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w . .1 i -I j W t CAROLINA ROOM WEATfiW 1111 Fair and Cooler. High 72. FOR PRESIDENT The man is . . . See page 2. VOLUME LXVII, NO. 132 Complete UP) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1959 Offices in Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUE o, o 0(0) uu u u u iJ j A jQ ft if Norman Smith, Charlie Gray Seek Presidential Position t'h.trlie Gray ami Norman Smith meet Ul iy on the ballot to decide who will ho the next President of ti e Student Body. In (ithir Big Four elections. Jim i.oaout SI' is opposing David t.rig 'IT for ice president; Anne l..H'.i Sl'i is pitted against Sue V. mx1 it'! for secretary; and Bob I iiKh.un lr will fight it out with l.rwin Fuller 'Sl'i for treasurer. Gray i Die .standard bearer for the FniUTMty Party and has been .utic thi.s j ear as treasurer of the student lody. lie h.is hrrn ,i reprcsentatiu in He Student Legislature from holli I'urm Men's I and To am Men's II. lit is the tT flwoi loader, and Ls on tl.t W.iy.s and Means Committee. lie i on the Chancellor's Cabinet. PnMtlrnt'j Cabinet, Consolidated I raursity Student Council and was a representative of thus University ;t the National Student Association Congress last .summer. Smith is a junior from Franklin .i .'I a member of both the Order the Old Well ami the Order of the Golden Fleece. lie has been chairman of tire com n Meo on Slate Affairs and chair n an of the Dormitory Kent Com mttee. He has been a member of the Siudent Legislature for the past )ar. representing students in Dorm Nlen's V. In this capacity he has Mm! as chairman of the Ways .'trid Mean Committee. Crownovcr has been the SP floor- I ;Hler. chairman of the Campus Stores Committee and a dorm man user. He is a Junior. Grigg has been on the Budget Committee, chairman of the Beat Duke Parade and the Attorney Cen tral's Staff. He is a .sophomore and a PiKA. Anne Lucas and Sue Wood are mMMIMMW V " ' ' . , " ' 1 tn.y :"i , ;. 4 Z .. V- '' . - - -', . e i ss .-vV.I . ' FY' I X ' 1 ... - ' Davis Young Is Alone In DTH Editor Contest Davis Young is running unopposed ( Ills other newspaper qualifica for the editorship of The Daily Tar tions include being a reporter, col Hccl. umnist and feature editor for The Since the announcement of his Daily Tar Heel. He was newspaper candidacy on February 22. three oth- publicity director for the 1958 Caro cr candidates have declared, but . hi.a Symposium. alt have now dropped out, leaving 0lhcr candidalcs who havc becn in 1 ii I tt ! the race include Dave Jones, liar- Patterson Predicts 3500 To Cos Ballots At Polls TO THE END Norman Smith (left) and Charlie Cray shake hands after a long campaign. Smith is the Student Party nominee for president, while Gray is the standard bearer for the University Party. Also running for campus-wide office are David Grigg (UP) and Jim Crownovcr (SP) for vice-president, Sue Wood (UP) and Ann Lucas (SP) for secretary, and Erwin Fuller (SP) and Bob Bingham (UP) for treasurer. Young alone on the ballot A write-in campaign is being run for Henry Snow, a pseudonym for 17 journalism and other interested students. They have expressed a desire to assume the editorship as a cor porate body. Young is carrying three endorse ments in this election. He has been endorsed by the Student Party, Uni vcrsity Party and the Bi-PartLsan Selections Board. He is currently the president of the sophomore class and is a former editor of the UNC Summer School Weekly. old O'Tucl and Ron Shumate. Jones declared after Young, and stayed in the race for several weeks., He withdrew in favor of O'Tuel and , Shumate. Candidates O'Tucl and Shumate were running as co-editors. They ' had been endorsed by both the Stu dent Party and the Bi-Partisan Se lections Board. They withdrew on April 2, citing "differences in our views which could not havc been forscen before we entered the race," as the reason for pulling out, leaving only Young. V SENIOR CLASS CANDIDATES In today's spring elections, five officers for the senior class will be elected. The candidates for class president are (left to right) Wade Smith (UP) and George Grayson (SP). The other candidates are: vice president, Dave Evans (SP) and Dick Pattisall (UP); secretary Cynthia Grant (UP) and rvtartha Morgan (SP); treasurer, John Crotty (SP) and Jim Crawford (UP), and social chairman, Marion Hays (UP) and Bunky Jester (SP). Other Ballot Items i A constitutional amendment and five olfiees are among the more than ." items for today'.s spring elec tion balloting. The Constitutional amendment. iT , passed by a simple majority of stu- df-nts voting, would provide for a ! single annual election of members of Legislature in the spring. Students will ab-o be voting be tween Bob Austin and Tom Over man, , endorsed by the Bi-PartLsan Selections Board, and Michael Smith, independent candidate, for co-editors or