Welcome to Smalltown, N.C.
By CHIP PEARSALL
Staff Writer
A group of students crowds into a dormitory .television lounge at 5:30 p.m. one
weekday. It's time for the Andy Griffith Show.
On the rerun today, Opie thinks about which college he will attend, even though
he's still in elementary school. Andy hears about the astronomical tuition rates and
opens a launderette in Mayberry to set aside a nest egg for Opie's education.
Opie finds out about the sacrifices his dad is making. He decides to help bv
planning to go to a public school.
The students smile smugly as Opie announces he wants to go to UNC-CH and
become a dentist.
1 he series ended before Opie ever went off to school, but life went on in M ayberry
a town that has become synonymous with small-town North Carolina. It
represents, for good or bad, places like Sunbury, Mountain Home, Iron Station.
Ararat, Ellerbe, Tar Heel, Waco, Supply, Flat Rock, Welcome, Whynot, Pfafftown
and Cliffside, from Mantco to Murphy.
These places have their Andys, Barneys and Aunt Beas so do rural burgs all
over America. And they have Opies, who dream of leaving home for college.
Though Opie never makes it, counterparts from Seagrove and H iddenite and R ural
Hall and Candor do.
What's it like being at UNC when you're from a small town?
"I liked the change," says David Squires of Whortonsville, a tow n of about 200 on
Pamlico Sound.
"I had visited Chapel Hill before 1 came here to school. 1 loved Chapel Hill then,
and when I left, I had tears in my eyes. But I knew I'd be back someday.
"Whortonsville is incorporated, but it's not on most maps. There's not a stop light
or a service station there. The only thing is the crab factory where a lot of the old
people work.
"J enjoyed growing up in a small town, and I'm proud of being from the country.
"It gave me a chance to grow up in the church. Down in Whortonsville, all the old
ladies live for church. They work all week just so they'll have something nice to wear
on Sunday. We have two churches down there a preacher comes to the United
Church of Christ every first Sunday and to the Free Will Baptist on every third
Sunday.
"I haven't gone to church too much since I came to school, though.
"I came up here with the idea that 1 was already behind in my studies. I had to
work to catch up, and I feel like now I can compete with anybody from the city.
"I don't plan to go back to Whortonsville after I graduate. There's nothing you
can do with a degree there. And there's another thing there are lots of mosquitoes
down there, and they just eat me alive."
Cameron, Alexis, Dudley, Jackson, Stanley, Clyde, Conway, Todd, Dana,
. Shannon, Thurmond, Wade, Julian, King, Vale, Spot, Coats, Vass, Star, Hays,
Henrietta, Ellenboro, Sylva, Sophia, Trap Hill.
Rolf Wallin hails from Whispering Pines, "the only incorporated village in North
Carolina," near Pinehurst. Its population is 300-400, he says.
"Whispering Pines is mostly old people only two or three families have kids
there. It's just homes, no businesses inside the town limits. I've lived there nine years.
"I grew up doing most things by myself or with my brother. 1 took up sports I
could do alone, like running, and some handcrafts. I guess I was more independent,
since I couldn't rely on others.
"I was pretty shy in high school. I went to Union Pines High School it's a
vocationally oriented school, but 1 took college prep courses and was valedictorian
of my class. It wasn't hard to get better grades than the farmers there.
"Chapel Hill was a total change. It took me awhile to adjust. I didn't knovvjiow to
study, since high school was so easy, but a friend helped me out and I was okay.
Ex-FBI head Gray indicted
By United Press International
WASHINGTON Former FBI Director
L. Patrick Gray and two of his senior
assistants were indicted Monday for
ordering agents to conduct break-ins, tap
telephones and read private mail in their
hunt for Weatherman radicals in the early
1970s.
Attorney General Griffin Bell said only
the higher-ups of the bureau should face
charges for such illegal activities.
But Bell also said less serious disciplinary
action will be taken against 70 people,
including FBI agents and Justice
Department officials.
Gray, associate FBI director Mark Felt,
and former FBI intelligence chief Edward S.
Miller were charged in U.S. District Court
with 32 overt acts of conspiring to violate
civil rights in their surveillance of suspected
associates of the Weatherman radicals. Bell
said.
