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Q Paga f v?o TME DAtiv TAR fiEEL Friday, ScptcmBrr 1C, ... .... ... , . . . . I , . The official student publication of the Publications Board of the Univer sity of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday, examination periods and surnmer terms. Entered as seconds-class matter in the post office in Chapel- HUl,'tf, C, under the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4.00 per semester, $7.00 per year. The Daily Tar Heel is printed by Colonial Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. SI Editor Associate Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editors News Editors .'. . Feature Editors ......... Photography Editor . Sports Editor ............. Asst. Sports Editor '.. Contributing Editors Business Manager .... Night Editor ... ... ...... Jonathan Yardley Wayne King, Mary Stewart Baker Ron Shumate Bob Haskell, Margaret Ann Rhymes Henry Mayer, Lloyd Little Susan Lewis, Adelaide Cromartie Bill Brinkiious ... :.......L.... Ken Friedman L:..................i.... Frank W. Slusser ..: '. L... John Justice, Davis B.. Young ... ..rr.L... Tim Burnett Bill Fackert the Long, Mot Summer If the summer was not sultry by barometric standards, it was by all others. A nation and a world trying des perately to recuperate from the dis aster of the summit found little to rejoice in during the summer months. Near-disaster followed near-disaster until the entire period seemed to mesh into a conglomeration of woes that would make a Shakespearean battle look tame. The Congo; granted independence by a reluctant Belgium, took its new found status to be synonymous with anarchy and promptly exploded into reyolution, counter-revolution and an international headache. Fidel Castro, grasping at the straws of total dictatorship, found American property appealing and began to snatch every imaginable refinery on the island. Every day the . sight of Guantanamo Bay's United States base became more and more ' lovely to him; he didn't seize it, but observ ers feel that the day of reckoning is not far away. of Russian imprisonment. The So viets won what will probably, in fu ture years, be considered a great propaganda victory - in the great "show trial." With July came the conventions, and millions of Americans settled back in front of their television sets to see both parties steadfastly refuse to nominate their best men. Two second-rate nominating speeches were acclaimed far and wide as master pieces of the oratorical art. Senator Kennedy called Democrats to rally in Senator Johnson's special session of Congress, only to find the South clinging wholeheartedly to the Goldwater wing of the Republican Party; the House Rules Committee, controlled by this coalition, stymied any efforts that passed the Senate. Gloating over Kennedy's failures, Vice President Nixon paid a visit to Greensboro that was to lay him out in Walter Reed Hospital for two weeks. The injury may have helped him, gaining public sympathy and giving him a chance to reconsider his campaign plans. . In Moscow the insult to injury 'as - tke,Presi4clii, dis- was little, hope for a resurgence of playing some of the humanitarianism goodwill or good fortune this fall, for which he is noted, Tefused to but the world managed to stay in one make a single move in defense of piece, even though splices and casts pilot JTrahcis Gary Powers,; the U-2 could have been seen holding" it to fly er who was sentenced to ten years gether. Eciifbr- Hits The' fload Tomorrow morning at 7 we will board a special press plane on the first leg of a series of Daily Tar Heel voy ages designed to..bring full and objec tive coverage of the presidential cam paign. . - - This plane will carry members of the North Carolina press corps on a hell-ben t-for-leather pursuit of Sen. John F. Kennedy as he travels around the Tar Heel state. Next Tuesday the editorial page will; be devoted tq our . impressions, verbal and pictorial, of the candidate; and his campaign. No promises will be made concerning photographic quality. Because the Daily Tar Heel is intent on preserving objectivity during the campaigns, state and national, all can didates will get full coverage. Daily Tar Heel reporters will also follow Richard "M. Nixori as he tours North Carolina. Editorial, endorsements will be made for all major elective posts within the next few weeks. Further comment will be made on this matter at a later time. We hope that, in the next six or seven weeks, this newspaper will serve in some way to inform and sti mulate its large potential voting readership. We hope to be objective, we hope to be ; fair, and we hope to receive your comments. United Press And Colonial Preview Kennedy Trip , RALEIGH (UPD Sen. John F. Kennedy swings into the South tomorrow to stump North Carolina by plane, parade and motorcade. The