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Evening star., 1959-06-19
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Evening star., 1959-06-19
African Women Renew Disorders
After Riots Take Lives Of Four

DURHAM, South Africa.
June 10 (AP) African women
rnassed around beer halls again
today in q demonstration for
home brewing rights that has
cost the lives Of four Africans
and put "a in hospitals.
Col. r. d. jenkins. deputy
police commissioner. an
nounced police have summoned
three heavy armored troop
carriers from q depot in Cape
Province, $50 miles away, to
help restore order.
Twenty-Five buildings were
destroyed in fires set by
demonstrators last night. They
included municipal Offices. pest
ofice. police posts, clinics and
schools.
Strong police patrols watched
over the nonwhite townships
of Cato Manor and Chester
vile, centers of the overnight
disturbances. Most Of the Afri-
can residents of those tim
shack townships went back to
work this morning.
Women Garry ON Protest
Col. Jenkins confirmed, how
ever, that groups Of women
enraged at raids on Illicit brew
ing under government regula-
tions against brewing of beer
at home-were carrying on
their protest.
They massed around beer
halls in the townships Of Ross
burgh and Lamontville and in
Durban's Victoria street.
Stoned and fired on by Afri-
cans, police finally used rifles
and machine guns to break up
rioters yesterday.
A police constable was shot
In the back. but his condition
was reported not serious. Two
other policemen were injured
by stones.
At the Victoria street beer
hall today. fire hoses were
turned on Africans who refused
orders to disperSe. Police said
the women were picketing the
beer halls to prevent men from
going in.
Speakeasies Raided
A government view Of the
disorders was given by Justice
Minister Charles Swart before
Parliament in Capetown. He
said the riots started after po-
Evening star., 1959-06-19

as an African administration
Office block. a police post and
an African school near the
slum section. q
The riots were touched OF
by government regulations for
bidding Africans from brewing
their own beer at home. This
was only one Of many restric-
tions on the natives imposed by
South Africa's white-supremacy
government. which enforces
racial. segregation as its Of
f1cial policy.
Bitterness at the Negro's lot,
combined with the wave Of
nationalism sweeping across
black Africa, is believed an i'm
portant source Of the outburst.
A crowd Of $4,000 Africans
Evening star., 1959-06-19
NBC Chief Says FEC
Creates Political Gao
BY the Associated Press

Robert w. Sarnof chairman of the board of the NBC
network today predicted political gag" campaign
by radio and teevison unless the equal time law
is changed.
John DAILY, ABC president in charge Of special
public agars said that unless the law changed
broadcastng media be able carry fully their
obligations to keep the public informed
"It (the law would prohibit coverage of events
Evening star., 1959-06-19

which otherwise might be
broadcast" Mr.. DAILY said.
The law is part of the Federal
Communications Act. 1t re-
quires radio and television sta
tions to give equal broadcast
time to all political candidates,
no matter how minor they
may be.
AS interpreted this year by
the Federal Communications
Commission. the requirement
applies even to mention Of the
better-known candidates on
newscasts. Industry spokesmen
contend enforcement Of it would
cause stations to practically
halt political campaign COW
erage.
Mr.. Sarnofi, in testimony
before a Senate Commerce sub
committee considering revision
Of the law, said there is com
pelling urgency to change the
rule.
Warns Of Trouble
unless the gag is lifted
during the current session Of
the Congress. a major curtail-
ment Of television and radio
political coverage in 1860 is
inevitable, he said.
He drew this parallel Of the
effects of the rule II 1t were
applied to newspapers:
''It would men that whenever
a newspaper decided, in the
normal exercise Of journalistic
judgment, to run a picture or
news story quoting a political
candidate. a Governme n {
agency would order the paper
to allot an equal amount Of
space to every one Of his op-
ponents to fill in any way they
desired.
Opposed by CHS
"It seems far-fetched in
deed; yet that is precisely what
the FEC has ordered broad
casters to do"
Mr.. Sarnoff's testimony was
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

