The Charlotte News from Charlotte, North Carolina • 1

'All It Takes Is Nerve' He Stirs Metal Pot Bare Handed 3" fl-Our Town really anything to it" he said it takes is nerve don't burn he said about as much as running your finger through a pot of boiling Champ has been working at Queen City Foundry since be-fore the war His dad was a foundryman too and it was from him that he learned to play with liquid fire He was 18 at the time Champ was obliging for a photographer While the photographer set up he dipped his finger into a pot of at 1400 almost as you might sip a hot cup of coffee to see if it suited you WHEN THE pholographer was ready he scooped out double tablespoonfuls again and again you was to do it just one he said even notice it Now of course By PAT STITII Newt Stall Writer A man who ran stick his bare finger into a red-hot stream of iron or a pot of molten aluminum without pulling out a nub? Y'ou'd have to see it to believe it So we took a picture 1 CHAMPION is grayhaired at 49 with the calloused hands of a long-time foundry worker And with those hands he can play with 2800 degrees of liquid metal you do it ovpr and give you a mild He was dead serious Afterwards I looked at his right forefinger It was slick and shiny and warm and a little browner than the others but none the worse for wear Then he went over to where iron was being poured studied it a minute to see if it was hot enough and then began knock- See HE STIRS on Page 4B The Teens Get The Floor Summer is here and the days are long and teenagers have their beefs about what is wrong with Charlotte is the end of the writes a Harding High 16-ycar-old it Dcadsville little parking after a day is okay" says a 15-year-old South High girl in Charlotte there is nothing else to do but park on a date real easy to get in blowing a nickel for a writes a 16-year-old make a go of teen movement This is one teenager who doesn't think Our Town cares for us After reading their letters and listening to 50 or so phone calls on the subject it is apparent to me that most teenagers feel they are being neglected in Charlotte Indeed many of them and I share this belief believe Charlotte's adult population care less about its teenagers The complaints the teenagers aired to me go deeper than beefs about to do" The Charlotte News SECTION Charlotte North Carolina Friday June 17 1966 Some Of Their Points ration News Stflff Broome Champ Stirs The Pot By Hand Program Places Students In Jobs Here are some of the points they made to me: There are plenty of places a teenager can take a date in Charlotte if he has the money But what about the working boy who would like to take his girl somewhere other than a movie and spend $10 or $15 on a date? Many of the young people I talked with would like to have a nice place where they could go dance meet their friends enjoy refreshments They feel many of them pointed out to me that newspapers make big a deal out of what we do wrong and say enough about all of the good things we Recreation centers are okay but most of them are used by young children 10 years old and so playing ball games etc Charlotte needs not one but several teenage places maybe even a malt shop or that would win the respect of parents as a good place for their children to spend an evening And I found out that most of the teenagers I talked with have a real desire to satisfy their parents One 17-vear-old put it this way: about the decent 15 16 and 17-year-olds? forgotten about The East side of town shouldn't complain got it made It's the West side that really suffers We have the choice of two places a bowling alley where leagues bowl or the community center where a bunch of 10-year-olds play ball Whoopee! Don't we live it up? We need a place here we can go stag and meet a nice boy or girl How about getting Charlotte on the 'Dead Unless You're Rich' of Monroe Rd had these thoughts: "Charlotte is dead unless you are rich You get bored in Charlotte if you have $10 or $15 to spend on a date But what about those who have it to spend? Charlotte have a really nice place for teenagers I think we should have a nice center like a Malt Shop where kids 13 to 19 could go The police complain about us hanging out at Cotswold but this is really the only place Charlotte has to go and meet their friends Charlotte also needs a building for teens like the Boardwalk at Myrtle Beach Most of all we need a place to go that parents approve of but is away from them And a Garinger junior girl said something that hit me like a sack of cement she said really that bad of a place for young people But sometimes we get the idea that adults aren't interested in our going to explore this subject more in days ahead I invite the remarks of all young people I don't know that all of the complaints lodged here by our youngsters are justified But I do feel very strongly that we adults are gracious quick to preach but many times not very good at listening to hat our young people are trying to tell us administered by the college The student can work right through the school year on campus by spending time working