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WIC Library Sarials Dapt Box 870 Chapal Hill, K Mm . c, Today9 s Weather Cloudy and cooler. Farm Edition 2!jnrahainIemorial CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINAJVVEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1963 United Press International Service Castro9s Isle Looks .Normal Except By GARY B LAN CHARD Second of four articles. (Ed. Note: It was incorrectly implied in yesterday's story that the Progressive Labor Club form ed by Salter, Larry Phelps and a handful of other students dur ing the summer of 1962 was an official campus organization. This was not the case. The club never sought or received University ac creditation. In addition, it was not a club with officers and by laws, but rather a group of like minded people who met inform ally and irregularly. The New Left Club, however, met Univer sity requirements for accredita tion and was therefore officially recognized as a matter of rou tine.) "Havana, Cuba, looks normal enough by U. S. standards," says a former University of North Carolina student who spent the summer there. Normal, that is, except for the Hungarian buses, the one-eyed cars at night, the Soviet ships crowding the harbor, and the men and women taking turns toting submachineguns and rifles outside the buildings in which they work, guarding against counter-revolutionary bombings. . Otherwise, says John Salter, 22, one of the 59 American stu dents who violated the State De partment's Cuban travel ban, Havana looks much like any southern, palm-treed, U. S. city "The people were all well- dressed and wearing shoes. Park- ing places seemed to be a pre mium and there was plenty of traffic on the streets, although most of the cars are no newer than 1958 models. "There is a great lack of spare parts, but not of ingenuity. At night about 20 per cant . of the cars had only one headlight. The ' roads were slick in places from oil leaks. "The bus service seemed to be more than adequate. You had to wait only a few minutes to .LillUPW frjl J J I II. 11 llllll I I II www'yw1j(vw-nMm tv v.- ' " ' ' v ..vw--W(W jAiVUaSvOW i -Jv J) km r c$ : -JfTs$ Ct ft! Mi: . " :i .j.. . v- SI; 1 ' A X ' $ 5 :-fe!kiieaja!a.1a- 'fmj -" " --"-ttii m mi r 1 I I n ii - I ii - - AMERICAN STUDENTS in a 3-hour meet ing with Cuban Economics Minister Che Guever ra, one of several top Cuban leaders with whom, the students met during their stay in the couii i try. Gueverra is in the right foreground. Salter Si"" ::-X II ROBERT WILLIAMS, formerly of Monroe, N. C, and now in Cuba as a propagandist for the Castro Government,- is shown with some of the visiling students. Williams, voice of "Radio Free Dixie" is wanted in North Carolina in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a white couple during racial unrest in Monroe in the summer of 1961. 1 Jm r. 'www. Mm. ji. " ' If " " ' fc 1 " ?s i ,wwrMii i- f ; -s 1 ; - - , $ ft l1"4- i s I if" ; "s- - I A CARAVAN OF TRUCKS carrying the visit ing American students and their guides enters the courtyard of the Minas del Fria school, high in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. These moun tains were a Castro-stronghold during the early days of his rebellion against the Batista re- catch a bus to any point in Hav ana. "We were told that the buses are largely old U. S. models bought through Canada, and they cost the Cuban government about $25,000 each in American money. Perhaps twenty per cent of the buses we saw were new and made in Hungary." The slightly-built, soft-spoken Greensboro resident, who' drop ped out of UNC last spring be cause of low grades and is now job-hunting, says Havana's shops were "well-stocked with clothing and shoes. "The streets on the whole are no more clean or dirty than those v-V . If s - v X 2 J - ' if" o o o I it of Durham," he adds. "I didn't see any beggars on the streets, but I did see men and women in militia uniforms standing in the doorways of near ly every large building. "We were told that these were store personnel who contribute something like one day out of every two weeks to the militia, guarding the buildings they work in against counter-revolutionary bombings that once were such a threat to Havana. . ' . T ? , "They ranged : in age from young men and pretty girls to old women, sitting in a chair with a rifle laid across their, knees and nodding to everyone who appears fifth from the right, directly above Gueverra's head. Gueverra, long one of Castro's favorites, is responsible for the economic policy of the government. 1 11!! J . " -i r r 1 .4 U" . 