tf.'I.C. Library Serials Dept. Chapel alii, tl.C. See Edits, Page Two 1 Weather Typical October Doubtful. Seventy Years Of Editorial Freedom Officers in Graham Memorial CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1962 Complete UPI Wire Sen ic 24 Social Frats Open Their Doors To 1500 Rushees The University's 24 special fra ternities opened their houses Sun day afternoon to an estimated 1500 Rushees. In the largest annual ef fort to swell fraternity member ships, rush will continue through Friday. Hours on the remaining days are 7-9:30 Tuesday, and 7-9 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri day. Wednesday night is the first time at which rushees may be told of their acceptance by the house "Shake-up" day is Friday. Strict silence is maintained between fraternity and non-fraternity ex cept during specified rush hours. Among three Rush Chairmen available for comment, Zeta Psi David Wilson remarked on a con siderable number of northern boys going through rush. He em phasized a general fraternity de sire to broaden horizons by pledg ing northerners. Pete Guller, a TEF, said of the new rushees; They seem more ma ture and concerned with scholas tic problems. The boys ask sen sible questions about the house and fraternities in general." Ij Campus j Briefs YACK PICTURES Yack pictures for Jrs, Nursing, General Nursing, Physical Therapy and late freshmen will be made October 8-12. A $1 late fee will be charged for freshmen. NSA COMMITTEE The NSA Committee will meet, to day in the Grail Room in Graham Memorial at 5:00 p.m. MEN'S GLEE CLUB Tryouts are still being held for the Men's Glee Club. First tenors are especially needed. Contact Dr. Joel Carter in 207 Hill Hall imme diately since the club is preparing for its annual fall tour. $ COSMOPOLITAN CLUB Interested persons who wish to become members of the Cosmopoli tan Club must attend the meeting on Sunday. October 14 at 4:00 p.m in the Roland Parker Lounge of Graham Memorial. A procedural and organizational plan for the club will be discussed, and a brief cul tural program will follow. FLU SHOTS Students may receive influenza vaccinations 9:00-11:30 a.m. and 2:00-500 p.m. Monday through Fri day. There is a charge ot ?l.uu. PETER, PAUL, AND MARY The GMAB is trying to arrange for Peter. Paul and Mary to do two concerts on the same night. Tickets will not be said until arrangements are complete, perhaps Wednesday AMERICAN FEUDALIST SOCIETY The American Feudalist Society will meet in the Woodhouse Room, Graham Memorial at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 10. Everyone is invited. ELISHA MITCHELL The Elisha Mitchell Scientific So ciety will meet in 265 Phillips at 7:30 p.m. The program will be "Re search Activities of the uepanmen- of Physics," and new members will be elected. a FRATERNITY LETTER The YMCA Fraternity Letter is available to all rushees in the Y Offices. The letter contains the ar stents for aid agaisst joining a .Free Dance To Obch IDG On Saturday the IDC will initiate this year's program of of social activities with a free dance at the American Legion Hut from 8 to 12. The dance will begin a full sched ule of activities planned by the IDC, according to IDV Vice Presi dent Ralph. Mosley. ...... "No one," he said," should have reason to complain about having i nothing to do for the next few weekends, at least." He said dances of this kind are BIBLE READING TO BE TESTED BY HIGH COURT WASHINGTON UPI The Su preme Court agreed Monday to de cide whether state authorized Bible reading or recitation of The Lord's Prayer in public schools violates the Constitution. Accepted for argument and ulti mate ruling by the high tribuna were two challenges to such prac tices in Maryland and Pennsyl vania. The court's decision is to estab lish precedent setting guideposts in the controversy over the separation of church and state under the Con stitution. 1 The decision came In the first work session of the new term in which the court also took actions affecting a number of recent cases and refused to review orders which brought about the enrollment of Negro James H. Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Cases Renew Controversy The Maryland and Pennsylvania cases plunged the high tribunal back into the religious field of con troversy on which it ended last session. The court held June 25 that a state-written prayer usea m ew -.. Z XTn... I YorK puoiic scnoois was uuwiisuiu- tional. Lower court decisions on the Maryland and Pennsylvania chal lenges were in flat contradiction. The Maryland case was brought bv Mrs. Madalyn E. Murray wno described both herself and her Bal timore schoolboy son, William J. Murrav III. as atheists. She pro tested a 1905 rule by the scnooi board acting under state authority, that called for Bible reading and recitation of the Lord's Prayer, ine Maryland court of appeals ruled against her by a 4-3 vote. Bible Reading Protested In the Philadelphia suit, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Sehempp, Unitar obiected to a state law re quiring the reading of 10 verses of the Bible without comment at the opening of each school day. Their children attend school in ADingion Township. A special three-judge federal court declared last r eo. l in Philadelphia that the practice is un constitutional, The three-man court held that Bible reading constituted "an estab- ishment of religion" whether or not children could be excused. The oDinion said "since the statue re quires the reading of the 'Holy Bible,' a Christian document, me practice . . . prefers the Christian relieion." State authorities appealed to tne Sunreme Court. They said the find- ing throws doubt on tne vanaity oi 1 . . .. t'i r voluntary program practiced m Pennsylvania and in many other states. In the case of Meredith the court affirmed a recess opinion by Hugo Black that turned down moves to delay Meredith's admission to "Ole Miss." Meredith was registerea u. he university last weekend during scenes of violence. Civil Rights Issues In other actions, the court: Up held two lower court aecisions which ended racial discrimination in bus and railroad terminals in Infirmary Students in the infirmary yes terday were: Nancy Wescott Nic holas, Gayle Murdock, Helen Martha Ellis, Harvey Irwin Wolm, Rnbrtrt Ellison, Thomas WiUiam Mason Long, III, Marce llus Jules McDowell Heppe, Wal ter Lee Doughton, Cleon Walton Goodwin, Arnold Kivy Wengrow. George Donald Maier, Alien Linwood Jones, William Norwood Webb, Larry Wallace Moore, Ric hard Henderson Goodwin, Sara Louise Reese, Fries Shaffner, Jr., Andrew Franklin Bobroff, James Keat Draughton, James Earle Eragdea.. oeial Activity also scheduled for both of the next two weekends. "We have the Sceptors to play for the one after the Maryland game and Joe Hatchet's Big Ax Combo for the one after the South Caro lina game. They should produce some good music." "Of course," he continued, "we'll have a bus leaving from Y-Court for each dance in case anyone needs transportation." Mosley also said the IDC is ne- Louisiana and Georgia. The suits stemmed from regulations issued by the Interstate Commerce Com mission in the midst of "freedom rider" incidents last November. Agreed to decide whether Col orado's anti-discrimination commis sion has the right to order the hiring of a Negro pilot trainee by Con tinental Air Lines Inc. The com mission ordered the interstate air line to accept Marlon D. Green, a former Air Force captain, for pilot training. Granted a hearing to Nico Jaco bellis, a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, film exhibitor who was fined for possessing and showing the prize winning French film, The Lovers. Open Trials To Be Debated By Di-Plii Society Tonight The Dialectic and Philanthro pic Laterary bociety will debate the issue of open student trials at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in New West Representative Bill Hobbs in troduced a resolution at the last meeting advocating an amend ment to the student constitution opening all student trials to two reporters paper. for the student news- Men's Honor Council Chairman Walter Dellinger who last week proposed open honor trials will be present for the meeting. He said yesterday, "It is of utmost importance that every student concerned with this problem be present to hear the arguments for and against the issue." His propisal is expected to be come an issue in November's campus elections. Campus Unaware The Di-Phi resolution states "The primary function of the student Honor System to education stu dents in the concepts of honor cannot be fully served when the large majority of the student body is unaware of and unfamiliar with the proceedings of the Honor Coun rils." It continues, "The student body has a right and obligation to know how its elected officials on the Honor Councils are performing their duties." "The interests of a defendant "UN Year At UNC" Is Goal Of Group The United Nations Educational Committee of the YM-YWCA will hold its first meeting Tuesday evening at 7 in Y-Court The pur pose of this meeting will be to plan the many activities which will make this year "UN YEAR AT UNC." Among the projects being plan ned are a seminar to New York, a