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U.M.C. Library V u i r i i I 2 . i U 2 P v D 3X 370 C'l nl Hi. 11 MP. dpi'r Sophomores Attention The Majors Seminars Pro gram will meet in Gerrard Hall tonight at 7:30 and will feature speeches by Dr. Joel Carter from the Music De partment and Dr. Joseph Sloane from the Art Depart ment. German Exchange Interviews Goettingen interviews for the German exchange will begin Monday, Applications are available in Y Court. 'To Write Well Is Better Than To Rule9 CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. 1967 Founded February 23. 1893 ZZmn ,11181 4 Volume 74, Number 79 Britt Elected, Urges 'Even Better Job RALEIGH (AP) David Britt is a soft - spoken, mild mannered attorney who once was described in a Baptist church publication as so "un political in personality you don't realize you are talking to a man who may someday be governor of North Carolina." The 49-year-old state repre sentative from Robeson Coun ty disclaims any desire to be the Tar Heel chief executive, but he will serve as House speaker in the 1967 General Assembly. Britt was nominated for the top House post Thursday in a Democratic caucus at Raleigh. He was unopposed, so his election is assured "when the legislature convenes Feb. 8. The nomination of Britt came as no surprise. He had been the choice of many legis lators as far back as the 1965 session. As Britt tells the story: "I walked into the lobby of the Hotel Sir Walter on the opening day of the 1965 ses sion and was standing in line to register when two or three House members approached me about running for speaker in 1967. They offered their support. "I told them I would an nounce my candidacy at an appropriate time. They spread the word around quickly and others offered thtfir support. I pulled out my blue book and started writing down their names. When I left Raleigh a few days later for a trip home I had 68 commitments." Britt's name and face be came known throughout the state in 1965 when he w a s chairman of the blue-ribbon committee seeking an answer to the Speaker Ban Law con troversy. For days, Britt handled the hearings in an unruffled man ner. Feelings ran high and tempers flared, but Britt sternly, yet always composed, kept the hearings on a steady plane as hundreds watched in person and thousands on tele vision. Britt once said of the hear ings, "I am not looking for motive or methods, only the truth." When the special committee hammered out a compromise, Britt carried the measure through the House, and even tually to final passage, with a plea "to quiet the unrest, re lieve the division in our state." Britt, his brown hair now sprinkled with grey, never ap pears to be in a hurry. 'Best Chapter' Honors Go To Local DICE's The Carolina Chapter of Del ta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity has walked away with its third Lion's Trophy in the past five years. The award is presented an nually to the DKE chapter judged by the National Coun cil to be the best of the fra ternity's 48 in the United States and Canada. The local DKE chapter also won the award in 1962 and 1965, while placing second in the competition in 1963 and 1964. Judging is based on five categories: scholarship, chap ter improvement, alumni re lations, chapter operation, and community service. The Beta chapter received first place awards in the latter three and placed high in the others. The award was presented at DKE's annual convention held during Christmas vacation at Point Clear, Ala. Jim Davis, local president and delegate to the convention accepted the award. It was also announced at the convention that Lane Ver lenden has received a $650 second place award in the DKE Foundation Scholarship Competition. He is a senior pre-med stu dent majoring in English, vice president of the local chapter, and a member of numerous campus honoraries. f' j n7 'IV ; p r '' V- , . It . ' t - . . ; w 1 ji I . . . ' f 6Mao' Wife MisM ollow Him9 - Expert LONDON (AP) A British specialist on Chi nese affairs forecast Thursday that Mao Tse Tung's eventual successor as leader of Red China may be his wife. Roderick MacFarquhar wrote in the leftist weekly New Statesman that De fense Minister Lin Piao, now rated No. 2 to Mao, appears to be a lame duck and may be only a tempor ary successor. If so, he said, Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, may take over. MacFarquhar, editor of the China Quarterly Maga zine, listed the steps in Chi ang Ching's rise in "Peking's battle of the wives" at the expense of the spouses of Pres ident Liu Shao-Chi and Pre mier Chou En-Lai. "Mrs. Mao is playing for bigger stakes than the right to serve tea to Albanian VIPs," he wrote. "Her rising star may be sending' shivers down the backs of historically minded Chinese. 'Traditionally, Chinese his torians have condemned the court intrigues and palace corps of women who have reached for political power, and have reviled the three empresses who achieved it. -".Jtt. .i . V.,.;:- CHAPEL HILL in January is starkness. Long, skinny shadows where a month ago a tag football game was being played. But of naked tree limbs stretch out over the winter-dead grass of spring will come. . the courtyards. A lone student walks through the misty chill DTH Photo by Mike McGowan Draft Test Comes Again The draft deferment test will , be given again on March II, March 31, and April 8. Applications for all the dates may be picked up at the Admissions Office and must be mailed by Jan uary 20. Federal Funds Finance Three UNC Medical Studies Campus Briefs Federal funds will support tnree new research projects, each dealing with the treat ment of disease, at UNC. Recipients of the grants are Dr. Louis S. Harris, associate professor pharmacology, and Dr. Albert M. Mattocks, pro fessor of pharmacy. Dr. Harris will conduct re search on a new class of com pounds which could become pain relievers with becoming habit forming at the UNC School of Medicine. The four - year