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Jrerspective istille Day is celebrated every Jlily 14 in France Evfry July 14th Franc* celebrate* Bastille Day, recalling that day in mt i ben the Parti mob stormed the infan mis and detested prison for tress which symbolized the ancient regin e. Tin holiday U similar to our July 4th ai I should be a reminder that our own Rational independence was not wen without French aid. / Frenchmen assisting the can revolution are especially rorthy: Beaumarchais, i, Lafayette, Rochambeau, I Grasse. rre -Augustin Caron de larchais was a multi-talented |ith a taste for adventure. Bwas a watchmaker, music r, and courtier whose satirical ['The Barber of Seville" and ^Marriage of Figaro" were ily influential in his day and 1 performed as operas. ! French officials weighed the ton whether to support :a. Beaumarchais organized a w supply line which, from the ^r of 1776, furnished vital war el to Washington's constantly >rmy. e's decision to become an If the thirteen rebellious |an colonies was largely the |ork of Charles Gravier, jde Vergennes, Secretary of i Affairs. |ttedly, French motives were 1 primarily upon the desire to Great Britain; nonetheless, frenchmen were impressed ! American call for liberty, ng for a sign that America's revolution might hope (or success, Vergennes negotiated with Benjamin Franklin and the other American commissioners to France. The sign came on October 17. 1777, when British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American General Horatio Gates at Saratoga. (For this Gates bacame so popular that his name was soon given to a new county created partly from the northenmost section of Perquimans County. ) On February 6, 1778, France signed a treaty promising to remain in arms until American independence was recognized by Britain. French soldiers and sailors would be sent to the New World. Some Frenchmen had already joined the Americans, however, and the most noted was the enthusiastic youth with the jawcracking name Marie Joseph Paul Yves Boch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. His bravery and devotion to liberty earned Lafayette the love and respect of Americans. An old soldier was principal commander of the French troops sent to aid George Washington, namely Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeure, Comte de Rochambeau. At Yorktown Rochambeau witnessed America's triumph over Britain. The victory at Yorktown was dependent in large part upon French naval forces under the command of Comter Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse, Marquis de Grasse- Tilly. In addition to landing troops and equipment, de Grasse's vessels bottled up the British and cut off Lord Cornwallis' escape. For a decisive moment Britannia did not rule the waves. The United States might never have become an independent nation but for the friendship and support of France during the American Revolution. What a tragedy that France's own independence from tyranny, marked on July 14, was so much harder to attain. Looking back? 4 20 Yean Ago GINIA WHITE TRANSEAU SIX; NEW TEACHERS AP PROVED FOR PERQUIMANS HIGHS The Perquimans County Board Education met last Monday and approved the hiring of six new teachers as nominated by the prin cipals land elected by the school commltee, to fill vacancies in the tystenj I are: Perquimans High Mrs. Jane Aydlett, Mrs. Anna G. Harmon and Floyd "Dutch" Overt* i; Hertford Grammar School, Mrs. I ?ne S. Patten and Mrs. Helen M. Wo dard; and King Street. Miss Tuder B. Harvel. DIL ONS ATTENDING FUR NITUK MARKET: J. W. Dillon and J. W. I lion, Jr., of the W. M. Morgan Furnlt re Company, are attending the su imer furniture exposition at The; School High Point this week. They were accompanied by Mrs. Dillon and Jan. JACKSON'S HORSE WINS IN PHILLY: Pat Diamond, pacer race horse of D. M. Jackson, won first place in the Liberty Bell races at Philadelphia, Pa., last Tuesday night. The horse owned by Mr. Jackson is scheduled to run again in the races this week. GREGORY'S DISPLAYS "V STORE" EMBLEM: Gregory's 5-10 25 cents store is among the ap proximately 2,500 independent variety stores in the United States recognizing the very competitive condition of the business and the need of the buying public to make their dollars stretch as far as possible. These stores are identified with a "V Store" emblem on their window or a large "V" on their store sign. I w Yel- O - Fliz " * group of insects having only one pair of wings. There are over 80,000 different kinds of flies and they are found worldwide. Most yellow flies seem to live in Perquimans County. ?>-. < ff ? 11 III nil II 1 II Newspaper people have special 'lingo' If you have ever been around a newspaper office, it probably didn't take you long to realize that newspaper people speak a different language. It's not something that they con sciously do. It's not a language taught in journalism school nor is it discussed among veteran and "cub" reporters. It's something that comes with time and experience. The lingo is sometimes taken for granted by newspaper people and it can sound like Greek to the unknowing bystander. Thank goodness they write in plain English ? or at least they try to! Absorbed in our world of headlines and deadlines, we newspaper people use everyday words like slug, copy, terminal, column, and pica in ways that can be totally foreign to the lay person. So that you won't be intimidated by the language and just in case you'd like to talk "intelligently" with your newspaper friends, I've developed a glossary of newspaper Jargon. For this glossary, I consulted