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NOW & Then by Bill Prouty
You know, outside of watching
television real sharp, the quick
est way of getting 3 close-up
look down a nervous gun barrel
is to be a bank teller in North
Carolina, preferably a woman
teller in a small Tar Heel town.
The recent stick-up over at Ken-*
ly is only the latest in a line
that reaches almost out of sight.
Seems like heisting banks
has replaced manufactur
ing home-made whiskey as the
favorite extra-legal outdoor sport
for Tar Heels in a hurry to stay
one jump ahead of the law. Be
cause, either I’m reading the
wrong accounts, or there’s more
bank robbing in North Carolina
per capita than in any other
place in the whole world
Adger Wilson^V^y
About this question:
“I’ll be out hunting soon and tot
ing my guns with me. This new
Homeowners Policy—would it cov
er theft and damage to my guns
and hunting equipment, and also
my personal liability for a hunt
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for the answer to this, and
all your insurance questions,
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Can't exactly figure it out,
either, for all things being equal,
North Carolinians don’t figure to
be any more ornery than other
folks.
Maybe it all started back yon
der when the politicians over
in Raleigh in pre-Depression
days decided it would be a fine
thing for the state to connect
each of the hundred county
seats with paved roads. Which
they did, thereby putting a lot
of concrete in quiet country
places and providing a whole
heap of ways for farmers to
come to town, and incidentally
for bank robbers to take off in
any of several directions from
most any place in the state.
Then, too, there’s lots of peo
ple (especially up in Virginia)
who claim that Tar Heels are the
tightest folks with a buck in all
of Dixie, and that it’s only natu
ral that some of them would put
the double—o on all that green
stuff piled up so casual like in
so many little sparsely-populated
branch banks. It’s a base can
ard, of course, and no doubt per
petrated by those in the South
land who are jealous of the Old
North State’s amazing recovery
from the financial setbacks suf
fered in the recent War Be
tween the States. But you know,
where there's money lying
around, there's liable to be some
thieves about.
Then, there's the “tourist”
trade that ought to be consider
ed. Lots of these robberies in
North Carolina are pulled by for
eigners you know—some from up
Tideland Virginia way, if I re
collect right. Anyway, North
Carolina, with its many paved
roads and highways and a branch
bank or drive-in bank on near
ly every ten miles of these
roads, is about halfway between
the great population centers of
the East and the winter play
grounds of Florida.
And when certain of these
“tourists” get to North Carolina,
either anticipating the delights
to be had at the Florida horse
and dog tracks just down the
road, or coming North financial
ly limp from having visited too
often at the tracks and other
spurious spas along the way, it’s
only natural that certain of them
would notice that there’s a lot
of money in little banks mothered
over by a lone lunch-left lady
teller. And some of these folks
have been known to make illegal
passes at piles of this green
stuff before beating hasty re
treats either north or south with
their easy-gotten gains.
But being a “Tar Heel bred,”
and uncommonly proud of my
state’s accomplishments, let me
hasten to note that by far the
greatest number of our bank
robbers are genuine Tar Heels
and not interlopers, as some out
of-state sources would have you
believe.
And while I’m bragging, let
me say that North Carolina,
along with its unprecedented
number of bank heists and stick
up men, also seems to have the
world's worst bank robbers. That
is, they get away with the most
but get caught the quickest .of
any yeggs I’ve ever read after.
Why, for a while there during
the summer, the real heisting
season, the law didn’t even
bother chasing bank robbers in
the eastern part of the State.
The local police and an FBI
man or two just went down to
Carolina Beach and waited for
some fellow to come down and
start throwing big money around,
and they’d have their man and
the money, minus mileage al
lowance. of course.
In fact, the Tar Heel brand
of bank robber is gettin so casu
ally caught that its hard to be
lieve our boys have really got
their hearts in their work any
more. And maybe they haven't.
Maybe the well-known admoni
tion, “as nervous as a Tar Heel
teller." will soon be only a for
gotten phrase, along with such
facetious Tar Heel tags from
out of the past as “Craven
County com,” “Wilkes County
whiskey,” r “good l ole mountain
(Great Smokies) dew,” and
“money printed in Durham, or
Jacksonville.”
