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UHC Library Serials Dq pt Eox 870 C&apol Hill, N. C. The Time Of Day See Edits, Page Two Offices in Graham Memorial Weather Clear and Cooler SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1961 Complete UPI Wire Service ainmaker' P7 10) The R 10) in Dow ' s . . .. a . : -.- . Li vl In Making Now "The Rainmaker" is in the making in Murphy Hall as six members of the cast practice there week nightly. The Petite Dramatique production will play in Gerrard Hall Oct ober 27, 28 and 29. Director Kermit Ewing, Jr. has cast all seven parts ex cept one, H. C. Curry, father of the Curry family. Betty Oliver will appear as Liz zie Curry, the only female in the "delightful romantic comedy." Betty, a junior transfer from West hampton College acknowledges "Life!" as her special interest. She has had no previous acting experi ence in her hometown, Bayside, Va. A graduate student Kenton R. Kyle will portray Noah Curry. Kyle appeared two summer in the "Lost Colony" and had num erous roles in plays at his under graduate alma mater, Berea Cil lege, Berea, Ky. He is from Shinnston, W. Va. and is a RTVMP major here. A freshman, Bill Maynard, Jr. from Lenoir, N. C. will become Jim Currie in the play. Maynard has had previous acting experience and plans to be a RTVMP major also. . The rainmaker, Bill Starbuck will be played by George A. Gray, III, a freshman from Gas tonia, N. C. Gray has done three shows with the Little Theater there and terms their current undertaking, "Pajama Game" directed by his father an "ex ceptional" production. Gray, IH notes his special interests are creative writing and drama. Sheriff Thomas, a non-family member will be performed by Lar ry Waltz. Director Ewing is a sophomore WORLD NEWS BRIEFS By Uniied Press International Nehru To Visit U.S. NEW DELHI, India Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru will make a nine-day visit to the United States beginning Nov. 5, it was announced Friday. The announcement said Nehru would arrive in New York Nov. 5 after a one-day stopover in London where he will confer with British Prime Minister Harold MaoMillan. U.S.II opes To Orbit Man Soon CHICAGO The United States might orbit a man around the earth within the next three months "if we are lucky," a military official of the space program said Friday night. " U.S. Preparing To Resume Nuclear Tests WASHINGTON The Atomic Energy Commission is getting ready to resume nuclear tests in the atmosphere in case President Ken nedy rules that national security demands it, informed sources said Friday. Hoffa Defends Teamsters WASHINGTON Teamster President James It. Hoffa vowed Fri day that be would never associate with Communists. But he defend ed his alliance with a union that was tossed out of the CIO for follow ing the Communist party line. Murder-Suicide Indicated Chief W. D. Blake said Thurs day that the Chapel Hill Police "are trying to clear up the loose ends and determine a motive" in the deaths of two Carolina students last Friday. Suicide-murder is strongly indi cated, he said, in the deaths of William Henry Harrison Johnson Jr., 24, of Statcsvillc and James Michael Barham, 20, of Burling ton. DEADLY BATTERY ASSAULT VENICE, Calif. (UPI) A man called the police switchboard to inquire about a friend who had been arrested. "What was the charge against your friend?" officer James Mc Dermott asked. "Assault with a deadly battery," came the reply from Knoxville, Tenn. where he performed in several shows, some at the University of Tennessee. Church Key The BSU is holding a work party for the community today. Any person having possible work to be done round the house, etc., may call the BSU Center anytime to day and students will be sent to the scene. Proceeds paid to the workers go to LISTEN, the mis sionary program of BSU. Guest speaker for Layman's Day at Orange Methodist Church to morrow will be Dr. R. B. House, former chancellor of the Univer sity. Services begin at 11 a.m. .Race Opens. For Fall. IE lection November Freshman, sophomore and junior class officers plus eight members of the Women's Honor Council will be elected in the fall election, Nov. 7. Blake said it may be three days to a week before he will have the results of tests made cf vomit found on the bed and floor in the students' room. The test is being done by Wil liam Best, chemist of the State Bureau of Investigation. Cyanide poisoning was ruled as the cause of death by a corner's jury. TO TOUR AFRICA ACCRA. Ghana (UPI) Three U. S. senators will arrive here this weekend on fact-finding tours of