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Saturday. January 7 1967 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Page 3 While At Planetarium Control Like You 9re A God You Feel ! . - I -' " - x y I ''; i if. inv "y"'"" ""rri' 11 " nwwyi mA r-r-w mm--m i jj tit n i i i -Li urn n - mi nrr m - rr- --r - r r r niiiifii r amr it -u llljlliiiluiI)lii ijhl.hu i. j:i.i..ui.ijullluijil n mi iir.n mrin 1 -- , r- PERCHING PERILOUSLY above the Pacific this man is gallons of paint and 150 years for one person to do the helping the world - famous Golden Gate Bridge get a new jb himself. Once painted the bridge will not need further facelifting and a fresh coat of paint. It would take 7,000 painting for ten to 15 years. Lot Off Water Under The Bridge ince The First One Was ' Next time you drive under an over-the-highway bridge ... Or nause to watnh wnrlr- . men brushing a huge water spanner with paint ... or read UT PiVA n thnimhf tn tha Havs 3 lovrUach Will You Pay For Good Reading? On our 19c shelf, you'll find dozens , of lively, novels, that somebody valued enough to pay fat money for riot very long ago. You'll also find early works of great novellists Sinclair Lewis, Mitchner, Ilemingway all at 19c each. Discover this treasure-house of books. Remember, when you buy frugally, you can af ford to read lavishly! THE iriTILlATE DOOKSHOP 119 East Franklin Street Open Till 10 P.M. Westvaco.. . i nnr limiino-v I rim ill .1 1 I n r in II partancl parcel of the huge growth in data handling. Growth industries look to Westvaco for leadership in paper, packaging, building materials and chemicals. Want to grow with Westvaco? With over 20 locations to choose from and openings for B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. engineers and scientists; M.B.A.'s; business and liberal arts majors, we've probably got the career combination you seek. Your Placement Office has more detailed information and will arrange an interview with a company representative. All students considered regardless of draft status. Campus Interviewing On: March 1 (only 500 years ago) when most people thought a bridge could be built only with the help of the Devil! . It was believed that the Devil was lord of all the world's waters and his blood boiled every time they were crossed by God's creatures. So whenever Irish peasants crossed a bridge, they used to pray for the soul of the builder because "Sure, and the poor fellow must be roasting in hell " Many folk tales link bridges with magic happenings. Other stories associate bridges 'with miracles. And all pfr us have seen mbvles' In which a bridge "is used to symbolize love,1 mar riage, romance or mystery. Jesus said: "The world is merely a bridge; ye are to pass over it." Xerxes, the Persian Emper or, beheaded the chief engi neer when a pontoon bridge was destoyed by a storm on the river. (Hot-tempered Xer xes also ordered 300 lashes as punishment for the river.) "London Bridge is falling down, falling down" was once close to the truth. It never actually collapsed, but it did sag dangerously because too many houses and stores were - West Virginia Pulp and Paper built on it. The famous bridge, begun in 1176, took 33 years to build and was the center of London social life for 600 years. Bridges through the ages were thus thought dangerous things at best, and it wasn't until 1779 when the first iron bridge went up in Coalbrooke dale, England, that people be gan to believe the Devil's pow ers over bridges and their builders might be ended. With the arrival of steel, the long-span bridge became the challenge of the hour. Cities, counties all. began the; clank ing 'and riveting: competition for? longer and3 longer suspend sion bridges competition that gave us such early marvels as the Brooklyn Bridge which un officially ushered in the Mira cle Age of suspension bridge building.. Everything about the new suspension bridges seemed eternal except their "record" lengths! In the old days, Ro man emperor Trajan's 170-ioot stone arch bridge held down first place for 12 centuries. Brooklyn Bridge's 1,596 -foot record lasted only 20 years. In 1931 the beautiful George Washington Bridge blazed a new record 3,500 feet of sus pended steel. Surely this was a record that was unbreak ablebut it was broken only six years later in 1937, when the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, with its 4,200-foot suspended center span, sur passed that record. To give you an idea of the size of this great structure, if you were to attempt to paint the Golden Gate by yourself, you'd need 7,000 gallons of paint and 150 years to do the job! As it is, a team of 30 men are presently engaged in the 5-year job of hand-coating the bridge with a zinc-rich paint (sprayers can't be used be cause of the high winds). A paint rich in zinc was select ed because in addition to seal ing out the corrosive salt air moisture, it also protects by a unique electrochemical action. This means that the - bridge won't require repainting for 10 to 15 years. The painting will in no way impede the more V I LOOKING FOR SELF-FULFILLMENT? SHERUT LA' AM ISRAEL MAY BE YOUR ANSWER TO: Sherut La'am (Service to the People) 515 Park