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"I can see that my values are changing since I've been here. I hings are more
reserved in a small tow n. but they're liberal here. I remember one time when I went
home I'd grown my hair out some the people there were stunned. My science
teacher almost went into cardiac arrest. They were all surprised, but they expected
it.
"Now, I look forward to changing and trying to get out and meet people."
Cedar lulls, Cedar Grove, China Grove. Walnut Cove, Gumberry. Troy.
Carthage, Warsaw, Dallas. Denver, Mineral Spring, Connelly Springs, Boiling
Springs, Willow Spring. Spring Hope, Hohgood.
Faith, a town of about 500 near Salisbury, is Gary Fink's hometown.
'There are a bunch of stories about how Faith got its name. One says that a man
who owned some rock quarries there loaned money out to the people at no interest.
He just had confidence in them to pay. That's the story they tell, anvwa.
"Small towns help you relate to people better. I here is a sense of togetherness,
and you can turn to other people. When 1 was in high school, my father w as killed in
an automobile accident and my mother was hurt so she couldn't work. Every day.
for months after that, people would come by our house.
"Chapel Hill has variety they don't have in small towns. Socially, Chapel Hill is
an enjoyable change. 1 like the opportunity to be exposed to different things.
"I want to go to med school, and I'd like to go back to a small town, but probably
not to Faith. There's some small town pressure there everybody knows I want to
be a doctor. When I go home, they're always asking when I'll be through with
school. 1 guess they're keeping up with me more than I'm keepingupwiththem."
Pineville. Pineiops, Spruce Pine, Southern Pines, Whispering Pines, Pine U'vel,
Pinehurst, Peachland, Woodland, Midland. Richlands, Mt. Gilead, Mi Olive,
Ml. Airy, Mt. Pleasant, Pilot Mountain, King's Mountain.
Lois Deloatch comes from Margarcttsville, population 260, near the Virginia
North Carolina border in Northampton County.
"What's in Margarcttsville? There's nothing there, not even many people
anymore. It's mostly old people, but there are a few young couples. We don't have a
mayor, no water system, no town taxes, but we pay county taxes.
"There is a store where everybody congregates, but a lot of the old sitters seem to
be dying off. Mayberry and Margarcttsville are alike in a lot of ways everybody
knows everybody's dog. their cat, and their pig when it gets out of the pen. That's the
truth.
"We don't have a cop, so there's nobody like Andy. There are lots of Aunt Beas,
though, who gossip all the time. People help each other when they're sick, and
there's not anv hate there. Everything's not all peaches and cream like Mayberry,
but there is a kind of unity in Margarettsvillc.
"I wouldn't want to live there for the rest of my life unless I retired there. But I
never want to get so far away that I can't go home I love going back."
Lilesville, Gatesville, Taylorsville. Mocksville, Hamptonville, Waynesville,
Stoneville, Winterville, Beulaville, Marsheville, Snow Hill, Rose Hill. Mint Hill,
Sandy Ridge, Jonas Ridge, Staley.
Annette Rountree is a native of Harrellsville. It lies in the northeast corner of the
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letters of censure to forced resignations. Bell
said.
Gray was acting director of the FBI when
the Senate, angry over his burning of files
that Richard Nixon's aides gave him during
the Watergate investigation, refused to
approve his nomination. The nomination
later was withdrawn.
Soviet official defecting?
UNITED NATIONS - The highest
Soviet official in the United Nations has left
his office due to differences with his
government, a U.N. spokesperson
announced Monday.
It was unclear immediately whether
Arkady N. Shevchenko, undersecretary
general for politieal and Security Council
affairs, actually had defected.
In Washington, State Department
spokesperson Tom Reston said Shevchenko
had notified the State Department through
his attorneys that he would not return to the
Soviet Union.
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NCMH student volunteers
By I.ALRA ALEXANDER
Staff Writer
The UNC School of Dentistry's Cleft
Palate Residence Speech program
received some much-needed playground
equipment Friday thanks to student
volunteers at North Carolina Memorial
Hospital.
