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Dedication, a century strong, continues

Passionate people, family atmosphere provided foundation that lasts

BY VANESSA SHORTLEY DISPATCH STAFF

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ne thread has woven its way through the entirety of The Daily Dispatch’s century-long history, through new names, new owners and new technologies: its dedication to the community.

It’s a tradition that was espoused by Henry A. Dennis, who joined the paper Jan. 5, 1915, as the news editor — and by those who followed in his footsteps.

“In reality, people considered the newspaper to be theirs; they didn’t consider it to be ours,” said Dennis Tharrington, Henry Dennis’ grandson who worked at the paper in various capacities until the Dennis family sold it to Paxton Media Group in 1994. “It was a community paper. They had ownership in it.”

James Edwards — who worked at the paper as a beat reporter, wire editor and later as publisher, among other roles — agreed, saying The Dispatch’s role as a force for good shouldn’t be underestimated.

“I have a passion for the role of the newspaper; that can make your life difficult,” he said. “I am by nature a positive, upbeat kind of guy, and I like to say that my glass is half full. I am not by nature skeptical. But it’s important that a newspaper walk around, I guess, with its eyes wide open. That means looking for those stories and honestly telling stories that — as a positive, upbeat person — you might just as soon say, ‘You know what? We’re better off not going there.’

“But a newspaper has a responsibility to tell those stories for the ultimate goal of making our community better.”

Tharrington’s cousin, Dr. Bill “Little Bill” Dennis, said that was something he saw in his grandfather and his father, William “Big Bill” Dennis, as well as the people who worked at the newspaper. Dr. Dennis worked in the newsroom during his years at The Dispatch.

Dr. Dennis said his father and grandfather could usually be found doing the paper’s business, talking with people and trying to make The Dispatch the best it could be.

Those who ran the newspaper understood that every event, no matter how small, was important to someone, Tharrington said.

“We had a great time,” he said. “It was a great business to be in. We were far more influential than we ever dreamed that we would be. We considered ourselves to be chroniclers of history; every tidbit of information that we could chronicle, we would do it. We were willing to cover every T-ball game, every dance recital — my grandfather went to every graduation for, I think, 60 years.”

But being the paper of record didn’t

mean never stepping on anyone’s toes; Dr. Dennis recalled one instance his grandfather got chewed out by one of the town’s leaders.

“My grandfather was very hard of hearing, and he would sit in there, and he wouldn’t have his hearing aids on,” he said.

“This guy just came barging in the front door and barges into his office. We could all hear him, sitting out in the newsroom.

He’s ruining this, and he’s ruining that. It went on and on for about 10 minutes. Then he stormed out. He (my grandfather) came out about 20 minutes later and said, ‘What was that about?’”

Both Tharrington and Dr. Dennis recalled some of the quirks of a man they said was the heart and soul of The Dispatch; for example, in his later years, Henry Dennis liked to keep his office hot.

“He would be sitting in there with, of course, he’d have on underwear — let’s just leave it at that — a starched white shirt, a vest, a sweater and a coat, a wool coat, smoking a cigar,” Tharrington said. “You’d go in there, it would be 150 degrees in his office, really. It would be so hot in there; you can imagine. You could not go in there, close the door and sit down and be conscious after five minutes.”

The Dennis patriarch was also something of a mentor for Edwards — though the two had never met. Edwards said he tried to live up

to the example set by Henry Dennis when he became publisher.

For him, among other things, that meant being involved in the community and listening to what everyone had to say — good or bad.

“It was pretty awesome going in and sitting down at that desk that belonged to Henry — well, I bet it was a different desk — in the office that belonged to Henry A. Dennis and Big Bill Dennis,” Edwards said.

“That was going back to 1914. I felt a great deal of responsibility. I actually found a picture of Henry A. Dennis and put it in a frame and kept it in the office as a reminder. As if I needed it, but it served as a good reminder for me.”

Tharrington joined the paper in 1972, though he hadn’t planned on becoming a journalist. Instead, he was going to be a certified public accountant but decided that wasn’t for him. In the summer between his undergraduate

degree and going back to UNC Chapel Hill for his MBA, a quirk of fate saw him working at The Dispatch instead of the glass plant.

“I had to work somewhere so I ended up working at The Dispatch, and I ended up staying,” he said.

“I just never left. I became really wrapped up in the business of publishing a newspaper and what it could do for a community.”

