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Thursday, July 26, 1976-M •R-HEIIALD-Page 6B Library Salutes The Hale Family nm$ RT CLASS FOB INJURED STUDENT—Carla Stamey (rt), a member of Cleveland Tech HadloloKlc Technology program, sustained a hip IhJury In an auto accident and was confined to Cleveland Memorial Hospital. Cleveland Memorial Hospital is a program affiliate fsr Ike RT program and arrangements were made to have the classes In a classroom at the hospital. Others pictured are (left-right) Barbara Hoey, Mary Lou Canlpe, and Sherry Royster, Instructor. I OU rea, Fall Courses Scheduled Persons interested In registering for Gastonia Recreation Department’s upcoming fall classes should register now before spaces are filled. For general Information call 0 Cynthia Byars at 884-8211, Ext. 297 leaving name and mailing address. Ballet, Tap, Jazs, and Polnte classes: Instructor is Pat Wall. Classes meet Monday througfi Friday at Memorial Hall. Fees are $5 per month per class for • City residents suid 87 per month for non-Clty residents. Call Mrs. Wall at 866-6826 for enrollment. Minimum age Is 6 years. Gymnastics; Instructor Is BUI FarreU. Classes meet at Memorial HaU. Fees are 816 per quarter for City residents and 821 per quarter for non-Clty residents. Minimum age Is 4 years. OaU Mr. FarreU at 886-8467 after 7:00 p.m. for enroUment Information. Baton: Instructor Is Lisa IQser. Classes meet at Phillips Center. Cost Is 816 per quarter for City residents and 821 per quarter for non-Clty residents. Minimum age Is 4 yesu's. CaU Miss Kiser at 864-7447 for enrollment Information. Disco Dance: Instructor Is Bonnie Wells. Classes taught at Bradley, Phillips, Erwin centers and at Memorial HaU. Cost is 816 per quarter for City residents and 821 per quarter for non-Clty residnts. The Recreation Department needs In structors for the foUowlng tall classes: gymnastics, macrame, pottery making, backgammon, Christmas Osifts, and clogging. Teaching experience Is not necessary. Interested persons should have ability to demonstrate these skUls. Must be dependable and have own tran- igrortatlon. 3maU saUirles ^1 be paid. Hours wUl depend on the avaUlblllty of instructors suid need of program participants. Instructors are generaUy needed 7-6 p.m. Interested persons should call Cynthia Byars at 864-8211, Ext. 267. Mauney Memorial Library would like to oonunend Mr. and Mrs. Eugene R. Hide and their chUdren; Tony, Ted and Gina, on having a family plan of coming to the library together. “AU are avid readers,” says Mrs. Dorothy Hale,” and we really love books.” “I think the children like to read because they have seen us enjoy It so much,” says Mr. Hale, an em ployee of J.P. Stevens. The Ubrary would like to see more families In our community follow this pUui. story Hour will continue on Wednesdays from 10:80 to 11:80 through August 16th for chUdren ages 6 through 10. NEW BOOKS AT THELIBRABT YOUTH: The World of Robots, The New En chantment of America Series; Idaho, District of Cblumbla, South Carolina, North Carolina, minola, Nevada, Montana, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Wyoming, Georgia, Dinosaurs and Beasts of Yore, Sorry-What Does It Mean?, Norton’s Ml^t- tlme. Human Body: ’The Brain, Blue Bug’s Sur prise, The Ghost with the Halloween Hiccups, Sharlng-What Does It Mean?, Mister Wolfe and Me, The Story of the Statue of Liberty, Carnival and Kopek and More- About Hannah, Where E>oes the Teacher Live?, ’Things to Make and Do for Valen tine’s Day, The Story of the Ckipltol and Norman Rock well’s Americana ABC. FICmON: aty of God - Holland, Parker’s Island - Thompson, Sphinx - Cook, A Gross Carriage of Justice • Fisk, The Man Downstairs - Hallstead, The Burning Woman - Ritter, Summer of the Dragon • Peters, A Sharp Rise In Crime - Oeasey, The Year of the French - Flanagan, Sleepless Nights Hardwick, Ouunber Music • Grum- bach, (Calais - Windsor, Going After Cacclato - O’Brien (National Book Award winner, fiction about Vietnam war). Shadows In Umbria - LaTourrette, Day of Judgement - Higgins, Children of the Sea - Nichols (novel about Outer Banka), Having Been There (18 prize winning stories about alcoholism). The Debriefing - Littell, Maggie - Kennedy, Legacy of a Land Hog - Reese, Make Death Love Me - Rendell, The Good Husband - Johnson, The Chinese Assassin - Grey, The Cinder Path - Cookaon, Casino - Klrsch, The Beaufort Sisters - Cleary, The Nighttime Guy ■ Hendrick, The Honor of Ravenaholme - Stafford, The Problems of R.A. - Seifert, Tournament of Shadows - Camac and Blue Pages - Perry. GENERAL: A Step Further-Jonl, A First Edition?, The Spiritual Journey of Jimmy Carter, DEPARTMENT STORE KINGS MOUNTAIN, N C DOWNTOWN KINGS MOUNTAIN STUDENTS LAY-A-WAY SALE FOR BACK TO SCHOOL LEVIS RINSED DENIM AND CORDUROY 10.95 REGULAR *13.00 STUDENT SIZES WAIST 2S TO 30 RINSED DENIM AND CORDUROY 12.95 REGULAR ‘16.00 Harmonica Players Johann Ludwig Eberhardt and his Salem Clocks, Oral Hstory, Santa Claus, the Thoth Fairy and Other Stories (religion explained for children). Careers In Theatre, Music and Dance, The Holiday Book, Hsm- dlcapplng