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-TOE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1971
Agnew Says
Morally 'So
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AKRON, Ohio Vice
President Spiro T. Agoew says
he is convinced overwhelming
the majority of American youth
is morally "sound" and that it
"rejects the so-called 'anti' cul
ture."
Replying to questions gath
ered from young people by
Knight Newspapers editors, the
vice president also said both the
United Slates and Russia
should have a strong interest
in avoiding military involve
ment in the Middle East."
The questions and answers
were published Sunday in the
Akron Beacon Journal.
The exchange grew out of an
interview by the newspaper's
editors with Agnew last Decem
ber in which he said he sought
new ways to communicate with
young people.
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The vice president was asked
to permit the Beacon Journal
and Knight .Newspapers to serve
as a forum for an exchange be
tween himself and the nation's
youth. He agreed.
Following are some questions
selected from more than 100
gathered by Knight Newspaper
editors and the vice president's
responses:
Q Do you feel there is a gen
eral. moral degeneration among
young people in the United
States? If so, what do you feel
are the causes' A 24-year-old
junior high school teacher in
North Carolina.
A. No, I do not feel there is "a
general, moral degeneration
among young people in the
United States." On the con
trary, my personal travels
across the country convince me
that the overwhelming majority
of American young people is
sound and rejects the so-called
' anti" culture.
Art Professor Sculpts Giant Baler Twine Ball
NEW HOLLAND, Pa—For
George Bucher. professor of
art at Susquehanna Univer
sity in Pennsylvania, getting
all wrapped in his work could
prove to be a real problem.
Professor Bucher sculpts with
baler twine.
His latest work of art is big
—very big. and it required a
-nat deal of lime and energy
to complete. It's a hall of baler
twine with a circumference of
■ 7 leet anil more than 117.000
feet of twine carefully wound
into place. He calls it "Ball"
and to complete it took more
than two months of work on
weekends and between classes.
Professor Bucher has been
sculpting in baler twine for
more than ten years and his
work has been exhibited in
numerous shows and art mu
seums. Included in his shows
are figures ranging from a tiny
eagle, less than six inches high,
to an awesome figure of a man
eight feet tall.
His works start with a wire
lrame and it requires hours
of meticulous winding to com
plete each piece. After sculpt
ing the form. Bucher paints
the sculptured form with poly
ester to strengthen it. When
completed, the pieces look as
though they have been carved
lrim a solid block of wood.
"Ball" no exception
from the basic construction of
other sculptings. It was.
ho\\e\er. much larger and re
quired help in completion.
Bucher had been asked by
New York art dealer Ivan
Karp to do a sculpture for dis
play in his New York studio.
K;irp had seen a smaller four
loot liall the professor had
sculpted and suggested a
larger ball that would virtu
all> fill a gallery room. The
professor accepted the chal
lenge. but was unable to find
space for his project locally.
So he asked for help from of
ficials at New Holland, the
farm equipment division of
Sperrv Hand Corporation. The
firm offered the use of a por
tion of their motion picture
studio and provided twine for
the project. Bucher set to work
uilding a huge frame with a
-pindle arrangement for spin
run'; the ball.
When he was ready to start
Mulpting. a half dozen stu
dents volunteered to help and
made the weekly trips to New
Holland. For two months
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BACKLIT by flood light, Professor Bucher stares into the
ball during the early stage of wrapping twine on the lath
frame. Polyester over twine creates an eerie glow under the
glare of lights.
ScrantM Commission
Q. You described the Scran
ton Commission report as Pab
lum. Was this Just campaign
speechmaking or do you really
feel this way? If to, why?
Asked, in essence, by aevoral
college students and a young
Ohio college history Instructor.
A. It is simplistic to classify
the Scranton Commission Re
port on Campus Unrest as ei
ther "good" or "bad." For ex
ample, the commission put to
gether an excellent historical
analysis of the problem as it de
veloped through the last decade,
and from this perspective the
report was both interesting and
worthwhile.
However, I have criticized
sections of the report that seem
ingly equivocate on the issue of
assigning responsibility and
blame for campus disruptions.