for the college and making an hourly wage to aid with expenses of the best features of this program is that a student can carry the program all the way through college as long as his grades remain high and he spends enough time working during the school year During vacation he can go to his hometown and work in a local agency to earn money for the fall Mr Liles explained Students working in Monroe have been placed in the Welfare Dept Student Employment Center city school offices city offices county offices and the agricultural agents office The local agencies pay their portion of the salary directly to the college which in turn pays the student program has multiple benefits First it aids a student in obtaining his college education by earning money while performing a service in his community The student benefits the community benefits and PACE supplements the ability to render aid to the Mr Liles concluded By BOB GLENDY News Staff Writer The Plan Assuring College Education (PACE) sponsored by the state Board of Public Welfare under the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 has placed 14 college students from 12 different schools in summer jobs here this week Bruce Liles Jr Union County Community Services Consultant and coordinator of the local program says several more will be placed next week The PACE program provides jobs for students who need financial aid to go to college with the local non-profit civic or governmental agency providing 10 per cent of the salary and the federal government providing the remaining 90 per cent PROGRAM is still in its infancy in North Carolina with this being the second year of Mr Liles explained there will be approximately 1200 students placed in summer jobs in 65 communities The students will earn $125 per hour in a program which will enable them to earn between $450 and $700 during the he said The students make application for the jobs through their colleges and the funds are Dallas Sandra Newland of Hendersonville Tina Ussery of Lexington and kneeling Judy Hardin of Gastonia Taking a break from duties at Broughton Hospital are (from left) Cynthia Tessenear of Henrietta Marsha Reed of Cliffside Deborah Gingell of How Does Student Nurse React To Mental Patient? Beaufort Suit Key To Ruling RALEIGH tfi The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that a county board of education no longer legally impose segregation of the races in any The court made this comment as it ruled on a case in which a group of Beaufort County taxpayers are seeking to block plans of the county board of education to spend county bond funds for the construction of an integrated high school The court in an opinion written by Associate Justice Susie Sharp said those who brought the suit did so the unwarranted and ill-advised hope that they could create a racially segregated school in Central High School It is a dream which anyone familiar with the federal decisions should know cannot be i The Beaufort Board of Education planned to consolidate three all white high schools Bath Wilkinson and Pantego and two all-Negro high schools Beaufort County High and Bclhaven in the new school Opponents contended this was rot planned when the people were asked to approve a $14 million school bond issue They said the voters were told that only the three white schools would be consolidated However after the bonds were approved the Beaufort Board of Education changed its mind and decided to consoliate all five high schools It voted to divert bond funds it had planned to spend on the Negro schools and use them to build a larger integrated school The Supreme Court said this could be done provided the Beaufort County commissioners give their formal approval Since this has not been done the court reversed a ruling of Superior Court Judge Rudolph I Mintz and reinstated a court order which forbids the spending of the bond money ASSOCIATE JUSTICE I Beverly Lake disagreed with Justice Sharp In a concurring opinion he said the issue should he submitted to the voters of Beaufort County to let them decide whether the money should be spent for an integrated school In another case the court said the practice of religion does not allow a person to possess narcotic drugs The court said this as it dismissed the contention of William Robert Bullard III of Chapel Hill that it was a violation of his constititional rights to forbid him to possess narcotics 12 NC Youngsters Win 4-H Club Grants Officer Wounded In Fatal Shootout students remain in a steady pace of classes movies seminars student-patient conversation tours sitting in on staff meetings writing evaluations taking tests and discussions concerning all phases of psychiatric nursing Some of their most interesting work is sitting in on patient-doctor interviews and then discussing and evaluating that interview with the doctors chaplains and others Not all of their work Is within the massive walls of Broughton The group will spend two days at the Western Carolina Center in Morganton where Dr Iverson Riddle will lecture on Illness in As much a part of their