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^Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. - Thursday, January 23, 1975
Number 9
Qo WSMT and Leave the Driving to the Experts
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Catherine Delbridge
It had been an awful day. Now
was walking uptown in cold
,ain. Suddenly a cloud of exhaust
tunies enveloped me, and I was
‘ rly run down by a Winston-
alem mass transit bus. I decided
hat maybe I would be dryer and
'afer inside the bus, so I frantic-
’ b e g a n to wave. The bus
:ame to a grinding halt. Luckily,
had twenty cents for the bus
|gre I got on and the bus con-
Led Inside, the green and blue
eats lent a cheerful contrast to
L gray mist outside. Warm con
tentment settled over me as I
istened to the money clink slowly
.irough the till and then to three
jays jamming in the back of the
jus. 1 saw friendly smiles on the
faces of others. Only one thing
/as wrong. I was headed in the
jrong direction. I told the bus
iriver my dilemma. He immedi-
gave me a transfer ticket
would allow me to board
[he correct bus for just five cents.
There are many good reasons
for riding the bus. To begin with,
laying the bus fare is much
cheaper than filling up the car so
jlten. The buses operate economi-
Even though they run al-
lost ten hours a day for six days
week, they only use one tank of
iiesel fuel in this amount of time,
main objection to the bus was
: it would obviously take long-
;r to get places than it would in
car, and waiting for the bus
also be time consuming,
len I thought about the times
had gotten lost trying to figure
)ut which streets were one way.
thought about the time I’d
learly had a wreck because I
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thought that a two way street was
a one way street. I thought about
having to feed the parking meters
which take only quarters, if I was
even lucky enough to find a park
ing space. The bus system began
to look better and better to me.
I realized that I would actually
gain time by riding the bus. The
day before. I’d spent three hours
hunting for ALLGOOD WRECK
ING SERVICE, since they had
had the audacity to tow a car
away because it was incorrectly
parked. After much searching and
frustration, I found the place at
the end of an alley surrounded
by huge fences and German
shepherds. It cost ten dollars to
rescue the car. If I’d been riding
the bus, none of this would have
happened.
Another good reason for riding
the buses is that they’re safe.
Robert Norris, who was driving
the bus I was on, said “you have
to dedicate your time to driving it
you want to be a good driver.”
Bus drivers can have three acci
dents before they are fired. After
Robert ran a bus through a
woman’s front yard, he decided
that he’d better dedicate his time
to driving. I asked him why he
liked his job. He feels that being
a bus driver is a secure job, and
he gets to meet a lot of “beauti
ful people” by driving a bus.
That is the main reason for
riding the bus. You do meet a lot
of neat, nice, strange, weird peo
ple. Once they start talking, they
don’t stop. One woman who was
going to her job, said that “From
the Whitehouse to the jailhouse,
they’re taking our money.” An
other old man remembered the
days when he went down to Sa
lem to watch the pretty girls.
Most of these people are pleased
with bus service. They ride for a
variety of reasons. One car or
no car is often a factor. One man
rides because he lost his license.
Most of the people say that the
economic crunch has not really
increased the number of riders on
the buses. A rainy day, however,
may raise the number of riders
considerably.
The bus system is concerned
When Stomach Yells 'Hunger!'
Head For The Dill Pickle Shop
lln Cose You Haven't Met Them
. didn’t know there were bears
[in Michigan!”
"The bear is only our state
fnimal, crazy.”
So say two students from Deni-
|son College in Ohio who have
feme to Salem for their month of
ndependent study. “Why?” they
fete asked. “We wanted a
[iiange”, they both said in unison.
Bess Hickey, who is from
Grosse Point, Michigan, and
jLibby Webster, who hails from
ploomfield Hills, Michigan, are
both taking detective fiction this
®onth at Salem. Their days are
just filled by reading Agatha
I Christie or G. K. Chesterton, how-
Jever. They have found time to
llpeck out Wake Forest, go ice
! skating, shopping, and are plan-
' b'ng a road trip to Duke soon.
, 'Are Salem students different
from Denison students?”
Well,” they said, “because
I alem is smaller than Denison,
knows everyone else.
Il good for us because people
I |oalize that we are new and have
Sone out of their way to be
fnendly.”
Denison has about 2100 students
aL T 3 bit different on Bess’s
id K campus. Dorms have
1. ''isitation and are larger
thatBess commented
■rr, bie able to knock
hav'^^ Salem dorms without
worry about guys, but
jg® with a grin, “Well, then
Bess and
ThpJ yourselves?
, live in ciewell and are
around most of the time. They
will make you feel at home the
second you walk in their door.
