Rocky Mount Telegram from Rocky Mount, North Carolina • 11

Th Rocky Mount, N. C. Telegrom, Sunday, Feb. 4, 1962 3B ireegrom! Symphony Society Opens Drive In City Today Town Little Symphony Gives Concerts For Children By Vernon Scchriest 7 Ho 1 0 BY PATTIE LAMBERT Symphony opened in Rocky Mount this week with an propriate fanfare. On Friday the I The Little Symphony played a typical program for its Friday 1 matinee at the Senior High School, 'First the grammar school audi- What do you think will happen when America's spacrtnaa it lent Into orbit? HONKING SHOULD BE LEFT FOR GEESE "Honk! Honk! Honk'" went the horn behind me ond the workings of on unseen godgef in my cronium started grinding.

Noturally, I was embarrassed because my motor hod stalled at the intersection. The fellow doing the honking should have realized that, but he didn't. Ignoring the honking as best I could, however, I ground away on the battery and finally the engine started and my own vehicle every new birthday is lomethinj of a triumph," declared General Doug MaoArthur the other day on the occasion of his 82nd anniversary duly observed in the Waldorf-Astoria. But shucks! General MacArthur is only a youngster compared to a Rocky Mount resident, who turn 0 Little Symphony, tinder the direc ion or l)r, Benjamin Swalin, ave ivu rum fi is neje. will? lou pttitc at Booker T.

Washington High School at 10:30 a. the other at the Rocky Mount Senior High School auditorium at 2 p. m. On the same day Frank P. Meadows, president of the local chapter of the North Carolina Symphony Society, gave a lunch eon at which civic club leaders learned about the purposes and methods of the Symphony.

Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Swalin also attend ed the luncheon, which was held at 1 p. m. at the Senior H'gh School.

After the meal Mrs. Betty Boy- ette, the public school music teacher, told the guests how appreciation for classical music is taught to Rocky Mount school children. She led them through the same pro gram of background study and ac tive participation which the chil- dren receive before a concert. Then Meadow's guests proceeded to the Senior High School auditor- ium. where they joined the school children for Little Symphony concert.

In the meantime. Miss Mary A I -w i i in the face of handicaps. Both are paralyzed from the waist down. In oddition to financial security, they have found stimulating opportunities for service in their work at Duke. (Duke Photo by Sparks).

ACHIEVEMENT Handling hundreds of colli every day at the telephone switchboard of Duke University might sound like routine work, but to Miss Carolyn Byrd (foreground) and Mrs. James Norton (second from front) it represents achievement Duke Operators Know Discouraging Dodge, memtx'rship chairman of impact of personal attendance at the Rocky Mount Symphony group, a live concert, was marshalling her forces for the The Symphony operates through annual membership drive, which a non-profit corporation chartered begins today. Assisting Miss Dodge I under the statutes of the State of are co-chairmen Mrs. J. W.

Scx-j North Carolina. By legislative act ton, Mrs. Bob Simrell, Mrs. Alec March 8, 1H3, the Symphony Biggs, and Mrs. Will Wyatt, Jr.

Society was placed under the pa-and more than seventy member-i tronaae of the State and establish- 'No' Of Handicapped Looking Jobs how to handle people on the phone," she explains, adding that occasionally this means being able to take abrusive language in stride. Both Miss Byrd and Mrs. Norton began work after six weeks' on- the-job training at Duke. And both are acquainted with the discour- 1 aging "no" that handicapped people often hear when they seek em ployment. Apart from these similarities, the fenee heard excerpts from "Ballet sujte by Glufk.M()tU.

The chi. dren participated in the next num ber. Mozart's "Sleigh Ride." with a jingle bell accompaniment. The orchestra played the second movement of Beethoven's Eighth Sym phony, and then accompanied the students as they sang "Marching to Pretoria." The audience next heard Edward Elgar's "Moths, Butterflies, and Little Bells," a selection from Aaron Copland's "Billy the Kid," and Anderson's "The Waltzing Cat." The children sang "Goodbye, Old Paint," wihich they assisted with their melody instru- ments and two verses of "The 1 Battle Hymn of the Republic." The Little Symphony concluded with the Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin." by Wagner. The children's faces reflected their enthusiasm and rapt enjoy- ment.

