'Sunday, February 24, 1968
Tom Gene West
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Weekly Weatherman
By J. A. C. DUNN
There is something about wea
ther that fascinates Tom Gene
West.
Tom is now the Weekly’s wea
therman, responsible for the cli
matological statistics, analyses,
and predictions that appear on
our front pages. At the moment
<9th grade), Tom is not sure
whether his life will be spent in
politics or weather-watching.
Say Rain! or Snow! or Cold
front! to Tom and a light comes
to his eye. He darts to a window
and peers out, checking. Some
times he can spot an approach
ing cold front without a ther
mometer, although he has three.
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Tom started taking weather
readings last March, noting tem
perature. rainfall, and other facts
on a chart of his own making. By
November he had become so in
terested in weather that he start
ed subscribing to the IT. S. Wea
ther Bureau’s daily weather map
service.
"I just got more and more in
terested in it,” he said, and now
his corner room in his family’s
house on Christopher Road is clut
tered with instruments, charts,
maps, and a small filing box for
documents, ail concerned with
weather. He takes readings at
30 a.m. and 9 p.m. every day.
In addition to a thermometer.
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Distinctive SS identification. Fourteen
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Tom has an aneroid barometer,
the function of which he will ex
plain to you in clear, rapid text
book terms, rattling off the intri
cacies of high and low pressure
areas with practiced ease. He
has a hydrometer, a wind gauge,
a maximum-minimum thermome
ter which records daily high and
low temperatures, a rain gauge,
a weather vane, and a sheet of
glass for measuring the depth
and consistency of snowfalls. In
side and out, the windowsill of
his room is clustered with these
instruments. A special light has
been rigged so the thermometer
can be read through the window
pane at night.
Tom plans to buy a thermo
graph, which records tempera
tures at any given time during
the day; a barograph, which does
the same for barometric pres
sure; and an anemometer, which
measures windspeed more accur
ately than his present pocket wind
gauge. This equipment will cost
Tom about $l5O. Weather is that
important to him.
Torn can read the little clusters
of figures and squiggles on a
weather map, telling you the high
and low temperatures, precipita
tion. visibility, and barometric
pressure in millibars in Houston
or Boston or Kansas City on any
given day.
“Anybody can read the weath
er map in the newspaper/’ he
said. "They only have to try. The
weather map in the newspaper
isn't much good, though, because
it’s about twelve hours late.”
Tom can tell you why Chapel
Hill sometimes has freezing rain
at the bottom of the hill while
only plain rain falls at the top:
the rain has farther to fall to
reach the ground at the bottom
of the hill, consequently has
more time in which to freeze.
Tom can read Weather Bureau
teletype tranmissions. For a
school project earlier this year
he wrote a long paper on weather
entitled “Outlook for Today.”
“Outlook" is quite a few pages
long and includes charts, maps,
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Tom West Working On A Weather Map
all Tom's weather readings for
several months back, and an ex
planation of coded teletype trans
mission of weather conditions.
Tom can read the codes, which
are all numerical. “Amazing!”
his teacher wrote in the margin.
Tom can tell you about strato
cumulus clouds, alto cumulus
clouds, cirrus clouds, and the
dewpoint. He knows how visi
bility is measured and how to
translate fahrenheit temperature
to centigrade.
“I’d like to go into politics," he
said. He is a serious boy. “I’m
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Established In Va.
Morchead Planetarium Director
A. F. Jenzano has been immort
alized in someone elsc’s science
and space establishment.
The Jenzano's Aircraft and Poc
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in Danville, Virginia, by F. Zane
Kinn and eleven boys, among
them Mr. Finn's two sons.
Mr. Kinn is a credit investiga
tor. Three years ago he and his
two sons began building models
of aircraft and rockets, adding
charts and diagrams of space in
formation. Their collection of
material grew quite imposing
quite soon.
Correspondence with Mr. Jen
zano resulted in the 58-piece Kinn
display of charts and models of
aircraft and missile rockets be
ing put on view at the Planetari
um here. It was seen by more
than 8.000 people during its first
month at the Planetarium. The
exhibit was also shown at four
Danville schools, and Mr. Kinn
began lecturing to organizations
on rocketry, space travel, air
craft, and related subjects.
The Kinn projects, which ex
panded to include information on
life in the various military ser
vices < ?slr. Kinn is a World War
II and Korea veteran), started
in an old workshop. Pretty soon
the workshop began to look like
a museum; so the Finns made it
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sure I’d like to have weather as
a hobby all the rest of my life,
and if politics doesn’t work out,
I can work in weather. The fun
of it is in compiling all your
readings, getting highs and lows,
and averages. I’d like to ga to
the California Institute of Tech
nologoy. Thai’s in Southern Cali
fornia. There are several schools
in the country, but that’s the
biggest. The University doesn’t
have anything like it, except the
Georgraphy Department.
“I’d like to go to work in Mi
ami, tracking hurricanes. But
one and named it for Mr. Jen
zano.
Danville police Sergeant A. W.
Wiggs cut the ribbon across the
door to the museum recently,
formally opening it.
The museum now contains over
525 pieces of equipment and over
5,000 pictures and diagrams of
rocketry, aircraft, and astron
omy.
The Jenzano museum will soon
be registerd as a full-fledged na
tional science museum, with con
tents ranging from rocketry to
Civil War history, plus models
and documentary material on the
Marine Corps role in the Pacific
in World War 11.
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the patterns show that most hur
ricanes now are swinging out to
sea. 1 don't think we ll have too
many hurreanes, unless you get
a freak. This is a chart of some
famous hurricanes.’
