Smoke Signals, Wednesday, November 24, 1971-Pagt> 7 Gospel According to Norton By GRADYNUTT This is the story of my en counter with Jesus Christ, car penter of Nazareth, teacher of truth, friend. First, let me In troduce myself: The name is Norton. Right, it’s the only name I have. I grew up in south Jerusalem in a state of discontent. I couldn’t do the normal bit of style. I rather pride myself in the fact that I really did my own thing fashion-wise: kept my hair cut short, refused to grow a beard (my Dad really flipped over that; thought I was wierd!), wore a mini-toga I designed myself, and always wore socks with my sandals. A big Thursday night for us in my neighborhood consisted of eating snitched fruit on the corner of our marketplace, watching passing carts stop for the flickering caution lamp. On such a night one of my buddies, “Eef” (short for Ephriam), invited me to go out to the river to hear a new religious nut ( had our share then, too!) named John the Baptist. “What makes him so special?” I asked. I learned he was really out to knock the Pharisees. So I grabbed some extra fruit and a pair of clean socks and footed it out to the river. I was definitely pro-anybody who was anti- Pharisee! He was all they promised, and he blew my mind with his getup. A double-breasted camel-hair suit, wrong-sid6H>ut; platform high-top sandals; teas^ hair; the works. The word was that he was a health food fan and lived on bugs and honey; I thought he preached like he had just had a cup of crickets! In short, I became an ardent follower. Within just a few short days I was getting out early enough to get on a front rock. I had really felt unique in ap pearance and life-style until I met “John the B,” but to quote Eef, “John the B outrags them all! ” I tried more and more to be like him. I was pleased to find that he dug my threads and liked my flair for the unusual. We really got dose. I was with him the afternoon he baptized Jesus. I was amazed at Joht; the B’s attitude. When he had completed the baptism, they stood together in the river looking for all the world like they heard something; I strained and heard zero. When Jesus had drip-dried up the trail, I apiroached John to quiz him about the session, but he was moody and didn’t want to talk. This mood carried over for weeks, causing canceled ser vices, etc. I then heard that Jesus had started a group on a different part of the river, so I Horizon . . . from Heritage through Hope The first ray of light And it begins . . . Growing, spreading, swelling, And indomitable spiral Up.and out and through: Life and experience. Finds himself with but three tools— His Heritage, the gift of those who Struggled, grasped, and spent themselves Before Him; His Hope, Burning in the hand he holds in his; And in his Horizon, That infinite, vacilating place in tomorrow That leads him on. There is no turning back. No standing still in silence Of morning light. There is but to move on, And up, and out to . « o ^ Behind man it lies, A magnificent ocean, Quiet and deep as time— His Heritage. Down from dawn. Filled From the first touch To great vegetable equations Crossing and recrossing in the stream of time It builds. And all man knows, All man has ever known Is there. Before he can go on he must know Where they have fallen before. Where they have gloriously conquered; How it was done. How it was undone; And inevitably why. Man must draw Deeply From that heritage Before he can take a step. And so. Through it all he goes Earnestly seeking, Sifting for answers. Sampling the Heritage; Plodding the seemingly Endless paths Of those who have Gone on; Pausing in the Endless reason To wonder Why it is . . . What it holds And as one goes, we all go; As one seeks to find, We grope with him. Bound together by the plea from the past. The pledge of the present, And by the clarion Challenge of the beyond. And so it is That we return Always To the beginning. To the light. And the promise of external experience By which man finds his way To the Horizon . . . From Heritage Through Hope. —The 1960 Michiganenasian went up to scout the situation for John. The first night I heard him, it happened! He was the Messiah John the B had been stressing. It only took three visits for me to transfer my membership! Now I got closer into the inner circle of Jesus and the disciples. He took me into his confidence and let me assist in the chores around his sessions with the multitudes. One night, after a hard day, we had a talk that changed my life. He was sitting in some tall grass leaning against a tree. He had his sandals off dangling his feet in the river and was chewing on a long, fuzzy weed-one of his favorite habits. The moonlight twinkled in his eyes like sparks from a camp fire. I perched there by him and talked of many things, he then asked me if I had seen John lately. I chuckled and said I surely had. He was puzzled at my attitude. I said: “Oh, he’s still wearing his same old camel-hair suit; living on bugs and honey; and preaching blisters on his throat.” Without looking, I felt his eyes on me. I turned to meet them straight on. “Norton!” he said firmly. “What?” I said squirmly. “Just where do you think you’d be if it had not been for John?” “Back eating fruit