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Friday, December 11, 1964 Volume 72, Number 63 CJljf latljj ar 2jrtl 72 Years of Editorial Freedom fit t yty North VJrotta vfcfc first la JdjxMor Offices on the second floor cf Grahant Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012, Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. Second class postage paid at the Post Office In Chapel Hill, N. C, Subscription rates; 40 per semester; $8.0C per year. Published dally except Mtidays, examination periods and vacations. throfKrhont the ari demlc yev by the PuWicatlms Beard of the University of North Carolina, Printed by the Chapel H81 Publishing Compvay, Inc., 531 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N,.C - i A Good Step For - North Carolinians who have watched, with pride and interest the progress of the State Government Summer Intern I program will be encouraged by predic tions from a number of state officials this week that the program probably will be continued by Dan Moore's ad ministration. The word from . Raleigh is that the intern program's budget request has been included in the secondary requests of the Institute of Government here at the University!. The predicted amount :. of the necessary appropriation is in the neighborhood of $20,000, and the legis- , Nature's approval should come easily. r We hope that the predictions are cor rect for the intern program, which' an rnually brings a score of the. state's1 top j college students into state government . ; for summer 'work and study, has al ready proved to be a tremendous asjset to the state. The fresh approaches and . ; new ideas provided by the students t have, in many cases, resulted in re l vampment of. significant state programs ' and considerable savings of state funds. In addition, the state has been able to interest these top scholars in North Carolina's future, with the result that many of them will take active and im portant roles in our future progress, v An important aspect of the proposed appropriation for the program is its lo cation in thevi budget of the Institute of Government, In, its first three years,, the A Good Program program has been under, the jurisdic tion of the Governor's office, because Governor Sanford personally created the unique internships. The money to pay the interns was secured from sur plus funds within the respective state agencies in which they worked. Now that the program has stabilized and matured, its removal to the Insti tute of Government appears to be an important step. It will facilitate the ad ministration of the program, for one thing, and it will decrease the possibility that the internships could become strict ly political appointments. Governor Sanford's staff bent over backwards during the first years to in--sjirq that, the internships would be dis tributed as fairly as possible, with abili ty and interest and not political lean ings the primary considerations for selection. Understandably, however, many students without a political inter .est in state government were reluctant to apply. Now, by removing the political aspects entirely, the program should profit from a growing diversity. And all who have come in contact with this unique program will certainly agree that it deserves to profit in every way possible. The interns of the past have rendered a valuable service, and most of them have been inspired to fu ture state service in public or private life.: -It is encouraging indeed to' hear predictions of the program's future well being., -.-i . I ' Our Top Man Deserves Better It costs an awful lot of money to be a politician in North Carolina For ex ample, consider Governor-elect Dan K. Moore. His campaign began some 15 months ago, and he has not held a salaried post since that time. His campaign warchest, reported by some sources to be as high eas $1.5 million, was virtually depleted during the grueling primaries and the general election. And now he is struggling .through the mounds of paper work left over, hoping hard for Jan. 7 to arrive when he will have office space free rather than a suite of rooms at the Sir Walter hotel costing Bad To Worse The . Greensboro Daily News It was bad enough when the city of Houston, entered major league baseball t three years ago with a team called the tColt-45s. The name seemed the silliest possible. Now, however, the city has outdone itself. It has changed the club's I name to the Houston Astros. I . The name change is the result of ac- hion by the manufacturers of Colt-45 pistols, who discovered to. their chagrin Jthat they were reaping no profits from their association with the second-divi-sion baseball club and therefore or Idered its owners to drop the name. 'After due and, weighty deliberation, the owners came up with the Astro mon jicker, a paean to the Manned Spacecraft JCenter in Houston. j The irony of it is that the Astros will Ibe restricted to inner space. They open the season next year in Houston's brand mew domed stadium, where the air will ;be conditioned and where millionaires, in their $18,000 season boxes, will watch :the game on television. v The; new name, moreover, isn't likely -to thrust the team into the jet age. Last ;year a Houston placer pitched a no-hit-rter. He lost it. 1 1 3 Satlg ar 51 Fred Seely, Hugh Steven Co-Edilora . Mike Yopp Managing Editor some $30 a day. He also looks forward to having secre taries paid by the state, not out of his pocket or on loan from State Democra tic Headquarters. And perhaps some space to spread out the whole operation, which is now crammed into the three rooms to the point where