Africa. Sen. Philip Hart, D-Mich., is scheduled to arrive Saturday and Senators Maurine Neuberger, D Ore., and Albert Gore, D-Tenn., on Sunday. s r LJ I i Wfr. iv t v- i -,y?i . t 3 i it A 1 WELL MOUNTED Three TV cameramen feverishly shoot President John F. Kennedy's picture from their vantage points as he spoke Thursday in Kenan Stadium. They, along with the rest of the 225 members of the press corps, got Carolina's "usual red carpet reception" when they came here to cover Kennedy's speech. In 1859 when President James Buchanan was the - commencement speaker here, the 22-man press corps was almost ignored. No one made any arrangements for them. (Photo by Jim Wallace.) See Red Carpet, Pg. 3 Anyone wishing to run for a class office may seek nomination by the Student Party or the Uni versity Party. Anyone wishing to run indepen dent of a party may do so by pre senting a petition of 25 signatures to Dave Buxton, Elections Board Chairman. . , The Women's Council is the ju dicial body which tries all cases involving violations of the Honor Code and Campus Code by women students. It is composed of women students elected biannually from geo graphically - apportioned districts, according to the location of their living residences. The judicial districts are: Judi cial District I Alderman, Spencer, Kenan and Mclver; Judicial Dis trict II Carr, Nurses Dorm, Whitehead and Smith, and Judicial District III Sorority Houses and town residences. The available positions are: District I one year seat and one six-month seat; District n one year seat and one six-month scat, and District III one year seat and three six-month seats. If a senior receives the majority ond Registration Today Registration begins today for the $61.5 million state bond election on Nov. 7. Voters may register at their polling places on three Saturdays, Oct. 14, 21, and 28 between 9 a.m. and sunset. On other days, except Sundays, from Oct. 14 to Oct. 28, anyone wishing to register may call the registrar in his precinct and make an appointment. Registrars for Chapel Hill and Carrboro are as follows: Precinct 1, Town Hall, Mrs. W. II. Fogleman. Precinct 2, Eslcs Hills School, Mrs. Paul Shcarin. Precinct 3, Woollen Gym, Mrs. C. S. Logsdon. Precinct 4, Chapel Hill High School, Mrs. James E. Wadsworlh. Precinct 5, Glcnwood School, Mrs. Lindsay Neville. Carrboro, new Carrboro Town Infirmary Students in the Infirmary yes terday were Carol Klug, Mildred Briley, Dorothy Fayed, Joe Camp, John Levinson, Arial Stevens, Geo rge LaMonte, Boland Koonlz, Allan Ostergren, Phillip Jorgenson, Geo rge Dorham, Roland Newhouse, Thomas Harrelson, Gail Eidson, John Peck Ruhm, Theodore Peter son, Harold Stine, James Mustard, Henry Anderson, George Milton, Maxwell Holder, Clayton Smith and William Conn. '-; 5 4rV' - ! votes in her district, she will as sume only a six-month seat. Any woman student interested in running for a position on the Council must be interviewed by the Bi-Partisan Elections Board. This committee will endorse all candidates it considers worthy of its support. : The ' "scheduled - interview- ' times are October 16-18 from 7 to 9 p.m. and October 19 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Interviews will be held in , the Council Room on second floor of Graham Memorial and applicants must sign up for one October 15 on a schedule to be posted on the door of that room. Positions are also open for clerical and Attorney General Staff work. They will be filled on appointment by Bill Ilarriss, stu dent body president. Attorney General Staff members investigate all facts, question all witnesses, examine all material and present an impartial account of each case to the Council. The clerks take notes during the trial. Interviews for these positions will be announced in the DTH. Hall, W. Benson Ray. To be eligible to vote, a citi zen must be 21 or over by the date of the election, have lived in the state for one year and in the precinct for 30 days, and be registered in the precinct in 1 ,1'. . 