Democratic , - presidential nominee will make ; a 700-mile tour of this state, counted among those in which there are fears by some party leaders that the Democrats are in trouble. Kennedy will hit five popula tion centers of the state and all three geographic sections, wind ing up with a rally Saturday night in Raleigh. State party leaders have been working hard to assure a show of strength. The state's Democratic lead ership, moderate on the civil rights issues, concedes its chief concern is the religious issue. North Carolina is heavily Pro testant. North Carolina's Gov. Luther . H. Hodges and Democratic gu bernatorial nominee Terry San ford" are enthusiastic Kennedy boosters. But both recognize the religious issue in this state. Hodges has said he believes Richard M. Nixon would be. "annihilated" in North Carolina except for the religious issue, and said this is true in some other Southern states. Hodges praised Kennedy as "one of the greatest young men that has ever offered himself to public service," and predicted Kennedy's tour tomorrow would have "a tremendous effect." Sanford, who dramatically en dorsed Kennedy at the Los An geles convention while Hodges was backing Lyndon Johnson, will travel with Kennedy on the nominee's plane tour. Kennedy will make his first appearance in Greenville, a tobacco-growing and sales center in the heart of eastern North Carolina, which is the state's most predominant Democratic section. From Greenville, Kennedy will fly to Greensboro, in the populous and industrial-rich Piedmont, then to Asheville in the mountain country of western North Carolina for rallies in both cities. He will ride in a parade and address a rally in Charlotte, the Carolines' largest city, then: fly "to Raleigh, the political and pol- 'iUcjS; capital4' 5 - c'- What then is behind the fev-, erish Democratic campaign 'ac- . tivity in this -state which - is usually, counted as a foregone Democratic conclusion? North Carolina was staunchly loyal to. Truman and twice delivered. to Adlai Stevenson the largest bloc of electoral votes he received from any state. The last time North Carolina voted Republican in a presi dential election was in 1928 when another Roman Catholic, Al Smith, was; the Democratic nominee. But the Republican strength in North Carolina presidential elections has been growing. : In 1956, for example, a bare 8,000 votes out of a total of 1,165,592 cast in the state would have de livered North Carolina's. 14 elec toral votes to Eisenhower in- . stead of Stevenson. The state's popular vote in 1956 was 590,530 for Stevenson and 575,062 for Eisenhower. Underlining the GOP effort was a campaign visit to North Carolina last month by Richard M. Nixon. It was on that trip, to Greensboro, a center of grow ing GOP strength, that Nixon bruised the knee that temporar ily slowed his national ca a paigning. This is the backdrop of Ken nedy's strenuous Saturday tour. POGO LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS Mike Robinson Gary Soucie t Repi nan on 0- Movie Jaz - , 1" ' A& MaHWfjus BONY P!S THIS JA?Z 6 son m&in'us TOStftfll WlTtf A&m&z fixer vofz cuiz goeozxw-Pi vze$etQ -&0uzto Mary Stewart Baker Desegregation Woes This fall's school bell has rung bitter tones for many South ern public schools. The familiar play for time against the courts is still being tried in many cities, while the newest plan of resistance has been instigated in Dallas, Tex. The new form of desegregation in Dallas is the "salt and pepper" plan. , Desegregation will take place, . but . individual schools or individual classrooms will be separated into all-Negro,1- all-white, and mixed; "students will take their choice. Athough the . Federal - District Court has approved, the NAACP has filed notice of appeal, but not the actual appeal. So Dallas will remain segregated as its 125,000 students go to classes these first weeks. , Segregationists cannot be too optimistic over the "salt and pepper" idea. The only advantage is that the plan offers the courts new principles requiring new time for court rulings instead of automatic rejection, which is the eventual course of the courts in New Orleans. ; Segregation ; wilj reign in the New Orleans public, school for the first few weeks, but desegregation must take place by Nov. 14; at that time (there being no change in the court's orders) New Orleans will be the first court desegregated school district in the nation where Negro school children are in the majority. New Orleans public schools are now 53 per cent Negro arid 47 per cent white in student population. Although the city itself is predominantly white, the white children in the large number of parochial and . private schools explain the large Negro student population'in the city's public schools. Catholic schools, however, have announced the intent for desegregation "net later" than the public