Winston-Salem Journal from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • 3

Desk ull of Memories MJ Baseballs Badges and Turn Up was a he a whole State Zoo Get ft Page A3 Local Area and State $150000 Yearly Scratch NEWS Sunday December 6 1970 Journal and Sentinel People are all the time asking tax people and tell them to forget how many miles the whole thing have to rake the Closed Door Session Dam Plan started that rumor Holshouser Taylor Bagnal GOP Re Elects Policy Men i on the Inn the too be good it under attorney in the District of North who RALEIGH (AP) Despite the Army Corps of Engineers agreement to restudy the pollu tion potential of the New Hope reservoir three statewide con servation organizations are plan ning to peacefully demonstrate their protest to the project at groundbreaking cere monies for the $40 million dam ECOS Inc a student oriented conservation group the Conser vation Council oft North Caro lina a statewide group com posed largely of educators' con cerned with environmental prob lems and the North Carolina chapter of the Sierra Club the Bill Connelly comments on the "switch on Page D3 i She is a stewardess i Lufthansa the German airline at any arch RALEIGH (UPI) The chairman of the State Zoological Authority told i faceting of the group yesterday that an an nouncement is expected soon of a $150000 to $200000 annual source of income for the planned state zoological park Norwood Pope who heais the authority said he could not identify the source or exact with the business community can render a great serv Mrs Lindsey feels immediate training is needed rather than waiting until the' children are old enough to attend state institutions The pre school years she explained are im portant to their future of learning Some talk and therefore are considered retarded she said but the truth is the children simply hear and where he had a 4 1 record And of course the perfect game June 23 1917 the first game of a double header against Washington Ruth "started the (he was a pitcher in those days) but was tossed out after an argument with the umpire about walking the first batter Shore came in without having warmed up The man on first was thrown out trying to steal second And Shore retired the next 26 men in order Ernest Grady Shore had at tained' a summit that would form a backdrop for the rest of his careers rom time to time he would revisit it along with a grandstand full of fans honoring an achievement that occurred before many of them were born ASHEBORO '(UPI) Saying the Republican Party in North Carolina suffered a in the November elections former Congressman James Gardner called on the party last night to move for more participation by blacksand young people Speaking to about 1000 persons at a Republican dinner in RandolphCounty Gardner said GOP party members must ask not a single black person here tonight how to get more young people Gardner said is" the reason the Republican party does not win in North Young Ernie Shore was beanpole of a man towering over most of the kids around his family homeplace in Yadkin County His father and brothers farmed 200 or 300 acres along the Yadkin 5V4 days a week 4 for a half day on Saturday Ernie would hitch up a buggy and drive to East Bend or across the river into orsyth County to play bail Or sometimes the team exactly nine men would drive all the way to Pinnacle or King He was fast His index finger was a little shorter than it ought to be And he always had a callus on it So when he cut loose with his overhand pitch and did it in which Democratic Rep' Ar thur Williamson had a one vote margin over Republican Thom as Harrelson after a recount of votes in South Lees precinct of Columbus County growing out of the race in Ashe County in which Democratic George Mil ler had a 12 votemargin over James Hartman The elections board voted on straight party lines 3 2 riday to rescind previous action in the Alamance rage in which it had ordered 32 ballots thrown OUt 1 The decision to rescind the action came after an attorney for Scott Paul Ridge of Bur lington told the board it had violated the laws of due process when it voted Nov 24 to throw out the disputed ballots without giving Scott and the Alamance County Elections area will not appear do at this moment expect six said Pope have no reason to expect less than (There had been a report Thursday one of the six the Triad area of "Winston Sa 1 em Greensboro As careers go it very long beginning when he was still a kid at Guilford College In 1912 Jack Dunn owner of the Baltimore Orioles spotted Shore in a college game and signed him to pitch for the New York batting practice The next spring he was back just long enough to tell the fiery John McGraw that he was quitting The two get along too well ifty seven years later Shore said would rather call you a SOB than call you a 1 But in 1914 after a stint at Greensboro Shore was back again this time Orioles where he won four games before being traded with Babe Ruth to the Red Sox Then came the pennant years Board notice that hearing was being 'held Tlie action to throw out the ballots came three days after the board had voted unanimously to uphold action of the Alamance board in declaring Scott the victor After the board