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tf.!.C. Library Box 870 '' Chapel HUiBl?bfcEy See Edits, Page Two Warmer in morning (?), colder later in day. High in the 30's. Seventy Years Of Editorial Freedom Offices In Graham Memorial CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 5, 1963 UPI Wire Service .Buckley's Agent Refnses Readjnstment Of Phelps Is En Route Larry Phelps, a UNC senior, and approximately 65 other U. S. college students were stopped in their efforts to travel to Cuba ov er the Christmas holidays. The trip, which was to be spon sored by the Cuban government, was cancelled when Canadian of ficials refused to permit a Cuban plane to land at the Toronto air port. Phelps said yesterday that "When the U. S. State Depart ment learned that its threats of fines and imprisonment had failed to deter our group, it went into action and got the Canadian gov ernment to stop the trip." Kennedy Frees Junius Scales President Kennedy Dec. 24 com-1 sentenced to six years in prison, muted the prison sentence of! The Supreme Court again heard Junius Scales, former Communist Party leader in the Carolinas Scales had served nearly 15 months of a six-year term. Scales, 42, is a graduate of UNC, where he studied from 193S 33 and again in 1946. He headed the Communist Party in Chapel Hill in the late 1940s. A member of a prominent Greensboro family and grand- nephew of a North Carolina gov ernor, Scales was convicted under the "membership clause" of the Smith Act in 1955. He won a new trial and was convicted for a second time in Greensboro in 1958. In announcing Scales release the Justice Dcpartmuent said his six-year term, was longer than those of some national leaders of the overthrow of the government. Scales quit the party and re pudiated communism between the time of his first and second trials Scales was accused and con victed in 1954 of being the under ground Communist chief of Ten nessee and the Carolinas in the 1950s. He joined the party in 1939 The acknowledged Communist appealed his conviction to the Su preme Court, which in October of 1956, held hearings on the con stitutionality of the Smith Act. The court failed to reach a deci sion and considered the case again in 1957. The Justice Department issued a memorandum recommending that the conviction be reversed because Scales, in his defense, had not been given access to certain FBI reports on his case. Shortly jafter the Court overturned his conviction, m uecemDer, iao, Scales declared he was no longer a member of the Communist Party. On February 21, 1958 Scales was convicted again by the Middle District Court in Greensboro, and Friday Won't Comment On Classic Consolidated University Presi dent, William Friday had a polite but firm "no comment" last week when asked about a possible move to restore the Dixie Classic. Last week, the Wake County Commission voted unanimously to go on record as approving re sumption of the tournament next December. When asked Monday to com ment on the commission's action, Friday said, "I have no comment to make. They have the right to resolve as they wish." However, Friday pointed to an easing in the scheduling at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State. Each is playing 13 regular season games, three more than last year when they were limited to 16, not count ing Atlantic Coast Conference tournament games and possible competition -in -the NCAA tourna ment. , ,., After being held for 12 holiday seasons, the Dixie Classic was terminated before the 11 tourna ment as a part of basketball de emphasis at the University of North Carolina in the wake of the basketball fix scandal reports Friday said pressure to have the tournament restored has been "a seasonal thins." 4 mhwwhi i !' mr jmum.pm 'JMatt-"' Jpui aM,.tfw..Juia.na n. ji n-T.ur- ......w,-. .. ,.,.,,. f a n ; ' - ' ....... ' - mmm,mmm . . -,.. ( - Stopped To Cuba Despite this set back, said Phelps, the group has not dis banded and is now working on plans for a trip to Cuba over the coming summer. In order to avoid another incident such as "the one, over Christmas, they will travel to Mexico by bus and take a reg ularly scheduled flight to Cuba from there. Phelps was the only UNC stu dent to make the trip to Canada. He said that the other two UNC students who had planned to make the trip, Dennis King and John Salter, had backed out at the last minute. arguments on the constitutionality of the Smith Act "membership clause" and in October, 1960 the conviction was upheld. Scales surrendered to federal authorities in October, 