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lournalLsm Students Visit Daily Newspaper ? By IThajiutite Jenkins) W?-*?bi*rs ??f the' Kinga Mountain! triijfh journalism class .vwm Pardon Her Pride! 'Wt'it pf??J too, to bt able t?? !vim ft hi wonJerfui'taatinii i'iO) IH'.N tJUfcRNSEV Milk. i?rf ttwari you u?e. either in .aoofcing or a? a nirallio-e w.i Awnrrtn-ainl drink, h mm more (WJn-'iluc tlun ten rf|i I lm inline ?lm ibat can mowi to vuai taaiilr nutrition progruu! i iwi?>rt?nt (cKhl emtrf f la * i>W*mai, euyto-tike w*r .OI IWN OUI'RNSE* MUX ( A Arch dale Farms Phone 2405 p-inled by Mus s \ I Ice Ttidenhour, jourhaiism teaefr-'r. and Mr. Howell Lane, prin^pn:. visited rhe Char lotte Observer on Mi) 19 to see th*r process by which a newspaper is printed. J tie students arrived in Charlotte at approximately five o'clock. Their first visit was to station WBT where they were shown the studio. The next stop was Hotel Charlotte where tile newly organized WBT TV de montsration television station is lo cated. The students had the oppor tunity to see for the first time a tele vision program- Until nine o'clock the students spent their time enjoy ing the variou* amusements of Charlotte.' At. nine fifteen the students were greeted by "E. L. Hardin, who was the guide for the trip through the Charlotte Observer building. The first place the students were shown was the editor's office, where Mr.. Hardin explained the different sour ces of news. They viewed reporters aj they compiled news for the pa per. and the teletype machines which brought news from around the world into the office of the paper. In th<? composing room, the huge linotype machines, putting into type the news which constitutes the pa per. was the feature attraciicn. Aft er this process the "slugs" made by the linotype are set up ia a steel trame and pressed into a "matrix'.' or cardboard Imprint Then the "ma trix" is cast into a semi-cylindrical mold which fits the press. The students were taken to the basement where the press, the final step of printing, rolls out the daily paper. The pupils were given a copy of the Observer as it came off the press. The last department visited was the circulation room where papers are shipped over the Carolinas and the world. ? ?S3P?. . J* HARRIS FUNERAL HOME ? Ambulance Service ? Kin?s Mountain, N. C. ",n? " * Vi "7 frt f C m 1 1-} ?? ' 4 JLo-cal Students Win ; In Forensic Tourney ? is Mountain Htgh student* carc.r*d off two first piace honor* and one second place 4n the annual Western conference Forensic Day contest held at the high school. Fri day. May 20. Oemauth Blanton and Jean Lynch are the fir?t place winners and Joy ce Falls the second place. The complete list of winners and their subjects were: Orations and dtv.amations division ? Demauth Ban con of Kings Mountain, "The Perennial Problems of Mankind," first, and Hoke Thompson, Jr., of .Shelby, "The Big Parade,',' second; 'Reading and Recitations ? Jean Lynch of Kinjs Mountain. "Afraid of the Dark," first, and L<*>na Dab bins of Forest City, The White Cliffs of t>jver," second. Lyric or non-dramatic poetry ? ? Carl Ray Webb, Jr., of Shelby, "The Raven," first, and Joyce FalLs of Kings Mountain, "The Cremations of Sam McGee, second; Original speeches ? Joe Mauney of Shelby, "Challenge \q the Individual", first, and Betty Wise, of Lincolnton, "The Constitution Worth Having." second. First pl$ce winners in each divis ion will receive medals. Four schools, Forest City, Kings Mountain, Shelby, and Lincolnton, entered the forensic meet. McEntire Now Heavy Equipment Mechanic With The First United States Army Corps in Kyoto, Japan, 10 May. .1949 ?Private 'First Class Wood row J. M^ntire of Kings Mountain, N. C., ' ?is now serving as Heavy Equipment j Mechanic, with the 79th Engineer Maintenance Company, an organiza- i I ^ion of First Corps, located in Kyoto, Honshu, Japan, known as "The City of Shrines." The 79th Engineer Maintenance | Company has charge of the mainte ' nance of all heavy construction e quipment, such as bulldozers. 4 1-2 [ trucks and cranes for all of central Honshu, the largest of Japanese home islands. I Private First Class McEntire Join ! ed the Army in November 1912 at j Fort Jackson, S. C., and completed his basic training at Camp Butner. ' He Joined the 79th Engineer Main tenance Company formerly at Dar wyn, Austrailia in 1944 and partlci-. pated in the Asiatic Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Prior to Joining the Army, Pfc. Mc I Entire was employed by Phenix Mills in Kings Mountain, N. C. j Sausage is referred to in writings ' aj old as Homer's Odyssey. An oyster can produce 114,000.000 eggs during its lifetime. . ? ? I Sir Isaac New*on was a poor stu- i dent as a young boy. Amethysts were once thought to prevent, drunkenness. * * ' ... . Rabbits breed from four to eight times a year. ; k In snakes and gecko lizards, the tear duct opens Into' the mouth. 1L" 11111 ?Eiifphanto of C**yion ^r?> <???neraiiy tuskietM. Only the male nighclngaugj smgs. famine occurs tn some portion of India every year. The population o? North America more than doubled between 1380 and 1JM0. White elephi&nta in Siam are bap Used and feted like human beinga. m}jjr)rrrrm mm Phones 187 & 2S3 OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO Cash Brothers and to the community ?4 KINGS MOUNTAIN en the opening of the new JOY THEATRE INDEPENDENT ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. Inc. The Electrical House of the South, for: Power Equipment ? Electrical Supplies ? Lighting Fixtures Headquarters for LIGHTOLIER and V1RDEN Products 220 West First St. ? Charlotte. 2. H. C. Phone 3-2321 Moa- thru Fri ? A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturday 8 A. M. to 12 M ?** Compliments of Robert H. Pinnix Contractor CoCTimerciai Building TttophwMi W43 _ '* * (Sflrtiiilii. M. C Giand Opening? Wednesday, June 1st T W's^H (mlOHAiiY!)
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