PAGE SIX A Griffin Becoming Catawba Star (Reprint from Raleigh News & Observer) By A. J. CARR Bill Griffin, Catawba's football and track star, seems to be proudest of his recent golfing feats. "I shot an 83 the other day," said the muscular 6-6, 242-pound sophomore. •Just got lucky, though. I've only played about 15 times in my life, but I really like that sport.” Although Griffin has hardly played enough to know a 9-iron from a put >t:'. his tee shots are al ■f.ady revealing some of UR. ALEX S. POW WCU Will Get New President CULLOWHEE—Dr. Alex S. Pow, vice president for academic affairs of the University of Alabama, has been elected by the board t;f trustees as president of Western Carolina Univer sity of Cullowhee. Dr. Pow will take office July 1, succeeding Dr. Paul A. Reid, president since , 1949, who will retire June 30. The election of Dr. Pow was recommended by a special committee of the beard named last May to seek a new president. A faculty advisory committee ioined in the unanimously made recommendation. Dr. Pow. 49, is a .native oi . Birmingham and hdlds degrees from the Univer sity of Alabama, the Uni versity of Denver and New York University. He will become the sixth president of Western Carolina Uni versity. Jonathan H. Woody of Wavnesville, board chair man. said Dr. Pow “is an educational statesman of the highest caliber. Not only Western Carolina but all of North Carolina can be glad and proud that he has accepted this position.” SEE THE SCOTT : | PAGE i :.. VOTE 808 SCOTT.. i : : A Side-by-Side only 32' wide) 18.1 cu. ft • Model TFF-18DD Full-height freezer. Holds up to 225 lbs. All foods easy to see, select! • gfmtt temperature controls for each section! • Porcelain-on-steel vegetable bin • Slide-out meat pen • Slide-out fruit pan • Butter conditioner ▲ _ • Rolls out on wheels for easy cleaning m JM db ■ . GE colors or white Quinn Furniture Co. Os Edenton, Inc. Jack Nicklaus’ blasts. The other day, he pow ered a drive 325 yards, barely missing a hole-in one on a tough par 4. Anyway, the former Edenton prep hero isn’t go ing to do a lot of worry ing about the birdies and the bogeys right now, be cause football and track are still his games. When he slips into uni form, it’s like Clark Kent donning his Superman suit. Spectacular things seem to happen to “Big Bill.” As a freshman last year, he established a new Caro Plans Are Made MANTEO Drama un der the stars in a historical setting will again be pre sented on the fascinating Dare Coast-Outer Banks of North Carolina when “The Lost Colony” is staged for the 28th production season June 21 through August 25 cm the Fort Raleigh na tional historic site. Except for special Sun day performances on Aug ust 18, the 381st annivers ary of the birth of Vir ginia Dare, and oh closing night, the show will be presented Monday through Saturday nights at 8:30 (EDT) in the Waterside Theater on the shores of Roanoke Sound. The thea ter seats 2,000 and there is a 600 - car free parking area. Written by Pulitzer prize winner Paul Green of Cha pel HilJ, “The Lost Col ony” will be directed and choreographed for the fifth consecutive season by Joe Layton of Broadway, TV and Hollywood fame. He was the choreographer of the original Broadway pro duction of “The Sound of Music,” won a Tony award for staging Richard Rog ers’ “No Strings,” an Em my award for the first of his three Barbra Streisand TV spectaculars, and was responsible for the musical numbers of the motion pic ture hit, “Thoroughly Mo dem Millie.” Paul Green’s "evergreen” is staged on the site where Virginia Dare became the first child of English par entage born in the 16th century New World, more than 20 years before James town and 30 years before Plymouth Rock. With a professional cast of nearly 100, plus another 35 or 40 off-stage technicians, the orama tells the story of the attempted settlement in the 1580’s by Sir Walter Raleigh’s and the first Queen Elizabeth’s colonists and their mysterious disap pearance between 1587 and 1590. TB CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1968. linas Conference records in the shot (49 V 4 feet) and discus (134-2), but already this spring he has exceeded those marks by wide mar gins. That he has improved his shot toss to 50 feet, 9 inches and his discus fling to 144 feet, 5V* inches comes as no surprise be cause Bill is strong enough and high skilled enough to do even better. “I’ve improved my form,” explained Bill, who helped Catawba rifle to a quick 6-0 start in track. “The form has made the differ ence in the discus and the quickness in the circle has been the difference in the shot.” Those record - breaking tosses become even more impressive because Griffin authored them with an in jured back suffered in spring football practice and because he rarely has time to throw the shot and dis cus in the off-season. “It’s getting better now, though,” chirped Griffin. “I seem to be healing up all over. I’m trying to get ready for the AAU meet, and this Elvin Bethea of A & T.” Although football comes first in the sporting life of Bill Griffin, he does not merely throw the shot and discus with the idea of let ting them “fall where they may.” Immediately after spring grid practice, he flits weights for two weeks and all during the track sea son he runs wind sprints and more wind sprints, and constantly strives to im prove his form and quick ness in the circle. “If he could concentrate on track more,” said Coach William Faircloth, ex- Wake Forest footballer from Clinton,’’ he could probably get the shot over 60 and the discus up to about 175. He still needs | to get quicker.” Faircloth, an assistant football coach who shares track chores with basket ball mentor Sam Moir, has started filming the In dian’s performances, a move that has helped, im mensely. “I study the films,” said Griffin. “It has really helped a lot. You can find out what you are doing then, see your form. Although Bill sparkles in a track uniform, he is more impressive in football gear. “The pro scouts are real ly looking him over,” said Faircloth. “They think that in two years he will be one of the best tackles in the country.” Bill Griffin has it all— strength, speed and stam ina. He can dash 40 yards in 5.1 seconds in full foot ball gear, a rate of speed many backs can’t match. “I actually concentrate on football the most,” not ed Bill. “That’s what I really want—to play pro fessional football.” Barring injury, he should realize that dream, and then, in later life, he might even begin to take the game of golf seriously, too. ffm n tutu IIIHHIMtiIImJg. FMjm/J. WATSON’S USD A INSPECTED WHOLE *aj®Friers2s CUT-UP FRYERS lb. 29c ■>uiMiimiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiimi>iiimiiiiiiniimnnMi>wMnimimiwmwMiwiuwiiwiiiiMNMm»MiiiMi«uiii FRESH MEATY PORK NECK BONES ib. 19c | Wm GROUND BEEFM3c|^ir 1-LB. 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