The Student Party will meet
tonight at 7 o'clock in Ger
rard Hall, to fill a legislative
vacancy in the Alderman
Kenan Mclver district. Those
interested in running for the
seat should contact Bob Trav
is at 933-1257.
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Volume 74, Number 66 . CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1966 Founded February 23, 1893
Would You Believe
By STEVE LAIL
Special to the DTH
For eleven and a half months each
year I laugh pretty much like any other
University student.
But for two weeks before Christmas I
change the way I laugh as well as the
"way I look.
My usual chuckle becomes "ho ho ho"
and my sallow complexion turns red,
white and jolly. From now until Christ
mas morning I'll be a collegiate Santa
Claus.
I've been playing the jolly role for
the past four years, and I guess I am
professional since I often get paid for mj
services.
What is it like playing Santa Claus?
It's like walking a tight rope. You
perform before the most critical yet
wonderful people. Also, you are the
world's greatest guy even if it hurts.
But just one slip can kill you.
Both my jolly, bald - headed father,
who was the first Kris Kringle I ever
saw, and I agree that kindergarten-age
Chris
mas
Early For Youth
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP)
Today is Christmas for 5-year-old
Lance Cummings, be
cause he is bedridden with in
curable cancer and his num
bered days may not include
Dec. 25.
"We're having his Christ
mas party early just in case,"
Lance's mother, Mrs. Walter
Cummings of nearby Dowing
town, Pa., said yesterday.
"The doctors can't say how
long he'll live," she said. "I
guess they're surprised he's
lasted this long."
"It's getting harder
though," she said. "I can see
him wasting away, fighting to
be cheerful. ' - '
"He tells me, 'I won't cry
mommy, if you won't." It's
hard not to."
She said he was upset when
his father, a truck driver, had
to make a trip to Massachu-
College Girls
Involved In
Hubby Quest
"Large numbers of college
women are actively searching
for husbands during their
years on campus, a fact evi
denced by half of all U. S.
women being married by age
20.6."
That's what Dr. William F.
Eastman, assistant professor of
marriage counseling at UNC,
told a group of housemothers
and graduate counselors at
the third meeting of. the In
Service Training Program
sponsored by the Dean of Wo
men's Office.
Housemothers and counse
lors have more potential in
fluence on a coed's solving her
love - life problems than her
own parents, said Dr. East
man. "You are in a pivotal
point, living with these girls
day to day," he said. "The
difficulty comes when girls
don't ask for help. This is
sometimes due to a lack of a
personal relationship between
you and the girls."
A panel discussion followed
Dr. Eastman's talk and the
viewing of "A Charming Cou
ple," a film on a college mar
riage that failed.
A graduate counselor point
ed out that most problems col
lege women have after mar
riage result from the "isolated
environment of the university."
"It doesn't allow the couple
to see themselves in less ideal
istic circumstances, and coeds
find it difficult for that reason
to draw the line between real
love and romantic love," she
said.
Dr. Eastman cited novels
and television portrayals of
marriage as another source of
confusion about love.
He encouraged the house
mothers to communicate with
coeds and set up a working re
lationship with them.
Dr. Eastman joined tne um-
versity Medical School Psychi-
atric Department inis yeai,
where he has been working in
teaching research and serving
in the psychiatric clinic of the
Student Health Service.
children are the greatest to play for.
When they come face to face with
Santa Claus it's their finest hour. They
look him over good but don't seem to
mind that he has brown eyebrows, and
a wnite beard, or a sallow complexion
when he should have rosy cheeks.
They love the old fellow too much to
care about flaws in his makeup. They
speak to St. Nick as though they were
grown-ups confiding in a psychiatrist.
The tight rope act comes in many
forms such as when some of these little
"darlings" turn on you. I walked the
"rope" two years ago before transfer
ring to the University to study journal
ism. It was at my fraternity's Christ
mas party for the faculty's children at
Lenoir Rhyne College in my hometown
Hickory.
Some Chinese twins, holding hands,
approached me. The self - appointed
spokesman informed me that neither be
lieved in Santa Claus and hinted of
spreading the bad word to the other
children. Santa bought them off with a
Comes
setts for a few days.
"Daddy doesn't love me or
he would come see me" Mrs.
Cummings said the frail child
told her.
"I explained he was away
on his job, and he felt better,"
she said.
About Sunday's Christmas
party at a friend's house, Mrs.
Cummings said she told her
other five children:
"Someday Lance will go to
sleep and never wake up
again. So, this is his party.
They pretty well understand
why we're doing this."
"He came home for Thanks
giving dinner for about six
hours,"1 Mrs. Cummings says.