1 - 1 Bond Issue Handbill Circulated In Kenan The State Affairs Committee dis tributed 600 circulars in Kenan Stadium prior to the President's speech. The handbills, asking North Carolina voters to support the com ing educational bond issue, were circulated to the University Day crowd by 11 girls under the direc tion of Joe Routh. The group plans to distribute similar circulars at the Tennessee game just before the election. The committee, directed by co chairmen Larry McDevitt and Tom White, is working in co-ordination with the Students Committee for a Better North Carolina. These com mittees plan to reach as many people as possible before the elec tion to show the interest of the students in improving North Caro lina education. Other North Carolina schools are initiating post card campaigns, newspaper support, radio and tele vision programs and telephone 41 k ir ir FK Tar To Ship Troops To WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy met for. 90 minutes Friday with his top policy advisers to discuss the Berlin crisis and presumably the Question o f whether U.S. troops should be rushed to South Viet Nam. The President's session with his National Security Council came amid reports that " he was "far from convinced" that American troops should be sent into South Viet Nam's mounting battle with communist guerrilas. It also coincided with a Pei ping Radio report, heard in Tokyo, that Ho Chi Minh, com munist chief of North Viet Nam, . met Red China's top leaders in Perping Thursday night, pre sumably to discuss U.S. efforts to halt the communist tide in South Viet Nam. ; Until now, Vietnamese President Nno Dinh diem has tken the po sitions that his forces could handle trie Red threat. But the commun ists have built up their forces until, as Kennedy said in his re cent U.N. speech, they are fight ing at battalion strength. As usual, there were no an nouncements of proceedings at the Security Council meeting. But the President is understood to be weighing conflicting advice on the actions that the United States should take in South Vict Nam. Jle is confronted with the prob lem of whether to commit Ameri can forces to a dogged fight in the far eastern jungles as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev con tinues his unyielding stand on Berlin. Tho argument over whether use of U.S. troops should be considered undoubtedly was a big reason tor "Abolition" Postponed The Monday night showing of the HUAC film, "Opera tion Abolition," has been post poned to the following Mon day, Oct. 23. Mike Harrington and Fulton Lewis will tenta tively debate on the film at that time. which he will vote. Any voter who has changed his address or his name must regist er, but others who arc registered now do not have to register again to vote in the bond election. No absentee ballots can be cast. marathons in support of the bond issue. French Program To Begin Tuesday The Alliance Francaise of Chapel Hill will open a new season with a musical program Tuesday at 8 p.m. in room 80 Peabody Hall. Miss Margo Harris will sing a group of French songs, accompa nied at the piano by Walter Golde. The Chapel Hill Alliance, one of more than 100 clubs in the United States, is composed of people whose common ground is an interest in France and who desire to speak French among themselves. An ability to speak some French is the only condition for member ship. The group meets monthly, offers a current library of French books and periodicals, sponsors a Mardi Gras Ball annually, and provides a Teacher Scholarship for summer study in France. Miss Marian Leath, recipient of the 1961 award, will speak briefly at the Tuesday meeting. From Convinced' the President's decision to send Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor to Saigon this weekend for conferences with Diem. Taylor, who leaves Sunday on his fact-finding mission, will be ac companied by Walt W. Rostow, the President's special assistant for national security. Some 10 other State and Defense Department of ficials will be in the party. - Rostow was reported to have urged consideration of stronger measures in South Viet Nam, in ociety sponsors 'L'Atalante' I i 11H1 Monday Evening Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" will be shown Monday evening to UNC Chapel Hill Film Society members as the second feature film in the fall-winter series of classic and experimental motion pictures. Photographed by Boris Kaufman and directed by Vigo from a scen ario by Jean Guinee, "L'Atalante" was produced in 1934 and starred Dita Parlo, Jean Daste and Michel Simon, with other roles played by Louis Lefebvre, Gilles Margaritis, Maurice Gilles and Raya Diligent. Michel Simon's portrayal of Pere Jules has been ranked as among the greatest characters ever created on the screen by any actor or director. It is the story of a newly marri RATHER SWEEP STREETS SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. (UPI) The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth departed for New York Thursday with nine of its headwaiters. The headwaitersw alked off the ship in a huff when they were or dered to move from first-class to tourist dining rooms. "We would