Bill Sharpe, Tar Heel Editor, Knew How To Make Change
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‘ (Editors Note: The follow*
ing editorial concerning the
life and death of Bill
Sharpe, founder, editor and
publisher of The State Maga
zine, appeared in the Down
In Iredell column of the
Statesville Record & Land
mark, written by J. P. Hus
lfins).
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tate bury Its own dead, which
is usually done with more
flowers than heart. But if
Bill Sharpe is to rest in
peace, something more must
be said than has yet found
its way into print.
Born William Pleasant
Sharpe 66 years ago in Spar
tanburg, S. C., he migrated
to North Carolina via New
Orleans at the age of 22 to
become managing editor of
the Winston-Salem Journal
and then the' Winston-Salem
Sentinel, separately owned at
the time.
We first came to know Bill
Sharpe in the early 1930’s
when, fresh out of the Uni
versity of North Carolina
journalism school, we had
gone to Greensboro to join
the staff of the Daily News.
The depression soon touch
ed bottom and the economic
world turned upside down.
It was a lucky reporter that
could make $25 a week and
the “executive” making SSO
was an outstanding success,
who could afford something
more than the 35-cent blue
plate special when he took
you out to lunch.
We had emerged from the
University of North Carolina
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTOM, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 22, 1970
as an idealistic free-wheeling
liberal, willing to blame
everybody’s bad luck on the
economic barons who had
plundered the country.
It was in those days that
Bill Sharpe come over from
Winston-Salem to help or
ganize a Greensboro chapter
of the American Newspaper
Guild, the newswriters labor
union; and he was just as far
cut in left field as we were.
If anything, being a little
older, he had moved farther
left than we had.
In any event, he was ready
to take on the establishment,
which was then known by
less complimentary terms, and
he invited the rest of us
weak - kneed, red - blooded,
faint-hearted, fearless journ
alists to join him in organiz
ing a local chapter and peti
tioning for a guild charter.
We are not sure whether
Bill had come equippel with
a supply of white lightning
or whether we had to be
content with Ted Thompson's
home brew, but the group
soon became sufficiently for
tified in spirit and solidified
in purpose to sign up to the
man. The meeting ended on
a note of high purpose. Per
haps the guild would help to
elevate the lowly newsman to
the status of a professional.
We do not know how long
Bill Sharpe remained in the
Newspaper Guild; but we do
recall that it proved to be a
great disappointment to us as
I the years went on and it de
| volved into just another
labor union. We continued
to pay our dues and carry a
card until an opportunity to
jo.n the side of management
gave us an honorable way
out.
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But the point we are try
ing to make is that by to
day’s standards, Bill Sharpe
and we were both just about
as liberal as they come. In
later life, both of us found
ourselves on the other side
of the road.
Bill had gone through a
financially-disastrous experi
ence in attempting to establish
his own newspaper in Win
ston-Salem, a weekly called
Thursday which one day
didn’t make it until Friday
and finally didn’t make it at
all. He had then become
head of the state’s first Di
vision of Advertising, served
as secretary and quota-caller
for the late Gov. Gregg
Cherry, and finally purchas
ed an interest in the State
magazine, which he edited
until his death.
We, too, had gone into the
business of meeting pay rolls
instead of having them meet
us; iand, in the process, had
discovered what it means to
work seven days a week and
tnen spend the rest of the
time on your own.
One day during a visit in
our office, Bill Sharpe
brought up the fact that both
of us had undergone a pro
found psychological change
and we asked him how it
happened.
“Well,” he said, "after 30
•years of seeing the liberals’
favorite solutions fail, it
dawned on me that there
must be something wrong
with the solutions.
“Then the phoniness of the
whole damned process became
apparent—tax and tax, spend
and spend, cut hours and
raise wages, cut production
and increase cost, increase
cost and push up prices, raise
prices and raise taxes. And
then start the cycle all over
again.
"It was from this sort of
thinking that the something
for-nothing philosophy gained
a certain validity, that the
free-money from Washington
concept was born. It was the
old Roman bread and circuses
all over again. Who knows
when we will pass the point
of no return ”
That was Bill Sharpe. He
won’t be around to see the
end of the drama. But we
know he died with strong
suspicions that we had al
ready passed the critical
point.
Episcopalians
Elect Wardens
At their organizational
meeting Sunday the Vestry
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
elected Ernest P. Kehayes
senior warden and Richard
D. Dixon, Jr., junior warden.
Also elected were Mrs. T.
Benbury H. Wood as secre
tary and James M. Bond as
treasurer. Oscar E. Duncan
will continue as assistant
treasurer.
V. Thomas Chears was ap
pointed chairman of music;
Richard N. Hines, Sr., chair
man of stewardship; Dr, Al
len L. Hornthal, chairman of
youth; George C. Hoskins,
chairman of ushering; Dr.
Haswell C. Jackson, chairman
of acolytes; Robert Graham
White, chairman of Christian
Education; James E. Wood,
chairman of evangelism and
, promotion and John Gilliam
I Wood, chairman of Brother
hood, Men.
I The Vestry moved immedi-
I ately into plans for the forlh
. coming diocesan convention
! meeting in Kinston, February
j 6-7. Delegates to the con
j vention from the parish were
i present at the meeting.
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your landscape plan.
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now on as the days are get
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use good judgment. Plants
need more water on a bright
day than on a cloudy one.
Regulation of the night tem
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When planting, dig a hole
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