Avenue New York, N. Y. 10022 I am a graduate - undergraduate (underline one) between 19-30 and would like you to send me, without obligation, FREE information telling how -I can serve a full year in Israel for only $670 which includes round trip fare. (A limited number of long-term loans are available). I under stand a knowledge of Hebrew is not a prerequisite. NAME (Please Print) MAJOR FIELD OF STUDY COLLEGE OR UNIV. STREET ADDRESS - PHONE (Optional) CITY STATE ZIP mam im mmm mm mm -""" mmt mm mmt mm mm mm mm mm mm m Erected than 80,00 cars that cross the Golden Gate every day. The Romans, of course, had no need of corrosive resistant zinc paint, since their bridges and aqueducts were built of stone. In fact, six of their masonry arch bridges over the Tiber River still stand in Rome. The most beautiful of . these is the Ponte di Auguste, built about 5 B.C. The bridges of history whether in Rome, San Fran cisco, or wherever you may travel, tell a rich story and are "worth "seeking out.' For ex ample, seek put fthe pld.Euro- peato i bridges' lined with small shops:0 Or the' Quebec Bridge,J ; over the St, Lawrence, long est cantilever bridge in the world. Look for the mysterious Bridge of Sighs in Venice, spanning the canal between the Duke's Palace and the pris son. After receiving sentences in the palace, prisoners sent across the bridge were said to sigh very loudly. If you're ever in Turkey, look for the oldest bridge in the world, a 40-foot stone slab 2,810 years old in the City of Izmir, a bridge said to be crossed by ; the blind Greek poet, Homer and St. Paul the Apostle. We've come a long way since the first cave man grunt ed and dropped a log across a stream to keep his feet dry. Our steel suspension spans are, to the history of bridges, what the steel skyscraper is to the history of architecture. That old bridge-breaking Devil has been run out of busi ness! He tried a comeback re-' cently in Monroe, Wisconsin, Swiss cheese capitol of Amer ica where-lhe local bridge suddenly collapsed. However, experts found it was an ex cess of lactic acid flowing into the river from the local cheese factories! NCAA RECORD FURMAN, S.C. (UPI) Frank Selvy, former Furman University star, holds the NCAA major college single season scoring record with an average of 41.7 points per game. By DIANNA SUGG Special To The DTH The lights dim, total dark ness envelopes you. As you, gaze up, stars appear in the sky above. Once again the Morehead Planetarium begins a journey above the earth's surface into the fantastic of the stars. The calm, pleasant voice of Donald S. Hall, assistant direc tor of the Morehead Planetari um, narrates the trip from its usual place, the control booth in the circular lecture room. Here, Hall wields his mighty power. With the flick of a switch or the turn of a dial, he can change the appearance of the universe" at will. When asked how he felt to have the power of changing the sky at his fingertips, Hall re plied, "You feel as though you're a god with total power of the heavens in your hands. Sometimes, however, it be comes so routine that you don't realize what you are really doing. "First of all," Hall said, "the instrument is actually the "planetarium" not the build ing. There is a great deal of confusion over this. This in strument is composed of 156 separate projection systems, and each one has its own spe cial role in shaping the pat terns and arrangements. It can show with accuracy any part of the sky from on or near the earth, and it can pro ject the patterns in the sky from 1,000 years in the past to 1,000 years in the future. "The planetarium has the ability to slow down or speed up the movements of constel " lations and stars as they move across the "dome" sky. I can operate all of this from the console, and we can illustrate the objects in the sky by turn ing the earth on its axis in as little as three minutes." Elon Sponsors Dr. Engstrom The first in a series of six lectures of the Liberal Arts Forum of Elon College will be ; 1 held Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m.., m-the William Long Stu7. dent Center. The lecture, by Dr. Alfred Engstrom, will be "Thyme, That Chef of Seasoners: On Time and Its Images in Litera ture." Engstrom is Alumni Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of numer ous articles in nineteenth cen tury French literature, liter ary criticism, comparative lit erature, and symbolism. He has served on the editorial boards of the University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages, . Ro mance Notes, and will serve on the Editorial Advisory Board oC the new "Southern Human ities Review." In 1960 he was recipient of the coveted Tan ner Award at the University for outstanding teaching. MONOGRAM Luncheon Special for Today BACON WRAPPED SIMM! STEM UQnOVIl GRAVY Choice of Two Vegetables Salad w Dressing Beverage Bread & Butter Homemade Layer Cake 97c Isoueu)ent overtook PEDIATRICIAN CAN X f SEE VER m -vf bv- b mm . w m mm m m -w IE . m m m m w m m L 43 rJjZT ? J Irrr II fvyL- When asked about his per sonal training and background in the field, Hall said, "There is really no specific place where one can train. There are no. schools