Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / June 27, 1963, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Summer School Edition Published Every Thursday Offices In Graham Memorial Student Union CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1963 0 peaker Ba am, Mi? n LJ One Arrested in E((i(0.;jl. Officials To Ask As Protests Are Resumed By JIM NEAL White and Negro students and townspeople again staged a peace ful mass demonstration against the segregated lunch counter pol icy of the Colonial Drug Co. yes terday afternoon. Earlier in the day, a picketer was arrested on a charge of simple assault fo rallegedly strik ing the 13 year-old son of Colonial's owner-manager John Carswell. According to Police Chief W. D. Blake, the policeman on duty in front of the store was unaware of the alleged incident. The pick eter, Robert V. N. Brown, editor and publisher of the magazine, Reflections From Chapel Hill, is scheduled to appear in Chapel Hill recorder's court July 9. About 120 people took part in yesterday afternoon's demonstra tion. The marchers sang freedom songs from St. Joseph's C.M.E. Church to Franklin Street and down to Carswell's store. Demonstrations Previously Suspended At the open meeting of the Com mittee for Open Business last week it was decided to suspend mass demonstrations pending results of the meeting called by Gov. Terry Sanford for Tuesday morning and (Continued on Page 10; , ! oi For Law's Repeal Burden oi bhame 1 Legion W The American university, by tradition and definition, has been and should continue to be a place of inquiry an institution where students and scholars are free to explore, to question and to doubt ideas of their own and of their predeces sors. When the limits of inquiry are set by law, knowledge itself becomes limited, and the pur suit of philosophical truths is destroyed by legal ly imposed idolatry. In such a .situation there can be no truth and no honor. We do not believe that destruction of North Carolina's higher education system is the goal of the state legislature, nor is it their intention, but such will be the result of their speaker ban law. For this reason, it is absolutely necessary that the members of the General Assembly realize and acknowledge not only their immediate aspi rations, but their hopes and plans for the future of their state. The reputation of this University is a great one, and we can all afford to be proud of its his tory. But when academic freedom is lost, the heart and the reputation of the University are lost with it. This burden, no institution can be expected to bear. ants University! m To Investigate 'Red Nest' A state convention of the N. C.as "aetheistic and hate-embitter-. American Legion adopted a rested" and called on University olution last weekend in Charlotte trustees to investigate the club, condemning the Progressive La-; The club was cited by W. K. bor Club formed here last summer, Rhodes Jr., chairman of the Res- ic i? it it UNC Answers Legionnaires: 'No Evidence Of Reds Here' . By SUSAN READ Consolidated University Presid ent William Friday, and Chancellor Aycock said this week they stood behind statements they made last fall that "we have no evidence that there is a Communist cell on the campus." The two university officials re ferred to earlier comments made after the Chapel Hill Post No. 6 of the American Legion adopted a resolution Oct. 21, 1962, condem ning the Progressive Labor club formed by students and graduate students off campus. It also call ed for an investigation of the or ganization. Action on the resolu tion came at the legion's conven tion Saturday in Charlotte. The Progressive Labor Club prompted the resolution which re quested the investigation "to de termine to what extent if any Marxism has permeated the uni versity." "This group under investigation is," according to Chancellor Ay cock, "not now in operation as far as he knows in Chapel Hill." He added that the Progressive La bor group had never been recog nized as a student group on this campus. He also said that use of Gerrard Hall was not given to the group itself. Group Never SougM Recognition According to Charles Henderson, Dean of Student Affairs, the Pro gressive Labor Club never sought University recognition, to his (Continued on Page 4) olutions Committee, as. a prime example of what he called the many "red nests" formed in the name of academic freedom throughout the. nation. UNC Chancellor William Aycock later reiterated a statement he made last fall that "We have no evidence that there is a Com' munist cell on campus. We have no evidence that any student m the University is a Communist." In addition, the resolution cen sured UNC for allowing the club to meet in Gerrard Hall. nairs aff i tao shr now firah Investigation Recommended The resolution recommended that the General Aesembly in vestigate what it referred to as this "Communist