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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Ad Warren Gets Ready to Meet
Lou Carpenter in Durham
Tuesday

"Ad Warren, the Universitys
champion boxer, is training Wig
orously for his debut in the pro-
fessional ring: ten-round bout
with Lou Carpenter in the Dur
ham City Auditorium next Tues
day night. A tackle on the Caro-
lima football team, he kept him
self in excellent physical condi-
tion during the fall; but football
left him little opportunity for
practice, and so now he has to
make up for lost time 1t is
said that Warren is the first Uni
versity graduate, of unquestioned
potential ability as a pugilist, to
enter the professional ring
He won the amateur heavyweight
title in Philadelphia in 1926
He has been in more than 40
fights in Philadelphia, Gin
cinatti, Boston, Baltimore, and
several Southern cities. He has
been outpointed three times, but
has never been knocked off his
feet A few days ago Warren
signed up with Jimmy Bronson
of New York. Bronson is an old
timer with a reputation as an
astute and successful manager"
IN 1897
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Loan Plan Could Spell The Difference

The new Student Loan Plan developed
by the North Carolina Bankers Associa-
ton is a tasty looking pudding, the proof
of which, naturally, will be in the eating.
If successful, the plan will 90 a long
way toward satisfying a need that, up
until now, had been pretty largely over
looked.
With all of the ambitious plans for
enlarging and enriching higher educa-
ton in the State, very little attention
had been paid to putting higher education
within the financial reach of a major
portion of our college-age population.
College already is out of the question
for a great many North Carolina high
school graduates who are qualified in
every way except for money. There is
every reason to expect costs to students
to continue rising.
Under the plan developed by the
North Carolina Bankers Association,
each bank in the State is being asked
to pledge one per cent of its capital re-
serve. The fund has already reached
about two and half million dollars. Add
ed to this will be $4,000 raised by the
old College Foundation, an organization
established during the Hodges admins
tration to provide student loans but
which failed to get off the ground. The
capital reserve pledge potential is around
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Decision Postponed

eat their meeting Wednesday
evening the aldermen decided to
postpone, till spring, action on
the proposal to install parking
meters on the towns main buSi.
ness block. The board wants tO
see what effect the development
of West Franklin Street will have
on the parking situation said
Mayor Maddry after the meeting
Some citizens say it will so re.
lieve congestion downtown that
parking meters will not be neces.
sary.
Richard Schweizer and Leon.
old Lindtberg of the Praesens.
Film Company, Zurich, Switzer.
land, have been here several days
comforting with Betty Smith on
the shooting script of a movie
she wrote for Praesens-Film last
winter in Zurich.
Classified ad: Il wish to buv
two small ordinary kittens be.
fore December 25. Write G. B,
Cleveland, P.O. Box 1917, Chapel
HILL"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09

these voices, which he could
place on a record and play in
the parking lots Of the Pentagon.
If the quality of the record
wasn't good enough, Mr.. SylveS-
ter could always hang one of the
newspaper men upside down
while issuing his famous Its
none of your business COM
ment.
OF COURSE, it's quite possible
that this method of keeping re-
porters away might not succeed,
and they might be attracted by
the screams instead of repelled.
If this is the case, then we
think the Administration will
have to get tougher with the
press, just as you have to get
tougher with starlings.
This may sound a little cruel,
but we are living in desperate
times. So the only solution is to
scare the press away from our
public buildings before they make
a bigger mess than the Starlings.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Proposed National Guard Overhauling
A Short Step In The Right Direction

use of it. 1t is always conveniently for
gotten that National Guard units reuuir-
ed thinning down and, during World
War II, full year after entering active
duty to be brought up to snuff-the
same amount of time required to train
raw recruits. Organizations were top
heavy with brass, much of it overage
and or incompetent.
Mr.. Mcnamara may have known this
last year, when during the Berlin crisis
10000 reservists and National Guards
men were called to duty, but it is do,-.,5t-
full that he was prepared for the near
mutiny that occurred in many of the
units. Both Army reservists and Guards
men demonstrated that they had not en-
listed primarily in the national interest,
and that they considered it the grossest
of impositions to be called up and ex-
pected to perform straight military duty.
His present action is clearly intended
to convert the Guard into a useful and
efficient auxiliary, but in view of last
falls reaction and the current uproar
from the Governors and top guard brass,
Mr. Mcnamara appears somewhat naive
in his assumption that he can accomplish
what he wishes.
He would be far more realistic in
recommending total abolition of the
Guard
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09