that teach this kind of work. I first became interested in this when I was attending Stetson University in Florida. We had a small planetarium on the campus, but it was not being used. I could see its potential, and I began to promote it. I put the planetarium into service again. I started out to be a school teacher, but T guess V sort of got hooked . ino his business." Hall said a staff of eight narrators moderates the More head programs. "We have four public narrators and four school narrators," he s a i d.. "Our senior public narrator is Norman W. Mattis, chair man of the UNC Department of Speech. Richard S. Dodson, a retired science editor of This Week magazine and author of several booklets about astron omy, is also one. Roy H. Pat teson, professor of history and the Bilble at Peace College in Raleigh, and Herbert Marx, promotion director of WRAL Television in Raleigh serve as additional public moderators." The school narrator's pri mary function is to lecture to the many school children that visit the planetarium. "I help in this group," Hall said. VAlso, we have Richard W itch Doctors Lead Busy Lives In India NEW DELHI (UPI) Few people believe in witches any more, but in eastern Indian witches, sorcerers and tiger men abound. Not every person in eastern India believes in the local witches, of course, but those who don't . seldom advertise it. Why tempt fate? Especially when fate has a pretty strong case. According ' to official gqvernent statistics, in the former principality of 'Mayurbhunj no fewer than - '(and possibly more than) 38 murders have been attributed to witches during the past five years. According to Nityanand Das, the chief officer of the May urbhunj Tribal Research Bu reau, "even the most educat ed persons" in his area believe in witchcraft. He said witch doctors and sorcerers are in great demand in the country side for the treatment of "evil influence of evil spirits" and snake and scorpion bites. Witch doctors also are call ed upon to provide sons to Hindu families and fees are high because only a son can offer "food and water" to the departed soul of the father. The witch doctors also med iate land disputes and track down thieves. In the lower belt of the ROOM AND LOCV AND I BOTH GOT MEASLES SHOT$NaO(WEtLNteR GET MEASLES, fSNT THAT bhiAT 7 ' " M I F II . I YtTZZTTZZZZZZT , ,,-r,, I I C hi it wuat ic tuc piut owp 4 I v fit?" I I C.W EIGHT ONE r S COMK AU5NG.AN "SEES ( i nT) t 7 COMES ALDN&.J UE t 1 k l " IIP .. I) 1 f :?z- 1 ! ! fll-M 'U J !f?i ;n I fir- f " 1 LJk. j Morehead Planetarium Building S. Knapp, an education assis tant, Charles G. Barbely, and John W. Stupak, both UNC stu dents. . "We are not astronomers here," he said. "Astronomers are research scientists who probe the universe. We are simply interested in telling about the universe. We gather the facts from observatories and distribute them to the peo ple. This is my fourth year with the Morehead Planetari um, and I love the work. There is a rapidly growing interest in this line of work, and in another two years the number of planetariums in the coun try will probably double." western Himalayas there .'are legendary man - animals that prowl the jungles as tigers at night and take on the appear ance of men in the daylight. Cases are on record of such tigermen of the Bok-Sarrh re gion having gone from -village , to village raping and robbing in a most organized orgy 'of destruction. Few of these cas es are reported to the police, however because of, fear .of A ( evil splits , , v .' Nityartarid"" Das kn6ws ' li6w' great "the problem is. ' He also" 7 believes in witches. DAILY CROSSWORD "ACROSS vl. Applaud ' 5. Rapid 10. Plexus 11. Whiter 12. Grape 13. Greek letter 14. Charles Lamb, by pen-name 16. Pronoun 17. Sound of a large bell 19. Goddess of. harvests . 20. Start 22. Belonging to a Nevada , city 24. Preposition 25. Swiss river 26. Article: Fr. . 27. Time flies: Lat. 31. Like 32. Bitter vetch 33. Italian river 34. Asterisks 36. Oil of . rose petals 39. Old weight for wool 40. Sacred bull 42. Perform 43. Remnants 45. First-person contraction 46. German spa 47. Of Troy 49. Wings 50. Sicilian volcano : var. 51. Triumphs DOWN, 1. Bread -' particle 2. RiveJr em bankment 3. Sweetsop 4. Hebrew letter 5. Revolved 6.. Burmese language 7. Fr. island 8. Criminal 9. Libyan seaport ; 13. Negative prefix . 15. Article r of value 17. Cuplike container for liquids raft rr mem.nmsoa A VACGNS HAS BEEN DEVELOPS? SO THAT CHILDREN DOtfTHAVH 10 GET MEASLES, AND.- 1 , - - - iEXc IS HERETO SttiTC til! Stt.ha.lt tq:jy Guimo COilllHO. AnruvEDEnci, LUES . . . numn 5:00-7:00-9:00 18 Title of, nobility in Ger many Chicle Bursts forth Beast of burden 21. 23. 25. 27. 28. Flavor Its capital is Tallinn Saturday's Answer 38. Flowers 41. Pineapple: Sp. 44. Perch 46. High priest 48. Indefinite article 49. Word of 29. Minor or Major Obtained Muddle Point Madison Ave. toiler. 30. 35. 36. 37: disgust SLAY! -jQfE TFtjNJjEiWjE L. oiM c g3TnAifp r i T AHMTTjA0H U N 16 ' I2 I3 I4 VX5 I6 P I8 I9 tf i-ilP; - 20 21 23 27 73 29 30 ZZZjLZZZWEZ 41 inn-Mi- I KNOW WHAT VOU'RE HINTING 230 Park Av... N.w York. N.Y.10017
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