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It is ironic that death came to Martin
Luther Harmon Jr. on a Wednesday night,
the night the Herald was put to bed. He
Three members of my family have
worked at The Herald: Gary, who retired in
May 2008 after serving nearly 30 years as
editor and at that time a total of 44 years in
nephew, who was production manager, also
working with Darrell Austin, general man-
ager of General Publishing Company, and
died in a tragic house fire April 23, 1975.
the newspaper business; Jeff Grigg, our
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however, he enjoyed the
news end of the newspaper rather than
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That first publisher I worked with ab-
He always told us new reporters "you
have to be at work on Wednesday, no ex-
Jewel Shop
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plat
cuses, get married and have babies on every Garland Atkins, who owned The Herald.
"selling". He always got excited about writ-
other day but press day."
lowed him in this business tell us today.
ing editorials but often waited until press
day to start turning out copy. He covered
city hall and mayors like Garland E. Still,
Glee A. Bridges, and John Henry Moss
who made the headlines every week.
horred deadlines
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May 21, 1953
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publisher,
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‘Better Diamonds at a Better Price
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my brother and me that we graduated from
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"Martin's Medicine"
“We buy gold,
The late Martin Harmon
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circle in reporting at all three papers in this
newspaper chain.
the stories of those 7,000 subscribers, sym-
pathizing with their problems and sharing
their joys. He told us on many occasions
and editorial policy was the only avenue in
maintaining community respect. That's
what the publishers/owners who have fol-
Delli
that an honest, forthright, objective news
owne
of the way we were
came back in
2001 to work with Todd Hagans at our sis-
u
ter newspaper, The Eagle, continued to
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Needless to say, I didn't follow my origi-
nal plan to teach school and I remained in
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supported the hometown paper owned and
Kings Mountain at The Herald. I retired in
1999 to serve as National President of the
write some stories for the Herald and then
returned to the Herald full time. For several
weeks now I have also worked at the Her-
ald's sister paper, The Banner-News in Bel-
mont, which means that I have come full
operated by hometown people.
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