away from their tissue to hang down
like rags on a Scarecr0W?'
We can be highly informed about
the divsive battles for integration in
our own South. But can we really know
what it means without feeling the
taunts, indignities, physical violence di-
rected against children who are only
different from ours in the degree of
pigmentaton of their skins? And can
we see the grim humor in people Lying
on beaches for the purpose of attaining
a hue of skin closer to that Of people
they have just spit upon?
The most frightening thing about
this age is that people can know so
much and feel so little. We saw it in
the Germans, those good Germans who
knew about their concentration camps
and never felt the butchery of millions
of human beings until years later. Are
we to follow the pattern, believing we
know the monstrous impossibility of
nuclear war yet allowing the threat of
it to be used as diplomatic maneuver?
A newspaper has a responsibility
to add the quality of feeling to the
diet of facts. For, as Mr.. MacLeish puts
it, "when the fact is disassociated from
the feel of the fact in the minds Of an
entire people-in the common mind of
a civilization-that people, that civiliza-
ton, is in danger"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

Those people who are bored to tears
by news of the world and the nation,
but are ashamed to admit it and make
faint, disinterested attempts to be in
formed of what humans do to one other,
may be warmed by the assurance that
they are not alone.
The following passage, which seems
a magnificent example of mans in
difference to man, is from An excellent
book about English working class people
entitled Saturday Night and Sunday
Morning." by Alan SillitOe. Standing
on a street corner, one man to his
brother, who has been reading a news
paper:
Any news?
Not much. A kid was drowned in
Violation Cut. A man got three months
hard for shoplifting There was a road
smash at Radcliffe. A collier got killed
IN the pit, and there's going to be
Three Power meeting
Is that all?
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
Sights g Sounds =
]. s. Nagelschmidt

feature of nearly every leading
article or book in the field.
1t is true that folk music, like
many other folk arts, is very
conscious of the impact OF to-
days mechanization. Young
people in particular are under
pressure to conform. Radio and
television have swung instan-
taneous time brides across the
world and there is hardly such
a thing as an isolated COM
munity to be found anywhere.
1t is just these isolated pockets
which have proved to be the
richest mines for the fOlklorist
and there is much wailing and
gnashing of teeth over their
disappearance. / am reminded
of a remark by the Ceylonese
delegate to last years Compare
tive Literature conference, to
whom I spoke of my interest in
the folk music of his country.
saying that l hoped to be able
to investigate it first-hand one
day. well, you'd better hurry,
he remarked. The old music IS
fast dying out. The Colombo
radio broadcasts about three
hours OF rock-and-roll daily and
it is not unusual to see a mahout
perched on his elephants head
and holding a transistor radio
tuned in to ElviS Presley"
AND YET THE REMARK
able thing is that folk music re-
fuses to die. The recently -popu-
lar ballad OF Tom D0oley has
focused attention on a North
Carolina story, one which caught
the popular fancy and rode to the
top via recordings and moves.
And yet the truly important
feature here is not the song IT.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

self, but the fact that in this
ballad some unknown songwriter
has given us a folk-art version
of an actual event. Herbert
Shellens has collected an equally
interesting ballad of the murder
of a Mt. Airy taxi-driver. There
are doubtless many more. Ameri-
cans have been reacting in this
way to events of local and nat
iOnal interest for many genera
tions. One needs only point to
the ballads about Jesse James,
Floyd Collins, the sinking Of the
Titantic, and many more.
Musicians have been watching
with interest how greatly folk
music has invaded the popular
field. Under the general title of
country music" the mutual at
traction of mountain music and
Tin Pan Alley has bloSSomed
into a full-fledged, lucrative love
affair. Apart from the thousands
of dubious descendants this al
lance has produced there have
been number of more authen-
tic songs which are currently do
ing very we'll with DECAY rat
ingS around the country. The
Battle of New Orleans is good
example.
NO, FOLK MUSIC ISN'T
dead by long shot. But it is
pretty unpredictable 1t has been
compared to a wild flower
sometimes you can transplant it
and sometimes you can't You
can never be quite sure where
you're going to find it. Each year
sees it crop up in a new place.
About all you can do is leave
room enough for # and hope 1t
will grow. When and where 1t
does there is something beautiful.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

