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The Nome nugget., 1959-11-16

DENVER, R VI A fierce new storm, sending temperatures dip ping to record lows, lashed most of the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains today.
 Temperatures dropped as low as Al degrees below zero during the pre-dawn hours. The storm roared out of Canada yesterday into Montana, already numbed by a blizzard which struck four days ago.
 Parts of Kansas, the Dakotas and Montana were battered yes terday by winds up to so miles per hour, which reduced visibility in some localities to near zero by whipping the air with blinding snow.
 The mining city of Butte in western Montana reported a tenn perature of Al below zero shortly before dawn. Drummond and Hell ena both had readings of 39 below.
 Montana's Warmest morning low was ' below at Missoula.
 The Helena reading was de- grees colder than the all-time
The Nome nugget., 1959-11-16
Volcano Erupts 200 Miles s. E.. Of Honolulu
By HENRY HARTZENBUSCH

HONOLULU, LR VI Angry Xii lauea volcano belched streams of soaring hot lava and sent gray pail of thick smoke high into the sky today as the eruption roared into it's third, day.
 The 4,O90-foot volcano's Kilauea Xxi crater showed little sign of abating it's fiery temper. Two waterfalls of liquid rock-bright red-orange in daylight - guShed from a 3OO-yard rift in the crater's inner south wall into its pit some 300 to 500 feet below
 Kilauea Xxi U or Little Kilauea - on the southeast side of Hawaii Island some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu, began erupting Sat urday night. White-hot rocks were blasted up to 100 feet in the air before they tumbled into the mile-long, mile-wide crater.
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter Mark Waters, in a telephone call from the volcano site, said last night, "One huge fountain of erupting lava is pc ing tremen- dous streams of mt en rock into the floor of the cl ,er."
 ''The noise from the erupting fountains is akin to the roar of the ocean pounding against a rocky cliff"
 Six volcanologists, led by Dr. Jerry Eaton, of the Volcano Ob- servatory on Hawaii Island climbed into the fiery pit Sunday wearing thick asbestos gloves and protective hoods, the group walked between streams of mol ten lava. They stuck thermome- ters into liquid rock and took samples of lava for testing.
The Nome nugget., 1959-11-16
Legislative Council Meet Here Wednesday Open
 For Public Presentation

Jack Doyle, executive director of the Legislative Council, is ex- pected to arrive here on Tuesday for the meeting of the subcom- mittee of the Council, which will open here at 10 am. Wednesday morning.
 The meetings on eWdnesday are open to the public, and are planned to have the benefit of local thinking on proposed merit and retirement systems for state employees as well as other matters which will come before the Legis- lature.
 Out of town members of the subcommittee who are known to be arriving are Senator Bill Beltz of Unalakleet, Senator Eben Hopson of Barrow, and Represen- tative Axel Johnson of Kwiguk.
 Local persons and organizations are urged to make their presen- tations and present their views in this matter.
The Nome nugget., 1959-11-16
ALASKA FREIGHT DELAYS COURT-ORDERED SALE OF FIVE !TUGBOATS
SEATTI E. |

SEATTLE, R - The sale of five tugs belonging to the Alaska Freight Lines has been postponed until November 30. Federal Judge John c. Bowen, who had ordered the sale as a result of court ac- tions involving the company, granted the delay.
The Nome nugget., 1959-11-16

SEOUL, South Korea, R - South Korean police reported to- day Communist boats captured six small fishing vessels with 13 fish ernen aboard off Korea's east coast last week.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
Proposal for a New Sort Of College
The Christian Science Monitor

How would yOu-cOlleRe student,
alumnus, non-college person, or educa
tor-plan your ideal college if you were
given a clean slate 10 draw your de-
sign upon?
A committee Of educators, appointed
by the three famous ivy League col
leges (Smith, Amherst, Mount Holy
oke( and a state university (Massachu-
setts) has been working on such an as
signment, and now its design is made
public
1t embodies a number of features
many educators long have dreamed Of
in the interests Of intellectual single
mndedness (omission of such diver
sions" as social fraternities and inter-
collegiate sports), which current stu
dents, the alumni, and the public may
not unanimously approve. Other fea-
lures may be more generally appreciat-
ed: the new college" focusing on its
library, architecturally and academi-
cally, and its apparent operating econo-,
my.
But it will take the experienced COL
lege educator to appreciate fully the
excellence Of the plan and also the very
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
Space and the Common Cold
philadelphia Inquirer

