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Smoke Signals, Wednesday, March 12, 1969—Page 3 % v.y. Canadians come to town A detachment of the Fort Henry Guard in which Mayor Richard J. Daley weleom- form Kingston, Ontario, performs colorful ed the Straford Festival of Canada to Chi- iSthCenturydrillsontheCivicCenter cago. (AP) Plaza in Chicago, as part of the ceremony Movie spokesmen unhappy with proposed new tax NEW YORK (AP) — Motion picture industry spokesmen are critical of a bill introduced in the North Carolina Legislature designned to “take action against the declining moral quality of motion pictures” through taxation. The measure would provide for a progressive tax on movies according to whettwr they are for adults or for younger people as well. The bill was introduced by State Sen. Geraldine Nielson, a Republican from Winston-Sa lem. “It’s a ridiculous notion,” said Mort Sunshine, executive direc tor of the Independent Theater Owners of New York. “In effect she is putting a tax on maturity. This kind of thing would be pu nitive toward pictures which could open new frontiers.” Taylor Mills, director of pub lic relations for Motion Picture Associates, said the organiza tion’s legal department was aware of the bill and had asked for a copy. Under the bill, movies rated by the Motion Picture Associa tion of America as “X,” to which persons c)rpnb)6 are not admitted, ceoei,o)erson. A 25-cent tax would be applied to ‘R” movies, which persons under 16 can attend only if they Two Chowan athletes sign college contracts By SPEEDY SKINNER Tommy Campbell has signed a contract at Wake Forest Uni versity for a full grant-in-aid to play football in the fall. Tony Maglione has signed a grant-in-aid to play football in the fall for East Carolina Uni versity. are accompanied by a parent or guardian. “M” movies, for mature audi ences, would have a 15-cent tax. General audience, or “G” mov ies, and any undesignated films released before Nov. 1, 1968, would carry a 5-cent tSKmni otm Sunshine argued that the rat ings concern the ages of poten tial viewers, not the morality of the motion pictures. “It’s ridiculus and perfectly unconstitutional,” said Joseph Alterman, executive director of the National Association of Theater Owners. “It’s silly. There is no question of morality involved, just a guide to par ents, to have some indication as to whether it’s suitable for kids.” FLIERS WASHINGTON (AP) — Four U.S. fliers imprisoned in Cam bodia for a month are in the process of being released, ac cording to reports reaching Washington. Merging traffic By GARY WHITLEY Merging traffic is not a noisy rush hour of all the workers being let loose on the city, it is a story of the people in the city. The setting is Washington D. C. and the time is about an hour before lunch. A new office building has just been completed in a residential section. It will be occupied by an Insurance Company with 4(X) empolyee. Right now they are discussing the public law problem of moving the company out of the residential section to a business section. As the company stands they hold a five year lease on the building and they find that it is illegal to stay. The company officers are trying to go to court to certify the warranty on the building so they can stay. The company has run against a problem, the people who live next door are complaining that they are making too much noise while moving in. In fact they have gone so far as to call the police and complain about the racket. The family who live in this house go by the name Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have three children; one is in college, and the other two are Jim, 11 years old, and Linda, 14 years old. They have lived in that house for eight years now. The construction of the office building started last winter and they managed to live through that. Now with the building com pleted, the company started mov ing in yesterday. Mr. Johnston had built his house but he failed to provide himself with a drive way, so he has been parking on the street. The office building has indoor parking but it ac commodates only one hundred cars, leaving two hundred em ployees to park their cars on the street. This morning Mr, Johnston had to park his car three blocks from his home. It is lunch time now and the Johnstons are eating. As they are discussing the parking pro blem they hear a crowd outside. Jim and Linda run to the door to see what is happening. The In surance Company has just been relieved for lunch, and they are proceeding to their cars in search of a place to eat. It seems that since this is a residential area the'n^rest'pftttieT-o eat is^aBtfdt two miles away. All of a sudden Mr. Johnston sees his chance. He gets up from the table and dashes through the living room and out the door almost running Jim and Linda down. He is running down the block to his car. When he gets there he drives up and parks in front of his house, Jim and Linda still stunned, quickly move out of the way while Dad marches into the house. This went on day after day until Mr. Johnston sees a car taking up two parking spaces in front of his house. He gets so mad he writes a note in windshield wipers. The ticket reads as follows: “Thanks for Taking up Two Parking Spaces. I had to park two blocks out of my way, you Selfish Idiotic Mo ron.” The very same day he went into the office of the Insurance Company to complain. Realiz ing his problem they built him a private driveway which took about two weeks. Meanwhile he only delivered about half as many parking tickets as he did before. After the driveway was install ed Mr. Johnston went so far as to smile every now and then. Everything was fine until the summer days came, because the Insurance Company instal led a big central air conditioning unit, then every time the unit came on the lights in Mr. Johns