Observers noted that, despite the wealth of fine music available from recordings, radio, and television, nothing seems to have the ed as a fundamental educational institution. The Symphony has three maior sources of financial support: The Grant-in Aid from the State; mem- berships in the Society (the largest source of income); and gifts and contributions. The North Carolina Symphony is actually two orchestras in one. From mid-January through the end of March, the Little Sym- phony with twenty-five musicians makes the circuit of children groups and smaller cities. In April they are joined by forty more musicians to make up the Full Symphony, which tours the larger cities until the middle of Mav.

ships at the main offices of Plant ers Bank, Peoples Bank, and the I Bank of Rocky Mount. "As a rule, the President is too serious-minded to be a true 'dandy' and his wife is too dignified to be interested in fashions which would appeal to the more frivolous women of the Country." While Kennedy isn't exactly a true dandy, the clothiers aren't quibbling. He's a boon to their industry, just as Mrs. K. is women's fancy clothes.

to Louis Rothschild, the clothiers' executive director and a lifelong I provides ano'Jier source of income in addition to her Duke salary. Miss Byrd sought her present job of switchboard operator because it offers steady employment, a change of atmosphere and an op- portunity to work with other peo- ,7 rtM nprutn cha cave and it Iatc others see that handicapped people can provide for themselves." In contrast to Miss Byrd, Mrs Norton had to adjust to paraplegia ed as a telephone operator in JacJc BY NORMAN K. NELSON DURILVM, N. Two young wwnen with pleasant voices and nimble hands, have found rewarding occupations at Duke University despite the fact that both are paralyzed from the waist dow n. They work side by side at the switchboard of Duke's campus telephone system where thousands of calls to and f.wn the University are handled each day.

Besides providing work that isn't limited by paraplegia, the position nf Anpratnr has jven women satisfac. tions above and beyond financial security. Mrs. James Norton, who was paralyzed instantly in an automo- ship workers Membership in the Symphony Society permits the holder to hear the evening concert by the Full Symphony when it plays here in April. Members are also entitled to attend the Full Symphony's con- certs in 40 other communities throughout North Carolina.

Complete tour schedules and membership cards are immediately mailed to each subscriber. Most important of all, adult; memberships are used to support the educational matinees, which are free to the children who at tend. Last year 117.126 children heard these free educational pro- grams. This effort was supported; young women present contrasting after growing up as a normal per-pictures of how people live with son. major handicaps.

I A native of Granville County, Miss Byrd emphasizes that shesi.c was Miss Rose Wilkerson at the doesn't feel handicapped "because time of the auto accident in I've never known what it is to ember, 1956, and had been employ- avirWw fivi veir views one accident years aao. lew concessions of her job as an opportunity to -1 have two sisters. nils oacKgrourai nas fce, jn hpr wor) Duke other night, howe-er, and it a i.ik a- loo th thing President Tom Collins eration of a different kind oforDean Jack Moore didn't hear by 30.7.W Symphony Sui icty uem-j The Full Symphony will play two hers throughout the State of North concerts in Rocky Mount on April Carolina. 12. a matinee for older itudents School children hear the Sym- and an evening performance for phony's program many times be-1 adults.

fore the arrival of concert day. In; Memberships cost as follows: $1 becoming familiar with the music Student (for evening perform-itself. the instruments of the $3 Single; Joint Uwo chestra. and composers, the chil-1 persons at same addressi; $10 dren await the Symphony with a 'Active; $25 and up Donor; $100 keen interest in what lies ahead and up Patron. Interested per-for them.

They are always ready sons who do not know a Symphony and eager for the final production worker may purchase member- of something which they have in a sense rehearsed" for weeks. several switchboard and the special demands of a university telephone system. How did she adjust to her handicap? Although Mrs. Norton doesn't say so, courage and a kind of stoicism are probably the key. "I don't worry about myself," she says.

"After all. you've got to i go on riving and learn to accept wbat happens. She has done this admirable. During off hours, she "reads a 101. sews ana enjoys television.

And on December 30, 1961, she became the bride Jarncs Norton. To most people who dial Duke University's telephone number, the anonymously spoken "Duke" is no more than a means of identification. But among the staff of switchboard operators are two who have found the word a symbol of security and achievement in the face of grave obstacles. Politics is Getting moved away. All of which calls to mind that a lot of people could be more considerate and less impatient.

Some drivers "scratch off" like the sec onds gained would than make up for the rubber lost on the tires and the strain on the motor. Others start out for, say Raleigh, and drive 70 m. p. h. when existing traffic will permit.

Oh, yes, they may get to Raleigh in a few minutes less than an hour. More con servative drivers will make the same distance, however, driving safely at 50 to 55 m. p. h. and reach their destination probably In an hour and 10 or 15 minutes.