school desegregation; this announcement must obviously mean that the Catholic schools hope to parallel Ihe public schools in the matter. Therefore, at this time, the New Orleans Catholic schools are still desegre gated. Desegregation is spreading in Virginia. The number of., de segregated localities has increased from two to 13 a total of 31 schools! t. Virginia, originally the fount of "massive resistance," will entertain 171 Negroes enrolled in white schools under the Virginia placement plan. There will be 29,000 Virginia white students ; attending the desegregated; schools. , Hundreds of Carolina students have a vital ability, but have never discovered it. This cam pus affords the opportunity to make the here and now more productive in the future, by us ing this ability to the fullest ex tent. Let's be realistic. We don't live in a society that is based on the premise "the world owes me a living." Our government doesn't guarantee employment. Most of us have the task of selling ourselves to prospective employers. We are a product of our ex perience and education. Each of us varies in quality. The em ployer does not know the qual ity of a particular college grad uate, nor can he rely completely upon his academic standing or a brief personal interview An employer must often judge the applicant on the quality of his education. Industry is prone to transfer a university's repu tation directly to the job ap plicant. The University of North Caro lina's repuation was brought to a pinnacle in the nineteen thir ties under the leadership of Frank Porter Graham. His ef forts caused John Gunther (In side V.S.A.) to write: "a splen did University at Chapel Hill, which is a kind of intellectual capital for the whole South." Dr. Graham's administrative brilliance and political influence gave this University an excell ent reputation, but a reputation is a tenuous thing, no matter how well founded.- It doesn't lie dormant over the years. Suc cessive University administra tions have worked to enhance this reputation and intensify it. The President and Chancellor realize that the future of a Caro lina graduate can be dependent upon the impression outsiders have of the University. The impression personnel in terviewers develop can be de cisively influenced by the stu dents themselves, supported by the faculty and administration. This campus provides the means for students to keep the University's quality at a high level. ' ' Active participation" in student government, the Y.M.-" C. A., the debating clubs, The Daily Tar Heel, the glee club, WUNC-FM and WUNC-TV, The Carolina Quarterly, the var ious language clubs, intramural, and if possible varsity sports, as well as other groups and organi zations, all help contribute to a strong reputation. Of course, one must be sen sible about the allocation of his or her time. Though some stu dents doubt it, academic en deavor, is paramount. The few who let their cxtra-curriculars get out of hand soon learn that life -becomes rather uncomfort able around final exams. Preservation of the Honor Code and Campus Code are of prime importance. Students make them Work. The unique privileges that the administra tion has bestowed upon the stu dent body goes a long way in the eyes of prospective em ployers. They are anxious to secure men and women witn a sense of ethics and moral re sponsibility. There are some students who would say our reputation has fallen. They have only to look at themselves for the answer. The reputation of this Univer sity is dependent, in large meas ure, on the efforts of its students. by Walt Kelly Perhaps this editor's most joyful task at the "beginning of a new year is to announce that, in moves de signed to improve the Daily Tar Heel in every imaginable manneri we have changed wire service and presses. In the former case the move was determined by economy and partial dissatisfaction with bid friends. We have arranged for the use of a com bination United Press International wire which : will supply Tar Heel readers with not only news and sports but also extended feature service. The Kehnedy story to the right is an, example of the incisive coverage afforded by the U.P.I. We f eel it to be admirably suited to the purposes of a college newspaper, and to be that wire which will best inform the readers. We are particularly fortunate to be now under the arm of Colonial Press, Inc., Chapel Hill's leading printer. A complete new line of types and services awaits the whim of our eager managing editors; variety and clarity awaits the eyes of every Tar Heel reader. These are only the first of a series of changes and improvements we will be making; their success is your de- cision. As with the campaign cover age, your comment will be more than appreciated; they are necessary for the eventual growth to improve ment' that we seek. Herblock, incidentally, will be