work as other activities are the evening recreational periods where hospital personnel and patients mingle and enjoy planned recreation designed as therapy for the patients How does the patient react to these teenagers who are here for only six w'eeks? Miss Lavender explains her feelings and how her patient responded made up my mind that despite how scared I was I was going to be interested and sincere was assigned a female patient who was depressed nervous and very anxious We have talked several times It is always difficult to say whether or not you have established a working the woman told me am just glad anyone would have interest in versity of America in Washington DC She is assisted by Miss Glendora McRee who is a nursing education degree holder from Queens College of Charlotte and a graduate of the nursing course at Presbyterian Hospital of Charlotte begin to see their fears as mostly unreal and as ones based on pre-conceived ideas As soon as this is achieved they are really thinking in terms of helping the stated Miss Lee SHE WENT ON to explain that nurses can use this training in an everyday surgical-medical situation in a general hospital helps them become more patient-centered They are better overall nurses with a broader Of the AA program which qualifies a student for taking the state hoard to achieve the RN license Miss Lee has high praise success in this concentrated program depends on planning We can teach as much depth as ever and give carefully selected rich experience in a shorter time through Miss Lee said Gardner-Webb entered its AA nursing program last fall in cooperation with the Rutherford County Hospital and the Cleveland Memorial Hospital Each hospital has pledged $20000 annually to help finance a top-rate program A typical week finds the group getting up each morning in time for 8 classes Except for a lunch break the MORGANTON different You are giving but of yourself There are no pills no thermometers or The bright young student nurse continued to talk intently of her early experience with psychiatric nursing while around her vibrated the holtow echoes of activity in Broughton Hospital's wide hallways Miss Linda Lavender typical of a group of 27 Gardner-Webb College student nurses has started a six-week program at the state mental hospital as part of her requirements in the college's associate in arts degree nursing program This fall the 27 second-year nurses will be joined by 45 freshmen nurse students who will be studying under four professors with degrees in nursing education co-ordinated by Mrs Grace Lee MA in Nursing from the University of NC who serves' as a fifth instructor and also is director But fall is a long way off for these girls most of them in their teens and facing the wiping away of many preconceived notions about the menially ill were scared to death and very anxious when we told them they w'ould begin work with a patient on a personal basis and work with the patient for six weeks" stated Miss Jane Lee their instructor during the summer Miss Lee holds the MA degree in psychiatric nursing from the Catholic Uni Owens then drew his pistol and shot Napier onre The woman fled into nearby woods but was soon arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill Coroner Wood Paxton scheduled an inquest for Saturday morning No charges were placed against Owens RALEIGH Scholarships totaling $6000 have been awarded 12 North Carolina high school graduates through the 4-H Development Fund Scholarship winners were announced by A Edwards Hookerton president of the fund He explained that this grants bring to $30000 the amount the fund has awarded outstanding 4-H Club members in the state during the last four years The 1966 recipients are Annette Tilley Rt 1 Bahama: Emma Jean Carter Rt 1 Fletcher: Sam Brake Jr Rt 2 Rocky Mount Donald Bunch Tyner Sandra Edwards Pendleton Steve Szczcrbiak Castle Hayne: Gloria Jane Jackson Rt 1 Autryville Dennis Cabe Franklin Douglas Clapp Rt 1 Whitsctt Chris Petticord Rt 1 Advance Wells Hall III Rt 1 Mt Ulla and Martha Jo Goodman Rt I Gold Hill The 4-H Development Fund with headquarters at North Carolina State University at Raleigh was organized in 1958 by friends and alumni of 4-H to help support certain phases of club work The scholarship winners are 1966 high school graduates They receive $500 to be used for college study during the 1966-67 school year They are selected on the basis of their high school record evidence of college aptitude and 4-H club record President Edwards pointed out A boy and a girl are selected from each of the six geographic districts of the Cooperative Extension Service The Raleigh Chapel Hill or Greensboro branches of the Consolidated University are listed as the first choice of six-of the 12 winners Other schools listed as either primary or secondary choices are all in the state and include East Carolina Western Carolina Appalachian State Wilmington Mars Hill and Campbell BREVARD A policeman was in serious 'condition today from wounds suffered in a shootout fatal to a Kentucky man Robert Rogers 41 and father of five