No" the space scientists have found
q new worry: wild new strains Of in
fectious micro-organsms" which could
endanger future space travellers and be
brought back 10 prey on people who
never left this good old earth, Further
more, they want to spend a lot Of money
studying the reaction Of spores, bac-
terra and yruses TO life and travel in
space.
Let the space studies 90 on, but save
a little time and energy, please, for the
varmints responsible for the common
cold, grippe and FLU" The common
cold alone costs the nation something
like five billion dollars year.
What boon it would be to human
ity if our scientists would learn to con-
troll it here on earth let it alone in
space! Perhaps there is ray of hope
in that thought.
If the space people are given what
they need to bring viruses under con-
troll aboard a rocket ship, is it just pos
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
Lamar Stringfleld

MANY Chapel Hilhans remember
Lamar Edwin Str.ngfield Is striking
figure in blue denim oyeralis and black
velve, Jacket. Vel they might. Inc
oyeralls and the sumptuous lackeI
were ms usual attire and they were
symbolic Of this man who composed and
PLAYED heavenly melodies but whose
feet left their prints IL the dust OF me
earth.
The fac, is Lamar Strlngfield VIII be
spokep Of mere ane elsewhere long after
mis- discordant garD is forgotten. Whlle
q Chapel lillian he founded the Norm
Carolina Symphony Society, which mas
become strong influence in the cul-
tural life Of the entire state. One Of
America best flutists he rose 70 the
top ranks Of musicians with his per
fornances as member Of great orches-
tras in New York and other cities Of the
north And he was q capable conductor.
Now dead at 81, Lamar Stringfield
will continue 10 speak 70 the worId
through his many compositions espe-
cially the haunting symphony. Prom
the Southern Mountains" work that
made him the only North Carolinian
ever TO win the Pulitzer Prize for
Music. Some think an even greater work
is MS symphonic poem for orchestra,
The Legend Of John Henry" which
was composed here in Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
CHAPEL HILL CHAFF
Continued from Page u

Der names" said Mr.. Vaughan. Sometimes have to
invited to luncheon" From time to time through
out talk" wrote Mr.. Beayen, his secretary had
to supply name he hunting for. Even so famousA
Jean-Pau SartTe escaped him for moment" '
This is the time Of year when the word, semester,
comes to the front again, and once again remind
"a of how was made aware Of its derivation semest
er IS half college year and have written something to
the effect that the word derived from semi mean
ing half.
The man who set me right was DOugald Macmillan
professor Of English in the University. Semester is
derived from the two Latin words SEX meaning Six
and nemsis, meaning months In old times the college
year was divided into two sx-month periods. When
the college year reduced to its present length Of
nine months and semester no longer six but four
and half month, it natural for the word begin
nlng with syllable nearly like semi, to be associa
ed in the mind not with six but with half
Natural not only for people like me unlearned in
derlvations but, found also for scholars Before !
exposed my error in the Chaff column asked several
OF my friends in the Universys English faculty what
was the derivation Of semester. No doubt they had
known in their student years but if So they had forgo
ten All Of them to whom put the question: including
the head Of the department and his colleague who
senior IN service, said the derivation was from SEMI
meaning half In what wrote told about what they
SAID but did not identify them After ALL it was trivial
matter The professors thinking about things and
teaching things, far important than the derva-
tion of semester
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
Sights g Sounds
J. S. Nagelschmidt

late summer, when gin and ton
ic and third.rate TV fare have
jaded the entertainment palate
Speaking OF Miss Madame
she Is an excellent example Of
whal Hollywood can do to wreck
The career Of a talented and
Lively personality she made her
finn debut as q quiet Indian prln-
cess IN Around the World IN
81 Days. following this lift
ting role with another gray one
in q Shirley Booth drama and.
later. dong d Characterization
Of rather drab young LADY IN
The Matchmaker In all her
pictures, she appeared n only
one scene in which any Of her
true talents were put TO use
TINS was the scene In Some
Came Running IN which she did
4 orief, drunken musical number
N Terre Hau;e night club
Time and again. viewers Q!
the Dlnah Shore Show have seen
long -stemmed Shirley dance and
sing with the genius Of d natur-
Al born musical comedy comedi-
eHne She has g fresh. spontan-
eous cha(m and d down-to-earth
manner. not to mention her I'M
riense talent. which are not be
.ng utilized by the starmakeTs d
We can only hope that in her
latest picture she made break
through INTO the type Of role for
"1ich she is most suited
No. every original teleWsion
play can be winner, even for
Rod Sterling. who vas awarded
three Emnies for his excellent
writing While the Playhouse 80
presentation Of MS The Velvet
Alley" was skilIful n all depart
nents, the protagon-st. Ernie
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29