three million dollars.
All of the details have not yet been
worked out, but tentative plans indicate
that students will be able to borrow mon
ey at five per cent interest, without col
lateral, and payment would not be re-
quired until after graduation. The in
terest payments would be used to meet
the costs Of administering the loan fund.
One of the outstanding features of the
plan is that loans would be available to
beginning freshmen if they have been
accepted for admission and found to be
qualified on the basis of need.
The loan program will begin in the fall
of 1863. The measure of success will not
be in how much money is loaned or how
few applicants are turned down. The on
ly real measure of success will be in
how many students the loan fund puts
in college who otherwise would not have
been financially able to attend
CAS- long as single child is denied an
education beyond the high school for rea-
sons of lack of funds" Governor San
ford said, 'then we are failing in the
challenge"
The plan devised by the Bankers As
sociation can go a long way toward spell
ing the difference between failure and
success.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Freshets In Our Cultural Desert

Two of Chapel Hills severest cultural
critics were partially refuted Sunday
when five Chapel Hillians were honored
by the North Carolina State Art Society
in Raleigh. Chapel Hill novelist John
Ehle said in 1861 that the University was
dampening the efforts of creative" peo-
pie in Chapel Hill and only few weeks
ago Chapel Hill writer Leon Rookie as
much as said that Chapel Hill had sue
ceeded in snuffing out most of its resi-
dent literary lights.
Jumped together, these two opinions
amounted to the fact that Chapel Hill,
far from being heaven for the creative,
actually leaned more toward the hell side.
Yet, in Raleigh Sunday the State Art
Society awarded Chapel Hill sculptor
Robert Howard one of five top awards in
the 1862 North Carolina Artists Ex-
hibition, and gave citations to three other
Chapel Hillians: Mrs. Ola Maie Foushee,
for her art column and her work in pub
lie school art education; Miss Ruth Fai-
son Shaw, or her work in using finger
painting techniques in psychotherapy;
and, posthumously, the late DR.. Glenn
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09

Secretary of Defense Robert MacNa-
mara's plans to reorganize and slim down
the National Guard have met with
enough concerted gubematorial opposi-
ton to make you think he was picketing
the Southern Governors Conference.
1t is no surprise that Governors and
National Guardsmen should take violent
exception to plans which would trim
more than 800 Guard units from the
rolls, among them eight full-size divis-
ions. The Guard has long been a con-
venient and effective channel for po-
litical patronage which, in time of peace,
has been under state control.
A Commission in the Guard has often
been a convenient way of discharging
political debts, and of course, there is
pay involved, based on attendance at an
evening of drill once a week and two
weeks of summer camp. The Guard, be-
cause of this, has also become a prime
escape route from the Selective Service
Act. Twenty years service can earn a
man retirement when he reaches sixty
five, and promotions come fast and thick
enough to make West Point mans eyes
water
The Guards record during two world
wars has been impressive enough at first
glance, and lobbyists have made good
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Ornithological And Journalistic Woe

porting it to their respective
press officers.
In the case of the Defense De-
partment, Assistant Secretary of
Defense Arthur Sylvester has in
Stituted a monitor system, under
which no one may talk to a men,
Der of the press without sending
Sylvester a memo or having a
third person present from his Of
flee. This, Of course, is all in
the interest of national security,
though there are some skepticS
who claim it could also be used
to cover up a lot of blunders.
BUT WHAT Mr.. Sylvester
could do if he were really de-
termined to keep the press away
from the Pentagon is, instead of
playing a recording of a distress
ed starting, set up a loudspeaker
outside the Pentagon and play
record of a screaming, dis
tressed journalist, thus soaring
other journalists away from the
building.
Now the question is: how do
you distress a journalist? Quite
simple. You refuse to tell him
the truth and Immediately he's in
great pain and yelling at the top
of his voice.
What MIR. Sylvester could do
at his next press briefing is to
record the voices of several
newspapermen as he tells them
he has no intention of answer
ing their questions. He could
select the most frightening of
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Looking Back-