one has to slither between desks. Of course, he is undergoing the same hardships Terry Sanford, Luther Hodges and all before them faced, and it is high time the state did something about the situation. Governor Sanford has been good enough to supply Moore with several top assistants to aid in filling the gap, but the General Assembly should also act when they convene in January. Specifically the Governor-elect in 1968 should be provided with office space, and plenty of it, in the State Legislative Building, as well as a rea sonable stipend to hire secretaries and the necessary equipment. It is embar rassing and illogical to require a Governor-elect to beg for volunteers to run his post-campaign, pre-election head quarters. Of course, the General Assembly can not take monetary action this time around, as the budget for 1967-68 will not be considered until they meet in 1967, but they can appoint a committee to investigate the situation and make recommendations. This is certainly not asking too much, and probably would result in an allocation which would un burden the mind, and the pocketbook, of a man who has had a lot on both. The Liglit-Fingered DTH Queen Mother The Daily Tar Heel Queen Mother, Otelia Conner, ; stopped by the office yesterday to grace us with a few ex amples of her literary talents. . After thoroughly explaining exactly what her letters to us meant, plus some well-chosen words "about the meaning , and happiness ' of Christmas, she picked up her cigarette and left. Unfortunately, it wasn't her cigar- ette it was ours. And she didn't even say thank you. ;'(fes) Me? I'm Giving My Mother 3 Week's Dirty Laundry For Christmas. i' " " It""' """" ' f -J '"" " V 3 """ '"' " "i", '-' ' " '' IWWin nil ),l jh .111. 111 f 1111 """I $ k I ! -v J " ' - " x - , i vy , , . J ( ' r jf U r -f . . -..in- . r -jT i l :t . iL-'u ijp v1'' "'j . - -4 j 4 1 a :j J ft,' ' " i ' i . ' , - -I ; ' .'4, ,1 Moscoii; Interlude Changing Scene. In Red square Letters To The Editors Attack On ild w Westerners Sick Of Phony Critics Editors, The Tar Heel We, as -natives of western North Carolina, are . indignant over the article by David Roth man in Tuesday's Daily Tar Heel. It presents a false image Gf the people of western.. North CarolinF and is unfit for publiqa tion in ay newspaper, even The Daily Tar Heel. The people of western North Carolina are hot as lawless, ig norant, or bigoted as the article suggests. In fact they have no sit - ins or demonstrations as do their "tlat!?Tri" cousins, and they h.vG evviiiiy produced a governor of this state. We are sick of pseudo in tellectuals such as Mr. Roth man, and hope in the future you will be more discreet irt select ing selecting the articles to be published. Bill Rhodarmer 32Z Winston : Jim Watkins 308 Winston Gary Gross 321 Winston The Throat-High Wire Approach Editors, The Tar Heel: It's about the motorcycles. Mr. Sandarg has chewed me out for: 1. Emphasizing sex with cy cles. 2. Saying cycles are unmuffled. 3. Referring to cycle jockeys as idiots. First, I was hardly original in connecting Hondas with honeys. From the very DTH to the tube one is subjected to a massive ad campaign which asserts that if one acquires a cycle, he will have gals panting at his ap proach. In fact, one would assume bubbly Hollywood models are standard equipment on the back saddle of today's cycle. If you try to tell me that the sex image isn't basic to the motor cycle industry today, Mr. San darg, I can only reply that bi cycles are a whole lot cheap er, less costly to operate, and a great deal quieter. Motorcycles are indeed muffl ed great, shining chrome tubes that, are singularly inef fective. If our family Plymouth made the racket many cycles here on campus do,. I'd be sub ject to arrest in most of the SO states for "improper muffler." It's worthwhile to note that the very countries that export these machines (especially Japan and Italy) are the same ones that have cracked down on cycles as serious, noisy nuisances at home. Sandarg contend that just because a cycle en gine requires some form of ex haust extension, it is magically quiet? I suggest he place his ear near the business end of one of these "mufflers' V . Am sure the experience would clear his head. I won't pretend that all, cycle . ; jockeys are blockheads, but let's face it, a fair proportion of blockheads' own cycles and take ?f excessive delight in raising hell. I Since a motorcycle has such po r' tential for disturbing the peace, I this individual becomes a con- Crete problem which should be !; faced rather that ignored. I'm sure most cyclists agree. .1 Despite what the factory main- I tains, most motorcycles have 1 enormous noise potentialndr a fair number of their owners seem hell - bent to prove it. t I don't believe asking one to leave his room when the great machines begin to bellow is the 1 answer, Mr. Sandarg. A more realistic solution to a real prob lem is enforcement of both speed limit (20 m.p.h. on cam pus, I believe) and noise ordi nances. , ; If cycles continue to be oper- ated with the same colorful ' abandon, I still maintain that a throat - high wire strung across the road would be suitable re Course to achieve the silent spring. D. K. M. Fox . 