In the meantime, dear fellow
Tar Heels, unless you have a
hankering to look down the large
barrel of a nervous pistol, per
haps you’d best stay out of North
Carolina branch banking facili
ties when they first open up in
the mornings and during lonely
lunch hours.
Because some of these days
one of those guns is just bound
to go off.
—Pete Ivey’s Town & Gown —
(Continued from Page 1)
North Carolina, but quickly gave
up the notion.
That play was “The Prince of
Parthia,” a Shakespearean type
drama. It was written in 1758 by
Thomas Godfrey of Wilmington.
It was a tragedy in blank verse.
Not only was it the first North
Carolina play, it also was the first
American play to be produced
professionally. Players of the
Southwark Theater in Philadel
phia put it on.
John Parker ran a scene from
“The Prince of Parthia” at an
event in Raleigh several years
ago. It might have been good in
1758, but for today’s audiences
it is not fitting. So, the Play
makers refrained from showing
the 200-year-old drama in favor
of a light mid-20th century musi
cal.
* • *
Although the Playmakers didn’t
produce an aged play for the
Tercentenary, they did stage the
production in an ancient theater.
The Carolina Playmakers Thea
ter is one of the most beautiful
architectural accomplishments of
North Carolina history. Its real
and original name is the Benja
min Smith Building, and it was
built in 1850 and used first as a
dance hall for students. Later
dancing dipped in stature as a
cultural pursuit befitting a uni
versity, and the building was
converted into a library. As e li
brary, with ample shelves for
—Chest—
(Continued from Page 1)
111 and Mrs. Sterling Steudemire
were recognized as residential
division solicitation leaders. Shir
ley Waddell was recognized as
publicity chairman. AH other
division leaders were present.
The Motif of this year’s cam
paign is four C’s, standing for
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Community
Chest. The progress of the drive
will be reported daily with flags
mounted on the corner of Frank
lin and Columbia Streets. Five
flags, each representing 20 per
cent of the total goal, will be
raised as each fifth of the quota
is coUected. Each of the first
four flags will carry a C. Not
until the full goal has been
achieved will the public know
what is on the fifth fag.
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Franklin St.
School Sale
Is On Agenda
The Chapel Hill School Board
will continue discussion of the
sale of the Chapel Hill Senior
High School and West Franklin
School property at its meeting at
,7:30 tomorrow night in the Su
perintendent’s office.
The architect selection com
mittee is scheduled to present
three architects from which to
choose one to design a new
Chapel Hill high school.
The architect will start work
on the new school if the sale of
the West Franklin Street property
is consummated. The sale, to be
a public auction in the high
school auditorium, will be held
Nov. 12. The Board has been ad
vertising for bids at the sale.
In addition, die Board will:
—Discuss the revised school
budget. Revision was made neces
sary after the County Commis
sioners granted the Board s4l of
a $42-per-pupil current expense
allocation for the current year.
—Discuss the policy on school
children taking trips away from
school.
—Hear a report from Superin
tendent Howard Thompson on his
conference with school principals
concerning the Board’s policy on
fund-raising campaigns in the
schools.
Randolph-Macon
Activities Today
Randolph-Macon alumnae will
hold their annual fall luncheon
meeting Wednesday at 1 p.m. in
the Club Room of the Carolina
Inn.
All alumnae of Randolph-Macon
living in Chapel Hill or its vicini
ty are invited. Reservations may
be made as late as tomorrow by
calling Miss Sarah Sutton at 942-
3584 after 7 p.m.
Mrs. Albert Coates, president
cf the Chapel Hill Chapter, will
give a report on the Alumnae
Council meeting she recently at
tended at Randolph-Macon.
books, it made an admirable hos
telry for horses of General Sher
man’s cavalry when Yankee
troqps occupied Chapel Hill. The
horses were quartered between
the shelves of books. That cir
cumstance was the source of
Chancellor Emeritus Robert B.
House’s line years later that ever
since Michigan horses were
stabled in the University of North
Carolina library, “Michigan
horses have been noted for their
intelligence, and Carolina stu
dents for their horse sense.”
