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Dula, Not Dooley, Died On Hill
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With the public going wild over
twangers, it in unusual that ft folk song should be as
popular as the ballad of "Tom Dooley" is now.
Folk font? usually have several versions and the
facts are not always reliable. "Tom Dooley1' is no exception. Matter of fact. Tom Dooley. properly spelled.
Is Tom Dula.
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The popular version of "Tom Dooley" is somewhat
different fiom the earlier version of the song. The
opening I3 ifcs of the earlier arrangement are "Hang
your head and cry, Tom Dooley, Hang your head and
cry. For cu have murdered Laura Foster, And now
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die.

The following account of the background and trail of
Tom Dooley is based on a manuscript written by Kin-cai- d
Patterson and now in the possession of Jack

Vance said If the trl.U jre held In Statesville th blue-coa- ts
would han him
The trial was held In Statesville and Dooley appeared

Walker, a graduate student in archeology.
Patterson got most of his Information from his grandmother, who lived In Statesville. N. C.
Tom Dooley, after being discharged from the Confederate Army, returned to his home In Statesville. He
was engaged to a beiutiful girl named I.aura Foster. At
the same time he was carrying on an affair with another

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In his Confederate uniform.
prosecution accused him of killing the allegedly pregnant
Iaura Foster so he could marry his Wilkesboro mistre.
Laura had told friends she was going to elopr wiMi
Tom on the day of her disappearance. Her parked trunk
was found near her body. That same day. Tom had rente4
a horse and wagon.
Dooley was concicted and sentenced to be hanged. Hi
rode to his hanging on Klncaid Hill on his coffin waving-tthe crowd that had come to see him hanged On ths
carfold he still maintained that he was Innocent.
Innocent or not, Tom Dooley didn't get to Tennessee.
"down In some lonesoMA
And he didn't meet death
a white oak tree."
valley, hanging from

at hi trial dressed

woman in Wilkeshoro. N. C.

One day Laura Foster disappeared. Three weeks after
schoolmaster named Grayson
her disappearance, a
found her body in the woods outside Wilkesboro. brutally
stabbed In the side. Grayson, who had once courted
Laura Foster, charged Tom Dooley with murder nnd
his mistress with being an accomplice.
During the trial Dooley "was defended by Zeb Vance,
his commanding officer during the war. Dooley claimed
he would not receive a fair trial In Wilkesboro. but

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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, DEC.

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DarmelL Chambliss
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Darnell nnd Bob Cham-blis- s
were chosen Greek god. and
goddess last night at the convoca- tion initiating Greek Week on the
UK campus.
Susan is a senior English major
and a member of Delta Delta Delta
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sorority. Her activities include
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Mortar Board, treasurer of
Delta Phi.
Council. Chi
Tail Sigma, English Club and PhiPan-hellen-

losophy Club.

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Susan transferred to UK following her freshman year at Mount
Holyoke College. So. Hadley, Mass.
Her overall standing is 3.77.
Chambliss is ,a second semester
He is a member
junior in
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Chambliss has an overall standing
of 3.25. He is a member of Keys.
Sod
Lances. ODK, Pryqr
ciety. Phalanx, SU Board and IFC.
Chambliss was awarded a $2,000
scholarship. He was
Keeneland
chairman of the fall Leadership
Training P'.cjram for freshmen.
convocation last
ALo at the
night' at Memorial Hall. Ollie
James, chief editorial writer and
columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, was juiest speaker.
James, a graduate of UK and an
alumnus of Sigma Nu frafcini'y,
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This week's Sweetheart Is Cynthia Iteadell. a junior topical major
from Indianapolis, Ind. Cynthia, whose topic Is hiological illustracontraption sometimes associated
tion, examines a
with illustrating.
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Ag Students To Compete
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And Woman
Of Month Named
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Ernestine (Teena) .Williams
Fredeiickson, home economics junior, and Willis Ray Haws, education junior, are the woman and
man of the month.
Mrs. Frtderickson. from Russell-vlU- e.
has a standing of 3.G. She
was chosen for woman of the
month because of her position as
head chairman of the delegates to
the Kentucky Home Economics
Association convention in Louisville Nov. 24. At the convention,
Khe spoke on the activities of UK's
Home Economics

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member of Alpha
lambda Dvlta, vice president of
Owens, secretary of Links, member
if Agriculture Council, member of
l'lii I'j.silon Omicron. president of
t!:e Home I c Club. She Mn a
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The annual Festivities Niht of then omr.etini; in the champion-shi- p
round. I'ach Individual winner
the UK College of Agriculture and
at the
will he awarded a troph
Home Economics' Dairy Club
at 7:0!) tonicht at the Dairy (oniludon of the event.
Center.
Several c,:mic ski's tatunn
UK students majoring in d.tny-111:- 4 da:iy s! !. it ui.ll lie neii. A hula
will show the animal- - thev hi"''; enii'ts' lor ."tialentv .uhI
pieseiiled
Will al
have titled durinc the past month
in their individual projects. Han M Caii'lid. UK senior 'in
'1 hen will he three showmanship
of tl;e Daily
lasses. Jersey and llolsleins will da::vi!.i;. is
he shown first with the winners Club.
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Cheerleaders

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UK's cheerleaders arc shown 111
pictures in
lour pa .nes of lull-colthe current issue of Sixrts Illustrated magazine.
The photographs show the tense
the cheerleaders
expressions of
game last
during the Temple-Uyear at Freedom Hall, Louisville.
The came, which Kentucky won.
was in the semifinals of the
NCAA tournament.
In the same issue is an article by
UK basketball coach Adolph Rupp.
career in
describes his
Rupp
basketball coaching and the philosophy that has led to his remarkrecord over the years.
able won-loSports Illustrated describes the
partisan
cheerleaders as "the-mosof all inescapably involved in the
split second
chances of fortune
their heroes experience on the
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Danforth Scholarship as the
standing home economics freshman.
A resident of Warfield. Haws
has a 2.5 standing. He is adviser
ot the Men's Residence Hall Governing Council and was in charge
of the election for the representatives to the dorm council. He was
in charge of the election for officers in which C5 per cent of the
men resident students voted.
Haws is a representative to Student Congress, chairman of the
telephone committee in SC, social
chairman of the Men's Interdorm floor."
Pictured are last year's cheer-leadtDance, member of the Little Kenpat Phelps.' Pat Nalhnuer.
tucky Derby committee. Hanging
Su.- - in
en.-- - committee and state of- Bradley. Tracy W;kUit.
dl Git
le'.ho.h t Mary J.aiet Bond and J.uv.e Wn;- in. kv
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