At that time, Tharrington said the paper still used antiquated technology

— linotype machines that could each produce only about five or six lines of copy per minute. He said he eventually convinced his grandfather investing in a new kind of press would only help make The Dispatch stronger without diverting from their focus of being a good, community-oriented daily paper.

That emphasis eventually made The Daily Dispatch a leader of world renown; the paper was a partner in developing software and was one of the first to make the move to pagination — that is, producing the pages of the paper on computers.

Tharrington said people from across the globe came to Henderson to see what they were doing.

“People came from all over the world to see the paper,” he said.

“People from all over the world came to see how The Dispatch was proceeding. I mean, they came from England, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Australia, the Dallas Morning News, from Bangkok, Thailand — all these people came to see how we produced the newspaper. They came from Brazil, Mexico, even China.”

But more than the technology — which continues to change, with new software,

hardware, apps and the Internet — Tharrington said what made the paper great was the people who worked there, regardless in what department they worked.

“It was a great group of people,” he said. “It was a family business; do you understand what I’m saying? We were not a big business. We were a family business. We cared about the people who worked there. We did the best we could by them.”

Because of this approach, Edwards said the paper has throughout its history and its present held a mirror up to the community, both reflecting the positive and challenging people to work to change the negative.

“It’s kind of like church: If the preacher doesn’t ruffle a few feathers on Sunday, is he really doing his job?” he said. “We don’t live in a perfect community, just like the preacher doesn’t have the perfect congregation — that I’m aware of. If a newspaper is working in a community, and it’s not a perfect community, if we didn’t ruffle some feathers, would we really be doing our job?”

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News changers that impacted our readers

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ust as P.T. Way was starting a newspaper in Henderson, events in Europe were laying the foundation for a turbulent century.

Shortly before the first edition of what would become The Daily Dispatch was published on Aug. 12, 1914, World War I began. That was the first of many world-changing events between 1914 and 2014.

David The following are Irvine one writer’s selection of 10 developments of the past 100 years that had major impacts on the way we live.

• WORLD WAR I. Beginning in August 1914, World War I devastated part of Europe and killed a sizable portion of a generation of English, French and German young people. But beyond that, it affected war and peace, economies and the rise and fall of governments throughout the remainder of the 20th century.

Without World War I, the Russian revolution may not have taken place, and it is unlikely that World War II would have happened.

• JAZZ. In 1922, a young Louis Armstrong played a lilting version of “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” in a funeral procession winding its way through the streets of New Orleans. A new form of music was growing out of the African-American experience and being captured by musicians such as W.C. Handy and Scott Joplin. As their music followed the Mississippi River northward to Memphis and Chicago, music reflecting the Celtic origins of Scottish and Irish Americans was echoing through the valleys of the Appalachians. The traditions blended and later incorporated Native American, Cajun and Latin American styles to become the unique American music called jazz, including variations such as ragtime, blues, bluegrass, swing, gospel and rock ‘n’ roll.

• THE GREAT DEPRESSION. The Roaring Twenties came to a screeching halt with the crash of the stock market in 1929. By the early 1930s, a quarter of the nation’s work force was unemployed. People lost their farms and homes. Hobos sneaked aboard freight trains, hoping to find work elsewhere.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected president in 1932, fought the depression with a series of programs and organizations that became known as the New Deal. Schools, dams, parks, post offices and bridges were built, putting people back to work and providing needed infrastructure for communities around the nation. Many New Deal innovations, such as Social Security and unemployment insurance, became permanent parts of the nation’s economic structure.

• WORLD WAR II. The war began in the 1930s in Asia, with the invasion of Manchuria

by Japan, and in Europe, with the invasion of Poland by Germany.

The United States remained on the sidelines until Dec. 7, 1941, when Japan attacked U.S. bases at Pearl Harbor. By the time Germany and Japan surrendered in 1945, great portions of Europe and Asia had been devastated.

Aftereffects of the war, both positive and negative, reverberated through the second half of the 20th century.

America’s economy was stimulated by the G.I. Bill, which provided educational support for veterans, and the Greatest Generation became the best-educated generation in history.

But warfare had not ended. The nation soon found itself engaged in a Cold War with communism that erupted into hot wars in Korea and Vietnam. And as the 21st century began, the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and conflict with a new kind of enemy: terrorism.

