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Pack rats take notice: some of thos
yellowing newspapers in the attic ai
historic treasures for the North Carolir
Department of Cultural Resource
Old newspapers offer a snapshi
of pop culture. Give Jeannie Kuntl
an old newspaper, and she can tell yc
what people were arguing about whe
the paper was published. What the
were wearing. What they were eatin
Even what they were naming the
children.
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bones of what life was like," said Kuntt
an amateur genealogist and histoi
teacher from Stanly County. "I
newspapers, you get flesh and blood
But newspapers age quickl;
yellowing and wrinkling until the pru
begins to fade or the pages fall apar
A splash of coffee, and it's gone.
For the past three years, researche
with the N.C. Department of Cultur
Resources have been trying to presen
okl newspapers before age ? and cone
spilling readers ? can get to ther
Once the N.C. Newspaper Proje
is completed, probably by 1997, copi<
of 2,114 newspapers published in tl
Tar Heel State will be available c
microfilm at the state archives.
Some of the papers ? The Chariot
Observer, the old Charlotte News ar
smaller papers like The Salisbury Po
and The Concord Tribune ? alreac
are available on microfilm. But, mar
others, including The Gaston Progre
and The Blue Ridge Blade, have nevi
been microfilmed.
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finding older and smaller papers and
microfilming them," researcher Chris
16 Mulder told The Charlotte Observer.
"But this is also creating a public
^ resource, a tool for researchers,
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^ historians, genealogists, maybe would^
be novelists, and people who are just
simply interested in the past."
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\ compiling a list of newspapers they
knew about that have never been
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Highlander and News, a Kings
^ Mountain paper from the 1920s; The
Hypodermic, a Lenoir paper from the
mid-20th century, and the Temperance
n Herald and Prohibition Banner, two
[? Concord papers from the 1880s.
y Now they're searching for the papers
^ themselves, borrowing wrinkled copies
^ of long-lost publications and searching
for hidden historical gems in libraries,
newspaper offices and historical
^ societies. They're also asking collectors
re and ordinary, everyday pack rats to
0. check their attics for old papers.
Q. "Every paper they find adds
ct something to the collected history of
2S the state," said Robert Anthony, curator
ie of the North Carolina Collection at
in UNC-Chapel Hill's Louis Round Wilson
Library. "Without a community's
te newspapers, you can't really understand
id its complete history."
st Researchers will be in Gaston and
ly Lincoln counties next week,
ly In February, they'll visit Cleveland
ss and Stanly counties, and in April they'll
er stop in Iredell County.
"We've had people bring in copies
re that had marriage announcements,
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stories they were saving," Mulder said,
"but there have been people who just
keep huge collections."
People also have brought
publications that scholars didn't know
about, papers such as ihe Locomotive,
which was published a few times in
the 1850s to publicize New Bern's new
railroad.
"You never know what you're going
to find," Mulder said. "It's a constant
education."
Researchers fear many newspapers
from the late 1700s and early 1800s
are gone for good because of
deterioration.
The best place to keep old papers
is somewhere cool and dry ? like the
broken-down freezer one Yadkin County
woman uses to hold her collection.
Damp, hot rooms are the worst place
for newspapers.
Well, almost the worst.
An editor at one small newspaper
office in eastern North Carolina led
researchers into an attic where the
paper stored its collection of past
editions. There, the researchers were
excited about their find ? until they
reached the bundle of old papers.
Rats had been there first.
"They'd just shredded a whole
bundle to make nests," Mulder said.
"Besides the ink stains, the animals
and insects are definitely the toughest
part of this job."
If you have old newspapers you'd
like to lend (they will be microfilmed
and returned to you), call the N.C.
Newspaper Project at 919 -733-4488.
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UH Tuesday, January 23,1996
Legal abortio
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Emboldened by the Republican
majority in Congress, tens of thousands
of yelling, chanting abortion opponents
marched in protest to the Supreme Court
building Monday, the 23rd anniversary
of the court's decision legalizing most
abortions.
The marchers used the annual protest
to exhort President Clinton to sign
legislation limiting a woman's legal right
to end a pregnancy.
An estimated 60,000 people participated
in the march, U.S. Park Police
spokeswoman Sandra Alley said. The
March for Life Fund, the event organizer,
claimed 125,000 participants.
This year's official turnout on a crisp,
sunny day was up from about 45,000 at
last year's march and from 1994, when
35,000 marchers braved an ice storm.
An anti-abortion march in Washington
in April 1990 drew the biggest crowd,
an estimated 200,000, in response to an
abortion-rights gathering a year earlier
attended by 300,000.
Clinton, who supports abortion rights,
threatens an election-year veto of
Congress' first attempt to prohibit an
abortion procedure since the landmark
1973 decision in Roe vs. Wade.
The bill, which bans a rare process
used late in pregnancy, passed the Senate
last month by a 54-44 vote.
The measure's author, Republican
presidential hopefid Rep. Robert Dornan
of California, told Monday's crowd that
with elections scheduled in 288 days,
the abortion foes' mission "above and *
beyond everything is to get a pro-life
person into the job as executive leader
of the free world."
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muddy Capitol Ellipse bearing slogans ?*1
demanding "Stop Abortion Now" and
saying "The Natural Choice is Life." ve:
Dornan and several other GOP members be
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"Bill Clinton is an abortionist, and
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said to cheers. .
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pregnancies resulted from rape or incest ^
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energized by the Republican-controlled na
Congress, where the House passed scores
of anti-abortion measures last year, and
by the prospect of a potential GOP ^
takeover of the White House in November.
"We can get a president who is totally ?P
pro-life," said Nick Robinson, 15, a student as
from Rochester, N.Y. ' wc
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Carol Long, director of the National
?ht to Life Political Action Committee,
d the group's top priority is to replace
11 Clinton with a pro-life president."
At the White House, spokesman Mike
Curry said, 'The president is confident
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choice for women."
" They also know that he hopes that
ry divisive issues such as choice can
addressed by the American people in
vay that minimizes hostility and
>lence and maximizes understanding
d common ground," McCurry said.
Opponents, most of whom believe
j begins at conception, want abortion
tlawed as murder.
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"Abortion is a crime against
inanity," said Nellie Gray, president
the March for Life Fund. "Abortion is
leinous crime against the pre-born,
ainst man, woman, society and God."
But abortion rights advocates are
ually united in the belief that the Roe
. Wade decision is among the most
iportant on behalf of women.
The high court ruled in the case of
fexas woman that the right to an
ortion is constitutionally guaranteed
a woman's right to privacy.
The decision legalized abortion
tionwide.
Pro-choice advocates used the
iniversary to celebrate the Roe vs.
ade decision but to warn that abortion
ponents have launched a "full-scale
sautt" in state legislatures to limit
>men's right to terminate pregnancies.
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