Smoke Signals, Wednesday, October 30, 1968—Page 5
Over $10 million spent
in education of young
They're making Smoke Signals 'blossom out'
Chowan’s student newspaper ‘‘Smoke Signals” is picking up steam with each issue, and
the 12 staff members seen here are generating the enthusiasm which makes this pos
sible. They are from left to right: Phil Edwards, sports editor; Francine Sawyer, manag
ing editor; Pauline Robinson, society editor; Larry Matthews, Frank Granger, “Speedy”
Skinner, Joan Cox, Parker Baine, Peggy Cross and Ollie Bradshaw. Seated are co
editors Tom Garner and Nancy Mohr.
Mirlo rescue story changed
By Christopher Crittenden
N.C. Department of
Archives and History
Written for Associated Press
RALEIGH (AP) — Total crew
51; lost 9; saved 42. Those are
the human statistics of a dra
matic and heroic rescue in
World War I.
The true story is told in an
article, “The ‘Mirlo’ Rescue,” in
the current Issue of the North
Carolina Historical Review. The
author, Edwin C. Bearss, is a
historian of the National Park
Service in Washington. Bearss
has made his account vivid by
using not only official records of
the Coast Guard but also reports
(from the German archives) of
submarine U-117, which sank
the “Mirlo, ” taped interviews
with survivors, and other
sources.
In the summer of 1918, during
the last year of World War I,
several German U-boats were
sent to the Atlantic coast of the
United States. There they
wrought havoc.
Washington shorts
WASHINGTON (AP) — When
the Secret Service orders a safe
car for the president, it doesn’t
WASHINGTON (AP) — New
ly opened Eisenhower College in
getting in the way.
This was evident in a new 21-
foot, custom-built Lincoln Conti
nental limousine received by the
White House.
There are seatbelts on the for
ward-facing rear seats the Pres
ident and his party use, but not
on the front seats.
The Secret Service wanted it
that way so agents can get in
and out fast, said a Ford
spokesman.
And the bullet-proof plate be
tween the front and rear seats
doesn’t allow room for head
rests, which are required on
standard cars built after Jan. 1.
The cost of long, black, bomb
and bullet resistant vehicle
wasn't revealed. But Ford did
say the government leases the
car at below factory cost.
Gadgets on the car include a
public audress system, and a
rear roof that can be opened or
covered with glass, a reflective
aluminum heat shield or a black
vinyl top for formal occasions.
ed States as “a token of the love
and admiration" Americans feel
for Dwight 0. Eisenhower.
President Johnson signed
Monday a $446.6 million appro
priations bill containing the
funds and sent Eisenhower, a
patient at Walter Reed Army
Hospital, a letter reading:
“Surely no tribute to those qual
ities of yours could be more fit
ting than an institution of higher
learning.'
The school opened its doors in
September with a freshman
class of 295 and a faculty of 26.
Capital Quote
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
“It is the major opportunity of
this century to fully professional
ize law enforcement, modernize
the judiciary and provide im
provements in the corrections
field. '—Atty. Gen. Ramsey
Clark at swearing in ceremonies
for top officials of the new fed
eral Law Enforcement Assist-,
ance Administration.
On Aug. 16 Kapitanleutnant
Droscher's U-117 was cruising
off Hatteras when she sighted
the “Mirlo," a British tanker of
6,997 tons, whose captain was
William Roose Williams. The
tanker had taken on a cargo of
oil and gasoline at New Orleans
and was heading up the east
coast. Maneuvering into posi
tion, the U-boat fired a torpedo
which struck the doomed vessel
with a terrific explosion.
Capt. John Allen Midgett was
leader of the Chicamacomico
Coast Guard. One of his men,
surfman Leroy Midgett, was
scanning the sea with his binoc
ulars when he saw the “Mirlo "
going at full speed. At 4:40 p.m.
there was an explosion and “a
great mass of water shot up in
the air. ' The “Mirlo” shortly
broke in two. ‘I ^
The Coast Guard immediately
went to work. Within 3 minutes
the horses had been harnessed
and hitched to the boat-wagon
that carried the surfboat. In
spite of breakers 18-20 feet high,
the boat was launched.