Guest columnist this week is
UNC Music Professor Wilton
Mason. He is an accomplished
musician. teacher, lyricist, wit
and, now, columnist.-J.S.ND
ONE DAY LAST SPRING
there was a knock on my studio
door. l opened it to admit a
lanky mountaineer who carried
a guitar. He coughed uncer-
tainly. Il hear you been larnin'
some of the young folks here
abouts the old songs" he said.
BE you?"
admitted that | had been
giving the course in folk music
for some time. WAL" he went
on, Il got me a chune, and I'd
be obliged ef'n you'd set it down
fair and square for me-" And
50 ne had, a beautiful tune with
lovely modal lilt to it. The
song was not completely origin
al since the words were but one
more version of one of the old
English ballads which are fairly
common in western North Car
olina. But the melody was his
own and he had right to be
proud of it. | took it down for
him and he was vastly pleased to
see his tune in notation SOS
anybody could play 'er right
off.
INCIDENTS LIKE THIS are
not commonplace but neither are
they especially rare. At any
rate they are frequent enough
to make those of us who deal
with folk music smile when We
read, as we are constantly do
ing. that folk music is a mort
bund practice. This strange and
gloomy tendency to ring a death
knell for folk music is a familiar
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
LIFE IN CHAPEL HILL

Fifteen young men, in various
attitudes of relaxation, sur
rounded and practically covered
a car in the parking lot of the Oh
Boy last Sunday night. One of
the young men was playing a
guitar and singing hillbilly and
folk songs in pleasant voice.
In the background. taking a
coffee break with obvious en-
joyment, were a state highway
patrolman, a CarrbOr0 police
man. two Orange County deputy
sheriffS, and the proprietor of
the Oh Boy.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
Editor Has To Live With Fact That Every Paper He
Turns Out Is Compromise Between ShoudBe And Can-Be
tFrmThe eCaCo
(FrOm The Cape COdder)

Every once in while a newspaper
has to stand off and look at itself And
an editor has to look at newspapers in
general and blush little. Then after
the thinking and philosophizing sub
side within him he sits looking at the
old gray fact that every issue he turns
out is a compromise between should-be
and can-be: None will ever approach the
perfection his knowledge tells him is
the ideal
An editor may be perfectionist, yet
his product inevitably is imperfect. This
is why he gets gray hair early and his
readers often have tendency toward
high blood pressure.
In it's classic American sense the
function of newspaper is as medium
for the peoples right to know. Yet how
nexact a function this is No news
paper can completely cover everything
that it's readers should know. But of
more pesky proportions is the shadowy
quality of facts themselves. A fact is a
fact, true enough. But an assembage Of
facts is not always so simply defined.
The way the facts are assembled or the
omission of fact, intentionally or not,
may create picture which is neither
true nor real -.
1t is not, however, it seems to us,
the elusiveness of the fact that is the
worrisome thing for the American
newspaper in this era Of shattered
nuclei. After all, thorough reporting
can remedy that. The worrisome thing
is the thought that knowing Is not
enough, that people can know without
feeling and that feeling is essential at
time when civilizations tremble.
That great and good man. Archibald
MacLeish, spoke out along this line in
the March issue of The Atlantic. He
compared the role of the press with
the role of the poet-the former trans
mitting knowledge, the latter feeling.
But, quite rightly we think, he observed
that knowledge without feeling is not
knowledge And neither is feeling with
out knowledge true feeling. There is a
marriage between the two which can
not be put asunder. Mr.. MacLeish is
critical of the press for lack of feel
ing while admitting that it is more ef-
ficient and thorough than ever be-
fore in getting facts before the people.
He is equally critical of the poets who
explore feelings for feelings sake with
out a root in knowledge.
What evolves is picture of Am
orleans as the best informed people in
the world. But do we really know as the
result of all our information? We were
acquainted with the fact that our first
atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima.
But could we really know what that
military decision meant without feeling
the ghostly aftermath of people whose
"faces and hands were burnt and swollen
and great sheets Of skin had peeled
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
LIFE IN CHAPEL HILL

