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The Voice of Chowan'”
Volume 2—No. 5
Murfreesboro, N. C., Wednesday, November 6, 1968
Eight Pages This Issue
Richard Nixon leads In popular vote
Panty raid staged
by 'Halloweeners’
The last 15 minutes of Hal
loween night proved to be ex
citing for the students at Cho
wan. At this time a full squad
of boys emerged on the girls'
dorms. There were chants,
and uproar boasted by the boys.
The swarmed around the
dorms, and with the help of a
few anonymous girls, the boys
were encouraged on. If a tape
recorder had been in operation
it would have piclced up what
sounded like an Indian raid from
the inside of the dorms.
Several of the girls who had
not received the word on the
raid were completely taken by
surprise and commensed to
scream as is the fashion of
most girls. Although a few brave
boys managed to enter the hall
of this one particular dorm,
they did not get very far. The
door was promptly shut, much
to the dismay of the boys and
a few of the girls.
It is understood that the boys
were up to no harm, just out for
a little fun and excitment, and
they certainly got that.
Two of the “big ” girls in this
particular dorm, meaning those
two young hearted women in
charge, showed a great deal of
restraint. By this, it is meant
that although they were really
enjoying all of the action, they
had to keep the order in the
dorm, and reassure those girls
that were truly afraid that no
harm would come to them.
After the action ceased a lit
tle, a suggestion was made that
the girls should perhaps pull a
raid on the boys? Can this be
right? As far as this writer
knows, that was the suggestion.
Sounds like a good idea to me,
and a lot of the girls feel the
same way.
Those in the dorm described
would like to thank these two
women and let them know that
they don’t really think they are
so terribly awful, well not all the
time anyway.
And speaking for the majority
of the occupants, we would like
to thank the boys for an en
joyable evening, and, would it
be possible again? We are wait
ing to see. But of course, the
views of the administration must
be looked upon first, for we
don’t want any unhappy and troub
led faculty members.
RICHARD NIXON
life with father’ set tonight
Chowan College’s campus is
“stage struck ” as curtain time
approaches for the only per
formances by junior college dra
matists chosen to participate in
the American College Theater
Festival and the Chowan Players
prepare for a command perfor
mance before college and univ
ersity students from many nat
ions studying in America.
The Chowan Players will stage
“Life With Father” Wednesday-
Friday, November 6-8, in the
college's McDowell Columns aud
itorium and today received re
quests from officials in the nat
ion’s capitol to restage this drama
during Thanksgiving holidays for
students of many nationalities
who are studying at American
colleges and universities.
The American College Theater
Festival offers the Chowan Play
ers an opportunity to perform
in the restored Ford Theatre in
Washington.
Further screenings of the Cho
wan Players’ entry will occur at
Greensboro next month when
their performances will be stag
ed along with dramas produced
by the North Carolina School of
the Arts at Winston-Salem, Cat
awba College and East Carolina
University.
Regional screenings will be
held in Atlanta, Ga., later in
December, with competition fur
nished by drama troupes from
colleges and universities in Ala
bama, Georgia, Kentucky, North
Carohna, South Carolina, Virgin
ia, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Skits from the play will be
presented Monday at the schools
throughout the area surrounding
Chowan's campus, starting at
nearby Ahoskie and completing
the whirlwind tour in Northamp
ton County and student groups
from numerous high schools in
northeastern North Carolina are
traveling by bus to attend one
of the performances.
Performers, chosen from a re
cord number of contestants for
roles, include Johnny Edwards,
Belhaven; Pauline Robinson, Ah
oskie; Francine Sawyer. Eliza
beth City; Mel Weston, Rich
mond, Va.; Grant Upchurch,
Chapel Hill; Hugh Lewis, Henry
Revelle and Warren Taylor, all
of Murfreesboro; Frank Davis,
Conway; David Mashaw, Virgin
ia Beach, Va.; Lawrence Shears,
Somerset, N. J.; Libby House,
Rocky Mount; Pam Willard,
Frederick, Md.; Donna Tolson,
Clifton, Va.; Wanda Monts, Irmo,
S. C.; Linda CaldweU, Richmond,
Va.