Now occurred one of the most
courageous and thrilling of all
naval rescues. Sailing through
flaming oil, with his men burn
ing and choking from flames
and smoke, Capt. Midgett and
his crew were able to pull 6 sail
ors from the sea and then to tow
two lifeboats containing 36 oth
ers to shore. The last of the sur
vivors were landed at 9 o’clock
at night, in the dark. They were
immediately given first aid,
food, and clothing. The next day
they were taken to Norfolk.
Capt. Williams reported that
Capt. Mdigett and his crew had
“done one of the bravest deeds
which I have ever seen ...”
Midgett and his men later were
awarded many medals for brav
ery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
nation is investing over $10 bil
lion in the education of its young
people—college students and
slum kids.
The funds, authorized in two
bills due to be signed by Presi
dent Johnson today, extends
school and student aid pro
grams for three years and in
creases funds for work training
programs designed to break
youngsters from slum poverty
cycles.
Contained in the $7.3-billion
aid to higher education act is a
provision shutting off aid to stu
dents convicted of taking part in
activities which disrupt a col
lege or university.
Violations of college regula
tions “of a serious nature " or a
civil conviction stemming from
disruptions make the student li
able to loose federal assistance
for two years.
The higher education bill also
contains a section removing
from the Office of Economic Op
portunity the Upward Bound
program designed to acclimate
ghetto youngsters to campus at
mosphere. The Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
takes the program over.
The $3.1-billion vocational ed
ucation bill contains a rider
which some legislators said
would nullify much of the $6-bil-
hon federal spending cut de
creed by Congress.
Sponsors of the rider said it
was intended to remove the
power of the President and his
Budget Bureau to make any re
ductions in education funds be
low the amounts appropriated
by Congress.
The biggest authorization in
the higher education bill, $3.1
billion, would cover grants and
loans for building construction.
The next bigget item in the
bill, $1.87 billion, will make
funds available for direct loans
to students, federal scholar
ships, and government insur
ance of private loans.
About one-quarter of the more
than six million students in col
lege use one of these forms of
aid.
The bill also contains a num
ber of new programs proposed
by the administration.
These include special services
for disadvantaged students,
grants to strengthen graduate
education, provision for cooper
ative arrangeents among col
leges in a program called “Net
works for knowledge,■■ special
ized types of training for public
service personnel in federal,
state and local governments,
and grants to provide clinical
experience in preparation and
trial of cases for law students.
Wallace gaining
By ALVIN TAYLOR
Greenville Daily Reflector
Written for The AP
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) —
Here is the tobacco growing
area of northeastern North Ca
rolina, a George C. Wallace-
dominated campaign for the 1st
Congressional District seat is
headed down the home stretch.
There can be no question
about the popularity of the third-
party Alabamian. The Wallace-
for-President bumper stockers
on almost every farm truck—
and quite a few sleek city autos
as well—attest to that.
The two candidates for the
congressional seat are well
aware of it, too. Reece Gardner,
36, Republican and contractor
from Kinston, is attempting to
Denmark lowers
movie censorship
By BOB THOMAS
AP Movie-Television Writer
COPENHAGEN (AP) —
American tourists shopping
along Copenhagen s famed
Walking Street get a jolt when
they pass the nygade-Cinema
Theater. There in living color
are displayed photographs
usually seen on “feelthy " post
cards.
The movie, “Man’s Sweetest
Playthings,' is advertised as
Censorship has been strongest
in countries such as Ireland, It
aly and the United States,
where churchmen exercise a
strong influence on moral is
sues. But in predominantly Lu
theran Denmark, the church
has little effect on the daily
lives of the people. Lacking any
clerical opposition, the anticen
sorship bill easily passed.
The basic reasoning was that
it was insulting to tell adults
^ture'" '«*»t • cannot. re»d,.. Res
'Come on, please take our picture!'
Dressed out in their Sunday best, this group of aspiring young stationed themselves m
front of Marks Hall and insisted on the photograi)her taking their picture. Here is the
end result with no names being mentioned.
ever made and customers are
advised; “It will be banned in
most countries . . . Play safe—
see it during your stay in Copen
hagen. ’ Those who heed the ad
monition witness the kind of sex
depiction that is seen in the
United States only at men s
stags.
