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NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 217 Rocky Mount, N. C. Noa-Profit Organization VOLUME XI, NUMBER 13 ROCKY MOUNT, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10. 1M9 Draft Begins Lottery- First Time Since WWII The first draft lottery since 1942 was held Monday night, December 1, 1969 under the direction of the head of the Se lective Service, Lewis B. Her- shey. The drawing, which deter mined which American men would be drafted under the new draft law, recently passed by Congress. With their futures resting on the outcome, thou sands of Americans watched the unofficial advisors to the Selective Service draw the 366 blue plastic capsules, each con taining a date of the year. Following a brief invocation by Hershey, the advisors be gan drawing the capsules which would assign an order of draft priority to each American male between the ages of 19 and 26. Any person becoming 19 be fore December 31, 1969 was eli gible as well as a person who would reach the age of 26 prior to December 31, 1969. Although all draft-aged men received a number, only those classifica tions 1-A or 1-A-O will be drafted in 1970, Here is the official listing of birthdays: 1 —Sept. 14 2 —April 24 3 —Dec. 30 4 —F^. 14 5 —Oct. 18 6 —Sept 6 7 —Oct. 26 8 —Sept. 7 9 -Nov. 22 10 —Dec. 6 11 -Aug. 31 12 —Dec. 7 13 —July 8 14 —April n 15 —July 12 16 —Dec. 17 —Jan. 18 Sept. 19 —^Nov. 20 —June 21 —Aug. 29 15 26 1 4 10 22 —June 26 23 —July 24 24 —Oct. 5 25 26 27 28 29 —Feb. 19 —Dec. 14 —.July 21 —June 5 —March 2 46 —Nov. 11 47 —Nov. 27 48 —Aug. 8 49 —Sept. 3 50 —July 7 51 —Nov. 7 52 —Jan 25 53 - Dec. 22 54 —Aug. 5 55 —May 16 56 —Dec. 5 57 —Feb. 23 58 —Jan 19 59 —Jan 24 60 —June 21 61 —Aug 29 62 —April 21 63 —Sept. 20 64 —June 27 65 —M^y 10 66 —Nov, 12 67 -July 25 —Feb. 12 —June 13 —Dec. t 21 —Sept. 10 Second floor Edgecomb zooms In to a third place finish in the hit of Wesleyan’s Homecoming week end, the first annual Bed- Race. (Photo by Gary Christopher) 93 —July 1 94 —Oct. 28 95 —Dec. 24 96 —Dec. 16 97 —Nov. 8 98 —July 17 99 —Nov. 29 100 —Dec. 31 101 —Jan. 5 102 —Aug. IS 103 ,30 104 — Jun« 19 105 —Decl 8 106 —Aug. 9 107 —Nov. 16 108 —March 1 109 —June 23 110 —June 6 111 —Aug. 1 112 —May 17 113 —Sept. 15 68 69 70 71 114 —Aug. 6 115 —July 3 116 ^ug. 23 117 —Oct. 22 118 -Jan. 23 119 -Sept. 23 120 -July 16 121 —Jsn. 16 122 —March 'i 123 -®ec. 28 124 ^pril’,13 12i M3ct. ■'2 126 -Wov. *13 127 —Nov. 14 128 -^Dec. 129 —Dec. 130 —May 131 —Nov. 132 —Nov. 133 -May 12 134 —June 11 135 —Dec. 20 Wesleyan Bed-Race Homecoming Successful Becomes Annual Event 18 1 15 15 25 Wesleyan’s annual Home coming weekend followed all of the popular ideas of a tra ditional “good time” reunion with alumni, bonfire, a thought- provoking movie, a victorious game and a Homecoming Dance surrounded by and accentuated with cool crips weather and a spirit of brotherhood. An addi tional attraction to the treats was the first annual bedrace - an idea to increase the spirit of Homecomings. A bonfire was held Friday evening in the field by the cheerleaders, who lead the ap proximately 50 people in cheers. The spirit and enthu siasm of the people was high, although a very small group was present. The bedrace next morning got off to a surprising start 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 —March 31' —May 24 —April 1 —March 11 —Nov. 2 —May 7 —Aug. 24 37 —May 11 38 —Oct. 30 39 —Dec. 11 40 —May 3 41 —Dec. 10 42 -July 13 43 —Dec. 9 44 —Auff. 16 45 —Aug. 2 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82- 83 84 85 86 —Oct. 12 —June 17 -April 27 —May 19 —Nov. 6 —Jan. 28 —Dec. 27 -Oct. 31 —Nov 9 -April 4 - Sept. 5 —April 3 —Dec. 25 —June 7 —Fdj. 1 Weekly News Review 87 —Oct. 6 88 -^uly 28 89 —Feb. 15 90 —April 18 91 —Feb. 7 92 —Jan. 26 By JOHN HINNANT National Controversy over the masse- cure of the South Vietnamise inhabitants in the village of Long My in March 1968 by U.S. troops continues to lead the news. A sergeant who refused to take part in the action called it “goint-blank murder.” The question upon whom the respon sibility lies brings forth ano ther and more basic question. How deeply has the continued casualty reports affected Ame rican society so as to be seem ingly immune to such atrocities as this are committed by our own troops? According to the latest Har ris Pole, the American people, by a 42 to 46 percent mar gin Vice President Spiro Agnew a negative mark concerning his activity as Vice President. The same Poll showed that by 67 to 14 per cent Americans give Agnew credit for “having the courage to speak against radical blacks