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Old newsp ASSOCIATED PRESS Pack rats take notice: some of thos yellowing newspapers in the attic ai historic treasures for the North Carolir Department of Cultural Resource Old newspapers offer a snapshi of pop culture. Give Jeannie Kuntl an old newspaper, and she can tell yc what people were arguing about whe the paper was published. What the were wearing. What they were eatin Even what they were naming the children. Uininmr Vvrtrvlrn trnii nv-?4- /-> Um ill nidtuijr uuum, y\ju get tiic ucu bones of what life was like," said Kuntt an amateur genealogist and histoi teacher from Stanly County. "I newspapers, you get flesh and blood But newspapers age quickl; yellowing and wrinkling until the pru begins to fade or the pages fall apar A splash of coffee, and it's gone. For the past three years, researche with the N.C. Department of Cultur Resources have been trying to presen okl newspapers before age ? and cone spilling readers ? can get to ther Once the N.C. Newspaper Proje is completed, probably by 1997, copi< of 2,114 newspapers published in tl Tar Heel State will be available c microfilm at the state archives. Some of the papers ? The Chariot Observer, the old Charlotte News ar smaller papers like The Salisbury Po and The Concord Tribune ? alreac are available on microfilm. But, mar others, including The Gaston Progre and The Blue Ridge Blade, have nevi been microfilmed. "Our main purpose is to presen a piece of North Carolina history t Gibbes Plai CATHERINE MdNTOSH Staff Writer If you've always wanted to go bold where no man has gone before and explc the outer reaches of the universe, y< can do just that without ever leavii Columbia. Gibbes Planetarium, located insii the Columbia Art Museum on the corn Not long ago, Chris was down t Today, after three years of chemi leukemia continues to stay in re C~hric Irnipc hrino nhfo tr> fop] am the time. He even loves his siste It's patients like Chris who mak school worth it. 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Think Applications J apers hold k( finding older and smaller papers and microfilming them," researcher Chris 16 Mulder told The Charlotte Observer. "But this is also creating a public ^ resource, a tool for researchers, s ^ historians, genealogists, maybe would^ be novelists, and people who are just simply interested in the past." PnooQrr?V\nrc Korron flin nrmnnf Kxr XW/OV/U1 V1XV/1 kJ IL/VglUX UliU J^i Vj WV KfJ \ compiling a list of newspapers they knew about that have never been cr ?r microfilmed, publications like the Highlander and News, a Kings ^ Mountain paper from the 1920s; The Hypodermic, a Lenoir paper from the mid-20th century, and the Temperance n Herald and Prohibition Banner, two [? Concord papers from the 1880s. y Now they're searching for the papers ^ themselves, borrowing wrinkled copies ^ of long-lost publications and searching for hidden historical gems in libraries, newspaper offices and historical ^ societies. They're also asking collectors re and ordinary, everyday pack rats to 0. check their attics for old papers. Q. "Every paper they find adds ct something to the collected history of 2S the state," said Robert Anthony, curator ie of the North Carolina Collection at in UNC-Chapel Hill's Louis Round Wilson Library. "Without a community's te newspapers, you can't really understand id its complete history." st Researchers will be in Gaston and ly Lincoln counties next week, ly In February, they'll visit Cleveland ss and Stanly counties, and in April they'll er stop in Iredell County. "We've had people bring in copies re that had marriage announcements, >y obituaries, birth notices, big news letarium offei of Senate and Bull streets, is now showing Hy .images from the most powerful optical ire telescope ever built ? the Hubble Space au Telescope (HST). ig The HST was ridiculed when it was first sent into space because the images de it returned were, shall we say, fuzzy. A er recent space mission captured the o 40 lbs. otherapy, his mission, id most of '? the years in ou re ready int to choose ike the next fl norial JB h, Georgia is fering close Jl :ulty, excel- B 11 range of nnriol n family-cen- JM services in jH rders, birth ifl and cancer jfl :ncy is comlily Practice, IB 1 ynecology, JBI B^B BBM c Radiology, Medical iching hospispital. As ve what tokingfor %ional sysi s nothing like ithem charm eorgia. Memorial. M" emoria] CHILDREN'S HOSPIT/ PEDIATRICS RESIDENC 4700 Waters Avenue Savannah, Georgia 31404 or the 7/1/96 class