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Tuesday Evening, Feb. 20, 1968

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The South's Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY

OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Traffic Appeals
card In Debut
H andles 3 Cases

By SUE ANNE SALMON
The legality of towing away private property was questioned
Monday afternoon at the first meeting of the Student Traffic
Appeals Board in the Safety and Security Office, Kinkead Hall.
Members
of the Appeals
Board, recently selected by Stu
getting a towed car released are
dent Government President Steve printed in the Safety and SecurCook and approved by Vice Presity Department's "Internal Operident for Student Affairs, Robert ating Procedures" book. The poJohnson, heard three appeals liceman told White he must show
and took action on two of the proof of ownership (his license
cases.
plate registration certificate), but
No action was taken on the he failed to inform White of the
appeal of Jay Allan White, a 50 cent storage fee for towed
junior do mi counselor at Haggin cars, according to the donn counHall, who questioned thelegality selor.
of his car being towed away by
Consequently, he was charged
order of the campus police. White with a $4 storage fee for the
also questioned the difficulties
eight days his car was stored
while he waited for his registrahe encountered with campus police in trying to get his car back. tion certificate to be sent from
White's car was towed away his hometown.
White stressed the need for
because it was parked without a
printed information concerning
permit in an "R 3" student parking area. He did not appeal his car release procedures.
Board chairman Mickey Miller
ticket for illegal parking, but he
did appeal the right of campus told White the Traffic Appeals
police to go beyond giving a Board could take no action on
ticket for a first parking viola- his case since "he did not appeal
his parking ticket."
tion.
Miller said the Traffic ApWhite said he had asked a
desk peals Board takes action only
campus policeman at the
of the Safety and Security office on appeals concerning parking
violations. He referred White to
for "printed information" about
procedures he must take to get Col. Fred Dempsey, director of
his car released. According to the Department of Safety and
the policeman said, Security, if he wished to pursue
White,
the appeal.
"There is no printed informaWilliam Murrell, "an intertion, but I'm capable of informested observer" at the meeting,
of the procedures."
ing you
However, the procedures for
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National Conference of Christians and Jews members held its annual Brotherhood Week dinner
Monday with Brooks Hays, left, former U.S. representative from Arkansas as guest speaker. Hays
shared some of his experiences as a leader in civil
rights and politics in the South with the capacity

crowd at Red Mile Clubhouse. University President

'Not Just

John Oswald presided over the meeting. Harry
N. Sykes, center, was honored by theNCCJfor his
contributions to brotherhood in Lexington. Sykes
is a city commissioner and mayor pro tern of Lexington. His award was presented by Richard Stofer,
right, of the UK admissions office and a
of the event.

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Kids'

Grown-U- p

A man who had not spoken
a single word for nearly eight
months suddenly raged angrily
at a University student's bungling on a guitar.
The student, a senior majoring in recreation, slowly and

The
program, open
only to qualified seniors, will be
handled much like education majors involved in student teaching
programs throughout the state.
Recreation majors will work 40
hours a week at the hospital,
y
under the supervision of profesdeliberately had wrung
notes noises from the musical sional personnel.
Dr. James Ross, acting head
instrument, hoping to arouse the
interest of the silent man, who of the recreation program at UK,
was known as a capable musiwas instrumental in establishing
cian.
the first
internship proIt was all part of the planned gram in the fall of 1965.
"We have students working
program at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Lexington. with the local YWCA-YMCCurrently, recreation majors Cardinal Hill Hospital, the Boy
from the University work six Scout program, Heritage House
hours a week at the VA hospital for the aged, the U.S. Public
Health Hospital, Kentucky Vilmainly observing teams of solage, and the University Mediciologists, psychiatrists and professional recreation therapists as cal Center," he said.
they attempt to return their pa"Eventually, we hope to establish similar contracts with
tients to a normal life.
A new ingredient has been
each of these centers plus others
added to the therapy program. in which students can receive
Because of the development of professional training."
a new curriculum in the DepartApproval of the new curricument of Physical Education, lum is now up to Dean Ceorge
Health and Recreation, approval Denemark of the UK College of
has been given by the director
Education. Dr. Ross and his colof Education Service, Research
leagues hope to have the new
and Education in Medicine, program in full operation by the
Washington, D. C, for a more fall semester.
"Students will not receive a
extensive internship program in
the training of recreation therateaching certificate through this
pists at the VA hospital.
program," Dr. Ross added.
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"Those who wish to be certified
by the state for teaching in the
public schools must participate
in the regular student teaching
program."
He said the recreational therapist must be flexible and adapt
his routines to the individual
patient. "Most people think of
recreation majors as grown-u- p
children who spend hours at the
playground tossing a ball. This
is far from the true picture."

