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it t Vv : : : dj?-. Ed:: 070 PV 1 2 1959 . in 2 1 11 i 1 1 1 11 C WEATHER 67 years of dedicated service to a better University, a better state and a better nation by one of America's great college papers, whose motto states, "freedom of expression is the backbone of an ' academic community." Cloudy with showers. Continued mild with high in 60't. VOLUME LXVIII, NO. 47 Complete UPi Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 195? Offices in Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUE vr (C rl3 H 6ifi r 1 1 II 11 AlcL s becunf y . o 'Father Of A-Bom ar Found ly MARY A LICK KOWLETTE 'Third of a scrips on J. Robert Oppenheimer who will deliver the McNair lecture at 8 tonight in Me morial Hall.) Gui tv on trial, both as to procedures and velopment of the H-bomb as ,ex- lowing reasons f(r recornmen us to substance," the letter stated, pressed in 1949 were widely known a-h "Thoughtful Americans find them- presscd in 1949 were widely among scientists," stated the let- selves uneasy about those policies ter, "And since he did not make it : dation. 1. Dr. Oppenheimer's "continu- which must be taken in the inter ests of national security, and which Tt, t... 1 c r i ...l .u.n ocvu.uy noa.u at the sam0 lime a threat to an adverse effect on recruitment of "l'l"lm "? 'y io examine mIr iHo1); it rnntin.u,A ins conduct and associations have known that he had abandoned these refiected a serious diregard for views, his attitude undoubtly had fhi r(,nilirpmnnt(: nf tho CPf1iritv system.". tlie case against Dr. J. Robert Op penheimer and decide if his se curity clearance should be drop ped permanently. The three man board wits head e 1 by Gordon Gray, former Sec retary of the Army ami at that time, president of the University had associated with various Com of North Carolina. scientists and the progress of the scientific effort in this field." In short, the letter said that if Oppenheimer had been more en thuiastic, the H-bomb would have progressed faster. A ti Onnenhpimer's Communist 1. They decided that Oppenheimer Connections lhe Gray-Morgan let- ter stated, "There remains little Althuogh Evans disagreed with the final recommendation of the board, all three members agreed on the following points of the ease: 2. They felt he was "susceptible to influence." 3. His conduct in the matter of the hydrogen bomb raised a doubt as to whether his future participa tion in similiar situations would be to the best interests of security. 4. They stated that he had been The other board members were ey to them munist causes and had given mon- doubt that from ljjte im Qr early ..Iess than candkr -n testimony 1937 to probably April of 1942, Dr. before the Board. Thomas A. Morgan, former head .2. They decided that he had 0DDenhcimcr was deeDiv involved of Sperry Corporation, and Ward courted one Communist and that witn many people wno were ac. v. Evans, a chemistry professor me woman ne married in isnu was tiveJy communistic." at l-oyola University in Chicago. This board heard over 40 wit nesses ni compiled more than ."tOOO pages of testimony . In a letter to K. D. Nichols, gen- a Cumnunist. 3. They decided that his brother, Frank, and Frank's wife were mem bers of the Communist Party. 4. They decided that he was re- rral mannger of the Atomic Kn- sponsible for hiring two scientists crgy Commission, May 27, 1934. at the Los Alamos atomic project Gray and Morgan, gave their ma- who were ex-Communists or "fel- jrity decision. Attached to the let- lew travelers." ter was a minority reporl by Evans. 5. They decided that he exer- "We are acutely aware that in cised great influence in obstructing a very real sense this case puts the construction of the hydrogen bomb, f-ecurity system of the United States "His views in opposition to the de- However the letter went on to say that there is "no evidence that he was a member in the strict sense of the word, but an active 'fellow traveler'. "We feel that Dr. Oppenheimer is convinced that the earlier in volvements were serious errors and today would consider them an in- made the final decision on the Op dication of disloyalty. The conclu- penheimer case. Lewis L. Strauss sion of the board is that Dr. Oppen- was chairman. After considering "There can be no tampering with the national security, which in times of peril must be absol ute, and without concessions for reasons of admiration, gratitude, reward, sympathy or charity. Any doubts whatsoever must be resolved in favor of the national security," the letter