TIAAES-NEWS, Thursday, January 8,1970
AWARDED BRONZE STAR — Second Lt. AAichael S.
Cooke is congratulated after being awarded the Bronze
Star in Viet Nam. Lieutenant Cooke, son of AAr. and
AArs. AA. P. Cooke of Rich Square, has been with the
Army's First Infantry Division in Viet Nam for the
past three months.
Century’s Fifth Eclipse;
Best View At ECU Campus
By GEOFFREY C. CHAPMAN
GREENVILLE - North Caro
linians will turn their eyes heav
enward next March 7 for the sec
ond time to witness one of this
century's five total solar eclipses
over the United States. And many
of those who watch with greatest
interest will be on the campus of
East Carolina University, which
is situated dead center of the
width of totality.
So rare are total eclipses over
any given locale that they occur
on an average of once every 360
years. In London there have been
only two total eclipses in 14 cen
turies. In North Carolina, there
will have been two in 70 years.
As the only major institution
in the state so favorably located,
and as the center of the most
favorable vantage point in the
country, ECU will play host to
students, scientists and educa
tors from throughout the country
for the event. The Greenville
campus will be at the center of
scientific activity for the eclipse.
Only one other spot in the world
AA-Sgt. Alex B. Thompson
Gaston Sgt.
Outstanding
NC Officer
MEKINOCK, N. D. - U.S. Air
Force m/Sgt. Alex B. Thompson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W.
Thompson, Gaston, N. D„ has
been named outstanding Non
commissioned Officer of the
Year in his unit at Grand Forks
AFB, N. D.
Sergeant Thompson, as ad
ministrative supervisor, was se
lected for hiS' leadership, ex
emplary conduct and duty per
formance. He is assi gned at
Grand Forks with the 804thCivil
Engineering Squadron, a unit of
the Strategic Air Command,
headquarters for air operations
in Southeast Asia, the Far East
and the Pacific area.
The sergeant is a 1951 grad
uate of Gaston High School. His
wife, Joyce, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Mason,
28 Roanoke Ave., Roanoke
Rapids.
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Festival Theme Secondary
To Good Time Had By All
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Ancient
man held elaborate feasts to honor
the seasons, planets and gods.
Modern man goes farther: He
stages annual festivals to salute
daffodils, pumpkins and sauer
kraut.
Whether it’s animal, vegetable
or mineral, chances are that
somewhere in the country, it is
celebrated by a festival, the Na
tional Geographic Society says.
Events range from the sum
mertime Minneapolis Aquaten-
nlal, largest annual civic cele
bration In the nation, to the Puy
allup Valley, Washington, Daffo
dil Festival; from the St. Paul,
Minn., Winter Carnival, the big
gest cold-weather party, to the
Thomasville, Ga., Rose Festival,
scene of a million blooming buds.
MERRY MONARCH HONORED
Though colorful flowers grow
In abundance, the people of Hilo,
Hawaii, choose instead to cele
brate the gala reign of a 19th-
century king, David Kalakaua, at
an annual Merry Monarch Fes
tival.
On a less regal level, Mitchell,
Ind., enjoys a busy week that In
cludes a pudding-tasting contest
at the Persimmon Festival.
Even familiar nationwide ob
servances may receive an unusual
local twist. Julian, Calif., for ex
ample, celebrates Mother’s Day
for 16 straight days by sponsor
ing a Wild Flower Festival. As
many as 2,500 flowers decorate
the streets during the event.
Benton, Ky., has used the tra
ditional opening day of county
court as an excuse for a festival
since 1843.
Rural residents of Marshall
County gathered in Benton on the
first Monday in April for the new
court session. They began using
the occasion to transact business,
visit friends and barter sweet po
tatoes. Before long, the informal
meetings grew Into a full-fledged
festival - Tater Day.
The nation’s annual galas know
no season, says F. Earl Craw
ford Sr. of Charlotte, editor of
“Festivals International,’’ offi
cial journal of the International
Festivals Association. The
group’s 70 members promote cel
ebrations in 30 states.
Explanation Of Housing
Program Set In Greenville
GREENVILLE - The past ses
sion of the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly enacted into law
Chapter 1235 (H1019) which sets
up a major new program for
financing lower income housing
in North Carolina.
