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Page 4 The Gas Light Dec. 8, 1968 The faculty consists of 92 men and women, most of whom hold They Went Thataway” Gaston I at least a Master’s Degree. Who! The board of trustees is made Would read an ad up of 12 local business and this small? What? professional men. Four are You would, for one. By J. Alfred Prufrock appointed by the county What is your school??? commissioners, four by tlie The earth beneath him is dry off into the sunset during the Gaston College is a Gaston County Board of and dusty as he stands erect in the middle 1940’s? Who can recall fully-accredited two year Education and remaining four are middle of the street in a small these names? institution. Chartered in 1963, it appointed by the Governor of border town. He shifts his weight is one of the few community North Carolina. The college to one foot, sulking in the hot Sunset Carson, Jimmy Wakely, colleges in the South approved by operates on a year-round basis. western sun. Through narrow sUts Whip WUson, Wild Bill EUiot, alius the Southern Association of he squints at his adversary; twenty Red Ryder. And what about Lash Colleges and Schools and also odd men with pistols and Larue? There was one of my with programs approved by the shotguns. His clothing is dirty, favorites. He wore a solid black Engineers’ Council for tom...his face equally filthy and outfit and rode a gleeming black Professional Development. Spencer's, Inc. unshaven. This guy hasn’t seen a horse. His sidekick was something Although some state and bar of soap in months! else too, a fellow by the name of federal financial assistance is He spits, turns and draws. Fuzzy St. John. WTiere ever you provided, the buildings and Office Outfitters property are locally owned and Gunfire fills the air. Two seconds found the hero, you inevitably Printers later, he replaces his pistol and discovered his sidekick close by. the college is locally operated. Baggy pants, floppy hat and slithers away. Twenty odd men At present, there are about See Us For Your are dead, lying in pools of blood constantly getting into trouble 2,600 students enrolled at the mixed with the dry earth. This were his trademarks. He was the college including 1,600 in the SCHOOL SUPPLIES man is a movie hero of the sixties. one whose gunbelt always fell curriculum programs and a Rebels! like most of us, I have an down around his knees when he thousand in continuing education. intense weakness for nostalgia, tired to run!! and in such a moment of The Durango Kid, alius Charles weakness I ask, ‘What happened Starett. He was one of those guys to the cowboy hero of my who had that secret cave I told youth?” Some of you will you about earlier. You know, the remember them, som e of you will Durango Kid never lost a fight but find them strangers. For those of Charles Starett couldn’t whip his you who remember, I hope to way out of a paper bag! Never revive some pleasant chil^ood could figure that out! His sidekick memories. For the others, allow was old Charlie Barnett, who had me to introduce you to some of a white horse with a black ring these heros of the forties. around one eye. Just recently, They heyday was the postwar you might remember him as the period following W.W. II. It was engineer on Petticoat Junction Saturday and you took a dime or before he passed away about a a quarter to spend the entire year ago. afternoon in a theater called the As the 40’s waned, a new breed Lyric, the Imperial or the of cowboy appeared; Gene Autry, Carohna. Consider yourself lucky Roy Rogers and Andy Devine, if you could hear the soundtrack, Rod Cameron, and Joel McCrea to much less find a seat, fore this was name a few. But it was the group that special day of the week, and right before them that I liked best the house was packed. and still have the magic to stir warm feelings. They weren’t cool, Things were much simpler then. tough or as sophisticated as the You had no trouble identifying sixties, but they sure were a heck the good guys from the bad guys. of a lot of fun. What happened to The good guy always rode a white that Saturday afternoon of coke, horse, and nine times out of ten popcorn and fun??? he came charging out of his secret cave all tore up about some punk bad guy been molesting the school marm. The bad guys...aw, they were easy to spot too. For one Record thing, they usu^y wore the plaid shirts with a dark vest. They didn’t ride no shiny white or Re view black horse either. No sir ree...Bad guys always rode some poor, old, |\ By Greg Neal dirty, swaybacked brown horse that couldji’t out run the good Out of this blues revival in America, many variations of the guy’s horse no matter how hard blues idiom have come about. they tried! 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