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4M ferns 'CMt3I Fill, N.C. 63 years of dedicated serv ice 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." Weather Cooler, increasing cloudi ness. Volume LXIX, No. 68 Complete (UPI) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1960 Offices in Graham Memorial Eight Pages This Issue Finally Nabbed On Florida Land Deal Federal Grand Jury Indicts Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI) Teamster boss James R. Hoffa and two associates were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of misusing more than a half million dollars in union funds in a Florida land pro motion venture. The indictments returned here also named Henry Lower, presi dent of Sun Valley, Inc., the land development firm that the union funds allegedly were used to promote, and Robert E. Mc Carthy, Jr., former branch manager of the Bank of the Commonwealth, Detroit. Lower is the former head of Automobile Drivers and Demon strators Local 376, Detroit. Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers announced the indictments in Washington. Lower Arresled The Justice Department said Lower was arrested in Detroit this morning and is being ar raigned immediately. The indictment was based on communications sent through the mails and by telephone and telegraph. It alleged violation of mail and wire fraud statutes. Rogers said the indictment was a result of 13 months of in vestigation by postal inspectors, internal revenue agents, the FBI and Justice Department attor neys. Indictment Charges , The indictment charged that, beginning about March 1, 1954, Hoffa, Lower and McCarthy de vised a scheme to defraud four j Detroit labor organizations and others by inducing them to pur chase land from Sun Valley through means of false pre tenses and promises. The indictment said union funds used in the Sun Valley operation came from Truck Drivers Local 299, Food and Beverage Local 337, Automobile Drivers Local 376, and Team sters Joint Council 43, all of Detroit. Incorporated In 1954 - Sun Valley was incorporated under Florida law in October, 1954, and maintained its , prin cipal offices in Detroit. The land company is located in Brevard County, Fla., on the west coast. The indictment alleged that the defendants falsely repre sented that Sun Valley war sponsored by the Teamsters Union, but not otherwise con nected with Hoffa, whereas it was owned, operated and con- f 4 5 ? - I JAMES R. HOFFA Delegation To Present Budget Bill UNC's delegation to the State Student Legislature will pre sent a resolution supporting budget requests of all North Carolina institutions of higher learning at the Legislature's evening session in Raleigh. UNC's secondary bill will call for the repeal of the allegiance oath in the National Defense Education Act. The twenty - fourth annual session of the Student, Legisla ture will officially begin with an address by Goy. Hodges this afternoon. 13 Schools Attend During the three days of mock lawmaking, 13 schools, includ ing UNC, Duke, Davidson, Meredith, N.C. State and East Carolina College will present bills to the student legislature. The bills will probably in ( Continued on page 6 ) trolled by Hoffa and Lower and financed in part by them through use of union funds. The indictment charged that -he defendants withdrew sums of money from Sun Valley for their personal use and benefit. It also charged that building lots offered to prospective pur chasers were represented as being "all on high, dry and rolling land, whereas in fact many of the lots offered and sold were so law and permeated with water as, to make them un suitable for construction of homes and dwellings." The defendants, if convicted, would face maximum penalties of five years imprisonment and a $1,000 fine on each of the 12 counts. Quarterly Decked v. ' - "With Red Cover Carolina Literary Magazine Appears On Campus Today With Winter Issue The Carolina Quarterly winter issue will appear on campus and around town this afternoon, decked out in a bright red cover. The Quarterly will go on sale .criteria for good functional ar- late this afternoon at the Inti mate and the Bull's Head book shops, as well as the Book Ex. The price per copy will be 50 cents. The feature article is the first phase in making people aware of the quality of architecture in the University itself. In "The Architecture of De ceit: A Modest Refusal," John Reucr presents a critical ap praisal of the University's ap pearance and future develop ment program. He concludes that the devel opment trend debases the func tional and esthetic needs of the University, besides wasting land and money that could be used in the critical growth per iod of the next few decades. Student At State Reucr, a student at the State College School of Design, speaks with authority on campus de velopment. He worked for many months on planning for the UNC campus. He maintains that recent ar chitecture is wasteful, non functional and displeasing to the eye. With carefully stated chitecture, Reuer makes a tour of the campus and lashes out at its recent so-called "colonial" architecture. His descriptions of "failures" are biting and hu morous. Hopes For Improvement Reuer hopes the architecture can be improved, as plans for a possible student union and coliseum are still in the offing He believes there is time to re vise them before they add to the "non-functional archaic waste in Peabody, Phillips and the new married students' housing." The responsibility for the "failures" in campus architec ture, Reuer places directly on the present University adminis tration. He also indicts the Chapel Hill town administra tion for similar "abasement" of town planning, especially the new Eastgate development. Quarterly Editor Richard Rickert said, "Readers who feel they know something of the value of the University archi tecture will find it difficult to avoid Reuer's conclusions. He (Continued on page 6) U.S. College Students Hit New Record - WASHINGTON (UPI) The number of college students hit a new high this fall for the ninth consecutive year, the U5. Office