She said his happiness was
reflected on the Medical chart.
He improved a little after re
turning to the hospital.
Although he has not been
told of the seriousness of his
condition, Mrs. Cummings
feels the youngster has an
idea.
"During the past two weeks
he hasn't let us kiss him on
the lips. He insists we kiss him
on the cheek," she said.
Mrs. Cummings says that
the illness has left them in dire
financial straits. Their hospit
alization has run out. The
Moose Lodge in Downingtown
has started a drive to collect
funds and has received a to
tal of $60 thus far.
The mother and father, how
ever, haven't time to think
about money. All they can
hear, or think, or see is a lit
tle boy dying by inches.
Festival Fund
Push Beginning
Solicitation of funds for the
1967 Fine Arts Festival will
begin in men's and women's
residence halls tonight.
Festival Treasurer Don Ub
ell, who is directing solicita
tions, hopes that all residents
will give 50 cents each. If a
residence hall gives an aver
age of 50 cents or more per
resident, it will be listed as a
Festival patron, he added.
Solicitors for the Festival
will carry certification sheets
signed by Ubell and Assistant
Dean of Men Robert Kepner.
Solicitation will be held in Y
Court on Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday from 2 to 4:30
p.m. to receive donations from
anyone not contacted in his
residence unit.
The bulk of Festival funds
will be used for the Merce
Cunningham modern dance
company and for honoraria for
artists and speakers. Much
will also pay for travel, pub
licity, printing, housing and
meals.
The Festival, which will be
held here from April 9 through
13, will feature the Cunning
ham Company, the Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra, the
National Student Graphic Arts
Show, a leading American
Doet. a noted critic and the
playmaker play "The Bat-
tie oi me wuuvm ucm.
The slogan for the Festival,
which is UNC's second, is "In-
terchange: the University and
the Arts."
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Y-COURT WAS transformed this weekend into a
multitude of things: a "Crossroads Cafe,' a
children's shop, a nick-nack shop, and more.
Coed Closing Hour
Suggested In UMass
Coeds Must Work
For All Changes
Should University of Massa
chusetts rules for women be
adopted at UNC?
Each woman student there
sets her own curfew.
This "self imposed curfew"
system replaced the set time
system at UMass last year.
The women now decide what
time would be best for them
to return to the dorm. There
is no check out or check in.
Miss Alice Sargent, Dean of
Women's staff at UMass, says
that the new system works bet
ter than the old one. "There is
a greater sense of responsibil
ity and a greater academic at
mosphere. There has been no
increase in promiscuity."
Governor of Morehead Col
lege Twight Allen, who was as
signed to study this change at
the recent Amherst Confer
ence on UMass's residence col
lege system, said, "The ad
ministration explained the
change noting the contrast be
tween the liberal education in
the classroom and the strict
convent - like atmosphere of
the dorm.
"The university had to re
state its aims in regards to
women students to satisfy the
public. They had to say 'We're
here, to give a liberal educa
tion. We will no longer play
nursemaid to women stu
dents.' "
The Women's Affairs Com
mittee organized and led the
movement for self - imposed
curfew. The coeds brought
about the change entirely by
themselves.
Susan Higgins, a member of
the Women's Affairs Commit
tee, says that the biggest mis
take being made at UNC is
letting the men try to change
the rules. "The Dean of Wom
en is the person who has to be
influenced and she is more
likely to be influenced by wom
en." Miss Sargent agrees with
this and thinks that the wom
en students at Carolina are too
apathetic.
Santa Mas A Chimney Stretcher?
double ration of goodies, and his identity
was saved.
Then there's the times when the de
partment store Santa Claus gets himself
into a fix, like the time I made my big
gest goof. It happened in Spainhour's
store in Hickory. I was getting along
fine with the little ones until a little
blonde miss plopped down on my lap. I
asked her, "Won't you tell old Santa
where you got that all - day sucker?
She innocently replied, "You just
gave it to me over at Belk's store."
That wasn't the only time I faced em
barrassment. One year at a kindergarten
party the teacher asked Santa (me) to
lead the kiddies in "Up On the House
Top." Suddenly I felt, like a Miss Ameri
ca contestant who'd just been asked the
$64,000 question. I couldn't remember
the words, but thank goodness they all
settled for "Jingle Bells."
Another thing, Art Linkletter was
right in saying that kids say the darn
dest things. Too, they ask the darndest
questions for which they get the darn
Together they
For more, see
Disparity Seen
By LINDA ANN SMITH
Special to the DTH
A recent survey asked coeds
what they think of Carolina's
doing away with closing hours
for women.
And responses differed wide-
iy.