1 llf . .V- V IN THE "MARTYRS' ROOM" at the University of Havana, t Salter is blurry in the right foreground. The flag to the left is the ' Cuban; The American flag, on the right, was hung in honor "of the American visitors. Normally, with the flags of other countries, the American flag is hung on its own right. ' ' Photo by John Salter Salter In Cuba: Part II Si J s. "iA? - ih v ? gime. The students traveled through the moun tainous terrain in the backs of trucks. Accord cording to Salter, the "Welcome Students" sign in the center of the picture was typical of the reception they got everywhere. Photos by John Salter goes in." Salter, who hopes to get. his grades up via correspondence courses and return to UNC next spring, said he saw and talked to "hundreds" of Cuban soldiers, but "at no time did I see a Rus sian in uniform. "We did see many Russians but they were almost always dressed very casually in Cuban sport shirts. From what I was able to tell, the Soviets mix with the Cuban people to a very large degree, and from what I could observe, they were usually well accepted. "In Havana bay," he noted, "I could see Soviet ships every where. I- saw one that was un loading what appeared to be sev eral score tractors." Salter also had a chance to sample Cuba's socialized medical system when he developed a touch of flu a few days after his arrival in Havana via Prague, Czechoslovakia. "A student guide from the Uni versity of Havana took me to the Camillo Cienfuegas Clinic. We took a place on a bench in a hall. There was no nurse or attendant to take our names. Patients just went In to see the doctor in or der of arrival, unless it was an emergency. "After a 40 or 45 minute wait we went in to see the doctor. He was puzzled that I had to have someone translate for me. "The doctor examined me and made out a prescription. Then the guide told him that I was one of the American students and instantly his face was wreathed in smiles. He began pumping my hand and saying that all of Cuba was proud to have us and that during our stay we would be their sons and daughters. - "He seemed very enthusiastic about the reforms the govern ment has made in medicine. He said his pay was 800 pesos a month, based on a forty-hour (Continued on Page Three) V rtlipB peaker Bam Meetim PU To Demonstrate Against Foreign Policy In Vietnam By JOEL BULKLEY Some 50 persons are expected to participate in a protest dem onstration against United States foreign policy in South Vietnam on the University campus this af ternoon, according to Pat Cusick, national field secretary for the Student Peace Union. The demonstration here is part of nation-wide protests, coordin ated jointly by the Student Peace Union (SPU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), against U. S. economic and mili tary support of the Diem regime in South Vietnam. The Student Peace Union will sponsor the demonstration in Chapel Hill. John Dunne, chairman of the campus chapter of the SPU, said the protest is scheduled to begin at 2:30. p.m. on the steps of South Building and proceed to the downtown business area. Cusick said the visit of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, first lady of Viet nam, to the U. S. to gain support for the Diem government mark ed an occasion for the protest. In New York, Mme. Nhu spent her first day in this country in silent seclusion. She chose to remain in her mid-town hotel room all day resting and pre paring speeches for her forth coming cross-country trip. Her three-week lecture tour will take Fine Arts Bill Up For Review The bill to establish a Fine Arts Festival (BW ' 35-13) will start its journey to ratification this afternoon when it will be considered by the Ways and Means Committee of Student Legislature. The bill would set up a Fine Arts Festival committee which would hold a festival in the spring of every other year, al ternating with the Carolina Symposium. It would consist of perform ances and exhibitions of student and faculty art in the fields of music, literature, drama, paint ing and sculpture. In addition it would include contributions and performances by outside artists. ' The bill, introduced by John Ulf elder (UP, TMII), will be considered by the committee at 4 p.m. in Roland Parker II. "We hope that all students interested in this legislation will appear before the commit tee and speak on it", comment ed Neal Jackson, committee chairman. "Many people have expressed feeling on the bill both pro and con and we want to have all viewpoints consid ered." Police Issue Report On Missing Boy Chapel Hill police have issued a missing person report on Ed ward M. Moriarity, 19, who has been missing since October 1. The Highway Patrol also is sued an all-points bulletin on the Sykesville, Md. youth. Mo riarity's parents have been no tified of their son's disappear ance. Moriarity was living in Park er dormitory at the time of his disappearance. One of his suite mates reported to police that his car was missing. The report came the day after Moriarity's disappearance. Moriarity left with all of his belongings except an NROTC uniform. Police released this descrip tion of Moriarity:. five feet, nine inches; 155 pounds; brown hair and brown eyes and fair com plexion. The car that disappeared at the same time that Moriarity did was described as a 1963 Pontiae with Alabama license number 27-14332. 