UFO Sighting Described
Smoke Signals, Wednesday, November 7, 1973—Page 3
By RICHARD E. WOOD
During the rash of UFO
sightings, I saw what I decided
was a space ship from another
planet in the orbit of Earth. The
movement of this space ship was
different from any aircraft that
we know or have in planing.
From my drawing, you can see
the space ship is saucer shapped
and has no means of propulsion.
On the sides of the space ship
there were two blinking lights.
The hull was silver but at night it
looked gray. I saw some more
lights in the center of the disk
blinking like some one was
turning an on and off switch. The
course of the UFO was 10 W. 6.N
51 time of present sighting 8:15
two weeks.
Each time the flying saucer
passed over I could see a spining
motion as the lights blinked. One
night on the last sighting, the
UFO glowed a bright red and
Poll Shows Nixon
Support Decreasing
By BARBARA PUTNEY
In recent months, more and
more people have become
disillusioned with the present
government of the United States.
As daily developments build up in
a steaidy stream of new in
volvements and contradictions,
the American people have begun
to doubt the very essence of
idealism on which this
democratic society was formed.
During this time of conflict
with the Middle East, one would
like to put close and forget the
scandals in which the govern
ment is intangled. As citizens of
this country, we cannot do this, or
our whole system and existence
is threatened. With our already
weakened executive branch, it
has become necessary to clean up
every breath of scandal, in
order for our system to survive.
Anyone stopping this process
should realize if there was ever a
time we could be overthrown, it is
now.
Purpose of Survey
This is fte reason for the
survey in chapel-assembly. The
people’s o|Hnions will play the
greatest part in how the situation
will be ended. Once the people
decide there is a minimal amount
of dishonesty and corruption left
in the government, then and only
then will the nation get back on
its feet.
In the freshman chapel, ap
proximately 409 people com
pleted the survey. The results
were as follows;
1. Do you feel that Richard
Nixon should resign his office as
president? Yes 37 percent. No 63
percent.
2. If Mr. Nixon refuses to
resign, do you feel that he should
' be impeached? . Yes 34 percent.
No 66 percent.
3. In your opinion, do you feel
that Mr. Spiro Agnew is guilty of
the charges brought against him?
Yes 76 percent. No 24 percent.
4. If Mr. Nixon should lose his
office as president, do you feel
that there is anyone capable of
taking over as President? Yes 57
percent. No 43 percent.
Wednesday Survey
On Wednesday, there were
about 285 sophomores who an
swered the same survey. The
results of those is as follows:
1. Do you feel that Richard
Nixon should resign his office as
President due to his alleged in
volvement in the Watergate
scandal? Yes 44 percent. No 56
percent.
2. If Mr. Nixon refuses to
resign, do you feel that he should
be impeached? Yes 43 percent,
No 56 percent.
3. In your opinion, do you feel
that Mr. Spiro Agnew is guilty of
the charges brought against him?
Yes 84 percent. No 16 percent.
4. If 1^. Nixon should lose his
office as president, do you feel
that there is anyone capable of
taking over as President? Yes 53
percent. No 47 percent.
On the last question, there were
not enough replies to represent
each class separately. All the
suggestions for a capable
President were very close. First,
was George Wallace, with second
not far behind. Senator Edward
Kennedy. For third place, there
was a tie between Gerald Ford,
Henry Kissinger, Seantor Sam
Ervin and “Me.” Fourth place
was a runoff between President
Bruce E. Whitaker and Mrs.
Rachel Pittman. For fifth place.
Chaplain Taylor, Hubert Hum
phrey, and Senator George
McGovern.
The cooperation of the student
body is appreciated by the staff
and editor of this.newspaper,.,
Special thanks is also extended to
those who assisted in handing out
the papers in chapel and to
Chaplain Taylor who gave us the
time to conduct the survey.
Culture Week
Observance Set
By Dr. H. G. Jones, Director
Division of Archives and His
tory
Written for the AP
RALEIGH (AP) — North
Carolinians will observe Cul
ture Week early this year. The
customary first-week-in-Decem-
ber date has been changed to
November 13 through 17. Head
quarters will be the Hotel Sir
Walter in Raleigh.
Culture Week is North Caro
lina’s unique assemblage of cul
tural organizations with a state
wide mission. It all started
when the North Carolina Liter
ary and Historical Association,
founded in 1900, held an annual
meeting around which later or
ganizations began to hold their
own meetings.
In 1913 the North Carolina
Folklore Society joined, follow
ed in 1926 by the North Caro
lina Art Society. Now, 73 years
later, no fewer than 13 organ
izations, each serving its spe
cial interest, meet during the
same week for convenience,
economy, and cross-fertilization
of ideas.
On Tuesday, November 13,
the Roanoke Island Historical
Association and the Federation
of Music Clubs will meet. A
highlight of the latter’s pro
gram will be a banquet address
by Mrs. Grace J. Rohrer, sec
retary of cultural resources,
and a concert by the North
Carolina Symphony Chamber
Ggroup.
The North Carolina Art
Society and the North Carolina
Symphony Society will meet on
Wednesday. A feature is the re
ception and opening of the 1973
North Carolina Artists’ Exhibi
tion.
On Thursday, November 15,
the North Carolina Society for
the Preservation of Antiquities
and the North Carolina Mu
seums Council will meet. They
will jointly hear addresses by
Frank L. Horton, director of
the Museum of Early Southern
Decorative Arts, and Dr. Steph
en J. Gluckman, archaeologist
with the Divny2is w)archives
and History.