Lucille Watson Turner sixty
one wear old VuG.nian, has re-
corded & co-nucop.a Of sweet
sounds kDown-toy van; OF bet
ter descrlpnon-as authentic SOU
,hern music II an album en-
.l.leo Gle Sings. " Mrs Turn
ers rlch co1:ral;o voice runs the
garnu rom e works Of tradi-
Iona. songs 10 originals she
wrote herself Outstanding IT the
ia.;e- category IS One Armed
Tom Z moving tale Of q wo-
man Sho loses her husband 70
y temp;ress Few people can
hear ms renc.aon without she'd
c.nE { :ea-
In tnls age OF loose -hlppec
s0-calleo iolk singers and COW
boy attHed wandering trouba-
o0urs v0o !or my money
never wander far enough II S
IKE hearing the gentle slspp!ng
of .ake water upon qule, shore
10 hear . voice Ike Giles. This
album, on sale locally IS some
.hIng you should have in your
some 70 p1fy aga.n and again
Occasionally there arrives IN
Chapel Hill motion picture OF
such strength and drawing pow
eT that the ci:izenry drops every
thlng It's DONG and proceeds
en masSe 70 the theatre. Such
picture vas Some Came Run
nlng shown last week at the
VARSITY THIS gem had every
thing - thwarted love, unique
characters. wit. much emotional
byplay and even a finale which
featured q thrilling chase-so
one was willing TO overlook its
Shortcomings 70 enjoy the word
and action cavortlngs Of Frank
Sinara. Dean Martin and Shlr-
ley MacLaine IL IS expected that
! VII play re-run. perhaps IN
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29

Did you see where those old meanies
up in the South Dakota Senate voted
10 require cigarette packages TO bear
skull and croSsbones marking? And
to add insult TO injury, the proposed
law would require each pack Of butts
to be labeled Not recommended by the
state of South Dakota"
Why is it that some malcontent must
always tamper with our vices? Seems
to me like our vices are good enough
ike they are without anybody fooling
around with them.
The man who would put skull and
crossbOnes on pack Of gaspers is the
type person who would require red
antidOte label on a bottle Of liquor, Or
would clean up Bourbon Street in New
Orleans, Or would sponsor legislation
forbidding young women from wearing
shorts, or would expunge widows num-
bers from bachelors telephone books
And it's good bet that the legisla-
tor who introduced the skull and bones
thing was either a reformed smoker
Or d stoQy puffer. There's nothing quite
50 dismal as a puff Of cigarette smoke
in the face Of the confirmed cigar CON
sumer, TO whom it is noxious, or the re-
formed smoker, to whom it is greyous
ly memory provoking.
In any event, such proposed legisla
ton as the South Dakota Senate has
come up with should be calculated to
cause quite a stir in the tobacco grow
ing country, and especially in North
Carolina the hub Of the tobacco indus
try.
1t did!
The North Carolina Farm Bureau
Federation, meeting in Raleigh, i'm
mediately, and quite naturally, blew a
gasket. In less time than it would take
you to say western Union" the indig
nant delegates had dispatched wire
to Governor Ralph Herseth at Pierre,
s. d., which said:
THE North Carolina Farm Bureau
=. unanimously registers alarm at the
punitive legislation being considered
against tobacco products. Such legis-
ation is an unwarrented attack upon
the economic livelihood Of millions of
considerable educational hurdles it
erects For the most difficult achieve
ment for teacher and student alike is
the synthesis Of learning That is, for
the one the presentation Of any sector
Of knowledge in its context of related
and-ultimately of Acknowledge; for
the other of perceivng these relation
ships and thus acquiring perspective.
This can be done-is being done
with oversimplification for children.
They do not compartment their world.
Preparatory and college teachers are
obliged to make their students drive
deeper shafts. into knowledge which
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
| Like Chapel Hill
By Billy Arthur