"We're going to have a very
cold March. There's a fifty-fifty
chance for snow', but if we do
get snow, it won’t be much.
“The highest temperature last
year was 95- The lowest was five
degrees on December 13."
He stepped outside and glanced
at the sky.
“Cold front’s moving in.’’
GOP Senator Will
Talk Here Tuesday
The Rev. Charles W. Strong of
Greensboro, Republican State
Senator from Guilford County,
will address the. University Young
Republicans Club in Gerrard Hall
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
The Chapel Hill Women’s Re
publican Club urges all its mem
bers to attend, as well as other
interested persons.
Mr. Strong, pastor of Greens
boro’s First Christian Church,
gained political prominence last
November by defeating Joe Hunt,
1961 Speaker of the State House
of Representatives and at one
time a prospective 1964 guberna
torial candidate, in a race for the
State Senate.
Mr. Strong is one of two Re
publicans in the Senate in the
1963 Legislature.
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Last £.:n/ay night on Howard
K Smitl television program
there were scenes of poverty
stricken areas which, if you
.hadn’t been told by the eommen
tator. you might have guessed:
were in Latin America, or in cer
tain ■ parts' of Europe, or in Af
rica or Egypt of Asia, or in seme,
of the other more publicized im
poverished secticns of the world
But these sec 'tu> were no: ran
on in Africa or Eu*c;’i* or Asia
or South America ihmy were
filme I right here in t*-.? THut 'J
States the richest country in
t o uiuverf-e, ark. Lie naumi um
brae »g supposedly the highest
standard o. liv g yet attained
by man.
These scenes pictured the ter
rible living conditions and. in
s'mc instances, the rbject ,;quai
i-r. in which an eshmated 30 to
40 million Americans are exist
ing today.
These unfortunate Americans
ranged from unemployed coal
miners in the mountains of West
Virginia, to the pitiable and
jicmeiess migratory agricultural
workers of tho Fasten Seaboard
and the Southwest, and included
tne teme.neiit-shackleu ana uesti
tutc minority groups festering in
ghettos in cities throughout the
nation, one of the mast sordid
of them in Washington. D.
within a few blocks of the Na
tion's Capitol.
Many of these impoverished
Americans arc unemployed, most
arc on some kind of government
supplement, and all o. Itiein ,ind
themselves either without the
Opportunity or the know-how nec
essary to keep themselves from
Icing a social and financial drag
oi society. Yet, in interviews
with many of these people, it
was apparent that their greatest
desire was to gel off relief and
somehow to prepare themselves
for jobs which would secure for
themselves and their families the
material tilings necessary for ac
cent living and the resulting pride
so cssentiaflo human dignity.
Those Americans are not look
ing for charity. They are look
ing an opportunity to provide tor
themselves. And they have look
ed and looked, until they arc
now losing faith in themselves
and i$ (he society into which
l.iey were born.
What is to be done about this
ironic situation certainly one
of the greatest paradoxes to be
found in the march of human en
deavors in the twentieth century?
There has been much medicine
prescribed, but the disease
grows more malignant by the
hour. Mr. Smith suggested that
a great program of public works
be negro to eliminate unemploy
ment and at the same time pro
duce institutions which will be
of continuing aid in educating fu
ture generations of Americans
to provide for themselves
Also, Mr. Smith suggested that
wc must care for our ever-grow
ing segment of "senior citizens,"
and even went so far as to call
for complete medical care for
all citizens over 65 years of age
These seem wortny. if
expensive, suggestions to aid an
aecute social and economic 1
people have so little with which
to buy) problem.
To Mr Smith's Ist of pcn.,c
works could be added such proj
ects as sod -J
reclamation, fresh water eonvei
sion plants, atomic energy elec
tric power pLo.s, deceui a,,..*
quarters for migratory agr,cul
tural workers, and all uie ,»c.iuuLi
necessary to give each America,
child the opportunity to prepare
himself tor a prosperous life.
The projects could, amt pi ooa
bly should, be sold later by the
government to private industry
so that the taxes derived from
their operation coulti be used in
similar other projects.
There are those, ot course. w.d>
will immediately cry ' socialism'
arid “welfare state” to such a
program as Howard Smith has
suggested And no doun t.,ey
are perfectly sincere in their
criticisms. Yet. many o; these
same people Would probably
shrug off tne fact that the Unit
ed States gave away over 3 l i
billion dollars last year alor.e to
foreign countries for military
and other aid. as our nationalist
ic duty.
Already we have by our pro
lific giving created economies
more progressive than ours, m
West Germany, Japan and Italy
(only recently our mortal ene
mies!', while at‘the same time
keeping France, England and a
number of other nations financi
ally afloat.
Yet our own economy drags,
and a large segment of our own
society lists m poverty arid wari
out the hope and pride which
should attach itself to being an
American And they have to im
port laborers to West Gernwiy!
To give is charitaole; but c.’.ar
ity nurtures, ratner than ebm .el
ates, poverty. But to aiford op
portunity is to eliminate de
pression and to lessen poverty,
or, to put it in other wor«s, to
boost prosperity. To a lord op
portunity for all who would take
it must be the hig.iest aim ot all
benevolent government.
Opportunity must be given all
Americans first, then we can
look to the other nations after
that. Is this socialism or is it na
tionalism? Is it a dole or is it
a sacred trust, and a sound
economic arrangement as well,
thus providing all our willing
citizens with an opportunity to
provide for themselves?
But no matter what you call
it or what the cast, the sagtaess
o. tne old saying “charity begins
at home," has never been suc
cessfully refuted. Although . .
ye have the poor always with
yotl,” it’is a poor nation, indeed,
which will not succor its own
poor before those of other na
ticus.
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