and wat ching the caution lamp,” I replied. Then he shish kebabed me! He pointed out that the great temp tation of the young idealist is to find his Messiah, squat by him on a riverbank, and make fun of his forerunner! Like the dirty old man on Laugh-ln-l needed thatl When the “Word-became-flesh” became the “Truth-to-Norton,” I started to grow up. I learned from him how important it is to sift the sawdust of heritage to find the nuggets that make the current moment take on any worth at all. If I had not met John the B, I would never have found Jesus. I never saw John the B again. In fact, I loved him more deeply than ever before. W What of Jesus? I followed him faithfully and more maturely from that day on. I want to share some of our encounters with numerous folk you have met in other gospels—Nicodemus, Zachaeus, and others. The stories V / A O 4 • will>appear each month on‘ »his- page. You are invited to come along. The style will be like me- informal. Socks optional. (Note from the Editor: Grady Nutt is a professional entertainer and writer from Louisville, Kentucky. This article appeared in the October 1971 publication of The Student Campus Morals and was supplied for publication in The Smoke Signals by Carol Byrum.) Phi Theta Kappa Group Explained PROF. DOUG EUBANK Attends Conference ByJimHunter On Saturday morning, November 13, at 8:45, seven members of Circle K set out for Rocky Mount, N.C. to attend the Capital-Eastern Regional Training Conference, which was held on the N.C. Wesleyan College Campus. Upon their arrival at 10:15 they were war mly welcomed by the Carolinas’ District Governor and Lt. Governor. Also the Immediate Past Trustee for the Carolinas’ District was on hand to see that all was in order. The training conference was divided into several topics that were not lectures, rather they were open discussions where the individual club members shared ideas and brought up questions in areas that they were having difficulties with. Some of the topicsdiscussedwere: Philosophy of Circle K, r’und-Raising Projects, Help for Disadvantaged Youths, Environment, Pollution and Requirements for Mem bership. A112 o’clock the sessions were adjourned for lunch in the campus cafeteria. The choice of meals was excellent in that they served both roast beef and chicken. The lunch was followed by and inspirational message presented by the President of N.C. Wesleyan College. He charged each of those persons present to be more than responsive, but to also be more responsible person willing to serve our fellow man. The sessions got under way again at 1 o’clock. The purpose of these sessions was to reinforce each person present as to the mission of Circle K, which is to be of sewice to the college and its conununity. At the close of the sessions and the days’ activities, the members headed back to the Chowan College campus with a better understanding of what Circle K is all about. Know Your Professor By MARY TOWNSEND The professor selected for interview this week for “Getting to Know Your Professor” is Doug Eubank of the Department of Fine Arts, and professor of art. Mr. Eubank and his wife, Molly, live at 413 Carolina Drive here in Murfreesboro. Before coming to Chowan, Mr. Eubank attended Morehead State University, in Morehead, Ken tucky, for five years where he took a double major in art and industrial art. During the sum mer he worked for Food Fair Stores, Incorporated, Merrit Island, Florida, then he went back to Morehead and worked on his masters and just graduated last August. His hobbies include camping, traveling, listening to all dif ferent kinds of music, to live and enjoy life and, of course, art work. When asked how did he feel about Chowan, he said that he really liked it here. That the teaching situation is better than most colleges and working in the art department with Craig Greene is a real pleasure. When asked what did he feel about art as a career, he said that nothing has excited him more than art. As a career he always wants to work with art, whether it be commercial, an art consultant or a teacher, just so it is in the field of art. The kinds of painting art work that impress him is Im- pressionest paintings. The colors and the way the work is applied. He also likes contemporary art. Mr. Eubank feels that everyone can do some type of art work, to create art in their own manner. He said it is like playing tennis, you learn skills the more you practice the better and the more you can create in your work. His wife, Molly, also does art work. She has Bachelor in Arts, in Arts. She does jobs on the side besides being a housewife. She has painted the Indian on the floor of the gym, which is very pretty. Father Says Few Care About Son By ROY MALONE Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Denne Bozikis doesn’t try to hide his tears when he shows his soldier son’s medals, awards and scrapbooks. And he doesn’t try to hide his anger, either. He is disturbed because his son Ron made the “ultimate sacrifice” but that in his opin ion few people seem to care. He decided to make himself heard. The 51-year-old pie salesman wrote an eight-page letter to President Nixon, pouring out his feelings and questioning what has happened to Ameri can values. “My