Monday, May 10, 1971 Other monies surge I ft liar comtinaees to sink im tmmpe UiMLli The Daily Tar Heel West Germany set the mark free Sunday to float to a higher level of value in relation to the U.S. dollar. Within hours Switzerland and Austria revalued their currencies upward and Holland allowed the guilder to float. The immediate effect was to cheapen the dollar in those nations. The moves came swiftly after the Common Market reluctantly gave permission Sunday for its member states-including West Germany and Holland to allow their currencies to float in order to ease the international monetary crisis. Switzerland and Austria are not Common' Market members. Shaw president pleas for funds, fearing collapse RALEIGH-The president-elect of Shaw University Sunday preluded his administration by issuing an urgent plea for half a million dollars in operating funds. In a text prepared for his first major policy speech to the predominantly black student body, Dr. J. Archie Hargraves said .'The need is for money hard cash. We need it right away." He said faculty and staff members had already pledged 15 per cent of their salaries to Shaw during the coming year and he had requested 200 persons to donate $1,000 each. Also, he said he will seek i $500 apiece from 500 "friends of Shaw" and $100 apiece from 2,000 others. "And we will take the widow'mite from all casual acquaintances the youth in the street, the hustler on the corner, the poor and the derived who have a stake in Shaw's survival," he said. Hargrave said the school, one of the largest and oldest private schools serving the black community in the South, is "not now at a state of collapse. We are, however, experiencing severe financial difficulty. We have to take drastic steps to meet this crisis." in: c AEC Theatre OUJ PLAVinQ A LOVE STORY OF tears and laughter... heartbreak and joy! in METRO COLOR toMllllEUX From The Best-Selling Novel By Chapel Hill's Betty Smith "It is hoped this will assure an outflow of the dollar flood and stability for the German economy," West German State Secretary Conrad Ahlers said of Bonn's decision. Swiss President Rudolf Gnaegi said the Federal Cabinet decided to revalue the franc upward seven per cent from its current parity of 4.3 7 -to the dollar to 4.08. Austria decided to revalue the schilling by 5.05 per cent, the Austrian National Bank said. Following the reavaluation, one U.S. dollar now equals 24.75 schillings compared to 25.82 before. The Common Market's permission in Brussels came after 20 hours of debate which ended Sunday. It was viewed as a compromise after the nations could not agree on a joint action to tackle the financial crisis. But the six member nations agreed to blame U.S. economic policies for the complex situation. West Germany had said it would float the mark regardless of the decision of the meeting, and asked its five partners-Holland, France, Italy, Belgium" and Luxembourg-to follow suit with their own currencies. France refused flatly and the other nations did not commit themselves at the time. At The Hague, Swiss Economics Minister Hendrik Witteveen announced the floating of the Dutch guilder, a move that had been anticipated to prevent the "hot money" of speculators from shifting to Switzerland if the German mark was floated. Both the mark and the guilder will now be fixed at a new parity with the dollar to be determined by supply and demand. The revaluation of the Swiss franc was the first change in one of the world's most stable currencies since it was devalued 30 per cent in 1936 after a worldwide financial crisis. World news in brief Lockheed tries to get engines LONDON Daniel Haughton, chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., flew to London Sunday to try to renegotiate a contract with Rolls-Royce to provide Rb21 1 jet engines for the U.S. Tristar Airbus. He said he was optimistic. The British government has agreed to provide $288 million backing for. the RB2 1 1 , but only if it can be guaranteed Lockheed, which is building the airbus, will remain solvent. Houghton declined to say whether he expected - a concrete answer on the future of the Rolls-Royce engine. "There are some things that have to be done which we will keep working on," he said. Rolls-Royce declared , bankruptcy earlier this year and Lockheed has come dangerously close to it. President Nixon is trying to gain congressional approval of a $250 million loan to the ailing American firm. Houghton conceded there is some congressional opposition to such a loan but that "I think the