seminar on disarmament, an in tercollegiate conference, and the Middle South Region's Model Gen eral Assembly which will be held in February. Great EaKgrouad SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) Before turning pro, young Al Geiberger won 10 straight amateur golf tournaments in 1959 and cap tained the University of Southern California team which won 51 straight matches. J gotiating with some of the girls' dorms for a series of parties on Friday nights. The plan is to have these parties at a different dorm each week, but the arrangements haven't been worked out yet. Open houses in many men's dorms after football games are also part of this year's IDC social program. These allow dorm residents to take their dates into the dorm social room for refreshments. These socials are possible, how ever, only if the dorm social room has been inspected and passed ac cording to the Coed Visiting Agree ment. According to the agreement, the social rooms must be inspected by a visiting board consisting of the presidents of the IDC, the CWC, the WRC; a representative of the executive branch of student gov ernment; and the Dean of Men. Bruce Welch, president of the IDC, said this board "will be mak ing inspections this week for any dorms which wish it." He said these dorms could request inspec tion by getting in touch with him. All dorms passed by this board will be allowed to have girls in their social rooms during these hours: Friday 7 p.m. to 2 p.m.; Saturday 2 p.m. to 12 p.m. (4:30 to 12 on football days); Sunday 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. YWCA There will be a meeting of the executive officers of the YWCA at 4:30 in Y-Court. There will be a Cabinet meeting of all committee chairmen at 5. are r best served, the resolution says, "by the presence of objec tive observers and reporters at his trial." "Any trial conducted behind closed doors," it reads, "is repug nant to and incompatible with the American concept of justice." Ike To Helio In Nixon Campai By JAMES C. ANDERSON United Press International SAN FRANCISCO UPI Dwight D. Eisenhower, still a magic figure to the crowds, came to California Monday to help Richard M. Nixon's campaign for governor. The former President, who will be 72 next Sunday, toured San Francisco's financial district, in an open convertible flanked by the man who was his vice president for eight years. Despite the fact the tour came in the middle of the World Series game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees, Asst. Police Chief Al Nelder esti mated an astonishing crowd of 120, 000 turned out to wave and shout "Hiya, Ike!" San Francisco, a Democratic stronghold, gave Eisenhower and Nixon a ticker tape bath and a wel come almost as warm as the greet ing th etwo received in 1956 when the Republican National Convention nominated them again for the sec ond time. Waved and Listened Many m the crowd waved at "Ike" and Nixon with one hand and clasped a transistor radio right to their ear with the other so theyd could listen to the World Series. ATTORNEY GENERAL STAFF Interviews will be held today and tomorrow for student government appointments to the Attorcey . Cen- eral's Staff. Appointments are avail able on the staff serving the. "Men's Council and the IDC Court. Jill out an application and sign up ior an interview at the Student Govern ment Office. UN COMMITTEE The United Nations Committee will meet at 7:00 p.m. in the V- court All students are invited. 4. ' 4 4 s - m V George London, Barritone Opera Star Appears Here On Thursday George London, a leading bari tone of the Metropolitan Opera, will appear this Thursday at 8:00 in Memorial Hall under the sponsor ship of The Chapel Hill Concert Se ries and Graham Memorial. Mr. London's full-length recital will be free to UNC students and spouses will be admitted for one dollar. His performance here will range from works by Handel, Brahams, Moussorgsky, Bizet, and Verdi to popular American" sea chanties such as "Shenandoah," 'IBelow the Man Down" and others. tie has been widely hailed as an artist an dpersonality both in Eur ope and the United States. Last season he appeared in Moscow at the Bolshoi Opera where he sang in the role of Czar Boris in Mous- sorssky's "Boris Godouoff." In 1956 he was the first American male singer to appear in Yugo slavia since World War II at the opera houses of Zagreb and Bel grade. He made appearances San Moves Into California Eisenhower, who once said one of the biggest mistakes of his po litical career was in not working harder for Nixon in the I960 presi- dentail election, left no doubt in