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reasons, but fear it could change the
barnyard waste taste.
A Salisbury-VA hospital report
in 2005 found a “grbss lack of
leadership at most every level.”
The N.C. Supreme Court-ruled
the Wilkes Journal Patriot has the
right to review a Wilkes Regional
Medical Center’s contract to buy
the practice of a gastroenterologist.
A 126-page-audit by the Justice
Department’s inspector general,
found FBI agents had demanded
personal data on American citizens
without official authorization. ,
A little-known-federal subsidy, to
compensate western rural communities
for logging restrictions, to save
spotted owls, salmon and other
wildlife, will end after paying out
$2.9 billion in the past six years.
A handgun ban-in Washington
was overturned by a federal appeals
court, rejecting the argument that
the Second Amendment applied
only to militias.
A BBC poll-of more than 28,000
people rated Israel, Iran and the
United States as having the most
negative image out of the 12 major
nations in the survey.
A fish story-Farmed trout and
catfish sales in North Carolina last
year were about the same, almost
$7.2 million each. There are 47
commercial trout growers and 44
catfish growers in the state.
The House-approved $1.7 billion for
federal grants to states and municipalities
to modernize wastewater systems and
to control sewage overflows.
Presidential candidate-Sen. Barack
Obama is facing questions about more than
$50,000 he invested in two companies,
just after he took office in 2005.
The Air Force-scrapped its most
expensive “stealth” cruise missile
developed in 1980 to evade Soviet radar.
Alaska’s Board of Game-backed
down on their vote to allow bear
hunting on state lands near a'popular
bear-viewing area.
After 50 years-the United States
and North Korea started talking, a
first step to establishing diplomatic
relations.
After spending $10 billion-congressional
auditors say another $12 billion will
be needed to clean up the nation’s
leaking underground gasoline tanks.
China-worried about teenagers
becoming addicted to the Internet,
is trying to come up with a plan that
would kick the kids offline after
five hours.
A weak dollar-and construction
delays will cut 10,000 jobs from
European aircraft-maker. Airbus.
Amtrak’s-bad on-time record is
blamed on the congested freight
tracks on which it is forced to run.
A new drug-ASAQ combining
two of the most effective drugs to
treat malaria, will soon be available
across Africa and is expected to
save lives of millions of children.
A new $30 million-wing of the Newport
News Mariners’ Museum opened
with more than 1,200 artifacts from
the Uiiion ship. Monitor, everything
from silverware to the ship’s engine
and gun turret.
In Oklahoma City-the Cherokee
Indian Nation voted to revoke
citizenship of 2,800 slaves, once
owned by the tribe, who have relied
on tribal benefits.
Venezuela President-Hugo Chavez
claims the CIA is out to kill him
and called U.S. diplomat John
Negroponte a “professional killer”.
Information Sought on Womanless Wedding
Last fall when Jim Brendle was
helping clean out the old O.W.
Slane Warehouse on Wise St.,
he found a number of old photos
and documents. One document
piqued his interest in particular
and he thought it might amuse a
large number of other people. The
document was a list of characters
in a “Womanless Wedding” held
at Central High School April 26,
1927, almost 80 years ago.
If your very dignified grand- or
great-grandfather was party to this
“travesty” of marriage, we’d like
to know about it. Be forewarned,
some of the characters would be
considered a little oddvor even very
politically incorrect today.
Lester Wolf, as the Bride; and Dr.
Statesville Recreation and Parks 2007 Magic basketball team,
bottom row from left, are Quymont Wilson, Seth Parks, Kitiana
Costello, Terence Boiler Jr. Back row: Coach Cameron Wilson,
Nicholas Skinner, Maniya Shell, Jalyn Caple and Ameira Davis.
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Garinger (no first name), groom,
were stars of the show. Other
primary characters were: T.S.
Simpson, minister; Prof. Aubrey
Elliott, father of the bride; Harry
Blaising, best man; Dr. Hoffman
and Dr. McPhail, flower girls; R.K.
Henry, ring bearer; George Norman
and Jr. Greaves, train bearers;
Charles Mills, fairy; Walter Hook,
dame of honor; and Dr. Johnston,
maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Dr. Tom Bost,
Walter Stanley, Bub Hovis, Ralph
Graves, H.W. Sturrup, Pie Chaplin,
Jim Killian and C. L. Blount.
Groomsmen were Duffy Bruns,
Gene Parish, L. McKenna, Nick
Laney, R. W. Rich, W. R. Stroupe,
Jr., Bill Tate and Gelder Robinson.
Other characters were: H.C. Giles,
mother of the bride; Joe Ellis,
bride’s baby brother; E. J. Caffrey,
mother of the groom; J. Mac
Woodsides, father of the groom;
Mr. Powers, bride’s college student
brother; Charles Turner, wealthy
uncle from England; Robert Dorton
and Reuben Brown, old main aunts;
Dr. A. W. Nance, chief of police;
illegible character; Willard Dixon,
1928 flapper; Ward Threatt, Will
Rogers; Dr. Brode Nalle, General
Pershing; and Maxie Dunn, rejected
sweetheart.
Other characters were: Lineberfjyr
Lindberg; W. B. Shockley, Gloria
Swanson; George Farrington,
Prince of Wales; Lewis Southerland,
Gov. McLean; Mr. Challoner,
President Coolidge; Coach Jack
Caldwell, black mammy; H. Begg,
Uncle Ned; Ira Turner, rector who
christened bride; Mr. Fields, Mr.
Cartier; Clarence N. Reed and Galli
Curci, soloists; and Nick Laney. A1
Jolson.
Pupils of Elizabeth H. Henderson
also provided a “Kewpie Wedding.”
In that, Jean Seahom and Marietta
Shelby were pages; Jean Lockhart
Peck, bride; Catherine Louise Spain,
groom; Ann Wright, ringbearer; and
Bootsie Gross and Ivy Crosland,
flower girls.
Bridesmaids were Florence Soule,
Freda Clair Templeton, Jeane Rider,
Betty Henderson and Mary Frances
Hutchinson. Ushers were Ella Sue
Bishop, Elizabeth Hawthorne,
Elizabeth Reed, Zena Schwartz,
Dean Westmoreland, Billie Crawley,
and Elizabeth and Joan Stiles.
Sarah Searcy and Vivian Lynn
played Cupids and Jean Dozier was
Heart.
The choir was Sarah Price, Dorothy
Carlough, Adelia Crosland, Martha
Frank, Aileen Foil, Rachel McClain,
Marjorie Levi, Dorothy Harris,
Peggy Presson Whaley Weeks,
Betty Ann Gravitt, Carolyn Lassiter,
Huldah Edens, Martha Fasnacht,
•Anne Dye, Virginia Mauney, Frances
Bagby, Mary Frances Campbell,
Shirley Mills, Dorothy Downey,
Julia Duff, Bettie Jane Casey,
Shirley Gately and Jane Smith.
From Left: Marie Heath, Dan Hutchens, Agnes Wootton, Betty
Anderson, John Wootton, Carol Holton, Marion Elam, Richard Brazel,
Bobby Anderson.
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