base is good enough from all angles that Congress in their wisdom will decide to approve it." He shrugged off reports that congress might demand the RB2 1 1 engine be scrubbed in favor of an American-built power plant for the airbus. Pontiff salutes youth protests VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul VI Sunday hailed young people who carry out symbolic and altruistic protests, calling them prophets with a spiritual strategy which can change the world. The 73-year-old Roman Catholic pontiff said their form of protest contrasted sharply with the alternative "belligerent, decadent and selfish" forms of protest. He spoke to about 100,000 young men and women who detoured to St. Peter's Square during a fund raising march on behalf of underdeveloped nations. "We salute you who with a new spiritual strategy prefer action to protest, that is positive action, constructive and altruistic action, instead of negative protest which is belligerent, decadent and selfish," the Pope said during his traditional Sunday noontime blessing to " pilgrims, tourists and the youths. He said such marches were a sign of a new conscience maturing in the world and a sign of growing solidarity among mankind. The march, sponsored by the "Outstretched Hands" movement and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, was so huge it took participants more than four hours to stream into St. Peter's Square. Some marchers arrived an hour after the Pope spoke. The march, one of scores in cities around the world, was 16 miles long and ended with a ecumenical service at the ancient Roman baths near the Colosseum. 2 immolations lead . to cur f e w .-Ti SAIGON Allied forces in South Vietnam shifted back to normal combat operations at noon Sunday following a 24-hour truce while U.S. Air Force B52 bombers delivered their heaviest raids over supply trails in Laos in almost two months, military sources said. - Two young Buddhist militants-a 17-year-old nun at Cam Lo and a 24-year-old monk at Hue-burned "themselves to death Sunday, the 2,515th birthday of Buddha. Military authorities ordered American servicemen off the streets in Hue after dark following the immolations, the first such acts in South Vietnam in four years. National Police said the suicides were protest against the war. Two Americans and 53 South Vietnamese were killed during the 24-hour allied cease-fire in observance of the religious occasion. Military spokesmen said 34 enemy soldiers died in the 5 1 Communist violations of the truce. The B52s were prevented from bombing South Vietnam during the truce, and shifted their might to Laos, where nearly 1,000 tons of bombs 'were dropped on the Ho Chi Min trails lacing the panhandle region. Marchers raise millions for food WASHINGTON The American Freedom From Hunger Foundation said Sunday about 600,000 persons took part in the second day of its "international walk for development" demonstrations around the nation. The organization sponsoring the campaign for donations to charitable projects and to provide food for the poor said it estimated that 4.8 million was .raised Sunday,. An estimated 1.25 million was taken in Saturday despite rain on the east coast. A spokesman said 115 of the walks were held Sunday, and there were 1 13 on Saturday. Participants mainly were young people about 80 per cent of them of high school age. The spokesman said the money would be divided equally between self-help projects in the United States and SUMMER: J Looking for a job this summer where you can make better than average earnings and not have to sell door-to-door or house-to-house? ALL of our past students have made at least $1500.00 and some $3000 or more. The "Lewis and Clark Expedition," a division of A.A.E; will be interviewing for students to self youth and contemporary gift and accessory items to boutiques, gift stores, and dept. stores in major areas of the country, especially the South. You must have a car, but "sales experience" is not necessary. Contact the Placement Office for further information and an interview on May 1 2. overseas. i Soyuz crew appears on tv MOSCOW-The Soyuz 10 cosmonauts were the stars of an hour-long television program Sunday," re-stating the official assessment that their flight went without a hitch. BUY BAR-BQ BUILD A PLAYGROUND For The New Frank Porter Graham School. Buy Tickets At: Ledbetter-Pickard UNC Student Unon Space agency prepares second Mariner launch CAPE KENNEDY The space agency prepared a second Mariner television scout Sunday for launch toward Mars May 18 