of Education reported Wednesday. Fall enrollments at colleges and universities reached a peak of 3,610,007 students, a 6.1 per cent increase over 1959. The figures included full and part-time students working fori a bachelor's or higher degree. The students included 2,270, 640 men and 1,339,367 women, a 4.5 per cent increase for the men and nine per cent gain for the women over 1959. On The Campus Dr. Robert Lindsay of the UNC Infirmary Staff will give the third in a series of In Service Training Program Lec tures today at 4 p.m. in Hanes Hall. Campus Chest Auction Com mittee will meet today at 5 p.m. "n the second floor of the Y. Please all come'. All students who have not -een their Yack , proofs please come by GM this week from 3 to 6. This is the last opportunity. Morehead Planetarium pre sents "Star of Bethlehem" to night at 8:30. In the Planetarium Building there will be a special exhibit including a hand carved creche, at 4. , The UNC-Duke faculty wives tea will also be held at 4. : "Some Aspects of the Decis ion Question in the Criticism of the Arts" will be the topic of a talk by Dr. Mortimer Kadish of the Western Reserve, Univer sity in 213 Caldwell at 8 p.m. Turner Catledge, managing editor of the New York Times, vill deliver a lecture "Adven ture in Journalism" tonight at 8 in Howell Hall. Free bridge lessons will be held tonight at 8 in the Graham Memorial lounge. The Amateur Radio Club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock, in Caldwell Y. EXCITED CONVICT NOTTINGHAM, England (UPI) Prison" officials specu lated today ; a trusty who slip ped away from his guard and fellow prisoners Sunday night "may have been over-excited" by a crime film at a public theater. HUND. FOR N REDS TAGE RALLY AT E W STUDE PRESIDEN TS NT UNION HOME t I r-i-'i mmmmmmmmm Hi I ' 1 4 Carolina Shows Enthusiasm For Union, Higher Salaries One thousand students turned out last night for a "spontaneous rally" in support of a new UNC student union and higher faculty salaries. From the back of a truck the president of the student body, head of the State Affairs Committee, and other stu dent leaders led the rally m u V 1 I f i jl Khrushchev Bed-Ridden With Influenza Attack 1 MOSCOW Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev is bedridden with influenza, First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan announced Wednesday. Mikoyan reported the premier's illness to guests at a glit tering Kremlin reception for visiting Communist Chinese lead ers. Such an announcement concerning a premier's health at a social event was unprecedented in Soviet history. Kennedy Meets With Stevenson NEW YORK President-elect John F. Kennedy will meet in Washington today with Adlai E. Stevenson, who has been reported a strong contender for ambassador to the United Nations or secretary of state in the new administration. Kennedy also will see Dean Rush, former assistant secre tary of state for the Far East and now president of the Rocke feller Foundation, who also has been mentioned as a possibility for secretary of state. He will meet Gov. Edmund G. Pat Brown of California and Sen. Claire Engel, D-Calif., during a busy schedule of appointments. Louisiana Appeals To Supreme Court WASHINGTON Louisiana appealed to the Supreme Court Wednesday to intervene in the angry school integration battle that has erupted in stonings, eggings and other violence in the city of New Orleans. State Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion asked the court to suspend temporarily a Nov. 30 three-judge court ruling which wrecked Louisiana's legal fight against integra tion. He requested a stay of the order pending a full appeal. U. S. Demands Red U. N. Resignation UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. The United States demanded today that Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin step down as president of the Security Council while it considers Russia's demand for restoration of the Congo's leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba. U. S. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth told Zorin, council president under the monthly rotation system, that he was "too prejudiced" to preside in the Congo dispute. French To Decide On Algeria Soon PARIS Prime Minister Michel Debre said today the French people will be called upon shortly to "approve solemn ly" the principle of letting Algerians decide their own future. Debre made the statement at the opening of a two-day appraisal by the uneasy National Assembly of President Charles de Gaulle's plans to loosen Algeria's ties to France. The government previously announced that a referendum would be held in Algeria and France on de Gaulle's plans to start off by making Algeria a semi-independent republic. Bobbing about in last night's huge crowd of boosters fcr UNC's proposed budget were signs and placards testify ing ihe need for increased faculty salaries. The proposed increases in salary were among the items hardest hit by the. Board of Higher Education's recommendation advocating a radical slash in" the overall requests. The enthusiastic crowd of budget rooters placed the proposed increases right alongside ihe proposed undergraduate library-student union in importance, if this and similar signs were an indication of preferences. The spirited demonstrators composed what was described as "one of ihe better organized rallies in recent years" by an observer. "Weavers Sing 'Folk Songs Of World' Students Admitted Free At 8 To 'GM's Christmas Gift To UNC "The Weavers," America's foremost folk singers, will present "Folk Songs Around the World" at 8 p.m. to night in Memorial Hall. Billed as "Graham Memorial's Christmas gift to the campus," students will be admitted free to the concert If any seats are available after 7:45 p.m., townspeople may purchase them for $2. GM Concert Series Joe Bell reminded students that seats will be on the usual first come, first served basis with doors opening at 7: 15 p.m. A capacity rowd is expected. Standing Ovations Standing ovations and ecstatic reviews have followed Ihe Weavers across the length and breadth of the nation, and the group has made several record- breaking appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall. "The Weavers enchanted a capacity and wildly partisan audience," the New York Times remarked, "and small wonder Library Hours Wilson Library hours for the Christmas holiday period have been announced as follows: Saturday, Dec. 17 7:45 a.m. 1 P.m. Monday-Friday, Dec. 19-24 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, Dec. 27-30 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29 am.