about that." Paul said, "But I think it'd drive . Si $p X L' 8: m HEARD and SEEN By POP 1 1 look, but I've learned a lot of people and know pretty much where to go now. "The materials for that banjo come from seven states," he added. "I ordered the hardware (the gold plating) from Gibson and made everything else. The buttons on the tuner came from Alabama and I drove down there and got'em. The pearl I cut the inlays out of came from Georgia. Part, of the wood, the curly maple, came from Ten- ,a man crazy. You try to do ( nessee, around Greisieyille and sometning line mem peari inlays for a living and you'd get so nervous you'd quit. So I just keep barbering for a living and making things to please myself and my friends." Paul is making another banjo like this one. He has it com pleted except for finishing the neck and putting in the tuning pegs. "Used to be I had a hard time locating materials," Paul said, "because I din't know where to Newport. I got some of the trimming from Boston and some from New York and some from California. I had an awful time finding that blamed ebony wood for the fingerboard and finally found it in North Wilkesboro. Feller down there told me it come from Africa or India, I forget which." The only pattern Paul had was the picture from that Gibson catalog but he made the banjo an exact replica of a President Nixon a gusty quarterback Gibson RB800. He laminated the curly maple for the sound board. He made everything fit perfectly. The hardest thing, he said, was inlaying the fingerboard and pegboard with pearl. "I cut the pearl with a jeweler's saw," he said, "and finished it with a Swedish file and sandpaper. There's no glue or putty in any of the inlays. Got a perfect fit on all of them Took me two weeks on the fingerboard and a week on the begboqrd." He said he has between $600 and $700 "in money" invested in the banjo, plus endless hours of his time. Recently, Paul made a fiddle out of the jawbone of a mule, took it to the Asheville City Auditorium during the Moun tain Dance and Folk Festival and Tommy Hensley of Mars Hill played it on stage. Why would anyone make a fiddle out of the jawbone of a mule? I dunno," Paul said, "Crazy, I guess. Anybody with any sense wouldn't start something like that. I just thought one day how funny it'd be to see somebody play a fiddle between the Jaw teeth and front teeth of a mule. So I made one and found out." A lot of his friends have been asking Paul to make a guitar. "I don't much like a guitar," he said, "but I think I'll get me a mule's head and make one out of it just for the heck of it. That's what I think about a guitar. I'd rather hear a man fall down on a banjo than hear somebody pick a guitar." BEST OF PRESS Started Young The little boy who was sent to the store and could never rememberwhat he went for, finally grew up to be a congressman. -WOW Magazine. 1 or Ilie Wise Wise people believe half of what they hear; wiser ones know which half to bel ieve. -Press, Denmark, Wis. Very little action in town on Monday Labor Day. ...most everything was closed.. .very few people moving around.... -somewhat apprehensive about getting out on the highways, I decided to work on some Job printing and newspaper copy. ..in other words, last Monday was Just like any other Monday.. .except everything in town was real quiet.. ..I noticed a few sparrows flying around and I saw one of the stray cats which hangs around pretty close cross the street leisurely and even noticed a hound dog trotting down Bridge Street looking for a little action.... I do hope you had a most pleasant Labor Day and were glad to get back to your dally chores Tuesday.... the passing of Van Wilson has taken another fine man from our community.. ..he was always so friendly and always seemed to be happy.. ..I attended the wedding of Phyllis Nlles and Thomas Ray Setzer Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church here.. ..I've attended a lot of weddings but I don't ever remember one where ALL the bridesmaids were beautiful girls.. ..Cynthia Niles, sister of the bride and maid of honor, looked like a doll.. .and certainly the bride was "out of this world" in her beautiful wedding gown.. .and Nelle Niles, mother of the bride, looked as pretty as a bride in a beautiful green chiffon dress.. ..the music was perfect and Shirley and Richard Wilde did a fine Job with the flowers and the arrangement of decorations, etc.... I wish for Phyllis and Thomas a long and happy marriage... congratulations are again in order for John A. Corbett