stated. The Atomic Energy Commission Oppenheimer Speaks Tonight Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer will deliver the anual McNair Lecture tonight at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall "Some Reflections on Science land Culture" is the subject of Dr. Oppenheimer's lecture which will be open to the public. Dr. Oppenheimer, former chair man of the general advisory com mittee of the Atomic Energy Com mission, is now professor of phy sics and a director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J. The McNair Lectureship on Science and Religion was founded by the Rev. John Calvin McNair of the class of 1849. The first lecture wsa delivered in 1908. The object of the annual series is "to show the mutual bearing of science and theology upon each other and to prove the existence and attributes, as far as they may be, of God from nature." Gray Commends Fuller Amendment To Honor Council Re struct rogram Declared Unconstitutional ADELAIDE B. CROMARTIE The Legislative process used to present an amendment to restruc ture Honor Councils was declared unconstitutional last Thursday night by the Student Council. As a result, there will be no campus-wide vote Nov. 17 on the amendment, according to Jey Dei fell, elections board chairman. He said that elections board bas ed its decision on the Student Council action. "I" feel the decision of the Stu dent Council was valid," stated Charlie Gray, student body presi- posed change in itself but merely Student Party Declares Principles For Election In view of elections rcxt week, the students- all the students are lhe Student Party presented their j the final judpes of what actions stu statement Wednesday. dent government should take. The Student Party has made' The party has taken action to "efforts to extend full justice and maintain the jury system and make voice in government to all students juries open to all students. It has regardless of class, residence or supported measures to make the political persuasion." Honor Council ' and Student Council It maintains the principle that I fairer and more representative heimer is a loyal citizen. "The Board has been conscious ! of the atmosphere of the time in which Dr. Oppenheimer's clear cut Communist affiliations oc curred," stated the letter. The board voted 2-1 to recom- recommendation mend that Dr. Oppenheimer's se curity clearance be removed. Ward V. Evans was the minority. Gray and Morgan gave the fol- the transcripts of hearings before the Gray Board, the briefs of Dr. Oppenheimer's counsel and the findings and recommendations of General Manager Nichols, the AEC voted 4-1 to uphold the Gray Board Dean Of Women Office Sponsors Historical Buildings Speech Today "Historical Buildings on the UNC Campus" will be the topic of Dr. Paul Wager's speech for the In Service Training program today in Hanes Hall. 4 p.m. The second in a series of train ing programs, the lecture is spon sored by the office of the Dean of Women for dormitory hostesses, sor ority housemothers, graduate coun selors and others interested in the area fo student life and welfare. Dr. Wager will trace the evolu tion of the campus describing the original plan and the development of new quadrangles. bodies. Concerning the coming election of class officers, SP says it has "put forward candidates who rep resent the ideals of the Student Party, but in keeping with our prin ciples of independent action and in itiative, we leave it to the individ ual candidates to make their own proposals to their electorate." Candidates will not be "mere rubber stamps" of the party, but will "run on their own merits." SP Opens Campaign Headquarters Party Chairman Dewey Sheffield announced Wednesday the opening of Student Party campaign head quarters in Roland Parker Ifl, Graham Memorial 1-11 p.m. Monday-Friday. During these hours party candi dates may come in and discuss plans, and party officers will be present to talk over party policy. Sheffield also invited any interested persons to visit the headquarters. Dissenting was Henry DeWolf Smith who said, "In these times, failure to employ a man of great talents may impair the strength and power of this country. Yet I would accept this loss if I doubted the loyalty of Dr. Oppenheimer or his ability to hold his tongue. I have no such doubts." . UP Platform Declared Class councils and class social programs are the main points in the University Party's five-plank S platform formulated by the party executive board Tuesday afternoon UP Chairman Hank Patterson announced