A citizen pulled into a parking
space in front of the Univer-
sity Methodist Church last Sat
urday afternoon, got out of his
car and slipped a bag marked
FUNERAL over the parking
meter in the adjoining space.
Then he walked across the street,
sat down on the steps beside
Sutton'S and lit a cigarette.
In few minutes another man
pulled into the reserved" park
ing space He slipped the bag
off the meter and tossed it into
the first man's car. Then he
joined MS friend across the
street and they strolled into the
drug store.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
THE HEIGHT OF SOMETHING

The two men walked into the
emergency room at Memorial
Hospital. One of them was clutch
ing his thumb. which had been
cut and was bleeding.
One of the nurses dabbed at
the cut with a cotton swipe. She
looked up at the. man and said
accusingly, Your thumbs all
dirty"
The uninjured man chuckled
and said drily, We'll. he wasn't
exactly planning to cut it this
morning"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
TRIALS AND TRIBULATI0

A young mother and her
were sitting in the dairy bal
Glen Lennox the other eve
arguing hotly about what
youngster was going to have.
Why WON'T you eat an
cream cone?" the mother
manded.
II want a chocolate nut
dae," the youngSter said.
But you just had supp
the mother countered.
II want a chocolate nut
dae," the youngster insiste
After lengthy neg0tiat
they agreed on a milk shake
On the way back to the
the yOungster was slipping
stead OF watching where he|
going. He missed the step
the milk shake splashed I'd
pavement.
No chocolate nut sundad
milk shake. Just a lot of ans
ed tears as the car roared
of the parking lot.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
THE SPORTING SET

Ty Boyd, celebrated wit and
raconteur and resident of the
fictitious Fudge Towers at Radio
Station WCHL. the other morning
was telling about his interview
with UNC football player Milan
Wall.
One Of the questions Mr.. Boyd
put to the nOtoriously slow talk
ing Mr.. Wall concerned what
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
BITS OF CHAPEL Hill

position he was going to play
this season.
At his usual conversational
speed, which is several knots
slower than the late Stepin F'et-
chit's, Mr.. Wall replied, well,
used to be a quarterback, but
I run faster than I can call
signals"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

nounced that the president
been selected by using .
measure to determine the n
Der with the biggest waist.
They wanted the biggest
they could find for the job,
explained, adding as an a
thought. II was lucky ,
Lipman was out of town"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
Use OF RealtOr' Is TOuchy Matter

Recently brisk note from local realtor caught US
with our semantic pants farther down than is COM
Portable to admit. The issue the word "real
tor" apparently touchy matter in realty circles Our
informant mentioned that he had heard US call real
estate dealer reaor, when he actually wasn't real
tor but real estate dealer. There Is difference.
ITO be Reaor and to use the name Realtor," the
note stated "a Real Estate Dealer must belong to the
Chapel Hill Board of Realtors and to the National AS
sociaton of Realtors Inc. The word reator is copy
writed name of the National Association and who
belong to the Association pay yearly fee to be licensed
to use that designation"
The dictionary backs this up. Webster says in his
aconic way that the origin of 'reator" Is "U s." and
that reator is "A real estate broker who is active
member of the National Association Of Real Estate
Boards
In the Chapel Hill Telephone Directory eight firms
listed under Real Estate" six under Realtors"
However, Young & Wilkins, Inc, is included in both
lists and is billed Realtors" in its space ad in the
telephone book; this suggests either that Young &
Wilkins is going in for saturation advertising by
appearing under every possible aegs the telephone
book people also confused about the meaning Of
"realtor."
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
Like Chapel Hill
BY Billy Arthur

