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iS Why By SAM MORTON WHYNOT (SP) - Why did fir!131116 Wtynot Whynot? "Why not?" says Mrs. M.C Auman, who's lived about 60 ?Lher 73 years in Whynot. They couldn't think of any thing else." "At least that's what my mother told me," adds Mrs Auman "And that's the story most folks agree to " Elderly J. b. Slack, born and reared in Whynot, agrees. Sometime before the turn of the century, he says, Why not s menfolk got together to name their community. "They suggested a lot of names and couldn't agree " says Slack. "It got later and later. Finally, somebody said, why not call it Whynot?' So they did." Whynot is two miles from Seagrove, ' three miles from Jugtown, eight miles from Erect, 15 miles from Star and 32 miles south of Greens boro in the rolling hills of central North Carolina. Whynot isn't on many road maps and not in the Postal Guide. You can miss it if you're not careful because someone tore down" its only road sign. The only building on the high way bearing "Whynot" is the Whynot Upholstery Co. It is the community's only real in dustry. Most of the residents farm. Nobody's sure exactly how .big Whynot is. , TUESDAY through SATURDAY October 4 - October 8 of Youf Life-like Photographs by 6 Hair, Eyes, end Complex Ion finished in genuine Oil Tints by professional artists. Bring th Children this week for Very Speciol Sevings on Portraits you'll treasure for o Lifetime! Come In today , . . You'll See "Proofs" In one week ... Finished Portraits . two vetks later. HOURS: 9:30 Til 5:30 (Fri. Til 8:30) INFANTS' DEPT. Chspsl Hill, N. C. T THERE ARE, A 6N00PV...WUR NEU)H0UE 5 ALL FINISHED i iff fjf r 1 HEY NbU-' nOT AGAINST TriSVTtLL f NOU, LAO.VER S MS YER A SETTER MAN1 FANCY k THAN I AAA 7 I Not Call 'It's all according to how far you want to extend it. A lot of people live in these hills, says Slack, a retired regional director for the Farmers' Home Administra tion. How many people does Why not have? "Let me think a minute," said Arden Macon. "There are a lot of children born recently that I haven't seen. I guess there's anywhere from 75 to Whynot, says Mrs. Slack, used to be on the old plank road from Winston - Salem to Wilmington on the coast "And Whynot," Slack re calls, "had one of the best schools in North Carolina years ago. It was Whynot Academy and was a board ing school. It went through the seventh g r a d e and at tracted students from all over this part of the state. A lot of people knew about Whynot be cause of that school. "But the schoolhouse burned in 1915 and only the church was left beside it. Then some years ago, they removed the post office and made the mail address Seagrove." Seagrove has several hun dred people, several stores, the post office, and it's on a major highway, U. S. 220. "But the people in Whynot are proud," says Slack. "They don't like to be known as being from Seagrove. They want to be from Whynot." DAYS ONLY! (Ml Colour Dust Vignette Portrait c CMMS Hamilton and Hamilton Studios tOQX, GOUAT 00 W "THINK? VER GOIN' t'YnQJUST VNT GO ON AT ME I V TELLVER ABOUT THAT J . I'M GETON RENT AGAIN I A THAT CISTERN FIXED. It Whynot? I if . - 't . rr; L-x k jm - 7'. a I. ... Alu, ITfcynot's Single Industry Texans Collect Wire That Won FLOYDADA, Tex. (UPI) Amone the three most impor tant items in settling the Old West, historically speaking, were repeating firearms, windmills and barbed wire. Firearms have changed drastically since the days of the settlers, and the windmill has almost vanished under the onslaught of the electric pump. But the barbed wire remains. Three Floyd County men less interested in the useful ness of barbed wire than in its history have , set out to make a collection of the more than 300 types used in fencing up the open range. . For Mac Smitherman, Glen Black and Charles Overstreet, barbed wire has become a hobby with a challenge. The challenge, Black says, lies in the fact that much of the wire used in the early fences was homemade, fashioned in almost endless varieties. MOST COMMON Perhaps the most common wire today is "Gladins Win ner," patented in 1874. It is formed from two round strands of wire, with long barbs intertwined every few