anyone's mind that he is all-out for NLxon's gubernatorial candidacy against Democratic incumbent Ed mund G. Brown. A $100 a plate dinner in the Cow Palace, attended by more than 2.70O persons, Eisenhower put it this way: "Richard Nixon has served his country well. I feel positive that he can serve the state of California Military Men Ask Expansion Of Land, Sea, Space Efforts WASHINGTON UPI Top mili tary leaders called Monday for ex pansion of America's space, air and land power to meet the "mas sive threat " of Soviet nuclear wea pons and the combined Russian and Red Chinese armies of 4.5 mil lion men. Kicking off the annual three-day meeting of the Asociation of the U.S. Army, Army Secretary Cyrus R. Vance told the 4,000 delegates that the ground forces will move "strongly" into the field of avia tion to gain the mobility a modern Army must have. - He denied, however," that the Army's aviation expansion evidenc ed any interest in taking over Air Force missions. v,nrP also said the Army wiL play an increasing role in support ing allies and friends around the wond against subversion or any Usnd of aggression, includes onaa It' V 4. M H ,,- , ' I ' "ii ,' 4 Francisco in 1959 where audiences hailed his "Don Giovanni." After his appearance as Amonas ro in AIDA on the opening night of the 1951-52 season he was prais ed by Virgil Thompson, composer and critic of the New York Herald Tribune, as "one of the greatest singing-actors any of us have known or remembered." The New York Times said of him: It is a rare opera singer who acquires the subtle art of the German lieder, or the nuances of a style that make a French song live in the intimate framework of a solo recital. George London is such a man." London, is a native of Canada but moved to Los Angeles at an parlv aec. In 1947 he siened a con- tract with Arthur Judson and Col- umbia Artists Management which led to solidly booked concert tours. In 1949 he went to Europe, audi tioned for the director of the Vien na State Opera, and was engaged. equally well. I have ful faith in the! man. I endorse him 100 per cent. Regardless of where I lived in the United States I would be proud to have Richard Nixo nas my gover nor." Slashed At Kennedy At two news conferences earlier in the day, one in Los Angeles and the other at San Francisco airport, Eisenhower took a couple of cracks at President Kennedy. Kennedy plans to stump California for two days late in October on behalf of Brown. Noting that Kennedy is planning war. Gen. Barksdale Hamlett, a form er U.S. Berlin commander and new Army vice chief of staff, said the world military situation was more favorable to the West now than a year ago. He cited threats at Ber lin, the "turning of the tide in Viet Nam, Red China's economic troubles, and the "substantial" strengthening of U. S. military forces. Communist threats, including the new situation in Cuba, have not diminished, Hamlett said. He called Soviet nuclear power and the vast Red land forces " a. constant and massive threat to free men every where." The Army association is a 63,000 member organization of active and former Army members and civi lains. It heard one Air Force general at Monday's meeting Gen. John K. Gerhardt who commands Progressive Labor Club Denies Link With Communists The Chapel Hill Progressive Labor Club is not affiliated with the Communist Party, according to statements made by members the club yesterday. Larry Phelps, member of the local chapter of PL, explained the position of the club as "more ac tivist and further left" than the Communist Party in the U.S. CPUSA, according to Phelps, has become a dogmatic and stagnant group of men living in the past. They have refused to go to the people and work with them and fight for them," said Phelps. "A working class movement must associate itself with the working classes," he added. Phelps went on to explain that by more activist, he meant that Progressive Labor is trying to (reach the workers, and by fur- ther left, he meant that PL does plan to investigate the New Left not feel that it must wait until Club. The New Left is a disctrss the "Fascist menace" has rece- ion group. Does this mean that ded before they can agitate for so- cialism. Political Affairs, official organ of the Communist Party, has termed the Progressive Labor Club "left deviationist." PhelDS also evn1flinvi that tho Communists believe all non-fas- whereas PL feels that the real enemy of the labor movement are New Left Says Hof a To Talk At Meet Here The New Left Club said yester day Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters union boss, had