• THE DOUBLE HELIX. In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published a paper describing for the first time the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Their discovery

proved that DNA is the key molecule in heredity. It opened the door to exploration of the genome and the possibility of correcting genetic defects and curing inherited diseases. An understanding of patients’ genomes makes it possible to identify individuals at risk of disease and create more effective treatments. DNA provides a positive means to identify individuals, helping to solve crimes, establish family relationships and explore one’s ancestry.

• CIVIL RIGHTS. The start of the Civil Rights Movement might be attributed to any of several events: Jackie Robinson’s 1947 debut as the first black baseball player in the Major Leagues; the desegregation of the armed forces

by President Harry Truman in 1948; the Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954; and Rosa Park’s refusal to move to the back of the bus in 1955. Collectively, these events and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech mobilized citizens to demand equality.

The Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1964, providing legal equality for all Americans, opening a reservoir of talent for the country and making possible the election of an AfricanAmerican as president of the United States.

• ENIAC. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was the first electronic computer when it went into operation in 1945. It weighed more than 30 tons, contained 19,000 vacuum tubes and 1,500 relays, and operated on almost 200 kilowatts of electrical power.

Bulky and slow as it was, ENIAC contained the elements of modern computers. Over the next several decades, size was reduced and speed enhanced with the development of the transistor and the integrated circuit.

Those innovations set the stage for the miniaturization of computers that has made possible today’s laptops, cellular phones, tablets and other electronic devices of everyday living in 2014.

• SPUTNIK. When Russia launched the first artificial satellite in 1957, it ushered in the space age. The most dramatic moment came when Neil

Armstrong took his first step on the moon in 1969. The space age also brought the threat of war waged with intercontinental atomic weapons. But a more far-reaching impact has been produced by the numerous artificial satellites now orbiting the earth.

ENIAC’s descendants fused with Sputnik’s offspring to produce iPhones, apps, GPS and the Internet.

• POLIO VACCINES. Adults who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s remember the fear generated by infantile paralysis, as polio was called back then. They remember twisted bodies, leg braces and iron lungs, manifestations of the disease. President Franklin Roosevelt, himself a victim of polio, established the March of Dimes to support research on the causes and prevention of polio. In the 1950s, two vaccines were developed.

The Salk vaccine was administered by injection. Shortly thereafter, the Sabine oral vaccine was developed. As the vaccines became more widely used, the incidence of polio dropped dramatically.

A worldwide effort to provide the vaccine, promoted actively by Rotary International, has almost eliminated polio worldwide.

• ORGAN TRANSPLANTS. In 1967 Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant on Louis Washkansky.

It gleaned headlines but was not the first organ transplant. That distinction belongs to the kidney. Once doctors had overcome the tendency of the body to reject transplanted organs, transplants became more common, as did the replacement of knees, hips and other body parts. Heart bypass surgery became almost routine. As parts of the body wear out, they can be replaced.

The new barrier is finding enough replacement organs to meet the need.

Events like these made headlines in The Daily Dispatch and provide a partial history of the last 100 years.

Their impact has been felt in our daily lives and will continue to be felt as we enter the second century of P.T. Way’s brainchild.

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DISPATCH STAFF

he memories aren’t cr ystal clear anymore.

Recalling dates and places can be a chore now for Joe Stepusin, who coached Vance County athletes for 30 years before retiring as the Southern Vance High School athletic director in the 1990s.

But Stepusin, who celebrated his 80th birthday in July, does remember people.

He can rattle off his 1974 Vance High boys basketball team’s starting five with pinpoint accuracy as if he was still leading practice, still teaching his match-up zone defense.

“It was one of the best teams I ever coached because they believed they could beat anybody,” Stepusin, the Big Six Conference Coach of the Year, said from his Oxford Road home.

Down low was John Brown, the “big guy,” the 6-foot-7 league player of the year and Vance’s leading scorer averaging 22.2 points.

The future Richmond and South Alabama player was joined in the post by senior classmate and fellow all-conference honoree Preston “Rock” Powers, a 6-foot-7 Vance Academy transfer.

Tommy Ellington didn’t score a lot, but he was a great passer and all-conference Rudolph Rainey was a good shooter who went on to play in the junior college ranks.

The point guard was Jim Roberts, a tenacious junior who went down with a leg injur y late in the season before he was replaced by James Marrow and Mack Foster.

“Quite an experience” read part of a headline for the final game stor y of the season by William B. Dennis of The Dispatch.