son did not want to die, but just do his duty,” Bozikis wrote. He urged Nixon not to “back down” in Vietnam. “All I got back was a little card,” he said, “a couple of lines. I’m sure Nixon didn’t see it.” Now he’s sent another letter to Nixon and a recorded ballad telling of 22-year-old Green Beret S. Sgt. Ronald H. Bozikis who “fought to keep men free.” Ron was killed on his 26th and last scheduled mission. His squad was ambushed Oct. 25, 1969. Denne and his wife Jeanne, who have five other children, scraped up $1,250 to have the song, “A Fearless Soldier,” recorded and 2,000 copies made. Jeanne wrote the lyrics. “I’m not trying to make mon ey from this record. “I just want recognition for my son. I pinned all my hopes on him ... “... Some will then be chosen for higher privilege. The studies which they pursued without order in their early years will now be brought together, and the students will see the relationship of these studies to one another and to truth.” “Yes,” he said. “That is the only kind of knowledge which takes lasting root.” Plato, The Republic Phi Theta Kappa was born in 1918, at a meeting of Missouri Junior College presidents who were seeking to form an organization that recognized superior students. Membership in Phi Theta Kappa is conferred on those junior college students who have “established academic ex cellence ..Initiates must have completed at least one term or semester, of junior college work, must be judged of good moral character, must possess qualities of good citizenship, and have obtained an over all grade average of a “B”. Since its founding Phi Theta States. Kapp, at Chowan College has The emblem of Phi Theta elected the following officers: Kappa is a golden key. Across the president, Jim Hunter; Vice center is a black band upon which president, Kenny Lundquist; theGreekletters“Phi,”“Theta,” secretary, Patsy Copeland; and “Kapp” appear. Behind the treasurer, Robin Andrews, band is a wreath of oak and laurel reporter, Debbie Faulkner and leaves, denoting strength and Mr. Carl Simmons as advisor. Kappa has been the only National leadership above it is the head of At the end of the 1971 Fall honor society for American Athena, symbolizing wisdom, semester the members of the Iota junior colleges. After leaving Below the band are the three Delta chapter will be Marching junior college life, its members letters symtx)lizing the Greek for new members to initiate In the have obtained success at four- mystic words phronimon. Spring semester. The year colleges and universities Thuemos and Katharotcs qualifications they will be looking and in all fields of professional (wisdom, aspiration, purity.) for are those which have been life. The colors of Phi "nieta Kappa previously stated. The constitution states that the are blue, for scholarship, and Education does not mean purpose of Phi Theta Kappa is gold, for purity. These colors teaching what they do not know .. promotion of scholarship, appear in the ribbons of the . it is a painful, continual, and development of leadership and Membership Certificate and on difficult work to be done by service, and cultivation of other fraternity insignia. The Iota Delta chapter, a division of the National Phi Theta fellowship among students of junior colleges in the United kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, but above all example.—Ruskin by Boy Joins Country Music Corner Army At By NANCY SHIPLEY Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Just two years ago, there was not a single female singer in the top 10 on the country music charts. Loretta Lynn, Jeannie C. Riley, Tammy Wynette and Lynn Anderson were the only females listed in Billboard Magazine’s top 30 in the coun try field. But as the song says, “the times are a diangin’...” With women’s liberation mov ing forward on many fronts, country music has hit the treble ranges right along with “I was questioned quite a few ‘I’®''® tor. Three highly successful fe mes about mv aee and eot "^mes as men s m arp Mif;s Ri- 14 Years By KRISTIN GOFF Associated Press Writer BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — At 14, Jimmy Evans felt he was man enough to join the Army. So he did. Five months later, the slen der high school freshman was a graduate infantry paratrooper with three medals and all but booked for assignment to Viet nam with the Army’s elite Green Berets. surge in the women’s ranks in part to country music’s “com ing out of the woods” feeling. “There are just a lot more gals now who’ve decided to try to make it in country music — and succeeded,” Wendell says. “Years back maybe there were restrictions on their travel and where they could play. Hiey’re more accepted at func tions, there are more doors open,” he says. “Maybe the duet syndrome has had some part in it too,” he adds. Billboard says the fact that more and more female writers have come on the country mu sic scene is also an obvious fac- the weekly chartes. Grand Ole Opry manager E. W. (Bud) Wendell says that something few people realize today is that there were no girls in country music for many years. “Then Kitty Wells came along and later Patsy Cline, and plowed new territory,” Wendell says. “Nowadays you just can’t pick up the charts without seeing a bunch of girls’ names.” Fifteen of the 60 acts on the Opry roster this year are wom en or include women. Elsewhere on the inter national front, several female newcomers such as Anne Mur ray are ooming on strong, l^i§?