{"id":22711,"date":"2015-03-13T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=22711"},"modified":"2015-03-12T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T01:02:51","slug":"the-raleigh-rewind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2015\/03\/13\/the-raleigh-rewind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raleigh Rewind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the first edition of the Raleigh Rewind, a look back at what was happening in the city fifty years ago this week.<\/p>\n

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NC State was dominating the headlines in the second\u00a0week of March 1965 as well, although not\u00a0for their feats on the basketball court. While the Wolfpack had\u00a0won the\u00a0ACC Tournament the week before, a March 11 headline in the Raleigh Times blared:\u00a0“Arson Squad Fingerprints About 175 State Students.” The next day, the banner headline read: “Is the NCS Arsonist True Pyromaniac?”<\/p>\n

The March 11 article noted that SBI agents, Raleigh detectives, and arson investigators from the State Insurance Department were in their third week of an investigation<\/a> into the 15 or so campus fires set since December 1964.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0worst of them was on February 22, when Pullen Hall <\/a>burned to the ground and the roof of Peele Hall was severely damaged.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0article goes on to quote Dr. Harold Corter, of State’s psychology department.<\/p>\n

He said the most common type of pyromaniac is between the ages of 15 and 30 and is almost always a male with a character or behavioral disorder which reflects a sexual disorder. According to Corter, such a person would be nice, quiet, overly attached to his mother and would probably have had little success with women.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fire wasn’t the only hot topic\u00a0at State that week though, as a contentious name change debate was underway in the General Assembly.<\/p>\n

A headline in the March 9 edition of the Raleigh Times read: “Full House to Decide: Group Okays ‘NCSU'”<\/p>\n

As baffling as this sentence might seem to a contemporary audience, readers at the time were likely well aware of the\u00a0ongoing\u00a0debate over a name change for NC State, an argument that stretched back\u00a0nearly two years.<\/p>\n

After the General Assembly changed the name of the school to the North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh [sic] in 1963, protests<\/a> and letter-writing campaigns led elected officials\u00a0to take up the issue again in 1965.<\/p>\n

The new name selected is one that remains in place today \u2014 mostly. The assembly selected the name<\/a> “North Carolina State University at Raleigh” \u2014 although the “at Raleigh” part is generally left off and ignored.<\/p>\n

However, this decision did not come easy \u2014 an article in the Raleigh Times on March 8 noted:<\/p>\n

The NC State name change ruckus is causing discomfort and deep unhappiness among at least two groups in the state house.<\/em><\/p>\n

Headline Roundup<\/h4>\n

The following headlines are all taken from issues of the Raleigh Times dating between March 8 and March 15 1965.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Drowned Man Found Living High and Dry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daylight Time: Boon or Bane? Solons* Hear Both Sides Today<\/strong>
\n*The Raleigh Times often referred to lawmakers as “solons,” a reference to the Athenian statesman. People were smarter back then.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Water Bills Higher Today<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neckin’ ‘n Drivin’ All Right With Solons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Racing Trial Begins in Superior Court<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eight Million Gallon Tank May Be Ready By Summer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Courthouse, Post Office Sale Talked<\/strong><\/p>\n

NCSU Professor Found Dead in Bed<\/strong><\/p>\n

County May Need 2-Cent Tax Hike<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weekend Weather to be Wet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Policeman Favors War on Goofballs*<\/strong>
\n*Goofballs was slang for amphetamines and\u00a0barbiturates. People did better drugs back then.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

City Employees Singing Those Water Bill Blues<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ex-Detective is Missing Since Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Laffer of the week:<\/h4>\n

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