Win or lose, Stepusin reported game information and statistics to The Dispatch if a sports reporter wasn’t on the scene.

Stepusin said he learned the importance of establishing a relationship with local media as a student at Wake Forest College, where he played basketball and graduated in 1957.

The Rankin, Pennsylvania, native’s relationship with Dennis, who reported both news and sports for The Dispatch, started when Stepusin coached teams at Middleburg High School.

“They were good friends,” said William B. Dennis’ son, Bill.

“They worked well together. I think they trusted each other. I think Stepusin knew he was going to get a fair shake in the paper.”

Bill Dennis, known by many as “Little Bill,” helped his father write stories for years

before becoming the newspaper’s first fulltime sports writer in 1975.

Admittedly, Bill was a “homer,” always rooting for the local team.

“He did the same thing,” Bill said of his father, who passed away in 2002. “He was all about promoting the players and tr ying to make sure they all got their picture in the paper at least once in the season.”

Stepusin’s ’74 Vance cagers gave “Big Bill” plenty to write about.

Five-overtime victory

Vance County schools were not ver y long into integration.

A team photo shows a diverse grouping: six black players and four white along with their white head coach and Stepusin’s black assistant coach, Lucious Bullock.

Down to the student managers, one was black and the other white.

The Vance team was special all right.

A 25-23 win in five overtimes against Roxboro Person cemented an unbeaten regular season.

But even with a Big Six title in hand, the 20-0 Vikings needed to claim the league tournament to qualify for the state playoffs.

They did, winning the championship over Hillside High School at Durham High led by Brown’s game-high 24 points.

Vance hosted and defeated High Point Andrews in a tight battle in the first round of the state playoffs.

Next, it was off to Greensboro’s Grimsley High School, where the quarterfinals and semifinals would be played. To claim a state championship in Greensboro Coliseum, the Vikings would have to win three games in four days.

Getting to Greensboro proved easier said than done.

Fueling a playoff run

A nationwide gas shortage was reflected in The Dispatch headlines.

The front page of the Feb. 26, 1974, edition read “Gasoline lines predicted by Nixon” followed by “Crisis now called serious problem.”

The same edition features a preview by William B. Dennis of Vance’s quarterfinal game against E.E. Smith of Fayetteville.

Bill Dennis said the gas crisis was so dire his father had to ride the school bus with the team to Greensboro, where it would stay until the team lost out or won the title.

Vance Athletic Director John Parham, football coach Tony Oakes, coach Tommy Merritt, and Henderson police officer and team chauffeur Robert G. Matthews were charged with

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Lone state boys basketball title cherished 40 years later the task of bringing along a truck with an auxiliar y gas tank in its bed to keep the activity bus fueled up for trips around Greensboro and back home.

Lines at gas stations would have been too much to conquer — if gas was even available.

“We just couldn’t go anywhere and we were really worried,” said Stepusin.

It didn’t show on the court. Vance outlasted Smith 55-52 in overtime, led in the extra session by Brown, who finished

with 27 points.

Brown’s and Powers’ presence was too much for Greensboro Page to overcome in the semifinals, according to the William B. Dennis game stor y.

The final was Vance 51, Page 45.

Lawrence “Cotton” Clayton’s Zeb Vance squad had only come close in 1958, reaching the final, and no integrated Vance County basketball team had ever claimed a state title. see golden/page 9

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publication’s pages, more news and photos from Dennis, From Page 8 including a full-page state championship Support of spread and photo of a thousands rebounding Brown in William B. Dennis his white No. 45 jersey wrote of perhaps and dark shorts. as many as 2,500 “It’s great to be the to 3,000 Vance champion,” Brown told County fans flocking William B. Dennis. to Greensboro’s “We felt like we had it cavernous Coliseum at the start.” for the championship “We worked all tilt. along for it and we Amid the gas crisis, made it,” Powers some supporters came added. in busloads and others Stepusin’s team in private vehicles. believed it could The cheerleaders beat anybody and it were there too and the proved to be true. support “rang from the The Vikings were rafters” as the Vikings perfect, 26-0, and state took on Fayetteville champions in their 71st, which had first 4-A season. surprisingly thumped As the team bus Phil Ford’s Rocky rolled off the Coliseum Mount High squad in parking lot past a the semifinals. cluster of cheering Little Bill couldn’t Vance fans, Stepusin make the trip. A spoke to the team, college student at choking up according UNC, he wasn’t able to to William B. Dennis’ solve the gas dilemma account. to make the Saturday “You know night showdown. you’re one heckuva Vance had 71st basketball team,” figured out from Stepusin told the the opening tap and crammed bus of about controlled most of the 40. “Twenty-six and game. zip.”