voted to res cind the previous decision James Booker of Winston Sa lem attorney for Lowe asked the board to hold a rehearing of the evidence in the Alamance case The board considered the motion briefly riday evening and decided to consider it fur ther Saturday Booker served notice he would appeal to Wake Superior Court if his motion is rejected At issue in the Alamance case are the 32 ballots which were taken outside the polling places for 'the convenience of aged and infirm voters Lowe wants the' ballots discarded Scott wants them counted A spoiled ballot apparently holds tlje key to the William son Harrelson dispute If the board counts the ballot there will be a' tie If it refuses to count it Williamson would win by one vote Should a tie develop the deci sion between' Williamson and Harrelson would be decided by the General Assembly With its heavy Democratic majorities there is little doubt but that it would vote to seat Williamson Some 'folks down' around Charlotte have again: The world is coming to an end 7 a Pretty soonfthe way they tell Unfortunately they give the date for this iPc rfninef hn hnfnro George Bennett of Charlotte Christmas we could forget about is a tremendous res ervoir of talent in North Caro which ice to our state if its properly i he added not just lost the battles of the cities of pollution arid of bureaucracy but we af ford to wait any grieving for his original master or the past few years things have slowed down for the sheriff The younger ones have taken oven what has become a 70 member department Oc casionally he could be seen napping mouth agape in his swivel chair? But it was okay Ernie Shore had paid his dues He had busted some crooks stopped a few fights politicked a little pocketed a few tokens to attest that the folks forgotten that day in June 1917 and fought with the press rom time' to time his deputies squabbled among themselves cackling like hens about policies But they never lost their reverence for the They never forgot that 34 year old truth that Ernie Shore was as fair and honest as is gigantic in stature Learned rom Shore There are some men came on with him in the old timers in their own rights They will be staying on for a while And they will cops as they learned Ernie Shore In 1936 there lot of difference between lint Hilll and Winston Salem People still plowed with mules then and there were more bib overalls than not amount this time but in dicated that an? announcement will be Snide next weekTJ Jhe various groups 'which have set out to raise funds acquire purchase rights to property and 1 meet other criteria are to present their cases verbally to the authority next week and there have been published reports that the Triad Newly elected Sen Philip Kirk Jr of Salisbury was named caucus secretary Sen elect Hamilton Horton of Winston Salem said the legislators took the conservation tour to see and try to He said think we are going to come to any definite conclusions but I think it will be very About 15 GOP members of the legislature went on the tour highlighted' by a hike into the Joyce Kilmer Memorial orest Conservationists are trying to stop proposed construction of a road from Tellico Plains Tenn to Robbinsville which would go through the edge of the forest i Holshouser said he soon name aspecial blue ribbon committee? to begin an extensive study of the' major problems facing the Tar Heel state Holshouser said in a prepared statement the committee will be asked to give special atten tion to the task of raising the average income level in the state as well as the increasing problems of water and air pol lution He also indicated the state system of auto liability insur ance will be studied WSSU to Sponsor 4 Leadership Clinic The department of business of i a 1 m' State University will sponsor a three day leadership clinic starting Wednesday The main speaker will be Dr Jij Brigham of New York City' 'youth director jof the American Management Asso ciation and managing director of the' manage ment internship program The clinic opens at 7 pm Wednesdayin Hill HalUon the university campus Brigham will speak on Role of Youth Leadership in Tomor Managerial A management game using students rwill i be held on Thursday Judged in' the light of the slick young cops some of them fresh out of college some of these Ernie Shore School deputies might look a little outmoded unless you consider that those old men know something special of fairness and honesty Manly Lancaster will be sworn in Monday or years he was protege Last week he Shore Guy Scott Harold Thomerson and brother Babe sat down to a quiet feast at the jail the last of an era 3 pm Today There will be another gathering for all friends at 3 pm today at the court house It willbe his last full day in office' Ernie Shore was tilted back in the chair of an unusually vacant office looking out over ourth Street riday He was telling one more story this one about a woman embezzler fine looking wom an dressed fit to 'She had gone to Seattle Chicago Norfolk Charlotte Greenville and finally here asking along the way can I find a fine And a lew people told her about Ernie Shore in Wins'ton Salem why she said want to give myself up to a fine him John Smithdeal and Bert Bennett Sr