while opening a hurried investigation to find the cause of the first $77 million failure. Gen. Vladimir Shatalov, Alexei Yeliseyev and Nikolai Rukavishnkov answered routine questions on the objectives of the April 23-25 mission and watched a variety show of music and acrobatic acts performed in their honor. Shatalov, the flight commander, said the mission had achieved its objective of testing docking techniques with the unmanned Salute sputnik as a step toward eventual creation of manned orbiting laboratories. Scott to open forum on aging RALEIGH Gov. Bob Scott will open the North Carolina meeting of the White House Conference on Aging with an address here May 21. Plans for the session were announced Sunday by the Governor's coordinating Council on Aging which is sponsoring the meeting. It said the gathering later this month will climax more than a year of "grass-roots consideration of concerns of the older citizens." Fourteen areas of special needs of the older citizens considered in forum meetings and regional conferences over the past year will be finalized in the two-day meeting. The areas include health, housing, income, nutrition and employment. . , - Other speakers during the conference include Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri on Friday night and Dr. Donald P. Kent, head of the department of sociology at Pennsylvania State University, at the closing session on Saturday. Georgia leads in moonshining WASHINGTON Georgia continues to lag in many areas of development, but the state seems destined to retain permanent eminence in at least one field of endeavor moonshining. The quarterly reports issued by the U.S. Treasury Department say: Moonshiners consistently have put the state at the top of the illegal booze industry. If Georgia's backwoods distillers are at least as clever as those in other states in avoiding getting caught, then Georgia is the undisputed moonshine capital of the world. THE WORD iS OUT ON DON NY HATHAWAY I BELIEVE TO MY SOUL t- v.-.-. v . .. VOICES INSIDE (EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING) JE VOUS AINE (I LOVE YOU) MISTY SUGAR LEE TRYIN' TIMES THANK YOU MASTER (FOR MY SOUL) THE GHETTO TO BE YOUNG. GIFTED AND BLACK I II i " H t II I I I (-..r-lllf-'lr I WLUMlJIillU J . I J ; : J &s f Mill :-::-ar 1 1 1 1,1 1, J ul i i I M ....... .. - 's - fgi GIVING UP A SONG FOR YOU LITTLE GIRL HE AINT HEAVY, HE S MY BROTHER MAGNIFICENT SANCTUARY-BAND, SHE IS MY LADY I BELIEVE IN MUSIC TAKE A LOVE SONG PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND - The word is out on Donny.Hathaway. A few weeks ago. the superb composer-singer Carole King picked up eight copies of Donny's first LP (" Everything Is Everything.' produced by himself) and distributed them to her heaviest pals and gurus such as Lou Adler and James Taylor with the exhortation to dig. The next portent came at Aretha Franklin's recent epochal appearance at the Fillmore West, where she and Ray Charles were rapping backstage about Donny, who. in their modest opinions is just about the "baddest" new entry on the scene. And a few days later, at the Criteria Studios in Miami, superstar Steve Stills, working on his new album, sounded me: Hey. what's the chance of Donny Hathaway coming down to pick on my album?" The word is definitely out. The liner notes to Donny's first LP inform us that he (1) Was born in Chicago in 1945 (2) Attended Howard University (3) Played his first music jobs in the Washington. D.C. area (4) Then achieved heavy acclaim in the trade for his singing, playing, arranging, composing, and producing for such as Roberta Flack. Curtis Mayfield. Jerry Butler, and others. Here at Atlantic where we have had the privilege of working with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and OtisT?edding. we are daring to hope that Donny eventually . may join them in thespeeia! pantheon cf those specially gift'pd few who: Smg the best, r Play the best. '. Compose the best. Arrange the best. As for hs string, horn, and choral a-.ingements. please I sten to the soul svenng instrurnen'al interlude in Giving Up where first King Curtis" tenor sax break lifts the record to a new elevation followed by a string ensemble that takes it yet higher aga'm climax upon un believable climax. When I played his Little Girl side for its writer, the wonderful Billy Preston (great artist that he is in his own right), Billy was transfixed by the record Donny's singing, keyboard playing, and fantastic arrangement for voices and strings. And I would like to be there