So the fast drivers, some of whom fail to make it because of crashes along the way, may save 15 minutes. So what? Was the risk worth the effort? Back to that horn blower, though, I was reminded of the article I read where the driver of a car had suddenly been assailed from the rear by a'horn tooter when the former's engine had stalled. That driver casually alighted, walked back to the offending car, reached in and grab bed the ignition key and threw it as far as he could into the weeds in a vacant lot. I achieved a certain amount of satisfaction one time by switching off my engine and sitting calmly while the fellow behind ran down his batteries a-blowing. What I've always wanted to do, though, was to be able to twist off the steering wheel of the offending car and beat the driver over the head with it.

Mmm! Wonder what a judge would do in a situation like that? WRONG END It only happens once in a blue moon, in tact, I believe it had been at least two years since I had gotten the wrong and lighted end of my cigar in my mouth. It i hsnnencfl our at tho the me, else I might be banned from the campus In the future. It was after a banquet session and I was standing around gabbing when Bill Joyner, one of the front men for the college, asked me to lend a hand with something or other. In order to lend a hand-both hands, as it developed I had to put my stogie in my mouth. I hurriedly inserted the cigar and then let out a bellow that sounded like a bull that had stepped into a wasp's nest.

Joyner jumped back as I started spouting like a whale. Yes. I had gotten the wrong end of my smoking piece in my mouth and it not only burned my tongue but filled my mouth full of ashes. It's a horrible thing to do and I don't recommend it. Joyner doesn't either.

BIRTHDAY "I have reached an age when ed at informing and helping the rose growers of the community Meetings have been held which in struct in such matters as pruning and mulching rose bushes. Members help design layouts rose gar dens, give advice on cultivation and fertilizing and a number of other related subjects. At periodic intervals the member ship has compiled data from their own experience and made up lists of roses particularly adapted to this area. This "Rose Selection Clinic" has been of great help to rose growers in choosing the varie- TAR HEEL started out calling it a program of control, but now we have come so close to the prospect of wiping out this disease everywhere but in Africa that we can safely call it a program of eradication. In country after country we have worked with government agencies and people themselves, trying everything we know drain age, insecticides and clean-up pro grams.

The drop in cases of ma laria, and. especially in fatalities, has been tremendous. "We don't have to eradicate the mosquitoes to wipe our malaria. We have only to keep the mosquito away from human beings during a season, remove the seed bed of the disease, and there will be no more malaria in that region, though mosquitoes are there by the millions. This is, of course, until new malaria comes in from the outside." In Dr.

Baity 's opinion, this type of problem draws the world closer together. One mosquito coming in on a plane from some far distant country takes malaria any-were. This means that there is no local one-country health problems, and for reasons like this, the World Health Organization was formed. Dr. Baity looked around at the new School of Public Health building, not yet completed, but he has 1 in and "Yes it is to be home again," an even 100 today.

That would be Mrs. Annie Muse and the reason little is being said about this important anniversary is because Mrs. Muse apparently detests publicity of all sorts. For more than a week, friends have been tipping us off at The Telegram concerning the upcom-" ing first century of Mrs, Muse. Each time an effort is made to contact her, however, all representatives of the press are firmly turned away.

Naturally, we have no desire to trouble Mrs. Muse and we certainly have no hard feelings against her. Instead, we hope she goes right on having birthday and keeps on as active as she is today because she goes about attending church, her clubs and so forth just the same as ladies half her age. I sincerely hope, however, that when Mrs. Muse reaches the substantial age of, say 110, she will break down and let us take a pic- ture of her chopping wood, digging jn the garden, or maybe paddling a canpe on City Happy Birthday! Lake.

Anyway, AS WORMS DO My Department of Utterly Useless Statistics has done it again. This superb piece of journalism was found carefully inserted in my typewriter the other day and bears repeating. I think: "The human race took some 200.000 years to reach its present total 0 three billion. But if current trends continue unchanged, warns the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D. three billion more will be added in only forty more years, and there will be six billion people on earth by the year 2000.

(Note: an American Institute of Biological Science newsletter says that, in times of crowding, planarian flatworms nibble their own tails, thus growing smaller and saving HOW MANY SHEKELS? NEW YORK (AP) A foreign currency exchange is part of the box office setup at the Greenwich Village theater where Brendan Behan's comedy "The Hostage" is playing. The popularity of the play with overseas visitors to New York is given as the reason for accepting francs, lira and other coinage. Postad alongside the ticket scale is the daily official rate of exchange. ties which they want to plant. For ten consecutive years the Rocky Mount Rose Show has been a feature of the Monday after Mother's Day.