who has been promoted to tne Wilmington Office of First Union Bank from the Franklin office. ..if he keeps on receiving promotions I wouldn't be too surprised to hear that he is president of the entire First Union system. ..he's the type to go higher and higher . .we all wish Cheryl Treadway a quick recovery and hope she's soon able to return to her Job at F. B. Chevrolet Co., here.. ..ex citement reigned around town Tuesday afternoon when it was reported that a convict had escaped from a truck carrying convicts between here and Petersburg where they were working on NC 213... at the same time a man, supposed to be the convict, pulled a neat trick at a local department store getting away with some cash which a merchant gave him as a refund for shoes he claimed purchased by his mother last Friday.. .it is thought that the thief picked up the shoes minutes before the transaction was made Tuesday p.m anyway, officers and bloodhounds searched throughout Marshall and up and down the F. B. River until late Tuesday night but have been unable to locate the "convict" as of Wednesday mor ning. ..there are varied descriptions of the man and the details.. .so we'll just have to wait and see the developments in the next few days.. .with the rumor of an escaped convict at large in the community, plenty of women ( and some men ) were quite apprehensive Tuesday night.. jny wife even made me stay home with her for fear the "convict" might wander up our way... here's hoping they catch, the elusive fellow real soon...... The Dream World Drugs, which so many young people have tried iuul are trying, no doubt produce a dream world for the perplexed, worried, anxious and thrill-seekers. In some cases the use of drugs produces dramatic benefits, as in the medical field, but it has yet to be shown that drugs can have any permanently beneficial effect when ned habitually by those.'-. not ill. A hot argument is in progress at present whether marijuana is harmful physically, though many experts have stated that its hibitual use is detrimental lxth physicially and economically. What it boils down to is that the present rat-race pace of much of American life has tempted the curious, many thrill-seekers, escapists, disillusioned and lazy to turn to drugs for kicks and pleasure. And there is nothing wrong with pleasure. History has shown, however, that work, accomplishing something, is the source of genuine pleasure'. Leisure, and pleasure indulged in during leisure hours, is possible be cause there is, or has been, work. Habitual users of drugs miss this vital point and the change which ofu.'n takes place in the personality and earning ability of dmg users is unquestionably impractical, and frequently tragic, in the modem world. By PAUL HARVEY If It Fitz (These comment are based on outlines of the Intematiolnal Sunday . School Lessons, copyrighted by the In ternational Council of Religious I location, and esed by per miwsion). V ; As quarterback, President Nixon is inclined to test the center of the opposition line He tried to defeat inflation that way for three punishing downs, was losing yardage. On fourth down he went around left end. President Nixon is a gutsy quarterback, inclined to gamble on fourth down On his way out of Vietnam, President Nixon gambled on an end around through Cambodia and was thrown for a loss. One Saturday morning in June he looked at the rain clouds over Washington, gambled on a rose garden wedding and won. In July, on his own one-foot line and against an incredible enemy rush, he risked a long forward pass to Kissinger in Peking, advancing the ball half way down the field. Then, in August, President Nixon faced almost certain defeat on the inflation front He was bruised and battered and losing yardage on every play. A hand off to Congress was tempting. But instead, personally the President carried the ball around left end for what now looks like a turnaround in the final quarter of the game. However these may appear to be crowd-pleasing grandstand plays, they are neither impulsive nor contrived. Each, for better or worse, results from consultation, deliberation and evaluation of the risks involved. When Mr. Nixon as a presidential candidate in 1968 was con fronted with some current contradictions of some I960 quotations, he replied, "I could not recommend myself as a leader if I'd learned nothing in eight years." When Secretary John Connally was asked about the recent reversal of the President's economic game plan, he said, "You'd have a dolt for i President if he were