editor of the Yackcty Yack. Forty-Seven Battle For Legislature The two candidates for president loth juniors. Miss Lucas is a member J 0i c Carolina Athletic Association of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorori-; are Tom Cordle SP and Angus i. vwuie .miss vtooa is in tne I't nff hum Beta Phi sorority. In the treasurer race. Bingham is i member of the Kappa Alpha fra ternity. Thi.s is his firi.t election. He las betn act he with the Methodist Church and in intramural sports. Fuller is the president of the pro fs.sional fraternities Interfratcrni ly Council, former treasurer of the Strident Party, secretary of the Audit Board and a member of the Student Legislature's Finance Committee. Punning for head cheerleader are Cl.arlie Graham! UP) and Dick Bhyne SP. In the race for chair man of Women's Residence Council arc Kay Boortz and Carrington Wil son. Candidates for president of the Women's Athletic Association arc Kathryn Bolton (SP) and Martha Crj.stis, independent. By EDWARD NEAL RINER Forty-seven candidates are bid fling today for HI scats open in the Student legislature. The following arc running in to day's Legislature election for their respective districts: DORM MEN'S I (Cobb): year seat Nine Judicial Posts Sought Nine scats will be filled on the Men's Honor Council. Women's Hon or Council and Student Council in to day's elections. Seven students are running for three seats on the Men's Honor Coun cil. They arc: George Campbell, en dorsed by the Bi-Partisan Selections Board; Bill Crutchfield, Bi-Partisan Select. Bd.; Joe Friedberg, independ ent candidate. David Harper, Bi-PartLsan Select. Bd.; Lloyd Horton, ind.; Jimmy Smalley, Bi-Partisan Select. Bd., and Jim Thompson, ind. Candidates for three seats on the Women's Honor Council are the fol lowing 11 coeds, who have all becn endorsed by the Bi-Partisan Selec tions Board: Tina Baensch, Jane Durham, Di ana Harmon, Sophie Martin. Flor ence McGowan, Elizabeth McRoric, (See COUNCILS, Page 3) Swag Brimslcy (SP) and David Rubinstein (UP); six month seat William Louis Craig Jr. (UP) and I Taylor McMillan (SP). DORM MEN'S II (Stacy. Graham, Aycoek, Lewis and Fverett): year seat Bill Norton (SP) and Allen Simpson (UP). DORM MEN'S III (Joyner, Alex ander, Connor and Winston): 2 one year seats Dan Brown (SP), Phil S. Edwards (Ind.), Roy Goodman (SP), Ronnie Mallican (UP) and Vincent Mulieri (UP); 2 six-month seats Gary Artz (SP), Pope Shu- ford (UP) and Bob Smith (SP). DORM MEN'S IV (Mangum, Man ley, Grimes and Ruffin): 2 one-year scats Bill Bates (UP), Edwin Cox (SP), Bill Lamm (SP) and Ward Purington (UP). DORM MEN'S V (Old East, Old Vest and Battle-Vance-Pettigrew dormitories, Memorial Hall, and all other University-owned building not mentioned other-wise): yea seat Charles Carroll (SP) and Carl Ragsdalc (UP). DORM MEN'S VI (Avery, Parker and Teague): 2 one-year seats - Allen Cornenburg Jr. (UP), Harden Eurc (UP). Sherman Kennedy (SP) and Bob Thompson (SP). TOWN MEN'S I (all men stu dents residing in an area bounded by Columbia Street on the east Cameron Avenue on the north anc the corporate limites of Chapel Hill on the west and south): year seat Fred Lavcrv (UP): six month seat - Richard Ovcrslreet (UP). TOWN MEN'S II (all men stu dents residing in the area bounded by Cameron Avenue on the south. Columbia Street on the west. Franklin Street on the north and he corporate limits of Chapel Hill on the west.): 2 one-year seats eyton Hawes (UP), Jack Lawing (UP) and Roy II. Park Jr. (Ind.). TOWN MEN'S III (all ment stu dents residing in the area bounded by Franklin Street on the south and the corporate limits of Chapel Hill on the east, north and west): 3 one-year seats Stan Black (SP), Frank Eagles (UP), Frank Elkins (SP), Gordon Street (UP), Al Wal ters (UP) and Barry Zaslay (SP); six-month seat Neal Boden (UP) and Bob Ney (SP). TOWN MEN'S IV (all men stu dents residing in the area bounded by Columbia Street on the west, Franklin Street on the north and the corporate limits of Chapel Hill on the east and south, and all men students residing outside the cor porate limits of Chapel Hill): 6 one-year seats Jim Blue (SP), Don Dotson (SP) John Lyon (UP), Bill Mallory (SP), Bob Pierce (SP), Billy Woodard (SP) and Bill Young (UP); six-month seat Hugh Rags dale (UP). DORM WOMEN'S I (Mclver, Ken an, Alderman and Spencer): year seat Linda Biscr (SP) and Anne Terry (UP). DORM WOMEN'S II (Carr, Smili, Whitehead and Nurses dormito ries): year seat Nancy Baker (UF) and Betty Jean Baxter (SP). TOWN WOMEN'S I (all women students residing in sorority hous es and all women students not liv ing in University-owned buildings): 2 one-year seats Maxine Green field (UP) and Dixie Jackson (UP). Concert Band Will Appear The UNC Concert Band will pre sent the fourth concert of the Tues day Evening Series today at 8 p.m. in Hill Hall. Sponsored by the Music Depart ment, the 