This act created the North
Carol ina Housing Corporation
and directs it to engage in a
broad-scale program of loans to
developers and purchasers of
such residences. This act will
have a major impact upon this
region. It will affect people, local
governments, financial insti
tutions, developers, realtors,
contractors, etc., in making
available in excess of$200,000,-
000 for home construction.
This act should not be confused
with the “Low Income Housing
Corporation” of Durham.
It is a recognized fact that
Eastern North Carolina badly
needs housing and stands to
greatly benefit from this act.
The East Carolina University
Regional Development Institute is
co-sponsoring, with the North
Carolina Housing Corporation, a
meeting to explain the details of
the Housing corporation’s pro
gram. Joe E. Eagles, executive
director, and other officials of
the Housing Corporation will
present this program.
The meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, January 8, from 10
a.m. until 12 noon. It will be at
the Loyal Order of Moose Club
on Farmville Highway in Green
ville.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
ready at 9 a.m., according to
Thomas W. Willis, institute di
rector.
is more favorable for telescopic
observation - the mountainous
area of Oaxaca, Mexico. Because
of its altitude and the greater
duration of totality, Oaxaca will
be the primary area of telescopic
observation.
Activity in Greenville will fo
cus primarily on the educational
aspects of the eclipse, but sci
entific observation via radio, pho
tography and telescope will be
conducted.
The largest telescope ex
pected to be put to use here dur
ing the eclipse is a lO-lnch New
tonian Reflector owned by an ECU
student from Chesapeake. Sopho
more physics major Paul Galli-
more will man his huge instru
ment from atop ECU’s new phys
ics building.
Conditions permitting, Galll-
more’s telescope, which is cap
able of resolution of a one-haU
mile area of the moon, will facili
tate some detailed study of the ac
tion of solar flares during total
ity. An amateur astronomer and
telescope maker since his child
hood, Gallimore also plans an at
tempt to photograph the eclipse.
Dr. R. M. Helms, professor of
physics and ECU’s resident ex
pert on solar eclipses, calculates
that the eclipse will begin at
12:14:05 p.m. on March 7 as the
moon moves between the sun and
the earth. Totality will begin at
1:31:51 and end at 1:34:48, and the
moon will slide completely out of
line with the sun at about 2:48:56
p.m.
“In North Carolina,” Dr.
Helms says, “the center of to
tality passes near Elizabethtown,
LaGrange, Greenville, Williams-
ton and Windsor, The totality path
enters the United States near
Perry, Fla., grazes Tallahassee,
passes along the coast of Geor
gia, South and North Carolina,
leaves land at Virginia Beach,
passes coastal Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland.
“The eclipse will be visible
as at least partial in all of North
America except Alaska, and will
be prominent in nearly all of the
USA.”
The last total eclipse seen in
North Carolina was on May 28,
1900. Other totalities occurred on
June 30, 1954, in Minnesota and
July 20, 1963, in Maine. The only
remaining totality in this century
after March 7 will come in 1979
in the state of Washington.
Preparations for the eclipse
are already underway at ECU and
are being coordinated through a
committee of professors and ad
ministrators, including Dr.
Helms. Invitations have already
been extended to many students,
educators and scientists and more
will be made.
Although no predictions are
possible yet. Dr. Helms expects
the campus to be a beehive of ac
tivity with the dawn of March 7.
A tentative program following the
eclipse will include a report by
telephone from Oaxaca on the re
sults of observation, and reports
from various scientists who ob
serve the eclipse on the ECU
campus.
“Although we anticipate some
fine opportunities to study by
radio certain Interesting aspects
of the eclipse, our primary con
cern will be for the educational
value,” Dr. Helms says. “The
eclipse provides a unique oppor
tunity for East Carolina Univer
sity to be of great service to the
education of scientists.”
New Road
On Bid List
RALEIGH - A new road to tie
in with N.C. 45 and the Cashie,
Middle and Roanoke River
Bridges is among the projects
on which bids have been asked by
the State Highway Commission,
Bids on 19 highway projects
in 21 counties are due in Raleigh
on January 20 when they will be
opened at the Highway Building
to determine the low bidders.
Confirmation of the bids must
be made by the full Highway Com
mission at its February 5 meet
ing before contracts can be
signed.
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