'entatively O her throughout the United States and will include a day stop in Raleigh. Indications are the SPU chap ter here, and other groups in North Carolina, will be on hand to protest U. S. government pol icy in Vietnam when she speaks at State College Thursday, Oct. 17. Dunne issued a prepared state ment Tuesday saying, "We con tend that the U. S. should with draw all aid to the Diem regime; the United Nations should then Six Seats Open In Legislature A Student Party official . Tues day announced plans for filling six SP vacancies in Student Leg islature. Phil Baddour, SP floor leader, said there are two seats open in Dorm Women's Four (East and West Cobb), and two in Town Men's Four (men resid ing in the area outside corporate limits of Chapel Hill and Carr boro). There also is one vacancy in Dorm Men's Three (Alexander, Playmakers Rehearse 1st Production The Carolina Playmakers are rehearsing this .week for their first major production of the cur rent season, "Little Mary Sun shine," a musical spoof of oper ettas. Casting was completed last week, and rehearsals are under way for the October 23 opening. Directed by Foster Fitz-Simons, with Oiarles Horton as musical director, the production will run for six performances through Oc tober 27. Peggy Jones of Durham has landed the title role of Mary Potts (alias Little Mary Sun shine). Miss Jones has appeared with the Durham Theatre Guild, the Triangle Summer Theatre, and the Grass Roots Opera Com pany. A medical secretary at Duke Hospital, this is her first appearance in a Playmakers pro duction. The role of Captain Jim War rington, a forest ranger, will be played by Randolph Umberger of Burlington. He has appeared in numerous productions on the Playmakers stage, and will be remembered for his portrayal of Sky Masterson in last year's musical, "Guys and Dolls." Muriel Wilson of Durham plays Madame Ernestine, a glamor ously delapidated opera star, and Robert Ivey, also of Durham, portrays the comic role of Billy Jester, one of the forest rangers. Others in the cast are: Graham Pollock, Gatesville; Janice Moore, Beaufort, S. C. ; Larry Warner, Rocky Mount; Ben Jones and Sandra Wilson, Wilmington; Hy Field, Charlotte; Roberts Bat son, Manzanillo, Dominican Re public; Tom Byrd, Asheville; George Gray, Gastonia; Tommy Henley, Chuck Von Busch, Judy Logan, and Dorothy Silver, Chapel Hill; Pascal Tone, New York City; Barbara Tarlin, Bel mont, Mass.; Betsy Crawford, Lumber ton; and Gail Patterson Wright, Mt. Airy. Business Manager John W. Parker has announced that sea son tickets are still available for the Playmakers five major pro ductions this year. They are on sale for $8.00 each at The Play makers Business Office, 214 Abernethy Hall, and at Ledbet-ter-Pickard. Individual tickets for each production will be $2.00. Following "Little Mary Sun shine," The Playmakers will pre sent "Long Day's Journey Into Night.V "The Busy Martyr," "J. B.," and "The Braggart Soldier." be authorized to administer all economic aid to the peoples of both North and South Vietnam, and to hold free elections to de termine the government of both countries. We .strongly urge all those who oppose U. S. support of this tyrannical dictatorship to join with us in protest." Demonstrations will also be held in Washington, New York, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Louis ville, Oberlin, Ohio; Blooming ton, 111.; and Philadelphia, Dunne said. Joyner, Connor, and Winston) and one in Dorm Men's Seven (Ehringhaus). "These seats were won in the spring election by the SP and under the General Election Law these seats may be filled by the SP," Baddour said. The SP chooses these members through election by the entire party. SP bylaws state that these vacancies must be announced the meeting before the election. The vacancies in Cobb "arid Town Men's Four were announced at the last meeting. The other vacancies will be an nounced at the next meeting, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Roland Park er Room of GM . "A person does not have to be a member of the SP to run and anyone interested is encouraged to run." said Baddour. Addition al information can be obtained from Neil Jackson, . 