323 Parker Rothman Explains Misconceptions Editors, The Tar Heel: : There are several points I wish to clear up about my arti cle, "The Wild West Of North Carolina." '; The column quoted the opin ions of the student interviewed. The opinions definitely are not this columnist's. The. student j however, showed a genuine appreciation of edu cation. ; Furthermore, he discussed the plight of the hillbillies with great sympathy. Thus, he can not be considered a crackpot. "Hillbilfies," incidentally, did not refer to western Carolina's entire population. Rather, it re ferred to the inhabitants of some of the isolated mountain ous areas. The student interviewed real izes that most of Western Caro lina is just as progressive as the state's other sections. David Rothman Industry Seeks Capable W orkers Editors, The T Heeh In reference to David Roth man's "Wild West of North Carolina," being a resident of the western part of North Caro lina 1 would tend to question the validity of Frank Baker's ob servations on that area whh appeared in Tuesday's Tar I would remind Mr. Baker tries are moving to western that more and more indus C. each year; and only a ooI would move a factory to, a nowhere the workers are as . bad as he says they are, cheap lar noTwUhstanding. It would est' Hit seem rather, that this "migration to western N. C. suggests that its people are industrious, capable Workers. , Where else in' the country could a person who has no skill, sense or education, a per ( son who, is irresponsible and troublesome, earn more than $70 a per week. Of .course one of the "hillbil lies" could go to New York or Michigaivand make $90 per week, Ohtil strike time. Then he would' have to borrow money " to. get back to western N, C. where there have been no strik es and no major lay - offs since 1929, Or he might move to eastern N. C. and grow tobacco, a product subsidized by the gov ernment. He might live a bet ter life priming tobacco in the hot sun than working in an air conditioned factory, but I doubt it. Possibly the reason road signs are not shot up in eastern N. C, if that is the case, which I also doubt, is that the racists are saving their ammunition for a race war brought on by idiots like Baker. The land of the sky has been fine for me. like it there. Larry G. Baber 116 Polk SL . By JAMES RESTON , MOSCOW For about $1,000 these days you can go to Mos cow, and gather impressions that are probably not woilh a ' dime. But it is a bracing ex perience and for people who like a long, cold and expensive trip in the, middle of the win ter, it really cannot be match ed. Moscow is a city of contrasts. It has one foot in the moon and the other stuck in the mud. It has a new glass and neon -lighted airport where you can buy cut rate- vodka and fur hats.. Both are essential in these latitudes. . Downtown there are now ever 10,000 taxis, all of which seem to charge front every traffic light, like the kickoff at a foot ball game, and defy pedestrian traffic for all but the most ex prt broken field runners. At GUM's department store, they have three fashion shows a day, and at the fancy restaurants the waiters wear tails and scowl at tips just as they do in New York. Yet in the freezing suburbs, the old women are still draw ing water from outside pumos and carrying it to tipsy old wooden houses that look as though they had been "frozen in the act of Collapse." They; look like figures in a Grand ma Moses pictures that are now showing here at the Pushkin Gallery. Sometimes the new and the old are combined in charming ways. The place is full of vend ing machines (maybe that's what happened to Bobby Bak er), and on Gorky Street you can buy a caviar sandwich by putting a coin in the machine and waiting for an old woman to peer out at you and nod. . She then makes the sandwich and drops it into the slot. Very good too. . In the last five years Moscow has changed in many . subtle ways. Essentially it is the same, but like the country girls who' went to town, it has put on a little more rouge, a little mpre weight, and a few! more, "airs." Some of the women are now tinting and lacquering their hair, in accordance' with the! latest; Paris outragetrepeat ut out-. rage)f, and others are wearing flashes of color around their heads,, but in the main it is a city of silhouettes. Of funereal figures shuffling through the snow against the savage wind, or waiting, always waiting for buses, for newspapers, for gro ceries or something else. I first came here in 1942, when Moscow was under seige from the advancing German Ar my and the only route of trav el from Washington was south- Anonynions Blast Poor Practice Editors, The Tar Heel: The recent article entitled "The Wild West of North Caro lina" reaches an all - time low in reporting, even for the Tar Heel. Is it now the policy of the DTH to publish articles based on information obtained from a person who refused to re veal his identity? It seems a poor practice to allow one to blast away, at a large segment of the states pop ulation from behind a mask of anonymity. - "Frank Baker's" statements are based ort no facts so far as I am concerned. Ort the con trary, they would seem to be built on an apparent basis of rumor, gossip and lies. . It is indeed - commendable that this self styled "intellec tual" who modestly admits to being educated, fluent in his native tongue, arid possesses the ability to do long division is able to pass as such through a value judgement on a section of the state. It must be noted that "Bak er" is not adverse to spending his summers in that part of the state, however. Apparently the author recms to feel there is widespread hav red of Negroes among the citi zens of western N. C. I would like to point out, however, that there has been very little, if, any, history of racial violence in that area. ' It would behoove both Mr. "Baker" and Mr, Rothman to, get their facts in a row bet fore spoofing off on a subject about which neither obviously, knows anything - . Neil