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Have you noticed How much longer a car lasts after the children are married? 4 Volume 41, Number 95 And Into The Gator Bowl Last Minute FG Lifts UNC Over Duke, 16-14 By BILLY CARMICHAEL 111 What a difference a play makes! The play was a 42-yard field goal by Tar Heel Max Chapman with 33 seconds remaining that shoehorned Carolina past Duke, 16-14, in their annual hootenanny, performed before 47,500 fans gath ered together in Duke Stadium on Thanksgiving Day. For the Tar Heels Chapman’s crossing the bar made a whale of a difference. It gave Carolina a season's record of 8-2, its best since 1948. It earned the Tar Happy Tar Heel Days Are Here Again . . . TOWN i . atid I GOWN I L. . By PETE IVEY E*ml Propped up in bed, with the light just right, I have been in ducing sleep by reading tech nical books—volumes in science, in sociology, economics, city planning,- psychology, philosophy, anthropology. It has produced, not only the desired soporific effect, but a by-product: a well - organized dream. I dreamt that a national foun dation awarded me SIOO,OOO to find out why a chicken crosses the road. The dream, in full detail, follows: Subject of Research Applica tion: “Inquiry Into the Intra- Thoroughfare Transmigration Mo tivations of a Poultry Population. The Methodology utilized in the approach to the problem consist ed of stratified samples of chick en conduct. This was comprised of habits, instincts, customs, and other empirical evidence of self instituted progression on foot by hens, roosters, pullets, cockerels, biddies and other fowl, from sub stantive and procedural concep tual dynamics both in specifics and as a continuum to give ap propriate examination to the phenomena of fowl inter-actions and behavior patterns. * * * The research team consisting of four psychologists, two phy sicists, two philosophers, one eco nomist, nine sociologists, a city planner, a consulting highway engineer, and a veterinarian, were assisted by a squadron of two dozen graduate students in kindred disciplines. The chickens utilized were 3,- 997 in number—and were select ed impartially from poultry farms, hen houses, barnyards, chicken coops on the acres of •mall farmers, and posi-gradu (Contlnued on Page 3) Heels the co-championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference with N. C. State, the first time Caro lina has ever scratched in this department. And though Chapman’s kick carried only 42 yards, the re sult of it ■will carry the Tar Heels 499 miles to Jacksonville on Dec ember 28th to play an unnamed opponent in the Gator Bowl. For the Belive-It-or-Not follow ers there is this to report: —The score was exactly the same as last year's game when Junior Got The Goal Post Pad, Coach Aycock The Ball By 808 QUINCY Junior Edge sat at the rear of the bus wearing full gear and a * sizeable smile. He had chosen the outside seat, next to the win , dow. Beside him was a white canvas cover. “Goal post pad,” said Edge, patting his newly acquired prop erty. “Fellow out f-.ere (pointing toward the field) tore it off and gave it to me. This is something I’m going to keep with pride.” The canvas had been a part of the goal which was cleared by Max Chapman's 41 - yard field goal, a kick which was as dis astrous to Duke as the one Mrs. O’Leary’s cow gave Chicago. It meant a 16-14 North Carolina victory. * * * The bus moved slowly from the edge of Duke Stadium to ward the exits. Swarms of fans waved and shouted. The players would either nod or wave back. They were tired and happy and exhausted and thankful on Thanksgiving Day. There was a slight delay as the driver of the long vehicle found the narrow gate almost impossible to squeeze through. “Hey, driver,” shouted some one. “Make Willard get out and run through the fence.’’ Ken Willard, the fullback, smil ed. He had experienced a great day against the Blue Devils, one in which he outlined the tal ented Jay Wilkinson. Duke half, for the Atlantic Coast Confer ence rushing title. End Bob Lacey was up front, next to the driver, quiet and tight lipped. A makeshift bandage, holding an ice pack, was applied to his knee. “How's the knee, Lace,’’ the plavers kept asking. “Dunno," replied Bob. ’lt felt like it went out when I was tackled on our final drive. I’m just hoping It wIH bo all right.” The Chapel Hid Weekly 5 Cents a Copy Duke won, 16-14, on Billy Rey nolds’ field goal with 48 seconds to play. —lt was the third year in a row that a field goal had made the difference and that the