inches. But in days gone by, when stores were few and far be tween, ranchers and farmers used the material they had on hand , to make their fences. One type that was never patented consisted merely of ai single;;strand - of wire; with1 long, sharp staples clamped securely around it. Another type was known as the half-hitch fence, because the barbs were individually ACROSS 1. City in Georgia 6. Grates 11. Wear away, as earth 12. English author 13. Prong 14. A tribe of Algonquian Indians 15. Sprite 16. Stupefy 17. Jr.'s relative 18. Goes through again 21. Prologue 23. Greek letter 26. Skin growths 27. Of ships 29. To be in debt SO. The skies 32. Deeply in love 34. Stibium: sym. 36. One time 37. Couple 40. Pennsyl vania river 42. Not alive 43. Coral island 44. Kind of leather 45. Girl's nickname 46. Internal DOWN 1. Apportion 2. Seed covering 3. Colleagues 4. Poem 5. Compass point 6. Reinvig orate 7. Place in a row 8. Kindred 9. Soldiers in captivity 10. Asterisk 14. Auricular 16. In a merciless manner 19. Newt 20. Tarkington novel f I'LL BET tER Y CONT FWSOTT'GET JTKATv E CU5ARETTESI TH1NQ I IN , ' THMORN!N v m THE DAILY The West tied to the main strand of wire with half-hitch knots. Other types included the chain link, which proved in effective because it tended to sag between posts; the rick jack wire, formed a metal plate with its edges cut in a jagged pattern and twisted in spiral fashion around a round wire; and war wire, the same type used in World War I to slow enemy troops. TWO CATEGORIES Smitherman said early types of barbed fences can be di vided into two categories vicious and obvious. The vicious was designed long, sharp barbs made to hurt any animals that tried to get through it. The obvious, on the other hand, was made to be seen and avoided by animals. One variety of obvious con sisted of two strands of twist ed wire, with blocks of wood two or three inches square woven into it about a foot apart. Another kind really a combination of obvious and vicious had flat pieces of metal with sharp corners wov en into it every few inches. MAJOR FACTOR A major factor in getting the three men into , their hobby was a book entitled "The Wire that Fenced the West," written by Henry D. and Francis McCallum. In their book the authors re ported people looked startled when they said what ; they were doing research for, and often commented: "Of all things to write a book about . .'. barbed wire." 21. Indo Chin. lan guage 22. Un cooked 24. Brown, in the sun 25. Than: Ger. 28. Rosary DAILY CROSS WORD bead 31. Engrave 33. Toils 34. Strike 35. Greek letter 38. Walk through water. 39. German river 41. Torrid 42. Demand, as payment 44. Chinese river -. ir 21 22. 2 2S lb " """28 " --- - . 54 35 b 17 38 39 40 Ai 77 42. 45 g4t '"t (lY BEAUTIFUL l ) B StU EVER 'AVE ONE O'THEM THE FKST j I P5 I "WHEN NOTH1N SEEMS VQO VVRONi? IV SEEMS TOO T o vvON6? r P? 7 ' js r TAR HEEL Young GI Dreads 2nd Viet Hitch QUANTICO, Va. (UPI) Marine Lance Corporal Gary Van Cleave, 19, of Salem, Ore., looks as if he might need a shave about once a week, and his 135 pounds on a 5-feet-7 . frame scarcely would awe a would-be attacker. ' But Van Cleave can discuss killing as calmly and as au thoritatively as a college freshman can talk about last Saturday's dance. Van Cleave is a combat Marine who went to Viet Nam at the age of 18. He served as a forward ob server for an artillery battery about 11 months in the South east Asian country. Artillery hardly is operational without such observers, because, "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king." In February or March of 1966, Van Cleave was on pa trol with seven Marine infan trymen, and his artillery ra dio operator. The patrol met some Viet Cong. 20VIETS "There were 20 of them I counted them," Van Cleave said. "The grunts (Marine ri flemen) started firing at them and they began ninning. "I called the battery and the first round hit short of them on the near side of a river," he said. "They started spreading and the next round hit beyond them." r "It (the high explosive shells) came in right on the river where I wanted it. but they (Viet Cong) were so spread by that time that most got away," the youthful Marine said. "We