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Faith: Willie Blan ton G-W Alumni Local Woman On Board ‘Thy age shall be clearer than noonday.” — God’s promise to Job ‘‘Daddy, the newspaperman’s here to take your picture. Blanton was determined to own, and hear ing of a farm for sale by the late 0. P. Hamrick, he went to see the Gardner-Webb educator at his home. ‘‘Professor Hamrick was down on his The 62-year-old man stepped to the open knees fixing something in his house when I screen door of the neat, white house off Clif- went in and asked him about the farm. He fside Road - not to have his photograph said, ‘I’ll take five thousand and five hun- taken, but to call to his father, 84-year-old dred dollars.’ i . Blanton looked steadilyaiJiis listener.‘‘I The senior Blanton, father to James, 62, didn’t have but twp luHTlJreddonfers." what Blanton recalk ‘‘Professor Hamr! 0. P., you ought to sell Willie 1 ‘Professor Hamrick ned next, ted, ‘Now, SHand....’ ■\ up, ^d we and Johnnie, 57, is a familiar figure to most townspeople. The reason is simple: Willie Blanton has lived in Boiling Springs since before most residents were born. Tuesday he was surrounded by family, including son James from Salisbury, who wrote up the terms. had gathered to celebrate his birthday here Blanton was eagar to *ove to ins new last Sunday. farm, but had promised to rented work Oh, law, I could tell you about some for a season’s crop for thifarnaj^to whom changes,” Blanton laughed and began to he had made the original ' recall for a reporter his years as a maintenance worker, farmer, and, finally, “He came to me, it was it September, and landowner in this area. said, ‘Now, Willie, if you want to move I A short, broad man, Blanton still retains won’t think hard of you ’ “I said ‘No sir powerful-looking chest, the result of I’ve rented from you for a year, and I’ll decades of plowing and of stoking boilers at stay on another year’. ’ ’ Crest High School and the old Boiling Spr- Ms. Elizabeth Apn Lan caster of Boiling Springs has recently been ap pointed to serve as a member of the alumni board of directors at Gardner-Webb College. Ms. Lancaster is employed by th^^I^land County schopl^ystem as a ,sixth grade teacher at outh (^vealnd school in Ihelbj^he also is current ly a^istant organist at Boiling Springs Baptist Church. In addition, Ms. Lan caster is a member of the Cleveland County Women’s Club, the Cleveland County Choral Society, and the Gardner-Webb College Bulldog Club. Ms. Lancaster holds an associate of arts degree from Gardner-Webb. She received a bachelor and masters degree from Ap palachian state. CMb ime Left On Calender ings School, where he worked mornings as custodian. For generations Willie Blanton was part of going to school at Crest — and still is. He officially retired as custodian there only three years ago, when he was 81, and is still called back when labor is short. But Willie Blanton’s work in the fields is also part of the history of farming in the area, beginn ing in 1910, when he and his mother moved from near Washburn Switch to Boiling Spr ings. ‘‘Now where the post office is now,” Blanton said recalling the town in 1910, ‘‘there was a livery stable. My uncle work ed there. ‘‘My mother and me had moved down here to be close to him. We worked on a farm hoe-cropping then.” He smiles at a After that year’s wait, Blanton at last began “farming heavy” in 1947 with four mules and a tractor on his own land. He has made a good living for himself, his late wife Maggie, and his two sons. Johnnie Blanton is considered one of the area’s master mechanics; James Blanton is an accoun tant and works at the Veteran’s Hospital at Salisbury. Hoe ‘‘I’ve sold down to 90 acres now,” Blanton says, having earned, with his four mules and a tractor, a maximum of 130 acres dur ing his farming career. Now remarried to Francis McDowell Blanton, Willie Blanton lives next to John- reporter plainly born after 1910 I guess me in two white framehouses side by side you do know what hoe-croppmg is? ” Well-tended flower pots are on the ^rch Willie Blanton was wise enough to each twig appears to hav^been care^ answer his own question. “Hoe-crop is a picked un from thp Qmnnfhi,.^ careiuiiy crop the man who furnishes the land plows, fn front o? the houses ^ You hoe it. He gets two bales, you get one. in‘etaru?”"heTemembtreT “wurm^ ..Advice for the young? Blanton considers crop is a crop the man fur nishes the land plows. You hoe it. He gets two bales, you get one. ” Willie Blanton Don’t forget that birth day or anniversary — just remember to list the im portant date on the Lions’ Club calender. The Boiling Springs area club will be listing dates through August' for inclu sion on their 1983 birthday calenders. Each listing is forty cents. The deadline is September 3. The club asks anyone not contacted by a Lions Club member to go by First Federal Savings and Loan or the Maxwell Hamrick Insurance Agen cy for a listing. Calenders are $2 and will be delivered in December. College Belles rented crops on the halves Instead of hoe- & cropping.” After 67 years Blanton sfuis ®is country that worries him. smiles at the memory of the move up. ‘‘I “There are some things,” he says, ‘‘that could plow it.” a man must just place in the hands of the The next move up was to own the land he Lord.” plowed. Among the 250 freshmen women enrolling at Peace College in Raleigh this fall are Nancy Vaughn, daughter of Mr. .and Mrs. John Henry Vaughn of Boil ing Springs, and Laura Lynn Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Williams of Shelby. Classes at the Presbyterian junior college for women began Tuesday, Aug. 24. The women at the private school work toward associate degrees in liberal arts, business or music. Drop By Drop Car Skips School Here A student at Gardner- Webb College moving into Royster dormitory return ed to the parking lot Sun day night and discovered his car had been stolen while he was inside unloading his belongings. Boiling Springs police report. A Fair Day In October The gold, 1969 Opal was taken about 10:30 p.m., police say, during a five- minute period while the student was inside the dor mitory. Police say the keys were left inside the car. License numbers of the vehicle are VBP-807. Cleveland County Fair Walenda highwire show, manager Joe Goforth an- fireworks displays, and a nounced this week that the gospel sing. 1982 fair will open Oct. 1 and continue through Oct 9. Attractions scheduled for Last year attendance at O^^llCUUlCU lUI —J at the 1982 fair include tractor county fair was counted pulls, a rodeo, Carla 93,164. Most areas of Shelby received a rainfall Tuesday night that could be counted by the drops instead of inches. .1'' • i • • I k • • « • 4 • 4 • 4 • i • « • 4 • « • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' • • • •i-'
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