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Wednesday, October 3. 1962 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Pasre 3 n iomrsr America's Gravest Crisis Since The Civil w WASHINGTON (UPD-The faint whisper o fa pen rushing across paper broke the silence in the green-walled Treaty Room of the White House. The President of the United Stat es set aside the paper. He picked up anotner and signed it. He was alone in the room except for the man who had brought him the documents. On the wall overlooking his desk hung a painting. It showed Lincoln and his generals discussing the Civil War, and it was called "The Peacemakers." It was 12:02 a.m. in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 30. The paper be fore the President authorized the Secretary of Defense to use the United States Army, if necessary, to force the State of Mississippi to let a Negro attend its university at Oxford. President Kennedy had taken the ultimate step to enforce the I'll m UU..I. ii, , ill, i ..Ml ., m, , or : y -- . 'Hit -I iu 14 Rita Tushincham Winner Best Performance Award Cannes Film Festival 1SS2 Murray Melvin Winner Best Performance Award Cannes Film Festival 1982 Winner cf 4 British Actdamy Awards "Words Are Completely Insufficient To Express TheTrue QualityAnd Extent Of Eloquence Got IntoThis Picture!" MSltt MWItH, Km IMS DKt TOT -n-n Produced ami dlrsclad by TONY RICHARCSCM orders of a federal court in a definant Southern state. The na tion faces one of its gravest in ternal crisis since, the War. Be tween the States. .' The crisis stemmed from May iybi, when James Meredith; mild-mannered, a -year -old Air orce veteran, filed a court ac tion for admittance to the Uni versity of Mississippi. Meredith is a Iegro, and a Negro has never been admitted to Ole Miss. jKv. Koss Barnett vowed that one never would. Barnett told his cheering followers that he would go to jail before he would see his state's schools desegregated Courts issued order- after order mat Meredith be enrolled: bu Barnett told state 'officials-' to re sist to the last. The drama that stretched from the campus to Washington began on Thursday, Sept. 24. Federal marshals brought Meredith to the campus to enroll. Barnett was there first, and he personal ly refused to admirMipmttrfr. On Monday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans told the trustees of the school that they were "willfully and intentionallv disobeying a court order and told them once again to let Meredith in. The trustees replied that Bar nett had taken away their right to act in the matter. On the same day, Barnett issued an order that any federal official who attempt ed to interf ere with a Mississippi oihcial should be arrested. The crisis deepened the next day, Tuesday. The federal govern ment moved against Barnett. The 5th Circuit Court ordered Barnett to stop interfering, in Jackson and when Meredith showed up with his marshals, the governor for the second time refused to enroll him. But Barnett blocked the door- 4r I lfci3mt,amim a ft. -d 1 In-V iwi i ifVifJm NOW PLAYING eSaTiahpoe-s 1 i -- - VINCENT PRICE-PETER LORRE Basil ratkbqheceera paeei Shows at : 1 r30T - 3rt7 6:51 - 8:38 way of the state office building Before the day was over, the New Orleans court acted again. It ordered Barnett to appear on Fri day morning and show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court. Barnett was unruffled. Meredith, this time accompanied by Justice Department officials, made his third try at enrollment at the campus in Oxford on Wednesday. He was met at the gates by Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson and 20 state policemen. Johnson . read, Barnett's procla mation forbidding the enrollment of Meredith. A Justice Department representative offered him a copy of the court injunction against in terference with the order.' u ' Johnson refused to take it, and engaged in a pushing match with a U. S. marshal. After a few brief shoves, the marshal stop ped. He had complied with the court's instructions to make a physical attempt to enter. Last Friday, Barnett was sup posed to appear before the court in New Orleans. He never showed up, and in his absence the court found him guilty of contempt. It said that if the governor did not stop interfering with its orders by Tuesday, he would be arrested, put in jail, and fined $10,000 for every day he refused to obey. The next day the court cited Johnson eralizing the Mississippi National for contempt. ing press secretary Andrew Hatch- Saturday morning the White er to contact the radio-television House announced that the Presi dent would go to Newport and stay there until Monday. Reporters packed their bags and boarded the plane that would take them to Newport in advance of the Presi dent. Just as the plane's door was about to be closed, a White House official rushed up to say the trip was cancelled. What had happened was that the President had called Barnett three times, and the attorney general had called the governor four times. They made three calls from the White House m a tnree-nour perioa in the early afternoon. They asked Barnett if he was going to obey the court order, keep himself out of jail, and let Meredith into Ole Miss. The an swers they got made the Presi dent cancel his trip. The President summoned De fense Secretary Robert S. Mc Namara ,to discuss the possible use of .troops, and he talked with other military officials. At 5:45 p.m., Kennedy sent Barnett a telegram, asking him his intentions and requesting a reply that evening. He never got one. Meantime, Kennedy