agreed to speak to their group. " Larry Phelps and John Salter of - the New-Left talked to Hoffa " txreensDoro Jsaturaay wnere appeared at a membership rally for a voter education group. Hoffa said final arrangements could be made after his trial in NashviUe. Tenn. on Oct. 22. ac cording to Salter. campaigns to get more Democrats in Congress, Eisenhower noted: "The Democrats have a 2-1 edge in the Senate and a 3-2 edge in the House. What does he want one party government- I'm very much against it." Eisenhower said he is "for the kind of progress we had in the past under a Republican administra tion." " Idon't like this halt we've come to," he said. Later he added at his San Francisco news conference, "we're following trends that are not good for our nation." the North American Air Defense Command which comprises both Army and Air Force units. Gerhardt said the nation needs .better warning devices to detect Soviet missiles launched from both land bases and submarines. He called for development of a ne jet fighter which could fly higher than 70,000 feet and deal with Soviet supersonic bombers. Gerhardt said the anti-missile missile was an ur gent need, but contended the Army's Nike Beus had "shortcom ings." The Air Force general said America must develop space de fenses to meet possible Soviet mili tary moves in space. If the Soviets' twin Voitok space ships should have had a "hostile intent" when they orbited in Aug ust, "they could have posed a ter rific threat to the United States," he said. gn those of President Kennedy. He cited Kennedy's use of in junctions to end strikes, the in creased use of arbitrators during the Kennedy administration, and the Pesident's support of the Lan-drum-Grifin Bill. Where unity is important, said Phelps, is among the organiza tions working for socialism. The Chapel Hill Progressive Labor Club is a local chapter of the national PL, according to Phelps, who added that there are about twelve or fifteen chapters across the nation. John Salter, another member of PL, was asked what he thought of the proposed investigation of the campus by the American Le- gion. "It is ridiculous," said Sal- ter. "We understand that they the Legion is against campus dis- cussion? Peter, Paul, Mary 1 i'3kfc 1 n I it"! Sale Tomorrow Peter, Paul and Mary will ap- jpear in special performance at Memorial Hall Tuesday evening. I Oct. 16. Tickets for the perform- I ance will be on sale Wednesday at the GM desk and Kemp's for l$l each. "We are a cosmopolitan group, - V"" 7t. .f lvvy . " ' tuwumew. ior u" w u.c amui lL w Mn nr0M i o Lj ' , r ,.- nem - mv athnin cmt.rK w An n ifh j integrity." I group spent seven months "wsuls u WJejr J" U" reWife OI lo n"mDers, witn cne neip oi Milton Okun (formerly with Harry Belafonte) to polish their arrange ments. The results are now on a War ner Uros. label called. "Peter. Paul and Mary." It includes two of Paul's own songs one "Rain, Rain," which New York Times critic Robert Shelton called . . . "a touching evocation of a child's world." From the Blue Angel to the "hungry i," people find rapport with a tall blond and two young men who wear Brooks Brothers suits with their beards and gui tars. Their personal tour, under the direction of International Talents Associates (ITA), has taken them from the Bitter End to Storyville and Miami's Lamb's Club, as well as the Gate of Horn, Blue An gel and "hungry i." They have also appeared on the "Today Show" and "P.M. East" Life-long interests In folk mu sic led all three to Greenwich Village where Al Grossman, man ager of Odetta, put them toget her as a trio. Paul Stookey, was working as a stand-up comic, the highest paid entertainer in the Village, when he joined the trio. Mary Allin Travers, who was born in Louisville, Ky., has been singing folk songs since her kin dergarten classes. Peter Yarrow, the third menv ber of the trio, graduated from Cornell University with a degree in psychology. He was appearing as a single after his own cross country tour. Calif. Congressman Dead In Plane Wreck EUREKA, Calif. 'UPI) The bodies of Rep. Clem Miller, D- Calif., and two other persons were found Monday in the wreckage of the light plane in which they dis appeared Sunday. The Humboldt County Sheriff's office said the bodies were identi fied from papers they were car rying. The plane wreckage had been sighted earlier in the dJ by a search pilot in the moun tains 30 miles east of Eureka. The pilot of the plane, George Head, and Head's 12-year-old sou, Ronald, crash. also died in the policies like fraternity.

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