But the Falcons The Vance news narrowed the gap to shared a page with 60-51 with 2:06 to play. a wire stor y about “Thoughts in more N.C. State’s David than one mind around Thompson claiming the Vance Viking ACC Player of the Year bench turned to the honors. Thompson fate of the Duke Blue and the Wolfpack Devils earlier on went on to claim the Saturday afternoon,” school’s first national William B. Dennis championship, wrote. “They led the upending mighty UNC Tar Heels by UCLA along the way in eight points with only the same Greensboro 17 seconds left in their Coliseum.

ACC battle at Chapel It was a golden Hill.” age of sports and a UNC’s Walter golden age for boys Davis famously sank basketball in Vance a 30-foot bank shot as County. The win still time expired to send stands as the only the game to overtime Vance County public before the Tar Heels school boys basketball claimed a 96-92 state title. win in Carmichael “It was quite an Auditorium. experience,” William B. Dennis wrote in the The Fayetteville March 4 edition. “One bunch would have no which will never be such luck. forgotten by cagers Vance won the on the Vance Senior game 68-55 with High School Viking Brown netting 22 basketball team... points and snagging one which will be 16 rebounds. The long remembered by “husky” Powers had Henderson area sports 16 and Rainey poured fans... and discussed in 18. through the years to come.”

‘Heckuva The memories basketball team’ may no longer be as The stor y received easily evoked, but the front page treatment discussion lives on. in the Monday More than 40 years afternoon edition later, the blue and gold of The Dispatch. state championship William B. Dennis’ banner rests on stor y “Vance Cagers the brick walls of bring back state 4-A Northern Vance’s basketball tourney Viking Gymnasium. championship” Quite an experience accompanied an article indeed. about the Save-Way

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Century later, Way’s idea remains vital in community

(Ed. note: On the occasion of the newspaper’s 90th anniversary, staff writer Al Wheless reported on the newspaper’s history. With updated modifications, the story is reprinted today as the newspaper turns 100.)

BY AL WHELESS DISPATCH STAFF

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illions of words and thousands of photographs have graced its pages since the Henderson Daily Dispatch published its first edition on Aug. 12, 1914.

Today, the long-lived newspaper marks its 100th year.

It was two weeks after Germany invaded Belgium, at the beginning of World War I. The Dispatch was started by P.T. Way, its president and editor, to give Vance County up-to-date news of the war. The four-page, 16-column daily shared its masthead with “The Gold Leaf,” a semi-weekly paper that soon reverted to a weekly.

The company changed its name to the Henderson Daily Dispatch in 1915 after the young daily paper became popular. Early in the same year, Henry A. Dennis joined the staff as news editor.

There were some challenges early on.

The Dispatch editors relied on a handbill issue created by Jones-Stone Printing Co. on a gasoline press to get out the news on April 1, 1915, after an 18-inch snowfall.

The storm stopped train traffic and cut off telephone and telegraph service to Henderson.

Three years later, on Nov. 11, Dennis received a 2 a.m. call from The Associated Press, announcing an armistice to end World War I. The Dispatch staff worked all day on Sunday and early Monday morning to publish an “extra” edition that quickly ran out of copies.

There were changes at the newspaper in 1920 — first when Way died and then when Dennis bought into the company.

Two years later, Dennis, M.L. Finch and S.A. Jones bought all the stock in the Henderson Daily Dispatch.

Dennis was president and editor. Finch was business manager and secretary-treasurer.

Jones later left the company. Finch and Dennis operated the paper into the 1970s.

Compiling the history of this newspaper, at least from its archives, can be difficult. That’s because those archives — and the sister semi-weekly in its entirety — were ravaged by fire in 1946.

On Dec. 4 of that year, a soldering iron left on overnight in a radio shop next-door to the newspaper office caused a fire that destroyed the two-story Dispatch building on Young Street.

The disaster put the daily paper out of operation for a week. It silenced The Gold Leaf forever.

The Dispatch set up a temporary headquarters in a warehouse on what later became the Rose’s parking lot off Chestnut and Breckenridge streets. The newspaper’s building was rebuilt and occupied in 1947.