Recreation
therapists who
work in hospitals must cooperate
with medical doctors, psychiatrists and sociologists in determining the particular needs of
an individual patient and how
best to handle them.

"Through this internship program," Dr. Ross said, "students
not only will receive valuable
experience in handling problems,
they will have an opportunity
to work in their chosen profession before leaving school."
The UK professor said the
current
program will be
reduced to a four-hointroductory course and be offered at the
sophomore level. "Students will
be able to decide early in their
college careers whether this line
of work is suited to their talents."
six-ho-

Eighth Floor Is Evacuated

'Floodwaters' Soak Tower
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By LYNN CARLOUCH
How unfortunate to awaken one morning,
step out of bed, and unknowingly find oneself
ankle-dee- p
in water.
That was the
experience of men in
Tower A from the ninth floor to the basement
Monday morning after cold water pipes had broken
at 4 a.m.
Water trickled from the ninth floor all the
way down, said James Wessels, director of the
Physical Plant Division.
"Water began seeping through the walls, and
about two Inches collected in the lobby before
the water was shut off," added David Wood,
head resident of Tower A.
eye-open-

High Tide
Complex Tower A was flooded from the ninth floor down to the
basement Monday after cold water pipes had broken early in the
morning. Scenes like this water seeping under doorways were
common.

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Eighth floor was hardest hit and men living

there have been evacuated to temporarily find
other lodging in the Tower or in a low rise

structure, said Mr. Wood.
It will take at least a month before the dormitory is back to normal and the red carpet is
reset from the lobby to the ninth floor. The
water-soakecarpeting was removed and sent to
a local cleaning firm to be reshaped and dried.
Custodians' came at daylight to vacuum and
sweep water from the nine floors.
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"The furniture in the rooms was not damaged,"
"but the estimated cost of drying
the rugs is unknown."
Mr. Wood said,

� THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Feb. 20,

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Kernel Not 'Meaningful,' Dr. Murphy Says

The Kernel "isn't performing
its function as a learning experience," Dr. Robert Murphy,
director of the University's
School of Communications, said
Monday at a meeting of the
Hoard of Student Publications.
In a question and answer
period, Dr. Murphy said The
Kernel is a "meaningful experience for a small number of students, but for a large number,

areas of student and faculty interest," and that "it should be
a meaningful experience."
In other business, it was suggested that the board draw up
a statement of philosophy.
Chairman of the advisory
committee, Dean Lyman Ginger asked that the board "put
down what it believes its function to be," and presented a
statement which he said was
"purely for discussion purposes."
Dean Ginger said "a good
part of the board's problems
arise from misunderstanding"
and that the board was "drifting at random without the real
guidelines we ought to have."
Board chairman, Dr. Gifford
Blyton agreed a statement of
the board's philosophy would
be profitable and that it "ought

organized, it can't
be meaningful."
"To be truly useful to the
Journalism Department, it (The
Kernel) would have to be under the control of the department," he said.
Asked to give his conception
of a student newspaper, Dr.
Murphy said it "should be representative of the campus read- .
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representative of the
as it is now

Appeals Board Meets

Continued from Pare One
said he plans to ask Student
Government to provide a committee to hear student appeals
for traffic violations other than
parking.
Frank Hess, arts and sciences
junior, appealed a ticket he was
given for commiting a "moving
hazardous act and driving on
the wrong side of the street" on
Complex Drive.
Hess said a police officer gave
him the ticket while he was still
parked. He said, "It is necessary
to drive on the wrong side of
the street to park properly in
front of the Complex. The policeman anticipated I would be
on the wrong side of the street
when I pulled out."
Margaret Cecil, arts and sciences sophomore, appealed a
ticket she received for parking her
unregistered car in an area restricted. to, car'With."R 3' permits. Her car was towed away