1961, seven years after he was first arrested for "knowing membership" in the Communist Party. Affidavits on Scales' behalf were submitted by Superior Court Judge L. Richardson Preyer: four mem bers of the second jury which convicted him; Martin Luther King Jr., integrationist leader; Reinhold Niebhur, theologian; Paul Green, North Carolina playwright; and Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, among other leading figures. Scales' petition for pardon was filed on June 11, 1962 by his at torney, McNeill Smith of Greens boro. Filed with the petition were letters of endorsement by 33 per sons including nine of the twelve jurors who convicted him. He was to be eligible for parole on October 2, 1963. In his petition Scales said he requested pardon or commuta tion of sentence because: "(1) I can best serve my coun try outside the Federal peniten tiary rather than in it . . . (2) I do not believe myself to be a danger to my country ... (3) I personally discussed with as many members of the Communist Party as I knew and was able to con tact personally . . . and I urged them to quit the party too (after 1957) ... (4) Nevertheless, I hope and pray that my case has served some good purpose for my coun try and that purpose having been served, I, myself, might be al lowed to live out the rest of my life in quiet devotion to my family ..." The Justice Department's an nouncement met varied reaction in North Carolina. Sanford attorney Robert L. Gavin, state GOP chairman and former U.S. district attorney who prosecuted Scales, said he was (Continued On Page 3) Campus Briefs FLU SHOTS Flu shots are being given in the Infirmary from 9-11:30 a.m. and from 2-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. A flu ep idemic is expected in this coun try this winter. FRESHMAN CABINET The Freshman Cabinet will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Alum ni Building. STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE The State Affairs Committee will meet Tuesday night at 7 in Roland Parker I. GM CURRENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE The GM Current Affairs Com mittee will meet Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Grail Room. All in terested persons are urged to at tend. FREE FLICK "The Long, Hot Summer" is to night's free flick, starring Orson Welles, Paul Newman, JoanneJ Woodard, Anthony Franciosa, Lee f - ' '' y - ' -, - - - - " I r ... " A - ;" y - --y - s ! r r ! 1 I 7 I 1111 W IT i i if mi mir ni i PROFESSOR JAMES KING History Prof James King Dies Of Fall James Edward King, 46, pro fessor of history at UNC who was on . leave of absence, died Decem ber 23 in . Washington, D. C, from a fractured skull received in a fall in his apartment. At the time of death, Professor King was working with the Gug genheim Foundation on a book on welfare. A member of the faculty since 1948, Dr. King had received the 1958 Tanner Award for outstand ing teaching of undergraduates. The West Virginia native stud ied at the University of Rich mond, served in the Navy in World War II with the rank of lieutenant commander, and re ceived his Phd. from Johns Hop kins in 1948. PROFESSOR WOODIIOUSE DIES Edward James Woodhouse, 79, political science teacher at UNC for many years until his retire ment in 1954 at the age of 70, died in Jacksonville, Ala., Dec. 22. In 1924 Mr. Woodhouse defeat ed Calvin Coolidge in a race for mayor of Northampton, Mass., and served one term. He taught at Yale and at Smith College as well as at UNC, and served as head of Coastal Caro lina Junior College at Conway, S. C, until his retirement to Jack sonville. Mr. Woodhouse was a veteran of World War I, retiring as a first lieutenant. During his life as at torney and teacher he authored numerous books and articles. Remick and Angela Lansbury. Showings will be at 7:30 and 9:30 in Carroll Hall. ID Cards will be required. LOST A burlap and leather pocketbook was lost Thursday. Last seen on the wall near Mclver Dorm. Please return to 305 Alderman. N. C. INTERN APPLICATIONS Applications for the N. C. Sum mer Internship Program are avail able in the Student Government Office in G. M., and in the office of the Dept. of Political Science, 101 Caldwell. SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Dr. J. L. Coe of the Dept. of Anthropology, will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in 265 Phillips Hall on "Recent Archeological Discov ery in North Carolina." CAROLINA FORUM The Carolina Forum will meet it 4 p.m. Monday in Roland Parker I. Letter Calls Forum Head 'Iscariof