that the party feels , a council for every class would act as a student sounding board for individual expression and partici pation. Patterson pointed to the success of the freshman class council las year to support this action. The UP also feels that social functions such as a jazz festival. concert-andMance weekends and individual class days would benefit the student body. The remaining three planks of the platform deal with class lead ership, class organization and a class scholarship program.' the way it was presented." "The amendment," said Jim Crownover, presidential assistant, "was presented in the form of a motion which is not binding action, as is a bill. A bill passed by Leg islature which calls for a referen dum of the student body on a con stitutional amendment according to Legislature by-laws calls for a two-thirds vote of that body. Such a majority was not obtained. Thus, for the Legislature's move to be a binding one, it should be intro duced in bill form and passed by a two-thirds majority." Gray added that he hoped any further Honor System changes would be .giver, to Judicial Review Committee, and if not incorporated there, "then the Honor Council Re vision Bill from the Committee can be amended on the floor of the Legislature." Commenting on the amendment, Dpwpv SheffipIH Stnripnf Pai-lw "We haven't had a rash of car , only one auto stolen this year on j Ieader am Qf on that the proposed constitutional dent, "and Chairman Erwin Fuller should be commended. "He has been unduly criticized by people who do not know the entire facts of the case. "The action of the Student Coun cil stopped what I consider an ir responsible move by the Student Legislature. Presenting to the campus and wide sweeping change without detailed discussion in a committee first is a dangerous pre cedent to start. "I am not condemning the pro- Student Car Commission Issues Statement About Auto Theft Protection thefts this year, but students should j campus," Randall continued. And so the man who had for 11 years known most of the top se crets of the United States govern ment and indeed, had made some of those secrets himself, was de prived of his security clearance. And the American public read about it and heard about it and all form ed an opinion as to whether J. Rob ert Oppenheimer was "devil" or "angel." Chapel Hill-Carrboro TB Association Begins Former Editor Of UNC Press Writes Comedy Brock Bower, former editor of the University of North Carolina Press, is author of a new comedy "A Little To The Left" which wdl be presented by The Carolina Play makers Nov. 18 22. The play is a satirical comedy about a ficticious revolution in Central America. The tropical com edy involves Harvard sophomores, a banana company tycoon, a female war correspondent, fraudulent a political theorist, and English butt er type and some unlike Castro revolutionaries in an affair more complicated than a real revolution. Bower is presently working un der a $5,000 grant from the Colum bia, Broadcasting System. He is writing scripts for Playhouse 90 and is working with network pro ducers and program executives in backstage program preparation. Bower was graduated from Da"t moiith College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Pre vious positions include reader for the Viking press, editorial assistant for This Week magazine, informa tion specialist for the United States Armv and, most recently, editor of the University of North Carolina Press. He Was a special student in the Department of Dramatic Art last year. Tickets go on sale to the pub lic Nov. 12 at Ledbeter-Pickard and at 214 Abernethy Hall. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Tuber culosis Association will conrnence its annual sale of Christmas seals within the next few days. Seals will be mailed to all resi dents of this area. University students will be con tacted following the Thanksgiving holidays. One of the many projects carried out by the local association during the past year was the donation of autoclave to Gravely Sanatorium here at N. C. Memorial Hospital. Gravely is a sanatorium for the treatment of 'tuberculosis. "The need for the sterlizer was indeed great." Dr. H. M. Vandevi ere, director of the laboratory at Gravely said. "Even as a garden needs to have all extraneous plants removed for effective horticulture, so a TB laboratory research facil ity must nave all extraneous germs removed to find the causes and cures of tuberculosis." The sterilizer is in essence a large pressure cooker. By apply ing pressure, the heat