„ citment started to,begin. Murray, a Canadian school teacher, first hit the charts last year with the song, “Snow bird.” Female singers who have consistently been on the coun try music charts this year other than Miss Anderson, Miss Lynn, Miss Riley, Miss Wells and Miss Wynette, are Dolly Parton, Sammi Smith, Connie Smith, Skeeter Davis, Susan Raye, Jody Miller, Barbara Mandrell, Diana Trask, Jeannie Seeley, Jean Shepard, Dottie West, June Carter, Wanda Jackson and Peggy Little — among a host of others And the new female singers such as Anne Christine and Tracey Nelson are being heard the stairs, it was so dark and she into a few fights over it,” Jim my said in an interview. “I remember one guy who said I looked too young to be in the Army and that I should be home with my mother. I hit him. “They stopped hassling me after that,” Jimmy said. The youth’s brief but promis ing Army career ended last summer at Ft. Benning, Ga., when a routine security check discovered he had falsified his birth certificate to enlist. He was put to work in the base supply depot until the Army could arrange for his honorable discharge on Aug. 25. “Jim told me that one of the reasons he decided to go into the service was that he knew if he stayed in sdiool, he’d get into trouble,” said his widowed mother, Mrs. Eve Evans. “He just wanted to prove that he could be man enough to go into the Army and serve.” Now back to his studies at Parkdale High School in this Washington, D.C., suburb, Jim my enjoys talking about his short Army hitch and looks for ward to the day when he’s old enough to “re-enlist.” “Everybody at school knows about it,” Jinmiy said. “They don’t kid me at all, though. They kind of look up to me a little bit, I guess.” Army spokesmen will make no official comment on Jim my’s case, but they do confirm his record. A week after the youth en listed here last March, he was sent to Ft. Dix, N.J., for basic training. There, he picked up two medals for his expertise on the rifle and grenade ranges. After basic, Jimmy moved on to Ft. Polk, La., for advanced infantry training with the 11th Charlie Company. “It was pretty funny because we were all out on bivouac cel ebrating what everyone thought was my 18th birthday,” Jimmy recalled. “It was a big deal. You know—the 18th is supposed to be important.” Jimmy never revealed his true age to anyone, even his tion kilned at protecting tlie closest Army buddies. rights and culture of American But in his youthful zeal, he Indians, did jump the gun in getting a its largest such move to paratrooper’s tattoo — a para- (jate on behalf of American In chute and wings — put on his jiang^ the foundation an- left shoulder. nounced Tuesday that it would His instructors at Ft. Ben- gjye the money to the Native ning, called “black hats,” view- American Rights Fund, of Boul- ed it as a serious violation of jer, Colo, protocol. xhe organization was estab- “The black hats hassled me ijghed last year as a national quite a bit about it,” Jimmy project of The California Indian said. “You’re not supposed to Legal Services, but is now inde- get one until you’re a para- pendent. trooper.” McGeorge Bundy, president On Aug. 13, Jimmy won the Qf the Ford Foundation and for- right to the wings and para- njgr White House aide, said the chute already tattooed on his grant was being made “in the shoulder when he completed his conviction that the law can be- jump training. come a bridge between two cul- His next stop was to have jures — the Indian and the been assignment to Vietnam white. with the Green Berets, but the xhe NARF is seeking protec- routine security check run on (jon of Indian land rights and all Special Forces candidates claims to other natural re tripped him up. sources; Jimmy said the company commander called him into his office and asked “Evans, how old are you?” “I said, ‘Eighteen, sir.’ ley. Miss Lynn and Miss Par ton. Wendell thinks it is signifi cant to note that two record la bels have been launched by girls. I believe it was Jeannie C. Riley’s ‘Harper Valley’ that started Shelby Singleton's Plan tation Records on its way. And Sammie Smith launched Mega Records. She readily found a monster in ‘Help Me Make It Through the Ni^t.’” Wendell points out that a new years ago, a label wouldn’t have risked its initial entry with a girl singer. And he cites the staying power of estab lished vocalists like Connie Smith, Dottie West, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn and Skeeter Davis. “We’re blessed with so many pretty girl singers now,” Wen dell smiles. He sums it all up by saying that country music is “moving forward in many areas, in the same way that we’re accepted now from Carnegie Hall and the Ixindon Paladium to bars to school houses to troops.” A Night in Belle Hall By MARY TOWNSEND Last Friday night in Belk Hall was so unbelievable that I decided to write of the funny situation that occurred. It all began when two Mur freesboro policemen walked into Belk Hall and reported that a prisoner had just