Such films can be exhibited in
Denmark without fear of repris
al as this country moves toward
absolute freedom of expression
in terms of sex.
A year ago, the Danish Par
liament, with virtually no oppo
sition, passed a law that virtual
ly lifted all bans against written
pornography. This fall the Par
liament is expected to pass an
other bill doing away with the
last vestige of movie censor
ship.
These moves are likely to be
studied by other nations, espe
cially the United States, where
liberalization of centuries-old
puritanical traditions has lately
been hastened by a series of Su
preme Court decisions,
Denmark has moved toward
abolition of censorship after
considerable study and public
debate. A commission on crimi
nal law reported to Parliament
that it could find no proven link
between pornography and cor
ruption of sexual morals in gen
eral. One psychology professor
told the commission:
“I do not think a long-time
member of a nudist colony
would be able to get excited by
seeing the naked body of a
woman. He hinted that the por
nography market has reached
the saturation point.
First meeting of
Spanish Club
The fifst meeting of the Span
ish Club, “Los Conquistadors, ’
was held in September at the
home of it's sponsor. Professor
Morris Carson. Plans for the
year were made and also for
a Homecoming float.
The Spanish Club is provided
for the second and third year
Spanish students in order to
bridge the gap between the cult
ures of this country and those
of the Spanish speaking world.
Officers for the 1968-69 year
were elected as follows: Bill Carr,
president; Bill Matheny, Vice-
president; Ann Shaffer, secre
tary; Ronnie Dunn, treasure!;
Marie Eldrige, chaplain; Jack
Christian, reporter; Marthr Hill
an- Hugh Forrest, program
chairmen; Bonnie Scott and
Durand Ward, .social chairmen.
wrest the seat from Democrat
Walter B. Jones, 55, of Farm-
ville in Pitt County. If Gardner
should succeed, he would do
what no Republican has done
since Reconstruction days.
Gardner, in what he called
“putting principle above party
recently announced that he was
backing Wallace for the presi
dency, thus forsaking his own
party s nominee, Richard Nix
on.
Jones hasn t repudiated the
Democratic nominee, Hubert
Humphrey, but, like many Dem
ocrats seeking office within the
state this year, he has put all
the distance he could between
himself and Humphrey.
He has announced that if the
presidential election is thrown
into the House of Representa
tives he will vote for the candi
date who receives the highest
number of votes in the district.
Jones, however, doesn t con
sider himself burdened by the
national party's unpopularity in
the district. He has voted
against the liberal proposals of
his party in Congress and in his
speeches he has opposed school
integration orders and supported
law and order.
Jones can also point to the
Democratic party's record of de
veloping the farm price support
program. And that carries much
weight in this tobacco growing
area.
Jones is known as a master
politician who for years has
Now smile for the photographer!
Prof. M. Eugene Williams, chairman of the Department
of Languages, appears to be telling William 1. Marable,
professor English and languages that a smile won’t break
the camera.
Business Mirror
Reliving the past
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) — Do you
madeniapp4ar««eesv.almost any-iiivrthiember W^e'"^
traints were continued on the
availability of pornography to
children.
Oddly, there has never been
any censorship of television in
Denmark; the television offi
cials themselves decide what
should appear on the home
screen. The only complaints
about the programming appear
to be a few letters to newspa
pers by mothers critical of the
violence in such U.S. series as
“Bonanza' and “The Virgini
an. Little is said about the
late-evening Scandinavian mov
ies which include some nude
scenes.
Wallace Suit
dismissed
by court
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)
— A federal court judge has
ruled that the state has the right
to “put its own house in order "
in dismissing a lawsuit charging
George C. Wallace with misuse
of public funds.
In rejecting the protest suit
Tuesday, Dist. Judge Frank M.
Johnson Jr. said, “It is not clear
that the allegations . . . make
out a violation of the Constitu
tion of the United States.”