accepted through 2/10/96. For i by calling 1-800-218-1II ft The Gamecock *y to history stories they were saving," Mulder said, "but there have been people who just keep huge collections." People also have brought publications that scholars didn't know about, papers such as ihe Locomotive, which was published a few times in the 1850s to publicize New Bern's new railroad. "You never know what you're going to find," Mulder said. "It's a constant education." Researchers fear many newspapers from the late 1700s and early 1800s are gone for good because of deterioration. The best place to keep old papers is somewhere cool and dry ? like the broken-down freezer one Yadkin County woman uses to hold her collection. Damp, hot rooms are the worst place for newspapers. Well, almost the worst. An editor at one small newspaper office in eastern North Carolina led researchers into an attic where the paper stored its collection of past editions. There, the researchers were excited about their find ? until they reached the bundle of old papers. Rats had been there first. "They'd just shredded a whole bundle to make nests," Mulder said. "Besides the ink stains, the animals and insects are definitely the toughest part of this job." If you have old newspapers you'd like to lend (they will be microfilmed and returned to you), call the N.C. Newspaper Project at 919 -733-4488. rs alimnses n o jr telescope and used a robotic arm to fit it with corrective lenses. The Hubble images have gone from fuzzy to amazing. Actress Gates McFadden, Dr. Beverly Crusher from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," narrates the brilliant array of images and computer graphics. Witness each phase of Comet j wiityy jju/ H salaaMM fill ai mHIH f 181^* ^j:y# g& 1 : ^HBM w^uw>.' *? - ^ s^Bfe- #1 #ll^. ?T ..jUm JpW^JIs *??B^mjjg/M '^yoafl Chris Busey, a Memi ft Think A, Y information, contact Martin H. Grcenbcrg, M.D., 39 or faxing 912-350-7221. UH Tuesday, January 23,1996 Legal abortio ASSOCIATED PRESS Emboldened by the Republican majority in Congress, tens of thousands of yelling, chanting abortion opponents marched in protest to the Supreme Court building Monday, the 23rd anniversary of the court's decision legalizing most abortions. The marchers used the annual protest to exhort President Clinton to sign legislation limiting a woman's legal right to end a pregnancy. An estimated 60,000 people participated in the march, U.S. Park Police spokeswoman Sandra Alley said. The March for Life Fund, the event organizer, claimed 125,000 participants. This year's official turnout on a crisp, sunny day was up from about 45,000 at last year's march and from 1994, when 35,000 marchers braved an ice storm. An anti-abortion march in Washington in April 1990 drew the biggest crowd, an estimated 200,000, in response to an abortion-rights gathering a year earlier attended by 300,000. Clinton, who supports abortion rights, threatens an election-year veto of Congress' first attempt to prohibit an abortion procedure since the landmark 1973 decision in Roe vs. Wade. The bill, which bans a rare process used late in pregnancy, passed the Senate last month by a 54-44 vote. The measure's author, Republican presidential hopefid Rep. Robert Dornan of California, told Monday's crowd that with elections scheduled in 288 days, the abortion foes' mission "above and * beyond everything is to get a pro-life person into the job as executive leader of the free world." f celestial ha] Shoemaker-Levy 9's crash into Jupiter and the Earth-sized scars it left behind." See atmospheric storms on Saturn, evidence of black holes, galactic collisions and a defiant star in its death throes. Even if you aren't a Trekkie or astronomy buff, the show at Gibbes Planetarium is a great way to pass tne t irial Children's Hospital patient. head. Program Director, ns celebrate a Abortion remains among America's most deeply emotional and divisive public Rij and political issues, despite the predominance of tax and budget matters g^ on the campaign-trail debate in recent weeks. M( Marchers came to Washington in chartered buses and carried signs on the ' muddy Capitol Ellipse bearing slogans ?*1 demanding "Stop Abortion Now" and saying "The Natural Choice is Life." ve: Dornan and several other GOP members be of Congress challenged Clinton to sign a i the legislation. vi( "Bill Clinton is an abortionist, and we need to get him out ot the wnite House today," Rep. Steve Stockman, RTexas, said to cheers. . In the Supreme Court building, the ou justices refused without comment to let * Pennsylvania apply new restrictive ho reporting rules for Medicaid-funded of abortions sought by women whose a 1 pregnancies resulted from rape or incest ^ or whose life would be endangered by giving birth. Pennsylvania law would have allowed ^ Medicaid-funded abortion only when vs rape or incest that caused a pregnancy 1131 I*?J ?