John M. Foushee has bouobt
W. W. Gwynn's fire and casuaItv
insurance agency here.
Ledbetter Pickard won fret
prize and Andrews-Hennineer wor
second in the Merchant Associs
tion's contest for interior Christ
mas decorations in Chapel Hin
stores.
The mixing of ashes with oar.
bage and trash is choking the mn.
nicipal incinerator. Hereafter citi
zens will be required to put tba,
ashes in a separate container
There will be a special collection
of ashes every Wednesday,
IN 1877
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Mental Health:
Not A Football
RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER

What's wrong with politicking
in behalf of the mentally i'll in
North Carolina or for any other
good cause, as far as that goes?
This question came up again
at hearings on plans for consOli-
dating public mental health ac-
tivities under a single State
agency. A spokesman for one
of the interested parties, seek
ing to change the makeup of the
Hospitals Board of Control, said,
1.-THE treatment Of the mentally
ill should never be a political
football"
The fact is, however, that there
is no better example of good
politics in action on the North
Carolina scene than the politick-
ing which has seen the States
mental hospitals make rapid ad-
vances in the past decade.
These advances have com e
about largely through the efforts
of public spirited citizens and
legislators under the leadership
of a true and able politician,
State Representative John Um-
stead of Chapel Hill. Any fairly
close observer will acknowledge
his political skill and determina-
tion when it comes to protecting
the interests of the mentally i'll
at budget-making time in the
Legislature. The fact is that Um-
stead, on occasion through brass
knucks political mitigating, has
channeled millions of needed dol
lars into the mental health pro-
gram which it would have been
denied except for his efforts.
Certainly the Commission on
Reorganization of State Gov
ernment made wise as well as
fair decision when it decided af-
ter its hearings to recommend
continuing the board Umstead
heads as the policy-making body
of the proposed consolidated men,
tai health agency.
1t is easy enough to argue that
various interested parties should
have representation on a public
policy-making board, as was the
case in these consolidation hear
ings. 1t is far from each to OBJ
tain policy board to run the
mental hospitals which will show
the effective, abiding concern for
suffering which the hospitals
board under Umstead and other
lay leaders has exhibited,
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
BILLY ARTHUR

Grady Pritchard came by the
other day, and l inquired about
his one-time ailing back.
''Nothing's bothering me right
now except my wife," said
Grady.
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1t could happen only in Chap
el Hill, | mean the little incident
between a perfect stranger and
my MiSSus at Grants Skillet.
She likes a dessert to top off
lunch but a piece of pie is too
much. Why" she asked, don't
you slice your pie thinner"
81 wish they would, too," said
a man close by. Tell you what,
let's split piece?"
So they did. They sliced
slice of pie and divided the cost.
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Speaking of food, our Billy Jr.
asks a sensible question:
What would happen if all the
people in the world burped at
the same time?"
+ y
Overheard in the 0ut-Patient
Clinic at Memorial Hospital:
Thanksgiving, boshl We had
a turkey so tough that next year
I'd rather celebrate the Pill
grams landing by eating the
rock"
# Il Il
Overheard at Im-not-telling-
where:
This is a good Italian reStau-
rant - just enough tomato
sauce on the table cloth"
Mrs. Ruth Boubel asked Mrs.
Shirley Rettie if she would like
to do something for her.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
Koch to Read Carol