I am personally convinced
that many of the excesses com
mitted in the name of protest
would never have occurred had'
university officials made clear
from the beginning that vio
lence, disruption and violations
of the rights of others are not
compatible with the civilized
discourse necessary in a free
academic society. Thus, to the
extent that certain portions of
the commission report reconv
mended a course of acquies
cence in the face of illegitimate
protest, its findings indeed con
stitute Pablum.
Q. If the Mideast situation
were to reach the shooting stage
again, would you favor commit
ting U.S. troops to support Is
rael? A 24-year-old police
man in Florida.
A. It does not serve the inter
ests of peace for anyone to spec
ulate at this point on whether
U.S. combat forces would have
to be committed to the Middle
East. However, certain points
Bucher literally ran back and
forth in front of the frame,
carefully guiding the twine
onto the spinning ball as stu
dents revolved it. Bucher
painted the layers with poly
ester and the ball took on
strength and a solid appear
ance as the wooden lathing
frame was gradually covered.
His work attracted a lot of
attention at the studio, which
is a part of New Holland's
service training school. Farm
machinery servicemen from
throughout the United States
and Canada were at the cen
ter for week-long sessions and
watched with interest as
Buchor worked. When he was
unable to get a student to help
one weekend, New Holland
people volunteered to help.
And when he had problems
turning the polyester soaked
ball, one enterprising me
chanic made a turning tool by
welding a hay bale hook to a
pipe, enabling the professor to
turn the ball with little trouble.
"When I first made the four
foot ball, I noticed how peo
ple were attracted to it. They
put their faces right up to it
and peer inside. It's almost
like a magnet, it's difficult to
stand near it and not be at
tracted to it," Bucher says.
The larger twine ball has an
even greater attracting ability.
Visitors to the service school
found themselves peering into
the ball when they entereid the
.studio. Even the students who
helped Bucher were fascinated
by the ball. As they rested
they found themselves staring
at it. Bucher calls the ball a
"focal magnet." and finds re
action to his latest work of art
"exciting."
"I found myself thinking of
what I had to do on the ball
throughout the week," he says.
"I could detect the least bit of
imbalance as I worked on the
ball, and I worked out a rhy
thm of putting the twine in
place so I'd achieve as much
balance as possible."
When the last of 13 bales of
twine was in place, and the
polyester dried, Professor
Bucher put "Ball" on display
at an open house New Holland
was holding at its new Opera
tions Center building. And just
as it had attracted others dur
ing its construction, "Ball"
drew crowds while on display.
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TAIPEI TEEN RECEIVES AWARD AT Utt
(New York) Ambassador George, United
States Representative to> the United Nations,
presents a SSOO third prize in Seventeen
Magazine's SAVE competition to Vivienne
Gordon, 17, of Taipei, Taiwan, for her out
standing environmental efforts, at a recent
ceremony held at the United Nations SAVE
(Seventeen Acts for a Viable Environment),
open to 565 teen boards in department and
GIANT TWINE BALL, sculpted by Professor George Bucher of Susquehanna Univer
sity in Pennsylvania, stands 12 feet high, weighs 1,100 pounds and has more than 117,000
feet of New Holland baler twine wound onto a wooden frame. Bucher worked for ten weeks
on the huge modern art project. , ,
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STUDENTS, who volunteered weekends to help in the project, turn the 12-foot ball as
Professor Bucher guides the twine onto the spinning frame. He estimates he ran 12 miles
In applying the twine over a period of ten weeks. The ball will be exhibited in a New York
gallery later this year.
specialty stores across the country and with
in the Armed Force, mobilized young people
to "better the physical and human environ
ment in their own community.' 1 Vivienne
spearheaded the program of the Headquar
ters Support Activity Taiwan Navy Exchange's
teen board 1 in Taipei, which ministered to
the needs —both financial and emotional—
of the Happy Mount Leprosy Colony.
Mclntire Demands IVMlniyl
WASHINGTON Wln
thewar demonstrate!* par*g*d
their version of dissent along
misty Pennsylvania Avenue Sat
urday and rallied at the Wash
ington Monument, where the
Rev. Carl Melntire urged Preil
dent Nixon to repent hla South
Vietnam policy and "use the
sword as God intended."