and students, where oth ers didn’t dare.” Most of Ag- new’s support comes from the South and West, traditionally the Wesleyan Singers Perform Messiah; Sing Dr. Davis Christmas Oratorio By JULIE ROBINSON The Wesleyan Singers, and the Chamber Singers presented Wesleyan’s tenth annual Christ mas concert last night in Everett Gymnasium. Their pro gram included a new oratorio, A Christmas Story, by Dr. John Davis written especially for the two groups. The Wesleyan Singers also featured a series of carols of various national origins. From the Spanish, they sang “Pastores a Belen”, and “How Gently Falls the Snow.” “Carol of the Italian Pipers,” with drum accompanyment by David Smith and finger cymbal accompanyment by Phyllis Sut ton offered an interesting re presentation from Italy. “Carol of the Birds,” “Now It Is Notice eatioas for wjil take an examination at 1J:00 a,m. on will hoiS ift rouias 101 a»fl i 05 7ft the AdmlsfsJratte® Christmas Time” and “Hark Bethlehem” were from France, Sweden and Poland respective ly. From the Latin, the Sing ers sang “Psallito” from MUSAE SINIAE, “En Natus Est Emanuel” and “Benedacamus Domino.” From the American heritage of Christmas music, they sang “A Child This Day Is Born” and two Negro spirit uals “Go Tell It on The Moun tain” and “Behold The Star”. The Wesleyan Singers sang four choruses from G. F. Han- deis's THE MESSIAH. They were “And the Glory of the Lord,” “For Unto Us A Child Is Born,” “Glory to God,” and “Hallelujah”. more concervative areas of the nation. The Senate voted to increase present exemptions for income tax from $600 to $700 next year and $800 in 1971. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Albert Gore .a Democrat from Tenn., pass ed with a 57 to 37 vote. This revision now faces the pro spects of an Executive Veto. 3 members of a “nomadic hippi colony” were named in the killings of Actress Sharon Tate and 4 others at her home last summer. 2 of the 3 are in Custody and the other is being sought in New Mexico. Results in the seeding of Hurricane Debbie last August were called by the Secretaries of Commerce and the Navy as “extremely encouraging and tremendously promising.” Ef forts will be intensified next year in the hope of controlling these storms which cause scores of deaths and millions of dollars of damage annually in the Central American Countries and Southeastern United States. American Red Cross Expresses Thanks The Rocky Mount-Nash Co unty Chapter of the American Red Cross wishes to thank each student who participated in Red Cross for his Convocation pro ject. It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with the group and most gratifying to see the interest shown by the students for the community. as early as 12:00, with the different people entered making trial runs and adding last min ute touches to their chariots. The six teams were lined up behind a rope tied between two trees behind Edgecomb dorm and had the choice to jump over or run under the rope to get to their cars, and race the length of the driveway around campus. Nu Gamma Phi came in first at 4 minutes and 31 seconds, second floor South came in se cond at 4 minutes and 44 se conds, Alpha Delta Chi came in third at 4 minutes and 50 se conds. Second floor Edgecomb came in fourth at 5 minutes and one second, first floor South and North (Trinity I?ac- ing Team) came in fifth at 5 minutes and 33 seconds, and third floor Edgecomb was dis qualified because it had only two wheels, which was in con tradiction to the rules. At 2;00 the basketball game started in the gym, with the Wesleyan Bishops playing the UNCG at Greensboro. Wesley an got the ball first and, de spite plenty of turnovers, Roger Taylor managed to score the first 9 points in the game. Thr oughout the first half of the game, Wesleyan had a 4 to 15 point lead, finishing the half with a lead of 7, with the score 36 to 29. Both teams had foul difficul ty throughout the game, with the first half resulting in two members of each team having 3 fouls each. Wesleyan got the ball at the beginning of the se cond half, but Greensboro scor ed the first two points on a 15- footer, which was followed by a 15-footer shot by Roger Taylor, bringing the score to 38 to 31, With 15 minutes left to play Greensboro pulled within one point of Wesleyan then tied the game 46-46. Jerome Brown, who had up to this point scor ed 14 points for Wesleyan, foul ed out with 12 minutes left to play, but the shooting of Roger Taylor pulled Wesleyan 7points away from Greensboro, which brought the score to 53-46 with (Continued on Page 2)
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