Word: clontz
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...People knew he meant business. Young Jesse didn't argue with him." On Wednesday night the Helmses were always at First Baptist Church prayer meeting, and on Sunday morning at services. Fundamentalism perked all over North Carolina after World War I. Churchgoers quickened their step. Jesse's friend Gilmer Clontz remembers: "Everybody went to church. That was the social activity...
...together?Jesse played with black kids too." (Helms said, a few years ago, that segregation was "not wrong for its time.") He was a gangling teen-ager whose schoolwork was only passably good except in math and English. "He had a big vocabulary for a country town," says Hinson. Clontz agrees: "He always used big words...
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