incapable of changing his mind." Further, the President's flexibility in adjusting to changing circumstances makes us a moving target for predator nations. Critics who believed Mr. Nixon to be frozen in an unrealistic, outdated. anti-Communist posture, since the China overture, know better. Domestically, congressional Democrats who thought they had ctirnered the supply of economic stimuli since the Aug. U bold-, ness know better. - . , ..t "'-'-.'" u As I say. President Nixon is a gutsy quarterback, inclined to gamble on fourth down. That kind Is likely to be booed as vociferously as be is cheered but when the plays are all in and added up. if he can show an impressive total of yards gained, he is likely to be re-signed for another season. fdpyrijjht 1971, Gen. Fea. Corp. ' 1 -, . Answer me this, please By Jim Fitzgerald The latest gimmick in column writing enables the columnist to tell you everything he always wanted you to know but you'd nevt'f 3 s k , you jerk. The columnist interviews himself, answering his own questions: Question: The mayor of your favorite town just opened a new freeway by sawing a log. This is just the latest take-off on the traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony. Banks now cut ribbons of $5 bills when they open branches, and grocery stores cut strings of baloney. Can you add anything to this bit of Americana? Answer: Certainly. The other day, soon after our family checked into a motel, I noticed my 13 year old son taking a full bottle of gin from my portable bar. He headed for the bathroom with it. I asked him what he was doing. His explanation revealed that he has combined ribbon cutting with the christening of ships. He said he was going to use the bottle of gin to break the sanitary ribbon on the toilet seat. O Ytm jihI yiHir mfi wHt ; son recently wt.tu 3 Uys in -Detroit mttchmit thn Titen ohy I baseball. Eurlirr this it'j& you : went oii the food. ;t :,iawh them play in ClevH.nni jnd New York, How tome you gu- to sa'mjny1 Tiger gjnivs T 3":" A - Because I can't stand to stay home and listen on the radio, or watch them on TV Announcers George Kell and Ernie Harwell and their assistants are the biggest ho hummers on the air. It is bad enough that they are bor.ng. But then blatant partisanship is even worse They never knock a Tiger. Tigers are all great players and fine human beings. Once this year Dalton Jones was playing right field and TV showed plainly that he messed up 2 fly balls that a crippled infant could have caught. Kell didn't even mention ihe awful goots. What kind of '-'porting is that? The trouble is that Kelt and company are Tiger employees and it is poor business to knock the boss in public. Sports announcers should be employed by thir radio and TV stations nut by the home team. Would you trust a labor reporter if he were on the GM payroll? O Re,itl my good books Lit. !y A I just finished Frank Beard's didry of a year on the professional golf tour. It is not so iiood as it is incredible Apparently without realizing it : Beard revealed himself to be 1 of - tU world s great cheapskates. He took i his wife and 3 small children on tout and insisted that tlwy aU stay in I motel room. He , Cftntftluincd bitterly rfbout the noiit? jnd Uidpers but refused to- rent 2 rooms because I ust can't see wasting the .'Money fhdt year Beard ivon more than any other pro gulfei, over S1 25,000. He could have rented 3 rooms and hired Howard Johnson to make the beds Q - Currently wluil is your n)ust unfavorite TV commercial? A - That one where the boob housewife ietjsts to trade hi" box of Tide lo- iHO boxes ci anything , ,se. .) ni.itter how hard the hue Ksrer coaxes her You can worry .lout crime m t h p streets ! w o r i y about s t d idity in 'he supermaikets. According to TV th-j A & P is full of giggling women with mush for brains. They are constantly pursued up u, .lown the- aisles by smiling men .vith TY-cameras hidden in their hosps i svy lfing back the old f.i-..i'.,:.ieil gucery store where you in:niv handed the grocer your iist and you didn't have to sl.ip his tkinds.-for squeezing your toilet paixv. : ; O - is it true thJtyM celebrjted your 45th birthday tn Jii ofu-fMnioneu .rt.'j'P parlour? ' ; " t C . A - Yts, at FarrtUM.-1tf rlint; a great -'.place "'.viiers e&io:'w sings ,J.iv birtd.iv ; tlwy . gv V.u- .; f-ff SutuU- The experience in ciojn ivui t1nln1 hurt nv bit bu' the w.ilU the Alibi Bjr cruin!)lfil -rhjt s.wrn'' iiiyht. Qevvdi.i ihi J.-Uai l ' - V
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