rather sweep roads than be sent to work in the tourist section," one of them declared. Yackety Yack Contest Lacks B eauties f .... I - j r-v - ' " ' is i : , YACKING BEAUTIES. Four Carolina misses, Sophia Pike, Mary Townsend, Fran Brock, and Van Oatts (left to right) discuss the Yack Beauty Contest next week. These and other contestants must have their application forms turned in by tomorrow in order to. pit their charms aaginst each other in the annual contest. order Viet Nam. cluding the dispatch of U.S. com bat troops as reserve force. Neither Secretary of State Dean Rusk nor Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has joined Rostow's side of the still informal debate, according to a reliable source. " Opponents of immediate inter vention argue that talk of sending American troops is premature be cause measures to strengthen South Viet Nam's own defense forces are only now beginning to go into effect. ed couple who start their life to gether on a barge, "L'Atalante," and ends with their reunion and reconciliation after she has run away from the barge and her. self centered, jealous husband to dis cover the glamorous city life in Paris of which she has dreamed so long. A short will accompany the fea ture and both . will be shown in Carroll Hall starting at 8 p.m. A small number of memberships to the Society are still available. Because of the interest in the "Operations Abolition" showing and discussion on campus Monday night, the Cine Club of the Film Society will not meet after the showing of "L'Atalante" but will resume operations on November 6. LLOYD REPORTED DLL LONDON (UPI) Selwyn Lloyd, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Tuesday was reported ill with influenza . However, Lloyd was expected to attend a debate on his eco nomic policies Friday at the Conservative party conference in Brighton. Deadline Snnday 1 Fine America Protests To Soviets BERLIN (UPI) Com munist police pinned down five U.S. Army MP's and 14 West Berlin police . with a barrage of machinegun and rifle bullets early Friday and opened fire across the border again Friday night. The United States protested to the So viets in strong terms. The first shooting incident came in predawn darkness when the Communist police (Vopos) fired an estimated 250 to 300 shots at nine East Berlin refugees who crashed their way to freedom in the Ameri can sector by ramming a barbed wire barrier with a truck. When the American and West Berlin police arrived on the scene the Communists cut loose with several more volleys. No one was hit but the incident was regarded as grave because American soldiers were involved directly. Friday night West German po lice reported that Vopos firing at two more escaping refugees fired 10 to 15 shots into the French sec tor of West Berlin. German police said the shots came so close to them they might have been aimed. An -American spokesman said the United States had formally pro tested to the Soviet commandant in Berlin over the recent East Ger man shooting incidents which have endangered the lives of West Ber liners and the Western Allies as well. SP Seats To Be FUled Dorm Men's legislature seats will be filled for districts one and two at the Student Party meeting Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in How ell Hall. Jimmy Weeks, SP chairman, stipulated that all members would have to be present in order to be eligible to vote at the nominating convention next week. Boiling Puller has urged all dorms, sororities, fraternities and campus organizations to get their entry in for the. 1962 Yackety Yack beauty contest by the deadline. Sunday. Last year there were over a hundred entrants, but thus far this year there arc less than half that number entered. As many as six contestants may be sponsored by an organization, and each contestant's name must be accompanied by a $7 entry fee. Application blanks may be ob tained in the Yack Offire in the basement of Graham Memorial and must be returned to Miss Puller, 210 Pittsboro St. Any Carolina coed is eligible to enter the competition, except those who have already been in a Yack Beauty Court. She cannot sponsor herself. The contest itself will be held in Memorial Hall at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23. Entrants will wear formal gowns. The master of ceremonies and judges will be prominent local per. sonages. Sharon Cates, 1361 Yack Beauty Queen sponsored by Thi Delta Theta, will crown the hew queen. The contest is open to the cam pus, and Miss Puller urges all stu dents to come.
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