Shortly thereafter, Henry A. Dennis’ son, William B. “Big Bill” Dennis, began work at The Dispatch. “Big Bill” was deeply involved in the daily edition from

moved back home to Henderson to establish his practice.

Dennis said he didn’t miss the job as much as the people with whom he worked.

“I think about the camaraderie among the staff members,” he said.

“People who work at a newspaper are sort of different from anyone else in the world. They are creative with not always conventional personalities. They are fun to work with and to respect just for the talent they have.”

Dennis said he doesn’t think people realize how much goes into putting a newspaper out day after day.

“You never get caught up. You’re always under deadline pressure,” he said. “You always felt at the end of the day you could have done it a little better. I always felt that way. It was never boring, that’s for sure.”

When the ownership of the paper changed in 1994, Rick Bean took over as publisher for the Paxton Media Group.

Shortly after that, the name changed to The Daily Dispatch.

Not long thereafter, the newspaper’s publication cycle was 1949 to 1994, and served 1972,” Tharrington said.

“They were fortunate switched from afternoon in myriad roles, from On May 28, 1973, the to have loyal employees editions to morning print photographer, to obituary newspaper’s staff printed who helped get out the times, to bringing the writer, to court and cops the first edition on a new paper every day. They daily news and sports reporter. offset press at 2 o’clock couldn’t have done it to each subscriber’s He would become that afternoon. without them,” she said. doorstep in time for editor when his father “That was the earliest The Dispatch was a breakfast. died in 1979. we had ever gone to huge part of their lives, Bean left the The newspaper moved press unless something Louise said. newspaper in May into its present building earth-shaking happened,” “We will always of 2004 to become at 304 S. Chestnut St. Tharrington said. support it, as we publisher of the High in late 1957. The first “From 1973 until we believe so strongly in a Point Enterprise, which edition from that location sold the paper in 1994, hometown newspaper,” is owned by the same was printed on the we continued to update she said. “Our grown company. He is also company’s new 32-page our technology,” he children — Bill, Steve publisher of the Durham rotary press on Dec. 2, added. “By 1989, we were and Jane — are so Herald-Sun and president 1957. The staff put out a the most automated daily proud of what was of the North Carolina paper with a “hot type” newspaper in the world.” accomplished by their division for Paxton, process that used molten “Big Bill” Dennis died father and grandfather, as which is headquartered lead and Linotypes. in September of 2002. all the family is.” in Paducah, Kentucky.

The same printing His widow, Louise, Her son, Dr. Bill Bean called method was still in remembers what it was Dennis, worked at the Henderson a great use in the summer of like being in a newspaper Dispatch from 1975 until newspaper community.

1972, when Dennis family.

1994. He worked in the He said The Daily Tharrington went to “My father-in-law sports department for Dispatch is in a position work for his grandfather and my husband always awhile and was managing to play a huge role in the at the newspaper. said they were not so editor for 15 years. city’s future.

“We had six Linotypes, much interested in how “I enjoyed the people “Henderson has and if everything ran much money they made, we came in contact tremendous potential,” perfectly, we could as being a service to with,” Bill said. “We had Bean said. A lot of what a produce 36 lines per the community,” she a string of characters. newspaper does is reflect minute,” Tharrington recalled.

They included those we both the good and the said. “Of course, that “Mr. Henry worked covered for news and bad of a community, he (perfection) never every day until three those we worked with at added. happened.” weeks before his death at the office.”

“I really think that Tharrington had age 88,” she added.

When the Dennis while Henderson has planned on returning “Big Bill” also put in family sold the some challenges, it to graduate school, but long hours, she said. “He newspaper to Paxton has so much going for stayed instead at The covered courts, wrecks Media Group in 1994, it,” Bean said. “What a Dispatch. and fires, but one of “Little Bill” decided to newspaper can do is build “I persuaded my his greatest loves was make a change in career on the good and shine a grandfather to borrow high school football at and pursue his dream to light on the challenges so money to put in an Veteran’s Field.” be a doctor. He graduated we can address them and offset printing press and The Dennis family from medical school, become better.” computer equipment to didn’t do it alone, of served a residency in Bean said the staff print the newspaper in course, said Louise.

South Carolina, then of The Daily Dispatch

has been devoted to the community, and it has made a positive difference.

Throughout the years, regardless of who owned or managed the newspaper, its mission — to be the best local newspaper it can be — hasn’t wavered.