directed act- networks and seek air timA fnr Sunday night. But around 8 p.m. after a call from Barnett Ken nedy had Hatcher withdraw the request. The call must have raised some hope on the President's part, but it was apparently dashed by a 10 p.m. conversation between Bar nett and the attorney general. The Cabinet officer passed the information from Barnett onto the President, and the President told his brother to prepare two docu ments. One document was a legal ma neuver. It was a proclamation calling upon Mississippi officials to stop "obstructions of justice." It was necessary to issue this before issuing the second document. Confident Yankees Practice, Then Fly To San Francisco Yankees On Coast NEW YORK (UPI) The New York Yankees, 100 per cent hale and hearty 'for the . World Series, raced through a fiery batting drill against front-line pitching in a sim ulated game Tuesday and' then headed for San Francisco where they 11 work out weanesnday in Candlestick Park. The decision to fly to San Fran cisco instead of Los Angeles was made several hours before the Dodgers and Giants began their second pennant playoff game at Los Angeles. - "A workout at Candlestick Park will be valuable to us if the Giants should win," said, Yankee, manager Ralph Houk. "Only a few of our players have seen the place. If the Dodgers win well, we're all fa miliar with Chavez Ravine." "Live" Batting Practice Obviously worried about, the de ay in the series start caused' by the. National League playoff, .Houk called . for an all-out batting drill Tuesday with ' the pitchers ' throw ing "for real" and' catcher. Yogi Berra signalling the pitches so the hitters wouldn't know what -was Whitey Ford, Houk's probable choice to pitch the opener Thurs day, and Ralph Terry were the only top hands who didn't pitch. Bill Stafford, Jim Coates, Luis Arroyo, Bud Daley and Tex Clev enger worked about 15 minutes each, all at high speed. Stafford was so effective against the Yan gee sluggers that all the fields lay down on the ground and pretended to yawn until Mickey Mantle clipped a couple of pitches. Roger Maris, 1961 home run king, later put a pair of long drives off Daley into the right field seats. Legislature (Continued from Page 1) Board or retry all the cases which came ud before the Honor Council this summer will be taken up by the Student Legislature Thursday night. . Giving Uie summer school board retroactive .approval would put the Ttrislature : on record as having approved "the summer school ap pointees last spring, ine xactv m tii annrnval would mean that the board constitutionally aim Saiv never; existed. .. , - nly One More Week 10 Oct. Deadline For blluiii v- . V- f-.K STUDENT ACGIPE!;(&;SM INSURANCE PLAN FULL 12 rUOflTH COVERAGE $8.00 Call 942-4358 or See George Lu Coxhead Office over The Hub We are pleased to have been selected again by the University Administration and the Student Government to, provide this protection for the students of the University. IrHR PILfOXj Greensboro, North Carolina The second document was :in executive order to the defense sec retary. It authorized him to put the Mississippi National Guard un der federal orders and use it to enforce the court order. It also authorized McNamara to "use such of the armed forces of the United States as he deemed necessary." At 10:45 p.m., before Kennedy signed the papers, the Defense De partment announced "active Army units'' military police were being sent to the staging area at Mem phis. Five minutes later Hatcher completed the reopened negotia tions for air time. At 12:01 a.m. Kennedy signed the proclamation against obstruc tion of justice. Then-' he immedi ately signed the executive order authorizing use of troops and fed- Guard. McNamara was prepared. He was called at home, and he had an order there ready to be signed. He signed it at 12:02, and within 12 hours: The 11,500 men in the Missis sippi Army and Air National Guards no longer answered Bar nett's command. They were order ed to report immediately to their stations and await further orders orders to force integration in their own state. Regular units totalling 2,500 men were rolling out of eastern bases toward Tennessee, headed by a 1,100 man battle group from Ft. Benning, Ba. Another engineer battalion, which had gone to Memphis to set up housekeeping for the marshals, was ordered into a national forest outside Oxford to erect another tent city for the 700 law enforce ment officers. At 6 p.m., the White House an nounced that the President's tele vision appearance had been post poned for 22 hours. Shortly after ward, came the reason. Meredith, accompanied by truckloads of mar shals, had been taken onto the campus at Oxford. As the President went on the air bloody .student riots broken out en the campus. Kennedy appealfd to the students, "the people h-j are most concerned." to "accept those laws with which you disacrev as well as those with which you agree." "The eyes of the nation and the world are upon you," Kennedy said. But he said that to the extent that there has been failure in the la.-t 100 years of race relations, "the responsibility for that failure nui.-t be shared by all of us . . ." His pleas went unheeded. i OTKSv 'fa. 11 . OiiUua i fr, 1111 jTiW (linwH;UirtI t 1 'X V L m 1 i is LIFETIME NAWAttAH to the Ladies with a Durchasa iz. to the Ladies with a purchase from our Drug Department. Help Us Celebrate! SHOP EARLY Many quantities are strictly limited. 10 BIG DAYS -Oct. 4th thru Oct. 13th UTTON'S OHIIO STORE 159 E. 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