Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1962 — Page 2

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Hi-Way Trailer Court News ■e» Charles Wallace, a student at Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, arrived here last Friday to spend the holidays with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon WallaCe, 38 Star Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Peterson and family are nicely settled in their new 20-50 mobile home at 48 Vindale Trail. They held open house last Sunday and many people from Decatur visited them. Mr. and Mrs. Brad Blair and their son from Fort Wayne were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jerral Blair, 67 Bella Casa. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Motz of Fort Wayne spent Sunday with her cousin, Mrs. Edth Boley, 35 Star Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Earl Jones and family, 57 Vindale Trail, motor' ed to Beckley, W. Va., for the

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weekend, and her mother, Mrs. Olga Kestner, and her uncle. Roy Creed, who have Veen vising them here, accompanied them to their home in Beckley. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Eversole, 62 Bella Casa, spent Saturday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milo Eversole in Middle Point, Ohio, and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Friemoth in Delphos, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gerig of Auburn visited their son, Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Gerig and family, 519 S. 13th St., and attended the music concert at Adams Central. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bell, Jr„ and Lisa, 59 Bella Casa, spent Sunday at a Christmas party in New Naven. Mrs. Rilla Amstutz, a retired missionary now located at 13 Krick St., celebrated another birthday last Sunday. James Wallace, Sr., of the U. S. Navy, with his son, James Wallace Jr., who have been visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Wallace, 38 Star Lane, left Sautrday for Bethpage, Long Island, N. Y. Mrs. James Herman, 71 Bella Casa, visited her aunt in New Haven last Sunday, and also her cousin, Mrs. t Beverly Garbedin and daughter of New Rochelle, N. Y., who were also visiting there. William Moulton, 73, West St. Ext., observed another birthday last Saturday night and his supper guests were, besides his family, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moulton of Muncie. Every family in the court is Urged to attend the Christmas party at the recreation building Friday at 8 p.m. when Santa will give out gifts to all in the exchange, 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children, and please mark on the package for whom the present is intended, man, woman, girl or boy. Ice cream and coffee will be served. Mrs. Agness Wright, 6 Krick St., received a letter from her son, Frank DeVor in Allegan, Mich., which reports that last Saturday the snow there measured 61 inches deep. We welcome another new resident to the court, David Allen, the 8 pound and 11 ounce son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rhoem, 41 Star Lane, who arrived Dec. 14. Word from Mr. and Mrs. Biran Duling lowa City, lowa to Dr. and Mrs. Harold DeVor, states that they will be here Sunday for a week’s visit with relatives and friends.

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Meredith Facing Academic Crisis

Editors Note: Al Kuettner, UPI southern reporter, who was on the scene when James Meredith entered the University of Mississippi and covered the subsequent riot and other events, has returned to the Oxford campus of the university to report on the situation 11 weeks later. He reports that Meredith faces an academic crisis, and describes the atmosphere at school where 20 U4B. marshals and 500 troops are still on duty to enforce the attendance and Insure the safey of the single Negro student. By AL KUETTNEB United Press International OXFORD, Miss. (UPD—James Howard Meredith, through some of the hardest studying and college student has ever done, may pull through at the University of Mississippi. But unless his grade level starts up sharply and quickly, he is a good candidate to flunk out. The fact that Meredith is a Negro has no direct bearing—but plenty of indirect bearing — on his academic situation. To put it bluntly, Metedith at the moment is a borderline student, the time of decision could come either at the end of the current semester in January, or in June. Meredith, who was brought to the campus under court order and the power of federal marshals and the U.S. Army on the riotous night of Sept. 30, began classes shortly after his formal registration the next day. In the beginning, despite volatile demonstrations and insults against him, Meredith plunged enthusiastically into his studies. With virtually all campus activities closed to him, he spent most of his spare time in his Baxter Hall suite studying.

Undergoes Change But in the 11 weeks the 29-year-old Negro has befen on the “Ole Miss’’ campus, he has undergone a subtle change. His scholastic record has taken a‘nose dive. It is known that he has been taking tranquilizers so he can sleep. He has chewed his fingernails to the quick. He nervously gnaws on pencils in class. Meredith will not discuss his grades ~Os his chances of academic survival. But interviews with students who have classes with him and with other sources at the university permit a reliable look at the dilemma of this controversial young Negro who, was the first of his 'race knowingly admitted to’ the university. University sources emphasize that the first point to get straight about Meredith is that he is not stupid. He is having his worst trouble with algebra but shows considerable intelligence in the social sciences. Man Preoccupied Looking at his textbooks and talking with the man, you get the impression Meredith has the stuff to pass his work—if he weren’t preoccupied. But, although he won’t say so, Meredith is a man preoccupied. On the surface, things look almost normal on the campus, right down to the glowing Christmas tree at the edge of “The Grove” where the Sept. 30 riot occurred. The explosive days and nights of demonstrations and violence, of Army jeeps every few feet on the campus, of U.S. marshals dogging Meredith’s every footstep are virtually gone. The force of marshals assigned to the Meredith case is down to about 20. The Army has pulled out all but about 500 troops, most of whom stay off the campus. The few marshals who “mother hen” the Negro to and from classes try to blend into the landscape. They try to stay out of sight

when Meredith goes alone to the university cafeteria. Hardly a head is turned these days as he moves about the campus. But Meredith knows they are there. They sleep in the room next to him at Baxter. They answer his telephone as a secretary would. At least once, human nature being what it is, Meredith is known to have given his guardians the slip briefly. Denies Any Effects Meredith denies that the little things which happen tn him on the campus have any effect. But they happen. There was the boy in one class, two seats away, Who periodically flicked on a cigaret lighter, causing it to play “Dixie” every time the thing lit up. By the end of class, there was an uproar of laughter. In algebra class, it takes another tack. On several occasions, Meredith has gone to the blackboard with classmates to copy down equations assigned by the professor for calculation on the board. Unable to handle the assignment, Meredith takes his seat. The class is asked if anyone can help out with the answer. Hands go up enthusiastically. The teacher then asks Meredith if he would like a classmate or the professor to help him out. Meredith chooses the prof. He says little in class, often just answers the roll. In English literature, Meredith is in a class of about 40. It’s a lecture type class requiring quite a bit of note taking. Meredith takes few notes. Exams Next Month The weeks of lectures, of blackboard experiences with cubic equations, irrational algebraic expressions and solution of linear equations and of pop quizzes are about over. Following the Christmas vacations, final exams are set for Jan. 17-25. Meredith needs good grades on his finals to pull up his average. IF he —or any student —ends the semester with a grade between 1 and 2 (E and D), he could petition the committee on admissions to let him in next semester on academic probation. If a student’s semester grade is below 1 (E) he normally would be dismissed. If re-admitted on probation, such a student would have to pull his average up"to a 2 (D) in the next semester or he would be finished. Meredith denies that the little things in his life on the campus have made a mountain of pressure for him. In an interview, he said: “The thing that worries me is

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