55-piece ensemble will pre sent a program of music by Bach, Rossini, Jenkins, Lacome, Herman, Shostakovich and Fillmore. Band Master Herbert Fred and as sistant conductors, Calvin Hubert and Earl Gates, will direct the con cert. Director of bands and instructor of theory in the Music Department, Fred has recently returned from Miami, Fla., where he was a guest conductor at the American Band masters Association, and the Music Educators National Conference meet ing in Roanoke, Va., where he was a consultant on bands. Dorms Vote Today Men's dormitory presidents and Interdormitory Council represen tatives will be elected today in all dorms, except Alexander, Connor and Teague. Earlier this year, Lionel Todd was elected president and Foy Big gers was named IDC representa tives of Alexander. Since Connor is a graduate dorm, the election will be held in the fall. The election in Teague will be conducted later this semester. The other dormitories and their candidates for president and IDC representative are as follows: AVERY president, Riley Brown and Keith Smith; IDC representa tive, Clarence Horton and Jerry Wood. AYCOCK president, Guy Snow and Peter A. Thompson; IDC rep resentative. Roy David Alexander and John Frye. B-V-P president, Ted Quast and Bill Clark; IDC representative, John Randall. C0B3 president, Thomas L. Cordle, William T. Cabe and George D. Page; IDC representa tives .for each floor). David M. Setzer and William F. Savers (for first floor), James W. Kinney (sec ond floor), John B. Shinn (third floor) and Wade H. Hargrove Jr., (See DORMS, Page 3) Fifty-five campus officers, one Constitutional admendment and men's dormitary officers will be voted on today in the annual UNC spring elections. Hank Patterson, chairman of the Elections Board, has predicted that 3,500 students will turn out for the election. The polls open as early as 9 a.m. today and close as late as 7 p.m. After 7 p.m. the ballots wil be sorted and prepared for counting, but the actual count will not take place until Wednes day at 3 p.m. in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. The voting will le held between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. in all dormitories, except Connor, Kenan and Teague, and at all town polling stations, expect Victory Village and Glen Lennox will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. For the voting today, students living in dormitories will vote in their respective dorms. Residents of Emerson Stadium will vote in Ruffin Dorm. Memorial Hall resi dents and students living in Uni versity owned buildings other than dorms will vote in Old East. Town Men's I students living in an area bounded by Columbia Street on the east, Cameron Ave nue on the north and the corporate limites of Chapel Hill on the west and south will vote at the Naval Armory or at the Carolina Inn. Town Men's II students living in an area bounded by Cameron Avenue on the south, Columbia Street on the cast, Franklin Street cn the north find the city limits on the west will vole at the Scuttle butt. Town Men's III students liv ing withinn an area bounded by Franklin Street on the south and the city limits on the east, north and west will vote at either Gra Mcmorial or in front of the West ern Union. Town Men's IV students liv ing within an area bounded by Columbia Street on the west, Franklin Street on the north and the city limits on the east and south will vote at Gerrard Hall, at Victory Village in front of the housing office or at the Glen Len nox shopping center between Dairyland and the Junior Ward robe Shop. Also voting at these stations will be men students liv ing outside the city limits. Town women will vote at Ger rard Hall. The Town Of Henderson: Two Emotions Flare Out In The Evening Dark By RON SHUMATE (The following it the firtt in icries of article on the Harriet-Henderson Mill strike. The series was compiled by reporter Ron Shumate and photographer Peter Nets.) Guitar, a puno and a violin play d a Iivily suare dame number. The daner floor was filled with Inching, shouting people. Others w rr Mitrd on benches lining three walls of the room. Small children ran merrily around the room shooting each other with wa ter pistols. At first glance the scene iir the dance hall seemed to be one of a happy, carefree group of or dinary people relaxing. But this was only partially true. For outside, only a few yards from the noisy dance hall, four men sat in a car watching. But they weren't watching the dance, They were watching for violence. And at the same time state high way patrolmen cruised the streets . .... . .... .. ; : .......i,- i - A I i r J HOMES IN MILL AREA . . . dirt roods, old houses watching. All over town the streets were bare of people. Shades and blinds were drawn. Townspeople rushed to a window each time a car's hcad- ights flicked across the house. A cloud of tension hovered