game had been decided in the last min ute of play. Three years ago, Duke won, 6-3, in the last three seconds of play on a field goal by the aforementioned Mr. Rey nolds. —The last four Carclina-Duke games have been decided by a total of eight points. Now the bus was on the open highway, purring along in Times Square traffic; A white station wagon pulled alongside in the double lane. An exuberant driver, oblivious to safety, began blowing kisses with both hands to the Tar Heels. Gene Sigmon, the co-captain and tackle, balled his fist, raised his left arm upward and cheer ed, "Yippee!" Several others joined him. For seniors like Sigmon, it was the first victory over Duke. Suddenly Sigmon turned, his face a mask of disappointment. "Junior, Junior,” he shouted for Edge’s attention. “The game ball We forgot the game ball.” “Take it easy, Sig” soothed the quarterback. “I got it right here. First thing 1 did when the gun sounded. I made sure I’d get the ball.” Jim Hickey Had A Certain Light In His Eyes By J. A. C. DUNN Coach Jim Hickey wanted to stay and talk about it. As de lirious Carolina fans demolished goal posts in a frenzy of glee or simply bellowed en route to the Duke Stadium exits, Coach Hick ey stood by his team’s buses and remembered a few glorious mo ments. He had a certain light in his and the air of a man who sipped Nectar in the promis ed land. “We never thought we were go ing to lose,” he said. Even when Carolina had been one point be hind with one minute to go, he and the Tar Heels were still con fident. “This team has never quit. We - never gave that a thought. Sure, Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1963 Chapman’s field goal didn’t really settle the issue entirely. In the little more than half-min ute that remained, there occur red a rhubarb about the dock and the official time. Here’s what happened. When Carolina lined up for Chapman’s field goal attempt there were 38 seconds showing on the clock and time was out. When Carolina lined up to kick off following Chapman’s boot the clock indicated 21 seconds left. A field goal play doesn’t take 17 seconds and the clock operator How about the Bccvl bid? some one asked. All set. The big Gator at Jacksonville was sign ed and sealed. "Yippee!” sounded off Sigmon,/ who knew all along the bid was cinched. Edge said he was as happy as a man could he. "I had confidence all along,” ’ he revealed in that slow, sure drawl. It was much like a to bacco farmer saying he knew the crop would be good, despite threatening weather. “I told them in the huddle,” revealed Edge, “—boys, we’ve got more than a minute and 20 seconds. We can do a lot of scoring in that time. I just knew we could do it.” So the Tar Heels marched and marched with the clock indicat ing a 14-13 deficit and time run (Continued on Page 2) we thought we'd win when we got behind.” They even thought so before the game started. Coach Hickey said, and that thought had prompted them to accept a Gator Bowl bid before they even left Kenan Field House. ‘We wanted it and we knew we had to win it." Max Chapman did it with a 41- yard field goal that had Coach Hickey shaking his head, almost in disbelief, even after the game was over. “Max Chapman . . ." He repeated the namr a couple of times, slowly wagging his his head. “Didn't he do a great job on that kick.” It was a moun tainous understatement, and he knew it. but more powerful words were not within reach at that moment. was already suspec*, having let the clock run on with time out on two previous occasions in the game. Duke Coach Bill Murray, the last of the graceful losers, rushed on to the field to protest. The clock runneth over, he contended. It should have more time on its hands. The officials by now had let the whole thing get a little out of hand. High level conferences were held on one side of the field and then the other. Finally, when it appeared the game Christmas Parade Opens Shopping Season Tuesday Nursery «/ Rhymes Is Theme The Merchants Association's Christmas Parade will open the Christmas shopping season in Chapel Hill and Carrboro Tues day afternoon. The parade will start at 5:30 at the corner of Greensboro and Main Streets in Carrboro, and wi’) proceed down Main Street and Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, ending at the Morehead Planetarium. The parade will be without some units which had originally planned to participate. A Defense Department communique last wees ordered all armed forces units not to participate in any public displays or parades “not