The most often stated reas
ons for keeping definite clos
ing hours were: closing hours
are convenient for girls stuck
with bad dates, having closing
hours is more conducive to
study, and college girls are not
responsible enough to be with
out restrictions.
Reasons given in favor of no
closing hours included: most
girls would probably come in
earlier if they could impose
their own curfew, girls twenty
one years old should be re
sponsible for themselves, and
'Tree
By LEE SHERRILL
Special to the DTH
"College students today
seem very different. You know
how they dress we used to
get all dressed up to go to
school, the boys in suits and
ties."
Betty Smith, who wrote "A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn,"
talked softly with a Brooklyn
flavored accent as she strug
gled to hold down her frisky
English sheep dog, Noname.
"And we fought for our ed
ucation. We never opened our
mouths to a professor. We took
what he sad as law. But in a
class I taught here, a boy sat
back with his feet propped up
on the desk. When I told him to
change what he had written,
he said he liked it the way it
was.
"I just can't believe the dif
ference." Miss Smith audited several
courses in playwrighting at
Yale and UNC as a special stu
dent. She taught later at both
universitites.
Miss Smith, at 62, lives in a
dest answers
One youngster asked, "You're too tat
to get down our chimney. What are you
going to do?"
"Would you believe Santa Claus has
a chimney stretcher?" I answered.
Another time a child asked me where
Rudolph stayed while I was in the store.
In return I gave the stock reply, "Ru
dolph is eating his dinner up on the roof
top." There was one time though when I
had the upperhand on a young Hickory
couple. They didn't realize that I was
a former schoolmate of theirs because
they didn't recognize me. The couple just
couldn't get their daughter to talk to me.
So I asked her if "daddy" still delivered
milk and like to raise "puppy dogs."
The child responded superbly and the
parents were stupified. From that day
until this they probably have wondered
if perchance the fat man who held their
daughter on his lap wasn't the real Santa
Claus.
Contrary to how it may appear, play
are the International Bazaar.
page six.
DTH Photo by Mike McGowan
Changes
Trip
In Coed Wishes
closing hours limit the time
girls have for fun.
When coeds were asked
"What do you think of Caro
lina's doing away with closing
hours for women," some re
plies were:
"I think it would be a gross
out."
"It's ridiculous!"
"Not a thing. College wom
en with no supervision at all
go completely ape. Without
any supervision, I'd go com
pletely ape."
4I think it'd be fine. If you
dnn't have sense enough to
come in, rules aren't going 10
help you. Girls our age are out
working and don't have cur
fews. Such rules keep college
girls behind the times.
"That's the most archaic
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Grows In
large, well - furnished house
and has a black Cadillac con
vertible. But things weren't
always so prosperous.
She once lived with her two
children in a one-room apart
ment on Hillsborough Street.
She remembers walking into a
bank and asking for a loan of
three dollars "so I wouldn't
starve."
Now she says with a laugh,
"I didn't even have any mon
ey in the bank. Of course they
didn't give me the money."
That was after she had sent
the manuscript of "A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn" to Harp
er's Publishing Co. and was
waiting for a reaction.
The book attracted world
wide attention and made her
rich and famous.
"I didn't think it was that
good," she insists.
What first inspired her to
write? "I always loved words.
When I learned the word "cat"
for the first time in school,
and looking at the word saw
a real creature moving, some
thing went 'bang' inside of
me.
ing Santa Claus is not all one big laugh
and ho-ho-ho after another. Often Santa
is exposed to a sad, yet real, side of life.
Such was the case at the party from
some underprivileged children. A lean
eight year-old whose trousers were obvi
ously handed down from a much big
ger boy took his turn talking to me. He
mumbled a few words and then handed
me this letter:
Dear Santa Claus,
Mama says there ain't no Santa
Claus. Me and my sisters believe
there is one. We don't want any toys
much. We just want our daddy to
come home. Mama cries a lot at
night because we don't have much
money. If you know where our daddy
is please tell him we love him and to
come home. We love you too Santa
Claus.
Merry Christmas,
Jake
Age 8
Something like this is heartbreaking
This is just one case of how pitiful it ii
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By The Associated Press
Several North Carolina legis
lates agreed Saturday the age
old problem of money how
much to spend and where
is the major issue facing the
1967 General Assembly
Perhaps no legislature in re
cent, years has been confronted
with more problems Other ma
jor issues include congressional
redisricting, clarification of the
state's lqiuor laws and im
provement of education.