Letters from William F. Buck ley Jr. and his agent yesterday blasted the Carolina Forum chair man as "Judas Iscariot" and re jected the Forum's request for a reduction in Buckley's speaking fee. . Buckley, editor of the conserva tive National Review, applied the "Judas" label to Chairman. Henry Mayer, who had asked for a "re adjustment" in the $450 fee. M. Catharine Babcock, the edi tor's agent, said he had contract ed with the student government Forum for "participation m a pro gram" at UNC and had done so. No Decision Mayer said he had not yet de cided if the Forum would pay Buck ley's full fee for his Dec. 10 speech. When student government announced Dec. 14 it would with hold payment of the fee pending "readjustment," Mayer said it was "unconscionable" for Buckley to charge $450 for "the reading of a . previously published piece and not for personal and original con tributions." He indicated he will call a meet ing of the Forum committee to discuss the letters. Buckley spoke on "The Nature of the Right Wing" instead of the predetermined topic of "Freedom and the Welfare State." The "Right Wing" speech was pub lished in the current issue of Playboy magazine. The Forum chairman said Buck ley's comments, made in a letter to the Tar Heel (see page two edit column), were "not worthy of him." Judas Beer Buckley defended his $450 price. "I'm told there were a thousand people there. Well, that comes to about fifty cents apiece less, come to think of it, than a copyy of Playboy. Much less than a nick." And come ttf think of It; less even than the amount I paid for Judas's beer later that night at the beerhall." The conservative editor said he had told Mayer his speech came from a Playboy article. Mayer said, "He did not tell me he was going to read the Playboy article ... I would have denied him per mission . . ." Most of Buckley's letter an swered student charges of vul garity in his references to the virility of several liberal writers. He referred to the Di-Phi Society, which censored him for "vulgarity" and "poor taste" as the "Old Lace Society." Mayer commented on Buckley's letter: "Mr. Buckley's personal in terest and delight in his critics is certainly commendable; his de fense, however, is not worthy of him. No 'Pumping' "I am not at all concerned about the language Buckley used in his reading. I am quite disturbed that he says I 'pumped' him for infor mation. That information was proudly volunteered, and it does seem odd that Buckley seems to have forgotten the difference be tween a pump and an overflowing cup," he said. Mrs. Babcock's 'etter to Mayer said Buckley changed his speech topic in order to "deliver a talk suited to the interests of a more general audience." Mayer said Mrs. Babcock "mis understood our argument. There is a difference between giving a speech which has already been given 'and reading a currently available published article. "Although she denied our appli cation," he said, "we feel she mis understood the basis for our re quest. Further clarification will be necessary on both our parts." U.N. Troops Halt Attack On Tshombe LEOPOLD VILLE, The Congo' (UPD United Nations troops consolidated their positions at tbe Katanga mining center of Jadot ville Friday while building tip gup plies and equipment for a drive on President Moise Tshombe's Kolwezi stronghold. Vague reports reaching Leopold ville said some UN. troops had "advanced considerably' Jbeyond Jadotville on the winding 140-mile road to Kolwezi but these w ere be lieved only patrol units. UPI cor respondent Peter Lynch reported from Jadotville the main body halted there to rest and regroup. The Jadotville dispatch said it (Continued on page 3) Judge Case IHWI"IH.IJJ. ?-a jt'-j "y4 ?z l, y 1 x -i il At ; z yy I--, iy w- -c -y$ :r:l i :.Kf LIBRARY FIRE Firemen work to extinguish the remains of. a two-seat sofa that caught fire around 5:40 Thursday .evening in the library. The sofa, located in a graduate lounge in the rear of the Carolina Collection, was. thrown from a win No Progress Seen In N. Y. Paper Strike NEW YORK (UPD The city's month-old newspaper strike ap peared no closer to settlement Fri day than when it began last Dec. 8. The dispute was having an un precedented effect on businessmen and job-hunters. Walter Thayer, president of the New York Herald Tribune, one of nine newspapers closed by the walkout, said Friday "rumors" that publishers want a long strike are "sheer nonsense, propaganda, or a combination of both." Thayer, appearing on a television program "Today" NBC, said pur veyors of such rumors "deserve a story-telling badge of some sort." No new negotiations have been scheduled between representatives of the New York Publishers Asso ciation and Local 6 of the Inter national Typographical Union (ITU). No Meeting Planned . Local union President Bertram Powers said the union is ready to meet with management at any time. Federal mediators from Washington remained in New York, but said no meetings are planned for the present. The printers' walkout has idled 20,000 newspaper employes and cut off one-tenth of the nation's news paper circulation. The nine papers involved in the dispute have a total daily circulation of 5,700,000. John Fanning, president of the Association of Personnel Agencies of New York, said the strike is having a severe effect on employ ment here. "To sav that business is off 50 nr rent is Tin exa ceeration," Fan ning declared. The association represents 175 employment agen cies in the city. "Our major concern is for the month of January, a peak employ ment month," Fanning said. "Ve normally would see a minimum of 200.000 persons, but now don't ex pect to see 110,000." The association placed on city newsstands an eight-pase "help wanted" tabloid which will be pub lished weekly until the end of the strike. The last reported offer made by publishers was for a package of $3.20 per man per week over a two year period. Printers have de manded a $33 weekly package and neither side appears to have budged from its stand. The strike has closed the Herald Trihun Times. Daily News, World Telegram, Journal American, Mir ror, Post, the Long Island Press and the Lons LJand Star-Journal, R etura T o Trustee -A - - v f ' A K4 'y I 'f Intern Positions The College of Arts and Sciences announced yesterday competition for a position in the U.S. State De partment's Summer Internship Program. The program is open to outstanding juniors and seniors who are interested in the conduct of foreign affairs. Students selected will serve in the Department of State from June 15 to August 31 or September 15 at a pay rate of roughly $350 per month. They will be assigned to substantive areas of the De partment to assist in the perform ance of the duties of country desk officers, research analysts, eco nomic officers, and of the Depart ment's secretariat and operations center. They will also participate in a program of lectures and semi nars. Eligibility requirements include: U.S. citizenship, the intention to return to an accredited institution Duke Dramatists Slate Production The Wesley Players of Duke Uni versity will present Eugene Iones co's play "The Bald Soprano" on Sunday evening, January 6 at 7 at the Presbyterian Student Center in Chapel Hill. The play is pro duced by Thornton Penfield and directed by James Gillikin. The cast includes Duke and UNC students Jinx Wellborn, Sando Moffett, Lola Kramer, Rhoda Blanton, and Elliott Zede. The first play by the Rumanian born playwright, "The Bald So prano" is a comedy set in dialogue form in which two English couples, the Martins and the Smiths, solemnly inform each other of the obvious. Ionesco has called the play "a parody of a play ... an attack upon the universal petty bourgeoisie, the accepted ideas and slogans, the ubiquitous con formist The Smiths and the Mar tins can no longer talk because they can no longer think; they can no longer be moved, can no longer feel passion. They can no longer no longer think because they can be; they can 'become' anybody, anything, for, having lost their identity. they assume the identity of others . - . they are inter-! changeable." ! The Wesley Players' production received wide acclaim during a three-nisht pre-Christmas run in Durham. There will be no admis- sion cnarge ior mis, me viuy f x 1 2 lU. 1-- Chapel Hill presentation by this sroup. y t -wm jrroQ Speaking Fee dow by firemen. Besides the sofa the only dam age was to paint on the wall. The fifth level of the stacks was also filled with smoke. The cause of the blaze is undetermined. Photo by Jim Wallace ram Are Open ! for a full vear of studv. an over- all B average, foreign language study, ability to write effectively, and serious interest in pursuing a career (public or private) in the field of foreign affairs. Interested students may get fur ther information from Frank M. Duffey in the College of Arts and Sciences. Those who wish to ap ply must submit by January 10 a 500-word essay on why they desire summer employment in the De partment of State. Chaperons Wanted For Bus Tours The American Field Service has announced openings for college students who