America, Modeling Careers, Only Human, You and Your Heart, The First Book of Chess, The Third World War, August 1986 and Albert Einstein: the Humtui Side. Also The ’Two-Career Couple, For the People (fighting for public libraries). Journeys Through Philosophy, A Iflstory of London, The Female Hero In Folklore and Legend, The Global Predicament (ecologlcsd perspective on world or der), Einstein’s Universe (Relativity made plain). The Habit of Being (Let ters of Flannery O’Con nor), The Book of Easter, Southern Poetry Review, America’s Majestic Canyons, The Great F’yramid (It’s secrets and mysteries). Insects, Reincarnation The Phoenix Fire Mystery, The Bradford Book of Collector’s Plates, A Life That Mattered - Betty Feezor and Martha (MitcheU). And How to Help Your Child Plan a Career, Billy Graham - A Parable of American Righteousness, Days - Robison short stories, I’m Not Much, Baby, But I’m All I’ve Got, Young People and Crime, Young People and Health, Good Stories for An niversaries, Gardener’s Delight, Starting in the Middle, The Complete Book of Walking, Everyone’s Money Book, Buyer's Guide, N.C. State Plan for Alcohol A Drug Abuse, N.C. Tran- Plan 1676-86, Linking People to Program: An Information k Referral Guide and Getting Together: A Community qiortatlon Improvement Involvement Workbook. COME TO HOME FOR SHORT TERM HIGH INTEREST MONEY MARKET CERTIHCATE 9.473% RATE GOOD THROUGH THURSDAY *10,000 minimum deposit. Six month term. Guoronteed role. Penalty for eorty withdrowel. federal Re9ulations ProHibHi CompoundinQ on these certificotes. HOME SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 700 W. King Street Branch Office 215 E. Va. Ave. Bessemer City Branch Office 106 E. Mtn St. Kings Mountain By ROGERS WHITENER Dr. Gratis Williams, at one point In his monumental work The Southern Mountaineer In Fact and Fiction, makes the statement that the mountaineer ”dld not learn to play an In strument; he simply played an instrument.” He attributes this phenomenon to the mountaineer’s Calvlnistlc view of life, whereby If one is predestined to play, he simply picks up the In strument In question and begins playing. If he Is not so predestined ‘‘sJl the power In the world will not help! ” I’m not sure all com mentators on Appalachia are in agreement with this statement, but I’ve often felt that It holds true for the harmonica player. We called It the mouth harp when I was a boy, and every youngster In the neighborhood must have felt he was predestined to blow a harp, for every pair of ragged overalls seemed to conceal an M. Hohner or an FR. Hotz ’’American Ace” which miraculously appeared when Inspiration seized the owner. The sound which emerged in the Impromptu concert seldom matched the player’s zeal. Usually It was a labored sucking and blowing which settled on a kind of Instrumental monotone. Pocket lint, bits of peanut shells, sand, and other mementoes of a week’s wearing of the same pair of overalls hardly aided the melodic cause. Sometimes certain reeds were completely jammed by such bits of trash; others emitted sounds more appropriate to an anguished cat. For the "uncalled” this was no special problem: the sound might Indeed be an Improvement over that of the bone-clean In strument. But for the predestined It was a near-calamlty. Either the harp had to be soaked and cleansed of the offending matter or the owner has to come up with the necessary silver to purchase a new In strument. Sometimes the soaking averted the neoeselty of forking over precious capital, but often It brought additional problems. ’The metal parts would sometimes rust, the wood swell or sometimes recede from the metal causing the player to suffer cut or bruised Ups. This being the cMe, th true harp player began looking for the mean to purchase a new In strument. Before World War II even the M. Hohner "Marine Band” —a favorite model— could be acquired for fifty cents. Unfortunately fifty cents was half a doUar In those days and represented a major cash outlay for the average youngster. But If he were truly dedicated he usuaUy found the necessary amount and sometimes Improved his technique sufficiently to join other players of a like In clination. OccaslonaUy It might be as a member of a jug band, playing on a street comer, barber shop, or saloon. EhrentuaUy he ml^t move (HI to a blues ensemble or even Into the resdm of classlcaJ music. Blacks have always appeared to be especiaUy adept at playing the harmonica, perhaps because of a heritage In volving the playing of reed Instruments. Visit a bar, supper club, or other establishment catering to regional music In any of the major cities or Appalachia amd you’re likely to hear the momful wait of a mouth harp, often played by elderly black man. Over In an unUghted area of the room you may see a youngster pan tomiming the Up and hand movements of the artist on hIs own ten-hole model. He Is (me of the predestined. Readers are Invited to send folk materials to Folk-Ways and Folk- Speech, Box 876, Ap palachian State Unlver- rity, Boone, N.C. 28608. ? i i t a
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