escaped from the Chowan football game. Ex- After the policeman left, no one walked down the halls of the dorm by theirself, there were at least two people if not more, walking together. When 12:00 came the doors were locked and people started to begin to settle down, even though they were scared. There were four people in the lounge, all watching TV, a midnight movie of Dracula. As they were watching the movie, scared, thinking of the convict, everything was quiet. One of the students was on first floor and decided to come up the front stairs, the stairs that leads into the second floor lounge. As the student was coming up from and remembered. Billboard says most record producers generally agree on the reason: There are more good songs available for girl singers today. Wendell attributes the up- $1.2 Million Grant To Aid Indians NEW YORK (AP) — A three- year, $1.2 million grant has been awarded by the Ford Foundation to help fund litiga- couldn’t see and she tripped on the stairs. The girls watdiing TV heard the fall and all knew that it was the prisoner who escaped. The girls screamed their loudest. One girl had a jar of tea and a glass in her hand. She started running to the door. She just threw them on the floor and got them out of hand, so she could open the door. The student who was coming up the stairs got scared .at liearing the glass break and she ran back the way she came. One of the girls slipped in water and fell as she ran to get help. The Head Residen's husband, hearing the scream and gla.ss breaking, came into the second floor lounge to see what was wrong. In the meantime, a girl who was talking on the phone heard the scream and ran down the hall. When she opened the door, there stood the Assistant Resident’s husband. She screamed, thinking he was the escaped prisoner. When everyone decided what had happened, everyone just laughed. One of the girls .staled that the girls dorm was the most dangerous place for an escaped prisoner or burglar to come to, especially Belk Hall. The Bombing I am writing this column at 4 A.M. while sitting in a waiting room at New York Hospital. Inside, about 50 feet away, my three-year-old daughter, Jodi, is sleeping in a crib with both of her hands tied to her sides to keep her from touching the 100 stiches she has in her face. You see, Jodi made a terrible mistake a few hours ago. Almost a fatal mistake. She trusted the world of grownups. Like a million other three-year- olds all over the world, she took her mother’s hand and walked with her to go out and play in the park. They walked past a building where a young militant had just placed a 15-inch pipe bomb. I guess it was bad timing on Jodi’s part because she passed the building at the same time the bomb went off. The blast sent a rain of jagged glass into her tiny face. Now we all know that the militant didn’t set out to injure Jodi. No. What he was looking for was “justice.” My little girl just got in his way. And I’m sure that some people will tell you that Jodi being a three-year-old member of the establishment was at fault. Because when a man is looking for “justice” or looking to right the wrongs of the world with a bomb it’s your fault if you get in his way. The Mark Rudds of this world will tell you that the man who placed the bomb that went off in Jodi’s face was merely defending himself from society. A total of 98,183,000 persons * OO.U, oiBinccii, o... read one or more daily news- , u u- . The commander replied, papers every day, according to merely choosmg his way to be “Evans, you’re a Uar. I have a 1970 study by the research heard and hstened to^ proof that you’re 15.” firm of W. R. Simmons. This is The ^V^gela I^^^ises of the “So I just said, ‘Son of a 78 per cent of the population 18 world might tell you that thre^ gun.’” years of age or older. year-old Jodi is just paying “dues” for several hundred > ears of oppression. The Eldridge Cleavers uf this world might tell you that Jodi is only an early casualty of the war hat’s coming between races. As 1 said before, there arc a lot of people who can give you a ot of good reasons, they say, for throwing bombs, and killing cops, and burning and rioting, and looting, and hating. Just before I sat down to write this I walked into Jodi's room to check and see if she was asleep. I guess I made a little too much noise and 1 woke her. She smiled with her ripped up lips and said, “Daddy, I ran and 1 fell." You see, Jodi being only three doesn't know what a bomb is or what it does. She still thinks she fell and cut herself. For a second,! wanted to explain to her what had happened and then I realized how ridiculous it was and so I did something I haven’t done since I was a little kid. I cried. How do you explain a bomb to a three-year-old kid? How do you tell a kid that a man took dynamite and buckshot and made a bomb that blew up and ripped your face? He did it in the name of “justice” and “freedom.” How do you explain? Maybe the Mark Rudds or Angela Davises or Eldridge Cleavers of this world can ex plain to Jodi why her face had to be ruined this morning in the name of ‘‘justice." Because, God knows, 1 can't. By Jerry Della Femina Submitted By Norman Eddleton

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