wish to chaperone bus loads of AFS foreign students on a trip across the United States this summer. The students will be from many different countries and will have spent their senior year in high school living with Ameri can families. The bus trips are taken an nually at the completion of the academic year of the AFS stu dents in order to let them meet students of other nationalities and to enable them to see parts of the country other than their host communities. The duration of the trip will be four weeksc during June and July, three weeks on the road and the rest of the time in Washington, D. C. The buses travel in pairs on separate itineraries and then meet in Washington for a final convocation before the students leave the country. On the trips the buses stop at various com munities where the students are entertained by the host families. The chaperones will accompany the students on all activities. The only requirement for chaperones is that they must be seniors who are 21 years of age by the time of the bus trip. The trip will last from about June 20 to July 15. Interviews will be held by a committee of the UNC AFS returnee chapter. Anyone who wishes to apply should come to a supper meeting on the second floor of Lenoir Hall this , Thursday at 6. Further informa-1 tion will be given at that time, Carter Board Exoneration For Student Is Ordered By HARRY W. LLOYD Superior Court Judge Heman Clark last week instructed the UNC trustees to have another look at the Ann Carter case. Clark, while saying that the trustees had full rights to review the decision of the honor council, ruled that there was insufficient evidence presented to rebut the assumption of evidence in the cas?. A charge of cheating is a last ing mark against a person's char acter," said the judge in his fin al decision. "Miss Carter should be exonerated of the charge against her." Judge Clark said that UNC Chancellor Aycock had suggested that the case be remanded for urther consideration. He called the suggestion "proper," and re ferred the case to the board of trustees "for such action as is proper." Trustees Upheld Council On May 28, 1962, a special com mittee of the trustees upheld the suspension of Miss Carter by the Women's Honor Council for her alleged cheating on a freshman Latin quiz. (Miss Carter's counsel, in carry- I ing the case to the state courts, 'did not diallenge the trustees' right to review the case, but ra ther challenged the right of a stu dent judiciary to rule on the guilt or innocence of another student. Judge Clark said that the delega tion of responsibility by the trust ees to a student government group was entirely constitutional and proper, ine board can nonor a student government, he said, but the board also has the responsi bility of correcting errors made b the student judiciary. "In this case, the board met its constitutional responsibility," he said. "Miss Carter was advised of her right to appeal. The case was reviewed by the Chancellor as pro vided for in the student constitu tion." Additional Evidence The judge said that Miss Cart er's testimony as to her innocence of the cheating charge was cor roborated by some additional evi dence, which had not been con sidered by the trustees. MLss Carter was charged with handing in to her professor the answers to an original quiz for a makeup quiz she took. Another paper, which had the answers to the makeup quiz, was also hand ed in, but the council did not think it to be Miss Carter's paper. The handwriting on the paper, however, "very closely resembled Miss Carter's," the judge said. He said that neither the chancellor nor the trustees had known about the handwriting evidence when they considered the case. Students' Rights "Every student should have twa oasic rights," the judge continued. "They are 1) the presumption of innocence, and 2) the right to know the evidence. In this case, the council did not show Miss Cart er the handwriting which cor roborated her testimony. "It is the opinion f this court that all the evidence fails to re but the assumption of her inno cence. "To deny her readmisMon on the grounds of her suspension for cheating would be arbitrary ar.d capricious." TRACK FILMS Color films of the 1962 NCAA Track and Field Championships will be shown Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Room 304 in Woollen Gym. All students are invited to attend. Immediately after the movie there will be a brief meet- ing of members of the track squad to fill out eligibility cards. f
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