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Patrick County's Hayloft Jamboree 15 "SeconiKlass postage paid al Richmond, Va " 32nd Annual Tobacco Festival 17 EDITORIAL OFFICES: 301 EAST FRANKLIN STREET Phones: 644-6717 or 644-2722 "Diversions from Duty" Exhibit at Fort Ward Museum ..19 Blacksburg YMCA Arts & Crafts Fair 20 Vol. 102 - No. 9 Christmas in Luray 22 Red Hill by Candlelight 24 September 1980 JOE H. YOUNG Executive Editor For the Record 27 Index to Advertisers 30 ANITA R. BRENNAN Associate Editor GUY FRIDDELL Our Roving Observer ON OUR CO VER is asta tue of Captain John Smith, I oca ted a t Jamestown, Virginia, site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607. Virginia Rjcord is an independent publication cooperat• ing with all organizations that have for their objectives the welfare and development of Virginia. While this publication carries authoritative articles and features on statewide and local industries, business, governmental and civic organiza• tions they are in no other respect responsible for the contents hereof Schools are Open Please Subscriptions 1 Year $5 — 2 Years $8.50 Drive Carefully 3 Years $12 Per Copy 75<t Plus Tax and Postage Address All Mall to: VIRGINIA RECORD P.O Drawer 2-Y, Richmond, Va. 23205 to tell the Virginia Story SEPTEMBER 1980 Guy Friddell our Roving Observer Convention Sites and Sounds PRIOR TO THE NATIONAL presidential nominating conventions of 1980, numerous media people predicted that the present system of primaries had leached suspense and color from the conventions. They would be about as exciting as a gathering of shoe clerks, they advised Secondly, many concluded that the Republicans had erred in selecting Detroit as the site for their convention. A week before the GOP convened on the banks of the Detroit River, three pundits on national public radio couldn't think of any valid reason for holding a political convention in Detroit. I knew next to nothing about the city and looked forward to seeing what it had to offer. Experience, anyway, has taught me that Dullsville exists only in the mind of the beholder. I was certain, too, that human nature being the quirky thing it is, no matter how ordained the conventions' destinies might seem after the primaries, you cannot corral 5.000 or so politicians in an arena without something exciting taking place. As Senator Eugene McCarthy once said during the 1968 primaries: "A convention is another country." From the moment I touched Detroit and wound among old-style skyscrapers built 40 years ago, I found the city fascinating, notwithstanding that a shortage of hotel rooms required me to lodge two nights in the YMCA. It was a little like being in the army again, and when a group of high school seniors found rooms in a hotel nearby. I shifted with them. Their chaperone had imposed a boy-girl buddy system on them when they left the hotel. Cannily, she had separated any boy and girl who had a marked affinity for one another. A youth from the Deep South was talking with me one afternoon in the reception lounge for newspaperpersons working in the Joe Louis Arena. Torn between going into law and taking a job with a relative's small-town daily, he was discussing his options when a young woman came to our table and stood listening, disconsolately. Noticing her at last, he introduced his "buddy" and sighed: "SHE wants to go now." They struck me as ill-matched spouses, enduring one another's company in a long, unbreakable bond. Junior Leaguers were hostesses in the press reception center, and a native Virginian. Lind Vaughan. hearing that a Virginian was in the press corps, welcomed me as if she were Pocahontas rescuing John Smith, the customary reaction of Virginians finding one of their number in an alien land. Her husband Bill, the son of a former mayor of Lynchburg, directs the energy division of General Motors. The League, Mrs. Vaughan explained, was offering tours of Detroit. Would I care to see the good in the city, or the bad, or the good and the bad? I took the third choice and spent the day with a young couple. Jack and Betsy McCormick. As they were showing me Belle Isle, an island that has been restored with many kinds of recreation, he mentioned that a zoo offered rides on an elephant. VIRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 president, the spectacle of losers trying to be At breakfast next morning I talked with Fitz- good sports would have been diverting. In one Gerald Bemiss about Bush, his boyhood chum. evening there was a long procession of them: Bemiss set up a national advisory committee for Barry Goldwater, looking like an aging Indian Bush and then served as vice chairman of the chief, appearing on crutches, was escorted by fund-raising unit. his son. Neither age nor illness had dulled the The first question — why Bush often has been edge of his flinty discourse. "I know some peo• described as "effete" — brought an explosive ple around Washington," he rasped, "who could retort from Bemiss. use crutches under their brains." "Well, you know, it's a question .,," Bemiss John Connally, exuded almost a palpable suddenly broke off. "What the HELL does 'effete' aura of power as he strode onto the platform, a mean?" he barked. bull in a pasture. He proposed a new definition "Bush has been fortunate by circumstance in for GOP — "B for growth. 0 for opportunity, P for being able to go to good schools, to travel, and progress." to hold interesting jobs," he continued. "I've One by one, former foes were brought before known six generations of his family, and they the convention, tribal chieftans in chains behind are hard-working, responsible, loyal individuals, Reagan's chariot. It was particularly hard on "'Effete' in the Eastern establishment means a Connally, whose lip, even in repose, has an sort of beautiful person who dances around in a imperial curl. privileged, refined world. The Bushes don't do Jack Kemp's carefully coiffered brown hair that. They go to church, and take their relation• fits his head as snugly as the football helmet he ships with family, community, and God seri• wore as the Buffalo Bills' quarterback.