in the immediate interests of the defense of the nation" during the official 30-day period of mourn ing for the late President John F. Kennedy. As a result, University Air Force and Naval ROTC units will not take part in the parade as they have in the past. The two ROTC units would have contribut ed their color guard, drill team, and drum and bugle corps. But three other bands and various floats and other units will take part. The theme of the parade will be Christmas in nursery rhymes. The nursery rhyme atmosphere will be created by Frank Cain’s Attractions, a group of about 40 giant caricature heads of nursery rhyme characters, with costumes to match, which will be brought to Chapei Hill by Mr. Cain and filled by members of the Chapel Hill Y-Teens. Mr. Cain’s charac ter-heads and costumes have been used in many nationally famous parades such as the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Macy’s Christmas Parade in New York. Other units to take part in the parade include the Lincoln High School Band, bands from South ern and Northern High Schools in Durham, Anita Wilkinson’s Strutters from Durham, the Dunn (Continued on Page 2) "And of course, that's what we were trying to do on that en tire drive. We weren’t going for the long run. just down and out on the pass and the short run out of bounds. We wanted to get in position for the field goal, and that’s where we got." Position for a field goal, he said, was achieved with what he calls his two-minute offense, which con sists of “sideline passes and tilings like that to stop the clock.” All teams have it, ’but we’ve practiced hard on it . . . quite n bit since the Clemson game, when I didn't think we did a good job near the end.” The Tar Heels were not exact ly playing a walk-on part; the game had its difficulties: “. . . might have to be called on ac count of darkness, the officials gave Preacher Bill back 12 sec onds. That seemed equitable since a field goal play takes about five seconds. Add the 21 seconds on tile clock to the 12 seconds put back and the five seconds for the play and the books balance up at 38 seconds. For those desiring a more de tailed accounting, our account ant's statement appears on page 17 of the Annual Report. Duke used their 33 seconds to run the Tar Heels’ blood pres Tar Heels In Gator Bowl; Opponent Is Still Undecided The No. 1 question has been settled. Carolina will play in the Gator Bowl jn Jacksonville, Fla., on Dec. 28. However, the Tar Heels don’t know yet who they will play. Gator Bowl selectors did some Phone Changeover Is Effective Today ' The 1964 Chapel Hill Telephone Directory, with the University de partmented in a new telephone system of its own, went into ef fect at 12:01 this morning. The University’s new Centrex telephone system, also known as a private automatic branch ex change system, was recently in stalled by the Chapel Hill Tele phone Company and offers Uni versity telephone users the fol lowing advantages: —A full time telephone opera tor, just as Memorial Hospital has. —A directory in which all cam pus numbers are listed separate ly (the blue pages). —lntra-campus dialing with on- Weathcr Report Generally fair and quite cool today. High Low Wednesday 70 41 Thursday 70 51 .Friday 70 36 Saturday 45 33 Students can now begin using their window siUs as refrigerators. Injuries We were hurting in the secondary at the end.” Defen sive backs Tommy Ward and Dave Braine went out of the game, and Bob Lacey wrench ed his knee badly in the last sec onds. Even bright spots had room for improvement: “I thought we passed well, but of cdtfrse we dropped a lot too.” But then he got that “let us now praise famous men” note in his voice: “That Wilkinson. Wasn’t he great. And Futrell ... Biff Bracy . . . Glacken . . . Crisson ... Walker . . . Edge played a great game. He’s a very underrated quarterback . . . (Gary) Black played well too . . . 1 felt Chapman .would make it. Published Every Sunday and Wednesday sure up another 10 points, but it finally ended with the Blue Dev ils at the Carolina 30. desperately trying to call time out. The Tar Heels carried Coach Jim Hickey off to have firsts on Thanksgiving dinner while Bill Murray stood still counting his seconds. With such a finish, you may lie wondering.