The Smith building has been
the headquarters for the Law
School and as a chemistry labora
tory. For a decade it was the
only place on the campus where
students could take a' shower
bath. Showers were installed in
the basement, and boys from Old
East and West and from gym
practice in Bynum Building
bathed themselves there.
With funds from the Carnegie
Foundation and from the North
Carolina Legislature, the Smith
Building was made into a theater
under the leadership of Professor
Frederick H. Koch.
—Russian—
(Continued from Page 1)
ticians. Dr. Wassily Hoeffding and
Dr. Walter Smith.
Earlier last week, possible vio
lation of the Speaker Ban arose
when former University student
Larry Phelps, a founder of the
Progressive Labor Club and a par
ticipant in a trip to Cuba by 58
students last summer, spoke in
formally to a group of students
in Everett Dormitory. It was not
clear whether Phelp’s dorm ap
pearance was a violation of the
ban. However, he has been for
bidden to make formal talks on
the campus.
Help the needy through the
Community Chest.
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Gag Law Assailed By State Senator
State Senator Perry Martin
took a stand Tuesday directly op
posite from Judge L. J. Phipps
in appraising the State's feeling
about the North Carolina Gag
Law.
Judge Phipps had aaid in a
speech in Garrard Hall the night
before that he believed 75 per
cent of the people of North Caro
lina were for the Gag Law.
Senator Martin, speaking to
UNC Young Democrats in Gerrard
Hall Wednesday night, said he
believed that “if the Gag Law
is properly explained as you stu
dents understand it, 75 per cent
of North Carolinians wouldn't
stand for it.”
Senator Martin said he felt
the Gag Law was the “greatest
legislative mistake since 1900.”
He said sc in the Senate, and
gave reasons why House Bill 1395
was a “legislative mistake”: it
was "railroaded through the
legislature"; it was not consid
ered by any legislative commit
tee; it was not placed on the of
ficial calendar. Instead, it came
to the Senate from the House by
special messenger, and a voice
vote was called on it “before the
Senators realized what was going
on.”
Senator Martin said that the
day after the passage of the Gag
Law, “we managed to rally
enough votes to defeat the bill.
However, it was claimed that a
re-vote would be embarrassing
to the president of the Senate, so
the idea was dropped.”
Senator Martin called the Gag
Law an insult to a variety of
things, among them North Caro
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eral, and the Fifth Amendment.
He concluded his comments on
the Gag Law with a hopeful pre
diction: “I also believe that this
insult will be removed before
any of you present are elected to
the Legislature. And if it is not,
I hope you will remove it.”
On Senate redistricting. Sena
tor Martin said he was glad the
legislature had been able to take
action on redistricting by itself,
in a special session, instead of
letting the matter be handled by
the Supreme Court under the
equal protection clause.
“The decision (to redistrict)
was difficult. It was necessary to
approve the Little Federal Plan
. . .in order to accomplish re
districting. We had to place 90,-
000 to *I,OOO in each district
without cutting across county
lines.” The difficulty in this, he
said, resulted from a population
spread among North Carolina’s
counties, from 275,000 in Meck
lenburg to 4,000 in Tyrrell.
Senator Martin also compli
mented the Legislature on the
defeat of the Court of Union Bill.
The Bill would have organized a
group of 50 North Carolina jus
tices to pass on Supreme Court
decisions and judge whether the
Court had properly exercised its
power.
“The Supreme Court has served
our nation well since 1790, and
in all times has been the real
salvation of this nation. From
Marbury vs. Madison to the
Brown case to the religious is
sues there has been nothing com
parable to the Court in the sal
vation of the democracy of this
nation.
“It is no time for a country
to kill its umpire and look for
something better. If life is chang
ing steadily among races and
creeds, then laws must change.
It is up to the young citizens to
defend the court.”
Senator Martin also made a
plea for young Democrats to par
ticipate in the government.
"The Democratic Party is in
real danger,” he said. '‘Many
mistakes made in the last legis
lative session were made by
Democrats not worthy of the
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North Carolina will no longer be
known as the ‘Citadel of Free
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