Ken White, Ruth Thomas and Ruthie
Ward, members of the UNC Student
Volunteer Services Coordinating
Committee, presented a $120 collection
of toys to the program including
basketballs, baseball equipment and
indoor games. The program center is
located on a farm three miles outside of
Chapel Hill on Highway 54.
Mr. and Mrs. Houston D. Dickerson,
owners of the farm and house-parents to
the children who attend the center's
intensive therapy program received the
donated toys. Also present were Mary
McDonnell, recreational therapist at
the center, and Laura Johnson, patient
care coordinator for the Oral-Facial and
Communicative Disorders Program.
The toys were purchased with the
proceeds from a film show presented by
volunteer services Feb. 16.
"We wanted to do something for
children," Ward said, "and we found out
that playground equipment is not paid
for by the hospital."
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"There are more people leav ing Harrellsville than staying, but 1 plan to go back
there and live. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
"There's a store there, and outside there's a picnic table under the trees. At night,
the kids congregate there and watch the cars go by. That's all there is to do. We used
to throw water balloons at cars, until we got in trouble.
"The biggest problem I had adjusting to Chapel Hill was walking into the street.
We play in the streets back home, so I'm not used to watching the laws about
crossing the street. Silly things like that were my biggest problems.
"I didn't have any trouble with the people here. A lot of times, people think you're
backward if you're from a small town, but people think it's really neat that youcome
from a small place.
"I'm going to take some of my friends home sometime, but I'm a little scared todo
it because I'm afraid it will be dull. What I'd like to do is show them the flat country
and the contrast between the real rich and the real poor."
Oak City, Tabor City, Elm City. Siler City, Bryson City, Trinity. Moncure.
Sneads Ferry, Granite Quarry, Granite Falls, Coinjock, New London, Cleveland,
Grimesland, Climax, Crisp, Speed, Micro, Hornytown.
Donald Whitfield, from Hurdle Mills, doesn't see major differences between life
in a small community and Chapel Hill.
"It's like our minister said this morning. You can't just see it, you've got to live it."
Dickerson said he and his wife have
been housing the children Tor seven
years. The children live on the farm and
report to the dental school on weekdays
for classes, including an hour of speech
therapy.
Six of the children who attend each
10-week session are sponsored by N.C.
Crippled Children, an organization
stationed in Raleigh. A child in the
program may have a cleft pa late or some
Applications available now
for the Women's Forum
By LAURA PHELPS
Staff Writer
The Women's Forum, a group designed to
act as liaison among administration, faculty,
staff and students, is now accepting
applications for student members.
The forum consists of seven women
students and seven faculty and staff women.
Applications are available at the Carolina
Union desk.
Applications will be judged on interests
and ideas that the applicants are capable of
contributing to the group. The deadline for
applying is April 14.
The purpose of the Women's Forum is"to
ameliorate the conditions of women on
campus; to advocate expansion of women's
roles academically, socially, culturally; to
seek and disseminate all pertinent
information," according to the forum's by
laws. "We have meetings every few weeks but
they are more like discussions," Kay
Upchurch, student chairperson said
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other speech disorder, Johnson said.
"We enjoy it," Dickerson said. "It's a
good program. We've seen a lot of good
results from it."
Volunteer services, directed by Elaine
Hill and coordinated by Susan Thomas,
is located on the first floor of NCMH.
Participation in the student volunteer
program is open to any UNC student.
Volunteers are accepted at the
beginning of each semester.
recently. "We help other women's groups
with their ideas and also develop new ideas
for them."
The forum was established in 1969 as the
Implementation Committee. Its purpose was
to inform women of rule changes concerning
women on campus. In 1971, the name was
changed to Women's Forum and its new
objective was to further the causes of
women. The broad nature of its purpose is to
give flexibility to the group.
Last year the Women's Forum sponsored
a luncheon for female'members of the UNC
Board of Governors and the Board of
Trustees. It also worked to have women
nominated for honorary degrees and
distinguished alumni awards.
The forum also publicizes scholarships
which are available for women and aids the
Women's Studies program and the
Association for Women Students. This
semester, it held a reception for Bella Abzug
when she spoke at the 1978 AWS Women's
Festival.
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