Subject: Tarheel Tidbits
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 20:04:15 -0500 (EST)
From: anon@queernet.org (Anonymous Sender)
And now the latet gossip and news from the Old North State.

Earlier this week, in the Old North State, the temperature was in the
high 60s and low 70s, a real change from the previous week of single
digets and minus numbers.  As the temperature rose, the good citizens
of this great state, home of the oldest state university and leader in
the nation in the production of textiles, furniture, tobacco products
and -- even not counting Jesse Helms -- turkeys, came out hibernation.

Over in the Southern Part of Heaven, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school
board voted unanimously to make Chapel Hill High the first school in
the state where students will get free condoms.  Victoria Peterson
said she had contacted the Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family
Association Law Center in Tupelo, Miss., and got a promise of legal
aid in case a student who is given a condom contracts a sexually
transmitted disease or gets pregnant.  The school board's lawyer says
the board in on solid legal ground.

San Francisco and New York might have their Condomania but it appears
we might have it here in the Tarheel State, too.  'Cept we don't have
a store; it looks like a disease.  The Wake County -- that's the City
of Oaks  -- Department of Health is now offering exotic colored and
tropical flavored condoms in the men's and women's bathrooms at the
Health Department to "capture the mystery and intrigue of the night."
No, I didn't think that one up.  That was in the Newsless Disturber
-- the News and Observer -- right on today's page B1.

Down at Fayettenam, home of Ft. Drag and Pope Air Force Base, the
boys in blue -- the Air Force -- have lost two tapes used in the recent
court-martial proceedings against a captain who was convicted in October
of committing homosexual sodomy, and military prosecutors may be forced
to retry the case.  Capt. Luther Turner, a C-130 pilot was dismssed
without pay and benefits.

Richard Petty, the race car driver and possible Republican candidate
for governor, held a fund raiser last night where he hoped to raise
$75,000 to help Republicans in this year's elections.  Petty has
campaigned for our ole buddy, Jesse Helms, in the past.

And in other developments over in the Southern Part of Heaven:

  - Lesbian author Susan Johnson (not Doris as previously reported) will be
    speaking at 8:30 p.m. in the Chapel Hill High School auditorium on
    Friday, Jan. 28.  She wrote the book "Staying Power: Long-term Lesbian
    Relationships" among other works.  Johnson has a Ph.D. in sociology and
    is a professor at Antioch. In addition to Johnson, gay author Perry Dean
    Young will speak.  This Vietnam War journalist has been published in the
    NY Times, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, etc., is a novelist ("The
    David Kopay Story," and "God's Bullies) and resides in Carrboro.

  - The Orange Lesbian and Gay Association organizational meeting is on
    Sunday at 4 p.m.  E-mail Doug Ferguson at cdfergus@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
    for additional information.

Carolina, Carolina, Heaven's blessings attend thee.....

And that is the way it has been in North Carolina, my home state.

-YHT