was shot three times Thursday while he and Transylvania County Deputy Ed Owens investigated a report firearms were being discharged near the Brevard city limits OFFICERS SAID Earl Napier 31 of Stone Fork Ky died from a single bullet in the abdomen from pistol They gave this account: Rogers and Owens found Napier and his wife Karon Marie 21 beside a road apprehended and handcuffed Napier As Rogers walked Napier to the rear of ear Mrs Napier got out of the car walked to the back and handed her husband a pistol Napier fired three shots point blank at Rogers all of them striking the officer 9 NC Soldiers Listed As Dead Mount Holly Store Robbed MOUNT HOLEY Police are searching for three Negro men who robbed a combination grocery store and service station of $300 early this morning and stole the car to make their getaway The robbery occurred about 7:10 am at Sinlow's Sinclair on NC 27 near the western city limits of Mount Holly Gaston County Rural Police report that the three men overpowered Earl Paine and tied him with their neckties The men then emptied the cash register and fled Police found the car abandoned WASHINGTON UP) The De-ess than a mile away near the fense Department reports these! Mount Holly high school on Study Shows More Collegians Seeing Psychiatrists Hawthorne St One suspect is in custody and police have called on the Lincoln County prison unit to bring bloodhounds to track the other turn men problems are now more inclined to talk with a psychiatrist without defining themselves as sick or as psychiatric Students are more aware now that psychiatric services are available and the services have become more acceptable by students and the university administration MORE STUDENTS voluntarily seek appointments now an open clinic allows a majority of Dr Fox said indicating an increase in psychological sophistication among students and hopefully a decrease in the stigma attached to seeking help for emotixmal While the rate of students seeking help has more than doubled in nine years a smaller percentage of patients appears to need long-term treatment And consistently a small percentage of patients needs to be hospitalized study showed that almost half of the patients were seen for one interview and that 75 per cent of them were seen only once or Dr Fox explained patients apparently are seen for a fewer number of visits at the University of North Carolina than at most other colleges ith comparable In actual numbers more By DEMONT ROSEMAN CHAPEL HILL The number of students going to a psychiatrist is growing steadily each year at the University of North at a rate greater than the steady growth rate of the student body The rate of females seeking help is consistently greater than for males especially among graduate students These are two of the major findings of a nine-year study of student emotional problems coming to the attention of the psychiatry section of the UNC Student Health Service The study designed to find out who seeks psychiatric attention and how they're handled was conducted by Dr Thomas Fox with the assis-' tance of Dr Clifford Reifler both with the UNC Department of Psychiatry Dr scientific report was selected earlier this month for a 1966 Anclote Manor Award In 1964 the most recent year covered by the sludy the rate at which students here were seeking psychiatric help was 41 patients per 1000 students The rate nine years earlier was 18 patients per 1000 students the usage rate has increased significantly" Dr Fox said is doubtful that students are now than previously likely many students with situational or adjustment male students are seen each year than females but UNC has many more male students When actual numbers are converted to rates of the total student population females are the greatest users of psychiatric services consistently Why is this so? a conflict between the usual female image in society and the newly emerging professional role contributes to the greater psychiatric usage by college women" replies Dr Fox this same conflict results in the significantly higher psychiatric usage rates of the female graduate students whose peers generally have become homemakers and Female graduate students made up the highest risk group in the study contributing factors are far from Dr Fox said VVIIAT PROBLEMS cause students to seek help? types of Dr Fox said students just wanted to talk with a professional counselor to clarify sonvs of their thoughts or feelings had marital problems and situational adjustment problems and others suffered from neurotic and psychotic disturbances a higher percen- See MORE on Page 4B North Carolina soldiers were among 141 American servicemen killed in action in Viet Nam in the week ended last Saturday 2nd Lt Hugh Nelson Durham Sgt Jerry Carter Mooresboro and Sgt 1C Clifford Robinson Platoon Sgt Earl Fulford Sgt 1C John Dixon Sgt William Caldwell Pfc Jack Price Sgt Jack A Baker and Sgt Raymond Judson all of Held In Murder JACKSONVILLE Bobby Bradley Johnson 35 is being held without bond on a murder charge in the pistol slaying of his wife 32 She died Wednesday.