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Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1963 Before It Was Just A Drunk By RED SMITH In the New York Herald Tribune Between halves of the Army- Navy football game last year, cadets and midshipmen formed a double row across the field and John F. Kennedy walked PARTONT ® MmmML NEW YORK • LUGANO. SWITZERUNO pre-holiday Save 60$ Barton’s Miniature Fruit Cakes Hi Save 58* Barton’s Miniature Chocolates Luscious! Barton’s Minia ture rum-flavored Fruit Cakes with nuts and glazed fruit. 15 to a box. Reg. $2.79, now $2.19. Scrump tious! Barton’s assortment of Miniature Continental Chocolates. 1 lb. 5 oz. 106 pieces—23 different cen ters. Reg. $2.87, now $2.29. Double size—2 lb. 10 oz. reg. $5.74, now only $4.58. Specials on sale till December sth only. If you wish, we will also take your orderthrough December sth, and deliver on any day younamebeforeChristmas. ianztger’a Old World Gift Center 153 E. 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Halfway across, a drunk broke through the line and was almost within arm’s reach of the President when Secret Serv ice men grabbed him. Laughter started in the crowd but choked off. „ Suppose the drunk hadn’t been drunk? Suppose he had a gun? It could have happened there in Philadelphia, before 100,000 witnesses. No doubt the 64th Army-Navy game will come off as sched uled next Saturday, if anybody cares. It is difficult to conceive of anybody caring but life has to on, and work, and prob ably play, too. John Kennedy enjoyed games as e participant and spectator, and sports had his hearty offi cial support as President. There is no disposition here to condemn the few college au thorities who did not call off their games yesterday or the men in the National Football League who decided to go through with today’s schedule. A while back some promotion ' man on the Herald Tribune •lumped the paper’s book re viewers and drama and tele vision critics and a few others into a group he called. The Tastemakers but this peanut stand wasn’t included. What seems bad taste to one man is plain common sense to another. What one considers de cent respect is mawkish in other eyes. Maybe it’s important to de termine whether the St. Louis Cardinals can upset the Giants in Yankee Stadium today, whether the Bears can push on against the Steelers in Pitts burgh. There’s a race to be finished and there’s money in vested. Money. Maybe a lot of people will feel it perfectly proper to at tend. Like it or not, we newspa per stiffs will have to be there because that’s our job as much as A. Tittle’s job. If Yale and Harvard had played yesterday, we’d have had to be there, too. Thank heaven they didn’t. Work must go on, but there’ll be other days to shiver in that crepe-gray heap called Yale Bowl being lighthearted about a game for children. CULTON TO SPEAK Bob Culton, director of physic al education and athletics for Chapel Hill schools, will be the speaker at tonight’s meeting of the Chapel Hill Rotary Club. The dinner meeting begins at 6:30 at the Carolina Inn. Mr. Culton will be presented by program director Howard Thompson, sup erintendent of Chapel Hill schools. BILLY ARTHUR I thought my proposed hill billy lyrics were such that would end all hillbiHy tunes, but now I know nothing like that will ever happen. Could it be so, there would have been none since 1858, for in that year, according to The State Magazine, the Farmers and Planters Almanac rhymister rhymed: “When Peggy’s arms her dog imprison, I often wish my dog was hisen. How often would I stand and turn And take a pat from hands like hern.” * * • ~ Before the Duke-Carolina game was postponed, Dr. Mar vin Chapin said he was going deer hunting that Saturday. “The last time I went deer hunting, we beat Duke 50 to 0,” he said. “And I’m going again Saturday and taking the same transistor radio that I listened in on the last time.” When Jim Phipps heard that, he added, “Now, if we can get John Umstead to go dude hunt ing at Lake Mattamuskeet, we’re set. That’s where he was the last time.” I don’t know whether Dr. Chapin will have time off to get back on a deer stand, but there’s certainly plenty of time left to cart John down to Hyde County. * * * Fellow ordered six hundred beads from us and then wanted two pieces of piano wire. “Betcha want to know what I want with this,” he suggested. We did. “When I was over in Japan I —Looking Back— j From the Weekly’s files: IN 1923 Progress “The steel framework for the third story of the Carolina Inn at the west gate of the campus is almost all in place. The plan is still to finish and open the Inn in the spring.” Advertisement: We Cut Meat To Suit The Customer Prices Likewise LEIGH’S MARKET Phone 59 (Residence 56) IN 1933 - Headline: Woollen’s Run Launches Spirited Attack as Game Nears End, and Carolina Beats Virginia, 14 to 0 1 * With Oily about 8 Minutes to Play, Chapel Hill Youth Returns Punt THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY I learned to use an abacus. And now I’ve got a lot of calculat ing to do. So I’m going to make me one. This’ll cost about $5, and that’ll beat buying an SBOO calculator.’.’ " • * * —* Most accommodating fellow. I’ve heard of lately was Dr. George Baroff. When a little girl wanted to know in a local store if a moccasin kit had a sole big enough for her dad, Dr. Baroff promptly removed his shoe and let her take a measure. * * • Our Billy Jr. is not alto gether sold on ordering things by mail. “They told me,” he said, “that a boy in Glenwood School or dered something in the third grade and didn’t get it till he was in the fifth.” * * • Something I thought I’d never see occured at Aldersgate Methodist Church Sunday morn ing: They were short one collec tion plate and had to hold up the service while one was ob tained from another part of the church. * * * Speaking of churches, Archi tect Archie* Davis of Durham says the worst dispute he ever had with a client was about putting a play room in a church basement. “The board told me they were afraid a play area might lead to some sort of gambling,” Ar chie said. “And I told them that I had lost more money out ing odd and even numbers in a hymn book than I ever did play ing poker.” To Virginia’s 11-Yard Line, and Touchdown Follows: Barclay, Intercepting Pass, Makes Another Bicycling Rejuvenated “Mrs. Olsen and Mrs. A. W. Hobbs rode over to Durham and back on their bicycles the other day—2s miles. The round trip took them about three hours. They may go to Raleigh, but if they ride as far as that they will probably come back on the bus with their wheels checked as baggage, up on top. “Bicycling is winning new ad herents in Chapel Hill every day. Mrs. McClamroch hasn't got her wheel, yet but she has made a preparation nearly as important; that is, she has obtained a beau tiful divided skirt . . . "Other bicyclists are Mrs. Sum merlin and Mrs. Knight . . . “One of the most enthusiastic devotees of the rejuvenated sport, Mrs. Paul Green, came back from Hollywood this week and is riding with Mrs. Olsen and other friends.” IN 1943 From the issue of November 25: Edney. Army Pilot, Missing Over China "Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Edney received a message from the War Department this week saying that their son, Captain James S. Edney, Army pilot, was missing in action somewhere over Chin ese territory. Captain Edney, who entered the Army about four years ago, is 24 years old. He has a wife and a three-weeks-old son in San Antonio. “The Edneys have two other sons in the service. Joseph Ed ney is a Marine at Cherry Point, N. C." Capt. Edney Is Safe “Mr. and Mrs. Fred Edney have learned that their son, Cap tain James S. Edney, Army pilot, who was reported missing over China last week, is safe. The news came through Captain Ed ney’s wife. His parents under stand, from the message they received, that , he is wounded, but not dangerously, and is back with his own men.” IN 1953 “Two Chapel Hillians, L. O. Kattsoff and Mrs. Sarah Watson Emery, will speak in Raleigh at the afternoon session of the fall meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society. Mr. Katts off will give a paper on ‘lntuition’ and Mrs. Emery on ‘Academic **reedom’ . . . ac>u,& PAINTING * PAPERING DutM HI Margaa at INal <M4O| Seasoned Man Who Had Met The Test By MARQUIS CHILDS In his office in the White House toward the end of his working day on a beautiful fall evening President Kennedy seemed confident, self-contained, as almost always with the glint of humor flashing quickly and as quickly gone. It was the last of several private talks 1 had with him during his Presidency. After waiting a moment or two in the big, softly lighted oval room he came in from the next-door office of his personal secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, where through the doorway I had seen him bending over her desk. Earlier he had held a press conference that he felt was more jsuccessful than most. Briefly he talked about a reporter’s question to which he had res ponded with what was for him exceptional gravity. I had come to see him on a special mission. I proposed to write a short book on the wave of “hate Kennedy” emotion that had caught up certain parts of the country, particularly the South, along with elements in the North as well. This seemed to me, as I said to him, to re semble the know-nothingism of the “hate Roosevelt” wave of the mid thirties. I reminded him that I had written in 1936 a magazine arti p v * : REASSIGNED—Airman Henry D. Turrentine, son of Mrs. May ola Turrentine of Rt. 2, Chapel Hill, is lieing reassigned to Greenville AFB, Miss., for tech nical training as a United States Air Force fire protection special ist. Airman Turrentine, who en listed in the Air Force a short , time ago, lias completed his ini- j tial basic military training at j Lackland AFB, Texas. Estate Authority Speaks At WCUNC A prominent educator and -a nationally recognized authority on estate planning will be at The University at Greeasboro Dec. 5 to speak at an all-day Seminar sponsored by the Cen tral North Carolina, Eastern North Carolina and Charlotte Chapters of the American So ciety of Chartered Life Under writers. Lecturing at the morning ses sion begins at 10 a.m. in Stone Auditorium. The Seminar is sponsored jointly by the North Carolina C. L. U. Chapters and the American College of Life Un derwriters, Bryn iMawr, Penn. The C. L. U. society has more than 7,000 members throughout the nation, who have met the stringent requirements prescrib ed by the college. Insurance men, attorneys, accountants and trust officers from all over North Carolina are expected to attend the event. George L. Coxhead, Arthur S. Deberry, Jr., L. E. Johnson and Frank J. Schwentker, local in surance men, are Chartered Life Underwriters. ATTEND CONFERENCE Hunter Baliew, Dr, Jack E. Blackburn, and Mary T. Lane, all of the University at Chapel Hill, attended the recent South eastern Regional Conference of supervisors of student teachers. The conference was held at East Carolina College in Greenville. | ~\ \ i j de, celled “They Hate Roose velt,” which had caused a con siderable stir at the time. On the extreme left the Communists at tacked Roosevelt as a mere tem porizer and do-gooder while from the extreme right he was denounced as a socialist or worse who meant to nationalize all property. With the quick perceptivity that characterized him he con