raised money for him The object then was to win in the primary because the Republicans were no threat But it was tough a three way race among Shore Guy Scott and Kelly King Scott was the brother in law of George lynt a former sheriff and a powerful political figure Shore walked away with it in the second primary against Scott' getting the largest ma: jority of any opposed candidate in the history even more than ranklin Deland landslide margin Shore' had six working beats and another onp at the courthouse A deputy could expect to work 14 straight nights The sheriff made $4000 a year Any student of crime fiction knows that every great cop has his archenemy even Sherlock Holmes had his Professor Moriarty No Arch Adversary But being a gentle fellow heart Shore doesn pick particular crook as his adversary Unless of course it Summerfield Martin Deep in the Journal files is a tattered envelope labeled: Martin Desperado" Inside are clip pings Paroled Slayer Escapes from Jail Set for and on and on 7He shot his way out of tight spots at least three times broke out of jail three times then had the audacity to saw his way out of Ernie jail in 1948 inally caught behind a hogpen near Danville Va Martin was put away for 44 years in the Virginia" State Prison in Richmond 7 One of the jailers in Danville had Martin dead to rights A taking no chances with said the jailer know he's smarter than I am soI just watch him all the Shore never looked on Martin as an enemy just a crook RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina Board uoit Elections spent another long day Satur day considering three elections disputes The board went behind closed doors early Saturday to consid er the disputes after spending llVi hours in session riday (It was unable to make any decisions when it adjourned Saturday night It will meet at 10 am Sunday and a spokesman said it would likely come to some decision after a few hours gThe board 1 is considering these election disputes: growing out of a state Senate race in Alamance Coun ty in which Sen Ralph Scott was the apparent over Republican Hubert Low? by 13 votes growing out 'Of the House race in the 13th District rom Journal Wire Reports HICKORY Republican legislators re elected yesterday state party chairman James Holshouser Rep Charles Taylor of Brevard and Sen Harry Bagnal of Winston Salem as the GOP policy leaders for the General Assembly Before the 'caucus meeting held here about half of the GOP delegation to the 1971 General Assembly took ad vantage of a tour led by con servationists show pollution problems in Haywood Jackson and other counties 'along the route from Maggie Valle to the Joyce Kilmer orest Taylor faced the 1 only op position in the voting at 'the caucus meeting He overcame a challenge from Robert' O' Payne of Gibsonville for the post of house minority leader Holshouser of Boone was re elected joint House and Senate caucus leader and Bagnal was re elected Senate minority leader The Republicans named Sen Norman Joyner of Troutman as Senate whip to succeed Bruce Briggs who resigned to become a Western Carolina largest conservation or ganization have resolved to demonstrate their dissatisfac tion with the plans and handling of the New Hope project Ac cording to Michael Baranski president of the Raleigh chap ter of ECOS will be nothing obtru sive or offending in our pro Baranski said are aiming to get as many bodies out there as possible to dem onstrate our The three groups have been highly critical of the project Last week they focused on a ederal Water Quality Adminis tration letter to the Corps of Engineers as reason to suspend construction of the dam until the pollution problems could be restudied The letter suggested water in the resultant reservoir will be severely contaminated Thursday the Corps agreed to restudy the pollution questions but groundbreaking ceremonies are continuirig They are sched uled for 1:30 pm with a host of dignitaries 'appearing in cludirig Gov Robert Scoft Sens Sam Ervin and ''Everett Jor dan and Alton Lennon of the 7th District Rep Nick Galifiahakisj of the 4th District will not attend the groundbreaking ceremony at the New Hope Dam Reservoir site in Chatham County his of fice said riday An aide said Galifianakis will be busy Monday pushing for several pieces of legis lation that his constituents have sought as well as some bills he has offered on his own Gardner Calls or Appeals To Minorities her how many miles travelled in 10 ear of stewardessing and she got' to jeaves thinking about this recently People with credit cards could She was about to make a flight have a ball But oetier not count on mis A hundred and 50 years ago or thereabouts some Cherokee In dians up in the Smokies were visited by a travelling preacher who said the world was coming to an end on a certain day at a certain time He talked them into giving away everything they had and then climbing a mountain naked and waiting for The End "The day came and went and the world went on The fellow told them he must have misfigured somehow and the world would end the next day forsure They waited Nothing: They finally lost 'faith in their' preacher and they came sneaking back down the mountain to avoid their kidding' but they' got caught