office on recent Saturday Then he remembered-or,
he thought he did-and said, "Pm going to run over
to Durham this afternoon. Any of you people want me
to 90 by the ABC store for you?'
And they just laughed and laughed, because while
he was away teaching for year, Orange County had
gone in the chain store business.
There was something strikingly familiar about a
face in singe-coumn picture in the Durham Sun
recently. The fish in the picture bulnosed dol
phin-about off shore catfish in the Cape
Fear. But I'd that mans face before Some place.
&c. read the outlines They said something like "Dr.
Fred G. Patterson, Chapel Hll proudly shows dolphin
caught while 80"
Good gracious, l said to myself fishing must be
pretty bad around here for Fred take off to Morehead
City and half way to Bermuda to fish for dolphin.
He'll tell you, probably they after marlin or
sail, some king mackerel for the freezer.
But you always get dolphin or amberjack And there
isn't much you can do with them. person who knows
steak dolphin tastly but for my money, not for
steady diet Their best to have your picture made
with them and then throw them overheard again.
Get off my back. I'll agree-just a little bit-that
catching two may be fun. Dolphin, that is.
But an amberjack no. When he gets your line with
a pound snker and four-ounce plug, it's just like
trying to pull up the bottom of the ocean.
dolphin differs greatly. You can see his beautiful
coors streakng through the water toward the lure and
you start to set yourself But before you're SET he's
hit it. And he'll rum too He doesn't give up. He'll cross
Tue SteIn o tne oo"' i0ul VI i. 'il1 anu
uSeo ~ leV MN uo ~ Oe'"u'. "i' 'oi ~ W "tsa
were ~ peau'ilui, l p,eieiteo W 1o0N az W ~ ~
IMAM pu' i'' vi INC ven OI ~ " ' O N
begins to turn to the foulest coors mostly rust
That's fun, you say. WE'LL maybe For my fun give
me lresh-"ater tacke' Ih ilhoeI lou IL W ~ pun"
test line and take to school of blues or Spanish
macKerel-one 10 tnree POUNDS III welght' Ca'cnins ~
on light tackle is what call fun BESIDES they re pretty
out OF the water especially "heh orolleo or leo anu
And II someone wants picture that Is picture
ne ought 10 snap mine rght theh look much happier
an spending ulons o' ",iat uu,iSis 0u'''
That nou, ad,cot;oro, rrooror, eto davalon fewar
o Americans" donhtess will keen a Iot of folks busy
for long time
dov, rressiro mood 10 for mora model drivers than
pew model ears
ceoro;a ;udoe r,led that = husband is q figure
bood And ho,y he has 70 f;u,re,
Notwithstanding tbe life Of naner dollar is from
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

The folks who get up in the world
today are the ones who drove care
fully last night.-Mildred Grenier.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

Listening to the top ten popular
songs makes you wonder what the bot
tom ten are like.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
STREET SCENE

Sign on the back of a dilapidat-
ed car chugging down Franklin
Street:
MADE IN OUTER SPACE BY
BEATNLKS
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03

And so. in a quandary
to decide whether to ruI
Governor, Senator. Lieut.
Governor. President. or
empty seat on the school
HAMP
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-09-03
REPORT FROM INNER SPACE

Taking office Monday night as
president Of the Chapel Hill
Athletic Club. Joe Robbins.
whose girth is formidable, an
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
Senate Committee
0kehs $1,000,
For YeHowfoiI Dam

Three million dollars to begin con-
struction on Yellowtail Dam has been
written into the public works con-
struction appropriations bill by the
Senate Committee on Appropriations.
according to an announcement by
Sens. James E. Murray and Mike
Mansfield, Wednesday.
Money for Yellowtail was not in
cluded in the bill as passed by the
House, despite the efforts of Cong.
Anderson and Metcalf to persuade
the House committee to overturn the
Eisenhower Administrations mo new
starts policy on public power devel-
opment.
Money for other Montana projects,
as allocated under the Senate ap-
proved bill, includes 100000 for
construction and rehabilitation of the
Army Engineers Dawson transmission
line from Fort Peck; $8,250,O00 for
continued construction on a second
power plant at Fort Peck, and re-
storation of 100000 for Missouri
River Basin investigation as per re-
quest of the states four-member del
egation.
The Senate committee struck one
million dollar appropriation provided
in the bill as passed by the House, for
the East Bench Unit construction
near Dillon.
After Senate consideration the bill
will go to House-Senate conference
committee where the entire delegation
will work for approval of the sums
provided for Montana projects in the
measure.