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His Newspapers And Wheelbarrow
Keep "Shorty" Huffstetler Busy
R. L. (Shanty) Huffstetler,
Kings Mountain native now of
Winston Salem, was subject of a
feature article in 'the Winston Sa
lem newspaper, “Twin City Sen
tinel.”
The story was written by Ed
Campbell, Staff reporter, and ap
peared with three-column pic
ture under the heading, “Well
Done, Little Man.”
Article on Mr. Huffstetler fal
lows:
He was a little man with a big
problem.
Laid off from his job in the tex
tile mill, he had his family’s
welfare to see to.
So the little man came out of
Kings Mountain with his wife
and two small daughters.
He came to Winston-Salem,
got himself some wood and a bi
cycle and put himself together
a wheelbarrow. It was 1948.
For the next two years he and
that wheelbarrow were partners
against the problem. They were
in business together, selling can
dy.
All the better known nickel
bars were their line, and togeth
er they went about here, or set
up to sell on the corner there, in
the downtown business area.
Problem Licked
Pretty soon the little man and
his confectionary on a wheel had
the problem licked and though
he was still the same height _
all 4 1-2 feet of it maybe he
felt a bit bigger inside.
This was R. L. Huffstetler 13
years ago. But the name won’t
mean much to most of the folks
around here. What else would
they know him by but “Shorty?”
Today, things are different for
Shorty Huffstetler. For one thing,
he’s older _61. And one of
those small children, Birtie Leo,
has grown up, is married and
living with her airman husband
in Massachusetts.
The other, Margie, 15, is still
living with Shortv and his wife
Goldie, at 125 E. Ninth Street.
Different Job
The job is different, too. In
September of 1950, Shorty traded
the candy bars for newspapers
and is now distributing and sell
ing them for the Winston-Salem
Journal and Twin City Sentinel.
Shorty uses a metal, two
wheeled cart to carry the papers.
It's a modified version of the
wheelbarrow that served him so
well when he was selling candy.
Shorty had to have a new ve
hicle when he took on the news
paper job. He found a second
hand wheelbarrow and worked
on it until he got it like he want
ed if. He put two bicycle wheels
on this one, so the weight of the
heavier newspapers would bej
better distributed and easier toj
push.
“The old one I had was too
weak to carry papers," he said.'
Early To Rise
Shorty gets up in the very wee;
hours six days a week, taking1
only Saturday off. Though in a
different line of work, he has all
the qualities of a good postman.
He’s on the job through rain,
sleet, snow and the muggy, hot
dax’s of midsummer.
He recalls the big snows last
March as “something terrible.
The cart got mired down and I,
finally had to leave it and carry
the papers in my arms. I fell
once.”
When it’s wet. Shorty has a
canvass he spreads over the top
of the cart to keep his papers
dry.
At the newspaper building at
4 a. m., Shorty picks up his pa
pers, puts them in his cart and
begins making his rounds. He
leaves papers at each of the
Miss America
Finals Saturday
To Be Televised
The highlights and final of
“The 1961 Miss America Pageant
will be televised at 9:30 P. M.
direct from Atlantic City’s famed
Convention Hall in a spectacu
lar two-and-and-one-half hour
broadcast on WSPA-TV from
CBS, Saturday, September 9, 1961.
The Pageant will be sponsored
by the Philoo Corporation, the
Pepsi Cola Compnay, The Toni
Company, and the Oldsmobile
Division of General Motors Cor
poration.
Channel 7 viewers will have a
(close-up view from Atlantic City
of the world’s most famous beau
ty and talent contest as they
view the climax to the week-long
Pageant. Over 50 contest amts
from the U. S., Canada, and
•Puerto Rico will compete for the
coveted ‘'Miss America’’ title.
For the seventh consecutive year,
Bert Parks will be the on-stage
'master of ceremonies. Ossisting
in the on-camera spectacle are
newspaper racks in the downtown
area.
Honor System
The racks put the public on
their honor to pay for the news
papers taken, but Shorty says,
“Some of the bums take them
without paying.’’
It takes him about 2% hours
to fill all the racks. Then he
backtracks to see that they keep
filled.
At 2 p. m. Shorty is back at the
newspaper building again to pick
up the afternoon papers when
they come off the presses. He
starts distributing to the racks
again.
(When he has the racks filled a
second time, Shorty, who guesses
he walks about 10 miles a day,}
pushes his cart and his remaining
papers to the P. H. Hanes Knit
ting Co. plant at the comer of
Sixth and Main Streets*. He gets
there in time to sell them to em
ployees who begin leaving the
plant at 4 p. m.
Wife Is Blind
It’s around 5:30 p. m. when he
starts for home, with the cart
still in tow. He puts the cart a
way and goes into his house to
haw supper with his daughter
and wife, who is blind.
Shorty is in bed at 8 p. m. so
he’ll be fresh for his 4 a. m. date
with the morning newspapers
next day.
He distributes around 1,100 pa
per's during a good day’s work,
600 papers in the morning and
500 in the afternoon.
Once, last September, he and
his cart were in a collision. “I
was selling a paper at the park
ing lot across from the hotel
(Robert E. Lee), beating my
gums, not watching what I was!
doing, and turned my cart around
into this car that was coming in- i
to the lot. Some of the paint vfais
knocked off the car and it costj
me about $10 to settleup.”
Shorty has missed, according
to his own recollection, only a
bout 20 days out of the 11 years
he has been employed with the
newspapers.
"I keep healthy by keeping at
it."