and asked how the end of the world had been One fellow still naked reported he to froze to High' Point and had 'withdrawn However all persons concerned including Pope and Triad of ficials said the Triad area had not withdrawn its bid) The' authority 'agreed yesterday that after the oral reports and on site visits by members of the site selection committee the committee will decide by majority vote on one site to recommend The authority itself will then vote on this In the event "the first site is rejected an alter nate will be considered Pope told the authority at its regular meeting that 1 the authority will go to the legislature seeking funds keyed to the potential tourism and other income that could come from the park are not going in there with our hands out said are going in with our chest The authority decided to request written reports from ecological' experts on the proposed sites before selection to insure that the animals will not be endangered and to in sured that the park will not damage the environment The authority held a dinner meeting with members of a newly formed advisory com mittee i Pope said 'that while the proposed zoo will charge for admission the plans called for specific days in which persons in groups would be allowed admission without charge He said studies have shown that admission zoos little or no vandalism and the proposed zoological park would be self sustaining The six areas which have announced competition for the zoo are Asheboro Albemarle Concord Statesville the Re search Triangle and the Triad Tile eedbox from Bangkok to Sydney Australia and she strapped a pedometer to her right leg to find out how many steps she took on the trip 1 1 It was 15365 steps and she figures that comes to eight miles The trip however was 5533 miles Karin has done some adding and now when people ask how far she has travelled as a stewardess she1 says flown nearly two and one half million miles while walking an estimated 1500 miles Kid gets around Hearings Will Reopen WASHINGTON (AP) An environmental shootingmatch between three states and the Department of the Interior moves into another skirmish in Washington Monday when theederal Power Commission re opens hearings on the Blue Ridge hydroelectric project The battle revolves "around federal desires to clean up a polluted river and charges from West Virginia and North Carolina that the cure is deadlier than the disease And Appalachian Power Co which is seeking a license to build the $297 million twin dam project on the New River in Grayson County Va has been caught in the middle This new set of hearings' is supposed to settle arguments advanced by West Virginia Atty Gen Chauncey Jr that modifications imposed on the project by the Interior Department were formulated without regard to the environ mental and recreational values of his stretch of the New River 1 The Interior Department has demanded that the two lakes formed along the Virginia ivonn uaronna border be en larged Salem who 7' won't Christmas this vear they need more than sympathy 'They need specialized schooling because they are either deaf or hard of difficulty has often left them in a retarded state be cause the defect has only just been diagnosed Julian Lindsey director of the Bethlehem Concentrated Employment day care center is trying to get some club' group church church" circle or individuals to drive the four to Greensboro to attend PATH a school for the hard of hearing Lindsey is trying to get some agency to pay for it but until then she needs emergency help someone to take the children to Greensboro in themorning and bring them back at noonj The Greeqsboro school was willing 'to start a class in Winston Salem but funds could not be found to support it So now Mrs' Lindsey is seeking emergency help She knows of at least four children who heed this training but sure' there are others we even know Mrs Lindsey explained Board Ponders Disputes 1 just so it dropped sometimes as much as a foot When he got to the majors they would call it a sinker He did it naturally ever really knowing how it happened When he was through in baseball Shore came home and went into the car business irst he sold Studebakers thenaround 1926 Pontiacs could sell all the Pontiacs I could get my hands on" he said I had to sell Oaklands tbo That 8 Oakland was the sorriest car there ever was I had 42 on hand at one time I finally got rid of them to the Hertz people in Pitts Went Broke Those were hard times Depression years The cars came in faster than he could store them And he went broke By the early he was selling insurance barely staying alive In 1925 he had met a dark haired girl from Spartanburg named Lucille Harrelson an art teacher in the local schools They both boarded at Mrs AtKinson poaraing nouse Trade Street near where present Downtowner Motor is The next year they were married They were to have three children So when the Depression years came along Shore was a family man poor as a churchmouse with hardly more than one suit of clothes Decided on Race He $20000 in debt 1 why' he decided to fun for sheriff' It was Candidate Shore was getting up at 4 am to shake hands with farmers before they went to work At 8 am he went to work on the city folks By 5 "pm he