Chowan's drama program, dir
ected and produced by Professor
Edith Larson, features Broadway
type stagings by the Chowan
Players along with the Children’s
Theater for children in public
schools throughout a large area
of northeastern North Carolina
and Tidewater Virginia.
The Carriage Performers se
lected from the Chowan Players
present imaginative and innova
tive theatrical productions for
churches, meetings of civic and
social clubs and for other interest
ed organizations.
American Airlines, the Friends
of the John F. Kennedy Institute
for the Performing Arts and the
Smithsonian Institution are spon
soring the first American College
Theater Festival, which is being
organized and produced by the
American Education Theater
Association and the American
National Theater Academy.
Chowan students
hired to man
voting machines
Students from Chowan Col
lege, trained to repair disabled
voting machines in polling places
throughout America on election
day, were flown Sunday to their
farflung destinations.
They had been trained at
Chowan by Ransom F. Shoup, II,
director of national and inter
national service for Shoup Voting
Machine Corporation, and Ted
Dunning, vice-president of the
Shoup Boat Company who also
serves as supervisor and ad
ministrator of his company’s
voting machine department.
Sixty-eight student, employed
by Shoup, successfully comolet-
ed their course of instruction
and passed a comprehensive
examination on repair of Shoup
voting machines.
Milwaukee, Wis., and New
York City were among locations'
chosen by groups of students
for election day work, but mul
titudes of other U. S. cities had
individuals and smaller groups
keeping voting machines in
working order.
Colifornia
returns may
be factor
As 8;30 a.m. rolled.around on
Nov. 6, there was still no “clear-
cut ” victory in the presidential
race, with five key states still
undecided. The 1968 race is be
ing described as probably the
closest since Wilson defeated
Taft with a 43,000 popular vote
margin.
Today, Wednesday, Richard
M. Nixon had, at 8.30, a small
360,000 popular vote lead over
what many experts called a sur
prisingly strong Hubert H. Hum
phrey come-back.
With Ohio, Illinois, Missouri,
California and Texas, along with
Alaska, still undecided, it was
expected to be late in the day
before either candidate can
claim a concrete victory.
However, California with its ■ .
40 electoral votes has been given
to Nixon by both United Press
and Associated Press. In Illin
ois and Ohio Nixon is main
taining a small lead. These two
states can give him another 52
electoral votes. He also leads
in Alaska with three electoral ^
votes.
Humphrey is leading in Texas
and Missouri and has captured
Washington which was thought
to be Nixon country.
If the vote trend continues and
Nixon wins Ohio, Illinois, Cali
fornia and Alaska, he will push
over the 270 electoral votes re
quired to capture the presidency.
Wins in these key states will
give the Republican candidate
290 electoral votes.
Humphrey must win all of
these in order to throw the race
into the House of Representa
tives.
In popular vote, the close
ness of the presidential race is
seen with the percentage stand- .
ing at 43-43 percent, while
George Wallace is holding to 14 *
percent.
Most reports give Nixon a ra-
zor thin win in this race for -
the White House. The Democrats
however, have maintained con
trol of both the House of Re
presentatives and the U. S. Sen- 4T
ate.
In North Carolina, Bob Scott
withstood a strong Jim Gard- *
ner challenge to capture the
governorship. But out in the
Piedmont “Vinegar Bend ’ Miz-
ell, a Republican, beat «ut*
Smith Bagley to capture a seat
in Congress.
In Illinois Nixon leads HHH
1,877,700 to 1,810,000. In CJ|»io he .
holds a lead of 1,694,000 to 1,-
608,000, and in California Nixon. .^i
is out front 3,146,000 to 3,013,000
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