sidered this for a moment. He smiled, a skeptical look on his face. “Do you think that’s really true?” he asked. “I wouldn’t think so. 1 wouldn’t think that I was a target in anything like the same way that FDR was.” This, it should be added, is from my recollection of our talk, but it could hardly be more vivid in the light of the tragedy that has occurred. That quiet room seemed so removed from the turmoil and conflict of the world and yet you sensed that it was the quiet of the eve of the storm. The President, still youthful-looking after nearly three years in the office, sat in his rocking chair with the com posure that was his hallmark. "No,” he continued, "It may spill over on me. But I really wouldn't think that 1 was a primary target as FDR was. These people are very frustrat ed. They seem to think you can (solve everything by going back somewhere. I don’t know where. But 1 don't see why they would direct this at me.” This seenqed to me to reflect another Kennedy characteristic. He was reluctant to believe that that he whs’ not liked by every one. He wanted to think that he could be President of all the people. He could not understand why he should be hated. I spoke of having been a short time before in Mississippi. There I was told by individuals who had been threatened with vio lence by the extremist groups that the safety of neither the President nor his brother Rob ert, the Attorney General, could be guaranteed if they came into the state. The impression they gave was that rabid hatred was so deep-rooted that acts of des peration could not be prevented, some of this I had put in my column. “Yes, I saw that,” the Presi dent said. “But I don’t want to believe it. I can’t believe it. 1 ]] LET US jUK In looking back to Thanksgiving celebrations of yecirs gone by, it is only that we should remember to be grateful for the count less blessings that have been bestowed upon this nation since its ISttl early Days - At this time, we at Orange Savings & Loan Association join with the rest of our countrymen in humble ■ thanksgiving for our American way of life, and we sincerely extend to you and yours, our very best wishes for your continued prosperity. CHAPEIHILL NORfm^OLINA can’t believe that that can be true. "Os course, we get a lot of letters in here that are pretty strong. They're violent even. And I’d be glad to have you see samples of those. But hasn’t there always been that sort of thing?" We talked briefly of the attack on Adlai Stevenson outside the hell in Dallas where the spoke on United Nations Day. Steven son was hit over the head by a sign-carrying rightist and spat on by a student as extremists shoved in at him when he left the hall following his speech. “He told me,” the President said, “that the ovation he got in the hall from several thousand people was one of the warmest he ever received. Yet it was the 50 or so outside who made the headlines. That’s often the way it is—the people on the fringe get all the attention.” Still another characteristic was evident as he talked. Mr. Kennedy thought of him self as more conservative than the liberals who supported him in his own party. He said: “You know when I first ran for Congress in 1946 I believed pretty much the line that the centralization of our government had gone so far that it was a great danger and that we were likely to spend ourselves into bankruptcy. So I can understand these people. And if they don’t read anything else, and you know in a lot of places the newspapers carry nothing but this sort of thing, how can they reach a judgment on what the situation really is.” When we got onto the coming campaign year, he was full of zest and seemingly without any serious concern over a struggle that would make such heavy de mands on his time and energy. With all the South gone, he said, and then amended himself to add, or most of it, we’ll have to go after other states we didn't carry last time. He laughed about Senator Barry Goldwater, Church of Christ meeting at 205 Alumni Bldg. Sandays 10:00 and 11:00 a. m. 6:00 p. m. For information call John Harris at 942-5763 saying, “Let him go, let him alone, Barry’s doing just fine.” This was a highly competitive man who wanted to. win not only every game- but every inning of the game. With this went a spirit of derring-do, bravado almost, that often led him to defy danger. On his trip to New York a week ago he declined a police escort, taking his chances on the tangle of traffic in the city to the con sternation of the New York po lice force. Although the two major pieces of his program, the tax and the civil rights bills, were bogged down in Congress, he seemed un daunted. His mood was in mark ed contrast with that of a visit I had with him in the oval study upstairs somewhat more than a year after he had taken the oath of office. Speaking of his 14 years in the Congress and his 15 or so months in the Presidency he said in a somber vein that he had begun to wonder if the coun try was governable sit all. Now on this bright, clear eve ning he seemed a seasoned man, a man who had met the initial test and who had no doubt of his ability to meet the challenges still ahead. He had mastered the most difficult job in the world and if he had any qualms about the future he gave no sign of it. That is the terrible irony of the moment when the bullet of a madman snuffed out his life. BACK IN STOCK! The Civil War Christmas Album Christmas stories, verse, and pictures, chosen from magazines published during the Civil War. Published at $4.95, we have only 100 copies to offer as our Christ mas special. Now Only m No mail THE INTIMATE BOOKSHOP lit East Franklin St. Open Till 10 P.M. Page 3-B
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