got only three two we found in the river and another one I saw them dragging away." PINNED DOWN Later in March, 1966, Van Cleave was on operation "In diana" as a forward observer attached to Alpha Company 1st Battalion, 7th Marines. They became pinned down in a valley by a large enemy force. Van Cleave was unable to direct the fire of his artil lery battery. "My radio operator was killed in the first exchange of . fire, he was hit by a 20 milli meter in the arm," he said. "The radio wouldn't operate." But Van Cleave said t word was passed, back ;; to the, battery through other com munications. The artillery fir ed barrages of protective fires around the pinned down Ma rine units "all night." Van Cleave talks of war with ease, but he talks little differently than other 18, 19 and 20-year-olds Marines at Quantico who are veterans of a year in Viet Nam. Most speak quietly and they move confidentry. But they all speak of the war. They expect to re turn to it. "I don't say i want to go back," said Van Cleave, who returned to the U.S. last April, "But I expect I will." BALAN LOUNGE Next to Eastgate DANCING LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 6 nights a week Open 4 p.m. 1 a.m. Mon.-Thurs. NO COVER CHARGE Open 4 p.m. 2 a.m. Fri. & Sat $1.00 for Men Ladies Free NOW APPEARING I The Rhythm Kings BLUE MONDAY Guest Stars, Singers, Musicians,. 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Particularly here at UNC, the purpose of religion has become, in the words of Presbyterian Campus Pastor Harry Smith, "to provide an informal setting in which the student can raise personal questions and discuss the meaning of specific issues." NATURAL ACTIVITY The character of this form of theology is not an instruc tion class as such, but rather a "seminar." It is logical that since smce study is the nat- y fl Representative YiHLOpa bers Of The Faculty Vho Desire To Purcliase Gaps, Govn & Heeds Uay Select Their Styles 6 Fabrics. Orders Will Do Taken For University Day Regalia Rentals. UP - TO - THE - Javbcmare UOP5PCK SLACKS: TAILORS THGM SUM AND TRH N A NBJAYBLAZE RB0O WITH PACEON TOR. N&KTNESS THAT UPNTCPU'T.' FALL-WEIGHT SLACKS SHOWN: 55 DACRON POLYESTER, 45 WORSTED WOOL. About $18.00 in greenbrown neatner tone ana oinwiautuwiN Du Pont's registered trademark. Du Pont makes fibers, not fabrics Get Your Jaymar-Ruby Slacks With "Dacron" At Milton's Clothing Cupboard ural activity of students, re-, ligion should become an in tegral part of the student's life through this mrdium in the form of seminars and discussion groups. "A study group is an occa sion for students to meet reg ularly, with oreparation, with direction (either an outline or a book), with openess and frankness, with full participa tion, with a sense of involve ment, and a deep faith that God can reveal Himself through Fuch a group," said Harry Smith. Associate Minister Charles Midkiff, of the University Bap tist Church, feels that these seminars are important in that "they give the individual a chance to discuss religion in relation to himself. Althoueh the discussions are primarily biblically orienated, they are functional as a sounding board for the studnt's ideas about Christian pith and its implications." HELP STUDENT The Pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Thom as Moore, Father Murphy, ex pressed his feelings concern ing discussion groups: "We try to help the student with any problems he may encoun ter, and at the time show him how to be a good Chris tian and a good Catholic." Father Murphy added that he Of The Oak Hall Gap MINUTE Betler ACADEMIC AT C 4 I 9 - i ' Page 3 feels the nature of confession is one of the strongest incen tives toward good Christian living. The church has become, as Banks Godfrey put it, "a cata lyst." It is a more modest, yet more crucial factor in the individual's life. It remains constant in its own integrity, while performing the all im portant function of teaching the student to look at his own personal problems and every day life from a theological perspective. "Thus one learns," said Godfrey, "that there is not one person, place, or thing from which God is absent." 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