is raised suf ficiently to kill germs on any item that needs sterilizing. Maid Of Cotton Entries Must File Before Dec. 1 UNC coeds interested in apply ing for the 22nd annual Maid of Cotton contest must file their ap plications at the Dean of Women's office in South Building on or be fore Dec. 1. Each applicant must be a native of a cotton-producing state, never married, between 19 and 25, and at least five feet, five inches tall NC Chapter Of Federalists To Meet Friday The N. C. chapter of The United World Federalists Inc., will have an organizational meeting Friday, 6 p.m. in Lenoir Hall. Dean Henry Brandis of the Law School is chairman of the exec tive council. A national organiza tion, the Federalists seek to build the strength of the United Nations by having more political power assigned to it. y Federalists assert that the goal of world peace can be aided by amending the present U.N. charter to relate it to the International Court of Justice. remember that this is an especial ly vunerable area.'.' This reminder was issued Wed nesday by John Randall, chairman of the Student Motor Vehicles Ad visory Commission, as he com mented on a statement just re leased by a national automobile manufacturer. The statement quoted the Na tional Automobile Theft Bureau as saying that "owner carelessness tops every list of factors contribut ing to car theft, with keys left in the ignition making many of these thefts ridiculously easy." "So far as I know there has been "We've kept a look-out for it, but haven't been able to locate yet." The chairman urged students to avoid leaving cars parked for long periods of time without checking on them. He noted that a neglected car attracts attention and is a temptation to would be thieves. "Some car owners park their vehicles and never see them frora one day to the next," Randall ob served. "'Those who use the Bell Tower parking lot should exer cise special care because of its distance from the rest of the campus." Elections Board Limits Expense Account To $15 For All Candidates amendment to elect the judicial councils from districts will be sub-' mitted to the student body for it? consideration in the general elec tion to be Nov. 17. "The decision of the Student Council was an advisory position, and as the Legislature has direct ed the elections board to submit this amendment to the voters; I feel that it is the duty and obli gation of the elections board to do the same; any action to the contrary by the elections board would be a direct disregard of their duties and obligations; as well as a violation of their pow ers." Hank Patterson, chairman of University Party, declined to com ment. The $15 expense account of can didates running in the Nov. 17 elec- INFIRMARY Studfnts in the infirmary Wed nesday included the following: Sally Joyner, Jeanne Whiting, Robert Creighton, Julian Brad ley, Cowles Liipfert, Joseph Hoard, Ronald Pennington, Rob ert Camp, William Aiken, Wil liam Ball and John Tayloe. lion must cover purchases of tacks, posters and staples, according to Jey Dcifell, Elections Board chairman. He referred to the elections law which states that payment for all equipment used in presenting a campaign should be charged to the candidate. This is the last announcement that absentee ballots may be ob tained by submitting a request to Jay Deifell, Beta House. NEA Representative Addresses The Faculty Of School Of Education Activity Charts Compiled Activity charts have been com piled by Carolina Women's Coun cil. These charts contain information about the various organizations on campus in which coeds may par ticipate. Among the data included are re quirements for membership, time and place of meetings, time of year for joining and chairman. boronty girls and town women may pick up these charts at the information desk in Graham Mem orial. CWC representatives have distributed them in the owmen's dorms. 