The Ruth Coltrane Cannon I
Cup awards will be presented
at the dinner. A special “Gen
ealogical Exploratory Session”'
will be held at 2:00, and the re
ception for members of all Cul
ture Week societies will be held
from 4:00 to 5:00 at the Mor-
decai House.
The North Carolina Literary
and Historical Association, the
North Carolina Folklore
Society, and the North Carolina
Arts Council will meet on Fri
day.
“Lit and Hist” speakers will
include Thad Stem, Tar Heel
author, and Archie K. Davis,
who has served as head of both
the American Bankers Associ
ation and the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
The state’s prestigious
awards—the Mayflower, Sir
Walter Raleigh, and Christ
opher Crittenden Memorial
awards—will be presented at
the evening session.
The folkloreists will entertain
with such diverse demonstra-
tn3$4 .’zthe Indian blow gun by
Chief Richard Crow of Che
rokee, the dulcimer by Stanley
Hicis, and the square dance by
the Grandfather Mountain log
gers.
On the final day, Saturday,
there will be meetings of tlie
North Carolina Society of Coun
ty and Local Historians, featur
ing addresses by Malcolm Fow
ler and Phillips Russell, and
the North Carolina Poetry
Society, which will sponsor a
poetry workshop.
The Mayflower Descendants
and the Historial Book Club of
North Carolina will jointly hon
or the winners of the May
flower and Sir Walter Raleigh
awards at a mid-moming cof
fee at the Governors Inn in the
Research Triangle Park.
These are but a few of the
peas in the cultural pod that
will be opened during North
Carolina’s 73rd annual Culture
Week. A copy of the full pro
gram can be obtainted from the
Literary and Historical Associ
ation, 109 East Jones Street,
Raleigh 27611.
faded out as if our attempts at
contacting it with a high powered
flash light had worked. The UFO
changed its heading and moved
out of our sight, disappearing
under the star. An hour later a
beam of light darted from the sky
seeming to crash in the yard and
died out about 500-800 feet above
my head. I know that must have
been some intelegent reply to my
signaling. Someday I hope to
contact men from other worlds.
Man, himself, is in a world that
is infinitely big, yet he says he is
the only living thing in space.
From what I have seen we are
wrong in that aspect. There are
others in space, but the question
is on what planet.
Two years ago, I thought I
found a planet in the star for
mation of Camplelia. Its surface
was plainly visible to me and I
could see craters, mountains, but
it was not the moon. I could not
even see the planet without the
telescope.
The space ships could be
coming from this unknown world
I can not find on any of the star
maps. I could make out a cannal
on its surface and the rotation of
the planet made its details im-
possable to see. For a short
period of time I thought it was
mercury. This planet was so
close to earth I could make out
nearly every thing. I saw no
indications of life, but when earth
is viewed from space by our
astronauts it has no indication of
life.
If this world was made by
beings more intellegent than us
and used as a base in space tor a
billion or so years before they
returned to their own world, they
would leave behind some of their
own kind. We might be of that
dead race or nearly exstened
race on another solar system and
another planet.
If you have picked up the News
and Observer you saw on the
front page where a space ship
landed in Garner, NC and left
behind a rock about the size of a
baseball. It is nothing that is
made on earth. Our spacemen
leave thousands of dollars worth
of equipment behind on the moon
Ko they might do the same thing?
As I sit here tonight and write
this editorial my mind is picking
up impressions of what the UFO
astronauts might look like. Wierd
beings form in my imagination,
but what a brain they would have
to have to build a space ship and
.come to this.25,000 mile {ilsnet
floating in the blackness of space.
I think the UFO pilots might be as
human as you or I As a matter of
fact, what if one Hallow Eve’s
night you opened your door to
trick or treaters and found a
space man and women standing
there. As a cartoon I sa>i- m the
book “Intelegent Life in Outer
Space,” “Sorry sonny, all out of
candy.” I don’t know who the
cartoonist is but he had a good
point.
This might happen someday,
but if they ask who your leader is
say “It was Richard M. Nixon a
few minutes ago. I’d better chedk
before I answer that.” And the
space man might say. “No, that’s
all right, I have come to take
over, you see. I’m Christ.”
White Buffalo
Search Begun
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)
— Fish and game officials say
they will try to capture a rare
white buffalo near Chitina dur
ing the weekend.
If captured, the bison is
scheduled to go to the Alaska
Children’s Zoo here, where offi
cials say its survival chances
are far greater than in the out
doors.
Albino bison, because of col
oration and genetic makeup,
appear less able to handle
Alaska’s long winters. Records
show that the 11 other white bi
son known to have been born in
Alaska have either failed to
survive harsh winter conditions
or have fallen prey to poachers.
The Isaak Walton league of
America is paying for the ex
pedition.
NANCY TAYLOR
STUDENTS TAKE TRIP
By MELINDA BOLTON
On Wednesday, October 17,
approximately thirty girls
enrolled in the Nancy Taylor
course traveled to Norfolk, Va. to
attend the 1973 Women’s Forum
presented by the Virginia
National Bank in cooperation
with the Downtown Norfolk
Association. The title of the
forum was “A World of
Challenge.” It was held at
Chrysler Hall and lasted from 10
A. M. to 1 P. M.
All of the students went to
Holiday Inn for lunch and left
Norfolk at 3:30 P. M. Mrs.
Elizabeth Francis, Mrs. Andrea
Eason and Mr. TTiomas Ruffin
accompanied the girls on the trip.
The
Artist's
Exhibit
By
Vicki Stewart
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