when Bobby Scott hears what Donny does with He Ain't Heavy, the definitive soul rendi tion that a lot of people I know have been waiting for. I have been playing the aibum for some weeks now for friends, family and col leagues, and the reaction is always the same: joy and stunned disbelief. We are in great hopes that this portends a wide acceptance by an appreciative audience for Donny Hathaway and this album, produced with abiding love, meticulous care, and. we dearly pray, impeccable taste. My special thanks to our own King Curtis, who found Donny Hathaway at a trade convention and who brought him posthaste to my of lice. And the same to our own Arif Mar din who split vi!h Donny the arranging chores, coming through with his usual brilliance and unfailing musicality. Listen to the flutes and cellos on Aril's treatment of Leon Russell's ineffable A Song For You. and I think you will see why Aril's is probably the fastest growing reputation among the new breed , ct arrangers and musicians. And thanks, deeply, to our great rhythm section: Cornell Duprce on guitar. Chuck Raincy cn bass, and the legendary A! Jackson, who came up to New York frcm Memphis to handle the pvrcuss-cn. JERRY WEXLER A quick solution was necessary because the puzzling red planet will move out of range for a shot from earth June 16 and the Atlas-Centaur rocket will not have enough power to propel a 2,200-pound mariner toward Mars for another 17 years. Two spacecraft were built for the current firing period as insurance against just such a failure. The SI 53.6 million project was to open an ambitious U.S. drive to explore all eight other planets in the solar system this decade. Scientists were counting on the Mariners to orbit Mars for the first time and map 70 per cent of its surface. The satellites also were to search for potential exploration sites for two Viking robots set to land on Mars in 1976 in a search for life. Mars launch opportunities normally come every 25 months, but the planet is now making its closest approach to earth in a 17-year cycle. It is 78 million miles from earth now and will be 35 million miles away in August. Engineers narrowed the cause of Saturday night's Centaur upper stage rocket failure to an electrical flaw in the rocket's autopilot control system. But the precise location and nature of the difficulty was still a mystery. "It will take a lot of detailed analysis and many hours of work to get in and pinpoint the location of the thing," said Seymour C. Himmerl, director of rockets at the Lewis Research Center. "Everything on the bird was tested out very thoroughly, both at the factory and here at the cape and yet we had a malfunction." . He said a delay in the second launching could be called if the probe turns up a weakness that will have to be corrected in the second rocket. The Mariner represents a $65 million investment and the rocket cost $12 million. The first AlA- minutes of the mission1 went . perfectly. But trouble struck just . after the Centaur stage's two engines1 ignited 92 miles above the Atlantic. Instead of keeping the engines aimed properly, the autopilot let them swing to one side and the 48-foot stage flipped out of control. This violent maneuver shut down the engines and the rocket and its spacecraft tumbled into the ocean 900 miles southeast of the cape. Routes harmful, ecologist says DURHAM-A report by a Duke University forestry student and an ecologist contends that each of five alternate routes for the proposed Interstate 40 link between Durham and the Research Triangle Park would result in environmental damage. The University reported Sunday night that the report by graduate student Tobey Pierce and Dr. James E. Wuenscher, professor of forest ecology had been sent to the State Highway Commission. The report said that alternate route four, following 1-85 through Durham from the West, is the only "feasible route," but added "none of the proposed routes" can be endorsed from an environmental standpoint. The report said that in each case, forest areas would suffer from highway construction. r. SOME PEOPLE EVEN COME HERETO STUDY. But There's More To Do Here Than That. Pinball & Bowling Machines. Pretty Fair Juke Box (Wre Improving It Every Day) On Free Play Most Of The Time. Friendly Card Games. Conversations With Some Pretty Interesting People Artd, Of Course, Beer. Li U ii L ?y y-uNwiA WHEN THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO. ON ATCO RECORDS & TAPES (TAPES DISTRIBUTED BY AMPEX)

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