Ewh ward to Brazil, across the South Atlantic to Ascension Island and Accra, and thence across the heart of Africa to the Sudan and northward to Cairo. Teheran, and Moscow. It is an easier and more rewarding jorney now. The progress since then is startling. The ragged ghosts in the dim night streets of those days have disappeared. H e people are comfortably and sensibly dressed. They are much better housed than even five years ago, and the g o v ernment has completed between the center of the city and Mos cow University on the upland fringe what must be the largest and ugliest complex of apart ment houses in the history of human habitation. There is much more money, much more food and much more vodka around than in the days of Dick Nixon's political inva sion of Siberia in 1959. Accord ingly no I did not take any measurements personally I have the impression that the girth of the Soviet people, cal culated at the beam, is increas ing at an alarming rate. .And in a misspent life around foot ball games, press club bars, political blow - outs and othe alcoholic establishments in Am erica, I haver seen more be fuddlemeKt in so short a time. Yet at other times and place? the Soviet crowds are much bet ter disciplined than Americans. At the ballet or the th3ter, fo. example, they have achieved two remarkable things: They h -m eliminated that bane of the Broadway theater, the noisy late - comer, and even more commendable, they even seem to have abolished the couimon cough. How this is done with out chlorofoaming anybody clear, but it is obviously one of the great achievements of thea trical history. What a Westerner misses here is variety, spontaneity, and laughter. It is not merely that the clothes are dark and uni form or that the shops all look alike this is understandable but that the faces are uniformi ty' shut and frozen. If they are marching to the . New Arcadia, they don't look ; very happy about it. One al .most longs' for precisely what -Ihey are determined to stamp out: The cult of personality, some sign of individuality or originality; some indication that the human spirit can cry out here in the dim light and be heard. Moscow is a brooding city, though starkly beautiful in the powdered snow. It is changing alright, but changing this vast continental country is a little like trying to change the Atlan tic Ocean. I f i I Printed Stockings Hard On Leg-Men By AHT BUCHWALD The New York Herald Tribune The topless bathing suit has not been very successful. The reason is that men wouldn't go, along with it. They threatened their women, "If you wear a topless bathing suit, I ain't go ing swimming with you." So the fashion designers got sore and they said, "We'll fix em." How did they fix us? They de cided to cover women's legs with wool, flowers and rhine stone stockings. If we are to be lieve the fashion writers, the slim, clean leg of yesteryear is being replaced by what looks to be the fifth leg of a dining room table. , I can speak with authority be cause I happen to be a leg man. The first thing I look at when a girl walks by is her legs. The Buchwalds have always been leg men. They started out, of course, as ankle men in the days when women weren't allowed to show their legs, but as skirts got shorter we started to special ize in limbs, and I remember my daddy once saying to me when I was six years old, "I envy you, son. At your height, you can see legs better than I can." As I grew up I became a great admirer of the female limb. But 1 was a purist. All I asked was a nice, shapely calf in a sheer silk cr nylon stocking supported by an attractive ankle and a high heel. 1 wanted no frills to detract from the view. Wom en ecuM da what they wanted with the rest of their clothes, but I demanded that their legs remain clean, neat, and if pos sible, straight. I did most of my memorable leg watching at sidewalk cafe tables in Paris. . I sat for hours en end, either with ' French or. American friends, looking at limbs. as they went by. Sometimes the waiter wouid join me and we wouk discuss the merits of a French leg as opposed to an Amer ican leg. It was hard work bu it had its rewards. Then, a little more than twe years ago, the shades of t h stockings started to get darker I wasn't worried at first, as : thought it probably had to dc with smog or something. B u . pretty soon the realizatior dawned on me that women were starting to wear blacr stockings. I became very upset. The black stockings, if they were sheer, were not unattractive and in some cases had a cer tain sex appeal. But rny main fear was that the stocking peo ple were about to spring some thing on the public that might change the entire course of leg watching. ' When I expressed my appre hensions to my French friends, they laughed at me. "Legs are too important to women," thev assured me. "They would nev er do anything to detract from them." I wrote my daddy and he wrote back, "I'm scared, t o o, son. I think we're in for a bad time" It took two years before the prediction came true. Sure enough, this year the new stock ings were put on the market. Harlequins, diamond patterns, birds, and even porpoises were woven into the patterns. Every color under the rainbow was Introduced. Despite the fact that the sfock.ngs make women look like Italian coffee tables, they have been selling well. The joys of leg - watching are disappearing right under our eyes. Last Sunday, I 'took my son for a walk, just as my daddy had taken me, and after it was over my son said, "What's so great about legs?" I didn't know what to say.
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