federal grant for the study of "nar cotic - antagonist analgesics" totals $250,000. Presently, Dr. Harris is fo cusing on the mechanisms of pain, analgesia nd drug ad diction. Dr. Albert M. Mattocks will search for a drug to relieve the excruciating pain of gout. He recsived a $35,000 three year grant from the Nation al Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. Dr. Mattocks is seeking an inhibitor to stop, tfie growth of the needle shaped urate cry stals which settle in the joints and cause the pain of gout. The concept of changing the shape of the urate crystals is Hot AP Wires Might Cool NEW YORK (AP) Nego tiations between the asso ciated press and the Ameri can newspaper guild continued today under the direction of federal mediator George Papp. The contract between the wire service unit of the guild and the AP, which was due to expire Dec. 31, has been ex tended until midnight Satur day. The guild has announced that its negotiating commit tee has been authorized to call a strike "when and if deemed necessary." now being tested with turkeys here. If the turkeys prove to be good models they may also be used as models for drug tests. Dr. Mattocks also received a $20,156 grant from the U. S. Public Health Service's Divis ion of Accident Prevention for the first year of another three year research project. This project is described es a search for basic informa tion about a life - saving pro cedure for removing poisons from the bloodstream, periton eal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis is used widely to remove drugs in ac cidental poisonings and suicid es, and in treating patients with uremic poisoning caused by faulty kidneys. Dr. Mattocks will direct both projects at the UNC School of Pharmacy. UNC Eighth In South In Peace Corps Bids UNC ranks piehth highest in a count of anolications made for Peace Corns work from southern colleges in 1966. Sixty - three applications were made by UNC students last year. The highest number wa5 134 applications from the University of Texas. Peace Corns recruiters vis ited 82 southern campuses last year, receiving 2,200 applica tions, twic the number re ceived in 1965. Peace Corps of ficials exoect about 3,700 ap plicants from southern schools by next May. While an increase last year in Peace Corps applications from the South was occasioned by a jump from 200 to 1,800 among those applying from Negro colleges, the current surge of interest is mostly white universities. Negro colleges this fall ac counted for 820 applicants, thus maintaining the pace set last year when the Peace Corps made its first concerted effort to recruit soutfcfrn Ne gro students. Recruiting officials are un certain of what factors are most responsible for height ened interest in the P e a c e Corps among southern stu dents. Joseph Higdon, a 25-year-old Tennessean and former Vol unteer in the Philippines who directs recruiting in the 15 states area from Texas to Maryland, sees the increase, in part, as a result of im proved educational standards in southern colleges. He also believes the use of returned Volunteers as recruit ers has significant influence in drawing students to the Peace Corps. "We have southerners talk ing to southerners," he says in reference to the practice of assigning former Volunteers to recruit in their home re gion. More than 3,000 southern Volunteers had served over seas as of June 30, 1966 out of a total of about 21,000. Texas was the lead contributor with 548 Volunteers. North Carolina was fifth with 220. After New Year's Peace Corps recruiting will resume in the South, with visits to 104 colleges. Peace Corps testing will be held at UNC in Febru ary under the supervision of the YMCA. About 12,000 Volunteers are serving in 52 countries and more than 15,000 are expected to be working in about 60 na tions by the end of 1967. The University of North Carolina and the US Agency for International Development (AID) were singled out for special recognition at the 10th Biennial Congress of the In ternational Association of Sanitary Engineering in San Salvador, Central America. The recognition was for their new publication series, "Wat er Supply and Sanitation in De veloping Countries," a source of ideas and techniques for sanitary engineers working in rural and community sanita tion and water supply pro grams throughout the world. The publication is prepared by the International Program in Sanitary Engineering De sign in the Department of En vironmental Sciences and En gineering at the UNC School of Public Health under the sponsorship of AID's Commur ity Water Supply Branch. The publication is distributed free to engineers working in developing countries and is supplied through US embas sies, AID missions and the UNC School of Public Health. The Carolina Playmakers will sponsor a two - night ser ies of studio productions to be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 10 and 11, in the Playmakers Thea tre. The studio series features one - act plays by both new and established playwrights. The bill for the first evening includes a play by Gary Wea therbee entitled "Stages." It will be followed by George Bernard Shaw's "Village Woo ing." The second evening's sche dule includes Eugene Ionesco's "The Lesson", and an original, "What Do You Hear From the Family?", by Arnold Powell. Admission to the plays is free. a-year scholarships in the UNC School of Journalism. The awards, sponsored by North Carolina newspapers through the School of Journa lism Foundation of North Ca rolina, Inc., will go to stu dents with excellent academic records and a desire to pre pare for careers in journal ism. Applicants must be rising juniors acceptable for trans fer to the UNC School of Jour nalism. Interested students should write to Wayne Danielson, Dean of the School of Journal ism, for application forms and additional information. The deadline for receipt of com pleted applications is March 15. "Even so, if Lin Piao does finally