If we're to believe what read the American male
is on the way out
Statistics show IL million more women earning
their full livelihood than in grandma's day and of %
million executives in the nation million women.
/ he tgures themselves are not alarming. From time
mmemoria every home has had executive, and that
executive has been the lady of the house.
What is disturbing, however, is that sub
jecting men to deliberate exploratory study and layng
him out for thoughtful research.
Today every womans magazine has article on
how to dssect, direct and manage mascuinity and two
fast-selng books among women are THE Decline of
the American Male" and The Natural Superiority of
Women
The gis of these autopsies is that isn't what he
used to be and there is doubt that he was.
On guard, men. All is not lost. Yet.
A survey among girls tells what male must
have to survive with them: He must be entertaining,
dress with taste have car or friend who has one
drink moderately but consume good Whiskey not smoke
cigars but have abundance of cigarettes don't kiss
the first date, and desist from onions
Note that survival of the male is conditional. He
must furnish car, liquor and smokes, but he must
f0rego the pleasure of onions.
Next the Institute for the Advancement of
Romance saying man is supposed to treat woman a
certain way. But it doesn't say what way. Probably a
deliberate omission, because the would possibly
be working late at the office or be of type man
wouldn't give hoot about treating any way in the first
place
Men did make the headlines last week when a survey
named Dad No. hero.
Hero Of whom? Adoescent boys no less. Boy Scouts,
not And he the Scouts hero not because
he's big, powerful and handsome but because of his
social skill and Judgment
Another post mortem by the Fun With Pop Asso- .
ciation showed that daily pressures leave dad with
only 81 minutes week with his children That scant
time because dad has the diapers to change the PTA
to attend and the shopping to do because stores
open evenings.
The pressures to which he is subjected therefore,
from the head of the table where the wife sits
Has the emancipation Of women left men less nfascu-
line?
Women continually told they longer what
mother used to be. If they tried they'd probably be
bored by their unemployment Modern home appliances,
nursery school and kindergarten have left her almost
jobess, and she's persuaded that raising family is not
hers but public job.
However, the most alarming part of current read
ing the male variety Of homo sapienS that both
nature and scientists conspirng to make men al
together obsolete.
After men, what then?
Well, California zoologist is trying to breed type
Of animal who has gls like fish instead Of
lungs and who breahes water gas instead of air and
apparently picks up his food out Of nowhere he
Continued Page s.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
How 10 Stop Speeders
The Raleigh Times

Every five miles on every New Jer-
sey state highway. q sign reads:
@'Speeders lose licenses"
Those signs warn Of drastic new
weapon New Jersey is using in is ef-
forts to cut down on highway deaths,
for i is q recognized fact that the ma
}or factor IN highway deaths Is speed.
The new Law in New Jersey provides
that anyone caught going 90 miles an
hour or faster on any road or street
where the speed limits range from 25 10
80 will lose his license 10 drive. On the
New jersey Turnpike and the Garden
State Parkway, the speed limit Is o0,
and anyone caaght going 70 or more
viii lose his license.
Licenses viii be revoked for 80 days
on the first offense. A second offense
will bring q 60-day revocation, and q
third offense AT indefinite suspension
Of the Hcense No exceptions Of extenu-
ating circumstances will be considered.
That IS rough punishment; how
rough can be seen by the fact that New
Jersey officials expect 10000 drivers
TO lose their licenses each year under
the new system.
But, rough punishment is what Is
needed 10 curb speed on our highways.
Try driving on a North Carolina nigh
way al the legal limit and notice how
many automobiles sco0t by you and
vanish down the road al rate much
higher than the legal limit If you think
that 35 miles an hour is the limit on
Raleigh's GIenwood Avenue near the
city limits. just drive al IS and see how
many people pass you. # you think Az
is the limit On the Downtown Boulevard,
drive al 40 and see how many people
speed past you.
Such wanton and habitual disregard
Of the speed laws is not the fault Of the
Raleigh policemen Or If the State High
way Patrol officers They arrest speed
ers, lots Of them. They bring them into
our courts ana they Wdlcn tnt SpecOelS
get wrist-slapping punishment.
Neither would il Do entirely far 10
blame oar judges for infllcting such
puishment. After all, d Judge is human,
and he doesn't Ike 10 impose severe
punishment If there is way out And,
there is d real way out for the Judges
IN the fact that our laws are not strict
and are permisslye in the punishment
they prescribe
The way 10 cut down On our speed
ing and thereby on our traffic deaths
is - DO Just what New Jersey has
done PAS a law making rough punish
ment mandatory. man WHO loses his
license for 20 days for Speeding Will
'hlnk long time before he speeds
again. And man who has lost his IL
cense for 60 days viii think even longer
before he risks an indefinite suspension
for speeding third time.
After all. there is no real reason for
any motorjst ever to speed. And, there
is every real reason to punish the
mo,orj-, who does speed.
More than ! 900 people were killed
in traffic accidents in our State during
1853. And, you may rest assured that
speed was the biggest single reason
those people died
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29
Now and Then
By Bill Prouty