an old journalism textbook and was surprised to find many words that ?Double truck ? two pages at the center of a section made up as a single unit (BeLo's advertisements would be an example) ?nameplate ? the name of the newspaper displayed on the front page ? also called the flag or masthead ?obit ? abbreviation for obituary ?proof ?to proofread a story ?lead ? the first sentence or paragraph in a story ?slug ? the label which identifies the story ?tab ? short for tabloid, a smaller newspaper format ?toenails ? quotation marks or apostrophes ?ad ? short for advertisement ?add ? an addition to a story ?story ? what newspaper people call articles ?deadline ? the cut off time for news and advertising (ours is S p.m. Mondays) And last but not least, and cer tainly my favorite ?dingbat ? what editors are sometimes called but mainly ? a typographic decoration Hope this little glossary has enlightened yoa and will find a place in your own "clip" file. It should certainly help you understand much of the (printable) jargon you hear in a newspaper office! have become obsolete due to changes In newspaper technology. But there are also many that will be used by newspaper people till the end of time. After reading my text book, I added a few new terms to my own newspaper vocabulary and these, too, I will share with you. So, here goes... Short's Glossary of Newspaper Lingo (not necessarily in alphabetical order or order of importance! ) ?bullet ? one of these- ? ?byline ? credit line given to the author at the beginning or end of a story or outline ?dummy ? what editors are frequently called, but mainly a diagram outlining the make up of a newspaper page ?feature ? a human interest story ?fingernails ? what editors chew as deadlines near and also,, paren theses ?column inch ? a unit of space measurement in a newspaper ? one column inch equals one column by one inch ?cutline ? a caption below a photograph ?cheesecake ? slang for photographs emphasizing women's legs (which we have no use for at THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY! ) ?clips ? short for newspaper clippings ?crop ? to cut or eliminate un wanted portions of a photograph ?cut ? to trim or shorten a story ?morgue ? place where newspapers are filed ?mug shot ? close up or bead and shoulders photograph ?heads ? headlines ?decks ? ? section or line of a headline. Pacing South voices of tradition a syndicated column voices of tradition in a changing region memory of what they had been. The porches In the country differed from thoee in town for they had to serve different needs. Country inches had long porch planks of rough-cut lumber laid with cracks between the planks. As a rule, theae parches had no banister ? one reason being that it was handy to pile cotton on the end of the proch so if you lacked lust a little bit having a load on the wagon, you could stop by the porch and pull a little more on. Country houae porches were the at one accomplishment I have the-plank rocking. Now i sit in a rocking chair < surface and reck very i but to de it on cracks between them is rock. This has loot arts. The porch I grew up with wu a town porch. It wu a king affair stretching acroaa the front of the house and serving two families. There were five steps rising to the level of the porch proper. Atop the banister wu room for potted plants or other ornaments ? which gave the paper bojr something to tou the dally paper at Porches back in those days had personality. They were extensions of the people who lived inside the houae. It seemed to me that the house belonged to the perch rater than Oh porch belonging to the houee. Porches were serious tastaess. If there wu an argument, it wu usually settled en the parch. If you could net settle it the porch wu a good place to throw someone off of. Meal proposals of marriage were Levers canstosrsd It their Shangri La. Yard dogs considered the front porch their personal property. On rainy days you eould go out on the front porch with s rolled up newspaper and UB fltes while At night you could tit oil the porch and listen to ghost stories. And the old folks would always talk about when they were young so you would know how good you had it After supper everyone would go to the front porch and the men would prop their feet on the banister, the women would rock and the kids would sit on the floor and hang their feet between the banister rails. Now teD me. If you ean, what happened toall this? The blame can't all be placed on television. I think I know what happened and I may be able to answer some nagging questions that might have creased a few minds other than mine. For example: The reason there's a hanging pot erase is beeanae there's no banister to p?t pots on. Kids never bring their dates home because there's no porch to sit oft. Neighbors can't settle arguments because ftere's no porch to yell acmes. We all had to baqr paper bones to The world it becoming Infested with diet became there's no porch to lit on in Utc rain with a rolied-up newspaper in hand. Television became so popular because there's no porch. There it is, then, my own ob servation. Now I ask you, was it worth it? DONBAKXKK freelance GonsalM.Fi THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLt ' J Published Every Thursday By Advance Publ., Elizabeth City ?; >"???<?? ' *'*> ^ Vol T. Short Jane B. Williams Editor Advertising Manager ?' Pat Mansfield Circulation Manager tS AND ADVERTISING DEADLINE P.M. MONDAY Subscription Raton Oi* Ye* - 7.50 in couity - *150 out of county P.O. Box 277 Hertford, N.C. 27944 \ f. ?>?vl
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