It has attracted over these years thousands of rose groyers to exhibit their finest bloom The Rocky Mount Rose Show, though not as large as some, is admittedly one of the finest rose shows in the country. One of the features of the Rose Show has been its outstanding programs. Each year a printed program assists both th' exhibitor and the visiting spectator. And each year the Rose Princess of the previous year is the cover girl for the program, providing an array of beauty and charm from among the young ladies ho are chosen from the Junior and Senior classes of the Rocky Mount High School. Efforts are underway not to develop a municipal rose garden which is tentatively planned to be located on the campus of Wesleyan College.

Municipal rose gardens add to the beauty of the commune ity and are, of course, of much interest to tourists, many of whom are rose growers. The meeting today is one of a continuing series of such community services which the Rocky Mount Rose Society has perform ed for 10 years. This meeting, like the annual Rose Show, has no ad mission fee and the public is invit ed to come. DORSAL TO DORSAL CENSUS SANDY HOOK, N. J.

(AP) -The American Littoral Society counts its fish before they're caught. The group numbers about 2C: natural history enthusiasts of all ages who conduct a dorsal to dorsal census on the coastal fish population from Maine to Florida, who, in addition to enjoying themselves, provide the U. Depart-ment of the Interior with information on the quantity and habits of fish. Silll Bunn, 310 East Washington Nashville, with Social Security Administration, Washington, D. "Well, I definitely think he'll come back safrly, because every mechanical detail will be perfected before he leaves." WW mi 'i Tfwnr-ira-iTrTrT" Roscoe Griffin, Insurance gent, Nashville Highway: "What will hapoen? Exactly what they're planning.

Three complete orbits if that's what they decide on." I 3:. 1' I Catherine Strickland, Nashville "The capsule will perform just as they've planned and I hope we get some surprises, like the conversation the Russian nian relayed back to earth." D. L. Shearin, Route 1, Nashville, insurance agent: "It'll be successful, if they ever get all conditions just right, and they're not going to shoot it until they do." Carolyn Bobbitt, soda clerk, Castalia: "Maybe he'll make it, but there are a lot of things not Imaginable that could happen." VVZ Will is iM walk. Another important help I I and we were all treated alike," she explains.

Miss Byrd, a 28-year-old native of Durham, states with justifiable pride that she's been self-support- img since she was 20 years old. Af- ter high school graduation in 1953, she took a business course at the W'iodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Fishersville, Ya. Subsequently she earned money with part-time jobs that included typing and radio monitoring. Pho- tographic currently Cleaning money. Recently Rothschild asked local store managers their views of who is well-dressed in Washington.

In view of the hayseedy past, they Came up with a surprisingly large number of nominations. Everyone knows about Kennedy. But the haberdashers alertly noted that beneath Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's big Texas hat is a choosy picker of fine clothes. BEST DRESSED Three cabinet officers also made the list: Secretary of the Interior Stewart L.

Udall, Sscre-tary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg and Secretary, of Welfare Abraham A. Ribieoff. The President's brother, Atty. Gen.

Robert F. Kennedy, is omitted, probably because his clothes, while well-cut. always look as if he had just lost a bout with a cyclone. Several senators were mentioned, among them John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky. Stuart Jacob J.

W. Fulbright, Hubert H. Humphrey, Frank Church, D-Idaho; Clair En-gle, Gordon George A. Harrison. A.

Williams, and Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz who, since he's in the department store business, presumably gets his suits wholesale. i A Rose Is A Rose, But Some Have Better Chance To Grow other people "even though I never see them." She dies as an example the many incoming caJs to Duke Hos pital that she handles during her daily eight-hour stint at the switch board. No stranger to the hospital, she underwent some 12 operations at Duke after her accident. Miss Carolyn Byrd, an energetic outgoing young women who was born a parapletic, likes the chal- lenges that her work offers. "You have to be alert and know A Face Carolina, "Sockless' Jerry Simp- son of Kansas, "Alfalfa Bill Murray of Oklahoma.

It passed unnoticed at the time, but by 1942 there was a clue that the-hick was losing his appeal. Alfalfa Bill Murray was musing about his well-known nickname. "In a political way it has both helped and injured me," Murray wrote to the political historian. George Stknpson, "as the great body of farmers and the multi- but it was a little too rustic for the effete of the population. It has also impressed the general public that I was too much of a rustic to be a scholar." HOEY TYPE THEME The country bumpkin appears to h.ive faded into well-earned oblivion in national politics.

