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Hazel Fryer Travels Around The World
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Hazel Herndon (M»s. F.M.)
Fryer has been around the world
in seven weeks.
The popular Kings Mountain
librarian traveled approximately
35/XX) miles from New York to
Lxmdon, Turkey, Israel, Jordan,
Egypt, Pakistan, India, Nepal,
Thailand, Hong Kong,
Singapore, China, Japan, Hawaii
and back to San Francisco and
home via Douglas Airport in
Charlotte.
“It was a fascinating trip and I
loved it,” said Mrs. Fryer, who is
already back at work at Mauney
Memorial Library and sharing
the memories of her fabulous
trip with visitors. Hazel has
prepared a scrapbook covering
her travels and brought back a
momento from each country she
visited which is characteristic of
that country.
Mrs. Fryer joined a
24-member tour group for the
trip by air which featured a week
in China.
“I had always wanted to go to
Asia,” said Mrs. Fryer, “and I
still have to pinch myself to
realize that I made it. It's a dif
ferent continent but altogether a
different world from the one we
live in Kings Mountain,” she
said.
In addition to traveling the
major part of her journey by air.
Hazel Fryer rode a bicycle down
the streets of Hong Kong, a
camel in Egypt, an elephant in
India, a horse, a Trishaw in
Singapore, a Chinese train, ate
with chopsticks during her entire
stay in China and sat on the
floor in Japanese tea rooms with
shoes off just like the natives.
Mrs. Fryci said she was
especially impressed by Chinese
SECTION B
Thursday, November 13, 1980
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BICYCLING IN CHINA-Haa«l Fryar draws a lot of attontion
from tho natives as she ridos a bicyclo on tho stroots of China
during a rocont visit.
PUBLIC BATH—Tho Public bathing facilities in China were a
fascinating place for tourists like Kings Mountoin's Hasel
Fryer. Mrs. Fryer is pictured, at right, with one of her traveling
companions.
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KIDS IN SHANGHAI—Hasel Fryer poses with a group of
Chinese children in an alleyway in Shanghai. The Chinese
were Just os curious obout their visitors as were the Jlmericon
tourists.
an and said that the Chinese
were just as curious about
Americans “as we were about
them. Everywhere we went
crowds followed us,” she said. In
Shanghai their tour guide took
them to a typical Soochow
house, an industrial commune
occupied by 25,000 people, and
a kinderganen. The strange gods
in the Jade Buddha Temple and
all over Asia were “hard to
believe for an American and
Christian and once we stepped
on Asian soil we felt the dif
ference,” said Hazel. The “Reds”
signs were all along the streets
and the people were dressed in
drab blue and appeared enthrall
ed by the colorful dresses worn
by the Americans. Hazel wrote
her notes from China while sit
ting under mosquito netting and
the travelers carried their own
water jugs as soon as they cross
ed the bridge in Turkey and into
Istanbul and Japan also. In
Shanghai they noticed the high
walls around the farming and in-
New Books
At Library
New books on the shelves of
Cleveland County Memorial
Library include the following;
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The Humanoid Touch
by Jack Williamson
Maynard’s House: a Novel
by Herman Rancher
New Dimensions II
Edited by: Robert Silverberg
Side Effects
by Woody Allen
Sins of the Fathers
by Susan Howatch
NON-FICTION
An Elephant is Soft and Mushy
by S. Gross
Dare to Discipline;
a Psychologist Offers Urgent
Advice to Parents and Teachers
by James Dobson
Dog Owner’s Home Veterinary
Handbook
by Delbert G. Carlson,
D.V.M.
The Dollar Princesses: Sagas of
Upward Nobility 1870-1914
by Ruth Brandon
Mastering the Art of Beekeeping
by Ormond Aebi
BIOGRAPHIES
Soon to be a Major Motion
Picture
by Abbie Hoffman
Adrift
by Tristan Jones
Swanson on Swanson: an
Autobiography
by Gloria Swanson
REFERENCE
1981-1982 Director of North
Carolina Manufacturing Firms
by N.C. Department of
Commerce
Federal Tax Guide 1980
by Prentice-Hall
Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft
1979-80
Edited by John WR Taylor
Jane’s Fighting Ships 1979-80
Edited by Captain John
Moore RN
The Value Line Investment'
Survey
Lion Drive
Tops Goal
Kings Mountain Lions Club
raised a total of S1818.43, ex
ceeding its 1981 goal by $168.43
for gifts for the White Cane cam
paign for the blind.
