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  • Voice of the Students VOL. XLI No. 16 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23,1975 WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY CULLOWHEE, NORTH CAROLINA Radio Station 'non - existant' '•Arsenic and Old Lace" closes Saturday, may but there's still time to see it. Reservations 491. be made by calling the Little Theatre at (See review page 5). Mountain Hertiage Day Scheduled For Saturday When the Mountain Heritage Day crafts booths and exhibitions open here at 1 p.m. October 25, it'll be like turning back the hands of time a hundred years or so. Many of the skills of a bygone age—some of them all but forgotten in modern times- will be on display at Western Carolina University's E. J, Whitmire Stadium as craftsmen from throughout the region gather here to demonstrate their techniques. From Cherokee, Rebecca Grant will make honeysuckle baskets, Sarah Martin and Ni- cey Welch will demonstrate beadwork, Danny Arch will do wood carvings, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank I^ambert will rive shingles and demonstrate handicrafts such as pine needle baskets. Franklin craftsmen will include Annette Woody Bell, who puts corn shuck bottoms in chairs; Theresa Cornell, rug hooker; William Dugan Ledford, farrier; Walter Hal- sted, who will demonstrate natural dyes for yarn; and Rodman Lehman, who will display bothe cane and splint chair bottoming. Mrs. Oscar Woody of Bryson City will be on hand to demonstrate soapmaking and quilting, and to show off a cathedral window quilt. Joyce Moore and June Smith, both of Canada Township, will give a demonstration of wool carding and spinning, and Susan Morgan Leveille of Dills- boro will have her loom available to demonstrate weaving techniques. The Reverend John Rivers of Cullowhee will press apple cider and Jan Stump will churn butter while Cullowhee craftsmen James Swayngim, Leonard Dills, and Mrs. Ernest Bryson make spinning wheels, dulcimers, and corn shuck dools, .respectively. Claude Hembree of Marble will demonstrate leather tooling and lacing, Ted-and Amy- Roberts of Soco Gap will display Indian dolls and carvings, and Arnold and Mildred Pass- more of Topton will demonstrate making rope chair bottoms. At 4 p.m. Dr. W. Newton Turner, former vice president for academic affairs, will ghe a demonstration of water dowsing if the craft area. A turkey shoot sponsored by the WCU Volunteer Fire Department will be operated in conjunction with the crafts booths, and there will be a horse-drawn hayride touring the campus. Games and entertainments for children and adults will be handled by the WCU" Recreation Club, and babysitting services will be provided from 1 to 5 p,m„ in Belk Building by- members of the WCU chapter of the American Home Economics Association, TURN TO PAGE 3 For those WCU students who are puzzled at the absence of transmissions from WCAT, the campus radio station, the explanation is simple: It doesn't exist anymore, WCAT has given way to a proposed FM station which, according to station manager Jake Phillips "will probably begin broadcasting around the beginning of Spring Quarter 076)," As yet, the proposed station has fallen victim to federal red tape, The campus radio station is in a transitional state at the moment, changing over from AM to non-commercial educational FM. Phillips stated, "The crux of the problem seems to lie in the procrastination cations Commission) In granting the station a construction permit and an FM license." Phillips said that the application for FM licensing was submitted to the FCC around the first of June, Ideally the entire procedure should take about 120 days from the date of application. At present, the only communication the station has received from the FCC is a brief statement, dated Sept, 19, acknowledging the receiptof the station's application. Phillips felt that this would not have happened if not for Chancellor H. R. Robinson's getting in contact with U.S, Congressman Roy Taylor in hopes of expediting matters. Before the station can start construction of FM facilities, it must publish its intent to do so in the local newspaper, ( in this case the Western Carolinian), in three consecutive issues, The station can't do this until it receives the contents of the intent announcement from the FCC. At that point, the intent is suppossed to be entered in the Federal Register for 30 days in accordance with FCC regulations. After this 30 day period, the FCC should issue the station a construction permit, whereupon the procedure would be hampered further as the request for equipment would have to go through the WCU purchasing agent and then be put under state contract. That would take about an extra 30 days and subsequent delivery of equipment would occur within the following 90 days. Following the receipt and placement of equipment, the FCC will send a representative to inspect the facility and make sure the transmitter is set on the right frequency. After inspection, the station may begin operation while awaiting its FM license. I*>oking at the positive aspects of the delay, Phillips said, "The extra time will allow us to be more selective in buying equipment and also give us more time to train and license personnel," Aside from the problems inherent in dealing with the federal bureaucracy, the station faces problems at home. Sta- TURN TO PAGE 3 Emeritus Bird Dead At 85 by A.E. Brown, Jr. William E. Bird, President Emeritus of WCU and who has been associated with Western in its various evolutionary stages since 1907, died at 12:30 a.m., Wednesday. Bird, 85, has been of ill health since he suffered a stroke two years ago. He died at the home of his daughter in Lake Norman where he was cared for in his illness by his daughter. Bird graduated from Cullowhee High School in 1911, and from the Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School (presently WCU) in 1915. Bird received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina and a master's degree in Education from Pea- boey College for Teacherso He later returned to Cullowhee to teach Latin and English at the Normal and Industrial School. In 1921 Bird became the first and only dean WCU had ever had. He operated in that position under Presidents H.T. Hunter, and Paul A, Reid, and has, besides his administrative career here, taught English and served as the English Department Head twenty four years. Bird was acting president of WCC (Western Carolina College) from 1947 to 1949, and served as president from March 1, 1956, when Paul A, Reid resigned the presidency, until July 31, 1957, when Bird resigned. During his retirement years, Bird compiled his "The History of Western Carolina College," printed in 1963. Furthermore, he wrote WCU's Alma Mater after Western became a University in 1967, was appointed university historian and was President Emeritus from 1957 until the present. WM. E. BIRD
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