ton house dimmed. This hap pened because the air condit ioning unit was using up most of the electricity in a square block area. Finally today was the day Mr. Johnston had been waiting for. It was the day the court decided whether or not the com pany would have to move. If the company could not stay the building would become an apartment building for tenants to live in. Also it would cancel the five year lease that the Insurance Company signed. At the court Mr. Johnston and the residents of the neigh borhood won and the Insurance Company moved. The building was now rented to tenants, and Mr. Johnston and his family were happy at least until the air-conditioning turned on. Ach, der spectacles do help Gretel the dachshund, who has a few gray as she poses for a picture calling attention hairs showing, looks over her spectacles to National Save Your Vision Week. (AP) Percentages ^-'6 lb l5 io is 30 35 ' 40 45 50 55 60 65 76 75 80 ^ 90 95 166 I I I i I T I I I T I I I I I 1 T 1 1 [_ FRESHMEN FRESHMEN SOPHS. SOPHS. FRESHMEN SOPHS. FRESHMEN SOPHS. IFRESHMEN sophS. FRESHMEN SOPHS. 2.50 QP (3rade Avg. 3.00 2.00 to 2.50 1.50 to 2.00 /////////////^///////////////////////////77/77////////////////////////////////////////////// J 1.00 to 1.50 .50 to 1.00 f777777777777>7777777777777/m777777777777777777777777777777777/777777777777777r/7777777m .00 to .50 Quality point ratio - freshmen and sophomores By B. FRANKLIN LOWE, JR. Chowan College is an acade mic community. As such it is constantly striving to improve the quality of education. This is, of course, an absolute necessity in view of man's rapidly expand ing body of knowledge. The col lege is determined that when a student is graduated from this institution he will be as well prepared as any student who has completed two years of study at any other institution in this country. The above statistics reflect the fact that many of our stu dents do have as their primary goal the attainment of a solid, j. I j. critical educational foundation. OOn*' students ore «vri> These statisti|p also r#lect the V ^ percentage of our students have not yet reach ed the level of maturity where they are able to discern between that which is of real lasting value and that which is of tran sient value. challenged by Scott FOUND—Transistor tape re corder found in cafeteria. May be claimed at Information Desk. FOUND—Pair of glasses, found in cafeteria on Friday. March 7. May be claimed at In formation Desk. ELON COLLEGE, N.C. (AP) Gov. Bob Scott today chal lenged college students to help build a better world, rather than contribute to destructive activities. Scott told a Founders Day program on the 80th anniversa ry of the Elon College charter, that he considers some form of student unrest to be healthy re flections of growing and inquir ing minds. But he said acts of vandalism and destruction were something entirely different. The governor said the co-call- ed “generation gap” and cur rent campus demonstrations in dicate lack of understanding be tween parents and children. He said there are thos who think they owe nothing to the past, or to their parents and forebears. Scott said that many students claim they “are trying to help the people.” but he asserted bylir actions “belie these words.” The college conferred the hon orary degree of Doctor of Laws on the governor, his first such academic honor. The degree was conferred by Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon presi dent. The governor said Elon seeks to do more for students than just train them for jobs. He de clared the school's goal is to equip students to face the com plex world without fear. Secretary of State Thad Eure introduced the governor. Professor C. Fletcher Moore. Bills to merge two colleges are introduced RALEIGH (AP) — Bills to make Wilmington College and Asheville-Biltmore College ad ditional campuses of the Con solidated University of North Crarolina were introduced in the North Carolina General As sembly today. Sen. John Burney Jr.. D-New Hanover, and Rep. Claude De- bruhl, D-Buncombe. spnsored the measures. The bills provide that on next July 1. Wilmington College shall become the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Asheville institution the Uni versity of North Carolina at Asheville. dean of the college, said Scott has “already enlarged his fam ily's record of significant serv ice to the state. His resourceful ness. courage and vision and sense of dedication to the wel fare of all her people have won for him a high place of leader ship and respect in his native state.” At the beginning of this aca demic year every freshman stu dent was told that if he expected to succeed in college he must be willing to spend a minimum of two hours in preparation for each hour he spent in class. This advice still holds good. The Grade Point Averages (GPA) listed below would indicate that more sophomores have accepted the validity of this advice than have freshmen. GPA BREAKDOWN BY CLASSES (By Percentages) FRESHMEN 3.00-2.50 1.6 2.50-2.00 6.5 2.00-1.50 13.5 1.50-1.00 27.5 1.00- .50 29.0 .50- .00 21.9 100.0 SOPHOMORES 3.00-2.50 5.0 2.50-2.00 8.2 2.00-1.50 16.9 1.50-1.00 36.8 1.00- .50 24.7 .50- .00 8.4 100.0 ttmaxploslvBwuiil^ from tha opening SC909 ot destruction to ih* surprising dinuK th«t9 Is a turging. pulsating crwteando of aKCttamant drama kt Tha Rasdau Ona$ Haar popular tonge ’7fffi»sa$t$0na^ ’Vo/tgofSnnfftlt'’ "Ht Is £yarftNng to Mf* ttOPE-MSlPSON JOHNNyCRAiORD-JEANmOM JEMCOUiANO-raElM KIMW.*i ^-BIUYGRHHAM EARL THEATRE - Ahoskie Telephone MARCH 13-19. 1969 Weekdays 6;30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Saturday and Sunday— 2:00 p.m.. 4:00 p.m.. 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. Tickets Available: Belk's and theatre box office. 332-2383 All Seats $1.25
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