hack soon. tVJt5 tCO GOT; WHAT MS mtus PULL III. fH$N ALU A FAT t t fZ&tfOUNT6 "HOW 15 f HI PEANUTS V w y y PHZH IT? AS PAZ AS "NOW 6 TH6 TIMS: i MAVf fO FCZ All 00? A "(BO 0AOC MSN TO CCSi U AWlOO AT TO THg A0 CP- WHAT i r by Schulz Afi XtkA. Big Hippest to CELEPRATH BBIHS I () not T: THE NEXTTEPNOIO BTO EEGIN LOGINS FOR A MTONAlD05.01!TH'i This seems a particularly fitting time to discuss' jazz and the movie.', since the Sixth Annual Down F.t-at Movie Music Awards have beta handed out and Andre Pre v in, M-G-M soundtrack scorer, has bo come Andr-i Previn, jazz pianist. .'I feel sure '..hat everyone is looking forward to Andre's debut in the role of full-time jazz musician, but what a friend jazz has lost in 1 lolly wood! For the past 14 years since tile age of 17 Andre has been connect ed with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer music department, with brief side excursions into the worlds of jaz,': and classical music, and a two-year hitch with Uncle Sam. A good pic ture of his merit in the movie music business can be gleaned from the fact that he won four of the twelve categories in the Down Beat poll; Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (Porgy and Bess), Best Conductor, Best Arranger, and Top Personality of the year 1959. One of the last pictures Andre worked on might prove to be the most effective use of jazz in a movie to date: The Subterraneans, the flick based on Jack Kerouac novel. Andre was given free rein, complete without the insistence of including When the Saints Go Marching In! Seen andor heard in the movie will be Andre. Gerrv Mul ligan, Art Farmer, Art Pepper, Bob Enevoldsen, Bill Perkins, Russ Free man, Jack Sheldon, Red Mitchell, and Shelly Manne. This almost looks like the same old crew from the movie-jazz crowd, but dig: Mulligan plays the role of a missionary among the beatniks. The importance of Andre's de parture from the screen world can be surmised when one considers the sum total of the movie industry':1 exploitation of jazz' potential. BacL in the Thirties, when big band jazz held sway in the music business, the movies almost missed the boat. With the exception of some corny short features on bands, and the appear ance of Glenn Miller, Woody Her man, Bob Crosby, Benny Goodman, Ellington, and Basie in some Grade- B variety and musical comedy pic tures, the Swing Era just isn't regis tered on film. Much more successful than either the band features or the film bi ographies have been fairly recent' films in which jazz was used either ' as the underscore or played , a rple 1 In,rthe plot. There have been utter failures here, too, but there have also been a number of highly cred itable pictures using jazz in this way. All too often, though, jazz has been stereotype-cast into close as sociation with violence, narcotics, prostitution, andor delinquency. The Man With the Golden Arm, The Sweet Smell of Success, I Want to Live, The Blackboard Jungle, The Wild One, Private Hell 36. One mu sician was prompted to suggest that along witn. the sound-track LPs, the studios release a mood music LP called Music to Steal Hubcaps By. Within the last few years Amen can jazzmen like the Modern J'jzz Quartet, Miles Davis, Kenny Clarke and the Jazz Messengers have been Used to supply the underscore for some European films The MJQ and Miles have both recorded their soundtracks. John Lewis's score for Sait-on jamais is available on At lantic as No Sun in Venice and .miies uiumma j.jt oi nis score lor L'Escalier a Vechauffer is called Jazz Track. Following this excellent example, American movie companies have shown some signs of waking up. Duke Ellington's music was used to good example in Anatomy of a Murder, and John Lewis supplied the music for Odds Against Tomor row. There have been at least two short feature films devoted exclusively to jazz, but they seem never to be. shown outside of the largest metro- politan areas. Wav back in 194 Gjon Mili made an award winning' film called Jammin' the Blues, but. i nave never naa the opportunity. . 10 see it. In 1958 Bert Stern and Aram Av akian shot 100,000 feet of film at the Newport Festival. The final re sult was a 78 minute film called Jazz on a Summer's Dav, which won a great deal of praise last August at the Venice Film Festival where it was shown out of competition. The film features Jimmy GiufTroj Ben Webster, Mahalia Jackson, An- ita O'Day, Thelonious Monk. George Shearing, Chico Hamilton, Gerry KffnllI(T5n in tYinniT 4-rnt hat rll jazz musicians. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but there seems t Chapel Hill theatres will pull their heads out of the sand. The movie situation could be a . lot better, and of course, it coul I . be a lot worse. After all, they might have chosen Fabian instead of Sal- .Mineo to play Gene Krupa.
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