while she was in the process of
unloading luggage.
"I had just carried in a load
and hadn't finished unpacking
the back seat. I stopped inside
the dorm to ask a neighbor where
I could register my car, and when
I went outside it was gone," she
said.
Miss Cecil was charged with
v
a two dollar parking fine, a nine
dollar towing fee and a twenty-fiv- e
dollar fine for having an unregistered car.
Action was taken by the board
on these two cases but was not
made public pending notification
of the parties involved.
The Traffic Appeals Board will
meet at 4 p.m. every Monday
at the Safety and Security office
in Ktnkead Hall. Board members are Mickey Miller, chairman; Cathy Cropper; Ernie Rob-bin- s;
Tom Dawson; Bob Speed;
Logan- Gray and Jimmy Joe
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Miller.

Petitions for senate seats are,
available at the Student Center.
They must be returned by Feb.
25 to Room 208 Administration
Building or to the AWS box at

the information desk of the

Stu-

dent Center. An official slate
will be selected and announced
March 1.
According to the new constitution, officers elected by popular-vote
will be the president,
vice president, two "town girl,"
representatives, and nine senators elected at large. Other members, not elected, will represent
resi
each University-operate-

tives of the Foctry Guild presented a statement to the board
asking for a poetry publication
in addition to the present Kentucky Review.
The Poetry Guild representatives said The Review was not
a sufficient outlet for student
work and that such a publication was needed.

The board deferred the

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Wonderful World of Women
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and displays are
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John Southard, newly elected president of the Student Center
Board, predicts "this board will be the most active that the University has had." Among his plans are to propose a new Student
Center and to expand present programs sponsored this year.
Other new officers are Darryl raLinfT -- iraHm, fnr nmr.,m
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chairmen. The applications are
secreReynolds, corresponding
available in Room 203 of the
tary; Diane Brown, recording sec- Student Center. The deadline is
Milretary; and members-at-larg- e
Feb. 23.
ton Brooks, Mike Davidson,
Carolyn Cowser, Merrily Orsini,
David Ratterman and Laurel
Vandemark.
Members were chosen by a
selection committee of senior
members of the board, two faculty advisers and four students.
The executive board is now

March 6; Petitions Asked
6, 1968.

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New SC Board President
Sees Active Year Ahead

AWS Schedules Election
Elections for Associated Women Students will be held March

to be a cooperative effort between the board and the editors" of the three publications
it controls-T- he
Kernel, The
Kentuckian and The Kentucky
Review.
Board Chairman Dr. Gifford
Blyton suggested a whole meeting be devoted to the discussion of the matter.
Dr. Niel Plummer, chairman
of the financial committee presented the budget requests of
The Kernel and the Kentuckian
for the 1968-6- 9
year.
The Kernel requested $103,-36a $12,000 increase over its
present budget. Dr. Plummer
noted the request was smaller
than last year's $130,000 figure.
The Kentuckian asked for
$46,225.
In other action, representa

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� Basketball triumphs

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The University's basketball team could very well be involved in
its sixteenth NCAA Tournament shortly. The SEC race looks OK for
the Wildcats, and considering that the Mid-EaRegionals will be held
in Memorial Coliseum . . . well, we know what that means.
In any case, the University will once again be thrust into a national spotlight if we get to Los Angeles.

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letter irom Coach Hupp appeared in the Feb. 16 Kernel praising
the "tremendous enthusiasm and support" of the student body over
the season. Finally, the basketball team's efforts on the hardwood
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became a University effort and is no longer confined to the mastery
ot one or two coaches. The students can count themselves as members
of the team, and can use the phrase "we won" with as much vigor

as television announcers.
We are all proud oi the team. No similar effort by the University
has brought as much recognition, acclaim, and national publicity as
the basketball team. No small wonder then, that basketball has more
often than not overshadowed as diligent efforts within this community
of scholars.
It the enthusiasm shown during basketball games could somehow
be carried over into other, more lasting affairs, then we could indeed
enter the second century of the University equipped with more than
a pair of tennis shoes.
President Oswald has forged this University into something more
than a national sporting arena, he has made it possible for University
graduates to have the ability to answer more questions than "How
are you doing in basketball this season."
Basketball is tine. Enthusiasm, however ethnocentric, is equally
fine. But there is more here than athletics'. We wish it was just as
evident, and we wish it would gain the national spotlight too.