emerge as Mao's suc cessor from the rapidly thin ning ranks of the politburo but turns out to be a lame duck leader as his infrequent public appearances suggest, Mrs. Mao could be the fourth. "Mrs. Mao has emerged from virtual political and so cial obscurity to take on a leading role in the cultural revolution. Her position is even stronger than that of (prime minister) Indira Gan dhi during the last years of Nehru, her personal relation ship to the leader giving her a similarly unchallenged right to interpret his wishes." The writer said Mrs. Mao's long period of obscurity may have resulted from the way Mao met and married her. Quoting Chu Hao-Jan, a teach er at Malbourne University, he said: "It is known that Mao was still married to the wife who accompanied him on the long march when Chiang Ching ar rived at his Yenan headquar ters in the late thirties with her second husband. Chu says her first husband, an actor, may be living in America. "Mao fell in love with her, and her husband agreed to sac rifice his interests in the revo lutionary cause." Outstanding college sopho mores have been invited to compete for four new $100- A mental health consultant who developed a method of screening classrooms for emo tionally hanidcapped or "vul nerable" children will present a public lecture at the UNC School of Public Health here this Friday. Dr. Eli M. Bower, nation al consultant on mental halth in education for the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., will speak at 8 p.m. Jan. 6. The seminar is one of a ser ies on community psychiatry sponsored by the departments of psychiatry at UNC and Duke University in collabora tion with the NC State De partment of Mental Health and other mental health groups. AUTHOR HONORED ROME (UPI) A piazza In Rome's Villa Borghese Gar dens has been named Doe Henryk Sienkiewicz in hono of the author of "Quo Vadisj" and winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for literature. A plaque marks the house in the piazza where the Polish writer lived for many years. .v.v.v.vv.v.v.v.-.v.v.v.v.;. .v 1 Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye '.V CHARLOTTE (AP) "Tweet is a bird sound," the lawyer for the plaintiff told Superior Court Judge Fred Hasty Thursday. "Even in the cartoons, the bird named Tweetie pie is always being chased by the mean old puttie cat." "Toot is a train sound," said the opposing law yer. "Surely if I say 'toot' I doubt that anyone in this room thinks I say 'twet" The plaintiff, Tweetsie Railroad at Blowing Rock, was seeking an injunction to forbid a new, rival minia ture railroad at Chimney Rock to use the name Tootsie Railroad. Tweetsie Railroad has been a tourist summer at traction in the North Carolina mountains for years. Its owners said they spent $69,000 in advertising it last year. They didn't want another little railroad to come along with a similar-sounding name and cash in on the advertising. Tootsie Railroad was organized last March to op- erate at Chimney Rock, a tourist resort further south along the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its owners said the name Tootsie was picked from more than 9,000 names submitted in a contest. Judge Hasty, never losing his judicial frame of mind, granted the injunction and told the Tootsie folks to look for another name. Tootsie lawyer Clyde Tomblin contended that "toot" and "tweet" don't sound alike, but he admit ted that the "See" might make a difference. But Tweetsie attorney Charles Thompkins (note the similarity in the lawyer names) responded: " 'Tweet' is confusingly similar to "toot.' The only difference is the 'oooo' between the 'toot,' and the 'eeee' between 'Tweet.' Both words connote sounds, they bring up sounds." Toot and Tweet are, he said, "sort of onomatopoetic words." And put the "see" sound on the end of Tweetsie and Tootsie and you've got sounds too close for clarity. Tweetsie President Harry Robbins argued that all up through the mountains and into Tennessee, "Tweet sie has always been Tweetsie: First railroad built across the Blue Ridge; as Tweetsie, it made history during the Civil War. ' ' Last summer, Tweetsie gave rides to more than 200,000 tourists. Before the Robbins family bought the little train 10 years ago, it was the Eastern Tennessee and West ern North Carolina Railroad, or the ETWNC, or as Robbins put it "The Eat Taters and Wear No Clothes Railroad." Judge Hasty let the lawyers have a two-hour pe riod to blow off steam before taking over the track himself. PoivelVs Critics Divided On Action To Be Taken WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (AP) Critics of Rep. Adam Clay ton Powell appeared divided today on whether they will seek to deprive the controver sial Harlem Congressman of his committee chairmanship, his House seat, or both. Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin, the California Democrat who plans to ask that Powell step aside when members are sworn in Tuesday, rejected Powell's charge that the move is "a political conspiracy black against black political leader ship, black people and prog ress." Appearing on NBC's Today Show, Van Deerlin reiterated that his move against Powell is based solely on the Harlem Democrat's legal troubles re sulting from a $164,000 de famation judgment and the possibility that Powell faces a jail term for contempt of court if he visits his New York dis trict. But Rep. Richard Boiling, DMo., a leading house liberal, said Powell was correct in as serting that whether he should retain his chairmanship of the education and labor commit tee is the "only issue in this struggle." "I think it's riduculous to even comtemplate unseating him," Boiling said in an inter view. He said he hopes to move Monday to strip Powell of the seniority that entitles him to the chairmanship, and to link this with a similar move aim ed at Rep. William M. Colmer, D-Miss. who is in line to be come chairman of the rules committee. )1- iy in rd he l e I 1 1