U.S. Park Police estlmsted
the crowd at 15,000, while Me
lntire claimed his National
March for Victorv had drfwn
about 25.000 people from every
state in the Union.
Washington police estlmsted
5,000 to 9,000 people were in the
procession from near Capitol
Hill to the Monument, where,
newsmen estimated, up to 1,000
people had assembled without
Joining the march.
Photographa Taken
An AP photograph, taken
from the top of the Monument
shortly after the msrcheri ar
rived and the rally began,
(Political AdvwiiMKwnN
JIM HAWKINS
FOR MAYOR OF DURHAM
THE CANDIDATE WITH SERVICE
TO THE PEOPLE OF DURHAM
Review this record of service and deter
mine my qualifications to be your mayor:
1. Eight years as a city councilman.
2. Chairman of council committee which successfully
promoted $9.5 milliofi bond issue to proWde badly
needed water fir sewer facilities in 13 sqiiare miles
of city. i
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3. One of organizers and developers of Unity Village—
A non-profit development of 100 single family pri
vately owned homes for low income families.
4. For past 10 years directed and promoted Didco Park
—a community-owned corporation where approxi
mately 1,500 people now work.
5. A member and for two years chairman of Research
Triangle Regional Planning Commission.
6. Past president of Chamber of Commerce—Actively
involved in location of Central Electric's S4O million
plant in Durham.
Jim Hawkins is 46 years old and has the knowledge, interest
and energy to lead Durham to a better future. He earned a
law degree from Duke University in 1951.
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As the father of five teen-age children he has an interest in
the future of the younger generation.
LET'S MOVE AHEAD WITH
HAWKINS
(Political AdverHwiwit)
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A CREED FOR THE
Durham
Ifranan fclattonß
(Eommtßßuiti
We, the Durham Human Relations Commission, accept as
our basic principle the brotherhood of man.
We believe that all men are created equal, without any
one race, religion, color or heritage being superior to another.
We believe that every person has individual worth and must
have the opportunity to work, live, and enjoy his place in the
world with dignity and justice.
We pledge, individually and collectively, to do everything
hi our power to insure each man's right to participate without
discrimination in all areas of life in our commtmity—tn education,
in employment, in housing, in recreation, in public accom
modations, and in any other association he may have with bis
fellow men.
a ALL PCOfLB SHOULD LIVI BY TMSI
PRINCIPLES I ALWAYS HAVI AND
I STILL LIVE BY THIM.
ATKINS.
INDEPENDENT City Councilman Ward 4
RESPONSIBLE PULL LEV£R u O .
QUALIFIED
aho wed a crowd that appeared
da line with the lower eitimatea.
After the rally, Mclntire aald
the demonstration jtha been a
great aucceia and blessing."
The marfehera paraded down
Pennsylvania Avenue to the
atrains of "Onward Christian
Soldiers" and "The Stars and
Stripes Forever," played alter
nately by a 26-piece volunteer
band.
At the monument grounds,
they heard speechea exhorting
the United States to seek vic
tory in Vietnam, before a late
afternoon rainstorm sent much
of the crowd seeking shelter.
No-Win Policy
Hie heavy rain came just as
Gov. George C. Wallace of Alar
bama began addressing the ral
ly by telephone from Dallas. "I,
like you and many others, have
become very disenchanted with
our government and its no-win
policy," Wallace said. "1 want
out of Vietnam, but I want out
«f Vietnam wtth >rt«*ry tfat
will mean otf* hay» *W **
dUdianla." •: t
"Governor, thay*re cheerioi
70a hew," ukl
log the telephone. "I hop* jron
can hear them."
TIM *«▼. Wee Auger olOtwrn
ville, S.C., a march coordinator,
denounced the Vietnam veter
an* who demooatrated against
the war. "It'a a good thing
they're here in the United State#
lnatead of in Vietnam where
they could have ahot their bud
diea in the back," he said.
/
T4fne isn't so scarce."
is rare is the proper "
and intelligent use of time.
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Criticism springs from two
souuiT intelligent disap-r:
proval and emotional reac-:_
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