Letters To The Editor
To the Editor of the Kernel:
"There are too few UK women involved in the draft protest . . . , and
this is probably because there is so little
pressure on women to be active," (Kernel, February 8).
Isn't this a little far fetched? On
Saturday night of the peace conference
anyone with some sense would have noticed that compared to:
1. ) The total number of women to
men on the UK campus (my reference
is foggy so correct me if 1 woman to 2
men is way off.)
2. ) The small percentage of women
in any political club at UK, and especially the ratio of women hawks to doves,
compared to men. (Remember the women's
march for peace? Want to take a poll?)
There were a heck of a lot of women
in that "cheering crowd of hundreds."
And a count of bodies at the Peace

Action Group meeting tonight shows 24
men and 14 women for a ratio of one
woman to 1.7 men.
Maybe there is such a relatively large
number of women in the peace movement because it is what Erich Fromme
would call a matriarchal group in general principle, or maybe it 4s a chance
for members of an oppressed social class,
women, to get some power, but these
hypothesis need more work.
Advertising space in the Kernel costs
about one dollar per square inch, so if
are correct," Mhe UK
my calculations
peaceniks own the Kernel, 5a8 equals
fourty dollars. This is only "nit picking,"
I have more to say about the recent
"peace revival (?) at UK, but following
some good advice I'm going to clarify
my thoughts first.

John Lansdale
Graduate Student
Economics

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The end is not yet
Apartheid South Africa, the nation of unequals, has just been
readmitted into the 1968 Olympics
by a vote ot an "absolute majority"
of members of the International
Olympic Committee. Apartheid
South Africa, the nation ot unequals, has promised not to enforce
its national apartheid policy on its
entering team. The team will, states
Apartheid South Africa, have an
integrated team, traveling and living together, wearing the same
uniforms and marching under the
same flag.

ers in the land of their birth.
The United States Government,
by proclaiming its total disapproval
of this readmittance could have
shown to the world that we, as
a nation ot equals, will tolerate
nothing else. Our disapproval might
not have eradicated the ugly policy
of apartheid in South Africa,-buit would have made clear our policy
of equality before the law.
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However there has been no mass
outrage trom Washington. In fact,
Americans will never know it our
vote on the readmission of ApartTrials also would be integrated heid South Africa was part of that
.and selection ot the teams would-b- ''absolute, majority" because bemade by an equal number ot lieve it or not,' it was a secret
officials. We ballot. As Douglas Roby, president
white and
would be. amazed it this was a of the U.S. Olympic Committee
realistic possibility in racist South said, "
nobody knows how I
voted
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ises are absolutely worthless in view to cast our vote into that small
ot its racist enforcements at home. absolute
minority basket and go on
The United States Government . .record as opposing the readmission
should have been one ot the first ot South Africa into the 1968 Olymnations to speak out against the pics. There is a strong possibility
readmission ot a nation where mil- that African nations and Russia
lions of black people are not per- will boycott the Mexican Games
mitted even to vote. Where millions as a result ot the decision to let
of black people are being herded South Africa back into the Games,
onto reservations every day. Where for the decision was not a wise
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� THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, fcb. 20,
ODE TO

A NAMELESS RAT
Whiteness (purity?) I oh yes;

At

In the beginning-beau- ty.
Yet,
Living only for an experiment.
Mainly to be observed (loved?).
An
diet . . . also.
So what? He never knew. Nameless.
(heard, giggles or sobs)
and more.
Attempted escape, sought identity . . .
ALL futile . . .
in her hands,
Trapped.
(hard, concusions. contusions, ouch)
Death approaches mercilessly (caressingly?).
Initialization of existence . . . ending.
Early morning rigor mortis. "NO! NO!"
she cries.
Dead. Legs and tail: stiff, cold. Experiment ends.
(chuck, chuck, chuck.)
life, laughter, love . . .
Relinquish
Oh, that the whole world bore his casket on its jeering hands.
Buried by a lone workman.