White Cane Chairman Don
Crawford said the drive was
completed in one month and top
salesman was Lion George Sher
rill, at $539, followed by the
club’s newest member. Bill
Stone, who reported collections
of $243. Rev. Mr. Sherrill was
captain of Team A, which col
lected $866.13. Lion Luther
Bennett was captain of Team B
which raised $529.42 and Lion
Johnny Reavis was captain of
Team C which collected
$345.98.
Voter Survey
Set Here
Did you vote on November 4?
Were you registered to vote but
did not vote?
The Bureau of the Census will
ask these and other questions
about voting in the 1980 elec
tions in a sample of households
in this area during the week of
Nov. 17-21.
Interviewers who will visit
households in this area are Mrs.
Vera F. Morrison and Mrs.
Doris S. Brooks.
dustrial communes and visited
one two bedroom apartment
which had a tiny antiquated
bathroom and an antiquated kit
chen. The owner of the apart
ment was quite proud of his
home, said Hazel, and the apiart-
ment must have represented
some of the modernization of the
area.
By the time Hazel, who was
the only North Carolinian on
the trip, reached Hong Kong,
her suitcase was bulging and she
realized that her 44 pound limit
had already been toppled. “I
decided I’d rather have some
momentoes of my travels to
share with my Kings Mountain
friends, so I shipped most of my
clothes back to the U.S.A.,” said
Hazel. She and her traveling
companions found the weather
hotter than they expiected in
Egypt and India and had to pur
chase several cotton skirts and
blouses.
First class accommodations
were provided in high rise luxury
hotels in all the countries they
visited and the food was
delicious, although Hazel said
she tired of eating Chinese food
which is not cooked in China as
it is prepjared in America. There
were 10-18 courses at each meal,
for instance, and was eaten with
choptsticks.
‘The food was marvelous
everywhere we stopped,” said
Hazel and the people were
friendly.
Seeing the Taj Mahal in India
was a thrill for the Kings Moun
tain woman who said the inscrip>-
tion by Edward Lear is typical of
the feelings of a visitor to that
shrine. He said, “Henceforth let
the inhabitants of the world be
divided into two classes, them as
has seen the Taj Mahal and
them as hasn’t.”
Thailand is a mixture of old
and new and the old palace com
plex where the book and movie,
“Anna and the King of Siam,”
originated. The novices with
their saffron robes and shaved
heads and the floating market at
Bangkok were interesting. At
Singapore Mrs. Fryer saw
Repuls Bay, scene of “Love Is A
Many Splendored Thing” and
got a' glimptse of Mt. Fugi and
her picture made with a group of
giggling school girls at a Shinto
Shrine in Japian.
Attending a cremation
ceremony on the river bank in
India was an unforgettable ex
perience, as was watching Hindu
ptriests sit under umbrellas at the
riverside as the p)eople bathed at
daybreak in the Ganges River as
purifying rites with the strange
ideas that no evil germs were
ptermitted. Even as the bathers
took ptart in the rites, the visitors
noticed a dead cow floating
down the river. “It was all very
strange to us but we always got
up early and tried not to miss
anything,” recalled Hazel.
Among her souvenirs is an
abacus, the Chinese and
Japtanese adding machine, and
many other items which point
both to the supierstitious beliefs
of the Asian peoples and their
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beautiful native dress and art.
The Shojun Shrine at Nikko has
its roots elaborately turned up so
the evil spirits can’t enter and
ptaths to the houses are also
crooked to add to good luck.
Acres of laundry, collected by
donkey cart, hanging to dry in a
city laundry of Pakistan, the
pyramids of Egypt, a living
museum, and tripts to the Holy
Land, including Jerusalem, the
Wailing Wall, the Dead Sea
Scrolls Museum, the Garden of
Gethsemane, and Bethlehem are
among the many memorable
stops on Hazel’s itinerary.
“I wouldn’t have missed this
trip for anything,” said Hazel
who had amazingly little difficul
ty getting booked for a trip into
Communist China.
“1 saw many beautiful places
and it was a once-in-a-lifetime ex
perience I hopte I can share with
pteople who come to the library
to help them enjoy more the
books they select to read concer
ning the history of some of these
faraway places,” said Mrs. Fryer.
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WHATS ON THE MENU?-Hazel Fryer looks on the front of a
Iap>anese restaurant that displays its menu for the day. She ob
tained help from a tour guide to make her selection.
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REFRESHMENT TIME—Librarian Hazel Fryer pauses for the
traditional Soki in her hotel room in China. The Kings Moun
tain woman has just returned bom a trip around the world.
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AROUND THE WORLD DISPLAY-Mrs. Hazel
Fryer, librarian at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial
Library points out some of the highlights of
Photo by Lib Stewart
her bip around the world to o librory visitor,
Roy Hipps of Grover, o student at Cleveland
Tech.