Almost certain to come up
are proposals to abolish the
death penalty, strengthen the
auto inspection program, put
North Carolina on daylight sav
ing time, increase the State
Highway Patrol and gain uni
versity status for East Caro
lina College
"It's going to be a long,
rough session," Sen. Ralph
Scott of Alamance predicted
whether we've got too much
"The problem of money,
or too little, will be a big is
sue" said veteran Sen. Dallas
Alford of Nash.
They were among Tar Heel
lawmakers attending . the clos
ing session Saturday of a pre
legislative orientation confer
ence at the Institute of Govern
ment in Chapel Hill.
Gov. Dan Moore said he will
propose a "general and broad
tax reduction" to the legisla
ture which convenes early in
February. But he has not spell
ed out the details.
The general fund surplus
available to the 1967 legisla
ture has mounted to a figure
estimated at from $150 million
to $200 million.
Sen. Scott said, "I had
rather see the state have addi
tional services instead of giv
ing the money back to the tax
payers.'' ttep. unit ot itoDeson, in
nne tor the House speakership,
said money is the No. 1 prob
lem. Then he listed in order:
congressional redistricting,
clarification of the liquor laws
and higher education.
"There are two apparent
Brooklyn'
"I got so excited I got sick
and had to go home."
She loved to write anything
and everything.
"I sat and copied books word
for word just to know what
it would feel like to write a
book."
She even wrote letters to her
self at the age of 14. "I loved
to read them."
At the age of 12 she sent a
short poem to a newspaper.
They sent her a dollar and
printed it.
"From then on, I was hook
ed." Her study is full of momen
toes shelves lined with dif
ferent editions of her works,
(in several languages), all her
original manuscripts, paper
clippings of critics' reviews
and boxes and boxes of let
ters. Does she answer them all?
"Yes, I trv to, but it takes so
long."-
On the mantel is a gold tro
phy. Miss Smith . typically
brushes it aside with, "One of
the Presidents gave it to me.
I don't remember which one."
Big
Prolb
problems under higher educa
tion," Britt explained. "East
Carolina College is seeking uni
versity status and a commis
sion has recommended changes
in the University of North Car
olina Board of Trustees."
A three . judge federal court
criticized the legislature for
its job of congressional redis
ricting in a special session
early this year .
"The court said the 7th Dis
trict is over-populated and the
Dr. Rudolph Kremer
Organ Recital
Occurs Tonight
Dr. Rudolph Kremer, UNC
profesor of music will play a
dedicatory recital on the Ba
roque organ recently installed
in the Chapel of The Wesley
Foundation tonight at 8.
Following a brief litanv of
lhanksgiving at the beginning
of the dedication, Dr. Kremer
will play three pieces by J.S
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Bach: Fantasy and Fugue in containing molecular nitrogen,
G Minor, Two Chorale Pre- said Collman, opens the door
ludes, and the Fugue in G to the possibility that this re
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when these needy children speak to San
ta Claus. Deep down they know that this
Christmas won't be any better than the
last one. It's times like these I don't
mind at all playing for free and wish I
could do more.
No matter though, rich or poor, shy
or rascally, children are the happiest
when they hear Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
say he loves all the good little boys and
girls and wants them to mind their par
ents. Likewise I've come to be so absorbed
in bouncing these children on my knee
that I wish I could go to their homes on
Christmas eve and shimy right down
their chimneys as in the famous Christ
mas story.
Furthermore it would do everyone a
lot of good to be a Santa Claus even
without putting on the suit and whiskers.
And remember watch out, don't
pout and you'll have company Christmas
eve from either a 22-year-old student or
the real fat guy.
Merry Christmas!
era.
islatorg
2nd District is under-populated,"
Britt said. "The court
also said the districts are not
as compact as they should be."
The state Supreme Court
added to the Legislature's work
by ruling this week that the
practice of brown-bagginpf
taking liquor to restaurants
and clubs is illegal. The
court said liquor may be con
sumed legally in wet counties
only in one's home.
Prof Finds
New Source
Of Nitrogen
A University chemist says
he has made an accidental dis
covery which may lead to
man's ability to get nitrogen
from the air to meet the in
creasing need for fertilizer.
Prof. James P. Collman, 34,
said he stumbled on the dis
covery while doing basic re
search on a new class of or
ganic compounds while work
ing under a grant from the
National Science Foundation.
Collman said he found two
compounds in which molecular
nitrogen is bound to a metal
ion derived from the element
iridium. These were the first
compounds known to contain
molecular nitrogen.
Nitrogen can be derived from
the air, he said, by forcing
these compounds to give up
their nitrogen for more nitro
gen from the air.
Chemists in the past have
tried to combine nitrogen from
the air with other elements to
form useful materials. They
have failed because of the in
ertness of atmospheric nitro
gen. Discovery of the compounds