-what the first 59 minutes of the game were like. Both teams started slowly. There were mild throats in the first quarter. Eddie Kesler shut out one Duke thrust by recover- window shopping around the foot ball markets yesterday, but they are not expected tc settle on an opponent for the Tar Heels until next weekend. Two Gator representatives watched Georgia Tech wind up ly five digits 'only between num bers prefixed 933). —A separate identity for direct distance dialing and long dis tance calls, enabling transfer of such calls from one campus number to another by the Uni versity switchboard operator. The University operator works in the Chapel Hill Telephone Ex change building on East Rose mary Switchboard posi tions haVe been provided for as four University opera torfauring heavy call-load peri ods. At least one University op eartor will be on duty 24 hours a day 365 days a year from now on. Instructions for using the Cen trex system are eiven on pa*?e 3 of the blue section of the di rectory. In other respects, the directory has grown somewhat, and minor typographical changes have been made to ease and speed use of Chanel HiM telephones. Subscribers should note that the numbers for the Chanel Hill end Carrboro Police and Fir° Departments have been changed to facilitate faster dialing. The directories were mailed to subscribers a week ago. Any subscriber who has not received a directory diou’d no'Kv the Chapel Hill Telephone Co. I wouldn't have tried anyone else with it.” He climbed on one of his team’s buses and rode away. The buses were so ballooned with joy they hardly touched the ground. Coach Hickey had said he was sure his team would win. but as he left one of the greenest fields his team had ever grazed on you had a feeling that inside he was experiencing a tremendous, shat tering landslide of relaxation, that his nerves were festooned in the kind of delicious looseness that follows winning a fantastic gamble, that he had reached a new plateau, a new higfi. It did you almost as much good to see it reflected in his eyes and his smile as it did him to be up there. SUNDAY ISSUE ing a fumble and the rest of the period both teams kept stalling themselves with a series of hold ing and clipping penalties. Early in the second quarter, the rhythm of the game picked up. From the Tar Heel 38, Junior Edge passed in the flat to Ken Willard. The big halfback made a nice catch of the ball and then went off to the races. He swung around his left end, handsomely escorted. At mid field, Willard cut back across and made use of a Kesler block (Continued on Page 6) its season against Georgia yes terday. And oo Dee 7 they will be watching Penn State vs, Col orado. Joe Sykora. the selection chair man who presented Carolina a bowl bid following Thursday’s victory over Duka, hasn’t given the official word but indications are that the Tar Heel opponent won’t be signed before Dec, 7. The Tar Heels began an 11-day practice holiday on Friday and hopes are high that end Bob Lacey will shake off a knee in jury in the interim. Lacey twist ed his knee against Duke, but is expected to be able to run in another week. The Tar Heels will resume practice on Dec. 9, taking a short break for Christmas vacation. Present plans call for a gath ering of the squad at Jackson vill on Dec. 23, on Monday before the Saturday gams. Coach Jim Hickey said he wanted a week’s practice at' the site of the con test. Gator Bowl officials have made between 10,000 and 12,000 tickets available to the University here. The Chapel Hill Athletic Club and others already have started look ing into the possibility of char tering a special train to the game. The Tar Heels’ last bowl game was in 1950, when they lost to Rice, 27-13, in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. . <r ) SCENES ' Campus policeman E. BYNUM RIGGSBEE keeping a lonely vigil over a deserted Y Court during the Thanksgiving hiatus .... Automotive rarity: ancient Plymouth truck parked on Frank lin Street .... Chapel Hill School Superintendent HOWARD THOMPSON, checking schools during the Thanksgiving vaca tion ... . Winn Dixie checkout clerk wearily bracing herself for the college board exams for the second or third time) .... Glen Lennox dairy bar manager working a crossword puzzle dur ing a slow lunch hour Friday .... Townsman gloating over the prospect of easy downtown parking, walking two blocks in Friday's downpour, from park ing space to office .... GENE STROWD and BERNICE WARD trudging toward their furniture store with nary a customer on the horizon Merchants Association Executive Director JOE AUGUSTINE lambasting this electronic age ("I punched three buttons on the phone and finally got a radio program ”) PEBLEY BARROW hang ing onto a lamp poet Thanks giving Day (erecting Christmas decorations).