Sometimes now he gets tired,
particularly in his legs, but he
says. “I’ve always been able to
find the grit to keep going. I
think I can go five more .years
at least.”
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bur, Miss America 1958; Mary
Ann Mbbley, Miss America 1959;
and Nancy Jane Fleming, the
current Miss America.
Highlights of the night’s fes
tivities on WSPA-TV will include
the “grand parade” of contes
tants representing each state;
specialty acts performed by the
finalists; the contestants’ swim
suit promenade; personality
competition; interviews with for
mer Miss Americas; and the
crowning of Miss America 1962
by the reigning queen.
This broadcast, climaxing four
nights of competition for scholar
ships and national fame by
beauties representing all 50 sta
tes, will culminate in an on-the
spot selection and crowning of a
new “Miss America.”
From obscurity she will be
come, in one flash, a household
name. Fifty million people will
watch her enter this magic
wotfld between the hours of 9:30
p. m. and 12:00 midnight, on
WSPA-TV Channel 7, and the
CBS Television Network.
By Sunday morning, the med
ia of American communications
will have put her name and face
into every American home.
Within a year, she will have ap
peared publicly all over the
country and have made more
money than the average Ameri
can earns in 20 years. For in that
split moment on Saturday night,
she will cease to be Mama’s dar
ling, Daddy’s best girl, or the
popular campus favorite, and
will burst across the land as Miss
America.
The Camden, N. J., board of
elections ended one of the frin
ge benefits for its 29 employees;
they removed bottlesof free as
pirin. It seems that the employ
ees used 5,500 aspirins last year.
Freshmen Arrive
At Gardner*Webb
For Fall Term
Boiling Springs — Around 250
[hoarding freshmen arrived on
|'the Gardner-Webb Cdllege oamp
i us yesterday (Monday) to begin
; the first leg of their college edu
j cation. Returning along with the
freshmen were around 50 profes
1 soars and staff members, some of
i them fresh from summer school,
a few with advanced degrees
completed during the summer
i months.
Included in the students arriv
ing on campus were a few trans
| fer students.
Today, tomorrow, and Thurs
day will be devoted to orienta
tion and freshman testing.
Friday sophomores will regis
ter, and Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning freshmen will
go through the lines to get class
es arranged for Monday’s first
classes.
On Thursday night. Sept. 14,
the students will enjoy the first
big sociail event of the year _
the faculty-student reception,
held in O. Max Gardner Memor
ial Building.
A total enrollment of around
600 students is expected this year
— about the same as last year,
when a peak enrollment was
reached. A total of 590 students
finally registered for classes last
fall, including about a score of
special students, most of which
were in the field of music.
A total of 640 stulients regis
tered during the year at the Bap
tist junior college, counting
transfer students and students
entering for the first time with
AT LACKLAND AFB _ Airman
Floyd E. Morris, son ol Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd O. Morris, 303 Waco
Road. Kings Mountain, has com
pleted his initial course of Air
Force basic military training at
Lackland AFB. Texas. He has
been selected to attend the tech
nical training course for Aircraft
Control and Warning Operator,
at Keesler AFB, Miss. He is a gra
duate of Kings Mountain high
schooL
the second semester that began
in mid-January.
•Registrar Dorothy W. Hamrick
has reported that all available
dormitory space for men and
women students has been taken,
with 136 girls boarding and a
round 212 men living on campus.
Attic space could be provided for:
15 or 20 more, should the need:
arise.
The remaining almost 300 stu
dents are commuters from Cleve
land and neighboring counties,
two or three dozen riding the bus
from Gaston County.
Three French campers pitched
Itheir big yellow tent in the hills
of England and left for a near
by town. When they returned,
they found that someone who
had made off with their tent and
equipment After two days of
searching, police found their
entire camp right where they
had left it. It was they who had
been lost.
A New York man received an
expensive car for his birthday
with a card saying, “May you
always be as happy as you are
today.’’ The greeting did not
come true, however. He was ar
rested by police on charges of
sending himsetlf stolen goods_
namely, the car
Gardner-Webb
Alumni Meet
Boiling Springs _ Gardner- j
Webb Collie Alumni Associ
ation officers and directors met!
recently at /the College and
mapped plans to organize 12 A
lumni Association chapters by
Homecoming, Oct. 28.
Initial steps were also take
to celebrate Founder’s Day and
Homecoming on the same day. In
previous years, Founders’ Day
has been observed on Friday, a
day earlier.
Twelve key alumni will be na
med by the directors and officers,
working with a faculty-alumni
oammititee, to spearhead the
chapter organizational work.
Chapters are (to 'be established in
the 12 most populace alumni a
reas.
The Rev. T. W. Estes of Forest
City is president of the Associ
ation, the Rev. Wilson Padgett
of Shelby is vice-president, and
Mrs. Nancy A. Griffin of Boiling
Springs is secretary-treasurer.
An effort will be made to con
tact other colleges for informa
tion on how to organize alumni
chapters.
Special Foundere-Day - Home
coming events include a meeting
of the officers and directors that
morning, a banquet at 1. p. m*
attended by ireiatives and des
cendant of Ithe original board of
trustees of the College, older fac
ulty members, older alumni, and
officers and directors of the A
lumni Association.
A campus tour at 11 a. m. will
precede the banquet.
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon,
a talent show, with alumni and
students participating, will be
held, followed by the annual
barbecue at 5 p. m.
Homecoming events will be
climaxed with the Gaxdneir-Webb
vs. Wingate football game at 8
p. m. in the new Shelby High
School Stadium.
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