Everywhere tell all to all.
("coo," coo the cooers)
la not with her,
Else lose a friend at death.
Go, make yourselves conjunct and fade.
Good grief flies. Gloomy gladness creeps
in.
Yes, get another one. Do.
(rats are cheap; a man is worth less)
Bill Raker
Math Graduate Assistant

By BRUCE PEYTON

The old man had been a preacher
for forty, fifty years fire and brimstone
type, hell and damnation. Then he'd lost
God somehow nobody really knew how
he just lost him, couldn't believe anymore. Yea, he'd lost his faith but not
his need for it. Guess that just sort of
clings to some folks no matter what.
Me? Well, as a boy I'd truly thought
of him as bein' a man of, well, firsthand, personal experience. But at the
time of his fall I was just sort a driftin'
along not too worried about it all. So
it didn't shock me too much. I didn't
live there anymore. Heard about it from
my mother one weekend I came home
for a visit. Lord, was she upset about it!
All of 'em were. Guess You can understand that. Guess I can, too, now. Didn't
mean too much even though.
Well anyway, he didn't get struck
down by lightnin' right then. No, he
lived on a while. Stayed right there
at home. Didn't get out much; just kept
to 'imself. Thought a lot. Read a lot,
I guess. Folks said he was ashamed,
sorry about what he'd done. They knew
that right off. They knew he was in
there late at night readin' 'is Bible and
prayin' forgiveness.
About a year later they found out
'e hadn't been readin' 'is Bible all that
much. He'd been readin' lots a other
stuff, tltough. All sorts a stuff for awhile.
Then I guess 'e finally found somethin
and settled on it. It wasn't much -- not
like God or anything. But it wasbigger'n'
the old man, big enough to wonder about
anyway, big enough to be a little afraid
of, and small enough and wierd enough
not to have to have real proof against it.
You see, he'd got real interested in
all this flyin' saucer business, these people
s'posed to be comin' down here from the
sky, from outer space. Lot a evidence for
that, you know. Lot a people still liyin'
claims to of seen the things; some of 'em
even claims they've ridden in 'em. Governments studyin' 'em. Makes you wonder
anyway. Makes you think maybe there's
somethin' to it. Even got some top scientists woikin' on it smart, modern men.
You get kinda afraid sometimes if you
think about it much. Guess that's some-

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thin'.
The preacher he got all excited about
eyewitnesses,
wrote Utters to
u ad hundreds a lxoks, even got himself
a telescope and stuck it out 'is attic
window at night to look for "em. That's
what staited people really talkin'. And
that's what the X)stmaster asked him
about one day when the old man came
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Did Margaret King love bells?
Terry Dunham
AUS Junior
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DEATH

SUMMER
Would Winter, better, ifdemitasse?
Or Summer be the best to sup.
Coldness, though, is like a glass
And coffee's better in a cup.
R. C. Jones
A & S Freshman

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The night comes ever so slowly
In these days of awakening life;

It is

Rel ease, freedom he sought;

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Into the foundation he was dropped, interred in formless concrete.
(get the d. a. and a camera)
Leave her in loneliness (joy?) , see.
Or give in like the others . . . "Ha!
Ha!" she wimpers.
Voices and barkers, without feeling,

SILENT BELLS
the library.
Quiet.
Solitude.
Study.

19f8- -5

But now, propriety's death reigns.
few final tears fall on the sofa.
The do's and don't's have destroyed Eden,
As The Old Testament religion destroys
her;
A lead coffin tarnishing the artist's soul
It barely holds; destroying by decay.
Must I forget the Eden we made from Hell?
Must I forget the other Eden we planned
to build?
Only the crying woman knows.
Marcel Lenard
A

For sleep is my only refuge.
And its fleetness slips by as though
There were none.
Words which must be said were
Prayed unbearable to her
On whose mind they must fall.
The meaning and the sense of
Actions have become a blur
Of an extended hand slapping
A child's face.
A life once whose path was
Covered by a soft mist.
Has now become clouded with a
Fog that stabs and chokes
With each short breath of the unbeau- tiful air,
And hides that unsure road
In a darkness known only
To the depths of untraveled caverns.
The freshness of life once understood
Has left its meaning laughing
Desired it as a way only true.
Un words have been spoken now
Which though able to die
And be forgotten will indeed
Be used to mold the future
Of selfish hearts.
The simple sweetness of a
Spoken work, strongly desired,
Is yet withheld through pride
Of a heart so desirous of
Love that it feeds
Itself with the manna
Of Its own expression.
Reason has fled at the sight of
Emotion and only the dim
Reminders of a soft purity
Remain to haunt my life.
Bill Lindsay, Jr.