our citizens in the tobacco growing
area
This kind Of punitive legislation in
Vltes retaliation and creates unwarrant-
ed charges against tobacco products that
no scientific facts thus far revealed have
justified
we want to appeal to the farmind-
edness Of your lawmakers TO strike down
this punitive legislation" the message
concluded
According 10 reports, you couldn't
have riled up the 800 or 50 convened
farmers any quicker than did the Da-
kOta report if you had read d paper on
Some Approved Methods Of Propagat-
ing Blue Mold" or had hung big mo
Smoking" signs all around the meeting
place. In fact, one member is quoted
as saying that some Of the delegates
were 80 hot they were smoking" But,
as'yet. this has not been confirmed
The delegates verbal reaction to the
proposed law was immediate and point
ed. Said b. &. Mangum, president Of the
state Farm Bureau. They did that
only because they don't raise tobacco"
"Purely and truly punitive legisla-
tion. And it should be stopped" said
A. c. Edwards, State Farm Bureau
executive vice president.
But probably the best quote was
the one by Anderson High, Durham
County Farm Bureau president, who
said: "At first | thought it was a gag.
| don't think it will have too much eff
feet on smoking And don't even think
the sponsors Of the bill will stop smok-
ing"
Mr.. High, it would appear, is not
only tobacco man, but a philosopher
as well He would understand the man
who, called uncOmplimentary names by
his enemies, answered Call me any
thing but late for dinner" Mr. High
realizes that good publicity is that
which is seen and heard and bad pub
licity is that which goes unnoticed
You find philosophers in every walk
Of life. And it's just as well for, to those
who will listen, the way is made little
lighter
cannot be both thorough and wide and
at the same time to keep them oriented.
The better the teacher, the more he
realizes how partial his success.
This new college would launch even
freshmen on their own, sinking their
shafts and drawing their maps as they
go, aided by conferences with their fel-
low amateurs and with teachers and
by minimum Of broad presentations
in lectures.
A challenging, stimulating outlook
but one for the already well prepared,
intellectually curious youngster. We
hope it can be tried.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29

sible that out Of their studies quite &C
cidentally and incidentally there might
come q cure for the common cold here
on earth? If 50. let them get on with
the work Achoo'
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-01-29

Pandish, suffered from a dis
ease which We might loosely call
"Non-sympatheticness From
the Greek stage 10 TN. audiences
have always favored plays in
which the central character S ac-
lions were heroic and the charac
ter himself one in whose shoes
the auditor could place himself,
Sterling wrote for Art Carney,
SOFT of regular guy in appearance
and manner. q role that was un-
sympathetic for most Of the
eighty minutes Of the play While
the writing itself and the charac'
terizations were good. one be
came weary OF trying 10 make
Pandish's problem compatible
with reallty-and then finally
gave up the ghost Somewhere IN
the tortuous thread Of the writ
ers Imagination, Pandish, and
thus the whole significance Of the
drama, became stalemated. !
can't help but wonder 10 what
extent the play was autobio-
graphical Whether or not II was,
Rod Sterling is still one OF
video's top writing talents and
IS probably working on some
thing new and better.
Hardly a Chapel lillian has
not been exposed n conversation
or in. fact TO Image Russia. d
new NBC continuing radio docu-
mentary which ends next week
The producers eXhaustlvely tap
ed thousands Of conversations
and sounds Of Moscow including
those Of traffic and the sub
way, n a series which reNect the
objectlyity and originality of
radio reporting in the tradition
Of I'd Murrow Time. 8 30 p IT.
Station WPTF. Monday through
Thursday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27

Donley discussed geometry
and education generally with
the President.
Later she reported the
President seemed well-in-
formed on trends in educa-
ton and emphasized his
belief that to be meaningful
education must be related
knowledge.
Miss Donley. who holds q
masters degree and has 30
years experience as q teacher.
earns q salary Of $4,700 a
year.
Selected on the basis Of the
impact her teaching has
made on the lives Of many
Of her former students, Miss
Donley expressed concern,
however. for q too-concen-
trated approach to mathe-
mates now.
Warning that students may
be pushed into mathematics
who have no real aptitude
for 1t. she observed, I'VE need
good doctors and newspaper
men as well as scientists
and engineers"