'Teaching has become such a com plex job that more specialization, even among elementary school teachers, may be a necesity in the future, a National Education Assn. official told an Education Week con vocation here Tuesday. Dr. Robert W. Eaves, executive secretary of the NEA's 'Department of Elementary School Principals, addressed students and faculty in the School of Education. The shortage of school personnel cannot be solved for another 10 years, he pointed out, but .better conditions for teaching and more favorable equipment and materials will be available in the future. . "Improvement of educational leadership is creating more a fav orable environment for teachers," Dr. Eaves" said. "Better working conditions, especially a decrease in class size, will come about grad ually, allowing improvement of in dividual instruction and helping each child to reach his full poten tial." The Rutherford County native, who graduated from UNC in 1928 told the prospective teachers: "You will be teaching in a more exciting age than did we who began our ca reers several decades ago." "Teaching today offers a greater challenge than in the past," he con tinued. "It requires more under standing, skill, energy and work." Dr. Eaves emphasized the need for all teachers being real students of society and of human behavior, and being competent in every way. "To attain professional competence you must have the desire to contri bute to human understanding, de velopment and a better life; how ever, the desire to do good is not a substitute for competence." As an example of a teacher's problems today, Dr. Eaves said that there , are no up-to-date sci ence or geography books available. "They are all antiquated." he said. "This iS a major problem, keeping information up-to-date fpr young people." The reward for teaching will come "in terms of successful change that you ' recognize in peo ple you teach," Dr. Eaves told the future teachers, United Nations Seminar Discussed In YMCA Building Today At 4 p.m. Students who attended the United Nations Seminar last week in New York City will have an evaluation discussion of the trip this afternoon at in the "Y." Volker Berkhahn will lead the discussion, and all students inter ested in the forth-coming February seminar are urged to attend. The seminar's purpose was to give college people an opportunity to talk to delegates of other nations. The main topic of discussion was "Disarmament," 'but the group al so discussed communistic problems and economic and refugee prob lems especially as related to Israel and the United Arab Republic. On the first day of 'heir four-day stay, the students met with the first secretary of the Permanent Soviet Mission. After an introduction by the secretary, the group asked ques tions on disarmament. . They also talked to United Na tions representatives from India, Israel, Egypt, Japan and United States, and they attended a session of the General Assembly at which President ' Touree of Guinea spoke. Peter Wahl, foreign student from Vienna, noted the partisan" bias of the delegates citing the contrast between "talks by the delegates from Israel and Arabia. "The briefings were outstanding," said Cynthia Grant, co-chairman of the U. N. Education Committee. "We felt that it was a real success. YWCA Cabinet Hears Student Minister Speak Harry Smith, student minister of the Presbyterian church, spoke to the YWCA Cabinet Tuesday after noon on the student "Interracial. Ecumenical and International" con ference to be in Athens, Ohio. Dec. 27-Jan. 2. Members were urged to attend the weekly study groups which are meeting in preparation for this meeting. It was announced that a review of the recent UN Seminar will be 'his afternoon in Graham Memorial at 4 p.m. for all those interested in the program. It was decided that a breakfast for all cabinet members will be Nov. 22. n - .. ..a..., 1 i-iniimir m mi inii.rf- -' CYNTHIA GRANT Co-Chairman of UN Educational com mittee of Y with Judith Clipper, evaluating the seminar on the return trip to Chapel Hill after the weekend in New York. MM - I"- i i WMm. X- Wv.v -rf---. -M"4e0p 1 Cigarette Contest Is Underway , Start saving your cigarette wTap pers, the Philip Morris contest is here again. This year a stero set will be awarded to the sorority or fratern ity collecting the largest number of cigarette packs provided the correct types are collected. The correct types are Philip Morris, Marlboro, Parliament and Alpine. The contest started Nov. 4 and ends Dec. 9, according to Harvey Salz, campus representative for the company. The stero set is on dis play in the Y building. Alpha Gamma Delta sorority won a stereo in last year's contest. 4 :' ' 5 1 t t i 1 it if 1 1 a - mil mutiinatfl G. M. SLATE MISS ANNE QUEEN, Secretary of Y Activities scheduled in Grah am Memorial today include: SP Headquarters, 1-11 p.m., Roland Parker III; UP, 2-5:30 p.m., Roland Parker II; Rules Committee, 3-4 p.m., Grail; Social Committee, 3-4 p.m., Roland Parker I; Foreign Student Board, 4-5 p.m., Woodhouse; Pan Hel, 5 6 p.m., Grail; IDC Honorary, 6:30-7:45 p.m., Woodhouse; CWC, 7-8:30 p.m., Grail; Chess Club, 7 11 p.m., Roland Parker II, Spec ial Committee, 8-11 p.m., Wood" house, l