And with him has gone the politician who wore a claw hammered coat, a wing tip collar and his hair in a flowing bob. Sen. Clyde Hoey, wore the long coat, and a flower in his lapel, faithfully and elegantly his death in 1954. No one else has carried on. Maybe Congress has lost a little now that our heroes look like everybody else.

But, the clothiers are happy. They have 24,000 men's wear stores in this country, doing a $2.5 billion business each year, and they know that our interest in new-styled clothes aids and abets their interest in old-styled EDITOR'S NOTE After years of looking like rumpled theater drapes, the capital's politicians are beginning to give a hang about their A list of the best-dressed has some surprising entrants and some embarrassing missions including a representative who's in the wear business. Which proves you can't tell congressman by his cover. By ART1II EDSON AP Staff Writer WASHINGTON (AP Steadily, almost stealthily, a change has sept over U.S politics. The nation's capital, once a shrine for the rumpled cutaway and the frayed string tie, has turned into a well-dressed city.

Drop in on the Senate: Its members look as if they could be at a staff meeting of a Madison Washingtonian, says there's nojtudes in general took to the name, Avenue advertising agency. JiBleu noe Move over to the House: was making stylistic i nmarACG question about it, a president's taste subtly affects us all, Democrat and Republican. To tempt us, manufacturers have come up with suits cunningly labeled "the presidential" or "the young executive," copied from the $225 two-button jobs tailored for John F. Kennedy. Vet long before Kennedy en- 1 1 i-L ii.u:.

tt 1" It's tftie that many a politician once thought it profitable to be a professional hayseed. We were a rural nation, suspicious of them city slickers, and the politicians tried to cash in on our prejudices. They affected, or retained, careless, untidy habits of speech, dress and manners. Even their nicknames had a homespun, barnyard 0 "Blue Jeans" Williams of Indiana, "Calico" Charlie Foster of Ohio, "Kicking Buck" Kilgore of Texas, "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman of South Should you plant roses close to the house? Can you prevent black-spot? Is dusting or spraying best for roses? There are a few of the questions you may hear this afternoon and the answers, too at a meeting of the Rocky Mount Rose This Rocky -Mount organization has greatly contributed to the beau- tificatiori of our city. Organized more than ten years ago by the late Carl Scamel and a small group of interested rose growers, the local society has stimulated many of our citizens to plant and cultivate the "Queen of the The first president of the group was Guilford W'orsley, now a merchant in Greenville, who re-; turns today as one of a panel of experts at the first meeting of the local group in 1962.

Other members of the panel are Sam Watkins, an executive of DuPont and president of the Kinston Rose Society, and Joe Richert, an executive of the Carolina Power and Light Company and an expert and ardent rose grower of the Raleigh Rose Society. Completing the panel will be one of the charter members of the Rocky Mount Rose Society The program is designed to be of help to those who are interested in rose growing and not now growing roses and also the rose grower who has specific problems that he wishes answered. Questions will be taken from Hie audience and answered by the panel. The meeting will be held in the American Red Cross assembly room at the corner of Franklin and Thomas Streets at 3 o'clock this afternoon. AH who are interested in growing roses are invited to come and nut questions to the panel.

A national award will be present ea to Mrs. Annie Mae Maddox, re cognized as one of the finest rose growers in the country. The award will be presen'ed by Frank Meadows, director of the American Rose Society for North and South Carolina. 1 Over the years the Rocky Mount Ruse Society has consistently nwrp variiM.v in drpss here, rait it's still so discreetly conservative with a few loud sports-coated exceptions that 1 i 1 1 1 can be termed spectacular, or even eyecatching. PRESIDENT'S INFLUENCE Wander down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House: Here is a young, clothes-respecting President, who dressed properly for each occasion from a formal dinner to touoh football.

These well-groomed facts become especially timely as 5,000 menders and guests of the National Assn. of Retail Clothiers and Fu mash ers prepare to descend on this town next week. They're here for their first convention in Washington. Always before the men's wear folks had looked upon us, with some justification, as a sartorial disaster area. Yet as long ago as 1929 there were stylish hints of what might come.

That's when Elizabeth B. Hur-lock, a Ph. D. from Columbia, completed her study. "The Psychology of in which she maintained under a democracy the White House should set the fashion pace.

"But this is not the case," Dr. Hurlock said, "With the exception of President Buchanan and President Arthur, the executives of the American people have paid little attention to fashionable attire. "Perhaps if they were younger when they came into office, and if they had fewer affairs of state to attend to, they would be able to devote more time to setting fashions for the nation to folU.j 1 'ri itr irtltf MtnriiiiMiiilifm i MiMM "ii r-'Mrrr- TIMWll.