was back to the farmers careful not' to keep them up later than 8 John Whitaker and Edward Lasater the big guns at Reynolds Tobacco Co were behind him Whitaker was a first baseman at Guilford with 4 Deaf Students in City Need Rides to School There are atlkast four kin dergarten students in Winston near Several years ago' Martin sent word down that he had in formation that he would tell only to Shore When Shore stopped by the Richmond prison for a visit suspicious guards w6re everywhere And Martin could only smile at Shore shaking his head saying are just too many ears Ernie too many And Shore never knew Tradition One particular domain of the sheriff is the kitchen Always during the time meals were prepared there jailers knew' they had better have a cook who could prepare quail and catfish Jailer Harvey Wood re members with anguish the time an unqualified inmate was assigned to cook one of the The animal went unbeheaded and was served up to the sheriff wearing that sly grin When you are invited to the jail for an elite guest indeed During the and Shore would have quiet gatherings in the courthouse for his friends The first year 1944 there was just a ham But as the guest list grew into the 100s the menu increased But until the practice stopped in 1958 possum was not one ot courses Shore was simply stingy with it Eating Quail And quail jail cooks would prepare 150 at a time for Shore and his friends He alone would consume 12 to 15 at a sitting But it was not all in the eating He was the hunter as well In the he hunted oc casionally with Judge Thomas Ruffin in 'CartoH County Va On one of their trips they en countered a pointer 'which flushed 13 coveys of birds in a single day a fantastic animal After a long spell of difficult negotiating Shore and Ruffin finally got the dog for $75 and a setter But he was a one man dog 1 He never pointed another bird Six weeks he died 1 relayed the story of one all the 'tast inute 1 in a 8 Graf i shopping If going to be before April'" 15 we could write a letter to the Bazaar Gets Packages rom 5 amous People The bazaar at Bishop McGuinness High School' yesterday featured an added attraction surprise packages from five people whose names are household words They were President Richard Nixon Vice president Spiro Agnew Lyndon B' Johnson Henry Morgan and Johnny: Carson The five packages were auctioned for $2 to $5 each President Nixon sent a signed etching of the White House vice president Agnew an autographed foun tain pen Johnson a signed etching of his 1 ranch Morgan four canape trays and Carson an autographed copy of his book 4s a Blind uaie Each student sent three postcards each to friends out of town asking them to send a gift to be at the bazaar One decided to ask celebrities Thesefive men responded Groups To Protest By Roy Thompson 1 staff Reporter HarrvxBollback an evangelist told people at the: of Life Youth Crusade at the convention center about a bad experience he had in the jungles of Brazil Seems that he some In dians and decided to get in good with them by playing accor dion Xi He did? and they became angry and chased him for three days shooting arrows whenever they within range Scratch off ainother old saying: hath charms to soothe the savage Note to all kids who are taking music lessons: Practice hard or stay out of Brazil a 'J By Joe Goodman Staff Reporter Ernie Shore cleaned out his desk riday He took down the pictures on the wall a gray outline where they had been! And he set things straight fori youhger man to become sheriff of orsyth County At 79 Shore is (retiring after 34 years as sheriff Each Mime he' 'ripened' a drawer 'and rummaged through the clutter there was something that reached back 20 30 50 years and demanded that he sit back and study about it a while So thee he was reared back In his swivel chair reading a yellowed 1919 revealing? the infamous details of the Black Sox scandal That was the year Ernie knew he was washed up in the majors He had just spent a year as an ensign at the Boston JNavy Yard Won 5 Lost 8 In December? 1915 Boston had traded him to the Yankees where he won' five and lost eight So he was sent to the minors And two years later he was oiit of baseball for good Everybody said it was the Navy tour that did it But Ernie knew different He knew the exact moment when it hap It was in 1917 The Red Sox were winning the pennant again Dutch Leonard broke his arm horsing Around on the bench The casualty reduced the Sox pitching staff by one and increased pitching load So he had been working hard when he came against Cleveland that September day It was 1 1 in the ninth one on second two outs two strikes Overhand Curve: Shore an overhand arid tried to put a Little too much on it It was a strike The Sox won 2 1 in the 12ih' But the stabbing pain in shoulder remained The next morning he raise his (arm The Sox lost the pennant And Shore shad finished his first career fc John Shipp competed in a re centhorse show at Tanglewood There were four horses and four riders in the division he was competing in When the competition was over John got a ribbon saying that he won fifth place Must be some kind of a record tt Staff Photos by rank Jones Ernie Shore and memories Sporting 1919 Si Wk Hl a i 1 3 Ridg.