Frederick H. Koch will give
his 148th reading of Dickens's "A
Christmas Carol in Men,
orial Hall d. Between the slaves
of the story carols will be sung
by the Chapel Hill Madrigal
Club Harry Davis has de-
signed a new set for the event :.
Mr.. Koch will set out Monday on
a round of visits to eleven places
where he has been invited to give
readings Mr.. Koch began to
read Dickens's story in public
a quarter of century ago. In
North Dakota he went through
snowstorms, sometimes by sleigh,
sometimes by hand-car on the
rails when engines were frozen,
to fill engagements :"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09

into snake holes with sticks.
watching lizards (oh, that Scott
were hereD scurry over last
summers crinkling leaves, kick
ing up crash-diving frogs ahead
OF us in the creek, pulling and
tasting watercreSs from a lazy
running shadows, and cupping
frog eggs in our hands until they
sllthered through our fingers
back into the creek; watching
tadpoleS failing themselves along
a sandy bottom, holding against
the current; and spotting sleek
minnows, darting fitfully about,
then out of sight for good around
a rock which, overturned, would
sometimes panic hidden cray
fish into tail-pumping backward
flight into the comfortable mud
died water.
There were no noises except
our noises, no world except the
one which held us enraptured,
no concerns beyond the next
bend in the creek.
And then we'd go over, under
and through the barbed wire
fence into Mr.. Fred SparrOwS
COW pasture, across the bottom
of Hillsboro Street, on past the
old mill and millpond, down to
our favorite swimming hole
where we shucked our clammy
clothes and bare-bottomed into
the murky water, failing it in
to gurgling foam without exag-
gerated dog-paddling, squirting
water into each others blood
SHOT eyes, and all the while
shouting the gleeful inanities in
herent in unSupervised youth.
And then we'd trudge up Win
dy Hill, clothes wetter than be-
fore with creek water from un-
dried bodies added to the sweat,
feet plopping in ne-grained dust,
to our homes on HillsborO or
Rosemary or Franklin Streets or
IN Babby Hollow, as happy as
only much loved but little-regu-
lated young'uns can be.
In Chapel Hill in those days
there were many more such
trips in many more wonderful,
Wild places. In any direction we
were but a few minutes stroll
from the middle of nature =
Sprawling Battle Park, StroWdS
LoWground and the Morgan
Creek area from Merit Mil
Road to the Mason Farm, full oil
happy surprises and with plenty
OF time (no autos, radios, tele-
vision, supervised athletics, etc.,
or uninterrupted observations.
Yet, have all these pleasures
forbidden most youngsters today
made better men of my genera
tlon than the little Scott Turner'S
VIII turn out to be?
NO, and probably no more than
nall as knowledgeable as they
will be either. But they are sure
missing a heck of a lot Of fun;
and | wouldn't swap what we had
Tor all the new-fangled advan-
tages Scott and his buddies have
today But | believe Scott would
and gladly.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
BILL PROLTY

Didn't you get a bang out of the
plaintive letter sent recently to
the President by seven-year old
Scott Peter Turner of San Diego,
Calf, asking Mr.. Kennedy to
set aside" another piece of
land in lieu of his canyon, in
which he was forbidden to play
because of a building project to
be erected there?
Little Scott, 1t seems, was
highly indignant because his liz
ard-hunting ground has been
pre-empted by an organized play
area and a building project, and
ne was man enough to do some
thing about it. 1t was a grand
gesture from a game little fell
low whose genuine problem be-
comes more and more acute as
expanding populations and all
the accoutrementS which go
along with the new masses chase
nature farther and farther away
from our doors.
But if a man can be read from
his words, then if seems that
Mr.. Turner's postscript to his
sons letter is bound to make
Scott a real chip off the old
block.
'In building our progressive
world of supervised play and
sterilized playthingS,' appended
Scott's father, I'VE seem to have
forgotten that youth needs
trees and frogs and earth with
ants in it = and time for un-
interrupted observations of the
path he treads. Isn't it nos
talgically sad when little
boy can't find place to play?"
AS drove to town that morn
ing still mulling over Scott's
predicament and his fathers
words, | passed the vegetation
entangled valley which makes up
the northern half of the triangle
bounded by North Columbia and
Stevens Streets and the Airport
Road. And as the vale, where is
soon to be located the new Town
Hall and other municipal build
ings, passed from my view, Mr..
Turner's nostalgia took its place
in my mind.
In the early twenties this tri-
angle was the northernmost SPOT
for the wanderings of manv of
us youngsters, wild tangle of
delightful mysteries. A little be-
low where Columbia and Stew
ems Streets now converge there
was a fine spring from which for
many years cool water was
drawn and forced up the hill
to a house by a hydraulic ram.
whose workings, which | have
never yet mastered, would hold
a little group of us youngsters in
loud discourse and utter disagree
ment, until the beckoning brook
and its meandering run took our
curiosity by the hand and led
us along its way.
Down the brook we'd 20. pad
ding barefoot and fancyfree,
masters Of all we saw, inhibited
only by the bounds of our imap-
nation and ingenuity. pokine
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
By ART BUCHWALD
In The N. Y. Herald-T Tribune