The Dispatch’s role in the community was described by George T. Blackburn, from historical research by Charles F. Blackburn and R.G.S. Davis Jr. that appeared in “The Heritage Of Vance County, Volume I.” It was printed by the Vance County Historical Society in 1984.

Blackburn wrote: “The single institution, aside from the fine schools and churches of Vance County, which has long been responsible for directing public thought and opinion along intelligent and constructive channels is our free press, the Henderson Daily Dispatch.”

Blackburn’s son, G. Templeton Blackburn II, has been with Vance County Historical Society and the Historical Museum for years.

“The Dispatch has had central influence on all aspects of Henderson community life throughout the 20th century,” Blackburn said. “This includes such matters as commercial and industrial development, race relations, the general social fabric of the community, education and development of community facilities and political affairs.”

James Edwards served as publisher from 2004-2014 and was followed by Alan Wooten, who had come to the newspaper as editor in 2012. Both have advocated for the newspaper to remain a strong presence in the community.

Working in the newsroom for the Dennis family during the 1980s, Edwards experienced the paper in multiple stints.

“The future for The Daily Dispatch is as exciting as it is for this local community we serve,” Edwards said.

“There are just too many good things going on in this area to think that we will one day just roll up the sidewalks.

“As our local businesses and industries come and grow, I believe we will see our newspaper grow.”

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Many community members read the paper each day and maintain their love for the publication.

Henderson resident William Hawkins said he reads the paper twice a day sometimes.

“I get it in the morning and read it,” he said.

“Sometimes I come home and read it again. That’s my main communication piece, and I think you have ver y in-depth coverage.”

He said stories have evolved over the years.

“Before, the paper was more focused on state events and major events,” he said. “Now we are focused more on local events, and I think that is much better. When you get the community interested, you are doing a good job.”

Johnnie Sanders said she sees more community involvement, too, but would like more content for the elderly.

“We see a lot about the younger- and middle-aged people but not a lot for the old,” she said.

She said she has lived in the community her entire 100 years and has seen dirt roads turn into paved ones and her family and friends leave town or pass away.

Sandra Davis, a lifelong resident of Henderson, said she has seen her childhood neighborhood transform during the past few decades.

Davis grew up in Happy Hill, an area in northern Henderson that extends from Blacknall Cemeter y to North Chestnut Street and North Beckford Drive.

“I remember ever ybody in this community could leave their doors unlocked,” she said. “You could be gone weeks for a time, and your neighbors would watch

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Some of Davis’ uncles and brothers worked in The Dispatch’s pressroom,

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“We went in there when we were little,” she said.

“It was amazing to us. To look at the new modern technology now as opposed to back in that day, it really is incredible.”

Although the pressroom has changed drastically, Sanders said The Daily Dispatch has remained a ver y fair paper.

“The community is definitely not what it used to be,” she said. “I am so proud of that paper and pleased with how it operates because it’s fair. It does inter views and features on the whole neighborhood.”

The Daily Dispatch remains a major part of the work residents do on a daily basis, some residents said.

Hawkins said he uses thank-you letters to reach the kids and sponsors of his weight-lifting team, Project Lift.

“They had taken the letters out for a little while,” he said. “I am glad to see they put it back in.”

Samantha Branch-Thompson has been reading the paper for about 12 years and said she uses the paper to learn about opportunities to recruit volunteers for the guardian ad litem program in Vance County.

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He continued to work as a paperboy until April 1935 when he became a full-time From Page 11 employee. He worked at The Dispatch until his retirement issue. She also misses the in April 1982. abundance of job listings Parrish-White, now a and classifieds for people lawyer in Mar yland, said the who don’t have access to newspaper was like her outlet technology. to the rest of the world.

“They don’t come with a “The newspaper got me lot of job listings anymore,” really, really interested in she said. “I am not sure if learning about the world and it’s because of the economy learning how things work and or what, but I know there is operate,” she said. a great need for them in the A trial reported in The area.”

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Parrish-White said Dupree’s 16-year-old son delivered the newspaper to Dickens, who complained the boy was not delivering the paper properly.

Dupree, who shot Dickens at his own house, testified she was acting in self-defense.

Witnesses for the prosecution testified that there had been no struggle before the shooting happened.

When she read in the paper that the jurors found Dupree not guilty, Parrish-White said she was devastated.

“It was horrible. I just could not believe it,” she said. “I could not stop cr ying.”

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