\a1iaa ah tttV> aa iiau uccii i cpui ucvi tu uiic pvuvc ui v* ucn a doctor with no financial stake in the ar procedure certified that an only abortion ab would save a woman's life. by This year the marchers appeared energized by the Republican-controlled na Congress, where the House passed scores of anti-abortion measures last year, and by the prospect of a potential GOP ^ takeover of the White House in November. "We can get a president who is totally ?P pro-life," said Nick Robinson, 15, a student as from Rochester, N.Y. ' wc ppenings via i afternoon, expanding your mind as you hear theories on the expansion of the SI universe. q "Through the Eyes of Hubble" is showing every Saturday and Sunday at 2 and 4 p.m. until April. Admission is 50 cents after paid ?f museum admission, or $1.50 for students, br fiAMFP Sports Cal This Week in Game Men's Bas Wedries January ^Mississippi Sta b frank HcQair telen'sBj 11 Sundc January avsWfssiSsfppi ? .infrarik McGtifc v : . > x " Tbnn Thursday -January, * SEC Hen's Indoor C Finals ? AM Su in the Tennis C For Ticket Information C For More Details Contact: USC Spx 1996 Spring January 15th - F< fiiii Jtfi net nnet \Jo\ Tours will run approximately 1 hour and the first 1/2 hour will be our building tour, departments in Thomas Cooper Library; Network Tour, providing a general intn CD-ROMS, and Netscape. No sign-up nec Building Tours: Mondays: 11am Tuesdays: 11am Wednesdays: 2pm Thursdays: 7pm Fridays: 11am Tours for Students. F J ~ - 7 with Disab Tours will cover building and network inf and services the library provides for pa Loope, Reference Librarian and liaisor conduct the following tours. If you have a to attending one of the tours below, ple< 777-4867 or e-mail her at LOOPEC@tcl.s< Monday, January 15th 10:00 buildi: Friday, January 19th 10:00 buildinj Thcsday, January 23rd 1:00 buildin ALL TOURS WILL MEET INSIDE THE FRONT D 5 nniversary Carol Long, director of the National ?ht to Life Political Action Committee, d the group's top priority is to replace 11 Clinton with a pro-life president." At the White House, spokesman Mike Curry said, 'The president is confident zj JviiuvY 111a view a uii uiic niipji bcu.ii*; choice for women." " They also know that he hopes that ry divisive issues such as choice can addressed by the American people in vay that minimizes hostility and >lence and maximizes understanding d common ground," McCurry said. Opponents, most of whom believe j begins at conception, want abortion tlawed as murder. rARLINE at 803-254-STAR or the >lumbia Museum of Art at 8Q3-799110. HST images can also be pulled down f the Internet by setting your web owser to "Hubble Space Telescope." OCKS endar cock Athletics iketball davi^ r Tours ebruary 2nd twork Tours will be divided into two sections: covering the various services and the second 1/2 hour will be our eduction to our on-line catalog, essary. Network Tours: Mondays: 11:30am Tuesdays: 11:30am Wednesdays: 2:30pm Thursdays: 7:30pm F ridays: 11:30am acuity and Staff ilities ormation with emphasis on access itrons with disabilities. Charlene i for Disabilities Services, will ny special requests or needs prior ise contact Ms. Loope at either ng tour/10:30 network tour * tour/10:30 network tour g tour/1:30 network tour OORS OF THOMAS COOPER LIBRARY L 8 JsRetball fy<&<%?sr* mrw Sunday v t5~28 F foampi&n ships nday 2/28 omplex all 777-4274 >rts Information 777-5204 Thomas Cooper i Library "Abortion is a crime against inanity," said Nellie Gray, president the March for Life Fund. "Abortion is leinous crime against the pre-born, ainst man, woman, society and God." But abortion rights advocates are ually united in the belief that the Roe . Wade decision is among the most iportant on behalf of women. The high court ruled in the case of fexas woman that the right to an ortion is constitutionally guaranteed a woman's right to privacy. The decision legalized abortion tionwide. Pro-choice advocates used the iniversary to celebrate the Roe vs. ade decision but to warn that abortion ponents have launched a "full-scale sautt" in state legislatures to limit >men's right to terminate pregnancies. the Hubble For more information, call the