THE DRIFTER

in to get 'is mail. Old man told 'im right that. I was one a them you used to preach
off what he was doin. Wasn't a bit about. Remember? I'm not here to preach
ashamed. Nobody ever is when they beyou a sermon. I just came to talk to ya,
lieve real strong in somethin'. Told im that's all. Just to talk. I'm interested in
all about it, got all fired up. Then calmed
these flyin' saucers myself. Always have
down a little bit and drove off real quick
been. Thought I might learn somethin
in his old Cadillac.
from you. That's all. I promise."
Of courseit" was all over town in no
He stared at me again for a minute,
time. And 'is housekeeper was given tryin' to see if he could believe me.
strict instructions to check up in that Then he decided he could. Got a smile
attic next time she went over there. Sure on his face. Wiped it off real quick. Took
'nough she came back tellin' all kindsa on a stronger look.
tales about 'is books and charts and
"Boy, this is more than a hobby to
equipment. That stuff was expensive, me. It's not a hobby, not at all." He
too. And they talked 'im down for spendin' started
gettin' all excited, all fired up
money he'd got outa them all those years. just like he was preachin again. Then it
Well, next time I came home for a looked like hecaught himself, remembered
visit and after my motherfinishedscoldin'
somethin', and his eyes left mine and went
me as usual for not bein' married yet, back to the floor. "It's my life now,
she started in tellin' me the latest on boy." His eyes came back up off the floor
the old preacher. Funny, I got real in- real quick, seemed like he just couldn't
terested in 'im, rememberin' 'im from keep 'is head bowed. He got that stern
when I was a boy and all, and then, look again. Sneaked us up to his attic
of course, I was kinda interested in the like it was the Holy of Holies or somespace men myself, wondered what all thin' and tried to make me feel real
he'd learned. Yea, I was real interested privileged, even blessed to get to see it.
in that. So the next mornin' I got up
Funny, idn't it? Way he acted. Real
and went out to see 'im.
funny. Just like when he used to take
Big old house was gettin' kinda run us boys into his study in the church
down just like 'is old Cadillac. Saw and give us his talks. That attic room
that telescope, though, behind 'is attic looked a lot like the old study, too.
window, and saw him up there fiddlin'
Only the books were different. And inwith it. Then he saw me. I know he stead of the big stand covered with red
did 'cause he ducked away like he didn't velvet and a Bible sittin on it, there
want a see me. But I knocked on 'is was the telescope aimed up at the sky.
door real loud and long and finally he
"Ever see anything in that?"
opened it:
"Not much, son, but others have, and
I've talked to 'em. I know one man
"What a you want, son?"
"Just came by to see ya. Been a quite well from letters we've exchanged.
longtime. Just wanted to see you again." You don't have to see a thing to believe
in it."
"What for?"t
It made me real sad when he talked
"No reason."
He stared at me a minute; then he like that, couldn't hardly meet his eyes.
let me in kinda slow like, his big brown He talked on and on. Showed me letters
eyes wide open at me and his long white and books and charts. But there was
hair partly hangin' down across 'is craggy always the telescope there in the window. The telescope he'd never seen anyface.
His house was as clean 'n' nice as thing in, himself. Just hope. That's all
always. Housekeeper'd always done a he had. Just a little hope.
good job. We sat dow n.
I didn't get to ask 'im any questions
"How you been, lx)y?"
about flyin' saucers. Didn't have to.
"Fine, fine. And you?"
He speelul it all right off. Found out
"Okay, I guess, by the grq . Yes, I'm more'n I could a asked alxmt anyway.
okay. But you know all about what's Not really tltough. 'Cause I didn't listen
too close to what 'e said. Just mainly
happened to me now, don't you?"
how 'e said it. I'd told myself 1 was
Yea. Yea, that's the reason I came.
comin' to find out alnmt spacemen. Told
"That's what I thought. Well, you the old man I'd come to see him. Guess
what I told him was right. I didn't
can just
don't get all upset." wanta know what 'e'd found out, just
"Okay now;
People's always jumpin' out atcha like if he'd foun