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Speedy** Covey, Popular Dobsonite, Is Musician Of Fame, Radio Star,And Friend Of All At The MillBy The CubA popular man with everybody (and girls especially), James Vinton “Speedy” Coveyseems to have been born under a lucky star, his birthday being October 4, 1920. He is a native Pulaskian and is the industrious young son of Mr. and Mrs.^ J. Covey. “Speedy has three Bisters, Colleen, Pauline and Louise, who is a Jefferson Mills corespondent for the News-Worker. Mr. Covey, although he’s been around quite a bit, is enthusiastic about his job at Dobson, which he has held for the past year. “Mr. Dobson Is the best fellow I’ve ever worked for,” he said. “He is very nice to all of his employees.”After finishing his schooling at the Pulaski high school, w'here he was very active, chiefly in athletics being an end on the football team, James worked at a bakery and at the Vir-ina Maid Hosiery Mills. For a time James had a radio show of his own over station WMFR, Highpoint, N. C., when he and Oscar Vanhoy, also of Pulaski, playing the guitar and fiddle, were known as the “Arizona Kid” and “Unsle Dudley”. Mr. Covey, who makes music as his favorite pastime and hobby, has played over several radio stations in North Carolina and Southwest Virginia, among them being WDBJ, Roanoke, and W-HIS. Bluefteid. “The greatest thrill I’ve ever had was the first time I broadcasted when they turned the microphone on.”| James laughed. “That was several years ago when I hitchhiked to Bluefieid one Saturday to appear as guest star on WH-IS.”Mr. Covey’s present band, which he hopes to take on the air very soon, consists of four members,: with Dick Hall and | Jannis Trail, playing guitars and banjos, while “Speedy”, as the “band master” is better known, and his sister, Louise, sing and play also. Mr. Covey who plays the French harp, guitar, and mandolin, is expecting to enter his band in the old-time fiddler’s contest put on by Roy Hall and his Blue-Ridge ■ Entertainers at Glenwood Park in Princeton, W. Va., next Sunday. James’ favorite radio personalities are the Monroe Brothers and his favorite songs are “Mule-Skinner Blues,” Bill Monroe’s favorite, and “No Letter in the Mail Today.” The News-Worker will carry a picture of the popular Dobsonite’s band, the Virginia County Ramblers, in the near future.Next best to broadcasting and making music, Mr. Covey likes western and adventure movies. He enjoys watching Gene Aut-rey and Smiley Burnette on the screen. “I’m not planning on leaving my present job but I would like to get a regular program on the radio once a week,” Speedy stated when asked as to his ambition.“I really think that President Roosevelt should run again,” Mr. Covey commented on the current political and diplomatic quest -“He’s done a fairly good as anybody else , and I hope he nn, because I p us out ofwar. As for the European situation, all of those little countries should have gotten together and wiped out Germany beforeshe got too big a start. As it is now, no one can foretell the outcome of the war because England seems to be doing a-bout as much damage as Germany and Italy.”
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The Pulaski News
Pulaski, Virginia, US
Fri, Jul 19, 1940
Page 7
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