Camille Agricola and Anne
Henley are also staying at Salem
during their January term. Al
though their program is not con
nected with Salem, the school was
glad to give them room and
board for the month.
Camille, who attends Hollins,
and Anne, who attends Mary
Baldwin, are both here to study
at MESDA. During their first two
weeks at MESDA, they studied
types of Southern antique furni
ture, how to restore paintings
ceramics, and the architecture of
old houses. For the final two
weeks of January, Anne and
Camille will be doing research tor
MESDA. Anne will be researching
uniquely-shaped tombstones found
in Davidson County with hopes of
tying them in with a furniture
maker in the area. Both the
tombstones and the furniture
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Katherine Skinner
When you get tired of the noisy
refectory or when you do not
want to fast but the student body
has elected to go the Dill
Pickle Sandwich Shop located on
Fourth Street.
The owner, Steve Johns, who is
Italian, got the idea of a Dill
Pickle Sandwich Shop from a
friend in Chicago. Johns discov
ered the building on Fourth Street
unoccupied. He set to work on
redecorating the interior, leaving
the chandeliers intact (the Dill
Pickle was once a jewelry store),
and in 1972 he opened.
When interviewed, Mr. Johns
was extremely cordial and ready
to be of service. After speaking
with him, I decided to sample the
about the olives, he replied that
they were in the window to at
tract attention. How many people
put olives in the window? He had
a point — I had never seen olives
in a store window and they did
attract my attention.
A most interesting fact that the
owner brought to my attention
was that he made his own dill
pickles. It takes about a month
to make a good dill pickle. A five
gallon jar of pickles costs about
$18.00 while a gallon of olives is
around $9.00.
No strange events have ever
happened in Johns’ restaurant.
Candid Camera has not used his
customers as guinea pigs. No
bank robbers have ever taken
refuge there either. The atmos-
food. Being adventurous, I tried phere is very stable.
IN THIS ISSUE
letter to editor
P-2
hyatt house
p. 3
figaro
p. 4
cartoon crap
p. 5
laundry
p. 6
Hot Bologna. It was delicious. The
menu consisted of assorted sand-
wiches and plate lunches. The
prices were extremely reasonable.
They are much cheaper than
Mayberry’s. The shop opens at
6 a.m., ready to serve breakfast,
and closes at 6 p.m.
The peak hours run from 10:30
to 2:30, I caught the tail-end of
the rush hour. Several students
from high school came in for a
quick cheeseburger before they
were missed at school. Iwo
young men (not the executive
coat and tie type) came in and
dined. The main traffic came
from the down town shopper. The
Dill Pickle Sandwich Shop seats
78 people when full. At
mately 1:45, the shop was halt
S The shop is a self-service
cafeteria. The entire time 1
staved there was not a line, me
service is speedy, the food is
good, and the place is very neat
and clean.
When walking by the shop,
noticed two jars of olives in the
Sdow. When I asked the owner
I strongly recommend the Dill
Pickle Sandwich Shop to anyone
with a big appetite and very little
money.
about people. Old people can ride
on the buses for only fifteen cents.
Once a week, the bus goes to
Crystal Towers, an old people’s
home, picks them up, and takes
them wherever they want to go to
shop. Another service is the com
muter service. Businessmen from
out of town park their cars in a
shopping center at the edge of
town and a bus carries them into
town. Any group can charter a
bus for a small fee.
If you ever get bored with the
people and the scenery at Salem,
then just get on a bus and ride
for a while. You’ll be sure to see
parts of Winston that you’ve
never seen before, as well as
meeting some different types of
people. It’s nice to get into the
real world for a change.
Changes Coming
To Salem Campus
Laura Day
Editor’s note; The following in
formation was obtained during an
interview with Dr. Chandler on
January 9.
President John Chandler re
cently announced several changes
that will be taking place on the
Salem campus during the com
ing months. The first of these
involves a modification in regu
lations concerning student park
ing. According to Chandler, the
school will no longer assign indi
vidual parking spaces to students.
Instead, students will park in des
ignated parking areas. This plan
is designed to eliminate the short
age of parking space caused by
students who rent individual
spaces, which no one else can
use, but do not keep their cars at
school regularly.
“We know there is room in the
lots,” said Chandler. He also
added that Dean Johnson is
working on the problem and
'should have more information
for students by the first part of
February.
Another change involves the
use of the building that formerly
housed the college laundry. Dr.
Chandler said that the mainte
nance crew will move from their
present quarters to the larger
laundry area and the former
maintenance area will probably
be turned into a new ceramics
lab.
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Maureen Ress fires a hamburger at the Dill Pickle Sandwich Shop.