Posted in Just A Bite, UNC History, tagged charlotte observer, jesse helms, jesse helms center, john dodd, taylor batten, unc chapel hill, university of negroes and communists on December 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“Did Jesse Helms ever call UNC the ‘University of Negroes and Communists’? “That line has been attributed to the late longtime U.S. senator for many years by many sources. John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, says it is ‘a fabrication.’ ” – From “Jesse Helms and the ‘University of Negroes and [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged 1960 presidential campaign, anticatholicism, charlotte observer, greensboro news, jfk, jonathan daniels, raleigh news and observer on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The more violent forms of hate-peddling [during the 1960 presidential campaign] have come in for attack by major Southern papers [such as] the Greensboro, N.C. News: ‘Organized efforts on the part of respectable Protestant churches to inject venomous, and in many cases false, prejudice into the presidential campaign are in themselves violative of the American [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged bill france, c d spangler, charlotte observer, eudora garrison, nascar, wilton garrison on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“[Bill France] plunged back into the racing business almost as soon as the fireworks of V-J day had sputtered out. In October [1945] he traveled to Charlotte, N.C., to promote a stock-car race on the old half-mile clay oval at the local fairgrounds. ‘I went to see Wilton Garrison, who was the sports editor of [...]
Posted in History, tagged charlotte observer, conagra, garner nc, jack betts, new york times disunion, north carolina collection gallery, slim jim on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
– Jack Betts, the Great State’s foreign correspondent in Raleigh for the past two decades, debarks more suddenly than but just as gracefully as his positively-addicted readers would expect. Jack will dispute this — of course! — but it was his unrelenting editorials and columns that took the lead in sparing Eastern North Carolina the [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged charlotte observer, curtis johnson, knight newspapers, ralph nicholson, richmond indiana on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Charlotte’s Observer, the biggest (circ. 138,183) daily in the Carolinas, is a newspapering nugget of gold that seldom glitters. Its news pages are a typographical mishmash, its editorial voice a whisper. Yet because in its leisurely stride it picks up every crumb of news in its territory, the 82-year-old Observer is one of the biggest [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged 1948 presidential campaign, charlotte observer, ed williams, eugene l roberts sr, gene roberts, goldsboro herald, goldsboro nc, hary truman, hoover cart, hoovercrat, hugh morton, nc journalism hall of fame, nc state fairgrounds, wayne county nc on April 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“In Wayne County, N. C., a depressed farmer cut off the rear end of his ‘disused’ automobile, fastened shafts to the axle, backed in a mule, went riding…. Soon the roads of eastern North Carolina were overrun with similar vehicles pulled by mules, horses, oxen, goats or a pair of husky boys. North Carolinians, many [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged bill clinton, charlotte observer, elvis presley, greil marcus, joyce carol oates, kays gary on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Waiting On Elvis, 1956 This place up in Charlotte called Chuck’s where I used to waitress and who came in one night but Elvis and some of his friends before his concert at the Arena, I was twenty-six married but still waiting tables and we got to joking around like you do, and he was [...]