7 Old West and Baddour, 303 Everett. IF W JB 71.T rruriu news MriGJS Commerce Croup Passes Accommodations Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday approved a public ac commodations bill aimed at out lawing .racial discrimination in all but small neighborhood bus inesses. The measure, passed bv a 14- 3 committee vote, would in ef fect leave it up to the courts to define which privately own ed establishments catering to the public would be exempted. The controversial bill also King Issues Ultimatum To Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. issued an ultimatum Tuesday demanding that Birmingham of ficials hire 25 Negro policemen within two weeks or face more demonstrations. The Southern integration lead er demanded that Birmingham City Council enter "face-to-face" negotiations with Negro Govt. Files Suit WASHINGTON (UPI) The federal government filed suit against Louisiana Tuesday seek ing to block it from using voter registration application forms to discriminate against Negroes. Atty.' Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said the suit was filed in the U. S. District Court at Baton Rouge. The suit asked the court to declare unconstitution 2,500 Dead Or PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (UPI) Haiti's health secretary said Tuesday that 2,500 persons are dead or missing in the af termath of hurricane Flora and that the final casualty count may be double that figure. Secretary Gerard Philippeaux House Approves Record Defense Budget WASHINGTON (UPI) The House today approved a "no letdown" defense spending bill second largest in peacetime his tory by a 335-3 vote. The lis Stone, Helms Decline State American Legion Com mander L. J. Phipps "tentatively accepted" yesterday a Daily Tar Heel invitation that he come to the campus and explain his rea sons for supporting the recently enacted Speaker Ban law. Phipps agreed, according to DTH co-editors Gary Blanchard and David Ethridge, "subject to our agreeing on a mutually-accepted date and time. "He is not able to set a definite date at this time because of prior commitments," they said. The co-editors said they plan to meet with Phipps in the next few days to work out details of the meeting. Phipps, a resident of Chapel Hill and long prominent in Orange County Democratic Party politics, represented Orange County in the 1963 General Assembly which pas sed the law. Phipps is one of three promin ent supporters of the law who were editorially invited by the DTH to come to the campus and express their views on it. The other two men, State Sen ate President Clarence Stone and Raleigh television editorialist Jesse Helms, both turned down the invitation. Helms has countered with an of fer for "Consolidated University President, William C. Friday or any other responsible person for the other side" to discuss or de bate the bill in prime time over WRAL-TV. Blanchard and Ethridge said in announcing Phipps' decision that they "look forward to a free and full discussion of the law, in the best traditions of a great Univer sity." They said arrangements for Phipps' visit will be announced when they are completed. TTkf n would give local facilities 30 days to desegregate voluntarily before the attorney general or a complainant could file suit in court. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson '(D-Wash.) the committer chair man, said the discrimination ban would not extend to shops or stores that ere not part of a chain operation, that primar ily serve the neighborhood trade and that do not do business with interstate travelers. leaders for the hiring of clerks, firemen and other civil employ es as evidence of a "good faith" start at lowering the city's rigid segregation barriers. He promised "bigger and more determined" protests if the demands ere not met, and threatened a huge civil rights march similar to the one in Washington in August. Against Louisiana al provisions of the state con stitution and state laws re quiring use of the application as a registration test. The complaint, filed under the civil rights act of 1957 and 1960, said the history of Louisi ana's adoption and use of the test demonstrate that it was deemed as disengranchising Ne deemed as disenfranchising Ne suprerr.acy in the state. Missing In Haiti said all of Haiti's Atlantic Coast villages have "disappeared" in an area populated by nearly 130.000 persons. Material damages ere run ning betwen 40 per cent and 100 per cent, or total destruc tion, Philippeaux said. measure would provide $47.2 billion to keep America in fight ing trim. The bill now goes back to the Senate for final concurrence and then to the White House. S
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