THE WHITE HOUSE has TAX
en- off against starlingS and well
it should For years various Pres
idents of the United States have
been bothered by these pests
who rOost on the beautiful fa-
cade and in the trees, making
a mess of the Presidents care
fully worked out programs.
Now, according to a White
House spokesman, a recording
of a distressed startling is being
played in the trees, and it is
hoped that when other starlings
hear it they will be frightened
away.
The White House even played
the record of the distressed
starting for unbelieving news
paper men. The spokesman was
then asked why the startling on
the record was in distress. The
spokesman replied he did not
know, but there was no need to
hurt a startling to make it cry
out.
THIS is ALL WELL and good
for starlings, but they haven't
been the Administrators only
problem. Lately the New From
tier has been bothered by news
leaks in the Pentagon and State
Department, so much so that
directives have come out warn
ing State and Defense Depart
ments personnel against talking
to newspaper men without re-
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
IN 1857

How We Became the Champs"
is the title of a story narrated
for the December IA issue of the
Saturday Evening Post by Frank
Mcclure, coach of the Univer.
sity's national champion basket.
ball team. The story's subtitle
is; North Cardinals basketball
coach tells the behind-the-scenes
story of his teams remarkable
performance. He reveals vict.
ory's awesome price and fore.
casts the seasons prospects,"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09

would you want me to an
swer that truthfully or tactful-
ly?" asked Mrs. Rettie.
One of the little Boubels wants
to know if an athlete has ath-
lete's foot what does an astro-
naut have?
The answer is missile-toe.
For home leadership, aren't
you glad the children worked on
that story instead of me?
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And our Annis Lillian wants
to know what's better than a
writing horse.
"A spelling bee," she answers.
!. Z; Z
incidentally, she turned 12
years old on Wednesday and l
treated myself to lobster tails in
celebration of the event. Of
course, let her have some too.
The dinner out for the occasion
began with my suggesting that
Bill, the Missus and / go out to
eat and take Annis along.
Some big deal, she said. But
we agreed it would be all right
for her to stay home just be-
cause it was her birthday. Any
way, we we're going. So she de-
cided to tag along.
It was a big day for her, so big
that on Thursday morning when
we walked her for school, Annis
moaned, 'Im tired of being u
years old"
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Cafe scene:
Bob Harriss and Crowell Lit
tie head-to-head over coffee.
Plotting against Pat Pope?
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09

Cafe scene:
Bob Harriss and Crowell Lit
tie head-to-head over coffee.
Plotting against Pat Pope?
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1962-12-09
From the Weekly's files:
Training for His Fight

IN 1927
Arizona sun., 1962-05-31
NAACP Protests Bowling
Ban In Salt Lake CITY

SALT LAKE CITY. = The MA
ACP threw picket lines around
the Rancho Lanes Recreation
Center here because it has con-
sistently refused to permit Neg
roes to utilize its bowling facili-
ties.
Albert B. Fritz, local NAACP
president, said that his unit has
found that widespread discrimi-
nation exists in public accommo-
dations, employment and housing,
in Salt Lake City.
He added that the NAACP has
been pressing the State Legisla-
ture Ito produce meaningful leg
islation in these areas" The MA
ACP will intensity these efforts
during the next legislative Ses-
sion.