But, the judge commented, if
charges that “enormous
amounts of public funds, proper
ties and personnel " have been
used for Wallace’s third-party
campaign are true, it “would al
most surely constitute a viola
tion of Alabama law. "
Rep. Bryce Graham, initiator
of the lawsuit, said he will ei
ther appeal Johnson's ruling to
a higher federal court or file
new action at the state court
level.
Johnson pointed to the state
court as the proper channel for
such action.
Graham, an attorney, filed
the complaint Oct. 10 charging
that he use of state funds foi
the Wallace campaign was
equivalent to “unlawfully lotting
the public treasury,” and that it
presented a “serious, clear and
present danger in a breakdown
of law and order in Alabama. "
The Tuscumbia, Ala., legisla
tor did not specify in the suit
how the “public funds, proper
ties and personnel ' had been
used, but in a separate state
ment to newsmen, Graham
mentioned the use of state
troopers as Wallace body
guards and state pilots to fly his
chartered plane.
where a crowd might gather.
This trait carried him from ma
yor of Farmville, to the state
House of Representatives, then
the State Senate and finally to
Congress.
Jones has continued this ap
proach to 1st District politicking
in the campaign and he has a
tremendous number of contacts
in every corner of every town
ship.
George Wallace is this year s
big political factor, however.
And Gardner has gone all out to
capitalize on this by endorsing
the third party presidential can
didate.
neighbors were when you rolled
up to the house in your new
chrome-shiney automobile, its
400 horses restrained but ready,
its interior as sumptuous as an
old-fashioned parlor?
Want to relive that thrill? To
day you do it with a tractor,
perhaps one of the 14 horsepow
er jobs with attached lawn
mower and snow thrower, elec
tric starting, four speeds, solid
state radio, chrome hubcaps . . .
In suburbia, two cars fail to
day to have the impact of just
one big new car a few years
ago. In 1961 17 per cent of
American families owned two
'Let's look 'purty" for the man!'
Tom Garner, left, a freshman and veteran as well as co
editor ol Smoko Signals, gets together with Grant Up
church to "“ivo tlio photograplier a break" Okay, fellows,
here's the results.
cars; now its 32 per cent, too
high for snobbery.
The tractor instead is the
thiiig'W'l'oUi^- iWy eAV^"^l5*our
neighbors, to use up that leisure
time constructively and, inci
dentally, to get the work done.
“We call it the man toy,” said
a spokesman for International
Harvester, one of the biggest of
the nearly 50 companies that
make lawn tractors of one size
or another. “Many buyers don't
need them; they could get by
with something smaller. "
Studying the warranty tags
that come back to the factory,
the IH man finds the average
purchaser is a $12,000-a-year
man owning V4 acre or more.
But some also are two-home
owners, perhaps with a vacation
home in the country.
Another marketing man, from
Deere & Co., claims his outfit
brought out its biggest lawn
tractor at 14 h.p. as something
for motels and institutions. “But
we can't stop homeowners from
buying them, " he said.
Not that any manufacturer
would try to stop them. They
couldn’t. Demand goes up each
year, and something like 300,000
might be sold in 1968. Lawns
someday might be the most
mechanized real estate in
America, aside from federal
highways.
One manufacturer estimates
that nearly three million riding
mowers and yard tractors now
cruise suburban lawns. Make
that figure 25 million if you
count the old machines, the low
prestige types, the power mow
ers you must walk behind.
And just as on the highway,
there's a real horsepower battle
out on the lawn. For a while the
industry seemed to stall at a top
range of 14 h.p. Then this month
one manufacturer announced a
15 h.p. job.
Will others now be content
with their 14 horses? Likely not,
for each year, marketing stud
ies show, people trade up to big
ger models.
Mrs. Larson goes
to Chapel Hill
Mrs. Larson, English prolessor
and head of the Department of.
Drama, traveled to Chapel Hill
Oct. 26 to attend the director's
.meeting and work shop for the
Carolina Dramatic Association.
Various speakers were present
ed and demonstrations of dif
ferent phases of the theater were
shown. In the evening a musical
"The Most Happy Fella" was
produced by the Carolina Play-
makers in Memorial Hall.