organization of our own creation. The resolution asserted, "It is our duty as Legionnaires to pro tect our fellow North Carolinians from this academic Frankenstein." The PL Club was formed last August in Chapel Hill as a chapter of the national organization of the same name. Although the local club is predominantly a student organization, it has never sought of ficial University recognition. No membership list of the club has been made available, but in its early stages, it had about one (Continued on Page 10) University officials last night voiced strong disap proval of the General Assembly's enactment of a bill to ban Communists and members of subversive organiza tions from speaking at state-supported colleges and uni versities. In a joint statement by Consolidated University Pres ident William Clyde Friday, UNC Chancellor William B. Aycock and Woman's College Chancellor Otis Single- tary, the three officials stated that the "limitation on the free flow of ideas on the campuses is both unnecessary and inurious." "We shall request the Board of Trustees to seek repeal of this legislation," their statement continued. The State Senate yesterday beat down an attempt to recall the hasty action by which it passed a law Tuesday to bar speaking facilities to any per son who: "is a known member of the Communist Party; is known to advocate the overthrow of the United State or the state of North Carolina ;has pleaded the Fifth Amendment of the Con stitution of the United States in refusing to answer -any question, with respect to communist or subversive activities, before any duly constituted legislative com mittee, any judicial tribunal, or any executive or administrative board of the United States or any state." The State Senate beat down an attempt this morning to recall legislation barring Communists and members of subversive or ganizations from speaking at State - supported colleges and universities. The recall motion was defeated (Continued on page 9) Carter's Lawyer Files A Petition To Clear Record University officials have been or dered to show cause why a Su perior Court judge should no order them to clear the record of a Chap el Hill coed accused of cheating by the Women's Council. An attorney for Anne Royal Car ter has filed a petition in Wake County Superior Court in Raleigh, charging universi ty officials with "total and com plete disregard" for a previous court order in the case. Judge Heman Clark directed the school's board of trustees last De cember to exonerate the girl of a 1961 cheating accusation. A hearing in the case was sched uled last week for Wake Superior Court, but was continued until at torneys for the school and Miss Carter could agree on a meeting date. Chapel Hill attorney John Man ning charged in a petition filed here that his client "cannot ex- ( Continued on Page 3) Accommodations Proposal Postponed Indefinitely By JOEL BULKLEY The Chapel Hill Board of Alder men withstood an onslaught of pub lic discussion Tuesday night be fore moving indefinite postpone ment of a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance. By a vote of 4-2, the Aldermen withheld consideration of a pro posed public accommodations law for an unspecified length of time. The ordinance, as recommend ed by the Mayor's 'Committee on Integration at its June 11 meet ing, would make it illegal for lo cal retail establishments doing business with the general public to discriminate on the basis of color. More than 200 people crowded into the Town Hall Tuesday night as 25 Chapel Hillians rose to dis cuss the ordinance; with seven teen supporting it and eight voic ing views of opposition. Debate continued for about two and a half hours before the board voted. Immediately following the Alder men's decision about 100 people grouped outside the building and began singing freedom songs, in protest of the Aldermen's action. Singing lasted for about 15 min utes before the crowd dispersed. By postponing action on the pro posed law, the Aldermen avoid ed what they viewed as "a cer tain legal battle" over the ordi nance. Dr. Robert Phillips, chairman of the Chapel Hill Committee on Human Relations and a member of the Mayor's Committee on In tegration, formally presented the proposal to the Aldermen. He said that "it is the town's responsibility to place this ordi nance in a position to be tested before the State Supreme Court." No town in North Carolina has yet adopted such an accommoda tions law. Mayor Sandy McClamroch read a letter from the State Attorney General's office, stating that it was the opinion of Attorney Gen eral Wade Bruton that Chapel Hill did not have the authority to pass such an ordinance. Bruton said it was "an open question on how the State Supreme Court would rule on such an ordinance, (Continued on Page 4)
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 27, 1963, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75