over he town like a thundcrhead threatening to drench the town with rain. I lie rains came. This was Henderson a town stricken for 21 long, painful weeks )y a strike which had crippled its largest industry and put nearly 1,200 people out of work. The strike began on November 17, 1958. Employees of the Harriet- Henderson Cotton Mill received their last paycheck on November 19. The strike grew out of a new contract, proposed by the company, which included a clause that would prevent any arbitration on disput es between labor and management. The remainder of the proposed contract was identical to the one which has exised between company and union for the past 14 years. And so it has been for 142 days. Business in Henderson has drop ped off 10-15 epr cent. Hardware, furniture and appliance stores have been hit hardest by the strike. Before the strike began, the mill payroll was about $65,000 a week. According to Al Howell, q the Henderson Chamber of Commerce, about $24,000 of the payroll is stay ingi n the town each week. The reason for this is that 250 300 supervisors arc still working. Their salaries, larger than those of the other mill workers, comprise nearly half of the total payroll. But the town merchants as a whole are above last year's busi ness "because Easter came earlier this year," Howell said. A Strike History The cotton mill strike at the Harriet-Henderson mill in Henderson, N. C, has waged hot and heavy for 21 weeks. Frequent negotiation talks among Gov. Luther Hodges, mill president John D. Cooper Jr., and TWUA official Boyd Peyton have proved unsuccessful. The following is a brief summary of the strike: Nov. 17: The strike began. Nov. 19: Mill workers drew their last paycheck. Dec. and Jan.: Violence flared at intervals. Most of it was directed at these workers returning to the mill. Feb. 15: Gov. Hodges sent 44 State Highway Patrolmen to Hen derson to aid in stopping violence. Feb. 16: The mills reopened. Workers returning to the North Henderson plant totalled, 34, while 27 returned to the Harriet mill in South Henderson. March 2: Gov. Hodges sent 100 patrolmen to Henderson. March 9: Talks fail again. The first violence toward company property occurs: a dynamite blast was aimed at a boiler in the mill; acid was poured on 47 mill machines. This was after 17 weeks of striking. March 25: Boyd Peyton claimed he was hit with rocks thrown through his car windshield. March 26: N. C. Attorney General Malcolm Seewell charged that the alleged attack on Payton on March 25 was a "hoax." March 27: Payton offers to take a lie detector test to show Sea- well's charges false. April 2: Negotiations again break down. Gov.' Hodges withdraws as mediator. used car dealer said this is the best year he has ever had. However, the small stores in the mill area "are hurting." Howell asserted that these stores have over-extended their credit to the strikers, who don't have the money to pay their bills. Howell said he expects that such small grocers may eventually go out of business if the strike con tinues. As a whole the merchants of Henderson seem sympathetic to ward the strikers toward those who really want to go hack to work, but are afraid to do so be cause of the threats and harrass- mcnt which have already becn di rected against those who have gone back to work. But the merchants are strongly against any and all violence . The business men have, as a whole, stayed neutral toward the strike. They have a fear of retali ation "in a physical sense if they say or do anything one way or the other," Howell said. Since the strike began the town of more than 11,000 has received national and even international "fame." One man asserted that the strike in its early days was publicized so widely because newspapers lacked enough national news to fill up their front pages. "We've even heard that radio! stations in Germany have broad east the goings-on here," a mer chant stated. Another said he has had tele phone calls from relatives in neigh boring towns asking him if he wanted them to send food, or if his children needed to leave town. "The whole situation has been over-dramatized," Howell said. He said that newspapers had given a bigger play to the strike than it actually deserved. The strike is a thing which can not and does not go un noticed by townspeople. Hender son's residents arc aware though sometimes unconsciously of the threat of violence that prevails in the town. Basically, the mill areas are a complete entity in themselves. But that does not prevent the other residents of the town from being aware of the strike or of the ef fects of the. strike on the town's See HENDERSON, Page 3 J'n im -w-" - ' r 'Hit . . '- -Y-.: 'v . t 1 3 h ... . . Ij. I I - f : : i ) ? , , : IJf v U -r.'-: h ) i & V..- I , .... rtaWwlr V - "Tourrr-,rmT run r. THE STRIKERS cQflm before a storm?
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