-5 p.m. The Library will be closed on Sunday, Dec. 19, Saturday through Monday, Dec. 24-26, and Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 31 -Jan. X Regular hours will be re sumed on Tuesday, Jan. 3. since thev do their kind of repertoire with plenty of spirit and enthusiasm." The quartet, Lee Hayes, Ron nie Gilbert, Fred iHellerman and Erik Darling, who made his debut with the group last sum mer, began its meteoric rise to fame in 1950. Score Success Booked into New York's "Vil lage Vanguard" for a short two week stint, the folksinging four some scored a phenomenal suc cess and were signed for a six month engagement. During this period, their first record, "Goodnight Irene," hit the million mark in sales. Other big hits followed, including Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and "On Top of Old Smokey." Carl Sandburg recognized The Weavers' extraordinary ability to ferret out the music of the nation and give it wide spread performance when he said "The Weavers are out of the grass roots of America. When I hear America singing The Weavers are there." Time Magazine, in describing the phenomenal rise of the group stated that "The Weavers have succeeded in shouting, twanging, and crooning folk singing out of ' its cloistered corner and into the big time." The Weavers are currently on a ' ? 1 JT . a national lour, wnicn mciuaes several North Carolina college appearances. Ay cock Still 'Hopeful For Buildinp OK BY GARY DALTON Money for Carolina's under graduate library-student union Tiay come from either of two ources according to Chancellor William B. Aycock. The administration is "very hopeful" for the full 2.6 million dollars for the combination building "by appropriations :rom the General Assembly or by a bond issue," Aycock said Tuesday night. Board Recommends He said the State Board of Higher Education has recom mended 1.6 million dollars be appropriated with the remain ing money to be raised by pri vate means. ' The administration said it would be difficult to raiselthe money privately, but it has hopes for the full amount from the General Assembly. Aycock bases his optimism on these facts: 1. The library-union was first in the University request under capital improvements (C budget) . 2. The State Board of Higher Education "has recognized a need." 3. The board recommended 1.6 million dollars for the proj ect. 4. Only one of the deciding bodies "has given any views on it." The next step is up to the Ad visory Budget Commission. The (Continued on page 6) front of the Lower Dorm Quad. Short speeches, cheers, and chants expressed support of Consolidated University Presi dent William Friday and anta gonism toward the State Legis lature. The rally began at about 6:30 with groups of sorority pledges chanting, "We just want a stu dent union . . ." From the crowd, small at this time, came cries oi L.et s ourn uranam Memorial," and "Friday is fine." A few minutes later carloads of students began to arrive, fol lowed by a truck sporting the sign, "Thousands of Y-Court Students Want a Library-Stu dent Union." The band in the truck played a number of Caro lina fight songs. Speaking from a loudspeaker on the truck, Davis Young, chairman of the State AfTairs Committee, spoke of the "en thusiasm" of the crowd and then introduced the president of the student body, David Grigg. Grigg, with his face spot lighted, said, "We want to show the people of this state and par ticularly the -members of the legislature . . . that we have a sincere interest in faculty sal aries and a new student union." Another speaker proclaimed that the purpose of the rally was "to get the General As sembly behind us." Led by the cheerleaders, the crowd ran through renditions of "GMAB, it's not big enough for UNC," and "We back Bill ..." Grigg led the crowd to Presi dent Friday's house, where the rally ended at about 7:00. Head of the campus police Arthur Beaumont called this one of the better organized rallies" he had seen. He esti mated the crowd at 1,000. Other estimates ranged up to 1,500. Congolese Lashes Mobutu's Interests Student Leader Claims Colonel 'Sold Himself To The Behii a us A Congolese student leader said Tuesday night in Gerrard Hall that strongman Col. Joseph Mobuto "sold himself to the Belgians" in his coup d'etat of the Congo government. Henri Takizala, president of the National Union of Students of the Congo and Ruandi-Urundi, was visiting he University as part of a three-week tour of United States colleges and universities.! The trip is sponsored by the International Commission of the U. S. National Student Associa- ion. The African college graduate was asked how Mobutu had gained the power to overthrow remier Patrice Lumumba. Takizala replied that Mobutu had acted in his own 'Vcliish interests" from the beginning of the post-independence troubles. On the recent presidential campaign issue of America's world prestige, Takizala said that U.S. prestige has declined steadily for the last five years. The main reasons for this were the bad publicity given to the South's racial problems and the Eisenhower administra tion's "inadequate" policy to ward the underdeveloped na tions. He was made a colonel by Lumumba, who trusted him. When Lumumba began to o e public support, Mobutu v.'.r-d the Belgians for aid, lie reported. They sent arms, money, and soldiers. This is "the source of the present Mobutu power." The issue of foreign inter vention in The Congo was dis cussed in some detail. Takizala (Continued on page G) i ! !
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